​@JWALLER Describes His Troubled Childhood
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Summary
In this episode, the brother and sister duo of the sit down and talk about what it's like growing up in a broken home in Louisiana. They talk about the struggles of being raised in a religious cult, how they got into the construction industry, and what it takes to get a job in the real world.
Transcript
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Mom cheated on my dad multiple times with guys from church.
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We'd go to church and people were speaking in tongues and falling on the floor and shit.
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Dude, I think it's bullshit when people put their hands in the air and close their eyes
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It's just like, oh, you're doing this, or you're saying this, but you're doing that.
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It's like calling everything out for its bullshit.
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So I've seen some things, and it just kind of turns me off in time, but yeah, two guys
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They were going to put us in a foster home, for sure.
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If we would have gone again, there was a bit of violence going on.
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And so then you graduated high school, and where'd you go next?
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So it was kind of one of those things where I didn't know how to get out of my town unless
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And so I played football, baseball, basketball until my junior year.
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And then I found out that baseball scholarships were partial, and I didn't want to play D7
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So I ended up quitting those to gain some weight and play football.
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And then when I got done, I had a construction management degree, but it was 2009.
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So I dug ditches for a while until I figured it out.
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I feel like I've told this story so many times.
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I hate to be boring if anybody's ever seen this.
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I worked for a company called Austin Bridge and Road.
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And I was digging ditches or cleaning off catch basins and getting, you know, stuff for
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catch basins is what catches the water under the road.
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And I would put up metal buildings or go apply for jobs during the daytime.
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And what ended up happening was they were building this hospital job.
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And I went to it once, and the lady's like, you can't see the boss?
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Well, so I think it was the third or the fourth time I went.
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I ended up talking to her about shit on her wall.
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And this is a job trailer on a construction site.
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And I had my little resumes, because I'd go hand them out during the day, trying to get
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All it was, is I played football, and I had a construction management degree.
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So, oh, grizzled, 50-something-year-old white man comes in.
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And he leans back, and he's like, and I'm just like, slide it to him, right?
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And he looks at it, and he looks at me, and he looks at it, and he flops it down on the
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table, and he goes, you mean to tell me that you've come in here three or four times?
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I know about you coming in here to talk to the boss to get a job on a $40 million hospital
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He took a deep breath, and he looked at me and goes, I like that shit.
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And I had read Rich Dad Poor Dad my junior year of college.
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It was short, and I tried to get through it right.
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I understood the quadrants, as they would say, like employee, business owner, and gets
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And so what I did is I went to the bank, and I was like, listen, they're paying me per
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I want you to take my whole check and put it in this other account, because I want to
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save up $10,000, because you had to have a net worth.
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And sure enough, after six months, I saved the $10,000 up and applied for my contractor's
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Because it doesn't sound like either of your parents really, it sounds like they pushed
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Yeah, because it's like, for me, it's just expected.
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But for you, it's so interesting to hear when people come from like a background that maybe
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wasn't conducive, like the best place to grow up, and they still end up like crazy successful.
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I think what happens is some people, and there are two of these people who are sitting here,
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some people see what their atmosphere has to offer, and they follow it.
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But some people, like me, see their atmosphere and know what they don't want to become.
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And then you have to think too, high testosterone, young American, red-blooded, ambitious, sports
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And I wouldn't even say I'm that competitive, really.
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Like I don't compare myself to people ever, ever, ever.
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And it's not because I'm like super against it.
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It would be disingenuous for me to be like, I don't compare myself to other people because
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Um, so I don't know exactly where it came from in regards to like what sparked it, but I
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And I think that's probably has something to do with it.
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And I also think it's a bigger risk to have a really good job and be capped out than it
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I would get a job that was shit enough that when I got caught working on my business, they'd
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And I think a lot of people get caught in that trap.
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They get that really good job and that mortgage has got to get paid.
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And I was just as happy in a shitty apartment that I am in my place in Miami or my new house
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Like I always say about rich children, it's like being born in the zoo in captivity.
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They kick you out into the jungle, but you don't know how to hunt.
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And for you, it's the gap in perception, right?
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So anything short of being white trash from Louisiana, I'm doing better than I started.
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For you to even get to where your father got you guys is a lot of fucking work.
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So maybe for you, it's a freedom thing or something else?
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So he includes like the same amount of people, roughly like 200.
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But I just, I would never see myself getting this that big.
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And if I did, like I'd need someone else to manage it.
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If you, like, you know how they say behind every good man is a strong woman?
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I have women in very important management roles.
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I just, I just think 200 people, that would be a lot.
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It's a lot, but if you understand, like, scaling and stuff like that, think about it.
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Understanding the psychology of the, it's a very long conversation.
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But we can, we can have a scaling conversation.
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And you'll be like, okay, well, it was good talking to you.
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