Valuetainment - Episode 195： 10 Most Embarrassing Moments as an Entrepreneur

00:00:00.320 30 seconds. One time for the underdog. Ignition sequence start.

00:00:07.000 Let me see you put them up. Reach the sky, touch the stars up above.

00:00:11.120 Cause it's one time for the underdog. One time for the underdog.

00:00:17.340 I'm Patrick Bedev, your host of Valuetainment, and today I want to share with you the 10 most embarrassing moments I have had.

00:00:22.900 As an entrepreneur, I promise you, you're going to laugh and share some of these stories with other people.

00:00:27.260 Very, very embarrassing.

00:00:28.480 Here we go. Number one.

00:00:30.000 So one day I'm giving this speech in my office back in 2006, and I'm trying to sell everybody on what we're doing,

00:00:35.980 and it's very important for me to get everyone's attention. Everyone stay focused.

00:00:39.200 And as I'm going through it, one person walks out.

00:00:41.740 Right after this person walks out, I had to set the tone.

00:00:43.700 I said, listen, I kind of need all your attention.

00:00:45.700 I'm not going to walk out, but I need 45 minutes of undivided attention.

00:00:48.740 If you do need to use a restroom and you're pregnant, that's totally okay. 0.99

00:00:51.600 But if you're not pregnant, please stay here with me. 1.00

00:00:53.960 So I went through it.

00:00:55.120 20 minutes later, this lady gets up and she starts walking out. 1.00

00:00:58.180 So she walks out.

00:00:58.900 I'm like, oh, it's totally fine.

00:01:00.000 She's walking out.

00:01:00.580 She had a pouch, and I said, you know, it's no problem.

00:01:02.520 I said, she's okay to walk out because she's pregnant, ma'am. 1.00

00:01:05.180 If you go out, the bathroom's to your left.

00:01:06.640 And she looks at me with the biggest look of frustration and disappointment and anger.

00:01:12.340 She says, how dare you?

00:01:14.840 I'm not pregnant.

00:01:16.400 And she walks out.

00:01:18.220 The look on my face, I wanted to find the smallest hole in the room to just hide in.

00:01:23.240 And I couldn't find it.

00:01:24.340 I was so embarrassing.

00:01:26.000 Somehow, someway, I regained the group and everybody kind of started feeling bad for me,

00:01:30.560 embarrassed for me, but we kept going on.

00:01:32.180 Very embarrassing moment.

00:01:33.620 If you haven't done something like that, I don't ever recommend you using that.

00:01:36.800 Number two.

00:01:37.820 Okay, so let me share this one with you.

00:01:39.000 I was in Bermuda just recently, and I'm getting there to celebrate awards ceremonies.

00:01:43.020 A big negotiation was going on with a $4 billion company.

00:01:45.440 But one of the nights, I was walking across the stage and being recognized for the production

00:01:49.740 that we had done.

00:01:50.400 So we get there on Tuesday.

00:01:51.980 My luggage stays there in Miami.

00:01:53.560 It doesn't arrive until Saturday.

00:01:54.760 We're leaving on Sunday.

00:01:55.580 So by the time the luggage arrives, we leave the next day.

00:01:57.960 Awards ceremony is on Wednesday night.

00:01:59.860 And I have nothing to wear.

00:02:01.760 I'm thinking it's going to show up every day.

00:02:03.620 It never shows up.

00:02:04.520 And by the time I'm going to go get something, I don't have anything.

00:02:07.440 So I buy the local stuff.

00:02:08.920 I don't have a tie.

00:02:09.520 I'm just wearing a suit, tie.

00:02:11.020 I don't have any shoes my size to buy, so I'm wearing flip-flops.

00:02:14.460 I was the only guy in the awards ceremony room walking around with a suit and flip-flops

00:02:20.300 on.

00:02:20.660 Walking across the stage, people are looking at me saying, look at that Middle Eastern

00:02:24.480 feet right there.

00:02:25.620 Hairy Middle Eastern feet, legs on stage. 0.98

00:02:27.920 People are taking pictures of it, and I even have proof of it on how this thing happened.

00:02:31.960 This is what I look like that day.

00:02:33.220 I'm trying to make a fashion statement here since our bags are still in Miami.

00:02:38.240 Boom.

00:02:39.240 You like those Fergamos? 1.00

00:02:41.320 No shoes, no socks.

00:02:43.500 See what they're going to say about it.

00:02:44.720 Number three most embarrassing story as an entrepreneur.

00:02:47.800 Okay, so it's 2010.

00:02:49.160 The Lakers are facing the Celtics, and it's game seven.

00:02:51.700 I'm trying to get tickets to go to it.

00:02:53.880 Finally, an attorney sells me these nice tickets for $6,000.

00:02:58.080 And I said, I'm going to call a friend.

00:02:59.420 I called my friend, Pastor Dudley Rutherford.

00:03:00.900 I said, what are you, he's a big diehard Lakers fan.

00:03:02.660 He says, let me think about it.

00:03:04.160 So he offers to take the car.

00:03:05.600 I said, I'll drive you myself.

00:03:06.700 I pull up, I pick him up out of my office.

00:03:08.440 He gets in this yellow Z06 that I have, and we're flying.

00:03:11.600 On the way there, the 210 freeway, which is known for having a worse reception because

00:03:15.440 of the mountains, my Z06 runs out of gas.

00:03:17.920 And by the way, if you don't know, I have the reputation for having run out of gas in

00:03:20.880 my cars at least 50 times, maybe more.

00:03:23.020 So we're there.

00:03:24.200 There's no reception.

00:03:25.160 We keep trying to call this one.

00:03:26.220 There is no reception.

00:03:27.220 Finally, we get a bar.

00:03:28.560 We call.

00:03:29.280 The guy shows up from AAA.

00:03:30.760 He knows me by my first name.

00:03:32.640 Pastor Dudley Rutherford is making fun of me saying, how does a AAA guy know you by your

00:03:37.100 first name?

00:03:37.560 Gives me a guess.

00:03:38.200 He's recording the entire video.

00:03:39.900 We get back in the car.

00:03:40.740 We barely make it.

00:03:41.980 First quarter starts.

00:03:42.820 We make it to the game.

00:03:43.780 And obviously, the Lakers beat the Celtics.

00:03:45.340 I think they win their 16 or 17 championship.

00:03:47.460 So it was a great game.

00:03:48.240 We come back home.

00:03:49.000 I'm over it.

00:03:49.460 I thought this was the story, right?

00:03:50.680 Now, I got a reputation in the San Fernando Valley as a business guy, as an entrepreneur.

00:03:53.760 I'm kind of shaking it up.

00:03:54.740 I got some enemies, I got some competitors, but I'm building a reputation, right?

00:03:58.080 It's been built, but it's getting bigger and bigger.

00:03:59.940 So Pastor Dudley calls me three weeks later.

00:04:01.720 He says, listen, I want you to come to service because I got a story.

00:04:03.960 I want you to be sitting front row, all this other stuff.

00:04:06.240 I'm like, oh, no problem.

00:04:07.160 You want me front row.

00:04:08.220 I go, I bring my dad.

00:04:09.200 I bring my wife.

00:04:09.920 We're sitting front row.

00:04:10.500 He invited me.

00:04:11.200 So I go sit in the front row and he gets up.

00:04:12.920 He said, I want to tell you a story about a good friend of mine.

00:04:15.260 Patrick, David, can you stand up, please?

00:04:17.060 So I stand up.

00:04:17.740 You know, it's kind of like, oh, hey, I'm thinking this is like, this is a great business

00:04:21.700 guy, all this other stuff.

00:04:22.940 And he said, Patrick offers to take me to a Laker game.

00:04:25.900 And let me tell you what happens on the way to a Laker game.

00:04:28.260 And he tells the entire story.

00:04:29.640 By the way, his church is 15,000 members.

00:04:32.560 He said it at five different services and it doesn't stop there.

00:04:35.420 Let me tell you what else happens.

00:04:36.300 He writes a book with a major publisher and the title of the book is God Has an App for

00:04:40.200 That.

00:04:40.360 If you buy the book, chapter number one tells you vividly how I ran out of gas.

00:04:45.300 And at the end of the book, he has a link on his website for you to see how I ran out

00:04:49.920 of gas while he's recording my yellow zero six.

00:04:51.780 Now, keep in mind, the rest of the time in Valley, every time I went to somebody, people

00:04:55.360 say, aren't you the guy that ran out of gas?

00:04:56.920 You're the guy that always runs out of gas.

00:04:58.420 Oh, my gosh.

00:04:59.080 Now, it was embarrassing as a businessman.

00:05:00.940 But on the other side, it became one of the best conversation starters in San Fernando

00:05:05.000 Valley.

00:05:05.580 So thank you, Dudley Rutherford, to tell the story of me running out of gas.

00:05:08.840 It helped me in business.

00:05:10.100 Number four.

00:05:11.060 Okay, so when you're coming up in business, a lot of times you want to impress the people

00:05:13.760 that have money for them to think that you are also serious.

00:05:15.820 This is like 2002, 2003.

00:05:18.040 Let me tell you how much money I had in the bank.

00:05:19.800 I probably had $5 in the bank if I'm lucky.

00:05:23.420 I'm in that $49,000.

00:05:24.860 And everything with my credit cards, I'm hoping there's enough left.

00:05:27.980 So this client, if I sell this client, I'm going to make $6,000.

00:05:32.060 And $6,000 at that time is a lot of money.

00:05:34.120 So I go and I say, listen, dinner's on me tonight.

00:05:35.820 Of course, I'm going to take care of you guys.

00:05:36.980 Don't even worry about it.

00:05:37.760 I borrow one of my friend's cards and I give the credit card.

00:05:40.120 The waiter goes, it's on me.

00:05:41.600 He walks a second time.

00:05:42.740 He comes to me.

00:05:43.600 And I said, yeah, you got it to sign.

00:05:45.080 He says, no, your car declined.

00:05:46.740 So he said it to everybody here.

00:05:47.940 I said, I'm sorry my car doesn't decline.

00:05:49.540 You need to go run it again.

00:05:50.400 Your machine's broken because sometimes these things happen.

00:05:52.280 He goes back and runs it and comes back.

00:05:54.680 But when he's coming around, I spot the look.

00:05:57.340 I said, excuse me, I got to use the restroom. 0.55

00:05:58.740 I walk up.

00:05:59.220 I put my handbook behind the guy's back.

00:06:00.500 I said, let's go over here.

00:06:01.420 We're going to need to talk.

00:06:02.120 I said, listen, don't you ever embarrass me in front of my clients here.

00:06:04.980 He says, sir, your car declined again.

00:06:06.780 I said, I know it declined.

00:06:07.900 Of course it declined.

00:06:08.920 I know it's going to decline.

00:06:09.940 I was hoping it wasn't going to decline.

00:06:11.620 Finally, we made something work.

00:06:13.120 I left.

00:06:13.440 I came back.

00:06:13.920 I said, listen, their machine was broken.

00:06:15.180 It's fixed now.

00:06:15.700 I went through.

00:06:16.180 We're good to go.

00:06:16.820 Can we do business together and all that other stuff?

00:06:18.540 We obviously ended up doing business together.

00:06:20.240 But that happened to me multiple times in my first year of running a business.

00:06:23.420 And if it happened to you as well, it happens to the best of us.

00:06:26.380 It's okay.

00:06:26.920 Number five.

00:06:27.820 So one time I recruit this new agent and I'm really excited about what this guy's going

00:06:31.360 to do.

00:06:31.560 He's a killer, big personality, salesman, a lot of gravity.

00:06:34.580 You know, just one of these guys that I think is going to do good.

00:06:36.520 And we're driving in my car, Escalade to an appointment, and we're in Tarzana, California,

00:06:40.960 right?

00:06:41.240 And we're driving.

00:06:41.940 All of a sudden, I see this cop behind me.

00:06:43.440 And he's been following me for like five minutes, like four exits.

00:06:46.240 He's following me.

00:06:46.900 I said, I'm just paying attention.

00:06:47.800 Having a conversation with him.

00:06:48.920 And I'm going 70 miles an hour.

00:06:50.400 He pulls me over and he, you know, gets out and he's got his hand.

00:06:52.980 I'm like, why has he got his hand?

00:06:54.020 I mean, I know I had one of these Escalades with the black wheels, you know, 20-inch wheels.

00:06:57.560 And, you know, we would play some good music.

00:06:58.960 So he comes out.

00:06:59.720 He says, are you Patrick, David?

00:07:00.960 Yes.

00:07:01.180 Can you please step out of the car?

00:07:02.260 I step out of the car.

00:07:03.400 He says, please put your hands back.

00:07:04.560 I said, put my hands back.

00:07:05.320 What's this guy talking?

00:07:05.920 In front of this guy.

00:07:07.260 This guy's thinking I'm a convict.

00:07:08.680 He said, why am I doing this?

00:07:09.680 He said, sir, do you realize your license has been suspended for eight months because you have 16 speeding tickets?

00:07:17.800 That guy that I recruited, I'm excited about, is listening to his mentor getting arrested for having 16 speeding tickets.

00:07:24.520 While I have my handcuffs on my arms, the guy says, he's getting a report.

00:07:28.500 They're screaming, emergency, you got to come over here right now.

00:07:30.620 The cop has a bigger emergency to go to than me.

00:07:33.760 And they're calling on him right now.

00:07:34.920 He says, you know what?

00:07:35.460 I have to go.

00:07:36.260 There's nothing I can do about it.

00:07:37.220 But you got to go and get this thing knocked out of the way.

00:07:38.800 He says, just go get your license squared away because your license is suspended.

00:07:42.040 He takes off.

00:07:43.220 I get in the car.

00:07:44.440 I leave.

00:07:44.960 A year and a half later, I had to go to court in Palm Springs to fix this thing because my license was suspended.

00:07:50.360 I had a driver for three months.

00:07:52.180 You're going to get lucky sometimes, like I did.

00:07:54.180 When you do, take advantage of it because that was a lucky day for me.

00:07:57.320 Number six.

00:07:58.460 I had an office in Woodland Hills, California.

00:08:01.220 It was a beautiful office.

00:08:02.660 When I tell you beautiful office, it was a one and a half, two million dollar lease.

00:08:06.060 8,600 square feet.

00:08:07.640 High rise.

00:08:08.500 Just the best place.

00:08:10.500 You walked an elevator entrance.

00:08:12.640 Beautiful spot I had.

00:08:13.620 So that lease, I didn't like being in LA County because you would pay taxes for being in LA County in California.

00:08:19.440 Gave you benefits if you were in Glendale, Burbank County because that was outside.

00:08:22.780 So I said, let's move to Burbank.

00:08:23.920 While we're going to Burbank, Glendale, I find an office I'm about to lease.

00:08:28.840 So I leased this one out to a guy that did very good for himself.

00:08:32.360 He takes my old office.

00:08:33.480 But in between the office, this next one falls through.

00:08:36.220 And the building comes back and says, the number you negotiated, someone's willing to pay 20 cents more than yours.

00:08:40.920 We're giving to this other guy.

00:08:42.060 And I said, oh, you've got to be.

00:08:43.020 He can't be doing this to me.

00:08:44.240 He said, we never signed a contract.

00:08:45.780 So because we never signed a contract, we can do that to you.

00:08:48.000 Last second, they give it to the other guy.

00:08:50.180 We don't have an office.

00:08:51.500 Let me explain to you.

00:08:52.260 For 90 days, we rented a shack where all my employees are working out of a small shack on top of each other

00:09:00.080 where every day they wanted to kill each other and every time somebody wanted to come and deliver business to us,

00:09:07.260 we would tell them, where's your office at?

00:09:08.760 Can we come and drop off the business?

00:09:09.900 No, no, no.

00:09:10.400 No, you can't come over here.

00:09:11.520 We'd meet them in the parking lot.

00:09:12.600 I'd say, what's going on?

00:09:13.260 Is there like an underground?

00:09:14.260 We just had a terrible office.

00:09:15.340 It was a kitchen, smaller the kitchen.

00:09:17.200 We laugh about it now, but for three months, our headquarters was based out of a kitchen for three months.

00:09:23.620 Very embarrassing.

00:09:24.760 We're at a big office now, but at one point, our office was a kitchen.

00:09:28.060 And number seven, this one's got to be one of the most embarrassing ones.

00:09:31.300 This is back in Agora Hills.

00:09:32.640 I was invited to an office to speak, and I was supposed to give a very intense talk

00:09:36.100 because that office needed somebody to challenge them, right?

00:09:38.640 So I'm going to come and give a strong talk.

00:09:40.040 So I come up, and I'm speaking, room packed, 150 people.

00:09:43.800 I'm giving the strong message.

00:09:45.220 Front row, there's four people sitting here, two girls, and they're just like trying to smile, 0.96

00:09:49.340 and they're laughing.

00:09:50.100 They're like smiling and going back.

00:09:51.700 I'm like, what is so funny?

00:09:53.300 And all of a sudden, I pass, you think this is funny?

00:09:55.240 Are you committed?

00:09:56.360 Do you really want to go out there and win?

00:09:58.180 And they're like, we do, but can I whisper something in your ear?

00:10:00.780 I said, yes.

00:10:01.700 What do you want to whisper?

00:10:03.200 So I step over here, and she comes, and she whispers in my ear.

00:10:06.180 She says, Patrick.

00:10:07.900 I said, yes, what?

00:10:09.540 Your zipper's down.

00:10:10.840 I said, what?

00:10:12.340 Your zipper's down.

00:10:13.640 Let me tell you.

00:10:14.540 Now, at this point, I'm like, I'm looking around to see who else is making eye contact down here.

00:10:18.520 So I make my adjustment from here to here.

00:10:21.460 My hands, I typically talk like this.

00:10:23.520 I never talk like this.

00:10:24.600 This just makes no sense.

00:10:25.820 This is my style of talking.

00:10:27.520 I go like this, and you hear that magical sound.

00:10:29.840 You know what the magical sound is?

00:10:30.860 Ready?

00:10:31.060 See if you can hear it.

00:10:31.760 One, two.

00:10:33.740 That sound right there.

00:10:34.820 I make that sound.

00:10:36.880 Half the room starts laughing because apparently everybody knew my zipper was down, and I'm

00:10:40.440 trying to give this intense talk.

00:10:41.660 Let's just say this was a difficult one to get everybody to be serious.

00:10:44.060 Afterwards, everybody said, this was one of your best talk.

00:10:46.000 It was so great because we felt like you're relatable because your zipper's down.

00:10:49.720 It was so awesome.

00:10:50.820 I also think I can be like you one day.

00:10:52.660 Here's a point here to realize.

00:10:53.960 If you've ever had an embarrassing moment like this where you're given a sales pitch or you're

00:10:57.560 talking to your sales force and your zipper's down in the back of your head, just know

00:11:00.660 this.

00:11:01.020 Pat's also made this mistake before.

00:11:02.500 Number eight.

00:11:03.320 Okay, so one thing about the insurance industry.

00:11:04.940 If you ever turn on the TV and you're watching a golf tournament, you're going to see some

00:11:08.220 kind of a life insurance commercial being done there, which means if you're going to

00:11:11.980 stay in the business and you're going to be very successful, you're going to be invited

00:11:15.600 to millions of golf tournaments.

00:11:17.620 So for me, I avoided it for years until all of a sudden I couldn't avoid it because

00:11:22.320 I'm performing with the bigger guys and I got invited.

00:11:24.860 And I got invited to this one golf tournament.

00:11:26.720 They said, Pat, you've been selected to golf with these executives.

00:11:29.800 So I said, okay, I'll go.

00:11:31.080 I'm the athlete, right?

00:11:32.000 So I'm like, oh, you know, golf is not going to be a big deal.

00:11:33.580 I'm a big baseball guy.

00:11:34.520 You know, I was like a Juan Gonzalez guy.

00:11:35.940 I know how to hit the ball.

00:11:36.740 I got distance.

00:11:37.380 I got strength.

00:11:37.820 I'm going to kill it.

00:11:38.800 It's going to be great.

00:11:40.000 Right before it, I gave myself, I said, one day I'm going to go warm up at the ball club.

00:11:44.440 It's going to be good.

00:11:45.060 One day is plenty for me because I'm naturally an athlete.

00:11:48.040 And I go hit the ball.

00:11:48.840 I'm like, this is very difficult.

00:11:50.760 How is golf more difficult than baseball?

00:11:52.920 The ball sits there.

00:11:54.480 Baseball, the ball is moving.

00:11:55.680 I can hit the baseball.

00:11:56.660 I can't flip and hit the golf ball.

00:11:59.460 So then comes the tournament.

00:12:00.500 So we go to it.

00:12:01.320 And I'm tied with these guys.

00:12:02.940 I'm part of this group.

00:12:03.900 I'm foursome.

00:12:04.440 All these guys are like the top guys above everybody.

00:12:06.600 And they wanted it because Pat's coming up.

00:12:08.340 So we go.

00:12:08.940 Listen, let me put it to you this way.

00:12:10.300 Think about the most embarrassing moment anybody could have in golf in one day.

00:12:13.460 I don't think anybody's day was more embarrassing than mine.

00:12:15.980 I killed a few birds.

00:12:17.100 I mowed the lawn.

00:12:18.060 Afterwards, the country club came and said, we're hiring for somebody to mow the lawn.

00:12:21.580 If you're willing to take the job, I turned it down because the money wasn't good.

00:12:24.540 And everybody's trying to say, oh my gosh, you're getting better.

00:12:27.060 It's okay.

00:12:27.580 Hang in there, patient.

00:12:28.620 And then inside, they're going whispering to each other, laughing.

00:12:30.980 Couldn't wait for this 18 hole.

00:12:32.640 By the time nine was in, I said, listen, guys, you go on the next nine.

00:12:35.700 I'm taking a break.

00:12:36.720 So in reality, sometimes you're going to get involved in certain industries that you have

00:12:40.000 to play certain sports, whether you like it or not.

00:12:41.880 If you get into insurance, get ready to golf with somebody someday.

00:12:45.300 Number nine.

00:12:46.320 So one day, I'm sitting in the sales appointment.

00:12:48.140 And this guy walks in.

00:12:49.020 He looks very sharp.

00:12:50.040 And I'm looking at this guy.

00:12:51.380 I said, man, he looks sharp.

00:12:52.620 But why does he smell so bad?

00:12:54.040 Like, he smells terrible.

00:12:55.260 Did he just go to the bathroom?

00:12:56.560 Like, man, wipe yourself.

00:12:58.040 Clean yourself.

00:12:58.820 What is wrong with you?

00:13:00.180 He smelled terrible.

00:13:01.360 And he's sitting in front of me.

00:13:02.520 And typically, an appointment sales appointment would take me an hour, hour and a half.

00:13:05.560 I said, listen, I can't sit next to somebody that smells this bad.

00:13:07.880 So I cut this appointment fast.

00:13:09.160 I was very frustrated.

00:13:10.260 I said, how does somebody have the audacity to not even take care of themselves when they

00:13:13.620 come in?

00:13:14.300 I mean, his shoes.

00:13:15.440 Did you step on poop?

00:13:16.360 What is wrong with you?

00:13:17.560 So I cut the appointment very quickly.

00:13:19.360 I said, buddy, I got another call I got to make.

00:13:21.120 We're good to go.

00:13:21.580 So he leaves.

00:13:22.220 I go, I'm like, listen to this guy, man.

00:13:23.840 I haven't seen a guy that smelled this bad.

00:13:25.200 I've never done an appointment with a guy that smelled this bad.

00:13:27.000 So I go to the bathroom.

00:13:28.200 And when I go to the bathroom, and I look at myself in the mirror.

00:13:31.140 I had my kids earlier.

00:13:32.620 And when I had my kids earlier, on my tie is poop all the way on my tie.

00:13:37.560 Okay?

00:13:38.080 And the person who smelled like shit was this guy here.

00:13:40.840 Not the guy I'm selling it to.

00:13:41.940 It was embarrassing, because the entire time, the man was so kind, so nice to me.

00:13:47.280 And you can see the stains on my tie here.

00:13:50.160 He never brought it up.

00:13:51.280 If you're watching this, my apologies to you.

00:13:53.900 I promise you, moving forward, I will never have poop on my tie ever again.

00:13:57.980 But if you've ever done a sales appointment, and you're worried about having one of these

00:14:00.720 things in your teeth, you know how when you look at someone's got to take that thing

00:14:03.200 out?

00:14:03.900 Nothing's going to be worse than having poop on your tie.

00:14:05.560 And last but not least, number 10.

00:14:08.200 Okay, so let me tell you, I'm running the sales office back in 2005 in Granada Hills.

00:14:11.680 Okay?

00:14:12.120 And I always came in on Sundays.

00:14:13.440 Because Sundays, things were quiet.

00:14:14.740 I could really strategize and write stuff down to know what I'm going to be doing the

00:14:17.200 next week.

00:14:17.800 One Sunday, I go in, and I'm like, wait a minute.

00:14:19.880 Nobody parks the car here on Sundays.

00:14:21.560 This is not a place you park the car on Sundays in Granada Hills, right off the 4 or 5 freeway.

00:14:25.300 Two cars are parked outside.

00:14:26.620 I said, what's going on here?

00:14:27.500 So I come upstairs.

00:14:28.300 And by the way, there was a way for you to always sneak into the office on Sunday.

00:14:31.040 Because if you had one of those, you know how you put the ID stuff in the door?

00:14:33.580 You know what you want them to talk about?

00:14:34.380 And the door opened, so there was a way to sneak in.

00:14:36.220 But I came in from the elevator.

00:14:37.600 I put my keys in, and I'm hearing stuff.

00:14:39.580 What is this?

00:14:40.580 Is it the cleaning crew?

00:14:42.060 This is not a sound I recognize for cleaning.

00:14:44.160 It shouldn't sound like this.

00:14:45.360 And the moment I opened the door, I was like, you know when it's like too late when you see

00:14:48.020 something?

00:14:48.640 You know, it was too late already.

00:14:49.960 And I saw it.

00:14:51.120 And this couple, boyfriend and girlfriend, they're going at it as if they're shooting a

00:14:56.280 porn movie that day.

00:14:57.600 And I'm watching these guys, like the sound, cha, cha, loud.

00:15:01.840 I'm like, and you look at me like, you know the whole look immediately, you cover yourself.

00:15:05.180 I'm like, guys, I'm uncomfortable.

00:15:06.700 What are you guys doing here?

00:15:08.460 It's like, everybody's doing one of these things, right?

00:15:10.640 So, oh my gosh, Patrick, we're so sorry.

00:15:13.100 I said, why here?

00:15:14.660 Why not in your apartment?

00:15:16.500 Why not in your house?

00:15:17.780 But Pat, I live with my parents and he lives with his parents and our car is too small

00:15:22.920 and it was a tall guy.

00:15:24.200 We just, this is the best place we find.

00:15:26.340 I said, but could you stand here?

00:15:28.380 On the carpet, we train right here.

00:15:30.620 I'm going to talk right next to this tomorrow.

00:15:33.500 And I said, listen, finish off and just tell me when you guys are done.

00:15:36.020 So I step outside.

00:15:36.980 A few minutes later, they finish off.

00:15:38.200 They come.

00:15:38.560 They leave.

00:15:38.840 They're embarrassed.

00:15:39.360 The next day is the best day because next Monday morning, we have our Monday full-timers

00:15:43.040 meeting.

00:15:43.420 We got about 50 people in the office and I get up and I spot him.

00:15:46.220 He's sitting over here.

00:15:47.520 She is sitting over here, okay?

00:15:49.840 So I get up.

00:15:50.480 I said, oh my gosh, I got to have fun with this.

00:15:52.120 I said, listen, let me tell you guys something.

00:15:54.320 One of the things that impresses me the most is when I see people show up on Sundays to prepare

00:15:58.900 for their week.

00:15:59.680 And let me tell you who showed up this Sunday to the office to prepare for the week.

00:16:02.580 Can we please have such and such stand up?

00:16:04.800 And can we have you stand up?

00:16:06.360 He stands up, she stands up.

00:16:07.740 They're sitting.

00:16:08.140 I said, listen guys, these guys were here on Sunday strategizing on what they're going to

00:16:12.940 do to take their business to the next level.

00:16:14.880 I'm so proud of you guys.

00:16:15.860 Can we give a round of applause to these guys?

00:16:18.940 Their face is so red.

00:16:20.260 It's crazy red.

00:16:21.380 They grab a seat.

00:16:22.420 I said, I just want you to know I'm very proud of you guys.

00:16:23.940 You guys are going places.

00:16:24.740 So keep doing what you're doing right now.

00:16:26.360 We're going to see you at the top.

00:16:27.260 So here's the point, by the way.

00:16:28.400 This is one of many, many, many stories like this.

00:16:31.260 Because when you run a sales office, crazy things happen.

00:16:33.960 If it's happened to you before, it's happened to many other sales offices as well.

00:16:38.240 It's normal in sales offices.

00:16:39.900 But my recommendation to you, find another place to get it on.

00:16:43.220 Not the sales office.

00:16:44.640 It throws everybody off and makes it very awkward.

00:16:47.640 So if you're watching this and it was you, we have a special connection together for the

00:16:51.540 rest of our lives.

00:16:52.760 Listen, here's a moral of the story.

00:16:54.020 I've had a lot of embarrassing moments and I'm not really worried about it.

00:16:56.480 I'm probably going to have many, many more.

00:16:57.840 Business is ugly.

00:16:58.740 It's not always going to be perfect.

00:17:00.300 You're going to have embarrassing moments, scary moments, or dumb mistakes you're going

00:17:03.660 to make.

00:17:04.100 But the key is to keep going and not let it slow you down.

00:17:07.140 Thanks everybody for listening.

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00:17:16.000 And if you have any questions for me that you may have, you can always find me on Snapchat,

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00:17:21.900 Just search my name, Patrick MidDavid.

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00:17:30.680 Take care everybody.

00:17:31.400 Bye-bye.

00:17:33.660 Bye-bye.

Valuetainment - October 24, 2018

Episode 195： 10 Most Embarrassing Moments as an Entrepreneur

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