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From Electric Rides to Medical Mobility – Shaun Powell’s Next Vegas Power Move!

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Ever wonder how someone transforms from running teenage house parties to building a mobility scooter empire in Las Vegas? Shaun Powell's entrepreneurial journey is a masterclass in recognizing opportunity and building systems that create freedom.

Four years after his first appearance on the Vegas Circle Podcast, Shaun returns with an entirely new business venture and vision. As the founder of Vegas Mobility Solutions, he's carved out a successful niche providing medical equipment to tourists visiting the Strip, but that's just one chapter in his remarkable story.

Shaun's entrepreneurial spirit emerged early, starting with a job at Quizno's at age 12 (yes, he lied about his age) and evolving into organizing entertainment events in high school that drew crowds of 500-1,000 people. His natural networking abilities connected him with now-famous artists like Brent Faiyaz while his clothing brand Cash Cartel and entertainment ventures created opportunities most teenagers couldn't imagine.

What makes Shaun's approach unique is his systematic thinking. Self-described as "the most productive lazy person," he transforms potential limitations into strengths by creating efficient systems that allow his businesses to run smoothly whether he's present or not. This approach gives him the freedom to be fully present for his daughter Friday through Monday while still growing multiple businesses.

The conversation takes an exciting turn when Shaun reveals his next venture – developing a luxury resort just an hour outside Las Vegas. His vision for an "oasis" experience that serves both tourists and locals looking for a nearby escape demonstrates his gift for identifying market gaps and creating solutions.

Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur, a business owner seeking better work-life balance, or simply fascinated by unconventional success stories, Shaun's journey offers valuable insights about seizing opportunities, building effective systems, and finding that crucial balance between making money and enjoying life.

Speaker 1:

Welcome to Vegas Circle Podcast with your hosts, paki and Chris. We are people who are passionate about business, success and culture and this is our platform to showcase to people in our city who make it happen. On today's podcast, we got a special guest. He was actually on our podcast four years ago for episode 64. He actually had a company at the time called Koto Bike. We've kept in contact for the last probably four or five years now.

Speaker 1:

Jumped into a new business venture. He's actually doing medical equipment supplies, I should say, which we're going to be able to talk about. So he's actually the owner of Vegas Mobility Solutions.

Speaker 3:

So we got Mr Sean Powell man. Good to see you, brother. Yeah, I appreciate it.

Speaker 1:

Finally get the chance to get to meet you Absolutely.

Speaker 3:

Absolutely. Thank you guys for having me, man. I'm happy to be back, I'm excited. So times have changed, man.

Speaker 1:

The last time Chris and I had you on the podcast, we were in the pandemic. We were all stuck at the house.

Speaker 3:

We had to do Zoom interviews.

Speaker 1:

You always been killing it man. You always been motivating and we kept in contact and been friends. But let's jump right into it. So at the time, you've done a lot right, absolutely.

Speaker 3:

What was kind of the first business you got into other than Kota Bike? So, honestly, my first business was when I was like a teenager, like maybe when I was about in the 11th grade, I started an entertainment company so I was doing like entertainment and promotions and stuff and like I found like popularity in high school so I was always popular and I was like I need to monetize this, like I'm going to be this popular, amazing, as a junior in high school. Yeah Well, it was before that Cause I got my first job at working at Quizno making subs when I was 12 that was my first job like I.

Speaker 3:

Like this is back in the day when you had work permits and, uh, it was on paper, so you go to the school, so yeah, so I went in there, lied about my age, um, and then I got that. I got the job I think it had to be like 14.

Speaker 2:

I think it was 14 okay, 14.

Speaker 3:

So my friends were working there and I was like I'll just lie and get on in there.

Speaker 1:

So yeah it was a vibe.

Speaker 3:

So you know I was in there literally like ringing people up and, you know, looking super young, I imagine at 12 years old 100% you know it's crazy, but yeah, throughout that I just you know my dad was an entrepreneur, or he is an entrepreneur to this day, so he always motivated me and pushed me to go get money, like I'm growing up on the east coast.

Speaker 1:

So okay, dc area yeah, dc area.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, my whole family from dc on my dad's side okay, g county to be more specific, um. To people that are familiar with that area out there um. But yeah, absolutely like. We used to get a lot of snow, so during the winter times we're out there raking or it starts shoveling so much snow we don't miss that at all.

Speaker 1:

We both midwest and east coast.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I do not miss the snow at all, so you know, but yeah, you know, knocking on the doors and, hey, I'll shovel your snow for 20 bucks. So we just started to do that and in my neighborhood we had like different, uh, competitive edge, I guess, with money okay. So we're all trying to figure out how do we buy like the little mini motorcycles and how do we buy the little like BMX bikes back in the day. So we were just getting money, we're trying to figure out how do we get money. So later into my high school years, as the popularity started to grow, I started to do like a lot of YouTube as well, because YouTube came out.

Speaker 2:

Oh yeah, that's good timing too.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, it's crazy as soon as YouTube dropped, like back in Mac Miller Day and Wiz Khalifa when they were all coming up, we were vlogging like hell too, so we were getting super popular, and at the time I just had a stronghold on the whole county.

Speaker 1:

I know it sounds so small now, but back in the day, the county in the DC area Right, right Okay.

Speaker 3:

But back in the day, if you got a stronghold on the county that you live in and you're popular amongst all the high schools, you're kind of like that guy. So I would do like the Cypher videos and take all the rappers from across the area and bring them together. So that's also like how I started working with Brent Fayaz as well. I don't know, you guys are probably familiar, of course, with Brent Fayaz, the R&B singer.

Speaker 1:

I think I've seen him because of you, to be honest with you, because of some of the videos and stuff you post, absolutely yeah, so he's definitely one of the greats right now, super Grammy winning artist, huge Like.

Speaker 3:

He's up there, but he doesn't really like put his face out there that much. So he's like right, he has one of those Instagram presence where, like, if you know Brent Fiaz, you know him, but if you don't really know his face, then you're not really going to know him. But everyone knows his music, like you guys know his music. For sure, y'all probably wouldn't know him if you saw him at the mall, okay, but anyway. So His name sounds familiar I got to look him up.

Speaker 2:

For sure, I got to hear him looking him up.

Speaker 1:

Of course I know him Like.

Speaker 3:

it's one of those artists that lasts forever because of the way he approached the industry, yeah, and he stayed independent and he's just a multi, multi, multimillionaire now and so, yeah, so I started working with him and a lot of other people and so when I started throwing parties, like my first parties, I was bringing out 500 people, 1,000 people, damn yeah. So it started to go like like me and the homies with those parties, we're breaking down ten, twenty thousand dollars between us.

Speaker 2:

You know lots of that's at a young age, in high school.

Speaker 3:

Yeah we got our parents working the front door taking the money and stuff. So it just all started to roll over. And then, as I got older, I was like, all right, I'm throwing parties, people are liking my style and stuff. Like that Fashion back then was you know, we cared about it more when we were younger and stuff. So I was going. So I was like let me drop a clothing line. So I called the brand and the clothing line Cash Cartel. So yeah, and Cash Cartel was like the vehicle. That's where Brent was Like I got, the videos are still live on YouTube to this day, but that's where I would do. Do the Cash Cartel Cypher, bring all the artists together?

Speaker 1:

Gotcha.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, and I would do different places. I would do a scene at a barbershop, I would do a scene at a popular shopping center and stuff like that to bring that notoriety. So once the clothing line started and I was getting a lot of buzz, um, the artist genuine, the singer genuine everyone knows genuine just fell off the stage.

Speaker 3:

Right, right, literally hilarious genuine is also from around my way okay, I didn't know that okay yeah, so every step of the way, every company that I was having, um, I was always getting a lot of notoriety, like people were coming out of woodworks and um becoming successful, like mega successful, on the heels of just what we're doing, like creating entertainment. So, yeah, but Genuine, you know, wanted to. He was doing a tour back then with Tank and Tyrese called TGT. Oh, of course, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Of course, hell of a group.

Speaker 3:

Yeah yeah, he wanted like a young affluent group behind him that he could kind of like put on as well.

Speaker 2:

Genuine.

Speaker 3:

Genuine, good idea. Yeah, so he called on us like literally called on us.

Speaker 2:

That's so dope.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, and I was young as hell, bro, I was like 18 or something, damn. So literally invites us over his house so we sit down and have meetings with him about closing a deal, literally talk about Walmart. So this is all leading into kind of where I am now. So not to say I'm successful now because the sky's the limit this brother being humble, he knows everybody.

Speaker 1:

I've seen it with everybody. You look at his story. You know everybody Absolutely.

Speaker 3:

But yeah, it just started to just kind of like snowfall and come together in that manner so. But yeah, we never ended up closing that deal with Genuine just because, and a lot of entrepreneurs.

Speaker 1:

Everything's timing, exactly Everything's timing.

Speaker 3:

Everything's timing and maturity and you know the guys I was working with back then, they didn't want to necessarily, I wouldn't say give me the credit like as me being the actual vehicle behind the vehicle or the battery in the back of the vehicle or whatever. But money was involved, so it got weird. So we ended up closing that deal, but all of this stuff really led me to the confidence and the creativity in the businesses that I do now.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, got you All those learning experiences Absolutely, and it happened fast.

Speaker 3:

Everything was just All those learning experiences, absolutely yeah, and it happened fast. Like everything was just back to back to back, like literally, as that's happening with Genuine, I'm literally living on campus at my college, like so I'm living a college life, going through changes and trying to focus on school, but getting these opportunities with celebrities and have to come back to the dorms and be like I was just with Genuine, like like, I promise you guys, I was just so. It was just a weird, you know transition each time.

Speaker 2:

So but yeah, Kind of tough because you know you go in a position like that right, you start young, 12, working, always been money motivated right, always been independent, it feels like. But you know, when you get success early I feel like it can be a double-edged sword in a way. In one way it's like man. I'm always chasing that kind of dragon per se right to kind of get back to that point. But then, as you get older, you may have to evaluate and create stability in a different way. Were you thinking about that? Younger? Have you ran into some of those challenges as you've gotten older now getting into different aspects?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, in a lot of ways, because back then I kind of just no one couldn't tell me I wasn't already like diddy. I know it's not cool to be diddy now back in the day, like like no one couldn't tell me I wasn't diddy, like I wasn't that guy. Let's be honest hockey still diddy. Diddy was the baby, was the bad back. Everybody say what they want. Nobody was going to the, to the after, after parties.

Speaker 3:

But right, diddy diddy was the man. Absolutely, yeah, absolutely. So it's like I, I totally looked up to him. He was coming from my area, like because he went to howard university that's in dc as well so with the parties and working with artists and then the clothing line, so no one couldn't tell me. So I, just at that time I was thinking about the future, but not that serious, yeah to be real.

Speaker 2:

So there's like more fun at this time versus like this I'm about to do forever, right got it.

Speaker 3:

I felt like I was like I chose my lane, like, instead of being a rapper, I was just like a socialite, like a personality, like. So I was like everyone follows me because I'm just that guy, that's how.

Speaker 1:

I kind of like that's how I get it, I get it, you know, I get it um, and then fast forward to people.

Speaker 3:

are really that guy over just being influencers?

Speaker 2:

Oh yeah, that's a whole different job now you could have.

Speaker 3:

And back in the day it's kind of like you had to be a little humble and you know you had to. You know.

Speaker 1:

But now people being individual brands, right, so it's making serious money. Yeah, it's remarkable.

Speaker 3:

And I wish I had the same entrepreneurial hustle as I did back then, Cause back then I was all day, all night networking events. I'm shaking hands, kissing babies Now I'm not so much like don't try to make a nine to five. Yeah, I'm definitely burnt out.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I get it. I get it. How'd you jump in? Cause there's a lot of people jumping into the to the medical equipment space, right, like I saw um damn from from your area too. I can't even think of it from clips. What's up? Okay, oh, um, jumped into the medical space. Okay, 100% yeah, and they're saying it's one of the most lucrative businesses period just in there. So how, how did you come up? Cause I know you always have a play. You're very strategic.

Speaker 1:

How did you get into the Vegas mobility solution? How did this all come about?

Speaker 3:

So it's crazy. So Vegas Mobility Solutions itself. That company is brand new. I just incorporated that company, maybe like six months ago, but prior to that company I had Key Mobility, which is still a medical mobility company. I'm just rebranding right now you know what I mean. Because when we first jumped into it, we didn't know nothing about medical equipment.

Speaker 1:

And when you say it's wheelchairs, right, it's what? What is the whole equipment that you guys actually do?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, so our lane is the durable medical equipment. So we do like mobility scooters, walkers, stuff like that. Lift chairs.

Speaker 1:

Strictly just Vegas, because obviously Vegas Mobility Absolutely.

Speaker 2:

Yep, and is it for purchase, for rent Just a little bit of background of the oh yeah.

Speaker 3:

Totally so. Yeah, the company, the company's all for rent right now. We mainly cater to tourists. Also, a lot of people that live in Vegas reach out to us. We deliver to homes as well, all over the valley, but mainly our clientele is on the strip.

Speaker 2:

So a lot of people.

Speaker 3:

they don't want to walk around that far and they also people get injured. Or we deal with different people that may be facing obesity or facing just different issues, that they want to be in Vegas but they can't get around, they can't get to all the attractions. So we came through as a literal solution for them. So we fill their orders and then we deliver it to their hotels.

Speaker 1:

That's pretty cool. Okay, how did you get your name? Because I know this is super competitive man. I know you always figure out the riddles. So how did you fight through dealing with the competitors and how did you kind of get your brand out there to be able for people to call on you guys and be able to use your services?

Speaker 3:

Right, right. So to this day, it's a lot of competition with the other guys that have been in the game longer. Sure, we deal with a lot of issues with the hotels on a daily basis because they've already been in business for like 100 years, and then, well, I'll say 50 years, I'll give them some years Sure, sure yeah.

Speaker 3:

And then we literally come in out of nowhere and just start dominating. You know what I mean. So, yeah, we basically got our name, though from just one by one, Like literally. We started with one scooter, then quickly got to five scooters and 10 scooters scooter, then quickly got to five scooters and 10 scooters. So we literally just gained notoriety within our market little by little, this was not fast.

Speaker 1:

So you didn't have to buy up a bunch of inventory and a bunch of capital to have all these scooters here, so you did it the right way.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I got blessed, I got really blessed because I literally still had the Kodo Bike store, still pushing Kodo bike as the first thing and the customers are just calling one by one, so we're just getting them on the books. Sure, we're starting to look at the books. You're like, man, like we're getting a lot more orders. You know, then we're gonna be getting for the koto bikes, sure, um, and it's definitely because the medical equipment is need be like they need that stuff, other stuff, recreational, um, so the same ad money that we put towards like recreational stuff versus medical equipment they need, they're going to grab a hotel, medical they need, they're going to pre-book it. That's like the first thing they book before they even get their hotel is they get their scooters it makes sense, because they can't travel with it, right and then?

Speaker 2:

on top of it, like I feel like for me, I feel like I see a lot of people recreationally driving these scooters yeah, that makes sense because they can't travel with it, right. And then, on top of it, like I feel like for me, I feel like I see a lot of people recreationally driving these scooters.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that's what I feel.

Speaker 2:

Actually, that's a straight up hustle to be able to get through the airport too.

Speaker 1:

That part too, that part yeah, so will you meet him at the airport, like you can meet him at Harry Reid and get? So we don't do the airport because it just gets too crazy. You know what I mean.

Speaker 3:

But like for us to meet him at the hotels is so easy. We got drop-off and pick-up points relationships with every hotel in the valley and we do it every day for like the past three years now. I know time flew, but yeah, the past three years.

Speaker 2:

When you say you have a relationship with the hotel, like how do you develop that? Right, Because you said there's competition and this is not something like you're just dropping off. These hotels are pretty involved. You can't even go up to a room, obviously, right, Because you're in a position where you have to get a key card to get upstairs. When you say you develop that relationship, what does that look like?

Speaker 3:

So yeah, mainly it starts at the bell desk. The bell captains, the bosses or managers, I'd say, in the front area, we really just had to, like, you know, give gift cards, to be real with you. You know, we had to have conversations with them, you know, and really like time started to pass and the next thing you look up and it's like damn it, like I recognize their name or I know their name, they know our names, like they can't deny it. But yeah, with a lot of the hotels that have partnerships with those bigger companies, it's hard for us to maybe like leave some equipment at the bell desk. They'll give us troubles, they'll say like oh, we have a contract.

Speaker 3:

Right, we don't want to be responsible, but all of our stuff has trackers. All of our stuff we're tracking. We know where all the inventory is, like you know. So, since it's still like a niche type of business, we're tracking, we know where all the inventory is, like sure you know. So, um, since it's still like a niche type of business, we're still creating that lane. So, like right now, a lot of the way that we've been able to set ourselves apart is kind of like bringing in that young marketing. Like when we when I hit the market because everything's competition, like we see each other all throughout the strip and we every company, special outsiders yeah, yeah, we know each other all throughout the strip.

Speaker 1:

Every company knows each other.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, we know each other's vehicles. We know, so I made sure I got the best vehicles. You know what I mean. Everyone else got like white vans. I got all blacked out, murdered out vans.

Speaker 1:

You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3:

Just to brand it the right way.

Speaker 1:

Right right.

Speaker 3:

So our stickers, our guys are out there delivering in scrubs, so they got named guys scrubs.

Speaker 1:

They look like they're medical the other guys are no uniform.

Speaker 3:

When we come out we can offer and I got more. A lot of the guys close at 6pm. I'm up 24 hours.

Speaker 1:

You're really catering to the customer.

Speaker 3:

We came in and infiltrated. They like it, I can tell, because everybody still can make a lot of money, but they're feeling us right now. That's a exciting place to be at.

Speaker 2:

You kind of layer in the driving part of it, right, so you know gas is getting cheaper. Delivering these things are not cheaper. I'm assuming that you have a storage facility somewhere close by, so you're trying to drop all these things off consistently.

Speaker 3:

And as you continue to expand and grow like, how much emphasis do put on like that networking of transferability to be able to get things around. That seems like absolutely a huge burden to have. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So that's probably one of our biggest costs is paying for drivers, because all of our drivers get paid well. I mean, just shout out to the team uh, you know, all drivers start minimum 250 bucks per day, plus their tips, plus their bonuses. So they're leaving out of their minimum 300 on like a bad day or average day, so, and they're leaving out of their minimum three hundred dollars on like a bad day or average day, so and you're taking care of people.

Speaker 3:

Oh yeah, absolutely yeah, yeah, we make sure the money moves around. Everyone, essentially, is their own boss. So, in terms of uh, you know, and like I was telling yesterday on the phone, like all of my businesses, I try to create uh um systems because I want everyone to be their own boss. Like I don't want, when I come around, you know, people are like turning their phones off and they're like nervous around me. Like no, you're your own boss. Like if you lose your job, you lost it.

Speaker 3:

You know like you could have come to me about anything and you know we could have worked things out, so yeah, so it helps out.

Speaker 1:

You know it's a trip trips me out which I still don't believe. You say you're the most productive lazy person. Yeah, and I don't believe that. Yeah. Because you be work, you work it yeah, yeah you know why do you say, why do you coin yourself that.

Speaker 3:

Honestly. It's because and I take a lot of pride in it too I'm not going to lie. Brent used to say this as well. He used to always put emphasis on we shouldn't be living to work. Our whole lives shouldn't be around just paying the man. It shouldn't be about just figuring out how to like Speaking my language, bro.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, speaking my language, right.

Speaker 3:

It should never be that way. I can understand the systems, from school systems to every other big government system, why it's set that way, to every other big government system, why it's set that way, but in reality I don't think that we should be having to dedicate exactly eight hours. I've always been a rebel in that way too. That's another thing I've realized as I got older. I have an issue with authority. I have a real issue with it. I'm a nice guy and I'm cool and all I don't want that, like I don't know, why it just doesn't that's that militant.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that's what it is I don't know.

Speaker 3:

So it's like yeah, um, you know, so yeah, I'm always able to uh to, to recreate that and also give that feel to to to my staff. So yeah, like, basically, whenever I find um an issue, I find myself having to do a task. I really don't feel like doing that laziness. Okay, I figure out a system, yeah and I take pride in that. Oh and and like, literally I've never ran into a problem where I didn't find a solution through a system you sound like chris, that's how chris said the same thing is a sister.

Speaker 1:

That's how he said his whole life up. Yeah, he said, uh, if I'm gonna His sister.

Speaker 2:

That's how he said his whole life up yeah, Delgate had a sister. He said, if I'm going to hire somebody, I'm going to hire the lazy person.

Speaker 3:

That's why he's like they're going to find the easiest way to get the job done.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it's true.

Speaker 3:

Point A to point B. I swear that's how I might do in two days. Honestly, that's interesting. Yeah, like the systems and stuff I put in place, I could work pretty rarely, you know, and I can travel like two weeks out of the month and stuff like that and make sense of it and allocate all the work and everything's still running. So, yeah, that's really why I coined myself that. And then I still have like goals to put more companies like this on autopilot and then, just honestly, I call it free bands, just free money. Just when you're sleeping you're making money and you're still in control. And I also like to create businesses that I could directly pass to my kid. I could be literally here, just run this Because the system is in place. Thank you, my kid. Like I could be, like literally like here, like like just run.

Speaker 3:

This system is in place, thank you, so like you know, because I think about when, when I was a kid and my dad used to want me to like work in his businesses and I just wasn't interested, no matter how cool or how much money he's making. I just didn't want to do it because I don't know, I guess it was just my dad probably because you wanted to rebel.

Speaker 1:

You want to do it yourself.

Speaker 3:

Right, but I think with the businesses I'm creating now, it's something my daughter could jump in and take after her dad. Take over that lazy. But even though I don't think she'll ever be that as lazy as I am to be real, but I think she'll be able to come in and be like everyone's doing their thing, and easy that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1:

What's kind of the biggest hurdle, man, because you've done a lot right, you've worn a lot of hats. What's the biggest hurdle that you've kind of learned or you've had to deal with just in business in general?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I think right now I would probably say the biggest hurdle is probably financing, because I never and this is just like the future or the ventures that I'm working with in the future Like I'm trying to get the financing and wrap my head around the financing.

Speaker 1:

That's awesome that you're going that route. We talk about it all the time. Yeah, I actually want to go back and get a degree in finance.

Speaker 3:

Oh okay.

Speaker 2:

For sure.

Speaker 1:

Because it's probably the best thing you can get.

Speaker 2:

And I hope that he does so.

Speaker 3:

I get money off him, yeah, but it's cool yeah, but no that's probably the biggest hurdle is like, um, just figuring out like how to, how to get the money to do it. Um, but I mean the companies I've had in the past, um, I've been really, really blessed, whereas, like I could literally start with one piece of equipment. Or like with koto bike, we started like 10 bikes and we're able to be busy every day and stuff like that.

Speaker 3:

Um so, hmm, I think the biggest hurdle is probably between financing getting a real couple hundred thousand million dollar financing and then just digging yourself out of doing it from the bottom, like literally all my companies I didn't go to school for.

Speaker 1:

Yeah to learn, literally, learn on the go.

Speaker 3:

Like literally every day, just YouTube and just strategizing was probably the biggest hurdle, honestly, and I've been blessed Like I must give it to the Lord Like I've been blessed that I've been able to coast a lot and everything takes me from here to there. Because even like when I was doing the entertainment stuff, like from doing all of that stuff in DC, I started throwing a lot of parties at clubs in DC and then again, by the grace of God, when I turned around like 21 or 22, my cousin bought a nightclub in Miami.

Speaker 1:

So that's how you ended up out there, exactly.

Speaker 3:

So, if you can imagine, it's like I'm already throwing parties and working with artists and celebrities.

Speaker 2:

It's like you're pretty set up to take the next step.

Speaker 3:

Exactly. And then all of a sudden my cousin's like hey, I bought a club in Miami.

Speaker 1:

It's the perfect gold mine, right, gold mine, exactly. So I'm like yo, I'm out there.

Speaker 3:

What do you need? Hell yeah, bro, like I just paid you know a million or so bucks on this. He was doing real estate too, which has really always been exciting to me, um, and he was like yo, come down here, help me out with this spot. Help you know, I'll help you out with real estate. So even like on his opening night, because he's also an influencer in his own right socialite he had so many stars, like from like lil uzi to like asap rocky, oh dang to so many more XXXTentacion.

Speaker 1:

That's the dude that passed away, right, yeah, okay.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, but he's from South Florida, okay. So you know Lil Uzi's throwing out like a couple hundred or a couple thousand bucks, but all hundreds. He was throwing it in the crowd. It was a great night.

Speaker 3:

That's what's up yeah, and I'm literally like taking them into the party and security's getting me like, hey, sound security, let's talk to you and I'm like, oh shit, what's up? Like you know. So all of this type of um things started to happen one by one and then, um, because my cousin also had the club and I was also trying to figure out my entrepreneur stuff, I started a cleaning company most random stuff, but you know what I mean. Like I always try to tell everybody you learn right yeah something, you gotta jump in there and you got.

Speaker 3:

you got like, when the opportunities show their face, you gotta just jump in, you know, I mean, and like, at the end of the day, the business stuff is not like personal, it's all about the money. So like as soon as I got the opportunity, I was like all right, let me count up the money. Uh, to like clean people's houses, fuck it, I'll do it myself. Like if you'll pay me 200 bucks and I can just have my headphones on. Still a young dude, like I don't have no pride, really, like you know, I'm just you know, still working with celebrities and stuff, but definitely putting my pride aside and started making a lot of money with cleaning. I'm already knowing.

Speaker 3:

Yeah like within that first year. I probably had like at least 300 to 500 customers that first year. So every year has been so remarkable and the blessings have just kept spewing.

Speaker 1:

People don't realize how good a cleaning business. My best friend, Jarrell, who lives out in Cali right now. He left his corporate job building a cleaning company. Yeah, and he's killing it right now. Yeah, it works. People were hating on me too.

Speaker 3:

They're like yo bro, there's so many Marias down here. This is Spanish capital. There's going to be so many aunties and tias and everybody that's going to be, but the business is going to grind.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

But at. Yeah easily like $200 on like four hours and then I'm back living a young wildlife in Miami, like it was super exciting. And then during that time too, again Brent is getting bigger. So he's coming down all the time and you know it was important for me in my journey to see everybody else become more successful too. You know, like people in my network just about everyone that's close to me in my network has gotten so huge, like again, iron sharpens iron, though, too, though, man, when you're seeing them do different stuff.

Speaker 1:

But you're what I, what I applaud about you is you doing it your own way, though, so you're not doing it the way that a lot of your friends or cousins, or whatever it is, or your dad. You're doing it your own way, which is awesome to be able to do. Can you share a little bit about this hotel resort?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I know that's something that we were talking about.

Speaker 1:

Can you touch on it? Why you want to get in the hotel space and what you want to build on that?

Speaker 3:

Definitely. So I'm super excited about this new venture building out this resort Right now. I kind of like touch around each point just so I don't go too deep, because that's going to be something.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, there's like there's a million, a million rabbit holes you go down. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.

Speaker 3:

But it's going to be, uh, I want to do it like within an hour of Las Vegas, so, just you know, whether that's Pahrump or Mesquite or different areas, um, I just need, like you know, uh, two or three acres of just like empty land. Um, in regard and that's what I was saying about, uh, financing before, like that was one of the things that I really really had to scrub my brain in the last like year to figure out how I was going to get financing for this property. But finally, I've gotten so many breakthroughs where it's almost like the money's pouring in and I just thank god and I tell everybody to like to focus on building your credit the right way, make sure you got enough credit lines, you know you got enough debt to income and you know, and you're keeping your credit score high and, of course, when you're talking about credit.

Speaker 1:

We were just having this conversation with Andrew Cartwright that we had on business credit. Are you talking about personal credit or both? Both? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3:

Cause what I found, too, is that they're all most of them them the money that I really want with the, with the nice interest rates. They're wanting a personal guarantee and I'm cool with that.

Speaker 3:

I'm cool with that like interesting you know, I mean, like I'm I'm cool with that, because if you're gonna entrust me with, you know, five hundred thousand, six, seven hundred thousand dollars to build a new concept like this, like I'm cool, you know, I'll bet my last dollar on it. So, so I don't mind, um, you know, putting my name next to it, co-signing it, so, uh, but yeah, it's um, it stemmed off of me doing airbnbs. It's also one of my hustles I did over the years from miami to vegas. I had airbnbs here too and um, so it gave me the confidence to know that people actually will book. Your shit will be booked out every day. That's probably the biggest thing that has people nervous when they're doing Airbnb is like, is my shit actually going to get booked?

Speaker 2:

Am I going to have my money back? That's all this money in my own pocket. People really like it and they really will book it.

Speaker 3:

There's so many people Until you get into business from that side, you can't believe how many people inquire for just a space. And then, yeah, when you start putting in a retrospect, like fuck it, like you know, if you got, you know, 30 days on your calendar, you only really need like 25 different people from the world that are coming into vegas to stop at your place. So that's so easy, you know. So, um, yeah, but with the concept, with the resort, um, it's honestly, uh, I'll say it's really an original concept. Um, it's definitely something that uh, uh, everyone in vegas wants, like between a staycation, because a lot of people, of course, that live here in vegas, they don't want to go down to the strip all the time that's not their favorite thing to do, like they want to go to the beach.

Speaker 3:

They want to go. You know, do Strip all the time. That's not their favorite thing to do. They want to go to the beach. They want to go do vacations and stuff, but Cali's too far Anywhere else. They got to get a flight or maybe they can go to Zion.

Speaker 2:

You know what I mean. It's still a long drive, right? You know what I mean.

Speaker 3:

So I wanted to build something super interactive, something cool, festive, where all year round, people can drive just that one hour beautiful drive between here and Pahrump and then get to a property where they're like this is an oasis. Like, when I get here, I don't know if I'm in the Bahamas, I don't know if I'm in Bali, like, all I know is that it's beautiful. I feel like I'm getting a personal touch. The staff is great, everyone's smiling. It's such a difference than being in a per-rump, right.

Speaker 1:

Sure.

Speaker 3:

Where you may not get that same customer service that you'll get if you're in the house.

Speaker 3:

Or a luxury style, that luxury feel so I really wanted to create that where the villas are all, um, uh, unique to you know, their own space on the property. Um, and then something that I can also handle like a type of resort that I can handle, like I can make sure that, you know, these 10 villas are booked out every day, you know, and I can work with influencers and, um, uh, you know, offer this to people like you all you know what I mean who also have a platform, that are here in Vegas.

Speaker 1:

Give it to Chris now man, we'll go with the family's band. We'll test it out. We'll test it out. A thousand percent, a hundred percent. That's what's up, man.

Speaker 3:

When's the goal to open it up? So the goal to get started is actually in two months.

Speaker 2:

Oh, wow, wow, that's come quick.

Speaker 3:

Yeah. So I got like like 60 days right now where I'm blitzing good for you. Um, yeah, I got all type of uh 3d renderings and stuff nice to make the place feel really real. Um, to also get the right builders on the team you travel a lot, so I know it's gonna be nice there's a lot of places to travel with.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it's gonna be beautiful, yeah I'd be like shadow ridge, like you've been to shadow ridge up in north osmega.

Speaker 3:

So it's's a golf course.

Speaker 1:

When you walk over you drive by.

Speaker 2:

You have no idea.

Speaker 1:

It's there but you go inside, it's like. It's like the top 10 golf course I think in the world.

Speaker 2:

Check it out Every hole you can't see another hole, but it's like a hidden oasis, a hidden gem. I think Steve Wynn built it back in the day.

Speaker 1:

Steve Wynn built it and sold it to me. He has a house in the middle of it. It's ridiculous. I went to Micah Jordan's thing years ago.

Speaker 2:

Oh, it was over there. Yeah, micah Jordan, you should check it out. It prompts some ideas, it's beautiful.

Speaker 1:

It's like a hidden oasis. You'll never know it's there. You don't even know it's in Vegas. 1,000% oh, that's fire.

Speaker 2:

That love that oh yeah, yeah, I was like one hour away. Yeah, whoever the dude is that owns leucanian genius, yeah, like, so money somebody's trying to park to try to charge me 25. I'm like okay, no, they get it.

Speaker 3:

Exactly like they're getting money over there, like, and it's like a gem because when I got up there I was like this shit's busting, like everyone's everywhere. There's people you know all in here, you know it's a trust like safe place where people are leaving their expensive ass fucking snowboard just outside oh yeah, true, I was like this is what I want to create. Yeah, just an hour away, come here, get away from the town, and also people that are coming from all over the world like I want the ads.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I'm gonna target the world where I'll be pulling that off, man.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah, that'd be great, it's gonna be exciting to be able to see that because we need. There's so many cool things happening in Vegas and they say, like the next seven years is like the gold rush.

Speaker 2:

It feels like here, people want to get away too.

Speaker 1:

They want to get away for an hour.

Speaker 2:

Sometimes I just got to the city and just be alone, absolutely.

Speaker 1:

I'm curious, just personal-wise fatherhood, some of the things me and you have talked about personally offline, but how do you balance all of this? I think it can help somebody, just young entrepreneur dealing with the girls being single and everything but how do you keep everything together and keep yourself, keep your nose clean is what I'm getting at, absolutely.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, yeah, that's one of the biggest things because it's been a journey throughout my life. I found myself getting very distracted by women. Definitely, I would say can be the biggest downfall is women, like it could distract everything. I'm already knowing it could just do everything also. Yeah, I've, I've, thank god, I've gotten to the point. Now I'm 31. I guess you know I've gotten a little bit over that maturity hump where I don't feel that much of a draw to be that focused on women right now, thank God, and I love that feeling because, just like two or three years ago, that's a part of my schedule, that's a part of my rotation. I mean Monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday. I need flavors. It got really wicked.

Speaker 1:

I don't know we had those conversations. It got really wicked. I don't know we had those conversations. It got really crazy.

Speaker 3:

So, thank God, now I could just focus in on work and not even have, like, those urges and those curiosity. I kind of like got it out of my system, thank God. But for, yeah, a lot of the young entrepreneurs can definitely tell them wholeheartedly, it's going to be hard. You're probably just going to have to go through a lot of BSs and um, you'll find yourself, uh, you know, more focused, um, but yeah, and other than, like you know, when it comes to parenthood and work, that was probably the easiest balance, you know. I mean because, like you know, right now I have a split with my baby's mom. She lives here too, so that helps out a lot. But, um, uh, I have a split where I have my daughter, like friday through monday, so I pick her up from school or practice on friday, drop her back off from school on monday, so we you know you're able to balance it the right way.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, so it's a beautiful thing because, um, I always make sure to put my businesses on days I don't have my daughter. So, like those friday through monday, I never work like I don't. I mean like I do stuff from my phone but, thank God, like I could just focus on her, take her on trips every weekend or whatever the case may be. So that has been a blessing. You know what I mean. And also I have my mom here, so my mom maybe like one day out of the weekend she'll want to pick her up and take her out you know whether it's church and stuff like that so want to pick her up and take her out.

Speaker 1:

You know whether it's church and stuff like that. So thank God. So you got that system too. When it comes to being a kid, I'm paying attention to everything. I'm learning. Everything has to have a system, you know.

Speaker 3:

And like my mom also like, because you know I take pride in being able to take care of my mom, you know, and I want to give her opportunities.

Speaker 1:

So yeah, like you know if she watches my daughter, I could give her some cash as well.

Speaker 3:

As you know. Have her do stuff like clean my house, because she's gonna do it anyway. Yeah, she comes over, she'll start doing. So I'd be like yo just take over, do your thing and I'm gonna definitely size you with, you know, two, three hundred dollars, when I would probably pay a cleaner a lot less.

Speaker 1:

But it's that system. You know what I mean. No, I get it.

Speaker 3:

Saving the time, saving time, saving the time I can plan a trip to Columbia next month and I don't even have to involve my mom. I just know that when I tell her hey, next month, on the 16th, I'm going to need you and she's like, okay, fine.

Speaker 1:

And I come back, my house is clean, everything is just so Leave us on one business advice as far as a nugget for somebody, because you've done a lot over this short period. You like 31, going on 51, which I can't believe how, how young you are. Yeah, um, give us one gem of advice, man. I know you talked a little bit about, you know, fatherhood and things like that, some and they probably learned from listening to what you talked about different businesses things but what's just one gem of advice that you could share for somebody? That's the short that maybe they're not thinking about. That's worked for you to do your own thing.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I would say for the most part, find balance. I would say that's probably the most important thing that has guided me through. Everything is balance, like find a balance between having fun and then making money, because I think that's the bottom line. Like you know, I could say like having fun and then working, but more specifically, having fun making money, make sure you're making money, make sure your money's clean, make sure you're doing legal stuff that you can build upon, like how you're saying clean yeah, because it gets you in trouble, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3:

Like try not to really take too many shortcuts. Really like run through your problems as they come. Really like smile at it. You know, put it in that category as like having fun with the project. Like no matter how big the hurdle is, you may get an email from the county or something. I don't know what makes people nervous, but certain things throughout the entrepreneurial journey may make people nervous and if you just find like the fun and you find the balance, you'll be fine. You know Cause. But if you look at the work, like oh my God, it's work and it's so strenuous and you know, then it'll be hard.

Speaker 1:

You'll procrastinate. So just find that balance, love that. Yeah, balance is everything, man. I get that for sure. And you know I'm going to ask you this about food, man, because you know, I love food.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, what's?

Speaker 1:

your favorite restaurant in Vegas man.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I should have been ready for this question too.

Speaker 1:

And I'll be seeing where you be eating that.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, give us a gem, I'll be on the town. I know you do. You know to remember the name of the, of the. What kind of food so they? They do like asian food, but it's a. It's a place in chinatown too, right on spring mountain I got. I want to say it's azuzu, azuzu. I gotta find the name okay but when you go into this place, you you privately seat, so they seat you in your own like, like an omakase type of thing ah, is that how you say?

Speaker 2:

I don't know where they bring up all the different pieces at a time, probably omak Mocase you can order so much stuff too but they give you your own little private room.

Speaker 1:

Okay.

Speaker 3:

And the food is like, yeah, kind of like piece by piece, so you can order a lot of stuff. But I love the idea of variety and then being secluded, so just with your date you can just talk to her and just chill, order food.

Speaker 2:

It's a slower pace, you get to just ease.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, pace, you get to like just ease. Yeah, I'm brand new to it. Okay, they're good I like this spot. Okay, you got, I gotta find a name to that. So it's on spring mountain. Yeah, I want to say it's like izuzu, like or something like I z u z u. Okay, I'll look it up and see a I don't know something.

Speaker 2:

So something on spring mountain yeah we'll find it, we'll post it give him some love, man.

Speaker 1:

Give him a shout out. Man. What else is next for you, man? I know so resort always. You always got something up your sleeve, man. Anything that you want to leave us out on that we maybe forgot to ask you.

Speaker 3:

Um, you know what I think that's? I think we definitely had a great combo today. I think that's been great. Everything on the head.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

Um, yeah, I would say, uh, two things to look out for right now that are pending and we'll document it for here. Um, we're working right now on on reopening Kodo bike. Okay.

Speaker 1:

I didn't know that.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I really wanted to come to this meeting with the Coto, oh, okay. And we're actively working on it. We got, like, all type of investors that are interested. You still keep it downtown, yeah still keep it downtown, Still keep the same type of feel, Same partner that I worked with D Cole in the past.

Speaker 1:

So just bringing the same thing just at I love it, yeah, yeah, I love it, yeah they're building high rises down there now too. Yeah.

Speaker 3:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

We're seeing a pop up. So much stuff, yeah, yeah, so much stuff Changed that real estate down there.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, they did, bro, they did, they're killing it, that's what's up? That, and then the resort Yep, those More exciting. It's like what the hell?

Speaker 1:

This dude be staying humble, man. You're going to see him on Forbes updated. I would pay attention, man. But, Sean man shout out your social handles. People can check you out. Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 3:

So everybody check me out on the camera. But whoever's looking at me right now? Ceo Suave. So it's like S-U-A-V-E on Instagram TikTok, everything is CEO Suave. So yeah, tap in with me, send me a message, let's network.

Speaker 1:

I'm down boy grinding man, you're grinding man. Well, I appreciate you sitting back down with us. Subscribe with us on thevegascirclecom. So I appreciate you, brother thank you, man.

Speaker 2:

We back in the thing. That's good man.