No Filter in Paradise
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No Filter in Paradise
The Mondi Journey: Building a Beach Club Empire | EP 193
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Step into the vibrant world of Mondi Caribbean Beach Club, where culinary dreams transform into breathtaking reality. In this sun-drenched episode, we sit down with the powerhouse trio behind Curaçao's most exciting new dining destination—Mariska, Justin, and Kiana—who share their remarkable journey from concept to Caribbean hot spot.
• How Mondi began as a response to someone claiming "Caribbean is only fried chicken"
• The importance of creating spaces that feel luxurious yet accessible and welcoming
• Each Mondi location has its own spirit animal mascot (butterfly, iguana, parrot)
• Their abundance mindset: "We don't have competitors, we have colleagues"
• The challenges of educating customers about fusion cuisine in the Caribbean
• Plans for expansion including new restaurant concepts and partnerships with cruise ships
• Their approach to working with local brands and investing in the community
• The team's ritual of writing down goals and opening champagne when achieved
• How they balance their Netherlands-based businesses with operations in Curaçao
• Their entrepreneurial philosophy: "If we die, we die fighting"
If you're in Curaçao, visit Mondi Caribbean Beach Club for beautiful views, delicious Caribbean fusion cuisine, and their signature cocktails like the rosemary mezcal. Follow them on social media @MondiCaribbean for updates on events, brunch parties, and their upcoming champagne bar.
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Welcome to Mondi Caribbean Beach Club
Speaker 1So first this place is gorgeous.
Speaker 2I know but we have a lot of work to do.
Speaker 1Thank you. Thank you, shargy. So we have big plans. The food's alright. I love it.
Speaker 2The idea came from me and Justin, and then I said, why not Caribbean? Yeah, the answer was, but Caribbean, that's only fried chicken, right? And I'm like what the who?
Speaker 4said that.
Speaker 1What are you?
Speaker 4whispering in his ear.
Speaker 1He's whispering stuff and then he wants to act like he's mad that he's next to me, exactly.
Speaker 5He's enjoying it, so I'm gonna scoot on this side of the table, me too.
Speaker 4I'm like what is going on, you're a little wild today.
Speaker 5Hey, hey, hey, what the fuck? So your mom told us to go eat at. Hey yo, what's up? La Chemistries Guys? Welcome back to the ABC Islands favorite podcast, no filter in parallel essay show about anything and everything between two friends. One is straight and two of them. Ooh, I'm kidding, one is straight and the other.
Speaker 1I'm truly, truly gay and I'm baby. I'm black. Let's go. We couldn't tell. That's crazy.
Speaker 5This is why we had to put Mr Justin Ethan, aka Chef Cox, on OnlyFans.
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Speaker 5We haven't started yet right, Not yet Still waiting for all you guys. All the fans First started get subscribed.
Speaker 1We're here. We're here. I'm starting to get tired damn it.
Speaker 5Guys, we also. We have two people here. We got Justin, who's been on the show, we got Kiana, who's been on the show, but we finally have the third piece of the puzzle Mariska let's go Welcome to the show Mariska.
Speaker 4Thank you, welcome, kiana. Welcome back. Thank you, anir.
Speaker 5Fun fact. I mean I don't know up, but we had an interview with kiana's mom. Hilarious good time fabulous. And now we know where she gets her energy from so if you haven't seen it yet it's either out already, go look at it. But it's not, oh yeah, wait and it'll come out. Yeah something like that.
Speaker 1Either way, you're gonna see it yeah, am I recording now.
Speaker 5I just did a double check I'm sorry, let's go all right guys.
Speaker 5So today we're at a special location and it's something you, if you've seen the podcast, if you've seen these two episodes with kiana and justin, you know where we are today. We've talked about this in a vision a year and a half ago with you, and then last year we spoke about it with you, and today we're sitting with mariska and we're in the monday. Monday caribbean is not a reality. It was a vision to a year and a half ago and today wild.
Speaker 1How does?
Speaker 5that feel.
Speaker 1I feel like we have to just jump right in. How does it feel to know that something that was just an idea, a plan, executed to such a beauty and your locals are actually enjoying it?
Speaker 2anybody, anybody it feels great, of course, but you know we are already working on our next, so we are not like oh fully, because we we see a lot of things that oh yeah, we need to do this, we need to do that, and so maybe we should enjoy it more.
Speaker 1I think so first, this place is gorgeous it is but it's we have a lot of work to do. Thank, you Shargi, so we have big plans.
Speaker 5No, I love it, the food's all right, the design good job, ladies. The food's okay you know I went to Randy's had better I'm kidding it's okay, oh, quality, it's okay.
Speaker 3I'm going to have a promotion to Randy's.
Speaker 5The food is good. The food is really good.
Speaker 4Yeah, you guys had some snacks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's tuna tacos.
Speaker 5Yeah, I like the one. The carne carne soba. The carne soba.
Speaker 6The taco carne, I believe. I think carne soba is better.
Speaker 5I just want to make sure I'm saying the right thing. God damn, I don't know, I don't know. A rib, a rib, short rib, back ribs, I don't want that shit right now. Okay, okay, it's okay.
Speaker 3It's in our Dutch no, no, no, no.
Speaker 6No.
Speaker 5Hey guys. By the way, this is going to be the first time I'm going to be speaking Dutch today.
Speaker 2Vandaag gaan we Nederlands praten.
Speaker 5Een beetje Nederlands, this is the first time I'm going to speak in Dutch on this podcast.
Speaker 6We gaan aan mix praten. Ja, een beetje.
Speaker 5Het is Curaçao. Aruba, pomer, papialans, papimento Geen.
Speaker 6Spaans.
Speaker 5Papialans.
Speaker 1What.
Speaker 5Hey, hey, hey, get your phone away.
Speaker 6Get your phone away. I took it out.
Speaker 5I took it out. Yeah, Okay, let's switch back to English.
Speaker 6Yeah, give him the phone, yeah that was the rule we had it. My wife doesn't want my phone.
Speaker 3My wife, my wife, my wife, my wife, my wife, my wife.
Speaker 5My phone, so if you don't yeah very well, don't compare us to her. So I want to talk about what was the journey like creating this place. What was the struggles? Are you okay? The sun's hitting you.
Speaker 4Yeah, I don't want to have the shot in my face.
The Birth of Mondi Caribbean
Speaker 5I'm just focused on keeping the good angles, but we'll be fine, we'll be fine. So let's talk about the beginning of monica. What was the start of this?
Speaker 2where does this idea come from. So the idea came from me and justin yeah, a couple of years ago, um I um was asked to create a new concept in one of the Corendon hotels, and Corendon is a tour operator, but they also have their own hotels. And then I said, why not Caribbean? And then the answer was but Caribbean, that's only fried chicken, right, and I'm like what's that?
Speaker 1Who said that Don't say who said it, because otherwise he will be fired.
Speaker 2So I will not say it, he'll be fired. I cannot fire him, but we can cancel. So then I said, okay, let me prove you wrong. And then I googled and there were two Caribbean chefs in Holland. So I had a meeting with both of them, but with one of them I didn't feel any connection, and with Justin it clicked like instantly.
Speaker 5This guy is a social guy man.
Speaker 2I can see why, but he's also very creative and obnoxious and annoying Emphasis on annoying.
Speaker 5Especially the last part Emphasis so we Relax and annoying, but okay emphasis on annoying, especially the last part.
Speaker 2But so we we, so we connected instantly and then yeah it all started and um yeah, we never stopped being creative from that point on so yeah, that's that was the start of monday and what was like the design going into, like how did y'all envision this specific place, the location and all that good stuff? So the location was an easy one, because it's close to a corenon hotel and it was easy for us to um make it a reality.
Speaker 2To make it reality and the um, yeah, the design and the interior. That's more like how do I want to feel when I go to a beach club or how do I want to feel when I go to a restaurant? And I think that for me it's important that it's not too chic, not too fancy. Uh, I just want to have good food with friends or family and, yeah, enjoy myself and don't feel like, oh, my god, do not touch this because it's too expensive, or whatever so just easy going.
Speaker 1I must say I do feel like y'all embody that essence of a beach club. Yeah, perfectly, because it gives that exact. Then a few nights ago we came and there was a cruise ship here.
Speaker 5Yeah, that's awesome that element.
Speaker 1It just it was. It just gave you luxury, but at a great price, and it feels like something that is off the island, like you had to take a boat or a yacht to get here. But that's not the reality. It's he, it's you're in. You're still in curacao. So I think y'all did an exquisite job when it comes to that whenever you want to you can see me wherever this is.
Speaker 3I think this is what you guys need when you have to control his pr. You can see me wherever.
Speaker 5I think this is what you guys need when you have to control his PR. No for real Whenever he comes the first time.
Speaker 1He'll sign his contract with a lot of people. He's just like breathing.
Speaker 5That's why he's talking some crazy shit, but I love it. That's what.
Speaker 4I like about you. He's a big kid. He's a big kid, he's got two moms.
Speaker 5Relax.
Speaker 1Justin.
Speaker 5But I really wish this is something Aruba's missing.
Speaker 3For sure it doesn't exist.
Speaker 5In Aruba Beach Club there's this Nikki Beach or Reflection Beach, but it's not this, it's just a bar near the beach.
Speaker 2Or just Uva, if somebody's listening. We can use some investors. Yeah, you can be some investors.
Speaker 5Yeah, you want to be part of Aruba. Nah, nah, we're looking for some investors for Aruba.
Speaker 4And a nice place.
Speaker 1in Terreno Natchi there's some very rich people in Aruba. So yeah, no, for sure.
Speaker 5If they hear it on this podcast.
Speaker 6you want 10% Three one.
Speaker 5Go keep going. Who else Is that your phone number? Are you sure you want 10%? 3, 1 go keep going. Who else is that your phone number? Are you sure you want to share that?
Speaker 1yo bro howdy he's like that's a dollar sign.
Speaker 5Boy, I don't know what you're talking about so for you guys it wasn't that, for you guys it wasn't that difficult with the location, so you guys were blessed like I'm like, super like, where is the hotel? By the way, is it this? Way so it was super nice for you guys to find location so close to the hotel, so that was the easy part. And when it come to the designing part, like I love this menu, it's pink love I like.
Speaker 6Okay, this is a butterfly every location of us that is is own mascot. What's?
Speaker 5the mascot. Well, there's also like an iguana in the menu.
Speaker 6That's Amsterdam New West. That's an iguana.
Speaker 4Amsterdam New West. Maybe it's better that Kiana explains that.
Speaker 5Chef.
Speaker 1Let's go to Kiana.
Speaker 4Let's go to Kiana, Kiana explain the design, because you're wearing pink, the menu is pink, everything is pink in here, marisco is really the one responsible for the entire design, so you guys can ask her all those details later, these little things in terms of branding, collateral and marketing. That's me, but it's true. Each Mondi has its own spirit animal, because we just thought that it was appropriate to give each one its own animal right so. Mondi Nuest is a flamingo.
Speaker 3This one is a butterfly.
Speaker 4And the Skybar is a parrot. We have three different mascots for three unique locations.
Speaker 1All have a different color scheme something else, but with the Mondi emblems. I love that.
Speaker 5I love that y'all bring which animal? If you happen to open one more next one, which animal would that be?
Speaker 4I'd like a turtle.
Speaker 5I agree.
Speaker 2Me too.
Speaker 1Okay, and I feel like turtles are like perfect for Mundi Aruba, so it could be.
Speaker 4Yeah, what are you whispering in his ear?
Speaker 1He stay whispering stuff and then he wants to act like he's mad that he's next to me. Exactly, Boy bye.
Speaker 5He's enjoying it so much. He, he's enjoying it so much he loves it. This guy loves it.
Speaker 1You want to talk about it. It is what it is. It is what it is.
Speaker 5Don't die on us. I'm going to choke on this, please don't, please don't. You know I've never been. I went to the one. What was the one you told me? The one in the school, the me, the one in the school, the one that wasn't in the school, the college hotel, the college hotel, yeah, yeah that's the one I went to, and then I found out I went to the wrong one. I should have went to the one in West where they had all the carnivals and stuff.
Speaker 4Where that was Caribbean nights that night.
Speaker 5I remember this happening.
Speaker 4Yeah, I was with my wife, but it's a 10 minute drive. You didn't want to just drive to the other one.
Speaker 5I already ordered everything, like I text the hand give me PD, give me PSA. And I'm like, yeah, I thought it was going to be ambient. What the fuck is this? And then I go out. I'm like, oh wait, we came to the wrong one.
Speaker 3The food was good but the atmosphere was was no, you were expecting a party, I a fucking like cocktails flying no, that's the other one.
Speaker 4Cocktails were flying.
Speaker 5Yeah, dancers, women, no they didn't lay up in there you went at that expensive table, oh child what child?
Speaker 1yeah, they have like a very expensive table. Like you can book a table?
Speaker 5yeah, yeah, like a minimum spend type of thing but, that's a couch, that's fabulous.
Speaker 6What do?
Speaker 1you couch a cage a cage.
Speaker 5What do you mean? What did he say? I was like what is a couch? Like a couch.
Speaker 1I'm going to scoot on this side of the table.
Speaker 6I don't know.
Speaker 5I'm like what is going?
Speaker 3on.
Speaker 4He's sexual with it. You're a little wild today.
Speaker 5So I want to know. So what's going on now? Like you guys are all residents in Holland, Are you guys moving back to Oru, curaçao, curaçao, back and forward, because you have businesses running in Holland and Oru?
Speaker 1Curaçao how does that work?
Speaker 3You don't want to like boom, boom, boom.
Speaker 1No, no, that's a little extra, that's crazy.
Speaker 2No, that's a lot. No, it is it is it is, but when you do something you like, it's not a terrible job to do. So I'm flying back and forth. Kiana and Justin are staying here for a longer period, and then Justin and I agreed that we will.
Speaker 5We keep switching, yeah, we keep switching.
Speaker 2So when he's in Holland, I'm here, when I'm in Holland, he's here.
Speaker 5Someone has to be responsible. Yes, are you sure he's the right person to be responsible? This was luck.
Speaker 6So he can be responsible when he has to be when he has to be On the order. Yes, of course, but now it's playtime, because y'all are Exactly Okay.
Speaker 5So was it difficult to start this beach club I mean, there's other places here in Curacao as well Like, will it feel like a competition?
Speaker 2So for me it's never a competition, because I believe in abundance. There's enough for everybody. And everybody has their own guests or clientele that they attract. So I'm not running a race, I'm just walking my own, or we are walking our own path. So, yeah, we are not aware of any challenges like that.
Speaker 6Got it yeah Got it got it.
Speaker 5Yeah, yeah, don't worry.
Speaker 6Facts. I have a vision, I want to do something. I want to do something. I want to do something.
Speaker 4That's important you always have to look at yourself and do your own thing.
Speaker 6Of course, people will always do things different or maybe better than you.
Speaker 1But that's a lesson or something you can take with you, or it's something that suits the other, it suits the other.
Speaker 3You don't have competitors. We.
Speaker 6Something that fits the other person Exactly. I always say you don't have competitors, we are all co-colleagues and we work for ourselves. To give the guest at our place. A nice experience.
Speaker 5And he wants that too.
Speaker 4He doesn't want anything else, so you go to one spot.
Speaker 5That's one experience. Come here, it's a different experience, yeah. So it's not really like a competition, it's more like what?
Speaker 4kind of vibe do I want today?
Speaker 1There are enough tourists for everyone, but it's the same thing, like with the different mundis that exist. If you're going to look at it as a competition, they're all in competition with each other at. So you have the option to choose. Hey, do I want to go to this monday, that monday, that monday, that monday.
Speaker 2Or do I not want to go to monday at all? Yeah, but just choose the monday that fits you yeah exactly.
Speaker 6I think that if you're just like that in life with everything you do, you know. At least then you are more at peace. Yeah, if you always look at someone else. Compare they say in Dutch the grass is greener, always at the other side. That's Dutch that's English.
Speaker 5I just translated it that's why we love you Justin you know, what's crazy about me is like when I'm or this might be bad, whenever I'm drinking, for some reason I function so much better.
Speaker 6I'm more aware of everything around me, but you come from Aruba that's why Maybe, maybe Is there like a battle between Aruba and Curacao.
Speaker 5Great technique, I don't know. We're always winning.
Design Philosophy and Brand Identity
Speaker 3I don't know. Oh yeah, I love you.
Speaker 5I love you, but Arubans are known to drink a lot.
Speaker 1Don't tell Arubans you have an open bar. Yeah, we show up and we clean it. They drink every time. Don't do that.
Speaker 5You tell us oh, there's an open bar in my world. That's where we're going today.
Speaker 3Get ready?
Speaker 4Seriously, yes, I don't know you why.
Speaker 1Who is?
Speaker 2better Arubans or people from Curacao no good more beautiful.
Speaker 1Oh, okay, listen.
Speaker 5Shark is going to be Curacao, because we talked about this before oh, tell me all about it, y'all man here, oh, but Aruba is smaller how many people lives in Aruba? 120,000.
Speaker 2So it's a lot, it's almost the same.
Speaker 4It's almost like 60,000 we have 150 150 dude.
Speaker 5Oh it's really it's a full male island, or who?
Speaker 1cares like the reason.
Speaker 5The reason why he likes Carissa is because what he said in a podcast in the past is you want a specific like a guy, a black guy with a blue eye and white hair. It exists.
Speaker 3You will find it, carissa has options, yeah.
Speaker 5And Aruba is like one standard package and that's what you're going to get, but a little bit of fluctuation, depending on the income.
Speaker 1They just all have a big belly and there's just hair and that's what you're gonna get a little bit of fluctuation depending on the income. They just all have a big belly and there's just hair and there's just like excuse me.
Speaker 5I mean I'm married now, so like the weight comes with the package. You know, you see what I mean. That's a Ruben man. I'm gonna get back to it. The next curious I see them, I'm gonna be fit okay, we'll see let me adjust them fit 30 days hey I'm saying 30 days, 30 days. I go to the gym, I come home I have pasta. I'm like no, no, no.
Speaker 6Get away bad bitch.
Speaker 5Get away. The cocktails here are fucking good by the way.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1They're going to keep them coming.
Speaker 5Guys, if you come here, get the rosemary mezcal so good, and it's going down like a juice.
Speaker 1So I have a question. Last time we had a conversation, it was said that there would be multiple Mondis opening in Curacao. Only they got a little cafe as well. Right, what's the status on that? And what other Mondis can we expect, because we already got the beach club? Are we getting more beach clubs or are we getting different elements of Mondi?
Speaker 4I think the idea is to do something with this group, whether it's going to be of Mondi. I think the idea is to do something with this group, whether it's going to be called Mondi or not. That's still something that we're discussing at the moment. Maybe it's time at this point to come up with a new concept, a different type of cuisine and branch out. Curacao is very small, so that's my opinion, but that's something that we're openly discussing in this time.
Speaker 2yeah, yeah, but we already opened a mondi cafe right within in the hotel yeah, but that's not open to public, that's just for the hotel guests.
Speaker 4Exactly, is the hotel all inclusive?
Speaker 3the hotel is all inclusive, all inclusive.
Speaker 5Yeah, brandon, okay, our pilot stop.
Speaker 1That was mondi Stop. I didn't know that. We're going to show you Please.
Speaker 2It's like a cute little cafe when you can drink coffee.
Speaker 5Same vibe, like this Tropical.
Speaker 4It's a really nice vibe. It's small, just coffees and pastries and teas and things like that.
Speaker 2So that's like a test. You're testing it out, is there?
Speaker 6Pilot.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's a pilot.
Speaker 1So Curacao already has two Mondis.
Speaker 2Curacao already has two Mondis and a third one is coming up, but, as Kiana is saying, if we will call it Mondi or not, it will at least have our signature.
Speaker 6So basically it's something, something small by Mondi, Maybe, maybe maybe Our biggest dream is to have multiple concepts in our group.
Speaker 4That's common in hospitality groups it is. It is Like group hospitality in Miami and have different concepts.
Speaker 5In Miami you have a lot Like what's the guy David something.
Speaker 1I remember it was called Renaissance Branches under the mother brand, like in Aruba you have Gianni's group. Yeah, like what's the guy David something. I remember it was called Renaissance branches under the mother brand, like in Aruba.
Speaker 5You have Gianni's group. Yeah, they have an Italian restaurant, a steak restaurant, a sushi restaurant are they all called Gianni's?
Speaker 4no, it's called Gianni's group. It's on the Gianni's group.
Speaker 5It's a Gianni's restaurant but they're called Daniel's by Gianni's. Like this one, asia they all fall under the brand. Yeah, Garden Fresh.
Speaker 1That's what we want to do. Okay, so then it's probably not going to be a Mundi, but it's going to be something by Mundi.
Speaker 2It's probably not. It's a baby of Mundi one of their kids. Okay, I have a Mundi group.
Speaker 1Of course I have a Mundi group, because that also gives more job opportunities for the Mundi brand to grow, and we can also see, maybe, something that's more your alley, something that's more your alley, something that's more up his alley. So I love that, I love that concept thank you coming soon in two months we're open.
Speaker 2Few months, oh few months. I was saying two months.
Speaker 5She's like don In two months we're open A few months, oh, a few months. I was saying two months. She's like don't push it, relax, justin. No, yeah, yeah, yeah, a few months, a few months. So you're going to invite us to the opening?
Speaker 1Yeah, because we're going to get an invite for this opening as well and we had to invite ourselves, which is fine.
Speaker 6We had a deal.
Speaker 5I was like I'm going to cook here.
Speaker 1That was the deal.
Speaker 5And then I was with Chef Irvin. It was a weekend with Mondi. It's a chef's table at Infini, it's a 12-seating nine-course, something like that. And I was like I was saying you should come to Aruba for just one weekend and cook like three nights, and I have like a specific kind of.
Speaker 3A pop-up shop, a little multi-pop-up.
Speaker 5I told them a year and a half ago it could be arranged.
Speaker 6But right now I'm here so it's for me easier to go to.
Speaker 5Aruba.
Speaker 6Yeah you're closer and let's make it happen, let's go.
Speaker 5Shit, I'm tired. Remember the day, huh.
Speaker 6Okay, remember the day. Okay, okay, wait, wait, remember the day. It's five past five. You should have my wife text me.
Speaker 5Where are you, oh, wyoming?
Speaker 3I'm beginning to sound like.
Speaker 5I'm.
Speaker 1Wyoming. Yeah, yeah, I know I'm just looking Five past five the hell Nah.
Speaker 5So what else can you guys tell us about Moni? Like, tell us a little bit more. The cocktail is amazing.
Speaker 4I've only had two different cocktails, but they're my favorite.
Speaker 1The food's really good, I just had the what, what was it? The bajiriki sauce? Oh, that was fantastic. Yeah, that was really good, a little bit of rice in there.
Speaker 4I don't know what's in the bacalito, just you're the chef. No, there's no rice, just fish. Pakkalyaw right.
Speaker 6No, not codfish, it's a codfish. It's called pakkalyaw right.
Speaker 1Yes, so it's good.
Speaker 6Umm Bloem.
Speaker 3Step one.
Speaker 5He doesn't even know his own menu. I'm thinking.
Speaker 2What do I put in it? No, no.
Speaker 6First you make your bakiaw Like you want it on taste. So you put the bakiaw in the pot.
Speaker 1One language, pick one, it's okay.
Speaker 6And then you put I know I'm going to explain, but I'm going to explain it Please.
Speaker 5Do it, do it. We're not angry.
Speaker 6This is a multicultural podcast Do your thing, okay, so you make a bakkoyau with a lot of flavor. Then you add flowers flavor, and then you make balls out of it. You can do it with Funchi or with normal flowers, and then you make balls out of it. You can do it with Fungi or with normal flowers and then you're going to peel it, but we do less flowers so that the baklava really comes up. And then we do those panning so you get that nice crisp and then your nice sauce.
Speaker 6And then we have a mondi sauce.
Speaker 5What's the mondi sauce again? I'm not going to tell you that I tried last time too Damn. I'll try again in one more year.
Speaker 2But even we know the recipe, we don't even know.
Speaker 5Yeah, you want a bit of whiskey with soda and Red Bull. Five drinks later you're going to ask this is the recipe. Actually I tried it like two nights ago. We were at Bar Pays.
Speaker 1That was a good night.
Speaker 4Had a good night. That was a good night, that was the one night I went out.
Speaker 5I went out with him.
Speaker 4No, now I know, because when you came in like a zombie yesterday I didn't know that you, I worked all day yesterday.
Speaker 6I'm not a zombie.
Speaker 5no, I'm just a zombie. You left.
Speaker 4You said I'm a zombie. I'm a zombie, but I don't know what to say. I hope that, but he came in with the thing.
Speaker 5But now I know you guys went to.
Speaker 4Bar.
Speaker 5Pais.
Speaker 4Student night.
Speaker 1What happened I?
Speaker 5didn't say anything.
Speaker 1I didn't say anything. I didn't say anything.
Speaker 6I didn't say anything.
Speaker 1I didn't say anything. I didn't say anything. I didn't say anything, I didn't say anything, we have to go dad, ah no, we have to go.
Speaker 2Yeah, wait a minute Hold up.
Speaker 4We'll be fine by then. We'll be fine, we'll be fine, by then.
Speaker 5Anyways.
Speaker 4But Bar P's student night was fun, boys.
Speaker 6I didn't even know it was student night. I didn't know it was was student night. Tuesday is student night. We were here together. We came here. We were sitting here Taking a few drinks. Ricardo told me to come. He said okay, let's go.
Speaker 1But you didn't change your mind about the student night. I'm on vacation. We don't have any plans. We don't have any plans. We don't have any plans. What a student evening. I'm on vacation.
Speaker 6We have a lot of dance days. I'm a little bit tired.
Speaker 1How do you do your work? I'm a.
Speaker 3DJ.
Speaker 6I'm DJ BE. I'm talking to Ronnie.
Speaker 5Flex. He was a nice guy.
Speaker 6He was nice.
Speaker 4He was a nice guy and now you, mike, can you MC againcus, and I'm Mike, can you have your MC? Here. Yeah, he was wilding on the MC mic.
Speaker 5He was going to sing. I'm like, bro, he was singing. I was embarrassed, I was like I'm not with him, no.
Speaker 3I'm kidding.
Speaker 1I'm kidding.
Speaker 4Wait what We've met, justin the MC.
Speaker 6We've met him. We met him. They told me I'm Tommy Justin. Today is DJ Rubber Rick.
Speaker 5Rubber what.
Speaker 6Rubber Rick. That's Ricardo. That's DJ Biggie MC Justin Rubber Rick.
Speaker 5Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6Why is it called Rubber Rick? That's his DJ name, Rubber Rick.
Speaker 5Why Rubber Rick yeah?
Speaker 6Like rubber, like rubber, rick, yeah Rubber.
Speaker 1Rick, that's his DJ name. That's weird, right.
Speaker 6Maybe like you know don't be silly or rap that, willie. I'm happy Guyana got the joke, but okay yeah.
Speaker 5He drove me home. What?
Speaker 6about me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, please, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5I mean Aruba, to be honest.
Speaker 6Corsa Nightlife is so much better. Yeah, yeah, no, for real, I think.
Speaker 5I think maybe because it's different, like here everybody comes at the party have a good time. In Aruba Some of the clubs people just meet on the wall.
Speaker 4But wait today's Thursday right.
Speaker 5Yeah.
Speaker 4You guys should go to Peter Mayen today. Maybe you should take that. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 6Justin, please.
Speaker 5I had no drink. I'm not the one ordering bottles.
Speaker 3No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
Speaker 5I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I know there was a bottle there. We all started drinking from the bottle.
Speaker 2I'm like I don't know it sounds like Justin.
Speaker 5Yes, Listen, he was a good host that night. He came here I don't think you knew we were here, you just showed up and then he sat with us. He had some drinks.
Speaker 2He was a phenomenal host. Yeah.
Speaker 5It was good we spoke to Don from Afro Bros. He was supposed to come as well. He never, showed up, but chaos did show up.
Speaker 6We met him at the party, but it was a very nice evening.
Speaker 5Yeah, the vibe was nice. We all ended up staying. Thank you, guys, for calling us. Well, thank you for the invite today, so we're going to see you at Peter May tonight, right, yeah, hey. I'm just Tuesday was Justin, Thursday is Kiana. Hey.
Speaker 6And Mariska, but Kiana drinks tequila soda.
Speaker 5I love tequila.
Speaker 6Okay, Like Reposado.
Speaker 5Añejo, let's go.
Speaker 6Check out, give me some 1942. Amazing.
Speaker 5Love it.
Speaker 1Oh, that's, true, Stop, stop. Oh my God, yes, stop stop, stop, yes, let's have a cute night out.
Speaker 5Your mom told us to go eat at.
Speaker 1I object.
Speaker 5Your mom told us to go to Come.
Speaker 4But I would go tonight To something in Peter Mike, that street like.
Speaker 3Taqueria, one of those things.
Speaker 4I'm having dinner with my parents and some of their friends.
Speaker 5I'm sure your mom will understand. I don't know. Those guys are nice. She should definitely go with them. I'm just saying how many times do you find some really shocking, really shotgun Torian in Curacao?
Speaker 4Once a year now, but it should be twice a year. It's cool, it's going to be twice a year.
Speaker 5Your mom also supports that idea. You guys should come twice a year.
Speaker 4I definitely think so.
Speaker 6Okay, everybody. Sometimes they need a little bit of sponsorship, so if you want to see more of these podcasts, in. Curacao sponsor no Filter podcast. Would you be our first sponsor A place to sleep, not a ride. A place to sleep, not a couch, just a place to sleep. And some tickets, right? Tickets, let's go All that. Tickets right, okay, let's go Bang bang.
Speaker 5I think Mondi will be our first sponsor.
Speaker 4Not the bang bang again.
Speaker 5You promised us he's big with his bang bang.
Speaker 3You won't say bang bang, bang bang.
Speaker 4You promised Bang bang, we love you, but no more bang bang.
Speaker 1Wait, what's the history behind bang bang?
Speaker 4Nothing, it's just Boof. Boof says that and he's not Boof Bang, bang, bang, bang bang. We need to come up with a new phrase.
Speaker 6Say that Candela.
Speaker 4Candela grande.
Speaker 5I think yours would just be like amen or something. It's like you guys are so happy you're on this side of the table oh my god, everybody hallelujah.
Speaker 1Oh my god. So what was in your cocktail?
Speaker 4legit because you want another one you want another one.
Speaker 5This is amazing. Yeah, this is wild what did you have?
Speaker 4again the rosemary mezcal and Jess, you want another one.
Speaker 6Yeah, no más.
Speaker 1And then strawberry, and oh, not casa.
Speaker 4All right.
Speaker 1All right let's keep it pushing. Okay so what is the expectations for this year for Mundi? Because I saw y'all had a brunch party and all this good stuff going on and that looked extremely lit it was. What can we expect for Mundi, Caribbean, right here, the Beach Club for 2025?
Speaker 2More brunches for sure for 2025. More brunches for sure, right? Yeah, brunches. And we have some um like concepts we are working on. In holland, we have a concept called 25 plus, so that's like an r b? Um party, but then we also want to do this combined with a brunch. So, and what else do we have?
Speaker 6we have I think just a lot of different concepts, which is the concept of afro afro house. Yeah, only, lady djs, we are working on our soon yeah this new restaurant is going to open there soon outside building yes, don't say everything, please because there has to be an element of surprise in there for later. So yeah, a few things we are working on.
Speaker 4Yeah, I think the biggest thing is indeed it's gonna be a champagne bar. So we have a very nice exclusive deal with a very nice champagne brand that we're not gonna reveal yet and that will open over there. Like you know, like you have right now all the new beach clips, like valenciaga or this or that, something like that so we're looking forward to that and in terms of monday, I think marisco said a lot of different dinner concept, brunches, parties, day parties a little bit of everything, um, but always, I think the most important thing for us is that people have a nice ambience, a nice vibe, and that the food is great, so great.
Speaker 4So that's just, you know, the main focus, of course, the restaurant, and for you know people to be enjoying the Caribbean food and is this place available for if somebody wants to do like a rent out?
Speaker 1Absolutely.
Speaker 4They want to do a wedding.
Speaker 1They want to do whatever.
Speaker 4It's available Everything.
Speaker 6Corporate events parties birthday parties rent out the whole thing, just the buyout, yeah, yeah, yeah, I had a question hey, what's the goose?
Speaker 5ducus, money, money moves, yeah, yeah, yeah, kiana's pressing over here.
Speaker 2She tried to give him, uh, media training, yeah yeah, we heard about this when he came with the podcast. When she came on the podcast, he was saying I was trying to give him media training. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we heard about this when he came on the podcast.
Speaker 5When she came on the podcast, he was saying I was trying to give him some tips, yeah, and he just fucked it up.
Speaker 3Nope, not about us.
Speaker 5We started talking about OnlyFans within the first five minutes of the podcast. No, no, no, it didn't matter. Yes, it did. But what I want to say about that is and we talked about it is like I didn't know what to expect from him, because I never met the guy, I only texted with him. I'm like I'm going to get coin. The first impression was bad already, because he came 30 minutes late.
Speaker 2That's also sounds like Justin, yeah.
Speaker 5And he shows up, and then I did not expect the person I spoke to, which was hilarious. I loved it, so like ugh, Justin, but I can also understand why You're like.
Speaker 6Justin no, but I'm a very loving character.
Speaker 2You are, yeah, you are, you are, you are.
Speaker 4It's different every day.
Speaker 2You have a lot of love in you.
Speaker 1Yeah, bro, a lot.
Speaker 6And sometimes I ask my parts, but they already know my parts yeah there's nothing coming.
Speaker 5There's no add-ons no cummings, no points. This is what you get. This is what you get, hey switch this what it is.
Speaker 6They know me already seven years and she know me and every course more and now we're getting to know you, I am Stop it.
Speaker 5What does it mean to be calm? I said calm.
Speaker 2I said calm, yes.
Speaker 1He doesn't even believe it. He doesn't even believe it.
Speaker 6I am always at home.
Speaker 2He is always at home.
Speaker 6I am married.
Speaker 2It sounds more like a question he's asking. I'm calm right Next topic.
Speaker 5Let's go back to what we were talking about. So basically, what you're saying is Mondi is not complete yet. It's not complete, no, so based on percentage, where are we standing right now at Mondi?
Speaker 4What would you say, Maris? Is it a location?
Speaker 5I'm thinking about Mondi, this area, this beach club.
Speaker 6No no no, I'm saying.
Speaker 5No, no, no, this one. So, like this Mondi area when it crosses a little bridge on this property 70%, oh wow.
Speaker 4So that next part is 30% what else are we missing over here? What?
Speaker 2do you feel like Just different aspects? I designed a very nice gate. Yeah, a very nice gate. Yeah, a very nice gate.
Speaker 4Yeah, a very nice gate. Yeah, a very nice gate. Yeah, a very nice gate.
Speaker 2Yeah, a very nice gate.
Speaker 4Yeah, a very nice gate. Yeah, a everywhere there are some plants you know that are missing and have to grow.
Speaker 2It's like when you have your new house yeah then you have your hardware and then the feeling has to come in right of course make your house a home we, we now have a house, but we have to make it a home you have to build on the walls, like the gates and everything exactly.
Speaker 5I can relate right now.
Speaker 1Trust me and you also have to now, because it's a different concept. You also have to educate the people of the island, as well as your employees, to what the mondi brand is and what they can expect when coming here. Because it's not. There's nothing like this. It doesn't? I don't to me, then it doesn't, there's nothing like this but I really feel a lot of support from the people no, I'm very happy with the outcome and with their feedback.
Speaker 2Of course, they have some feedback, some of them. So Justin is a. He is a fusion chef, so it's not like authentic.
Speaker 4Caribbean, you had a taco with tabasco, but it's not rice with tabasco, right, correct?
Speaker 2yeah, yeah, yeah, it's fusion and, of course, there are some people who are commenting on that. Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 5You can't please everybody.
Speaker 2Exactly, and the kitchen, that's his part. Yeah, not only your part, but that's your case. The skin is hurting from his brain, from, yeah, imagination and, yeah, I fully support that. So there are a lot of people who are supporting, who are supporting us here, so I feel a lot of love for our no for sure.
Speaker 1That's why I said like you have to educate your public, as well as your employees, on hey, this is what fusion is. Hey, this is what the concept of art is with food and all these different things and it takes time because not everybody is going to understand it, but I think, even without that, what we've seen, especially with the newspapers and things like that, is a lot of people come and they say we can do it ourselves.
Speaker 4We can do it ourselves, of course, and I think that there's a huge support for people that are born and raised here and Mariska from Suriname, a neighboring country. They love that locals and we love that for ourselves too, of course. So I think that the love is immense and I think it'll only grow.
Speaker 1It's definitely going to continue to grow, like Mundi, definitely again. This concept is so. It's so lux, but it's so affordable and it's so but that's, that's our home it's like it's.
Speaker 6It's not that it needs to be barefoot chic. Yeah. So I'm feeling you feel yourself at home, don't feel robbed. You know what I mean. Sometimes you go to a place.
Speaker 5You need to spend so much money and you don't feel unwelcome, like yeah, I don't think I belong here, like we wanted you know, yeah, like when we met you.
Speaker 1I don't want to say where we met you the night, but like that's kind of giving like a beach club.
Speaker 5Exactly.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 5Remember.
Speaker 4Looks yeah versus this, this gives you.
Speaker 5I don't want to mention names. I don't want to mention names.
Speaker 3That gives you looks yeah.
Speaker 1Versus this, this gives you. Oh, I want to spend a day here.
Speaker 4Yeah, let's go to Mondia, I think the aim is for us to create a homey feeling, and that's what this gives that you just feel comfortable and even though you're saying From my first day here.
Speaker 1I felt the vibe. I was like, oh yes, oh, that's nice and you were happy.
Speaker 2But I think that, as owners, you are never satisfied with your product, of course. There's always something that can be improved.
Speaker 1But that's why we're here to tell you like, hey, y'all can relax, Because y'all are doing a great job.
Speaker 4We won't, but thank you.
Speaker 2I also feel the love from your side, from your side. So thank you for that. No for sure, but I think that we will never stop being or looking at our product is okay, what come? What can we do, to being critical? Yeah and yeah, I think so you asked a question about only here. But if I look at what our future plans are, and that is to take over the world with, Caribbean. Fusion, Fine Dining coming from Justin. So yeah, that's our aim, let's go. Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1Another thing I also want to add that I want to give you all props to and I think to me this is one of the biggest things that I've realized from here was your uniforms for your employees. Yeah, YDK.
Speaker 1The fact that y'all worked in collaboration with YDK, a local brand, and y'all made the uniforms and y'all didn't even decide to be like hey, you know what? We're going to wipe out your name from the uniforms? Of course not. I want YDK to be there as well, as you know the monday name. So to me, as somebody that has apparel, I feel like this is just a whole different level of collaboration.
Speaker 6What?
Speaker 1this is this. Y'all put an imprint on what collaboration is supposed to look like, and and this is it.
Speaker 6No but for sure you know it's very important like to also invest back in your country right.
Speaker 4In your community, for sure.
Speaker 6And I think if we can work together we can go miles together, you know. Amen If we go alone there's a very different type of road. We are not like that so we really want to work with local people and do local things, Because we also. Mariska is not from here, but she is coming here for 12 years right now and it feels home for her.
Speaker 6Of course it does, and we really want to be part of Curacao and invest back and give back to our island and that's one of the most important things for me To our island.
Speaker 3And that's that's one of the most important things for me, so that's why we try to work with a Lot of local brands and, if you want, I can fix a by the game shirt for you guys.
Speaker 1I'm not going to lie, I'm going to give you one.
Speaker 5I think I told you when I was drunk.
Speaker 6I'm going to give you one. Later on, I'm going to give you one.
Speaker 4We had a line of merch that we designed with Georgie, actually, that we released, but it's stunning what he made.
Speaker 5I like the color. Look at the printing it's like a little palm tree.
Speaker 3I love it, I love everything about it.
Speaker 5It's like a details.
Speaker 6I was not involved, thank God.
Speaker 5He was angry after that.
Speaker 2Really.
Speaker 5Why were?
Speaker 2you angry? Not angry, but like okay.
Speaker 5Why did you be angry? He was a bit upset about it, like a child throwing a tantrum.
Speaker 2No, he's luckily not like this, Bro.
Speaker 6I cannot do everything, you know.
Speaker 5I agree, bro, I agree.
Speaker 6These ladies can do a lot of things together, so I leave them. Don't micromanage. I love that. How big is your uniform?
Speaker 2Extra large, how big?
Speaker 5is your uniform.
Speaker 1Large. How do you say A? What's the way? You can't say my name.
Speaker 6Not A.
Speaker 2No, you can't say my name. I'm not going to say it.
Speaker 4No, I don't know his number I don't know his number. I don't know his number, I don't know his number.
Speaker 3I don't know his number. I don't know his number.
Speaker 6I don't know his number. I don't know his number. I don't know his number. I don't know his number.
Speaker 3I don't know his number.
Speaker 1I don't know his number. I don't know his number.
Speaker 4I want to know that a little bit as well the hiring process but there was a lot of enthusiasm for Mondi to open, I think from the beginning, yeah, and then we immediately started putting out ads online and then the newspapers, and when we put on the ads on social media, I think that that that was something huge, and before that you were doing a lot of stuff. Yeah, right with the shoe.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, I think that for us it's important that we also hire or employ a lot of local people for it so in our, in our team, we only have two girls from Holland. The reason is we met them. They were so nice and one of them. I know their dad, her dad for many years.
Speaker 1So he asked me my daughter was like that but, the girl with the gap year?
Speaker 5the girl has a gap year, yes, and her father asked me please can she come to Curaçao?
Speaker 2I want her to learn how to work, because she has to work hard.
Speaker 1Of course.
Speaker 2So, yeah, that I think those are the two only Dutch girls that we have not, I think, I'm sure and the rest are all locals. And, yeah, we have the pleasure to also have beautiful locals, so glad you did that because my team everybody looks gorgeous like models.
Speaker 1Yeah, but I wasn't cute as well. I'm not going to.
Speaker 6I'm sorry, we have one lady from Suriname, hey, hey.
Speaker 1And my mom.
Speaker 2But the lady from Suriname. She also lives here for eight years now, so she's local because oh my god, another guy.
Speaker 1Which one Him?
Speaker 3He's the artist, he makes music. He makes good music.
Speaker 4Yeah, it's a producer, I think right.
Speaker 5Yes, yeah, I thought you were just fucking ready though.
Speaker 1No, david the the, I don't shit hey, make it, get us no. Oh my God, I just said life is good. Dj Crocs and they played his song. It's like Afro beats type of thing. He's Alejandro's cousin, yeah.
Speaker 4Yeah, he makes good music.
Speaker 1Yeah, I listen to him on Spotify, good music, good music.
Speaker 3You guys have DJs in the building. Look at that. I listen to him on Spotify. Good music, good music.
Speaker 1We also have DJs in the building.
Speaker 4Come on.
Speaker 6If you want to work with Monnie, you can still apply. We are still looking for handsome, lovely artists, nice people to work with, but wait a minute.
Speaker 2You don't have to be beautiful, you just have to be fun and to like it Everyone is beautiful Indeed. That's right.
Speaker 1You say that very well. Justin is really beautiful Well.
Speaker 6Ridiculous.
Speaker 4Hope you love.
Speaker 6If you can, I'm also part of love.
Speaker 1Receive love.
Speaker 6You can share love. Giving love is important Okay, very important, and that's very important. Giving love is important, ok, very important, what a love look
Speaker 1at this. I'm going to explode. I'm going to explode. I'm going to explode. I'm going to explode. I'm going to explode. I'm going to explode. I'm going to explode. I'm going to explode. I'm going to explode. I'm going to explode. I'm going to explode. I'm going to explode. I'm going to explode. I'm going to explode. No, but guys okay, so let us know like what else do y'all want to tackle on in?
Speaker 5regards to Mundi yeah, please share some more information. Before we close this out, you guys want to do like some big parties, bringing DJs here.
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Speaker 4We have our first Caribbean Nights, which is a concept that started back in 2021, I think when, yeah, 2021. That's on January 30th.
Speaker 5Oh yeah but you don't have to bring it in. Oh yeah, that's on January 30th. Oh yeah, we're not here.
Speaker 4I saw the ad about it this is airing in March, so scratch that we have a Caribbean night every month, so every month the last. Thursday of every month, we have Caribbean nights.
Speaker 5I gotta say the fabric is super nice. I agree with Troy Shout out to Georgie. I asked him like hey, so who's your supplier? We're also trying to make shirts for our podcast. No, you don't tell me, I know, I know.
Speaker 1I'm asking that I'll do that after I ask you, give me a little bit, as you should.
Speaker 3I ask you, give me a little bit.
Speaker 1As you should. I hate it when you ask me that shit. Like don't ask me but do your research.
Speaker 5I like that. This is something you can wear going out.
Speaker 1No, I'm wearing this out. I got a fit for it already.
Speaker 4Send us a picture. When you do, I'm going to tag Monty.
Speaker 1Caribbean, of course. Thank you, annie, thank you you guys, thank you, I'm the.
Speaker 3I'm the I'm, the I'm the.
Speaker 6I'm the I'm the, I'm, the I'm the.
Speaker 5I'm the, I'm the, I'm the, I'm the, I'm the.
Speaker 6I'm the, I'm the, I'm the I'm the, I'm the I'm the.
Speaker 1I'm the, I'm the, I'm the, I'm the.
Speaker 4I'm the I he loves it.
Speaker 3His ego loves it. He's a cool guy.
Speaker 1I'm also with Ken's back. What's up?
Speaker 5It's.
Speaker 6I'm used to it. I don't know.
Speaker 5Look at this way. Look at this way.
Speaker 2What else can?
Speaker 5you guys share about Monday.
Speaker 2I mean we're happy to be the foodies. We have something. Let me ask you this what is something? Let's stay on track.
Speaker 5Let me ask you this what is your favorite food item on the menu?
Speaker 2I'm really fan of the bacalaitos, if I pronounce that right, super nice. And I think the bacalips.
Speaker 5I almost had that last night and I didn't go for it. Oh, you wanted to try something. I just had a few appetizers and then, Justin showed up, and then we started drinking.
Speaker 1What was the last one?
Speaker 2Bacaribs, bacaribs. Oh, the ribs, the short ribs. It has the short ribs, okay unless.
Speaker 5When we were here the other night. I wanted to try it, and then we decided to order them Cheese balls, croquettes, both tacos.
Speaker 4Oh, that's so standard. You guys didn't tell me that that's almost the same thing that I ordered for you guys.
Speaker 1It was good, yeah, but it was good, we just did it, okay, well, when?
Speaker 4we're done here. You guys can try more stuff obviously.
Speaker 5I got to go pick up my wife. You guys have to try the egg gangbos Without me.
Speaker 2What the fuck. But she cannot come Because you invite her to come here.
Speaker 5No, I have to go pick her up. She's at the hotel.
Speaker 2Oh, in which hotel are you staying?
Speaker 5We're staying in Acoya, oh, acoya, yeah, so she still works online, so she couldn't make it. She had meetings.
Speaker 3Okay.
Speaker 4And then she probably.
Speaker 5She just finished like 30 minutes ago Okay. Let's chill.
Speaker 3Okay, it's in.
Speaker 5March. It's in March, it's all good, she forgave him by then.
Speaker 1At this point, yeah, or I'm just dead?
Speaker 5I don't know. It just never gets uploaded. Always forgiven.
Speaker 3Always forgiven.
Speaker 5I'll skip. So, Kiana, what's your favorite item of the menu?
Speaker 4I think for me. I'm not much of a shrimp person, but we have a really, really nice shrimp dish here that I eat the entire week and then I switch again the week after.
Speaker 6Kiana ate the burger one week.
Speaker 4Every day she ordered burgers.
Speaker 1What. Yeah, the smash burger you don't look like a burger person.
Speaker 4I was last week.
Speaker 2But she is not a burger person, she's, I love eating person. I love.
Speaker 5Okay, I'm eating burger. She looks like a tall boy.
Speaker 2Bro, listen to me. She kicks, bro, listen to me.
Speaker 5But she's always on a diet. You have a diet, a diet, kiana the kind of thing.
Speaker 6Can I have a pastiche please? Pastiche Food, Always food. She just did it an hour ago.
Speaker 5It's like I'm on a diet. I call it creatures. I can't go catch it.
Speaker 6I'm like, yeah, I'm a man, Kiana, she has her thing. Like Friday she can eat pastiche, but every day is Friday, that's rule number one. Then number two like in the Netherlands, there's a specific kind of bitter ball that she wants to eat. Because if it's different, she doesn't eat it, so every, every day she's trying to skip a day. She ordered bitter baller with mustard.
Speaker 6Like one o'clock the first thing was she asked when she came at work, who's in the kitchen like who's in the kitchen was cooking and then she, and then she asked what is your food? And if there's something that she doesn't like. She ordered tacos.
Speaker 1I love how much y'all know each other. That's crazy. We're a small family.
Speaker 4Yesterday around 4 o'clock, Bolas goes, isn't it snack time for?
Speaker 5you.
Speaker 4I said I just had my snack.
Speaker 5You just missed it five minutes ago you just missed it, yeah. A little bit earlier today.
Speaker 6I know Piana and Mariska so good. I know exactly. They know you good too. No, fuck it.
Speaker 2You can't start something last week they were angry with me and they were not talking to me.
Speaker 6And then, okay, continue no, I I know exactly when there's something wrong, like yeah, if I come in the morning I oh, okay apparently I did something you know? No, no, no. Look when I call her, like we call each other like I don't know, 10 times a day what have you done when I when? I pick up the phone in the first sentence. I know, everything. And it's hi. Okay, she's visiting. I call you later, okay.
Speaker 2No, you're not saying that. No, let me sit, I'll say it later. That is even more annoying. No, let me sit. What happened last week? There was something.
Speaker 3And he goes okay, let me.
Speaker 4I can't get it out of my words, then you have to try to get them out of your words. Try to communicate better.
Speaker 6I'm going. I'm going, I'm going to go Kiana, I'm going, I'm on my period. Okay, Bye. Yes, okay.
Speaker 2Yeah we have the same period. Oh, my God.
Speaker 6I'm working with two ladies on a period, on the same moment, on the same time see you later.
Speaker 1Justin is not today, don't call me.
Speaker 6You know what happened I was like oh, that's why she's like that. Kiana was like I'll see you, I'll see you in five days you know what it is, then everything falls together you know. Okay, I'm gone, it all makes sense. Bye, that's crazy, let that shit wear off.
Speaker 1You know what it is. Then everything falls together. You know Okay, I'm gone, it all makes sense. Bye, that's crazy.
Speaker 2Give me a snack, and we'll be fine. Just act normal and we'll be fine.
Speaker 5I don't think that's possible for Justin, for Justin I support him.
Speaker 1Y'all acting for a lie. Why no tea, no shade, I'm just acting lie. No, tino Shane, you need Jesus.
Speaker 2You need Jesus he needs Jesus in his life. No, he really needs.
Speaker 4Jesus you've said that already in the podcast we already heard that you're loving caring.
Speaker 2Why don't?
Speaker 4you explain your dreams and your vision for 2025 or for the coming five years, oh that's a good question.
Speaker 1What can we expect from Mr Neeson in 2025?
Speaker 4Top three goals Bring it into the universe, top three goals Get myself locked down.
Speaker 6Opening our new restaurant in Antille. That's number one. Number two Opening our new restaurant in Antille. That's number one Number two, opening a new restaurant.
Speaker 3Miami.
Speaker 6Boat.
Speaker 3First. First cruise ship yeah, oh wow, the new cruise ship.
Speaker 5It's on camera.
Speaker 4We just said it in the mic.
Speaker 1You didn't hear it.
Speaker 6Everybody knows that we're going to start with a boat, but not.
Speaker 2It's not a boat, it's a cruise ship. Not a cruise boat.
Speaker 3A ship From the same company?
Speaker 5Yes, does Grandin have cruise ships?
Speaker 4Starting in November.
Speaker 5I know you already have like Cominda when you come from Holland to Curacao.
Speaker 6Oh yeah, that's also a very new thing we're going to do all the planes of Coreano. We used to do only the Airbus that's flying to Curacao.
Speaker 5So I developed a new concept. My brain is trying to.
Speaker 1So wait, now you're going to get all.
Speaker 6Yeah, we're going to do all the planes of Coreano.
Speaker 5We talked About it already.
Speaker 1No, that they were gonna do, just the ones that are coming from Curacao.
Speaker 6No, we do right now Amsterdam, curacao for two years already I'm doing
Speaker 5this two years now.
Speaker 6He's gonna do all yeah. Puppy it's my job you know I like my job, so I see it as an accomplishment.
Speaker 3But I was already working on this for two years already Of course.
Speaker 6To be ready to do this big step, you know.
Speaker 1But the fact that it's happening is a big deal of course.
Speaker 4It takes a lot of development time, and I mean food is different in the air.
Speaker 6Yeah, we have a few things that happen and this and that we have a lot of development time, and I mean food is different in the air.
Speaker 2We have a few things that happen and this and that we have a lot of tastings.
Speaker 5You can invite us to tastings. Those are the parties I want to come by. Kiana is definitely a tasting I could eat like.
Speaker 6I'm sorry, I love the tastings Because right now I did like I do quality control every day.
Speaker 5I love that you you can serve this For this new menu.
Speaker 6I'm going to do a to-share concept on board. I made a fully new to-share concept on board so you can, because in the Netherlands we have short flights.
Speaker 5Yeah, flights For one or two hours or three hours. Yeah, a little cheese ball cookettes, so we're going to do a full new concept on board.
Speaker 6Super nice.
Speaker 5That's really really great. We talked about it two years ago and now you're here. Same thing with this place About a year and a half ago, last year. Now we're sitting at it.
Speaker 1I'm honestly excited because I feel like having these episodes are like diaries. Then we can go back in to be like, okay, well, y'all said this. And then to come back and then, especially, do like updates with y'all To be like, okay, well, remember what we wrote or we talked about before it's actually happening. So now we have today as a new chapter and then by next year probably, or in a few months, we come back. It's like's like okay, give us the updates we're doing all of this right.
Speaker 4That's been said, and then achieved, said, achieved, that's really really I'm proud of y'all yeah, so am I.
Speaker 1So am I really really really people actually out here doing the big ones and y'all are breaking barriers for not just curacao but like for the sister islands, everywhere else. It's like look at what our people are doing, because y'all could also like easily. Y'all are like on your way to becoming like a Wendy's brand that you get like a Wendy's everywhere.
Speaker 4We're getting a bunch of Wendy's everywhere.
Speaker 3And this is a place in Aruba, though. You know what I mean, so it's huge.
Speaker 5He's like let's fix Aruba. It's more complicated than that. It's all politics and permits.
Speaker 4Don't worry, you guys can podcast with all the politicians 100%.
Speaker 5Listen, we're going to be, we're going to. We're the Joe Rogos of Aruba. Like we decided, we helped the election. We helped the election. People, people came. People came up to us and said like, hey, what's up At the airport. He said I left the airport. I begged. Please let me out of the airport. I forgot something. Without it, you might as well cancel this trip. He let me out and on the way he was telling me hey, what's up? We were going to vote for someone and then we started watching your shows and we completely voted for a whole different party, a whole different person. But it's great. It makes me feel like, oh shit, so we did kind of have an impact on elections.
Speaker 4Recently they started interviewing politicians in a room.
Speaker 2Yeah, he told me there was an election, so we're very happy. That is quite Sensitive. Yeah not only sensitive, but that you realize what you contribute. Yeah, the impact that you have. Yeah, exactly what you contribute.
Speaker 5Yeah, the impact that you have is very important. Some say it, sometimes I don't see it. And whenever I say it, Because you're just doing something you love, yeah, but I say it's like it's so crazy people like our shit. It's like motherfucker, they've been liking it for two years.
Speaker 1But, for me.
Speaker 6I don't doing this. I don't know, I know.
Speaker 5So when I have you, I'm like alright cool, I've already been working on it for two years.
Speaker 6My mind works like this, and Mariska Kiana also. We have something in our mind and we work through it and then we accomplish it. But we already know that there's a second thing already.
Speaker 1But that doesn't mean you can't be ungrateful to god I didn't say that I'm saying you have to stop sometimes and show a little bit of gratitude onto hey look how far we made it. You know how many other people that this is just a dream and it would always just be a dream, yeah y'all are actually making dreams reality but that's something to be grateful for.
Speaker 4This podcast is a good moment. I think that we haven't had a moment, really, except for the first night right that we did a little huddle in the back at fb, as you should it's a big
Speaker 1deal that we haven't really taken a moment to reflect no at all so many things things are always gonna have to be get done. That does not mean you can't say, hey god, you know what, thank you, you really did your big like no, but I think you're hard maybe we didn't do it uh together, but on a daily basis of course yeah, internally I really do wake up and do it exactly.
Speaker 2I wake up and give my thanks to uh first for waking up, of course, amen right, amen, right, and then yeah, and then to everything that we have and that we can do. So.
Speaker 1But y'all are a team, so that's why it's so important to like bring that together. Like, hey, listen knock, knock, knock, knock. Guys, look what we did. Yeah, yeah, and we had a small ritual.
Speaker 2Good ritual, good we have three bottles of champagne ready and we all wrote down a goal. A goal, yeah when we have reached this goal, we will open this bottle.
Speaker 1I love that. Okay, I'm close to that. Yeah, so we have a ritual. Okay, good, there's something in place, are?
Speaker 5you guys close to opening the bottle um, I think yours first.
Speaker 2Right, I think yours first. I didn't read it.
Speaker 4Or did I know what his?
Speaker 6is.
Speaker 4Break even in three months. Shit no say it.
Speaker 5That's impressive, that's a goal.
Speaker 1It's a realistic goal. I love that.
Speaker 6Look, I always say you need to put your standards high, but you need to put your standards high, but you need also be realistic yeah because you need to be happy with everything that you do.
Speaker 1Yeah. You're gonna be disappointed, but then I think we did, because who's the second then?
Speaker 2I think I am Of course.
Speaker 5Kiana yeah, we're opening one in Mykonos, no problem, literally on the beach, with three yachts outside. Okay, it's 2045.
Speaker 3We finally made it I think that in a year I'm not going to say anything. You can't say it. You can't say yours or no we're going to reach it.
Speaker 2You can't say it Is it yours or no, we're going to reach out. Let us know I'm going to jinx it. Yeah, I agree If I say mine, that I will jinx it, because I never told anybody mine.
Speaker 5Oh, I don't know yours.
Speaker 2Yeah, you know, he probably forgot I bet you forgot, he forgot, so that's why.
Speaker 5I'll come around and ask you, don't put it on him now.
Speaker 1He will just put it on him. Look, look, look. So it went in perfect steps.
Speaker 6Listen to me, listen to me. What happened? Oh my God, she came at me. She came at me.
Speaker 2I call you. What is that? Okay, okay.
Speaker 6Okay.
Speaker 2I remember.
Speaker 3I was there.
Speaker 6And Mariska was walking through.
Speaker 5She, justin, what do you?
Speaker 4say Great story no more stubbornness.
Speaker 6She pulled me over and said Justin, what's your first goal? And I said right away this one, Done Nothing else.
Speaker 3Yes, and then she said actually that's a good one, justin, I said but honey, this is it.
Speaker 6And if we achieve, this, then we can't stop. Yes, do you understand and you're about to accomplish it. Well, look, you know what it is. You also have to be happy with what you're doing.
Speaker 4Exactly.
Speaker 3Look there are also boundaries.
Speaker 6Yes, and I just think that's important Because, look, if we're all happy, then we can make each other even happier. Exactly, and that's what I think is very important, we have to do it together in the end. Amen, I agree, yeah.
Speaker 1I agree, because if everybody's under 100% and they're top percent, you're just bringing to this an explosion Exactly. So yeah, I agree with that.
Speaker 6And every step is a step closer to it. Every step is a step closer to it.
Speaker 2But sometimes it's like this we look back and we think, oh my god, it's quite an audacious goal.
Speaker 1And then you look back and hey, we did it. Yes, of course.
Speaker 2And fortunately we are also like we are fighting our way through it. So sometimes you just have to say okay, of course, and luckily we are also like we are fighting our way through it. So sometimes you just have to say Okay, fuck it, I'm sorry, yes, don't we love that.
Speaker 5Finally, finally, let's do it yes.
Speaker 4It's just a battle of titans.
Speaker 1Either we're dying or. It's a swim baby. It is what it is. It is what it is.
Speaker 6She always says Of course, Swim Baby, it is what it is. It is what it is. She say always we die fighting. Yeah, that's really my motto she always say to me Justin, listen to me, If we die, we die fighting.
Speaker 1Oh, to the end, of course. Till the end, and together. Till the end, together, yeah.
Speaker 6And that's also the way how I think If I need to go 10 steps further, because we have to. I'm in different. Fuck Vampire.
Speaker 1Vampire yeah.
Speaker 6Against all odds, there's nothing that can break us, you know. Amen, we got it. God, we trust that's it, amen. Let's go Sit there, bang bang. There it is.
Speaker 2He was waiting he.
Speaker 5He was going really well, until just now. What is this? I agree, I agree.
Speaker 6If you cannot, it's like same with you guys. You are doing this so many years already. You guys are having success. You see, your business is growing. Your podcast is growing. You're influencing people like influencing people in a good way. So you also see the, the fruits that you are coming out of the tree all the trips that you pay for you.
Personal Goals and Life Balance
Speaker 3Thank you, carry the mirror.
Speaker 6So yeah you pay your own trips. You don't have nobody to get sponsored, you guys.
Speaker 5I don't know who I told this. We reached out to Zia like, hey, you know, support this.
Speaker 6They just left us on read Okay, guys, it's fine. It's fine Because in my mind.
Speaker 5I'm like do this, it just would have been helpful, but we don't need. But we're fine, we're still gonna do this shit with you. Without you, we don't give a fuck if we have to spend some money to be here and we did spend money to be here and it's fine because we enjoyed this as well like 100 the amount of knowledge that you get.
Speaker 1Yeah, from everybody else's experience. There's certain every keywords that y'all say. That is things that I can apply for my own business and for my own life. So it's like okay and you, you have that with every single person that you have a interaction and a sit down with.
Speaker 4So, of course, the, the, the, the knowledge that you gain, you can't really put a price tag on that, it's just yeah, but I think not only for you guys, but the knowledge that you spread yeah, of course, this trip.
Speaker 5we were having a conversation on the way here. We had a conversation this morning with Kev the singer.
Speaker 4Double V. Right yeah, double V and Dots.
Speaker 1Oh, okay, I didn't know about the Dots I found out today. So we had it with.
Speaker 5Kev and your mom, okay, and I was telling the story like fuck man. Like today's podcast really made me rethink a lot of things in friendship, in business, how I see things and all the people we've interviewed. I've seen different certain words, keywords, points and it all. There's a silver lining here and I'm like, wow, everybody's just like fuck me.
Speaker 6Do what you want to do, don't give a fuck. Did you ever saw the the um thing from, uh, jake paul?
Speaker 5jake paul the documentary. Oh no, I haven't the one before. Before the fight what are you guys? Are doing, because jake paul also started like only making podcasts, fuse, vlogs, and later on he went like sky high being one of the best market marketeers from maybe he's not the best freaking boxer but like he knows how to market a fight and make a lot of money, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6Yeah, you told something about him. What is the fight of what he did the best marketing?
Speaker 2yeah, yeah yeah, at that moment I thought it was the best marketing stunt ever yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5People can say whatever the fuck they want about you, but at the end of the day, they're still watching. My bank account looks great. I don't know about you but I did, I did.
Speaker 1It was just marketing. That was exactly what that fight was. Yeah, but if you need to.
Speaker 6You need to really look at his documentary yeah, is it on Netflix or YouTube?
Speaker 4I think Netflix, right. No, I've seen it on, maybe HBO.
Speaker 5I'm pretty sure I can find it. You will find it, you will see he and his brother.
Speaker 6There was a certain time that they had a fight yeah because their brother has 100k followers yeah, I do.
Speaker 5I do follow the brothers.
Speaker 6They had a fight. There was a few years. They didn't speak with each other. Only about followers and who's better than them. It was crazy. You really need to look at it. It was very.
Speaker 5Eye-opening.
Speaker 6Eye-opening. I don't know how to explain. Sometimes, in every journey from another person, you can find lessons.
Speaker 1Exactly.
Speaker 6Everybody has his own path.
Speaker 2Maybe it was empowering For sure To keep going through.
Speaker 6Because there was a certain time that he was nothing anymore. A lot of people were bullying him out and he had no views anymore, and the only thing that he was doing is keep going, keep going, keep going, and then he started boxing.
Speaker 4It's a nice story, and I think again, it kind of explains the power of social media right, which is what you guys probably experienced with the entire political thing is just keep the amount of people that are, that are watching you. But also, what do you have to tell? Yeah, right, and what's your responsibility, or our responsibility, as people that are saying something? What's the message that you want to bring, as it stays online forever and ever, exactly?
Speaker 2But isn't the most important thing? Just to stay authentic. Yeah, stay true to yourself. That's it Because playing a role it doesn't bring you anywhere.
Speaker 4You're going to get exhausted. It's very exhausting for yourself.
Speaker 2And I think that's what Jake Paul is also doing. Okay, he's a bit crazy and a bit the Lulu, maybe, or maybe that's what he wants people to believe Exactly, but he's making it work.
Speaker 4But just like Paris Hilton, right With her fake blonde voice Right.
Speaker 6He does a few marketing stunts. I think I saw it on YouTube. Just things that you think why would you do this? But what happens there? Just 200 million views. Things, just crazy.
Speaker 1Yeah, craziness, but people like authentic and they like different. Those are two of the things that you notice, even like on TikTok, some of the most viral TikTok videos, like Demure. But all of these people they look different they physically look different and that's why it's like the different people just saying the most. Oh, that's very demure, that's very cutesy.
Speaker 4Look at him now, and now look at him.
Speaker 1People like that type of shit. So if you can look good like this and then just market other, yeah, like people like that type of shit. So if you can look good like this and then just market other things, you're good to go?
Speaker 3Yeah, of course.
Speaker 1You need nothing else.
Speaker 6Internet and a phone and most of the time the stupidest videos work the best.
Speaker 4Pindu, pindu. But, like you said, the realest things, right, the realest things that come out of your mouth.
Speaker 6We made a few TikToks together, very nice one. We also went fighting a few times. Yeah, yeah, you see.
Speaker 5I saw the massage therapist.
Speaker 4Extend those that one.
Speaker 6That's.
Speaker 1Lola Brooks. This one went viral.
Speaker 6Yeah, and which one that I'm watching in the restaurant with all those things on my head. Do you remember that one in rest?
Speaker 4yeah, that's like the tiktok how a restaurant, how everyone thinks a restaurant owner walks into a restaurant and then how he really walks in yeah that's just the real life, the real experience of a restaurant owner slash chef gotta love him Epic. Or not.
Speaker 5Sometimes no, I'm kidding Sometimes you want to choke him, but that's okay. But we need a chef, that's okay.
Speaker 4Yeah, that's okay we lost each other.
Speaker 6Everybody got his own power. Yeah, but I think now it's.
Speaker 4sometimes we even enjoy the fights and we know that it's okay, it's not that serious.
Speaker 1In. It's not that serious. In half an hour we'll be fine again.
Speaker 4It's a siblinghood that I feel like nobody can interfere in.
Speaker 1It's not something that people have to understand. Y'all get it exactly. That works exactly so it's like if you get it, you get it, if you don't, then it's not for you to get.
Speaker 5Anyways, I feel like you guys should put a camera in the office and just let it film the whole day just to see what happens.
Speaker 3We go viral.
Speaker 6We need a documentary of our life, because there's a lot of crazy shit Some wild
Speaker 3shit.
Speaker 6Maybe we can do it, but Maresca, we want to do it. Maresca was like no wait a minute.
Speaker 3Wait a minute, wait a minute. I have a professional career.
Speaker 2Maybe not serious. I'm serious, but I'm also the oldest.
Speaker 4Which I only recently discovered.
Speaker 2She was telling a story that somebody who was 45, very old, and I'm like that's old, I'm older than that.
Speaker 4And she was like what Maybe? You never knew her. You've been with her for like five, seven years.
Speaker 3I didn't know her age. There was never a point in time where I had you look good baby.
Speaker 1You better work.
Speaker 4That's when I was like what Are you?
Speaker 240 plus Are you kidding me so, but that was. I think I'm more abandoned than the two of them. I don't need to be on the the forefront no that's not really my thing.
Speaker 1You're the behind the scenes type of gal, we'll get shit done, right.
Speaker 2So and then when people say oh, are you also part of Monday? Yes, I am, but we didn't see you. Okay, that's okay, yeah. I still see my bank account, so.
Speaker 5I'll just do the kick the clack in the background. Yeah, hey, one thing I do gotta give you guys everything is like branded.
Speaker 3I like it thank you, you got this, you got the menu.
Speaker 2You got the so for what is a syese word for how you're doing?
Speaker 5Okay.
Speaker 2And then, yeah, dushi, you know right Of course.
Speaker 1So we melt it. I love that. Yes, that's what I think I love the most about the dynamic is the attention to detail. There's detail in every single aspect. I feel like everything was so thought through. Y'all left no stones unturned, maybe not for y'all because y'all are the perfectionists. It's your vision, so you will never be content, but as somebody, that this is not my vision.
Speaker 1To us it's wow, and I feel like every time now that you come back, especially now that we know that it's not all the way done. Marketing is having people involved in the process, so letting people know that hey, we're not done, but we're getting there gives them the sense of oh okay, we've been back. Oh they got this thing.
Speaker 3Oh for you, I'll keep it a noble You're growing along with it.
Speaker 1Oh, they got this thing. Oh, my God, I'm so proud of you, guys, y'all got it. People are going to be celebrating your accomplishments like it's theirs, just because they feel part of the process. Yeah, absolutely. So. Don't overcomplicate things just because it's not done for y'all, because that can, that can be the whole process for everybody else yeah it is no, you're right, you're absolutely right, Guys.
Speaker 5This is the first time we have a podcast talking three different languages.
Speaker 1Legit First time on location. First time on location.
Speaker 5First time on location, first time speaking three languages, a lot of first times.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6First time for.
Speaker 5Justin tonight? We never know. That's why he's looking at my wife right now. What are you guys?
Speaker 3doing Before we get off. I'm going to catch us a camera. What?
Speaker 5are you guys doing tonight?
Speaker 2What we're doing tonight.
Speaker 5I think, I think we should do a kiasa. I go to Peter Mai.
Speaker 6To Peter Mai. Now Kiana's going to bring you.
Speaker 1No, you have to go.
Speaker 6I have an appointment with my wife.
Speaker 1Bring her.
Speaker 5You can bring her. We want to meet her we have quality time today, okay.
Speaker 3Yeah quality time together.
Speaker 1Oh, no, no no, together I think, justin and I can take you out.
Speaker 5Yeah. I think so we can take them out to. You said there's something going on.
Speaker 4I will come after I have a dinner at 7.30. How many of you guys want to go Can?
Speaker 6this cost a good. My wife Bring the bitch.
Speaker 2Bring the bitch.
Speaker 5I also got a text from the actual wife what's the plan?
Speaker 4for today. I say Okay.
Speaker 2You're right, you're right, okay, but you're right, stop. Yes, yes, that's right, all right guys.
Speaker 5We're going to wrap it up. I want to say thank you, no thank you, thank you for coming finally on the show. Thank you for coming back, guys, thank you, thank you. Thank you for having us here in Monde, beautiful place. Congratulations again For sure, thank you. Thank you. We want to come back when it's like 100%, when that new place is open.
Speaker 6we're going to film in there, it will never be 100% it will Okay, but you will be.
Speaker 1You are welcome when the champagne door is open and you are more than welcome.
Speaker 2Champagne showers, champagne showers yeah.
Speaker 1I want to come for a brunch. Oh yeah, I want to come for a brunch. There's a brunch going on I want to shake my ass right there.
Speaker 6Okay, I think easy, I need to spawn.
Speaker 5I don't know. We'll find some boat. We'll fucking swim. It doesn't matter, guys, bye-bye, see you.
Speaker 1Hey, put that selfie frame.
Speaker 5Put that selfie frame. Nah, but real quick, justin. I'm going to give you first Plug yourself again. What do you do? What do you do?
Speaker 1I put fans on my Instagram.
Speaker 3Instagram.
Speaker 5What do you do on Instagram? Only fans.
Speaker 6Just in my Instagram.
Speaker 5Okay, okay, okay. What's your one goal, personal goal for 2025? Not business.
Speaker 1Get married.
Speaker 5Someone to lock you down. I think you have to say cut now, cut.
Speaker 1It's an end, no personal goal, just someone to lock you down like for real.
Speaker 5I think you have to say, cut now, cut yeah, yeah, yeah, bum, bum, bum.
Speaker 1It's an end I go. No personal goal. All right, he's doing it, he's doing it, he's doing it. That just goes to show where his mind is at you never say something like that.
Speaker 3That's where his mind is at.
Speaker 6It's like the set. Oh my god.
Closing Thoughts on Growth
Speaker 2No, you know, I love your wifey. Oh yeah, she's great, she's really great.
Speaker 5You met her, of course I did Of course we did yeah. You've only seen pictures and heard great stories, hey stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop stop. You're like, you're like, you're like.
Speaker 3My personal goal.
Speaker 4He has flinders.
Speaker 3Yeah, flinders so cute, okay.
Speaker 4Like our Monday mascot.
Speaker 6Okay.
Speaker 2Personal goal Personal goal is To communicate better Yay.
Speaker 3Yay.
Speaker 6Wait, is that your goal or my goal?
Speaker 5Because I also have a perfect goal, their goal, for me.
Speaker 6But maybe is that a good one. Yeah, communicate better. What is yours?
Speaker 2though, yeah, what is yours?
Speaker 1That's been the question for like a good minute now.
Speaker 6I want to try to be 100%. I think working right now on 75. Be more healthier you know I'm healthy, but trying to be 100%. I think working right now on 75. Be more healthier you know I'm healthy, but trying to be better.
Speaker 3Hey man, we're going to first start with cutting out the alcohol.
Speaker 6Yeah. So, like my, dry January went wrong since you came on the island, so you fuck it up.
Speaker 2Wait, my fault, my dry January was only one day yeah for.
Speaker 3January. I'm just going to understand.
Speaker 2You started the fourth we just got here.
Speaker 6Okay, so my personal goal is to get this year more healthier. Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 5I think that's my personal goal. Let's go on this side, Mariska. What's your goal? Your?
Speaker 2personal goal oh my God. I'm just thinking about it, my personal goal.
Speaker 4But. But first it's your social handles right. Okay that's it, your handles, your social plug. What do you call it?
Speaker 1Your social media, like your Instagram.
Speaker 2Oh my social media Mariska Nunez. Yeah.
Speaker 5I was like what.
Speaker 3Mariska Nunez, just Mariska Nunez.
Speaker 2And my personal goal is to get a better balance between work and.
Speaker 1Personal life and my personal life.
Speaker 2That's important Because I worked a lot last year and this year and this year.
Speaker 5The year's only begun, okay.
Speaker 2The year just started, but, yeah, I want to go to Cuba.
Speaker 3Nice.
Speaker 2It's a personal goal. Yeah, I think those are the two things.
Speaker 1Work on it. Please Do work on that. Work life. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm going to book.
Speaker 2Cuba is just. We're going to book the tickets.
Speaker 5There's the book.
Speaker 2yeah, oh and the three of us going to Colombia. That was also.
Speaker 5Oh yeah.
Speaker 6Oh, wait, wait we're in Colombia.
Speaker 5We're in Colombia when, because we were talking about when or where, where and when, where and when. I don't know, is it Medellin?
Speaker 2Because Diana is my Colombia chica. Colombia, chica I don't know anything about Colombia.
Speaker 6I would say Cartagena, medellin and Bogota and maybe do a little trip around everything. Don't take him to Medellin. Don't take him to Medellin, you can't take him anywhere. No, we're going to ruin that one.
Speaker 5What's your personal goal for this year, Kiana?
Speaker 4I think mine is similar to Justin's. I think that when you have a healthy body, you operate way better and you're connected more to yourself and to God and to everything. So for me, I'd really like to reach a certain target weight that I've had in my brain for a while Stop eating pastiches.
Speaker 2Exactly it's very difficult in this environment.
Speaker 4But I think similar to also tequila. Stop drinking tequila. I'm going, guys, I'm going, I'm going.
Speaker 2No, but we believe in you. You can the suhuya. Yeah, I got you.
Speaker 6We believe in you Every morning. Blu Max, I went yesterday. I know I saw. Yeah, I was there.
Speaker 4Tomorrow we go to and you don't knock on the thing when I'm with you. No, but I saw you there, you know Leo, okay, so I think that's it Nice To a healthy, balanced, happy 2025.
Speaker 6Yes, amen Kiana also going to marry this year, I heard.
Speaker 5Shit. She didn't say anything bad so I might have to believe you. It's not up to me.
Speaker 4I'm not gonna ask anyone to propose. I hope he's not watching why are you putting?
Speaker 2her on the spotlight.
Speaker 5I mean, I feel like that was a fair shot. Nobody bullied him.
Speaker 1Nobody bullied him, don't do that don't try to put that on my girl.
Speaker 5I'll pull you down, but do you?
Speaker 4guys want to share your personal goals for 2025. To close it off.
Speaker 5We're the ones that do the interviews. No, for me, I would have to go with my desk on this one. Communicate better. Shark knows this. I suck at communicating, I suck at delegating, so I need to work. It's not a conversation we have in the car as well, so communication is definitely one. Delegating work is. I'm someone who's like I'll let you do it and if you fuck it up, I won't tell you. I'll just hey, it's a good job, I'll do it myself because I know it's going to be done. Right, some bullshit, hey, anyway. So definitely communication, and also get a little bit more fit. I used to be a lot more fit. Got very comfortable in life Eating a lot of pastiches.
Speaker 5Love them Eating a lot of burritos, tacos, ribs, no works out whatsoever.
Speaker 6I also want to be healthy.
Speaker 5I'm trying to be healthy. I want to get in better shape.
Speaker 4I feel like that's the basis for everything you function better I want to say you something.
Speaker 6I feel like that's the basis for everything you function better. I'm going to say you something Right now. I think the last five years I changed my way of eating you know I drink, but I try to go every fucking day to the gym.
Speaker 3Or I do something.
Speaker 6If it's not gym, it's boxing or padel. But it's also. Sport needs to be a lifestyle you know?
Speaker 5Yeah, but it's also for me. It's more like Shark knows it a lot. I'm a people pleaser.
Speaker 2That's my biggest problem.
Speaker 5That's why you cannot delegate.
Speaker 2Because you are a people pleaser.
Speaker 4The. Thing is.
Speaker 5I'm going to have to hit you up and give you some tips, because my biggest issue is that I want to help everybody Like Nike, just do it. Like.
Speaker 1Nike, just do it as one, yeah, like nike, just do it.
Speaker 5I can't help it, but I I do want to um. But sometimes maybe say no, but I can't say no, I want to you ask my mom like yeah, I know tomorrow I'm super busy, but I'm gonna say yes, I'm gonna make it, I'll figure out. There are some nights.
Speaker 5Last year I was pulling all-nighters like many times to wake up editing, working, uploading and then go to a meeting at 8 o'clock, because I do more than this. I have a studio, I have other companies that run social medias for big companies in Aruba. So I just need to learn how to take a step back and do what Shark does. It's like have a better work-life balance.
Speaker 6You know the best. Thing. Something I learned on this trip the best. Thing. I can give you advice is saying no.
Speaker 5I'm trying, I'm working on it.
Speaker 2If you cannot say no at the spot, so immediately, you can also say let me come back to you.
Speaker 3Let me come back to you, I will think about it. Yeah, let me come back to you, I will think about it.
Speaker 5Let me come back to you and then you have time, yeah, yeah that's something I want to work on, so sharky, yours oh my word of the year is completion.
Speaker 1So, oh, completion, yeah. So that's what that's. My goal for this year is. I definitely want to do less, make more, but I also start a lot of things but I never finish them all the way through, like I start everything.
Speaker 1I'm like excited to start things and I'm like, okay, I did it, now move on, I don't fuck with it no more. So I want to do something all the way through, from start to finish, and then move on to the next. So that's my main goal. Other than that, like I have a really great work-life balance and everything else.
Speaker 5So very good. One thing I'm going to apply to my life for sure is something I we had an interview I don't know if you know who trent shelton is motivational speaker, really big one. We had him last year. We just released the episode and he talked about like and he said I should implement some of that.
Speaker 5Until 12 o'clock, I'm unreachable, so, like when you wake up, until 12 pm, that's your time. Go to the gym, do your personal stuff, answer whatever personal emails you have to do, and then 12 o'clock, you open yourself to like your business partners. And then you know that's something I'm going to apply when I go back. And then you know that's something I'm going to apply when I go back. I told him in the car the first thing I'm doing I'm going to have to talk. I have two business partners. I have to talk with both of them and I'm going to hey, don't text me, I'm putting all my group chats on mute, everybody forever, not eight hours in a week, forever. And if I need you, then like hey, where are you? Do the at some meal? Then I'll get on the spicazzi, but that's the first thing I want to do when I go back.
Speaker 1That's how my life flows, everybody knows, don't contact me before 11 30 because I'm not answering nobody I mean I do sometimes I go to the beach I go to the gym. I do everything that I need to do for me. I read my books. Whatever I need to do for me, I'm doing that. 11 30 business. Starts my day. Start anybody that needs me now. Okay, what do you need?
Speaker 6in your video. I can do that for you.
Speaker 4You need what this 11.30, this quiz this does sound a little bit like cause what time do you end?
Speaker 1whenever I'm tired my shift ends at my radio show ends at 8, so after that it's socialized with my people, so I go to my friends house do you have a radio show?
Speaker 6yeah, with my people. So I go to my friend's house. You see a radio show?
Speaker 1Yes, sir, yes sir 100.
Speaker 3Farthings.
Speaker 1Chris, take that. I'm going to take it to the radio, sir, amazing.
Speaker 5I'm a bad bitch Full time. You know what I'm saying, sir. Hey, Justin.
Speaker 3I'm getting in. I'm getting in, justin.
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