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Gratitude, Self-reflection, and Advocacy: A Conversation with Jeff Peeples
A believer in the power of gratitude, affirmative self-talk, and celebrating small wins, Jeff shares with us his daily routines and mindfulness practices that keep him grounded in the midst of his entrepreneurial journey. He makes a compelling case for the importance of these practices in managing stress and anxiety. But the conversation is far from being all work - we take a detour to discuss a global concern that has become a personal mission for Jeff - human trafficking. He passionately voices the need for increased awareness, the shocking statistics in the U.S, and the heartbreaking ways predators exploit their victims.
The conversation gets particularly intense as we dive into the dark realities of child sex slavery and the redM movement's critical role in combating it. We also discuss the importance of rehabilitation for survivors and the need for more support and understanding from society. Wrapping up our stimulating discussion, we touch upon his recent venture, FR Clothes, and how it's a giant leap towards environmental sustainability. This episode is not just a conversation, it's a testament to Jeff's unwavering commitment to making a difference and his firm belief in the transformative power of self-reflection and gratitude. Prepare to be inspired and, perhaps, ignite your own passion for change.
A believer in the power of gratitude, affirmative self-talk, and celebrating small wins, Jeff shares with us his daily routines and mindfulness practices that keep him grounded in the midst of his entrepreneurial journey. He makes a compelling case for the importance of these practices in managing stress and anxiety. But the conversation is far from being all work - we take a detour to discuss a global concern that has become a personal mission for Jeff - human trafficking. He passionately voices the need for increased awareness, the shocking statistics in the U.S, and the heartbreaking ways predators exploit their victims.
The conversation gets particularly intense as we dive into the dark realities of child sex slavery and the redM movement's critical role in combating it. We also discuss the importance of rehabilitation for survivors and the need for more support and understanding from society. Wrapping up our stimulating discussion, we touch upon his recent venture, FR Clothes, and how it's a giant leap towards environmental sustainability. This episode is not just a conversation, it's a testament to Jeff's unwavering commitment to making a difference and his firm belief in the transformative power of self-reflection and gratitude. Prepare to be inspired and, perhaps, ignite your own passion for change.
fucking beat the cat rein from. And welcome to another Energy Crew podcast With me, your host, jp Warren. I wanna thank everyone out there for tuning into Energy Crew podcast. It's been exciting to kind of start this off again and kind of sit around with different individuals, different leaders, different people, kind of driving and creating their own path in their own future, and kind of learning about kind of what makes them tick, learning about their strengths, learning about their vulnerabilities and kind of learning about kind of their passions, what drives them, what are they focused on right now, what gets them out of bed in the morning and kind of puts that pep in their step. And this obviously correlates into who's bringing this to you right now.
Speaker 1:Who's bringing this to you right now is Exec Crew, which is gonna be a new executive networking group that's gonna be starting in Q4. There's gonna be a set number of memberships per season. So it's gonna be exciting, it's gonna be dynamic, it's gonna be you're gonna have people coming in that the whole idea is everyone's a teacher and everyone's a student. We can all learn something from each other and we can all teach something to each other and also just support. So our goal is to kind of elevate everyone's networks and knowledge and that's the place to do it and I'm excited about it, I'm pumped about it and that's kind of what spurned this new line or this new direction of Energy Crew. Where are you putting your energy at and I'm excited about it. And again, I'm excited right now to sit across the table from a buddy of mine that kind of we got connected when during pandemic time right, yeah, yeah, it was during the pandemic time Sit across the table with Jeff Peoples. I think many of know him from his just involvement all over, not just in the industry but in the veteran space with human trafficking, whether it's with Red M or whether it's just his voice on kind of all your involvement.
Speaker 1:So of course we're gonna get in all this stuff and also the inspiration kind of behind you on how you again sit across the table from someone else trying to figure it out and having their own company and seeing your success and kind of seeing kind of the and it's not just like you're out there kind of pushing something, that's that. You're like it's a recycling of another service that's offered. It is it's FR clothes, which is exciting. It's don't get me wrong, it's not exciting, but what you're doing to it is exciting, it's valuable, it's what people wear, it's what people have to wear when they're out there, and I trust me, as someone that's actually worked offshore over 10 years ago and all that stuff, I understand how important that is.
Speaker 1:But hey look, I'm kind of taking the stage. I love how. I love sitting down talking to you whenever we can, because I know your schedule's, like mine, and you're always busy, you're always on the go, and seeing you build your company is exciting to me, and so I'm fortunate we're recording this at the Petroleum Club of Houston, 35 floors up. We just had Kids Crew here on Saturday, so there's still some STEM residue leftover up here, so let's get this kicked off. So, jeff, welcome. Thank you very much. Happy to be here. Yeah, and you also have a podcast too. I do, yeah, why don't we plug that? And then let's kind of do a little back, kind of plug that first then we'll get kicked off.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, you know my podcast is called the Mission Zero Podcast, started a few years ago. It's very specific to safety. It's an industry podcast, it's nothing. It's not. You know a wide variety of topics, but we try to stay within the health, safety and environmental sphere, if I can fit it in there, and I've been a little bit loose with that to try to fit some important things that I wanted to talk about into that sphere as well. But yeah, the Mission Zero Podcast started about two and a half years ago. It's done better than I would have thought it would have ever done. It's now in 27 countries. Isn't that crazy? It is. I've been down in 27 countries. My biggest guest so far is Terry Verts, who's the space station commander. Yes, now become a friend of mine. I love him to death. He actually came and supported us on a human trafficking event last week, so he's just all around awesome.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I want to thank you so much, dude. I want to be there, man. I just with schedules, kids crew like anyway, go on I love what you're doing go on, we're gonna do nothing.
Speaker 2:But yeah, the Mission Zero Podcast is essentially deep dive into safety issues, environmental issues, things like that with industry leaders on that subject. So I love it. It helps I guess I'd say as much as it's helped further the conversation. It's helped me. How does it help you, Number one, be a better listener and number two, be a better question asker? I mean, it's tough to sit there and talk to somebody, especially somebody you might not know that well, David Reed was my third interview. That's nerve-wracking. Here's the deal when it comes to podcasting and all that stuff.
Speaker 1:Like I'm in the boat right now where it's like I don't want to reach out to people like David Reed's cover, chris Wright's cover, because I'm like, ah, let me get a couple more. I know you did as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know you did, but that's the thing there was, like, let me get a couple more into my belt. It's like JP, you have like 200 podcasts out there like you're ready for it, but to have that as your third guest, I mean that's exciting. That was lucky, that's exciting. Hey, lux, half of it, man Lux, half of this, it is.
Speaker 2:And that's burned. The involvement in human trafficking, because he's a global leader in that, I'd say as far as that point. So that was a great interview, great to talk about what they were doing and that's what he wanted to do, and they were moving to some cool electrical flank fleets and I was have an industry leader like that talking on the show. But that's the day that essentially my ascent into that and he became to me a mentor in being a warrior, and so that's why it was just a doubly important day for me to be able to put him, to be able to get him on the podcast. But yeah, it's still there.
Speaker 2:I've taken a lot of liberty with doing different things. I made it an entirely health and safety podcast. Well, that initially was OK. We'll just have HSC people from oil and gas and that'll be the key. But police officers are part of safety. We had a Cory Warden on who was the city of Houston safety officer to talk about COVID. We're going to have more interesting people like that on. I'm having some mental health people come on as well.
Speaker 1:And what I love about that is not just it just exposes kind of the you know the reality, you know health, safety, environment, mental health and all that stuff. But I also kind of like it too, because, yes, it is very specified. However, every industry. This is very pertinent to and the fact that you know you're, you know you're in the oil and gas space and you're getting all these different gas that are outside of the space Course Video we're trying to, we're trying to equipment here, but the fact that you're able to get people that are outside the oil and gas space on is extremely impressive. And also I like that because it kind of reintroduces who we are as an industry to people that are outside of our industry.
Speaker 2:So anyway, so I love that Anyway yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so that's going on. I've tried to. It's going to. You know I'm like you. I'm going to see how many irons I can actually light before I just pass out or have a stroke. But you know I have a one that's more than we can talk about it more later. It's a small one that I'm going to restart. It's called what If it Didn't Happen, and it was a. It's basically a history podcast, because that's my. You know what I love to talk about and what I love to do with history and archeology. And then we're doing another one Modern day Indiana.
Speaker 1:Jones.
Speaker 2:Indiana.
Speaker 1:Peoples Did you see my, I did see your.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I was ever going to geek out. That was the time you know.
Speaker 1:I'll tell you one thing For those that don't follow Jeff on, whether it's LinkedIn or whether it's Instagram, all that stuff he has, he has, he has pretty good content. Not only does this, he's a very interesting fellow, he, he on the road. All right, Just got it. Just got an RV, a camper or something like that and you're going to be traveling, going to see some folks and kind of again like being a so immersed yourself on the road. I love it Getting that market see what they're doing, and then and then.
Speaker 1:but the thing is though, it's like I mean you're a very serious, you know businessman, but at the same time, it's like you also enjoy having fun, like life is serious but it doesn't have to be stern, and uh, I love that aspect of you. And so you know there's this Indiana Jones just came out and, like you know, it's that, it's that, that that theme, where it's like he goes to the ticket. You know the guys are going what. What ticket? You know what? What show do you want to go see? And a pants him. He's dressed up as the Indiana Jones, like what do you think I'm here to see? So I love how you do stuff like that. So, yeah, okay. So so this is another side of passion project. Is this history podcast You're going to be?
Speaker 2:doing. Yeah, uh, you know, I, I, and it hasn't it slowed down, especially with the, the takeoff of the, of uh Sentinel safety. But, uh, I also have spent, you know, quite a few years, uh, in archeology. I've done archeology on a couple of sites Well, seven, seven sites, is it?
Speaker 1:let me ask you a question about this, and again, this is a tangent, I'm fine with it, but on these archeological digs that you do, and I'm sure, I'm sure they're called archeological digs and if they're not just call it that, um, I feel like it's like an opening scene of like, like Tomb Raider or like Indiana Jones, where, like, you got some people there funding it who are probably bad. They want to use the science towards like. It's so much more boring.
Speaker 2:Indiana Jones is. It's so much fun, but it's, there's nothing about it. You know, people it's, you know, uh, people really don't realize that when they see an archeological site, that thing started 20 years ago.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's slow.
Speaker 2:Oh gosh, it's painstaking. And the more uh, the more we learn about how to handle historical objects, the slower it becomes Like. So, for example, uh, you know, to the early famous uh archeologists that discovered, I guess, made, probably to the to the most archeological discoverers of the 20th century were Howard Carter, who founded a King Tuts tomb Okay, uh, the only intact uh Pharaoh tombs ever found still to this date. And uh, and also Howard, uh, I'm sorry, heinrich Schleeman, who founded the city of Troy.
Speaker 1:He, found Troy.
Speaker 2:It was only, uh, the old Ionian coast of Turkey. And so Schleeman blesses soul. He had great intentions, but he really, really ruined that site.
Speaker 2:What he's trying to get after it, Dude they put a, they just bulldozed down straight down the middle of it and started going on the side. So, yeah, they just got, they just got after it. It's all they knew. Yeah, that's all they knew. Yeah, but, but, so, but, uh, but that still took 20 years to uncover that complex and it's not the world's biggest thing. And so, yeah, it takes. I mean, you're, you're, you're not running around being chased by uh bad guys and saving uh people and getting a girl. You're on the ground with a brush, you know, sitting there doing this for hours and hours and a day and hoping you find a shard or something in their trash that could tell you a little bit about who these people were there, and that's all. So when I was done in Mexico, I was excited. We actually found some Olmec material. Okay, Olmec's, uh predecessor of the Mayans. Okay, so a, a, a, a Native American group that hasn't been a society in almost 2000 years. So, uh, that's.
Speaker 1:And to the first person seeing this and over.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. Yeah, that's. That was insane, that was fun.
Speaker 1:That's insane to kind of peel, peel back and just think about that. Yeah, like no one has touched this, seen this, this doesn't seem a lot of the day in 2000 years. I'm the first person here looking at this.
Speaker 2:Well it's. It's that that's exciting. But what you learn from is exciting because you know what you're essentially trying to find is bones and trash. In archaeology, you know, you learn so much from trash. It's just, you know. And they, they weren't much different than us. They just weren't scaled like us, but they all had dump sites. Native Americans were famous for it. They, they would have a, you know, a nice trash. They would have a landfill. It'd be very small, it'd be a village's landfill, right, they'd have it. But that's where you're going to learn. What did they eat? What did they? You know, you know, you don't learn a lot about them.
Speaker 1:That way, you got a piece it's like kind of like a detective, or you got to get a history.
Speaker 2:It is, and it's painstaking and it's nothing like what you think. I mean, you could, you could. There are archaeologists around the world that they have that look and look and look and they never, they never have that big fine.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But having that big fine, you know, for an archaeologist and what they love, makes it all worth it.
Speaker 1:But then again, I mean going back to the whole, you know, the whole energy crew. We put your energy in and all that stuff and that's, passion though it is. I mean, think about that If you're dedicating your life's work, not just your studies and all that stuff and you're and you're out there and you're turning and burning year after year, decade after decade, and you know, I mean that's that to me, that's a passion. So let's, let's, kind of let's, I want to kind of you saying bolt said I Trained for four years to run nine seconds.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's good person. That's that's way to look at it. That's a crazy way to look at, but it's true though. All right. So I want to talk about this.
Speaker 1:So, obviously, you know you have a you are very a Diverse, rich background when it comes to kind of your experience and kind of what you've done. All stuff Give me the elevator should be on kind of who you are and kind of where you're at today and who you are today. And then I kind of want to dive in the kind of like one or two or three of your, of your passions, because, look, I know you on a personal level and I know that you are a very passionate person. Whether it's helping people, whether it's getting a message out, whether it's your, your company, which I love watching, you know like it's inspiring, like the stuff that you do and the stuff that you kind of put out there. It's very inspiring to me. Whether it's you know you, you're like the, you're like the ongoing Boy Scout. You love leaving people in places better than. Oh yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:I love it.
Speaker 1:I kind of want to talk about that more, so kind of give us a little background. Those that don't know you, that are tuned in for the first time, they're like okay, who's this? By the way, it's crazy to see that your original Podcasts on my first show is still getting downloads.
Speaker 2:Yeah that's still getting downloads insane. That's when you first, I think was before that's three years ago. I think years ago.
Speaker 1:So let's, let's get it kicked off real quick, real quick, kind of who you are, because, look, if people want to find out about you, then go to your podcast. Give us the elevator energy cruise spill. Okay, all right.
Speaker 2:Well, I grew up in rural Georgia to a lower middle-class family. It was wonderful in many ways. I guess I'd say Went to. I went to a local college here, georgia Southern, for a couple years, transferred into Texas Tech that's what brought me to Texas in the first place. Since then had a couple of deployments. I was an army reserve for 11 years, had a couple of deployments that threw off what I would say you know a career through off career path.
Speaker 2:I tried a lot of different things. Didn't have a real career until I was probably almost 30 or touching 30. I started in with finished oil products, lubricants, and came in and had a wonderful, wonderful boss and mentor there that kind of Push me in the direction that I wanted to be. Yep, from there it kind of just everything. Almost it was a merger, it was a. I guess it was a combination of effort and also just happenstance. Well, what opportunities became? It became in front of me and I got into the safety industry Through that same mentor, he he became the CEO of a major PPE supplier and I went to work with him, became the international sales director. So I got to travel around the world selling a wonderful product. Boom. You know for me, right? That was just. It had a tremendous boss, so that was just a wonderful, wonderful place.
Speaker 2:Came out of that Co-founded a company called Tomahawk safety a few years ago that's where we met Tomahawk Great people working with there that these were a group of investors that were not oil field guys, they're not industrial guys. They came from the medical background and that was their expertise, which was a Wonderful thing, because we we hit the market about. I guess our first inventory load came about eight months before COVID hit, so we were bad. It's some terrible timing, it's a great time.
Speaker 2:But on the on the flip side of that, just about everything else in life, there's a good and there's a positive spin on everything.
Speaker 1:There really is there really, really really is these guys?
Speaker 2:They were. They were well connected in the medical industry and so we went after. We went after that headfirst and and survived and did well, and after that they kind of chose to stick into that and I which would have been a, you know, financially wonderful for me, but I decided to. I wanted to do this, why? I had an idea. I had a, a, a, a direction. I wanted to go. I wanted to direct my own show. I wanted to, I wanted to put my, I want to put a plan together and I wanted to see it to fruition and it'd be my plan. Okay, so that's what I wanted to do. I had some different ideas about how I wanted to be an employer, how to be a Manager or whatever you ever owned your own, your own company.
Speaker 2:No, this is first time that I am a owner owner.
Speaker 1:So when you're, when you have these ideas on how that you'd like to see things done look, I feel like 99% of the people out there sitting In a job where there's W2 was. They have an idea like you have. Look, oh, I'd be great if it was run like this. Or I have an idea. What was the difference? Or what was the pole? Or what was the passion pole? If you will, I like Again.
Speaker 1:I like using the term passion because you know people like oh, that's, why are you using that words cheese? You know it's not like. If you think about something that's passionate, it's just like the word moist, you like oh, it's a gross word. Tell me something that's like chicken moist, delicious, right, bread moist like it's not about what turkey moist, delicious, like it's not a bad word Like. So when people hear passion, they're thinking like 50 shades great. To me it's. I completely disagree. That's when people, that's when people kind of lighten up, that's when people kind of Believe in themselves more than spend more time. So I love hearing the passion pole. What was your passion pole? When you're like you know what, I'm gonna do this on my own.
Speaker 2:Oh, it was a few things I had. I think I had an idea. I think Maybe when people start businesses, their focus is on money. Yes, I, I definitely wanted to follow the path of making a great company and the money will come. Mm-hmm, I wanted to build a product out there that was better than everything. That was the. That was absolutely on my mind. I saw a product that had 40 year old technology and I wanted to upgrade that. I wanted to be have an exciting company. You know, you see quotes all the time. One is that you want to make a cut, you want to be so good to your employees that they'll never leave, that I wanted to be a very Employee-focused guy. Okay, like I wanted these people to be so happy they would never want to leave, but I also want them to leave because I want to grow.
Speaker 2:Ah, they can't be. What do you want to do in life here? Help me for a few years, train you, you help me, let's you know when you get ready, when you're ready. I would love to begot more business owners.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was kind of snowballs.
Speaker 2:I wait everything, so well you know if you treat them right, they come back to you and they'll never do you wrong. So that part that was part of it In the I guess the final part it was a me. It's a means to an in for me. I want to do a lot more archeology and we talk more about that, but I want to do more of that and Archeology. I want to have more time in that. Yeah, I won't definitely have a lot more time to do that, but I want to. You know, it's to me is Give him back. I, it was a. There was a time, if you would ask me at 28 years old, you know, how much money do you want in life?
Speaker 1:Like what do you want?
Speaker 2:I was like well, you know what, if I could have Just enough to kind of live a good life, I'd be happy.
Speaker 1:What is good?
Speaker 2:life Well, just being able, not being strapped for cash and not being worried about About you know if you're gonna be able to pay your bills and be able to have a little fun.
Speaker 1:You know, it's not a question of keeping up the Jones are getting the nicest watch or car and all that stuff. It's more of a question of having the freedom. If you want to have a nice meal or take a trip or something like that, you can do that without stressing about it. Yeah, okay, I'm not a.
Speaker 2:Possessions guy. I don't care about the the super nice watches and stuff. I mean I like to look nice and dress nice, but I just don't care about material things.
Speaker 1:If that's if that and if that's your thing, I completely dig it. Like you know, a lot of some people do watches. Yeah, that's not my thing, though I don't. I. This watch I've had for, I think, seven years and it's like 110 bucks from fossil I keep this one because it counts my lapses and slim and I don't have to yeah okay, that's my watch, but uh so it was a sense of freedom. It was a sense of being able to do stuff without being stressed about it.
Speaker 2:That's what it was Okay, but now it's, I can't. I can't help people with that much money. I can't help people with that much worth. Now I've got to be able to have enough to help. I'm not going to pass a lot of money along to family members. I'm going to this. You know there's gonna be a certain amount for me and what I want to do, but really in the end, how many people's lives can I affect? And that's what I want to do. Where did this shift?
Speaker 1:come from. Like Cuz, cuz, cuz. The reason I'm asking is this like cuz, I know another gentleman that you know. His daughter goes to the school my daughter goes to and he's you know construction very successful, awesome, awesome, awesome guy. And I was like dude, like that's so great to see you succeed. Just like you, so great to see you. See, I'm like what do you want to do? You same answer it's like man, I kind of want to get to a position where I can, like impact the most people you know with it, have the biggest impact with most people. Like that's kind of what that's my goal is like man I'm, you know, and like I just love hearing the fact that. Like so there is a shift. So what was that shift with you and when did that kind of wouldn't that occur?
Speaker 2:I think it's, you know, a Maturity and you go through life, you experience things, you go through. You know, in my late 20s mid mid to late 20s I experienced terrible depression, got through it, still deal with anxiety. But yeah, I deal with it. Now I don't really have any issues at all there anymore because I Research what it works. What does that look like? Well, look like just living a balanced life. I my most important thing and it's my mornings. You know doing things right in the morning.
Speaker 1:Okay, let's talk about that, because because I think there's again. I'm not trying to take over the conversation on this up, but I think you're touching on so many interesting pieces that a lot of people can identify with. And number one obviously I want to get back to you know, help people also, like I think morning routines are extremely important on how it starts your day and how people think it's overrated, I think it's underrated, it's very underrated.
Speaker 1:So tell me about your morning routine and kind of what kind of like the results from starting a healthy morning.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this happened when I went on a path of learning about how I could control the demons, how I could control the problems I was having and and do better and and actually unlock what my my potential really was in life, and because up until the age of 30. I was certainly not Living up to my potential, I think. You know, even I had. I had friends Tell me like we've yeah, I mean same what. Why are you behind so much? Why are you not doing this? You have this ability, but I started looking into things and I started learning from people and the first time I'd heard about morning was Tim Ferriss, you know, and his. He talks about that and fair says the um 10 minute or three hour work.
Speaker 2:We got it, that's yeah, but he it was his podcast that he had on is it was just excellent people to talk about how they're excellent, and one of the 80% of them of high achievers did some type of meditation in morning routine, and so I tried meditation and meditation. People think it's a joke, people think it's. No, it's not something I don't. I don't do that, I, I just kind of I did a nap. That the guide you. Okay, because I'm about to talk to you about my meditation.
Speaker 2:That's, that's how you do it, you don't have to do. I think that's called a I forget what it's called. That's mindspace, no, no, no, that, that type of meditation, I forget what it's called, but if it works, it works. Who gives a damn Trans? And yeah, trends and yeah. So I'll do.
Speaker 1:I'll do frequencies like I'll do like different Hertz frequencies. And actually my wife is, she just got certified to do like a sound healing.
Speaker 1:No like the bowls and all stuff she did to me. She got her bowls got in yesterday. She did pretty legit. But uh, same way, I'll sit there and I'll put the, put my headphones on before I got my computer for getting my phone, for doing like that. And If you just kind of unplugged where there's five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes and just kind of like sit there and just push that, I got to do this, I got to do this, I got to set this, gotta post this, I got to email this, you can just kind of push that Away and allow yourself a little space to kind of at least as well. I've noticed it. It definitely helps you handle these stress, anxiety or any challenges that kind of come your way. So I've been very vocal about a morning routine as well.
Speaker 2:So anyway, I get up, first thing I do is Make the bed. Okay, make the bed, that's important. Next thing I do is I Mean it's funny, you and I just literally talked about this but I put a bowl of ice and water and put my head in it Okay, but my head in ice water. I make my cup of coffee, I sit down, I put the headphones on the non, no, no, no outside sound Headphones and I listen to sort of a trance type music. It's EDM, but no, no, no words. Yeah, it's a, it's a by neuro beats like very go, very go.
Speaker 2:Frequency yeah those that type of stuff, and I sit down and I read something that makes me happy. Okay, it is no, there is no news there. There is no Twitter.
Speaker 2:There's no there's no social media. It's something that makes me happy. I have a reading. I have a magazine app. That's generally what I go to. Okay, that's the easiest way to avoid. You know subjects you don't want to talk about, so do that. For about 10 minutes I sit there and then I take my my journal out. Yeah, I have my journal on my remarkable pad right now. Okay, don't have a remarkable pad, get yourself a market worth it.
Speaker 1:Okay, cuz I've seen that because I've started journal to get it like what you're talking about honestly. Like people might hear this like oh man, it sounds kind of fruit and all that stuff it does. I'm Validating this. It has changed my trajectory. My day now again, it has changed. Whenever you know shit does start hitting the fan. It has completely changed how you process it. So, yes, I love it. So I do the journal every morning. What's in the?
Speaker 2:journal. So the the journal has. It's a mindfulness practice, okay, and which is a huge part of mental health to me, huge part of how you look at life, huge part of bending, feeling sorry for yourself and you can see life for what it really is. We're the luckiest people on earth, in the United States in the history of the world, and most people are miserable. Wild to me now, not I know what I know, but so it's a. This is things you're thankful for. It's a guy, right, it's journal yeah, it's a guy to journal three things, you think. What are some things you're thankful for? What can make today great? What are you gonna do to make to the gay great? And then, finally, an affirmation I Am this, I can do this.
Speaker 1:I have troubles with that. Yeah, I have big time trouble.
Speaker 2:Affirmations I don't know why well, that's because it's it feels uncomfortable to do that, but it's weird. Get past it.
Speaker 1:You know it's interesting too, though you have to do that. It just like for me, like I don't, like, I'm sure, feels narcissistic. It does like okay, for example, it's your company, right, it's, it's your sento safety right there, it's your company. Also, if you have a big win off the Connection crew crew club exactly, kids through the door, stuff I am so hesitant about tooting my own horn because, again, it sounds very bragging narcissistic. All stuff at the end of the day, though, whether it's gratitude affirmation, all stuff you have to because you should be celebrating your success, because you've earned it, you've done a good job, like, even if it's a, an accessible event or an order, or this new type of material you got in for these you know, badass handling shirt that you're, that you're Getting in all that stuff, yeah, I can say him, I can say the word Henley, okay, it's not trademark, so anyway. So all this stuff you get it like you have to celebrate success and it's not narcissistic, it's not gloating, it's being proud about your, what you've done, about your achievements.
Speaker 2:So but in my journaling I, I'm, I don't, it's not, it's not necessarily the things like oh well, I'm thankful I got this new account, or thankful I met this guy. I mean, we need to be thankful for comfortable pillows and bed. We need to be thankful for healthy food fridge.
Speaker 2:I mean be thankful for. You got comfortable shoes or Comfortable, good-looking, neat clothes. Yeah, we forget that. Go to these some third world countries. You will be reminded. I've been to some, a lot of them in the 73 countries. I've been to a lot of countries where people aren't even in this Spear of how lucky we are here. So mindfulness is extremely important to me, and why that became important is because years ago I learned a simple thing I was an athlete, training your body. There's a lot that goes into that. Right there it's. It's the exercise, it's the nutrition, it's the sleep, is the hydration. Your brain's the same way, and people do not understand that.
Speaker 2:You know that's how you can go to dark places If you let yourself do it. You train your brain to, to, to do Good things and to be a good person. But if you start to let these things creep in, it can control your brain. That's why you know things like you know if you go into bad places or you know pornography, which you know it's, you know. You know that too much of that can Totally throw your brain off. It's the dopamine.
Speaker 1:It is, and I could play agree, and you know you're talking about focus on, you know gratitude and the little things on stuff like I Was at the store. You know stuff that used to bother me before, like I'd be at the store and like I'd have a grocery. I don't know if this is, you know just from. You know kind of Taking. You know these, the weather's journal, whether it's meditation, whether it's just kind of like. I know, if I don't do this, how I'm gonna look like in a week or a week and a half if I don't continue to constantly practice gratitude, be thankful, and again, this is not one of those things. I wake up in the morning and it's like oh, oh, I'm so thankful for these, bro. No, like I wake up, I'm grumpy, I'm stressed, I'm have a lot of anxiety. However, it's a way to recenter and I don't have any answers. I'm not perfect by any means, by any chance.
Speaker 1:I'm a senator boat is ninety nine point nine percent of people out there. But If I don't do it, if I don't take the time and kind of focus on what's great, what's what's like it, just literally within ten days, like it's almost like clockwork, in ten days, I am a wreck. I am a wreck to my wife, I'm a wreck to my daughter, I'm a wreck to my friends, I'm wrecked to myself. I cannot get out of my head. Um, I'm in my own, I'm in my own path.
Speaker 1:So before I'd go to the grocery store and I would buy groceries and if it was like over hundred bucks or hundred fifty bucks, I'd be like son of a bitch, like this sucks, like damn it and all stuff. I don't know what it was like, whether it's Alan listen, alan Watts a little bit, or whether just kind of thinking about this. I was at the grocery store with my daughter and it came back in 150 hundred sixty bucks and I was like dude, that's awesome, that is so awesome. I can afford this, I can provide for my family and literally and like I turned my daughter's like Evelyn. Most people get upset about this, like I Do too, but right now I'm happy that I can do this for it, for it like it just, it's just. It's different to look at things, yeah.
Speaker 2:This that I guess that path started for me in it and I tell I've told people this because it's it's kind of funny, but it started sitting on the toilet I when I was going through my. No, it's, it's hard how the dirt covered the thing for for toilet or no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 2:This was. This was in my 20s Okay, this was the beginning of under, of an understanding, right, okay, of how I should view the world and and how I should live my life and focus my energies. I was going back, I was going through it. I mean, I was jobless and didn't have any prospects and and didn't know what, where I wanted to go in life. And I was In a bathroom and saw a Like a motivational picture.
Speaker 2:Yeah, somebody's house, yeah, yeah with a kitty cat and it said If you Want to help your, say if you, if you're fit, if you're depressed and want to feel better, go help someone else. And it was the best thing I have ever read and felt in my life and I was like, okay, go help other people. That's your way to feel better. Nothing on this planet can make you feel as good as helping someone else nothing. And so I've and I will never forget that and I will live that every day. Now. Also, while I was going through it, I I got a book. It's called start where you are.
Speaker 2:Okay, start where you are was written by Chris Gardner, who is the subject of Well, it's pursuit of happiness with Will Smith. So he wrote start where you are. He wrote pursuit of happiness first and then I went back and wrote the Start where you are because he believed, or he wrote the pursuit he sort, start where you are, which is a self-help book, and it went back and wrote pursuit of happiness because he wanted people to understand His story was real and it was grimy and it was hard and he wanted people to actually under if they, you know, he had credibility and what he was saying and start where you are was was the most common-sense thing that no one gets, and I Guess what he you know some of the things he taught is wherever you are right now, you're there for a reason and it's up for you to take advantage of it and get the best out of it. He grew up very similar tonight that I did in the rural, rural, south poor.
Speaker 2:He had the same complaints that I had oh my gosh, I didn't get to go on any trips. I never got to fly in a plane. I never got to go to basketball or football games. I never Got to do anything. Okay, my parents didn't procure me intellectually. They didn't. They didn't know how to help me Even take the SAT, I mean, they didn't. They didn't help me with anything. They're. They were under the mindset that you were to get through high school and start the factory work right, or and go to work in a granite shed, for example, where I'm from, which is what we were known for. But I used to look at that and I used to look at my parents and my family negatively like you met them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's their fault during this.
Speaker 2:Yeah it's their fault. You're a victim. I was a victim, yeah. And so and I sit there and I said, there's, you know, you know you, no matter any, said basically in the book. His point was is that no matter, no matter what you think About someone, no matter how much negative, there are always something positive that that's good about them they're. Everyone has something to give you, everyone has something to teach you.
Speaker 2:And I started rethinking and I started thinking about my parents and I said, okay, what can I think positively about this? Well, my parents were poor whites in the South, born in the 50s. They were the most non-racist humans you've ever seen and for that reason I was. I spent a lot of time with different people. It's, you know, in Georgia. It's white and black. I spent a lot of time with black people because of that reason and that opened my world up to some human experiences that a lot of people didn't get to have. When I went to college and met, you know, at Texas Tech and in my fraternity, with a lot of guys that grew up on the other Side of the track right, I'd say 99% of them did and from fraternity, they didn't have any experience with black folks.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I was blessed, I did you know, and so things like that. You know, the open mind is this the, the not thinking you're better than someone. Attitude you know. And look to my brother work ethic. I remember being Grad in college watching him Wake up at 530 work two jobs. He would go and do his lawn care business for hours, then he'd go to the golf course and manage the golf course and then we'd get a long care but a different.
Speaker 1:Well, it was an employee.
Speaker 2:It was an employee job, yeah, but this was you know he was doing. He was doing his own business and he'd get off of work and then do long care again.
Speaker 2:Yeah so he'd be up at 530, home at 830, trying to make it his, putting his life through graduate school so she could have a good a PhD in teaching and that was worth it, because his daughters are now have a wonderful teacher as a mother and I'm very happy about that. But but you know, it completely flipped the script. You know, I grew up in this poor town, this poor small town. I hated it. I wanted to have all these things that I only got a movie and be exposed to theater jealousy.
Speaker 1:There there's a little victim, this little like the world's against you, or it was more. Just what?
Speaker 2:I missed out on. Yeah, I didn't get to see live theater. I didn't get to see sporting events. I didn't get to do soccer and all these sports for Queen to have it. And I look back, I was like you know what I had Fields to roll man. Yeah why is people to talk to? I had nature. I had the ability to grow up without being hyper Stimulated all the time.
Speaker 2:Yeah so there's a great value in growing up rural. It is, and so I grew up so rural. It's still hard for me to say rural. And you know I can stand when people ask me to say oh, I'll Boy, I hate that word, just probably.
Speaker 1:I feel like this is whenever I try to say the word entrepreneur, I'm done, I'm done. Can we just start now? I'm gonna use the word energy. Yeah, okay perfect.
Speaker 2:I don't even use that word, so I use energy. But but that was, that was the beginning of a now, at a 14 year, 13 year journey into it's training the brain to do better, training the brain to as much as you train the body, because it's just as important to prepare yourself for that. And you know one of my another book I would highly recommend and you give me a second on it, but it was a book that was found. It was a book. It was written in like the 19 or 1890s or early night between 19.
Speaker 1:It was the. It was the.
Speaker 2:Constitution. It was the best self-help book You've ever read in your life and I'm so sorry. I'll give it to you to to put on the the podcast, but it's not the how to win.
Speaker 1:This is around for ages.
Speaker 2:This has been around for ages, but it's a self-help book and it was almost unbelievable how good it was. Okay, but just in, and I realized this guy's always talking about us training yourself. Great habits, great habits, and you know, in the end, leaving this world better than you came. Helping other people is the entire purpose.
Speaker 1:So what kind of okay? So let's kind of, let's kind of get a more personal side of things, because we I think we've been chatting here a little bit, which I love, okay, helping people, helping others. I mean, before we even started recording this, you talked to me about, like that's, that is your passion, that's kind of you know. I was like before okay, for those that don't know where you're setting up I was trying to deal with this new equipment that I have obviously getting extremely frustrated at it because it's new technology. But man, it was kind of one of those things that we got in the room and it's like Jeff, like you got a lot of stuff that you're passionate about there.
Speaker 1:Which is number one is why I love having you, but it's like, what do you want to talk about? And you're like man, I want to talk about this today, and it was and it was. The end was that it was helping others. It was, it was, but let's talk about who you're trying to help right now, currently, obviously, and I remember sitting there at lunch with you, me and Justin, go, go, go.
Speaker 1:I'm still not good, Whatever Anyway but I remember sitting around the table and like you were talking about, like, hey, I really dig helping others and I really want to help more people and I love hearing that. So let's, let's circle back to that right now. So you know we're talking about this. You know you growing up we're talking about. You know your passions, this, your passions, that, um, and now it's helping people, um, and recently you actually you're on this, uh, on this tour right now, kind of where you're, you know you're renting out, you know theaters to know, to kind of highlight you know human trafficking, um, and what's behind that, and kind of the levels and the depth of that stuff. Let's talk about, kind of I guess, your, uh, your passion right now and kind of what you're helping out to. How about this? Guide us down, guide us down the Jeff people's path of passion. Dude this Well, I loved it.
Speaker 1:Right where it's together and it's working.
Speaker 2:Well, um, I was fortunate enough to have a really close one of my best friends. His name's Brian Townsend. He started a charity, probably 11 years or so. I'm going out and call triggers, toys and Dallas. If you don't know anything about it, please go check it out. Please help him. His focus was children, uh he. He was going through uh some some hard times himself and he went and got his dog therapy trained. He started visiting hospitals children's hospitals, okay and so he became uh thing, just grew from there and now it's into donating millions and millions of dollars to children's uh through there's been in trauma, and so it's. It's an amazing organization and he, he and his wife Stacy have been heading it for years. He blessed me with uh to be in a board member of it and to to helping, being allowing me to help with it, and so I learned, but it was his passion.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Okay, it's not. It's not hard to want to help children, but it was his passion. Uh, I had not come to mine yet. Um, you know, my passion came simply the day, I guess, like I said, it was the day I was interviewing David Reed and uh, he started telling me about his passion and what uh his organization called Red M, which is a uh for your audience, I know, you know, but it's it's an awareness organization. It's also a fundraising organization for other uh organizations that um act do work with um survivors and uh of human trafficking and also um to fight it, and so it's a couple of different organizations that that they work with. But at that moment, uh, I knew that I, uh, this was what, this is what it was, that was I, literally that was. I think that was the only moment in my life I've had a light bulb moment.
Speaker 1:Do you think okay. Do you think a passion grows on you or do you think a passion hits you? Both Okay.
Speaker 2:Both Okay, uh, because it was certainly. It certainly hit me. I mean, you know there's a scene in Sound of Freedom where you got, you know the guy leans in and he tells Tim Ballard when God tells you what to do, you cannot hesitate. Yeah, same thing, I knew that at that.
Speaker 1:At the, at the moment it's like okay, this is it, I'm, I'm, yeah, I mean, he I talk, I have a moment, I think, do not sit, but I, I, I'm telling you he.
Speaker 2:Oh, he's the man.
Speaker 1:He can bring people on. Oh yeah, I you know he's awesome.
Speaker 2:I have a nickname for him he, he, he listens to this as the first nickname I call him. He's a general, read. He's leading an army of.
Speaker 1:He really is, I mean he's just I mean just kind of his, the way he approaches it, and kind of the impact and and and real quick. I'm not to forget real quick about Red Em. What I think was very impactful and what's amazing about Red Em also is it's not just kind of like them supporting and helping all stuff. They focus also on the it's not. The it's not, it's not just rescuing or or these, these survivors, it's also the rehabilitation. That's the important part is is getting these Okay.
Speaker 2:I talked about that. I don't want to say she's all, yeah, Um, but to. To go back to the beginning of it yeah, it grows on you, because you know this is an ugly subject.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's uncomfortable.
Speaker 2:It's very uncomfortable. No one likes talking. I haven't figured it. I'm still working on my communication with that.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:To try to figure out, to, to somehow make people feel comfortable in this conversation, because I, you know, soon I've seen it I start talking to somebody and they, immediately they withdraw into a shell, starts having. I get it A hundred percent. Hurting children is not fun, it's not a good conversation, but it's a. It's a most necessary conversation we can possibly have, and so, for that reason, awareness for me, made it, made the passion grow, because awareness is, however, going to win this thing, and that's why I'm so hell bent on the sound of freedom. We have a moment here to raise awareness to another level.
Speaker 2:I think people are very unaware of what's going on. This is, this is a soft underbelly of society. There are people driving around and they don't know it. You know, one of the most staggering things that David said to me was was I learned was that there are more houses of prostitution houses in Houston than in our Starbucks. Yeah, and so there's, they're on every corner and they're, they're everywhere, and you learn about what the, the, the entire process of grooming is. You learn about how they go after and who they're going after and the lifelong damage that they they do to these mostly young women, but very fastly growing young men.
Speaker 1:And also I'm going to kind of um again keep your trying to style when I interrupt, because I think there's a lot of important parts to interrupt here too and kind of my two cents and like a hundred percent. Like you know, a lot of times, you know, the misconception is like oh, human trafficking, that's, you know, that's just. You know, uh, el Salvadorians being shipped across and all that. That's not true. It's not true. It is everywhere, it's every, it's every socioeconomic class, it's every, it's every race, it's every. This, it's every. That, it's, it impacts people on the, the C suite, all the way down to, you know the, you know the, the, the people that you know help us out, and all that stuff. Like it's, it's everywhere.
Speaker 2:The United States is the number one consumer of pedophile material on earth by a good margin, okay, and also, and those that listen in the Houston area and all that stuff. One of the worst.
Speaker 1:That's the thing it's. It's so not talked about and so not exposed. People don't understand that the Katie most malls, the ship channel, it is this is this is a triangle, okay, anyway, so go on yeah.
Speaker 2:So it, you know, awareness became the thing, and I and I think if people really if it got in front of them where they could not reject it anymore, where they could not turn away anymore, that's you'll start to win people over. All you need to do is just like, do what General Reed is doing, continue to collect soldiers. Soldiers will recruit more soldiers. And doing what we're doing and so what we do in Houston, you know several organizations, but one of the top two that read and work for is 1211, which is, if you want to, catherine Givens is the leader of that organization. I interviewed her on the mission zero podcast. You can find her.
Speaker 2:She is a public speaker and author. She wrote a book about her experiences, one of the. I guess I say I can't name a person who who is more valuable to talk to or listen to or learn from this subject about than her, but I and also I don't mention I don't really mention the name of the place, but it's a there's an organization that is a recovery home. Okay, reason I don't is because pimps see their girls as same way. I would look at a $30,000 sewing machine. It's your money maker. Yeah, they will commit violence for you for taking for you taking the revenue back.
Speaker 1:Yeah, taking the revenue maker away.
Speaker 2:So, uh, we don't really talk about that, but they're one of them is a recovery home. So three year, two to three year process, uh, how I'm involved with that is uh, mostly has been uh vocation, so vocation, obviously, at the end it's uh, it's something that's coming at the end and of this process of recovery. And one thing you learn about recovery is that some aren't going to recover. You're not going to, you're not. There's nothing you can do. The abuse has been too bad, it's been too too rough on them.
Speaker 2:Uh, people are or different levels of mental abilities and to hate, to, to, to, to uh handle things and events in life. Um, one of the opposite people is that is uh, dominique, who I was. Again, you can find her as an interview on my podcast. Uh, dominique went through the like uh worst hell I've ever seen. Like uh worst hell I've ever heard of my life. But you would never know it. You never know it. Yeah, uh, she has a very positive uplifting. She'll make you feel good and she's you know. You sit in the room with her, leave 30 minutes later. You'll feel better by yourself.
Speaker 2:But this woman literally went through the worst hell you've ever heard in your life. But some people can't do that, some people aren't strong enough to do that, and so we try to help them the best we can. They go through therapy, they go through uh training, and these, um, at the most important moment of their life is when grooming begins, and that's about 14 years old Is the average, which is going to shock some people listening to this. Well, yeah, that's really what the average grooming age is. And so what? What? What we learned in training about this? And I guess you know I see some people posting about well, this woman's 19 years old or she's 20 years old, she's, this is a grown woman making a decision. And no, it's not. She's isolated. She was isolated, she was groomed.
Speaker 1:She was separated from her family. I mean we, I mean you talk about you know people you know sitting there. It's like, oh my, you know my daughter, this weird, crazy guy was 22 years old and Canada reached out to my daughter, who was 13, on YouTube. We just said shut it down. That's what it is. It starts there.
Speaker 2:It starts there it isolates there.
Speaker 1:Oh, your parents just don't get you Like. Oh my God, dominique talks about that, yeah.
Speaker 2:Don't let. If someone's trying to separate you from your child, really get into that who that person is and pay attention. But yeah, but, yeah, so, um, it basically affects the brain in this way. It um, and and boy, I can't communicate as well as the, the, the, the people who trained me. But it basically affects your decision-making. It alters your state and you're you're, you're you're, you don't learn the decision-making, proper decision-making process. You're you, you don't see anything. You, you become a person who is okay with what you're doing. You don't see it as a problem. You think you're in a relationship with your pimp, along with the 10 other girls. Um, it's tough to get past, so that has to be therapyed out and some of it doesn't.
Speaker 2:Um, you know, there's one story I had was a girl who had gotten a vocation at a sandwich shop and she was going through the program and she'd be fine at the house, she'd be doing well, happy, moving along in her progress, but she'd go to work and she'd have go into panic and she wouldn't do well at work and we couldn't. It's like, okay, she ever gonna be able to hold on to a job. You know, that's what we started thinking. But if people don't let this understand just how mental this thing is and how bad it is. What we learned was is that you're going into sandwich shops and different restaurants and when you open the door, there's a little bell there that lets someone know you're there. Oh Jesus. That same bell existed at the house of prostitution she was forced to work at and it triggered her, constant triggering of her.
Speaker 1:Oh, my God.
Speaker 2:Background, so that's how sensitive this is.
Speaker 2:That's how brutal it becomes right. So, yeah, we do the best they can. So I'm in the process of the vocation. How can we help people get jobs? One of the biggest I guess biggest preventers of jobs afterwards is the criminal history. You do a background check. One of the strategies that pimps do I guess most of them do is they send them out there and get them arrested on purpose. It's that grimy, it's that disgusting. They get them arrested on purpose so they have nowhere else to turn. They have, if you imagine. Imagine you're not thinking anything about what's happened to these people. You're an employer and you do a background check and you see arrested for prostitution, arrested for drugs.
Speaker 1:They were put there on purpose.
Speaker 2:You're a farmer.
Speaker 1:So that means if they do try to be as themselves, they got to know their options. So they kind of have to fall back on what they know.
Speaker 2:The only company that major, major company that does that, that hires them and gives them a chance and bless them, is Starbucks. Starbucks does give these people a chance, but most of them will not. I mean, we don't give our felons a chance at rehabilitation and if we don't, we might as well lock them up forever. Same with these women If you don't give them a chance to work, you might as well put them in home forever and not ever get them out, because they got to have a chance to do this. So we're working on getting companies to say listen, they've been through this program. They're not, we're not 100%, but please give them a shot. So we got a medical and for legal reasons I can't say who it is.
Speaker 2:It's a large medical company that has an introductory role that we may look at to get these ladies in. If they want to go to medical route nursing, it'll get them to nursing. They'll pay for their nursing school. So that's good. And we also I'm going to be bringing in a small shop, a small textile shop. We're gonna finish some products here in the United States Small, but if they wanna get in the textile world, here you go. Here's an opportunity. So there's lots of things we can do. But yeah, that's essentially what the RedM does. I'm going to get more into the actual rescue of it.
Speaker 1:So that's the dirty, that's when I say dirty, that's the real, that's the intense, that's the heightened realism of what you're actually doing.
Speaker 1:But for those out there listening and again, I know that some people are called to that level- of intensity when it comes to this, but also wanna highlight the cool and the beautiful part of RedM as well. If you don't even wanna go near that stuff, but you do wanna help, if you're good at mixing audio or making videos or you can make a whatever, if you can take five minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes in the comfort of your house on the toilet and you're like man, I could throw some canva together for RedM this, or I can post a picture of my mug Buy a mug or whatever that is, or let's put the mug, take a picture of it.
Speaker 1:So what I'm saying is like the stuff you're hearing right now, it might sound very heavy, it might sound a little bit too heavy for a lot of people. I might sound man. That's kind of a world I don't even wanna touch. I know it's important, I know this is serious shit, but I don't even wanna touch this stuff. You don't have to. You can literally spend 10 minutes, do a canva thing, post a picture of a cup, like it is so like the coolest part about you know how the David and RedM does.
Speaker 2:it's like you can get involved at any level you want.
Speaker 1:You wanna plan a party for RedM, or you wanna be part of the party plan, or you wanna plan this. You wanna do this. You can get on any level. It's your time, your expertise, your involvement, your level is completely customized.
Speaker 2:We have cultural nights where we celebrate.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, spanish nights, yeah, spanish nights. Remember Scottish, night. Yes, yes, yes. And so we have fun.
Speaker 2:That's awesome. You do the swimming and guitar.
Speaker 1:yeah, Monarch, that's the way.
Speaker 2:Very cool and so, yeah, you're right. You know everybody can't do heavy and that's fun. I'm a big proponent. If you can, you should I can, so I am.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's good.
Speaker 2:I guess I call it a senator. It's a senator if you've ever heard that term before. Some people are senators and can do it. I can do it, so I'm going to.
Speaker 1:But what I'm saying and I love how you're doing it, I love how people like you are out there doing it but what I'm saying is people that and again, for people that might be nervous about jumping or might be nervous to learn about, and all that stuff, it really is at your own level, at your own appetite, at your own mental health.
Speaker 2:You know, we're not here to hurt your life or your quality of life, it's just awareness. Be aware that it's there. You know some quick facts and then we can move on. You know, if you watch the movie you'll get most of the facts that I'm saying, but if you haven't, it is about to take over the drug trade as the largest illicit business in the world. People yeah, it's about to take human beings, children, people yeah, and it is much worse in foreign countries. It's on a per capita level.
Speaker 2:Here the demand is a lot for pornography and you know there's law enforcement in societies. Some societies aren't, as they don't care for children as much, and so I'm not gonna dog them. But that's just what happens. In some Asian countries, some Latin American countries. There's not good care of children, there's not good organization. I got a police society and there's not good police organization for it. But yeah, there's two million children every single year are brought into child sex slavery Roughly 10, somewhere between 10 and 30 million people. Totally, there's probably about 60 to 70 million people in the world right now who are living in humans' modern day sexual slavery in the world.
Speaker 1:And that's literally everywhere. That's the globe you can look out here.
Speaker 2:That's the globe. Yeah, and so to me, if we're not taking care of children, who are the future, what the hell are we doing?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And so, yeah, this is it. This is what I wanted to find something in my life. I was frustrated about that, but this is certainly it. I'm gonna keep going. I'm not gonna be all in on Red M because I think it's fantastic, and I'm gonna find other ways to help as well, and whatever I can do, because as I grow myself, I'm going to be growing my imprint on what I can do and I'm gonna put it into it.
Speaker 1:So, how can okay, how can people kind of reach out to you, get involved or learn a little bit more about Red M Again, I think if you just Google Dave Reed and you find any podcast he's on.
Speaker 2:Red M has a website.
Speaker 1:And honestly it's literally, and I'm not just saying this, it's so simple. It's just you can even share their stuff and that's getting involved. And honestly, if it's, I like sharing that, that was good, or I like this community who's involved in all this stuff? It's little stuff or it's doing the stuff that I mean. Obviously I'm sure you'd have to work yourself up. So how do people kind of reach out to you, find information, kind of just kind of say hello to you and all that and just kind of so I'm on LinkedIn, Jeff Peoples.
Speaker 2:I'm on Instagram I think it's Jeff underscore peoples.
Speaker 1:I'm real creative. It's PEE.
Speaker 2:PEE P-L-S. I'm real creative with that With the naming. But though I'm on there, jeff at SentinelSafetycom or Jeff at MissionZeroPodcastcom, whichever one you want to email me, you can find information there. But on Red M, the Red M has a website, just Google Red M. We know how to do that.
Speaker 1:Is it like joinredmorg, joinredmorg or something like that, I think it's.
Speaker 2:I think it's Red M the movement Red M the movement, and you can buy your mug on there for donation. Make your pictures. We do it on LinkedIn and all social media. Red M Mondays is what we call them, where we post our pictures and to bring awareness. But you can find organizations there. Please go to 1211 partners. Learn about what they're doing. You can find out more there as well on their website, because that's one of the organizations that Red M funds, so I would take a look at that and I like that. I'm a real big fan of Catherine Givens. I think she's amazing and I love what she's doing, so support her and her group as well. But that's some. That's some information and some local organizations. If you're here in Houston, find other organizations.
Speaker 1:Well, jeff, I want to thank you for your time.
Speaker 1:I mean, I think you know first I was seeing you know you.
Speaker 1:You know having your own company and being and being so successful, and I know the schedule, the constraints, I know the kind of you know you're always on the road and you believe in your product and I've seen your stuff and I love your stuff.
Speaker 1:Man, I really I'm not just saying that, but to see your plate so full with just kind of you know running a company and not only that, but adding to your plate when it comes to Red M, adding to your plate when it comes to kind of how else you can kind of impact people, adding to your plate on kind of how you can leave this campsite of a world a little bit better the place leaving it than you did come in, man, I gotta say hats off to you and I love watching what you're doing on on the professional, the personal side of things and I highly advise anyone that kind of just learn a little more about Jeff and just say hello and have even on, have a cup of coffee or have a lunch with the cat. It's worth your time. Trust me Again, it's always good chatting with you. I think you're about to get on a three a week road trip, which I'm jealous about.
Speaker 2:We're going winter.
Speaker 1:I love it man.
Speaker 2:We're going winter, winter's coming Colorado, north Dakota, pennsylvania, here I come, I know, well, you got something to show off up there too. So I'm pumped about that, I'm very pumped about it. Yeah, it's gonna be, it's gonna be a fun trip. And then you know that those areas, those people, different parts of the country, of course, you know, I love it.
Speaker 1:I love it. You just kind of pick up and pick up and roll man. That's what I love.
Speaker 2:That was the reason I bought the hard of it. I love it. You gotta use it. Gotta put it to use.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but obviously I highly advise, advise, I advise you to try no, reach out to Jeff's, say hello, find out what he's doing with this, you know? I guess you know veteran owned operated FR. Yeah, it's FR clothing, yeah. Fr clothing safety gloves, fr clothing safety gloves. But I gotta say that your shirts literally feel kind of like the built shirt I'm wearing right now, but lighter. I love your stuff. I do want a crew, a connection crew.
Speaker 2:Okay, we'll say we're gonna take care of it.
Speaker 1:Reach out to him and talk about you know Red M, and kind of how you get involved and kind of honestly just say hello. But honestly, jeff, it's always always good to have you. Good luck on your road trip around around the States and everyone. Tune into Energy Crew. We appreciate it and have a great time and spread the word and be kind to everyone and put your energy into something positive. All right, we'll talk to you soon ��서.