Near Death Experience, Growing up in a Violent City & Overcoming PTSD | Hector Perdomo DSH #285

My first financial breakthrough was right after the car accident because like just like that like what am I leaving my wife and kids?

After the accident I took the company from zero to $1.3 million in 10 months.

Wow.

I would not stop no matter what.

Like I wanted to be successful just because like that was a big like wake-up call.

You don't change things.

Like what kind of person are you that you have these kids and you have your wife and you leave them with nothing?

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All right.

All the way from Orlando, Hector Perdomo here today.

You got a crazy story, man.

Yeah, yeah.

Can't wait to dive into it.

You grew up in a pretty violent city, right?

Yeah.

Luckily, like, you know, my dad, he's like, I want a better life for my kid.

And we moved.

But I mean, my dad didn't even graduate his freshman year in high school.

Wow.

Like, he was just in the streets.

It's just not a good area.

So

I say one of the things that I'm blessed that he did was get me out of there and not growing up.

Because who knows what could have happened if I would have stayed there.

Yeah.

So which city was that?

Lawrence in Massachusetts.

I've never heard of it.

Yeah.

So you know who Nikki Jem is?

Yeah.

So in his, he has a little story on Netflix.

That's where he's from.

Oh, yeah.

So like, you know, the you seen and everything that was going on there with his mom and like that's that's Lawrence.

Damn.

Yeah.

Did you get wrapped up in the scene?

scene?

No, I left.

I was like five years old.

Okay.

My dad was from the street and he seen a lot of it and he was like, man, this ain't, this isn't what I want from my.

It was only me at the time.

My mom was pregnant with my younger brother, but

he was like, man, I don't came to Orlando.

Like, we came for a vacation.

He's like, yeah, this is, I got to get away from that's the spot.

So you've been in Orlando since you were five?

Yeah.

Nice.

Yeah.

And growing up there, what was that like?

It's changed a lot, like comparing to what it is now.

Like, I lived in a city called Kissimmee.

Same thing, Orlando, Kissimmee.

But it's changed dramatically.

I would say like there's certain events that have happened.

Like when Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, a lot of people came.

And then when the pandemic hit, like a lot of people from Northeast came to Florida, specifically like Central Florida, because they were remote workers and everything like that.

So cost of living.

was cheaper in Florida, but they got to keep the Northeast wages.

You know what I mean?

So we've seen like a big change in central Florida because of that.

That's why Orlando, Tampa, Miami's market is through the roof now.

So your real estate's gone up a lot out there?

Yeah.

Nice.

Like the Tampa market is huge.

Orlando's always kind of been.

And then Miami, of course.

Miami skyrocketed.

But even Tampa, I hear a lot of people moving to Tampa.

Yeah.

No, business-wise, it's booming.

Me and my wife, like, we were contemplating, because my cousin, one of my other cousins, he lives in like Dorrell.

Yeah.

He's like, man, come down here for networking.

I was like, man, if I land an extra one client a month, I cover the the overage.

But we were looking, it's like a 42, 43% increase in rent.

I got three kids at home.

Damn.

I have an oldest, you know, hopefully he can come visit.

Like, I needed a five-bedroom minimum.

Right.

I'm not going to pay like eight grand a month, bro.

You know what I mean?

So we were like, nah, let's just, you know, stick it out in Orlando.

We found a good spot where we live at.

We live on a golf course and everything now.

So a real good spot in Orlando.

Yeah.

And you had kids early, right?

Early age?

19.

Damn.

Was that planned?

No.

If you're watching this, sorry.

No, no, not at all.

It wasn't planned.

I mean, I thought I was going to hoop growing up, man.

You were nice?

I was pretty good.

We got to play out here, man.

Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely.

A lot of people, my friends, I was like a, I had a late growth spurt.

You know what I mean?

So I played since I was like four or five years old.

Damn.

But I didn't really start getting like really, really good till I was like 12 or 13.

Okay.

We went to, um, I went to, you know, in high school, you go to those camps in the summer.

Yeah.

Yeah, we did AAU.

So I played for a team called Kissimmee Wildcats.

we actually went nationals nice played against dwight howard and josh smith dope we're getting

man let me tell you like there's certain people that you can just tell when they're young they're gonna make it and dwight and josh were that you knew at 13 they were gonna make it oh they were amazing yeah how tall was dwight at 13 um

man i don't remember exactly he was taller than no he was duncan at 13 yeah man he was like if you see him like we came like again even from down here i mean in orlando kissimi we we didn't have a lot of money you know what i mean um so we did like car washes and stuff just to get to certain tournaments damn man they're sponsored by adidas we see all this gear and stuff here is a little team from kissimi having to do car washes just to make it over Shout out to the science scaling podcast hosted by Mark Roberge.

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Make it over here, and we were getting destroyed.

Yeah.

And my dad and one of my coaches who he ended up passing last year, well,

2022,

he's like, man, if if y'all don't man up, like they were, you know, cussing at us and said, y'all better man up or we're going to leave.

And it was like our first game of the day.

We were starstruck.

Yeah.

You know, it was our first time in a major tournament.

AAU nationals, you know, they really hype it up.

And we were like, just stuck.

Yeah, we were, but we were down by like 40 or 50 at halftime.

My dad and my coach was like, either tighten up or we'll leave.

And we brought it down to

like 10, 15 points.

We were respectful.

I mean, we still lost, like, 15, 20 points.

But, man, it was an amazing experience.

But man, there's certain people from a young age, you know, like they're going to make it.

So Dwight was absolutely one of those.

I feel uh, so did you end up playing college?

No, I was, I was going to walk on at UCF.

I mean, I had a kid early.

Um, my dad had left, so I had to work like two jobs, like once I graduated high school.

So I had a full ride to UCF, like any college, really.

Wow.

Graduated with a 4.3 GPA.

Holy

high school?

That is insane.

Yeah, I had a scholarship, full ride,

like 75% paid nationwide, 100 paid if i stayed in florida yeah um decided to stay local because my mom got really sick so i stayed close to home went to ucf um had to work like two jobs help out in the house you know what i mean

had a kid at 19 so all that you know yeah you got to man up and take care of responsibilities that you just i mean i was there's no excuses and i made that decision so i had a man up wow Dance you were really nice, dude.

I can't wait to see you play.

And then you had a car accident, right?

Yeah, January 4th, 2021.

Jeez, you sent me the photos.

And there was an article about it, right?

Yeah.

That is insane.

What happened?

I was actually on my way to, I just signed a lease for our office

and

driving on a road.

It's like one way north, one way south.

Yeah.

And

I mean, I don't know what the kid was thinking.

He was only 21 years old, man.

I don't know what he was thinking.

And he was doing like 80.

And he tried to pass like three or four cars.

And I'm in a Durango.

He's in a Civic.

I'm doing 50, 55.

and we just hit head-on.

Holy crap.

Yeah.

Like I blacked out.

I was talking to my wife on the Bluetooth in the car.

Yeah.

I remember seeing him come at me and I said, oh shit.

I try to go into like the woods.

I'm not allowed to say those words.

I'm in a car with my wife because she like gets PTSD from it still.

Oh, wow.

And

like I just remember seeing him come at me and like I blacked out.

What I remember isn't what happened.

Wow.

Because I remember turning right and I remember seeing him trying to get back into the lane after passing the cars, but he actually was trying to go back like into the woods.

So I hit him on the passenger side and he spun and hit my truck again.

Damn.

So he ended up passing away.

Then the passenger, she flew out the car.

And like when I opened my door, her body was holy right in front of me.

Like he had a passenger in the car?

Yeah, he had a passenger and a little girl in the back.

None of them were in their seatbelts.

Oh my gosh.

And they all passed away?

So the passenger and the driver did.

The little girl survived.

Holy crap.

his body his body it was he wasn't a hero and i'm not here to like talk bad about anyone but yeah his body stretched back and prevented the little girl from flying out wow but it wasn't like he was trying to protect her it was just it was a

i mean honestly i say it was a blessing because

him not wearing his seat belt allowed him to be trajected backwards to stop the little girl from flying out too wow so did she end up getting new uh foster care or something um i have no idea like the laws in florida yeah are tough like I had full coverage on my truck, so I thought, anybody, like, get uninsured motorists and specifically ask for uninsured motorists.

I thought, full coverage on the truck, you're fully covered, but you specifically have to ask for that, or they won't cover uninsured motorists.

I did not know that.

I'm glad you said that, because I just bought a G-Wagon, and one of the tabs was uninsured motorists.

And my friend was like, you don't need that.

Get it.

So after hearing that.

I got nothing from the car accident.

That's crazy.

You almost lost your life and you lost a bag.

Yeah.

All they did was pay off the truck, but I had to go get,

I mean, the truck was, you've seen the pictures.

Yeah.

It was destroyed.

So I had to go get another vehicle.

They didn't pay for any of that.

Yeah.

And you're in my own recovery.

I had to pay for my physical therapy, all that stuff.

Yeah, PTSD.

PTSD.

Still to this day, sometimes, like, I'll be driving.

And if I, depending on the road, like, it replays in my head.

Jeez.

January 4th every year so far, like, I replay the accident in my head.

Oh, my God.

And your wife heard all of this.

Yeah.

So when we hit, so like I said, I remember him coming at me, but that's it.

I don't know how long I was blacked out for.

And I was basically like, I remember hearing my wife like, babe, babe, wake up.

And I finally like snapped out of it.

I'm like, I got hit.

I mean, obviously, I just didn't know where I was at.

So

crazy story, like my seatbelt snapped off.

Damn.

So I don't know how bad the car accident is.

I see a cop coming at me.

I was like, put my seatbelt back on.

I don't want a a ticket.

Right.

And

now the cop is like, hey,

are you okay?

I'm like, yeah, I mean, I think I'm okay.

And he's like, is anybody in the car with you?

I was like, no.

He's like, get the hell out the car.

So there was oil all over the place.

There was a little bit of fire on the car.

So he just told me to get out.

That's when I got out, seen her body.

I was like limping a little bit.

I love that truck.

We bought another one.

Yeah.

Because the way those are set up is like kind of like an accordion.

So everything like went down, the motor dropped and the airbags.

airbags so it hit my foot which is good because

you know what i mean it prevented anything from happening my foot getting more damage but i like sprained ligaments or something like that on my foot yeah so i was limping for a little bit damn that is a crazy story man i tried to hoop after you still tried to hoop oh it's not like right after i would say like a year later i tried to hoop because i had to do my own physical therapy and stuff and not the same bro like my wife was like come here really quick and she looked at me my hips were like this oh my god i was like my whole body was shifted.

So I have to like strengthen my core just so that way, you know what I mean?

I can

be all right.

You need a good chiropractor session, man.

And I tried chiropractor.

It didn't work.

Didn't work.

So I relieved a little bit.

I tried physical therapy.

Didn't really work.

What really helped me, and I live by this, is my boy Tomo.

He has like an anti-aging clinic.

He does a superhuman protocol that Gary Brown.

Brancardo and Branker.

Yeah.

That's what helped me.

Interesting.

Yeah, because I had, I guess, so much inflammation in my back that

that reduced inflammation and it kind of gave my back some room to breathe.

The day before I walked in there, I was having sharp pains and I'm time I was 34.

I'm like, squirrel, I guess I got to live with, you know, this pain.

And so when I finally walked out, I'd go to the owner.

I was like, bro, like, I don't feel the sharp pain.

He's like, serious?

I was like, I don't feel it anymore.

What he was saying that I had so much inflammation, it's not normal on a first session to feel that, but because it was so much that it reduced it enough enough to like allow my back to breathe.

Wow.

I got to check that out.

Hopefully there's one in Vegas.

Yeah, I know, I know he's opening up more, my guy Tomo, he's opening up more

clinics, but bro, I live by that.

I tell everybody that I'm like running into with health, I'm like, hey, man, you got to hit up my guy.

Like, he really helped me out.

Anything health related, my mom, she was having really bad inflammation problems.

I took her to the clinic.

inflammation went away i'm talking about inflammation all in her like organs and stuff damn and that is what helped her that's dope yeah i gotta to look into that.

I'm all about health, man.

Health is super important to me because

I neglected mine for a while.

Same here.

Like, I mean, sometimes you don't think you're unhealthy.

You think, oh, no, I'm good.

And like certain things happen in your life.

You're like, damn, I really got to start shifting things around.

Yeah.

And I do my blood work now like every three to six months.

You know what I mean?

Just I stay on top of it because you just never know, man.

You really don't.

No matter how much money you have, too.

Like, if you're not healthy enough to enjoy it,

no point.

Yeah, if you're not healthy enough and if you don't have people to enjoy it with, I noticed.

Yeah.

Because I've been, you know, super rich without friends and it's way worse

than having friends and being having friends.

Yeah, mentally, like just surrounding yourself by like the right people, good people.

Like I'm big on all of that, man, physical health and mental health because

like I've been through certain like with the PTSD and stuff, but now I like look at life completely different.

Like I don't like people like draining my energy just because it's like, man, I'd rather I can go down the street.

Somebody's going to drain my energy.

At least I i don't have to be around that person for too long yeah yeah they'll drain me and then whatever get out of here you know i cut that wick bro if if i see someone constantly doing it to me maybe two three times they're gone i i think it's necessary i think sometimes um like especially in my culture it's like family family family but sometimes man it's your own family who like drain you and i think Sometimes you really have to take a step back and like evaluate what's good for yourself first.

Because like the whole airport, airplane thing, they're like put the oxygen mask on yourself first Then take care of everybody else.

I don't think that's selfish.

I think even as a parent like if I'm not healthy enough or mentally stable to take care of my kids what good am I to them?

Yeah, so I feel like like enough we have to start taking care of ourselves.

Yeah, I want to dive into the business side of things and how you you know got out of poverty.

What was that first big financial breakthrough for you?

First financial breakthrough was like right after the car accident.

Like I was um I was always in sales.

I made and I mean like good money.

Like I was always in sales.

I made like, you make three, six grand a week.

I mean, that's cool for a salesperson, but my first financial breakthrough was right after the car accident because like just like that, like what am I leaving my wife and kids?

Like, I could have died right then and there.

And then what?

I leave my wife with our three kids and nothing

and my oldest, nothing, you know what I mean?

So

after the accident, I took the company from zero to $1.3 million in 10 months.

Wow.

And I was just so like laser focused that

I would not stop no matter what.

Like I wanted to be successful just because like that was a big like wake-up call.

Like, man, heck, if you don't change things, like, what kind of person are you that you have these kids and you have your wife and you leave them with nothing?

So, I mean, that was 2021 was really my first, like, and honestly, man, I built all that with relationships.

Um, I was good on the phones, I was good at building relationships, like, good at sales, and I just transferred that to networking and business.

Like, just be good to people and just make sure you're doing the right thing.

And then, like, you'll attract good positive people around you absolutely which business was that was that the credit repair business no so it was a consulting company so i had a consulting company with an ex-business partner

um it was called nerdy biz and i left that company like i completely left um

this is where like you know people who are draining you you gotta you gotta cut it yeah um even though i was super successful like i closed all the contracts i made all the money for the company and everything but

like it was just me so it's like if it's just gonna be me it it might as well be me all the way through.

You know what I mean?

And my wife used to warn me.

She's like, I mean, I was working like 18, 20 hours a day.

Cause like after the accident, I just, like, I became obsessed.

Right.

And my wife is like, you, you're missing certain things going on around you.

And that's why I'm so big on like checking my surroundings with people and not just letting people drain my energy anymore.

Yeah.

I mean, you get used to it that you don't notice it, but like once you pick up on it once, then you start to notice it all the time.

You know what I mean?

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Oh, yeah.

But my whole life, I mean, even my own parents sometimes, you know what I mean?

And that's a tough one because you can't really cut them off.

But sometimes you got to like distance yourselves a little bit.

I'm big on that.

Like I've had to do it, even myself with my parents.

Yeah.

Like, um, um it's unfortunate but like i think this is what pushes me to be a better dad like i um i don't have the best relationship with my father like it is what it is and um like i want to be such a good dad to my kids like sometimes like i'm a little rough on them just because i want to prepare them for what i've had to go through what i've seen i don't want no one to take advantage of them but my wife is like you know the softer side to it

so it's cool like i let her be that because i have to be tough on them but every day is like daddy daddy daddy so i know they understand is just genuine tough love yeah it's never disrespectful or anything like that but I've had to step away man because they want want want and then it's draining your energy yep like you know I made the decision to be married and have kids like that's my focus not

you guys are grown adults find a way to make it happen like I'm sorry like these kids depend on me yeah you know what I mean so I think it happens more often and depending on your cultures like in my culture like oh don't you dare leave your parents behind

how dare you but you can't be like that yeah that's tough i have noticed that with with your culture yeah because my my um fiancé's latina and so big on family dude they run like 15 20 deep when they go out it's like damn like that wasn't how i was raised you know what i mean no they're all about family yeah man um

every time i go back home you know north boston like We're always together, man.

We do everything together.

I have a lot of cousins.

Like, when we're we're together, it's great.

You know what I mean?

Like, we're a big family, but man, sometimes that you have to distance yourself and take care of yourself to set things up.

And then after you set everything up, cool, then go back and be like, hey, look, I'll take care of you now.

But I'm big on like season.

Like, I always say this, like, sometimes you meet people for a reason.

Sometimes it's for a season.

That's also your family.

And sometimes, like, you have certain relationships within your family, but it needs to be seasonal.

And if you don't, like, I've messed up with this.

I've allowed certain relationships, like, no, there's a reason I met this person, or there's a reason I'm here.

No, it's seasonal to get you to like another level.

And like making that mistake has cost me a lot of money.

Yeah.

But it's learning lessons.

You know what I mean?

It's learning.

Yeah, I try not to give out loans to family actually because it can create some animosity.

Yep.

And like they weren't, they also weren't there for me when I was starting.

They actually talked stuff when I dropped out of college.

So I keep that in the back of my head.

Oh, yeah.

All the time.

Like, oh you had a kid early

oh like you know you could have all right cool that's done and over with you know what I mean I take my experiences in basketball and like apply it towards business like I'm very competitive like I keep that competitive edge in business like if somebody tells me you can't do it I'm like all right watch facts and I'll do it and um I've had business partners that's why I said ex-business partners Because again, same thing, reason, season.

And my wife is really big on catching this, but I get so like prideful sometimes.

I'm like, no, no, no, I didn't make a mistake here.

Like, no, like, I know this is a good decision.

And nah, I was taking advantage the whole time.

Something about the girls, man.

They're good at sensing that sh ⁇ .

Bro, they're so good at like intuition and energy.

Like, I get so mad sometimes.

My wife is like,

wrong again.

Bro, I don't think my girl's ever been wrong about someone's like energy.

Energy?

Bro, same year.

And I get so mad.

I'm like, man, she don't know this business side.

Like, she hasn't been in it.

Like, she's not understanding the numbers or whatever and she was a hundred percent right i'm like damn it every time and it's gotten to the point where now it scares me when she says something because i know she's right yeah like like just recently like i was in a relationship i'm like building something and i'm working on something and i'm like looking at her i'm like

all right what are your feelings like what are you thinking and she'll tell me i'm like all right damn it

i'm not even going down that road because it's happened to me bro where i've lost a lot same dude that business all the profit i had a split wow not even contractually it was just that's what i said i was gonna do so i just did it your word is bond yeah so i didn't have to right and you were doing all the work right i did all the work exactly my relationships my experience um

this is where i got into credit He was supposed to be building our business credit.

He was supposed to know credit and all this stuff.

And I come from like

I come from the call center, but like I started my own like funding company.

Like I had relationships with hedge funds.

I had relationships with like merchant cash advance companies and all that.

So like we were building a program.

We get a money.

He was supposed to fix credit.

Right.

He couldn't do that part of the business.

Like it wasn't happening.

And he was still getting the money.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So it's like, what's going on?

You know what I mean?

I had relationships where I had over like 200 people working for me at one time, doing customer service back end stuff.

Like I'm real big on outsourcing, man.

Some amazing people that don't live in our country that can work for you, but that speak our dialect.

Like, I have call centers in Nicaragua, Mexico.

I've dealt with, you know, different countries and they've worked amazing.

Nice.

So, like, we built a company on that and I was doing all the work.

Yeah.

Like, to the point where my wife was like, hey, let's take a weekend.

Like, you're, you're drained.

And I wasn't taking care of my health.

This was after the accident.

Like, I was not, because

After the accident, my mom picks me up from the hospital.

She had

and this was 2021.

So you got it.

So I had a quarantine.

I tested positive.

So I couldn't do anything for two weeks after the accident.

So imagine like every day at 1.30, my head was ringing.

Like if I just got hit again.

And I could do nothing.

So that's why I dove so much into work.

Because it was the only thing that would distract my mind.

It was your escape.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

And the kids were in school.

So like during those hours, my wife was working.

I was like, I felt like just.

going crazy.

So I just like dove into work.

But like I was asking for my business partner to help.

I was like, hey, can you help?

Like, no, man.

I was like, always, let's just get away for a weekend.

So we went to Colorado, went in the mountains, and it felt great.

Came back, same thing, 20 hours a day at work.

She's like, so let's go to Chicago.

So I told him, I was like, listen, bro, I need a break.

Like, I'm drained.

Sean, we land on the airport.

We're not even on the subway yet in Chicago.

And my phone's blowing up.

I'm like, never stop.

Couldn't get a weekend.

Yeah.

Like, we're splitting the money.

You know what I mean?

But, but I learned.

I I learned a lot.

Like, that's reason season.

Um, I thought it was a reason that we were in business together.

And I'm not, like, I learned a lot from that.

But if I would have understood reason season then, I could have saved a lot of money.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

I think everything happens for a reason.

Absolutely.

You know, I've had partners like that too.

And now I'm super selective.

And now I lay out the groundwork well in advance on paper, roles, and responsibilities.

And if you don't follow this, then you lose this.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

I think it's like

me learning that got me some amazing relationships now.

Like, now I say I'm like resource-rich.

Right.

Like, I have some amazing relationships that they're not monetary yet, but when put in the right place, it's going to be amazing.

Absolutely.

You started a couple men's clubs, right?

Yes.

So 700 and 800 men's club is like my passion.

We were talking about like mental health, and I lost a really, really good friend of mine in in 2022 to s ⁇ .

And if you were to look at him, you would never think.

He was a Navy vet.

He went to school at Full Sale.

So he had a couple of degrees there.

His thing was to take musicians and he was an engineer, like producing, but do the marketing for them so they don't get taken advantage of by like

these deals that they get, right?

Labels and deals.

And then I was going to teach credit and funding for them so they could like basically just fund themselves right

and um but he was my director of marketing for my my company and

I'd never seen it man

like we were laughing all the time together two days before Father's Day I talked to him the night before we were about to close a deal and like he missed it the meeting the zoom meeting and I'm like that's not like him so I hit up our graphic designer I'm like hey have you heard from Josh He's like nah but let me call him and they committed

damn and

just talking talking to him no signs at all no signs and i'm talking about bro this guy was healthy he was like he wanted to get into like semi-pro boxing yeah he was in physical shape he meditated you know what i mean he smoked so he was like at ease so i thought

and

i don't know when it's just you on the four walls that's why i'm so big on that especially for men um

we're taught man up right right like you you can't be weak which is we have to we have to be providers but man there's certain times where man we just need to talk and we don't feel human.

Like, it's almost inhumane what we have to provide for our families.

And I want to provide an outlet for men for that.

So that's where 700 Men Club is me providing resources for men, like physical health, mental health, helping them with credit,

helping them get funding for their business.

My ultimate goal is to build like...

almost like a homeless shelter, resource center for men who could just go in there.

Like if they have to be there for a year, live there for a year, it is what it is.

We help them, get them on their feet, and then we bring them back into the world as an asset, you know, to the world.

Wow.

We teach them health,

physical and mental, because especially someone who's going through that, like they need mental health help.

You know what I mean?

Credit and funding is, man, it's so, it's just so different.

Like when you have good credit, I would say credit is king.

King, bro.

Because I can go

anywhere and pull a quarter million dollars faster than I can go make a quarter, unless you know certain people, right?

But you can go get a quarter million dollars very quickly.

So help them, help them with their business.

If they don't know a business, help teach them a trade.

So that way they don't go back into the world and go back down that road.

Because I've I've fed the homeless before and I've always asked, like, hey, like, what happened?

One decision.

That was it.

Damn.

Like, I was talking to one lady one year and, um, her husband divorced her and she lost her job within a month.

Damn.

Became homeless.

Just like that.

Just like that.

Yeah, it is crazy.

I'm really glad to see you help them, honestly.

Every year you're doing stuff for homeless people.

It's powerful.

I feel like, man,

it's like my way to give back.

Like,

you can't just be, like, yes, you have to be selfish to a certain extent, but you got to, like, give something back.

It's good karma.

Yeah.

Like, I'm big on energy.

So if you're not putting out good energy and trying to help those, I'm not sitting there saying give them everything, but, like, just help out.

You know what I mean?

Absolutely.

Like, I do with barbers, they'll go and cut people's hair for free for a day or something.

Like, that changes everything for people.

Like how you feel, how you look.

So just finding ways to give back, you know what I mean?

Yeah, and that men's group is so needed, man, because yeah, we're taught to toughen up.

You know, for 25 years, I bottled everything in.

I didn't tell any,

but past year or two, I've been opening up, and it's, it feels amazing to get that lifted off of that weight lifted.

Nah, so I like, it's so important.

Like, I started a Discord group.

I'm just like starting it.

I even have it to where, so the 700 men club is to get people to a certain level.

Then 800 men club is all of us are at a level and we're all investing together we're all doing deals together whether it's real estate deals um like i want to in homelessness in boston like i have access to like i work with nation i'm actually the global business director for nations united for peace wow i have access to humanitarian projects um we can do real estate deals for a third of the cost like we can build real estate for a third of the cost

all it's like fireproof mold proof hurricane proof.

It passes like the 14 of 16 humanitarian like boxes that they got to check.

right i want to bring that technology home and then after we fix homelessness in boston like go to all the other major cities so like 700 men club is to build men up and then 800 men club we're all making money together i love that you know so that's like my main goal and it was all started by stuff that i went through but also like losing my i knew him for seven years it wasn't like i just met the guy like he fed homeless people with me damn so losing him was like the ultimate and this was after my car accident so i was already kind of like man like if I know how PTSD feels I can't imagine what he was going through and it wasn't um it wasn't a clean like it was how he went was sad.

Yeah, a lot of veterans man, it's sad I actually have a lot of them on the podcast to talk about this more because it's people don't even know but I think it's like it's either four or eight veterans a day

It's crazy crazy.

You know what's sad like have you ever seen the all-men's homeless shelter?

No.

Why not?

Yeah, that's needed man.

Right?

So women and children have an opportunity to go somewhere, but what about the men?

There's more homeless men than there are anything.

Yeah, I usually see, when I see homeless people, it's like men, like 80% of the time.

Yeah.

So that's my goal.

Like we bring them somewhere.

Rehab.

Because a lot of times, not always.

And I'm not excusing anyone for any decisions that they make.

They make a bad decision, you make a bad decision.

You gotta...

You gotta lift up, you lift yourself up, and you gotta man up.

And like that, you do.

You gotta make the decision to, you know what I mean, want to get better.

But you also, like, why not provide the resources to help be there for them?

Right.

You know what I mean?

And then, all right, cool.

You help them get off of, but then what?

They go back into the world and like temptation is, temptation is tough.

Yep.

And if they just got through that and we're not providing the support to help them in that temptation, I mean, are we really helping them?

So like, that's my, my ultimate goal is to build that.

And we're just helping men consistently.

I love that.

Hector, where can people find you?

Where can people find out about the clubs?

Let them know.

At Hector Perdomo87 is my Instagram at 800Men Club at 700 Men Club.

Those are my Instagrams for the men's clubs.

Just starting it out, but I'm definitely going to be posting a lot more stuff on there for people to reach out so we can all network and be together.

Love it.

We'll link it in the video.

Thanks for coming on, man.

Thank you.

Yeah, thanks for watching, guys, as always.

And I will see you next time.