From Prison to Purpose: Peter Meyerhoff's Journey of Redemption

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All right, guys, welcome back to the Home Service Sex for today.

It's going to be awesome.

I got my boy Peter Meyerhoff here.

He wrote the book Against All Odds.

He's an expert in motivational speaking, podcasting, and resilience.

He's based out of LA.

The podcaster is called

Roll Call with Chappie.

And he's, like I said, the author of Against All Odds.

He's got an incredible story, and we're going to be

going over it.

At 15 years old, Peter became involved in a life crime and drugs.

At 18 years old, he was sentenced to 12 years in prison and ultimately spent nearly a year in solitary confinement.

But since his release, Peter turned his life around.

He's become a best-selling author, motivational speaker, podcaster, and entrepreneur.

He currently runs a sober clothing line and has also created a prison curriculum app that helps inmates transform their futures.

Peter's story is about resilience, redemption, and refusing to make excuses.

Today, he's not just an advocate for change.

He's living proof of what's possible when you can turn pain into purpose.

Hey, it's a pleasure to have you, my friend.

Regardless, I appreciate that.

The only mix-up is I'm based out of Arizona, not L.A.

Oh, you are in Arizona?

People think that because I do so much stuff out in L.A., and I'm always like, I'm going out there next week.

I'm out there every month.

Yeah, because you're at Queen Creek, right?

Yep.

Queen Creek just built a house out there last month with my beautiful black wife.

And that's crazy from an ex-dude that we used to run yards for the Aryan Brotherhood.

Wow.

We got a lot to talk about, man.

Tell us, you know, about your story, where you're at today, where you're looking forward to going.

Yeah.

If you want to get into the backstory of how I got there, you know, I was a...

I said I had a good as a kid, but I just, I realized now that I have kids that I just like blocked all the bad stuff out of my childhood.

So I don't have too many memories, but like my parents, I lived in a cul-de-sac, so it was cool until they were 10 years, until I was about 10.

My dad was a drug addict, alcoholic.

My mom left him when we were 10, and that's when the trouble started.

I went to go live with a single mother who was a flight attendant.

So four or five nights a week, I was home alone.

And you know, when you're in middle school, if your mom's not there to wake up and make you go to school, are you going to go to school?

No.

Usually not, you know.

So I usually would have attendance about one or two days a week at school and started going down the bad path.

So anyways, I go to prison at 12 years old.

Want to know how I went to prison?

At 12?

I mean, 18 years old for 12 years.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So that's what I want to know.

I end up.

So when did you drop out?

You were...

Freshman year.

Oh, so you're like...

I never made it to a semester of high school.

I was 215.

Yeah, never made it to a semester of high school.

I got probably two, three months of high school.

So you got four years of your life just chilling, doing drugs, finging off.

Doing drugs and off.

Okay.

Getting arrested.

And the thing is, I would always get arrested for stupid dumb shit though.

When you're a kid, you could do anything.

Like literally, like, there's been multiple times.

Like, they were, the cops are on there telling my mom, like, come pick your kid up.

She's like, I'm not picking him up.

He needs to go to jail.

I'm like, we can't.

He's a juvenile, man.

You know, that's what they tell my mom.

So I still kind of have that mindset.

I steal a Mercedes-Benz from the Mercedes-Benz dealership right here, brand new, like, still had plastic on the seats.

This is back when Goni 60 Seconds came out.

So they were like, they're like, they're unstealable.

They have the red laser cut keys.

And I'm just like, that's all we did.

We guard all night.

And like, I've been the first to believe I was not no big time dude on the streets.

I was a little petty shithead thief.

Like literally, that's all I did.

We'd go around.

And it's embarrassing even saying the shit I did now, you know?

Like we'd go around just stealing shit all night long, you know, like with bolt cutters and stuff.

So that's what I did.

I stole a Mercedes-Benz there.

I get arrested.

Lojack had just came out.

Didn't know nothing about Lojack, you know, so I get surrounded two hours later.

And I get three months jail and probation now, right?

Even then, I'm like thinking, damn, I just robbed a Mercedes.

I only got three months' jail, you know what I'm saying?

Like, and now, like, the fear of jail is gone for me, you know what I'm saying?

Because I always had that fear in the back of my head, like, we don't know what jail or prison is really like, you know what I'm saying?

Now I've been to jail, it sucks, but it's not that scary, you know what I'm saying?

And I only got three months.

It's not like the deep prison, yeah, no, and it's yeah, and I was on minimum security shit, so it's nothing gangster yet, you know what I'm saying?

So it's like, and then I'm like, now that's all gone for me.

And I only got three months for stealing Mercedes-Benz, you know, I'll just be a little more careful this time or whatever, you know?

And

spring break, which should have been my senior year of high school my brother and his friends come back what's crazy is i went to prison for burglarizing a house that was already burglarized and whose house it was it was my best friend that didn't stand up for me which is why we did it so coming full circle right so four years later now it's spring break and they're the most spoiled rotten rich kids in all about took they have like a 15 000 square foot house out there and um

they're in hawaii my brother and his friends come back and just had a bunch of shit and they're like we just burglized the Nelson's house.

We're like, where are they at?

Like, they're in Hawaii.

And I'm like, oh, shit, they do go to Hawaii every spring break.

We're like, like, so nobody's there.

Like, yeah, no one's there.

We're like, best.

So like, I'm just keeping on the low.

I'm like, when my brother's friends leave, because they drink, so they're going to pass out at two or three in the morning.

Me and my buddies, we don't sleep on drugs, you know?

So when they go to sleep, then we go back to the house because that was the only deal.

Like, do not go back to the house.

We're like, no, we won't, you know.

So go back there.

I know where the house is.

The back door is open.

I don't even make it out of the garage, bro.

Like, I was going to take just stupid stuff.

And coming full circle now, it's just crazy how you can see, like, I just wanted shit that I couldn't afford.

You know, I took Jordan basketball shorts, Jordan sandals, and a snowboard and a drill.

You know what I'm saying?

Like, and now it's like, it's such a, like,

my kid wears Jordan shit every single day now.

You know what I'm saying?

Because I can never wear that shit as a kid.

And it feels so good.

Just little shit, just seeing my kid come up to me.

You're wearing Jordan shit.

I'm like, dude, it's, it's, now it's cool seeing the life I get to raise my kids because

whatever.

I got two little babies now.

Um, so, anyways, um, we do that.

I don't make it out of the garage.

My buddies come and they take all the jewelry upstairs.

And we get home

and he pulls out this bag of jewelry, man, and it's like a bag of jewelry, $330,000 worth of jewelry.

And I'm like, keep in mind, I'm out no big time, dude.

Like this is bigger than my drug dealer that I, you know, we go steal shit and give it to him and give us drugs and money.

Like he can't even buy this shit.

You know, he lives in a trailer in the south, right up the street from here, South Phoenix, bro.

Yeah.

Like literally, I was having flashbacks.

Anytime I turned on Broadway, I have flashbacks.

Yeah.

And,

of course, 10 kids involved.

My friend that took the jewelry, of course, tells the cops that he was asleep at my mom's house.

I burglarized the house.

I even told them where the jewelry is hidden because I have have been on probation, so now I'm this hard ass.

So I ain't saying shit to the cops.

The other five kids that went to the house first, every single one of them said that I had did it.

I had told them I did it.

They don't know nothing about this except that I told them I'd done it.

And they say they're going to make an example out of me.

And I'm just like, bring it, you know.

Like, I think I'm this little bad, tough ass dude.

You know, and worst case, you know, I thought I'd get like two, three, four years.

And at this point, like, did you have a court-appointed attorney?

No, I actually had it.

So I had a court-appointed attorney at first.

And then

when they were still trying to give me the same plea, four to six to nine years, my dad had got me, I had the attorney that ran for the attorney general for the state of Arizona.

And he lost the election right during my case.

I had the worst judge in Arizona's history.

They ended up banning him because he was too harsh on his sentences afterwards, but they didn't resentence me and they sentenced me and I never feared his words.

He goes, I find it mitigated for the fact that you're only 18 years out of the time you committed this crime.

He goes, I also find it mitigated for the fact that I think you have a drug problem rather than a thieving problem.

He goes, and his next words are, but I think this also calls for an aggravated sentence of 12 years.

And I was like, and I remember before my sensing, I told my lawyer, because we were looking at 4.25 to 6 or 6 and a half.

Didn't they give you, didn't the prosecutor give you a

plea bargain?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So this is how dirty this is.

I got a plea.

So

all the kids that did it, all they had on me was everybody's, all these kids telling me, right?

I know they'd already did it.

And then

by the time I got my police report, the five kids had all got seen.

They went to this house in the daytime.

So there, it was a maroon Malibu had got seen and spotted by the neighbors.

So I'm knowing if it goes to trial, like I I was the only one I knew, I wore gloves, my fingerprints were nowhere.

These all kids that got spotted and my brothers and they're all kids.

I'm like, think of worst case in jail.

My brother gets probation.

I take this shit to trial.

I skate on this, right?

So I was fought my case for almost two years in the county jail.

Nobody's in there for like non-dangerous crimes for that long, right?

Like literally nobody.

Yeah.

And I was in there for 20 or 21 months.

So,

but they won't budge on this.

So then what do they do?

A year into my case, they charge my mom, my dad, and my grandma all with my crimes because my grandma lived in my mom's house and they said that my mom and my dad knowingly possessed this stolen stuff and didn't do anything about it.

Oh my God.

Right.

So now I'm fighting

and they don't budge on anything still.

So then finally we go to the settlement conference and everything's recorded in court hearings, right?

Except a settlement conference because a settlement conference is your final mediation before you go to trial.

Okay.

So it's the last step.

So for your settlement conference, you're going to go in front of, I don't remember the name, but I went in front of a different judge and it's like a mediation.

So it's not recorded and it's just like they put you guys in a room like figure this shit out before you want to go to trial because they're saying you don't really want to go to trial.

Plus it's expensive.

Plus they throw the book at you.

Yes, that's not saying you should have please figure this shit out.

You know what I'm saying?

That's like telling you to tell me, like, you really don't know what you're looking at if you're losing trial and telling the prosecutor, like, yo, you don't really want to go to trial, this and all that.

And then,

so I tell him to give me a different plea.

She says, No, I said, Okay, how about this?

Drop the charges against my family and then recommend the minimum.

I said, You do that, I'll sign your plea bargain today.

Minimum is 4.25.

She says, If you sign this plea, I'll drop the charge against your family and recommend the minimum.

Cool, done, whatever.

It is what it is.

So I signed the plea bargain.

So now I know I'm gonna get 4.25 to six or six and a half.

I remember telling my lawyer, like it was yesterday, you just got to make sure I don't get the six years.

I cannot do six years.

Like I cannot do, I'm claustrophobic.

I'm everything, which is why I say like you can do anything you want to as long as you train your mind to do it.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah.

Like I lived in a five by seven and I'm claustrophobic, you know, for years too, like not only a year in solitary.

And then I go to my sentencing.

At this point, I'm just ready to go to prison.

I've been in county jail forever, right?

So I go there and you're like all shackled up together.

Your lawyer usually comes and talks to you right when you get to it.

Wait, you said I can't do six years.

They gave you 12.

Yeah.

And did they count the two that was in the county?

Yeah.

So I went to prison in May of 2005, got locked up in April of 03, and I got released in February of 2015.

Dude, don't you get to get out earlier for good behavior or anything or like opinion?

I got out of Super Max under investigation for attempted murder.

Like I didn't behave good in there.

Oh, you didn't behave?

Yeah.

Oh my gosh.

That's the exact opposite.

I didn't change my life until like I overdosed on fentanyl after I got out and found God.

And what what year was that?

A year after I got out.

So 2018.

No, 2016.

So that you got out in 2015, 2016, you almost died.

And then yeah, that's nine years ago.

Just over 10 because I have 10 years sober now too.

Yeah.

And they made two million bucks the next five years with zero education, no help, nothing.

Two million.

Wow.

And so keep going.

I want to hear these details because I don't get a whole lot of stupidity.

I was going to say, people don't ask these details.

It was pretty cool even me talking about this now.

And it brings it up for me too, because sometimes, you know, I tell dudes the worst thing I can do is forget how shitty my life used to be, you know what I'm saying?

Because then I'll get complacent, I don't have perspective, I don't have as much gratitude as I should have.

Yep.

Um,

so you had these shackles, yeah.

So as soon as it comes down, my lawyer won't even look at me.

I knew I have goose-umps, I just knew it was a bad day.

I just had it right then when he wouldn't look at me, I knew there was something was wrong, you know.

And what I should have done going back is I should have had her cap the plea because if I would have told her to cap the plea, which means she said she'd recommend

recommend the minimum.

But if I tell her to put that on, it can be in the plea bar.

Say, and I'm recommending the minimum for this.

I didn't know that.

I didn't do that.

I didn't do that because she's a lawyer.

She's telling me to my face.

How am I thinking a lawyer's going to fight a lie to my face in front of a judge?

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah.

So then she goes and my lawyer hands me this pre-sense report, which they do before you get sensed every time, which is they do like separate people go through the whole case and they kind of give the recommendations to the judge on what they should do, right?

He gives this whole thing and he's like, here's this.

And I'm like, what the F is this?

What do you expect me to do with this?

What am I looking at?

You know, and he points right here.

He goes, that's her recommendation.

And she recommends 13 years.

I'm like, but she said to me, he's, I know, I know, man, because it was from in front of a different judge.

We don't have anything recorded.

And I'm just like,

I'm like, oh my God.

And then we do the talking thing.

And I still was like, I was like, there's no chance the judge is going to give me this much time.

You know, like, keep in mind, I've been in there for two years now.

So I've seen dudes, you know, murders and manslaughters five, 10 years.

Like, I've seen all this shit.

There's no way they're going to give a kid like me 12 years for a theft charge.

Like, not to mention, I didn't even think 12 was even on the table.

I thought the worst case scenario would be six to nine, you know?

Yeah.

And then he says that.

And I go from like bawling my eyes out when he says that 12 years to like just flat out shock and then the next thing I know is I you can hear like just the court you rupt man and I turn around behind me you know like my grandma's there and she's like flipping out like please let me hug my grandson because he's gonna be dead by the time I get out now like barely holding himself up like you've seen in the movies bro you know and uh

um you know I have a big family you know what's crazy now I made it through all this one I don't talk to any of them you don't touch your grandma I'm sorry my grandma my mom are the only two people in my entire family I talk to both of you don't touch your dad no not any of me and

what about your uncle No, my dad's 27 years sober.

So you don't talk?

I don't talk to my...

The last talk I got into my uncle was like, I will whoop your ass.

I'm that dude now.

You said that to him?

So my uncle, the one that taught me out of the box.

So you don't, you talk to your mom and grandma only.

That's it.

I don't even talk to my own brother.

Like, we're like this.

Your younger brother?

Yeah.

And, you know.

What's the deal with that?

I had a hard time being this because I don't ever want to battle with my family and shit like that.

But like, I'm a, here's the thing.

Like, I'm a servant for God, bro.

You know what I'm saying?

and like my message is supposed to help people so like if the truth hurts then my brother needs to change you know and like i won't have negative bad stuff around my family you know and uh whether so your uncle your dad your brother you just don't feel like they're living they don't pass every one of them i don't especially with bad people now bro like blood or not like i don't i'm a firm believer like just because you have the same blood does not mean your family like i have dudes that have not even a trace the same blood as me and like i would die for them and they would do the same for me

wow yeah that's crazy man Prison will teach you real quick, like about loyalty, man, and how, how important it is to have someone that's like loyal to you, like really loyal to the core, not just saying they're loyal to you.

Well, loyalty.

So, you go in and there's a few.

So, talk to me about

that.

It's hard to even picture because I was a model.

I used to, I used to

like I was a stud athlete.

Like, I was six foot, 144 pounds with long blonde hair, like a little pretty boy.

And this was, uh,

how what did you weigh when you went in?

six foot 144.

that's when you went into prison no okay so i put on like 20 pounds in jail so i think it was like 160 170 and then i got released i was six foot 264.

what do you weigh now 220 225

um but i got yeah i got i put on

shit what did i can't do the math 120 pounds in there and grew three inches i barely had armpit hair yeah i was the last person to hit like puberty out of my friends like i was like literally just like a little kid when i went away bro like and you know it's that's it honestly it made it easier for me though

it'd be so hard, bro, if I knew that life was this good out here.

Seriously, I didn't even know what I was missing.

So it kind of made it easier for me, you know?

That was after two years in the county jail right there, too.

Oh, boy.

Wow.

So tell me about the gangs.

I just want to hear a little more.

I want to jump into what the future looks like.

Yeah, just for sure.

So you walk in and you, what did you get?

In a bunk with someone else?

Yeah.

Yeah.

In the little cubicle, like you're an absolute nobody.

They run the rules down to you.

Like, yo, here's what it is.

Like, you got 12 years.

Like, you better pay attention and put your head down, you know?

And like, you know why they call it a sucker punch?

Do you?

No.

Because you're the sucker if you get punched.

I was like, what does that mean?

He's like, if someone raised their voice at you, if you even think you're going to get into someone, you just take off them.

And I was like, you take off.

You get on them.

I was like, really?

I was like, we can do that.

He's like, yes, this is prison.

He goes, you don't ever let someone get the better hand on you.

If you even think you're going to go there, he goes, it's always better to say sorry afterwards.

So you hit them.

Yeah, that's what they tell me to.

So I ended up using this on this same guy like a couple of weeks later.

And my first fight in prison was the guy that ran the rules down to me and was running the building and was built like me and you now.

And I was built like 160, 170 pound kid back then.

So and you had already learned a little bit about boxing.

I used to box.

I already know and have a cheat code.

You know, if you actually know how to fight and have like a trained person, like no one on the streets knows how to fight, you know, and that goes for prison, the same thing, you know?

So like out of the streets, one out of 100 knows how to fight in prison, 10 out of 100 know how to fight, you know?

So

he says some smart ass shit about us playing cards in his little cubicle area.

And I already made up my mind after counting, I was going to like take it to like say something where he had to fight and um i'm just good on reading vibes i knew no one respected me or looked at me and i was like i'm gonna at least show these guys i can fight you know so he does it and then says i'm gonna teach you little young punks how to respect your elders and goes to take the chew out of his mouth and turns his back to me while he does this i'm like dude you told me the rules here you know so like i'm on top of him within five seconds doesn't even get a hand on me they end up ripping me off him and beat the brakes off this dude The next morning,

like the weirdest thing about going to prison after, especially when you're a popular kid, is like, like you're a nobody, bro.

No one cares about you.

Like, no one even talks to you.

They're going to see if you're going to last a week or two.

You know what I'm saying?

Like, literally, no one even messed with you.

Because they think, especially kids like me, Lilo Prider, like, they're like, this dude's going to check in in two seconds to request protective custody, you know?

And but, yeah, but you, was it like the, the, what are there's gangs you either got to go with or not, right?

Like, you, so there's like, I only have one choice.

I can either run with the Aryan Brotherhood or I can be a lame.

Those are the only two chances.

And then the other ones are.

Yeah, you got the Mexican Mafia.

You have Sureños, which is the Cali guys.

Glendale's so big.

Glendale has their own racing gang in prisons now, too.

And then you got the Paisas and the Border Brothers for them, which we were at complete war with in the prison before I left.

Like literally flooring war.

And that's when you're in the middle.

Like they had a separate yard.

Oh, murder each other.

Like, dudes, yeah, the head dude of my, of the Aryan Brotherhood was like.

stabbed the head dude of the Mexicans and killed him and his in his right-hand man right in the yard in front of everybody.

These guys are doing, what were their sentences like?

A lot of them are not even kind of like, so the my were they like less than 10 years and they still did that?

Now Now they're doing life.

The main guy that was the top dude for the Aryan Brotherhood that I'll show you afterwards, and he's like a man of God.

He's the most remarkable dude I've met now, came down for a three-year burglary charge back in the 90s and murdered a black dude in the child home, picked up 30 years.

Came out for three years.

And when you get out, some of these guys, they, they, do you know Andre?

Norman?

Yeah.

He was just on my show last week.

I know Andre really well.

Okay.

He was just down at a moment.

He was like the one, he, well, he says he's one of the bosses.

Yeah.

He's like, look, he'd walk in and be like, make me a sandwich.

I made him say that story on my show, too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Andre's cool as shit.

So, like, that's one of the guys.

Same kind of stuff.

Yeah.

It's, and that's the same thing.

So he was, you can tell by the dudes' verbiages and stuff like that.

Yeah.

How it is.

And that's like, and you know what that says is that Andre, not only that, but he did time on a real yard because those real yards, those cops just want to go home, bro.

They're not trying to start no shit.

They don't want no, they don't want no problems or any of that stuff.

Oh, there we go.

That's my man.

We'll hit him up later.

Yeah.

So

now you're, you go through all this and you go through the struggles and who's visiting you?

So then, and then my mom, my brother, and my dad, I always had visits.

I always had chicks too.

Like, it was just kind of easy for me, you know?

Like, like I always say, like, I had, I had the toughest time possible.

I had it as good as possible with all that stuff.

You know, I always had visits and stuff like that.

And I always had comments, especially when you're running the yards, you have to have that stuff.

So that was addicting for the attention.

Like the next morning when I come out, like all these OGs that I used to like look at on the yard, you know, like, or now I want to shake my hand, you know, because they heard this little kid whoop way that was running the building you know so now they wait out there to shake my hand and now it's it's as addicting as anything possible it's like making your first money when you're trying to become an entrepreneur you know what i'm saying and i just jump headfirst into the politics and i'm like oh yeah if you guys want anybody smashed please let me know like i don't like god if he's real he don't like me wait this is right when you get out No, when I get in, right?

So I'm getting into politics now.

And then by the time I was 23 years old, I ran my first yard, which is the forward I was on.

No joke, like pulled a corrections officer.

I had that yard so crazy.

I was was in a relationship with the co i had the lieutenant on the team that was helping us make sure we could go certain places um we're drinking promethazine with codeine on the yard smoking blunts in a on a four-yard in the morning just it was like u of a to me bro that's why i said that was my taste of college but then you get your first predator packet which means they say like literally the state and staff says that you're a predator on the yard and it's automatic maximum security So that was my first one.

I got four of those done on me.

Maximum security is hell.

Five by seven, five by seven.

You can touch this.

You can't even do a push-up beside yourself.

And you're in there 24 hours a day.

24 hours a day.

The only time you get to get out is you get to go to a wreck cage that's the same exact, smaller than this, but dirty ass concrete.

And you get to go out there.

They shackle you, walk you out there like that, and then unshackle you once you're in the cage.

You're never out of your cell without full-on cuffs on.

And so you never even do that.

And like bird baths, you take a bird bath in your cell because showers is like when you go to the shower, it's you get a shower either Monday, Wednesday, and Friday or Tuesday, Thursday, saturday not to mention that by the time they put you in the shower say you're up on henry run they put you up in the shower in henry run then they go down ida run whatever all the way down to abel baker charlie on the other side so by the time they come back to you it's almost an hour like you're full on drenched and sweating this whole hot ass you know shower that you just went in so like i don't even shower bro like when i was in maxifield usually i'd spend a year not even leaving that cell bro oh you spend a year in the same freaking

what do you do and i'm plausophobic you just you read did you get like, are you?

Do you want to know how crazy it is and how hard my time was?

I'm so ADD and ADHD, I never even read in there.

I was in VC where all you get is a Bible and didn't even open it.

Oh, geez.

I would just pace, and I still know my thing.

I would pace one and a half steps this way, one and a half steps this way.

And you know, I would do it like that.

Why I still lean like this is because it's always freezing cold in there.

So every time you're in there, all you do is like this.

You have your hands in there because they don't give you anything.

You go like this, one and a half steps this way.

And then my shoulder bounce on the door like this.

And I'd turn around like this, go one and a half steps that way.

And then my

shoulder hit the other wall.

Oh my God.

And you just pace for 12 hours.

It saved my life.

I was 170 pounds on the yard, strung out, shooting dope.

I go to the hole for 11 months.

I get out 263 pounds.

Finally, I was able to get 11 months of like, not even positive shit, but at least not just doing drugs on the yard and this prison politics.

You know what I mean?

And I'm actually able to like every week I get a phone call.

So I'm calling my brother, my mom, and I'm actually talking like normal stuff now, not yard politics, which I'm hearing every day for 12 years straight.

But I got out of prison.

I didn't know what to do, bro.

Like I didn't even have a plan.

Like I thought that like somehow get a construction job, like try and figure out how to get sober but like have no fun but at least you're not in prison like that was like if i can find success that's what it looks like and i didn't even know how i was going to do that and so you get out get out

and i'm entitled to party never been to a never been on a date never worked a day in my life never been to a bar never done any of this stuff right like i was a little kid whenever now so

Like any normal, good person, place would be to spend time would be Sambar.

So I went to that Sandbar over there.

Now it took you six days a week.

I used to, I opened that sandbar.

Yeah, pulled chicks there i was we were part of the ones that closed it down but pulled chicks there like every day would just hook up with chicks every day did nothing positive get an assault case on parole blacked out and then overdosed on fentanyl blacked out wasn't even doing drugs but i was blacked out drunk and i had to go through my phone afterwards and i ended up leaving the bar blacked out drunk and one of my youngsters from the joint literally hit me up in guadalupe i drove my truck from hob knob right there in chandler to guadalupe blacked out drunk don't even remember driving it and wake up in an ambulance nine months out of prison and i'm like

it was fentanyl and I wake up in an ambulance and I'm like, I've never still, I've been out of prison nine months.

All I've done is drink and party.

I have nothing, not nothing bad, but nothing positive either, you know, like nothing like I'm not.

Did you have a job?

No, no.

I have this mindset.

Who the hell wants to hire me?

You know what I mean?

Did you like, just mom's helping you?

My dad would give me $1,500 a month at first.

That's it, just to live off of, you know, and he's like, and that was the deal.

I'd have to like act like I was putting in job applications every day.

Yeah.

And I wake up in an ambulance and I tell the paramedic, what the hell happened?

And he's like, you overdose.

I was like,

I don't even use drugs anymore.

He's like, you you did today.

By the time they got me to the hospital, my heart was only beating six beats a minute.

They gave me seven shots in our can, had to recess me.

When they found me, I was dead, no heartbeat, completely dead.

This is another reason that I really believe in God.

I didn't find this out until afterwards.

My ex-girlfriend's sister found me, right?

She went home after work to go tanning.

So she pulled in the parking lot, parked her car, got out of her car, walked up to the door.

Put her hand on the door to open the door.

She said the second she put on her hand on that door, someone told her to go home for some reason.

So she said she took her hand off the door, got back in her car to go home and take a nap, and finds me dead in the bathtub.

If she even walks in there and then decides to go home, like another few seconds, I'm probably not here today, you know?

And like instantly, I went from, I remember in that hostel bed, I was thinking, like, why did I survive this?

Why couldn't I just die and done with this life, man?

Like, I was done, bro.

Like, I still hadn't even worked.

So I didn't even know if I was going to make something of myself.

Like, I felt like I've been fighting my whole life, bro.

I was just done.

Like, I was just, but I always wanted to kill myself, but I never would because of my mom, you know?

And I just wanted to die.

And then I went from that moment to like thinking,

maybe I was saved and this is like God and maybe this is my chance to like try and get sober and so my last my little talk I had with myself in that hustle bed is like how much do you want to like prove that you're entitled to go drink and party and pull chicks and have fun or do you want to at least try and get sober and figure life out at least once like I told myself give yourself a shot you've never even tried to live life you know went out to South Dakota stay with my dad went to like two or three a meetings a week had no idea what to do but luckily my co-defendant was the finance director at a marquee up in Scottsdale so he's going to give me a job to go sell cars and I got out and uh

my dad sent me back here with five pairs of khakis, buy one, get one free at Kohl's, five dress shirts, buy one, get one free.

And I had to pay him back my first paycheck and made 10 grand my first month ever working and selling cars.

And 13 months, I was in finance manager, making 350 grand a year with my own office and just murdered shit.

I just turned a drug addiction to a money addiction and got sober and just changed everything, bro.

So you go into cars.

My dad used to run Amco on Scott's Dylan Thomas.

He owned a transmission shop before that.

I grew up at auto shops.

So I love cars.

I bought and sold over a thousand cars.

Really, wow i bought them on craigslist i used to buy g20 infinities honda civics and just clean them all up put new tires on them change the oil and my dad would fix them if they needed anything yeah that's dope but that that's that's great so you got 350 grand coming in and then what's the next calling after this so then yeah i do that for four or five years and like you know as well as anybody like money doesn't make you happy it's cool when you first get it but then after a while all it does is open your eyes up to more expensive stuff and then you realize you don't really have as much money as you think you have you know and then it's like so i did that and like you know worked forever a lot a lot of hours 70 hours a week Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

I'm working all these hours.

I'm just like, I have this, you know, a million dollar house, but it's like, what the, what is am I doing this for?

You know, like, I'm not meant to do this.

I know for a fact I'm not meant to do this.

Had no idea what I was going to do, except a vice TV producer had reached out to me.

And have you ever seen that show?

I was a teenage fellow in that.

Yeah.

So season two, episode five is my whole life story.

It's the shot caller episode.

So a vice producer reaches out to me and I was like, I had 400 followers on Instagram.

I was like, man, I'm going to try and make a run at this shit.

Like, I'm dumb and naive as not as it is, you know, but I have a few.

You got a great story.

Yeah, I got a few hundred grand saved up.

And I'm like, if this Joe Schmos can get Instagram rich, I can get Instagram rich too.

You know, that that was my mindset back then, you know.

But I knew I wanted to help him.

I knew my store wasn't meant to sit in that office all day long, you know?

And it was right on, I was on the free rents at Indian School right there.

So my, the finance office is like the glass window one at Marquee, if you ever see it, if you're driving by, you'll see it now.

Like that was my office right there.

So like Saturday, I would just look at cars driving by on the free and I'd be like, dude, I used to spend Saturdays locked in a cell.

And I'm like, no, I'm just locked in another cell out here.

You know, it just felt like this was not what I was meant to do.

But I had no idea or no experience.

I hadn't done anything positive.

Like I'm not one of those guys that did schooling or programming or anything, you know, like, so I don't know anything.

I just know how to sell sell shit you know and um but i saved up a few hundred grand i was like i'm just gonna go meet with whoever the hell i can don't even know who but i had a rule with myself i went to a different gym every day and i would at bare minimum at least get one new dude's phone number every single day and go up to the dude that looked like you you know i had an ice shit on at the gym or something like that and just go spark up a conversation you know and i used to get roasted by my brother and his friends back then because they'd say i would go to the gym to pull dudes but i'm like look at the network i built by myself though literally two years you know i'm saying like you guys i met snow like just the same idea just networking i don't know but i know everybody just like you do you know and um so i did all that and then luckily you know if someone tells you i get interviewed on a couple shows and they're like this dude needs his own show so i try and launch this podcast and launch the first episode of that one gets 20 000 views and i was like holy shit we might be on something here and started the podcasting for a few years and um

you know wrote the book yeah started playing with some crypto end up writing a book and

then meet my just amazing wife and then to come full circle you know like i get i you know i had white pride tattooed across my stomach got it seven sessions the most painful shit ever got that completely removed and um I had to tell my wife at first, like, you know, like I had one session left, but I told her, like, the second day I met her, I was like, I was like, yo, I got to tell you something because I had a bad experience with that, not telling a woman before.

I just flipped out on in the middle of the night when I first got out.

So I tell her and she's like, oh, I don't care about that.

I'm like,

are you serious?

For real?

Another cool thing about my wife is I don't know stuff except for what I see.

So I'm like thinking of this gorgeous black woman.

I'm like, My only rule is don't talk politics with her before, you know what I'm saying?

Before you see what kind of woman she is, you know, her second day over my house, she's like, I just got to ask you you one question i was like what she's like what's your political beliefs i was like i was like i don't really do politics you know she's like but come on she's like who do you believe would you be like conservative or uh republican if you could say i was like all i could say is this i don't like joe biden she's like oh my god thank god i was like

i was like all right we're we got something on here you know and she grew up mormon like complete polar opposite she was an all-american volleyball player she's mormon yeah grew up um she has

queen creek oh she was in queen creek yeah so she has the kills record at colorado state then went to grand canyon got got her master's degree, full rides everywhere.

I was going to go play professionally overseas, but tore her Achilles.

And

she knows she's a chick I just want to hook up with.

And I would have never even tried to have a relationship with her because I was like, I'd have to do way too much fixing internally to have, to date a woman like that, you know?

And

not to say it's the greatest thing that's ever happened.

It's just such a far understatement.

Like this.

woman changed my life beyond belief like changed it in ways i didn't even know was changed and like made me believe that like i can do so much at first i just thought i had to get sober you know like that's just such a

low bar.

The barometer, like, that's what these old guys in A, they've been sitting on it for 30 years, going to eight meetings.

It's like, cool, congrats, bro.

You got sober 30 years ago.

Who do you help?

What have you done?

Or what have you fixed on top of that?

You know what I'm saying?

Like, well, their dream is too small.

Yeah, you know, it's most people that I meet, they're like, I want to do this.

I'm like, yeah, that's money.

What else?

Literally.

And then what do you do after you do that?

Right.

Why didn't they say I do this all for my wife and kids?

I'm like, what about you?

If you can't love yourself.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then

the thing I'm most proud of now is like, so I was kicked out of prison, right?

Like I'm going to tell you this.

When I, when I was at the, when I was in that solitary confinement the last year, right?

SSU, who's like the gang detectives in there, if you get booked on anything in prison, it's from the SSU staff, right?

So once we find out this guy survived and everything, now I'm like, now I'm like, all right, this investigation is up.

The investigations are supposed to be for 30 days.

It's called a two-a investigation, right?

They can extend them every 30 days, but whatever.

It's usually a month.

Sometimes they extend it twice, right?

So they come in.

I've been here like three or four months now.

And I'm telling SSU, I was like, yo, what's up?

You guys got to let me out of this hole.

Like, let me go to the yard.

I'm like, you can't expect me to go home after 12 years years and solitary confinement and then make something of myself.

That was back.

I'm thinking they want you to succeed.

And he's like, bro, we know.

He's like, you're done.

Literally tell me, he's like, you're done.

He's like, Myraff, we're done with you.

Verbatim, he says, we're done with you and here in prison.

We're going to let the streets have their luck with you.

You're going to sit in this cell until you go home.

And my release, dude, I was released in five-point shackles, walking to my release cage.

Like with all the release guys walking their own thing, I was separate with five-point shackles completely walking in there.

And

you got to see the video after this, but I had no idea what to do.

And now I have

one of the biggest podcasts.

So they all have tablets now.

So I have this, I'm the second most downloaded dude in all the prison tablets across the entire country.

The only dude that's bigger is that Eckhart Tolle and God Behind Bars because they do their stuff together.

And I develop prison curriculum now that I get to teach to prisons all over.

And prisons and states pay me to come teach inmates what to do now.

What are your number one lessons?

Well, give me, give me a message.

Mindset's number one anything.

Like routine and mindset is anything because people, just like you said a second ago, people are like too small-minded.

Like you just, you just have to get them to open up their mindset to show them what's possible like here's the deal like i thought i had a cheat code and i thought i was doing a disservice to everybody that had been locked up before when i made 10 grand that first month and i was like i got that first check and it was like 4 400 bucks after taxes for my bonus check and i was like

oh my god all it did was show me holy shit it's possible and i remember thinking like why the f didn't they tell me that we could do this in prison you know what i mean you know how much

how much harder i would have tried to do something productive if i knew that if we would have known that we could do cool shit we get out of here people are going to try a lot harder in prison you know what i'm saying yeah and which is why my curriculum is so different because like anybody you see watching go to these prison yards, they're going to minimum security yards, these low security yards, and they're talking to these dudes that are in and out of prison their whole lives.

Like I go to the high, high security yards, like Soledad, that place I went, that's a for it.

It's called a direct out from the shoe.

So anybody that comes from security housing unit, which is Super Max, goes directly there.

It's your first yard ever out of the shoe.

And if you don't make it there, you go right back to the shoe.

And then when I got done with that program there, and I get these killers on the yard, bro, to like cry, bro, and like literally act like I've never even seen dudes in prison act in my entire life.

And not only that, when I get done with there, you know what Warden tells you, he goes, dude, where do you want to go next?

I was like, what's a higher security prison than this?

He's like, Salinas, but he's like, we can't go to Salinas.

I'm like, why?

He's like, he's like, they're killing each other right now.

They're killing cops and everything like that.

He's like, no one can go to that yard right now.

And I'm like, all right, if they cleared up, can I go there?

That's what I want to do.

Because when you get the shot callers to pass it down, you can change 100 lives with one person.

If you're just changing those little kids that are in and out of prison every two years, you're not changing nobody.

You're barely changing one out of a thousand of them.

If you can get the shot callers to

preach this shit on the yard.

Well, the other thing is change it in the streets.

Yes, absolutely.

Because they can make a big impact going, look, you guys, you listen to me.

They were big.

Which is why I finally do coaching out here too.

I didn't want to forever.

Like no joke, Frissell is one of the guys that talked me into it too.

And I didn't realize how many people are just like, don't know how to live life, bro.

You know, like, and that's what I'm just, I feel like I'm a pro at, bro.

It's just, you could throw me anywhere, but I'm going to figure it out.

You know what I'm saying?

I always said like this, like, you could put me in the, in the middle of the mountain of Afghanistan, and in about six months of you, I'm going to be running that mountain yeah

yeah for sure you know what i'm saying you know you got the same trait i never went through dude you know what's interesting is somebody's cat could die when they're nine and that will traumatize them for life and somebody else could watch their mother overdose and it doesn't mean anything of the way they were lived so you don't know what people go through and what's a lot to first people 100 you've been through a lot more shit dude i've had a lot of impactful things but i look back and i'm like man everything happened for a reason i had great parents they went through their own trials.

But at the end of the day, like one of the most important things is,

look, I got a lot of people that don't believe the same way I do.

Not in God, but just, I just had to have a big heart and just say, you know what?

You know, look, I'm not going to coach you on this.

But,

you know, your uncle, your dad, your brother, I don't know.

Maybe if they seen you.

And plus you got kids.

And obviously you don't want them to leave a bad influence, but if you met with them every once in a while.

Sure, sure.

Yeah.

I don't know, man.

Let's hear it.

No, I want to be real.

Yeah, the deal is for me.

If a guy like me, I didn't get to where I did not listening to dudes like you.

Well, it's just, you know, I would never want regrets.

And I tell you, dude, there's a lot of regrets I have.

It's like my dad almost died through COVID and I prayed hard.

I'm crying going to visit him.

And he's like, I'm not ready to go.

And I said, if you let my dad live, not only will I be a better son, but I'll.

I'll tell everybody on every stage.

And this guy calls me a year later and goes, did you make a deal with God?

Shut the.

No, I'm not kidding.

And I got goosebumps, man.

I'm walking around and he goes, he goes, I don't know what you did, but I imagine you on your knees praying.

And I was like, who are you?

He's like, I'm not any crazy,

you know.

He goes, this is the first time I've ever done this.

He goes, but whatever deal you made, make sure you keep it because just as quick as he gave it to you, you could take it away.

And I was like, oh boy.

I redid my PowerPoint.

Yeah.

And so the first thing I do in my orientation is, show one, I got baptized.

and like i believe in jesus christ but listen i'm not going to tell you guys whatever religion you are i'm not i'm just telling you who i am but yeah it's important and wow man that's you know i started hanging out with travis hern if you get a chance you need to go meet him at impact church i would love to i've been there i've only been to two churches been to impact and then i go to echoes with dan and golden out there now too but yeah and dude i'm going to start like i feel like it's my obligation like if you are You know, four out of five people will go to church if you invite them, but nobody invites them.

Really?

So I'm going to go blow that church up, dude.

I'm going to bring our A1 trucks out.

We're going to get there 45 minutes early.

I just want to go once a month and just show up and be dressed like this and just say, listen, guys, if you want this life, I don't care if you come or not.

It's, I'm just inviting you.

And then you decide.

And I'm going to go meet with Travis, have him talk to us.

I'll tell you this, like now, like.

All the cool shit I've done, everything, like even the, like, I'm most proud of the parent time out of my kids and stuff.

But like, because what's crazy is like the household I get to, I raise right now is one I've never even seen except in the movies, which is crazy to me.

Like, think about that.

I get to like raise my kids and have like a standard in my household and they get to like see love in my household that I've never even seen in my entire life.

You know what I'm saying?

Like me and my wife are like this, bro.

Like five times a day, I'm like,

babe, do you, anytime I get up, do you need anything?

Can I do anything for you?

You know, like checking on each other, like

putting the other person first and making sure the kids go first over anything.

Like out of all anything I was going to say, I'm rambling there, but out of anything that I was most proud about, it was,

damn, I just lost my train of thought that I I was saying with that.

It's all good, man.

We added this shit.

So you teach mindset.

You know, where are you going from here?

I mean, what is your big Harry?

This is goal.

What's your dream?

My dream is I want to be the biggest speaker and I just want to travel to prisons across the entire world, bro.

I got so many people I'm going to introduce to you.

Three that come to mind.

And all of these guys

came from prison.

One of my buddies, trafficking a lot, a lot, a lot of cocaine.

It's been a long time.

He's worth hundreds of millions of dollars today.

Another buddy changing people's lives, getting them in shape.

Sean,

I want to introduce you to these guys because, you know, I don't know if you enjoy kicking it with guys that know the, like, the served time like you.

Keegan came out.

His dad had a small business, electric business.

Well, Keegan learned how to do HVAC in prison and he stayed in the hole because they transferred him to Atlanta.

And he's like, I can't go out there.

Like he just, he's got stories and he gets teary, teary-eyed.

And so he just spent it locked up and he gets out.

And you know what's crazy about prison?

If these guys come out, if they want to make it, they can make as much money.

They can have any relationship.

They can live the best life ever if they choose to.

Because they've already seen it.

They've been to rock bottom.

It's straight up.

That's what I teach.

And it's like this, this, if they find their brother.

And I don't even want to call it a brotherhood.

I like to call it a wolf pack because wolves will attack.

If an animal attacks one wolf, they all come out.

And Navy SEALs, all wolf backs.

I spent some time with

Jocko, Extreme Ownership.

And dude, he's soft when you're with him.

He lives this.

David Goggins kind of hard-faced.

I'm not going to say he's a soft dude, but he's been through this, the ringer.

And he gave me some of the best compliments ever.

And he's like, look, if you ever want to get into business, you know, I'm an investor.

Just call me.

He's like, I'm in.

And like,

you know, I get access to these people, but I don't go in there going, hey, dude, here's what I want to do.

Wait till you see me.

I'm just like, hey, man, we'll be friends.

I want to learn from you.

And I'm going to take notes and I'm going to actually do the work.

Yeah.

And so, dude, I like your story.

I love your story and the fact that you're going back to the prisons and the impact that it could have externally.

I mean, that's real.

And that's impacting.

That's massive, massive impact.

No, that, but like I said, dude, it makes your mom safer at home.

No, it's that's, you know, we got a rule here is treat people like mom.

And if you didn't raise by a great mom, maybe it was a grandma, maybe it was an uncle, maybe it was a coach, but just do the right thing.

And I don't need to teach my guy sales.

I'm like, smile more, play with the dog, make friends, and do what you would do for your mom's house.

If we do that, we're winning.

Absolutely.

But they can't believe, here's the hard part.

A lot of people believe that's a lot of money.

My buddy that lives in Fresno, his average ticket in HVAC is 38,000, average ticket.

And I go, what's a lot of money?

If we all wrote down our, what's a lot of money, somebody would put 10,000, another person would put 10 million.

And so I'm like, when you own a house you want things done right and if you got two little kids at home like you do you want to make sure they're trustworthy with your wife when she's alone in the hvac or the whatever goes out what other uh

what other things do you want the audience to know about

um

don't ever stop finding your true purpose you know like i can't tell you how many guys that i know that i work with now they're 30s 40s 50s and like just still feel lost and feel like they don't know where to go.

It's never too late to restart.

Like I didn't start working until I was 30 years old.

I never worked a day in my life.

Like you could, whether you're 40 years old, and I did that stuff and I, I mean, I semi-retired within five years.

You know what I'm saying?

Like you could legit restart anything.

And another thing I like to do is I try to get dudes from prison like

ready to attack the world.

Just like you said, they've had their backs against the wall.

Like when they get done like going through my program in prison, the number one thing is their mindset should be that they have an advantage on regular people out here because of what we've been through.

So when you can like literally use your screw-ups to help you better off, like you have an advantage on normal the normal society, you know?

You embrace the failure and you remember where you came from.

Dude, it's it's hard.

Like, listen, would you rather hire a PhD or somebody that's been through 10 years of

literally war and business and they've been through all the mistakes?

Absolutely.

I'll tell you,

there's a great book you need to throw on the top of your list.

It's called A Man's Search for Meaning.

Okay.

And the dude went through Holocaust and he made it out.

And when you could find meaning in a place like that, i mean i would imagine that the germans that was worse than prison when you're watching your

your families getting murdered every every jewish person just treated like

their bones their butt their their arms are smaller than my wrist

and uh that's the ultimate to go through that and you know more read more of the bible i want to i got a book that every day it's a new scripture that i just read and then there's the the bible app i know i just got that bible app so that's that's i read i do that and i've been reading like i think the i don't even know like the the book of John or James, one of the two.

Yeah.

Well, my dad could quote every scripture.

And by the way, that's how I strive to be.

I used to strive to make a lot of money and all that stuff.

Now, you know what's crazy?

Like, my number one goals, aside from like raise my family great, is like, literally, I want to be able to just like know the Bible like the back of my hand.

You know, like, I want to be one of those guys that, like, I always say to my wife now, like, I want to be one of those guys I would have made fun of when I was in prison, called him a Bible thumper and stuff like that.

Because, like, why not?

Like, all the stuff that we do, like, look at our lives, bro.

You know what I'm saying?

Like, seriously.

I wake up every day, and here's the cool thing.

Like, I don't have any pain.

Yeah.

I live in the United States of America.

Like, some days you're like, man, I just want to do more.

And you're like, what, dude?

I am drinking out of a fire hose 24.

It's self-inflicted.

Like, my mom goes last week.

She goes, hey, honey, you seemed really quiet the other night at dinner.

Are you okay?

I was like, well, A1's got 920 employees.

I've got the family office launching three softwares, not to mention 20 other investments.

I've got

my event with 1,500 people, and that's growing.

We're building two houses.

I'm engaged.

We want to have children.

No, I'm like, dude, that's the oh my god.

That was where the thing popped in, but

it's like, I'm good, but just know I'm in my own head a little.

I'm great.

I'm in my head.

Yeah.

But, you know,

there's one day a month where I kind of like, man, why do I do all this?

And then the rest of the time I'm like, dude, let's go.

You know, I just started doing two weeks ago with me and my wife, too.

It was like one day on the weekend taking no phones.

No phones.

Yeah.

It's a big thing.

And it's a, it's, you don't realize how much, because even I'm pretty good, bro.

Like, I'm trying to be, I'm really, like, I change all the diapers.

Like, I wake up with them every morning and night.

Like, I'm a very, very no phones on Saturdays.

But we're doing this Sunday this week.

So we just pick a day, like, whatever we have something going on, you know, like, but we're doing this Sunday, no phones, me and the wife, you know, and it does make a difference because even, even if you're not bad with it, like, you realize all your attention is there.

Like, you don't realize how much you're just flicking it on commercials, you know, and it's like instead, then you're playing with your son or something the whole time or giving your wife more attention.

It makes a huge difference.

No phones, maybe.

No phones, no TV.

That'd be crazy.

Wow.

And you really get to know.

Well, the weather's nice now, so you could do that.

Yeah.

You know, I was with a buddy yesterday in this room, and he sold his house in Paradise Valley or in Arcadia, and he sold his house in Canada, and he just lives.

He's been to 70 countries.

No, I do.

He's got

two duffel bags he brings, and he works three months in each different countries.

I'm like, dude, I don't know if I could do that.

But he's like, dude, I live the best freaking life.

Imagine that.

And he's on major stages.

He gets paid 100 grand per stage.

You know what I mean?

And by the way,

I love stages.

I love my time.

But every time I leave here to do a stage, I'm losing a shit ton of money.

For sure.

But I'm impacting lives.

So what's it about?

Is it about money or impact?

I can't believe you have that many employees, bro.

Congrats.

No, they're my coworkers.

We're a good team.

You know, the thing is, is they've changed my life just much, if not more than I've changed theirs.

So that's awesome.

How do people get a hold of you, Peter?

On the gram is Peter underscore Meyerhoff.

My website, PeterMeyerhoff.com.

I'm on every platform, though, though.

TikTok, podcast.

Don't forget that.

Roll call with Chappie on every platform too, YouTube, all that stuff.

I'm on everywhere, bro.

What's your favorite podcast you've done?

No offense, Josh No, bro.

Really?

And I'm not just saying it because he's coming up here.

I tell people all the time, bro.

What did you like about his podcast?

You know, when you know the whole circle of all the big dudes around everywhere, like...

90% of them dudes are fake.

Even the ones that aren't fake, 80% of those aren't genuine.

Like, he's just real genuine.

And, like, to be honest, he gave me a shot when my show wasn't even really big.

Like, I was kind of shocked he would do my show.

And like, this is the kind of guy Josh knows.

He showed up to do my show.

And remember, I'm like, just starting, I think it was like my 20th episode.

Like, no, nothing, nothing big.

And someone just vouched and he came and did it and then showed up like 10 minutes late because he forgot to bring me presents.

So he went to Best Buy and dropped $1,000, getting me all his products from Best Buy and then gave me a whole bag of all his snow products.

He just bought from Best Buy so I could try all his products.

And like, just the greatest conversation.

And like me, you always get it wrong.

Like you always, me, I'd always think of a guy when you see someone like him, you're like, dude, whatever.

What, how much money did his parents give him?

Or how much, you know what I'm saying?

Or how many, you know what I mean?

He saved his parents' house.

He was partners with him when he was 17.

And grew up, and I heard what you did.

That's why I'm a huge, huge fan of yours.

Like, he speaks more than highly of you.

But yeah, and then when you finally grew up on the south or on the west side of Phoenix and like, you know, didn't even have a computer.

Just crazy, bro.

And like, he's the only podcast I did where I was like, holy shit, no way.

Then what?

Oh, my God.

He is a brain.

Like, he sits down and I don't know how he does it, man.

But you talk about brilliance.

I don't know what his IQ is, but I still, I was like, he's confused and even talk to.

Like even when I hang out with him, I'm like, I'm like, dude,

I feel like I need a decoder to even talk to you.

You know what I'm saying?

I literally was like, he's like, dude, I need Razor help.

I showed up there with one of my guys.

I'm like, hey, give him the nine, fix everything, replace it all, give him new openers.

And I said, Josh, give me one hour a month.

And he would have done that for free.

But he's like, dude, he's like, by the way, he's like, I know every group you're part of.

He's like, you're one of the only real ones.

ones he's like these guys drive ferraris dude they don't have any money in the bank yeah but um for sure no man i appreciate it give me one book is it

because you just got started getting into reading is there any books that you would recommend other than against all odds besides against all odds the only book that i can legit being real to my character and not lying to people is the bible all right let's go and uh Finally, close us out, man.

One final thought.

We talked about a lot of cool stuff.

We know your story.

Just give the audience something to think about.

Life is hard.

It's hard for everybody.

The only time that you're never going to progress is when you actually give up.

The only thing that I did right for, I always say 31 years of my life is that I didn't give up.

I don't take no for an answer.

If you believe in yourself, you can literally achieve anything.

The fact that I'm sitting here today should show you that.

And if anybody is not happy where they are, the only thing stopping you from getting the life you want is you just doing the same thing over and over again every day.

Oh, I love it, man.

Thanks, Peter.

Yeah, thank you.

Appreciate you.

Appreciate it.

That was a horrible handshake on my part.

All right.

That was great, brother.

Hey there.

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