Manifesting Dreams into Reality Using Universal Laws w/ Andre Carvalho

You're just sitting at home dreaming. That's not the law of attraction. The law of attraction is not dreaming. The law of attraction is setting a vision, a goal, writing it down and then backing that goal by faith, belief that you can do it, and by emotion and by taking action. They talk about having the right person by your side. That's gonna support you and keep you focused, and I really do believe that. Yeah, I guess the biggest thing is really the emotional support there, because when you're going to talk to new artists, there's a lot of ups and downs and it really does, and I would actually say it keeps you more focused than if you were single.

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Hey everyone, welcome back to the Walk to Wealth podcast. If you're tuning in on YouTube or any of the podcast directories, make sure to do yourself one teeny, tiny little favor and make sure to give us a follow, because I don't want you to miss out on any of the amazing guests we have coming on this year. Without further ado, let's get right into this one, andre, for anyone who hasn't had the opportunity yet to get to know you, to get to meet you man, tell us your elevator pitch. Who are you and what do you do?

Elevator pitch still working on that, but right now, so far in my career, built a wholesale business about a year ago, quit my job, was making about six figures, was there for 40 years. The Law of Attraction to thank for being in that corporation the first place and then again the Law of Attraction for having the opportunity to build this wholesale business that I'm doing now and growing that to a corporation of itself. Yeah, so growing up I come from, I'm an immigrant from Brazil, and growing up my family didn't have a lot of money and the topic of money was always you need more of it, but no one knew how to get it. It was always like, hey, we need to get rich, but it was always like a dream kind of thing. It was never like, hey, this is what I want, let's work backwards, let's create a plan. How do we get it? It was always like this fantasy of one day I'll have money, let's have a thing. But there was no concrete plan behind it. It was growing up. I grew up in Mount Vernon for most of my childhood, moved to New York, so that's Westchester County. I grew up around a lot of wealthy people, a lot of people that grow up there they say that's not especially like Malburin or New York but it compares to other places in the United States that's very wealthy, or anywhere in Westchester County. So you see a lot of affluent people there, even though maybe you're not living in that specific community. So grew up seeing a lot of wealth around me and seeing a lot of things but couldn't really touch it myself, if that makes sense.

Yeah, 100%. So let me ask you you said you immigrated from Brazil, right? What was that? Like man Mo Lu, did you move when you were at an age that you're too young to remember, or did you grow up a little bit for a while and then move to the States?

I moved to the States when I was eight years old, so I do remember going to school second grade not knowing the language, sitting in the back of the classroom like the teachers would the kids. That didn't know English. I mean, I say kids, it was me and maybe one other person. They didn't know English and she would put us in the back of the classroom with these little silly machines like you, press a button with the picture of the cow and then they'll say cow goes, move, whatever. Anyways, I used to hate it because I wanted to join the class and participate in the homework and participate in the work. I hated being the outcast in the back of the classroom just sitting there with these little stupid toys, and I did that for a year and then I learned English. Kids at that age didn't learn very quickly, so I picked up on the language very quickly, assimilated very quickly and by the third grade I was rocking and rolling in the classrooms and watching a lot of TV, which helped a lot with learning the language. So I assimilated pretty quickly.

Yeah, and so you said you were an outcast man. So take us a little bit later on. Throughout your journey, right, you went to high school. What was it like after high school? You mentioned that, although you were near the app for people, although you seemed a wealth, you weren't able to touch it yourself. You weren't able to get some for yourself at that point, man. So what was it like during high school man? Where did your journey go from there?

Yeah, I mean I would say even in high school, being a little bit of an outcast after high school, always kind of like I never really saw myself fitting into the traditional norms of like what everyone else was doing. When I was after high school a lot of my friends were going off to college, universities and stuff and I opted to go into the community college route. So I did that for two years and just kind of hung around the wrong crowd. You know what I mean. I was smoking weed almost every day, skipping class and I was working. I was working full time, going to school part time, and I just never really enjoyed school. I always loved learning. I started when I was 16, I started learning about stocks. I taught myself how to trade stocks and did like the whole day trading and sweet trading thing for a while. I never focused on it enough to really become really good at it. I was good enough where I broke even and didn't lose money. A lot of people lose a lot of money in that field but I was good enough that.

I could play around with it, make a little bit of money, lose a little bit of money.

So I did that for a long time. So I always loved learning, I loved reading books, I loved watching YouTube video, youtube university was my favorite thing in the world and eventually I would just decided to stop going to school because it was actually, I think, looking back, it caused me more harm than good because it was just me going to that school, was just me hanging around with people that I didn't want to hang around with. So, yeah, just decided to just drop it all together and focus on my job and I continued my self education process of reading books. I started reading Napoleon Hill's Thinking we're Rich at that point and some other key books that really, I think, lit my self development journey up.

That's amazing. So if you're gonna just write, so you're at the college, you're just running around crowd, you're doing things that you probably, looking back now, wouldn't have done. And you ended up deciding to break off of that track that you were heading down to pursue the job that you already had. So let me ask you around that time, when you did make that decision, what was it like? Take it, illustrate that for us, man. Were your friends all for it? Were your supporters all for it going, not finishing the traditional college track? And what was going on? I know for me? My grandparents immigrated here from DR, so for them, finishing college was the pinnacle of American success. Right, that's the American dream. We're just getting that paper. And so when I decided to drop out, they were heavily against it. So what was it like during that time period? We decided to say let's screw it, I'm not finishing this, I'm going to do this job and get away from this environment.

Yeah so my family obviously was not supportive, as usually families aren't. My mom was less not supportive than most parents, I think I think she was kind of more okay with it than a lot of parents are. She was like, hey, as long as you are working towards something and you have an idea of what you want and I mean I wish you did go to college and I wish that you would consider that path but at that point I was like 22 or something, 21,. No, yeah, I was like 20 or 21, and she's like you just gotta make a decision for yourself. As far as friends go, like I said I was a now cast no one really.

To be frank, you know, it's like so let me ask you how did I affect you, man? Because the entrepreneurial road is very isolated. There's even less people that you can connect with. There's even less people you can talk to and reach out to, that understand what it's like to have our own business, understand what it's like to. If you don't sell or close, you're not getting paid. If you don't go out and do the work you know, you can BS your way through a lot of jobs and get money, but in entrepreneurship that'll all add up and gets you some. And that al-Qa'z skill, I guess you could say that ability to Be okay alone, right? How did that play into effect? So what's honey Like? How did you stumble into? You started going from your job. Where did your story go from there? So you said a school, college, I got a good job, more before time that's the job, if you're not mistaken, that you started running up in right and started going through the ranks. So what was that journey like there?

So I was there during school, right? Yeah, I'll kind of break down that first part the first time that I encountered the law of attraction. So I was going to school part-time, working as a server at a French restaurant in Greenwich, full-time. Go to school part-time. And I started reading the book, thinking we're rich, and I started learning about the principle of law of attraction and I had. Once I read the book, I realized previous experiences of how I actually use that law in my life, like not purposefully, but once I learned about it I started think, trying to apply purposefully. And it was crazy how this worked because I had read the book right, and I was sick and tired of working in that restaurant. Like I was making good money, john. I was making like 70 grand a year, I think, for working at a restaurant. You know that's really good. You know it was an absolute restaurant. I was around very well for people and Making 70k a year. Go in school part-time, you know, not really focusing in school. And so read the book, think you're rich. And then I started thinking about that and I started like I knew I wanted to work in an Office job. I knew that I wanted to, like, get out of the restaurant business but at the same time, like I don't really want like a regular nine to five. I didn't know what I wanted. I just knew I wanted an office job. I didn't want it to be some boring shit where I'm like in an office job that everybody complains about and I just knew I had to get out of the restaurant business. And for about two months two to three months I had that thought in my head as I'm reading the book and just like every week that went by I would get more passionate and and it actually it was more of like a negative emotion towards it. I was very pissed off at that job and I was very, you know, just like I need to get out of here. Like with that mindset and about two months after reading the book and like purposely thinking about this stuff and like thinking about the love attraction. You know I show up early to set up the end. It was gonna be a busy day, so I showed up early to set up our stations at the restaurant and this lady calls me over and she's like hey, this bus boy, you know, is. I asked for bread three times, didn't give it to me and I'm like, oh, don't worry about it, I will get you the bread. So go to the back, get her some warm bread. The bus boy was like about to bring it and I was like no, let me bring it. You know she's already mad at you, so. So I brought it to her. She's like oh, you're such a good boy, yeah, I always see you running around here like you're such a hard-working kid. He starts to ask me questions. She's like hey, do you go to school? Where do you go? What are you studying? And she asked me some weird questions like hey, are you? Are you Catholic? Did you go to Catholic school? Or she's like Do you like to stay up late? And I'm like you know where's this going? And she asked me. She's like well, hey, my husband which the time he was a founder and CEO of the company. He was just sitting there next to her eating his breakfast. Like my name is on business. It's just like tunnel vision. And she's talking me. She's like well, my husband here. He owns this company called the National Kinney Registry. You know we facilitate kidney transplants around the country and right now our Operations manager, he's actually like super overwhelmed because he's working all day. He goes home and he has to like monitor the commercial flights that we ship these organs at and you know he needs some help. Like like staying up late to to watch the kidneys and I'm like, well, never heard of that before but I will do anything to get out of this job. So you know, I'm like absolutely like. You know I'm down, like I don't care how much it pays, like let give me an interview, and she's like you know. So, anyways, I talked to the CEO or an ex-hunter for husband and we scheduled an interview. You know I wore like my suit from like prom that I had, like it was a super tight on me and we meet for it. We have an interview. He likes me have another interview. The second interview. He's like look, you have no college education, you have no experience and anything besides. You know, being a waiter You're like 18 years old or 19 years old and but we like you, so We'll start you off. You know we'll give you a six-month probation period and we'll do, you know, like $40,000 a year. I was like, damn, $40,000 a year I'm making like seven. Yet the restaurant and he actually didn't believe he didn't believe I was making 70, can't the restaurant? Later on. He didn't tell me that then. But later on in my career working the company, I asked him about it like that conversation, and he's like I didn't believe you like, and I was like well, I mean at the pace of. Cash sits right no, not necessarily, bro. It was a lot of 70 grand gross. So I used to make. You know, after taxes I don't know what that ended up being, but most of it was actually the credit cards. It wasn't like cash to, yeah. So where was I get? So he hired me on probationary period. I told him, like you know, because I was helping my mom with bills at home at the time, you know, I would help with the rent and with some small bills. You're there and like, so that was enough. But it wasn't enough for me to still save money. But I was like, hey look, this is great, I don't care if I'm gonna make a lot less money, I don't like need it right now. I could still help my mom with bills and like do you know, maybe I can't go out as much or whatever, but I can still Do what I need to do. And what this is is just a slingshot. You know, like I gotta be pulled back a little bit. So I guess I knew that this was the opportunity for me to get out of the restaurant and it was just, it was perfect. No, I started working there. I was working next to high-level executives For a company that I believe now don't put me up, I think they're worth probably around 50 million now but I started up with them right when they were like in the cusp of really taking off. You know, they had just Like they were working with a ton of different hospitals. They're they're really a startup. They were about 10 years old when I started work with them. But then once I joined I'm not taking credit for their, the rocket ship effect there I'm just saying it was just a coincidence that when I joined they started growing very rapidly and it was a great experience to have and I was there for four years and it was. You know, I was very, it was a very Sad moment and it was a tough. It was a very tough decision for me to make when I left, I'll say that. But that was the first time where I purposefully Implemented the law of attraction into my life, where, like, I'm like, put the thing that I want, you know, write it down, what I want, and then I back it by faith and emotion, which Napoleon Hill talks about in the book, and even though the emotion that I had, that I was backing this Vision, wasn't necessarily a positive one but it doesn't have to be a positive. It just has to be an emotion that's strong enough to Towards that. That vision.

So you made this. Yes, you made the decision. You ended up going to start your own business, man. What was that like? What was that journey like at that point? So you left your job right? You get a good money right? Six figures, not, especially someone who it wasn't even born here. You came from the US and didn't go to traditional track, and yet, not too long after what most people would be coming out of college at that age, around that time, not too long after you know, I've already making six figures a year. A solid job at working your way up the ranks. What experience in your bow. And you decided to take an even more international track, man, and go into entrepreneurship. Get into but a statement. So take us to where you are now, man. What do you got going on? Where's everything going?

Bobman. Now I would say I'm a natural risk-taker, I think and and you know I and just to clear this up, I wasn't necessarily making six. It took me four years and my fourth year is when I got to. They gave me a raise. That was, I think it was making $120,000 a year or on track to make $100,000 a year, my fourth year there. So it took me a while and a lot of hard work to get there and but I was working with Brandon, brandon Cadoras, and I was working with him and I kept having like I think I was kind of not feeling at heart because I always had these business ideas. I just would never that I would try to do on the side, like as a side hustle, but I could never focus on it enough or I always had shiny object syndrome and would try to do these different things. And you know, at one point I started working with Brandon and he you know he's like dude, you keep trying to do these different things. Let's create, let's get some clarity here, let's write down our tenure what's your tenure vision? So he gave me this thing to fill out. It was like your tenure goals for your professional tenure goals, your personal tenure goals and your financial tenure goals, so those three things. And then so you say your tenure, you set your three year and you set a one tenure three year and a one year. So I did that and that took me probably about three or four weeks to do, because it's really hard to think you know 10 years ahead like what you want your life to look like. But once I figured that out, once I figured out the lifestyle I wanted and what I wanted to be doing, how much money I wanted to be making, it was very easy for me to make a decision that I had to leave my job Because I realized that what I wanted to do was be in real estate. I've always liked investing. Like I told you, I love. I really got into the stock market earlier on and then you know, I always love the idea of real estate. But I just thought it was like this you know, when you have a lot of money, then you can invest in real estate. So, with having clarity, to start a networking, you know, brand introduced me to you, to a bunch of other people, and through networking I found out about Pace Morvey and like wholesaling and what that looks like, what that business model is. And I figured hey, this wholesaling thing is really interesting because I can generate active income for myself right now, while I learned the entire industry and how it works at every single movie park, and at the same time, I can start investing in apartments right, because I'm gonna be making a lot more money based on division. I'm gonna make a lot more money there. We have more money to invest. I'm gonna build the industry. I'm gonna be generating the leads to be able to buy right, that's what a wholesale business is. You're pretty much a business that generates deals. That's what it is. So I'm gonna have deals of my disposal to buy and invest in. So it was a no-brainer for me, once I got the clarity of what I wanted to my life, to look like 10 years from now, where I was like, okay, I can stay at this job, make six figures maybe in a couple of years, maybe five years from now, 10 years from now, maybe make a quarter million dollars a year, and that would be great. And this is an amazing opportunity, this amazing vehicle that I'm in right now. But after I got clarity on my 10-year goal, I'm like this vehicle is not gonna take me to my goals. So I'm like I need to find a new vehicle and at the time I was studying these guys at networking and the vehicle was wholesaling.

So, to bring the story full circle, man, so you pretty much immigrated here from Brazil, you learned the language, you assimilated into the country and into the society, right, you ended up getting a job while you were going to community college, working restaurants, finding a good job, leaving community college and then getting into the whole center-majestic to come full circle. So now let me ask you, man, I've known you what it's been like a close to a little over a year now since I've known you, since you've connected, I think, or approaching a year since the time we were recording this, and so I know something that you mentioned already a lot with the law of attraction. So we'll just start there, man. So you mentioned the law of attraction. How much it's helped you so far on your journey already, one of the things that I always get that gets me annoyed, honestly, with the law of attraction stuff that people always preach, is that, oh, you know, you just gotta think it, man, you just gotta affirm it, man. You gotta think about it and it's like a lot of people who want to attract wealth and not put in any of the work and that's like if it's a be, it'll come or it'll be right. If it's meant for me, it'll come to me. And I feel like a lot of people feel to realize that you gotta go out there and get it. In regards to what it is Like, that is the prerequisite, I feel personally, for it working. If you're not getting up and getting it, all that law of attraction, manifestation stuff, visualization is for the birds. Yeah, you have to get up and get it and then opportunities start to attract and then you'll start walking into. For example, I just came back from a great conference last week and going there I had some potential business people like that I'm gonna be doing some type of business with how that's gonna play out not too sure yet, but the opportunity presenters themselves. But what I do, I made the investment to go halfway across the country by myself and I ended up seeing Eli there, which was dope Eli and I don't know if you know Maria Rodriguez, I believe, last, not Maria. I forget what Maria's last name is, but she was at Brandon's. She spoke at Brandon's event. Yeah, I know you saw her and so I got to see that. But going into it I didn't know anyone that was coming from locally, so I was just like all right.

So, john, let me cut you off there. I'll say this you would not have gone to that conference if you didn't stop before and had the vision set, known what you're trying to attract, you would not have taken the action to go to that event. Because if you didn't have that law of attraction in the first place, like if you didn't set what you want in your mind first, Everyone knows thanks for the event.

So I kind of knew I wanted to get into Ken's world. I didn't know how, but I met oh, I didn't meet him personally, but at Guillory's workshop back in Norwalk. This is December. I went and then Ken spoke virtually. I don't know if you remember, but Ken spoke virtually. I was like, oh, this guy's had dope. And then from there I ended up. He ended up speaking at who was it? Brandon's event. And around that time, a couple weeks before, I actually happened to hop on my podcast and he told me about the event and I was applying for a scholarship and so I was like, all right, and I'm already gonna be receiving this money, why not use that on Create? And so that's how I ended up getting to go and going to Create. Because I was like, oh, shoot, like I mean, he's already someone that I was interested in learning more from, just because he happens to be a lot more faith-based than most people in the entrepreneurship space. And I was like, all right, let me see what he got going on in this conference. And then the going ended up working. But it all came from I did know. It was like man, how do I get into this world, like how do I get into what he has going on?

Right. So talk about your first point. I still think you know you went to that event because it was a lot of attraction, because if you didn't have the vision in your mind about what you wanted or an idea of what you wanted, you wouldn't have gotten there. So that's point one that I would like to make. At point two, you said there's no actually like, if you don't have that, obviously if you're just sitting at home dreaming, that's not the law of attraction. The law of attraction is not. The law of attraction is setting a vision right, a goal, writing it down and then backing that goal by faith you know belief that you can do it and by emotion and by taking action right Cause if you're just sitting at home and you're just sitting there angry and you have this vision in your head, it's not gonna help you at all. But once you start actually doing things and creating some momentum, then you know it's gonna eventually be attracted to you. I really believe in energy and you know the energy that you put out there you're gonna attract. Just like when you have a positive energy, you're gonna start attracting more positive people into your life. Negative people they're just not gonna want to hang around you and positive people are, and you're just gonna naturally let those people go. So, to the same point, you know I talk about three laws that I think coexist when you're trying to get out of poverty, and these are the most important in my opinion, which is the law of attraction, the law of proximity and the law of initiative. So these three things and when you break it down, it's all you know. Law of attraction set a goal for yourself. What do you want? Have clarity on that right. Law of initiative is take the initiative, like get started, like do something. And the third one is proximity is getting the right rules, getting proximity with people that have what you want, or people that know, people that have what they want. Just getting out of these environments where there's nothing there for you. Like, if you live in the ghetto and there's, you know, just people selling drugs and you know gang banging and you're sitting here trying to make a million dollars, you're going to be attracted to the people making a million dollars that are selling drugs. You know you're going to follow those footsteps where, if you're hanging out in a better environment of where people are making a million dollars in real estate, you're going to start learning from them, and so you got to put yourself in the right environment. And sometimes you know you have to move out of where you live. If you live in the ghetto, you just got to put your shit and move, even if you you know you got to I don't know live in the streets for a little bit or something. I know some people's situations are tough, you know, and you can't just pick up your stuff and move. But, like, sometimes you have to do stuff like that, like you have to do some crazy shit.

Yeah, it is. For me it's like the law of proximity is something that I didn't know there was a name for it, but it's like you are the five, you know the sum of the five people you spend the most time with, and I always, always heard it growing up as birds of a feather flock together, and you'd always say that in school, just like when someone typically was like you know, mess it around too much for everybody, and they would always say that birds of a feather flock together and ended up being so true as it got into the adult world. It's like if you have a whole bunch of people who are successful and you hang around them, that will raise what you believe to be perceived as normal to the point where, eventually, your level of normal is going to be pretty much right now, maybe your ceiling what others may consider normal. But if you ain't gonna allow success of people, then you're gonna think that that's normal. And then, once you think that that's normal, then you realize that you're subpar. And then, when you realize that you're subpar, it's like all right, well, I gotta A leave this friend group because they're too successful for me, and you know, put your tail between your legs and go, walk away. Or B say I gotta step my game up because of all my guys, of all my peoples, of all my loved ones are at this level, or the people I'm networking with and connecting with at this level. I gotta step it up so I can keep on hanging with them, and so that pushes you into an extra gear I think you won't be able to tap into. And one of the things I always hate is when people say, man, competition is bad. You can only compete with yourself. And for me it sounds good and all when you're gonna roll off the tongue, right. But it's like when you work out on your own. This is one thing I learned from playing football and just working out all the time. When you work out on your own, man, it is annoying to get a good workout in. On the days that you don't feel like showing up, it is extremely hard. The days you feel good, you'll work out regardless, right, you're gonna go to the gym, you're gonna hit it hard, you're gonna do your thing, right. But it's like the days that you don't feel good and you're competing with yourself, right, man, it is hard to get yourself up. But back when I was playing football, man, there was nothing better than those days when we were max testing, bro, it would just be like 50 dogs just all around one bench, yelling, grunting, clapping, smacking. You right, as you get on the bench, press and you got whatever weight you get on there. You get on there, you throw it up. You get up, you start clapping, you start tapping everybody up, everyone starts going crazy and it's just like that helps you kick into a gear you would have never been able to tap into, and into a source that you can't reach up normally. And so it's like we're built as social creatures and a lot of times people try to oh, self-made millionaire, my way to success. And it's like we're the exact opposite of self-made everything, like we need people, man. So how did that show up in your life?

Man with the wholesale business exactly. I realized very quickly that I wasn't gonna be able to do it by myself, especially because I have zeros Like I'd never been in sales. I mean, I like to believe everyone's in sales, but like I never been in like an official sales role. Sales role, yeah, so for me, right, like I was in operations at the National Kidney Registry and that's kind of like where I really found my genius zone is I can, really I can take a system that's not great and really stream like. I'm really good at streamlining systems and making things work faster, better. So that was one thing that I knew I was good at and I was, you know, already had experience managing people, had experience, you know, in operations, et cetera. So I was watching one of Pace Morvey's videos and he was talking about the different avatars in the real estate industry and I said, well, I'm like the integrated person, right, I'm not really the, while I do like to think that I am a visionary, I'm more of the integrated type person where I can do a lot of the back end stuff and integrate the systems and build the systems out, build out the team, et cetera, but I just don't have the skill set right now to lead a sales team and to even do sales in general. So I reached out to one of the communities on there and I'm like, hey, hey, everybody, my name is Andre. Here are my skill sets, this is my experience, this is what I'm good at. I'm looking for somebody that you know I can build a wholesale business with or that I can help build a business with. Couple of people reached out to me and they're like, hey, I'm new, but you want a partner. And I was like, oh, not really, I'm looking for somebody with a little bit more experience than me, so that you know we're both, not two blind guys trying to blindly, you know. So Tyler reaches out and Tyler, why am I my business part of now? And he's like well, you know, I've been studying real estate for like five years, kind of been treating it as a hobby, but I'm ready to take it serious. And you know I'm more of the visionary type. I, you know good at sales, have done it in the past and like, let's partner up. And what we did is we. Before I quit my job, we met every single morning for about a month before I went to work for an hour. So every single day for an hour we would get on the phones and just talk, just like getting to know each other, like sharing ideas, sharing our vision. Every single day for a month. And then for another month when we actually decided to like partner together, we would still meet every morning and I was like, bro, I'm ready to like quit my job. He's like, please don't do that. You know, like he, you know cause, like he was able to work full time he owns a gym, but he was able to like work throughout the day on this business. I'm like, dude, I get home from work and I'm just exhausted, like I work 10 to 12 hours there. I get home like I don't want to make any calls, I don't want to talk to anyone. So I was like I'm just going to quit my job and I say that I throw that around. But I had been saving up for a while. You know, I had about six months worth of expenses. So it wasn't as crazy as I was I mean, it's still kind of crazy, you know, only six months of expenses saved up. But I was like, look, I had, you know, an amazing fiance now fiance that she supported me and she's like you know, we'll make it work. And having her on my side helping me was tremendous, you know, valuable, and I don't know if I probably couldn't have that without her. But yeah, I would not have been able to build this business by myself. So super grateful to have met Tyler and to have been able to partner with him, because together we're going to take this thing to a whole level. That you know again, if I had them right now.

Yeah, definitely, man. It's one of those things where you never know who you'll meet. But when you know, you know kind of, and it seemed like you stumbled across the right person, that you needed to get your business going. And it's a marital situation where it's so many people have so many different opinions, whether it's like started on your own or you partner up. But it's like If you could find someone that complements where you lack Doesn't have to be a partnership, but find some way to collaborate right, some way to work together, some way to Help each other grow, because it's like you can only do but so much on your own, especially if you're, the focus is elsewhere. For example, you had that job right. It's like you had all these other things that you were doing for that job and it was messing up, messing up your bandwidth, because you can only do but so much. I have so much on your plate at the same time. Let me ask you could you mention your fiance, right? If I'm not mistaken, your 25, right 24?

Yeah, turning 26 and 26.

I said she should get old, so let me ask you more than so. You've been able to do a lot and you're still only in the first Quarter of your life, god willing. You know you live in a long time, but right looks like. What have you learned along the way, especially about and the importance of having a supporter died by your side to help, you know, get this entrepreneurship road. A lot of dudes my age. I had a friend personally who like trouble with girls right, not getting them, but just like relationship wise, and it's not he's not in the best situation all the time and it's like relationship is something that Could be something that boosts you into the stratosphere, or it could be something that really, really, you know, start your growth, especially at this age, man, when you're young, you could take More risk, you can move a lot more freely, but if you don't have that right partner, so what has that been like in terms of your journey? Like how, how much of an impact has that been to you when you're successful You've been able to achieve so far?

Yeah, at first I thought that it would be holding me back, like you know, like I said, not having as much freedom or or whatever it might be. I just I thought it would be kind of more of a shackle, you know, holding you back rather than setting your free. But I and this, I didn't Decide to get married because of this. But, you know, bill Gates talks about it, elon Musk talks about it, even though it's almost as a new girl I feel like every Now at this point. But, yeah, they talk about having the right person by your side that's gonna support you, keep you focused, and I really do believe that. You know, julia she's, she's always believed in me that I can do anything I said my mind to and Just having her support, like you know, emotionally. And, yeah, I guess the biggest thing is really the emotional support there, because when you're going to talk to newers, it's a lot of ups and downs and it really does. I was to actually say it keeps you more focused than if you were single. Like, I actually have one friend that I'm thinking of. He's single, but he's super focused. You know he's doing he has a wholesale business as well and up here in the Northeast, but he's super focused, like he never goes out. Never goes out. You know, drinking doesn't chase girls. He's super focused on the business. He's about my age, you know, I think he's right, he's like 24, but he's super focused dude. So for him, you know, being single is great, whereas you know other guys like, for me, if I was single, I would probably be kind of more busy, party and like probably chasing girls. So having, you know, a girl on my side that I'm committed to, has allowed me the freedom to stay focused and build the business, because I I have consistency on this side of my life when I can come home and she supports me in the house with, you know, keep in the house organized and Emotionally when things are down and just all other. And I'll say at the end of the day, tyler, he says so at the time, you know, I rather do it with someone else, like With a friend, then do this by myself because, like you said, it's a lonely journey and it sucks. So why not partner with someone that you enjoy being with and doing it together, which is the same reason that, like one of Tyler's biggest reason for me is, like you know, I built a business, for it sucks like being like it is lonely. It sucks to me by yourself. I want to do it with someone that I trust and that I like, and that's kind of where we're at. That's where I'm at with Julie. You know she's like. I consider her my best friend and I really think that, right there is, the key to a successful relationship is that person being your best friend, and I so. I very strongly believe in Working with people and not doing it by herself.

I really think it's a lot harder doing by yourself you know 100%, and is One of those things where it's like I want everyone knowing that we just said that During you know, entrepreneurship Sucks. It's like suck is inevitable, right? The question is, do you want to front-load it or back-load it? And If you front-load it, it gets easier later on. If you back-load it, the pain of regret is something that I've Not a single person has yet to conquer, and so you can take the easy road now, but it's gonna suck later and you realize that you pretty much Wasted your one and only shot at this, what we call life. So, man, andre, there's been a pleasure getting to catch up with you. This is definitely long overdue, but we finally got to get you on the podcast. Man, I tell us, where can we find you at? What can we connect with you at If you want to learn more about what Andre got going on?

Yeah, instagram is probably the best place. It's Andre Carvalho, the car VAR Rei, so my first and last name are you, I understand now time for a rapid fire round.

So question number one what is the most impactful lesson you learned in life?

You know there are a lot of lessons, but the one that comes to mind first it's probably because we just talked about it is growing together, growing with other people. So Brandon Gadoors he preaches this all the time, that's one of his taglines is let's grow together. And you know we just discussed the reasons of why it's so important To to work with other people's network. First part of the most impactful oh, it's a for me.

Well, what is the most admirable trait a person can have? I'm gonna say integrity. If you have to change someone's life for one book, which book would you recommend? Thinking rich, well, what is the legacy that you're trying to leave behind? I?

forgot the quote that Alex Hermose said a while back about legacy, but it really resonated with me and it was like give enough time. No one's gonna remember you anyways, like given enough time, like at the end of the day, it doesn't matter. So the legacy that I want to leave to my children, I will say, is I want them to have, be abundant and knowledge. That's the legacy that I want to leave to my children is so that they have access to knowledge and Wealth, right for my children, grandchildren. As far as, like a legacy a lot of people talk about, I want to change the world. That's yet to come. I don't. I don't really know what that is or if I'll ever have one. Maybe, you know, 20 years from now, when I'm a lot older and wiser, I will figure that out, but at this point in my life I'm just trying to set up my family to have freedom, and Financially freedom, financial freedom, location freedom and time freedom. I want to set my family to have those three freedoms and that's my vision for the next 10 years. As far as legacy, you know, who knows?

and if anyone wanted to embark on their walk to wealth today, what is the first step you recommend they take?

Get in the right rooms. The law of proximity, I'll say it's number one. I was gonna say law of attraction first, like think about what you want, but you don't know what you want until you see it. So I would say the law of proximity is first because you need to start hanging around people that you believe are successful and being in that environment it's gonna open your mind. Having more conversations with different people, it's gonna open your mind to what the possibilities are and then you can try to figure out what it is that you want, to get clarity and what your, your long-term vision is. So I would say get in the right rooms. If you want to start your Walk to wealth, go to your local. If you can't afford a big mastermind, that's fine. Go to your local real estate meetup. Go to your local like any meetup. It's gonna any meetup you know like they're. Go to them use a meetup app on your phone. Just go to any meetup and just start meeting new people. Just get out of your comfort zone, get in proximity with You've now finished taking the first step.

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