Working For A Dream

There are many ways to obtaining happiness. Some find it in the work they do. Some find it in hobbies or continuing education. Others find it in things, while others find happiness in working with other people or being outdoors. At the core of your pursuit of happiness, it's important to remember that doing what you love first will always bring you everything else you could ever want or need.

Danielle Dubois started her journey most people do.......college, graduation, and working in corporate America. Her first stint was working for one of the Top 5 Medical Device companies in the world. But there was a problem........she wasn't fulfilled.

After figuring out what made her tick, Danielle embarked on a journey that has led her to become a Houston Influencer amongst the foodie community as "The Hangry Houstonian."

Danielle is invited, summoned, and commissioned to try restaurants from all around Houston, share, tag, and post up her findings on social media. As of the date of this podcast episode, she has over 132K followers on Instagram and has built a company that now employs her Mother, Father, and a few other family members.

What You'll Learn:

• Where Danielle Dubois is originally from and how she got her start
• When she started being the Hangry Houstonian
• What she did to become the Hangry Houstonian and build a brand bigger than herself
• The name of the company she worked for where she made great money and had a 401K and retirement only to give it up in pursuit of something more
• How long it took Danielle's parents to really get on board with her new venture
• How fashion bloggers on Instagram inspired her to become a household name in the ever-popular and diverse Houston Foodie Community
• Why she focuses on Mom and Pop Restaurants
• How she was able to get one video to go viral that created long lines out the door of one Houston restaurant
• The importance of getting outside your comfort zone, exploring new cultures, and one story that allowed her to dial in what she offers
• How she decides which restaurants to work with and why she highlights certain items over others
• The type of camera she uses
• The great debate between the effectiveness of social media versus traditional advertising methods such as billboards, print, and TV.

Favorite Quote:

"Follow your passion and the money will come!"

-Danielle Dubois

Connect with Danielle Dubois:

Instagram

How to Get Involved:

Patrick Bolanos is a serial entrepreneur, business owner, and CEO of Trailer King Builders in Houston, Texas.

He was raised in Nicaragua, exposed to extreme poverty, and also had the fortune of being exposed to life in the United States traveling back and forth to both countries.

After college, Patrick's career took him into the corporate world of banking where he learned the important lessons of understanding what you're selling and why it's important to believe in it.

Back in December of 2017, Patrick was fired from his job as a CFO for a Restaurant Group. With only $500 to his name, rent due, his wife, 3 children at home, and one on the way, he was forced to figure out how to pull his family out of this financial abyss that was strangling his life.

With no knowledge of how to build a trailer, Patrick simply figured all of it out and has now built it into the thriving empire of what's now become Trailer King Builders.

Connect with Patrick:

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Growing up in Guatemala with wealthy parents, Pedro Meneses "had it all."

"That's the reality," he says. "I went to private school. My dad sponsored me for college and everything I've always wanted in my life… my friends were, like, politicians' kids and people that had to have chauffeurs and security."

As he moved through his early 20s, Pedro realized that although his life was full of privilege, it wasn't full of much meaning. "You start growing up in a way that you feel like the world owes you something," he adds. "My entire life, for some reason, there was always something in me telling me that there was something that was not right."

He tried searching for meaning as a volunteer firefighter in Guatemala, where most of his time was spent working with poor, underresourced families. Eventually, the search for meaning would take him to the U.S., where he married and became an entrepreneur. But it wasn't until the pandemic that he realized his struggle to find meaning could be attributed to one source, in particular: his relationship to masculinity.

In this episode of the Working For a Dream Podcast, Patrick and Pedro talk about why COVID led Pedro to develop "a hunger to be more of a man" and how that led him to found his beard-care company and community, The Way of the Modern Beast.

What You'll Learn:

• What made Pedro realize that so many of the men he encountered in life had "emptiness in their eyes"
• Why he believes "self-mastery" and "self-care" go hand-in-hand
• Why he founded a community where men can grow and find their strengths alongside other men
• And much more!

Favorite Quote:

"Masculinity for me is that a man should have a purpose... because then you have something that you have the battle to fight for. You have the adventure to live, and you have a companion that can help you through that battle and who you can invite to that adventure for your life."

— Pedro Meneses

Connect with Pedro:

The Way of the Modern Beast

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Facebook

How to Get Involved:

Patrick Bolanos is a serial entrepreneur, business owner, and CEO of Trailer King Builders in Houston, Texas.

He was raised in Nicaragua, exposed to extreme poverty, and also had the fortune of being exposed to life in the United States traveling back and forth to both countries.

After college, Patrick's career took him into the corporate world of banking where he learned the important lessons of understanding what you're selling and why it's important to believe in it.

Back in December of 2017, Patrick was fired from his job as a CFO for a Restaurant Group. With only $500 to his name, rent due, his wife, 3 children at home, and one on the way, he was forced to figure out how to pull his family out of this financial abyss that was strangling his life.

With no knowledge of how to build a trailer, Patrick simply figured all of it out and has now built it into the thriving empire of what's now become Trailer King Builders.

Connect with Patrick:

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Instagram

Nicaragua, where Patrick Bolanos was born and raised, is one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere, right behind Haiti. He's lived in the U.S. for some time now, but whenever Patrick returns — as he did recently, with his 15-year-old daughter in tow — he's reminded of the way his native country's extreme poverty "hits you every single time." Patrick was back in Nicaragua to meet the parents of children he supports through his Working for A Dream Baseball Academy.

"My goal in life was to make an impact, especially in the life of Nicaraguan boys and children that play baseball," he says. "My ultimate dream was to play baseball. So that's why I support a baseball academy, and by support, I mean economically and financially. I made it a mission to help this academy so that we can give kids the opportunity to sign with Major League Baseball."

In this special solo episode of the Working For a Dream Podcast, Patrick talks about the impact he's been able to help make through the academy and the importance of perspective.

What You'll Learn:

• What Patrick's takeaways are from his recent return to Nicaragua
• The type of support he's been able to offer Nicaraguan families
• Why baseball gives kids a unique opportunity to access a better-resourced life
• And much more!

Favorite Quote:

"I invite everybody that's listening to find something that you're passionate about. Find something that you can do to get out there and create some perspective in your life. It helps build that gratitude muscle."

— Patrick Bolanos

Connect with Patrick:

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How to Get Involved:

Patrick Bolanos is a serial entrepreneur, business owner, and CEO of Trailer King Builders in Houston, Texas.

He was raised in Nicaragua, exposed to extreme poverty, and also had the fortune of being exposed to life in the United States traveling back and forth to both countries.

After college, Patrick's career took him into the corporate world of banking where he learned the important lessons of understanding what you're selling and why it's important to believe in it.

Back in December of 2017, Patrick was fired from his job as a CFO for a Restaurant Group. With only $500 to his name, rent due, his wife, 3 children at home, and one on the way, he was forced to figure out how to pull his family out of this financial abyss that was strangling his life.

With no knowledge of how to build a trailer, Patrick simply figured all of it out and has now built it into the thriving empire of what's now become Trailer King Builders.

Right before hitting rock bottom, Samuel Smith was on top. Or at least, it felt like he was.

When the oil field crashed in 2009, Samuel needed a new way of making money. So, he googled "how to make money online" — and discovered what he calls the "wonderful rabbit hole of affiliate marketing and pay-per-click marketing." Before long, it felt like his earnings had no cap.

"I remember my first $100 day and my first $1,000 day," he says. "By 2011, I was spending like $5,000 a day on Facebook, which was the most you could spend on an ad account back then, and it was nothing because I would make $7,000 a day in return. I thought I'd made it. I remember telling my buddy that I found a cheat code to life."

But, as Samuel says, all good things have "an equal and opposite reaction." He was making more money than he'd thought possible, but he was a bad steward of it. He wasn't taking care of his finances, and he wasn't taking care of himself, his diet, or his relationships. What Samuel was doing a lot of us was drinking. And when the time came that his business faced a challenge, he wasn't prepared.

In this episode of the Working For a Dream Podcast, Samuel tells Patrick about the "complete collapse and absolute disaster" of that first business, what it was like to hit rock bottom after believing himself already retired at age 36, and how Samuel is doing business differently — and sustainably — today.

What You'll Learn:

• How drinking helped fuel his life's rock bottom moment and lost him hundreds of thousands of dollars — and how he's recovered with two seven-figure-earning businesses today
• How his life has changed for the better since he ditched the toxic masculinity instilled in him in his youth
• Why shifting his business attitude from making money to guiding people has been so impactful
• And much more!

Favorite Quote:

"What I've discovered is that most entrepreneurs have all been through the same stuff. You have a point in your story where you're sitting in the truck crying. I have a point in my story where my mom hugged me and whispered into my ear to 'sort your f***ing life out.' Every entrepreneur seems to have hit bottom."

— Samuel Smith

How to Get Involved:

Connect with Samuel:

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Connect with Patrick:

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How to Get Involved:

Patrick Bolanos is a serial entrepreneur, business owner, and CEO of Trailer King Builders in Houston, Texas.

He was raised in Nicaragua, exposed to extreme poverty, and also had the fortune of being exposed to life in the United States traveling back and forth to both countries.

After college, Patrick's career took him into the corporate world of banking where he learned the important lessons of understanding what you're selling and why it's important to believe in it.

Back in December of 2017, Patrick was fired from his job as a CFO for a Restaurant Group. With only $500 to his name, rent due, his wife, 3 children at home, and one on the way, he was forced to figure out how to pull his family out of this financial abyss that was strangling his life.

With no knowledge of how to build a trailer, Patrick simply figured all of it out and has now built it into the thriving empire of what's now become Trailer King Builders.

Our educational system is only designed to prepare you for one thing in life; programming. From the moment we enter school, we are programmed to make good grades, go to college, get a good job, get married, work 40 years, retire, and live happily ever after. There are some people who don't quite make it that far and break the glass on the conventions of life. Today's guest is one of those people. Ramon Casaus started his professional life in college, and got a job, only to find that like many people, he wasn't living in alignment with his life. In 2015, Ramon got his license. This changed the trajectory of his life which opened options, secured him financially, and helped him launch into building newfound freedom and the balance found in working for himself. Not long after, Ramon became an investor and serial entrepreneur investing in various businesses across various industries.

In this episode, Patrick and Ramon discuss the power of reaching optimal levels and going in search of what's next. Ramon talks about certain characteristics that only exist in overachievers. He talks about how he found his drive and motivation by being tired of being broke. He shares how as he began to grow, he realized he was needing to grow his circle of friends and some of the new challenges he faced at each level of success. Patrick and Ramon share a common bond in having completed #75Hard and the effects it's had on their individual lives. Ramon is a best-selling author and host of the Battle-Tested Business Podcast.

What You'll Learn:

• How many months in a row Ramon was told "no" before his father came to him with help
• Ramon discusses why he didn't want to receive help from family
• Why changing routines helped transform Ramon into the person he needed to become to get to the next level in his life and business
• The importance of finding good operators, and why it's necessary to provide training and resources to help them succeed
• Some of the Cannabis projects Ramon is currently pursuing
• Why connecting and networking with those who are successful at what you want to do is important to do starting today
• How removing emotion helped Ramon to find impenetrable focus in each endeavor he's engaged in
• Why Patrick wears the same thing every single day
• The two important things you can do to master your time management challenges
• A hack to help you save time by limiting your drive time to physical locations
• Taking responsibility of being accountable to where your focus needs to go
• The importance of having really good mentors at each level you achieve in life and business
• People's perception of those who work out and are in great shape
• The title of Ramon's #1 Best-Selling book
• And much more!

Favorite Quote:

"You have to remove what society's expectations on when you should sleep, when you should work, when you shouldn't, what gets discussed at the dinner table. That's whatever you want to do. I don't care what my neighbor does. I'll drive home and get right back on my computer. I have a lot of work-life balance. You have to remove the external noise on how you run your life and run it however it works for you."

• Ramon Casaus

How To Get Involved:

Book: No Permission Needed

Battle Tested Business Podcast

How to Get Involved:

Patrick Bolanos is a serial entrepreneur, business owner, and CEO of Trailer King Builders in Houston, Texas.

He was raised in Nicaragua, exposed to extreme poverty, and also had the fortune of being exposed to life in the United States traveling back and forth to both countries.

After college, Patrick's career took him into the corporate world of banking where he learned the important lessons of understanding what you're selling and why it's important to believe in it.

Back in December of 2017, Patrick was fired from his job as a CFO for a Restaurant Group. With only $500 to his name, rent due, his wife, 3 children at home, and one on the way, he was forced to figure out how to pull his family out of this financial abyss that was strangling his life.

With no knowledge of how to build a trailer, Patrick simply figured all of it out and has now built it into the thriving empire of what's now become Trailer King Builders.

Jesse Lee Ward's childhood set her up for later success as an entrepreneur — though not in the way you might think.

"I grew up with nothing. I was the kid that got made fun of for not having the right clothes, not having the right food at lunch — if there even was food at lunch," she said. "I was the kid that couldn't go on field trips. Like, it sucked. And I'm really grateful for that. Because it made me not so much know what my 'why' was — a lot of people in personal development are like, 'What's your deep-rooted why?' And I'm like, I don't know! But I can tell you very clearly what I don't want because I lived it for so long."

After college, Jesse Lee found that she was still struggling. She was sick of the "glorification of the 9-to-5," as well as the "glorification of going broke every two weeks." She knew she could work hard, but not if it meant giving her everything to a job that was paying her $35,000 a year. She'd already been fired once and needed a way of making rent, fast. So, she decided to go out on a limb.

"I just googled 'at-home businesses that make the most money,'" she said. "I went to training. I showed up. I started personal development because I was a hot mess express. And at 26, I made my first million that year, and it's been crazy ever since."

In this episode of the Working For a Dream Podcast, Jesse Lee tells Patrick how she made it big in network marketing after starting at zero — and how she ultimately created success on her own terms.

What You'll Learn:

• How being told no her "whole childhood" made Jesse Lee resilient against the rejection of early entrepreneurship
• How she turned the things that make her "not a great employee" into (profitable) strengths
• What helped her to overcome her scarcity issues
• And much more!

Favorite Quote:

"When was the last time you wrote down, pen to paper, where you want to be in five years? In 10 years? This year?... When is the last time you said out loud that you have, not even that you're going to, but that you have multiple streams of income that flow abundantly to you? You're gonna feel like a strange, little witch. That's fine. But the crazy thing is when you start to see yourself as a different version of yourself, your brain literally reverse-engineers the steps necessary to get there."

— Jesse Lee Ward

How to Get Involved:

Connect with Jesse Lee:

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Facebook

YouTube

Podcast

How to Get Involved:

Patrick Bolanos is a serial entrepreneur, business owner, and CEO of Trailer King Builders in Houston, Texas.

He was raised in Nicaragua, exposed to extreme poverty, and also had the fortune of being exposed to life in the United States traveling back and forth to both countries.

After college, Patrick's career took him into the corporate world of banking where he learned the important lessons of understanding what you're selling and why it's important to believe in it.

Back in December of 2017, Patrick was fired from his job as a CFO for a Restaurant Group. With only $500 to his name, rent due, his wife, 3 children at home, and one on the way, he was forced to figure out how to pull his family out of this financial abyss that was strangling his life.

With no knowledge of how to build a trailer, Patrick simply figured all of it out and has now built it into the thriving empire of what's now become Trailer King Builders.

Baseball is a national past-time in America. Civil War hero Abner Doubleday is often credited with developing the game in 1839, but the real history is much older and more complicated. In society, specifically "travel ball," society, Baseball is keeping one of the biggest ways some of baseball's brightest talent injure themselves due to over-exposure, and damage from not learning the proper techniques to prevent injury while maximizing performance.

Brent Pourciau is the Founder of Top Velocity, a baseball performance training academy dedicated to performance enhancement and player development.

In this episode, Patrick and Brent dive deep into the world of Baseball. Brent shares his journey from high school baseball, to Junior College baseball, but not without a rotator cuff injury and a complicated health journey. His injury kept him in pain for a couple of years. Brent's education in Kinesiology helped him improve his performance and maximize his career into his late 20s.

What You'll Learn

• How the body works so you can push and challenge it
• Why performance enhancers are creating issues in baseball
• At what age most injuries occur
• A few famous baseball players had the chance to play pro ball with
• Why he went to Belgium
• The year Brent launched his online training which has grown to an average of 500,000 followers on multiple platforms
• The degrees he holds and why he went the medical route for his PhD
• What the Kinetic chain is and why it's so important to use
• Why Brent believes American travel ball culture needs to be revamped immediately

Connect With Brent:

Top Velocity

LinkTree (Brent Pourciau)

How to Get Involved:

Patrick Bolanos is a serial entrepreneur, business owner, and CEO of Trailer King Builders in Houston, Texas.

He was raised in Nicaragua, exposed to extreme poverty, and also had the fortune of being exposed to life in the United States traveling back and forth to both countries.

After college, Patrick's career took him into the corporate world of banking where he learned the important lessons of understanding what you're selling and why it's important to believe in it.

Back in December of 2017, Patrick was fired from his job as a CFO for a Restaurant Group. With only $500 to his name, rent due, his wife, 3 children at home, and one on the way, he was forced to figure out how to pull his family out of this financial abyss that was strangling his life.

With no knowledge of how to build a trailer, Patrick simply figured all of it out and has now built it into the thriving empire of what's now become Trailer King Builders.

Have you ever had misconceptions about what you think another country is like? How about the people? Even though we have access to Google images, videos, and social media platforms to connect us all, we still have misconceptions about the people, customs, and everything else associated with a country based on what we've heard, people we've met from those countries, and stereotypes often promoted through media.

Meet Sam Kehayias, aka The CRM Bro. He's a guru when it comes to everything Monday.com and is an expert in GoHighLevel. He was born and raised in Australia and is now looking at the prospects or possibilities to work and live in the U.S.

Patrick and Sam kick off the episode by talking about the migrant and immigrant cultures. Patrick is from Nicaragua and has been in the country for 10 years and since has become a citizen. Sam shares how his family emigrated from Greece to Australia. They talk about the allure of country cultures and financial resources, the difference in population, and the opportunity to access wealth through networks and business. Sam shares some of the revelations that hit him after the world's biggest and most controversial time in human history.

What You'll Learn:

• The importance of giving first
• How Sam got his start in the CRM Space
• How many clients do they have (the number will shock you considering most of them are in the United States)
• Why using automation is a nice way to dip your toes into the pool while you're building out your CRM
• Why it doesn't matter where you are in business
• The power of a network and the value of doing things step by step as you're building your business
• Patrick shares some earlier tracking processes they had in place that left them weeks behind
• How being organized and automating your systems and processes can allow you to have an easier time with project management
• Why it's important to hand the important tasks to people smarter than you.

Favorite Quote:

"If everyone's on the same page, it's an easier way to move."

- Sam Kehayia

Connect with Sam:

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Facebook

How to Get Involved:

Patrick Bolanos is a serial entrepreneur, business owner, and CEO of Trailer King Builders in Houston, Texas.

He was raised in Nicaragua, exposed to extreme poverty, and also had the fortune of being exposed to life in the United States traveling back and forth to both countries.

After college, Patrick's career took him into the corporate world of banking where he learned the important lessons of understanding what you're selling and why it's important to believe in it.

Back in December of 2017, Patrick was fired from his job as a CFO for a Restaurant Group. With only $500 to his name, rent due, his wife, 3 children at home, and one on the way, he was forced to figure out how to pull his family out of this financial abyss that was strangling his life.

With no knowledge of how to build a trailer, Patrick simply figured all of it out and has now built it into the thriving empire of what's now become Trailer King Builders.

Every good thing starts with an idea, but what makes it great is the action-taking step of the process.

In this episode, you'll meet two friends, Kevin and Kody that started off their journey and got inspired by shows like Shark Tank. At a young age, they knew they wanted to make their dream of being entrepreneurs a reality. So, they did what most entrepreneurs did...........

They took a leap. A lot of their inspiration came from the challenging time they were having in school growing up.

In this episode, the guys talk about dyslexia, college, and the hustle culture that propelled them into looking for the quickest way to make as much money as possible.

One of the partners shares how they took their God-given creativity and started emulating what others were doing and started coming up with more creative ways to create their own thing.

Some of the best tips they have around entrepreneurship is:

• Simply getting things started
• Be willing to work hard to fund your dream no matter what
• Why being a fun brand makes more money
• How it's important to not rush the process of building your business
• Why it's important to consistently hustle through this journey
• A rare view on how you should look at the "cost" versus the investment and how to justify the return

Connect with Best Spudz:

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How to Get Involved:

Patrick Bolanos is a serial entrepreneur, business owner, and CEO of Trailer King Builders in Houston, Texas.

He was raised in Nicaragua, exposed to extreme poverty, and also had the fortune of being exposed to life in the United States traveling back and forth to both countries.

After college, Patrick's career took him into the corporate world of banking where he learned the important lessons of understanding what you're selling and why it's important to believe in it.

Back in December of 2017, Patrick was fired from his job as a CFO for a Restaurant Group. With only $500 to his name, rent due, his wife, 3 children at home, and one on the way, he was forced to figure out how to pull his family out of this financial abyss that was strangling his life.

With no knowledge of how to build a trailer, Patrick simply figured all of it out and has now built it into the thriving empire of what's now become Trailer King Builders.

How to Get Involved:

Patrick Bolanos is a serial entrepreneur, business owner, and CEO of Trailer King Builders in Houston, Texas.

He was raised in Nicaragua, exposed to extreme poverty, and also had the fortune of being exposed to life in the United States traveling back and forth to both countries.

After college, Patrick's career took him into the corporate world of banking where he learned the important lessons of understanding what you're selling and why it's important to believe in it.

Back in December of 2017, Patrick was fired from his job as a CFO for a Restaurant Group. With only $500 to his name, rent due, his wife, 3 children at home, and one on the way, he was forced to figure out how to pull his family out of this financial abyss that was strangling his life.

With no knowledge of how to build a trailer, Patrick simply figured all of it out and has now built it into the thriving empire of what's now become Trailer King Builders.