Damian Maldonado

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575 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 19 Feb

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So we had to get checks and put it into the account to pay ourselves.

So from learning that, I was like, man, the cash flow is really important.

If I don't get a paycheck...

I don't think a lot of people have experienced that in their life, especially people that have had jobs, having to make enough cash.

And that is for yourself.

Like, you know, I've had employees back in the early days where I didn't make money, but they did.

I had to pay them.

Yeah.

So sometimes I couldn't make a check and my co-founder and ex, sometimes she didn't get paid for a few months.

or maybe even a year, she was getting zero and I was getting $500 a week.

And that was, we were able to afford, you know, a modest lifestyle then.

But I'd had friends in that timeframe come into her when we first started the business.

Like my friend, Kerry Hecker, he came with this $20,000 check.

Here's my commission.

And I'm going, oh my God, I should go get a job.

Well, he's made $20,000 and I'm like making $500 or $2,000.

He's making 10X.

And here I am with this risk and have employees and he's just living the life.

And it took a while, years to really make a nice paycheck.

The market kind of got sour on those 125% loan to value deals.

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