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Dan Fleyshman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
4292 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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The Money Mondays
From the Bronx to Building an Empire: Vince Ricci on Business, Investing & Giving Back ๐Ÿฐ E166

What does that mean to you?

The Money Mondays
From the Bronx to Building an Empire: Vince Ricci on Business, Investing & Giving Back ๐Ÿฐ E166

So we've had friends around us that have either been lazy or got fat and things like that.

The Money Mondays
From the Bronx to Building an Empire: Vince Ricci on Business, Investing & Giving Back ๐Ÿฐ E166

And you've taken it upon yourself to check them and jeopardize your relationship with them by being so stern with them.

The Money Mondays
From the Bronx to Building an Empire: Vince Ricci on Business, Investing & Giving Back ๐Ÿฐ E166

But now we see them become fit, healthy, and some of them even become their whole persona now about being fit and healthy.

The Money Mondays
From the Bronx to Building an Empire: Vince Ricci on Business, Investing & Giving Back ๐Ÿฐ E166

Talk us through why you're willing to risk your relationship and why it's important to be able to tell your friends the truth, the blunt truth.

The Money Mondays
From the Bronx to Building an Empire: Vince Ricci on Business, Investing & Giving Back ๐Ÿฐ E166

All right, let's talk about the charity side of things.

The Money Mondays
From the Bronx to Building an Empire: Vince Ricci on Business, Investing & Giving Back ๐Ÿฐ E166

So 12 years ago, you named Trina's Kids Foundation after your mother.

The Money Mondays
From the Bronx to Building an Empire: Vince Ricci on Business, Investing & Giving Back ๐Ÿฐ E166

What was the original concept when you first started here in Hubble Studio in Boyle Heights and having the first three or 400 families come over here to pick up toys or Thanksgiving food drives, et cetera?

The Money Mondays
From the Bronx to Building an Empire: Vince Ricci on Business, Investing & Giving Back ๐Ÿฐ E166

So the evolution of the charity, Trina's Kids Foundation, again, started with eight volunteers in year one.

The Money Mondays
From the Bronx to Building an Empire: Vince Ricci on Business, Investing & Giving Back ๐Ÿฐ E166

Year two, there was 20, then 40, then 100.

The Money Mondays
From the Bronx to Building an Empire: Vince Ricci on Business, Investing & Giving Back ๐Ÿฐ E166

It just kept growing and growing.

The Money Mondays
From the Bronx to Building an Empire: Vince Ricci on Business, Investing & Giving Back ๐Ÿฐ E166

But now it's Miami Heat Arena, Raider Stadium, SoFi Stadium, BMO Stadium.

The Money Mondays
From the Bronx to Building an Empire: Vince Ricci on Business, Investing & Giving Back ๐Ÿฐ E166

We're talking about stadiums and arenas.

The Money Mondays
From the Bronx to Building an Empire: Vince Ricci on Business, Investing & Giving Back ๐Ÿฐ E166

The efficiency, the execution, the operation is now at a massive scale.

The Money Mondays
From the Bronx to Building an Empire: Vince Ricci on Business, Investing & Giving Back ๐Ÿฐ E166

We did 240,000 toys last December, breaking another Guinness Book World Record.

The Money Mondays
From the Bronx to Building an Empire: Vince Ricci on Business, Investing & Giving Back ๐Ÿฐ E166

Walk us through your thoughts now going from, okay, we're going to take care of and help your local 300 or 400 families that would come over to now still doing that, but taking it to 10 cities and 240,000 toys.

The Money Mondays
From the Bronx to Building an Empire: Vince Ricci on Business, Investing & Giving Back ๐Ÿฐ E166

The relief on their faces, the pain.

The Money Mondays
From the Bronx to Building an Empire: Vince Ricci on Business, Investing & Giving Back ๐Ÿฐ E166

Damon John, there's so many characters coming now.

The Money Mondays
From the Bronx to Building an Empire: Vince Ricci on Business, Investing & Giving Back ๐Ÿฐ E166

Right.

The Money Mondays
From the Bronx to Building an Empire: Vince Ricci on Business, Investing & Giving Back ๐Ÿฐ E166

So when it comes to charity, every time there's the volunteers, whether it's five, 10 volunteers in a random city or there's 100 plus volunteers here at Hubble Studio, you give a speech beforehand to make them realize, to make the volunteers realize that outside of them taking a picture and just kind of being around, you want them to work or you'd rather them leave.