Gary Brecka

but the the money and the logistics i mean you know for 17 days to just be absent obviously you're not coaching during that time frame you're not earning money during that time frame did you get sponsors and yeah and you just lived in a van yeah yeah so what happened is you know just yeah just like what you said like yeah yeah the operation that we had was the exact operation you know we had an rv down yeah yeah we had an we had an rv and a sprinter van yeah but yeah i just you know i um i overworked my team at that point you know i didn't have a lot of

You know, I mean, I had 200,000 followers.

I had a little bit of pull on the social media side from brands.

But I just started hitting them up.

I was like, yo, like, how much money can you give me to use your product while I do this event?

And, you know, I feel like it was so good to do that because now I know so much about business.

And I had to teach myself all of these things because I didn't go to college.

I just went to the military.

And like, oh, like, we'll give you five grand for three reels and –

a thousand stories, you know, like it was just, they were just getting me and I'm like done.

And you know, like, and we accumulated $60,000 the first year through,

40 brands.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Drew, you met, um, Drew is now one of my best friends and he was, he was the lead content guy out there.

And I just put him through the ringer with the things he had to do.

But yeah, we got, we got $60,000 in, in the operation was crazy.

we, we, we cleared, we had a, I had a thousand dollars left when we were done.

Like, like we were, and then we don't, and then I donated it to Valor fix.