Robert Eisenstadt
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116 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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I only use American express now. Yeah. Uh, like the charge cards and then like the platinum and the gold or whatever for the benefits, but it's a charge card. It's not a credit card. So I'd pay it off at the end of every month. Yeah, dude. If you're not paying your credit cards off every two weeks, you're doing it wrong.
I had quite a few jobs. So, uh, 11th grade, I got pulled out of school because of my anger problems in high school. Uh, I tested out, I got my GED, my good enough diploma. And, um, I wanted my diploma, I missed one question, didn't get it. So I had to go get a job. My first job was at Del Taco. And it lasted about a week. I've never been good with authority.
And I find that with most entrepreneurs, but I've never been good with authority. last about a week. I quit. I went back to selling weed again. Uh, that tried and true. Yeah. I lasted like a little bit until I ended up getting a job as a photographer for some attractions, like up on the stratosphere at the top, uh, the zip lines.
Then I became a tour guide for the zip lines, uh, like the flight lines out in Boulder city. They're closed now. Um, I don't know if you ever got a chance to do it, but it's awesome.
Oh, Boulder City, yeah. No, I never did. It's closed now, but it was really cool. It was a great job. And then I ended up becoming a lot porter at a Ford dealership. And from the lot porter, I went to like a loop tech pretty quickly. And then from there, I went to a service advisor and the service advisor was the last job I ever had.
And by that time, so when I was 20 years old, my parents got divorced. My mom moved to Florida. When I was 21 years old, it was a Saturday, November 8th, 2014. I was at work and that's the day my dad died. So I was 21 years old. I was at work. I got a phone call from his boss and my dad was always a hard worker. His boss calls me on my cell phone. I
Calls me and goes, hey, your dad never showed up for work today. He's never missed a day in the 30 years, whatever. Yeah, we're worried about him. I just want to make sure he's okay. And I'm like, that's weird. So I call my ex who was at my house that night. I had worked super early. And I was like, hey, is my dad still there? And she goes, I don't know. I already left.
I'm like, hey, can you please go back to my house and see if my dad is still at the house? She pulls up to the house, walks into the house, walks into my dad's bedroom, and she calls me and she goes, Robert, your dad's not waking up. And so it's kind of a blur. Yeah. But yeah, I called 911, didn't say anything to anybody. I left, went home.
By the time I got to my house, my house is full of cops and paramedics. And so he suffered his third heart attack and passed away in his sleep. Thankfully, he was like peaceful, you know? Yeah. And they gave me like four or five days off of work. But it wasn't enough. I mean, it was just me and my dad. He was upside down on his house. I was helping him cover bills.
And like, so I have all this stress of a funeral, where I'm going to live, like all this stuff. I tried going back to work for like two days. All I could do is sit in my office and cry. And I'm like, dude, I'm useless here. And they're like, sorry, we need you here. I'm like, well, I'm sorry. You could pound sand. I'm done.
So I quit and, uh, went to Sedona, Arizona for a few days, cleared my head and just told myself I'll never let anybody tell me what I can and can't do ever again.
Life is just, everything in life is just perspective, right? Like you can look at a situation and think, woe is me, or you could just be a victor out of that pain, right? So it's like, I've seen, throughout the tragedy, I've realized the main thing is I know that I could die tomorrow. I could die, I could leave this podcast, I could die on the way to my office.
Like I have a very clear understanding of that, right? So it's like, why wouldn't you try? Why wouldn't you try and do something great? Why wouldn't you try and benefit other people's lives? Why wouldn't you try and give your kids everything that you never had, right? So it's like, yeah, I could sit there on my sorrows, but that does nothing for me.
And the thing that I fall back into a lot of times is like, I look at like emotions, anxiety, depression, and then presence. Right. So like my perspective of depression is living in the past. Right. My perspective of anxiety is living in the future. Yeah. So happiness comes from the present and happiness is never a destination. How Buddhist of you. Right. Right.
Well, I mean, seriously, that's Buddhist philosophy. And that's great. You know, I've, I've written some books. I don't, I don't pay attention too much of whatever it comes from or whatever.
You chose. Yeah. Everybody has a choice. You could do whatever you want. Like, it's like that old, like saying that your parents used to tell you, like you could do anything you want as long as you put your mind to it. It's true. You just have to choose to do it.
Like I could choose to be a depressed junkie and sit on the couch all day and do drugs, or I could choose to go make something in the world. Yeah. That's what I choose.
So I went to try to open up a Buffalo wild wings. You had to have a 750 K liquid. I didn't have that as a 21 year old kid. I did get $80,000 for life insurance. Um, most of that went to like bills. I ended up getting a tattoo done of his portrait and stuff. And I bought myself a truck.
And then I went to a party one night and I was talking to my buddy and he goes, dude, you should just start a carpet cleaning business. I work for this guy that does carpet cleaning and he makes pretty good money. And I was like, absolutely not. I'm not doing that. A week went by and I was like, I just, I have to start something.
And so I called him.
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