Tim Medvetz

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We're Out of Time · How Tim Medvetz Turned Pain Into Purpose | The Heroes Project · 22 Apr 2025 podcast

I found this great piece of property, no Wi-Fi, no cell phone zone, completely away from all the city, but you can see Hollywood in the distance from the top of the mountain. Went to the Forest Service, gave them my idea. I want to do this great thing, bring it back to life, this whole property. They went for it. Five years dealing with federal bureaucracy.

A year and a half ago, they gave me my permit to build And then I went to the county. Stop. Stop.

Five years. Yeah. To get a permit. Yes. To do God's work. Yeah. Five years. California, you suck. Suck. Well, it gets worse. It gets worse. So that's the federal government. I just want to move.

I want to move. I just hate this place. I know. I hate it. Yeah, I get it. But look out the window. It's 80 degrees and sunshine. Dude, it's 80 degrees and sunshine in Florida. I ride a motorcycle every single day. I got three 10,000-foot mountains that are an hour from the Sunset Strip. We have the best restaurants. There's a lot of good shit in California, right?

As long as you put aside all the politics and all the bullshit, that stuff.

Yeah, if you don't ever turn on television, okay, or ever speak to anybody, California's great. Yes.

So, after this five and a half year journey with the federal government, which is the U.S. Forest Service, they approved it. Said, okay, we're going to let you build it. Now, I got to go to the county and get my actual building printed. I can't hear it. I'm trying to get aggravated. I'll see here. I'm going to snap. I'm going to lose control. So, hey. Okay. Good news. I got good news, though.

It ends with a really great story. All right. So, after a year and 10 months, almost two years... I just received word last week that I'm getting my building permit next week. We're doing a groundbreaking ceremony. After seven years? Six and a half, yes. Dude, you could have been a doctor. Well, here's the good news.

The good news is that we're going to actually put the hard hats on, dig the shovels into the ground. When's this happening? Memorial Day weekend on Friday afternoon. We're going to start it. This Memorial Day? Yep. And we start building. But because of this journey that I've been through... I figure I got enough money to last us about six months. So to build this thing, it's going to be cheap.

It's going to be about $7 million. That was not a problem. But it is a problem when you're telling people, I'm going to build this veteran retreat center. It doesn't exist in California. We're going to do this. It's not like, uh-huh, when are you doing it? Now that we're actually digging, now we go into fundraising mode and then building this thing that doesn't exist in this state.

We'll be here long before we're gone. I'm out.

And that's where I'm at right now. So here's where the rubber meets the road. What can, and dude, I'm telling you right now, okay, I've been doing this six and a half months. Okay. I can't believe how many people are watching this. I don't even deal with the listening part of it. The Apple and the Spotify. I don't even care. Okay.

This is the, I watch the YouTube because me, I want to see, I want to connect. I don't even talk to people on the phone. If I can't FaceTime them, I don't even want to speak to them. Yeah. I'm the same way. Yeah, because I want to- I was 25. I want to connect with you. I get friends that get pissed off when I FaceTime them.

Dude, I was doing this, like the minute FaceTime came out, somebody said, I said, Mike, you could do this? Yeah, yeah. And I've been doing it, and people think I'm a weirdo. Same.

Same. I'm like, look, if your pants are on your ankles, you're sitting on the- Okay, I get it, okay? But like, why can't we just talk? I can't see. You're in New York. I'm in LA. What's wrong with that? Yeah, there's nothing wrong. No, no, no. What's wrong with taking a FaceTime call on the-

Yeah, I'm not talking that FaceTime in the shower. It ain't happening. Everybody thinks that. I call everybody while I'm on the... Because I... Dude, I sleep three hours a night as it is. I work 20 hours a day around the clock. It's like, what? I mean, I'm not going to... It's like, come on. You do your best thinking in the shower and on the toilet. Yes or no?

Yes, but there's one thing you're missing here. Give it to me. It's called me time. Not our time, that's me time. Oh, I don't have any me time. Yeah. I don't have any me time. Yeah, well, you got to have some me time. It's like when I bring these guys up to the mountains, right? It's a complete disconnect. And I have a very strict no cell phone policy with the guys. Right.

And they get a little, they always question, well, I'm just going to take my phones for, take pictures. I'm like, no, this is how it works. You want to come along the program. There's no cell phones. It'll be there in your truck when we get off the mountain. What's the problem? Because we're going to be up on that mountain and we sit in that tent. Right.

And then all of a sudden you're going to take your phone out. It won't work. There's no cell phone, no wifi. And then you start scrolling through text messages, photos, and just that simple action. You know what that does? That takes you off the mountain and puts you down there. That's right. And I don't want you down there. I need you up here. I need you in the now.

I need you to take all this shit in. And it's been a big factor in rehabilitating these guys is just that disconnect from all the noise down here. You know, wives and kids and, you know, bills and all the shit that comes along with the noise. You need to just disconnect. What I want to know is...

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