Episode 12

You Can Overcome Anything with Cesar Espino

Cesar Espino has overcome many obstacles in his life. From growing up without a father, followed by his mother leaving, living in extreme poverty in Mexico, all the way to growing a thriving real estate investing + coaching career- Cesar has an incredibly powerful story to share and I was honored to be able to sit down and talk with him! 

You can find his books and follow his journey at the below links.

Website: https://www.cesarrespino.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cesar.espino.1297

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/C2REI/

--------------------------------

Hi! I am your host Djemilah Birnie of www.becomingthebigme.com . I have been building businesses online since the age of 17. When I discovered the power that we hold within our own minds my world truly began to change.

I love to write and have published some books, some of them have even hit some charts 😲 You can check them out here http://bit.ly/djemilahbooks

Ready to start playing BIG and step into your Big Me potential by harnessing the power of your mind? Then make sure you join the free Rewire challenge to get all the tools you need! https://www.djemilah.com/rewirechallenge

Don't forget to check out the little lady's podcast "A Kid's Perspective" where she answers your questions on all of life's most pressing issues, in her eyes, a kid! http://bit.ly/akidsperspective

Let's Connect! #allthelinks ⬇

https://djemilah.com/

https://www.facebook.com/djemilah/

https://www.instagram.com/mimi.the.genie/

https://www.tiktok.com/@djemilah

Transcript
Speaker:

used to sew clothes just to survive. I didn't have a

Speaker:

childhood I didn't have the opportunity to either go out and

Speaker:

play with kids. I didn't have the opportunity to be a kid

Speaker:

because I was growing up to survive there was times we

Speaker:

didn't have enough food that I said we have the the Mexicans

Speaker:

dish, which was just a tortilla with a grain of salt in.

Speaker:

Hello, fellow Earthlings. Welcome to the becoming the big

Speaker:

me podcast. I'm your host, Djemilah Birnie. And together,

Speaker:

we will be stepping into our highest potential, exploring all

Speaker:

things mind, body, and soul. With justice, major business,

Speaker:

your spiritual badass solopreneur and a warrior for

Speaker:

change, you're ready to expand your impact and leave your old

Speaker:

self behind in order to raise your vibration so that you can

Speaker:

positively influence your business, your community, and

Speaker:

ultimately, the world. Without further ado, let's dive right

Speaker:

into it.

Speaker:

Hello, hello.

Speaker:

Welcome.

Speaker:

beautiful, amazing souls. Thank you so much for tuning in to

Speaker:

another episode of The becoming the big knee podcast I have with

Speaker:

me here today. Cesar Spino, a full time real estate investor

Speaker:

and author of the book you can overcome anything, even when the

Speaker:

world says no, a real estate mentor and business coach. He

Speaker:

works with people to help create Win Win solutions, whether that

Speaker:

be through real estate business, consulting, and inspiring and

Speaker:

empowering others to reach their full potential he sees or how's

Speaker:

it going today?

Speaker:

Hey, Jimmy Lam doing wonderful. It's a beautiful day today here

Speaker:

in Los Angeles. So I'm excited to be here. So thank you.

Speaker:

Awesome. I'm

Speaker:

super excited to have you here as well, and dive into your

Speaker:

story a little bit more. So let's just get right into it.

Speaker:

Take it back. Tell me a little bit about growing up your

Speaker:

childhood? And what's kind of helped form you to be the person

Speaker:

that you are now today?

Speaker:

Yeah, yeah, definitely. So let me start off by saying, I'm

Speaker:

originally from Mexico City. And I came to the states when I was

Speaker:

about 10 years old, right. And for me, my story really started

Speaker:

when I when I was born, the day that I was born is you know, the

Speaker:

day that really define who I was back then, and who am I to

Speaker:

become now, right. And so to give you a little bit of that

Speaker:

backstory, I was only I was born into a very poor family, right?

Speaker:

We didn't really have anything, I only had one parent, which is

Speaker:

my mom, I don't know who's my biological father, at this

Speaker:

point, I have never met him, nor that I know his name. And so,

Speaker:

you know, when I grew up, in Mexico, I was probably one of

Speaker:

the families that were, you know, the lowest of the lowest

Speaker:

in terms of social classification. Mexico is one of

Speaker:

those countries that they really classified their, you know,

Speaker:

people by, you know, their level of wealth, and you know, the

Speaker:

classifications, nevertheless, we didn't have anything, right.

Speaker:

So I will we, I lived in a in a in a what I considered to be my

Speaker:

home, which was really about 250 square feet of just a room. It

Speaker:

was my mom, my grandmother, my older brother, and myself. So he

Speaker:

was four of us in that little room that we consider to be our

Speaker:

home, we didn't have any running water, we didn't have

Speaker:

electricity. It was made out of sheet metal and plywood. And

Speaker:

that was our home. Right. And so that's really where my story

Speaker:

started. Because as they go back into that into that time, you

Speaker:

know, we didn't have anything. So we have to really, as

Speaker:

probably many people in different countries, how we have

Speaker:

to work early enough to start supporting ourselves. One thing

Speaker:

happened just after I turned 40 years old, my mom decided to

Speaker:

take her leap of faith and left us and came to the States. And

Speaker:

so at that time, you know, as a kid, you go back and like, what

Speaker:

did I do? Like I blame myself like, Did I do something that,

Speaker:

you know, I have no father, and now my mum decided to leave to

Speaker:

go someplace else. And I didn't understand why. Right? That was

Speaker:

a changing in my life. One I was trying to question what

Speaker:

happened, what did I do and number two, he turned out to be

Speaker:

only my my older brother and my grandma. And at that point, we

Speaker:

decided we It was not really a decision, we had to start

Speaker:

working. So we will go to the flea market. We'll be working.

Speaker:

We'll sell food, you know, a bunch of different things to

Speaker:

survive. And that didn't cut it. We're not making you know, the

Speaker:

means. Then we started doing another thing. We actually

Speaker:

started sewing clothes, right? So we actually I used to have a

Speaker:

sewing machine. I know how to sew. So we used to sew clothes

Speaker:

just to survive. I didn't have a choice. When I didn't have the

Speaker:

opportunity to either go out and play with kids, I didn't have

Speaker:

the opportunity to be a kid because I was growing up to

Speaker:

survive, there was times we didn't have enough food that I

Speaker:

said, we have the, the Mexicans dish, which was just a tortilla

Speaker:

with a grain of salt in, that's all we had four days. And so

Speaker:

again, I go back to that, and I'm like, I'm grateful to an

Speaker:

extent I don't, I don't condone for anyone to be doing that at

Speaker:

that age. So that's what's made me become who I am. Now, fast

Speaker:

forward to when I was 10. Finally, my mom came back. And,

Speaker:

you know, it seems like we had the opportunity to come to the

Speaker:

States. And I didn't want to be here to be honest with you, I

Speaker:

didn't want to be in the states for a couple of reasons. Number

Speaker:

one, I couldn't speak the language. Number two, I couldn't

Speaker:

communicate with anybody. Number three, I was in a in a place

Speaker:

where I didn't know anyone, you know, it was very difficult for

Speaker:

me to get adjusted to this live. And, you know, working for all

Speaker:

these years and coming to the States, I felt like I was not

Speaker:

fitting in, you know, I got discriminated when I was kid

Speaker:

growing up in in the in the school system, because again, I

Speaker:

couldn't speak, I couldn't communicate, people that didn't,

Speaker:

you know, I couldn't connect with people. So that was just

Speaker:

very, very bad. And I remember one time telling my mom, I'm

Speaker:

like, I don't want to be here, do whatever, really, whatever

Speaker:

you need to do send me back to Mexico. I don't want to be here.

Speaker:

Luckily, I'm glad she didn't send me back. Because I'm glad

Speaker:

that I'm here. You know, there's definitely a great nation. But

Speaker:

again, I have to go through all those different obstacles,

Speaker:

right. And, you know, luckily, after being here two years, I

Speaker:

was able to communicate, I was able to master the language, I

Speaker:

was able to talk to people. And I did what many people didn't

Speaker:

do, right. And I talked about, I talked about this in my book, a

Speaker:

lot of people come from different countries, forgetting

Speaker:

about a purpose or forgetting about that opportunity that this

Speaker:

country has to offer. Right. And I seen that time after time.

Speaker:

People come from other countries, and I'm not sure why

Speaker:

and I cannot comprehend. They tend to fall into those negative

Speaker:

influences, whether it's gangs, tagging, cruise, Robin, whatever

Speaker:

the case may be some sort of crime, right? I set up so many

Speaker:

different times, growing up in middle school and high school, I

Speaker:

decided to not do that. I decided to not do that. My focus

Speaker:

was you know, let me focus on school. Let me focus on myself.

Speaker:

And just continue to do that. Now I'm not saying I'm perfect,

Speaker:

because I'm not right, I went through so many different

Speaker:

things. And I think my second challenge coming to the States,

Speaker:

the first one was that I was being discriminated, I didn't

Speaker:

know how to fit in with with this society. The second one, at

Speaker:

the age of 15. I you know, not having a diet dad or someone to

Speaker:

tell me what's right or wrong. From from a male perspective. I

Speaker:

ended up you know, I had a girlfriend, and at the age of

Speaker:

15, we got pregnant, right. So just at the age of, sorry, age

Speaker:

of 15, at the age of 16, my daughter was born again. So when

Speaker:

I think about that, it's like, I'm a a kid, that's raising a

Speaker:

kid, right. And I know a lot of people can relate to that a lot

Speaker:

of there's a lot of teen moms, a lot of teen parents, and a lot

Speaker:

of times, like what I can tell you with that is that you have

Speaker:

to be able to take that particular case and just make

Speaker:

the best out of it. I remember telling my daughter when she was

Speaker:

born, I made one promise. And so far, I've been able to keep up

Speaker:

that promise. I said, You know what, I'm gonna give you

Speaker:

whatever I didn't have when I was a kid, because when I was a

Speaker:

kid, I didn't have anything. I said, you're never gonna have to

Speaker:

work when you're a kid, you're never gonna have to suffer,

Speaker:

you're never gonna have to worry about not having food or

Speaker:

clothes, or any of that stuff. That's my promise to you. So

Speaker:

that became my motivation, right? Instead of that being a

Speaker:

negative thing. I say, you know what I got to deal with what

Speaker:

emerges. I'm a kid having a kid is sick. Now I'm just going to

Speaker:

be my motivation. So then I went out and started to work in an

Speaker:

early age. You know, I was going to school working, school

Speaker:

working school working, that was my focus, you know, they they

Speaker:

out? And yeah, I continue right. Fast forward, I had a couple of

Speaker:

more obstacles that came after the fact. I have, unfortunately,

Speaker:

I had another really huge setback when I was 22. And it

Speaker:

will see a dispute that I have with my, my my daughter's mom,

Speaker:

and I'm not proud of it. It's it is the reality. And at that

Speaker:

point, you know, again, not having that no fear not having

Speaker:

all these different things, unfortunately, went to jail for

Speaker:

a couple of days. Right? And so again, it's those little things

Speaker:

that come up, and I'm like, What is the lesson that I need to

Speaker:

learn here from this year? And lucky enough, you know, I came

Speaker:

out and say, Okay, I this isn't me, I need to do something

Speaker:

better for myself. And and so I talked about a lot about this in

Speaker:

my book, because there's so many different obstacles that life is

Speaker:

going to be hidden and pushing on you. And so, either you're

Speaker:

going to give in or you're going to learn from that, right?

Speaker:

You're either going through the pain, you're going through the

Speaker:

pain or you're growing through the pain, right? And so I

Speaker:

decided to grow from that pain

Speaker:

now If I look at, you know, my years now, I was working for a

Speaker:

very good, credible company worldwide company, I was working

Speaker:

on corporate making really good money over six figures traveling

Speaker:

all over the place. Except I think my mind, my heart was

Speaker:

telling me, you know what, there's more to you than this.

Speaker:

And I decided to take my leap of faith, I left my my corporate

Speaker:

job, left everything behind behind to pursue my purpose and

Speaker:

what I believe to be my purpose nine, and that is to help people

Speaker:

to empower empower people and inspire people through my

Speaker:

lessons and be able to give back in that sense. So that's kind of

Speaker:

where I am right now.

Speaker:

Awesome. So what would you say was the biggest turning point in

Speaker:

your life? Was it going to jail? Or was it leaving that corporate

Speaker:

position?

Speaker:

Yeah, I think, you know, I think having I can, yeah, right. Yeah.

Speaker:

You know, I think at any given point, there was different

Speaker:

turning points in my life, I think each one of those were had

Speaker:

a different lesson. And there was something different for me

Speaker:

to learn off of each of those. If I look. Now, where I'm at

Speaker:

now, and what I'm doing now, I would say my biggest thing was

Speaker:

leaving my job, you know, the most recent thing, because,

Speaker:

again, you're going from that, and I think 99% of the people

Speaker:

are going through this is, you're in that comfort zone,

Speaker:

you're, you're so comfortable getting that paycheck, even

Speaker:

though you know that they can fire you any time. A lot of

Speaker:

people know that I'm like, I might go to work today. And I

Speaker:

may not have that job, because it is not my company, right? It

Speaker:

said people are so comfortable with that with the idea that I

Speaker:

have benefits. I have vacation, I have a job that's paying me

Speaker:

that secure paycheck. And so to me, that was probably the most

Speaker:

recent turning point in my life. It actually took me about 10

Speaker:

months to make this decision. I was going to do this 10 months

Speaker:

prior for me leaving the job. And I got cold feet. I just

Speaker:

couldn't do it. I broke down I I just couldn't do it. Right. And

Speaker:

so it took me literally 10 months to realize that I should

Speaker:

have done what I did that time 10 months prior.

Speaker:

Okay. Yeah. And during this time, were you kind of in the

Speaker:

personal development world, yet I know that you're really

Speaker:

immersed in it. Now. That's how we connected, right? But were

Speaker:

you involved in any of that stuff? Where were you doing that

Speaker:

inner work? Did you have a spiritual kind of background or

Speaker:

anything of that nature?

Speaker:

So I started, I would say maybe two years prior to leaving my

Speaker:

corporate job, I kind of getting introduced or involving to the

Speaker:

self development to, you know, becoming the better version

Speaker:

writing and doing things that I didn't do in the past. So I

Speaker:

started doing some of it, I didn't do a whole lot. I would

Speaker:

say maybe there were those 10 months when I said, you know

Speaker:

what I need to definitely just take this leap of faith during

Speaker:

those 10 months is when I got more spiritual sound. That was

Speaker:

one thing that I didn't, I lost for for a minute, right? My, my,

Speaker:

my grandmother when I was in Mexico, and even after coming

Speaker:

here, were various perfectly sound from from from that

Speaker:

perspective, you know, and then I lost that touch, I got

Speaker:

disconnected. And then I got reconnected again, with that

Speaker:

higher power. And I said, You know what, I was very spiritual.

Speaker:

And then I got connected with myself, What am I going to do to

Speaker:

become, you know, that person that I'm looking to become. And

Speaker:

so those last 10 months, I got more involved with that self

Speaker:

development, spiritually, working on myself, things like

Speaker:

that. And so I can tell you, at least for me, I needed to find

Speaker:

myself spiritually, emotionally, to be able to do this, what I'm

Speaker:

doing now, otherwise, I will probably be back working for

Speaker:

that company, which again, is a good company isn't working for

Speaker:

somebody else and not doing what I'm doing now.

Speaker:

Now, can you walk me kind of through some of these practices

Speaker:

that you use for yourself to keep yourself sound and

Speaker:

emotional, you know, your emotional intelligence up? Like

Speaker:

what are you doing for yourself? Because I know that you are

Speaker:

serving people all the time in your business and with coaching

Speaker:

and with your real estate investment, like a lot of times

Speaker:

we get so caught up in serving others, how are you serving

Speaker:

yourself?

Speaker:

Yeah, so one thing that I decided to do, there's a couple

Speaker:

of things that I do on a day to day basis. The first thing that

Speaker:

I do when I wake up is I give gratitude to God, I I literally

Speaker:

spend, I would say the first 30 minutes doing a couple of

Speaker:

things. Number one, I do daily affirmations that are empowering

Speaker:

to you know, any can be necessarily I am a millionaire,

Speaker:

you know, that could definitely be one but it's not necessarily

Speaker:

that it's more about I am loved. I am I am I am healthy, you

Speaker:

know, I am wanted I serve people, right? And so I do the

Speaker:

affirmations every day, when I wake up. I also do a gratitude

Speaker:

to myself a lot of times I find this and I started doing this

Speaker:

maybe about six months ago now. More so now. A lot of times I've

Speaker:

you find People that they're waiting for somebody else's

Speaker:

validation of you to say, Jamila, you're beautiful

Speaker:

Djemilah, you're wonderful. Djemilah You're great, right?

Speaker:

And you're waiting for that person to tell you that. It

Speaker:

said, what about you do it yourself. So I actually get in

Speaker:

front of the mirror. And I say three things. And I actually

Speaker:

have it here in my book. So what I say three things to myself, as

Speaker:

I say, Caesars, you know, I appreciate you, Caesar Spino, I

Speaker:

think you Caesar spin Spino I love you. And those are the

Speaker:

three things I tell myself every day, right? So I do

Speaker:

affirmations, I do a prayer of gratitude, I tell myself how

Speaker:

grateful I am for myself. And then I do meditate and

Speaker:

visualize, right, so I didn't when I wake up, before I go to

Speaker:

sleep, I do the same exercise. So I do it twice a day, at any

Speaker:

given point. And then, throughout the day, one of the

Speaker:

things that I started doing now more so than before is I am

Speaker:

doing self learning by educating myself in reading. Now, before I

Speaker:

get to read I that's kind of ironic, because I read a book.

Speaker:

However, I didn't read and the last time that I actually read a

Speaker:

book, is because I was forced to read a book in my English class

Speaker:

back in high school, you know, and so it said, Now I'm reading,

Speaker:

you know, and that's something that I feel like, is good to

Speaker:

self educate yourself. Right. So those are just some of the

Speaker:

practices that I do. And I also like to do, walk or run, you

Speaker:

know, at any time and just to, you know, clear my mind and

Speaker:

appreciate life and go out and and just, you know, have some

Speaker:

time to clear my mind, you know,

Speaker:

yeah, I love that. Those are all things that I incorporate in my

Speaker:

life as well now, you know, the past two years, and I can

Speaker:

definitely relate to the reading. I even in high school,

Speaker:

I actually didn't read I was the notorious Cliff Notes. Who was

Speaker:

my teachers used to get so mad at me because I'm a really good

Speaker:

storyteller. And I was always able to, like Ace all of my

Speaker:

recordings and, and speeches about books, just because I

Speaker:

would listen to what other people would say. And I wouldn't

Speaker:

lie. But I wouldn't actually read until the last two years is

Speaker:

when I really started reading. I probably read more books last

Speaker:

two years in my entire life.

Speaker:

Yeah, so have I. Yeah.

Speaker:

So let's wind it back a second, again, to when you were leaving

Speaker:

that corporate position? Did you go right into real estate at

Speaker:

that time? or What did you do?

Speaker:

No, yeah, so I had already started real estate. Um, I would

Speaker:

say maybe three years prior to me leaving my corporate job. So

Speaker:

to back up a little bit, I started real estate back in

Speaker:

2007 2008 2009, when the housing market took a hit. I went with

Speaker:

that hit, right. So I lost a lot, I lost properties, I lost,

Speaker:

I was foreclosed on a few shorts on some other ones. So I said,

Speaker:

You know what, this is not for me. And so when, when that took

Speaker:

place, I said, You know, I just need to focus on my, on my work

Speaker:

and working for somebody else. And, and, and so I ended up

Speaker:

doing that I went back to school, got my master's degree.

Speaker:

And I just that was my focus at that point. And then I got

Speaker:

reintroduced to real estate again, I think it was 2004 2000

Speaker:

sorry, 2014 2015. Around that time. And, and I said, You know

Speaker:

what, let me give it a try. I'm a different person now. And you

Speaker:

know, you're I'm growing, I have my master's degree now. I can

Speaker:

definitely, you know, see, see what I can do now. Right. And so

Speaker:

I got reintroduced, it took me some time to get my business up

Speaker:

and running again, because it's not, it's not that that simple,

Speaker:

you know, or it wasn't that simple for me at that time. And

Speaker:

so I got into reintroduce, and I started doing, you know, deals,

Speaker:

I started wholesaling properties, I started buying,

Speaker:

fixing and flipping properties. So you know, so I had that in

Speaker:

the back end. So one of the reasons why I said, you know,

Speaker:

what, I need to either focus 100% on my real estate business,

Speaker:

or 100% on my job is because he was definitely taking a lot of a

Speaker:

lot of my, my, you know, energy, right. And not only me also on

Speaker:

people that were around me, you know, unfortunately, I would

Speaker:

say, because of this, at that time, I was on a long term

Speaker:

relationship. I think everything just getting together, he just

Speaker:

ended up creating a challenge for me, where I ended up losing

Speaker:

a 10 year relationship over all the different things that I was

Speaker:

doing for myself, right. And so I said, you know what I need to,

Speaker:

I just need to do one or the other. And that's why I decided

Speaker:

to do the leap of faith into the real estate. So I was already in

Speaker:

the business. And that was the only business that I was

Speaker:

actually doing, by the way, real estate at that time.

Speaker:

And remind me again, do you have a real estate license or not?

Speaker:

No. Okay. No,

Speaker:

that's, that's something I would like you to share a little bit

Speaker:

more about with our listeners, because I know there's a lot of

Speaker:

people that are always looking for other ways to make money and

Speaker:

a lot of times people think to be In real estate, you have to

Speaker:

have that real estate license. And I remember you saying that

Speaker:

your speech at the Better Business summit, you didn't have

Speaker:

that. So can you

Speaker:

add on that a little bit more?

Speaker:

Yeah, definitely. So there's essentially a one year timer

Speaker:

real estate, there's different strategies, right. And so the

Speaker:

most common that a lot of people know about is, you know, become

Speaker:

a realtor, you know, go out and, you know, either help people buy

Speaker:

or sell their property, right? For that you have your license,

Speaker:

when you look at a real estate investor, you don't have to have

Speaker:

a license, you can actually get into real estate, you can

Speaker:

actually work on deals by not having your license, right. And

Speaker:

the most common, which I talked about on the Better Business

Speaker:

summit, is assignment of contract, right? You don't need

Speaker:

to have, you know, really even a lot of capital to be able to do

Speaker:

that. And so a lot of people just don't know about it, right?

Speaker:

They, they think they have to have the license to do a real

Speaker:

estate transaction is not so much about that. It's more about

Speaker:

how to structure it, and what do you need to do to make sure that

Speaker:

you can actually do it, and not get it, you know, in any in any

Speaker:

issue. So, at the end of the day, you can do a lot of deals

Speaker:

in and have a license. One thing that I talked about in my

Speaker:

mentoring program is you have to have a what I consider to be a

Speaker:

Power Team, a Power Team will be you know, numerous people, one

Speaker:

of those people is going to be a realtor that's going to help you

Speaker:

transact that transaction that you get yourself into.

Speaker:

Okay, and how do you how have you found those people? How have

Speaker:

you kind of built that sphere? For you have the right people

Speaker:

that have the same mission as you?

Speaker:

Yeah, it's through networking. I mean, I, you know, it's, I

Speaker:

cannot reinforce that enough, right. And if you're afraid to

Speaker:

go to a speaking event, or you're afraid to go to any kind

Speaker:

of event, or a meetup event, or even work to somebody and talk

Speaker:

to somebody, you're not going to grow, right, you have to make

Speaker:

sure that you network, so, you know, when it comes down to

Speaker:

like, even my, my community, like the way I found you, right,

Speaker:

in my community of the entrepreneurs, the people who

Speaker:

want to more for the lives it has been through through events

Speaker:

and sermons, right? If I, when I first got into this business,

Speaker:

and I and I wanted to find a realtor, I actually want to open

Speaker:

houses, I wasn't going to buy the house, I just went to

Speaker:

connect. And, you know, I said, Hey, I'm a real estate investor,

Speaker:

I'm looking to work with somebody, will you be

Speaker:

interested? And then we started the conversation, and then we

Speaker:

started looking at it, you know, is that person a good fit for

Speaker:

me? Or am I a good fit for that person? And that's how I found

Speaker:

some of the realtors that I work with right now. So Matter of

Speaker:

fact, one of the realtors that I've been doing business with

Speaker:

for about four years now, we, we we've done transactions where I

Speaker:

found properties, she represented me on that

Speaker:

transaction. And you know, she made the sale, or just

Speaker:

yesterday, we enter into a joint venture where we're actually

Speaker:

going to be flipping a property together. So again, it's just

Speaker:

those things that you can find ready, you have to be able to

Speaker:

network with people.

Speaker:

networking and leveraging. Yep. Oh, yeah. Others skills. Yeah,

Speaker:

right. Yeah, exactly. And that's the other thing, too, is like,

Speaker:

don't believe that you know, everything you have to know, you

Speaker:

know enough to to be able to find the right person for you.

Speaker:

So yes, you're right, leveraging people. And I don't consider it

Speaker:

to be a bad thing. Because again, it's kind of a win win.

Speaker:

Right? Again, basically, like in this joint venture. I'm going to

Speaker:

help her she's going to help me we're going to have a you know,

Speaker:

a pretty good combination there.

Speaker:

Yeah. And that kind of leads into my next question, how big

Speaker:

of a part in your journey and your story has been like

Speaker:

mentorship?

Speaker:

Huge, has been huge. I think, throughout the last, I will say,

Speaker:

throughout the last three years, I've had maybe five, six

Speaker:

different mentors, and again, in different areas, right. So you

Speaker:

know, I think that's huge. I mean, I, again, I go back to the

Speaker:

same thing, you know, it's just like, if you go to school,

Speaker:

right, and this is probably the best way that I can put it, a

Speaker:

lot of people don't see the value of that. I'm like, why did

Speaker:

I get to pay somebody this money? or Why did I get to be

Speaker:

part of the network? Well, even if you were going to a public

Speaker:

school, right? Or if you're going to private school, it's

Speaker:

like going to school, you have a teacher, that teacher

Speaker:

essentially is your mentor, they're teaching you something,

Speaker:

they're, they're showing you how to do something in there

Speaker:

material. Well, it's like in anything in our real life is the

Speaker:

same thing. You have to get somebody that has already done

Speaker:

that can help you get there faster, and can teach you and so

Speaker:

to me, I'm constantly getting mentored by people and learning

Speaker:

from those people. Because I know the power of that, right? A

Speaker:

lot of times even when we're when we get out of you know,

Speaker:

college, it's like, Okay, that's it. I've learned I put my money,

Speaker:

I went to school, I don't need to do anything else. I know

Speaker:

everything and that's not the case. So to me, that has been

Speaker:

very, very important for my real estate business. I've gone into

Speaker:

a couple of different businesses now. Where I have, you know,

Speaker:

I've got mentors for that. And even just, you know, the self

Speaker:

self love and self development, you know, learning from People

Speaker:

that are doing it. I'm like, Okay, that makes sense. They're

Speaker:

happy. They're enjoying their life. I need to do that. Let me

Speaker:

learn from them. Right. So I 100% approve of that. Yeah, I

Speaker:

agree. mentorship has been like one of the biggest things for me

Speaker:

and, and also like having that that financial investment into

Speaker:

it. Yeah, is really, really powerful. I don't know if you've

Speaker:

noticed this as well. But once you start paying for something,

Speaker:

you're like, Oh, crap, I got it.

Speaker:

Seriously, now? Exactly. Yeah, yeah, there's a different,

Speaker:

there's a, there's a different sense of, I guess,

Speaker:

responsibility and accountability. When you do

Speaker:

that, you know, it's funny, because I referred to a lot of

Speaker:

people, they go to community college, or many people, they go

Speaker:

to community college, right. And they're paying the school or the

Speaker:

public system is paying for for the community college, right? I

Speaker:

found that a lot of people are, they're just wasting their time,

Speaker:

right, and I call them seat warmers, they're just sitting in

Speaker:

warm up the seat, that's all they're doing. And it goes back

Speaker:

to that door. If you're someone that's paying for something, the

Speaker:

responsibility and accountability tends to be 10

Speaker:

times bigger than somebody who's getting it for free. So I also

Speaker:

believe that if you're getting a mentor for free, you're probably

Speaker:

not gonna do the work, and you're probably not going to do

Speaker:

the, you know, the tasks, you're probably gonna put in 100% of

Speaker:

your time. Because you don't have any, you know, risking on

Speaker:

your side, you know. So, again, we see that time over time with

Speaker:

different things. And I believe that Yeah, you know, having a

Speaker:

mentor, being able to have that financial responsibility is

Speaker:

definitely gonna push you to the next level. And I myself, I'm

Speaker:

sure you have to, you know, in the last three years, I spend,

Speaker:

you know, a lot of people say, Well, what you can spend so much

Speaker:

money, because I keep learning because I keep growing because

Speaker:

they become a better person. I spend so much money in mentoring

Speaker:

and is, and I'm okay with that. Because I'm learning from that a

Speaker:

lot of people are afraid of that.

Speaker:

Yeah, and sometimes like getting in a little bit uncomfortable

Speaker:

situation, which I know logically, a lot of people are

Speaker:

like, no, but for me, like sometimes putting that a little

Speaker:

bit amount of money that's a little bit uncomfortable. It

Speaker:

really helps light that fire, where you really start to see

Speaker:

things happening at a much quicker pace. Yep.

Speaker:

Yep. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. And that's, that's one thing that,

Speaker:

um, you know, I also see it as a different thing, right? A lot of

Speaker:

people go through traditional school, right? So traditional

Speaker:

school is, you know, just like any, in any traditional college,

Speaker:

I consider this to be a non traditional educational for

Speaker:

yourself, again, you're working on yourself is self development

Speaker:

is not traditional. A lot of people are okay to go get a

Speaker:

student loan and pay $30,000 to get a degree. I mean, and I'm a

Speaker:

firm believer of education does I have a Master's I, you know, I

Speaker:

would do it 100 times over. The difference now, by the way, is

Speaker:

that, if you're going to go back to school, make sure that is for

Speaker:

you in this my advice, and I was telling my daughter this last

Speaker:

time, if you want to go back to school, to get a degree, make

Speaker:

sure that that is for you is a self accomplishment for you. Not

Speaker:

because you want to use a piece of paper to go get a job, that's

Speaker:

that was my mentality, then it's not my mentality now. So

Speaker:

anyways, a lot of people are okay to, you know, find the

Speaker:

means to get a student loan, you know, of, let's say, $30,000, to

Speaker:

get a degree so that they can hope to get a job, right.

Speaker:

However, our people are not okay to get the same amount of money.

Speaker:

I don't care how you borrow that money, and get mentor non

Speaker:

traditional education by somebody else that can help you

Speaker:

and skyrocket your your your future. I don't get it, you

Speaker:

know, and so, again, I don't know what's your putting your

Speaker:

thought on that. But that's, that's the reality, right? Are

Speaker:

people go through it? So yeah, I

Speaker:

don't I don't get it at all.

Speaker:

It's one

Speaker:

of those things, I completely blows my mind. Like, Oh, my

Speaker:

gosh, I'm gonna go to school for all this time, pay all this

Speaker:

money to enter a job where I'm not even going to be making

Speaker:

$100,000 a year,

Speaker:

right. Now, not only that a lot of times again, you you have a

Speaker:

degree, and you work in a different field. Yeah, that

Speaker:

happened to me with my bachelor's, I had a I have a

Speaker:

background in it. And I was working in operations, nothing

Speaker:

to do with computers or software that deal with any of that. So I

Speaker:

mean, it just the reality. So anyways, yeah,

Speaker:

I take the classes that you want to learn about, right?

Speaker:

Yeah, exactly.

Speaker:

So I'm curious because now you're your daughter. How old is

Speaker:

your daughter? She's older. She's out of the house. Right?

Speaker:

Well, she lives with me. I mean, she's 23.

Speaker:

Okay. Yeah. So I was I was gonna ask, so what is your big driving

Speaker:

factor? Now? I mean, you've been able to provide her a much

Speaker:

better life than you grew up with. Like, what is keeps that

Speaker:

fire burning for you to keep growing and expanding? Because I

Speaker:

know that you're just keep doing like all these crazy things.

Speaker:

Yeah, yeah. I, you know, I think now more so and so my next

Speaker:

purpose is I really want to read Tired my parents, right? So I

Speaker:

and I actually have it I put on the universe, I believe, but

Speaker:

again, and just maybe for your listeners, I am a firm believer

Speaker:

of putting things out to the universe, writing it down, you

Speaker:

know, and just really focusing on that, that one thing that you

Speaker:

want. So anyways, I put out on the universe, I haven't on

Speaker:

paper, I want to retire my parents. That's number one.

Speaker:

Number two. Although I have given my daughter a lot of a lot

Speaker:

throughout her years, I want to leave more for her, I want to

Speaker:

give her more options so that if I'm not here, tomorrow, she has

Speaker:

something to fall back on, right, I want to be able to give

Speaker:

that to her. Number three, I really want to help people. And

Speaker:

there's certain people that have been there for me in the sense

Speaker:

of, you know, I see your vision, because a lot of people you tend

Speaker:

to lose a lot of people you've been to, a lot of people tend to

Speaker:

walk away from you, they think you're crazy, and they're not

Speaker:

gonna support you. And then there's some of those people

Speaker:

that might stick around and say, You know what, I feel you, I

Speaker:

hear you, right. So my little brother hasn't been very

Speaker:

supportive on this. So I want to be able to empower them and help

Speaker:

them through, right. And the last thing is, I want to be able

Speaker:

to give back, right, I need coming back from my very humble

Speaker:

beginning, not having a whole lot not having a lot of options,

Speaker:

I want to be able to take some of that and take it back and

Speaker:

give back to people. As a matter of fact, one of the things that

Speaker:

I do now, and I'm trying to really grow them a lot more is I

Speaker:

go down to so we're not too far from Ross, in Sonora, Mexico,

Speaker:

right? Just the border of San Diego. And one of the things

Speaker:

that I do there is I actually go out with a group of people, this

Speaker:

isn't none church related. It's just people that that want to,

Speaker:

you know, help others and we go out and we build houses. For

Speaker:

people that don't don't have anything, people that came the

Speaker:

same way that I came that didn't have anything. So in three days,

Speaker:

we actually spent the time in building a house, with concrete,

Speaker:

with lights, with insulation with all of that stuff. And so I

Speaker:

want to be able to do more of that. That's my driving, it's

Speaker:

like I want to just be able to give back, you know,

Speaker:

yeah, that's, that's one of my big driving factors as well. And

Speaker:

I feel like, you know, a lot of times people have a negative

Speaker:

connotation with wealth, and they feel as if you know, money

Speaker:

is the root of all evil is something that you hear all the

Speaker:

time, right. And I just want, you know, to stress, like, like,

Speaker:

all these amazing things that Caesar is able to do now, if he

Speaker:

had not grown his business and grown his wealth in the way that

Speaker:

he has, he wouldn't be able to do that money is an amplifier of

Speaker:

whatever is already inside of you. So if you're are if you

Speaker:

have ill intentions and you get more money, then sure, you can

Speaker:

do bad things with money. But if you're have good intentions,

Speaker:

then money just amplifies that. And it allows you to do all of

Speaker:

these incredible things like like Cesar is doing, and I'm

Speaker:

sure that all of the more things that are going to come as, as

Speaker:

your life just continues to expand.

Speaker:

Yeah, yeah. And that's exactly right. I mean, I believe that

Speaker:

money is a good vehicle to to give back and help out. And

Speaker:

again, at least, that's my vehicle, you know, similarly, my

Speaker:

primary business being realistic, that's my vehicle to

Speaker:

help me do the things that I want to be able to do. Right.

Speaker:

And so, I, again, people have to take away the negative belief of

Speaker:

money, the negative belief of I cannot do this, the negative

Speaker:

belief that, you know, I don't know how to do accounting, we

Speaker:

have to change that frame, and be able to say, Well, how are

Speaker:

what do I need to learn to be able to get to the level? Who do

Speaker:

I need to be around to be able to learn from them? Right? I

Speaker:

would this I'll tell you, there's, there's, I do believe

Speaker:

that the that you are the average of the five people you

Speaker:

hang around with. And one thing that I would say is there's

Speaker:

three kinds of people you want to have in that group number

Speaker:

one, you want to have people that are playing at a higher

Speaker:

level and then you are why because then they're gonna

Speaker:

inspire you for you to become that you know, it's a driving

Speaker:

force. Number two, you won't have people that are playing

Speaker:

maybe the same level as you are. However, they are edifying you,

Speaker:

they're helping you on, you know, you're growing with them.

Speaker:

And then number three, you want to have people right below you,

Speaker:

that are looking up to you so that you can reach down and pull

Speaker:

them back up with you. And that's to me is like you have

Speaker:

that mix, man. You're golden, you know?

Speaker:

Yeah, and, okay, I want to I want to talk a little bit more

Speaker:

about your coaching program and kind of what you do with with

Speaker:

your students, are you just focusing on the real estate

Speaker:

investing or are you kind of what's your mentorship look

Speaker:

like? Like, what are you kind of?

Speaker:

Yeah, yeah, so so my Yeah, so overall, the mentoring program

Speaker:

is for real estate investing. So it's for people that want to get

Speaker:

into real estate, they've never done it, they want to get

Speaker:

another stream of income, right. And so we talked about the the

Speaker:

assignment of contract the we talked about buying, fixing and

Speaker:

flipping houses. Pretty sweet. That's the mention program.

Speaker:

However, I do not start my mentoring program with real

Speaker:

estate, right? My mentoring program, the very first session

Speaker:

we talked about is the mindset. And I focus a lot on the

Speaker:

mindset. And the reason why I spend, you know, I would say a

Speaker:

whole chapter on the mindset is because, again, if I cannot, if

Speaker:

I cannot have you change the frame or look things

Speaker:

differently, it doesn't matter what I teach you, it doesn't

Speaker:

matter if there's real estate, stocks, Bitcoin, it doesn't

Speaker:

matter, if you don't have the mindset to say, you know, what,

Speaker:

there might be those done for them, you might get those, no,

Speaker:

you're gonna get that, you know, all of that negativity that you

Speaker:

tend to see, if you don't know how to attack them and how to

Speaker:

deal with them. I'm not gonna be able to help you. All right. So

Speaker:

I talked a lot about the the mindset I go over, you know,

Speaker:

understanding your why, what is your purpose? What is your,

Speaker:

your, your intention at the end of the day, right? That's one

Speaker:

thing that I cover in the mindset, the only thing that I

Speaker:

that I cover on the mindset is to be able to create daily, what

Speaker:

I consider to be daily rituals or, or habits that are going to

Speaker:

empower you to get better at that. We go over some material

Speaker:

where you read a book, and then and then I have you reflect

Speaker:

yourself into that book into that story. And where do you see

Speaker:

yourself, right? So there's a couple of different things that

Speaker:

we go over a couple different exercises that we'll go over to

Speaker:

make sure that I can get people and then mindset that once we

Speaker:

start talking about real estate, and they send me their first

Speaker:

offer, or, or multiple offers, and they come back and they come

Speaker:

back and say, Hey, sorry, I don't want your offers too low,

Speaker:

that they don't get discouraged. Right, and they can go back and

Speaker:

do it again. So that's that's how I start my mentoring

Speaker:

program. So that's my mentoring program. I do also have an

Speaker:

accountability mentoring group that I that I do on a different

Speaker:

site. And the whole purpose of that is to do a couple of

Speaker:

things. Number one, we want to go over any losses any, anything

Speaker:

that that any wins that have been through the time any aha

Speaker:

moments, and then also be able to give feedback, right? So we

Speaker:

focus on those four things. So during those accountability

Speaker:

meetings, and this can be for anything, by the way, right?

Speaker:

Maybe it could be I want to lose 10 pounds. Okay, so did you have

Speaker:

any major breakthroughs? Did? Is there any aha moments that you

Speaker:

want to share with us? What kind of feedback can we give you?

Speaker:

Right? And so we go over those four different elements in my

Speaker:

accountability group.

Speaker:

Yeah. So it's kind of like a group coaching program. Yes.

Speaker:

Yep. Okay, awesome. So Cesar, I have really, really loved

Speaker:

hearing all about your story and your background, because that's

Speaker:

not anything that I've bought into here yet before. I've

Speaker:

mostly heard, you know, your investment speaks on. So if

Speaker:

there's one key takeaway that people can take out of this

Speaker:

podcast, if they forget everything else that was said

Speaker:

today, what is that one thing?

Speaker:

So there's a couple of reasons. But one, one thing I would say,

Speaker:

would be really to work on yourself. It just comes down to

Speaker:

that, right. And what I mean by that is, a lot of people tend to

Speaker:

work so hard for somebody else, making them, you know, rich, or

Speaker:

wealthy, or whatever the case may be, you know, they're

Speaker:

working so hard on somebody else. And they forget to work on

Speaker:

themselves, right? I always use this analogy, people come from

Speaker:

work or tire or they had a bad day, they come home, they take

Speaker:

it out, they take that anger on their spouse, and now that

Speaker:

creates a very unhealthy relationship, or they're just

Speaker:

simply tired, and they come home. And then the first thing

Speaker:

they do is they sit on the couch, watch TV, and you know,

Speaker:

they forget to do anything else, right. And I say don't do that,

Speaker:

right. And my my advice to anyone is, it doesn't matter how

Speaker:

hard of a day it is, still come back in and work on yourself.

Speaker:

When I was working for that corporate job, I would leave my

Speaker:

you know, work 1012 hours, I'll come home, and I'll work on my

Speaker:

real estate business. And I constantly work on my real

Speaker:

estate business. That's the reason why I was able to leave

Speaker:

my corporate job again, I was getting paid over six figures

Speaker:

really good job. I came home, I will go to sleep every day, on

Speaker:

one or two a night working on myself. Right? And, and it's not

Speaker:

just about working on your business is that it's different

Speaker:

things. are you creating affirmations for you? are you

Speaker:

creating targets for you? Are you changing the habits? Are you

Speaker:

changing your you know, how you talk, you know, your physiology,

Speaker:

the words that you use? Like there's so many different things

Speaker:

that self learning, right? That to me, that is the basis of

Speaker:

getting to the next level, and you have to have to definitely

Speaker:

work on yourself.

Speaker:

And that's one thing that you just brought up that I don't

Speaker:

think we mentioned yet but you guys Cesar is also trained in

Speaker:

neuro linguistic programming as well. So that's a big element to

Speaker:

what he does and his his mentorship programs and his

Speaker:

coaching as well. So it kind of brings in all of all of the

Speaker:

things for you. So if you guys want to hear more of Caesar

Speaker:

story, you definitely need to check out his book. How You can

Speaker:

overcome anything, even when the world says no, no. Cesar, where

Speaker:

can people buy your book? If people want to work with you?

Speaker:

when can they find you? Where do you hang out the most?

Speaker:

Yeah, so I mean social media, Facebook Instagram. The best way

Speaker:

to find me though, is actually you can go to www dot Cesar RSP

Speaker:

no.com which is really my name CSE are my middle initial SP

Speaker:

know that COMM And you can find my books, I have that book. I

Speaker:

also co author another book here, which is pretty good for

Speaker:

people that want to get into entrepreneurship, my mentoring

Speaker:

program and really anything you can contact me directly there

Speaker:

and you can actually book a time with me if you want to through

Speaker:

that website. And anything that I have going on you can actually

Speaker:

find it.

Speaker:

Okay, awesome. And I will put the link to that in the

Speaker:

description down below. So if you guys want to hear more from

Speaker:

Cesar, make sure to check that out. Thank you so much, Cesar

Speaker:

for coming on today. It was such a blessing. And you're awesome.

Speaker:

Thank you so much for having me. I'm very very grateful to have

Speaker:

you. So thanks so much.

Speaker:

Thank you for tuning in to today's episode of The becoming

Speaker:

the big me podcast. If you found value in today's episode, make

Speaker:

sure to leave us a review and share this episode with someone

Speaker:

who needs to hear this message. That's how our podcast grows.

Speaker:

Are you curious about learning more about harnessing the power

Speaker:

of your subconscious mind. then join the free rewire challenge

Speaker:

where we dive deep into the subconscious mind how it works

Speaker:

and give you some tangible action steps to began rewiring

Speaker:

it to serve you go to bit.li slash rewire challenge that

Speaker:

bit.li slash rewire challenge. Until next time. I'm your host

About the Podcast

Show artwork for The Becoming the Big Me Podcast
The Becoming the Big Me Podcast
Embracing the Journey

Listen for free