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Hello, hello, hello and welcome to the Million Dollar Electrician podcast where we help home service pros like you supercharge your business and spark up those sales.
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I'm Joseph Lucani and, together with my co-host, Clay Neumeier, we're here to share the secrets that have helped electricians sell over a million dollars from a single service van.
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Now it's time for sales, it's time for scale, it's time to become a million dollar electrician.
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Hello guys, and welcome back to another episode of the Million Dollar Electrician Podcast.
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Today I'm joined by my co-host, my esteemed co-host, jason I just about called you, jason today.
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What's going on?
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Joseph, the Lu canie.
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But we're also joined by Billy with Empowered Electric, and Billy's going to tell us some great stuff about his journey and what's going on.
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We've got one hell of a story for you guys today.
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This is definitely, Joe, I don't know if I could properly describe this, but maybe one of those mindset shifting podcasts where you guys just get so inspired to do something bigger than yourself.
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And that's kind of what I'm hoping for this, not to set the pressure too high.
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Joe, How are you doing today, brother?
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I'm doing phenomenal, other than you should tell me Jason.
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Jason's doing well today, right?
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Jason.
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How's Jason doing today?
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No, things are going really well, strong cup of coffee, surrounded by friends, beautiful weather.
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Love my life.
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Who can complain?
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Thanks be to God.
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Aw esome man, and welcome Billy.
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Welcome to the show, brother.
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How are you doing today?
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Great guys, I'm ready.
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Man, it's been a good day so far.
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I got to run two calls this morning and then came back into the office to get ready for this, so it's been great.
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Nice.
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That's amazing.
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That's amazing.
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We actually are having Billy here on the show right after, Billy y ou just won our win of the week and our silver level programming, which is an initiative we're really enjoying, which is just identifying where people are doing great things.
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And there's two reasons why we do this thing.
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One is because we're all so busy sometimes we just forget to take a breath and stop and focus on the good that's happening around us.
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Anyone else feel that?
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Does that happen to you, joe, or you, billy, I mean?
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that's literally life.
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I mean.
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When you are goal-focused, sometimes everything outside of the goal can blur.
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So that's why it's so important to have your priorities straight, Because if your priorities aren't right, you'll end up focusing on the wrong thing, and that's how people end up very, very unhappy, surrounded by piles of money but have nothing beyond it.
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Yeah, absolutely I feel the same way.
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I try to cut out two hours at nighttime, from 5.
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To 730, for something I like to partake in.
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So I do that six nights a week.
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So I have to stop and take time for that every afternoon.
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Then on the weekends I don't have kids or anything, so just kind of like wide open to do whatever I want and I love what I do.
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So literally, you know I'm goal driven man, I'm ready to go.
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I love it.
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That's one of the things we really enjoyed about you, billy, and even now, guys, if you're with us on YouTube and you're seeing us, you could see Billy here.
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He's got this presence, this air of someone who's been in business a long time.
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Looks like he got the nice lunchroom behind you.
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Why don't you tell us a bit, Billy, about how long you've been in business, though officially?
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Okay.
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So it started April of last year.
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Somebody said hey, ma'am, why don't you start your own company?
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Are you tired of working for your family?
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I was like, huh, you know, I see my family just doesn't.
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They're not interested in doing what I'm interested in doing, so that might be a possibility.
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Let's look at licensing and stuff like that.
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So it took like six, eight months, but made it happen early December 2024.
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I got licensing approval December 17th.
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Actually, we knew that we were going to get the license right, so I went.
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I had my life savings literally and I was able to get into the building.
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We got a couple of transits on the road.
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I leveraged all my credit wisely with good counsel and everything that you see here and all these live desks with triple monitors and all this stuff.
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This is like in the last six months, and if it wasn't for you guys helping us get our stuff together in the beginning and get our pricing right, none of this would have Wow, I really appreciate that man.
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So six months and this to me, like what I'm really hearing through.
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Everything you just said is faith, blind faith.
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How do you take such a big leap?
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Weren't you worried about what could go wrong?
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I mean I could be worried about whether I want to walk out to the van right now and get my Red Bull because I have to cross across the parking lot.
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I'm going to get hit by a car, but that's no excuse to not go after something if I want it.
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You know that always makes sense because I've always heard the concept of well, what happens if this, what happens if a meteor comes and hits you?
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I mean, theoretically, anything's possible.
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So why are you living in fear, compared to just going after the thing that you know would bring your family the best service, the best joy?
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That's right, that's right.
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And so I knew, like back in January, when I saw this coming, I knew that I had to get into at least three social circles of networking business owners.
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I did, and I knew that I had to carve out between three, two and three hours every night, from nine to midnight, for networking on social media and commenting and reacting to people's things and building a social presence.
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And I did that.
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And now it's come to the point where it's like three transits and three technicians not enough right now.
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It's not enough.
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We have way too much coming in.
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So what I actually did is I overdid, overshot, trying to get work, so we're trying to slow the work down a little bit because we're booked out like a week and a half already.
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Right now it's actually I'm running the guys on too many calls.
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We got to slow them down a little bit.
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You know what, though?
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At least we own it, and we know it, because sometimes a ball has to hit the ground before it can bounce right, like obviously, we've heard some people run as many as seven to 11 calls a day, and that's not the right thing to do.
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So that's why we advocate for, you know, the three to four calls.
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Yeah, yeah.
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We're going to shoot for right now.
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We're going to shoot for three.
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We're going to give them like an eight to 12, 12 to four slot.
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They're probably going to finish their 12 by 10, 30, 11, be able to run a short call and then go run the play at another call.
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So we're gonna shoot for three instead of three to five right now, like it?
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Yeah, awesome man.
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And so we're going into may 2025.
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Just from what you've seen this year, what are you projecting for revenue this year, billy, with the team that you have and the growth that you're you're, uh, anticipating?
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we stayed on the same path as we are right now, which we're not gonna we would do between eight and one point.
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So wow, but I we're not going to stay on that same path.
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I can already see we're going to need more tags and more stuff, so it's kind of hard to tell, but I'd say probably going to settle between one and one and that's remarkable.
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so even in this stage and course we've got wood to knock on, we could cross our fingers.
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You could believe in all the superstitions, but I just really want to highlight this because I think what people will get most from this episode is really, again, understanding this big F word and the faith and this leap of faith that you've taken.
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Can you please explain to us, before we dive deeper into understanding who Billy is and why he chose this way?
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When you look at someone who's just bootstrapping, thinking about just their van and only doing maybe the more I'm going to wear all the hats at first and take the safe play.
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Why didn't you choose that direction for yourself?
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Well, okay, so I'm pretty comfortable with letting everybody know because I'm an open book.
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Even our clients know I'm a recovered addict.
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That's where Empowered comes from, Because I was powerless and now that I found a power that I can live by, now I'm empowered and so that's the goal is to go out.
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You know, I sponsor a lot of people in the fellowship that I take part in, so to go out and empower people.
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And I just found this.
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I had this vision after some people.
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I surrounded myself with good people last April and I still do.
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They were like man, you got to go do this.
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Look at this vision you could have.
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And I started seeing it, Started seeing it and started growing.
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And I was like you know, I'm riding around in this 06 Econoline van with a ladder rack, with a helper working for my dad Going around, running like a premium guy.
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Everybody loves Billy and all these people are like man, go do this for yourself, Go do this for yourself, Go do this.
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So anyway, long story short, I've been in the pits of hell active addiction and probably I used to say I shouldn't even be alive right now.
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But obviously I should be because I'm here and I have a purpose now, and so that purpose is really to go out and serve my community at the highest level that I possibly can.
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If somebody needs help when I find out about another group of homeless people in the community, I can go say hey, what do you guys need?
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I'm here for you.
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That's what.
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That's what I like to stand for.
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Can I just add here, guys, I mentioned a win of the week that Billy won.
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It's unlike any other win, like it was the most humble and interesting win post I've ever seen, because Billy started with these great sales milestones and feeling great team growth and then, at the bottom, oh yeah, and I got someone else who's in recovery a free home to live in.
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Yeah, it was like that was your, oh yeah, but we were like, hang on.
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Oh, by the way, I reviewed this as a team.
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We're like did he mean that?
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Wait what?
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I, I didn't really think that you guys would see that like that, but yeah, uh, christy and her husband jason.
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I had another gentleman in recovery, call me and donovan.
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Donovan was like billy, me and my wife, this is our starter pack.
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We had this single, single wide travel trailer in an RV park here in Eustis and I was like, okay, great, yeah, what do you want to do with it?
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They're like, well, we want to give it to somebody.
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We're buying our first house, so all they have to do is pay the lot rent 200 bucks a month.
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I was like, wow, well, with all the homeless ministry people and the nonprofit people that we work with and are partnered with, we're going to be getting our own nonprofit soon.
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I was like I know I can find somebody that needs this house.
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And then I started thinking about this girl.
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From a couple of weeks prior, a realtor that we work for called us and said, billy, I know you're active in the recovery community.
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I know you know people, who do you know, that could help this girl find a cheap live, or kids and her husband.
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I said, let me think about it, rick, and I thought about it for a few weeks and then this house came out of nowhere.
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It's like God, what are you trying to show me right now?
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Okay, here, here's what I do with this.
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Hey, you guys want a house.
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It's just the gravity behind that is so amazing.
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Because you're right, there is a plan, there is a path, and we don't know what that path is.
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But seeing it, looking back and being like, ah, that's why this happened, isn't it the most amazing aha moment that happens.
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It really is.
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It really is and you know, looking back in hindsight at everything, it's real easy to see why things happen most of the time.
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At everything, it's real easy to see why things happen most of the time.
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So, like, especially when it comes to making a big decision, it's always good to do a lot of deep-seated.
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I want to say because, like, this is my intellect and this is my humility.
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So when I seek from here, I always come up with a better decision than when I seek from here.
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But when I can use the two together, then it's an even better situation and outcome.
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Most of the time.
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As long as I put this before this, it's okay.
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But when they work together in sequence with each other, it's good.
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So whenever I go to make these big decisions in my life, I'm always getting these cylinders of fire together and I'm seeking what is possible.
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I love that.
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That's a great share, Billy.
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Thank you so much.
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You mentioned going through hell.
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How long would you say that you were in hell for?
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I was in hell from 2007 until 2021.
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2007, I got really bad into opiates after a few surgeries.
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I was a motocross racer, so I was getting into pain pills and things like that, alcohol, all kinds of stuff.
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Then they kind of cracked down in 2010 on all that stuff and I had to start going to the streets or I was going to be sick.
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I went to the streets and then 2017, I gave it my best run.
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I gave it what I thought was my best run at the time to get sober and I went on to this I guess they would call it now Smart Rehab or something, I don't know but the box in and things like that and it didn't work.
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As soon as I ran out of that, I was back to the streets again.
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Finally, 2021, I was sitting on my couch and I just was like I woke up and I just had everything I needed in the kitchen, in the drawer.
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I had everything I needed and my dog was sitting in front of me on the couch with her back against the couch.
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She was looking up at me and she just looked like the saddest dog I'd ever seen, looking at her dad just sitting there suffering.
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I don't have any kids.
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So I kind of looked at that like my child looking at me saying you need help, please get help.
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I just broke down crying and I called everybody that I had scheduled that day I wasn't coming in.
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I went to detox that day and Rebecca got sober the same day I did.
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We were both together.
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So my girlfriend and I have the same sobriety date.
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She's 20 years older than me, so we've been together eight years now and her detox was a little worse than mine, because of the age difference, I'm sure.
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But that living hell, I don't want to go back to that.
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Even as uncomfortable as I get with this new business venture, with $50,000 to $60,000 a month in bills that have to get paid, including payroll and all that stuff, that stuff, the way that it makes me feel uncomfortable it's still more comfortable than my best day, right, I mean in active addiction.
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You know that the feeling that I had an active addiction is the worst feeling in the world.
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It's like being in a prison in my own mind and the amount of pride that comes with it, because I come from a pretty good family, don't come from a lot, but you know, had a good family name.
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And what is this guy doing?
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Look at him, he's just turned out to be horrible.
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Thank you for the vulnerability and sharing that Part of this episode I got to admit selfishly is because I know that our industry and other trades like it really do suffer with drug and alcohol abuse and addiction and illnesses and that's really really hard and it's taking a toll on an already dwindling trade yeah, I sponsor a lot of iron workers three of them yeah, and you and I connected early on.
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This I've never said on the podcast, but I lost my best friend who I grew up with, who here's another connection we've never made on the podcast, but when I showed Joseph a picture of Joey his name was Joseph literally immediately said he looks like me, which gives me chills still when I talk about it to this day and how the world works in mysterious ways.
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But just how you said, we lost Joey in the same way, which was his partner, who he was absolutely in love with, was a very well endowed small girl and they ended up giving her opiates for her back her back issues because of that endowment and the two of them became addicted and both ended up on the streets to maintain their health, just to not be sick, and it was just too much for him.
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He did not escape it.
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It's so crazy how it works, man, because once I put anything like that in my body, there's something that clicks in my brain that says it's okay to do it again.
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See, you did it once that was three weeks ago and you were fine and then all of a sudden, now I'm doing it every two weeks and two days, and then I'm doing it every week, and then I'm doing it every day, and then I'm right back in the hole again.
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So now I know, the only way for me to stay sober is to not put any of that stuff in my body, and if I feel uncomfortable about something, I probably need to go talk to somebody.
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I have, I guess, what you would call a sponsor.
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I don't like to call on that in any of the 12-step literature.
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In the original text it doesn't say the word sponsor anywhere.
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It says that in one place.
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It says a closed mouth, understanding friend.
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So I like to go.
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I have several of those.
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I can.
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You know.
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Text Joe, text Clay can hit my buddy Orlando up, my original sponsor Mark.
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I got a bunch of people I can go to.
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It depends on what I need counsel on.
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If I'm meeting business counsel, I'm going to go to somebody that's really good at what they do.
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If I need something about sobriety, or if I need something about girlfriend, or if I need something about family, I got all these network of people that I can go to.
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Something about family, I got all these network of people that I could go to.
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You know, it seems so wild because you said something that I feel really hit me to the core, and I don't know if it's just because I also experienced alcoholism, but you're right in that the moment you even try it again, it's so hard to resist it.
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It's almost the closest.
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That I imagined was like imagine you accidentally catch yourself.
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You ever fish at all?
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You fish at all?
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No, okay, have you ever caught yourself with a fishing hook?
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You know what it's like to try and pull it out.
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And now you're holding this hook in your hand and now suddenly you think it looks tasty.
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You just pulled it out.
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But when it's in your hand you're like you know, this is actually I'm not going to do it again, I'm fine.
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And like you know this, actually I'm not gonna do it again, I'm fine.
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And you end up keep eating the hook over and over and over.
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it's why I can't drink anymore I don't drink at all, like touching the hot stove.
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It's not gonna burn me this time, you know, not this time, yeah I was hoping to ask you a really vulnerable question, if I could what you haven't gone there, aren't?
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people are listening this going like vulnerable.
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Are you serious, aren't there?
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Billy, when we first were talking about your involvement with SLE and the program here just to be in the community of other electricians and the reasons that people like to be here with us and us to be with them and their journeys, I asked you a really hard and important question and I told you about my best friend and I said, billy, I just want to be sure for you, is there anything here that you feel if the pressure mounted for you in your business and working with us that would cause you to relapse?
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I expected a delay.
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No, there is nothing in me that will ever.
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I will never have to worry about relapse, ever again.
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God has completely removed that obsession for drugs and alcohol from my life completely.
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Now, when I get uncomfortable or when I get a resentment at something or when I get a fear over whether it's created or whether it's a real fear, I have a way to process those feelings now.
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That's part of the gifts that come with sobriety.
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So ultimately, what's happened is I've been placed in a position of neutrality when it comes to drugs and alcohol.
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It doesn't bother me.
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I go up into the trap house and grab guys all the time, bring them back to the meeting if they want to come.
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I've been in the same room with people doing sharp, illicit things to put in their arms, to do things to get not sick, so that we can get them down to the hospital and get them into rehab.
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None of that stuff bothers me, man.
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If that's what's going to help them get to Sunday morning, to Monday when they can see the doctor at detox, then let's help this guy get what he needs, and tomorrow morning he's getting detox.
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Neutrality, man.
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God has completely removed all that from me, not a doubt.
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I love that you're saying that and I think if anyone would appreciate this reference.
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But when I learned how to apply faith into addiction, this is what the visual that I was taught you hold up a finger right and you say this is the thing that you're already addicted to.