WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:02.799 For thirty five years, Cindy Stumpo has been a female 2 00:00:02.839 --> 00:00:06.360 homebuilder with a passion for design, a mastery of detail, 3 00:00:06.400 --> 00:00:09.240 and a commitment to her crack. With daughter Samantha Stumpo 4 00:00:09.359 --> 00:00:10.160 by her side. 5 00:00:09.960 --> 00:00:11.560 I don't need my whole family on a date with me. 6 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:12.439 That's a good note. 7 00:00:12.439 --> 00:00:15.080 It's God him weird. See. Stumpo Development is the only 8 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:18.000 second generation female construction company in the country. 9 00:00:18.160 --> 00:00:22.000 You're crazy, You're a wacko. You're insane. 10 00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:23.519 I mean, it just doesn't end together. 11 00:00:23.679 --> 00:00:27.239 Cindy and Samantha welcome guests to explore the world of construction, 12 00:00:27.519 --> 00:00:31.239 real estate, development, design and more. You're unpredictable. Every time 13 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:33.079 I think I know what you want, you switch it out. 14 00:00:33.159 --> 00:00:34.920 But that's what makes your house is all your They 15 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:37.840 discuss anything that happens between the roof and the foundation. 16 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:40.920 Nothing is off limits. I you truly do care about everybody. 17 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:42.479 She can yell at, you can scream, but when you 18 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:44.960 get her alone, she's the best person on the planet. 19 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:50.439 Cindy Stumpo is tough as nails. 20 00:00:51.479 --> 00:00:53.799 They are welcome to Cindy Stampo to nails on for 21 00:00:53.880 --> 00:00:58.679 WVZ and we're here tonight with my daughter dat b mutne, 22 00:00:58.719 --> 00:01:01.359 I can't really something snap? Okay, that's good. And then 23 00:01:01.399 --> 00:01:04.159 we have another name that ends na vowel here in 24 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:06.359 the first thoughts of leek all I guess names in 25 00:01:06.439 --> 00:01:08.640 the vowels that we and we're here with whom. 26 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:11.280 My name is Nico Verano. I'm very gratefully you guys 27 00:01:11.319 --> 00:01:11.719 had me on. 28 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:13.680 Today, Okay? And who is Niko. 29 00:01:13.599 --> 00:01:16.599 Ran nco Rano? First off, is the son of Nick 30 00:01:16.599 --> 00:01:18.359 and Michelle Van That's what I always start off with. 31 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:20.719 Let me hold you down. Why do you always say 32 00:01:20.719 --> 00:01:21.519 that Nick is my dad? 33 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:24.599 Because my greatest achievement in life will be being their son. 34 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:28.000 We're making them proud. Yeah, one hundred percent. The name 35 00:01:28.040 --> 00:01:31.200 of my company actually is MMFP. The holding companies MMFP 36 00:01:31.400 --> 00:01:31.959 make make my. 37 00:01:31.920 --> 00:01:33.920 Father proud, Make my father proud. 38 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:35.760 Yeah, my mom will be proud as long as I'm 39 00:01:35.760 --> 00:01:37.680 a good person. But my dad takes a little bit more. 40 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:41.200 I must be the mom and dad in this family 41 00:01:41.879 --> 00:01:44.840 takes a little more. Okay, I just say I'm your daughter. 42 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:48.200 I don't really mention dad. Okay. So, but it's a 43 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:50.239 boy that wants to make his father proud, right, that's it. 44 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:53.239 Tell my listeners why that is and then we'll get 45 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:53.799 into what you do. 46 00:01:54.319 --> 00:01:56.920 Because you know, my dad, I think had a much 47 00:01:56.920 --> 00:01:58.760 different upbringing than the one he gave me. You know, 48 00:01:58.799 --> 00:02:01.439 he quit school in the ninth great to basically support himself, 49 00:02:01.879 --> 00:02:04.359 uh and made a name for himself. And in my opinion, 50 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:07.280 you know, he's the best business owner I've ever seen. Period. 51 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:10.159 I've been in rooms with you know, fortune five hundred CEOs, 52 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:12.879 guys that have started a billion dollar companies, and I've 53 00:02:12.919 --> 00:02:15.520 never been more impressed by them than I have been 54 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:16.039 by my dad. 55 00:02:16.919 --> 00:02:17.800 So here's your hero. 56 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:21.240 Yeah, no doubt about it. 57 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:23.800 So is there anything that makes you ever feel insecure 58 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:25.520 about trying to fill those shoes? 59 00:02:25.719 --> 00:02:29.319 Well they're massive shoes, absolutely massive shoes to fill. Not 60 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:30.879 as big as his pants were to fill. 61 00:02:33.400 --> 00:02:36.800 Yes, you don't have that problem. You know, issues go 62 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:37.960 ahead and you must like your mom. 63 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:42.639 But uh but yeah, big shoes to fill. And you know, 64 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:46.039 now he's basically carved a path for me. So the 65 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:48.840 pressure I feel sometimes is like am I doing enough 66 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:52.240 to head down that path and be successful? But it's 67 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:54.039 a pressure that you know, he reminds me of, Like, 68 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:56.039 you know, you don't have to just try to make 69 00:02:56.039 --> 00:02:58.159 me happy, but It's one of those things that you know, 70 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:00.319 if I try every day and have a little bit 71 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:01.879 of success, I think we'll be happy. 72 00:03:02.919 --> 00:03:04.240 Is it amazing? How old? You know? 73 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:05.599 Thirty? Just turn thirty? 74 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:07.719 Just ten thirty? And when did you get in your 75 00:03:07.719 --> 00:03:09.360 head that you wanted to make your parents proud? 76 00:03:11.000 --> 00:03:14.680 Probably probably at a pretty young age, like probably around 77 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:15.400 like ten or twelve. 78 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:17.759 At that young of age, Huh, you knew that you 79 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:18.599 wanted to make them proud. 80 00:03:18.639 --> 00:03:21.080 Yeah, because I saw the journey my dad took of 81 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:23.439 basically just you know, taking a leap of faith opening 82 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:25.319 up a fifty person restaurant in the North End that 83 00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:27.599 sort of the same Italian food that everybody else served 84 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:30.639 in the North End and becoming successful doing that just 85 00:03:30.639 --> 00:03:32.759 by treating people differently and making sure everybody had a 86 00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:35.919 great time. And he created a name for himself from nothing. 87 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:38.879 So if he's given me the platform by you know, 88 00:03:39.159 --> 00:03:41.120 moving us from Rivera to Lindfield for a better school 89 00:03:41.159 --> 00:03:42.280 system and then give. 90 00:03:42.280 --> 00:03:47.319 They did that to me too, Yeah, and then from 91 00:03:47.319 --> 00:03:49.759 there from West peb to Newton, Like would you send 92 00:03:49.759 --> 00:03:51.919 me there for stop giving these culture sharks? You people 93 00:03:51.919 --> 00:03:52.800 like what's want? My parents? 94 00:03:52.919 --> 00:03:53.120 Yeah? 95 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:55.919 But they you know, they did that, and uh then 96 00:03:55.960 --> 00:03:57.479 he gave me the opportunity to go to college. So 97 00:03:57.639 --> 00:03:59.159 I was the first one in my family to go 98 00:03:59.159 --> 00:04:02.280 to college. So you know, what's the other option other 99 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:03.039 than make them proud? 100 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:04.800 Is the first generation Chian? 101 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:07.919 He is first generation. His parents came over when they 102 00:04:07.960 --> 00:04:11.400 were pregnant with him, so born here, went back every summer. 103 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:12.680 But he was born in Boston. 104 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:13.360 I like that. 105 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:17.439 No, yeah, dad was born. You know. Dad was an oops. 106 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:18.519 Yeah, but he was born here. 107 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:20.480 Yes, who isn't an oops though nowadays? 108 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:21.319 Now I was planned. 109 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:23.519 She was definitely planned. At the moment to the moment, 110 00:04:23.720 --> 00:04:25.720 I was an oops. I was a big oops oops 111 00:04:26.199 --> 00:04:30.600 chowers oops too, oops happens. Oops, so that happens, Okay, 112 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:33.120 oops are good things to them. They'd all the oldest. 113 00:04:33.199 --> 00:04:35.000 I'm the oldest. So I have one younger sister. Her 114 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:37.759 name is Marina. She lives out in La She's awesome. 115 00:04:37.800 --> 00:04:38.959 I hear she's selling real estate. 116 00:04:39.079 --> 00:04:41.639 She is selling real estate out there, trying to She 117 00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:43.680 has one really big listening right now that she's very 118 00:04:43.720 --> 00:04:44.279 excited about. 119 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:45.279 So good for her. 120 00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:45.759 Yeah. 121 00:04:45.920 --> 00:04:47.639 So there's two of you, two of us. 122 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:49.879 That's it. Age gap two and a half. 123 00:04:49.839 --> 00:04:53.959 Years how much closer. Yeah, so nephews and you both wanted. 124 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:55.959 Does she have the same thing of making dad proud 125 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:56.920 like you or more you? 126 00:04:57.920 --> 00:04:59.759 I think I have it more. She'd probably get mad 127 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:02.959 that I I think she has it too, But she 128 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:04.959 sees the world the same way that they gave us 129 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:06.879 an opportunity, so now we had to capitalize on that. 130 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:10.519 Do you think there's a difference between first generation kids, 131 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:13.800 whether the Italian with South America whatever, of a different 132 00:05:13.879 --> 00:05:17.879 upbringing than me being a second or third generation American. 133 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:20.439 Here, I don't think so. I think if if you 134 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:24.360 have parents that instill certain qualities in you, you're going 135 00:05:24.439 --> 00:05:26.439 to want to work no matter if your first, second, third, fourth, 136 00:05:26.519 --> 00:05:30.199 fifth generation. It really just depends on sort of how 137 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:32.800 you're raised. And sometimes on the opposite side of the spectrum, 138 00:05:32.959 --> 00:05:35.319 you're not raised that way and you still want to 139 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:37.759 raise your family one day a different way. So you're 140 00:05:37.800 --> 00:05:40.279 going to work to provide a much different upbringing than 141 00:05:40.319 --> 00:05:40.720 you had. 142 00:05:40.759 --> 00:05:43.560 So I'll tell you why you will be success successful. 143 00:05:43.800 --> 00:05:46.079 It's on my opinion, and you already on that road, 144 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:50.319 is because, like you, I want to make my dad 145 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:52.920 proud to right, that was the goal I want him 146 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:56.439 to say, now, that's my daughter. The biggest compliment you 147 00:05:56.439 --> 00:06:02.079 can get on thousand percent. I knew that by probably eighteen. 148 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:05.160 Seventeen eighteen is when I started to know that, Okay, 149 00:06:05.319 --> 00:06:07.000 we both have that in common. I think a lot 150 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:09.160 of people, a lot of kids, no matter what generation, 151 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:13.879 if we have respect, we get love. We love our parents, 152 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:16.439 but there's a different way we love them. Sometimes we 153 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:18.439 don't like them. We always love them. Sometimes you don't 154 00:06:18.519 --> 00:06:20.959 like them. We don't like rules, we don't like regulations. 155 00:06:21.199 --> 00:06:23.639 But I think brought up in the right environment, that 156 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:27.000 hustle is just in you. And then they just kind 157 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:30.759 of flick the lighter. That's a torch that they know. 158 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:34.959 A parent knows when their kids got that bit of that. 159 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:36.399 I can do this and trigger you know what I'm 160 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:38.519 saying to you know what I'm saying on this, well, 161 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:41.360 like the big lighter, because there was fuel to light. 162 00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:43.639 He saw that in you. Whether you saw that in 163 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:44.560 you or not, I don't know. 164 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:47.639 No, he definitely saw it. I remember vividly. It was 165 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:51.519 an end of freshman year. I was just finished my 166 00:06:51.519 --> 00:06:54.399 freshman at Miami, and I had worked to transfer into 167 00:06:54.399 --> 00:06:56.959 BC because that was his dream school for me. In 168 00:06:57.000 --> 00:06:59.560 that summer, I had an internship. It was only like 169 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:01.439 two days week, and I never forget. He came in 170 00:07:01.519 --> 00:07:03.519 on like a Tuesday, middle of the summer and I 171 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:06.879 was just home with some friends and he lit me up. 172 00:07:06.959 --> 00:07:08.600 He said, you know you got to be working five 173 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:11.199 days a week, sixties week, seven days a week. He goes, 174 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:12.680 you know, you're gonna end up just like any other 175 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:13.240 bust out. 176 00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:16.120 So he lit you up, and my son says, I 177 00:07:16.199 --> 00:07:17.439 tune him up. Is that the same thing? 178 00:07:17.480 --> 00:07:18.480 Yeah, same thing. 179 00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:20.480 So as he's lighting you up at that moment, what 180 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:21.879 are you saying in your head. 181 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:23.920 I'm saying, well, I just worked so hard to transfer 182 00:07:24.040 --> 00:07:25.839 to BC, like, can I get a little bit of 183 00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:27.720 a break. But I didn't realize at the time was 184 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:29.240 that he was trying to show me that the hard 185 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:31.120 work never stops. You just got to keep going and 186 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:32.079 keep going and keep going. 187 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:34.519 And did you understand that at the time, or are 188 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:37.079 you going, what the heck's going on? Yeah, I'm now 189 00:07:37.079 --> 00:07:38.959 in BC. That's still not making you happy. 190 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:40.759 Yeah, that day, I didn't understand it at all. But 191 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:44.279 I always reflect back on that day and remember vividly. 192 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:46.800 Maybe because he was four hundred pounds and yawn at me. 193 00:07:48.759 --> 00:07:52.079 But I remember that very vividly to this day, and 194 00:07:52.120 --> 00:07:54.399 I think you know, I ultimately thanked him for it, 195 00:07:54.480 --> 00:07:56.720 because you know, from that day on, the mindset changed 196 00:07:56.920 --> 00:07:57.399 in some ways. 197 00:07:57.480 --> 00:07:59.560 Yeah, that's what would you generation? Is all the times 198 00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:02.040 mindset I use. I don't know, like I never heard 199 00:08:02.040 --> 00:08:04.600 that word, so I went on social audio. I would say, 200 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:06.360 where's your brain? Why aren't you using your brain? 201 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:08.279 I mean you kind of said something similar to me 202 00:08:08.519 --> 00:08:10.560 with me, like it was my freshman year of college. 203 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:12.199 You came back and you were like, I'm going to 204 00:08:12.279 --> 00:08:14.560 take away your car unless you get a job. And 205 00:08:14.680 --> 00:08:16.120 you were like, you have to apply everywhere because if 206 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:18.079 you don't have a job, I'm literally taking away your car. 207 00:08:18.120 --> 00:08:21.000 And I believe to you and now look at you guys, 208 00:08:21.720 --> 00:08:24.519 but you have to put Look as far as I'm concerned, 209 00:08:25.319 --> 00:08:26.959 I know this. I was never afraid of my father, 210 00:08:27.079 --> 00:08:30.040 but he and still the enough fear. I knew he 211 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:32.440 never hurt me, he would never put his hands on me, 212 00:08:32.799 --> 00:08:34.399 but he just had to give me that one eyebrow 213 00:08:34.480 --> 00:08:37.960 and I went stage left. But that respect is gone now, 214 00:08:38.840 --> 00:08:41.200 especially kids your age I had thirty years older. I 215 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:43.200 everybody's a kid. You're not. We're talk in Boston, right, 216 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:46.480 you could be eighty years old. My mother's talking about 217 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:48.360 her friends. The only kid that we went to school with. Mom. 218 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:50.440 I think the kids growing up and maybe has died 219 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:53.759 by now, like right, but this is most kids. But 220 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:57.240 I think that if you give those kids that little 221 00:08:57.240 --> 00:09:00.159 bit of fear, like your dad used to say, you 222 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:00.919 what he's gonna do? 223 00:09:00.919 --> 00:09:03.039 What to you if you don't, oh run me over, 224 00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:06.440 chot my fingers off? One or the other. Never happened, 225 00:09:06.440 --> 00:09:07.039 thank god. 226 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:09.200 Never happened. Absolutely, but it was like the thought was 227 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:10.960 put in your head, like you gonna shot my fingers? 228 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:13.240 Is he gonna run me over? We know that's not 229 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:15.399 really going to happen, but everybody hold that thought. We're 230 00:09:15.399 --> 00:09:17.200 going to break. I'm Sidy Stumbling. You listen to Toughest 231 00:09:17.240 --> 00:09:19.039 Nails on w b Z and we'll be right. 232 00:09:18.879 --> 00:09:22.679 Back, sponsored by Flora Decor, National Lumber and Village Bang. 233 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:44.039 Good and welcome back to Toughest Nails on WBZ and 234 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:48.200 we're here with who Wake up? Get off your phone there, Sammy, 235 00:09:48.440 --> 00:09:52.120 I'm Smantha. Who are you? I'm Cindy? Are you? I 236 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:55.200 don't know I'm changing my name. I'm becoming Coela. You 237 00:09:55.240 --> 00:09:57.200 didn't actually like that name? We want to drink, Maybe 238 00:09:57.200 --> 00:09:59.039 you should name yourself. I was born to frank and 239 00:09:59.039 --> 00:09:59.879 then they changed it to Si. 240 00:10:00.440 --> 00:10:01.120 How'd that happen? 241 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:03.720 Because my mother looked at me and she goes, Bobby, 242 00:10:03.759 --> 00:10:06.679 this is one ugly baby, and we are not giving 243 00:10:06.679 --> 00:10:09.039 her a boy's name because, oh my god, she's got 244 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:12.519 these long arms, long legs, jet black here and she 245 00:10:12.759 --> 00:10:14.919 is the ugliest thing I've ever seen. Nate give her 246 00:10:14.919 --> 00:10:18.399 a girl's name right away. My father's like, she's not ugly. No, 247 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:21.159 she's ugly. They switched from the hospital. She's really not mine. 248 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:24.919 That's what they thought. That's what she thought around. Okay, 249 00:10:25.080 --> 00:10:27.919 so the name Frankie would have fixed me fit me perfectly, 250 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:30.200 I don't think so what would. 251 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:32.480 Have I don't know. There's just something about when someone 252 00:10:32.519 --> 00:10:36.519 says Cindy stump Frankie Stumpo doesn't actually sound as intimidating. 253 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:39.159 You say Cindy Stumpo nowadays. 254 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:41.600 It's Cindy's such a like it reminds you of the 255 00:10:41.639 --> 00:10:43.600 Brady Bunch with the girl that wore the pigtails. I 256 00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:44.879 don't know. Cindy's just Cindy. 257 00:10:45.240 --> 00:10:47.399 Maybe you put a different meaning meaning to the name 258 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:49.519 Cindy's like a boss statusy okay. 259 00:10:49.559 --> 00:10:52.919 So imagine if it was Frankie Stumpo, then they would all, 260 00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:54.679 you know what. Back then, they would have assumed I 261 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:56.519 was a guy because they all thought, see Stumpo was 262 00:10:56.559 --> 00:10:58.600 a guy. Right. Remember we didn't have Google back then. 263 00:10:58.639 --> 00:11:00.559 It was like and then they meet me and they 264 00:11:00.639 --> 00:11:03.480 go like, you don't look like a builder. Oh, what's 265 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:05.759 the build to look like? I'm sorry, like, should I 266 00:11:05.799 --> 00:11:07.639 put that in the dictionary? What's the build to look like? 267 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:11.799 But no, I think to see your generation and we're 268 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:13.559 going to get into everything you do in a minute. 269 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:20.320 But be this hard working at thirty years old. I 270 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:24.639 hate to tell you, but you are now the not norm. 271 00:11:25.120 --> 00:11:28.159 This was norm for my generation. Gold and push that 272 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:31.320 rock up the mountain. Have that burning desire to be successful. 273 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:33.679 We wanted it. We wanted to get out of the 274 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:35.919 house at eighteen and go live our lives like love 275 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:37.320 your mom and dad, but we got to go figure 276 00:11:37.320 --> 00:11:40.919 stuff out for ourselves. Right, Your generations like boomerangs boom 277 00:11:40.960 --> 00:11:43.240 your home, you come back, you leave, you come back. 278 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:47.720 So you have the phenom now not the norm. 279 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:50.159 It's funny because a lot of the time I enjoy 280 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:52.759 hearing the stories like my dad and his friends will tell. 281 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:55.120 So like sitting in a room with my dad, Frankie 282 00:11:55.159 --> 00:11:57.360 d and a lot of those older business owners like 283 00:11:57.399 --> 00:12:00.480 those are not my favorite moments because the learnings you 284 00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:03.240 get from you know, Frankied was working at the age 285 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:04.639 of like fourteen outside. 286 00:12:04.279 --> 00:12:06.240 Of he d He's gonna be the due man in heaven. Okay, 287 00:12:06.360 --> 00:12:09.679 yeah he is, So he's got better stories than anybody, right, 288 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:12.200 And then you put those two together in the room 289 00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:15.000 and you're just laughing because it's the greatest like hour 290 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:15.679 you can spend. 291 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:17.960 And then you hear stories from like guys like Anthony Rossi, 292 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:20.639 who at my age was doing one hundred different things. 293 00:12:20.679 --> 00:12:23.600 So like it's just I learn a lot from my 294 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:27.320 dad's friends that it's you know, the greatest blessing. 295 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:29.360 In life is Yeah, but Ross, you gotta get this. Hey, 296 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:30.960 do you get the new ap Hey? Do you get 297 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:33.039 the new Really? Hey? I got the new Betley? Hey, 298 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:35.960 I got the new Roles Hey. Hey, hey hey, I 299 00:12:36.879 --> 00:12:38.720 remember what the first thing he said was, I should 300 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:39.679 have left you well. 301 00:12:40.120 --> 00:12:41.759 Half of the stuff he mentions me, I don't even 302 00:12:41.759 --> 00:12:43.240 know what it is. I just go along like, well 303 00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:47.480 that sounds unbelievable. Ie those but no, he's he's I. 304 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:49.320 Just bought a four thoughts. I bought a pocketbook twenty 305 00:12:49.320 --> 00:12:51.639 thousand dollars my wife, it's worth one hundred and twenty. 306 00:12:51.919 --> 00:12:54.039 Okay, somebody calls and he says your name like it's 307 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:55.679 a panic see me? Yeah, what's going on? 308 00:12:55.720 --> 00:12:55.840 Oh? 309 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:56.519 Can you just send me this? 310 00:12:57.080 --> 00:12:57.279 Yeah? 311 00:12:57.360 --> 00:12:59.360 I got a good deal. He's like, I hit your 312 00:12:59.399 --> 00:13:00.440 phone every time you call me. 313 00:13:00.879 --> 00:13:04.000 That's one thing about him. He answers every single time. 314 00:13:04.600 --> 00:13:06.679 Every time you call him with a two seconds fault 315 00:13:06.679 --> 00:13:08.879 pone draft, phone drops and then and I'm like, where 316 00:13:08.879 --> 00:13:09.360 are you kids? 317 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:10.080 Talk to you anymore? 318 00:13:10.120 --> 00:13:11.799 If you look at my phone, He's yelling at me, say, 319 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:13.600 I answer your phone call every time? And do you 320 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:15.200 stick me a voicemail? I need you to answer a 321 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:17.559 question for me. Dude, I'm on a zoom meeting I 322 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:19.320 just get and I was on a face zoom meeting 323 00:13:19.399 --> 00:13:21.879 so I couldn't text. I'm like, you can't make this up. 324 00:13:22.120 --> 00:13:23.600 But yeah, I mean it's definitely grew up with a 325 00:13:23.639 --> 00:13:24.799 cast of characters, right. 326 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:26.440 Oh, cast of characters. I say it all the time. 327 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:28.200 I feel like I'm one of very few people that 328 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:30.480 can sit in a room with business execs on a 329 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:32.399 Tuesday night and have dinner with them, and then on 330 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:34.240 a Wednesday night have dinner with some guys that have 331 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:37.120 maybe spent more than half their life in jail and 332 00:13:37.240 --> 00:13:39.399 have a good time with both both crowds and learn 333 00:13:39.440 --> 00:13:40.320 from both crowds. 334 00:13:40.519 --> 00:13:43.679 Isn't amazing? So you vicariously do live through other people. 335 00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:45.960 I take lessons from everybody. 336 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:48.039 So that makes you a genius. 337 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:49.639 Now I don't know about that. 338 00:13:49.840 --> 00:13:52.639 No, it does. You know the same, and let me 339 00:13:52.679 --> 00:13:55.639 hopefully I get it right with my brain right now, tom, 340 00:13:55.679 --> 00:13:58.159 People make the same mistake over and over again, expecting 341 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:02.639 a different result. A smile person makes a mistake, no, no, no, 342 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:05.840 makes a mistake, but then makes a new mistake, doesn't 343 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:08.440 make the same mistake. And a genius just lives through 344 00:14:08.440 --> 00:14:11.840 everybody else's mistakes. And I live through everybody else's. 345 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:13.320 I hope I can get to that level. I'm not 346 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:14.120 there yet, but I hope so. 347 00:14:14.240 --> 00:14:16.159 But you will, you will. I don't think I was 348 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:19.360 there at thirty either, but I got there. So now 349 00:14:19.960 --> 00:14:27.120 now that we understand Nico's background and what are you doing? 350 00:14:27.639 --> 00:14:30.559 So right now we're opening up a bunch of sweathouse 351 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:35.360 studios which are contrast therapy studios, So infrared sauna, cold plunged, 352 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:38.559 Vitamin C private suite all over Massachusetts. 353 00:14:38.759 --> 00:14:41.440 Okay, what made you stop this? And then we'll go 354 00:14:41.559 --> 00:14:43.919 get into what that actually is because some people that 355 00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:50.360 are listening don't really understand this whole new cold plungings, sauna, red, 356 00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:53.399 red infra red. I call it red by therapy for 357 00:14:53.399 --> 00:14:56.720 some reason, my brain infrared. And then what's the vitamin 358 00:14:56.759 --> 00:14:57.440 C show? We do? 359 00:14:57.600 --> 00:14:59.519 So the Vitamin C shower is really good. We'll get 360 00:14:59.559 --> 00:15:01.720 into this. But when you sweat, your pores open up. 361 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:03.399 So when you go into the Vitamin Sea shower, it 362 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:05.559 adds that low grade vitamin C into the water, which 363 00:15:05.639 --> 00:15:08.600 kills all the bacteria in limes seal on the pipes 364 00:15:08.919 --> 00:15:11.360 and then basically freshens the water so that you get 365 00:15:11.559 --> 00:15:13.519 very very clean water. And it adds a little bit 366 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:14.919 of vitamin C back into your skin. 367 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:19.519 So it's more for the system less for the body. 368 00:15:19.759 --> 00:15:23.000 It's fifty to fifty. It kills all the limestone bacteria, 369 00:15:23.000 --> 00:15:25.000 which is great, but it also adds a little bit 370 00:15:25.039 --> 00:15:27.279 of low grade vitamin C into your skin as well. 371 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:31.519 And how many times can I if I want to 372 00:15:31.559 --> 00:15:33.919 go into the saun like what I heard when I 373 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:36.759 was there, after going the sauna, go in the cold plunge, 374 00:15:36.799 --> 00:15:38.919 back on the sauna, going the cold plunge. Is that true? 375 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:41.440 You can do. The beautiful thing about sweatoes is you're 376 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:43.919 in your own suite for sixty minutes by yourself, and 377 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:46.559 you can go any which way you want. So most 378 00:15:46.600 --> 00:15:50.080 people will do twenty minutes in the sauna, a five 379 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:53.360 minute vitamin sea shower, a five minute cold plunge, and 380 00:15:53.399 --> 00:15:55.759 then repeat that one more time so they fulfill the hour. 381 00:15:56.240 --> 00:15:59.200 Some groups of people will do a forty five minute 382 00:15:59.240 --> 00:16:01.960 sauna followed a five minute shower, follow by a five 383 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:04.559 minute plunge, followed by five minutes to get ready. So 384 00:16:04.919 --> 00:16:06.759 the whole thing is you want to go from hot 385 00:16:06.799 --> 00:16:08.399 to cold to cold to hot, because that's what's going 386 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:10.559 to cause it therm, a regulatory reaction in your body. 387 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:13.039 Explain that all right, So when your body goes from 388 00:16:13.080 --> 00:16:15.480 hot to cold to cold to hot, your body is 389 00:16:15.519 --> 00:16:18.200 activating a lot of things you don't typically activate. So 390 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:20.960 what that activation does is it kills a lot of 391 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:23.639 the inflammation around your muscles and bones and allows you 392 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:26.960 to prevent things like sicknesses. It improves your mental health 393 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:30.799 and improves brain clarity. But more than anything, just makes 394 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:33.320 you feel better. Like the simplest way I explain this 395 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:35.919 to people such as my dad's friends is coming to 396 00:16:35.960 --> 00:16:39.000 sweathouse just makes you feel better both internally and externally. 397 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:40.159 You just feel amazing. 398 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:44.759 Okay, So some people that can't use that. So for me, 399 00:16:44.840 --> 00:16:47.039 when I'm home and I'm taking a steam, I'm taking 400 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:50.799 a son in my own house. At some point I 401 00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:55.120