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Hey, what's going on? Everyone? My name's Joe and welcome to the front row your ticket and really your front row seat sometimes hear me event, but mainly hear me talk about food, business, relationships, music and a whole lot more. Gets it on me and listen to conversations with some of my closest friends and some new friends that I met along the way. As a part time business owner, a 9 to 5 digital worker in a constant Twitter junkie, this'd is front row. I wanted to start today's episode by actually thanking you. You, you, you! That's right, Everyone that's locked in its student in this listening and that subscribe Thio our podcasts. I really appreciate you guys giving us a little bit your time to really get to know me. And I think I think this might actually be a really good Segway into getting to know me. Your hosts, eso without further ado, here are a couple things and I'm going to say seven things or eight things, hopefully things that you don't know about me. And if you're one of my friends, if your family member and if you just know me in general Well, you know, this might be a little bit of repetition, but here goes nothing. So here's number one used to beat box. I know this might sound a little weird, but my beatbox name when I was a kid was emcee deep, and I used to do this routine when I was on stage, where I would be like when I say em, See y'all say deep. You know what? It's really, really bad sexual innuendo for starters, given that I was in high school, but it made for a really good estate routine and it was fantastic, and it was honestly, really don't because grew a lot of my confidence, I think, ability to get in front of people. And then it also just kind of leaned on my more musical side. I'll get into this a little bit later throughout the season, but I come from a very artistic family, and, you know, I think being ableto practice our whether it's through dance or whether it's doing any other means, really is it is a tool in expression for really, how you feeling? I think for me music has always been that out for me, but you know. I mean, I used to beat box from time to time. You know, I kind of get back into it with some of my friends, and, you know, we'll try and spit like a hot hot 16 and we might even start like a rap battle. But, you know, I used to beat box. The second thing that our listeners might not know about me is that I come from a very artistic family. So back in the day, my mom and my dad, you know, before they came to Canada, they have their own jobs and they were pretty much just, you know, just working with regular 95. But outside of that, my dad grew up as a as a carne Arctic vocalist and my mom, she started off as a nurse, and eventually she got into wanting Thio, I think do cakes and, I think, just bake cakes in general. But eventually she channeled her air quotes, artistic expression into wanting to, you know, do hair and makeup. So for for a hot minute, she used to actually work at a local mall in the greater Toronto area called Scarborough Town Centre and, yes, used to do air and makeup over there. But I think throughout my childhood and just growing up in general, my parents have kind of always fostered this This notion that art is always gonna be something that you kind of tap into, you know, have some stress relief, but also to really channel, I think, your inner expression. So, like I said before, I come from a very artistic family, and when I was growing up, I used Thio study percussion, you just the beatbox like I alluded to before. And I actually am a dancer, which is actually kind of 1/3 thing. That our viewers, our listeners definitely won't know about me is that I used to study on our form called by the naughty Emmett's old South Indian folk dance That's very female dominant. And if you know I studied from two dozen 9 to 2015 took a little bit of a hot break, and eventually I want to say about five months ago. Now I'm back and it's been super dope. Probably a best thing I could have done for myself because it's just been able to ground me and give me a little bit of discipline, actually, lot of discipline, but also on insane workout. For the listeners out there, think of it is like doing squats in P 90 x for like, a few hours. And I know what that sounds like. Like madness, like Fam. Why would you? Why would you subject yourself to that kind of that kind of pain? Eso it is. It is quite a bit of pain, but there's also a beauty to the art form, and I think for me it ties me to my culture of big dumbbell. But it also allows me to just, you know, set some time apart throughout my week to really just turn my my my work brain off and also just channel, you know, whether it's frustration or really, if I just wanna have a good time and a good workout, I go. So yeah, I'm a dancer. The fourth thing that not everyone may or may not know about me is that I have two jobs and I feel like, you know, in 2020 that's becoming more of a norm among my friends among their parents, especially, you know, my friends that come from immigrant family that feel like having more than one job. Being the ultimate hustler was actually a very standard thing to do. But all that to say, I think since I was 15 I always have been working in the market exactly date myself just yet throughout this episode. But, yeah, when I was 15 I started kind of working at this local meat market. While I was doing that, I used to score keep before our local men's basketball league on my high school, and right now I run my own small business as a as a part time wedding videographer. We also do a little bit of corporate video and just some, like freelance work in between that and my second job, which really helps me few. I'm going to say, you know, my small businesses that I work in digital I'm going to say so. Over the last few years, I've been really lucky to kind of work and do a lot of work in the social media and online acquisition space. So if you think about, you know, just like large technology cos I'm not gonna name them just yet in an effort to kind of, you know, remain anonymous but I've worked for some incredible really dope and also some, like funny Weird Cos. But I've done some my cool, cool started work for startups that didn't survive. Startups did starts that also took a little bit of a break. Some good friends of mine, I've I did quite a bit of that hustling, and eventually I decided to dig, you know, knee deep in tow, pursuing a career in marketing and, more specifically, social medias over the last, you know, 4 to 5 years. That's really what I did. And now I work for company again that I will name just yet, but a notable large entertainment slash technology company. And yeah, that's that's my That's my job, and it really fuels both financially. But I want to say from like, a from the ability to love what you do perspective. It really, really fuels my passion for running my small business. So, you know, I've always had two jobs and sometimes three, but it's really given me. I think the ability Thio do lots more what I love, which is, you know, spending time with my family, my friends, but also again fuel my my small business and I think just enjoying that part. I think with whatever you do, guys, make sure that you enjoy it. Whether it's, you know, going to work or one of the James find some sort of something that's really gonna push with motivates youto to show up and to really give it you're off. The The fifth thing that our listeners may or may not know is that I'm a recent and I say recent, maybe within the last 2 to 4 years. I'm a recent I should say I'm an alcoholic, but I'm not sure he's a wine connoisseur. So a few years ago, I took my mom. Thio, California We spent about a week out there, there and in the middle of our trip on insane Wine tour out in Napa and Sonoma. Shout out to my boyfriend I should give me the recommendation is going to do it, and it was definitely like life changing just because, you know, I think there's like if there's anything I would recommend to, you know, our listeners out there, just to my friends in general, is foreign. Travel with your siblings with your parents with your family if you can I think it definitely opens your eyes and kind of, like, furthers and kind of thing, just like bills on that relationship that, you know, you and that person in your family that you're traveling with tow have. So it did that for me, My mom. And don't get me wrong. By the end of it, I definitely wanted to get the **** out of there. Just go home. But it was It was really, really good. And I think the best part about that trip was this wine to weigh. Visited a bunch of vineyards, one of which was our un organic manure. And it was fantastic. I think, for me, what I really enjoy the most about process is how things are put together done. So being able to kind of let you know, how does wine actually get made process the technical part. But also, I think, the passion and part of that. So, you know, in the recent years I visited a bunch of vineyards have done some stuff locally within the greater Toronto area, but also outside of Canada. You know, I've been thio California. Now I've been to recently just came back from Portugal had the I think probably the best wine tour experience out there way were picked up in a Tesla X, which I'll get into again later in the season. All kind of touch on travels, the importance of doing a little bit of that. But, you know, I mean, at the chest of is a Portugal just recently and I made sure I think it was my my My goal was to come back with six bottles of wine and rest assured that I made it happen. Thea last couple things that I want to get into that not everyone might know. I kind of just touch on. This was that. I love to travel. I think one of the things about having two jobs is that from a financial point of view, one of those jobs, if you're lucky, and I think if you work hard enough really fuel you and give you a different opportunity, that you never after four. So for me, my running a small business allowed me to travel in ways that don't even think were possible when I first started it off. I mean, to this day, myself and my business partner and our team. We've kind of like put in a lot of sweat equity, but also a lot of work to do. Former The connections to have clients eventually fly us out to film to film gigs for them. Uh, you know, I think one of my first work related tricks to my small business was being flown out to your city, and I think it was a second time having gone there and by far one of the dopest box. I think that I was able to kind of initially kind of go to and I think that kind of kicked travel. So whenever I get a chance, whether it's a small long weekend for us or if I could take, you know, two weeks off, I will definitely definitely travel four. If I could do it on my own, I think Solo travels again really important. And again, this is another topic that I'll touch on throughout the rest of our season for the podcast. But I think travel in general will definitely open your mind. Horizons just kind of allow you to kind of set in charge and come back into, you know, whatever you're doing on the regular throughout your week. And the final thing that I wouldn't love to let our listeners in on about me is that have tattoos. I have a huge long sleep on my left forearm. On the minutes on the front of my forearm, I have a huge elephant and wrapped around it is just this beautiful, nice ro sleeve. And on my on my right arm on right forearm actually is a note to my grandfather who passed away a few years ago now. And when I was a child, when I was a kid, he actually introduced both me and my sister to elephants. We didn't like a lot of travel with our grand parents growing up, And I think what what that did for me was again, I just There was something that just kind of stuck with me when I was a kid. And you know what? My grandfather passed away. I was starting with the idea of howto they just cope with his loss, and I want to say about a year, a year and a bit after he passed away, I, uh I got this tattoo that's basically just like an elephant. His initials heart, too kind of, you know, just remember him in the first letter of the alphabet is also the first letter of mine of my middle name, which I won't reveal just yet. But that's that's the other tattoo that I have one on my right arm and that kind of wraps it up for, you know, a couple of things that our audience and our listeners definitely may or may not tell about About me, your host. And if I haven't mentioned it, I also okay, this is this is the last hand being. That review about myself is that I have a first name and a little name which most people do. But for our listeners out there that don't know me, my name is Joseph or Joe and mind my middle name is Amarin, and more commonly a lot of my friends call me Joe or Joseph, and my clients tend to call me Joseph. You know, you'll call me Joseph if you're absolutely ****** off at me. So I wanted to end today's episode by giving our listeners a glimpse of what they can expect to hear from the rest of the season for the podcast. You know, we've got some really don't conversations with business owners, entrepreneurs and creatives that I'm great friends with trying to understand more about their journey and about what they're currently up to. And you'll also hear from some other creatives that I've met along the way as a result of being a business owner. Don't forget. You'll also hear lots more from me, your host and from some of my friends, eventually about the fund, the crazy and some of the dumb **** that we've done over the last couple of years. Don't forget to follow us across Twitter and on Instagram to see tons more behind the scenes content a big, big, big shadow to everyone that's been listening and tuned in with us for our first episode. This is Joe, and you're listening to the front row