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the Nevada System of Higher Education Good morning and welcome to the grind I'm your host extraordinaire

Mr Eric James The grind Simply put the grind is a half hour conversation that speaks to local business

entrepreneurs and explores their take on where our local economy is heading and asks them to

tell us their own story of the sacrifices and work ethic that it takes to

have a successful business Good morning good morning good morning Welcome to hashtag the grind as as the

intro says I am your host extraordinaire Mr Eric James and once again we're gonna

bring the heat this weekend And I hope your Sunday morning is off to a good start and I

hope we can heat it up a little bit more get past some of this cool weather

and get ready for the summer heat It's coming y'all so y'all better be ready

cause you know how it is here in Las Vegas hot hot hot But I have

Greco and I have a CJ Salazar all entrepreneurs hustlers riders in their own individual business

field and we're gonna get to know a little bit about them today and telling their story and find out

how they get their grind on how they've continued their grind and how they see AI and

other things changing their grind in the future We're gonna start off on to my

right I have Ms Vicky Greco and we're gonna let her tell you a little

bit about her story but I do want to drop some clues and hints to you

folks This young lady has an incredible story Now we're not gonna get to it all today but we are

gonna tap into a couple of the things that makes her and her business uh

uh grind unique Now uh she gave me her bio because I asked as I

said on every show I asked each person for an individual bio One is to get to know

folks a little bit better but also so you get to know them on a more personal basis and

because she's given me these things on her bio I feel comfortable to talk about them Because I assumed she

wouldn't have given them to me if I couldn't talk about them but if she tells me to hush

up and not be all in her business and putting her tea out to the public then we're gonna

pull back on that too But what I can tell you about this young lady is that she

started off in advertising business He both of her she has she's had some family uh tragedy in her

life and which caused her to spend some time in a foster care home so What the show as

I said is about is people finding the ground How do you overcome obstacles in your life to

be successful in your career field And her story is about as interesting as anyone's story So I'd like to

get into it first then I'm gonna rotate to my other guests but Vicky tell

us a little bit something about yourself and then I can chime in with a few questions for you

Well currently I run a business consulting firm In the past I've practiced as a lawyer Um I've been

to jail I've lived in foster care I've lost half of my family in a car accident I

was 450 pounds I was told I would never walk again And through all of that the G has

always been with me and that's why my company is now called Silent G I

like that when they drop a little bit of spiritual in there but on the low key so you know

we don't go over the top but just enough to give you that faith and I know that's

what's kept Her going through the different challenges that she's faced but one of the things

I like to say if it was easy everybody would do it and every one of three

you know that if it was easy everybody would do what we do or what you

do and it's it's hard to overcome the obstacles So Vicky tell me how did you

overcome some of these obstacles because life has put some challenges in front of you and like

a hurdler you keep hurdling over them to the next challenge Back then when they

were happening I didn't know that I was resilient I just kept going grinding grinding grinding Eventually one day I

realized there was such a thing as called grounding and once I started grounding everything changed for me and

shifted but I'm an overcomer because sometimes our souls come back for the hardest things so

that we can be something to hold space for people in the world And so for me I always

I knew but I didn't know when I was going through it Even the times I tried to kill myself

I didn't know But now when I look back I'm grateful for all of those things that happened

and that I'm still here to have that story Because life will always test you I mean I

can speak only for myself uh um some of you may know I don't think I've mentioned it

on this particular uh the shows but my own father took a shotgun to his head when I was

going through my twenties was a tough period of time So I think I can in some sense relate to

some of the obstacles that's been put in front of you but I've always said everyone has a

story and everyone has a past is today What can you do today What can

you do tomorrow and the day after that to improve your lot in life make things better for

yourself and to keep moving forward So for you Vicky haven't been through that now

Like myself you you've never been married and if my understanding is uh Mr Glover you've never been married either

Is that correct sir No sir All right so that CJ that that just leaves you on

the table for that when we get to the marriage part of the conversation I'm gonna I'm

gonna default to you because you you don't want that got the credentials on that But Vicky just knowing that

having to face some of these things by yourself and knowing to move forward be easy for you

to get distracted or get off track or take the 9 to 5 What was it that said

for you no I need to be in this for myself Fun fact after I lost my

law license and went to jail I came out and it was about 6 years ago

and I started working at a law firm because nobody wanted to hire me and I

was working for $20 an hour and I was also driving Uber to which I got

fired but that's another story for another day And uh I worked for somebody else for the first

time ever in my life and I just don't do well taking orders and I

don't do well giving them but I've always wanted to be sovereign sovereign in spirituality

and sovereignty in business is very important to understand who and what you are and what you're giving your power

to So I worked that job for a year and yesterday was the anniversary of the

day that I walked out yeah 55 That was 4 years ago Now I had already

started my side hustle at the time which was Silent G but I think as things move

out of your way or these tests that you call them or these trials happen that's where

you learn where your resilience is and if you're going to actually be a sole a business owner

or resilient in your own life but for me a 9 to 5 just Couldn't work because

it had too many constraints on me and I'm a very free will person I can relate to that haven't

been in the military I've always said I can take orders and I can give orders depending on where I

rank and things but I've always found I'm much better at giving orders and I never did

well working for other people because I always thought I was smarter than the person I was working for

and that don't always work out when you tell your boss his ideas don't make sense to you

and he's like why are you working for me then So one day the light went off and was

like yeah I need to be working for myself and never look back All right Mr Glover we're gonna

go from uh right to left so we haven't forgotten about you CJ we're gonna

get to you so no worries we gotta get that energy and spirit that you bring to

the table every day But Mr Glover I know you know something about being a champ state

Basketball champ you know talk to me What are the hoops he's wait but folks

you got to understand he's done walked into this studio with a Golden Knights jersey onroing Moroccan hockey Now I

don't know if the man has ever picked up a stick in his life to

be out there on them on them skates and the the the the the but

He is a state basketball champion college hoop star He's about 5 I mean 63 3 OK

to talk to us today Tell us a little bit about yourself sir and and and how uh and

Vicky uh don't worry we're gonna let folks know where they can find you here also in

a minute But tell us folks a little bit about you and your your your journeys to going to school

abroad In England and master's degree in Spanish and so on Well first things first thanks

for connecting us with such great people Eric um I think that's the coolest thing you've done and uh

I'm I'm glad for it Um secondly basketball's opened up everything for me to be honest um I was able

to get a a full scholarship to play basketball in Central Michigan and then from there I

went to grad school University of Miami then London um and then also studied in Mexico which I'm also

fluent in Spanish Because I lived in Mexico for 2 years so yeah basketball's opened everything up for me

and then also in in the business world My favorite line is mui paquito espanol

muy mall I let him know real early Uh uh I know enough because if

you're talking about me in Spanish I know you're talking about me but I might not catch

every word But to be fluent in Spanish obviously our population here in Las Vegas

is uh a large part of Latino Latino population and um I'd say what about I

think this is Statistically we're about 40% or close to 40% of being Spanish or Latino heritage

so having that as a business person is a phenomenal advantage over your average individual that doesn't or can't communicate

with multiple languages I don't know if CJ speaks Tagala but given her background and heritage we'll see later

on if she's uh has multiple dialects under her belt Now do you speak any

other languages sir No just Spanish and English and Spanish to start off with the big ones

going down You did say you lived in London and went to school in London Tell

me about that experience Well I didn't I didn't go to school in London I did like

an internship there So it was really cool I actually worked for uh an American

sports agent over there who was from the Bay Area and he represented American basketball

players who played abroad So we met on the internet and I needed that for part of my master's

Degree at University of Miami and then he realized he's like dude you can actually play you're

pretty good in college I was like yeah I was 2524 years old So when

I went over there I actually played so I played in like a semi a second division league which was

pretty good Ha you know some top level college American basketball players and the top English guys there and

then uh stayed there for a short period of time and got homesick and I was just like uh

you know what I'd rather live in Mexico than London So yeah I ended up coming back a little

bit earlier but it was it was a great experience Picked up any soccer skills down there No not even

close I watched too much soccer That's one thing or whatever they call it Yeah I I

uh that was the first time I was really homesick because it was a real difference in

in the way they lived there in the United States for sure OK so I've been

to uh London a few times picked up uh my favorite saying is you're doing me head in They say

that a lot like you're driving me crazy I always found that to be your 112 but how

does one get from an inspiring basketball career Spanish degree to the mortgage business Wow that's a great question

Um when I came back from England unexpectedly um I went back to Oklahoma and I was living

with my mom and I was like this is not what I want to be doing I had no

money and I still had my bachelor's degree in Spanish and I just remember one day I was

like I want to get back To South Florida but I was like you know what I need

some money so I just went into a newspaper saw an ad for entry level Spanish

speaking you know mortgage whatever people and answered it and that's how I got started So when they walked

in the room they was like Are you Puerto Rican Are you Dominican or they trying to figure out

if you speak Spanish you walk in the room speaking Spanish they're trying to figure out who

you were Well listen you gotta remember this is Oklahoma so you're looking at me

like this guy's lying So they actually put me on the spot and had you know someone

who spoke Spanish fluently call me on speaker and I had to talk to him on

speaker and this and that and I was just like please don't screw this up but I I did pretty

well and got the job and here I am Obviously you must have done well enough you

made it this far in the in the journey so we're gonna keep that going

All right we're gonna switch Here's to our third guest We're gonna come back to everybody

because we still got plenty of time in the show but the clock does move quickly But Ms

CJ Salazar with the abbreviated 1st 22 initials there tell us a little something about yourself

and your real estate hustle Well um I think one thing to really know about me is

I'm a very proud grandmother of a 14 month old girl was going on 14 for you folks

out there she does not look like she's a grandmother so I'm I'm I'm I'm I

I do know her granddaughter's name and she touts her up and she she she but she does not

look like a grandmother folks Well thanks for that Eric you know it's one of my biggest thing is

just being a mom and being a single mom of three children Um you know like

like what Vicky had said I think resilience comes from the things that get thrown

in your life not so much with you know like reacting to it is one thing for me

but knowing that my kids however old they are they're my reason for what I'm doing Um

the biggest thing I always tell myself is how can I be a good example at least especially to

my two daughters um you know real estate I've been doing for about 10 years now

Um I came from a background of HOA high rise management um you know from

that it's kind of same thing like what the he had mentioned as well is

I was one person that I cannot have a cap in my head I need to be able

to know how far can I go depending on how you know how fast I can

move there but I just I can't be one person that can be told OK this is the most

you're gonna do this is the most you're gonna make And that's it so I I like

to hustle that's my biggest thing and just you know spending a lot of times

with my family Now I know you have a military background in your family haven't served

in the military I must give us the necessary shout out tell everyone in your family thank you

for their service but having proud military outside of your granddaughter Willow um how did them the young men serving

in the military did you instill that kind of mentality in them or did the military help bring some of

that out in them and you complemented that with who you are I think the latter will be what I

would say applied to that um when it comes to my son which is my my youngest

one it wasn't so much that that was essentially the option for him He chose that Um he was

uh you know after high school he had you know took taking a break before college and was

doing some little work here and there with his dad and it came to a 0.1 morning he just

called me up and said Mom I'm done doing this I I want something better for my life

and when we had that conversation I'd ask him one simple question OK are you really

ready And when he said He was you know I told him OK one thing is I'll help

you get there but you know how it is living with me I have one

rule which is you do everything that you're supposed to do I'll be out there helping you whatever

it takes and he did all that and right now he's he's such an amazing

young man because seeing him from what he was as this teenager who thinks he knows everything to Just

the very amazing young man has become the way he talks the way he treats people I

mean when you say chivalry is dead I don't see it with him um You know it's

just it's taught him a lot of great things and a lot of it too stemmed

with the guidance from his uncles Um all my brothers are in the military so having that really

kind of catapult him to where he's at Yeah that's that whole it takes a village mentality and and mindset

and so that so so I'm gonna drop a little bit more of my stuff in there since you

were talking about the military I am in the process is opening up my own

home inspection company called Veterans First Gen Home Inspections So yeah I'm gonna I'm gonna tap

into CJ later on and to remind her of all that military connection that we have

together But but where can folks find you What company are you with right now Who who who are

we rocking with Um thank you for that I'm with Berkshire Hathaway at the moment um actually

for about going on 5 years now and I love it Um you know they can go into either 702-738-6911

or just go and log into Berkshirehathaway.com Now repeat that because folks you know they got

a pen They don't she said what That was 62 and then they mad because you didn't say it twice

So tell them one more time That's 702-738-6911 Jerry where can folks find you That's 702-883-8933

and I'm a mortgage loan officer at Alameda Mortgage Company Give me that phone number one more time 702-883-8933 Alameda

Mortgage Company Jerry Glover Vicky where are people finding you at Silent G Consulting.com What we

do is we do business structure and set up for nonprofits LLCs corporations business licensing gaming licensing liquor licensing

anything you could imagine that you need for business that is structure and compliance We take it from a

different perspective without the fear and we just make sure that you're protected if and when that

ever comes to fruition I also um with the Frankie Foundation 51188 that's my nonprofit that helps children who

have lost loved ones So if anybody you know is grieving and trying to get out of

the stages of grief we teach conscious parenting for that level and that's silentg Consulting.com 702-587-5652 All right Vicky

tell me a little bit about Sophie because I know see she lit up soon As I said that she

lit up just the same way CJ did when she started talking about her kids and

the loved ones and her her granddaughter Tell me a little bit about Sophie That's that's I

know that's your your weak spot there your your soft spot I wouldn't call it a weak spot I would

call it But she's got you wrapped around her finger I bet it's no no I practice non-attachment pretty well

but she's my joy She's she's going to be 8 in June She came from terrible

Background um her parents both lost her at childbirth for different reasons both horrifying reasons and

she was adopted by her grandmother who when Sophie was 2 wound up with stage 4 pancreatic cancer and wound

up passing away And during all of this time this is part of my family and uh I

don't know if anybody's ever heard of inner child work but part of the reason that I am

here today is because I woke up when I saw what was happening to her and was called to

action to help guide her And so she's 8 years old and she spends the summers with me

and living with her non-paternal grandfather but if and when something does happen to him

I'm her legal guardian So I'm like a mother without being a mother So even though I had

that vow never to get married and never to have kids God found a way to

give me some anyway God gives your life gives you what it needs you to have not always what you

think you want but what you need to have So now we're gonna do a little intro pause here

uh for just a sec I have uh a young lady here in the studio with

me today She just graduated from UNR She's out rocking the world Her father was actually a guest on

the show a couple of months back and uh she's interested in the communication entertainment and what I have

to remember the other parts but I know news and media outlets so she's asked

to come on and check out what we do here And so I don't want to

call it an internship but we'll call it an intern adjacent And I'm gonna let her

introduce herself Some of you might know her um now I know I'm gonna get this

younger demographics because she's gonna tell all her friends and hit her social media up and let them know

that she was gonna be on this show so our number's gonna blow up because now I'm gonna be hot

with the young younger kids but I'm gonna let this young lady introduce herself real quick say Little something about

herself and then if there's folks out there that can help her out on her journey that's what this is

about maybe they can reach out and uh maybe uh uh give her a little

uh hand out or help up on her way So introduce yourself young lady real quick and tell them a

little something about you real fast Hello my name is Lauren Buchanan Um I currently just

recently graduated from the University of Nevada Reno I have a degree in journalism and what I want

to do with that degree is to create a podcast around self-love I've already created the podcast It

is called Learn to Love You and I'm just on the journey to helping people find inner peace healing

the relationship with themselves Um I realized that there are a lot of people who are suffering In this world

and I really want to bring peace to those people and help them to find a way out of that

suffering that they kind of perpetuate on about themselves and I just realized that there's such

a need to be or a need for the content that I'm creating to be put out into the world

and I know that a lot of people out there need to hear what I have

to say and I'm just on a mission every single week to create more content for

it I'm very passionate about what I'm doing and the words that I'm saying and I just hope that whoever

needs to find it will find it um so it is called Learn to Love You If you would

like to follow it on Spotify it's already there it's on YouTube but I just found so much passion

when it comes to it and passion when it comes to just being behind the microphone creating being in the

studio It just lights me up and I hope that everyone finds something that lights

them up as well But thank you So now you know somebody's meant to be on

on radio or TV or broadcast because I said tell me a little something about yourself She went on

for 15 minutes and just took my whole show over the microphone I thought she was pushing

me out of my chair for a second but she just bumped into me She was like

move over Oh man let's get this We we got so no she has no

time She's a beautiful young lady and her father's a a standing um uh businessman

here in town and again he was Travis Buchanan was on a show uh uh a

little while back but I wanted to get a shout out Um I'm hoping over the summer we can

uh with my entertainment company um we'll be we're scheduled to shoot a commercial for one Realtors

um she wants to uh one of our realtors is shooting wants to shoot a commercial and

I hope to bring her on the set and then help her with some of our other

entertainment aspects so she could see really where she fits in and what her drive and motivation is so she

can be successful So I just want to say thank you for coming in today All right back to

our guests we've got about 8-9 minutes left in the show It goes by fast so we're

gonna go back to Atlanta And because we got Atlanta in the house Mr Glover is from the

ATL and we wanna talk to him about his master's in in international administration and a little bit more about

him while we have some time left on the clock and then we're gonna go back

to Ms Salazar and uh she's gonna explain to me what's the difference between being a parent a

grandparent And which one did you whoop more All right Jerry so tell me about Atlanta I got I

got some people in Atlanta myself Well now hold on a second I can't claim

Atlanta too much now I was born there um and then moved to Oklahoma when I

was 6 so I was like I gotta claim Oklahoma OK see the Thunder looking good in the

playoffs right now even though they took a a little bit of a stumble the other night last night

but they they're looking good um No so to talk about you know my master's essentially

when I got into the program it was to get into the FBI so it was based on you

know having the um I guess knowledge of public policy and I wanted to do that and then I

was like you know what I want to do what I want to do in life and become like a

sports agent and that's what led me to London and playing basketball for $1000 a

month and all this other stuff So but it was a great experience to be in

Miami Um and go to the University of Miami because it was a dream school of mine you know I

went to Central Michigan because I got a scholarship there but University of Miami was like a dream school and

I met really good people there um and also had the experience of living in Miami

and always go back So I think that's that's more of it than he said like he almost said that

like on the down low like living in boo don't don't let none of those

skeletons come out here and make their way from the beach to Las Vegas I get you caught

up Next thing you know you over there with P Diddy and some other people we all talk

about so make sure what happens when what happens in Miami stays in Miami Ms Salazar what is it like

to be a grandmother and how uh you said a little something about your um your

your your your son and how he helps motivate you but overall I mean I get the sense that you're

very much family oriented It it it It feels like it's part of who you are and how you

bring that how do you bring that to your customers or clients Do you make them feel like family Do

they do you are they able to embody some of who you are as a person and how you

interact with them on a business side You know great question Um the answer to that

is yes I always do Um I think being a residential um realtor a big difference when you're representing

more commercial than it is residential Um one thing I always tell myself is when it

comes to people purchasing their home I have to remember that that's the single biggest ticket item that they

purchase in their lives you know so to me having to at least be that

guide be that one person that lets them know OK are they making the right decision

Do we go with point A or point B As far as making them a part

of my family I always make that a point um only because that's one way that I you know function

in my business is I always concentrate on retention of you know clients um and doing that is getting to

know a lot of them I always make it a point I know the birth dates I know the

anniversaries if they're married their children pets for all matter So yes I always try to involve family orientation with

what I do So have you always done that Or is that something you developed over time as a

technique or platform to brand or base your business off of Um great question That one is I

I developed that um a lot of what I've noticed or at least have known about myself is I

do know how to connect with people um you know just just empathy goes a long way having

to understand what what their needs are what exactly they're looking for and being that warm person not

so much hey I'll get that for you Let me be that bridge to help you

find that so you know I'm I'm blessed in that aspect of my life and I'm blessed

to be able to have conversation get communication and connect with people and stay in their

lives I mean my clients I can still remember my very first one to the day of like my clients

now at least 95% of them I've represented more than twice or three times Oh it's

always better to be able to work with somebody you've worked with in the Fast

than somebody new Now we're running out of time here but I know you were born in

San Diego from San Diego you moved to Mesquite That's that's a that was a culture shock even now given

that you've got the time that you did to Las Vegas So your journey has taken

you a long way and it seems from my perspective and I haven't known you

uh uh uh as long as some of my guests but I can see why you're successful

and what you do actually each one of you I can see the story and even with you Vicky

you We glanced over didn't you know maybe next time you come on the show we'll talk about um

the time as we say you went away to see the government and you brought

it up to the table and I mean there's got to be an interesting story behind that Jerry you know

your international travels I I that's why I I'm enjoying doing this show because I'm

meeting and getting to know people more and more and everybody's background is so diverse and how

they've managed to build a path to success or you know to to The cream rises to the top

as they say but all of you I just always wanna give respect to the folks that come on

the show and say thank you for your hard work your due diligence your strive not giving up and

as I said if it was easy everybody would do it and we're all still standing here so that

everybody doesn't include us only us that rise to the top So I wanna say thank you

and I think that's about all we got I'm getting the cue from the the booth

that I need to get off the air here but Again thank you each and

every one of you I hope to have you all back share a little bit more about

your lives your stories and your business hustles and that hashtag that grind that grind that grind Thank you

everybody Thanks for listening to the grind Again my name is Eric James We hope

that today's show was two parts entertaining with a dash of education Feel free to reach out to me

at my office at 702-836-0953 and remember to always stay on your grind