i get a lot of email from people who are just starting businesses and they want to know what do i have to do to be successful how can i get my business launched in a successful way i've read your emails and i hear you i'm now interviewing someone who has been very successful in business who's going to share with you secrets from his success stay tuned [Music] i'd like to introduce to you a gentleman from my network who is successful in business a good friend and someone i've worked with for a long time i've known him for over 10 years and i adore him actually and i think you're going to learn a lot from him today because he's been very successful in business and he actually runs three businesses he owns body clean janitorial services he owns master clean for you and he also owns a coaching business called putty coach and so he's quite the serial entrepreneur and he loves being in business when i first met him he was an employee and a business owner and now he's purely a business owner and we'd love to hear about his journey and share some of the learnings that he has uncovered as he has made his way through the years through the first recession in 2008 and now another recession and he continues to learn and grow so i look forward to hearing from paris mian today's interview thank you mike thank you for the invitation believe me i'm so proud of this invitation because i know that you are a really really success uh coach actually i was one of the guinea pigs that he make you go all the way to where you are now and believe me i'm i'm so proud to be your friend and uh i'm so proud that all the guidance that you give me through through almost 11 years working together mike wow thank you very much i'm honored so let me ask you the first question uh so tell me about the businesses that you're currently running you know i named the businesses but just tell me about them a little bit okay uh i have a like you say three three um projects running right now the the most established ones is the body clean there is a janitorial service company and we intend to be the one-stop solution for all our clients we do power washing after construction cleaning a little bit of light maintenance to buildings and we do carpet cleaning we do staffing we do uh a janitorial pretty much all the the what is involved into the janitorial industry we provide to our clients and i have another one that i'm invest i uh investor that is another cleaning company their name is a master clean and uh and that one i i i'm a partnership with gerardo my my partner and then the other one is my my my passion what i'm what i love to do with uh uh with with people not to encourage them to to tell them that every every single person can can achieve whatever they they want to achieve so and and the third one is party coach excellent so when did you start your first business my first business i started in 2009 during the during the economic catastrophe it was it was kind of weird for me because and when i talked this with with a friend uh they told me how how you can start a business when when the economy is collapsing no and and no one is thinking on business and uh pretty much everybody's thinking and how bad the economy is and uh and you know what mike is really really blessing for me the the most growing uh mindset that i have been having in in the business it has been happening during the the pandemia during the epidemic one it was on the 2008 economic catastrophe and then this one i grow the business almost 200 percent in in six six months see this is very interesting to me buddies because uh this is something that we have in common you know i started my business in 2008 uh during during the beginning of the recession and it was still continuing on in 2009 and i talk about how difficult it was to start in those first few years but i feel like when you start a business in difficult times that it forces you to be stronger to be more creative more resilient so these are these are good things you know and what you learned then you're applying now and uh look what look how it's working for you you know your business is growing in the pandemic which is uh amazing and i know that uh it's because of the the learning that you gain from the first time around so in those first few years what are some of the key lessons that you learned about running a business um i believe mike is a mindset no having the right mindset you know especially when the first uh two or three years um you start knowing a lot of things that at that moment i didn't know like a uh irs like a edd like uh giving the balance between the business and the family uh like uh struggling sometimes with cash flow for the business struggling sometimes to the employees management so yeah i believe that at that time i didn't have the uh the right mindset it was gonna be completely different for me at this point you know uh i like like the book that we got sometimes in our in our uh mindset uh class that about my mindset i was uh a a growing mindset no always thinking i'm positive always uh thinking on what i need to learn in order to accomplish what i what my my uh problem is and now i'm going to tell you a little bit of story that i got one time when when i get audit by the edd i receive a letter of from the add actually uh you know it was it was so so stressful they i was thinking of on closing the business uh getting back to the delivery and saying you know what this is not for me and i remember that i was reading a book about uh wayne dyer and in in this book uh he was mentioning the pretty much you attract whatever your mind is focuses at that point you know and it was it was like uh some click that i got in my mind and i said well if if i'm thinking all day long in in all these problems that i'm having uh with the edd with the audience with what's gonna happen with the business of course i'm gonna i'm gonna really have a big problem i'm gonna sing my business into in into nothing so i decided to switch my mind and start having a growing mindset and i start thinking on okay what i'm gonna do after i pass this audit what i'm what steps i'm gonna have to fix in order to to keep the company growing and growing in a healthy way so definitely it was a really key moment for me because i was really close to to to throw away the business no and and it was something that i can that i can share you know having the right mindset is definitely essential for this for growing a business wow yeah so i i've spoken a lot about that on this channel you know in the many videos that i've created about mindset and the book that paris might be referring to is mindset by carol dweck that it's an excellent book that talks about growth mindset versus fixed mindset grit is also a great book that talks about mindset and the importance of effort you know but uh i think one of the key points here that uh that paris is sharing is the ability to uh to learn from reading right that readers are leaders and paris has read a lot of books over the years and so have i i i have learned a lot from the books that i've read uh from wayne dyer that uh parise mentioned you know business authors development authors another important lesson that i got from that story too paris is not to think that it's the end of the world when you run into trouble in your business eventually when when you own a business you're going to run into trouble he mentioned the edd for those of you that are watching this internationally edd is the employment development department and it's an organization uh with the government that tracks how employees are taken care of in your business your hiring practices your disciplinary practices or firing practices etc they just monitor how a business manages employees and it can scare you when you get a letter from the edd and so buddies went through this process with them but he started looking past it right as opposed to feeling like giving up he started looking past it and thinking about what he would do after this by using his positive mindset so yeah i i got a lot from that story buddies i think it was very good thank you mike what do you think are the secrets to your success in business so apart from mindset and a positive attitude uh what do you think are some of the secrets to success i believe mike is one of the keys that i have for that i can share you the of my this is success is to have a balance in your life you know it is it is not just how much money did i make last year or how many sales that how much sales that that i have that the last year or i'm gonna have this this this year that's a really important part of the part of the business but for me it is through having a balance with your mind with your body with your body with your family you know with your family with yourself uh with the people that surround you your employees so i believe that that's a really important part on this equation um definitely the business i can i can see it see it as as a reflector of of your personal life no if your personal life is in a disorder so most of the time your business is going to become a disorder and uh and having those core values there it can apply you to be a success business owner they apply using apply apply those core values in your business and in your personal life you know like integrity uh like a punctuality like uh be a gratitude guy you know and and then i believe those keys they can they can make you a a success person you can cover all the all the aspects you know and and i think those three three uh core values they they they are really important in my life and i'm like and i'm i'm looking always to follow them as much as i can and when i see that i'm failing in one i do my best to repair them right away yeah i love that uh you know you run run on run on core values and uh and some of you watching this channel may not know where the name of the business comes from build and balance the idea is to build your business and balance your life that's the url that i purchased almost 10 years ago in order to build the website for my first business and i always believed in that and you notice that buddies believes in that too so uh buddies you mentioned that your business has actually grown during the pandemic did you make some changes to your business model due to the pandemic um well like it was it was more like uh i say uh mentality uh what i what i found out during this pandemic i don't watch pretty much no news uh i like more to be reading uh i like to be more focused on the opportunities that we are having right now for me every time that there is um a problem like this in the world i mean and when the ocean in spanish we say when the ocean is all uh mixed there is an opportunity for the fish mats no i don't know how they say in english but all in spanish we say so so you have two businesses that are related to janitorial services and then you have a third business party coach which is uh very different so what what led you to start a coaching business to have gratitude in my life i had to share with people all what i learned during the during those years no and one of the the the the vehicles or the the mechanisms that i get to to get back to the people is through the coaching so what i decide to do is prepare myself with you with the crowd the growth coach during almost nine years uh also with with build and balance also having a mindset classes every every three months and reading books and also i got a certification of life coach uh with uh with uh uh the hack in a company that is in mexico so also this is a big responsibility no because sometimes you touch uh life no well most of the time you touch likes and what you say uh it can affect to to to people for good or for bad so i decide to um to pay the price and to have a knowledge and to have information in order to to to become a a life coach or a business coach mate and that's my passion that's what i like to do yeah i like life i feel that i'm not i'm not surprised at all that too you've entered into the world of coaching and i know that you've already uh been doing it for some time now and and have helped people uh tremendously and so i just wish you continued success in in your coaching career so the uh uh last last couple questions i have for you one is uh what are you looking forward to accomplishing in uh 2021 2021 um definitely is um having the body coach already uh making some uh workshops that i hope the the the pandemia allows me to do it uh i develop a really really nice workshop for for people to to learn about their self it is more uh spiritual retreats going deep in their self and and also for the for the cleaning business i would like to finally uh make even uh master clean for you and party clean you know the both companies we are in the process right now particularly particularly needs to be 95 percent or 90 and mastery needs to be five to ten percent right now we are uh seventy and thirty seventy percent very clean and thirty percent master clean so my goal is to during 2021 to make them even no or probably a little bit more on on master clean that would that was gonna mean for me that we are doing so good excellent wow yeah some you have some really good plans ambitious plans uh but that's you to always be ambitious and set the bar high so we we uh we talked about the fact that uh you have done a lot to build your business and the importance of balance in your life what what do you do to bring balance into your life i i use that tool that you give me like a long time ago when we start when i start having those coaching sessions with you it calls the wheel of life in order that you can see what is not working you need to see it first otherwise it's gonna be way more complicated to fix it no if you don't know that if you don't know that you have a problem if you feel like everything is okay and everything is right in your life you you basically you're gonna keep doing what you're doing at that point no so always i leave that window open to say uh i have something to learn this this month always i have a uh experience uh or knowledge to learn this month you know uh it is not everything is right in my life no and every time they see a a problem what the i don't call them any more problems i call them a life experience and uh i had to learn something of that life experience so yeah that will of life it make you realize what area of your life you are uh being you are not getting at the same level than the other ones no it can be your company it can be your health it can be your mindset it can be your spirituality so in one in one area we we're always uh having less great than the other ones so at that point when i see what i'm missing i have more opportunities to start working on that one to have that balance in life you know but i have to see it first right right you need clarity in order to know what to what to focus on and work on excellent paris uh this has been a very good time i really enjoyed having this opportunity to interview you of course i i know you very well and we've spent a lot of time together but this has been a lot of fun and and i hope that it's very helpful for the people who are watching the channel and thinking about starting their own business or they've already started and they want to learn from people that are further down the road uh but he's shared with you a lot of lessons and a lot of ideas and and a lot of it revolves around how you think right and what you think about yeah so keep keep that in mind so thank you buddies for being with us today i appreciate it very much thank you mike i really appreciate your time also and like i say i i really honor you as my mentor