Above the bridge
Above the bridge
Episode 148 VAL ULUFALE ( Owner : For My Family Brand )
What drives a person to transform their life from rock bottom to running a successful business? Meet Val, the founder of For My Family brand, whose story of redemption, purpose, and entrepreneurial spirit captures the essence of Hawaii resilience.
Val pulls no punches discussing his former life of addiction—mixing fentanyl and other substances until his body literally broke out in hives from toxicity. His pivotal moment came after an overdose that finally forced him to confront the pain he was causing his loved ones. "When a person goes through addiction, we don't only go through it, we put our whole family through it," Val explains with raw honesty. With the help of his boxing coach, he fought through three grueling months of withdrawal to reclaim his life.
What emerged from this dark period wasn't just recovery but revelation. Val recognized that the same determination addicts use to "find a way to get high even when we don't have money" could be redirected toward achieving positive goals. This insight became the foundation of his brand, For My Family, which has grown from a personal mantra into a movement with nearly 200 product releases over five years. His innovative mobile store—Hawaii's first clothing bus complete with AC, Wi-Fi, and retail displays—has brought his message directly to communities across the islands.
The brand isn't merely about apparel; it's about purpose. Whether creating high-visibility workwear for construction workers or designing matching outfits for parents and keiki, each piece carries the reminder of why we push through difficult days—for those who depend on us. "A tough guy isn't one with a gun or knife," Val asserts. "A tough guy is getting up every morning and doing whatever they got to do for their family."
Ready to be inspired by someone who truly understands the fight? Listen to Val's full story and discover how focusing on your "why" can transform not just your life, but create a legacy that impacts an entire community. Follow @FMF_brand on Instagram and visit www.fmfbrandhi.com to connect with this movement that's redefining what it means to live with purpose.
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Speaker 1:Aloha Okay, this week on my show is somebody I met when we had to uh, when we were able to do a um, a youth function in winai, and I've been a fan of this guy's uh page and his brand for a while and for me personally, I was stoked to know the person that I see on Instagram is just as cool and full of aloha in person as he is on Instagram. What you see is what you get. This is Val from For my Family Brand. What's up, brother?
Speaker 2:Aloha, my brother and I'm excited and thankful to be here. Likewise, and how we actually, when we first met, we had to go and linked up and uh, we met just was. Um, when we crossed paths was just solid from there, you know you know when you meet somebody it's just for sure you know the good, the great and you know when we're gonna be gonna be awesome you know, yeah, bro, those white knight kids was trying to take us out.
Speaker 1:Though we got on workout, bro, I was sweating. It was good fun, though we was going.
Speaker 2:We wasn't, I wasn't letting off, you know we had to show. You know we had to show, we can.
Speaker 1:I never played that in years. But we didn't handle, we held our own, these young kids that took us, that took young kids.
Speaker 2:That took me back, that took me back and um took me back, where, um, you know, nowadays, nowadays is a little different. You know, it's a more of a you like play on the phone and was really something we never in years over 10 years or 20 years, I never right.
Speaker 1:Yep guaranteed, we went to a baseball battle kickball.
Speaker 2:What is the one in the tetherball?
Speaker 1:Oh, what is that called Tetherball? Yep, yep, tetherball. Yeah, so that took us back to great, great memories yeah, and like you're right, brother, kids nowadays they I mean they all about screens and like for see kids playing like that. And yeah, it was good fun, bro, I had a blast. We got to do that again I hope the kind remirage sets that up again.
Speaker 2:That was good you set something up again that we make them bigger.
Speaker 1:You know longer event yeah, so we, me and broc cruz was coming from kaneoia and we caught that your y9 traffic brad, that's nuts. I was, I was knowing, I saw you guys.
Speaker 2:I was like, oh, I know you guys came from the other side. I was like I was, I was, I was really, you know, like, you know, like, wow, you know, we came. It was a weeknight too, yeah, yeah, yeah, weeknight too, you know, and we did it for the kids, we did it for the community to come together.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And we show them that we can come together. The whole thing was about coming together.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's one. Yeah, that was good fun, but and the kids had a blast and yeah, it was the vibe that I felt that night was was chicken skin like, yeah, that felt good just just ran brah yeah you know, just them two, just just just them being together. They're going to vibe the whole room yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, those guys is too much bro. Yeah, good fun Of them. But, bro, I've been following your page and, just like I said when I intro'd you, in a lot of stuff you'd speak and would hit home to me and it was definitely inspirational, would hit home to me and and and was definitely inspirational and and when I met you, it was like that same version of you that's on instagram is is is the same dude that I was talking story with and I was like, oh, he's, he's for real, like legit bro. Yeah, it was. It was refreshing.
Speaker 2:You know, I mean, I meet plenty guys on that, I see on instagram, and when you meet them in person then, ah, that's their representation sometimes it's disappointing because you're looking forward to, you're looking forward to meeting him and not also meeting him and knowing him, because you see him on, you see some people on there and the things he, the things they, they say, that's what you stand by. You really stand by it. Yeah, that's why you connect and just, I guess, just us, um, I feel like just us meeting was uh, you know, it was meant to.
Speaker 1:As a fan of your brand and following your page on on instagram, I had like a couple questions, like I wanted to know how you came up with the concept of your brand and how you got started, because, bro, I see your stuff everywhere, like I seen your that logo well before I I even seen your instagram or even met you. Right, it's been a. It's been a while it's just yeah.
Speaker 2:So this is coming up on our october will be our fifth year, oh, wow, and it's been a a journey. The journey is, uh, it's been a is, you know, and especially in business and learning. Business and learning how to stand, learning how to share your message. It's the message, it's the message, what we stand by. And when we first started, for my family, actually, when I changed my life you know we can get to it I changed my life in 2016.
Speaker 2:I changed my whole life. You know, I was in addiction and living a different life, a life of making bad choices, living a different life, a life of making bad choices. And so when I decided to change my life, the reason for me changing my life is not only for me, but the reason I changed in me is always going to be is for my family. You know, I said oh, they a lot, of, a lot of people I see today. They a lot of people I see today or when I see them, they sometimes they get drawn back because I'm I'm a completely different person of how, the choices that I made and the way I carry myself. I was just the way. How do I, how do I put it like I was always getting into trouble. Yeah, but I not was. It wasn't, um, not like a bully, not like I'm bully, but I was just in that, that that life you're going to live.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:If you live in a certain type of life, you always going to draw negative. Yeah, so now I meet people. I meet the people that knew me in my past. They, they, they're very, they have. I meet the people that knew me in my past. They, they, they're very how I put it? Happy, or they, they're not in shock, but they're getting. They get inspired themselves because you can't change, you can't change.
Speaker 2:So, for my family is a representation of, for my family, for my future. That's our brand, that's what it's called. And if you no more on family, you do it for your future and do it for yourself. So it's a representation of how you want to live your life with purpose. Do you want to like? If you right, I feel like, if you know more purpose in life, then why you? You know why you here, you always gonna have purpose and um, always fight to be better. Yeah, fight to be better. And for my family brand, um, I, uh, I always told my wife when I, when one day not one day like one, I'm gonna, when I first started, when I, when I first got on my journey of changing I mean getting sober, getting clean from the street life I told her that I want to help people around the world, start a company and not um, and a business called for my family, because that's what represents who I am. I can I can only tell my story of what I've been through and we can connect with everybody right yeah.
Speaker 1:So how stoked was your family and your wife when I guess you're trying to shift from that negative path to get sober and clean?
Speaker 2:I mean it's not easy I know that for a fact. Okay, yeah, you know, you know, um, the first was like okay, we've been around this, we've been around this, um, you know, we've been around this, I heard this before. Yeah, and um, what needed? Honestly, I just got tired. I got sick and tired, bro, I got sick and tired of being sick and tired because it's like, whenever ending you know it's not, know, I don't know if you know it right, it's not, it's like we're never ending, we're never ending.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like when we get up, first thing we do we don't even say I love you babe, we don't even say how grateful we are to get up. The first thing I would do is get up and go on my phone and look for drugs. Yeah, look for get high, that's what I would. And, mind you, the most important people in the whole world that is there watching me making sure I don't overdose, making sure is there and I don't even acknowledge that sure is there and I don't even acknowledge that you know. So my whole outlook on life when change, when I, when I um, um, change my life, I actually overdose. That's what that's. That was the last straw. I overdose, um, like hospital everything kind yeah yes, oh, carolyn Fenton, fentanyl, I was up.
Speaker 2:I used to be up for like five, six days and I used to mix like a speedball, oh, shit, yeah. So I used to be up for five days, not smoking, like you know how I that all I say just up on um, the opiates, the, the fentanyl, the heroin and mixing them with with um, uh, cooking, uh, I used to be out five, six days. The fifth day I used to break out. In the fifth day I used to break out. In the fifth day I used to break out in um hives because I had so much toxic in my body. Oh, brah, yeah, yeah, and um, uh, you know, I, I, I just got tired of putting my family through. But cause, when we, when a person goes through addiction, not only we don't only ask through it, we put our whole family through it. Oh, yeah, right, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2:We put our whole family through it, you know, and we always seem to find a way. So check this out. We always seem to find a way to get high even though we don't have money. Bro, why we cannot do that with our goals.
Speaker 1:That makes sense. That makes sense, right. Yeah. Like if you're that driven for get high, you can get that driven for get. Yes, that's a fucking, that's super. That makes super, plenty sense, cause I, I get couple friends that's going through it right now and, bruh, I cannot get through them. I talk to them for hours and you think you get through them, and then it's like the very next day.
Speaker 1:Yup, and it's like bruh. Every day I talk to you it's the same stuff. It's been like that for two years. And it's like bruh Every day I talk to you it's the same stuff. It's been like that for two years. And it's like when you gonna put your feet in the mud and stop or say oh, I love my kids, I love my family, I'll do anything for them.
Speaker 2:So obviously you know Love your kids, you know love your family that much that you gonna still do that yeah, so I had to show my you don't love your kids.
Speaker 2:You don't love your family that much that you're going to still do that. So I had to show my. I had to show my wife now we've been together for 14 years, she's been through everything and my sons and my daughter, my kids. I had to show them who I was, who I really was, and it wasn't easy to everybody out there. You know I know it's not easy, but come on, you like you, like you said yes, right, you want to live or you want to exist? Yeah, you know, you know. So, um, I uh, I had to show them who I was. So I got clean. So it took me about actually it took me about two months to get clean, like not because of somebody, because the amount, like just the withdrawals, that's why a?
Speaker 2:lot of people don't stop because they're scared of getting sick.
Speaker 1:That's one of the reasons why Well, you get sick, like full on, like Bad oh.
Speaker 2:Bad Because your body, yeah, like when Like, when bad, you get like one bad Like flu or something bad flu flu times thousand yeah, flu times thousand. Yeah, so I had to.
Speaker 2:I don't know if you ever did see me training with my coach I seen you, so he took me in was either was either I still continue to do what I do and get high every day, or I just admit what if he said no, you know he loved me so much. You know he trained me since I was 13. That's why I'm with him every morning. I start my day with him, I train with him in the morning, and then you know, and he's like my dad, you know, coach, al.
Speaker 2:So, um, so I uh took me a boat. I stayed with him. Um, I want to, I want to. I want to tell you a quick story. So I got clean. I stayed with him three months. I got clean, for took me about three months. It was about it was less than that, but it was to get to make sure that I was clean. So I stayed with him over three months. I got my first. So I stayed with him over three months. I got my first, my first job and um, from not working on, I had to learn all the work. My first job was construction and, um, when I was ready to leave, his then wife told me I was staying on his couch now. So his then wife told me when I was ready to leave. I said, I said, why are you staying on the couch? I said, my uncle told me I had to stay on the couch. I said, but I had your room ready. I had a room ready for you. I said what? I had the room ready for you. And then, um, I guess coach heard me talking and he took me on Saturday when I was ready to. You know my first check. I got my family back, so let me, I'll get back. I'll get to that.
Speaker 2:Right after this story, he took me outside. He said son, I said yes, coach. I always say yes, coach. I said I made you stay on that couch because I wanted you to learn what it feels like to be on coach. And ever, not ever. No, don't you ever put yourself in that that situation again, because you know I'm not, I mean, I'm a fighter like I'm like, I'm a fighter, I love to, I love fighting, I love the art of boxing and just you know, I love, I love the sport. Um, you told me, son, this was your hardest fight of your life getting clean, you know, I mean, the team gave me still give me chicken skin, you know, and you beat it. So now you just gotta um, maintain it every day. So is it is it a?
Speaker 1:is it a struggle like even now, or is that far behind you?
Speaker 2:it's uh, it's always a no, every day is a battle, but it's not. I don't think about it, I just. The only time I think about it is I want to, like I think about that is when I want to help somebody. Yeah, like I don't, I don't. What do I do when I want to reminisce about? I just watch. I just want and think where I came from and I watch Intervention.
Speaker 1:That gets intense bro.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I watch Intervention and I just reminisce what I put my family through. So that's the whole reason why I go out and I push forward every day, because I know.
Speaker 1:I put my family through that. That's true, and I know through addiction. I know the biggest step is admitting you get on problem, because if you cannot do that then nothing gonna change. And that's what I'm struggling with some friends right now and it's like, bro, you can't even look me in the eye and tell me you doing them. Like how I'm gonna get you for stop when you can't even admit you doing them?
Speaker 2:you know or um, you're can blame everybody else brah, that's it right there in a nutshell right. The reason why I doing this? Oh man, because I, I, I was like that, I used to blame, but I have great parents. My mom and my dad is the best. My brother, my older brother, my younger brother, my sister. I love them so much, they love me so much. It was just, they're great. You know how people say oh, I grew up and my mom and dad wasn't there. No, it's the choices we make in life.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's what we make out of it, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2:So I'm just. That's why every day I push hard. I try to be the best I can be for me myself and my family, and whatever messages we make, we can help somebody yeah.
Speaker 1:I agree.
Speaker 2:If, guys, if, if any out of anybody watching this, if I can do it, you guys will do it. It's not going to be easy. It's not going to be easy and going to take going to take a lot, of, a lot, of, a lot of a lot of strength, even from God.
Speaker 1:God is going to guide you, so you got to buckle down and know what you want yeah, and, like you said, it's on fight, so you got to be willing for strap it up and fight. You know what I mean. Life is on fight For real Nothing will hit us harder than life, bro, right 100%.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, sometimes I wake up or at the ending of the day I feel like I got slurred from life. You know, yeah, you know or at the ending of the day, I felt like I got slurried from life. You know, yeah, but you know, I know you get, you have, you have a daughter, yep, yep. You gotta stay strong for her.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right, yep that's what keeps you going 100 and um through your brand. It definitely. I understand now how you, how much the message versus like one shirt. You know, I mean, it's not about the clothes it's. It's about the message.
Speaker 2:Message yeah, you know it's about um. Every time you see this logo for my family, I want them to feel like when they put them on, they put it on with meaning, yeah, with meaning, and this is yeah, I put it on and this is who I am. This is what I stand for. You know, even if you've been changing your life, it's just meaning purpose. It's not just a shirt, it's not. We are one brand and we all want to change lives. That's what it is.
Speaker 1:Well, I think you probably are probably more than you know. You know what I mean. Well, I think you probably are probably more than you know. You know. I mean, I'm sure you have a lot of people that you touch and you probably got choke testimonies of of certain situations, but that's just the people you hear of you probably touching way more and like through your brand and your videos.
Speaker 1:Like bro, we was in vegas same time you was, my daughter, them had on volleyball tournament and my daughter, my daughter, she's the captain of her team, she, she, she's good. But one day she had one, one game, the, the worst game she ever had, and she was shook, like she's, she's a sore loser. Like she's like me, she's a competitor. And she, she, she was just flustered, like, messed up, oh, I had a bad game. I never played like that before. And she was shook and I showed her your video and I showed her the one where you said is you win together, but it's how you come back when you lose? Yeah, and for me, like I was happy that happened because I like see, I like see what you can do, like when everything's good, everything's good, but when you catch on l, that's when it matters what you can do the next day the next game.
Speaker 1:So I was like I like, see, yep, and she came back the next day, I know, and she woke up her face, so she's ready for she's locked in, yeah, and she played good the next day and I was like, okay, now we know, now I know you got that dog in you, you got and and that's what life is, you catch an l, how you come back it. Like you said, nothing could mess you up more than life. You know what I mean? Yes, exactly, but I remember seeing that video and I had that tool to show her and I could tell her a million times.
Speaker 1:But hearing it from somebody else probably resonated with her more. And, um, brah, is those little things right there. I always. That's why I always liked your page was because you, you, you say some inspiring stuff and it's someone I can relate to. And local brada, speaking from his heart, that I can, I can relate to that, not some mainland guy in one suit trying for me. Yeah, so me, it's important, bro, what you're doing, definitely in our community. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:I feel like, for instance, your daughter. She's the captain. She really got a lot of weight on her shoulder right yeah, yeah everybody looking at her.
Speaker 2:she's done, she's the captain. So, with her coming back the next day, um, that one, let her know that she always had that strength in her. Yeah, it it's okay to you know, like I know you said, she felt spluttered, it's okay, but she always had them in her and that's what I like. I want everybody to know. They get them in them. Yeah, it's just how you're going to come back from. You're either going the choices, you're either going when your back is against the wall're either going, um, you're gonna go down, or you're gonna stand up and you can fight back.
Speaker 1:yeah, there's only two ways you can do it yeah, and for me that was perfect because, like I told her, the best thing about that whole tournament was when you caught that l and you came back like that. For me it's like I don't know, I know she never got tested like that. So it's like now we're gonna find out. And I instilled a lot of stuff in her, but I never hit the play button. She never need hit that play button. So it's like, okay, that this is it, this is this is what I groomed you your whole life for is how you gonna be, be not in just volleyball but in life, like these little trial tribulations, how you bounce back from it. That's what's going to matter, cause volleyball is nothing compared to life. You know what I mean and if you have that in you, like you said, then you can, you can push through.
Speaker 1:It was cool to see, cause, honestly, I was. I never know, you know, I hope, but I never know for sure, you know okay. But yeah, I was, and your video helped, bro, and and like I had that little tool in my pocket and I and I used it. I was like how I would motivate her, like boom, right there and just one local brother speak it from his heart and resonate with her and brah. It was cool and I think a lot of those situations are happening, a lot more than you know, and probably you don't even know half of them.
Speaker 2:You know, I mean, and I, I just I feel, and I just I feel, I know you feel this. I feel like we have this Hawaii in general, we get I'm not being biased, we get the most talent. We're so blessed with only the resources, the resources, and we're so blessed with only the resources, the resources, and we're so blessed and we can do so much, you know, we do so much we do. We can accomplish so much with the less amount of resources that we have. That's why I feel like we're the most talented, you know. I mean we're blessed, I mean we're the most talented place on earth, you know it's Hawaii.
Speaker 2:You know we do. We make do with what the best we are. We're little islands. Now we go up against the states, you know wherever in the world, right?
Speaker 1:That's funny. You say that. So my daughter's volleyball team. They practice at Olamana, the boys' home.
Speaker 1:In the prison oh wow, in one dirty old gym, get rafters so they cannot even hit the ball up the net, get pukas in them and dirt on the ground. We got a sweet and it's on grimy bus up gym Like it's in the boys' home. You know what I mean and they do what they get right and I say if you can play on this team then you can play anywhere and we go to mainland. I said these girls they don't know what it's like to drive past the cows and go up the hill and and playing this. Yeah, like they play in these nice freaking gyms and warehouses and get the teraflex on the ground or whatever and it's like you guys go over there and smash them. It's like doesn't matter what where you training is, how are you training?
Speaker 2:are you trained? How about you?
Speaker 1:How bad you want it, brad. I just resonated, brad, what you just said. We get the shittiest resources, but we get heart and Heart.
Speaker 2:Yes, heart and aloha Aloha yes, aloha, both ways, you know. Aloha with the love and aloha that we can go all the way you know, Yep.
Speaker 1:But to get back to your brand, I wanted to know, um, how you came up with your logo, because that thing, that logo, is super cool, like just the design itself, you know, I mean so the logo, um, when we first did it, I should should have brought I'm going to message you, I'm going to message you, I'm going to text you our first ever logo later.
Speaker 2:So what I wanted was I told one of my brothers I said I want, when we were first drawing everything out, I want something simple, but something means power and I wanted um. So what he did was he looked at my tattoo, he looked at, um, he looked at my tattoo and then um, uh, we just went, uh, he draw it out and then um, I think I'm not too sure, I think he said close your eyes and open. It was just, I wanted something simple but means when you look at this logo, you can always think about for my family, without the words. So we put the two Fs this is two Fs backwards and the m in the middle, yeah, but it's like wings. So we keep on going up, we keep on going forward. That's the whole inspiration behind this logo. So we wanted it.
Speaker 2:Every single release. We did, we did I, I, we did. Over 100 releases already. 100 or 200 releases, almost 200 releases, I think we did, we did I, I, we did over 100 releases already. 100 or 200 releases, almost 200 releases. I think we did already, but I always wanted to implicate our logo. So every time you see um, every time you see for my family, you always gonna be in your brain that you remember like okay, that logo means for my family, for instance, like Nike or any you know any. They just get the swoosh. You know what it means already Without, but ours gonna have purpose behind it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, definitely, and it's been growing, like you've been growing this brand for what? Over five years?
Speaker 2:it's, it's gonna be five.
Speaker 1:Gonna be the fifth year in october oh, wow, and I see it everywhere and like random kind people get them, like and it's where? Where do you sell your stuff? Like you have a store.
Speaker 2:I know you got your mobile shops, huh I got my mobile, um my uh, my mobile bus. We made our the first ever mobile store in hawaii, that's super cool did you ever come?
Speaker 1:on, come on. I never came on it, but I see no videos.
Speaker 2:Yeah okay, yeah, it's, it's, uh, it's way bigger than then. It's like uh one of those uh big, uh vacations yeah yeah, those yeah.
Speaker 2:So we had like almost 40 seats in the bus. So when we built the bus that was actually we built the bus that was actually going to make on going a storefront. So the timing wasn't right on the storefront so things never lined up that time. So the money I had for the storefront I put it into a mobile store. I built it and um, now, uh, we're gonna, we're getting ready in the in the next three maybe, I want to say less than six months, we're going to open up our first store.
Speaker 1:Oh nice, when Do you know where?
Speaker 2:It's going to be I'm going to announce it. Oh, okay, okay, I'm going to announce it soon. It's going to be yeah, we're just going to. Yeah, we're going to open it. We're already in the works, already doing it.
Speaker 1:Nice. Let me know I'll definitely come for the grand opening.
Speaker 2:That'll be good fun. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, brother, you know I'm going to yeah, that's super cool, yeah.
Speaker 1:And what the bus is like mobile, like you can drive from wherever, oh that's perfect.
Speaker 2:Wherever we got AC, we get Wi-Fi, we get I put it on icebox. So we're going to do solar, I'm going to do solar and the bus can run. The bus runs for like 12 hours straight, oh, wow, yeah, straight. And when, a couple times at the Blaisdell, we did a couple of big events the whole purpose why I built the bus because our first two years I was doing events every week.
Speaker 2:So I would take my kids I get five kids and I would take them with me and sometimes I don't know if you ever go to any day events that thing is hot. Oh yeah, I would take them to events and it would be so hot, you know, I would take them to events and it would be so hot, you know, I would take them. Because I had to sacrifice take the kids with me, because that's what we had to do. Yeah, we had to take our kids with us everywhere. And I was like you know what? We're doing, these events every. So if I would do two to sometimes four events every single week, every single week, our first two years, so our first two years, I never did take a break. I mean not like I never. I still don't think about taking a break, but I never did take a day off of doing events. Yeah, so our first two years.
Speaker 2:So, if you count that up, I did two to four events every week for one, for two years. It was just yeah, it was just really real. It was taking a toll on the family yeah, Not on me, you know, of course you know I. Just it was taking a toll on the family yeah, not on me, you know, of course you know I just, um, it was taking a toll on the family so I wanted to build something for them so they can be. You know, I'll build on bus and they can. If we do an event, they can be in a bus yeah, they can be in the.
Speaker 2:They must love that get tv, so they watch their and they play their games on their TV, everything. So it's just. And you get bench seats. Yeah, it's, I built it for comfort for them and built it like a store. Just the boards, you know, the boards where you hang the racks.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:The boards, just the boards alone, is a couple hundred bucks, just the boards. You know the boards where you hang the racks. Yeah, the boards, just the boards alone is a couple hundred bucks, just the boards. So we had to buy like 20 boards. We made it just like a store, everything.
Speaker 1:Oh that's cool and you get the benefit of driving them wherever.
Speaker 2:Around wherever you know wherever. I took it to Kaneohe, oh for real.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I took it to Kalu a couple times where at uh, you know kalu uh oh, right on the side of the road yeah, yeah, oh, by the patele lady and all that, yeah, oh, okay, yeah, yeah I just wanted to test them out.
Speaker 2:The bus, I wanted to test them out. I said you know what, if we can make them up, east Street.
Speaker 1:Oh, I mean, I look at it actually too, bro. Those guys on the sides Right by the beach.
Speaker 2:Yeah, on the beach side. Yeah, yeah, I was thinking about going there, but we usually go west. But I gotta start going because I get messages every day come down North Shore, come down Eastside. So I gotta, I gotta make my way out so normally, where are you located?
Speaker 1:like you have a certain spot on the rig we usually go um west miley, but now we're at our office and cambo industrial.
Speaker 2:So we're here in my society. Yes, we got our, we got our store um up right now. But so now we're gonna do some renovations on the bus. We're gonna put some different stuff on the bus solar, uh, putting different tvs, more tvs in the bus, yeah, oh, that's change it up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, change it up a little and you were kind of explaining to me like how often you get new drops, because it seems like you have a lot of like your. Your turnover is quick and you get choked product.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's uh, it's all, even that it's learning how to oh, it's oh. We always learning right, we always try to learn and um, try to be innovative and try to see what, what's um, what we can do to um, what we can do, to, what we can do to best represent our brand and come out with the best products that we can. You know that we can represent who we are, even like the kids high-vis. You know we're getting into that, even like we wanted to. I never did see anybody's kids with the high-vis. We we're getting into that and even like we wanted to, I never did see anybody's kids with the high-vis.
Speaker 2:We can match them for my family yeah, so everybody can have, not just a dad and a mom. Yeah, so we introduced the the, the cakey high-vis. So I know, when I was young I I saw my dad wear a couple high-vis. I wanted to to be like him. But aside of that, we usually plan. We try to plan our drops when we get things together. But it always goes fast. Everything always sells out.
Speaker 1:That's a good situation, bro.
Speaker 2:Very grateful, very grateful and very thankful. So now we're doing things that when we make a certain release, we're not going to make them again.
Speaker 1:Oh, so it becomes like a collective item then, yes, yes.
Speaker 2:So now, yeah, so we're not going to make it again, we just make. We do a certain design and that's it.
Speaker 1:I like the fact that you make a lot for, um, like construction workers or road workers, with the reflective and the like. It's practical people can.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm wearing a dope shirt, but I can wear them to work you know, and they, you know, the most of the guys, they, I talk with them. You know I try to talk with everybody. You know I try to, but not all um, I don't get to, but I want to reach out, you know, when they support us. Yeah, when I talk to them they're like you know, I love, I love your brand, because sometimes I, like, give up. You know, sometimes I give up, sometimes I give up and then when they look at the logo, they keep on pushing. When they stay working in a hot sun.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, or when they're at work, we get politics at work or the dramas at work.
Speaker 2:They got to put all that aside because they're not only working for themselves, they're working for the family. So anything happen going to affect the whole family. So I can respect that. I respect that to the fullest. That's the whole. Why are you doing it Right, what we're doing it? You know you can easily do something to get you fired or get you busted, but you're not going to do that because you love your family and you want to provide, you want to keep them going, you want to support them. You know you're like see, I'm a real tough guy. A tough guy is not one with a gun or with a knife. A tough guy is getting up every morning and doing whatever they got to do for the family. That's a tough guy.
Speaker 1:I seen that video too, which is something one of my friends told me was what is your why? Yes, and everybody can. Their whys can be different, but majority is like I like my doing this because my daughter's got to eat. I'm doing this so I get one place for them sleep and for them to be successful in the future is like that's your why. That's that's a good motivation, like you said, like that that will stop you from punching your boss when he, when he, deserve it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Waking up early for I gotta, yeah, yeah, waking up early for I gotta. I gotta get up early because I gotta make money. I gotta work traffic. Yeah, that's what.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, why night traffic is nuts whoever is going right, whoever I respect and and that's what they represent, the brand they represent for my family, that's what it is yeah even no matter if you're not even working, if you're just trying to change your life so you can work.
Speaker 2:That's what for my family means, because you know where you're gonna go. You know where you're gonna to go. You know where you're going to go. So a lot of guys they get clean, but I don't know how they work, but I don't know how. I said, bro, I was just like you. I had to feel uncomfortable and put my pride aside to learn how to learn and to get where, where we, where we at and where we going yeah.
Speaker 1:So once you started this brand, it started to pick up. It probably took a while, but once you seen it starting to catch, like you must have been like stoked, like, oh, like your, your vision is locking on, like people are locking on to it. I mean, that's, that's a good success, is a good motivator, but it also keeps you hungry. And how good was it to to see your ideas being accepted by people and, like you said, like you selling out, like that must be an amazing feeling, because it all started with your choices and your, your vision, and like it's, it's catching on, you know, I mean yes, it's, it's becoming into reality, right, yeah, yeah, so it's still here to this day.
Speaker 2:I'm so grateful and if I do see people, you know, wearing the shirt or wearing, and I would go up, literally go up to them, and you know, I'll go up to them and tell them thank you. Sometimes they probably don't even know that, you know, yeah, you know, but I'll just tell them thank you so much, allah. You, that's all. I'm not gonna say hey, hi, I'm. I'm. I just gonna say thank you so much, allah, and that's it, and shake the hand. And you know, sometimes you need to hear that, even though I don't need to explain to them, but you just gotta hear that somebody tell them allah, you know, but I'm just grateful for.
Speaker 2:I'm grateful and it's just humbling to from being not knowing what I was going to do in my life, not knowing what, not knowing what I was going to do in my life and not having not having purpose at one time. Not having purpose at one time Because, going through the phase where you get two choices, god didn't lay them out. You're going to continue to be an addict and fuck your life up and people love you, or you're going to take your blessing, which is called life, and show people what you can do and show people what they can do. Like I said in the beginning, we're going to live. You live or you exist. You know right. And, like I said in the beginning, we're going to live where we like. You like live where you like exist. Yeah, you know right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, and life is our big, I mean time is our biggest asset, right? Yeah, yeah, you know, and I feel like sometimes, when some people that we love so much when they're not here, we never realize how much we love them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know know, but other than that I'm grateful.
Speaker 2:I'm grateful for everything that, um, I get excited, I get pumped up because some, most of the drops I don't even have, some, most some of my, sometimes I sell. I I would sell this at the store like they would ask for this. Oh, I buy them right off.
Speaker 1:I would sell them to them right there and that's the last one, and you don't have it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's the last one, and I would rather them have it than you know, than me, because you know I'm just grateful for the support. Well, not even sell, take them off. And yeah, you want this and it's yours. For the support Well, not even sell, take them off. And yeah, you want this and it's yours.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know Well, just the brand and the message behind it is amazing. But you're putting out good stuff Like your stuff looks cool. You know what I mean? It's not just oh, this is the brand, this is the message. You're pulling out quality stuff and you told me you were in Vegas for Pure Aloha, how was that Pure?
Speaker 2:Aloha was a great experience. That's our third Pure Aloha and just seeing Hawaii in another state it's still, it's a night island, but it's still another state, you know. And just, we go for the experience and just getting out of your comfort zone. So, all the brands that flew up, you know that was so, I was thinking about all the brands that flew up, you know that was so, I was thinking about it all the brands that, whoever business that flew up, they took a chance and they went out of their comfort zone.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because they believe in it and they sacrifice, they sacrifice they, you know, not only you know, not only time and money, but they wanted, they want to show people who they are. Right, you know, and um, I know I had us had FMF for my family, had Hawaii's Finest, had Get Nuts, had um, um, barashin, had Barashin, alo, brandon, major League and then a few other brands. But would have been I was thinking about this that would have been an awesome picture, all of us together in one picture, you know, in another island. That would have, you know what would have been on one awesome picture of all of us together in one picture, you know, in another island.
Speaker 2:That would have been. That would be cool. Unity for Hawaii. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know that would have been power in one picture, you know. Next year we got to do them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we got to. We got to, you know.
Speaker 2:You know, and I was was thinking about that so, but I just was just coming together right when you hear hawaii, um, it was a great. It was a great experience and we got to get together.
Speaker 1:More like that yep, that's super cool and you sharing aloha off the island, and that's what I that's what I always been saying is this society and the way the world is like we need. We need it now more than anything and we gotta start here. Hawaii gotta be the beacon. Like you said, we're on little dot on the map, but we get the biggest pool when it comes up and if we can resonate alha from Hawaii outwards, then that's how it can spread and like just little things like that can can push it in that direction, but it is definitely got to got to spend more time here pushing it, cause crazy.
Speaker 2:From all the fires. Yeah, so, how, how, how? He came together. Yeah, that was so, that was a. That together, yeah, yeah, that was so, that was us, that was us, that was a. That was a show of strength. Yeah, let the whole world know how strong we are. Yeah, you know, you know we never need the or whatever the outside help. Everybody came together. Yeah, how should be? And they didn't, they didn't come. No, they, they helped, they did with the best you can. Yeah, you know. Yeah, so, just like that, we gotta come together, we build together.
Speaker 1:That's how, that's how we grow, yeah so, future-wise, what do you see for your plans in the future with this brand and your message other'm, I feel like we will, we, I know, we will um and we we want to do great things with for my family brand.
Speaker 2:We want to change lives, change lives and help laws like. Change life will make my life better. You know, real power is when you can change somebody's life for the better. When you can change somebody's life for the better and you can change laws for the better. You know. However anybody view it, that's what real power. Real power is not money. Of course, you can get money from power, but real power is when you can help somebody change their life and help the laws, you know influence and so we can help people.
Speaker 1:So that's what I want to do. I want to help yeah. I want to help.
Speaker 2:We're going to help people. You know, in the future we will help as much as we can. In situations that I've been through and I put my family through and just if you're down on anything and you feel like giving up, we, you know, we want to, I want to do our, we want to do our own nonprofit. Oh, okay, yeah, we can help. We can help people Get on the feed. And sometimes you know, when someone's an addict like you know, somebody married, somebody's an addict, so maybe he was a breadwinner or so what would happen if you go to jail or something? The mom or the kids or the husband or the kids, they get left out. So maybe we can help. You know what I mean left out. So maybe we can help. You know what I mean. With our nonprofit, we can help them get back, you know, because a lot of families get broken up because of drugs, right, yeah, yep, you know that never need to be broken up.
Speaker 2:In the first place, there was a different person before they took drugs. Wow for sure, for real place. There was a different person before they took drugs. So, wow, real. You know, that's where I see our, our band, you know, helping people and uh being going worldwide well, I mean, the message isn't just a hawaii thing, bro.
Speaker 1:Like you said it, everybody own family all over this planet, and that's such a positive, strong message. It can resonate all over the planet. I think you starting in the right place, though. You starting in the right place where it starts, we gotta grow here.
Speaker 2:Grow, keep growing and show the world who we are.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, we from hawaii and we proud you know, you can have a fleet of buses going across the country, yes, everywhere you know, hey, we gonna talk about this conversation record this, yeah, right we gonna save this and we gonna pull them up and we go right yeah, for sure. I think with your work ethic, I think that comes from fighting.
Speaker 1:Um, I grew up doing the same stuff, so I know that work ethic and I know yeah failure is not an option, you know, I mean and and I think that's one of the reasons why you could get clean in three months like yes, I know people that cannot do them in years, like yeah, and what? Once you set that fighting mindset to whatever it is, it can be a business. It can be um getting in shape, getting. Whatever it is it, it fighters don't quit. You know what I mean? They don't One real fighter.
Speaker 2:Yes right.
Speaker 1:I think that's why your business is successful, because you're putting that fight fighter mentality behind it, Like keep going.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. And we sometimes, if we get right, we get right, we get hit, we're on good one. Okay, he get one good left hook, so he's gonna shoot the left hook again, and then we're gonna dodge, you know gotta adjust right. We're gonna adjust right. Right, we think about life like that. Okay, how are we gonna get better? How are you gonna do so? You know, catch me again, you know, or, or what I'm going to do to stay away from his job. Job can be, you know, like bad choices you made in life.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know right Got to adjust, adjust. What I did like about your brand too, is you kind of showcasing your own family, and I see your website, bruh. I see your wife, your kids. You guys are all models, bruh.
Speaker 2:You know, and everywhere you see me, you're going to see either me, my wife or my kids. It's just I wouldn't wife or my kids, like, it's just, it's, it's, I wouldn't have it any other way. And oh, it's just, you like spend time with the ones you love and I wouldn't be here if it wasn't. Honestly, I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for God and my wife and my kids. Like, my wife is my biggest supporter, you know, and my kids, my wife is, oh man, my wife, she's been through so much man and I just she's behind the scenes, she's with me in pictures and stuff like that, but she's really behind the scenes. She, she's with me in pictures and stuff like that, but she's really behind the scenes and she's yeah, she's actually, um, one of the main ones that does designs, that that does the designs and oh, wow and uh, let me know what she thinks on um. I said, babe, I think we should do this, you know, and because she, she's going to tell me the truth.
Speaker 1:Yeah Right, you would like somebody to tell you the truth.
Speaker 2:I don't want to hear it sometimes you know Right. I don't want to hear it sometimes, but she tells me how it is. I said, babe, I don't think that this and I don't think you should do this, and I think this would be better. You, I think this would be better. You know, but up to you. You know, it's still up to you. Okay, is this a trick question? That's cool, but I think, I think that having a wife and having support helps.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I'm sure, like she, she, she must be extremely happy you got clean and your family bond probably got a million times strong, stronger, from it yes, because, um shoot, I was.
Speaker 2:We've been together 14 years it'll be 14 years this year and I've been clean for eight years. It took me three months to get clean, but I was for a while, for a minute. Before that I was singing a song and dance. Babe, I'm going to get clean. Don't leave me. I promise I won't get clean. I swear you know, and I just need to change. It was the man in the mirror. Yeah, there's some the man, yeah. So don't blame everybody, guys. You're going through what I went through. Do not blame anybody else. You know, the first thing you got to do is look in the mirror and then the second thing you should do is delete. Tell somebody, admit and not tell the person that you're getting your drugs from. Definitely don't tell that person.
Speaker 1:Right bro.
Speaker 2:Do not tell that person. You delete your phone, you show your phone, but it's what you want in life, you know. If you want to continue to be because drugs addiction is just temporary, yeah Right, you're going to take them. You're going to get high, you can come down. You're going to get high again because you don't like that feeling. You're trying to escape the pain? Yeah, but without pain there's no growth.
Speaker 1:Yep A hundred percent, and that's everything Right.
Speaker 1:Yep, a hundred percent, and that's everything I think. I think, too, now your kids are watching you build something and you showing them not just by your words but by your actions, and that, like kids mimic their parents and they're going to have that same work ethic and they're going to start to build and get create their own path in life. But they're going to have that same drive because you showed them, you know. I mean, you showed them how you showed them by your actions. Yeah, and leading by action is the best way to lead. Parenting by actions is the best way to parent. And I think, because of all the the trials and tribulations you guys went through as a family, yes, they're gonna. They're gonna be better people and adults and, um, people with aloha in the future because of what they went through, you know. Know what I mean?
Speaker 2:It's kind of cool to see, to be honest, yes, and like my oldest son, he started his own brand, you know he started his own brand. And I told him. I said, son, you start your own brand. You better believe. You have to believe in it. You believe in it and it's tell your story yeah, tell you tell your story and that's that's that represents who you are.
Speaker 2:so now he started his brand and I told him it's a lot of hard work, it's not easy, you know it's not easy, and you always gotta keep, keep pushing. You're going to have roadblocks, you know, and I want him to learn. So, like you said, our kids mimic us, right? Yeah, you know, and I just, I was just I was laying it down to him about business, but I was down deep inside. I was so happy, you know, yeah, deep inside. I was so happy, you know, yeah, and I was so proud, so that's super cool and what so?
Speaker 1:now, this is all you do. This is your only um mainstay of income.
Speaker 2:This is what a brand is. Our main no, our brand are for my family and I. My mom and dad is, like I said mentioned earlier. They own DJ's Motorsports. It's a family business, so I help them run the business every day as well.
Speaker 1:So it's a lot of entrepreneurs. Okay, so you've been in the okay.
Speaker 2:That makes sense, yes, I was always, I was the, I was the, I was the. I was always on the street side, you know, like I was, so I wasn't around. Yeah, once I got clean and I, and then I, then I, everything got legitimate and everything. So I started, you know, because my dad, my nominate dad, they don't tolerate you know, they don't tolerate that because they work too hard. They had their business since 1992. Oh wow, yeah, any two. Oh wow, yeah. So they don't tolerate any um, anything negative. Or because they work too, they work too hard for it for a whole family, you know, and I and I and I realized that as I changed my life, you know, all my parents wanted was the best for us but, I never you mimic, you mimicking them.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, yeah you know, you know they're putting in the work and building. I see the way they are with their customers, see the way they are, um, every customer comes to. They feel like that's there. When they put rims, as my dad it looks, it felt like he was his car. So he, you know, like you know, like you know he, your customer service, your, you want to build a relationship. Yeah, it all comes down to relationship and you, you do build, or you actually do build, a relationship, right, yeah, to business, you know. So that's what I learned. I learned that you wanna, in business, you, uh, you wanna be the best you can be like to take care of your customers. All you can be the best you can be to take care of them. You know and tell your story and be who you are, be who you are, always be who you are yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, your parents must be proud too, you know, I mean like yes they must be, they must rock your stuff too. Yeah, yeah my dad.
Speaker 2:You know, my dad is my my dad. He been in business for since 92 and he real simple guy, um. But uh, his favorite shirts is, uh, for my family shirts, you know you know so and I'm just grateful for that um, because wasn't always like that.
Speaker 2:He never. He never when I was making bad choices, he never, um, he never. Uh, what is it how I want to see it? He, he always told me I said, you gotta look in the mirror. The only time you look in the oh, you look in the mirror and that's the person that you gotta change. Yeah, and now I he's so proud of me, you know, I know he's so proud of me because you know he, I see the way he talks to me, you know he talks to me, you know, and that makes me proud. Yeah, I just always wanted to make him proud, him and my mom, you know and my family.
Speaker 2:So that that you know, that's what drives me right. I mean, i'm'm sure, the same thing like you you want to make your daughter proud, you want to make your family proud, definitely.
Speaker 1:Yeah, brian, that's one of the reasons why I'm doing this show. I get so inspired by some of my guests. It blows my mind To hear your story and a couple of other guests. I hear their story and it's like everybody has their own movie and for me to tap into certain people and and get to hear it or see it and get inspired by them, guys, it's pretty cool. Like I know a lot of people that do drugs and stuff like that and very few can kick it and, yes, it ain't easy. And for you to kick it and slingshot that whole experience into what you're doing now is like mind-blowing, like that's beyond what anybody could imagine, you know, I mean, is it's? It's, uh, keeping you grounded and the the basis behind it is your whole family, and that resonates with me more. I'm getting married in a couple months. I get a daughter. Yeah, congratulations. Yeah, it's getting close, bro.
Speaker 1:My second one, my second one.
Speaker 2:Hey, congratulations Thank you bro Wow. You know, when I got married, I, uh, it was just I wanted it, I just wanted to show her, you know, and you know, and she said like, hey, we're already. Like she said, we are baby, we're already married, you know.
Speaker 1:And yeah, um, we've been, you know, she, you know we're gonna be together forever, you know so, but, uh, congratulations, brother yeah, and and as, as a adult, now that I can know the value of it like one family, that's, that's, that's something important, you know. I mean like and um, for me, I'm excited, it's like getting excited. I'm gonna have one like one, like one real family, right, right then, it's, that's, that's like your ground, that's, that's you, that's your foundation why, and that's definitely.
Speaker 1:I think it's cool what you're doing, man, and I definitely respect it, and it's cool to hear your story, bro. I didn't know what, exactly what it was going to be, but definitely I hope people get inspired by this, and especially people that are suffering with addiction. Yes, look in the mirror and, brad, just don't blame and just take responsibility and make the change. But it's never too late to change. But you gotta you cannot half-ass them, right? You gotta, you gotta do them you're not blaming whoever all.
Speaker 2:You're not blaming anybody when you're getting high, right, you're not blaming okay, I'm calling this guy because of you. You're blaming nobody. Because you're getting high, you're making choices. So, the same way, how you always figure out how to get high, do that and conquer your dreams, conquer your goals, because it's not late, it's not too late, you can do it, you can do it, you can do it, you will do it. And I'm going to tell you this Don't feel sorry for yourself. You know, do not do that in life. Life is short, so take it and fucking be the best you can be.
Speaker 1:I love that thought. Though the drive and the strength you have for go find drugs, you can use that same strength and drive to catch your dreams.
Speaker 2:Exactly, you have it in you, you have it in you. You don't want to figure out how to get high.
Speaker 1:So why not do the same effort?
Speaker 2:that you're making. Yeah, you had it in. You go and split her off and get high. So why you no? Why you no? Do the same effort that you making, yeah, and go be what you wanna be. Go do what you wanna do. Do not make an excuse, cause excuses, excuses and um, what is it? Um, this is what I heard. This is one thing important, honestly um, um, um, what is it? This is what I heard. This is one thing important, honestly Comfort, comfort, being comfortable, comfort and comfort and comfort is the enemy of greatness. You know, like, like, yeah, so you being too comfortable and doing the same thing, repetition, and that's something that you're not supposed to be doing. Yeah, you're not going to get great at anything.
Speaker 1:Yup, that makes sense. That's what my, that's what my kickboxing coach would say you got to get comfortable being uncomfortable and yes, and an excuse is a reason for failure, yep, so yes, right yeah, hell that was his two, two um stuffs.
Speaker 1:He would tell us yeah, but shoot, we shoot. We've been going for over an hour already, bro. I could talk straight with you for another three hours. Sorry, bro. Nah, no worries, but um, where can people find you on um instagram? And for me, people gotta find your instagram because your message is very strong on your instagram and then they can seek out your merch and your brand, but the message on that is pretty strong. So where can people find you on social media and your website and stuff?
Speaker 2:You guys can. On IG, you guys can find me at FMF underscore brand. So FMF underscore brand and our website is wwwfmfbrandhicom. So hit us up. You guys got any questions or anything. You guys going through anything, reach out, I'm here, reach out.
Speaker 1:And you can always find us on our Instagram at Above the Bridge Podcast. Our YouTube is Above the Bridge Podcast, our website is atbpodcom and my personal Instagram is thaddaddyhi. Well, I hope you reach all your goals in the future. I definitely going to be there when you um open your store. That's gonna be cool, I think. Um your brand is growing. I see, I see it everywhere and bros it's um, yeah, even my my friend, jay, was having dinner with him last night come and he said he had a couple shirts.
Speaker 2:Yeah, good people, great people right on.
Speaker 1:Well, um, I appreciate you taking time uh out of your day for coming on. I definitely know this is a good message people need to hear, so this could change one person's life. Bro, it's an honor for me too, bro. I definitely, I definitely wanted to do this with you for a while, so I'm glad we got we got we got a. God made a good time for it? I think it's a perfect time yeah.
Speaker 2:Yes, Thank you bro.
Speaker 1:Right on, bro. Well, shakas for the cameras.
Speaker 2:Aloha.
Speaker 1:We're out. Shout out to the Artist Group Network. Aloha, aloha.
