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All right, man, we live. We're all the way here with Law the Barber.
Good morning. Good morning. Yes, absolutely.
Tell the people where you're from.
So I live in Bethlehem, PA. I run the barbershop. It's called the Barber Pill.
I'm Law the Barber, also known as Lawrence.
Shout out to the for the YouTube watchers and those watching in.
He's got his logo, which is a comb and the straight razors around a pill.
Yes, exactly. Which is, it signifies, the razors are the kids, the combs are me and my wife, and the pill is the wealth of information that we all put into the pill. So there's meaning behind everything. You should be intentional with anything you do.
so I was intentional when I was creating that because um even the clients have to contribute
to that pill so that others can take from it it's almost like we're creating something but
everything everybody can use it it's like a circle like a circle that's dope like life yeah
that's super cool see I didn't even know all that yeah this one wasn't you had that logo designed
before we actually met yeah I drew that by hand just like how I did the other logo the rights
vending by hand i will throw that up we just finished uh so law's a serial entrepreneur what
he's doing main time right now is the barber shop um and then in addition he's starting a
vending business rights vending so we've known each other a couple years now probably two years
straight yeah two years two plus we knew each other before corona yeah wait so so that's two
three yeah that's three years ago there so you're talking about like five years yeah all together
probably. That's good. And it originally started through, it's amazing. I'm going to have each of
you guys individually, kind of your group of team, your group of brothers that brought me in and said
I could gain value from it. And then it took me a bit to get and give value. Whenever I'm a part
of something, I want to give value back. But it started with Fredo Pimentel. I was in ID wraps
over in slatington i was working designing vehicle wraps and he came in and i got teamed
up with him to do his logo and um he ended up he ended up doing a he wrapped the vehicle and then
he did a second fleet yeah the drain surgeon right yeah drain surgeons he's a plumber so
fredo pimentel i'm gonna have to throw a ton of logos up this is gonna look like a self-promotion
for me because i'm throwing up all these logos you guys paid me to do it that's it but um
no he invite uh introduced me to isaiah myers the electrician the electrician your friendly
neighborhood electrician i had designed a logo for him and isaiah is crazy he actually just
text me uh yesterday he's looking to get something else done so i gotta get back to him yeah but um
he's the one that introduced me to you that's what i was saying he referred so many people to
me a lot a lot he's always doing that always helping someone yeah i at least like a dozen
there's there's one other guy i got a shout out uh shout out to les smith the serial entrepreneur
he's probably hired me i don't even know six seven eight i lost count he's hired me for a
ton of different brands he's got big papa's restaurant over in easton yeah he's got um
young enough llc like a contracting business he just started something with uh shark i'll have
to have him on to talk about it it's like i forget what the acronym is i'm gonna mess it up so i'm
know if you're gonna try but you know success happiness acronym but um he my phone i'm not
even on social for two years and my phone goes off oh talk to tony ortiz talk to tony ortiz
whatever people ask about yeah i refer people to you too because of that you know um when isaiah
shot me over your information and um you were you're able to help me um digitize that that uh
commercial with the short the short that you did for me with the logo with the samurai swords right
samurai sword and the the electric uh colors the electric colors which one do i do with the
electric it sounds like electrical shock waves coming out of the logo and it's spinning oh yeah
yeah yeah and it has and then the little hip-hop thing drops that's right yeah i see that that's
right that was the first one yeah that was the big that's the biggie um and that and that's why
the second project came to you so well i'm gonna throw it up here i'll throw up a version of that
that was from two honestly because i had started getting the motion graphics like 2017 we might
have known each other five years bro yeah no yeah because they started with the samurai sword
chopping up the logo putting it in pieces that was the first part of making the logo separating
it yeah pieces yeah and i had no since then i've started my my martial arts journey but i had no
idea like how much like i understand now knowing to get you a little bit shout out to exalt jujitsu
and exalt yeah evan robinson another one of the brothers who i was introduced to afterwards at uh
the dinner you guys go to uh set your goals so for those just listening and those that don't know
la or myself personally a group of gentlemen get together every year in the beginning of the year
and set goals for three months six months and 12 months yeah and then they meet again for dinner
at those times to talk about how the goals have been going and it's a check-in and what went but
um i think the podcast came out of that i i had a third goal set up and i'm like well i got three
months left and i have to do something it was right around october you did one of them right
but i'm gonna get you set up i know you have uh you want to talk a bit about the community outreach
what you want to do with this building so i'm trying to go after it i don't want to uh put the
the horse before the carriage but um yeah if i do go after this uh building and we get it it'll open
up a lot of things more for the barber pill like it'll expand the shop obviously i can hire more
people and having that idea to work with the south side is exciting for me and it's good that my wife
is on board with me finally with certain projects that i'm doing so it's kind of you know i don't
want to go ahead of the thing yet but if i do get the building it'll be a podcast in there like this
um it'll be a art room um and then all the other rooms i can make separate like separate barber
shops within the building would you have like a barber school in there or i wouldn't do a school
um i realize what a school is it's a lot of responsibility because of a good friend of mine
Tyreek Jackson. So Tyreek is a, this guy's a celebrity, but he's so humble. So I take a lot
of ideas from him and I learned a lot from him by just watching him every Tuesday morning. He does
this show called Tyreek Tuesdays and he gives out a lot of knowledge for free. It's free 99, he says.
And he runs a school. He owns a school, he runs a school and he owns a barbershop too.
but me realizing what you have to go through as a school owner is just like ah that's too much on
my plate i'm already doing a lot yeah so having a barber school no i'll tutor i'll you know i'll
train other barbers you know i'll go in and do classes that's that's fine but um that's on my
way to getting my teacher's license anyway so i will be working with them in the near future
to complete the rest of the goals so i'm at you know my first license second license barber manager
so the last one is on the brink so that's one of my goals on the brink yeah so i'm going for it i
have the books already um just gotta get in line of studying after i get rid of all these other
you know things that i have to get done do you have the rest of your life planned out
yeah your goals for yeah yeah why not dig it but why not dig it why not at least be prepared
have a plan right yeah absolutely so you know going through life without direction is not fun
at least if you have something to work towards to it's a little easier to deal with yeah obviously
life is going to happen it's going to throw things your way sometimes it's a roadblock sometimes it's
a hump you just never know so you want to just always have something planned just in case you
know you just never know yeah now fair enough yeah i've got at least the next five to ten years
and it was funny because when the podcast came up i'm like this is something i'm going to be doing
now knowing what i know from production there's levels i want to go to there's equipment i want
to have you know and uh but you know being humble who am i to have anybody give their time towards
production unless i can pay somebody 120 000 plus a year for what it takes to produce a podcast
on the crazy level you know it takes work um that's why when you finally launch it i was like
man that's that's brave because it's a lot of responsibility a lot of you know technology
involved a lot of you know cutting it because it's it involves different skill sets yeah it's
different disciplines so you got edit editing the shooting the audio that this okay so the other guy
that's involved with tyreek is his guy that's behind the scenes the guy like you his name is
effects apps and he's the guy that developed my app for the barbershop because i have a app that's
built specifically for the barbershop so yeah all my clients could book it that's where the
little short came from yeah the barber pill app i remember we put the get it on google play and
app store right there so i learned that effects apps does all the editing the the shorts the
the filming all the all the things put together for um tyreek so that that could be successful
and clean and you know gathered you know well to put together so you doing it on by yourself that's
oh my gosh that's a lot of work it's insane it's insane um i do have some help shout out to kasha
with the clips with uh just with with cutting shorts and stuff because i know what time it
takes yeah and i know like i'm not monetizing this i have a virtual tip jar but it's not you
know a lot of this stuff is gifts or donations it's not it's not made to it's not set up for
sponsorship i mean i'm ready to accept sponsors we got a great looking show we've got episodes
under our belt yes but it the goal was never to have this replace anything i'm doing for income
this was all meant to be additive on top of what i do and it was originally meant to be like therapy
for myself i was going to record a bunch of episodes and just not put them out but then i
realized how much like uh the first episode was with gil thompson and i realized like okay there's
five episodes right there have fredo on have isaiah on pushing their yeah that's all pushing
their business like this becomes a platform for other people to do it so exactly the the theme
you know i could have done something where it was just me and a bunch of my friends shooting the
shit but i don't think there's no major podcast that somebody didn't come with a comedy background
or uh like you know a movie the variety you know an actor like if they already had a following yeah
then they can just talk with their friends because you're hearing about celebrities and it's cool
yeah but you know you have eight nine guys on mics just talking about the the the game or whatever
just happened that week that wasn't the show that i wanted to create so we do like um the the
mentality of persevering so the show is i will not lose right and it's the idea that you can't
lose if you set yourself up to know that it's about the journey it's about learning along the
way and so the first episode i did was the goal is to fail in which i wanted to be doing things
wrong and i thought i accounted for everything and then like yes the smoke alarm was going off
so i'm like well that's that recording i can't edit it out now but i could just throw batteries
To go back to your, I will not lose. Something popped into my head when you said that. And how could you lose when you bet on yourself? And the reason why I ask it like that is I have a mentality that I'm not going to lose. I refuse to give up when I can try. Period.
Yeah.
So I really like that. I really like that.
it was something to remind me every week okay how can i flip something so even if there's something
going on in the news it's like like uh when facebook did the layoffs it's like everybody
not even just facebook there was a whole i laid off there was a list there was like 26 companies
that had how many people they laid off people got laid off oh my god it's like that's that could be
a loss but it's also the beginning of something new like everybody that i know that lost a job
either they went on to better opportunity like i don't know anybody that lost their job
lost their house lost everything like it's 2023 yeah so speaking on that um right in that pandemic
when people were getting fired or they were working from home a lot of people became entrepreneurs
they started their own startups from their homes a lot of that went down so now you have these
people quitting these big corporate jobs to do what they actually love to do they got a taste of
it and that was it they got a taste of it a lot of people flipped because of that they didn't go
back i'm curious as to like i i honestly i i'm on reddit like anti-work and i really read people's
experience like why are they losing trust in the job why are they losing trust in i got a good
example for you yeah all right so i'm going to share a little bit of my life so um been in the
union for it's going to be 24 years right and you feel like a hostage because when you go to retire
they might not give you all this right up front but you realize as you get to the end game you
can't retire until a certain age right and they have a stipulation it's it's at 59 and a half
right so now you got to think all that stuff you worked for right now you have to wait on your
money you have to wait to retire in order to not get docked that's part of it that's unfair to me
to me it's unfair but it takes the it takes the choice away i can understand yeah i understand
and this is why you're talking about why they don't trust that is because of that so what are
they doing they're making you wait they're keeping you they're holding you to not go you know till a
certain age so i you know everything else is is fine it's that one stipulation that holds on to
you because now you have to think about medical you have to think about all these things right
when you're thinking about the end game retiring is it's it has to be planned that's why i told
you gotta have a plan i haven't planned up until then right i have to i can't not do anything
i mean part of the reason why like even with me just like part of my therapy is keeping busy and
always having a goal if i don't have something i'm working towards i'm going to be drunk
i'm going to be i just i am like i yeah you'll fall into other things but idle hands what's that
idle hands the devil playground yes idle time yeah so i i believe that a hundred percent it's true
you keep yourself busy enough it'll keep you you know on the straight and narrow because you have
to be focused to do what you're doing you have to be focused you know but i mean eventually maybe
my body will give out i try to train my body but most of what i do is with my mind so i think about
that a lot too well the two goes together one doesn't work without the other one makes one
last longer. Exactly. I can believe it. So you telling your mind and a lot of what I do is mental
90%. If not, don't quote me on that. But I think 90% of what you do is mental. The rest of your
body. It's a frame. Whatever you tell yourself you can do, you can do it. Like I'll give you
an example. I ran most of my time. I was a runner. Right. And in running, you find out what you're
made of yeah and when we're talking running we're talking distance and running a distance race is
like running life right it's not a race so you have to pace yourself right yeah so you find out
a lot about yourself if you speed up the pace what happens to you start you can't move start
you start happening that you don't like oh man i can't handle that pace back it off until you
can move up to that pace you know i mean that's that's kind of like the analogy of what what that
means to you know how i look at that now you have to pace it that makes sense yeah do you still run
i still run i do a 5k um every sunday now because i joined this little group it's called freelance
training uh big up to alec um it was me and him talking about this in the car and we started this
thing it's it's free for those who want to get in shape or do something with themselves get active
get the blood moving yeah wednesday at nine at the ymca we meet up we run two miles there a.m or
a.m a.m and then sunday it's in the afternoon 2 p.m you come out you can run it walk it speed
walk it jog whatever come as you are there's no expectation that's the beauty of it you know now
you if you call him on any other day which is outside of the norm yeah and he'll chart you
know he'll have to charge you something for that because it's personal training he is a trainer
though oh that makes sense yeah so he was a boxer himself and uh you know i do martial arts i mean a
5k is no light joke so to do that every week so i run i actually run it because there's a savage
race coming and i'm training for the savage along with some other tests that's coming up this year
for me um but that's test number one so the savage race is a three mile run with 16 obstacles maybe
more yeah i saw pictures of your last one you were like waist deep in the mud yes and you have
to be ready meant mentally yeah that's all mental the body once you get it in shape it'll it'll do
the work but you do have to do the work you have to put the work in before you go do something like
that you you know that's like jumping over the cliff and you're not you know so yeah running
the 5ks is getting my body and my mind used to running that three miles the 5k running the three
miles right and now i can work on pace and every time i go i try to do better than the last time
and that's just a program in me because running was my thing that's honestly why i took a break
from running i was way too intense with it at least for me it was yeah it was a so i ran mostly
for the endorphin release but oh yes then i found myself like if i didn't run i was angry depressed
i was irritable i was like snapping on my co-workers yeah that's if i couldn't go for a
run and run like three miles very fast i i would start to suffer so i was like what am i doing it
for and then when i started i started gaining weight while running and that was a that was a
tough so there was no balance that's what that sounds like because all right if i don't go to
taekwondo on wednesdays i get like that because it's my routine yeah i love going to class because
that's that's my other area where my mind is at peace yeah i love to train there it's like
my second home where's your gym or dojo so kim's black belt um academy is right on somewhere no
so that's the other one i go to that one too okay but my home gym is uh by the cup um right behind
the cup on that one street right by uh where liberty is you know you go down the street the
cup is there in that uh vegan treats i know the area it's it's right behind the street yeah linden
yes got it yeah right so that's you know that's my run every uh wednesday at seven that's my run
and um that's where some of the ideas come in when i'm training i'm zoned out you know i'm
i'm into it and so if i miss it uh at least i have a balance so now i can go running i don't
have to because i cross train too so it not it doesn't necessarily have to be taekwondo but
if I train, it still helps me with that. And that's what I was going to mention to you. Like
if you, you know, if you're, like you said, you didn't get to run, there's always something you
could do to balance that. Yeah. And so I try to create that balance, you know, that a balance is
important. I was, I was definitely not there. Yeah. That's the sort of stuff I go when I talk
about failures that I've had with, with things, just because I, what's some, like, what do I have
to lose being vulnerable about something that I learned if somebody else can go and learn from it
and be like oh okay maybe that's something I get too tired of social media where everybody puts out
this is what I just bought this is what I have this is great it's like there's nobody's life
is a highlight reel you know what I mean they don't tell you about the pitfalls and the failures
we just said we just talked about that I'm glad you mentioned that too because there was a lot
of failings before i was where i'm at now there was a lot of failures you know i know we don't
talk about them yeah there's a lot of things that happen sometimes i got discouraged it's like man
am i gonna really do well with this shop am i gonna you know oh yeah you question yourself
oh yeah at some point you have those questions you know what i'm talking about i do all the time
you're in your head you're like oh man how am i gonna make it through this one you know
And those questions pop into your head and it makes such a difference in having a good, positive mental outlook.
And leads me into my next chapter where I'm at right now is pushing mental health for us.
Yeah, man.
For anybody that's around me in my group, I'm going to push it.
Because I believe it's something that came to me out of, I didn't ask for that.
It just came to me.
it was presented to me in such a way where I couldn't avoid it and something just told me just
keep working at this somebody needs to hear it somebody needs to know that without the proper
mental health you can be in danger of other things yeah you know it could really destroy you it could
really destroy your family if you're not mentally stable about um the failures right um the things
that we go through right yeah um some of it's their tests right and we're all going to get
tested at some point at some point you're going to get tested and it's going to depend on how you
come out of that how do you how do you turn that around you know and it takes time to work at some
of those things and sometimes it it may happen a little more than normal for some that can't get
out of that slump and you know shout out to preventive measures because that's uh buddy of
mine duane jones um preventive measures and so if i were to refer um folks that's what i would do
because i do the walk uh with them too so i started that walk and i'll continue to do the walk with
them every year um mental health month is may right so in may they usually have this walk they
have um donations and things like that that goes on but to get back to that um it's important to
have a good group a good support group yeah um which will help you to work through what you're
going through that's why they say um when you have certain people around you it's important
because those are the people you want to be around when you need to be picked up yeah i hear that
completely you see what i'm saying because without those people you you know you would
have been left left hanging you know left left out to dry oh yeah and you get to find out who
those people are when you're at your lowest and some people some people i had to cut off
i had to cut off a lot of people because they weren't for me they didn't have your best
interests yeah genuinely this is what we don't talk about a lot of people don't mention this
but it's part of it yeah and some people wonder why you don't call them back why you don't deal
with them anymore well now you know me and my current best friend took a few years apart we
just we weren't the best for each other we were you outgrow people too yeah yeah it happens well
you can always catch back up in life you got to give people room to grow like just because you
cut someone off 10 years ago yes it doesn't mean that they can't I agree and and some people are
just no good for you and you have to have that discernment to know that they're no that's not
going to work for you because you're when you're moving in another direction sometimes you going in
that other direction is is going to have people fall off of you anyway right right because not
everybody's going to follow you exactly you know what i'm saying um i wanted to get a chance before
you could go i'm going to go through this i don't know when the drop date will be because i want to
go through make sure i throw evan's logo up there definitely um anybody that you shouted out if you
want to send me their logo okay i'll throw it up there yeah no worries um so the ones are that that
i closely work with um but uh there's there's a lot of new ones in the in the mix because
everybody's going to have a play in the big picture you need a set of people right and we're
talking about how um i love to network right i love introducing other people to other people
because that's what the barbershop does it brings people together right exactly look at what we have
you got the podcaster graphic guy electrician plumber right realtor yeah right physical trainer
physical trainer right jujitsu guy will open up his own gym um we have uh the freelance training
right we have preventive measures we have the elixir which i just did a leg therapy because
i'm destroying my legs every sunday and wednesday by the time i'm finished with taekwondo my legs
are spent so now i know i can go to the elixir and sit down and get the leg compression or other
treatments she has a hyperbolic chamber and all that stuff in there really yeah yeah so it's
call it elixir so there you go see another one you see but this is where networking proves itself
it it's it does its work on its own all you have to do is put the right people in the right place
i like it so we got a whole bunch of shout outs stay tuned for stuff we're gonna have law back
this was the first episode of many to do we got we got to talk about entrepreneurialism mental health
yep um any of these sorts of things we'll absolutely kind of put it together yeah man but
all right man awesome thank you
Okay.