One SAT Score Away from a Full Ride, and the Life Detour

Isaac Mashman1:27

100%, Corey, thank you for having me on, man. It is an absolute pleasure. So yeah, guys, I'm 20 years old, like he said. I've been in business for about three years on and off, just an experience of trial and error. But to share a little bit about my background, this is something that I would normally not share, but being that the nature of the show is being vulnerable, talking about subjects that are real and authentic, things that are not just the highs, but also the struggles and what you can do to come up from those struggles, I'll be a little bit more vulnerable than I have been in the past.

Isaac Mashman2:30

I was raised with the mentality of go to school, get good grades, get a good job, and that's exactly what I was going to do. I had one C in my life, and it was in algebra in seventh grade. The one C that I had was like the end of the world. I had to go to tutoring to get that C up and all this other craziness. Going into my senior year of high school, I was just confused. I didn't have a direction. I was one SAT test away from having a full-ride scholarship to Florida State or University of Central Florida. I basically said, screw college, I'm not going to do it, simply because with all the struggles and the pain points that I was experiencing throughout that time, I didn't see the point of going.

I didn't have this one firm idea of, I'm going to go to college for this particular career, I'm going to go to college to become a nurse or a firefighter. Some people have that, and some people have always felt driven to go into a specific field. I never was one of those people. I was like, I'm going to go for marketing. And everybody kind of tells you to go to college, but they never tell you what happens afterwards. I got involved with a bunch of different businesses. I was 17 at the time. I launched my first podcast. I got involved with the industry of network marketing, got out of network marketing.

There was a time where I managed an artist for six months, wanted to pursue a record label, did a clothing line, wanted to do drop shipping, and throughout all of this time and doing all these different businesses, I never got far into any of them. At the beginning of 2020, I decided to launch my company, Mashman Ventures, which is a public relations firm that specializes in personal branding. The reason I even launched that is, one, I wanted to do something that was different. Two, I wanted to do something that was scalable and that was going to have long-term potential for growth. And three, I wanted to do something that I enjoy.

I know that sounds cliche. A lot of people talk about it, but the older I get and the more experience I get, the more I recognize that if you hate what you're doing, you're not going to be good at it. You're going to be miserable. I decided to pursue personal branding because over the span of a couple of years, I was still building up a name as Isaac Mashman. Here I am today, talking to an amazing man on the other end of the phone, Corey. I just wanted to say, before we go into anything else, man, huge respect for what you and JoJo are doing outside of just the podcast, being foster parents and adopting children. Man, I love it.

Isaac Mashman15:48

Aside from that, I can add on and say that I've built up a tremendous support system and relationships with good friends, with people who are going to bring me up, and people who are on a similar path and a similar process and a similar journey, who are going to say, hey, Isaac, I love what you're doing, let's catch up. Do you need help with anything? Finding mentors online, finding people who have the results I want, who have the relationships that I want, right there is a super powerful thing. Find people who have the results you want. If it's the case of a healthy marriage and a healthy relationship, like, Corey, I imagine that you and JoJo have interviewed so many people who have an amazing household, an amazing marriage.

Study that. Study the relationship and the parallel between Corey and JoJo and [yours]. Let's say your marriage is in a difficult time, or let's say your relationship is in turmoil. Figure out what works. Figure out what you can do to improve it. Relationships are not one-sided. It's a two-way street, but at the same time, you can't go about trying to mend and heal a relationship at the expense of all of your energy and the expense of your happiness and the expense of your well-being.

Isaac Mashman30:43

Yeah, 100%, Corey, it was an absolute pleasure to be on. If I could add one more thing before we close, it's that communication is something that is underrated and undervalued, I believe, especially in the time of instant messaging and social media. That's the only thing that I ever knew growing up. I was raised in the internet era, but at the same time, communication in the household, something you're talking about with family councils, is [important].

Isaac Mashman31:28

If you're interested in building up your personal brand, if that's something that you really want, you can reach me literally everywhere at Isaac Mashman, or you can go to my website, isaacmashman.com. I actually do have a podcast as well called Chase the Vision with Isaac Mashman, where I just talk about anything and all the experiences and knowledge I've gained in life. I will say it is explicit. If you are Christian, depending on your viewpoints or different things, you might want to go into that with caution, maybe not listen to certain episodes, or [not] around the kids. Just giving that disclaimer out there. It's something that's authentically me, but at the same time, there's a balance to how authentic you should be.