[upbeat music] - What's good?
I'm Deestroying, this is how I made, saved
and spent my first million. [upbeat music]
I was born in Costa Rica, lived there until I was seven.
Very humble beginnings.
You know, we didn't have no AC, hot water.
Eventually I ended up moving to Florida.
I always wanted be a pro soccer player man, growing up,
that was my dream, my dad's dream.
We always supported like the comb country,
like their soccer games, everything.
Eventually I turned 14 and I just kind of fell outta love
with soccer and picked up football.
I went out for the high school football team.
They asked who knows how to kick a ball
and all my boys knew that I played soccer.
So they basically snitched on me to the coach.
So they put the ball on a T,
made me line up, made me kick it.
Boarded that thing like 60 yards, my first kick ever.
The rest is history.
From then on, I ain't do nothing but kick a football.
I started making YouTube videos.
Remember I was at like one of our walkthroughs
and I was just messing around with the ball on the sideline
and I did this trick where I spun the ball with my feet
and it stood up and I kicked the field goal.
So our equipment manager at the time, her name was Allie,
she's like, oh nah, you gotta record this,
you gotta do that again and I'm gonna record you.
We did it, she recorded, I posted it on Twitter
and it went viral.
Sports Center picked it up.
ESPN, like all these big sports news outlets picked it up.
And I don't know, that was kind of like my awakening
that I could combine sports and content.
I went to college at the University of Central Florida.
I was a college football player.
I had a full scholarship and I was a kicker.
I played there for two years and on my second year,
once I really started taking the content seriously
and posting a lot more videos,
I did skits like wide receivers be like, or kickers be like
or linebackers be like, and like they'd go viral.
So eventually, once you do that,
YouTube lets you turn this little switch on
which is call monetization.
I monetize my channel and I started making money.
Wasn't a lot of money.
I think in a month I made like 1,200, maybe $2,000.
It was not a lot of money, but to the NCAA in their eyes
at the time, they were like, hey,
we gotta investigate your content.
We gotta investigate your channel.
We gotta investigate what you're doing
and if you're making money, then it's gonna be an issue.
And eventually gave me the ultimatum,
I either gotta pick my scholarship
or I pick my YouTube channel.
I chose YouTube, now we on GQ baby.
After I left school and I picked my YouTube channel,
you know I was homeless for a bit.
I ain't gonna lie, I slept on my boy's couch.
Shout out Troy, that boy supported me
when I was at my lowest in life.
We kept working and we ran up the channel.
My very first big check was like seven bands in a month.
At the time, I'm thinking, what the heck?
$7,000 and every month it just kept getting bigger.
It went from 7,000 to 11,000, 14,000, 20,000
and shit I don't even know if y'all wanna talk about it,
what it's looking like now.
I'm a firm believer in financial responsibility.
I've been invested, I'm invested in retirement account.
Definitely made sure I put some money away for that.
I'm investing in some assets, you know,
the cars and the jewelry and all that's cool.
We gonna get into it.
But yeah, invest in some assets.
Invested with some things that are gonna make you
some money back when you're sleeping.
You've heard how I made and saved my first million.
Here's how I spent it. [upbeat music]
All right, so the first thing I did
with my first million is I took 60 bands,
$60,000 and I gave it to my mom to help her pay
her house down and I retired her.
Yes sir, that 60 right there, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Now listen, that's important
'cause my mom actually sacrificed so much.
She's took care of me, my brother, my sister,
she worked hard to put food on the table
and the job she had, she didn't love it,
she just did it to pay the bills and whatnot.
She'd spend long hours on her feet, she'd come home tired
and still find the energy and the love to cook for us.
So I had to make sure I got my mom's right.
60k from my mom.
For my next purchase, I spent roughly about 280k on cars.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
I know I talked about financial responsibility.
Damn.
280, right?
All right, so check me out.
I got two of the best cars in the world.
One, Tesla model three
and I got a Tesla model X, a bigger car,
bigger truck, goes faster, better range, you feel me?
I can drive all my friends around
and I got a Jeep truck as well.
The reason I got all them cars
is because obviously I told you all
financial responsibility, it's not three of me,
so I can't drive three cars at once.
I'm gonna rent them out, they gonna make me some money.
People love to go to the, you know,
wherever they travel to, wherever they visit
and they need wheels to get around
and why not stunt while you got some wheels?
You know what I'm saying?
So them cars are gonna make me some residual income.
I think in the future, I definitely am saving up.
Maybe my next million gonna be a Lambo truck.
I've been talking about the Lambo truck for a long time
and I always say I'm gonna get it on my birthday,
I'm gonna get it on my birthday,
I'm gonna get on my birthday and every year passes
and I don't get the Lambo truck.
So who knows?
This year might be the year. [upbeat music]
The next thing I spent my money on, $70,000 on jewelry,
the bustdown Rollie Avalanche, the big body Cuban.
You feel me?
So I ain't gonna lie,
I ain't never really been a big jewelry guy.
Always to myself, man,
I don't care how much money I'm gonna have.
I'm not gonna get no jewelry man, jewelry this,
jewelry that.
But one day I was at a Mater Dei versus Bosco game
and on the sideline I seen this guy walk by.
The fit was fresh, but I looked down at his wrist
and his wrist blinded me, bruh.
He had to Bustdown Rollie Avalanche on.
And ever since that day I was like, bro, I gotta get me one.
So I made sure I got me one. [upbeat music]
All right, the next thing I spent my money on
is I bought a acre of land in Costa Rica.
My home country, the mother land, we getting property, man.
I think that was a huge deal for me
because obviously that's where I was born,
that's where I grew up, most of my family's there.
Honestly, I don't even have that much family in America.
Just my immediate family, my mother, my brother, my dad,
my sister picked up and moved back home
and I always told myself my dream retirement
is I'm gonna get a big compound, somewhere nice,
somewhere either with a view or on the beach
and I'm gonna build a bunch of houses
where I could keep my family at,
we could just live the rest of our lives together
and enjoy ourselves.
So the fact that I'm one step closer to that
and this land could put that compound on there, it's huge.
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After I bought my acre in Costa Rica,
I made sure I bought me home in my hometown in Florida.
Spent 105k on a down payment on a crib.
You put a good down payment, you have a good interest rate,
your payment's not gonna be as high.
So you know, month to month it's gonna be a lot less money.
I just wanted to actually have a home,
somewhere I could call home,
have my primary residence and my hometown.
I went in high school there, I grew up there.
Most of my core memories is there.
Parents still got a house there
so I make sure I got me one too.
And it's Florida baby, taxes is way better in Florida, baby.
I'm telling y'all, financial literacy,
hundred five bands on a down payment for a house.
[upbeat music] All right,
next thing I spend my money on is I'm a sneakerhead,
I'm an addict, so I dropped 40k on shoes.
I love shoes, I'm gonna be honest,
I haven't wore like 80% of them but it's all good
'cause in my eyes I know shoes retain in value.
They could be resold later.
Matter of fact, I got kicked on me right now.
I got the Travis Scott's,
I think the most expensive pair of shoes I bought were
the Chicago Off-White ones.
And I probably spent like maybe 1,300 on 'em,
I got a good price.
But now they probably go for like,
I don't know what, 3, 4, 5 racks, I don't even know.
Right now my collection, I probably got like over 250 pairs,
maybe 300.
It's kind of ironic 'cause I have so many shoes
but I only wear like the same like eight to 10 pairs bro.
It's crazy.
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Next thing I spent my money on, 30k on clothes.
I mean you got the shoes on your feet,
can't be wearing nothing dusty.
So make sure we got some clothes to match it all.
You feel me?
I'm not really like the most stylish guy
as far as fashion and all that goes nowadays.
I just like to dress comfortable.
I'm more of an athleisure guy,
and I know a lot of my athletes out there can relate.
We just wanna feel good.
We wanna be able to move, we want to be like comfortable.
It's a lot of athleisure.
Like Adidas, obviously my own brand, 11
but I don't gotta pay for that.
There's fire shoes and then just, you know,
something chill up top, 30 bands on some clothes.
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The next thing I spent money on, camera equipment.
We gotta drop these bangers for y'all.
The thing with me and the thing about my channel
it continues to grow, it continues to get better,
it continues to evolve.
So we gotta invest into the equipment.
We've bought all new cameras, editing software,
whatever it may be, we just gotta reinvest into the channel,
make the videos bigger and better.
Camera bodies alone like
some of those go run for like 7, 8, 9, $10,000.
Then the lenses, oh my god bro,
I think I spent like 4,000 on just one lens.
One lens bro, one lens.
I got two camera guys, Sean and David.
They both awesome. They both amazing.
They do they thing and them boys is on salary.
So I gotta make sure my dogs is eating good
'cause they gonna be feeling good.
So they, I don't even know, how much is they a year?
Ain't gonna put they personal business out
but just know my guys, they taken care of.
Deestroying, good to his employees man,
come over if y'all need a job.
Holla at me now?
55k on camera equipment.
The last thing I spent in my whole million
is we reinvested into the community.
I dropped 140 bands back into the community
and y'all probably wondering, what are you talking about?
Every time we do one-on-ones,
every time we host one of these events, I give out $10,000.
10 bands could change people's lives bruh.
So just reinvesting into the community,
the community's important to me.
They helped me be where I am today.
I mean if I didn't have you guys a support,
I don't know where I'd be at.
These big companies are starting to recognize,
partnerships was like the NFL and all these big people.
They helping me reinvest back into the community as well.
Like I wanna be the Robin Hood lowkey,
like take money from the rich and give back to my people.
We gonna take it worldwide.
We gonna go to Mexico, we gonna go to Japan,
we gonna go everywhere, we gonna be worldwide soon.
140k back into the community.
I feel like I spent my first million in a pretty good way.
You know, I took care of who I had to take care of.
I reinvested back into my business
reinvested back into myself
and obviously bought myself some assets as well.
Is this just the first million?
Who knows how many M's we gonna touch?
Hopefully we gonna have our first billion episode.
You feel me?
Thank you GQ, for having me.
This goes to show y'all, man, you can do it too.
Get up every day and work harder than the next man
'cause the next man's coming for your job.
And make sure you don't spend your first million
on dumb shit.