5 Fs to Success: How to Achieve Your Dreams and Thrive

Brett McCollum (00:00.737)
Welcome back to the show guys. I’m your host Brett McCollum and I’m here today with Quinn Skierski and today we’re going to be talking about the five F’s. Before we do guys, at Investor Fuel, we help real estate investors, service providers, and real estate entrepreneurs to 2 to 5X their businesses to allow them to build the businesses they’ve always wanted and allow them to live the lives they’ve always dreamed of. Without further ado, Quinn, how are you man?

Quinn Skierski (00:25.806)
I’m doing great, but how are you today?

Brett McCollum (00:27.777)
Good man, good catching up with you pre-show. I’ve known you for a number of years now. So I’m genuinely excited to get to do this call with you today, Definitely a lot to unpack for sure. Yeah, yeah. Well, for those of us that don’t know you, give us a little history, give us some background. Who’s Quinn Skierski?

Quinn Skierski (00:34.721)
Yeah.

Quinn Skierski (00:41.924)
yeah, for sure. Glad to be here. Thank you.

Quinn Skierski (00:50.638)
All right. Well, I am a I am sixth generation. My granddaughter is eight generation, Swannie County on my mama’s side. yes, the real Florida pine trees, not palm trees. Yeah, everybody thinks they’re in Florida. they go past once you get south of Gainesville, Gainesville and south, that’s not Florida anymore. There’s very little Florida left on there. So, so but I’ve been an entrepreneur.

Brett McCollum (00:59.819)
That’s Suwannee County, Florida, y’all.

Brett McCollum (01:05.854)
Ha ha ha!

Brett McCollum (01:14.3)
I agree.

Quinn Skierski (01:20.14)
my whole life. started my first storefront business when I was 14 years old, skateboard and bicycle shop, and then went into car audio from there. At 20 years old, bought my first two real estate properties, my personal home and another house by mistake in the same week at 20. And that’s a whole another story. know, two, two, two bad, two crazy stories actually added together. So it’s pretty, pretty wild. And my dad brought me a book one day. He was a real estate agent and a broker.

My parents had been in real estate and business when I was growing up. He brought me a book, No Money Down by one of late night TV show guys, gurus at the time. My dad came over and handed me the book and he’s like, read this, it’ll never work. I was like, okay. Of course, was like 21, 22, 23 years old, never read a book in my life. Graduated high school at like a 1.6.

Brett McCollum (02:01.685)
Bob Allen.

Quinn Skierski (02:18.894)
You know, I was just at school to meet customers and make money. And I was selling stereos. Same way I got at 20, got into real estate. One day after reading that book, like right around the same time I read that book, I was working at my uncle’s pawn shop at the time. And the building inspector walks in, he says, Quinn, I did you a favor today. And I said, how’s that, Spall? He said,

I condemned the house next door to you. I was like, condemned. heard that. I remember reading that in a book, that book I just finished. It’s like how to buy properties for no money down. So anyway, bought the house next door to me for $8,000. Invested 12,000 in the rehab, refinanced it for 40, rented out for 400 a month. It was cash flowing from day one. Lots of mistakes, totally done wrong, all that kind of stuff.

Yeah. And my point in saying it, the mistakes is that it’s imperfect action versus no action at all. Yeah. Just keep, you you got it. You got to keep moving. And so, um, I had a couple of storefront business by the time I was 30, I had five storefront businesses hired my first, uh, yeah, that was had my second child. Uh, Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I had a car stereo shop, uh, auto body.

Brett McCollum (03:23.007)
Right. Yeah.

Brett McCollum (03:38.549)
I don’t think I knew that, actually.

Quinn Skierski (03:45.42)
repair shop, a car wash. I built a main storage warehouse with 131 units. Had a candy machine vending business. Yeah, it was crazy. Every chance I got to open something, do something, I was like, let’s start another business with that. And it was, don’t recommend that whatsoever. But there again, imperfect action, but it was action nonetheless, but it was not profitable. And I hired my first business coach, which is, know,

Brett McCollum (03:56.907)
Dang, man.

Brett McCollum (04:04.449)
You

Brett McCollum (04:09.908)
Right.

Quinn Skierski (04:14.552)
probably something like an investor fuel person that would meet behind the scenes or something like that. And he was a local guy, he, I hired him. came in and he said, you know, we’re going, we’re going out the first exercise. I hired him to help me run my PDA so I can just organize my life. found out through him that I was spending about, let’s see, 80 hours of work at 80 hours a week at my work, 40 hours a week at my church.

I had no time for my family, no time for my, for anything else, you know, on top of that. And, just crazy, you know, all over the place. he also, so he had me write down my time, which was that part of it. And then he had me write down my, the money and where I got money at. And I started writing it all out. And towards the end of me, I wrote off the five business I had. Well, I put this little old circle down at the bottom and said, REI real estate investing. And I put one hour a month.

and a thousand dollars for that hour. And he said, I went back, gave him all my stuff. He said, hey, what are you going to do with this? You know, this one business is losing $80,000 in two years. you know, of course that means I’m robbing it from one of these other businesses. He’s like, what are you going to do with that? I said, I’m going to sell it, dismantle it, burn it down, whatever I got to do. I’m out. That’s enough, you know?

He said, okay, that’s great. And then he, towards the end of our conversation, we went to lunch and he says, Hey, um, can I buy you lunch sometime? I’d really like to talk about this REI thing there. And I’m thinking, this is the smartest guy I know right now. He just saved me so much time, energy and effort. And he’s asking me about this little old piece at the bottom, which is my real estate investing. And you know, we had bought a few properties by that point. We had flipped the house to a

a local government agency. We had flipped the commercial building to the sheriff’s department to the county. had done a few things. We had turned a small amount of money into a lot of money pretty quickly at that time, like a couple hundred thousand dollars in just a couple of years. But he was serious. He wanted to meet about this real estate investing thing that I was doing.

Brett McCollum (06:21.91)
Right.

Quinn Skierski (06:36.706)
start thinking. And so anyway, he comes in and start talking to me about it. And I decided that point that I was going to, I had just read Rich Dad poured out as well and realized that I had all this inventory on the shelves, like radio, know, my car stereos and stuff like that in my stereo shop. And that inventory was no different than a house. Like it was cheaper, you know, had had less zeros, you know,

Brett McCollum (06:47.393)
Mm-hmm.

Quinn Skierski (07:04.846)
$200 radio and said, but 200,000 our house or 20,000 our house. But I just realized it was inventory and why am I not treating my real estate like a business? You know, I was treating it like a, this is what I’ll do someday kind of thing or my retirement accounts or my whatever. so, um, that was 2002 by 2000, uh, December 31st, 2004, I sold my last, I closed down or sold my last storefront and, uh, um, I sold that owner finance my

Brett McCollum (07:08.822)
Mm-hmm.

Brett McCollum (07:31.008)
Okay.

Quinn Skierski (07:34.926)
my business to an employee and, um, you know, got out of the car audio business, which was my favorite business ever. love giving people, you know, a product they love and want, you know, desire and all that kind of stuff, which was the same reason I hated the auto body repair business. They wrecked their car. They didn’t want it. They didn’t intend for this to happen. That wasn’t something they planned for. So, yeah, sorry. was, um, first launch into real estate full time was in 2005. So

Brett McCollum (07:47.242)
Yeah.

Brett McCollum (07:54.923)
Alright.

Quinn Skierski (08:04.846)
I took off about three months, reconnected with my family for a little bit. My wife and I had been married almost 11 years at that point and we had just been on go the whole time. In March of 2005, I had read somewhere about sending out postcards and letters and all that. bought, well, let’s back up just a little bit, 2003.

I was on Rich Dad Poor Dad’s blog posts back then. I’m reading through the blog posts and I find this Utah’s 300 posts or whatever. Everybody keeps talking about this Utah’s. And it was basically about wholesaling. It wasn’t called wholesaling then when I read it, but we were looking for foreclosed properties that had equity was all. That was the gist of it. And I was like, okay, I can do that.

I had found five or 10 properties in Swanee County and I had one of the letters shoved between my seats and I kept driving by the house because I knew it was on my way to work almost. It was just a little ways out of the way. so I kept driving by there. I was afraid to stop by. didn’t want to mail the letter. I wanted to drop it off in person. Well, one day I drive by there and I see the person’s home in their driveway with their…

It was a yellow Volkswagen bug. The trunk is open on the car. And I’m like, my gosh, this is I can’t stop. I’m afraid. Like I’m not gonna know like, crap. I put it in the middle of the road, put it reverse, backed up, pulled into the driveway. She’s got to be freaking out. You’re like, Who is this? And so I walk up there. was like, Hey, I said, I know her. Of course. I know everybody. Yeah. And I’m like, I mean, we

Brett McCollum (09:39.617)
I’m gonna do it.

Brett McCollum (09:56.417)
This might be weird.

Quinn Skierski (10:01.55)
know who we each other are. We don’t know each other. And I’m like, hey, I said, I’m always, you know, I’m looking for a house to buy, you know, investment. I don’t know what I’m doing. And I said that I don’t know what I’m doing. I’m just, you know, just be honest. That’s people like honesty. And so I was like, but I’m looking for, she’s like, well, I’m, I’m, I mean, I’m fixing to lose this house. It’s going to instant foreclosure. I’m just going to, we’re just gonna let it go. I was like, well, great. What do you want for it? like, I don’t know, whatever we owe on it. Just, yeah, just we just don’t want to have to pay for it. It’s like, okay.

And, um, yeah, so I put that property under contract, a whole bunch of mistakes ended up selling it, making like $6,600 on the house, which was, you know, to me was that was the biggest deal I’d done at the time as far as profit in, you know, cause I’m selling car audio and that’s right. Yeah. So, uh, that was kind of, that was 20, 23 or 2003 and then.

Brett McCollum (10:46.721)
Sure.

Brett McCollum (10:50.849)
Because it ain’t a $200 radio, exactly.

Quinn Skierski (11:00.686)
2004 I decided if I can just make enough to replace my income, I can sell my stereo shop. I’ll feel comfortable when I can move on. I didn’t want to put myself in a financial position where I would, you know, strapped. So in 2004, that summer, I decided to do it. You’re going to love these numbers for marketing. And I sent out 10 letters to foreclosures.

Brett McCollum (11:28.831)
A whopping 10. Okay.

Quinn Skierski (11:31.19)
at Bought 5 Houses.

Brett McCollum (11:32.673)
Shut up, I hate you right now. Yeah.

Quinn Skierski (11:34.862)
I bought five houses. I bought two from one couple, husband and wife. They had two houses, one in foreclosure and then the one they were living in, which wasn’t in foreclosure, but it was a nice house and they were looking to move somewhere else. So I end up with five houses under contract. have no idea what I’m doing. I’m still, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Brett McCollum (11:59.361)
What am I going to do now? Right. Right.

Quinn Skierski (12:03.38)
And, you know, she said, yes, now we got to go to the dance. what am I supposed to do?

Brett McCollum (12:11.221)
I’ve told you that story, right? My first deal I ever did, this guy says yes and I went, crap. like, what did you do? Yeah, I know, I remember. Yep.

Quinn Skierski (12:17.134)
Yeah, yeah, I had no idea. Yeah. And so I grabbed, I get these, I don’t remember which one I bought first now, but I end up one of them I buy for, I do a short sale on never never heard of a short sale before. Never. So I did my first short sale in 2004. And it was that’s the, I bought the two houses from the one, the one couple.

One was a short sale. They had paid $155 the year before. I got a short sale for $125 the next year. Like, it was crazy. There was no short sale departments or anything like that back then. So I’m just talking to employees and I’m like, hey, I said, you know, it’s not what she says. Well, these homes, these loans that we do are backed by individuals. And let me see if this individual wants to, you know, to let go, you know, to, accept that it was a bank, but somehow they, I don’t know how they did it back then, but it was individually funded.

And, um, so sure enough, they accepted by 125. I turned right around and did a little bit of rehab to it, sold it for 155 and double closed it. Yeah. Back then I closed with his funds on a mortgage loan. What I don’t eat. don’t even, I couldn’t even tell you, but in some way or another, was wild. And, uh, so anyway, I ended up spending, um, 60 hours doing those five deals. I sold four of, I kept one of them as a rental for about a year.

which was my least profitable one. was a, um, cause I, I don’t, bought it wrong, paid too much for it, guess at the time. And, um, if I’d held it for a rental for like a year and a half longer, it would have been, I would have made money on it a lot of money. And, um, but I, so in 60 hours in a summer, part time, still running my other business, I made $60,000. I’m like, okay.

I’m comfortable now. You know, I was making more than that in my car stereo shop, but I would have, I was going to have income from selling monthly payments on my stereo shop. I was going to have, can do this real estate thing on the side. So then I, I sell it in December, March. send out, I send out a bunch of letters to five acre parcels and things like that. Start marketing. I, and it just blows up. Nobody’s marketing to our area back then 2005.

Brett McCollum (14:15.361)
This thing’s for real, yeah.

Quinn Skierski (14:44.11)
Nobody knows, know, Swanee County necessarily, you know, for as a wholesale or whatever deal. and there again, we were talking about earlier, like this is, uh, because we’re in a small, small market, there’s 10,000 people in my town. There’s 45,000, 44,000 in our whole County, you know, so it’s there’s 40, there’s also 44,000 parcels of land. Yeah. And it’s not when that doesn’t mean one person owns.

one piece of property each, you know what I’m A lot of our property over the years has been sold off to people that had the dream of retiring here someday and things like that. so, you know, was a, there was some of the properties that we ended up buying through that time where these people had bought it 30 years earlier, paid it off, never been back to the property. They’re like, I couldn’t even tell you. can’t, if you…

Brett McCollum (15:13.099)
Right, right.

Quinn Skierski (15:38.998)
If you drove me to the lot, I wouldn’t know how to get back home. they’re like, we just don’t know where we have no idea where the site. I bought, I sent out, we mistakenly sent out letters to a wrong neighborhood and, oops. And, it ended up that it was, you know, we were looking for five acre tracks cause I had lots of buyers for five acre tracks at the time and.

Brett McCollum (15:56.523)
Been there, done that.

Quinn Skierski (16:08.558)
ended up sending it to a two acre parcels, they were a list of subdivision two acre parcels, but they were all on the river. Didn’t know that. So I get the first letter back and this letter had a tear off at the bottom. they would, the, yeah, they would, the property owner would send it back with the tear off on the bottom or whatever. First one to get back is like, you know, one two acre track for $110,000. I’m like, five acre tracks are not 110,000 at the time.

Brett McCollum (16:24.537)
huh, yeah yeah.

Quinn Skierski (16:37.198)
you know, we were buying it for like three to 5,000 an acre or something like that. And so I’m like, oh my gosh, what does, you know, what does somebody, somebody lost their mind? They’re wanting 10, you know, 110,000 dollars for a five acre property. And I realized I seen, looked it up, all that. I’m like, oh no, we, totally messed up that whole marketing campaign. And well, next day I get like two more letters and it’s like two lots for 110,000 dollars. So four acres for 110 on the river. And then, like I keep getting these ones.

Well, then I get this one that says one lot for, and there was an odd number, like $32,257 and 37 cent or whatever. And I’m like, okay, I hope I have that letter somewhere still actually pretty crazy. And, um, anyway, I get this letter and I’m like, why the odd number that’s weird, but $32,000 for these river lots. And this other guy selling one for 110,000 up the street. Like there must be a market for them. Yeah. Let me see what happens.

Brett McCollum (17:32.865)
Just something here maybe, yeah.

Quinn Skierski (17:36.814)
Long story short, I buy it, turn around and sell it for $125,000. $124,000, something like that.

Brett McCollum (17:43.433)
And you look like a genius on a mistake. That’s what I’m talking about.

Quinn Skierski (17:45.134)
Yeah, that’s the way it works. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, that’s some of the deals we’ve done. And then of course we flip houses. We flip mobile homes. We’ve done some, you know, I own a doctor’s office right now that we bought and we bought in 2000 and flipped it, bought it 75 flipped it for 125 in 2002. I bought it back for 125 and 2023. And, you know, we’ve got it.

Brett McCollum (17:49.909)
Yeah, I mean, let’s be honest, yeah. Been there.

Quinn Skierski (18:15.086)
for rent right now. like 12 office spaces and two separate units, 4,500 square feet.

Brett McCollum (18:19.391)
Yeah. And that’s kind of the perk of we were talking about that a little pre-show, but like of because I mean, yes, you live in a small town, right? And I think a lot of us here, small town, they’re not like, you can’t do anything, but you being local to your market and you do good business, you have a good reputation, you’re good. Like I, I’ve known you for like, I, I’m being a little biased when I say this guys, but I’ve known quite like

There’s not better people than Quinn Tecureci, okay? But in that reputation has been with you. I mean, not to say you don’t make mistakes or stuff like that, but like it’s afforded you the opportunity to kind of in the real estate space as a whole to be able to find where the opportunity is at and navigate appropriately. So maybe it’s, hey, it’s 12, it’s an office building. It’s a mobile home. It’s a raw piece of land. It’s a…

Quinn Skierski (18:50.638)
.

Thank

Quinn Skierski (19:09.698)
Yeah, absolutely.

Brett McCollum (19:14.625)
You we’re happy but you being that person in your town, it’s like, you know, that’s a really cool thing. And I just want people to listen. If you’re in a smaller area like that, and Quinn, I’ll actually have you speak to this, but I wanna encourage people that are listening in. Maybe you are in a smaller market. I mean, don’t sit, start today, like the whole action thing, right? But like, what would you say to that person that’s in a small town that like they’re thinking, like, can I do it too?

Quinn Skierski (19:41.742)
Yeah, absolutely. it’s like, so I don’t see any advantage or disadvantage to be in a small town when it comes to real estate, because there again, you have more connections, you know, more people, you know, you know, specifically, you know, personally, you know, more people that and you know, their situations and what’s going on. And, if you tell a few people, you know, in 2004, I didn’t have a business card for real estate. Yes. So I

pulled out a piece of paper and wrote on it, Quinn Skirsky, real estate investor. And I put it in my wallet. That’s the day I became a real estate investor. that’s right. And I would say the same thing for people in a big market. They keep looking at their market like an elephant and they’re going to eat the whole thing. Forget that. Go to your neighborhood or if it’s not your neighborhood, you can invest in. Go to the neighborhood you know as an investable neighborhood. Go to the neighborhood that has

Brett McCollum (20:20.933)
yeah.

Brett McCollum (20:36.929)
That’s right.

Quinn Skierski (20:40.876)
You know, has cash fires in it. Go, go to the neighborhood. don’t, cause I mean, you know, this would be true too, right? If, if you could do, you could probably find a couple of neighborhoods close to where you’re at. And if we call it farming around here, cause we’re in a country, you’re going to farm a neighborhood. means for those folks that are not raised in an agrarian society like we are, you go out there, you, you tell the ground.

Brett McCollum (20:55.06)
huh.

Quinn Skierski (21:08.696)
That’s you start marketing, put out a couple of signs, you go talk to the neighbors, you find people, you talk to realtors, you talk to everybody you can in that one neighborhood. And it’s no different than a small market. You know, start going talk. talked to him one day last week. I talked to four realtors in that one day, you know, and it was all different conversations, you know,

Brett McCollum (21:25.269)
Yeah, that’s, and you’re, you’ve already, you’re established at this point and you’re still doing, and that’s the beautiful thing is you don’t quit talking to people like routinely. Yeah.

Quinn Skierski (21:35.758)
Yeah. No, no, it’s a must. Nobody’s going to know what you do unless you tell them. I mean, that’s at the end of the day, I get people still call me every day. I was talking to a, uh, uh, elected official last week and he’s like, when a lot of people, you know, what do you do again? I was like, said, I get that question all the time, you know, um, you know, in your markets and always, I always say I have four funnels that we fill in our business and that’s buyers, sellers, uh,

private investors and people who do what we do. So, you know, I can partner with anybody, the homeless guy on the side of the road, I can partner with, how can I do that? I can give him a, buy a house, a sign in, I’ll give you 20 bucks to flip this sign all day long for me, whatever. Like you can partner with any and everyone when it comes to this kind of stuff. And if, you know, if you’re not marketing your business or yourself, then you don’t have a business, you have a hobby, you know, that nobody knows about.

Brett McCollum (22:31.457)
Yeah.

Quinn Skierski (22:32.77)
You know, and you might be the best at it, but nobody’s going to know who you are. Yeah. So it’s up.

Brett McCollum (22:36.385)
Exactly. Let me ask you this. I want to bring up the 5Fs. That’s what we let off and talked about. When you shared this with me, it’s really powerful. We would be very remiss to not have you talk at, hopefully, decently high level. What are the 5Fs?

Quinn Skierski (22:44.227)
Yes.

Quinn Skierski (22:57.198)
Right? So the five F’s are faith, family and friends, finances, fitness and fulfillment. What’s your 500 year goal for your life? And yes, I said 500 year goal for your life because that’s about legacy. It’s about your dash and what you’re going to leave behind. How do you do that? Faith, my personal goal for faith is connection. I always like to say that’s like

If I go outside and reach up and grab that power line in my backyard and reach over and grab Brett’s hand, he’s going to feel the power and the connectivity. so that’s about connection. So that’s what faith is to me is about connecting, you know, connecting with others and connecting to God. know, family and friends, the goal is trust. So how do we build trust? How do we

You know, established trust. Um, I read, um, know, so I, um, I read books on like boundaries and, um, all this kind of stuff. Um, one of the things that we do this inside of the five F’s is I hire coaches in five areas. Can you guess what they are? So I, I, you know, I parse my life out in these five areas and I try and put things into columns that they fit in.

so that we can put focus on those things. And so it’s really just a focus thing. My wife and I, next, or this month, next week, we’ll be married 31 years. We still see a counselor. Last Friday, we drove to Gainesville, we seen a counselor. We, you know, two hours. We, now we didn’t always do that. So this started about five years ago when I started hiring coaches in the.

Brett McCollum (24:47.795)
You’re treating it like coaching and growth versus I’m struggling and I need therapy. I think you have coaches for everything, right? Everybody does, but why not for our marriages? I think that’s powerful. Yeah.

Quinn Skierski (25:01.166)
I always say it this way, you would never let your kids play on a soccer team that didn’t have a coach. Why are we going through life without a coach? Without some kind of, someone else, because the things you’ll say to a coach, you won’t talk about just in a general conversation typically, because it’s a specific, we’re here for a reason. And so I have a faith coach that I work with. have a…

Brett McCollum (25:07.894)
Yeah.

Brett McCollum (25:20.171)
Yep.

Quinn Skierski (25:30.062)
you know, family and friends coach that we work with, which is our counselor. Um, the, and then a personal financial coach. so people are always, you know, how do you find a coach? Well, I have two rules for finding coaches. They, they must come recommended by someone who you know, that has used them. And then the second thing is they must have a coach themselves.

A coach without a coach is a teacher. Teachers have their place, not saying nothing, no shade on teachers, just the facts are a coach is there to take you from where you are up to where you want to be. they just spread, they bridge that gap for you. And they got a very specific point. So I found my…

Brett McCollum (26:04.001)
Hmm.

Quinn Skierski (26:27.746)
finance coach on Dave Ramsey’s website. interviewed, I posted it there, interviewed three people. I hired most of my coaches I hired in 2019 and most of them I’m still with them. And so the reason I say a personal financial coach is because, especially the reason, also I say hire your finance coach first out of all coaches.

Brett McCollum (26:42.379)
Very cool.

Quinn Skierski (26:56.642)
get a finance coach first. The reason being is because if, especially if you’re married, if you and your significant other cannot sit down and talk about the black and white of finances, it’s gonna be very difficult to talk about relationship stuff. This helps you break through some of those nuances that are gonna come up in the relationship stuff or may or may not come in, yeah, depend on your relationship. For me, being able to…

Brett McCollum (27:12.577)
Hmm.

Quinn Skierski (27:25.162)
open that up about the personal finances made it a lot easier to talk about the other stuff. It was a real good training ground for talking about personal stuff. And then I have fitness coaches, which I’ve heard several over the years. still have a doctor that does longevity. And so that doctor pulls my blood every six months. We have conversations about the results. He, yeah, he make, he, he,

that makes, he requires that I take vitamins. He checks my panels and says, hey, you’re deficient in D3, get your D3 up. You’re not getting enough sunlight. You’re not getting this. And he makes recommendations for those things. I’m not talking about your regular family doctor. I’m talking about you need a coach doctor that says, hey, Quinn, how you want to live to be 80 and be healthy?

I’m going to mark your panels now. And some of that came from like Tim Ferriss’ stuff. He talks about, you know, the four hour body and things like that. And he taught, calls himself the human guinea pig. spent $250,000 on, you know, and so I started taking then some of those mental notes and that, Hey, we need to, you know, we need to have, you know, help as a priority in my life. Cause I, I’m the guy who I wouldn’t eat lunch. would, you know, I wouldn’t eat breakfast. I wouldn’t eat lunch. wouldn’t, you know, not that you, some people.

Brett McCollum (28:24.523)
Yep

Quinn Skierski (28:47.544)
Don’t do that. There’s different ways, but I would just, I remember my wife, she had a kidney stone, had to go in the emergency room, middle of the night. And it’s like three or four in the morning, we get to the ER and everybody knows us there, of course. And they’re taking her blood and I pass out.

And so everybody in the room go rushing over to me and I’m like, I was like, I look over at Cindy and I’m like, hey, did I pass out? And she’s like, yes, get my mother in here now. And I was like, oh my gosh. And they’re like, you know, slapping me. Are you okay? What happened? And we’re like, when was the last time you ate or what did you have to eat last? And I was like, oh shoot. Let me see some cheese nachos from the convenience store at about, that’s the only thing I had like 48 hours. I just didn’t take care of myself, you know.

Brett McCollum (29:20.171)
Yeah.

Brett McCollum (29:42.037)
Yeah.

Quinn Skierski (29:42.19)
And so, you know, things like that. then the fulfillment coaches are my, they handle like my life insurance and things like that. Um, and then of course I wrote a book about it for my granddaughter to explain all this called Luli and the Family Tree. And so, uh, it’s about, yes, I appreciate that. I realized now when, when authors send you a book and you don’t read it, how it’s kind of like, I really want to ask.

Brett McCollum (30:00.427)
Which I’ve read, by the way, guys.

Yeah.

Quinn Skierski (30:11.63)
But I did. I appreciate you reading it. Yeah. Yeah.

Brett McCollum (30:12.213)
Yeah, right. What did you think? I hated it though, right? It was the worst thing I’ve ever said. No, I wanted you to bring that up because I was going to ask you if you didn’t before you even say anything about it. One of the coolest things of my reading that was the idea, the articulation to it’s not just you and your children. Now you have it’s your grandchildren, Quinn. And that to me is the

Quinn Skierski (30:18.702)
I know, right? It’s like, thanks. Yeah, yep.

Quinn Skierski (30:38.53)
Yeah.

Brett McCollum (30:40.253)
you were speaking to legacy the 500 year that’s speaking to legacy and on this side of heaven you get to put that out there to your granddaughter holy stinking that’s the coolest you know because everything you said on your on your five f’s that i grab a hold of on a personal note for me it is the individual it’s about what we’re doing

Quinn Skierski (30:52.494)
Yeah.

Quinn Skierski (31:08.503)
Mm-hmm.

Brett McCollum (31:08.565)
Because what we do carries weight that affects generational, you know, and I think you, don’t know how you got hold of that vision or what you did, but from somebody that watches you from afar, you know, I’m like, that’s, I look up to that and I, and I see that and that’s a, and that’s really why I wanted you to talk about this on the show today is because I’m like, I want people to be able to, I don’t know. Like I always ask this, can, how do people connect with you, man? Like what’s the way that they can do that? Because

they need to follow that journey. Because I get the privilege of, we don’t live for more than an hour of each other, man. I get the privilege of, I know you. But if somebody doesn’t, how do they connect with you?

Quinn Skierski (31:46.125)
right?

Quinn Skierski (31:51.118)
Yeah, I’m on, I’m the only Quinn Skirsky in the world. First of all, I’m easy to find. Um, but social media, all social media, I’m on X, you know, Facebook, Instagram. Definitely. Yeah. Connect on there. And we’ll, I’m actually working on, uh, you know, having a place for the book, you know, a specific website or something that will cause that, yeah, my, goal right now is to, yeah, more or less to give the book away in a

Brett McCollum (31:57.151)
Okay.

Brett McCollum (32:19.467)
Mm-hmm.

Quinn Skierski (32:20.14)
Yeah, because I think it’s a, you know, I really feel the impact of what it is. I had a, I’ve got a friend that we’ve known since I was, we were teenagers and she says we hadn’t seen each other in a while. They had moved away and then she had moved back and, we were talking one day and she goes, I want you to come by the house sometime. I was like, you know, my wife and I were going to pick up her husband for a dinner or something.

Brett McCollum (32:27.713)
Ahem.

Quinn Skierski (32:49.568)
we hadn’t seen them. And she leads me into this back room of their house, which is like the she shed room, but it’s like, it’s a their office kind of area and the on the backside of their house. And she had, you know, the big notepad paper, like that size. She had each one of the F’s laid out along a 20 foot wall. She had the five F’s above it. She had five large

I think it was the, it was the, those scribbly boards or whatever. And she had her goals for each one of the five F’s inside of there. And I was like, that was the first time I realized like, my goodness, like, uh-oh, like this, this might be real, you know, this, this, this might be something that would help other people. And like last week I shared it with a guy and I was at an event for the weekend on real estate best and stuff.

Brett McCollum (33:35.958)
Yeah.

Quinn Skierski (33:47.822)
I met a guy there and he called me yesterday. I think it was, and he’s like, man, I appreciate you sharing the five S with me in our little at breakfast that morning. He just, he was sitting there by himself. He’s like, Hey, you want to sit with me? And I’m like, sure. And, uh, I shared it with them and he’s like, I’m having my, you know, my personal assistant, my office girl, she’s going to print out the five F’s for me. And I’m going to put it over my desk. Cause it’s, you know, I want to focus on this. I want this to be, you know, I was like, Oh,

Okay. Yeah. So I think this thing’s bigger than what I think it is. You know, I just hadn’t figured all that out yet, but I, do believe that it’s something that, it impacts people. helps people focus, you know, on a, on a framework that’s easy to, you know, understand. So,

Brett McCollum (34:34.805)
Yep. It’s really powerful, man. But, we could obviously dive this all day and talk about it. Cause and we have before, you know, we’ve spent hours talking, know, but, you know, but guys you’ve seen like he follow him on social media. He, like you said, he’s the only Quinn Skirsky on, on, in the world, you know, I’m serious. Like it is worth, he’s worth following in this guys and reach out. Quinn man, you’ve been the best. I wish we could keep talking.

Quinn Skierski (34:43.307)
Yeah.

Quinn Skierski (34:54.254)
Literally.

Quinn Skierski (35:04.408)
Yeah, same here.

Brett McCollum (35:04.479)
But unfortunately we have to let people tune into something else. Tune us out, into something else maybe, right? But no, I really appreciate you being on the show. It’s been a pleasure.

Quinn Skierski (35:09.619)
Yes.

Quinn Skierski (35:15.97)
Yeah, well, I’d be glad to come back anytime if we get some, if there’s something specific people want to hear about or whatever, then yeah, that would be awesome. yeah.

Brett McCollum (35:19.669)
Yeah, right.

Yeah, most definitely. Well guys, until the next show, like, subscribe, you know, do all the things we’re supposed to do, follow Quinn, and everybody take care. We’ll see you on the next one.

Quinn Skierski (35:35.158)
All right, God bless.