Adam Torres and Jake Sisk discuss the Grant Cardone Foundation
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The Grant Cardone Foundation Pitch Off Competition is helping students become entrepreneurs. In this episode, Adam Torres and Jake Sisk, Founder of oasisK Capital and Podcast Host at oasisK Optimize Podcast, explore Jake’s experience as a judge from the Grant Cardone Foundation Pitch Off Competition.
About Jake Sisk
Jake love public speaking and being able to connect with audiences. He strive to inspire people to achieve what they want in life and optimize their lifestyles. He have a Business Management degree from the Honors School of Business at New Jersey City University. While attending, he learned that connecting with people is a key aspect to successfully building working and personal relationships. Developing relationships with clients and networking with people to reach new audiences is a passion of mine.
As a multi-sport college athlete, free time was limited. I wanted my free time to be spent helping as many people as he could, but he could not do that if his body was not being fueled properly. So He studied ways to become more efficient physically and mentally and learned a few things from mentors along the way. This allowed Jake to compete athletically, start a business, and find ways to give back simultaneously-without burning out.
He is actively working towards obtaining a Master’s Degree in Developmental and Organizational Psychology from Liberty University to further expand his knowledge of Human Optimization. OasisK
Full Unedited Transcript
Hey, I’d like to welcome you to another episode of Mission Matters. My name is Adam Torres, and if you’d like to apply to be a guest in the show, just head on over to missionmatters. com and click on be our guest to apply. All right. So today I have Jake Sisk on the line and he’s founder of OASIS Capital, and he’s a podcast host of the newly launched OASIS Optimize podcast.
Jake, welcome to the show. Thank you, Adam. Thanks for having me. It’s a pleasure to be here. I’m really excited to dive into some of the things we’re going to be talking about today. All right, Jake. So we got a lot to talk about today. I’m definitely excited to hear about what took place over at the Grant Cardone Foundation pitch off competition that happened earlier in July.
I know you were one of the judges. We’ve been covering the pitch off competitions for the foundation because I’ll tell you, I had Elaine on the show. I had Phil in the show. I even had Sherry on the show over the last couple of months. And , I was just so enthralled with the story and I just couldn’t believe it.
I’m like more people need to hear about this. Cause obviously they have a big brand, big following all those things, but I don’t hear as much about the foundation as I like to, when I saw the work that was being done, honestly, I just, I want all my listeners and everybody else that are listening to me to hear about this.
So just to get us kicked off. off here, Jake. We’re going to definitely get into the pitch off competition. I want to know about your experience. I want to know about what took place and also some of the inspiration you got from that. But before we do all that, maybe just give us a little bit of your, about your background and maybe what you’re doing over at Oasis Capital and just how you got into business originally.
Yeah. So I’ve had a couple of really unique opportunities growing up. I’ve always done sports. I’ve always been connected. And when I was 11 years old, I had a, an awesome opportunity to get connected with fuel up to play 60, which they’re attached to the NFL. And that’s really where I got my, journey kickstarted with public speaking, speaking in rooms.
I’ve been on over a dozen stages and I’m. In college now between different organizations, I’ve interviewed a sitting president. I’ve been on the stage during NFL draft. I’ve had all these awesome opportunities to connect with like minded students to get my public speaking journey started.
Within the perspective of the health and wellness field. So, going through middle school into high school I had a lot of opportunities to speak at events with Place 60. I had opportunities to get connected with different foundations and that inspired me to start up Oasis Capital, which is our overarching business that’s involved in real estate.
But on the other side of things, we have a podcast called Oasis Optimized. And what we do is we cover real estate. We cover health and wellness. And from an early age, I knew that I wanted to help as many people as I could. I wanted to get connected with as many people as I could, because I learned that.
When you make a connection, that’s the key to building a successful, whether it’s a working relationship or a personal relationship with a client, with anybody like that. So that’s, that’s kind of how I got started Oasis Capital. We, I started with my father last year. We do it full time together now while I’m a college athlete at the same time.
And it’s been an awesome experience to work with a parent and also to be connected with All these different foundations, whether it’s through my school, whether it’s through the Grant Cardone Foundation, Place 60 the American Dairy Council, GenYouth, all these incredible organizations have allowed me to speak and share my voice and just impact a lot of students, a lot of different people from different backgrounds.
It’s interesting to me to see how like how forward you are. And, and I’ll make this statement is you’re thinking pretty far ahead about how to give back even earlier in your career, as you mentioned, being a college athlete, otherwise, like not everybody, not judging anyone, but I can tell you, I’ll, I’ll pick on myself here.
I wasn’t really thinking like that when I was in college, like I didn’t have , that vision or that vision. about , I’ll use the word catalog. Like you’re building a catalog. You’re not building a resume. You’re building a catalog of experiences already. So I think what you’re doing, you’re, you’re very forward on that, I believe.
And , I would ask you to maybe comment for a moment or two on like what you would tell to others that are maybe , in similar situations that aren’t, necessarily. Thinking that way, like, why are you public speaking? Why are you putting yourself out? , like out there like that and going, let’s just say doing more than above the norm.
Like, like, why are you doing that? And maybe what are some things they could consider or should consider if they feel like that type of path would be for them, because I think it’s pretty. Yeah, Adam, that’s a great question because I would word that as whenever I’m speaking to someone, whether it’s on a stage, whether it’s a guest privately, I get asked, I get asked a question a lot of times, like, hey, how did you get involved in this?
How did you get started? And I always think about the mindset of, we’re only here for such a finite amount of time, every single day that, I wake up in the morning. I’m blessed to have an opportunity to do what I love every day in some capacity, and I want to be able to take advantage fully of every opportunity I’m given, every opportunity that is presented, and any opportunity I create for myself and for other people.
So I just wake up every day and I’m like, you don’t know when your last day is going to be. You don’t know how long we’re going to be here. So why not take advantage of that while we’re still here, while we’re still present. You know, why we’re, we wake up in the morning and think, Hey, what’s, what’s today going to bring.
And I want to be able to go to sleep every night saying I did something to at least push that needle, even if it’s just 1 percent every day. Yeah, it’s great. It’s a great mindset and it’s interesting how over time you look back and that, that 1%, like you keep adding a bunch of 1 percent over time and then the needle moves.
So I love that you’re starting early and that you’re consistent. And speaking of opportunity, by the way, so I, I love covering this competition for the pitch off, for the Grant Cardone Foundation. Talk to me about how that came about and like how you accepted the opportunity. Like what was the impetus behind this?
So, it is actually, it’s a really funny story because my father and I. We are involved with the 10X business side of things with Grant Cardone’s Real Estate Club and it’s been an amazing experience. They have a lot of really good workshops and stuff like that. And there was an event that I was doing earlier this year with, and I’m one of the youngest guys in the Real Estate Club.
I’m, I’m 22 now. And. I was the youngest ever winner of the bring your deal pitch off. So it was very similar. Come on. That’s what I was talking about, man. Speaking of pitch offs, they’re like, all right, you won this one. I need you to judge another one. Talk about promotion. Go ahead. Go ahead. So, I was like, well, I’m in a room with a lot of adults who are much older than me, maybe a little bit older than me.
And we’re, we’re in this room talking real estate. And we presented all these deals. During the course of this two day workshop and at the end of the event, we all voted and they said, I had the best pitch best deal of the week and maybe five years from now, I’ll bring it up to grant and kind of bust this chop saying, I beat his deal down the road.
But no, it’s, it was, it’s been an awesome experience. And after I won that, I decided, you know, what? I’ve been speaking to students for a long time now. It’s one of my passion. I was a president for the student athletic advisory committee at my previous school, where I got my undergraduate degree in New Jersey.
And one of the things that we always used to do there is we would, we would go out to different schools, different middle schools, high schools, and we would talk to students. And I took this opportunity that. Came about in the picture deal workshop. And I said, Hey, let me reach out to the grant card on foundation.
I’m already involved in I’m heavily, I have a really good working relationship with a lot of the staff there. Let me see if they would like to bring me on to either speak or to be a judge in some capacity, because I feel like. When I was the student’s age with Seeds of Fortune, which were the students that were involved in this kid’s pitch off, I didn’t have an older brother or an older sister.
I wanted to be able to connect with someone who was closer to my age, and I feel like sometimes there’s a disconnect. When you’re talking to a parent, talking to an adult, talking to a family member, but you can always connect with an older brother or a sibling or someone who’s a classmate. So I think that having a younger presence in the room to be able to share some experiences that I’ve been really grateful to have at my age, I’ve been in their shoes to be pitching at 11, years old, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City for Gen Youth and I’ve had all these really cool experiences and to be able to give that back, I wish that I had that when I was their age to really connect because I feel like I let some of that kind of get pushed to the side because I thought I knew more than than the adults when I was in middle school or high school or things like that.
So I reached out. I said, hey, I just won this event. I don’t have as much experience or as many social media followers online, but. I think this qualifies me and they reached back out and they said that they were willing to make some room for me and it was the greatest event I’ve had the opportunity to speak at to date.
Wow. What was one of your favorite parts of participating? Like what, give me some memorable moments here. This is amazing. So, I think my favorite moment was when we we’re going through a tour of the card on capital and all the, I was with the students and they were getting a tour of the different departments and.
Phil asked a question to all the students. He was like, who’s confident that they’re going to have the best pitch today? And everybody was kind of like looking around, like afraid to kind of raise their hand a little bit. There was one student immediately, her hand shot up and I was, and I just, I didn’t say anything.
I just kept tabs on it. I was like, I bet you this student is going to do really well today. And that student. She ended up winning the whole, and I made a comment and I was like, I said to them at the end of the event, I said, you, the most important thing you could have is belief and confidence in yourself.
And when I saw that immediately, only 1 person in the room just shot their hand up, was not afraid to say. I believe in my idea. I believe in my ability to go on stage to speak and to kind of put my fears aside and just talk about an idea that I came up with a business that I have. And I just, I made that comment and I knew immediately once I saw her hands shoot up with complete confidence that she was going to be one of the winners that day.
Wow, that’s amazing. And what kind of, what, just to give the, listeners or the viewers that haven’t had an opportunity or aren’t actually too familiar with the competition itself, like what kind of ideas came out? Cause this is high school age for everybody that’s listening to this for the first time and haven’t been following the story.
This is high school age. So some of the things as you describe this, I’m thinking like, you know, this is college, this is, Post college, like I never even participated in a pitch competition and I’m over here. Like, come on, I’m a, I probably need to still you know, picking my skills up. But like what was some of the ideas maybe that it doesn’t have to be the winner, whoever, just whatever stuck to you, like some ideas that you saw presented where you’re like, man, this is amazing.
I can’t believe this. Yeah, so , there were some amazing just, just ideas that were even being presented to that, I think back when I was in high school and I felt like I was just going through the motions, even though I was doing public speaking and to see all these young women out there coming up with these brilliant ideas is inspiring.
So, for example, one of the ideas that stuck out to us was, that there was a piece of technology that you put the swim cap on and it’s attached to a heart rate monitor and it also has ink that’s released and just the intricacy of this concept and to even design a prototype at 14, 15, 16, 17 years old, like I was not doing this.
And it was amazing to see that an ink could be released when someone’s heart rate spikes or drops too low. Even if the lifeguard doesn’t see them, to have the ink released into the water, it was just so intricate and just a brilliant idea because when you think about it there’s not a lot of ideas out there that aren’t.
They don’t feel like they’re recycled. So whenever you see an original idea, oftentimes they’re from all of these brilliant minds that just don’t know how to present the idea. So when you get exposure at this young age, like to do a kid’s pitch off, to have an opportunity that the Grant Cardone Foundation is putting together, it allows these, these, to really develop, like, hey, I’m okay.
Every time I pitch, I’ve come off and survived. So it gives them that confidence to continue to come up with these ideas, to push their ideas, to develop these prototypes, to ask for scholarship money. All these different grants are, are available to them. And to, to be able to have the Grant Cardone Foundation give them a platform for this is worth its weight in gold.
Yeah. And it’s interesting that you bring up that idea. I think when I asked Elena that question, she said that she brought that up too. And she was like, maybe, and her feedback was something like, Oh, maybe we can make it into a bracelet or this or that, or thinking about a different type of wearable and the caps that I’m like, Oh my gosh, and now you brought it up too.
I’m like, come on, it’s awesome. And, and that organization, I know that, that. partnered, I believe or not seeds of fortune. I know Natia she was part is very okay, great. I just want to make sure I wasn’t crossing them. Cause I know there’s, there’s more than one competition, which by the way, for everybody listening, they’re doing a ton of work at the foundation.
So like when I say crossing them, they have multiple jobs. I’m going to go out to one in August, late August. I think I’m on the schedule to go out there and, and hang out and see what’s going on and cover some more of the story. So I’m excited about that just to, just to get more of these stories out there.
But I know you yourself, I feel like whenever you participate in something that, that you Not just you but anyone when you participate and you’re giving back like this There’s always something reciprocal whether it’s energy or otherwise that comes back to you so as we were kind of warming up you’re talking about being inspired to start your own podcast from Working with some of these kids that like talk to me about that because this is something that you look back on and you’re like Man, how did this get started?
Well, I was helping someone else and look what happens. Go ahead, please Yeah, so for a long time I’ve been a multi sport athlete in college, always playing multiple sports. And so I’ve really made an emphasis to take care of my body to try and find ways to optimize it as efficiently as possible so that Not only can I perform in athletics, but I’m able to come out of a long, a long training day and, and continue to run, run a startup company to continue to get out and speak at these public events.
And whenever, I. Getting in front of these events like this. I always try to take away something from it and It’s funny when I sat down to be a judge at this event I feel like I had a little bit of an imposter syndrome. I’m sitting next to elena cardone dj irie claudianne sherry all these great really successful people and then there’s this college kid sitting here And it made me laugh because I was like, you know what i’m gonna take away something from this event You And , I’m gonna continue to inspire as many people as I can every day.
And as I finished the event, I had the opportunity to talk to each of the students who were there for a few hours after the event. And I talked to each time individually, and one of the things that came up is there was a big question that was, it’s been kind of repeating itself for years. And it’s like, how do I become more efficient at this?
How do I. Grow my company. How did I have enough time in the day? I feel tired when I get home from school, all these things. And I used to feel that way when I was younger, even, even early on in college. And then I started really getting into the process of, okay, what’s human optimization? Like, how do we.
Share these experiences as athletes with other athletes and the public to kind of turn our bodies into these machines that can handle anything. And as I was answering these questions, I was like, you know what, I’m going to make a podcast out of this to, to not only help these people in this room, but to help people.
Any thousands of people, if not millions of people worldwide, which just these little short micro podcasts of things that you can implement into your daily life to slowly make changes, to make adjustments. And then over time they compound, like I mentioned earlier on the call that if you just get 1 percent better at something every day, you can look back on it.
And forget about it, but a year from now, you’ve just compounded all these things with interest. And you’re either growing or you’re dying. So if you’re compounding in the right direction, you’re going to look back in a couple of years and be like, wow, I’ve really laid a great foundation and it starts with your health.
Yeah, so that’s what this podcast is going to be centered around. It’s going to be just little tips and tricks that, that I’ve learned over the years that my fellow colleagues have learned over the years about what the best way to get the mental edge and the physical edge. And you don’t have to be an athlete to listen to this podcast.
It could be for, Just anyone who wants to wake up and feel less tired, who wants to go to bed earlier, who wants to eat a little bit healthier, who wants to bring down their blood sugar levels. It could be anything. Well, Jake, this has been a lot of fun getting to know you more, getting to know more about the competition and , these young adults that are being helped through the foundation.
And really just, I mean, it’s just a lot of fun. I love it. I love the story. That being said we’re about out of time for this episode. If somebody is listening to this or watching this and they want to follow up and follow your journey whether it’s at, your company, whether it’s your sports whatever else how do people do that?
Yeah, so you can reach me at Jake. com. We’ll have access to our racist capital website, whether it’s for real estate, we’ll have our Spotify links for. Oasis optimize on that website as well. And you can also reach out via my sports social media, which is Jake 800 meters. That’s my track and field account, or you can reach out to our other social media, Oasis optimize.
And always feel free to send a direct message with any requests, any topics you want us to talk about. We’re open to setting up speaking events, just like the Grant Cardone foundation was a great opportunity. So anybody wants to reach out, have us speak at an event, whether it’s virtual or in person, we’d be more than happy to set something up and, and promote these great charities out there, these great events that are, that are networking and Really, really looking forward to looking to connect with more people.
Amazing. Well, Jake, again, thank you for coming on the show and I’m excited to continue to watch your journey and your evolution and your growth. I’m sure you’re this will not be the last time we talk or that I’m going to hear about Jake Sisk doing some interesting and amazing things out there. I know you’re just getting started and to the audience as always.
Thank you for tuning in. Hope you had a lot of fun listening to this. Hope you learned something. I sure did. If you haven’t done it yet, if you haven’t hit that subscribe or follow button, highly encourage you to do so. This is a daily show each and every day. We’re putting out new content, new ideas, bringing on new thought leaders, new stories and hopefully new inspiration to help you along the way in your journey as well.
Well, so again, hit that follow or subscribe button. So you get the notification tomorrow. Cause that, like I mentioned, we got a new episode for you and Jake, again, thank you so much for all you do and, and appreciate you helping out at the foundation and for keeping it going, man. So thank you. Thank you, Adam.
And thank you to the Grant Cardone Foundation for the opportunities you both have given me.