Adam Torres and Ed Haynes discuss the Grant Cardone Foundation Pitch Competition
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Listen to coverage of the Grant Cardone Foundation Pitch Competition in Miami, Florida. In this episode, Adam Torres interviews Ed Haynes, Founder and CEO at Haynes Security Services, Inc., explore entrepreneurship and the Grant Cardone Foundation.
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About Ed Haynes
In it’s present status, Haynes Security Services was incorporated in 2011.
Located in Miami at its launch, the business provides security guards, security audits, and electronic surveillance to residential buildings, commercial buildings, retail businesses, government and city facilities and other private clients. The business targets commercial and government contracts first in order to establish a strong base in the City of Miami. Haynes Security services grew its employee base of security guards carefully, based on client contracts, and use both full-time and part-time guards. The business expected and achieved respectable sales of in fiscal year 2015, almost more than doubling by the end of fiscal year 2016.
Hey, I’d like to welcome you to another episode of Mission Matters. My name is Adam Torres and today I am at Grant Cardone’s headquarters in Florida. And let me tell you, I just got done watching a pitch competition. I got one of the fellow judges on the line right now, Ed, and we got lots to talk about here today.
So first off, Ed, welcome to the show. Hey man, thank you so much. I really appreciate it. All right. I want to try to give the audience a bit of a feeling for what we both just witnessed. So I’m going to just let you kick it off, man. What do you think about the pitch competition we just saw? Well, you know, first of all, I think it’s such an exciting and powerful experience to have young people that experience an opportunity to take something from a thought process.
All the way conceptualization and that it manifests itself. And we got a chance to see it manifest itself today. Now you’re an entrepreneur. I’m an entrepreneur. You have large, and you can correct me if I’m off on this large security business, South Florida, huge business. Now, when I was their age, I’m going to pick on myself.
I wasn’t doing pitch competitions and trying to figure like out how to do this. Like these are high school age kids. Like, how is this happening? Well, you know, you have the Grant Cardone Foundation, which is so powerful, and being a board member. One of the things that makes me proud is the fact that we’re doing things like this that’s innovative and cutting edge when you can take kids like this and give them the exposure at this early age, just think of how far we would be if we had come in contact with something like this.
Oh my gosh. You know, crazy. So one of the things you did, and I want you to hold it up for the camera, is you on the spot, I got a theory here, you on the spot bought these, it was the 444 brand, this is one of the people that we’re pitching, so this would be Christopher Murray Davis. And I was like, hold up, Ed, Ed bought this.
I’m going to look at the camera. Ed bought this on the spot. And I’m like, I’m like, Ed was here as a judge, but he was also, I was like, man, that’s one of one. How is the, how, how amazing. Talk about why you support entrepreneurs and especially in that moment. Well, you know, when you have someone that goes the extra mile, they go beyond concept to actually put a prototype together.
You know, I just put myself in that person’s shoes and what kind of motivation would it be for someone to actually on the spot purchase your product that you just came to pitch and it was just a prototype. You were just using it as a sample, right? Yeah, but I’m just looking at what could be the impact on that person to say, look, I’m going to buy that from you right now.
Yeah. I’ve seen Grant do this, right? Yep. We had kids here going through the camp where we were teaching different things. And we did a tour of the building and Grant was talking about the importance of having something to sell. Yeah. So he says, everybody should have something to sell, you know, and you’ve got to be ready at any time to sell something, right?
So we walking through the building, we get on the other side of the building. Yeah. And Grant says, who got something to sell right now? And everybody was standing around looking dumbfounded. Right? And this kid says, I got something. He said, what do you have? He said, I have a pen. Oh, he says, Oh, you have a pen?
He said, I want to buy it. Grant bought the guy’s pen for a hundred dollars. Come on Just to prove a point. Yeah. Yeah, everybody was like, oh man, what I missed that You know, if you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready. So that was the point So my way of encouraging the young man and giving him basically kudos, we’re having his prom square and, and, and actually with the brand on there, I said, I’m going to buy this from him and hopefully that’ll motivate him to keep going.
Now I’ve been, I’ve been interviewing quite a few of the individuals that participated in this and the event overall, but you mentioned you’re a board member, so I feel like you can talk about this on a higher level than just what I experienced here today. Cause while I think it’s amazing, you know, I’m still a visitor.
This is my first time here. Obviously I’m booked or I wouldn’t be doing this series, but, You as a board member, a lot of different things you could do with your time, with your effort, like, why do you choose to be a board member? Why do you choose to get involved with Grant Cardone Foundation? Well, I can tell you this.
I’m a member of an organization called the Circle of Brotherhood. Black men taking responsibility for their own community problems. And across this country, I think we can both agree that the conditions for people of color are not optimal. Yeah. And basically what has happened is, you know, we’re in a situation where as a community.
We’re not basically thriving. We’re not doing what we could do. When I met Grant, Grant told me, he said, listen, all the crime and all of the issues that’s going on in the black community, and they could really be solved if people were able to generate money. If, if they had a ceremony, crime rate would drop immediately.
He said, I want to help do that. So from that moment, I began to start to bring kids from the inner city over here And we would do these workshops for them. Yeah. This was SES 2019. Mm hmm. That exposure to people that are working, people that are generating money, being able to see and not just talk about it has made an impact on so many kids.
I can’t even tell you. Yeah. How it worked. So from seeing him go past talking, he and Sherry, and now we got Phil. Mm hmm. You know, these guys are not talking they’re doing yeah, you know, so it’s such a motivational Situation for me to be able to come out here and make an impact in these young people’s lives from a nonprofit point of view Hands down, the Grant Cardone Foundation is doing 10 times more than a lot of non profits are doing because they’re practicing what they preach.
Fantastic. Well, last question because I only got you for so much time. Sure. Last thing I want you to do, I want you to look into the camera, tell other business owners, other entrepreneurs, other successful individuals why they should be getting involved with the pitch competitions, Grant Cardone Foundation, and really just give them back.
Well, first of all, the first thing that needs to happen is we need to understand. That Grant himself is, he is an anomaly. He’s an individual that basically went from nothing to one of the most power influential investors, portfolio managers in the world. He has people that’s always trying to get with him and try to figure out how did he do this?
And there’s a lot to learn from him. Well, I can tell you this. I was in the military and in the military, right? I was in the Marine Corps at that, and we had a general by the name of Chesty Puller. And General Puller was a general that everybody knew hated bad news. You don’t go to the general and give him bad news.
Well, there was a battle, famous battle at the Marine Corps called the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir, and the Marines were surrounded. There was no way out. They were down in the valley, and it is, they were stuck. Mm hmm. Somebody had to go tell the general that they’re stuck. There’s no way out. They’re totally surrounded, which was extremely bad news.
So they had to pull the straws, and this poor unlucky guy pulls the straw. He’s the one that’s got to go tell the general, Oh, man. We’re surrounded, and there’s no way out. So they said, Hey, man, you, you know, it’s on you, you got to go do it. So the guy goes, and when the guy goes to tell the general, sir, I got some bad news for you.
He said, you know how I feel about bad news, right? Yes, I know, sir. But you’re the general. You need to know the situation. He says, so go ahead. So what’s the bad news? He says, sir, we’re totally surrounded and there’s no way out. So the general looked at the guy. And looked at him in his face and he said, what did you just say to me?
He said, we’re totally surrounded and there’s no way out. And the general began to laugh. The guy’s confused. He’s looking at the general. He’s kind of flinching because he knew the general hated bad news, but the general was laughing and he couldn’t figure out why was he laughing? He says, sir, did, did you understand what I just said?
He said, you just said to me that we’re totally surrounded And there’s no way out. He said, yes, sir. That’s, that’s what I just told you. He says, son, that’s the best news I heard all day. And the guy said, but sir, I don’t understand. He said, do you know what you just said? What you just said is if we’re totally surrounded and there’s no way out, that means no matter where we shoot, we’re going to hit one of them on mission matters for business, we’re surrounded in an economy that’s failing.
We’re surrounded in times where inflation is running out of control. We’re at a time where people are giving up. They feel that they’re hopeless. We are totally surrounded by problems. Most people don’t feel that they can get out of, but that’s the best news I heard all day because mission matters. And if mission matters, that means no matter where we shoot.
We’re gonna hit one of them. And today the Mission Matters was here at Great Cardone headquarters. Mm hmm Cardone capital The Grant Cuddle Foundation, and we are making a difference and we’re going to shoot and we’re going to hit somebody today. That’s amazing, Ed. Well, Ed, first off, appreciate you coming on the show, man.
This has been a lot of fun. I’m sure we’re going to be doing more work together. I already, I already know. And, and to the audience, as always, thank you for tuning in. If this is your first time with Mission Matters and you haven’t done it yet, hit that subscribe or that follow button. This is a daily show each and every day.
We’re bringing you. New content, new entrepreneurs, new ideas, and hopefully new inspiration to help you along the way in your journey as well. So again, hit that subscribe or follow button and Ed man, so much fun, man. Thank you for all you do. And keep up the good work. Let’s work together. All right.