00:00 Welcome to Empire and Homefront, where we talk about health, wealth, and relationships, and let's not forget about the most important one, my friend, and that is fate. 00:09 And today, I am blessed to have Miss Elena Bartarsch on the show with us today, and she is a special guest because she's actually from your crane. 00:20 And right now in the year 2025, we've got a lot of stuff going on with your crane. We're not going to get into like politics and all that other stuff. 00:26 But what we are going to get into is what's important to families. Because Miss Elena has been sharing with me some of her stories about infant business where she's helping infants like little babies, right? 00:38 It's super cool. But not only that, she's a serial entrepreneur. Miss Elena, welcome to the show. Thank you so much, Eric. 00:44 Just one, one small Remark. It's actually profit, profit about you sharing earlier. You've been in the States for 10 years. 00:51 Yeah. This is always interesting to me and when I ask you this, because like Americans, we're always stuck in our own little bubble. 00:59 Like we have no clue what's going on anywhere else, you know, but other people that I talk to that are from other nations, they know everything that's going on in America and they like tell me stuff that's happening. 01:09 It's just like, wow, right? Uh, so I would say, uh, it's, it's not paradise. It's far from perfect. But the experience every immigrant receives living in U.S., it's golden. 01:26 So for me personally, very important legal part. To be in U.S., it's everything predictable. Of course, police here and lawyers here, they play on game, but still. 01:40 Law is working. And you know what to expect from your employer, from your neighbor, from whoever, anyway, it works. In my country, not yet. 01:55 So I see the difference. Yes, I see the difference. So that you, you said law works. Like, that's pretty strong statement. 02:02 Like, I mean, I would think that, you know, if you had law enforcement, like You did something wrong. It's pretty simple, like you get in trouble, but you're saying that's not the case. 02:12 Like what happened here? You're praying when you do something wrong. Uh, I can say you, we still have issues with corruption. 02:21 Every country has issues with corruption. U.S. has lots of issues with corruption. You have to be honest. You can regulate, for example, your relationship with your employer. 02:30 You can do it. Really, and everyone knows their rights, and it's great. People don't have to abuse it. This is another story, right? 02:39 But still, people know their rights. Okay. And children, children protected. Of course, I believe there are, here are lots of different stories, but still, if there is a child involved and, and mother and father, both will care about child, right? 02:57 No matter what, no matter what happens in the family. I would not make it perfect. I would not idealize US. 03:05 It still has lots of issues, but it's a legal part I like it. Yeah, that's interesting about children. Tell me more about that. 03:13 Like, was the, was the big difference between like living in Ukraine with young kids and protecting them versus America? Well, like, what do you see in there? 03:22 It's a very deep question. Very deep question. It's, it's not easy for, uh, let's say after divorce. If divorce happened back in Ukraine, it's very difficult for mother usually judge. 03:37 Let's mother keep children. It's very difficult for her to get any kind of support from father of your child children. 03:46 Very difficult. That's in Ukraine. Yeah. Um, that's interesting. Yeah, like culture is so abstract, right? Like, um, Russia. Right, Lori, my wife, she told me, she's like, Did you know that Russians literally take their baby, wrap them up and in the snow in the winter and put them outside and let them 04:06 take naps? It's wonderful. Yes. So you did that in your crane as well? Yeah. Yeah. When my daughter was baby, uh, I was walking with her. 04:20 I was outside with her every single day several times. She almost literally is sleeping outside all the time. Really? Yeah. 04:32 And it should be. Yeah, yeah, I mean, I agree, right? Like now, you know, like we get into, um, jumping into ice baths, you know, and, and Going outside when it is cold. 04:45 It's been time out there, right? Because you need it for your, for your health. And, you know, in other countries, like you just said it, you literally put babies out in the cold and it's normal. 04:55 Yep. And the amount of time. So kids is definitely a passion year. I mean, I'm, I'm looking at your, your other business with the Boston event trainer. 05:05 Tell me about that. Hmm. So it's very common in slavery culture. Uh, after baby born, everyone wants them to take massage specific exercises for babies and swimming and swimming for babies means they die. 05:19 They swim under the water. Some years ago before I moved to US, I started this as in my main business. 05:27 It was my Only one thing I was doing back in Ukraine and Kiev, I had plenty of clients because it's really something people need. 05:34 Yeah, I mean, that's so cool how young a baby is when they can learn how to swim. Cause like, tell me about that. 05:40 Cause I think like, can't babies like technically hold their breath whenever they're first born? Like, don't they have that capability? 05:48 But then somehow they lose it. Yep. Every, every human being born with some certain amount of reflex and it disappears. 06:04 So tell me about that, how does that work? Like, if there's a mom or a dad, like, curious about helping their baby learn how to swim right now, like, what would they need to do? 06:13 Oh, they need very strong back. So you gotta do a lot of work. Because you will need to stay in this position, working with your baby. 06:20 How say, it's topic. Not for a couple of minutes discussion, it's long topic, because really all you need to start it as early as possible, right? 06:29 I would say right after baby born really a week and you can start. So all you need really to use this reflex and after baby, stop breathing, put baby under the water. 06:41 Hmm, okay, so what I heard was like you have your, your baby and you put some water on their forehead. 06:48 Yep. Stop breathing and then you submerge them in the water and show them how to swim immediately. Don't show them anything. 06:57 Don't show them under the water. Don't show them anything. Hold them like this. Hmm. Okay. Put them under the water and move them. 07:06 Help them moving and do it several times until they will start moving their hands and legs because instinct, it's instinct they want to survive. 07:17 Don't let them go out. And take them out in, in 20 seconds and 30 seconds. Okay. So, so I was about to ask that I was like, well, how long can they hold their breath? 07:29 You will feel it. You will feel it. You will feel it. You can, you can even do it even longer. 07:35 You will feel it. Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's interesting. I would love to have Laurie in on this conversation to see what she thought about the old infant swimming because, you know, going back to American culture versus Um, other places like you was just telling me like this concept is kind of hard  07:50 for you to get out there into the public right now. Like what type of challenges are you running into? Yeah, so when I moved five six years ago from Minnesota to Boston specifically for this reason, I want to make it my main business. 08:07 And I was so enthusiastic and optimistic. I ordered a huge magnet to my car. That that magnet said infant and uh, uh, and told their massage therapist. 08:22 Okay. So people now I understand this is a part of mentality. So people don't understand why baby needs massage because massage for Americans mostly it's something for relaxation, right? 08:35 Right. I I wasn't able to understand in the beginning why people were laughing to taking pictures of my car. I really, I wasn't able to understand until someone explained me this part of mentality. 08:48 You should explain America's different way. Make yourself trainer, Boston in fun trainer, and people will treat you differently, and he was right. 08:59 When you say it's a massage, is it not a massage? It's massage, but for babies, uh, so for them, a quality of blood circulation, and Every baby born with, uh, muscle, tonic, tonis, tonus, massage helps them to get rid of the tonus, to speed up circulation, lots of circulation. 09:25 So it really helps baby to grow, uh, stronger, faster, healthier, yet, and not only physically, mentally. You're seeing with a baby when they're to come out, like they're, they're in the womb and they're all, Like curled up, everything's curled up. 09:43 And then with the services you provide, like you come in and you stretch out their hands and their feet, hmmm. 09:49 Is that right? Right. I didn't know that. I thought it was just, you know, one of the things that freaked me out was, was because we, you know, it had three kids and like with the first one, like you're always super protective and you think they're so fragile and, you know, you're just like, ah, like 10:03 , you know, I was even scared, like, hold my baby, you know, because I was like, I don't want to hurt her. 10:09 And then you figure out, like, you watch the nurses come in, they'll grab her leg and just flip her over, you know, she's like, wow, what are you doing? 10:15 You know, and they're so resilient, right? And yeah, you know, totally, totally opposite. Babies are soft flexible to break. Baby, you need to break it. 10:30 You need, you need break it. Yeah, just for you understanding how flexible there are. There are bones are soft. There are joints are soft. 10:38 And everything you will do, you will provide to them when there are babies, it will help them, or it will not help them. 10:45 So if you will start developing your baby from there, two months old, three months old, one months old, it will help a lot. 10:52 Yeah, I mean, I didn't know the whole water thing on the forehead like they actually hold their breath. Now I want to grab somebody's baby and try it. 10:59 And I got some friends with a newborn baby. I'm about to send them a text after this and be like, hey. 11:04 Try this, if they held their breath. So, uh, so you got the baby business and then also you got into real estate about a year ago. 11:13 And I know how we met years talking about raising money, uh, raising capital. So tell me about that. How did you get into raising capital because that's a super valuable skill in its own. 11:25 As I mentioned, I wanted to have baby business as my main business, but it's not realistic so far. And I found sub-to-community, I joined this community and started building my team in several months, I would say three, four months. 11:41 I found another mentor who is inside, in sub-to-he teaches mindset and business and leadership, not just how to buy. He doesn't teach on the right and he teaches bigger stuff. 11:56 So, and I started building my team last year, summer, and I bought my first property in November. So, capital raising, it's something really necessary you need to have because if you want to buy properties, if you don't want to make deals with banks, right? 12:15 Because anyway, banks will never let you buy as many as you want. If you have ambitions, if you're okay with one house, you do need capital raising. 12:23 But if you want kind of more unique capabilities. Yes, yes, 100%. Um, so how did you come across your first lender? 12:34 Like is that relationship also inside of sub two? Yeah. Is it okay? Yeah. They they came in on what type of deal? 12:44 Uh, I have my lender as an equity partner. Okay. She brought a whole capital for for deal. Okay. Tell me about that deal. 12:57 Where, where was that at? Is that the one in Texas you was talking about? Yep. Yep. This is eight doors, uh, split in, um, Dallas, suburb, Dallas, suburb, roll it. 13:08 It's creative, it's subject to deal. Okay. Awesome. So your first deal was a subject too. Yep. Nice. Did you do the paperwork? 13:19 Yep. Did you really, you did the paperwork? I mean, not me personally, but us. We've done it. We hired it to see, of course, we've done it. 13:29 Yeah, but I mean, paperwork all together. We put it all stuff together, right? We were in charge. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's just like, oh my goodness. 13:36 Like, you did the paperwork on the first up to deal. Like, I'm sure that was fine. No, no, no, no. 13:42 Not personally me. So what role did you play in this first deal? Did you find the deal? Did you just raise capital for the deal? 13:49 Like, what was the structure look like? My role for my first deal was actually, uh, capital raising and social media, present in social media. 13:58 Okay. To be visible, to be visible not only in sub two, to be visible, visible out of sub two. So I started my podcast, my personal podcast back in August last year. 14:08 I had a few very cool guests, very cool and And now I understand it helps a lot. Really, people can see you personally. 14:17 I hit couple of lenders who reach out to me. One lady, she sent me a message on Facebook and she said, you know, I'm following your podcast for three months. 14:27 I was listening all your podcasts. So you know something. I would like to work with you. Okay. It's working with me. 14:37 I'm able to build relationships. That is awesome. That's good to know because I am just getting mine rolling. We've been trying to get this thing consistent for a while now, but now it's just like, you know what? 14:48 I'm just gonna do it. So how long have you been consistent with your partner? I mean, uh, but cast so since August, and I do it once a month, uh, once a week. 14:57 In the beginning, of course, it were people from sub two, of course, naturally. After when you make your world real estate world wider, And you understand the real life out of Subtune. 15:12 You can bring people from, for example, uh, I'm a member of couple, uh, groups for podcasters. When people find guests and they promote their own, um, their own podcast, and I found several really, really cool guests on these groups, podcasters, uh, writers. 15:34 Uh, Capital Razors. Professional Capital Razors. For example, Jay Connor, he's known guy. He has several books. Unbelievable podcast. Yeah. Awesome. 15:46 I love that. So, um, Miss Lane, I mean, we we covered a lot so far. So we talked about, you know, if and we talked about Uh, your business is raising capital and now into the podcast world. 15:58 Um, with all of this, you know, I'm wondering, uh, your unique feedback to people who would be interested in empowered homefront things, right? 16:06 Becoming, um, a god-fearing family or faith driven family. What would be your advice for, for someone like that, with all your expertise, because you got a lot. 16:19 Uh, who I would give advice, yeah, who I am, to give advice, but you know, as an Christian, I believe, I'm a 20th protestant, it really should be anyway, it should be number one. 16:33 And family, it's our strength and God is our strength. So anyway, whatever, no matter what you do, no matter what kind of business you run, your focus should be on him. 16:46 And on people around you, and business is something, some would be beefy. I love that. It does have to be number one. 16:55 That's awesome. Well, Miss Elena, we'll go ahead and close it out. I appreciate you for coming on. This has been a blast. 17:02 Thank you so much. Yes, it was cool. Thank you so much for coming with me. All right. Till next time guys, stay blessed by the best.