Hello and welcome. My name is Gino Barbaro, one of the co-founders of Jake and Gino.

And in this how-to video, if you're looking to find an amazing partner, I'm going to be sharing some tips, some tricks,

and some lessons that I've learned along the way about finding an amazing partner and trying to avoid partners that just don't fit. Now, what's the

first thing that you need to do when you're looking for a partner? For me, after years and years

of struggling, before I found my business partner, Jake, I all made it about a transaction. I just thought,

hey, if I find a partner to do this one deal,

everything will be okay. What I found was that was absolutely not the case. Now, this is the first

thing that you need to do. You need to really flush out your values and make all of your decisions,

I think not only just in partnerships, but just in life in general, based upon your

values. Now, one of my mentors, Rick Sapio, coined the phrase values based decision making. That sounds

real sexy, real fancy, but what it really boils down to is the ability for you to sit down by yourself for a little while

and really reflect upon what your values are. I did this with an exercise. You can go back on the

Jake and Gino channel. We did our podcast with the gentleman named Renee Rodriguez. Great public

speaker. And about halfway through, Renee made me go back

into my childhood. Think of a memory back into my childhood between the ages of nine and 13.

And I challenge you to do this right now. Or maybe after you listening to this, you do it.

And I thought about a memory that really had a profound impact on me. And for me, it was going to work with my

father. And what did I remember about it? I remember vividly going into the restaurant, doing what

he did, and to really condense the story down, the values that I pulled from that were hard work,

were determination, were being really good at something, being responsible,

being a leader, wanting to mentor others. I got all of that just from that one story about

remembering from my father. And I think those values from that era of my life, and I was a child

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