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I chose to go to Cal State San Bernardino because of their MBA program.

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the curriculum at

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CSU as BE was very challenging

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I was working full time.

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from being raised

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by a single mother to being on the streets homeless, to sleeping under bridges, to not knowing where we were going to get the next meal,

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having to look back at everything that my mother has had to sacrifice

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makes it that much more important

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I am a first gen student. I am the first one in my family to actually obtain a masters

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degree.

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It makes me feel proud

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that I can break

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down barriers

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to prove to other

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men that it is obtainable.

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Is it going to be easy now?

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Are you going to have to sacrifice family and time? Yes.

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It's not as easy as it sounds, but is it achievable? Yes.

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if you put your mind to it,

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my biggest motivation would be my mom.

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out of 11 brothers and sisters.

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It's only me and my sister who have graduated from high school, who have now bachelor's degrees and now

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master's degrees.

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She is our biggest motivation,

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from again, sacrificing

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her livelihood,

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for us, like to be able to provide a better life. She left so many things behind.

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she's my biggest motivation.

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There were many times where I was on the verge of quitting,

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mainly

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to

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sleepless nights, to figuring out how we were going to budget,

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our income because

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sacrifices have to be made,

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when you're going to school.

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It was because of scholarships that

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helped.

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it was because of donors. It was because of people who I wrote letters to who believed in me

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when I didn't believe in myself,

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knowing that we had that extra income where we didn't have to worry and that I could focus

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on school and not have to worry about where we're going to come up with rent and what we're going to come up with,

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extra income that we didn't have.

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hopefully in the near future,

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to be able to give back

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in some form,

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community wise,

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to the university, to CSUSB

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and

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let people know that

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people's generosity does make a difference.

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Never in my wildest dreams that I ever think that I would be where I'm at now and having that financial freedom.

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I started the car rental business with

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not a single dollar.

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And now,

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looking back,

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is what

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ultimately

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makes them say, wow,

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I can't believe that I have achieved

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and created the first business with no money

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to now where I'm at

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28 cars later.

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everybody told me it was a bad idea. Everybody told me, Why are you starting a

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business during COVID? People are not going to be going out.

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I made the decision to start it

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right in the middle of a pandemic

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and I realized that people still need to go from point A to point B

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it was

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a leap of faith, but I felt that my education

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and what I had learned at CSUSB ultimately allowed and gave me the tools that I needed to prove not only to myself but to people that this is a business model that can be successful even during a pandemic.

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with the second business it was the same story.

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no money to start it.

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It's a company that was co-founded.

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We started with an idea. We started with

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finishing a certification course

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and

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my cousin decided that

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she had been in the business for ten plus years, and I had also been

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doing taxes for people

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but never really

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had the skills

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once I graduated from CSUSB

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I felt that I was prepared enough to be able to approach her and actually tell her I know how to make this business successful.

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and have the tools necessary.

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just have to believe in me. And she did.

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And within the first year we had doubled the numbers to where now we have

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a little bit close to 300 clients and

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the goal was here to help people.

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going to a university that

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believes in you, that supports you,

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that is accessible to you,

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that

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you're just not another number.

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I think that that's what

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shaped me to where

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where I'm at today,

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And

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it all ties back to CSUSB,

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I feel that I have achieved that success

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because of my masters, because of going to CSUSB and because of

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pursuing higher education.

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My name is Gustavo Marin I love CSUSB and I am a coyote for life.

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