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From Worship Pastor to Million-Dollar Entrepreneur | Josh Dominguez DSH #1195
Fri, 21 Feb
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In this episode, we sit down with Josh Dominguez from Refresh LED to talk about the power of LED technology, how it's revolutionizing podcast studios, churches, and immersive experiences, and why faith and business go hand in hand. Josh shares his journey from worship pastor to entrepreneur, balancing fatherhood with running a business, and even how he overcame a life-changing kidney transplant while building a million-dollar company. We also dive into deep topics like faith in business, personal development, avoiding social media traps, and the power of accountability. If you're looking for motivation, business insights, and life lessons, this episode is for you! Key Timestamps 00:00 - How Jesus Was a Businessman 00:22 - Introducing Josh Adams from Refresh LED 00:57 - How LED Screens are Changing Events & Studios 02:05 - The Rise of Immersive LED Experiences 02:50 - Josh’s Transition from Worship Pastor to LED Entrepreneur 04:40 - The Importance of Faith in Business 06:20 - Balancing Family, Business & Faith 09:35 - Giving Back: Philly Dream Center & Community Impact 12:00 - Parenting in a Social Media-Dominated World 17:00 - The Power of Words & Speaking Life into Others 20:45 - Social Media, Comparison, & Mental Health 25:00 - Josh’s Kidney Transplant & Overcoming Health Battles 30:15 - The Power of Purpose & Finding Meaning in Business 33:50 - Where to Find Refresh LED & Josh Dominguez 📲 Follow Josh & Refresh LED: ➡️ Instagram: @JoshAdams619 ➡️ Website: RefreshLED.com 🔥 APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application 📩 BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected]
Chapter 1: How did Josh Dominguez transition from worship pastor to entrepreneur?
Yeah, we got this whole strip here. Yeah, this is cool. I love the design you got going on. I mean, LED is really the way of the future. and we're seeing a lot of podcasts utilizing it. We have our own podcast on the East Coast, and we have a huge LED wall that we use. Love it. Man, we're seeing it just pick up like crazy right now.
Yeah, pods are taking off. I'm curious if the Sphere uses LEDs. The whole thing.
Chapter 2: What role does LED technology play in modern events and studios?
Yeah, the whole thing, man. Well, the whole exterior. Yeah. Wow. Man, it is insane what they've done here in Vegas. And with the new casinos popping up and, you know, even like the Cosmo is doing on the precursor, some renovations and they're going to be doing some LEDs there. It's just it's exciting to see.
Yeah, the old strip, too. Have you been out there? I have, yeah. Yeah, the whole tunnel thing is LED, right? It's incredible. I mean, that can't be cheap.
Well, that's the thing, man. I mean, right now, immersive experiences are everything, you know, even in people's homes. Like, people are starting to put them in their home theaters, in their spaces where, you know, they want to have entertainment spaces and everything, even outdoors by their pool. That's baller. I mean, it's pretty cool.
That's super cool. When did you get into this? Was it even like an emerging technology? Yeah, it was back in 2017, first got into it. I was in church ministry. I was a worship pastor. Man, just loving what I was doing. And obviously in any type of church venue setting, you're messing with gear, kind of like what you are here. Yeah.
And we were just always integrating new equipment. I was always trying new equipment. Really got into it and really just loved playing around with the new technology that was coming out. And I just kind of fell into this industry. I left the ministry and I got into this by helping a friend of mine with his church. And I just fell in love with it, man. That's cool. So now we do it.
We got about 30 team members now. And it's just a lot of fun. And you're in a lot of churches now, too. We're in a lot of churches. We're in a lot of retail stores, restaurants. It's really cool because the sky's the limit of who we can help. Yeah. So do you help with the installation too?
We do. Yep. Our team comes out. We do everything from start to finish. That's cool. And yeah, it's just fun to be on site. Yeah. From a podcast studio point of view, it puts your studio at another level when you have a nice LED wall. It does. It does. It just brings a whole nother... I mean, like we... what you got going on here. Yeah. And I think, I think Pineda or Bradley has one too.
He does. Yeah. Ryan Pineda, we helped him out with his screen. Right. Yeah. And it's just, it's awesome to help guys like, like you and, and Ryan over there. So. Yeah. Let's talk about some non-LED stuff. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. For sure. The church stuff. Talk to me about that journey.
Yeah, well, I went to Bible college back in 2002 and really felt a call to go into ministry, specifically in the worship leading space. I'm a musician. I love playing keyboard and just love doing it. I had a position in San Diego. Then I moved to Washington. Virginia. Then I had another position in New York there, just helping multiple ministries with music.
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Chapter 3: How is faith integrated into Josh Dominguez's business approach?
And it's been quite the road, man, just having six kids, launching a business, and trying to juggle it all, which I'm sure there's a lot of your listeners are entrepreneurs, and they have families, and they're trying to juggle the kids, the business, and the other life responsibilities and everything.
It's a daily battle. It's a daily battle. Yeah, it's ongoing too. I don't think there's ever like a solution that stops it.
No. I mean, you focus your goals and really what your personal core values are, and you filter your decisions and the direction you want to go based on those core values. And that's been the key factor that has been leading me every step of the way. And obviously, for me, my faith is a very strong part of my decision-making process with anything, even in business.
And we were talking before we hit play here. And, man, business and faith, for me, they go hand in hand. And it's really important for me that we do that. And it's been such a key part to our success. And, you know, just doors opening up and being here with guys like you. You know, I just I believe that God opens those doors. And when you walk through it, I mean, God does the rest.
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Yeah. I mean, he was a carpenter. He had a skill trade. And if you look at Paul, you know, he was a tent maker. And, you know, God and business and money are all intertwined. Look at how many times the Bible talks about money. You know, money is all throughout the Bible. And he talks about the parable of the talents. And, you know, the Bible talks about giving your first fruits.
And, you know, back then that was their form of currency, you know, was their first literal fruits as they farmed their land. You know, so I think it's important that we look at that because without money, what can the church do? What can ministries do without money?
No, I agree. Because certain people go down too far where they neglect money. They go too religious, too spiritual. Exactly. And then it's like, how are you providing for your family? Yeah. Yeah. And I really felt that the Lord kind of shifted my life focus to be more in business, to help support ministries, to help launch ministries. You know, I'm on the board for the Philly Dream Center. Nice.
And they're right down the road from Kensington where, man, I don't know if you've been out there. No. It is insane. It's like Zombieland. Really? Yeah. And you can go on YouTube and check out the videos. But man, people are just strung up on drugs. Damn. Crazy. This is in Philly?
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Chapter 4: How does Josh balance family life with business responsibilities?
Yeah. Well, he has this saying that success is your duty. It's your responsibility. I've seen that. And I take that to heart too. He's one of my mentors. And just hearing him say that really stuck with me. Yeah, I think it's your responsibility. Like accountability for me is the main thing. Yeah. Like please take accountability, good or bad. Absolutely.
I get so annoyed when people don't take accountability, man. Absolutely. Especially when you have kids and, you know, just responsibility for, you know, what's in front of you. Yeah.
But let alone responsibility for your community, for those who you're interacting with. You know, it's important that, you know, you look at what you're doing and you ask yourself, who is it benefiting? Is it just benefiting me? Is it just benefiting my family or my kids? Is my community that I'm in benefiting from what I'm doing? Yeah. And I think that's important to ask yourself. Absolutely.
Yeah. Yeah. That's why I actually love chess players because when you lose a game, it's on you. You have to be in full accountability for it. Yeah. So I tell all my friends to play chess. Right. It's one of those games where it's just on you. Yeah. You can't point the blame on anybody else. You have to look at yourself.
Yeah. It's going to be one of the first things I teach my kids. It's how to take some accountability, you know? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely, man. Because you cannot raise people that will point the finger and say it wasn't my fault, you know? Yeah. You have to take responsibility.
I love talking with parents that have a lot of kids, actually. You have six children? Six kids, yeah. What are the ages of those? Seven months to 16. Wow, that's a wide range. It's a wide range. Yeah. So you have, you know, they're all into different stages of life and just growing and developing. So I kind of have to shift my mindset from kid to kid.
Right, because they're also growing up in different generations. Yeah, absolutely. Because now technology is everywhere. But the oldest one probably wasn't really experiencing that, right? No, no. I mean, he barely got his phone a couple years ago. Oh, you waited out? Yeah, we did. Yeah, in fact, my 12-year-old, she doesn't have a phone yet.
Wow. Yeah, I was like 13 or 14. I was late, though, in my school. Yeah, yeah.
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Chapter 5: What are the challenges of parenting in a social media-driven world?
But I hated it at the time, but looking back, it was great. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of sucks. You're all your friends. Oh, it sucks. Yeah. Yeah. You can't text anyone. Yeah. All your friends are on Facebook. Yeah. You feel like you're the oddball without a phone. But I think they can be dangerous for kids.
Yeah. And that's why we're waiting. You know, even though a lot of our peers have, you know, 10 year olds with phones, eight year olds with phones. And I'm like, why? You know, OK, they need to call you for emergencies or whatnot. But then the rest, 99 percent of the time, they're looking at their phone, scrolling on social or just playing games. Yeah. I don't think it's healthy.
If it was just for the reason of calling, you could just get them a regular flip phone. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they make those phones that only make phone calls and that's it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's really a concern to get them that. It's a tricky one, man. There's a lot of influences at that age.
Being a parent right now is a tough, tough feat, man. I mean, with the influence of social media and culture and all of the options out there for identity and, you know, media is shaping the minds of our young kids sooner than what we were exposed to with getting phones and getting online and everything. Yeah. Being a parent now is a fight. It's a daily fight. We're fighting against culture.
You know, when culture and YouTube and everything else is saying, it's okay to do this. It's okay to think you're that. You know, and then us trying to raise our kids in a godly home and trying to teach them morals. And we're trying to raise good people with strong character values. It is a very intentional process, and it's very difficult, and you have to be very committed to it.
I see too many parents nowadays that just get their kid a phone and just have fun. Kids go off in their room, shut the door. You only see them for a couple hours, and who knows what they're doing, you know? That's why I'm preparing now. I don't even have kids yet, but I know it's a full-time job and it's a lot of work. Yeah, it is a lot of work. Especially with six, man. Hats off to you.
Yeah. I mean, we're not perfect, you know, but we try our best and we try to be intentional with it. And we just want to raise quality people. Yeah. Quality people that contribute to society and hopefully they follow the Lord and, you know, they follow the same steps that we've laid out in front of them.
Yeah. Yeah. No one's perfect. I learned that. Yeah. You know, I tried to be a perfectionist when I was younger. Yeah. It's super toxic. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's. Because nothing's ever good enough.
You're not going to be perfect. Nothing's ever good enough. And if you keep telling yourself that, I mean, you start to believe it, you know, but you got to be who you are. And as parents, you know, when you're going to have kids, you know, you kind of, you have to live that example. Yeah.
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Chapter 6: Why is accountability important in personal and professional life?
You know? Yeah. It's something with our wiring. I don't know if it's a survival thing or something, but we definitely think about the negative stuff way more. Yeah. Yeah. Because we believe it quicker than the good things we hear. Yeah. I wonder if that's from like insecurity or something, you know?
Yeah. It's, you know, there's a battle in our minds going on all the time. And we're trying to measure ourselves up to everybody else around us. And the second we hear somebody or something say to us that we are not good enough or we're not as good as that person, it only amplifies what we're already fighting in our head. Right. You know? Did you struggle with comparison growing up?
I, I think we all did, you know, as, as kids were comparing to other kids, teenagers, and then we get into our twenties and, you know, comparing to other people, our age. I mean, I'm 41 right now, still doing it. Yeah. You know, I'm like, man, that guy's 41 and he's already done this. This isn't there. Yeah. I think it's natural.
Yeah. Yeah. You look at people that are your age or in your stage of life and you're comparing like that. I missed a boat, you know, and it's not healthy. It's not. It's just like inevitable, though. Like I still do it even though I'm aware that I shouldn't be doing it.
Yeah. Yeah. And it's a mental discipline because you need to catch yourself in those moments. You know, those self-talk moments where you're saying, man, I've missed the ball there or I wish I was that or I wish I could do this. Just like how Sean does it. You know, I wish I had a podcast with millions of viewers. Well, that's not healthy for me to think. That's not.
You know, it's a negative talk. And I'm speaking death over myself, really, you know? Yeah. I'm not a fan of completely copying one as well. Like I think you can learn and kind of mimic, but a lot of people copy and that's just not productive. No. You'll never be yourself.
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you're made to be you. There's no other person with your DNA, with your traits, on the face of the earth or ever will be. So you have been put on this earth to do something specific. And so be you. Why copy anybody else? Why try to be like anybody else? Sure, pull inspiration from your mentors, from those you're following. Sure, gain skill sets from other people.
But at the end of the day, you are going to be you. Yeah. You know? Yeah. This hits deep with me because they're doing a lot of studies now on social media and mental health and the correlation. And it's like a direct cause of mental health issues because of comparison. Yes.
And people trying to copy each other and trying to like mimic lifestyles. Because on Instagram, you could portray whatever you want. Yeah. So highlight reel. Yeah. Yeah. And we cannot compare. No. We just can't. I'm trying to teach my kids that.
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Chapter 7: How can the power of words influence others positively?
Gotcha. So you got to cold email them. That's good. I wish I would have known that six hours ago I was on the airplane. Oh, flights, I'm deadly. Yeah. The whole flight, I'm cold DMing people. Wow. Or I'm texting people, catching up with people. Okay. That's where I'll kind of review my Rolodex. Nice. And see who I want to keep building with, see who I want to cut off.
Okay. And how did you build that muscle of just, you know, because you got a phone probably, what,
I was in high school, but I wasn't using it for business then. I don't even know if they had a 4U. No, they didn't have a 4U page back then. It was just your feed. But once I started the pod, I've been DMing people every single day. That's how I get so many gals. Yeah, because I've had 1,400 episodes. So I'd say most of those were from the app. Nice.
So you have that built-in discipline. When you're just waiting in those in-between moments, you're doing something for the business. Yeah. I usually set aside time, but yeah, I'll do it.
occasionally like that too okay yeah i also watch a lot of podcasts and i get guests that way gotcha yeah i love that do you watch any other shows i do i follow grants i follow i follow um uh ben ben uh shapiro yeah yeah that's a good one um yeah i mean anybody in the real estate world i do real estate on the side as well gram stephan Yeah, Pace Morby, Ryan Pineda right down the road here.
So I just draw a lot of business insights and just inspiration from those guys. But, you know, my time killers, if you will, are more so just listening to Audible books and listening to podcasts and just trying to gain something. I always take the mentality of what can I learn today? You know, what's one thing that I didn't know that I can gain, you know, out of this experience?
Time on the plane or staying in line for coffee or whatever it is. Yeah. You know, sometimes I'll just even have a plane in my pocket while, you know, I'm walking around and sometimes I'll catch something, you know, and I'll just take a mental note. I love that. Yeah. You got to be constantly be learning, right?
Yeah. have to yeah especially if you're uh if you're driven you're in business you're trying to grow a podcast trying to grow a business you have to be in learning mode constantly and that's the only way you're gonna uh have a level up on your competition and that's probably why you've grown as quickly as you have
Yeah. I got a pretty crazy audible strategy, actually. Yeah. You want to hear it? Yeah. So there's a site called Goodreads. Have you heard of it? I have. Yes. Yeah. So I'll go on there. I'll see what books my mentors are recommending. Like, say, Grant Cardone recommended a book. Goodreads has all the books he's recommended. Nice. So I'll click on that, read the reviews a little bit.
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Chapter 8: How does Josh Dominguez contribute to community impact through business?
I was looking. Yeah. But I'm more audible. There's different types of learning. Yeah. So you're a reader? I love to read. I love both. Sometimes. Oh, you're both. That's rare, man. Like reading a book book. And I think that when you can highlight or write notes on the page or underline things, it just connects on a deeper level. Oh, it does.
There's some books, too, that I feel you need to read once a year. One of them, Atomic Habits. Yeah, it's classic. Yeah.
how to win friends and influence people. So those genre of books for me are once a year reads that need to be worked on. I mean, Atomic Habits, you take one area of the book and apply it. It's sometimes for, it'll take me months, you know, just to master it, get the concept, put it to practice, come back to it, read it again before I can get to the next chapter, you know? So there's
Probably 10 to 15 books that I like to physically have. And I'll just pick up and look at some lines that underline maybe last year. But I do like to do Audible as well. Yeah. Yeah. Something about highlighting and underlining. It just makes it stick more. It connects to the brain.
No. Yeah. They've done studies on that. For me, 100 Million Offers was a game changer. Oh, nice. Have you read that one? I have not. Alex Hormozy. Okay. That one doubled my revenue in a year. No kidding. Yeah. Just that book. Okay. So crazy. Shout out to Alex. He lives in Vegas. Does he? Okay. I do follow him too. I love watching his videos.
Yeah, he's cool. Yeah, I go through phases where I'll do like business. I'll do spirituality. I had a little dating phase, like a relationship phase. Okay. Wanting to improve my relationship. So I read like five books there. Depends on the phase of my life. Yeah. Yeah. So you're a learner too. So you like to grow and-
Always. Because I thought I hated learning in school. Did you get good grades? No, bad grades, didn't care about the topics. And I thought I hated learning, hated reading because all the books I didn't like. But once I started watching Grant Cardone and people like that on YouTube, I'm like, wait, I'm interested in this. This is weird, you know? Yes, you had a mental shift.
Mental shift. Yeah. Well, just topics I cared about, I think. Right. At the time was making money. Yeah. That was like my first seven years. Nice. Now it's probably going to be shifting towards family and purpose. Yeah. Yeah. I still like making money too, but that's not like the number one thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But you said family and purpose though. So that's.
That's where I'm at now. Yeah. That's, that's going to be the next phase, I think. Yeah. Making money is probably number two, number three. Yeah. And that's the thing. When you when you look for purpose and you find your purpose, then that gives you the energy that you need. And then the money comes. Yeah.
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