What A Story!
Tweet · Feb 27, 2026
Stories like this get me so fired up!
I just talked to a dude that went from homeless sleeping on a park bench, to riding in that’s with UFC champions.
==Here’s the story==—
Sean was born and raised in Kentucky, and moved to New Zealand with his fiancé in 2021
He was flipping burgers at a restaurant and the owner asked what he missed most about America.
Sean said he missed the food the most. Specifically Mexican food
Sean cooked Birria tacos for him and the owner was blown away.
The owner let him cook in his restaurant on Sundays and let sean keep the profits
Around this time, he created his IG and started sharing his journey
at first 30 people showed up.
Next time - 50 people showed up
Sean realized he needed to take it to the street and cook more often.
He bought a flat top, plugged in and started cooking on the street and started doing pop ups. Posting about them whenever he did it.
Thats where it started taking off
He found a bar that had a restaurant that wasnt being used. He took that over and started cooking
At the time he was cooking other tacos. But decided to go ALL IN on birria style.
He said, “I want to do one thing and I want to do it the best at it”
One night he posted about this on TT, woke up with 20k new followers
He showed up the next day around 10 to cook and prep for the evening, by noon, there was already a line wrapping around the corner
Something special is happening here he realized
Everything snowballed from there
Went on the news, podcasts
-Only 2 months into cooking in an actually location, he had sold 450k worth of tacos…
He just received hundreds of thousands from an investor and he’s continuing to grow the brand and expand
He never did any of this for the money.
He never thought “oh ya, the way to make a million bucks is through tacos.”
He just followed his passions.
==He told me==—
“If you like what you’re doing, you’re going to be good at it and you’re going to be a success.”
What a story!