Former Capo REVEALS: What My Life Was Really Like in the Mob

➡ The speaker, Michael Francis, shares his experiences from his past life as a mobster and his current life. He talks about the stress of standing trial, the daily routine of reporting to his boss, and his various money-making ventures. He also discusses his gratitude for peace in the Middle East and his faith in God. He ends by promoting his wine business and sharing his early morning routine.
➡ The speaker shares his journey from revitalizing a failing car agency to becoming a successful businessman, while also being a recruit in a mob. He juggled his responsibilities at work, family, and the mob, often working late into the night. He eventually became a ‘made guy’ in the mob, which gave him more freedom and allowed him to focus on building his businesses. He also launched a wine brand and shares a humorous anecdote about one of his crew members.
➡ The speaker shares a story about his friend Frankie, who was loyal but reckless, and once crashed his boat due to ignoring warnings about shallow waters. The speaker also reflects on his past life, admitting he neglected his family due to his involvement in business and “that life”. He expresses regret for not spending enough time with his family, leading to a failed marriage and strained relationships with his children. He advises others to prioritize their family life over business success.
➡ The speaker recounts his past life as a mobster, describing a routine filled with family time, mob activities, and legitimate business. He also shares his experiences during a federal trial, including his daily commute by helicopter. He then contrasts this with his life in prison, which he describes as boring. Now, he lives a more relaxed life, focusing on his health, family, and running his businesses, which include a wine company and a pizza business.
➡ The speaker emphasizes the importance of prioritizing God and family in life. He shares his daily routine, which includes spending time with his wife, children, and grandchildren, and balancing work. He advises setting priorities straight early on and warns against choosing the wrong ones, which can lead to problems. Despite life’s challenges, he believes in a better place for those who have faith in Jesus Christ.

All of a sudden, his boat is going like this. And then it goes and it stops. He hits the sandbar or whatever because the water was probably two feet deep. And boom. He goes, I’m not kidding you. He flies through the glass on his boat. You know, he had the windshield up through the glass. Boom. Tumbles over and into the water. I said, oh, my God, he’s dead. Let me sum it up. Day in the life, my life as a mobster back then, as a recruit, I was indicted four times, and I was on trial for almost 13 months.

Thirteen months. Now when I was on trial, what did I do? We’re in a car, we’re going to a wedding. We’re all dressed up. It’s nice. I think it was Saturday night or Sunday. We’re going to a wedding. We pull into a gas station, right? And Frankie’s sitting in the back. I’m in the passenger seat. Louie, I think, was driving, and Frankie’s sitting in the back. And he goes, oh, man. Chief, I said, what? He said, you know that guy? I said, anytime I see him, I was going to beat him up. He said, he’s over there.

He’s filling his car up with gas. I said, okay. I said, what are you going to do? Hey, everyone. Welcome to another sit down with Michael Francis. Hope everybody is doing well. All is very good, very blessed on this end. As always, my friends, I give all the praise, honor, glory, and thanksgiving to our God. For that I am especially, especially grateful and thankful to our God for what he’s done for us in the Middle East. And yes, it is a God thing. No question about it. We had a lot of participants working for that, wanting peace in the Middle East.

Let’s just pray that it lasts. Let’s play that. Pray that people just keep their words on this. It’ll probably be some rocky times. We’ll know that. But you know what? For as long as we can get peace and people’s lives will be as normal as possible, nobody getting killed or any of this stuff going on, I’m very grateful for that. No doubt about it. You know, I’m asked this all the time, and I try to, you know, get to as many comments or questions as I possibly can. And, you know, my team looks at them, and then over a period of time, we see, well, you know what? This has been asked quite a bit by quite, you know, quite a few people.

You know, we’re talking hundreds over the course of many, many, many videos. So question is, Michael, what was a day in the life in Your life when you were in the mob versus what your life is like today? Well, obviously it’s 180 degree difference. You know, things are quite different now than they were back then. But I’m gonna go over that, you know, and because again, I try to give you what you ask for. You know, somebody asked me what was the most stressful memories that you have in that life. You know, I’m gonna be honest with you.

I stood five times in front of a jury. And when you stand up in front of that jury and that jury is going to render a verdict that can absolutely change your life, turn it upside down, put you in prison or keep you at home, it could be one or the other. And you’re standing there and those moments are stressful and tense. Don’t let anybody tell you any differently. You may not react that way. You may not see that in somebody, but I guarantee their insides are playing tricks on them. Because you want to hear one word, one word only.

And that is not. That’s it. That shows. How do you render your verdict? Guilty or not guilty? And you want to hear the word not. That changes everything. And of course, if you don’t hear it, obviously that changes everything. So that was stressful. I. I can honestly remember feeling, oh, what’s going to happen now? Unfortunately, I always heard, not always. And as a result, I was acquitted or dismissed five times in trial. So worked out well for me. So let me go over what my day was like. And my day was different in different phases. It was different obviously when I was on trial.

It was different when, you know, I had other things going on. So let me give you kind of a typical day. On trial and not on trial. Let’s go. Not on trial first, my friends, here’s your chance. Our award winning Areny wine is almost sold out. You want wine from the world’s first vineyards. You want to tell your friends about it? Enjoy it. Go to franz easewine.com before. Before it’s out of stock. I was always an early riser. Always could not. I didn’t need a lot of sleep. Two, three, four hours sometimes maybe less. Didn’t need a lot of sleep.

And I didn’t like to get up late. I felt that I was missing something if I got up late. So I was always up 5:36am in the morning, always. Even if I didn’t rush out of the house. That was it. Now you remember. I was married once before for a short time. You know, before. Camille and I are married 40 years, but I was Married for a short time back then, so. And we had three children. So what I tried to do in the morning is see the kids off to school, you know, have a cup of coffee in the house before I would leave.

And normally I had somebody pick me up. And when I was a recruit, okay, this was early on, when I was a recruit, I had to go to Brooklyn every day. Every single day. I had a report in to my boss. And at that time, it was Andrew Russo. He was my cop regime. He was the underboss at that time, acting underboss for Junior. I had to report to him every single day. So I lived on Long Island. I had a ride into Brooklyn, and as my time as a recruit, I could have sat in a social club for five, six, seven, eight, nine hours.

I maybe had to drive the boss, Tom DiBella, and Andrew to a meeting and then sit in the car and wait for them to come out. Or if they invited me in, I would. I was only a recruit. If I was told to do something at that point, I had to do it. And I was there just about all day sometimes all day and all night. Did I like it? No, I didn’t like it at all. Not at all. Because I figured, how am I going to earn money if I’m sitting around here? But there was times I’d come in, just report in and able to go back home.

There were times when I would told Andrew, andrew, I’m busy, you know, today. I got a couple of things going on. Can I leave? Sure. No problem or no, you got to stay one of the two. So when you’re a recruit, you’re at the beck and call of your copper regime. That’s it. And that lasted for two and a half years. Two and a half years. As things progressed a little bit, I had a little bit more freedom because I started earning some money. And I was bringing money into the table. When you bring money in, you get some leeway when it comes to that.

So what did I do? A couple of things that I did back then. You know, I ran this flea market for a guy, this guy, Vinnie Vingo. Nice guy. I ran that on the weekends, you know, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I made a lot of money, lot of money there because I was shylocking money that. That I made to. To the guy. Some of the vendors was a great business. I was giving them money so that they go out and buy their merchandise, whatever it is they were selling. I also took money for them to get a better space in the market.

I was racking it up with Vinnie. I let him know about it. So I was making a lot of money on the weekends. And then early on I was on trial. I got as a recruit, I was indicted four times. Four times I was indicted and I was on trial for almost 13 months. 13 months. Now when I was on trial, what did I do? I had to go to Nassau county court every single day. They were all state cases at that time. And I was tied up in court for nine hours, 10 hours. But then afterwards I had to discuss things with my lawyer.

Just terrible really. Fortunately, acquitted, dismissed in every case. So that was that. And then at night I would try to go do a couple of things to earn a living. A couple of things meaning what? Whatever, you know, I had involved in an automobile dealership during that time. Long story, I’m not going to get into that. How I got the dealership was a Mazda agency. I took it at a time when you couldn’t give a Mazda away because the Wankel engines were all blowing up and the cars weren’t selling well. I took an agency that was dead and I revitalized it and you know, after many, many years, sold it for a lot of money.

But. So I would work in my agency at night. You know, when I say work, I would, you know, I was the boss. But I had to get everything in order. My parts department, my service department, my sales department had to get everything in order. How to hire the right people, make sure things were going. Our showroom was usually open till 9 or 10 o’, clock, so I couldn’t be there during the day. I hired a great sales manager, kind of a general manager to run things when I wasn’t there. So I had to do that.

And we built that business even during the time I was on trial. But, so that was that kind of phase of my life then. And, and don’t let me leave out this, you know, I would try to go home every day at like 5, 6 o’ clock and have dinner with the family. At that time was my ex wife and my three little children. I would try to have dinner with them, spend time with them. And then 9:30, 10:00 clock, I got picked up again and I went out. Where did we go? Mostly to a club.

If I didn’t have a meeting, it was to a club. Maybe Andrew would have called me. You got to come back into Brooklyn. I need you tonight. Boom. Back into Brooklyn. I was constantly, constantly busy as a recruit. Constantly busy trying to build my business, pay for my lawyers, trying to do what I had to do to become a made guy. Always on call. So that was pretty, pretty hectic. And I was young, you know, I got. I was made a recruit at the age of 21 and that lasted until I was 24. So it was almost three years, two and a half years at that time.

So. And then let’s switch to now. I got made. My friends, you may not have heard, but I now have a wine branded in my name. Franz East Wine. I’m very proud of it. It comes from the world’s first vineyards. We have alcoholic wine and non alcoholic wine. Several varieties, fruit varieties, you’re going to love it. Different than anywhere you’ve ever tasted before. So enjoy this with your friends. Go to Franzeswine.com an offer you shouldn’t refuse, but a taste you’re going to love. And yes, people, you’re going to ask, what did I have to do as a recruitment? I’ve answered that already.

You, you know where I stand on that. Anything I was told to do, let’s leave it at that. Now I get made. Halloween night, 1975. This Halloween is going to be my 50th anniversary as being a maid guy. Michael, do you still consider yourself a made guy? Well, I’m on the shelf. I’m not a practicing maid guy, but look, what I know about I took the oath. What I know about the life is in my heart and my mind. Not easily forgotten. Am I a practicing mobster anymore? Am I a practicing made guy? No, I’m not.

But did ever take it away from you? The expression is they put you on the shelf or they kill you. One of the two. So maybe I’m on the shelf. I can’t participate in any mob dealings. Don’t want to. But it’s my 50th anniversary for taking that oath. Halloween night, 1975. I know there’s some people that disagree with the date, but that was the date. How do I know that was the year I got married? Shortly after I got married. I know that. You don’t forget that it was the year that I got married to my first wife.

So it’s very clear. Many incidents happened in 75 that I’m aware of and I’m not making a mistake. And you know, they did open the books early and they did bring a group of us in there early. Yes, I was one of the first to get made out of respect for my dad too, because he wanted it. He couldn’t communicate with anybody. He was in jail. We were trying to get them out. So they gave him the respect of pushing me up front. Do I have to earn it? Yeah, I had to earn it. But the guys that could have went before me, but they respected my father, and they put me in there early on so I can be a help to my father.

And then once. Once I got made, my father made me his acting capo because he was a capo, Jimene, but he couldn’t exercise it when he was in prison, and when he was on parole, he couldn’t do anything. That’s why he kept getting violated. So I would do things in his behalf. I was his acting capo until I became official, until Junior made me official. So that was it. Now I get made. Now I’ve got more freedom because I didn’t have to report into Brooklyn every day. When Andrew called me, he was still my captain at that time.

And then Jyoti became my captain for a while when Andrew. Things changed under Junior when Junior was home. But I had more freedom at that point. I was building my businesses. So here’s the deal. Up early again. Spend time with the kids and my ex wife in the morning, and then, boom, I’m gone. Usually at that time, I went off to my Mazda agency. That’s where my offices were. I checked in, had a few meetings there every once in a while. And then at times, I would head to Brooklyn or I would head to my headquarters.

I had a place in Long island where I would go and meet up with my crew. I had a crew of guys, you know, Frankie G. Vinnie Aspromonte, you know Sally, all these guys that, you know, that I had on up to get into all of that. And I sat down with them and listened to what they had to say. You know, they always had to meet me about something. Who was getting involved in business, who was this? Who was that, whatever. You know, I got to tell you some stories about Frankie G. He was a.

He was one of the high notes in my life. He was so classic. There was nobody like him that I knew. He was crazy, I got to tell you. Two incidents. I think I might have mentioned one of these before, but, you know, there was one time my mother was rough. She didn’t pay a bill or something, and somebody was being very nasty with her. I forget what kind of bill it was probably a utility bill, maybe a loan that she had. I don’t know. But we got a little bit out of hand with her on the phone, and she told me about it, and I said, okay, Mom, I’ll take care of it.

So I Sent Frankie G. To meet this guy, right? He gave the guy a beating. And he told him, anytime I ever see you anywhere, I’m going to give you a beating anytime, right? And he told me that. I said, great, thank you. We’re in a. We’re in a car. We’re going to a wedding. We’re all dressed up. It’s nice. I think it was Saturday night or Sunday. We’re going to a wedding. We pull into a gas station, right? And Frankie’s sitting in the back. I’m in the passenger seat. Louie, I think, was driving. And Frankie’s sitting in the back.

And he goes, oh, man. Chief, I said, what? He said, you know that guy? I said, anytime I see him, I was going to beat him up, give him a beating. He said, he’s over there. He’s filling his car up with gas. I said, okay. I said, what are you gonna do? He said, come on, you know, he didn’t see me. I don’t have to get out. I mean, I’m dressed in a suit. I says, what do you mean by that? You’re not gonna keep your word? You’re part of my crew. You told this guy you were gonna give him a beating.

Anytime you saw him, you saw him get out of the car. Frankie, go. He gets out of the car. I’ll never forget. When the guy sees him, I forget his name. When the guy sees him, he screams. He starts to run. Frankie takes off after him. And he catches him. Because the guy stops and catches him. And boom. He smacks him around. He got him down on the floor. He gets back in the car. He’s all disheveled now, right? And he ripped his little suit pant. He ripped the knee of his pants. And me and my guys were laughing.

Louie’s laughing. Frankie is. The other Frankie Sistaro is laughing. He gets back in the car. Ah, Chief, why’d you make me do it? I said, I’m so proud of you. You kept your word. Don’t ever dishonor this family or this crew by not keeping your word. And we went off right. He was so funny, I got to tell you. Another time, he and I both had boats, you know, I got to tell you, anytime I needed a boat, I sent Frankie out. Frankie, go do your research. I want the best boat for the money that I want to spend.

Get it for me. He would do it. I wanted to buy a house or something. Frankie, I need to spend X amount of dollars. Go out and find me a good house. He did. He found my house. In Florida, Delray beach, right? Crazy guy. Anyway, we’re in a long. We’re in Long island, it was a beautiful day, and we’re in our boats and we’re racing. Now, you got to know how Long island is. The water is very shallow in places. If you go outside the buoy, you could be in water this deep, right? Sand this deep.

So we’re racing, we’re racing. And as we’re driving, he goes outside the buoy and I’m looking at him and I’m waving him in. Get in here, get in here. You know, because I see him and we’re both racing. He don’t listen. I gotta tell you this people, it was. I gotta tell you, all of a sudden his boat is going like this, and then it goes and it stops. He hits the sandbar or whatever because the water was probably two feet deep. And boom, he goes, I’m not kidding you. He flies through the glass on his boat, you know, he had the windshield up through the glass, boom.

Tumbles over and into the water. I said, oh, my God, he’s dead. Guaranteed. I’m telling Louie. Lou’s laughing, you know, Frank, it was the same guys I had around me. Vinnie was there. I remember Vinnie Aspromonte, my butcher. And they’re laughing. I said, what do you laugh? The guy’s dead. He ain’t going to get up, right? So we’re trying to circle around. We can’t get close enough because he went outside the buoy, right? All of a sudden, guys, people, I got to tell you, out of nowhere, he comes out of the water with his hands, I’ll never forget, like this, and blood all over him, right? And he comes out, he looked like a zombie or something.

We cracked up laughing. We couldn’t help it, right? We cracked up laughing. I said, get over here, swim over here, get in the boat. We got to take you to the hospital, he said. We pulled him into the boat and, you know, it’s sad because he was hurt. He was hurt. I mean, he didn’t break anything. But fortunately, he must have a rock hard head. But we got him and we got him into the hospital, got him patched up. But that was Frankie G. He was classic. I missed the guy. I’ll be honest with you. You know, he did a lot of time in prison.

He did 15 years. Always stood up. He was loyal. He was crazy, but he was loyal. I told you the other time when we all got indicted by Giuliani, but he wasn’t part of the indictment. And I Had just gotten out. I bailed out. And he comes to my house at 6 in the morning. He rings the bell. I open up the door, I said, what do you want? It’s six in the morning. He says, what’s wrong? I ain’t part of this crew. They don’t indict me. Everybody’s gonna think I’m a rat. Why didn’t they indict me? And I looked at him, I said, you mad that you weren’t indicted? I says, go and take my place.

I said, get out of here. I shut down. You’re out of your mind. Shut the door. Made him leave. But he was upset. He was upset that he didn’t get indicted. Crazy guy. But anyway, he passed away about two, three years ago. And I love Frankie. I really did. He was. He was one of my good guys. Crazy, but one of my good guys, I got to say. And he was good for me in the gas business, you know, he made a lot of money. But anyway, so I lost track. But anyway, so I go to the dealership and then meet with the guys that I had to meet with and then once again, spend some time doing whatever business I did.

Go home, 5:30, 6:00 clock, most of the time, have dinner with the family, see the kids, put them to bed, 9:30, 10 o’, clock, boom. Got picked up, went out and we went to whatever club we went to, met with some of the other guys from the other family. If there was a dispute, if there was anything, maybe a club that I was involved in, we went to check it out. And yeah, we did party. We had a good time at that time, Channel 80, you know, a bunch of clubs that I used to be involved in and frequent.

And then I’d get home, 1, 2 in the morning, boom. Same routine, up again at 5 o’. Clock. Now, when I was in trial with the feds, little bit different. Now at that time, I was in the gas business. And I have to tell you, so much of my involvement during the day. And this is after I got made a captain by Junior. So much was sitting down, resolving disputes either with my guys or somebody else in the gas business that was trying to get involved with us. I was sitting down constantly because everybody wanted to get involved in that operation.

And I had told Junior that. I said, junior, that’s why you got to make sure I win every argument. Because if we start opening it up and letting other people in, we’re going to blow it. We got to keep this tight. We. I never lost an argument. Junior supported Me giving him a couple of million dollars a week. Why wouldn’t he? But I’m saying he supported me. But I had to sit down quite a bit with other people from other families, even my own little Vic Arena. And I don’t want to get into all those stories, but I had to sit down with quite a bit.

It was a big part of my life as a captain and my life as a soldier before he made me a captain, no doubt, but did a lot of that. Met with my own crew quite a bit. We had a lot of fun. You know, we had time at that time, I had my own plane, I have my own helicopter. We used to, you know, take small trips and have some fun, whether it be Atlantic City, wherever the heck we went. We had some good times. Sunday, family Day. I would never go out. Always spent it with the family from morning to night.

Didn’t go out to a club or anything. Saturday night, always with my wife. And most of the day on Saturday, I tried to stay with the family. Did I neglect my family at that point? Not financially, no. Time wise, yeah, I think I did. Yeah. I could have spent more time with them, but I was so involved in business and being a part of that life. And I was young and I was aggressive and didn’t always have all my priorities in place. And yeah, there was a big demand on my time. You know, when you got a crew of guys around you, it’s a lot.

And you got businesses that you’re trying to work, I mean, it was a lot. So did I neglect my family as far as giving them the proper time back then? Yes, no question about it. And do I regret that? Yeah, I do. I mean, I obviously do. And then, of course, with my children, you know, from my first marriage, I went to prison. I went off. I was away from them for so long. And that’s part of my regrets. And I take full responsibility for that. No question about it. It’s all on me. I was part of that life.

I did what I did and that’s what happened. And my first marriage fell apart. We grew apart at that point. I don’t want to get into all of it. She was a good woman. I have nothing negative to say about her whatsoever. Nothing. She raised my kids without me being there. She was a good woman, is a good woman. I have no issues with that whatsoever. Unfortunately. She was married to me, who had nothing but headaches going on during that time as a member of that life. But, you know, and you grow apart when you don’t give time to your family, people, and you don’t give time to your kid.

You grow apart in a marriage. There’s no question about it. It happens, and you got to take responsibility for it. You got to have your priorities straight. You know, even now, I have so many men that come to me. Yeah, they’re successful businessmen, but their marriage, their family life is not good because it’s not prioritized. Yeah, they take care of them. They got all their needs handled financially, but they don’t have you. I said, believe me, I understand. I did that, too. Can’t do that. That’s not the mistake I made the second time around, other than the time that I was in prison, you know, that was it.

But so that was my life back then, you know, Saturday and Sunday. Much of the time as I can, I spent with my family. During the week, I was out constantly doing my thing, whether it be mob thing, legitimate business. I was pretty much a routine guy in that regard. I thought it good to stay to routines at that time. When I was on trial, it was different. When I was on federal trial in the Southern district of New York under Giuliani, I’d have to get up early every morning. I would. It would be great for me because I would take my helicopter from Long island into Manhattan, and it took me like 19 minutes, you know, or 17 minutes to get into Manhattan, where other people in traffic and everything would take them two hours, two and a half hours.

I used to tease the feds. Some of them came from Long Island. When we used to wrap up, you know, at the end of the day, I would say, hey, come on. Come with me. Come in a helicopter. I said, oh, yeah, leave your car here. I’ll drive you back in the morning. I said, we got to take two and a half hours with all the traffic coming home. I get you home in 19 minutes. And I was really. I knew they couldn’t come, you know, during a trial, they wouldn’t be allowed to come. But I was kind of mocking them, you know, making fun of it back then.

I enjoyed that. You know, I didn’t like them back then, but they would go, you know, mike, we can’t. You know, all that. I said, come on and get you home in 19 minutes. Where do you got to go in that traffic? Come on, let’s go. Now, as we don’t have to talk about the case, I would tease them like that. But anyway. And that was for several months that I was on trial. It was a pain in the neck. I didn’t get home at night till 6:30, 7 o’, clock, sometimes later, when you’re talking to the lawyer about what was going to happen the next day.

And that went on for several months until I was acquitted. And then I would go out at night. I would have to go out at night to do some business. I was exhausted just from sitting on trial every day and listening to all the baloney you got to listen to. But that was my day. So let me sum it up. Day in the life of my life as a mobster back then, okay, up early in the morning, spend some time with the family, out by 9 o’. Clock. You know, kids go to school, have a cup of coffee with the wife, and then I’m out all day until 5, 6 o’.

Clock. Mob business, legit business, New York business, Brooklyn business, whatever. Long island, boom. Come home, have dinner with the family, see the kids, tuck them in bed, boom, nine, ten o’, clock, I’m out again. We’re in a club till, you know, 1, 2 in the morning, back home, and then it starts all over again. When I was on trial, different trial every day. Come home, have dinner then, yes, if I was able to come home from dinner, not with the lawyers, yes, still go out at night. It was a grind. It was a grind. It was pretty exhausting.

But I was young and I was able to do it. Now, life in prison, a little bit different. Of course, when I met Camille, my current wife, a little bit different. You know, I realized the mistakes I made the first time around wasn’t going to do that again. But obviously, I went to prison for eight years. I was out of her life and our little babies at the time. So it was prison life. I don’t have to tell you, it’s boring. What do I tell you? You know, you get up in the morning, you go out in the yard.

If you’re in a hole, there’s nothing to do. You’re sitting in the same spot and you’re reading or listening to your Sony Walkman, waiting to get on a phone call or maybe a visit. I don’t have to go through prison life. I think most of you know what it is. But that pretty much sums up, you know, days back then, you know, versus days now. I’m pretty much a creature of habit. I like to be on a schedule of my own that I can make. I’m an early riser still. I don’t require a lot of sleep.

I never have. I don’t go out at night anymore unless I’m with my wife. I don’t do any of that. I’m usually home and in bed fairly early, you know, 9, 30, 10 o’. Clock. Do I go to sleep at that time? No. Watch the news. Me and my wife talk, we watch a movie or whatever. But I’m pretty much now because I have a little more leeway. 74 years old, you know, can do things differently. I get up early, we have a routine. I bring my wife coffee in the morning, she makes it at night on the timer, you know how that goes.

And I go down and get it for us in the morning. We usually spend a little time in bed. We drink our coffee, watch the news, talk a little bit, and then we go to the gym. She’s a lot more dedicated than I am. You know, she’s there every day. That’s why she’s in wonderful shape and still as beautiful as ever and. But that’s part of her life. She’s always been that way, always taking care of herself, always into exercise, always into nutrition and that’s it. And boy, it pays off. I am not as dedicated as her.

I try to get my two or three times a week in. I still sometimes make business a priority over that. I shouldn’t. But I’m pretty good, I’m pretty good at it and try to keep myself healthy. You know how I preach at the end of every, you know, video, stay healthy. I believe that and, you know, praise God, I’m in pretty good health. So after that we start our day. Usually I’ll get on the phone, get on, you know, the Internet and answer emails and all that kind of stuff. In the morning when I’m up really early, I’ll read my news, my media online.

Not newspaper, but I read it online. I’ll do a little Bible study. I have somebody that sends me a devotional every day. I read through that and I get my spiritual thoughts in place. Don’t spend a lot of time, but I spend enough to give me nutrition for the day. I think that’s very important. And then I look at what my schedule is. It’s different. I have to film quite a bit because content, content, content to support my businesses and, you know, marketing wise and also to support what I do. So I have my team, I have a team of people that work with my wine company also.

They do all the marketing and so they’re giving me, this is what we need from you, this is what we need from you. This and that and everything else. So my wife, who does the filming, we sit down, we put our schedule together and Then we film like I’m doing right now. So that normally takes up a couple hours. If I have a meeting outside, I go to a meeting. Whether it pertains to the wine business, my pizza business, a lot. My partners keep me very busy because we’re building two businesses that I, I’m very high on.

I really am very happy with both and the progress that we’ve made over the years. And so I continue to give it as big an effort as I possibly can. Obviously, Franz east wine is my brand, so it’s built around me with a terrific wine. And by the way, this is, this is my cherry wine. These fruit wines are great. People are loving them. Flying off the shelves. This is my fruit wine, is my cherry. And it’s very good, really good. My favorite happens to be the BlackBerry and the strawberry. I like them both. Strawberry is fairly new.

And the pomegranate, not one of my favorites. But the pomegram seems to be a fan favorite, I would say, because again, flying off the shelves, all of them are. So I put a lot of time into that. And then I spend a lot of time with my wife and I spend a lot of time with my kids. We always eat dinner together, unless I’m traveling. Like, there’s a lot of weekends that I’m leaving, you know, to go and speak. I do that quite often, 25, 30, 40 events a year. So if I’m doing that well, then obviously the schedule is upside down.

When I’m home on the weekends, I’m with my wife and my kids. Mostly my wife, the kids that come, they go, whatever, but they’re around Sundays. We always try to have dinner together. We go to church usually at 12 o’ clock service with Pastor Greg Laurie at Harvest. We love that. And then we go for brunch quite often and then we come to the house. The kids usually come around. My wife either cook dinner or we go out for dinner at night. And then we’ll be home. We’ll. We’ll watch a movie late at night and then the whole routine starts again.

So my priorities now, obviously taking care of business, but spending as much time as my wife and children and now my grandchildren as I possibly could. So this was very informal. I didn’t give you like a routine with a schedule. 8:00am, 9:00am, 10:00am no, we didn’t do that. But, you know, that’s what it’s about now. And people, I will tell you, make time for God and family so important. You know, we lose track of that, we lose sense of that. Sometimes. And I get it. Look, we got to work, we got to support ourselves. Business is important.

We want comfort in life. But you got to make time for what’s most important, and that is God and family. There’s no question about it. You know, I think I have some wisdom in that regard. After being married for 40 years and then married prior to that, and, you know, there’s no substitution for that whatsoever. You got to get your priorities in order. There’s no question, get them in order. God first, family. Right on par with that, obviously. And, and then do everything else that you have to do. But if you don’t have your priorities in order, most of the times you’re going to mess up, I can tell you that.

There’s no doubt about it, you’re going to mess up. Set your priorities straight early on and make sure the priorities are the right ones. Don’t make them the wrong ones because that’ll lead you down the wrong path. No question about it. So that’s the day in the life pretty much. I gave you more than one day. I gave you more than, you know, one era, so to speak, one set of circumstances. But that’s how I live my life. And now I’m very blessed. And yeah, I have challenges and yes, I have struggles and businesses up and business is down and sometimes you have family issues and you know, God forbid things don’t go well on a certain day.

Nothing’s going to change in that regard. We live in the real world, you know, and we’re going to have challenges. And I always tell people this. God never promised us heaven on earth. He promised us heaven in heaven. And he said, be prepared for challenges that you’re going to have in everyday life. That God isn’t upset with you. He’s not, not listening to your prayer. We just live in a fallen world and we’re going to deal with it. But for us who believe in Jesus Christ, we know there’s a far better place that we’re going to for all of eternity.

We’re just passing through this world and it is what it is. We didn’t create the Garden of Eden, we didn’t create those set of circumstances, but we’ve suffered as a result, so we got to deal with it. But God has our backs. For those of us that believe in him, no question about it. For all the struggles and all the challenges, I can say that. So that’s the days in the life of Michael Franzese once, Michael Franzese today. That’s it. Hope you enjoyed it. You know, little interest that we’re giving you on different topics. That’s it.

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