Ray: My favorite thing to do in my free time is watch sports, specifically baseball and decompress. Along with trying new restaurants around the city.
Justin: My favorite thing to do in my free time is watch movies and try new activities. I also enjoy playing with my two shih tzu dogs.

Ray: An essential part of my daily routine is making my pour over coffee when I get to the office. I first ground my fresh coffee beans and then pour them in the filter within the pour over brewer. Then, I grab my kettle with hot water and start pouring it over in a circular motion, while the coffee aroma fills the office. This gets me calm, focused and ready to start my day since every single day is different as an entrepreneur and always hectic and busy.
Justin: An essential part of my daily routine is meditating in the morning when I wake up. I am constantly on my phone and laptop, so it is really nice to wake up and madidate before starting my day with a fresh and clear mind. Also, another essential part is working out after a long day of work. I enjoy working out as not only does it get me in a well-rested mindset before ending the day, but it also helps me destress daily.

Ray: My biggest pet peeve is not having attention to detail. My first job out of college as an investment banking analyst trained me to be very attentive to detail. From the way certain texts are portrayed and laid out on powerpoint presentations to the grammatical nature of a sentence to the message the photo is sending across. This is something that I bring to our in-house creative team when editing certain assets and those details really do make a difference in how our brand, The Plug, is portrayed. This is why not having attention to detail is my biggest pet peeve.
Justin: My biggest pet peeve is when someone tells me that they will have something finished by a certain date and they do not finish it by that date. As long as I receive a heads up that is fine, but for me I am a very schedule oriented person, so when something is not done at a specific date as requested it throws off my scheduled events and plans whether it is for The Plug Drink and our different projects we work on daily within the company.

Most people don’t know that I actually was the assistant baseball pitching coach for NYU while I was working on wall street. After I would get out of work around 8pm, I would get ready and head to NYU and we would go to our NJ facility to train until 2am. I really enjoyed it since I had just graduated playing baseball all four years as the closing pitcher for The University of Chicago so it was great giving back to the NYU baseball pitchers giving advice where I could. I would also travel to Coney Island where our games were played and it was an interesting experience being in the same dougout, but as a coach, which I had never done before.
Justin: One thing that most people do not know about me is that I was a runner up to be on America’s Next Top Model for Cycle 21.

Ray: I want to be remembered for helping innovate a new emerging “liver health drink” category with my brother by bringing awareness to one’s liver health through The Plug Drink. Also by sitting at the hybrid of science and marketing, I want to be remembered by bringing The Plug Drink to the masses as a household product, positively impacting people’s lives both young and old.
Justin: I want to be remembered for bringing a proven concept from their parent’s home country and westernizing it. Every country has unique concepts that work very well in each respective country and being able to westernize a proven concept in a different country is something that is very important as each country begins to become more cultured each year.