Mark Masa
California law enforcement officer, former youth preacher, and credit card processing entrepreneur (@pinoy.payments)
Mark Masa (California law enforcement officer, former youth preacher, and credit card processing entrepreneur (@pinoy.payments)) has appeared as a guest on 1 episode in TMT. Topics they speak about most include Personal accountability, Entrepreneurship, Credit card processing.
In their words
Positions and remarks grouped by topic, each with the exact quote and where it was said.
Personal accountability
Masa advises people who feel too average to succeed to find their purpose, their why.
“Finding your why gets you off the tracks and gets you to where you want to go”
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex: From Police Academy Reject to Building a Credit Card Processing Business ft. Mark Masa (Aug 5, 2025) · Listen from 1:07:11
Masa argues a negative environment makes it easy to be pulled down, comparing it to standing on a table.
“When you have an environment that drags you down, it's a lot easier”
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex: From Police Academy Reject to Building a Credit Card Processing Business ft. Mark Masa (Aug 5, 2025) · Listen from 49:09
Masa says his father taught him never to forget where he came from, warning that forgetting is when one begins to fall.
“Never forget where you came from because that's when you begin to fall”
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex: From Police Academy Reject to Building a Credit Card Processing Business ft. Mark Masa (Aug 5, 2025) · Listen from 3:39
Entrepreneurship
Masa says he hired a virtual assistant in the Philippines for affordability and Tagalog fluency to build trust with Filipino business owners.
“the reason why I hired my VA out of the Philippines, one, it's affordable. But two is they can speak Tagalog”
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex: From Police Academy Reject to Building a Credit Card Processing Business ft. Mark Masa (Aug 5, 2025) · Listen from 56:30
Masa argues that fear of the unknown in business diminishes once a person realizes their mission is helping people.
“So that fear gets diminished when you realize that the mission is actually helping people”
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex: From Police Academy Reject to Building a Credit Card Processing Business ft. Mark Masa (Aug 5, 2025) · Listen from 11:19
Credit card processing
- Prediction · being checked
Masa states his goal is to reach 30 merchant accounts by December 2025, up from five.
“So I want to get to 30. 30 accounts”
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex: From Police Academy Reject to Building a Credit Card Processing Business ft. Mark Masa (Aug 5, 2025) · Listen from 55:23
Masa says lead acquisition is the hardest part of his processing business and plans to use a virtual assistant to address it.
“The hardest part that I'm running into right now is lead acquisition”
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex: From Police Academy Reject to Building a Credit Card Processing Business ft. Mark Masa (Aug 5, 2025) · Listen from 54:46
Police recruitment
Masa advises police applicants to prioritize running and fitness, saying officers forfeit the right to be unfit.
“Once you go into law enforcement, you give up the right to be unfit”
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex: From Police Academy Reject to Building a Credit Card Processing Business ft. Mark Masa (Aug 5, 2025) · Listen from 28:53
Masa believes he was rejected by a sheriff's department panel because interviewers judged his youthful appearance.
“But that was people just immediately judging me for what I looked like”
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex: From Police Academy Reject to Building a Credit Card Processing Business ft. Mark Masa (Aug 5, 2025) · Listen from 26:22
Other remarks
Masa urges listeners to vote for Chad Bianco, saying it would help change California.
“And vote for Bianco. That's going to help change California”
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex: From Police Academy Reject to Building a Credit Card Processing Business ft. Mark Masa (Aug 5, 2025) · Listen from 1:07:07
Christianity
Masa argues that God created humans to work, citing the Garden of Eden.
“God created us to work. Purpose. The Garden of Eden was created for Adam and Eve to work in”
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex: From Police Academy Reject to Building a Credit Card Processing Business ft. Mark Masa (Aug 5, 2025) · Listen from 1:07:07
Parable of the talents
Masa draws from the parable of the talents that investors should focus on multiplying what they have.
“So for us that are investors, we're looking to see not how much we have but how much we can multiply that”
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex: From Police Academy Reject to Building a Credit Card Processing Business ft. Mark Masa (Aug 5, 2025) · Listen from 1:05:51
Grace Community Church
Masa says his late pastor's church stayed open during COVID and was sued by Gavin Newsom.
“He was sued by Gavin Newsom. Our church was one of the only churches open during COVID”
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex: From Police Academy Reject to Building a Credit Card Processing Business ft. Mark Masa (Aug 5, 2025) · Listen from 1:03:05
Cash discount program
Masa describes his business as moving card processing fees onto consumers through the cash discount program, which he calls the only legal way to do so.
“we go through the only legal way to transfer that fee onto the consumer called the cash discount program”
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex: From Police Academy Reject to Building a Credit Card Processing Business ft. Mark Masa (Aug 5, 2025) · Listen from 53:39
Media portrayal of police
Masa argues police are disadvantaged in the media because they cannot disclose details of open cases.
“is fighting with their hands tied behind their backs in the media space”
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex: From Police Academy Reject to Building a Credit Card Processing Business ft. Mark Masa (Aug 5, 2025) · Listen from 35:57
Predictions
1 pending
- Prediction · being checked
Masa states his goal is to reach 30 merchant accounts by December 2025, up from five.
“So I want to get to 30. 30 accounts”
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex: From Police Academy Reject to Building a Credit Card Processing Business ft. Mark Masa (Aug 5, 2025) · Listen from 55:23 · Credit card processing
Appearances
From Police Academy Reject to Building a Credit Card Processing Business ft. Mark MasaThe Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex · Aug 5, 2025 · 1 h 15 min
Host Paul Alex talks with police officer Mark Masa about his rejections, law enforcement career, Christian faith, and starting a credit card processing business.
Often appears with
- Paul Alex · 1 shared episode