Digital Social Hour - From Collapsed Lung to Crushing It: A CEO's Journey | Zachary Del Monaco DSH #1072

Episode Date: January 8, 2025

From a collapsed lung and near-death experience to becoming a purpose-driven CEO - Zachary Del Monaco shares his incredible transformation story. 🏥 After battling severe scoliosis that collapsed his lung and left him unable to walk, Zach discovered his true calling in helping others live healthier, more powerful lives.  In this raw and inspiring conversation, you'll discover how a devastating spinal surgery during COVID became the catalyst for complete life transformation. Learn how Zach rebuilt himself physically and mentally, transitioning from construction industry work to founding Delmonico Events with a mission to prevent suicide and transform lives through health education. Watch as Zach opens up about his journey from rock bottom - including relearning to walk, hitting financial struggles, and ultimately finding his life's purpose in speaking and event production. He shares powerful insights on everything from healing protocols and business pivots to building genuine relationships and overcoming life's biggest challenges. This conversation is packed with valuable lessons on resilience, finding your purpose, and transforming pain into power. Perfect for entrepreneurs, health enthusiasts, and anyone seeking inspiration to overcome their own obstacles.  Follow Zach's journey: Instagram & TikTok: @zachdelmonaco #businessdevelopment #selfimprovement #businesscoaching #kickstartyourentrepreneurjourney #discomfortleadstogrowth CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:29 - Zachary's Recent Travels 01:22 - Zachary's Career Developments 05:01 - Today's Sponsor: Prolon 07:19 - Party Phase 08:58 - Sparked Your Health Journey 13:11 - Gary Knows Your Story? 17:17 - Was Surgery the Right Move? 19:00 - Your Surgery Experience 22:25 - Support in Low Moments 23:10 - Your Lowest Moments 33:11 - What's Next for Zachary 33:19 - Delmonico Events 40:48 - Where to Find Zachary APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [e-mail] GUEST: Zachary Del Monaco https://www.instagram.com/zachdelmonaco https://elanvital.club/zach SPONSORS: Prolon: http://prolonlife.com/DSH LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/

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what can I do for you? Can I give you more medicine? And I was just so pissed off, so fed up that I was in this pain that no one knew what the hell they were doing. Plus it was during COVID, so no one really could be in the room. So I remember just looking up and I'm like,

Lord, I don't want to go through this anymore. Just take me away. Whoa. I'm done. Just take me. If this is going to be like this. All right, guys. Got Zachary here today from Long Island.

Thanks for coming in today, man. Always, man. Thank you. What you been up to lately? Came on, when did we come? We came in Saturday. Okay. And leaving today, man. I always might, thank you. What you been up to lately? Came on, when did we come? We came in Saturday. Okay. And leaving today, but yesterday we did a flight to Grand Canyon back, so.

Nice. Just been chilling, relaxing. I haven't been there yet, how was it? It was beautiful. Did you go like all the way in or? Yeah, we took helicopter. Oh. And straight down, I think we stayed there

for like 15 minutes. Okay. But just so insane. Was it quiet? How was it down there? Yeah, really quiet. Yeah, I'd imagine it's like super quiet and was there any animals?

No, apparently they said there's a lot of wild horses. Wild horses? Yeah, wild horse, different animals, but we didn't see anything. Damn. Yeah. Yeah, I'm big on nature, so I got to make that a trip. It was so beautiful.

You should go, definitely. It's about a two hour trip. So you have to fly there? Yeah, you can fly there. It's about an hour trip there. And then you say probably 15 minutes, come back another hour. Nice. So nice.

Beautiful. You've been traveling a lot lately? No, actually. Really? So like two, a year and a half, two years ago, I was traveling a lot with different events. But recently in the past couple of six months, I been in New York just working with my dad

on his construction company. So they settled. So Delmonico Events is kind of put to the side a little bit? Well, Delmonico Events now is up and running. Got it. So I was basically traveling a lot. And then I basically put all that on Paul us to come back. My dad owns a construction company

called Red Rock Industries. We build car dealerships, recycling facilities. So I basically said that I want to go all in and focus on Red Rock to help me blow it up, social media and everything. Like that was my game plan to go all in. And then that fell through actually, something happened. We were posting some amazing videos.

I was doing amazing with the content. Really creating brand and a couple of videos went up, a couple of clients didn't like it, things left and right. So I basically had to put that on pause and then my attention switched to Delmonico events. Got it. Yeah. Red Rock like the casino here or different Red Rock? Red Rock like the Grand Canyon.

Oh, Grand Canyon. Got it. Cause there's a Red Rock by my house out here. Know what? Yeah. That's where all the Nelk boys stay and stuff. Yeah. The, uh, the team's persuading me on moving here.

Oh yeah? I was supposed to be moving to Florida, like Brickle area in the next month, but I think they sold me. Damn. No, I really think they sold me. What was the selling point? They were telling me about all the events that happen here,

like every single week, and then also the weather, the pricing over here is just insane. You'll get a lot more bang for your buck here than Brickle. Brickle, you're not gonna get a house. You're gonna get an apartment. That's what we're looking at right now, but apparently what they were saying,

half the price, if that. And you get a four bedroom house for the same price as a Brickle apartment. It's ridiculous. Plus you're close to LA, you're close to Mexico, and the food's great, nightlife's good. Always events here, always conferences. F1's next week.

I heard about that. That's gonna be a big event. I'm sure a lot of your clientele will be at that event. That's crazy. Yeah, and then UFC's always here. Do you watch UFC? Yeah, Dana White. Yeah.

He lives here, right? Yep, a lot of big, Mark Wahlberg lives here. Yeah, networking's good out here, man. I think you'd like it. I can see. Yeah, New York's dope, but I feel like it's older money. Yeah. You know?

It's getting way more price. Out here, it's younger and it's more energy. We landed here on Saturday and I get off the plane and I start smiling and I looked at my dad and I told him, I don't know what it is, but I think I'm beginning to like this place a lot more. Does your dad like it here? Is he moving too?

He, I think he likes it here. He's just very used to New York lifestyle. Yeah. The fast paced. I think we're definitely gonna bring red rock down here for construction, but pretty sure the family is gonna move down to Florida somewhere around Palm Beach or something like that.

That's where everyone retires. Literally. Good old Palm Beach. Man, I felt so young when I went there. Holy crap. Crazy. Everyone's young when I went there. Holy crap. It's crazy. Everyone's got gray hair out there. Yeah, it's hard to be Palm Beach in Florida though.

I'd say Florida, Vegas, or top two for me right now. Yeah. New York's probably top five, but yeah, I don't know. City life is a little, I get over that. Me too. I've been, I think I told you my sister, I have't know. City life is a little, I get over that. Me too. I've been, I think I told you my sister, I have a twin sister. Yeah.

So she moved to Kips Bay and now I've been going back and forth. So usually on Thursdays or Fridays, I'd go in for the city, stay over, enjoy, get some brunch. So I'm liking it, but I don't think I could ever live there. Yeah. So you're super close with your sister? Yeah.

That's cool. Sometimes the twin stuff doesn't work out. We actually did it when we were younger. Oh, yeah? We went to the same school. All the way up in the shout out. Looking for the ultimate online casino experience? Step into the BetMGM Casino app, where every deal, spin,

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Use the code DSH at prolonlife.com slash DSH. Bill College, and I was so close with her like this. And I think, I'm pretty sure that that made her aggravated. She pushed away from me. So she didn't want to talk to me. She wanted to really hang around with me, or at least that's how it felt. So then pretty sure it was during high school and college, we went our different ways. I kind of split up.

And it's kind of the funny saying, you know, if you let someone go and they're met, they'll come back. So now our relationship's much closer, but it's rocky at times. Were you overprotective you think? Yeah. Yeah.

Plastic brother sister relationship, right? This one time we were in Aruba and we were out, she still mocks me to this day for it. We were out at a club and this guy came up to her and without even thinking, I instantly was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, like bye. And she had so aggravated at me again, cause like the protector, but I've been working on that.

So things getting better. I think it's human nature, right? Protect your family. 100%. Yeah, I'm an only child, but I can relate with that. If I had a sister I'd want to you know I want the best for her. Yeah, Aruba hookups probably not the move. No, no, definitely not. That sounds dangerous actually. It's Crazy. We haven't been there for like three four years actually. We used to go every single year. Damn. February break, but um Yeah, it was crazy. I didn't really like it that much. Aruba? Yeah. How come?

I was never one to be into like all the parting scenes and drinking. When I was in college and I was younger, I used to drink a little, but I never just liked going out to the clubs, a lot of music, drinking, people just completely stupid, doing reckless shit. And yeah, and then seeing the guys like grabbing the girls

and especially my sister with her friends, kind of like not paying attention at all. It's just like fight or flight system. Just go into that protector mode. So you were not the, you were the DD growing up. Basically, yeah. Nice. Basically.

Yeah, I got, I had a weird party phase for a bit, but I kind of got over it quick, honestly. Some people still party. It's like they're 30, they're 35 years old. It's like, damn dude. Yeah. When I got into my health and fitness journey, I was like super against drinking

and like going out and partying. And then started to realize that I was pushing a lot of people out because of that. So still on that kick myself, like being as focused as I can with health, fitness and mindset, but at the same time, I'm recognizing more and more

that people are gonna do that on a daily basis. It's fine if they do, just kind of be more of aware of it and learn actually how to properly drink if you're gonna drink, how to properly do that and just become the best version of yourself that you can be every single day,

even if you're gonna do this stuff. Cause people are gonna go out, sister goes out with her friends, my friends go out sometimes, but just work on making yourself as healthy as possible so that you can recover better the next day, not feeling like shit waking up, hung over and stuff. What sparked that health journey for you?

Cause you're pretty young, so. Yeah, so I had a spinal surgery about, I think it was three years ago where it was, it was major. So I was playing soccer in middle school. That was like my escape. Cause again, I was, I was shy. I couldn't even talk to anyone like right now, us doing this about five years ago, six years ago,

I would have been bright red sweating. It was horrible. I could not talk bright red, sweating. It was horrible. I could not talk to a single person. So my escape was fitness, was sports, specifically soccer and surfing. So I would play all the time, like that's 24 seven, cause it was my escape.

And then from there, I basically got really, really into looking like a king, like six pack abs built. And then I figured out who this guy, Gary Breckett was. And I dove all into him and it was just beginning to blow my mind on the different types of protocols that you could do, the different types of routines that you could do on a daily basis to make yourself feel absolutely amazing. So I got really interested in that dove into that. And then the scoliosis, the spinal surgery, I had 48% curve.

So it was literally, it was like a hunchback. It was crazy. When I was at the beach or at the pool or on the field taking my shirt off, so many people would look, cause it's like, you're just, it was bad. I have a 15% curve. You do?

Yeah. I just found out last week. Damn. To the left. How are you feeling with that? Now that I know about it, they told me I had it growing up. Damn. To the left. How you feeling with that? Now that I know about it, they told me I had it growing up. I never knew the degree.

15 is like not too bad, I guess. So I do want to fix it though. Yeah. 48% was hard because of how it looked, but at the same time when I was running for soccer and I was doing activities, I couldn't breathe because it was collapsing part of my lung. Whoa.

So I was going to yell that by my coach saying, why aren't you putting in more effort? Like you're not running at all in the field taking me on and off, yelling at me. And then I went in for the x-ray and I realized that it was collapsing half of my lung. Geez. So spent like six months building up all my muscles that I could and then surgery hit. And I was going into the surgery like, I got this man. I'm gonna beat the surgery. People are talking about like three to six months recovery.

Give me one month, I'll be done with it. That was not the case at all. I spent a week in the hospital not even being able to move at all. I remember the second night, the pills that they gave me couldn't even last. So I was feeling the pain of like a thousand knives and just fire right at your back. And I remember there was one of the nurses came in and she's like, what can I do for

you? Can I give you more medicine? And I was just so pissed off, so fed up that I was in this pain that no one knew what the hell they were doing. Plus it was during COVID, so no one really could be in the room. So I remember just looking up and I'm like, Lord, I don't want to go through this anymore. Just take me away. Well, I just, I'm done. Just take me if this is going to be like this. And then I, it's crazy. I'm pretty sure I blacked out right after that. Don't remember a single thing. Blacked out, fell asleep, woke up the next morning.

And ever since that day, I've just been working on myself every single day. I was wondering when the next time I'd be able to do one push-up was. So from that moment forward, every single morning, whether it was at college or now, wherever I am, I always try and get in the gym. I always try and get a lift in, get some weights in, go for a run, go for a walk. And then, like I said with Gary Brekka, just been learning how to be the most healthy human possible

that I can be because I hate feeling like shit. I used to get headaches every single day. I used to have IBS is what they told me. Learned that like none of that was true basically because I went down the deep rabbit hole. But yeah, that scoliosis surgery, I guess, was the turning point of my health journey and my mindset. And ever since then, I've just been focusing on learning

as much as possible with what I put in my body, with what I drink, with what I do on a daily basis. Because to me, the more I'm able to focus on what I put in my body and how I act on a daily basis, the better I feel, the better I'm going to be able to perform and show up for everyone else. Wow. Yeah. I love that, man.

Does Gary know your story? I don't think so, no. Dude, I'll let him know. Thank you. I met him at Grant's events. So my dad and I, we, I think this was like four years ago, I introduced him to Grant because I saw him online. And ever since that, we've just been going together.

Ten ex-growth con. Yeah. Nice. All the growth cons, a lot of his events. And that's where I met Gary because he came up on stage. And I'm like, who the hell is this guy? And he starts literally going to the audience, tell me any one of your problems.

And he starts solving them like instantly. I'm talking like anxiety, depression, headache, stomach issues, gas, bloating, like all this stuff, ADHD. And I was just so amazed. I actually pulled out my phone and started recording. And I remember bringing it back and I was sharing it with my whole family, with my friends.

And they're like, oh my God, this is insane. And then from then on, I started researching more about Gary and really learning about what he's saying and Superhuman Protocol, 10X Health, like all that stuff, all the supplements. I've do it on a daily basis and it just feels so amazing. And I love him. I absolutely love him.

He changed my life too, man. He's been on the show a couple of times. I did the protocol, did both tests, the gene test, found out I had some gene breaks that I had no idea about. The blood test, I was so deficient in so many things. It was mind blowing. And then I fixed all those and now I'm crushing it. It's crazy, because I used to have headaches and migraines

every single day and stomach issues. Like I used to go to school and halfway through the day, I'd go to the nurse and say, I have a headache, I have a stomach ache, used to go home every single day. Used to take Imodium, Pepto-Bismol, Advil, Tylenol, like every single thing just to numb it down. Went to the doctors and they said, you have IBS. And then they said, you have,

your mom passed down the trait for migraines. And it was just so shitty every single day. And then I listened to Gary and what he was saying and I took the gene test and sure enough, he goes, it showed that I have a gene break for two things. One is the MTHFR. And then I forgot what the other one was, but it basically explained my stomach and my head.

So I started taking the supplements and then I also started putting salt in my water every single morning. And ever since that, 90% headaches gone. Damn. Along with migraines, stomach issues, basically no more at all. And it was crazy to hear because I kept on getting them every single day to the point where it just aggravated me so much that I went down this rabbit hole. That's impressive.

What type of salt do you put in the water? I put soul salts. It's from this guy named Soulbra. Oh, he's been on the show. No way. Yeah, Soulbra. So met him, did a couple of events that he had. Him and Arlen and this guy Jan, we did a whole event.

So that's how I met him. Nice. Yeah, I have his salt that I bring with me wherever I go, dump it in my water. And then other than that, I have a couple of people who do the Celtic or the Baha Sea salt that I told them. I have the Celtic one, yeah.

I need to look into, it's okay, but now there's some new research on salts actually. I'm not sure if you've seen this, but the salts from the ocean, cause there's so many microplastics in. I'm not sure if you've seen this, but the salts from the ocean, because there's so many microplastics in the ocean, that you really got to do your research on what type of salt you're eating.

So I need to look into salt, bro. I trust that guy. He's a good dude. It's funny, he didn't reveal his face. For a while. Did you know that? He did it on my show, and I think it was the first time

he like revealed it or something. So you had to blur his face out. No, like he just did it the week before. Oh wow. So it was like good timing. Yeah, I was surprised because when we went on the event, Arlen told me, he goes, no one's able to take videos. Like you have to blur it out, don't get him in.

And then when he revealed his face, I'm like, oh my God, he's coming out after that, that's crazy. No, shout out to him. These days it's tough to have a brand without a face behind it because people want that trust factor. So I think it was the right move for him. Even though I could see why he wanted to do that.

He's got some powerful enemies. There's companies that don't want his knowledge out there. There's a lot. There's a lot out there. It goes deep. Yeah, shout out to him though. So you think that surgery was the right move though for scoliosis?

Yeah. Yeah. They were talking about doing nothing, which wasn't an option for scoliosis? Yeah. They were talking about doing nothing, which wasn't an option, because I was hurting almost every single day. The second thing that they were going to do is the brace, which that's not an option for me. I don't want to wear a brace at all, any time of the day. So I basically told them, I go, we're doing the surgery. Like, we were, I think it was the last checkup I was going in with my parents,

and I looked at them and I go, guys, is this happening? Whether you like it or not, I know they're going to tell me that we're getting the surgery. We're just going to do it, get it done with. And then when we were there, the guy actually told me, he goes, okay, we're going to have to do the spinal surgery. You're going to have to do spinal fusion. And I was fine with it

because that's the way that I wanted to go. But when he said that, it hit like a bag of bricks. I mean, you go into something and saying like, oh, I'm gonna beat this, I got this. Like you're all in your mind, right? You're all in your head, your ego. And then someone says it to you and it actually happens. And then reality, it's just like, what the hell, man?

It's crazy. Yeah. Did your sister have scoliosis too? No. So it wasn't genetic? No. I think they, I actually think both of them have it just on a minor degree, like five, 10%.

But I was, mine came out of nowhere. Oh, so you weren't born with it? No. So I was, I was the shortest one in my grade in middle school and in high school. And then once I got to high school, I forget what year it was in high school,

I shot up like massive. So that's what caused it? And yeah, my back, my spine couldn't keep up and shifted like that. Yeah. Crazy though. Yeah, I'm scared of the surgery, man. Hopefully I can manage mine. It's, are you doing surgery? I haven't even, I'm scared of the surgery man. Hopefully I can manage mine. It's

Are you doing surgery? I haven't even like I just found out last week that I had a 15 degree curve so I'm very new the Do you know where it is like, uh, I think it's upper. Yeah, and it curves to the left Personally I didn't want to do the the brace maybe you do if I don't know what they're going to tell you, but the surgery is a bitch for the recovery, at least for me. I mean, you couldn't move for a week. That is scary.

Couldn't move for a week. I was in the hospital bed. Getting up, I had to relearn how to walk every single day. Holy crap. Yeah. It was so weird because they, I had to get up to use the bathroom and then also they do daily walks.

Yeah. And they go, okay, get up now. Like they taught me how to get up, roll to your side, push. And I went to go do it and I wasn't moving. And I'm like, what the hell? And then I realized that I had literally no muscle, no strength in my back at all. So they had to grab me, they had to bring me,

and I had the little cane, the little walker. And I remember I was trying to take my first step and it was just really foreign to me, really weird. And every single time I would walk, it just, I didn't realize how much back muscles and core you use on a daily basis. I felt like a vegetable. I literally couldn't move.

Holy crap. But yeah, moving forward, then I got home from the hospital, which was one of the worst car rides I've ever had in my life. The doctor said, you can only be in a car for 45 minutes. And we left during the peak hour of rush hour in New York. Three hours in a car. Oh my gosh. I was dying.

So got home, struggling to get up the stairs, to get into my room, into my bed. Finally got it in there and I basically told my whole entire family get away. It was just in the darkest place. So, said leave me alone, slept, and then I couldn't even fall asleep. I probably-

Cause of the pain? Yeah, I think I slept, I'm gonna say like three hours a night. Geez. say like three hours a night. Geez. Like, sure, three hours a night sleep. After that, woke up, pills, medication to numb the pain. It felt like knives and fire, like I said, in my back. And then the bed was just too soft.

So we bought a new bed and then it was a couple of weeks until it came. So my dad took plywood. Oh my God. Put it on my bed and then made me sleep on the plywood. So it was harder, which was even worse. But it's funny that I say this now because although it was one of the toughest times of my life doing that, it was also one of the nicest moments of my life because in the hospital I put my phone aside, wasn't answering any messages,

didn't have any television on anything. It was just me and my thoughts relaxing with silence. When I got home, I didn't have to worry about a single thing. It was me focusing on getting better, getting in the gym, learning how to walk, getting my strength back. So everything on a daily basis was put aside and it was just so nice and calming

to have that feeling of total almost bliss. And also in that time, you begin to truly know who your friends and family are. Who are the people that are actually reaching out to you and wanting to help out? And who are the people that are staying on the sidelines not even saying a single thing to you? 100%.

Yeah, you find out your true friends in your lowest moments. That happened to me a few times. Financially, when I was broke, I was seeing who would help me out or who would respond. Yeah. It's a good test, actually, for people that are experiencing a low moment, like, see who's actually there right now with you. That's huge. That's actually... It's funny you say that because...

So, I actually started up my own podcast about a week ago. I had my friend on me hall and we did a three hour podcast. And one of the things that we're talking about is the highs of highs and the lows of lows. And there's times where we're at the highs of highs at like the most beautiful place, beautiful resort, beautiful trip with people having the most money we've ever made in our life. And then literally the next month, it could be the lowest point, nothing in your bank account at all. And it's actually funny because that's something

that seemingly happened to me a couple months ago when I was doing work. So I was, like I said, I was doing work for Red Rock and the Shrees, for my dad's construction company. Put that on pause and then decided that I wanted to take the social media game to another level.

So we build car dealerships. We build Ferrari, Maserati, Rolls Royce, Ford, like probably all the dealerships that you could think of. I started doing content for them and really blown out of the water. I mean, for Ferrari, I was doing their page and I think they were getting like 300 views to probably, I'll give it 5K was the max. And I came in and after a couple months, I was getting 1.8 million views on a video, 70K, 50K, 120K and killing it, absolutely killing it.

Ferrari didn't like it at all. Ferrari hated the content strategy, hated what we were doing, although the page is blowing up. So I didn't like what I was doing. And I knew that there were a lot more people that I knew who I've met in the content space that could do the same exact thing and probably better than me. So I phased out of that area, which I was making good amount of money for my age with that probably like 10, around 10 K a month.

And I was nervous to leave that because that was security for me of making 10 K a month. Yeah. And I was nervous to leave that because that was security for me of making 10 K a month, but I left it because I just didn't feel right. And then I started Delmonico events and kind of put Red Rock to the side as well. And it was truly something that I felt really passionate about because one of the things that I'm on the mission to in my life is number one, inspire billions around the world through the journey that I have in my life and what I do. But number two is with all the information that I know and that I've learned

throughout my life, is to be able to equip people with the knowledge that they need to live a healthy and truly powerful life on a daily basis. So I jumped, I did that, and I had my first event, which was absolutely amazing, phenomenal. But in the process, almost all my income stopped, went to zero. So I remember there was like a holiday weekend that I was going, and I realized that I had, I think it was negative $14 in my bank account, and literally no money at all.

And I'm like, shit, what the fuck do I do? And I remember putting my card on hold that weekend and I fasted the whole entire weekend, unless someone else bought food, unless someone else bought drinks, bought car, whatever. I basically didn't spend a single thing. I made it through the weekend and it was all just strategizing myself

on how I'm gonna come back from this and where I'm gonna go to move forward. And it also was binge watching these videos of people who like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, who had nothing in the moment and they were literally about to go bankrupt and like nothing at all. And then they kept on pushing,

they kept on moving forward, they put it all into their craft and what they were doing. And then eventually they came at it on the other side. So that inspired me to keep on going with what I'm doing. And, um, that's why I keep on pushing every single day and every single day it's getting better, but there is these highs highs and the lows of the lows. And, um, it's kind of funny when I, whenever I'm in the low of the low I love just staying there for a minute and just feeling it. What it feels like. Embracing it. When you get to the highs of highs

it's gonna be to me so much better because I know where it came from, where I came from in the past and be just being able to once soak it all in the emotions and learn from every single thing. Yeah you need both and it's crazy to me, because I thought I got to a certain point where I'd never get a low moment again, because you hit a certain financial level, you're like, oh, I'm set for life. But dude, they're inevitable.

They come and go, whether it's monthly, yearly, whenever, it's like, damn, that's just life. People think it's just straight to the top and no low's on the way. It's, get humbled very quickly. I've made and lost it all twice already and I'm 27. So when people say like, oh, Trump went bankrupt six times. I mean, yeah, I could see that, you know.

Happens on a daily basis. I mean, I know with my dad in construction, the people who we know and who we do business with, I mean, there's countless stories about people losing it once, people twice, three times. Oh, in that space for sure. Cause one deal goes wrong and they're screwed. They put up all that capital and building.

Gone. Yeah. Cause you guys got to front the work, right? Yeah. Sometimes. Yeah. So you put in all those hours and you're still paying the staff and then they don't pay.

It's crazy that that's the, it's so true. A lot of people ask me because my dad's in construction. I think he's been doing this since he's, I think like 13 years old. Damn. His dad owned a construction company, did concrete and him and his brothers, he has a couple of brothers, a couple of sisters, but they were doing, they were building Jones Beach Amputee Theater, they were doing everything.

And his dad had him on the jackhammer, like they'd go out and have an amazing night, drunk night, come back, and then they'd be on the jackhammer, blowing out their ears and stuff. But apparently they rarely got paid or anything, like they just worked, worked, worked. And then when my dad and my mom had me,

he left and he created Red Rock Industries. worked, worked, worked. And then when my dad and my mom had me, he left and he created Red Rock Industries. But because he's been in the construction industry for 23 plus years and I'm doing work with him a lot, a lot of people ask me that question of, so you're gonna get into the construction industry, right? And I'm like, no, no. Because although I love seeing the process

of like things being built, buildings being demolished and like the final product of a car dealership or an apartment building, on that back end, apparently it's not like it used to be or it's like a handshake back in the day. Now it's just, yeah, it's headaches, logistics, people going behind each other's backs. It's just, there's so much stuff that I don't like about it

that if I'm gonna get into the construction business, it's gonna have to be another way. Yeah, yeah, it's not transparent, right? No, no. I'm beginning to actually dislike very much so, the construction industry and process, but loving the guys who are in the field and working. Yeah, the guys are great,

but just the risk to reward is like, damn, you put in all this work and you might not get paid, like screw that. That's the worst. And then you have people, suppliers and other people saying, where's the money or when are we gonna get paid? And it's like,

waiting from this person to pay us to pay you. And then all the logistics, but the people in the field, the guys in the field, built different, built different. Two years ago, I went in the field for about a week. I got my ass kicked. Really? My ass hit. What were you doing?

We were building a solar, I think, for Atlas. So we were doing some steel, cutting some steel up, inserting some bolts. And oh my God, I think it was like 6 a.m. until four something, maybe five something. It was, yeah. Our guys are amazing, by the way. Like could not ask for a better team of guys for RedRock.

And I have so much respect for them on a daily basis because I go to the job sites sometimes and I pick up a shovel, I go show my respect, you know, and just put in the work, get my hands dirty, not afraid to do that at all. I actually love doing it. But I just love being with the guys in the field because cracking up jokes, drinking, eating, just speaking Spanish, which I have no idea what the hell they're saying, but I like make hand signals and stuff. It's just the culture and the team and the, and the love and the family.

Um, yeah, I, by the way, I highly suggest for anyone go into construction or something like that. It's hard for like two weeks out of an entire year and your perspective will change on what's hard your whole entire life. You will be so much more grateful for everything that you have. Really? Yeah. Wow. Yeah.

Cause I guess it's so hands on, you kind of just see people doing it, but you don't actually realize like how hard it is. Yeah. I mean, we walk into this building and most of the people don't even realize what it took to actually put this building up, all the logistics, all the people that actually were behind it to make it. All the bolts, all the steel, if there's any steel in here, like everything, all the planning that went behind it. And especially the guys that are pouring that concrete, getting dirty every single day, that are like eating the nitty gritty.

I love that stuff. Yeah, that's respect. Have you ever demoed a building? There was a big one here last year, or last month in Vegas. I heard about that. Yeah, I could hear it from my house. Have you ever demoed a building? There was a big one here last year or last month in Vegas. I heard about that. Yeah, I could hear it from my house. Yeah. I took content when we were demoing.

I think it was a museum in New York that we demoed. It was like a huge museum. And I remember it was my birthday weekend. We were in the city and no one, my mom was getting pissed because we were about to leave. I think we left at like 11 p.m. We stayed until like 4 a.m.

So we didn't sleep for two nights, but we were pulling that thing, pulling that museum apart, demolishing it. I love demolition. So satisfying and so fun, yeah. But me personally, no, I've never took a building down. I've just seen it happen Yeah, what's the process like how much explosives you need demo building? We actually didn't Oh you didn't know so how does it done? We took an excavator started pulling it back

Oh, you know the machine grabbing the bricks we wanted to blow it up, but it was on a main street Okay, so we had to block it off. It probably cost way more to blow it up too. But it's so sick. Yeah. Dude, seeing a building being blown up just like, boom, in a good way. Yeah, yeah. The physics of it is crazy because it's so like, it just falls down one by one by one. Yeah. It's crazy.

Wish we did that. It would have been sick. Yeah. I wanted to see the one here, but it was late. It was like 2 a.m. I was like, I'm going to bed. But it woke me up, dude. Holy crap, what's that loud? I lived 20 minutes from the strip too. Yeah. I was like, I'm going to bed, but it here woke me up dude. Holy crap. What's that loud?

I live 20 minutes from the strip too. Yeah, I thought someone was breaking in my house dude Crazy, but what's next for you, man? Um Focusing on demonic events Really? Yeah, talk to us about the events. We didn't really dive into what exactly the events are Yeah, so sort of demonic events a couple months ago My idea around this is that I'm going to have events all around the U S and the world do

collabs with people. But the main idea about this is I want to get on stage and start speaking more, whether it's podcasts like this, or actually on my own stages or on other people's stage and share my journey of scoliosis, spinal surgery, things I've learned from Gary Brekka, things I do on a daily basis, superhuman protocol, things I put in my drink, in my water,

and things that I eat. And really the whole mission behind it is helping people live a healthy and powerful life because there's so much shit that happens on a daily basis that we don't know about, and it's crazy, especially once you start realizing it. Yeah. And it pisses me off a lot.

One of the main reasons that I actually started Delmonico Events, there's three actually. So the first one is I had a couple of people. First one is someone who I considered my uncle, probably three years ago. He used to do work for us in construction and he was an animal, like did not stop working until the job was done. Great guy though, taught me a lot of stuff and he fell into deep path in life.

He got back into alcohol and just dark vices and I remember there was a period of like a year and a half where he was just going back and forth between the hospital and lost so much weight, was a liability to be on the job. And then there was one night where I remember that we were in a meeting, my dad and I were in a meeting and he got a call. And the look on his face, on my dad's face when he heard what they were saying was you know something's fucked up, you know something's wrong and I go what happened and he goes just finished the meeting I'll tell you after. Apparently he was brought into the hospital and

drank himself to death. Whoa. Yeah. So I heard that and I'm like you gotta be fucking kidding me. So, yeah. So, I heard that and I'm like, you've got to be fucking kidding me. That hit so hard. Because I knew that he was struggling so bad and we tried every single thing to help. But like an uncle figure, hearing that he was just out of nowhere, dragging himself to death, gone. really hard for me. And then when I was in school, there was a night where I was about to go to bed

and my mom called me and she goes, so and so, just killed themselves. They hung themselves. Jeez. And I'm like, fucking God, again. That was another uncle or? No, that was one of my friends that was my age. Holy crap.

Yeah, from school. We were really close with her as well. And I'm like, fuck. And then the last one was we came back from a trip, I think it was from Aruba. And we were in the van. We were driving home. We were in the van, we were driving home, we were all good. Then we got another call where one of my parents' family friends killed himself too. Suicide.

So I'm like, motherfucker, that's three in a row. And it was just killing me that on a basis, so many people fucking take their life. And then I have another friend who, thank God, he didn't, nothing happened, but he went down this dark path as well. And I'm just like, what if, what if I could have just fucking been there for that person?

What if I literally could have just been there, that one call, that one message to save that person, to for that person. What if I literally could have just been there, that one call, that one message to save that person, to help that person. And actually something like that did happen when I was on a trip in Greece and one of my friends called up their other friend and apparently he was about to take his life. Whoa.

But hearing about a person that I am and possibly being able to meet me, he was, he stopped. Because he was like, if I could meet someone like Zach in the future, I want to be able to do that. Damn. So when that happened, first of all, I'm like,

number one, why are people taking their life so often? Like it fucking hurts, especially when it's someone so close to you. Second is, if I can give someone enough inspiration, enough hope to not take their life, that's all I would want in my life ever. So that was the biggest push for me to start Dermatological Events and for me to go on this journey that I am on right now. And the second one is my spinal surgery of what I've learned through that. So just being able to tell people about the surgery and about the lows of the lows and

not being able to fucking walk, not even be able to do jack shit, can't even drive like nothing, having nothing and coming back from that and putting in the time because there's going to be times where you feel like you're not going to want to work out. You feel like you can't do this, can't do that. Just fucking do it anyway. Get it done. Just push through. Get through the fucking pain. Enjoy the pain in the process.

Pain is what makes you grow. You're going to learn stuff from it. So being able to share inspiration about people like that. And then the last part, the third part, which I'm doing massively, even at the first event that I had, is sharing people with the knowledge that I've learned. So for example, putting salt in your water, helping out with migraines, because so many people have headaches on a daily basis.

Same thing with anxiety and depression. Instead of using these pharmaceutical drugs that they're getting paid to fucking push to you, go out, fucking walk, lift weights, get in the sun, do stuff that is actually healthy for you that we did on a daily basis back in the day, in a primitive age. Like start doing that more often and being able to share with people how the mind works,

how their brain works, the subconscious, how to reprogram everything, beliefs, meditation, hypnosis, like all these things, superhuman protocol, breath work, cold plunging, sauna, IVs, like all this stuff. Being able to share that with people along with the biggest thing of all, I remember at my event when I told this to people, people were like, what the fuck was the seed oils with how that's made and how often we eat that and what it's actually doing to us. People were like, what the fuck are we eating? That's in everything these days too.

It's insane. So those three reasons are the reasons why I started Delmonico Events. And funny thing is, when I was doing Red Rock Studios, I was figuring out how I can leverage this company, number one, to make money, but number two, that I could find someone else to just take it over for me. And I'll just be on the back burner,

like own the company, right? Make some money, let someone else do it. It wasn't fulfilling to me. Now with demonic events, I wanna be doing the shit for the next 50, 70 years. I wanna be speaking on the biggest stages. Like I wanna be doing this stuff every single day, no matter what.

And when I realized that and got that through my mind, number one, I'm like, okay, this is real. This is what I'm doing. And number two, I'm like, let's dig into this. Because it just, it felt right and things started clicking. Beautiful, yeah, you found your purpose, dude. That's what it is. That's how I feel with the podcast too.

Because I've hopped to many industries. I've done many different entrepreneurial ventures, but with this, I could see myself doing this for a long time. And you have a lot of people on here. Yeah. Congrats. Congrats to you by the way. You too man.

That's amazing. Yeah, it's cool to see your journey. I'm going to keep an eye on you and where can people find you and find the events and everything. They're going to be, biggest platform right now is Instagram. So Zach Delmonaco, just my name on Instagram. I'm on TikTok right now too.

Trying to post as much stuff on TikTok as well. Experiment. And then any podcast that I do is gonna be on YouTube. So I'll just exact on Monaco, my name. Cool, link below. Thanks for coming on, brother. Appreciate it, brother. Thanks for watching, guys.

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