Digital Social Hour - From Pizza Delivery to Millionaire: My Crazy Journey | Dan Henry DSH #591

Episode Date: August 1, 2024

🚀 From Pizza Delivery to Millionaire: My Crazy Journey 🚀   Ever wondered how someone goes from delivering pizzas to becoming a millionaire? Tune in now to hear the jaw-dropping story of Dan Henry in this episode of the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🍕💸   In this explosive conversation, Dan reveals how he navigated the ups and downs of entrepreneurship, moved to Dubai for better business opportunities, and leveraged crypto to make game-changing deals. 🤯 From losing a house to a higher bidder to buying real estate in Dubai with cryptocurrency, this episode is packed with valuable insights you can't afford to miss!   Dan also spills the beans on why he left the US for Dubai, how he learned million-dollar sales secrets from Myron Golden, and the power of investing in yourself. 🌟 Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur or just curious about the high-stakes world of business, you’ll find golden nuggets of wisdom here.   Don't miss out! Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. 📺 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🚀   Join the conversation and be part of a community that's reshaping the way we think about success. 🌍💬 Watch now and transform your hustle! 💥   #DigitalSocialHour #DubaiCrypto #CryptoBanking #PizzaDelivery #DubaiSuccess   CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:40 - Why Dan Moved to Dubai 06:18 - Apply to Be on the Show 08:48 - How To Use AI To Make Money 12:51 - The Easiest Way To Make Money Online 13:33 - The Next Wave Of High Ticket 16:46 - How Dan Turned $7 Into $30,000,000 19:51 - Importance of Self-Education 21:27 - Alex Hormozi Interview 24:54 - Myron Golden Insights 25:15 - Dan’s $50,000 Lesson 28:32 - Doing It Scared 32:37 - You Can’t Take Someone’s Skills 33:55 - The Importance of Access 35:37 - Why Dan Teaches People How to Make Money 38:13 - What Dan Wants to Promote   APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [e-mail]   GUEST: Dan Henry  https://www.instagram.com/danhenry https://getclients.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@DanHenry   SPONSORS: Deposyt Payment Processing: https://www.deposyt.com/seankelly   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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

somebody else offered 200,000 more and stole the house from me. What? Yeah, dude. So you didn't get the- No, I didn't get it. So then I had to get another one. And this time I was like, all right, forget banking. I'll just send it in crypto.

You can buy anything in crypto. No way. Oh yeah, you can buy houses, cars, Rolls Royces, whatever you want, you can buy in crypto in Dubai. Dude. Everything you can buy in Dubai. I really got to look into it because that's where most of my money is. Wherever you guys are watching this show, I would truly appreciate it if you follow or subscribe.

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Well, here's why. If you Google kids books, you look at the first results. Linda's tight clam needs loosening. In my daddy's belly. Everybody masturbates. Where is my dad with four black people on it? Like, it's just the gay BCs. I mean, this stuff doesn't happen in non-Western countries.

And I'm just, I love what, you know, the U.S. was for me growing up. But I'm just, I'm over it. And now that I'm fortunate enough to have made some money, I can afford to move to what I consider better places for my family. And Dubai is, I lived in Costa Rica for two years. It was great. But Dubai is another level. Yeah.

Another level. More business out there than Costa Rica. Bro, everybody's out there. I went there and within like 24 hours, I'm having dinner with Erica Kohlberg at her house. Oh, she lives out there? Well, she, I think she was staying there. She just was in town. Oh, cool.

And then, and then friggin just all these different people um i got invited to meet like a lot of a lot of a lot of people you just would not have access to we almost had a lunch with the uh chief growth officer over at mind valley but i was so tired i couldn't do it i was just like i'm done i can't keep meeting people damn i gotta get out there man dude it's because because the thing is is that's where the creators are. The people that run the internet live in Dubai. All the offers you see, like 95% of them, everything is all run from Dubai because that's where people either are or that's where they're heading because there's no tax.

It's collaborations. I meet William Brown. William Brown. he's blowing up on youtube okay i meet him we have lunch and then i end up doing the pitch at his event a week later wow yeah and we did like big numbers off of a small room um real big numbers like you know you would not expect it and it's just it's just a great place for business. Yeah. So money talks out there. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. And you can live baller or you can live modest. There's options for both. Right. You got a $2 million house out there? I did. I just bought a house that USD equivalent is about $2 million. But the thing is, man, that real estate's going up so much there.

In a year that'll probably be three three and a half wow that quick so i actually put an offer on a house and in durham's which is the currency there it was uh uh it was 7.3 million durham's which is around 2.3 million the wire for the deposit took a couple days to hit because it takes time to send an international wire. So somebody else offered 200,000 more and stole the house from me. What?

Yeah, dude. So you didn't get the- No, I didn't get it. So then I had to get another one. And this time I was like, all right, forget banking. I'll just send it in crypto. You can buy anything in crypto. No just send it in crypto you can buy anything in crypto no way in dubai you can buy houses cars rolls royces whatever you want you

can buy in crypto in dubai dude everything you can buy i really got to look into it because that's where most of my money is yeah in crypto yeah i mean it's they're like oh yeah send crypto most people buy and when i when i sent the deposit for the crypto you know how you can see the wallet address yeah dude that was killing oh bro it's just in and out in and out and it's like okay these people these people are because there's no capital gains tax so i'd be trading that shit all day it's just fast and you don't have to deal with the bank i had to do two phone calls with fraud prevention on my bank and i'm like guys this is my money i'm literally buying a house i have all the documentation yeah so i just said screw it that's why i love crypto man i've had so many

banks shut down for no reason gives youives you 100% control. I get barely any chargebacks and I get banks shut down. Payment processor holds. Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty crazy. And they're just using that money to 10x their money. Well, that's why, you know, Dubai's are accepting of crypto because I think, you know, a lot of people say, oh, it's not a free country. Well, it depends on your definition of freedom. My wife has the freedom to walk down the street at 3 a.m. if she wants, and no one will mess with her. There's zero crime.

I left my Rolex, because I take it off when I eat because it scratches the plates. I left it on the table. The waitress runs out, all the way out of the restaurant, all the way through the hotel lobby, all the way to the elevator,

and hands me my Rolex and says, oh, sir, you forgot this. Wow. There's like zero crime. You could have kept that shit. Well, it's not common. It's not common in Dubai. That's cool.

There's not a lot of crime. You do that in Miami. It's gone within seconds. Yeah. That's crazy. Culture's different. You can't be rude. What do you mean?

It's illegal. What? It's illegal to be rude in Dubai. So you can't curse someone out? No, you'll go to jail. You can't flip them off. You can't curse them out. You go to jail.

And I love it. So no road rage. No. That's interesting. So there's no assholes there. Wow. That's great. Yeah, it feels very unsafe

in certain parts of America right now. Now, yeah. Certain cities, you can't even walk around with a Rolex. No, you can't send your kids to school.

It's basically child abuse. You know? Yeah, no, I'm good on the US now. I'm good. Thank you. Thank you. I to school. It's basically child abuse. You know? Um, I, yeah, no, I'm, I'm good on the U S now. I'm good. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate you. I'm out. Did you like, uh, revoke your citizenship or how did that work? Cause the way they, they do that is when you revoke your, when you want to give up your citizenship, right? Like let's say you go to a party and you're having a great time, but then the party gets kind of lame and they start like doing weird stuff.

You're like, you know what? I don't feel comfortable here no more. I want to leave. What happens if they say you can't leave or we're going to take half your money? Like you can leave, but we're going to take half the money you have. Like, what would you consider that?

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I don't know. It's not the opposite of freedom. You're not free to leave. Yeah, because you're not even living there and they're still wanting half, basically. Right, they're not letting you leave unless you do something incredibly negative or detrimental to your life to leave. That's not freedom. off basically right they're not letting you leave unless you do something incredibly negative uh or

detrimental to your life to leave say that's not freedom freedom is when you can come and go as you please that's like the very essence of freedom right well in the u.s they're the only country that taxes you on your worldwide income so if i go to another country and i make money there they want a cut if i say hey you know what i'm good I'm not going to take the U.S. resources. I'm going to move out completely. I'm gone. They value all your assets, your real estate. They put a valuation on any company you may own.

And they go, here's the cash value of that. We want half. And then you can give up your passport. Wow. Yeah, bro. I didn't know that. Yeah. I thought you could just give it up.

Damn. If you're broke, sure. And then they interrogate you for months afterwards. Why thought you could just give it up. No. Damn. If you're broke, sure. And then they interrogate you for months afterwards. Why do you want to leave the US? It's so amazing here. Why would you want to leave and go somewhere else where there's no taxes and people are very nice and there's no crazy alternative lifestyle stuff being shoved down your throat? Why would you want to go there?

I don't know. It's almost like we're in a giant cult yeah bro that's pretty crazy well dude great marketing yeah land of the free right good copywriter people come to america thinking it's the land of the free because they have good copywriters i mean think about it north korea has good copywriters too because people in north korea believe that's normal think about it. North Korea has good copywriters too because people in North Korea believe that's normal. Think about it, right? That's true. You know? And again, I love the concept,

but I guarantee if you dug up the founding fathers and you sat their ass right here, they'd be like, what? They would not be happy. Yeah. You know? Well, there's probably some AI now where you can import every conversation they've had

and actually talk to them, kind of. Yeah, I wonder what they would say. Yeah, but most of the AI is slanted liberal now. I can't wait till Elon's comes out. I did see that Google thing where all the presidents were black or whatever. Oh, man, I don't even want... Bro, it's a mess.

Yeah, I mean, for now, we'll just use AI to make money. But yeah, we'll see where it ends up. I think AI is... Look, I had to make money the hard way, you know? I turned a $7 investment into $30 million. Jeez. And I had to make money the hard way. I turned a $7 investment into $30 million. Jeez. And I had to do it the hard way. Now, with AI, it's a thousand times easier.

A thousand times easier. We tested it. We did this experiment, right? Because you know how when you use ChatGBT, if you just say, like, write me a book or write me a sales page or something like that, it sucks. It's terrible. And that's because chat gbt uses what's called training data it's the default data inside chat gbt what you got to do is you got to give it your own data so what we did was we took all the marketing frameworks we used over the past several years that we spent

millions of dollars in advertising testing what I know works from a decade of experience. And I made my own training data. And then I just said, hey, Chad GBT, ignore what you know and do this. The outputs were so good that we sold, I think we sold like 300 copies. We said, you know what? We're going to write you an ebook for your business.

We sold 300 copies just as an experiment. We wrote it. We charged 500 bucks per- For a book? For a book. Wow. Which is cheap, right? For a book? Well, it's a mini book, but yeah, it's like an ebook for your business, like a mini book. Okay.

But most people would charge three, five grand. If it was a full length book, they would charge tens of thousands. Wow. Like a professional ghostwriter. We did it it in 300 people not a single person said is this ai is this damn yeah they they didn't think it sucked they didn't think it was ai nothing it was that impressive yeah that's good to know though because yeah i'd be inserting some stuff into chat gbt and so basic that's that's two reasons two reasons for that one the reason i just said training data.

And the second is, and I learned this back when I paid $15,000 for a sales page from a world-class copywriter. She sent me a list of 32 questions about what I sold. And when I read the questions, I was like, I never thought to ask myself these questions. Like they were really good questions. And ever since then, I realized that's how good copywriters write great copy. They know what questions to ask. And so what I did, we made our own software. We hired a developer.

We made our own software where every time you wanted to write an email or do this or do that. It would ask you the right questions. Then it would take our data, not ChatGBT data, make the copy, make the book, make the email marketing, make the whatever, and YouTube scripts, whatever, and output that. And so we started using that and it has been baller. We're actually going to release it because uh i believe the easiest way to make money now like if you don't have any skills no is you go out and you get businesses as clients you do their email marketing their social media posting whatever and instead of learning the skill yourself which takes a long time years years you use ai to do it

and deliver it for them and now you now you can do the one thing, the one thing that anyone can do. Because the problem with making money online is most people, and most people will lie to you. Most gurus will lie to you. They'll say, oh, you don't need any experience. Yes, you do. Oh, you don't need any credibility.

Yes, you do. People don't like buying from people that don't have credibility. But there's only one way to do that. There's only one way to actually make sales from day one if you don't have any credibility, any experience, or any skills. And that is if you can do it cheaper, faster, and with zero risk. You can do it cheaper because it only takes you a couple seconds to do it with AI.

You can do it faster because it only takes you a couple seconds to do it with AI. And you can do it with no risk because you can do the same thing that they do at Sam's Club. When they give out free samples, you can write a few emails for somebody, give it to them or write the first chapter of their book. Hey, you don't have to send me any money. Here you go.

Do you like it? Oh my God, it's amazing. Okay, great. Now they pay you. Love it. Like imagine if you reached out to 10 businesses a day and you were like,

hey, I'll do this or that for you. I'll write your emails. I'll write your social media posts. It's going to be cheaper. I'll get it to you in the next hour, and I'll give you some free samples. You don't think at least one would say yes, and now, boom, that's a $500 a month client. I love that. Yeah.

That's so baller. So that's our next big offer. That's going to be huge. Yeah, course modeled with our software, and we're just going to – I want to help normal people, man. Too much of this high- high ticket stuff everybody helping everybody cannibalizing each other's stuff you know i think it's it's it's good to help normal people too yeah i think the high ticket stuff's getting a little out of hand well everybody keeps selling to each other yeah you know what i mean like everybody keeps selling to each other and the

guys that are like hey look do you want to just quit your job like they're still doing well because they're offering solutions to people who aren't trying to make millions of dollars they're just they're just trying to make make side income yeah yeah and that's just it's more believable you know it's more believable i stopped selling high ticket i started doing um rev share with people which which makes us more really yeah so i do speech writing okay so you know i learned from guys like myron and all these guys how to sell millions of dollars in a day from stage. I've done it three times, a million bucks from stage.

And so I started taking on clients, and instead of charging them $25,000 or $50,000 for a day of consulting, we take a percentage, and they go out and do the challenge, and then we get a percentage. Our first client, he only had 60 people on his challenge and then we get a percentage our first client he only had 60 people on his challenge and we did over 200 grand in sales holy crap 60 people 30 grand a person yeah and i love it because i get to help write the event i basically ghost write

your your speeches and then i don't have to fulfill i get a cut and i don't have to fulfill on anything i don't have to do a product i get get to do what I like to do and I love to write. That to me is like and Alex Hormozy is doing that. He's not charging you money. He's giving you advice and then he's taking a cut. So I think like the next wave of high ticket is in rev share.

I agree and it's much more scalable that way too. And you need less clients. Yeah. And that's the goal, man, because once you have too many clients, it's almost like you're working customer service job yeah dude i for first time i did a million dollar day i signed up 34 people into a 30 000 mastermind and it was exciting but it sucked that's a lot of people to deal with all at once. We weren't prepared for it. I thought we would do like maybe six, seven people, and it went bananas. Wow.

Yeah. Yeah, masterminds were a good sell back in the day. I mean, they still are. It's just, bro, I'm old, man. I'm like 37 now. I'm tired. There's a lot of masterminds now. Like I used to want to join them all,

but at this point, maybe one or two a year, I'm good. Have you noticed the highest level guys? I'm in the 100 million one. So, yeah, I've heard of that. That was... Fleischman. Yeah. I started getting reached out by all the top level people.

They're starting to do free masterminds where they just get on Telegram and they just connect. I'm in a couple. Yeah. Because they're like, dude, we're sick of paying all this money. And because the problem is when you get in a lot, not all of them, I haven't been in that one so i can't speak on that but i've got in multiple masterminds where i go in thinking i'm gonna be

i'm not gonna be the smartest person in the room right because you don't want to be right you want to be the poorest person in the room and the dumbest person in the room and it ends up being like a oh dan i've been following you for years and it it doesn't have the same vibe back in the day like when I was in Sam Oven's mastermind and everybody was like equal. You know now there's been this gap where people who are complete newbies are buying into these high level masterminds

and it's great that you found the money but it's like it's not just about the money. You need to get in this mastermind because you have something to bring to the table and I think there's too many people who have nothing to bring to the table other than You need to get in this mastermind because you have something to bring to the table. And I think there's too many people who have nothing to bring to the table other than cash that are getting in these masterminds. Agreed.

And it's just kind of messing it up. Yeah. I mean, you see mine on WhatsApp. It's pretty good. And that's free. There you go. Yeah. And there's like 600 people in there

and there's cool shit happening. But I think the value is in the connections. But like you're saying, people are paying to get in now and the connections just aren't as good as what they used to be. Yeah, it's not the same. But you know, things evolve, man.

You just gotta roll with it. Yeah. You mentioned you turned $7 into 30 million earlier. Yeah, so I got advice from a billionaire on how to turn a small amount of money into a large amount of money. And I took that advice and it worked. And how it went down was years ago,

I worked at this sales company. And this guy named Jeff, he owned multiple companies. Billionaire, big deal guy. He housed all the companies in the same building and he's very nice guy. He would always buy lunch for all the companies every day. Yeah. Every day. And he would rotate around and he would sit with different employees every day. And one day I got to sit next to him and I looked at him and I was like, all right, here's my shot. Right. I said, Jeff, how do I get rich?

Like, I want to buy my mom a house. I want to buy my dad a house. I want to take care of my family. How do I get rich? And he looks at me and he says, um, how many books per day do you read on money and business? I'm like, per day. I'm like, I don't, I'm like, I don't read any books on, I don't even read books. And he looks at me, he's like,

so let me get this straight. You don't read books on how to make money? I'm like, no. And he goes, well, then you don't want to make money. Like you don't want to get rich. And I was like, well, no, no, I do want to get rich. He's like, no, no, no, no, no. People that want to get rich read books on how to get rich.

You don't read books on how to get rich, so you don't want to. Figure that out, and that's your first step. And that really cut me deep because the truth is most people don't have the life they want. They don't have the money they want, the car they want, the house they want, the body they want, the relationship they want. Only 1% of people have that. But 99% of people, the relationship they want. Only 1% of people have that, but 99% of people want the 1% life, yet they still behave like the 99%. If you want 1% shit, you can't behave like the 99%. And the 99% they sleep in till 9am, they don't read books,

they watch Netflix and chill, and they don't take care of their health. They don't work out. They don't do any of that stuff. They just go through the motions. 1% of people, they're up, they're reading books, they're doing what they got to do to get the skills they need to become valuable, to become in demand. And that's how you do it. And I didn't listen to him for years. And then one day I was dead broke. I couldn't pinch two pennies together. I said, you know, maybe I should do this book reading thing. I read my first marketing book. And literally a month later, I made six figures.

Wow. Yeah. And I felt like an idiot. Because imagine you don't read books your whole life. And then the first time you read it, you just smash it out of the gate. Well, how much of a moron would you feel like? You know, because like you could have made,

I could have made so much money if I would have just started reading books, getting up. The brilliant part about getting up at 5am is from five to nine, all the douchebags are asleep. All the people who are going to annoy you, take up your time, who are doing nothing with their lives. They're all asleep and you get peace. You can read your book, you can work on your business,

you can study and you can make, you can become that 1%. Facts. That's important. Education. And you were homeschooled, right? I was. I was. I was homeschooled. So was education always a big part of your lifestyle or not really? I don't like traditional education. I think it's BS. Because if it wasn't BS, then why don't we learn how to, or at least back then, budget a checkbook?

Why don't we learn basic life skills? We learn all this stuff that we're not going to use. Math that we're never going to use. Crap about rocks. What are we going to use that for? It's dumb. And then as well, it's a scientific fact that when you tell a story, the human mind retains the information like 100 times more than if you just say facts. Yet in school, we haven't standardized storytelling.

We haven't trained teachers to tell stories as a way of educating. They just read from their little book and that's what they do. And I just don't believe that school is meant to make you rich. It's meant to make you make other people rich. I mean, John D. Rockefeller even said it. He's responsible for school being a thing. And he literally said, I'm not in the business of making a nation of thinkers.

I'm in the business of making a nation of workers. And so I'm big on education. I'm just not big on traditional education. I'm big on self-education and learning from people who have done what you want to do. I love that. I got traumatic memories memorizing definitions, man, in high school and shit. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Look, if you're going to cut into my brain or defend me in court, fine, go to school. Other than that, I think going to school, sending your child to school is literal child abuse, at least today. I agree, especially public school. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's straight up child abuse. Absolutely. A couple of people you interviewed,

I want to get your insights on. Alex Hormozy, what were some things you learned from him? So what I like about Alex is, and I hope he doesn't get mad at me for saying this, is Alex is a fucked up person like me. I consider myself a really messed up person. I came from a small town in Florida, a lot of drug use. Not me, just the town. So not a lot of ambition. When I hear Alex talk, he talks about how he came from a place where he had alcohol problems and he had all these problems. And I had those problems too.

I drank a lot of alcohol. I ran with the wrong crowd. And to see him be straight about like, look, I used to suck and now I'm trying to not suck and life's working out. When I talked to him in person, because I still talk to him sometimes, I was fortunate enough to know him

and we did some stuff together. I helped him with webinars and stuff years ago before anybody knew who he was so we still talk here and there and it's just really cool how he's pretty much the same in person he's actually a little nicer uh but what i love about him is that he he was screwed up and he admits it and i feel that way too like i feel really screwed up. The fact that I'm making money. I mean, I delivered pizza for seven years. I should not be making money. I should not be a multimillionaire.

I should not. Statistically, yeah, you were against the odds. Yeah, I should not be. Dude, I'm from Florida. I dropped out of college. I am literally like, I grew up in a small town. I didn't get any skills. I mean, there's nothing.

Delivered pizza for seven years. There's nothing that says this guy should be successful. And yet here I am. I'm not as successful as Alex, but that same dynamic of I was screwed up and now I'm fixing it and life is working out. I resonate with that. So I think he's just like he is in person.

He's even a little nicer. That's big time, man. Because growing up, you probably never would have thought this was even possible. No, bro. I remember trying to say, you know what? If I can make $1,000 a week, that'd be my dream. $50,000 a year. Yeah, which back then was a bag.

Wow. Damn. I'm old, man. I'm 37. I just drink a lot. Damn. I'm old, man. I'm 37. I just drink a lot of water. You look young, man. Have you tested your biological age? I don't even know how to do that.

Next thing you know, the Grant Cardone guy is going to come out with a red light machine. No, I don't know how to do that stuff. Dude, I eat clean. I don't eat dairy. I don't eat sugar. I drink gallon, gallon and a half of water a day. I don't eat American food when at all possible. Wow.

No. A little hack for you. You ever want good food, go to a Muslim butcher because they're the only people in the United States who actually take care to provide good meat. Damn. Yes. I'm going to start doing that out here. Yeah.

And it's better. When I was lifting weights, as soon as I started eating halal meat, I mean, literally, I felt it immediately. What? Yeah.

Like you buy like chicken at like Walmart, Publix, it's trash. Yeah. The, it can't be trash at, um, halal butcher shops and maybe even kosher butcher shop.

I'm not, I'd say kosher too. I've had some kosher food. I feel amazing. It's cheaper at the Muslim ones though. Oh, yeah. They're not profit-driven at all. Okay.

They're not at all. They're not about profit. Interesting. That's a good hack for people watching. What about Myron Golden? So he's doing $3 million a month. I saw your YouTube video. When I interviewed him, that's what he did that previous month, right?

I don't know if he's always doing that. You know how it is. You make $3 million, you make two and a half and then you make one, two and you make three. And then, you know, so I don't know what he's making every month, but he did, he did make that the prior month. Uh, Myron is a cool guy because here's a funny story about Myron. Um, I was at an event and I was speaking and I walk into the event. I thought there was going to be 300 people. There wasn't, there was 15. And I was at an event and I was speaking and I walk into the event. I thought there was going to be 300 people. There wasn't. There was 15.

And I was like, oh, man, I felt bad for the event owner because I thought, well, he's going to not make any money. How are you going to make money? 15 people. So I get up. I speak. I teach all this technical stuff like marketing and sales and all this stuff. I get off and I meet Myron. It's like, oh, you're a really good speaker.

You know, he's encouraging me. Myron's very encouraging. I heard from guys like Russell Brunson that Myron was like one of the best stage people in the world. Yep. One of the best speakers. He gets up there, right?

And they had already done the pitch for the event. No sales. Myron gets up there and starts talking about, in my opinion, really stupid stuff. Like dumb stuff. Like birds flapping and mama bears. All this stuff that has nothing to do with business. Just like weird analogies. Like, oh, and then what does the mama

bird bear say to the baby bird? I'm watching this thinking, this guy's insane. He's not just bombing. He's a lunatic. Then, he pitches the same offer that they just pitched and got zero sales and he does over two hundred thousand dollars in sales wow and i was like all right i don't know something there's something i don't know i go up to him i say how did you do that he's like what do you mean i'm like no no no no bro

don't bullshit me how did you do do that? That was some sorcery. So he talks to talk to me about it and he's, and he's like, you know, it's stage speaking and state platform closing. I said, how much? He's like, what do you mean? I said, how much for me to learn that 50 grand for a two day event? I give him 50 grand. I go to the two day event. I learn it. I hold an event a few weeks later, do a million dollars. Wow. Yeah. I think that same event's like 200 now. I bet. So I got in early. You're making a million off it.

Yeah. But here's the funny thing. My dad, I told my dad about it. You know what my dad said? He said, you spent $50,000 on a two-day seminar. I thought I taught you better. Whoa. Yeah. So my dad didn't learn about money. Right. He didn't learn about how to turn money into money. My entrepreneurial friends, they said, wow, Dan, you turned 50 grand into a million dollars in a couple weeks.

Yeah. See the mindset difference? That's the way I interpreted it, yeah. Yeah. I always ask people to – here's a trick, right? If I ever have a bag or a briefcase, especially like a cheap bag, I'll say, hey, would you give me $1,000 for this backpack?

Most people say, no. I say, see, that's why you're poor. What do you mean? I said, you know what rich people would say? What's in it? Facts. And now if I open the bag and there's 100 grand in it, you just cost yourself 99 grand. Yeah.

And that's the thing is poor people always worry about what things cost. Rich people worry about what they get. Because if I said here's a magic money box, you put a dollar in, you close it, you open it, you get five out, how many dollars would you put in? Like all of them, right? You put in as many dollars as you can. So most of what makes you rich, and I learned this from guys like Myron and Sam Ovens and all these, it's really not what you know. It's not even who you know. It's how you think about things.

Because if you know how to think about things, all the who you know and what you know, it all just works out. Yeah. Sounds like a common theme here is you're always willing to reinvest in yourself. I feel like a lot of people are scared to take that jump. I mean, look, they're scared because that's what society programs them to be. I mean, if you think about it, look at all the movies. Champions are always painted as fearless, but they're not. In real life, champions just do it scared.

We're under the impression that if we're afraid, that somehow means that we should not move forward. But see, the human mind is programmed to keep you safe. Well, what is the opposite of safety? Risk. What do you need to get reward? You need risk. You got to risk money in a stock to make money from a stock. We got to risk money in real estate. Like anytime you get something of value, you risk something. So your mind by its default programming is naturally averse to risk, which means it's averse to success. So when you look at an investment or you look at an opportunity to invest in yourself and logically you go, oh, this makes sense.

This will make me more money. But then you get that like heat feeling on your skin and the like slight nausea and you kind of get a little, oh, I don't know. That's your brain taking over and being like, oh, safety, safety, safety, safety. You see, normal people, the 99%, they feel that. They go, oh, this must mean I must not do it. But 1% of people, they know how their mind works. They go, oh, this is just human BS.

And they do it anyway. I love that. That's so true, though. Self-sabotage. Yeah. I still find myself in it sometimes to this day. We all do. Dude, it doesn't matter how many millions of dollars I make or lose.

The same stuff. Imposter syndrome, shiny object syndrome. I have it every day. I pay my COO a disgusting amount of money, and one of his main priorities is i say to him i said anytime i deviate from the plan i already made tell me no he's cracking up yeah yeah because he does like i just like don't let me do this don't let me do this extra thing don't let me add another product don't let me do a side project just but you know and and he holds me accountable it's tempting right now especially with the crypto market It's tempting to just throw in shit coins and meme coins and alt coins.

Yeah, yeah. Look, I have trauma from last cycle. Same. And I feel like that's good trauma. It is because now I'm being a bit more cautious. Yeah, but you – But at the same time – You're 30 days away from the halving.

Yeah. And it's a pretty good chance that the bull's gonna go for a bit i'm not a crypto expert i just hang out with a lot of crypto experts and i stayed at a holiday and express last night i didn't the point is that it seems like it's going to be good for the next few months based on because you know every and correct me if i'm wrong you probably know more about crypto than i do yeah every before the having whenever uh bitcoin has hit his all-time high hasn't it doubled yeah there's a 5.3 theory yeah yeah so if it just hit 70 whatever then theoretically it should hit 140 in the next people are saying at least 100 this year yeah yeah 100 150 so that's why i'm like

i don't want to sell anything yeah it's crazy because we could just be smart and hold everything we got right now and make two to three x or we could go dgen and go for those 10 to 50 x's yeah you know what i mean are you in any of the the real degenerate oh yeah stuff like bob and i'm in all those and i've made millions and lost oh you dirty bitch yeah and it's never worth it. Because even when you have it on paper, you don't sell it. You know what I mean? No, you got to sell.

Well, I mean, after Bitcoin takes its dip, you got like, what, like two weeks, right? Yeah. I need to be smart this time. Last bull run, I didn't cash out anything. Oh, yeah. Me neither. Same, dude.

Like it was, I had 10 million. $10 million. I don't want to tell you how much I mean, either. Same, dude. Like it was, I had 10 million, $10 million. I don't want to tell you how much I had, but it was, it wasn't too far off. And then the negative was not good. Yeah. I lost 90% of it. Yeah. Nightmares.

But this time around I'll, I'll be smarter, man. You know what though? I had dinner in Dubai a few weeks ago, and I sat with a bunch of entrepreneurs, and we all had this little dick measuring contest. Who has lost the most money? Five million, eight million, ten million, three million. Here's the funny thing. We all were still rich. It's because you can take someone's money, but you can't take their skills.

That's why the best investment that seven dollar i bought a seven dollar marketing book i did what was said in the marketing book i made a hundred grand in the next month or so doing that that year we did 2.9 million i've since done 30 well over 30 million now and i've had multiple million dollar days crazy and yeah i've reinvested but i've reinvested with the money I made from learning what I learned in a little book. So it's like, you will never, take the thousand X crypto coin. It still will not compare to learning something that makes you money for the rest of your

life, no matter what anybody does to you. Yeah. And I love that because last bull run, that was where all my eggs were, right? And I wasn't making money in other aspects of life. But now that I have these skills with the podcast and other businesses, even if I lose money in crypto, I'll still be fine. Oh, yeah.

I mean, you're churning them out, man. I see like two, what, two, three episodes a day? Two a day, man. Wow, bro. That's a grind. It is. But yeah, you can take the money, but you can't take the skill.

Exactly. People need to focus on that. And you learn. It's compounding skill because you learn from the data of doing the skill. It gets better and better and better and better and better. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm a long way from that first episode, man.

Yeah. I was ass. You know what, though? I'll tell you this. Here's a little thought exercise. If you grab your phone right now, you probably could, but most people, if you grab your phone,

I don't even have mine. People at home can do this. If you grab your phone, can you find five people in your phone that if you needed, say, 10 grand right now, hey man, can you spot me 10? They could send it to you.

What about 100? And the thing here is we believe that our net worth is whatever cash we have in the bank, but in truth, it's the access we have. And so I remember when I got sued by the IRS for $250,000. And the guy that helped me sell the bar, he saw what I did with it. I bought this bar.

I used marketing to turn it around. I sold it for a six-figure profit. Then the IRS comes in and sues me because the accountant that I had died while doing my taxes, I couldn't get access to the files. And it was this whole, whole thing. So the business broker who was very well off calls me up and he says, Hey man, I saw what you did. If you need a hundred grand, I'll spot you. I know you'll take it and you'll turn it into a million because I've seen you do it. I believe in you. Just let me know. Just say the word. I didn't take him up on his offer, but the principle here is imagine if you had 10 rich people that believed in you. If you ever ran into issues, you would have access to whatever you needed.

And there was a – you ever see these comments on social media where they say, why do you teach how to make money? If it makes so much money, why don't you just do it yourself? Yeah, I see those. I'll tell you why I teach people how to make money. Years ago, there was this guy named Joseph Aaron. He was dead broke. It was like a week before Christmas. He did not have enough money to get his kids Christmas presents.

He bought one of my thousand dollar programs on how to create a marketing agency. He gets his first client on Christmas Eve. Immediately goes out and buys his kids presents. And he always thanked me for that. He's like, dude, if it wasn't for you

I wouldn't have got that client. I wouldn't have been able to get my kids presents. From there he made a lot more money with his agency. And then eventually he got into speaking. And then he started really crushing it and speaking. He was the one that referred me to learn speaking from guys like Myron. Well, when I did my first event, Joe calls me and says, Hey, I'll MC your event for you. I'll help you with it. Cause it was like my first one. He comes on, he helps me. We do a million dollars in a day. He didn't ask me for a dime. I send him money anyway, but he didn't ask me for a dime. He didn't ask me for anything. He just did it as a thank you. Wow. The amount of

times I've had somebody from years ago, come back to me who I helped when they just got started on the come up. Now they're big who have in some way helped me then elevate countless stories of that. Countless. So the reason I teach people how to make money is because I know one day you'll probably, you'll probably be way past the come up and we could do something together and I'll make even more money. So they say, Oh, you got to get access to rich people. Well, you can make your own, you know, I don't know if it was Warren Buffett. Somebody said, if you want to get rich, learn how to make money. If you want to get wealthy, help other people make money. The more people you help make money, the more people will help

you make more money. Wow. I love that. You're playing the long game out here. Yeah. And it's worked really well. I love it. Karma, man. I'm a believer. That's why I do it too. People are always like, why do you introduce your friends to each other and stuff? Some people are closed off. I'm like, dude, I know it'll work its way back around to me one day. Oh, yeah.

They're like, why don't you take a cut of that deal? I'm like, dude, that's so short term. Yeah, everybody thinks short term, man. The goodwill you get from asking for nothing comes back to you tenfold. Absolutely. But that, look, man, you don't know that when you're like 22, 23, 24, you got to start pushing 30 to learn those lessons. Yeah. 27 now. Or you got to be a good listener. Yeah. That's, that's key for sure. Dan, it's been fun. Anything you want to promote or close off with? Uh, man, you know,

I always got something going on here or there. Um, I just, I love teaching people how to get that internet money in whatever shape or form. So I put all my stuff in one spot so that if you need help from me, you can go to one website and just see what I got going on and how I can help you. It's just getdanshelp.com. Love it. We'll link it below. Cool, man. Cool.

Thanks for coming on, dude. Thanks for watching, guys. See you next time.