Digital Social Hour - The Secret Mentor Hack That Launched My 6-Figure Business | Austyn Crispell DSH #557

Episode Date: August 1, 2024

Unlock the secret mentor hack that launched Austyn Crispell's 6-figure business at just 19! 💰 Join Sean Kelly on the Digital Social Hour as Austyn shares his incredible journey from getting bullied in high school to making $130K a month with his social media agency. This episode is packed with valuable insights on the power of mentorship, overcoming adversity, and the grind of building a successful business.   Austyn's story is nothing short of inspirational—from working for free at 16 to learning from mentors like Reezy Resells, Joel Kaplan, and Jeremy Miner. Discover how he turned viral video success into a thriving agency, and why having the right mentors can fast-track your growth. 🚀   Tune in now to hear about Austyn’s unique experiences, his take on dealing with critics, and how he’s monetizing his passion for creating content. Don’t miss out on these insider secrets! Watch now and subscribe for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 📺   Join the conversation and hit that subscribe button for more insider secrets. You won’t want to miss this! 🎙️ #DigitalSocialHour #SeanKelly #Podcast #MentorHack #6FigureBusiness #AustynCrispell   #JoelKaplanBusiness #JeremyMinerSales #MentorHack #AmazonSellingTips #MentorStrategy   CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:43 - How Austyn Crispell Got His Name 03:07 - How Austyn Crispell Started His Agency 05:25 - The Importance of Mentorship 06:35 - How Austyn Crispell Monetizes His Views 10:00 - Making Viral Videos: Time Investment 12:44 - YouTube Shorts: The New Wave 13:34 - Generating Creative Ideas 16:00 - Acting in Movies: Future Plans 17:30 - Negative Frequencies in Music 19:05 - Overcoming Hardship 20:45 - Starting a Podcast 22:49 - Powerlifting Journey 27:26 - Steroids Discussion 29:17 - Collecting Pokemon Cards 30:04 - Money Buys Time 31:00 - School Experience 34:35 - Making 10k a Month: Advice 37:30 - Do You Have Any Friends 39:21 - Owning a House vs Nomad Lifestyle 40:55 - Do You Travel 41:36 - Did You Think You'd Make This Much Money 42:33 - Family Asking for Money 43:27 - Where to Find Austyn   APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [e-mail]   GUEST: Austyn Crispell https://www.instagram.com/autsyn https://www.instagram.com/makhaimedia   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

And that's something people don't take action on, right? Mentorship. Like my whole life, I've always had mentors in everything. My first real mentor was like Reezy Resells, that YouTuber. And then my next mentor was Joel Kaplan. And then eventually, I ran into Jeremy Miner, who you guys just had on. Dude, just the stuff you learn from being around people who are 100 levels ahead of you. And I've experienced most of the stuff that people in their 50s have experienced just by being around older people. Wherever you guys are watching this show, I would truly appreciate it if you follow or subscribe. It helps a lot with the algorithm. It helps us get bigger and better guests, and it helps us grow the team. Truly means a lot.

Thank you guys for supporting. And here's the episode. Ladies and gentlemen, Austin Crispel. But Austin with a Y. With a Y. That is unique, man. Did you ever ask your parents why they made that decision? It's weird. Actually, every single person in my family, instead of having an I in their name, they have a Y. No way.

Yeah. So I don't know. Just some weird thing. So give me another example of that. Like Danny with a Y. Danny with a Y. Okay. I've seen Danny with a Y before. Brianna with a Y instead of an I. Oh, that's weird. I've never of that. Like Danny with a Y. Danny with a Y. Okay, I've seen Danny with a Y before.

Brianna with a Y instead of an I. Oh, that's weird. I've never seen that. Yeah. So Brianna. And then Brandon. Instead of normal Brandon, it's like B-R-A-N-D-Y something. I don't know how to spell it.

Are you going to continue that tradition with your kids? I could, man. I could. Or I could just do some totally random names. You know, get them bullied. Get them bullied to build up the character yeah yeah elon named his kid like some i don't even know did you see that one xae12 the fact that you know that is impressive i made a i made a real one time it was like a because i make a bunch of like satire videos yeah on uh on instagram tiktok and one of the videos was like, I'm going to name my kid bracket, classified and bracket. And everyone's like threatening to call CPS on me. I'm like, yo, I don't have a kid. I'm 20. I'm not opposed. I think getting bullied actually,

cause I got bullied. It could work to your benefit. Definitely dude. Dude. When I started, I started making YouTube videos when I was like a freshman a freshman in high school yeah so i was like 13 ish um and these videos were so bad yeah i was like just documenting my entrepreneurial journey like i was watching gary v i was going to garage sales and stuff classic and terrible videos and people used to clown on me they i would be in the middle of the class they would throw it up on the projector and they would just like make fun of me in the middle of the class. They would throw it up on the projector. And they would just like make fun of me in the middle of the class. But now those same kids are like asking me how to do things. Facts.

Yeah, I did that in middle school. I used to sing. But horribly, obviously. And I would sing like Jonas Brothers songs, put it on YouTube. That's classic. And I would get bullied, bro. I would get hammered. Dude, if you can like just not listen to any of the critics and just keep doing what

you're doing like eventually you're gonna learn over time because like i look back at my old videos and low-key i deserve to be bullied yeah like this stuff was really cringy but the fact that i didn't listen to them and i just kept progressing and like building my own voice yeah it's if i wanted to listen to them i would never be where i'm at you would have caved in you would have been normal like them yeah yeah i think it's a skill to not listen to them, I would never be where I'm at today. You would have caved in. You would have been normal like them. Yeah. I think it's a skill to not listen to people. Yeah. Look at you now.

You're doing $130K a month, right? With the agency. Yeah. At 19 years old. I'm 20 now. Oh, 20. My bad. But at 19, you were doing $100K a month, right?

Yeah. It was crazy how all that happened. I mean, that is nuts. And that happened within what time frame? Did you start the agency? Well, the time frames are a little weird because like i started my first like social media client for context i make uh i i create short form videos and long form videos for people on social media and my first client was actually a free client back when i was 16 there was this guy who lived near me his name

is reesey resells and this is when i was making no money i basically d was this guy who lived near me. His name's Reezy Resells. And this is when I was making no money. I basically DM this guy. I was like, Hey, teach me how to sell on Amazon. I'll work for free. And at 16 years old, I just worked for free for this 40 year old guy. I didn't tell my parents because I'm kind of weird. So like every day after school, I would drive to this warehouse for this guy and I would just work in his warehouse for Amazon. He taught me how to sell on Amazon. First year I sold on Amazon, I made $200,000 as a 16 year old. So that's when like my life really changed. But then after that, um, I was kind of just interested in like making videos. So I just, one day I scripted up a video for him. Uh, we filmed it together. I edited it. We posted it

on his Tik TOK, Instagram, and YouTube. And right when we posted it on YouTube, it got 11 million views. Damn. So I was like, okay, I guess I'm kind of good at this. Yeah. So I took that video and then I went to local businesses in my area, like a gym, a butcher shop, other places like that. I basically showed them that video. I was like, hey, let me try to do this for you.

And then they started paying me $2,000 a month. Oh, so the Tai Lopez SMMA strategy. I didn't even know ty lopez did any of that stuff okay i just did that and then i just built it up slowly over time um then i ran into joel caplan one time because his ads were just shoved down my face that's the goat right there and i opted in and um america we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. By honoring your sacred vocation of education, you impact your family, your friends, and your community.

At Grand Canyon University, our online bachelor's, master's, and doctoral education degree programs allow you to balance online coursework with observational and hands-on experience in the field. Find your purpose at gcu private christian affordable visit gcu.edu yeah i just slowly built up from there i'd say when i when i met joel i was making like 10k a month through my agency yeah um and in about four to five months we got up to 100k holy crap so you 10x in four or five months yeah it was pretty cool that's nuts because he's doing he's doing what a mil a month joel yeah somewhere

around there yeah so just to be mentored by him i mean that makes sense and that's something people don't take action on right mentorship coaching mentors are like my whole life i've always had mentors and everything like not even just business like when i was a kid you know i'd have mentors like football coaches stuff like that and then my first real mentor was like reesey resells that youtuber um he mentored me on amazon and then eventually taught me a little more about youtube and stuff and then my next mentor was joel caplan and then eventually i ran into jeremy minor you guys just had. And dude, just the stuff you learn from being around people who are a hundred levels ahead of you. Yeah.

You learn so much. Like, I feel like I've lived and I've experienced most of the stuff that people in their fifties have experienced just by being around older people. Absolutely. I could see that, dude. I only talked to him for an hour,

but I just learned so much and you're around him all day, every day because now you're business partners, right? Yeah. So, I mean, hats off to you, man, at 20 years old to be in that circle. You probably don't even hang out with kids your age. Dude, I don't hang out with anyone. I literally, all I do is I just, uh, make videos, man. I script stuff, film stuff, edit. I, uh, make music and then I do some acting. Yeah. And that's about it. Oh, you act too? Yeah. Getting into it. Cool. Yeah. He was, Jeremy was talking about how he took acting classes to learn body language and tonality

yeah dude i think um learning how to communicate is like one of the most important things it's something that i always struggle with because like i um i definitely i definitely have a little bit of like autism in me yeah like 100 a lot of people entrepreneurs too so i'm not surprised like um so it's it's been a like i've always just struggled talking to people yeah so it's learning like reading books and how to communicate and stuff like that i feel like has drastically changed my life for the better that's cool yeah because it was previously thought that if you had it you're like you're kind of screwed but i feel like there's a new era of like mindset yeah like superpower yeah no it's definitely changing the narratives for sure changing because before it's looked down on yeah but like if i was a

normal kid and i was getting bullied in high school for making these cringy videos i would have stopped right so i'm glad i'm not a normal kid yeah i like wasn't able to listen to them that's true and a lot of people pull views but you're able to monetize which is the cool part because there's people with millions of followers and they're broke so what do you think you did differently there's a okay so there's a bunch of different ways to monetize and a bunch of different ways you should look at views on social media. So for example, someone like Jeremy Miner, who is a sales coach, you have to ask yourself like, what type of views are we trying to get for him? He's only trying to get views from people who are, you know, getting into sales

or like they're selling and they're trying to increase their skill level as a salesman. So he really only needs to get views from salespeople. He doesn't need to get millions and millions of views for random ass stuff. As long as salespeople are watching his video, they can buy from him. But it's different for someone like me, who's, um, I don't sell anything on my personal, uh, like social medias, but, um, I just make videos for fun. So I make skits to showcase my creativity. So for me, it's a lot different. I need a lot of views to get the ad revenue to monetize myself.

And I made like $7K last month just off of ad revenue. Off of IG or YouTube? Yeah, off of only TikTok. So I don't do brand deals or any of that. But I also, since I run this agency, I have an agency social media where I post about social media tips. And the thing there is it's so niche that I don't need to get even 10,000 views

to make a lot of money off of that. For example, I posted a YouTube video on my social media page, the Makai Media. And the YouTube video only got like 300 views. Right. But those 300 views were all the people who I want to target and would buy from me. And that video alone made me 31 K new business of 300 views. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. I think so many people focus on the views like you're saying, but it's really the quality in certain niches. It's the quality of views. It's making sure you're targeting the right person yeah absolutely wow 300 views and

you don't even care because some people are like oh this didn't get views like i'm deleting it yeah see that's the problem is a lot of people try to go viral and they compromise they compromise that their audience by trying to go viral so like if i were if i were making a video where i was just trying to show brain dump like all the stuff I know about social media to teach my pro like the people, my prospects. And I was trying to brain dump, but I added in all this like stupid viral gimmicky stuff. My ideal client doesn't with that type of editing. They with those types of videos, right? They just want to see someone who is smart and knows what they do get right to the point. They don't want to see all this like Mr. B style things. Yeah. So it's really

important just to understand your audience. It's probably the biggest thing in marketing. Absolutely. Walk me through your first viral video, how much time went into making it, what was the creative process and how did you leverage that to go from there? Yeah. The first viral video I made was actually for that guy, Reezy Resells that got 11 million views. Um, the process for that was we we i looked at his youtube channel and he made videos about selling on amazon and like one of his most popular videos was him um going to target buying a bunch of nerf guns and then reselling on amazon got like a couple hundred thousand views so i basically took that concept and i shifted it into something that we were doing in that moment

which was this is during so we were doing in that moment, which was, this was during so we were buying patio since all the restaurants were shut down. We were buying patio heaters. We were like literally selling them out of home Depot and then reselling them on Amazon for double the price. Wow. And he was able to do that where I think he spent like 17 grand and then we flipped it into 40 grand in like a little, in a couple of days. So I basically took that idea, I think he spent like 17 grand and then we flipped it into 40 grand, um, in like a little, in a couple of days. So I basically took that idea and I was like, okay, Reezy, I'm going to script out this video for you. Uh, we're going to talk about the hook was here's how I legally robbed home Depot for $40,000. And the way I came up with that hook is because I was listening to

a Logan Paul and Floyd Mayweather interview. Um, cause this was during the time where they were doing a fight and Floyd Mayweather basically said the fight was legalized robbery. I remember that. And that clip went viral on social media and everyone was talking about how legalized robbery doesn't make sense. So I was like, okay, let me, this got a lot of traction on social media. Let me take the same idea, put it into a hook about selling on Amazon. And it worked out. That that's smart so you're actually studying other viral content and kind of implementing some ideas from there 100 dude because if you don't have if you don't post a lot for yourself then you don't have a lot of data so

you have to go look at other pages right right how was that no how often are you posting that being said um it it differs for everyone so like for jeremy like at one point we're posting five times a day and then we go down to three times a day like for myself one time i was posting 10 times a day dude it's it's really like how much you can sustain um and then just looking at the data so like i keep track of like all the views and if i if i look at over a two month period okay we're posting five times a day but we're getting the same amount of views of when i post once a day or three times a day so it's like okay then is it really worth it for me to spend an extra 20 hours scripting and filming when i could just be you know doing it way less and still getting the same amount of traction wow so you're spending 20 hours a week right now scripting and filming i used to

damn like when i was a kid when i was uh when i was 16 i used to wake up pull out my phone think of 10 tiktok, film 10 TikToks, and then post 10 TikToks. It would take up like two to four hours in my morning. But it was from doing that where I learned a lot of stuff about social media and short form content. Yeah. It seems like IG Reels is kind of taking over right now. Do you agree? Yeah. Every platform has their moment. And Instagram Reels is huge. TikTok has slowed down a little but like if you get one video to pop off on tiktok it's really good yeah what i've noticed recently is youtube shorts pops off really i just because there was a point in time where i wasn't posting

shorts on youtube and like two weeks ago i decided to just start posting youtube shorts again yeah um so i scheduled like two weeks worth of shorts. And in two weeks, I grew 60,000 followers. Holy crap. I went from 8,000 to, I checked this morning, I'm at like 75K. That's impressive. And was that the unethical ways to make money clips? It's a bunch of stuff.

It was just like, yeah, it was like the unethical ways to make money. It was like me doing like fake podcast clips where I'm just saying like- I've seen that. And then it was also just like clips of me on other pods. Nice. The unethical ways to make money.

How did that start? Dude, I don't remember. That was so long ago. I don't even know what part I'm on because every time I make a video, I just make up the number. The fact that you're even finding these methods is impressive at this point.

Yeah, dude. You've done so many. I don't even remember what the first one was. I saw the fake Pokemon card one. That one was hilarious. People were commenting like, oh, you'll get arrested if you do that. Yeah.

What happens is I just, I go about my day and I just have like a notepad on my phone. And every time I think like, oh, that's a way to make money. I just write it down. And then what happens is like once a month, I look at that notepad and I'm like,

okay, can I turn any of these into actual videos? And then I pull it out on a Google Doc. I write down all those ideas and then I just kind of script it off from there. Dude, that's hilarious. The comments are so funny on those, dude. I don't get how people can't understand sarcasm. People think you're serious.

Yeah, they think I'm dead serious. Yeah, even your fake podcast clips. I'd never see any comments saying it's fake. I've had so many people threaten to call CPS on me. What's CPS? Child Protective Services. I didn't even know that was a thing. Yeah, because I make videos about, I think I think I said, trying to think of one.

One, I was like, here's I'm going to teach my son not to smoke. And it was like, okay, we're going to hire. Oh, no, no, no. I think this is a better one. It was like, here's how I'm going to make my son a billionaire. And I basically said, we're going to hire two nannies to act as like the, we're going to pretend that those nannies are his parents. And then when he's eight years old, we're gonna have those parents uh brutally die in a plane crash and then i'm gonna take over as the

uncle and then i'm going to basically raise him and then he's gonna get in the nba because of his dead parents and people were like you're up oh my gosh how do you even come up with that dude do you use ai to script something no it just comes off the dome like i've tried using ai for them sometimes and it's it came up with like two to three good ideas, but it just, it couldn't understand like my comedy. Right. Um, I, I use, I use chat GPT a lot to kind of brainstorm. So for example, if I have a video where it's like, here's three ways to tell if your partner's

cheating on you, I would just go to chat GPT. I'd be like, give me 30 things that, uh, women cheating on their boyfriends do. And then I would get that and I would just go to chat gpt i'd be like give me 30 things that uh women cheating on their boyfriends do and i would get that and i'll just use that as ideas but then i would spin it into kind of my own style of humor yeah i'm similar i'll for each guest i'll i'll throw them in chat gpt come up with 30 interesting questions but usually i only use like two or three of them yeah because most of them are terrible i think it's just like the the emotional side like you're saying i can't factor that in right it's just like the emotional side, like you're saying, it can't factor that in, right? It's just like such black and white questions. Pretty much.

And those don't make good podcast questions, unfortunately. Nope. You acting in any movies soon? Not soon. I literally just started. Okay. Is that the goal though? Yeah.

So the end goal of everything is I basically just, I want to be like an A-list musician and an A-list actor. Damn. So the way my social media is structured i'm just basically showcasing my creativity and like my skills yeah um and then just have that slowly build over time i know it's i'm in it for the long game i know it's going to take like years and years but it's just slowly working up to there but you're doing the hard part first because they struggle to go viral whereas you have that you just need decent music kind of like six nine yeah he blew up you know what i mean yeah yeah because he went viral but his music was mid but

like his virality just made him explode yeah like one of the things i've just been spending a lot of time on is just learning how to produce music because like i can come up with lyrics already but just like i don't have a producer to actually turn that into a good song yeah so it's just learning how to do that myself what genre are you aiming for uh dude literally anything besides country i'm with that i don't get the hype with it man i don't know if it's because we didn't grow up in the south or something but i don't get it i don't know i mean taylor swift is decent i guess but other than that i don't know she's got some bangers yeah other than that i don't know any other country singers i couldn't name three me neither little no sex is he country no

that dude's wild man a lot of these mainstream artists i can't listen to yeah i think there's some programming going on honestly really yeah there's a deep rabbit hole we could go down there yeah let's do it are you into conspiracies a little bit so i think there's some programming going on, honestly. Really? Yeah. There's a deep rabbit hole we could go down there. Yeah? Let's do it. Are you into conspiracies? A little bit. So I think there's certain frequencies that really put you in a negative state of mind.

And I think it's pretty prevalent in hip hop and rap. Really? Why would they want to do that? Just control. Just the same thing with the news. Like, did you watch the news growing up? A little bit. Not really, though.

Okay. But the days you did, did you feel kind of negative? exactly so it's scary yeah no for real because i used to watch it and i would go to school like super negative and just like depressed or i remember like in 2012 when there was that stuff going on with like north korea yeah i'd go to school every day scared exactly they want to i think people out there want to program you in every way they can whether it's music news social media yeah i think that's that's why i want to program you in every way they can, whether it's music, news, social media. Yeah, I think that's why I want to be able to do what I do. My whole goal with everything, I say I want to be an A-list musician and actor and all that.

I do social media and stuff like that. My real goal is just to make people laugh and make people happy because i think growing up as a kid like i mean there's a lot of i'd say when i was growing up there was i had a pretty easy childhood to start so what i had to do is i had to kind of fabricate hardship so what i would do is i would i would go to my high school and i would just run run around a hill for hours on end i think the most i did was like 300 laps. And that was like 42 miles. It took 13 hours.

Oh, my God. But that's the type of shit I do as a kid until I was actually faced with hardship. So it's like after that point, I'd say like within the next year, I was dating a girl for like three years. First ever girlfriend. Like we ended our relationship. So like that was hard for me. And then also my grandpa died right after that right after that um was like happening yeah um and then my dad died at 17 so all hit in like a three-month period and then my uncle died

right after that holy it's your family curse or something dude yeah all that happened in like a three-month period and it was really depressing for me like i didn't know how to cope the the way i coped with it was just making jokes about it like every if you scroll back on my tiktok i was just joking about my dead dad all the time because i didn't know what to do bro was it super unexpected like bro yeah i just i walked into his dead body what yeah i don't have any medical conditioning? No. I was 17. I just walk into his room one day and he's dead. Oh, my God. Heart attack?

Yeah. Yeah. That's what they said. Dude, that's so traumatic. Holy ****. Yeah. Sorry you went through that, man. Jeez.

Life, bro. Yeah. And then your uncle and your grandpa within three months. That is nuts, dude. Yeah. So just figuring out a way to make people smile. Like, I think my mindset has got me through a lot of that yeah where i was still able to like have a positive outlook on like after that because

dude most people kill themselves for that for sure walking in on that actually bradley martin walked in on his his dad hung himself i just found out yeah when he was a teenager i believe and he said he still messed up from it yeah i could see that yeah damn dude um yeah making people laugh though is a powerful thing theo vaughn's blowing up that dude's hilarious i love trevor wallace those guys are killing it they got some of the biggest podcasts in the world right now you ever start about think about starting your own show i was thinking about it um nothing nothing yet i just i just like making the stuff i make dude it makes it cracks me up and then just seeing the people in the comments

fight yeah it sounds like you've got a really good balance on everything right now financially mindset health yeah i'd say i'm in a pretty good spot for my age um i work out a lot i think i think i was really unstable for the past couple years and as of recently things are just starting to flow nice yeah i saw you uh did you run the ultra marathon yet or you want to run one i ran one uh that was the 40 or it wasn't like an official ultra marathon but like when i used to run around the hills oh got it got it i ran a couple of those like the first two times it was like 28 miles and then it was for you your mental resilience because just to run around the hill how long was the hill like half a mile um it was literally just like a parking lot hill um i don't know i don't the whole thing's not like

half a mile but i did 300 laps dude i would have been so bored yeah it was boring i had no music guys you're actually insane it was just me from like sunrise all the way to sunset dude you're actually insane what's going through your head during that? Bro, I was just like, I was trying to hum 50 Cent. 50 Cent, that's classic. Get Richard Dietwein. Money Man, yeah. He's got some bangers. Dude, but you did that without any running experience? Like you weren't even... Dude, because I read David Goggins and I was like, f*** it, man. Let me try this. Dude, that's a dream guest of mine. I actually, if I see him, because he lives in Vegas, I'm going to be like, dude, if I can run with you and keep up the whole time, you got to come on my podcast. Are you interested in coming on the digital social hour podcast as a

guest? We'll click the application link below in the description of this video. We are always looking for cool stories, cool entrepreneurs to talk to you about business and life. Click the application link below. And here's the episode guys and if he agrees i'm doing it i mean that'd be legendary he runs like 50 miles though yeah that could be trouble yeah ultra marathons but the fact that you did it without any training got me hyped up i think i could do it bro you should try it i'm down it's gonna f**k you up for like the next day but yeah it's you're good and you're a big lifter too, right? Yeah, power lift. I'm a **** one. Power lift.

So what's the difference between power lift and just regular people that lift? I think power lifting, you're really going for strength. Other people who lift, they're trying to look good and **** like that. It's not really my main focus. My main focus is just getting strong.

So it's just one set and and you're done or is it like uh there's like it's there's a lot of differences i'm on something called like a dup which i don't really know i think it stands for like daily undulation periodization i don't know you can look it up but it's basically where you never go all out and you never like fully exert yourself um you just like scientifically get to a certain point and then over time it builds up i i hired like a coach to teach me on power lifting okay so you're big on diet and stuff too yeah dude i was when i was in eighth grade i used to weigh 120 pounds holy and you're tall yeah yeah so i was scrawny um and i remember i actually started getting into lifting because one day

it was at the end of football practice They were calling out the all-star team. Yeah, and I didn't make it Even the fact that you even played football at that height and weight is impressive to me Yeah, I didn't make the team bro. Two of the people were the coaches son. So I was like man, what position were you? I was a tight end defensive end damn. Yeah coaches son. I had to deal with a few of those playing basketball Yeah, bro, So I got on a **** 4,500 calorie diet in eighth grade. Holy ****. Eighth grade, bro.

And then freshman year. So a year passes and then I get to 225 pounds. So you put on 100 pounds in a year? Yeah, bro. Bro. Just eating. Just straight eating. That's like a pound every three days. It was terrible, dude. I definitely developed some like stomach problems. Yeah. You probably have stretch marks too.

Oh, yeah. I do. I got stretch marks on my arms. Not on my stomach anymore, but. Wow, damn. And you were lifting on top of that, so you were probably gaining a ton of muscle too. Yeah. That's impressive, man. It was a fun experience.

What type of diet was it? Was it all meat, carnivore? Dude, it was, so I would wake up and it would be an everything bagel with eggs, walnuts, and sliced bananas. What the f**k? It was terrible. And then I found out I'm allergic to eggs after that no way i used to eat four eggs a day i'm gonna keep going with the diet so i ate that bagel then i would get to school i would eat a protein bar and two hard-boiled eggs

and then for lunch i would eat a pound of ground not a pound eight ounces of ground turkey with a cup of rice and then some broccoli and then my next meal would basically just be two chicken breasts with some rice oh my gosh and then i'll get home and i'll eat a bunch of random like cereal it wasn't like super like healthy yeah so it was like cereal uh more oatmeal some pancakes and like that yeah but i was just doing anything to get to 4 500 calories holy you did that every day for a year every day for a little over a year and then how did you become allergic to eggs um i i just started eating so much every single day that one day when i ate an egg my stomach just started hurting oh my stomach hurt for probably like two weeks and i was like yo let

me just try not eating eggs so i stopped eating eggs and my stomach was fine wow so you probably developed like an intolerance because you're just pounding them same thing happened with uh broccoli too because i used to eat any broccoli anymore dude broccoli's fire though i know i might try again soon they have them with mushrooms too i just overate a lot of stuff bro damn mushrooms dude you're missing out i know i'm gonna try again yeah eggs too honestly eggs are good but there's some some interesting diets. People are eating raw. Have you seen that? Like the liver?

Raw meat, yeah. Raw eggs, raw milk. I'm going to try that. I feel like the risk isn't worth the reward. I feel like it's not. I might try raw milk. I see a lot of people talking highly of it. I've seen that, yeah.

Yeah, but raw meat, I don't know. I mean. But what's the health benefit you even get from that? People have different reasons you know but who knows liver king kind of fell off so yeah yeah he was also on a bunch of juice so yeah he got exposed did you know he was on juice from day one i mean pretty obvious pretty obvious yeah he fooled a lot of people though yeah well just people that don't know like it's it's hard to tell if you if you don't know anything yeah, if you've never been on juice,

like you're not going to know if someone's on juice. Oh, so you've been on it? No, I haven't been on it, but I've been around people who have been, so I understand. Like there are people who I think were like completely natural, like really high level athletes. And I talked to my powerlifting coach.

I was like, yo, like, how do I get to this? And he's like, I've talked to those people before. They went on cycles when they were 17 years old. I was like, oh. And it still trickles down that many years later i don't know how that'll how that sign stuff works but i just know that like some of these people have been on it in the past and then that was kind of like a building block for them got it one that gets heavily debated debated in comments is dwayne johnson yeah do you think he's on it bro i got he says he isn't. I know, right? He's an actor. I don't know, dude.

I don't know. It looks too hard. Maybe. I mean, there are some people who are just like genetic freaks. Genetic freaks. Like, you know Russell Orhe? No. He's just one of the best powerlifters, and he's like a genetic freak,

and he claims natural, does a bunch of testing and stuff. Okay. But the thing is, like, from my powerlifting coach, he said that, like, this guy went on a cycle when he was 17 um and it like leaves your bloodstream so if you do a bunch of tests after that like nothing shows up got it's like you don't know if these people maybe went on it when they were kids yeah and then that built their build that like built the base for them yeah and then now if they go on any drug test today like nothing's gonna show up that would make sense like they can die on that hill if they're the only one that know they're ever on a cycle yeah yeah there's some some secrets people take the grave right yeah i'm not like that though i'm pretty open yeah i

i don't think i'd ever because i don't even drink or smoke wow i'm like super raw for your age that's super rare yeah i've i've never done it once oh you never tried it no holy crap so i think like if i don't do that i'm never gonna do like a what's it called a steroid yeah because i don't i i hate the fact i hate the fact that i would be doing something and knowing that it would screw up my future like my health in the future yeah there's too many studies on how bad they are i mean people die in their 20s and 30s from it that's fucking it's terrible um do people that power lift use steroids often are those allowed in the sport um i i'm not like a professional power lifter so like i i don't

compete i literally just do it for fun okay um i know there's like tested and untested divisions though got it but there are some people who go into the the tested divisions and then they they go on cycles like before they actually get tested and it wears off so that is like a issue heard fighters do that too yeah uh do you still collect pokemon cards bro yeah heavy i got a bunch you got some first gen stuff i haven't i haven't bought a bunch recently but i have uh on my wall i probably have like 20k worth of pokemon cards i got like first not first edition charizards but i got um shadowless charizards yeah i've seen that and then i have i have

two first edition psa 10 squirtles and a bunch of a bunch of other first edition cards dude if i still i gave away my yugi on pokemon cards in high school because like everyone did yeah everyone and if i kept those oh my god i don't know what they'd be worth a lot a lot dude and they were cheap back then too dude if i could go dollars if i could go back in time and just buy a bunch buy a bunch of those buy some bitcoin and just retire right i mean i don't believe in retirement but life would be a lot easier for sure bro yeah i think it's the same with me because like i have more money than i know what to do without my age and i never want to stop working because i love what i'm doing. I think people say like money buys happiness.

I'm like, no, me having money doesn't make me happy because I've been to the point where I was making a bunch of money and I just hated my life. Wow. But the thing is, now that I've restructured my mind, I know that having money buys me the time to allow me to do the things I love. Facts. So I run a business, but I don't do the things that I hate in those businesses.

I only focus on the stuff I love, which is like the creative aspect. And I use my money to buy employees so that I can have more time to be creative. That's awesome, man. So money buys you the time to be happy. It doesn't directly make you happy. The fact that you figure that out at 20 is insane, dude. Yeah. Because that takes, like you said, people in their 40s, 50s.

Yeah. I mean, that is so cool, dude. I wonder what my midlife crisis is going to be like. Yeah. It's going to be maybe a quarter life crisis at the rate you're going pretty much. I mean, 20 years old. Damn. You didn't even go to college, right? Nope. Did your parents want you to go? Yes, they did a lot. My, my dad really wanted me to go to college. Um, and I remember having this argument with them is I remember vividly I was sitting at my warehouse, um, for when I was selling on Amazon and I get a text from my mom and she's like, you need to come home now. Cause I had all F's. She was like, you need to get your grades up.

Like, like give me your car keys, all that stuff. My dad was like yelling at me through the text too. Um, and I basically told them like, I don't want to go to college and then i sent them screenshots of all my because they didn't know how much money i was making selling amazon and ebay i sent them screenshots of my amazon sales and my ebay sales and they all just shut up i was like i was like school doesn't teach me how to do this i'm not gonna i'm not gonna spend time learning in my history class and trying to get my grade up there trying to get my grade up in math when people go to college to make money for the real world. I'm already making money for the real world. I don't see a point in me finishing school. I love that. Yeah. Numbers don't lie,

right? People do, but numbers don't. That famous quote. Yeah. Similar with me. I dropped out of college, but I had sales first. And here's what people up on. They drop out with nothing. Yeah. You know what I mean? Have some revenue at least. Yeah, bro. There's like people all the time. There's like, oh, I'm going to drop out of college and make it big.

Like, bro, what are you doing? Yeah. Have at least six figures in revenue. You have nothing going on for you. Like at least get started and try it because who knows in two weeks you could try it for two weeks and be like, oh, I don't like doing this. Yeah. And most people fail.

Yeah. So you want to have at least a bit of a safety net if you're going to drop out exactly yeah i mean 90 probably 95 of businesses fail would you are you gonna have kids yeah i want kids are you gonna put them through like normal school hell no dude yeah we were talking about public school earlier definitely not i mean i think it's important for them to socialize so i do want to put them in certain environments but definitely not public school yeah you know what i mean did you go to public school yeah it's terrible really i how do you think because like i went to public school too yeah but obviously me and you were like way different than everyone else in public school yeah how how is that like how do these people

come out of public schools like this and not be tainted. Yeah. So we were so different, but we tried so hard to fit in. I don't know if you did, but I did. And it just stunted my growth. You know what I mean? And, uh, I spent years just trying to fit in with the cool kids and it was just such a waste of time to look at where they're at and look at where we're at. How'd you realize that? Like fitting in wasn't the best. I've realized way too late, dude. You probably realized sooner than me, but I realized after, dude. I was like, wow, these kids don't even hit me up. They were never my friends.

I spent years trying to be friends with them. They were just using me for my house to drink at and stuff. Did that happen to you too? I feel like, not the drinking part, but I feel like I was being used a lot, yeah. It was like the moment where I started getting into entrepreneur, like after I started watching Gary Vee and started going to garage sales and stuff and making YouTube

videos, I stopped going to parties and stuff. And then after people would ask me to go out, I'd be like, oh no, man, it's cool. I'm just going to work today. And then they would ask me another time. And then after about two times of them asking to go out, they just stopped asking you.

Yeah, that happened to me in college. So a bit later than you. But yeah, Gary Vee's the GOAT, dude. He's coming on the pod in May. Really? Yeah, I'm going out to New York. But yeah, I grew up in Jersey. So he was like the GOAT. That's where he grew up.

And I looked up to him heavy. That's how I started in entrepreneurship too. I feel like he's made so many entrepreneurs. Him, Tai Lopez, Grant Cardone. Yeah, they're just spawning them at this point. You know? And that's kind of how i think we're kind of the next generation to be honest what's your goal with everything digital social changing public

education system for sure i think just giving people new outlets and ideas from people like yourself making money that don't have nine to fives um that's probably the biggest thing honestly because school was a massive l what would you say like if someone wants to make 10k a month what would you tell them to do today i I'd say high ticket sales right now. That changes every year because stuff just evolves so quickly. Last year would have been, or two years ago would have been NFTs.

Year before, I don't know, it was hot. Last, AI maybe. What do you think is going to be big in like two years from now? It seems like with the new, what are those called? Apple Vision Pros. There could be some potential there.

Be an app developer or something. It's hard to say, man. Stuff evolves stuff evolves so fast crypto this year might take over yeah those vision pros are sick sick i tried it yesterday i don't have it my friend does four thousand bucks though yeah that is that's pretty hefty super hefty for most people yeah but yeah you have any crypto what do you invest in dude i just invest in myself like i used to be a big stocks guy um but like recently i just pulled all my money out of stocks and just invested it in courses i feel like getting mentors um i think like when i when i just look at the data it's like okay i can put my money into stocks and make 10 each year right i don't know the exact numbers or i could just invest that

money into learning a new skill and be able to make double what i make right now i feel that yeah investing in yourself is always the best stocks are too slow for me yeah and that i know that might sound weird to people but 10 a year just doesn't do anything for me at all like if i made an extra 100k a year it doesn't matter pretty much you know so i don't know people talk a lot about investing in different things and stuff but i just invest myself like you feel like that's the best way to do it yeah i mean i just listen a lot of hermosi i don't know if it's him just influencing me but you know you're gonna get him on yeah that's the goat right there in vegas he just got a huge facility have you met have you met him yet no not yet yeah him and leila that's a couple goals

right there man yeah you dating right now yeah i got a girlfriend okay entrepreneur no not really but she's uh i think she she keeps me grounded because it's like she has a really high work ethic okay and i do too so she understands like if i'm working until 3 a.m like she gets that like in the past if i was working to 3 a.m 3 a.m i would just get yelled at huge fight yeah that was me the first couple years of my relationship too yeah but now we've established some some good boundaries it's tough dating an entrepreneur though yeah i mean it's really tough i mean you probably travel a lot yeah right you're working random hours getting calls at 1 a.m sometimes so i see it from their point of view because they

want that stability but our lifestyle is just so all over the place yeah slowly slowly getting stable yeah um what's your circle like friend group wise nothing bro bro the person i talk to most is jeremy that's hilarious jeremy minor you don't have any friends not really man dude talk to me about that mentally like what's that like dude sometimes it takes a toll on me and it used to take a toll on me a lot like towards the end of high school but i just keep my coping mechanism is telling myself like this is the price you have to pay to be successful like i could i could go to parties and like get people to hang out with yeah and have them be like acquaintances but they don't really put me deep down like we don't have the same struggles wow like if if i go to a party and like meet up with a guy and like we hang out and like bond

over something like, okay, yeah, that's cool. But they, on a daily basis, they don't understand the stuff I'm going through. Yeah. And they're never going to like, the only people who understand the stuff I'm going through are the people that, you know, sadly are like 40 years old because they're running businesses and they're like the entrepreneurs and we, we face the same struggles. Wow. That's deep. And you're also in a, you're not really in an entrepreneur town, right? Not at all. Yeah. Do you plan on moving there or moving out of there? I don't know where I'm going yet. I, I'm definitely getting screwed over by California taxes, but, um, Puerto Rico, baby. No, that's not worth the sacrifice. I know people that are miserable

there. I always, um, I always was thinking about like moving to somewhere with with less taxes so i could save more money but then i watched the hormosi video and he was basically breaking down the math of it and it's like okay if i live in california i pay like an extra 10 in taxes but i get all of these benefits and it's like if you look at it at the end of your life it's only like a three million dollar difference yeah over everything yeah it's like is that really worth it to live like a $3 million difference over everything. So it's like, is that really worth it to live in a place you don't really want to live? Interesting. I agree with that, but there are places with no state tax that are awesome to live at. So I'll say that. But yeah, if you're going to move to Puerto Rico, hell no. Yeah. Like if there's a place I want to move to,

I'll move to it. Yeah. I'd say Vegas is solid. Miami, Austin, I've heard is decent. Those are probably the top three state free taxes in my opinion i don't know if you get screwed over in texas you get screwed over with property tax though oh i didn't know that you got a high property tax what are your thoughts on like owning a house versus the nomad lifestyle i have a mortgage right now oh so you bought a house no so when my dad died i basically just took over the mortgage so like i just started paying it for and then my family still lives there with me like my mom and my sister. And I just kind of pay that off for them every single month. And I just live there. I feel that whenever I want to move, I can just like, I have enough money to rent out

another place. So yeah, I can just go wherever I want. Dude, I like the nomad lifestyle. I'm not going to lie. I don't know if it's because I don't have kids yet, but I wouldn't mind living in a new city every two, three years. I was about to. So right when my dad died, he was actually building out a camper van to live in because he was going to sell our house and then just live in a van that's great

but he died and the van wasn't finished it was just fully gutted out so for the next six months i actually recorded all this too i just built out the van i put in a bed i put in a toilet i put in a fridge um a sink a stove you did all that yourself yeah i built out the whole van myself damn you're good with your hands yeah yeah electrical and everything bro wow so i built it out and my plan was because i wasn't making that much money my plan was to be living in that until like i had until i was making a good amount of money from my amazon store because that's what i was doing at the time yeah um so i was literally just billing on this van and my plan was just to drive around America but then I started making money from the social media

stuff and I was like you know what I can afford this mortgage so you put it to the side for now let me just sell this van I don't need it so you sold it? I sold it yeah your dad's dream right there man it was I feel like it was a midlife crisis yeah I mean you went through some

crazy shit too yourself. Yeah. Do you travel like a lot? Is that something you were passionate about though? I just started traveling like in the past year, man. Okay. And it was only for business because I've never like gone to a place

because I wanted to see the place. Wow, so no vacations your whole life? No, I haven't even been on the East Coast, bro. I've only been in Miami. Miami's like the furthest East I've been. I would consider that East Coast. But yeah, that's crazy though. Yeah.

So I'm definitely going to visit a lot more places, but like just for business. Just for business. So you don't have any plans? Yeah. I'm never going to like map out a place to go to just to have fun. With your girl? Like a one-on-one?

I mean, I might like in the future, but like it's just not on my mind you're in grind mode right now yeah okay did you ever think growing up you'd make this much money no dude i did not i really did not because i grew up and i wanted to be a football player yeah right football players make good money right yeah well that's why i wanted to be i wanted to be a football player was like oh i see these football players making millions uh let me try super hard and my first two years of high school i had a 4.3 gpa damn and i was grinding and then i started selling on amazon i was like hold on bro i'm 16 years old i made 200k this year why am i still

trying to do football especially after all like the cte stuff yeah like i didn't want to die at 50 did you get some concussions oh yeah i got so i stopped i stopped playing football or i still played football until the end of high school, but I kind of like ended the dream of going to NFL because I didn't want to get hurt. And it was like I was already making money. I didn't see a point in it anymore. What a crazy journey.

Four, three the first two years, and then straight Fs the last two. I could see why your parents were freaking out. Yeah, yeah. It was a big shift. It was a big shift. They thought everything was, thought I was going to be a golden boy.

Damn. Talk to me about family trying to come at you for money and stuff any cousins reach out and stuff not yet my grandma was really hard on me about it okay but she's like she jokes she always jokes that um she used to raise me because like for the first couple years of my life i just i lived in oakland with my grandma um and she kind of raised me there um so every time i see her now she's like where's my money she's filipino yeah she has like an accent oh you're filipino yeah i'm half i can't even see that i know bro what's the other half uh just like some white french i gotta take a 23 me test i don't know i need to yeah that was actually interesting i took one tells you your health problems too what

are you guess i think a little bit of chinese yeah there's cantonese in there no is that the same thing I don't know I've heard of it but couldn't tell you where that is damn yeah good

half Chinese half Irish Irish yeah that's where I get the hype from Sean Kelly very Irish name that is sick

yeah well dude it's been fun where can people find you yeah find me on social media at A-U-T-S-Y-N or just Austin Crispel again Austin with a Y.

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