Next Level Pros - #93: Make 6-Figures with Just Your Car - Daeron Myers

Episode Date: April 26, 2024

Welcome to a new episode of the Founder Podcast. In this episode, I’m joined by Daeron Myers, whose early life in Baltimore’s tough neighborhoods involved illegal activities and facing numerous life-threatening challenges, And transforming his life and creating a thriving six-figure delivery business. Join us as Daeron shares how he leveraged his past experiences to escape the rat race and inspire others to do the same. This episode is not just a story of survival but a testament to the power of change and entrepreneurship. Highlights: "I realized I had to apply myself to something better. You know, I gotta do something different. I'm not just living for myself anymore." "Hard work is the only work that pays off in the end." "What I put in is what I get out. Now I'm in control of my own destiny." Timestamps :  00:00 - Life's Harsh Lessons: Daeron talks about his friend's death and his own near-death experiences shaping his outlook. 02:37 - How a life-threatening injury led Daeron to reconsider his path. 07:11 - Family Ties to Crime 10:24 - The moment he decided to stop selling drugs and change his life. 21:19 - Reflecting on his hospitalization 28:35 - How Daeron shifted from crime to starting a legitimate business using his car. 34:46 - Daeron talks about expanding his delivery service and employing others. 39:45 - Daeron explains how he began mentoring others to start their own courier businesses. 44:13 - Daeron introduces his program to help others replicate his success. 46:23 - Final thoughts and advice from Daeron on entrepreneurship and making a positive change. Live Links:  Join my community - Founder Acceleration ⁠https://www.founderacceleration.com ⁠ Apply for our next Mastermind:h⁠ttps://www.thefoundermastermind.com⁠  Golf with Chris h⁠ttps://www.golfwithchris.com⁠  Watch my latest Podcast Apple- ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-founder-podcast/id1687030281S⁠ Spotify- ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/1e0cL2vI1JAtQrojSOA7D2⁠ YouTube - @thefounderspodcast

You know, going to jail was kind of like the good thing, right? And then we talk about, you know, my best friend, I had to watch him get shot, right? And see him take his last breaths. What went through your mind and like, did it change the trajectory? Or did you think, oh, this is just part of who I am and what I do? It really didn't change the trajectory. Like, it was kind of natural. It was kind of that environment.

It was like kill or be killed. It happened so often that it just became natural. We grew up in that environment where it was like, you know, no disrespect. I got to be tough. I got to be hard. I can't let anybody get over on me. I can't let anybody disrespect me. Got so excited to share with you Mr. Dayron Myers. Dayron has an incredible story, a background where he grew up in the hood, was stabbed, a drug dealer raised by a druggie. I mean, dude, the guy has the craziest background in which he was able to go and shift it into going and building a multiple, multiple six-figure business that he has gone and he

continues to teach people just like you how to get out of the rat race, how to really start that first initial hustle. And it's something that you already have available to you. You already have the technology. You already have the resources. Dayron is the man when it comes to diving in this stuff. I'm super excited to share with you this episode. When I got stabbed and I had to spend five days in the hospital, and that was the first time, you know, because my life was fast. It was sell drugs all day, party all night type thing, right? We clubbing.

So I never sat down and actually talked to myself. They'd say, you know, my heart stopped on the table and they had to bring me back. I'm just happy to still be here. And that was a turning point. I was like, you know what? I got to do something different. I'm scaring my family. I'm not living up to my potential. And I was always one of those people that people looked up to. They were like, bro, you're smart. You're smart. And I didn't

realize it. And then I just had to apply it to something else. Yo, yo, yo, yo. Welcome to another episode of the Founder Podcast. Today, I'm super excited. I'm joined by Mr. Dayron Myers. He's coming in from the East Coast. We're super excited to have you on the show, Mr. Dayron Myers. He's coming in from the East Coast. We're super excited to have you on the show. Mr. Dayron, welcome to the show. Man, Chris, I greatly appreciate it, man. Happy to be here. Yeah, dude, excited to have you.

So give us a little, I've read your bio, know a little bit about you. I know you've hustled in the courier business and you have a really cool story. Super excited to dig into that. But give us the 30 second, 45 second elevator pitch of what makes Dayron just absolutely gangbusters. Man, I appreciate it. So kind of the thing, you know, I guess what people look at me as as I'm the guy who helps people take their vehicle, uh, make more and work less by starting a delivery business. So I guess that's what I've been labeled as. And that's why, you know, right. So I'll let the people just give me that title. I love it. I love it. I think the thing I appreciate most about what you do, it's, it's the hustle, right? Like, you know, figuring out out, teaching people how to get out of the grind,

turn to the hustle, use their brain a little bit, right? But do it in a way that doesn't require a whole lot of resources or something that somebody already has in place. They're just figuring out a way to really shift from that employee mindset over to the entrepreneur. So I think diving into your story and a little bit about what you do will be highly beneficial for those that are listening today, just because I think everybody is looking for a way to make an extra buck, especially in 2024 when inflation is killing us, right? We've got a lot of wages aren't keeping up with the cost of living, the cost of housing soaring through the sky.

And, you know, people are just figuring out like, man, how do I make it day to day? And so super excited to, you know, talk a little bit about your journey and what you did to make that shift. And so if I remember right, you come from a little bit of a troubled past. Is that right? Oh yeah, absolutely. Um, okay, man. So tell us a little bit about that. Yeah. So that diamond in a rough story, I mean, for me, you know, it was my everyday for some people that might be traumatic, right. Just growing up in a a in a place called

baltimore maryland uh you know not the good part right so you know were you in the row row homes row home area type yeah yeah yeah okay i've uh i've not i've knocked doors in in uh in the not good type of baltimore so i uh sold i sold home security out there, man. I know exactly, exactly what you're talking about, man. It's a little, little scary. Yeah, absolutely. If you're a tourist, I won't go to this location, but, you know, growing up incarcerated dad, my mom was on drugs. I was, you know, trying to raise by my grandmother. She was older, too old to keep up with us. So, you know, tried to raise by my grandmother. She was older, too old to keep up with us. So, you know, we kind of went outside and started making our own trouble and started

making our own money, selling drugs or robbing people. What age did you start that? 11. Yeah. So, you know, 11, dude, he was two years older. So I was 11. He was 13. And we said, you know what? I'm tired of my grandmother lights get cut off. so we got to figure out a way to make money so was this was this just kind of on your own were you part of a gang like how how did that uh how did that go by he wasn't part of a game it's kind of like generational trauma when i look back at it right my grandfather sold drugs my dad sold drugs you know my older brothers my uncle so it was kind of you know, my older brothers, my uncle. So it was kind of the only thing he was exposed to. It was the only thing we knew. Right.

So for me, it was like, hey, if these guys are making money, it's got to be okay. I didn't know anything else. So I'd imagine, you know, you grew up in that light. Like there's got to be a few people that you know that are serving time and doing those types of things, right? Like how many people close to you were behind bars for doing the same exact thing? Oh man, like at one point, I mean, everybody's out now. I mean, my oldest brother, 11 and a half years of prison, my godfather, which is basically my older cousin, you know, seven and a half years of prison. My cousin Joe, we used older cousin, you know, seven and a half years of prison.

My cousin Joe used to go, you know, hang out every single day. He you know, he just caught seven years. My little cousin, he caught 25 years. So now my goodness, it's a lot of people that, you know, that was directly, you know, not only, you know, going to jail was kind of like the good thing. Right. And then we talk about, you know, my best friend. I had to watch him get shot right and see him take his last breaths you know my little cousin i watched him on the ground for six hours straight after he had no life in him um just being stabbed up so you know so dude tell me

tell me i and i'm gonna dig a little deeper here like tell me about those experiences and like like what went through your mind and like did it change the trajectory or did you think, oh, this is just part of who I am and what I do? It really didn't change the trajectory. Like even, you know, even me when, you know, when when I got stabbed up and was rushed to shock trauma and died on the table, they had to bring me back at 24. It really, it was kind of natural. It was kind of that environment. It was like kill or be killed. You know, people, you know, it happened so often that it just became natural. Like, dang, it's another one.

Dang, they got my boy today. It just became natural in that light. So it really didn't change anything. And were these killings like happening happening over like turf wars or like why why were why were people getting stabbed or what was what was leading to that kind of action you know man it was um it'd be the dumbest i've seen the dumbest things i mean you know my little cousin is, you know, rest in peace him. He's gone because of argument over a song. Like what song was better.

And then it just escalated from there. You know, you know, typically neighborhood beef would be over females. It just is. When I look back at it, it was just so stupid. And it was like it was the smallest things that would lead to you know the traumatic outcomes and why do you why do you think what do you think about like that culture of the way that you what you were involved in like what led to like people being able to escalate so quickly like over a song song like that, that seems right to now looking

back on it. I'm sure it seems crazy to you, right? Like what, what do you, what do you think? Is it just because it was just such with like to always turn to violence or what, what do you, what do you think that, uh, that really led that? Uh, yeah, it's one of those things that's just, you know, we grew up in that environment where it was like you know no disrespect um i i gotta be tough i gotta be hard i can't let anybody get over on me i can't let anybody disrespect me so it's more about like authority authority and ego yeah basically that's all it is authority and ego yeah yeah it's it's crazy how ego drives so much right like in in this whether we're talking about relationships or business or you know uh and argue you know their ego uh you know when not when when it's not main maintained or kept within a bounds, right?

Like an escalate over pretty much anything. It's just, it's frankly fascinating that, you know, that, you know, you can get to that point when you get comfortable around it and then opposite, right? When you start putting away the ego and really like, like you see how crazy it is with looking back or whatever it is. Yeah, it is. Crazy, man. So, I mean, obviously that, that was a, you know, so how many, how many years of your life did you spend in, in this type of an environment um to i mean probably till i was

8 19 you know so you're talking about yeah to 19 moving to different locations dc new york it never changed and so at this time you said your your mom's on drugs and you're being raised by you said your grandparents my My grandmother and my aunt. Yep. Okay. And so what's going through their mind? Are they also on drugs? Are they trying to parent you in a right way and pull you out of these situations?

Tell me a little bit about that. Yeah. So mostly I stayed with my aunt she was on drugs yeah she had a crack addiction but she was rich in love that was one of the things that she did it doesn't it didn't matter what you know her drug of choice was or the things she endeavored she always showed love um you know we lived in section eight houses we got kicked out we lost homes and all that but no you know we lived in a shelter um a couple times but at that time like she was always loving on me caring for me make sure i had the things that we needed

you know we didn't have food she was like hey take your backpack we going to the grocery store and fill your backpack up and we walking out like she always made sure i had you're out you're out stealing food to to put it on the table but were there not were there not like food stamps available or any type of program to make sure that you're fed Were there not like food stamps available or any type of program to make sure that you were fed? Yeah, we were on food stamps, but if you know anybody on drugs, they sell those food stamps for money.

And all day long, it was 50 cent on the dot, right? That was the going rate. Yeah. And so sell your food stamps and then steal the food that was kind of the way the way of the wolf huh dude that's that's crazy that's crazy i've heard some things like that uh you know i've i you know fortunately uh you know we grew up with not a lot of money but i was never at the point where we were living in Section 8. My dad was a schoolteacher. My mom was a stay-at-home mom with seven kids, right?

So we always had enough, but it wasn't, you know, to the extreme where, yeah. And so, you know, it's interesting. So your aunt was on drugs. Like, were you supplying her drugs? Or where was she getting her drugs? Yeah, so after, yeah, So once I started selling drugs, um, at first we didn't, and then we started, you know, you know, my uncle came to us, he said, listen, your aunts,

they going to smoke regardless. They going to do drugs regardless. So, you know, you, it, you, you should probably sell to them, make sure they get the good stuff. Right. I don't know if you ever heard about anything called fentanyl or anything, but a lot of people OD'd and got some bad stuff and they never, they never came back or, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Unfortunately, unfortunately I have, I have two friends that I, that I grew up with that both OD'd on fentanyl.

Right. Because to your point, right? Like from what I understand, I've never, never really been in that environment, but my understanding is like the, like the, it could appear to be the same amount, but one's lethal and one's fine. Yep. Exactly. You got it. Yeah, dude, that's, that's crazy. So your uncle's like, Hey, let's make sure that they're, you know, if they're they're gonna do drugs let's make sure they're doing it clean let's make make sure they're you're not gonna get hit with some some od on on fentanyl or whatever it is so you're

you're supplying so help me help me understand like where are these drugs coming from like where like who's your dealer and who's their dealer like well like how does that old like supply chain work yeah so it was a whole family thing like you know we had you know one of my cousins he was a kingpin so he you know he had all the supplies anything you needed you know one of my uncles he was the same way so anything you needed we would just go to them um so where are they where are they getting that from? Are they putting their life at risk by getting this stuff or just. I don't know where they was getting it from back then.

I was kind of like too young to see where the pipeline was coming from. But, you know, as long as they had it, I was good. And, you know, I get my work. It's what we call. Wow. Wow. So, like, tell me, tell me a little bit about the financial aspect uh obviously we ain't we're not promoting uh being a drug dealer here but uh yeah you know what what kind of money are you making as an 11 year old uh you know crack

dealer versus maybe as a 15 year old as an 8 eight and 19 year old, how did, how did that progression happen? Oh yeah. So, you know, at a young age it was, you know, kind of like just eight balls, a small thing. So maybe make $200 a day, you know, at 11 years old, but that was a lot, you know, as we started, that's a lot of money. That's a lot of money. Yeah. You know, as we started getting older and started driving and expanded, um, going out to like the countryside where, where people spent more money instead of the dimes and nickels in the city or, you know, we started making more.

I mean, you know, 19, it was easy to make a thousand, two thousand, three thousand a day. And as I mean, you're like you're supplying to like the white collar housewife or like like who who's consuming? Yeah, that's what that's what I eventually my clientele kind of I kind of as I got older, I started catering to those type of people, you know, to the doctors, the lawyers and said, you know what, I'm gonna put down selling, you know, and excuse if I'm very vulgar. I'm going to put down selling crack. I'm going to start selling coke because these people, these doctors, they spend five, 600 at a time. These lawyers, they spend, you know. So, you know, as I got older, I definitely started to make more. I'll tell you that. Are you a home service business owner struggling to get your time back? Maybe you're feeling like you have to do everything yourself, or maybe you aren't able to break through that certain revenue plateau. You feel like owning your business isn't quite what you thought it would be.

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Dude, walk me through. I'm more like curious than anything like walk me through a scenario you're going to meet with a white-collar doctor right like obviously he doesn't want to be seen doing a drug deal how does that how does that deal go down oh man that's you know did they like come to my house man they don't want to be seen in the public. They like, hey, bring it directly to my house. You know what I'm saying? You're showing up in suburban, you know, half million, million dollar homes. You're pulling in, you know. And so it's interesting.

So you're just delivering it to their doorstep. Yeah. I was one of those very creative guys, man. So I used to, and it's funny to talk about it now. I used to wear like a plumbing suit and drive a plumbing van. You know, I was always thinking, I used to watch the movies and I watched a lot of people make a lot of mistakes. I've seen a lot of drug dealers in my life. And, you know, I never wanted to look the image.

So people thought I was crazy, but it was actually a good idea. Like if I went out town, I would have a brochure of real estate um you know say we was driving up the turnpike to pick up some things you know some some weight i would have a suit and tie on like i was i was one of those guys man right master of disguise you know it's it's funny it's funny that you know in the real world you're you're applying those things because I watch movies or whatever else. Like what an idiot. Or you watch like even some of these crime shows that are based on real life. And like so often people just make the stupidest mistakes.

Yeah. So like when you're going to do these things, I mean, are you scared for your life? Are you scared that one, either someone's going to shoot you and take all your money or take all your drugs? Or two, are you scared that there's a sting operation? Like, walk me through that. up i never slept right you know it's been over 10 years since i sold drugs but like i've i've never slept i used to like i used to tell my wife i'd be like i don't know how i did it because every little noise i would jump up every car that would follow me i would take you know i would i would hey they follow me i would take loops so i would just get on the highway and speed just to make sure you know so like of course did that drive you crazy did that drive you crazy i mean like it it became normal it became my everyday life it became my everyday life to be

honest with you that's that's great that's crazy so like you know this is the story of a lot of people and they never get out right they like they either they either end up in prison they end up dead or somehow they continue down this path but it's never a bright future so like at what point does it shift um at what point does it shift um when i got what point did it shift for you when i when i got stabbed and i had to spend five days in the hospital and that was the first time i didn't you know because my life was fast it was sell drugs all day party all night type thing right we clubbing so i never sat down and actually talked to myself right so you were you were doing you were doing drugs as well i mean were you doing coke and stuff yeah i do a

little ecstasy here a little molly that that do a little ecstasy here, a little molly. That was a thing when we was growing up, a little molly. Got it. I smoked a little weed, but I would definitely drink a lot of liquor from the time I woke up to the time I went to sleep. That's crazy. So you're stuck. So you get stabbed. What happened?

What led to the stabbing? Was it a deal gone wrong? What happened there? No, it was kind of like a neighborhood beef thing. We was all in one party, and then the fight broke out. And next thing you know, I'm bleeding. My intestines are hanging out from head to toe, and I'm bleeding. My pants are soaking wet.

So it happened fast, but it was kind of like a neighborhood beef thing. Two of us shouldn't have been in one club at the same time. my pants are soaking wet. So it was, it happened fast, but it was kind of like a neighborhood beef thing that two, two, two, two of us shouldn't have been in one club at the same time. Oh my goodness. So, I mean, are you, are you close to death at this point? Like, or is, or is it pretty, you know, pretty minor stitches and stuff? It was definitely major. They did say, you know, my heart stopped on the table and they had to bring me back um so i'm just happy to still be here and

that and that that's like that was a turning point i was like you know what i i gotta do something different i'm scaring my family i'm not living up to my potential and and i was always one of those people that people looked up to they like were like, bro, you're smart. You're smart. And I didn't realize it. And then I just had to apply it to something else. So what really clicked, though? Because, like, you'd been through similar situations, right? Like, it wasn't necessarily you getting stabbed, but, I mean, cousins dying and, you know, people. Like, what was different about this situation that really made you like, oh, man, like I need to I need to change my life.

I think for me, like what really happened when you start to see hundreds of people in the waiting room waiting for you. You know, like, you know, is they wrong on make it through this? Is he still alive? And they waiting for you to get out of surgery and you hearing the stories or you seeing the videos and and it was like i have to do like if i don't change my life it's i'm going to go to jail repeat the cycle which i don't want to do i just didn't know a better way right or i'm going to like i was going to die like i remember riding in the hospital like, I'm about to die before I turn 25. I remember saying that to myself, like, dang, I ain't even make it to 25. So when I woke up, I said, you know what? I'm going to try to do something positive.

I didn't do it right away, but I did start to not hang out. I started to separate myself from certain people right after after i got stabbed right so that that was like the turning point for me so yeah walk me through that shift because dude that's a completely change in lifestyle right like you only have known this your whole life right you're raised by you're raised by a crackhead you were you know you were around it your whole life you're dealing it everybody you know so how like obviously the decisions made but like walk me through what it was like getting out because that that couldn't have been an easy task no it was it was one of those tough tasks right um that that happened first and first. And then I slowed up. I stopped hanging out, right?

I stopped hanging out with the loose cannons, the people that was just throwing their life away. They the people that just had no common sense, just ruthless out here. I stopped hanging on a block. I stopped drinking as much. And then, you know, that's when I got in a relationship, which is now my fiance and we get married in, uh, in August. But that really helped me out too, because now I got somebody else to live for. It's just not me. So now it's like, oh, I love this woman. She come

from the different side of the track. She ain't about this life, right? So she showed me a new life and said, De'Ron, you could be doing so much more with your life. And she fed into me. And then my cousin's house which was my number two in the street he ended up his house ended up getting raided and that's when i said i'm not selling another drug i would rather work two jobs before i sell another drug by that time i already had a house i had cars so i had things to lose so now i'm really scared yeah so i mean all the house and cars and stuff that's all paid for by drugs at this point yeah yeah yeah yeah and and so your cousin your cousin

gets his house raided like does he get dragged off to jail at this point yeah so he he uh he actually we actually uh got him a good lawyer so he actually ended up beating it so that that that that was good but he did you know he i think he spent like a week in there and then actually ended up beating it. So that, that, that, that was good, but he did, you know, he, I think he spent like a week in there. And then we ended up getting them out. And then we got a good lawyer on a case and found some mishaps in the case. So that case ended up getting dropped. So from that day forward, we was like, we can't do this no more. It's too many close calls. And so at this point, are you,

are you still living on the wrong side of the tracks? Or have you moved out? Are you kind of more suburbs, like living, you know? What's your life like? I'm in the suburbs, man. I'm in the suburbs by that time. You know, I'm working a job, still doing my stuff on the side, trying to figure it out, working at these banks, trying to do the nine to five thing is, you know, I'm trying to do it right. But I was just like, this ain't working. Like when you're

used to a certain level of income or fast money, and then you try to work a job, it's very difficult. I did. I feel that. I feel that. I never sold drugs, but I've always been in sales. And yeah. And when you're good at sales, right, money comes quick. And so when I was going to college, I would go out and I would knock doors during the summers. Actually, that's when I was able to experience Baltimore. But we would sell home security or whatnot. I mean, I got to a point where over a four-month period, I would go and make between $300,000 and $400,000. And so, and then I'm coming back to go to college, you know, only to, you know, the career path is graduate, go make 60 or 70 out of college.

And I'm just like, wait, what? Like, how does this whole real world thing work? Like, nah, man. So, I can empathize with exactly where you're at, man. You're trying to make this nine to five work, and you're used to probably bringing in an extra quarter million just, you know, doing hustle. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. I'm like, you know, I was it was I was just like this.

This don't even make sense. So so I would imagine since you'd made the decision, man, I can't get back into drugs. Like what? So the I'm assuming the wheels started turning and you're like, OK, how how can I make some extra money? How can I use these same street smarts that I used for years to go and apply in the real world and so like yeah what walks through that yeah so yeah I was working downtown Baltimore BB&T wasn't selling drugs anymore and then I started saying my stash every month get shorter start saying because that what I realize is staying your my bills cost more than what I make at this job. So, you know, first thing we try to do

is go get a part-time job. Let me see how that works. With the Lifetime Fitness, they was like, yeah, we'll give you four hours a day, $15 an hour. I'm like, $60? What the hell is supposed to be with that? $60? What the hell is supposed to be with that? $60. I'm still searching. I'm like, yeah, I see this carrier thing. This company, Expedite, here in Baltimore, he was like, yeah, you can make anywhere between $1,000 to $2,000 depending on how much you work. I said, let me try this. All you need is your own vehicle. I said, you know what? How do I do it? You know, called the company, said I'm interested. They started giving me deliveries and it was instant. I said, I found.

Yeah, go go go in a little more depth, like for the for the audience that maybe doesn't know what a courier service is like. Explain a little bit like what that what that look like? Yeah. So a courier, uh, basically in a nutshell. So when you take your vehicle, you deliver products, packages, and items from one location to another location. So from A to B and it's all locally. So you can do it in a car, like medical specimens, auto parts, critical parts, life science. I mean, we delivered animals, we delivered, you know, specimens, durable medical equipment. It can, you can deliver anything. So that's, so that's what a courier delivery business is in a nutshell. Got it. Got it.

You know, it's interesting. I got a buddy of mine in Australia, and they do medical specimens, which most of it is like knee replacement type things or yeah, sometimes they're whether it's a heart or a kidney or whatnot, but they're like, they, they run a service where it's delivery right to the doctor's like surgery table. Right. Like where, where it's actually needed and ready to be able to pre present it. And yeah, he built this incredible business and they, they ended up selling it to private equity for a few hundred million is,

is crazy. I mean, there's, there's definitely, there's definitely been money, money in, in, in the delivery, right? Yeah. Yeah. I wish I would've known him like, Hey, if you send this stuff to the States, I'll be right at the airport to pick it up, to take it to the table. I love it. I take it to the table i love it i love it so you you get a job with as a courier service or is this just like a contracted uh deal like what uh what led to you doing this yeah so at first i thought it was just a job right but it was a it's a contract like no you you know we're we're giving you a contract with us to do some on-demand deliveries right

so it's all 1099 contract work you know you you make your own schedule you let them know when you're available um you can negotiate some rates um a lot of music that's music to people's ears man 1099 to write stuff up pay pay very little taxes come on baby yeah yeah at first i didn't know anything about the taxes and all that stuff but yeah so my first day uh shout out to my guy he's the president mike floyd he gave me four deliveries man and they were like 40 bucks a piece and we was delivering surgical equipment the customer uh striker we were delivering the knee replacements replacements to hospitals so i probably did those deliveries in an hour and i I said, hold up. I've worked all

day. I made $28 an hour. I just did these deliveries. He paid me for every stop. And I just made more money in an hour than what I made a day. Why the heck am I still going to this bank every single day? Right. But of course it started to hit me, but I ain't know what it was. And then, you know, your family gets in your ear. No, you got a good job. You got to stay there. You got to trust me. You make it. You got the benefits. You got a career path. Come on, man. Yeah. Yeah. And yeah, we started building our relationship. I started doing more deliveries. He started begging me like, hey, can you leave work early? My customers, they love you. And yeah, I started doing more deliveries. I started making more money part time than full time. And I said, imagine if I got rid of this eight hours and dedicated this to doing this. And it probably took me about six months to leave my job.

I was, I was, I was scared because everybody was telling me, don't do it. You know, even, even my fiance now, she kind of told me,

don't do it. But you know, that was the one person I was scared to tell. I was like, cause I just walked out. It was one of those days where, you know, I don't know if you ever had one of those days where you said,

you know what? I'm not, I can't keep doing this. Yep. I threw everything on the desk. It was probably midday. I ain't tell nobody. And I walked out and never been back since.

So at that point, you got a full-time job. How much money are you making on the side doing the courier business when you decided to hang them up? I'm $25,000, $3 3 000 a week wow okay so we're talking between 100 and 150 grand a year is what you're trending at that point right yeah and so uh you know you you pick up you walk away now all of a sudden you got an extra eight hours a day to be able to go and dedicate to this thing. Yeah. And so and so what did what did that shift into for you? Boy, it started going crazy. Right. It it allowed me not only to, you know, work other businesses or work on my business, but allowed me to really think and start building a relationship with our customer at that time.

And I got a new customer. It was Apria Healthcare. And that's when I started to buy vans. And then I hired my cousin to drive that route. And that was when I realized, oh, snap. Not only can I get paid for everything that I do, now I can get paid without physically doing the work. Legitimately. I love it. thing that i do now i can get paid without physically doing the work legitimately you started buying your time back man leveraging it right which is ultimately like the the thing that most entrepreneurs right when they first get going right they're they're solopreneurs

they're kind of just they're they're high paid employees, essentially, when you first get in. Right. Like whether it's whether it's you're trading your time for a lot of money or you're adding value for a lot of money. But then there's that next rung on the ladder when you realize, man, the rich, the rich buy other people's time. Right? And the poor sell their time. And so you make this shift of like, okay, I'm going to now start the only way I'm going to get more than 168 hours in a week is I got to go buy more time. I got to buy more time from these other individuals that are willing to work for less than I'm willing to work for, right? And so that's such an integral shift in anybody's entrepreneurial journey. And how long did it take for you to make that shift from the time that you left your job until you started leveraging other people? It was kind of like immediately. It was in the process. It was already in the process before I left.

Yeah, so. I love it. I love it. It was immediately. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. So, man, you go and you make the shift, and what does that end up turning into? Man, that ends up turning into Castellano Delivery, man.

That ends up turning into a lot of contracts later, a lot of leverage in other people's time and vehicles. You know, me growing my fleet and owning vehicles and me stepping up. So I started off in the car. Then I stepped up to cargo van work, which, you know, opened up a little bit more doors. And then I realized that I can start buying box trucks that don't require CDLs. So now I got 24, 26 foot box. That opens up a bigger door. Right. So now it turned into, wow, they run, you got a fleet of three cargo vans. You got a fleet of three box trucks. You got these contractors that have their own vans of cars that work for you.

Like now you got a full operation. Like now, you know, it's coming in, you know, it's coming in hand over foot and it's coming in without me having to work hard the same eight hours that I was doing at the bank. But now I'm doing it, but I'm not working hard. I got all these people working for me. And now I can just grow a business. I can just work on the business. So that's essentially what it turned into. But at first, you know, I was on the ground. I still hop in the truck to this day. You might see me in a suit or you might see me in a sweatsuit. The work still has to get done. So, you know, one of those people, like the people out there listening, they might think that they don't have to put in the work.

Like the only thing that works is the work. Yeah, absolutely. You know, I have always said that you've got to be willing to put in the work. Yeah, absolutely. You know, I, I have always said that, uh, you've got to be willing to put in the work. It doesn't necessarily mean that you have to put in the work, right? Like, like a lot of times you can leverage the work through different labor or people that you're buying their time or, or whatever may be through employees or team members or whatnot, but you've got to be willing to step in at any time, right? And you'd never be too good, never be too good for the work, right? It's really easy to be like, you know,

I don't want to work because I think a lot of times employees and team members, they could see through that, right? Like if you're not willing to do the work or be the one to step in at any moment at any time, right, they're going to feel less motivated. They're going to be feel less driven. They're not going to feel like you're, you're a true leader. And that's, that's really what I've, I've learned in my, my years of building, you know, I, I built a 1100 person organization and, uh, but everybody knew within that team that at any moment, if it required, I would step in and do anything in that business. And so, man, I love that you understand that principle and you really

apply that. So now you've really, so you run in this business, you've made the shift where you're now teaching others to be able to go and turn their cars into profits, right? And so tell us a little bit about that program because I think that's something that the listeners are excited about, right? Maybe you got some people on here that are thinking about founding their first business or making the shift from being an employee to being an entrepreneur how do you help people bridge that gap and do the same thing that you did yeah so that's kind of one of the things that happened i mean it happened just people just seeing me that that knew me like hey dayron you got to teach me this like you came from selling drugs to to working to building this now

i ain't trying to work no job and I ain't trying to work no job and I ain't trying to sell no job. What are you doing? Right. So that, that, this is what came about. So, you know, it, it, it, people just, I didn't even want to do it. I've never looked at myself as a mentor, but I said, you know what, I got to help people out. Right. So the first thing that I started teaching people how to do is just leverage, you know, leverage your car. Right. So there's specific apps out here. Some of them will carry dispatch it free that you can get on. Right. You can literally sign your car up for and definitely start with some delivery apps. A lot of people don't know it, right? The first thing that they do when they want to make some side income and sign up to Uber or DoorDash or the low hanging fruit is what we call it, right? So imagine you sign up to an app, Airspace, for example, they do life science. That right. Life science is very

important. Like you can pick that up from the airport and take it 10 miles down the road. I've seen deliveries as high as 500 bucks. Wow. Right? Uber and DoorDash, you're not getting that. So also, you don't have the option to say, OK, this order pays 500 bucks. Let me send my cousin and pay him 200 and keep 300. Right? You've never seen anybody making any passive income on Uber or DoorDash. Right. Right. You never seen anybody making any passive income on on Uber or DoorDash.

Right. Right. So I tell people, like, the more options you have, the more money you can make. Right. The second level that I help people with and teach people is now get contracts with other carrier companies, the more established carrier companies that's been around. Now, their model is to hire 1099 drivers or fleet partners, whatever they need. Right. So they are looking for people with vehicles to deliver product. Right. So and you get a commission split. Do that as well. Right. There's thousands of companies. I'm at a conference right now in Orlando. It's called the ECA. Right. Getting business and networking with shippers and carriers to get more business for my business and for my mentees. But these are the two things that you can do in your car and make over six figures, right? Because you got to remember,

like if you're working, you're 1099, you're doing business. Imagine if I got 10 businesses throwing me deliveries every single day it's kind of and i got apps giving me business we didn't even talk about going to get your own private clients so the people that's not good at selling their services like you can get you you can get in this without even actually selling it it's all what the infrastructure is already set up for you right you just got to provide a service and do good service and the better service you get the more money you won't make you know the thing i love about this this is just like literally just straight hustle and using your brain right doesn't doesn't even doesn't

even require an mba doesn't doesn't require an llc doesn't doesn't require how to do taxes or any of these other types of things, right? Like you can literally just take the resources that you already have, you know, your smartphone and your car and be able to go leverage the technology that already exists. And that's before you have to put on your business owner hat, which if you want to graduate, it sounds like to the next level of getting like those private contracts or whatnot, but like, like this is available in 2024. So, you know, if, if you're struggling paying your mortgage or you're struggling making that car payment or, or paying down your credit cards or whatnot, like, like stop scrolling, stop scrolling, tick tock, stop, stop scrolling YouTube. In fact, if you're watching

this on YouTube, push pause, flip over, download some of these apps that my guy there is talking about right here and go and figure out how to initially trade your time for some higher lever money. Right. Like this is step number one for getting out of the rat race. And dude, I love it. I love it. So I'm assuming you have it sounds like you have like some mentees or whatnot. So you have a program in which you teach people how to go and do this and really become their independent boss for the first time in their life. Does that sound sound right yeah yeah so i've um i've put together a program it's called the carrier business academy um you know so you know we we have books we have courses we have

mentorships you know depending on the level of the person and what they need we kind of serve them at what they need um if they want to get into this. So, absolutely, we do have a solid program and a community of thousands of people across the nation, you know, who have came in this program. And as you know, now, now, like you can just go to my Instagram, you'll see some people like I'm able to take care of my family a lot better. Right. One of the things that I love and to like one of the things that i preach is not okay to make money slow right just imagine for the people who was making twenty dollars an hour so imagine if you did five deliveries in an hour that all paid twenty you're talking about a hundred dollars to twenty you keep doing that hour and hour the gap starts to get wide yes sir the gap starts to get real wide yes sir so make sure you you know this

is a thing where you can actually get paid for everything that you do right like a job they're not paying me to send out this email or this call they just like they run you traded your hour here go this other 20 25 bucks 30 bucks traded another hour no now i'm in control of my own destiny what i put in is what i get out i love it i love it daron i'm assuming you have some links and whatnot to your programs so i'd love to snag them from you we'll drop them in the show notes so uh wherever you're watching this whether it's spotify youtube or on on apple podcast or any of the other platforms. We'll have some links to Daron's different programs. It sounds like a fantastic way to really start bridging the gap

wherever you're at, whether you are running a business and you're struggling scaling it and you're looking for some other side way to make money or you're an employee looking at bridging the gap, making that first plunge into entrepreneurship, into the hustle. It sounds like Dayron's got some fantastic stuff, dude. I appreciate you sharing this with the audience.

It's super exciting, man. Absolutely. Well, I appreciate you having me. You could always, if you want to learn more, you can visit www.currierbusinessacademy.com, you know, and get more information about the programs and, you know, where you can start. One of the big things, like Chris said, yeah, you can do a part time, seasonal, full time. It's kind of what you want to do. And you have that flexibility in this industry. I love it.

I love it. And, yeah, man, I mean, this is the same stuff that like Gary V talks about or whatnot. Like we, the, the first, the first step into entrepreneurship is shifting that mindset of like, I've got enough time. I just need to go and hustle and go in and making that initial hustle. I think, uh, you know, what you got put together here is a, is a, is a fantastic way and, uh, highly, highly recommend. Cause, cause I think it's, it's just a, it's a great way to add value to your time. So, um, De, De'Ron, dude, appreciate you being on. Where's the, where's the best, uh, social media platform to follow you at? Um, I guess now in this day and age, let's, let's follow me on Instagram, right? I am on TikTok, but we don't know what's going to happen with that. Right.

So both of them, both, both tags are the same. So they were on D A E R O N M Y E R S one underscore. You know, you can always send me a message on Instagram, TikTok. And that's where I'm at. So, yep. Love it. Dayron, thank you so much for your time. We know it's extremely valuable and for all the incredible bombs that you'd shared in your story.

It's super inspiring. Thanks for being just an example of true hustle, true grit and using your platform to change the world. Appreciate you so much, my man. Until next time.