Right About Now with Ryan Alford - From Expelled Student to Entrepreneur: Mike Sancho on Network Marketing, Passive Income & the Metaverse

Episode Date: March 6, 2026

In this episode of Right About Now, Ryan Alford sits down with entrepreneur and Wealth Accelerators founder Mike Sancho to unpack the unconventional journey that shaped his business mindset. From getting expelled from both high school and college to hitting rock bottom and rebuilding his life through relentless work ethic, Mike shares how adversity pushed him into entrepreneurship The conversation explores Mike’s early experiences in network marketing, the lessons he learned from losing income streams that weren’t fully in his control, and how those challenges ultimately led him to build his own ventures.  Throughout the episode, Mike emphasizes a mindset of resilience, continuous learning, and creating multiple streams of income as the foundation for long-term financial freedom Topics Covered • Mike Sancho’s entrepreneurial journey after being expelled from school • Lessons from hitting rock bottom and rebuilding through work ethic • How network marketing can develop entrepreneurial skills • The importance of diversification and multiple income streams • Amazon wholesale vs drop-shipping business models • Building YouTube Shorts channels through influencer partnerships • Opportunities and risks in NFTs and digital ownership • How the metaverse could impact gaming, commerce, and remote work Mike Sancho Founder — Wealth Accelerators Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themikesancho Website: https://wealthaccelerators.com Ryan Alford Host — Right About Now Website: Ryanisright.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryanalford

I learned my lesson when I got kicked out of college. I got arrested and they took me down to jailhouse and I spent a few weeks in there. I came pretty close to some more serious charges and actually doing some prison time. That's when I really made that decision in my life when I was in that jail cell all alone. And I just made that line in the same decision of I'm going to flip the script and people are going to be surprised. They're going to see what happens from here. Pretty much made a promise to myself that I'm going to just outwork everybody. And I'm going to go all in all the time. And I'm going to do whatever it's. takes to be successful and I'm going to do it legally. This is Right About Now with Ryan Alford, a radcast network production. We are the number one business show on the planet with over one million downloads a month.

Taking the BS out of business for over six years and over 400 episodes. You ready to start snapping next and cash and checks? Well, it starts right about now. Hey guys, what's up? We're talking sales today. We're talking marketing. We're talking trading. talking Mike Sancho. What's up, brother? What's up, man? Happy to be here. Hey, man. Excited to have you.

My people and your people were talking. CEO of wealth accelerators. Real estate investor. Bad asses mofo. And I'm glad to have you here. What's been shaking, man. You've been riding the train. We've been riding the train hardcore, man. We've been booming. Yeah, man. Sounds like it. Been reading about all your success and automation and sales. Let's talk your background though, Mike. The highs, the lows, everything else. Definitely some lows. You ain't losing sometimes. You ain't learning. When I was a child, the entrepreneur vein is just something I was born with. I'd be like eight years old watching the infomercials, all those commercials. But wait, there's more. And they're selling the products on TV. I was trying to invent products at that point. And I would go to my mom and say,

hey, mom, can you help me get a patent? I was like trying to get patents with my mom's help at eight years old. Not many kids doing that. I had it early on. I just started to get into more and more businesses as a teenager. Not necessarily all of them legal businesses. I started selling a little weed as a kid. It's a common theme, I guess, in entrepreneurs. They take their business skills to a different kind of industry. That ended up getting me in a little bit of trouble. I ended up getting kicked out of high school because of it. I found my way into college after that and didn't learn my lesson the first time.

I'm that guy who got expelled from my school. You were the true entrepreneur. Yeah. No. Every friend I knew was either smoking or selling it or who knows what. I don't know. You had to make money somehow. But I can relate to that entrepreneur, Gene.

I like that. I'm that guy that got expelled from high school and got expelled from college. As you can imagine, my family was wicked proud of me at that time. I had a point seven one, my first semester. at Clemson. Is that even possible? 0.0.0. That's at F minus. My ass got yanked home first semester. It didn't go well. So I can relate to making the family proud. I think you were majoring in parties and girls instead of class. I think that was the exact line I used on a podcast once. I was majoring in boobs, boobs and beer.

Hey, you got to go pro and something. I think I wasn't pro. You finally learned your lesson. I learned my lesson when I got kicked out of college. I got arrested. They took me down to jail house. I spent a few weeks in there. I came pretty close to some more serious. charges and actually doing some prison time, that's when I really made that decision in my life. When I was in that jail cell all alone, I just made that line in the sand decision of, I'm going to flip the script. People are going to be surprised. They're going to see what happens from here. Pretty much made a promise to myself that I'm going to just outwork everybody. I'm going to go all in all the time. I'm going to do whatever it takes to be successful. And I'm going to do

it legally. From there, I got out and went to Charleston, South Carolina when I got out of jail. And I was living with my parents. I had no money. I was in debt probably $100,000 from student loans, car loans, lawyer fees that I owed back to my parents. You name it. I was in a big hole at 21 years old. But your whole life was in front of you. Exactly. Exactly.

But you didn't realize this at the time, I'm sure. You probably felt like, you know, life's over. No, I was motivated. I was fired up, actually. That's good. I was fired up. Most people getting those holes, though.