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

Was one of the nurses came in and she's like, what can I do for you?

Can I give you more medicine?

And I was just so pissed off, so fed up that I was in this pain and that no one knew what the hell they were doing.

Plus it was during COVID, so no one really could be in the room.

So I remember just looking up and I'm like,

Lord, I don't want to go through this anymore.

Just take me away.

Whoa.

Like, just, I'm done.

Just take me if this is going to be like this.

All right, guys.

Got Zachary here today from Long Island.

Thanks for coming in today, man.

No worries, mate.

Thank you.

What you been up to lately?

Came on...

When are we coming?

We came in Saturday.

Okay.

And leaving today, but yesterday we did a flight to Grand Canyon back.

So just been chilling.

I haven't been there yet.

How was it?

It was beautiful.

Did you go like all the way in?

Yeah, we took helicopter.

Oh, went straight down.

I think we stayed there for like 15 minutes.

Okay.

But just so insane.

Was it quiet?

How was it down there?

Really quiet.

Yeah, I'd imagine it's like super quiet.

And was there any animals?

No.

Apparently they said there's a lot of wild horses around horses.

Yeah.

Wild horse, different animals, but we didn't see anything.

Damn.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm big on nature, so I got to make that a trip.

It was so beautiful.

You should go definitely.

It's about a two-hour trip.

So you have to fly there?

Yeah.

They have a, you can fly there.

It's about an hour trip there and then you stay probably 15 minutes, come back another hour.

It's so nice.

Beautiful.

You've been traveling a lot lately?

No, actually.

Really?

So like two, a year and a half, two years ago, I was traveling a lot with different events.

But recently, in the past couple six months i uh been in new york just working with my dad on his construction company got settled so del monaco events is kind of put to the side a little bit well del monaco events now is up and running god really so i was basically traveling a lot and then i basically put all that on pause to come back my dad owns a construction company called red rock industries we build car dealerships recycling facilities so I basically said that I want to go all in and focus on Red Rock to help it blow it up, social media and everything.

Like that was my game plan to to go all in.

And then that fell through actually.

Something happened.

We were posting some amazing videos.

I was doing amazing with the content.

Yeah.

Really creating brand.

And a couple of videos went up.

A couple of clients didn't like it.

Things left and right.

So I basically had to put that on pause.

And then my attention switched to Delmonico events.

Got it.

Yeah.

Red Rock, like the casino here, or different Red Rock?

Red Rock, like the Grand Canyon.

Oh, Grand Canyon.

Got it.

Because there's a Red Rock by my house out here.

No what?

Yeah.

that's where all the nelk boys stay and stuff yeah the uh the team's persuading me on moving here oh yeah i was supposed to be moving to florida like brickle area okay in the next month but i think they sold me damn no what was the what was the selling point they were telling me about all the events that happen here like every single week and then also the weather um

the pricing over here is just insane You'll get a lot more bang for your buck here than Brickle.

Yeah.

Brickle, you're not going to get a house.

You're going to get an apartment.

that's what we're looking at right now but apparently what they were saying

half the price if that and you get a four bedroom house for the same price as a brickle apartment it's ridiculous plus you're close to la

you're close to mexico and uh the food's great nightlife's good always events here always conferences f1s next week i heard about that that's gonna be a big event i'm sure a lot of your clientele will be at that event that's crazy yeah and then uh ufc is always here do you watch ufc yeah dana white yeah he lives here right yep a lot of big uh mark Wahlberg lives here.

Yeah, networking's good out here, man.

I think you'd like it.

I can see.

Yeah.

New York's dope, but I feel like

it's older money.

You know?

It's getting out here.

It's younger and it's more energy.

We landed here on Saturday and I get off the plane and I started smiling and I looked at my dad and I told him, I don't know what it is, but I think I'm beginning to like this place a lot more.

Does your dad like it here?

Is he moving too?

He

I think he likes it here.

He's just very used to New York lifestyle.

Yeah.

The fast-paced.

I think we're definitely going to bring Red Rock down here for construction, but I'm pretty sure the family is going to move down to Florida somewhere around Palm Beach or something like that.

That's where everyone retires.

Literally.

Good old Palm Beach.

Man, I felt so young when I went there.

Holy crap.

It's crazy.

Everyone's got gray hair out there.

Yeah, it's hard to beat Palm Beach in Florida, though.

I'd say Florida, Vegas, are up top two for me right now.

Yeah.

New York's probably

top five, but yeah, I don't know.

City life is a little, I get over that.

Me too.

I've been, I think I told you my sister, I have a twin sister.

Yeah.

So she moved to Kipps Bay, and now I've been going back and forth.

So usually on Thursdays or Fridays, I'd go into the city, stay over, enjoy, get some brunch.

So I'm liking it, but I don't think I could ever live there.

Yeah.

So you're super close with your sister?

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's cool.

Sometimes the twin stuff doesn't work out.

We actually did it when we were younger.

So we went to, we went to the same school all the way up in the school.

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still college and

i was

so close with her like this and i think i'm pretty sure that that made her aggravated like she pushed away from me so she didn't want to talk to me she wanted to really hang around with me or at least that's how it felt so then uh pretty sure it was during high school and college we went our different ways and i kind of split up and uh it's kind of the funny saying you know if you let someone go and they're met they'll come back so now our relationship's much closer but it's it's rocky at times were you overprotective you think uh

yeah plastic brother sister relationship there was this one time we were in aruba and uh

we were we were out she still mocks me to this day for it we were out at a club and this guy came up to her and uh without even thinking i instantly was like no no no no bro no no no like bye and uh she got so aggravated at me again because like the protector um but i've been working on that so things getting better i think it's human nature right protect your family family.

Yeah.

I'm an only child, but I can relate with that.

If I had a sister, I'd

want the best for her.

Aruba hookup's probably not the move.

No, no, definitely not.

That sounds dangerous, actually.

It's crazy.

We haven't been there for like three, four years, actually.

We used to go every single year.

Damn.

February break.

But

yeah, it was crazy.

I didn't really like it that much.

Aruba.

Yeah.

How come?

I was never one to be into all the parting scenes and drinking.

When I was in college and I was younger, I used to drink a little, but I never just liked going out to the clubs, a lot of music, drinking, people just completely stupid, doing reckless shit.

And

yeah, and then seeing the guys like grabbing the girls and especially my sister with her friends kind of like not paying attention at all.

Just like fight or flight system.

Just go into that protector mode.

So you were not the, you were the DD growing up.

Basically, yeah.

Nice.

Basically.

Yeah, I had a weird party phase for a bit, but I kind of got over it quick, honestly.

Some people still party.

It's like they're 30, they're 35 years old.

It's like, damn, dude.

Yeah.

When I got into my health and fitness journey,

I was like super against drinking and like going out of partying.

And then

started to realize that I was pushing a lot of people out because of that.

So

still on that kick myself, like...

being as focused as I can with health, fitness, and mindset.

But at the same time,

I'm recognizing more and more that people are going to do that on a daily basis.

It's fine if they do.

Just kind of be more of aware of it and learn actually how to properly drink.

If you're going to drink, how to properly do that and just become the best version of yourself that you can be every single day, even if you're going to do this stuff.

Because people are going to go out.

Sister goes out with her friends.

My friends go out sometimes.

But just work on...

Work on making yourself as healthy as possible so that you could recover better the next day, not feeling like shit waking up.

Facts.

Hungover and stuff.

What sparked that health journey journey for you?

Cause you're pretty young.

Yeah.

So

I had a spinal surgery about, I think it was three years ago.

Whoa.

Where it was major.

So I was playing soccer in middle school.

That was like my escape because, again,

I was shy.

I couldn't even talk to anyone.

Like right now, us doing this

about five years ago, six years ago, I would have been bright red, sweating.

It was horrible.

I could not talk to a single person.

So my escape was fitness, was sports, specifically soccer and surfing.

So

I would play all the time, like that's 24-7, because it was my escape.

And then

from there, I basically got really, really into looking like a king, like six-pack abs built.

And then I figured out who this guy Gary Brecca was.

Yeah.

And I dove all into him.

And it was just beginning to blow my mind on.

the different types of protocols that you could do, the different types of routines that you could do on a daily basis to make yourself feel absolutely amazing.

So I got really interested in that, dove into that.

And then the scoliosis, the spinal surgery, I had 48% curve.

So it was literally, I was like a hunchback.

It was crazy.

When I was at the beach or at the pool or on the field taking my shirt off, so many people would look because it's like, damn, you're just, it was bad.

I have a 15% curve.

You do.

Yeah.

I just found out last week.

Damn.

I left.

How are you feeling with that?

Now that I know about it, they told me I had it growing up.

I never knew the degree.

15 is like

not too bad i guess so i do want to fix it though yeah

48

was hard because of how it looked but at the same time when i was running for soccer and i was doing activities i couldn't breathe because it was collapsing part of my lung so i was getting yelled at by my coach saying why aren't you putting in more effort like you're you're not running at all in the field taking me on and off yelling at me

And then I went in for the x-ray and I realized that it was collapsing half of my lung.

Jeez.

So spent like six months building up all my muscle that I could.

And then surgery hit.

And I was going into the surgery like, I got this, man.

I'm going to beat the surgery.

People talking about like three to six months recovery.

Give me one month.

I'll be done with it.

That was not the case at all.

I

spent a week in the hospital not even being able to move

at all.

I remember the second night, the

the pills that they gave me couldn't even last.

So I was feeling the pain of like a thousand knives and just fire right at your back.

Um, and I remember there was

one of the nurses came in and she's like, What can I do for you?

Can I give you more medicine?

And I was just so pissed off, so fed up that I was in this pain and that no one knew what the hell they were doing.

Plus, it was during COVID, so no one really could be in the room.

So I remember just looking up and I'm like,

Lord, I don't want to go through this anymore.

Just take me away.

Whoa, like, just, I'm done.

Just take me if this is going to be like this.

Um, and then I, it's crazy.

I'm pretty sure I blacked out right after that.

Don't remember a single thing.

Blacked out, fell asleep, woke up the next morning.

And

ever since that day, I've just been working on myself every single day.

I was wondering when the next time I'd be able to do one push-up was.

So from that moment forward, every single morning, whether it was at college or now, wherever I am, I always try and get in the gym.

I always try and get a lift in, get some weights in, go for a run, go for a walk.

And then, like I said with Gary Brecca,

just been learning how to be the most healthy human possible that I can be because I hate feeling like shit.

I used to get headaches every single day.

I used to have IBS is what they told me.

Learned that like none of that was true, basically, because I went down the deep rabbit hole.

But yeah, that

scoliosis surgery, I guess, was the turning point of my health journey and my mindset.

And ever since then, I've just been focusing on learning as much as possible with what I put in my body, with what I drink, with what I do on a daily basis.

to me, the more I'm able to focus on what I put in my body and how I act on a daily basis, the better I feel, the better I'm going to be able to perform and show up for everyone else.

Wow.

Yeah.

I love that, man.

Does Gary know your story?

I don't think so, no.

Dude, I love him.

I met him.

Thank you.

I met him at Grant's events.

So my dad and I,

we,

I think this was like four years ago.

I introduced him to Grant because I saw him online.

Yeah.

And ever since that, we've just been going together.

10X.

Father Con.

Yeah.

Nice.

Nice.

All the growth cons, a lot of his events.

And that's where I met Gary because he came up on stage.

And I'm like, who the hell is this guy?

And he starts literally going to the audience.

Tell me any one of your problems.

And he starts solving them like instantly.

I'm talking like anxiety, depression, headaches, stomach issues, gas, bloating, like all this stuff, ADHD.

And I was just so amazed.

I actually pulled out my phone and started recording.

And I remember bringing it back and I was sharing it with my whole family, with my friends.

And they're like, oh my God, this is insane.

And then from then on, I started researching more about Gary and really learning about what he's saying and superhuman protocol, 10x health, like all that stuff, all the supplements.

I've

done it on a daily basis.

And it just feels so amazing.

And I love him.

I absolutely love him.

He changed my life too, man.

He's been on the show a couple of times.

I did the protocol, did both tests, the gene tests, found out I had some gene breaks that I had no idea about.

The blood test, I was so deficient in so many things.

It was mind-blowing.

And then I fixed all those and now I'm crushing it.

It's crazy because I used to have headaches and migraines every single day and stomach issues.

Like I used to go to school and halfway through the day, I'd go to the nurse and say, I have a headache, I have a stomachache, used to go home every single day, used to take imodium, peptobismol.

Advil, Tylenol, like every single thing just to numb it down.

Went to the doctors and they said, you have IBS.

And then they said you have

your mom passed down the trait for migraines.

And it was just so shitty every single day.

And then I listened to Gary and what he was saying and I took the gene test.

And sure enough, he goes, it showed that I have a gene break for two things.

One is the MTHFR.

And then I forget what the other one was, but it basically explained my stomach and my head.

So I started taking the supplements.

And then I also started putting salt in my water every single morning.

And ever since that,

90% headaches, gone.

Damn.

Along with migraines.

Stomach issues,

basically no more at all.

And it was just crazy to hear because I kept on getting them every single day to the point where it just aggravated me so much that I went down this rabbit hole.

That's impressive.

What type of salt do you put in the water?

I put

soul salts.

It's from this guy named Solbra.

Oh, he's been on the show.

No way.

Yeah, Solbra.

So met him, did a couple of events that that he had.

Him and Arlen and this guy, Jan.

We did a whole event.

So that's how I met him.

Nice.

Yeah, I have his salt that I bring with me wherever I go, dump it in my water.

And then

other than that, I have a couple people who do the Celtic or the Bahasi salt that I told them.

I have the Celtic one, yeah.

I need to look into it.

It's okay, but now there's some new research on salts, actually.

I'm not sure if you've seen this, but the salts from the ocean, because there's so many microplastics in the ocean, that you really got to do your research on what type of salt you're eating.

Yeah.

So I need to look into Soulbro.

I trust that guy.

Yeah.

He's a good dude.

He, it's funny.

He didn't reveal his face.

For a while.

Did you know that?

He did it on my show, and I think it was the first time he revealed it or something.

So you had to blur his face out?

No, like he just did it the week before.

Wow.

So it was like good timing.

Yeah.

I was surprised because when we went on the event,

Arlen told me he goes, no one's able to take videos.

Like you have to blur it out.

Don't get him in.

And then when he revealed his face, I'm like, oh my God,

he's coming out at me.

That's crazy.

No, shout out to him.

These days, it's tough to have a brand without a face behind it because people want that trust factor.

So I think it was the right move for him, even though I could see why he wanted to do that.

He's got some powerful enemies.

There's companies that don't want his knowledge out there.

There's a lot.

There's a lot out there.

It goes deep.

Yeah.

Shout out to him, though.

So you think that surgery was the right move, though, for scoliosis?

Yeah.

Yeah.

They were talking about doing nothing, which wasn't an option because I was hurting almost every single day.

Your lung was collapsed, right?

Yeah, that wasn't an option.

The second thing that they were going to do is the

brace, which that's not an option for me.

I don't want to wear a brace at all any time of the day.

So I basically told them, I go, we're doing the surgery.

Like, we were, I think it was the last checkup I was going in with my parents, and I looked at them and I go, guys.

Is this happening?

Whether you like it or not, I know they're going to tell me that we're getting the surgery.

We're just going to do it, get it done with.

And

then when we were there, the guy actually told me, he goes, okay, we're going to have to do the spinal surgery.

You're going to have to do spinal fusion.

And I was fine with it because that's a way that I wanted to go.

But when he said that, it hit like a bag of bricks.

I mean,

you go into something saying, like, oh, I'm going to beat this.

I got this.

Like, you're all in your mind, right?

You're all in your head, your ego.

And then someone says it to you and it actually happens.

And then

it's just like, what the hell, man?

It's crazy.

Yeah.

Did your sister have scoliosis too?

No.

So it wasn't genetic?

No.

No.

I think they, I actually think both of them have it just on a minor degree, like 5-10%.

But I was,

mine came out of nowhere.

Oh, so you weren't born with it?

No.

No.

So

I was the shortest one in my grade in middle school and in high school.

And then once I got to high school, I forget what year it was in high school, I shot up.

Like massive.

So that's what caused it.

And yeah, my back, my spine couldn't keep up and

shifted like that.

Yeah.

crazy, though.

Yeah, I'm scared of the surgery, man.

Hopefully I can manage mine.

It's...

Are you doing surgery?

I haven't even...

I just found out last week that I had a 15-degree curve.

So I'm very new.

The.

Do you know where it is?

I think it's upper.

Yeah.

And it curves to the left.

Personally, I didn't want to do the

brace.

Maybe you do, I don't know what they're going to tell you, but the surgery is a bitch for the recovery, at least for me.

I mean, you couldn't move for a week.

That is scary.

Couldn't move for a week.

I was in the hospital bed.

Getting up, I had to relearn how to walk

every single day.

Yeah.

It was so weird because they, they, I had to get up to use the bathroom.

And then also they do daily walks.

Yeah.

And they go, okay, get up now.

Like they taught me how to get up, roll to your side, push.

And I went to go do it and I wasn't moving.

And I'm like, what the hell?

And then I realized that I had literally no muscle, no strength in my back at all.

So they had to grab me.

They had to bring me.

And I had the little cane, the little walker.

And I remember I was trying to take my first step and it was just really foreign to me, really weird.

And every single time I would walk, it just...

I didn't realize how much back muscles and core you use on a daily basis.

I felt like a vegetable.

I couldn't, literally couldn't move.

Holy cow.

But yeah, moving forward, then I got home from the hospital, which was one of the worst car rides I've ever had in my life.

The doctor said you could only be in a car for 45 minutes.

And we left during the peak hour of rush hour in New York.

Three hours in a car.

Oh my gosh.

I was dying.

So got home,

struggling to get up the stairs to get into my room, into my bed.

Finally got in there.

And I basically told my whole entire family, get away.

It was just in the darkest place.

So said, leave me alone.

Slept.

And then I couldn't even fall asleep.

I crazy.

Cause I

Yeah, I think I slept, I'm gonna say like three hours a night.

Jeez, like pure three hours a night sleep.

After that, woke up, pills, medication to numb the pain.

It felt like knives and fire, like I said, in my back.

And then the bed was just too soft.

So we bought a new bed, and then it was a couple weeks until it came.

So my dad took plywood.

Oh my God.

Put it on my bed and then made me sleep on the plywood.

So it was harder, which was even worse.

But

it's funny that I say this now because although it was one of the toughest times of my life doing that, it was also one of the nicest moments of my life because

in the hospital, I put my phone aside, wasn't answering any messages, didn't have any television on anything.

It was just me in my thoughts, relaxing with silence.

When I got home, I didn't have to worry about a single thing.

It was me focusing on getting better, getting in the gym, learning how to walk, getting my strength back.

So everything on a daily basis was put aside.

And it was just so nice and calming to have that feeling of total almost bliss.

And also in that time, you begin to truly know who your friends and family are.

Who are the people that are actually reaching out to you and wanting to help out?

And who are the people that are staying on the sidelines, not even saying a single thing to you?

100%.

Yeah, you find out your true friends in your lowest moments.

That happened to me a few times financially when I was broke.

I was seeing who who would help me out or who would respond.

Yeah.

It's a good test actually for people that are experiencing a low moment, like see who's actually there right now with you.

That's huge.

That's huge.

That's actually, it's funny you say that because

so I actually started up my own podcast about a week ago.

I had my friend on Mihaul and we did a three-hour podcast.

And one of the things that we're talking about is the highs of highs and the lows of lows.

And there's times where we're at the highs of highs at like the most beautiful place, beautiful resort, beautiful trip with people, having the most money we've ever made in our life.

And then literally the next month, it could be the lowest point, nothing in your bank account at all.

And it's actually funny because that's something that similarly happened to me a couple months ago when I was doing work.

So I was, like I said, I was doing work for

Red Rock Industries for my dad's construction company, put that on pause and then decided that I wanted to take the social media game to another level.

So we built car dealerships.

We built Ferrari, Maserati, Rolls-Royce, Ford, like probably all the dealerships that you could think of.

I started doing content for them and really blown it out of the water.

I mean, for Ferrari, I was doing their page and I think they were getting like 300 views to probably,

I'll give it 5K was the max.

And I came in and after a couple months, I was getting 1.8 million views on a video, 70K, 50K, 120K.

And killing it, absolutely killing it.

Ferrari didn't like it at all.

Ferrari hated the content strategy, hated what we were doing, although the page is blown up.

So

I didn't like what I was doing.

And I knew that there were a lot more people that I knew who I've met in the content space that could do the same exact thing and probably better than me.

So I phased out of that area, which I was making a good amount of money for my age with that, probably like around 10K a month.

And I was nervous to leave that.

because that was security for me of making 10K a month.

But I left it because I just didn't feel right.

And then I started Delmonico Events and kind of put Red Rock to the side as well.

And

it was truly something that I felt really passionate about because one of the things that I'm on the mission to in my life is number one, inspire billions around the world through the journey that I have in my life and what I do.

But number two

is with all the information that I know and that I've learned throughout my life, to be able to equip people with the knowledge that they need to live a healthy and truly powerful life

on a daily basis.

So I jumped, I did that, and I had my first event, which was absolutely amazing, phenomenal.

But in the process, almost all my income stopped, went to zero.

So I remember there was like a holiday weekend that I was going and I realized that I had, I think it was negative $14 in my bank account and literally no money at all.

And I'm like, shit.

What the fuck do I do?

And I remember putting my card on hold that weekend and

i

i fasted the whole entire weekend unless someone else bought food unless someone else bought drinks bought car whatever i basically didn't spend a single thing i made it through the weekend and it was all just strategizing myself on how i'm going to come back from this on where i'm going to go to move forward and also was binge watching these videos of people who like elon musk jeff bezos who had nothing in the moment and they were literally about to go bankrupt and like nothing at all.

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

Embracing it.

When you get to the highs of highs, it's going to be,

to me, so much better because I know where it came from, where I came from in the past, and just being able to once soak it all in, the emotions, and learn from every single thing.

Yeah, you need both.

And it's crazy to me because I thought I got to a certain point where I never get to low moment again because you hit a certain financial level.

You're like, oh, I'm set for life.

But dude, they're inevitable.

Like they come and go, whether it's monthly, yearly, whenever.

It's like, damn, that's just life.

Like people think it's just straight to the top and no lows on the way

it's get humbled very quickly i've made and lost all twice already and i'm 27 so really when people say like oh trump went bankrupt six times i mean yeah i could see that you know happens on a daily basis i mean i know

with uh my dad and in construction the people who we know and who we do business with i mean there's countless stories about people losing it once people twice three times oh in that space for sure because one one deal goes wrong and they're they're screwed gone They put up all that capital in building.

Gone.

Yeah.

Because you guys got to front the work, right?

Yeah.

Sometimes.

Yeah.

So you put in all those hours and you're still paying the staff and then they don't pay.

It's it's crazy that

that's the uh it's so true.

A lot of people ask me because my dad's in construction.

I think he's been he's been doing this since he's, I think, like 13 years old.

Damn.

His dad owned a construction company,

did concrete and him and his brothers, he has a couple of brothers, a couple of sisters, but they were doing,

they were building Jones' Beach Amphitheater.

They were doing everything.

And his dad had him on the jackhammer.

Like they'd go out and have an amazing night, drunk night, come back, and then they'd be on the jackhammer blowing out their ears and stuff.

But apparently they rarely got paid or anything.

Like they just worked, worked, worked.

And then when my dad and my mom had me, he left and he created Red Rock Industries.

But

because he's been in the construction industry for 23 plus years and I'm doing work with him a lot, a lot of people ask me that question of, so you're going to get into the construction industry, right?

And I'm like, no,

no.

Because although I love seeing the process of like things being built, buildings being demolished and like the final product of a car dealership or an apartment building

on that back end,

apparently it's not like it used to be where it's like a handshake back in the day.

Now it's just, yeah, it's headaches, logistics, people going behind each other's backs.

It's just, there's so much stuff that I don't like about it that I, if I'm going to get into the construction business, it's going to have to be another way.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's not transparent, right?

No.

No.

I'm beginning to actually

dislike very much so the construction industry and process.

but loving the guys who are in the field and working.

Yeah, the guys are great, but just the risk to reward is like, damn, you're putting all this work in, you might not get paid.

Like,

that's the worst.

And then you have people,

suppliers, and other people saying, where's the money?

When are we going to get paid?

And it's like,

waiting from this person to pay us to pay you.

And then all the logistics.

But

the people in the field, the guys in the field,

build different.

Build different.

Two years ago, I went in the field.

for about a week and I got my ass kicked.

Really?

What were you doing?

We were building

solar, I think, for Atlas.

So we were doing some steel, cutting some steel up, inserting some bolts.

And,

oh, my God.

I think it was like 6 a.m.

until 4 something, maybe 5 something.

It was, yeah.

Our guys are amazing, by the way.

Like,

could not ask for a better team of guys for Red Rock.

And I have so much respect for them on a daily basis because I go to the job site sometimes and

I pick up a shovel, I go, show my respect, you know, and just put in the work, get my hands dirty, not afraid to do that at all.

I actually love doing it.

But I just love being with the guys in the field

because cracking up jokes, drinking, eating, just speaking Spanish, which I have no idea what the hell they're saying, but I like make hand signals and stuff.

It's just the culture in the team and the love in the family.

Yeah, by the way, I highly suggest for anyone,

go into construction or something like that that's hard for like two weeks out of the entire year and your perspective will change on what's hard your whole entire life.

You will be so much more grateful for everything that you have.

Really?

Yeah.

Wow.

Yeah, because I guess it's so hands-on.

You kind of just see people doing it, but you don't actually realize like how hard it is.

Yeah.

I mean, we walk into this building and

most of the people don't even realize what it took to actually put this building up.

All the logistics, all the people that actually were behind it to make it, all the bolts, all the steel, if there's any steel in here, like everything, all the planning that went behind it, and especially the guys that are pouring that concrete, getting dirty every single day, that are like eating the nitty-gritty.

I love that stuff.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's respect.

Have you ever demoed a building?

There was a big one here last year or last month in Vegas.

I heard about that.

Yeah, I could hear it from my house.

Yeah.

We

I took content when we were demoing.

I think it was a museum in New York that we demoed.

It was like a huge museum.

And I remember it was my birthday weekend.

We were in the city and no one, my mom was getting pissed because we were about to leave.

I think we left at like 11 p.m.

We stayed until like 4 a.m.

So we didn't sleep for two nights, but we were pulling that thing, pulling that museum apart,

demolishing it, demolishing it.

I love demolition.

So satisfying and so fun.

Yeah.

But me personally, no, I've never.

took a building down.

I've just seen it happen.

What's the process?

Like how much explosives do you need to demo a building like that?

we actually didn't blow it up oh you didn't no so how does it we took an excavator and started pulling it back oh you know the machine grabbing the bricks we wanted to blow it up but it was on a main street okay um so we had to block it off it probably costs way more to blow it up too but it's so sick yeah dude i mean seeing a building being blown up just like boof in a good way yeah yeah the physics of it is crazy because it's so like it just falls down one by one by one yeah it's crazy we did that it would have been sick yeah i wanted to see the one here but it was late it was at like 2 a.m i was like i'm going to bed but it woke me up dude holy crap what's that loud i live 20 minutes from the strip too yeah i thought someone was breaking into my house dude crazy well what's next for you man um

focusing on delmonico events really yeah talk to us about the events we didn't really dive into what exactly the events are yeah so started delmonaco events a couple months ago um my idea around this is that i'm gonna have events all around the us and the world do collabs with people but the main idea about this is I want to get on stage and start speaking more, whether it's podcasts like this or actually on my own stages or on other people's stage and share my journey of scoliosis, spinal surgery, things I've learned from Gary Brecca, things I do on a daily basis, superhuman protocol, things I put in my

drink, in my water and things that I eat.

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

Yeah.

Um, and it pisses me off a lot.

One of the main reasons that I actually started Del Monaco events,

this three actually.

So, the first one is: I had a couple people.

First one is someone who I considered my uncle probably three years ago.

Um,

he used to do work for us in construction, and he was an animal, like

did not stop working until the job was done.

Great guy, though, taught me a lot of stuff.

And

he

fell into

deep path in life.

He got back into alcohol

and just dark vices.

And I remember there was a period of like a year and a half where he was just going back and forth between the hospital and

lost so much weight.

Was a liability to be on the job.

And then there was one night where I remember that we were in a meeting.

My dad and I were in a meeting and he got a call.

And

the look on his face, on my dad's face, when he heard what they were saying, was

you know, something's fucked up, you know, something's wrong.

And I go, What happened?

And he goes, Just finish the meeting, I'll tell you after.

Apparently, he was brought into the hospital and drank himself to death.

Whoa, yeah.

So

I heard that, and I'm like, you gotta be fucking kidding me.

Like,

that hit so hard because I know that he I knew that he was struggling so bad and we tried every single thing to help but

like an uncle figure

Hearing that he was just out of nowhere drank himself to death gone

Really hard for me and then when I was in school There was a night where I was about to go to bed and my mom called me and she goes um so-and-so

uh

just killed themselves

they hung themselves themselves.

Jeez.

And I'm like, fucking God.

Again.

That was another uncle?

No, that was one of my friends that was my age.

Holy crap.

Yeah, from school.

We were really close with her as well.

And I'm like, fuck.

And the last one was: we came back from a trip.

I think it was from Aruba.

And

we were in the van.

We were driving home.

We're all good.

Then we got another call.

Where

one of my family, parents' family friends

killed himself too

suicide so i'm like mother

that's three in a row

and

it was just killing me that like on a daily basis so many people take their life yeah

um

and then i have another friend who thank god he didn't nothing happen but he went down this dark path as well um

And I'm just like, what if?

What if I could have just fucking been there for that person?

What if I literally could have just been there for that one call, that one message to save that person, to help that person?

And actually, something like that did happen when I was on a trip in Greece.

And one of my friends called up their other friend.

And apparently, he was about to take his life.

Whoa.

But hearing about a person that I am and possibly being able to meet me, he was...

he stopped because he was like if i could meet someone like zach in the future

I want to be able to do that.

Damn.

So when that happened,

first of all, I'm like, number one,

why are people taking their life so often?

Like, it fucking hurts, especially when it's someone so close to you.

Second is, if I can give someone enough inspiration, enough hope to not take their life, that's all I would want in my life, ever.

So that was the biggest push for me to start Delmonico Events and for me to go on this journey that I am on right now and

the second one is my spinal surgery of what i've learned through that so just being able to tell people about the surgery and about the the lows of the lows and not being able to fucking walk not even being able to do jack shit can't even drive like nothing having nothing and coming back from that and putting in the time because there's going to be times where you feel like you're not going to want to work out you feel like you can't do this can't do that just fucking do it anyway get it done just push through.

Get through the fucking pain.

Enjoy the pain in the process.

Pain is what makes you grow.

You're going to learn stuff from it.

So, being able to share inspiration about people like that.

And then the last part, the third part, which I'm doing massively, even at the first event that I had, is sharing people with the knowledge that I've learned.

So, for example, putting salt in your water, helping out with migraines, because so many people have headaches on a daily basis.

Yeah.

Same thing with anxiety and depression.

Instead of using these pharmaceutical drugs that they're getting paid to fucking push to you

go out fucking walk lift weights get in the sun do stuff that is actually healthy for you that we did on a daily basis back in the day in the primitive age like start doing that more often and being able to share it with people how the mind works how the brain works the subconscious how to reprogram everything beliefs meditation hypnosis like all these things superhuman protocol breath work cold plunging sauna ivs like all this stuff being able to share that with people, along with the biggest thing of all, I remember at my event when I told this to people, people are like, what the fuck was the seed oils

with how that's made and how often we eat that and what it's actually doing to us.

People were like, what the fuck are we eating?

That's in everyday music.

It's insane.

So those three reasons are the reason, are the reasons why I started Delmonico events.

And funny thing is,

when I was doing Red Rock Studios, I was figuring out how how I can leverage this company, number one, to make money, but number two, that I could find someone else to just take it over for me.

And I'll just be on the back burner, like own the company, right?

Make some money, let someone else do it.

It wasn't fulfilling to me.

Now with Demonico Events,

I want to be doing the shit for the next 50, 70 years.

I want to be speaking on the biggest stages.

Like I want to be doing this stuff every single day, no matter what.

And when I realized that and got that through my mind, number one, I'm like, okay, this is, this is real.

This is what I'm doing.

And number two, I'm like, let's dig into this.

Because it just, it felt right and things started clicking.

Beautiful.

Yeah, you found your purpose, dude.

That's what it is.

Heavily.

That's how I feel with the podcast, too.

Because I've hopped many industries.

I've done many different entrepreneurial ventures.

But with this, I could see myself doing this for a long time.

And you have a lot of people on here.

Yeah.

Congrats.

Congrats to you, by the way.

That's amazing.

Yeah.

It's cool to see your journey.

I'm going to keep an eye on you.

And where can people find you and find the events and everything?

They're going to be on the biggest platform right now is Instagram.

So Zach Domonico, just my name on Instagram.

I'm on TikTok right now, too.

Trying to post as much stuff on TikTok as well.

Experiment.

And then any podcast that I do is going to be on YouTube.

So it's all just Zach Domonico, my name.

Cool.

We'll link below.

Thanks for coming on, brother.

Appreciate it, brother.

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