From Pizza Delivery to Millionaire: My Crazy Journey | Dan Henry DSH #591

Somebody else offered 200,000 more

and stole a house from me.

What?

Yeah, dude.

No, I didn't get it.

So then I had to get another one.

And this time I was like, all right, forget banking.

I'll just send it in crypto.

You can buy anything in crypto.

No way.

Oh, yeah, you can buy houses, cars, Rolls-Royces, whatever you want.

You buy in crypto and Dubai.

Dude, everything you can buy in Dubai.

I really got to look into it because that's where most of my money is.

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All right, guys, you got Dan Henry here.

Just moved to Dubai.

We were talking about a lot.

Well,

here's why.

If you Google kids' books, you look at the first results.

Linda's tight clam needs loosening.

In my daddy's belly,

everybody masturbates.

Where is my dad with four black people on it?

Like, it's just the gay BCs.

I mean, this stuff doesn't happen in non-Western countries.

And I'm just, I, I, I love what, you know, the U.S.

was for me growing up, but I'm just, I'm over it.

And now that I'm fortunate enough to have made some money, I can afford to move to what I consider better places for my family.

And do Dubai is, I lived in Costa Rica for two years.

It was great.

But Dubai is another level.

Yeah.

Another level.

More business out there than Costa Rica?

Bro, everybody's out there i i i went there and within like 24 hours i'm having dinner with uh erica kohlberg at her house oh she lives out there um well she i think she was staying there she just was in town okay um

and then and then uh uh

friggin just all these different people um i got invited to meet like a lot of a lot of a lot of people you just would not have access to We almost had lunch with the chief growth officer over at Mind Valley, but I was so tired I couldn't do it.

I was just like, I'm done.

I can't keep meeting people.

Damn, I gotta get out there, man.

Dude, it's at because the thing is, is that's where the creators are.

The people that run the internet live in Dubai.

All the offers you see, like 95% of them, everything

is all

run from Dubai because that's where people either are or that's where they're heading.

Because there's no tax,

it's

collaborations.

I meet, you know, William Brown.

William Brown.

He's blowing up on YouTube.

Okay.

I meet him, we have lunch, and then I end up doing the pitch at his event a week later

wow yeah and we did like big numbers off of a small room um real big numbers like

you know

you would not expect it and it's just it's just a great place for business yeah so money talks out there yeah yeah yeah and it's you you can live baller or you can live modest there's options for both right you got a two million dollar house out there I did.

I just bought a house that USD equivalent is about 2 million.

Nice.

But the thing is, man, the real estate's going up so much there, in a year, that'll probably be three, three and a half.

Wow.

Is that quick?

So I actually put an offer in on a house and

in Durhams, which is the currency there,

it was 7.3 million Durhams, which is around 2.3 million.

The wire for the deposit took a couple of days to hit because, you know, it takes time to send an international wire.

So

somebody else offered 200,000 more

and stole the house from me.

What?

Yeah, dude.

So you didn't get it.

No, I didn't get it.

So then I had to get another one.

And this time I was like, all right, forget banking.

I'll just send it in crypto.

But you can buy anything in crypto.

No way.

Oh, yeah, you can buy houses, cars, Rolls-Royces, whatever you want.

You can buy it in crypto and Dubai.

Dude, everything you can buy in Dubai.

I really got to look into it because that's where most of my money is.

Yeah.

In crypto.

Yeah.

I mean, it's, they're like, oh, yeah, send crypto.

Most people buy.

And when I, when I sent the deposit for the crypto You know how you can see the wallet address?

Yeah, dude

I was killing bro.

It's just in and out in and out and it's like okay these people these people are because there's no capital gains tax So I'd be trading that shit all day.

It's just fast and you don't have to deal with the bank I had to do two phone calls with fraud prevention on my bank and I'm like guys this is my money.

I'm literally buying a house.

I have all the documentation.

Yeah.

So I just said, screw it.

That's why I love crypto, man.

I've had so many banks shut down for no reason.

I get 100% control.

I get barely any chargebacks and I get banks shut down.

Payment processor holds.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's pretty crazy.

And they're just using that money to 10x their money.

Well, that's why, you know, Dubai is there accepting of crypto because I think, you know, a lot of people say, oh, it's not a free country.

Well, it depends on your definition of freedom.

My wife has the freedom to walk down the street at 3 a.m.

if she wants and no one will mess with her.

There's zero crime.

I left my Rolex.

Because I take it off when I eat because it scratches the plates.

I left it on the table.

The waitress runs out all the way out of the restaurant, all the way through the hotel lobby, all the way to the elevator elevator, and hands me my Rolex and says, oh, sir, you forgot this.

Wow.

There's like zero crime.

You could have kept that shit.

Well, that's like $20,000.

It's not common in Dubai.

There's not a lot of crime.

You do that in Miami.

It's gone within seconds.

Yeah.

That's crazy.

Culture is different.

You can't be rude.

What do you mean?

It's illegal.

What?

It's illegal.

You can't curse someone out.

No, you'll go to jail.

You can't flip them off.

You can't curse them out.

You go to jail.

No, okay.

So no road rage.

No.

No.

That's interesting.

So there's no assholes there.

It's great.

Yeah, it feels very unsafe in certain parts of America right now.

Now, yeah.

Certain cities, you can't even walk around with a Rolex.

No, you can't send your kids to school.

It's basically child abuse.

You know,

I, yeah, no, I'm good on the U.S.

now.

I'm good.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I appreciate you.

Yeah.

I'm out.

So did you like revoke your citizenship or how did that?

Nah, because the way they do that is when you revoke your, when you want to give up your citizenship, right?

Yeah.

Like, let's say you go to a party and

you're having a great time, but then the party gets kind of lame and they start like doing weird stuff.

You're like, you know what?

I don't feel comfortable here no more.

I want to leave.

What happens if they say you can't leave or we're going to take half your money?

Like you can leave, but we're going to take half the money you have.

Like, what would you consider that?

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I don't know.

It's not the opposite of freedom.

You're not free to leave.

Yeah, because you're not even living there and they're still wanting half, basically.

Right.

They're not letting you leave unless you do something incredibly negative or detrimentary to your life to leave.

That's not freedom.

Freedom is when you can come and go as you please.

That's like the very essence of freedom.

Well, in the U.S., They're the only country that taxes you on your worldwide income.

So if I go to another country and I make money there, they want a cut.

If I say, hey, you know what?

I'm good.

I'm not going to take the U.S.

resources.

I'm going to move out completely.

I'm gone.

They value all your assets, your real estate.

They put a valuation on any company you may own.

And they go, here's the cash value of that.

We want half.

And then you can give up your passport.

Wow.

Yeah, bro.

I didn't know that.

Yeah.

I thought you could just give it up.

No.

Damn.

If you're broke, sure.

And then they interrogate you for months afterward.

Why do you want to leave the U.S.?

It's It's so amazing here.

Why would you want to leave and go somewhere else where there's no taxes and people are very nice and there's no crazy alternative lifestyle stuff being shoved down your throat?

Why would you want to go there?

I don't know.

It's almost like we're in a giant cult.

Yeah, bro.

That's pretty crazy.

Well, dude, great marketing.

Yeah.

Land of the free, right?

Good copywriter, bro.

People come to America thinking it's the land of the free.

Because they have good copywriters.

I mean, think about it.

North Korea has good copywriters too, because people in North Korea believe that's normal.

Think about it, right?

That's true.

You know?

And again, I love the concept, but I guarantee if you dug up the founding fathers and you sat their ass right here, they'd be like, what?

They would not be happy.

Yeah.

You know?

Well, there's probably some AI now where you can import every conversation they've had and actually talk to them, kind of.

Yeah, I wonder what they would say.

Yeah, but most of the AI is slandered liberal now.

I can't wait till Elon's comes out.

I did see that Google thing where all the presidents were black or whatever.

Oh, man.

I don't even want

bro.

It's, it's, it's, it's a mess.

Yeah.

I mean, for now, we'll just use AI to make money, but yeah, we'll see where it ends up.

I think AI is, is, look, I had to make money the hard way.

You know, I turned a $7 investment into 30 million.

Jeez.

And I had to do it the hard way.

Now, with AI, it's a thousand times easier.

A thousand times easier.

We tested it.

We did this experiment, right?

Because you know how when you you use ChatGBT, if you just say, like, write me a book or write me a sales page or something like that, it sucks.

It's terrible.

And that's because ChatGBT uses what's called training data.

It's the default data inside ChatGBT.

What you got to do is you got to give it your own data.

So what we did was we took all the marketing frameworks we used over the past several years that we spent millions of dollars in advertising testing.

What I know works from a decade of experience.

And I made my own training data.

And then I just said hey chat GBT ignore what you know and do this the outputs were so good that we sold I think we sold like 300 copies we said you know what we're gonna write you an e-book for your business we sold 300 copies just as an experiment we wrote it we charge 500 bucks per for a book for a book wow which is cheap right for a book for well it's a mini book but yeah it's a like an e-book for your business like a like a mini book okay but most people would charge three five grand.

If it was a full-length book, they would charge tens of thousands.

Wow.

Like a professional ghostwriter.

We did it in 300 people, not a single person said, is this AI?

Is this so?

Yeah, they didn't think it sucked.

They didn't think it was AI.

Nothing.

It was that crazy.

That's impressive.

Yeah.

That's good to know, though, because yeah, I'd be inserting some stuff into ChatGPT and so basic.

That's two reasons.

Two reasons for that.

One.

The reason I just said training data.

And the second is, and I learned this back when I paid $15,000 for a sales page from a world-class copywriter.

She sent me a list of 32 questions about what I sold.

And when I read the questions, I was like, I never thought to ask myself these questions.

Like they were really good questions.

And ever since then, I realized that's how good copywriters write great copy.

They know what questions to ask.

And so what I did,

we made our own software.

We hired a developer.

We made our own software where every time you wanted to write write an email or do this or do that um

it would ask you the right questions then it would take our our data not chat gbt data make the copy make make the the book make the email marketing make the whatever and youtube scripts whatever

and output that and so we started using that and it has been baller we're actually going to release it because

I believe the easiest way to make money now, like if you don't have any skills,

is you go out and you get businesses as clients, you do their email marketing, their social media posting, whatever.

And instead of learning the skill yourself, which takes a long time,

years,

you use AI to do it and deliver it for them.

And now you can do the one thing, the one thing that anyone can do.

Because the problem with making money online is most people...

And most people will lie to you.

Most gurus will lie to you.

They'll say, oh, you don't need any experience.

Yes, you do.

Oh, you don't need any credibility.

Yes, you do.

People don't like buying from people that don't have credibility right but there's only one way to do that there's only one way to actually make sales from day one if you don't have any credibility any experience or any skills and that is if you can do it cheaper

faster and with zero risk you can do it cheaper because it only takes you a couple seconds to do it with ai you can do it faster Because it only takes you a couple seconds to do it with AI.

And you can do it with no risk because you can do the same thing that they do at Sam's Club.

When they give out free samples, you can write a few emails for somebody, give it to them, or write the first chapter of their book hey you don't have to send me any money here you go do you like it oh my god it's amazing okay great now they pay you love it like imagine if you reached out to 10 businesses a day and you were like hey i'll do this or that for you i'll write your emails i'll write your social media posts it's going to be cheaper i'll get it to you in the next hour and i'll give you some free samples you don't think at least one would say yes and now boom that's a 500 a month client i love that yeah that's so balanced so we're we're that's our next big offer is i'm huge yeah course modeled with our software and we're just gonna i just i want to help normal people people, man.

You know, like too much of this, this, this high-ticket stuff, everybody helping, everybody, cannibalizing each other stuff.

You know, I think

it's good to help normal people, too.

Yeah, I think the high-ticket stuff's getting a little out of hand.

Well, everybody keeps selling to each other.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

Like everybody keeps selling to each other.

And the guys that...

are like, hey, look, do you want to just quit your job?

Like, they're still doing well because they're offering solutions to people who aren't trying to make millions of dollars.

They're just trying to make side tickets.

Side income, income, yeah.

Yeah, and that's just, it's more believable, you know, it's more believable.

I stopped selling high ticket.

I started doing

rev share with people, which makes us more.

Really?

Yeah.

So I do speech writing.

Okay.

So, you know, I learned from guys like Myron and all these guys how to sell millions of dollars in a day from stage.

I've done, I've done it three times, a million bucks from stage.

And so I started

taking on clients and instead of charging them 25 or 50 grand for a day of consulting, we take a percentage and they go out and do the challenge and then we get a percentage.

Our first client, he only had 60 people on his challenge and we did over 200 grand in sales.

Holy crap.

60 people.

It's 30 grand a person.

Yeah.

And I love it because I get to help write the event.

I basically ghost write your speeches and then I don't have to fulfill.

I get a cut and I don't have to fulfill on anything.

I don't have to do a product.

I get to do what I like to do and just, I love to write.

So, you know, that to me is like, and you know, Alex Harmos is doing that.

You know, he's not charging you money.

He's giving you advice and then he's taking a cut.

So I think like the next wave of high ticket is in RevShare.

I agree.

And it's much more scalable that way, too.

And you need less clients.

Yeah.

And that's the goal, man, because once you have too many clients, it's almost like you're working customer service job.

Yeah, dude.

First time I did a million dollar day, I signed up 34 people.

into a $30,000 mastermind and it was exciting,

but it sucked.

That's a lot of people to deal with all at once.

We weren't prepared for it.

I thought we would do like maybe

six, seven people, and it went bananas.

Wow.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Masterminds were a good sell back in the day.

I mean, they still are.

It's just, bro, I'm old, man.

I'm like 37 now.

I'm tired.

There's a lot of masterminds now.

Like, I used to want to join them all, but at this point, maybe one or two a year, I'm good.

Have you noticed the highest level?

I'm in the 100 million one.

So, so, yeah, I've heard of that.

That was.

Fleischman.

Yeah.

I started getting reached out by all the top level people.

They're starting to do free masterminds where they just get on Telegram and they just connect.

I'm in a couple because they're like, dude, we're sick of paying all this money.

And because the problem is when you get in a lot, not all of them.

I haven't been in that one, so I can't speak in that, but I've gotten multiple masterminds where I go in thinking, I'm going to be.

I'm not going to be the smartest person in the room, right?

Because you don't want to be.

You want to be the poorest person in the room and the dumbest person in the room.

And it ends up being like a, oh, dan, I've been following you for years.

It doesn't have the same vibe back in the day, like when I was in Sam Oven's mastermind and everybody was like equal.

Facts.

You know, now there's been this gap where people who are complete newbies are buying into these high-level masterminds.

And it's great that you found the money, but it's like,

it's not just about the money.

You need to get in this mastermind because you have something to bring to the table.

And I think there's too many people who have nothing to bring to the table other than cash that are getting in these masterminds.

Agreed.

And it's just kind of messing it up.

Yeah.

I mean, you see mine on WhatsApp.

It's pretty good and that's free.

There you go.

Yeah.

And there's like 600 people in there.

There's cool shit happening.

But I think the value is in the connections.

But like you're saying, people are paying to get in now and the connections just aren't as good as what they used to be.

It's not the same, but you know, things evolve, man.

You just got to roll with it.

Yeah.

You mentioned you turned $7 into $30 million earlier.

Yeah.

So I got advice from a billionaire on how to turn a small amount of money into a large amount of money.

And I took that advice and it worked.

And how it went down was years ago, i worked at this sales company and this guy named jeff he owned multiple companies billionaire big deal guy he housed all the companies in the same building and he's very nice guy he would always buy lunch for all the companies every day yeah every day and he would rotate around he would sit with different employees every day and one day i got to sit next to him

And I looked at him and I was like, all right, here's my shot, right?

I said, Jeff, how do I get rich?

Like, I want to buy my mom a house.

I want to buy my dad a house.

I want to take care of my family.

How do I get rich?

And he looks at me and he says,

how many books per day do you read on money and business?

I'm like, per day.

I'm like, I don't,

I'm like, I don't read any books on, I don't even read books, you know?

And he looks at me.

He's like, so let me get this straight.

You don't read books on how to make money.

I'm like, no.

And he goes, well, then you don't want to make money.

Like, you don't want to get rich.

And I was like, well, no, no, I do want to get rich.

He's like, no, no, no, no, no.

People that want to get rich read books on how to get rich.

You don't read books on how to get rich.

So you don't want to.

Figure that out.

And that's your first step.

And that like really cut me deep because the truth is, most people don't have the life they want.

They don't have the money they want, the car they want, the house they want, the body they want, the relationship they want.

Only 1% of people have that, but 99% of people want the 1% life, yet

they still behave like the 99%.

If you want 1% shit,

you can't behave like the 99%.

And the 99%, they sleep in till 9 a.m., they don't read books, they watch Netflix and chill,

and they don't take care of their health, they don't work out, they don't do any of that stuff.

They just go through the motions.

1% of people, they're up, they're reading books, they're doing what they got to do to get the skills they need to become valuable, to become in demand.

And that's how you do it.

And

I didn't listen to him for years.

And then one day I was dead broke.

I couldn't pinch two pennies together.

I said, you know, maybe I should do this book reading thing.

I read my first marketing book, and literally a month later, I made six figures.

Wow.

Yeah.

And I felt like an idiot because imagine you don't read books your whole life.

And then the first time you read it, you just smash it out of the gate.

Well, how much of a moron

would you feel like?

You know, because like you could have have made, I could have made so much money if I would have just started reading books.

The brilliant part about getting up at 5 a.m.

is from 5 to 9, all the douchebags are asleep.

All the people who are going to annoy you, take up your time, who are doing nothing with their lives, they're all asleep.

And you get peace.

You can read your book, you can work on your business, you can study, and you can make, you can become that 1%.

Facts.

So that's important.

Education.

And you were homeschooled, right?

I was.

I was.

I was homeschooled.

So was education always a big part of your lifestyle or not really?

I don't like traditional education.

I think it's BS, you know?

Because if it wasn't BS, then why don't we learn how to, or at least back then, budget a checkbook?

Why don't we learn like basic life skills?

We learn all this stuff that we're not going to use.

Math that we're never going to use, crap about rocks, you know, like what are we going to use that for?

It's dumb.

And then as well, it's scientific fact that when you tell a story, the human mind retains the information like a 100 times more than if you just say facts.

Yet in school, we haven't standardized storytelling.

We haven't trained teachers to tell stories as a way of educating.

They just read from their little book and that's what they do.

And I just don't believe that school is meant to make you rich.

It's meant to make you make other people rich.

I mean, John D.

Rockefeller even said it.

He's responsible for school being a thing.

And he literally said, I'm not in the business of making a nation of thinkers.

I'm in the business of making a nation of workers.

And so I'm big on education.

I'm just not big on traditional education.

I'm big on self-education and learning from people who have done what you want to do.

I love that.

I got traumatic memories memorizing definitions, man.

In high school and shit.

Oh, my gosh.

Yeah.

Look, if you're going to cut into my brain or defend me in court, fine, go to school.

Other than that, I think going to school, sending your child to school is literal child abuse,

at least today.

I agree, especially public school.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

That's straight up child abuse.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

A couple people you interviewed, I want to get your insights on.

Alex Tormozi, what were some things you learned from him?

So Alex, what I like about Alex is, and I hope he doesn't get mad at me for saying this, is Alex is a fucked up person like me.

Like, I consider myself a really messed up person, you know?

And I came from a small town in Florida, a lot of drug use.

Not me, just the town.

And so not a lot of ambition.

And when I hear Alex talk, he talks about how he came from a,

you know, place where he was, had alcohol problems and he had all these problems.

And I had those problems too.

You know, I drank a lot of alcohol.

I ran with the wrong crowd.

And to see him be straight about like, look, I used to suck and now I'm trying to not suck and life's working out.

When I talked to him in person, because I still talk to him sometimes, I was fortunate enough to know him and we did some stuff together.

Like I helped him with like webinars and stuff like years ago before anybody knew who he was.

So we still talk talk here and there.

And it's just really cool how he's pretty much the same in person.

He's actually a little nicer.

But what I love about him is that he was screwed up and he admits it.

And I feel that way too.

Like I feel really screwed up.

The fact that I'm making money, I mean, I delivered pizza for seven years.

Wow.

I should not be making money.

I should not be a multi-millionaire.

I should not.

Statistically, yeah, you were against the odds.

Yeah.

Like, I should not be.

I'm from, dude, I'm from Florida.

I'm dropped out of college.

i

am literally like had the i grew up in a small town i didn't get any skills i mean there's nothing delivered pizza for seven years there's nothing that says this guy should be successful

and yet here i am i'm not as successful as alex but that same dynamic of i was screwed up and now i'm fixing it and life is working out uh i resonate with that so i think he's he's just like he is in person he's even a little nicer that's big time man because growing up, you probably never would have thought this was even possible.

No, bro.

I remember trying to say, you know what?

If I can make a thousand bucks a week, that'd be my dream.

50K a year.

Yeah, which back then was

a bag.

Wow.

Damn.

I'm old, man.

I'm 37.

I just drink a lot of water.

You look young, man.

Have you tested your biological age?

I don't even know how to do that.

Next thing you know, the Grant Cardone guy is going to come out with a red light machine.

like,

no, I don't know how to do that stuff.

Dude, I eat clean.

I don't eat dairy.

I don't eat sugar.

I drink a gallon, gallon, half of water a day.

I don't eat American food when at all possible.

Wow.

No.

A little hack for you.

You ever want good food, go to a Muslim butcher because they're the only people in the United States who actually take care to like provide good meat.

Damn.

Yes.

I'm going to start doing that out here.

Yeah.

And it's better.

When I was lifting weights, as soon as I started eating halal meat,

I mean, literally, I felt it immediately.

What?

Yeah, like you buy like chicken at like Walmart, Publix, it's trash.

Yeah.

It can't be trash at

halal butcher shops and maybe even kosher butcher shop.

I'm not sure.

I'd say kosher too.

I've had some kosher food.

I feel amazing.

It's cheaper at the Muslim ones, though.

Oh, yeah.

They're not profit-driven at all.

Okay.

They're not at all.

Like they,

they're not about profit.

Interesting.

That's a good hack for people watching.

What about Myron Golden?

So he's doing $3 million a month?

I saw your YouTube video.

When I interviewed him,

that's what he did like that previous month, right?

I don't know if he's always doing, you know how it is.

You make $3 million and then you make two and a half and then you make one, two, and then you make three.

And then, you know, so I don't know what he's making every month, but he did make that the prior month.

Myron is a cool guy because here's a funny story about Myron.

I was at an event and I was speaking and I walked into the event and I thought there was going to be 300 people.

There wasn't.

There was 15.

And I was like, oh man, I felt bad for the event owner because I thought, well, he's going to not make any money.

How are you going to make money?

15 people.

So I get up, I speak, I teach all this technical stuff like marketing and sales and all this stuff.

I get off and I meet Myron.

It's like, oh, you're a really good speaker.

You know, he's encouraging me.

Myron's very encouraging.

I heard from guys like Russell Brunson that Myron was like one of the best stage people in the world.

Yep.

One of the best speakers.

He gets up there, right?

And they had already done done the pitch for the event, no sales.

Myron gets up there and starts talking about, in my opinion, really stupid stuff, like dumb stuff, like birds flapping and mama bears, all this stuff that has nothing to do with business, right?

Just like weird analogies, like, oh, and then what does the mama bird bear say to the baby bird?

Just like, I'm watching this thinking, this guy's insane.

He's not just bombing.

He's a lunatic.

Okay.

Then he pitches the same offer

that they just pitched and got zero sales.

And he does over $200,000 in sales.

Wow.

And I was like, all right, I don't know something.

There's something I don't know.

I go up to him.

I say, how did you do that?

He's like, what do you mean?

I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, bro.

Don't bullshit me.

How did you do that?

That was some sorcery.

So he talked to me about it.

And he's like, you know, it's stage speaking and platform closing.

I said, how much?

He's like, what do you mean?

I said, how much for me to learn that?

50 grand for a two-day event.

I gave him 50 grand.

I go to to the two-day event.

I learn it.

I hold an event a few weeks later to a million dollars.

Wow.

Yeah.

I think that same event's like 200 now.

I bet.

So I got in early.

You're making a million off it.

Yeah.

But here's the funny thing.

My dad, I told my dad about it.

You know what my dad said?

He said, you spent $50,000 on a two-day seminar.

I thought I taught you better.

Whoa.

Yeah.

Because my dad didn't learn about money.

Right.

Right.

He didn't learn about how to turn money into money.

My entrepreneurial friends, you know what?

They said, wow, Dan, you turned 50 grand into a million dollars in a couple of weeks.

See the mindset difference?

That's the way I interpreted it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I always ask people to,

here's a trick, right?

If I ever have a bag or a briefcase, especially like a cheap bag, I'll say, hey,

would you give me $1,000 for this backpack?

Most people say, no.

I say, see, that's why you're poor.

What do you mean?

You know what rich people would say?

What's in it?

Fucks.

And now if I open the bag and there's a hundred grand in it,

you just cost yourself 99 grand.

Yeah.

And that's the thing is, poor people always worry about what things cost.

Rich people worry about what they get.

Because if I said, here's a magic money box, you put a dollar in, you close it, you open it, you get five out.

How many dollars would you put in?

Right.

Like all of them, right?

You put in as many dollars as you can.

So most of what makes you rich, and I learned this from guys like Myron and Sam Ovens and all these, it's really not what you know.

It's not even who you know.

It's how you think about things.

Because if you know how to think about things, all the who you know and what you know, it all just works out.

Yeah, sounds like a common theme here is you're always willing to reinvest in yourself.

I feel like a lot of people are scared to take that jump.

I mean, look,

you know, they're scared because that's what society programs them to be.

I mean, if you think about it, look at all the movies.

Champions are always painted as fearless, but they're not.

In real life, champions just do it scared.

You know, we're under the impression that if we're afraid, that somehow means that we should not move forward.

But see,

the human mind is programmed to keep you safe.

Well, what is the opposite of safety?

Risk.

What do you need to get reward?

You need risk.

You got to risk money in a stock to make money from a stock.

We got to risk money in real estate.

Like anytime you get something of value, you risk something.

So your mind, by its default programming, is naturally averse to risk, which means it's averse to success.

So when you look at an investment or you look at an opportunity to invest in yourself yourself and logically you go, oh, this makes sense.

This will make me more money.

But then you get that like heat feeling on your skin and the like slight nausea and you kind of get a little and you oh, I don't know.

You know, that's your brain taking over and being like, oh, safety, safety, safety, safety.

You see, normal people, the 99%,

they feel that and they go, oh, this must mean I must not do it.

The 1% of people, they know how their mind works.

They go, oh, this is just human BS.

And they do it anyway.

I love that.

That's so true, though.

Self-sabotage.

Yeah.

I still find myself in it sometimes to the

dude.

It doesn't matter how many millions of dollars I make or lose.

The same stuff, imposter syndrome, shiny object syndrome.

I have it every day.

I literally have, I pay my COO a disgusting amount of money.

And one of his main priorities.

Is I say to him, I said, anytime I deviate from the plan I already made, tell me no.

He's cracking up right now.

Yeah, yeah, because he knows.

Like, I just like, don't let me do this.

Don't let me do this extra thing.

Don't let me add another product.

Don't let me do a side project.

Just, you know, and

he holds me accountable.

It's tempting right now, especially with the crypto market.

It's tempting to just throw in shit coins and meme coins and altcoins.

Dude, yeah, yeah.

Look, I have trauma from like, from last cycle.

Same.

And I feel like that's good trauma.

It is, because now I'm being a bit more cautious.

Yeah, but you.

But at the same time, you're 30 days away from the halving.

Yeah.

And

it's a pretty good chance that the bull's going to go for a bit.

I'm not a crypto expert.

I just hang out with a lot of crypto experts.

And I stayed at a holiday in Express last night.

I didn't.

The point is that it seems like it's going to be good for the next few months based on, because, you know, every, and correct me if I'm wrong, you probably know more about crypto than I do.

Yeah.

Every

before the halving, whenever Bitcoin has hit his all-time high, hasn't it doubled?

Yeah, there's a 5.3 theory.

Yeah.

Yeah, so if it just hits 70, whatever, then theoretically it should hit 140 the next year.

People are saying at least 100 this year, yeah.

Yeah.

100, 150.

So that's why I'm like, I don't want to sell anything.

Yeah, it's crazy because we could just be smart and hold everything we got right now and make two to three X, or we could go DGen and go for those 10 to 50 Xs.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

Are you in any of the real degenerate

stuff like Bob?

I'm in all those choices, bro.

And I've made millions and lost millions.

Oh, you dirty bitch.

Yeah.

And it's never worth it.

Because even when you have it on paper, you don't sell it.

You know what I mean?

No, you got to sell.

Well, I mean,

after Bitcoin takes its dip, you got like, what, like two weeks, right?

Yeah.

I need to be smart this time.

Last bull run, I didn't cash out anything.

Oh, yeah.

Me neither.

Same, dude.

Like, it was,

I had 10 million.

$10 million in the market.

I don't want to tell you how much I had,

but it was, it wasn't too far off.

And then the negative was not good.

Yeah, I lost 90% of it.

Oh, yeah.

Nightmares.

But this time around, I'll be smarter, man.

You know what, though?

I had dinner in Dubai a few weeks ago, and I sat with a bunch of entrepreneurs, and we all had this little dick measuring contest.

Who has lost the most money?

5 million, 8 million, 10 million, 3 million.

Here's the funny thing.

We all were still rich.

It's because you can take someone's money, but you can't take their skills.

That's why the best investment, that $7, I bought a $7 marketing book.

I did what was said in the marketing book.

I made $100,000 in the next month or so doing that.

That year we did $2.9 million.

I've since done 30, well over 30 million now, and I've had multiple million-dollar days.

Crazy.

And yeah, I've reinvested, but I've reinvested with the money I made from learning what I learned in a little book.

So it's like,

you will never take, take the, the

1,000 X crypto coin.

It still will not compare to learning something that makes you money for the rest of your life, no matter what anybody does to you.

Yeah.

And I love that because last bull run, that was where all my eggs were, right?

And I wasn't making money in other aspects of life.

But now that I have these skills with the podcast and other businesses, even if I lose money in crypto, I'll still be fine.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, you're churning them out, man.

I see like two, what, two, three episodes a day?

Two a day, man.

Wow, bro.

that's

that's a gride it is but yeah you can't take them you could take the money but you can't take the skill so exactly people need to focus and you learn you it's compounding skill because you learn from the data of doing the skill it gets better better better better yeah oh yeah i'm a long way from that first episode man yeah i was ass you know you know what though i'll tell you this um

here's a little thought exercise if you grab your phone right now you probably could but most people if you grab you don't even have mine

people at home can do this if you grab your phone, can you find five people in your phone that if you needed, say, 10 grand right now, hey, man, can you spot me 10?

They could send it to you.

What about 100?

And the thing here is we believe that our net worth is whatever cash we have in the bank.

But in truth, it's the access we have.

And so I remember when I got sued by the IRS for $250,000.

And the guy that helped me sell the bar, he saw what I did with it.

I bought this bar.

I used marketing to turn it around.

I sold it for a six-figure profit.

Then the IRS comes in and sues me because the accountant that I had died while doing my taxes.

I couldn't get access to the files, and it was this whole whole thing.

So the business broker, who was very well off, calls me up and he says, hey, man, I saw what you did.

If you need 100 grand, I'll spot you.

I know you'll take it.

You'll turn it into a million because I've seen you do it.

I believe in you.

Just let me know.

Just say the word.

I didn't take him up on his offer, but the principle here is: imagine if you had 10 rich people that believed in you if you ever ran into issues you would have access to whatever you needed

and

there was a uh

you know you ever you ever see these these comments on social media where they say why do you teach how to make money if it makes so much money why don't you just do it yourself yeah i see those i'll tell you why i teach people how to make money Years ago, there was this guy named Joseph Aaron.

He was dead broke.

It was like a week before Christmas.

He did not have enough money to get his kids Christmas presents.

He bought one of my thousand dollar programs on how to create a marketing agency.

He gets his first client on Christmas Eve, immediately goes out and buys his kids' presents.

Okay?

And

he always thanked me for that.

He's like, dude, if it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have got that client.

I wouldn't have been able to get my kids' presents.

From there, he made a lot more money with his agency.

And then eventually he got into speaking.

And then he started really crushing it and speaking.

He was the one that referred me to learn speaking from guys like Myron.

Well, when I did my first event, Joe calls me and says, hey, I'll MC your event for you.

I'll help you with it.

Because it was like my first one.

He comes on, he helps me.

We do a million dollars in a day.

He didn't ask me for a dime.

I send him money anyway, but he didn't ask me for a dime.

He didn't ask me for anything.

He just did it as a thank you.

Wow.

The amount of times I've had somebody from years ago come back to me who I helped when they just got started on the come up, now they're big, who have in some way helped me then elevate

countless stories of that, countless.

So the reason I teach people how to make money is because I know one day

you'll probably be way past the come up and we could do something together and I'll make even more money.

So they say, oh, you got to get access to rich people.

Well,

you can make your own.

You know, I don't know if it was Warren Buffett.

Somebody said, if you want to get rich, if you want to get rich, learn how to make money.

If you want to get wealthy, help other people make money.

The more people you help make money, the more people will help you make more money.

Wow.

I love that.

You're playing a long game out here.

Yeah, and it's worked really good.

I love it.

Karma, man.

I'm a believer.

That's why I do it too.

People are always like, why do you introduce your friends to each other and stuff?

Some people are closed off.

I'm like, dude, I know it'll work its way back around to me one day.

Oh, yeah.

They're like, why don't you take a cut of that deal?

I'm like, dude, that's so short term.

Yeah, everybody thinks short term, man.

The goodwill you get from asking for nothing comes back to you tenfold absolutely you know but that look man that you don't know that when you're like 22 23 24.

no you got to start pushing 30 to learn those lessons yeah 27 now or you got to be a good listener yeah that's that's key for sure dan it's been fun anything you want to promote or close off with uh man you know i always got something going on here or there.

I just, I love teaching people how to get that internet money in whatever shape or form.

So

I put all my stuff in one spot so that if you need help from me, you can go to one website and just see what I got going on and how I can help you.

It's just getdanshelp.com.

Love it.

We'll link it below.

Cool, man.

Cool.

Thanks for coming on, dude.

Yeah.

Thanks for watching, guys.

See you next time.