Mike Barron: How I Built A $1.4M/Month Business From Nothing | DSH #1524

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It's like I make money by selling you what I do, and even if I do do that, I don't have a real business.

Some of the biggest motherfuckers on the internet right now,

on the internet right now, don't have a real business.

they're just glorified hustlers.

Meanwhile, I got eight people to handle my social media.

It's it's it's it's all fake.

Most of that shit's fake.

All right, guys, got him back on.

Come on, drove over today.

Let's go.

What up, dog?

Got Mike Baron.

Yes, our damn, how much is uh this outfit right here?

This one, right here.

Um,

it was $20 on the side of New York City, but market value, the jacket about

nine bands, wrist piece about 50.

Johnny Dang, it's about 200.

Shout out to Johnny.

He's coming on next week.

Oh, is he?

That's my dog.

Johnny Dane, my dog.

So I'm Vietnamese and Mexican, and I played the Vietnamese card with them.

Uncle Johnny, Uncle Johnny.

Hey, my Vietnamese uncle.

Yeah.

So he got me.

He got me right here.

This is going to be on Vice.

We're about to be on the documentary.

What's up with you, man?

I'm chilling, man.

Been a lot of changes since you last came on.

Dog.

I mean, we're not in the wind no more we're in your your own joint i see your little setup bro yeah that nice you got some sponsors now i know so we talk now of course pretty uh mom and pop right you growing bro yeah you too though i've been seeing you everywhere just saw you with tai lopez ty lopez fucking around bandman kevo i was on no jumper you know i'm just trying to do it like you man just trying to you know keep up man what's your main goal with uh going on these pods you try to inspire the younger generation yeah so so my

To be honest with you, man,

it's not like

I'm going to do my thing.

I'm going to talk my shit i'm gonna wake up at 4 30 in the morning i'm gonna work 12 hours i'm gonna fucking have veins pop out my neck talking about become the peak version of yourself but the main goal of these podcasts bro is is more influence you know i i feel every motherfucker i've met that's popping whether it was bradley i'm name dropping now whether it was ty they always look at me they're like

who the fuck are you And how do I not know you?

You know, Batman Kevin's like, Mike, you're the realest motherfucker I've ever met that nobody knows i'm like what i'm like bad man what the fuck what do you mean nobody knows bro i got 180 000 followers he's like come on like stop so you know we got a real business dude we did uh we did uh just north of 1.4 million with the receipts last month damn and uh i just i need to become famous bro like you you got 10 million followers bro i'm starting to notice it like i'll i'll go to airports now and get noticed get stopped it's it's i always get stopped it's from the podcast yeah of course man a lot of motherfuckers know you man but dude what i like about you is because a lot of these guys say numbers like 1 million or whatever yeah you actually show show me your bank account in person.

Did I show you last time?

You showed me at my event in Vegas.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Let me show you again, man.

No guru has ever done that to me.

Nah, because they're lying, bro.

Listen, all these motherfuckers on the internet, dude, they're bullshitting.

And no disrespect to your guests, dude.

But all these motherfuckers are lying, bro.

Ain't nobody really making no money like that.

And

there's a handful that are, but even the ones that are, bro, they don't even have a real business.

Okay, watch this.

Okay, just so you know, this ain't no Photoshop.

This ain't no AI.

This ain't none of that bullshit.

Okay,

what I say, I said I make north of 1.4 million.

Damn.

Yeah, 1.4 million.

That was last month?

That was last month, bro.

So, you know, we out here pretty money, bro.

Yeah, I make a lot of money, man.

Seven figures a month, man.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

For real, though.

No Photoshop bullshit.

No, no big claims.

Real shit.

Yeah.

I make over a million dollars a month, dog.

And I was from Section 8 housing, from a single mom, no dad, bro.

Yeah, God is good, man.

That's nice, dude.

People dream to make a million in their lifetime.

You're making it in a monthly basis.

Yeah, I'll do it this month.

I'll do it next month.

I'll do it every month.

I'll do more.

How long did it take you to get to seven figures a month?

I've been making over a million dollars since 2021.

Damn.

For a while.

Yeah, I've been making money for a while.

Chase is like, man, you got a lot of receipts.

You want a loan for $22 million?

So we're working at that loan right now for $22 million, man.

What are you going to use that money for?

Hire more people?

Go buy a jet.

um go expand yeah you're in the big leagues with a jet yeah yeah have to

have to you you know you know in in my work too

it's it's kind of a it's kind of a bitch

but it but it but it's not

but it's like okay this dude got the new lambo oh no no now it's now the lambos ain't shit now it's like a bugati now bugati ain't shit now it's a fucking you know it's a uh

it's a conoseg it's a fucking it's a private jet you know that ten thousand dollar penthouse ain't shit now it's a fucking $50,000 penthouse.

It's a crazy game that we're playing, bro.

Let me get a $2,000 jacket.

Nah, nah, that ain't shit no more.

Let me get it.

Let me get a $50,000 chain.

Bam Man Kevin making fun of my $50,000 chain.

Let me go get a $200.

It's a crazy world, bro.

Now, do you think that's sustainable, though?

Just to keep getting more and more expensive?

Damn, that's a good question.

Is it sustainable to rock out like that?

Yeah, it is sustainable.

But, you know, the problem is that you got a lot of motherfuckers that, you know, are six-figure earners that want to rock out like millionaires.

Then you got a lot of millionaires that want to live life like billionaires.

And when you go start talking to the real smart motherfuckers, you know, it's like, don't live above your means.

So for me, dude, like it costs about,

I want to say I'm pretty conservative, but it costs about $100,000 to sustain my life.

A month?

A month.

$100,000.

Just to sustain.

And that's my cars.

That's my mortgage.

That's my fucking properties.

that's my travel, just to fucking live the way I want to live.

Yeah.

So I got a lot of motherfuckers on my team that are making half a million, 600,000, 700,000, and they want to live like me.

And they ain't doing shit, but just taking all their money that they're earning and just burning that shit.

Yeah.

I feel that.

Yeah.

Comparison, like for me, it motivates me.

Like, I'm like you.

Like, I see some people killing it.

Like, I love that.

Yeah.

I want to go even harder, but some people, it destroys them.

Yeah.

Mentally.

Yeah.

100% doing.

I'd say most people.

Yeah.

i yeah because it's it's we're we're in the age of social media you know you you like you got to pop your shit you got to flex your shit you know you got to have the nicest newest whatever the hell that's that's out right now yeah but for me it's just motivation yeah so like some of your guests who are some of your big guests you've had grant cardone he definitely flexes tate he flexes um how how was

those guys in person uh i liked them in person grant is a great podcast guest i don't think i'd ever work with him yeah i I used to work with him.

Yeah, I remember the first time he came on.

Yeah, that's how you made your name, right?

Yeah, yeah.

I used to work at Grant.

So I love Grant.

He's a G.

He's different than damn near anybody in the space.

In this online space, he's making the most money.

You think so?

Yeah, 100%, bro.

That motherfucker got to be making that leap.

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He's 12 to

12.

I would say he's making like 12 to 20 million.

Let me fix this real quick.

A month.

That's not his real estate shit.

Yeah, that's just off the coaching, of course.

Just off his coaching shit.

Yeah, you got it twisted a little bit, I think.

But, but for me, dude, he's like a

65-year-old motherfucker that's been doing this forever.

Like, I know I'll kill his fucking ass.

Yeah.

I know I'll whoop his ass, bro.

Here's who's going to overtake Grant Cardone, in my opinion.

Tell me.

I just saw a video on this yesterday.

Who is it?

Alex Romosi.

Yeah.

He's doing 96 million.

Well, he's a different cat.

Yeah.

He's actually like a wizard.

He's going to do $96 million this year.

Yeah.

Was he on your joint?

No.

I want to get you to get his ass.

I know he lives here, too.

Yeah,

he's a different kind of cat.

He's cautioning.

Yeah, he's a fucking genius.

He has three workshops a month.

Each person pays $5,000.

He sells them some shit after that.

30% of them buy a 30K offer.

And then there's another offer.

I forget how much that one is, but brilliant business model.

No, he's a genius, bro.

He's one of the people that are the truth in this industry.

He knows his shit.

He's someone that, yeah, because a lot of these gurus, I don't trust, dude.

No, they're full of shit, bro.

But he, I actually, I trust someone like him.

So, see, see, the problem with, with, with these gurus.

So if you guys don't know me, you know, I, I, uh, I'm an internet entrepreneur.

I just showed you guys I make over one and a half, well, one and a half million dollars a month.

And what I do, I'm doing my ghetto version of Grant.

I have Lightspeed VT.

Shout out to Bradley.

I get people trained.

I get people certified.

Then I get them a job.

I get them placed.

So I get paid on the front.

Then I have a staffing agency on the back.

And you and I got to talk about that.

Yeah.

Because I can have people sell your podcast shit.

But the problem with the guru shit is that most people don't have a fucking business.

It's like, I make money by selling you what I do.

And even if I do do that, I don't have a real business.

Some of the biggest motherfuckers on the internet right now, on the internet right now, don't have a real business.

They're just glorified hustlers.

That's what they're doing.

Meanwhile, I got like eight people in HR.

Meanwhile, I got like 10 people in my treasury department.

Meanwhile, I got fucking eight people to handle my social media.

Meanwhile, I got a quality control department.

So it's just a fucked up.

It's all fake.

Most of of that shit's fake.

Yeah, you're providing a real service.

Yeah, I got a real business, a real service.

I'll fuck around and make 50 to 100K today hanging out with you.

Yeah.

Eating tacos tonight.

And the thing is, you're teaching a skill that they can apply to multiple industries.

Anything, bro.

Sales.

Sales, bro.

You learn how to sell.

You could be a great stripper.

You know what I'm saying?

You could be a good prostitute.

You learn how to sell, dude.

You could be a great Uber driver.

You could be a great waitress, waiter.

You learn how to sell.

You could be a great actor.

You can land gigs.

It's the number one skill set you can learn in business.

What's the most expensive thing you've sold in your life?

You ever do a one-off?

Not a lot.

Not what you'd imagine.

$100,000 coaching package.

Yeah, my shit's volume.

I do over a thousand transactions a day a month.

So you're low ticket.

You're not doing that.

10,000.

Oh, that's pretty high ticket.

Yeah, yeah, but it's not like I'm not doing million dollar deals.

I'm not doing multi-million dollar deals.

I'm not fucking selling, you know,

like a resort that I own.

I'm doing baby deals, but I do high volume.

You think you could get to the billionaire status doing that?

Oh, it's already done.

Not doing that.

No, hell no.

You got a game plan?

I do have a game plan.

Yeah.

So I'm just

making money, stacking money, investing money, making money, stacking money, investing money.

All the money I'm investing into is in real estate.

So I got, you know, it's not that sexy for my audience, but I own real estate.

I own multifamily properties.

So I'm like a baby investor.

I make like 20K in

rental income.

Yeah.

Did you learn that from Grant?

I did learn that from Grant.

So he preaches that, but my audience, my audience is an 18 to 26 year old male.

So when you go look at my content, I'm at Louis Vuitton.

When you look at my content, I'm traveling.

When you look at my content, I'm buying a $600 fucking Wagu

A3

Japanese steak.

So that talks to them.

So like my other shit I do, because I own about a half a dozen businesses.

By the way, that was one business, the 1.4, but I own like six more businesses.

I don't really speak on that that much.

I had,

there's a triple OG in the internet game, Neil Patel.

I know Neil.

You know Neil, right?

So his team,

his marketing guy runs into my team at Albert Preciada's event.

And apparently he knows me.

And he's like, you know, we can help Mike.

We can help him, you know, get to the next.

You know, we can help clean up his image.

So I sit down with the guy.

He's just talking shit about, you know, how I can get to the next.

And, you know, Neil is a, he's damn near a billionaire now, according to them.

And they're like, you know, just tell me about your business.

So I start showing the business.

I start showing my SOPs that are like two, three phone books.

I start showing him my, my, my administration.

And he's just like, dude, I,

Mike, I had no idea.

I'm like, what do you mean you had no idea?

He's like, dude, I didn't know, like, no disrespect.

I didn't know you were a smart guy.

I thought you were just like a social media shit talker.

And, you know, why don't you put that out?

And, and

I just know who, who I talk to, and I know who I serve.

I served, I served me like 10, 15 years ago, the 18 to 26 year old male.

But we, we got the back and we got all the systems and all that shit.

But I don't talk about all that.

Just, it's kind of boring to me, dude.

I just, I like to have fun.

I like to turn up.

I like, you know, like that crazy.

Did you feel like you were misguided at those ages?

Oh, fuck yeah.

When you were 18 to 26.

Bro, dude.

You know, I walked out of high school as a two-top villain.

You know, like my mentors were like KG, King Gorilla.

You got to say Kevin Garnett.

Fuck out.

I wish, dog.

Now my mentor was Killer Gorilla, bro.

And, you know, what was the game he gave me, bro?

Just don't take shit for nobody and control the block.

Yeah, fuck you.

I was misguided, bro.

Yeah, fuck you.

Are you seeing that with today's generation?

Now it's a different era with social media, I feel like.

I feel that

right now,

you know, the culture,

if you go look, like, if you go look at my shit, it's like all OnlyFan bitches, like with BBLs and big tits.

And then it's like the influencers, like what, what, you know, the homeboy that just got jacked?

Oh, Jack Joe Hurdy.

Yeah, like, it's kind of like, it's kind of like, it's kind of like the streamers.

It's like that.

But then there's like the, like, kind of like the young gurus that are like whipping Ferraris and supercars and shit.

And there's some like crypto or they're doing some sort of coaching.

So I think that's the culture.

But either way, you can get a bag.

You can go fucking, you know, put some, you know, go do your OnlyFans bullshit or you could do streaming or, you know, you can go get a bag.

But yeah, the culture is different, bro.

So I was born in 1984.

And when I was born, dude, the culture was like,

like for me at least,

you had to be tough.

You had to be hard.

You had to be a gangster.

Being gangster right now is whack in 2025.

Like, who the fuck is a gangster in 2025?

You know, like

I'm out here.

It's 2025 and i'm on the block and i'm like 28 years old and i'm and i got a and i got a fucking a flag out and i'm just controlling the block that's just lame bro you know now you got to go get your money bro for real and if you ain't getting money right now 2025 you're a fucking idiot

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you're selfish that's a good point gangsters used to have respect right people used to look up to them yeah for sure for sure now it's almost like they they're looked down on no you're like a fucking bum.

You're like a fucking, you're a loser, bro.

Motherfucker's 26 years old and he's a gangster.

You're like, you're like, what the fuck is this motherfucker going to need a job at Taco Bill or some bullshit?

Well, hip-hop was hot back in the day, too.

Now I think Tupac industry.

Yeah, so my mentors too, man, were like

in the early 90s were like Tupac and Don't Be a Menace and Blood and Blood Out.

And, you know, I just, I wanted to be, I wanted to be a tough guy, bro.

Yeah, shit, that's shit lame, bro.

When did you get out of that mindset?

I got in trouble when I was so

from like 5 14 to like 17 i got i got i got locked up like six times damn yeah so i was in and out of jail as a kid i always had good grades and i played sports so so on my 18th birthday i was still in high school so my birthday's in march you know you you generally graduate in june when i turned 18 dude i was terrified i was afraid I was like, damn, I can't fuck around no more.

Because like, if I fuck around, now I'm going to get hit with some real adult shit.

Yeah.

So when I turned 18, I was afraid.

I was like, damn, dude, I

know I got like two more months before I finish high school.

I'm about to get kicked out my crib.

And yeah.

So

I got in trouble one last time when I was 18.

And, you know, it was my fault, but it was the wrong place at the wrong time.

I got picked up at like midnight.

My boys went to somebody's house.

I stayed in the car.

I didn't really know what was going on.

They went in the crib, robbed somebody at gunpoint.

We get pulled over by the police, you know, and I remember we got pulled over, we're sworn by all these cop cars.

And I just remember,

put your fucking hands in the air or you're going to die.

And I was just like, fuck.

So I kind of got off.

I did like four months, five months.

But after that, I was like, dude, I'm done.

Like, I'm done.

I need to, I need to go

change my life.

I need to go get like a job or some shit.

Damn.

Yeah.

But I was, I was always like,

so, so, you know, I got, I got this little 50 piece.

You know, it's okay.

It ain't all that, you know, but when I was young, I was always really ambitious.

So I was, I was selling candy when I was like 10, 11, 12 at the school.

By the time I was in high school, I had a team.

And I remember this girl was like, Mike, Mike B, why are you selling all this candy?

And

I was like, because I'm going to buy a Rolex.

She's like, okay.

And then

for the whole semester,

we got to buy candy for Mike B because he's going to buy that Rolex.

We got to, you know, she's like my homegirl.

We got to buy this candy candy for Mike B because he's going to buy Rolex.

So then you fast forward, I was about 25.

I ran into that same girl

and life happened to me, dude.

I wanted the Rolex.

I wanted the Lambo.

I wanted the mansion.

I wanted the fucking nice shit.

I wanted the clout.

I wanted all these, you know, you know, luxury things.

And then life happened to me.

So I had to get realistic.

Had to go get a job.

Became a young dad.

So I ran into her.

Her name is Yahida.

And she's like, Mike B, what's up, man?

You know, I haven't seen her since high school.

I was like, what's up, girl?

How you been?

She's like, Mike, did you ever get that Rolex?

Wow.

And I literally like hit my arm because I forgot who that 15-year-old ambitious kid was.

Like, I, I, she, she, like,

she, like, grabbed me.

She didn't do it, but she might as well just grab me by the collar and just smacked me in the fucking face.

And it woke me up.

And I was like, damn.

It's time to get back on that horse and go ride.

And the reason why I'm telling you that is because I was going through life.

I was all fucked up.

These problems, these problems.

You turned 18 years old.

My mom kicked me out of the fucking house.

I was homeless living in Mission Bay in San Diego.

And you kind of just give up.

So I just wanted to make that point.

Damn.

So your mom actually kicked you out.

She kicked me out when I was 18.

Did you make up with her?

Nah.

Nah.

You know, it's crazy, though, because I'm a connector.

I'm not going to shake her hand when I see you.

Whoa.

I'm going to hug you.

When I see my people as my loved ones, I'm not going to say, hey, how you been?

I'm going to embrace you.

I'm I'm very affectionate.

I like to touch.

I like to feel.

You know, every time you hit me up, yo, Mike, yeah, you pulling up the F1?

Nah, bro, I'm not going to make it, bro, but I really appreciate you.

You know, I like to connect.

And it's the craziest thing in the world because I'm close to my daughters.

I'm close to my wife.

I'm close to my peoples.

I'm close to my team.

But me and my mom are like oil and water, bro.

Yeah, she crazy as fuck, by the way.

She crazy.

So even after all your success and wealth, she didn't like.

Nah, nah, nah, we, me and her just like, my kids are with her right now, but we just don't get along.

I was in last time I went to vegas, my wife, who's in the audience right now, she went to go pick up the kids and they almost got into a fist fight, but my wife, holy crap, yeah, yeah, she, my wife ain't gonna touch her, she's like, she's a six-year-old woman, she's crazy, bro.

My mom crazy.

Damn.

Yeah, so my mom's crazy as fuck.

And then my dad is a, so my dad was never in my life, but my dad's like a street hustler.

Yeah.

He went to prison for like 10 years slanging cocaine.

So I got that hustle game.

I'm trying to put it together and make sense of it.

I got the hustle game for my dad.

And then I got like kind of like little little little strength from my mom and shit.

Yeah, but my wife's like, you guys are exactly alike.

That's why you don't get along, but she's crazy, bro.

She nuts, bro.

That's nuts.

Yeah, she's to beat the fuck out of me.

She is.

Yeah.

She was physical like that.

Oh, bro.

She she stomped me out.

Shit fucking hit me in the back of the head with a stick.

Yeah, that was that generation, though, you know?

Yeah, it's normal.

My dad used to get the shit rocked out of him.

Oh, your dad did?

Not me, but like he did.

His dad beat him up.

Okay, you got siblings?

Two half-brothers.

Okay.

Yeah, he never laid a hand on any of the three of us though okay what were you a good student you seem like a fuck no at first yeah but then the divorce messed me up okay and then i i went from straight a's to like d's gotcha yeah i was not growing up with a present dad dude that'll mess the kid up so who'd you grow up with your mom my mom yeah here in vegas uh in jersey oh no

no way yeah okay usually i can read it usually i'm like are you from the east coast yeah you gotta you don't got like no twang or like no east coast accent really i like east coast people more than west coast so do i really i thought you were gonna say west Coast.

Okay, so, so, so, so you, you, you won't find me without a San Diego hat.

And, um, you know, obviously I love San Diego.

Dog, I am so, I'm, I am, I hate to fucking say this, dude.

I'm more comfortable in the East Coast in New York City than I am in San Diego.

Because they're more, they're more, they're more raw there.

If you have a good conversation, if you're a decent

person, if you, you could be just hanging out at a damn barn grill.

You start talking to people, they'll start fucking with you.

In San Diego.

At least, you start talking to people, they're looking at you like,

Do I know you, man?

Yeah, I love, I love the East Coast, bro.

I fucking love these.

West Coast is too laid back for me.

It is

slow as fuck.

People aren't going to go.

San Diego is slow as fuck, dude.

Yeah, no one's grinding out there, other than you, but like San Diego is slow as fuck.

Yeah, LA got some hustle.

LA crazy as fuck, though.

You know, a lot of people getting robbed in LA right now.

You would get robbed if you were that on no jumper.

I'm telling you, bro.

When I pull up, bro, I was with Kevin's going to get mad and shit if I say this shit.

But when i when we went on no jumper we must have had like three armed cars jeez fucking two in the front two in the back and shit yeah bro we ain't fucking around god damn yeah we don't even i don't even want to go there dude they do it in broad daylight out there yeah they ain't even waiting for nighttime anymore out there watch this i got a story for you man so i'm um

i'm kicking with one of my students named louis he became a millionaire last year he sold his business for just a million like just shy of a million he has another business too so he invited me out to la he's from north he's from he's from north carolina so we pull up i pull up with with with his boy boston john so we go to like this fancy ass uh steak restaurant he's like hey man i'm with mike hey what's up what's up what's up so we got i got my seo out there i got my gtr out there um they rented a ferrari so you know we're kind of heavy hey man we're right here

so dinner's over you know four thousand dollar bill whatever And Boston John says, hey, hey, hey, Mike, you want to meet

my guy?

He was on the VH1 reality show.

He's a dating coach.

Like this guy, bro.

Like, sit back and watch and just watch what he does at the club.

I was like, fuck it, I want to meet him.

So we go to the club, we pull up,

and, you know, same deal.

Hey, man, we're at so-and-so nightclub, man.

Mike B's here and fucking, we got the cars here.

So we're kicking it.

I meet the dating coach.

He's kind of quiet as shit.

He like 5'1.

I'm like, what the fuck?

This is the dating coach, man?

This is the pickup artist?

Motherfucker lame.

Anyways, so we're kicking it.

We're kicking it.

Drinks are kind of flying.

It's about one o'clock in the morning.

And I'm with,

who's in my camp?

I'm with Trey.

I'm with Casey.

Casey's packing.

And then my boy Louie's there, Boston John and the pickup guy.

So I talk to my camp.

I'm like, hey, man, dog, I ain't trying to go back to San Diego.

It's like, by the time we get home, it's going to be like 3:30.

I'm not like, fuck that.

I'm not driving.

We've had some drinks.

Fuck that.

They're like, yeah, we got to go back.

We have to go back.

I'm like, nah, nah, fuck that.

So I talked to Boston John.

I'm like, hey, bro,

we're going to crash on your couch.

Oh, yeah, all day.

No problem.

So I talked to my camp.

We're going to crash at Boston John's.

They're like, no, Mike, we have to leave.

99.9% of the time, when I have an opinion, I stand on the opinion and nobody could rock it.

Like,

if they said we got to leave, can nobody tell me no different?

So

they were all on my ass.

Like, let's just go.

Let's just go.

So I I decided to go.

I start getting blown up.

I wake up the next morning, like 7 o'clock, 6 o'clock.

I start seeing all these text messages at like 3, 4 a.m.

Like 911.

Like, what the fuck?

I call my boy.

They got trailed.

They got trailed from the nightclub to his luxury apartment.

And they, they, you know, you, you pull in the luxury apartment, you go downstairs parking, one way in, one way out.

They got pulled up at gunpoint with like four cats.

Damn.

Pulled him at gunpoint, put him on the ground, snatched the fucking rollie.

They tried to steal the damn Ferrari, but they didn't know how to put it in reverse, some amateurs.

And I was like, it was kind of like

it was eye-opening me because anybody could be touched.

You know, I'm out here fucking wearing this $200,000 necklace.

I'm thinking like...

I'm just hanging out with my wife and shit, my guy Abe.

I'm like naive, like, hey, man, life's good.

What do you want to go eat lunch?

And fucking motherfuckers are out there, bro, you know, and in LA.

That's why I tell you that story.

And thank God we left, bro, because someone was going to get killed that night.

My boy was strapped.

Jeez.

You know, they come through the parking lot, dude, with guns.

Somebody going to die.

Shit.

Yeah, so LA crazy, bro.

That's nuts.

LA fucking nuts.

Yeah, I'm in and out when I go to LA.

Yeah.

It ain't worth staying there for the night.

Yeah.

So, so, like, social media.

We don't post nothing real time.

What I tell you to Abe,

I said, I said, I said, hey, bro.

I said, get the B-roll.

But he knows this.

I was like, dude, just post this shit when we leave because I don't want to have to kill nobody today.

I told you that shit, right?

Yeah.

I'm the same way.

How many stories are you putting out?

Like, are you putting out a lot of stories?

Nothing real time.

Nothing real time?

Nothing, bro.

Really?

I almost got kidnapped.

No fucking way.

Yeah, dude.

What?

Yeah.

When?

I was so dumb, dude.

It was my fault.

I was 21 years old.

Oh, while ago.

I posted 100K cash.

Oh, fuck.

No.

Oh, bro.

Yeah.

You're asking for that one.

The next morning, they're at my apartment, bro.

Son of a bitch.

Yeah.

Like six guys.

Son of a bitch.

Yeah, dude.

I was probably a few seconds away from getting put in a car.

Oh, my God.

I was walking my dog and I saw them cornering me.

Son of a bitch.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Lesson learned, bro.

That's why I don't flex anymore.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know, I only flex business shit now.

I don't flex anything.

Yeah, that's good, bro.

You know, that's good.

You know, for me, though, this is just a job uniform.

This is a job.

It's just your branding.

You got it.

Yeah, bro.

It's just a uniform.

It's like a peacock.

I have to have the fucking green and fucking pretty feathers.

That's all this shit is, bro.

Because for me, it's like if I can get your attention, then I can get in your ear.

If I can get in your ear, then I, you know, I can actually talk to you.

My intentions are good.

So, like, you know, I do all this loud, flamboyant shit just so I can get your fucking attention.

Because I'll show up on your feed.

Again, you're a young man.

You're like, who the fuck is this random?

You look like my crazy ass cousin, my crazy ass uncle that's in jail.

Click.

Oh, he got an STO.

Oh, he got fucking such an, okay.

Click.

And then my motivation shit comes out.

And then I can actually, you know, talk to you.

I also think you're really relatable because you, you came from nothing.

Yeah, thank you, man.

I appreciate that.

You, you know, what, this is what I believe.

I'm, uh,

I'm the guy on the other side of the, the tracks that kind of like broke through.

You know, I, I, you know, I'm, I'm pretty, I'm pretty tough.

I was like, captain my football team, captain wrestling team.

I could smack a motherfucker.

I don't want to go there.

But also, dude, I'm very compassionate.

I love people, dude.

I am for the underdog.

I'm for the single mom.

I'm for the little homeboy that's going to community college on a bus.

I'm for the person that never been told they could be shit.

So like

one day

I'm at O'Guerra Lamborghini.

They have one right there in, what is it, the wind, the McLaren?

Oh, they got a McLaren store there?

Yeah, yeah.

O'Guerra.

So Lamborghini, La Jolla, O'Guerra.

I'm pulling up and shit.

I'm pulling up heavy.

And, you know, throw the cart, the guy, the keys, go inside.

It's a VIP event.

They're about to reveal, what was it?

It must have been like the Technica or some shit

a couple years ago, two years ago, three years ago.

So I'm there drinking the fucking champagne, eating the hors d'erbs.

I make my way out to, you know, the valet having a cigarette.

You know, I don't really smoke like that, but, you know, I'm outside.

Hey, sir, nice car, man.

So I start talking shit.

Hey, man, be honest, I had the nicest whip here.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, sir, sir, sir.

Hey, man, don't, don't call me, sir.

So, so, so the kid's talking to me, the valet driver.

I used to drive LA.

The kid's talking to me, and he's like,

hey, man, one day I want to be like you guys, man.

One day I want to be able to go to like a Lamborghini event.

And, you know, I said, man, come here, man.

Let me help you understand something, bro.

Don't fucking say one day.

Don't say be like you guys.

Let me help you understand the difference between people like us.

So I'm positioning myself with

these young kids.

The difference between people like us and these motherfuckers is they got different information, man.

They ain't no fucking better than you.

Don't ever put these people on a fucking pedestal, bro.

So now I'm talking like two people, and now all the valet drivers coming out, they're circling me.

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Better than you?

Because they got a Lamborghini, bro?

Go learn some shit.

Go apply that shit and you can have that shit too.

So I start telling my story.

I grew up in Six Section 8.

Mama had me at 6.

So that's who I start, bro.

Like, at the core.

At the core.

So I live in Del Mar.

You know Del Mar, San Diego?

No, I haven't been there.

Del Mar is like

Ritzy parts.

I live with the rich white people.

So like my neighbors are like doctors and shit.

I'm like the token wannabe rapper.

And I love everybody if you're cool, bro.

But I love waking up at 4:30, going to the gym, and everybody's fucking passed out.

I got a chip on my shoulder, man.

You still have it though?

You need to this day?

I'm mad, bro.

Really?

I'm mad, bro.

Some people lose it when they get success.

Nah,

I don't believe it.

I have a chip on my shoulder, man.

Like,

like

I have a chip on my shoulder.

So, like, I'm not going to do this to you because, because you're my dog.

So, I go to

Tai Lopez's joint, where it is, it got to be at least

100 million.

100 million.

I believe it's like 25,000 square feet.

Bro, it's ridiculous.

Right.

So, I go there and I blaze tie and then I leave with my team.

And I'm like, what'd you think?

They're like, man, you fucking rock that shit.

I was like, bro, I'll fucking whoop tie his ass, bro.

No problem.

I did that shit to Brad Lee.

yeah i i just i'm very competitive bro i promise i won't say that about him i i it don't register but him it is my dog right here dana what i tell you i said this cat i don't know what it is about me but he checks on me like every fucking month i was like i know he know this motherfucker know billionaires this cat literally knows billionaires i don't know what the fuck it is about me but every month hey mike we should do something soon hey mike you know go on my fucking whatsapp hey mike are you going to miami like you got good energy bro i'm all about energy you always

dog since the time I met you a couple years back, you've always checked on me, bro.

Relationships aren't boring to me.

Yeah, you talked about going to basketball.

This cat right here, he hit me one time.

Hey, man, Mike, you know, we're about to go do a pickup game, man.

You want to go tomorrow morning?

I was like, oh, man, excuse, excuse.

I was like, I ain't trying to play no motherfucker.

I'm going to play it tonight.

Oh, fuck that.

No, no.

You said you played sports growing up?

Yeah, I played football and I wrestled.

Yeah, but thank you, though.

For real, man.

You always show me love, bro.

For real.

Yeah.

You always show me love.

I got to get you on my joint.

Yeah, let's do it.

My joint kind of boring, though.

Really?

That's surprising to me.

You got good energy, man.

Nah, because I'm sorry,

my

business partner, he's kind of like conservative.

Is he your co-host?

He's my co-host.

You need a good co-host.

But

you're chill, but you're

a half floor, you know?

Yeah.

I let them speak their minds.

You're professional.

I keep them comfortable.

Yeah, I feel like I get some ratchet shit.

I'm going to get some little OnlyFan chicks and shit, that crazy shit.

I mean, you got to mix that in there to get views.

I do, too.

I have on Lily Phillips or whatever oh yeah i've seen that oh yeah that was good bro once a month i'll have an of girl spice it up i see okay okay yeah okay that that was the million dollar bar i needed yeah my wife's here so when she fucking talks shit i'm like sean killy says it's okay so it's okay see i'm not i'm also not afraid of being canceled yeah you're not either nah no i don't i don't i don't really

I don't really that that doesn't register to me.

Someone asked me, there was a big YouTube guy that pulled up on me.

Was it Spencer cornelia nah he's from canada but he you know he's a cat that pulls up hey today i'm visit mike baron he's making 1.4 million and he you know he does his like a little youtube vlog shit he pulled up on me i gotta i gotta find his name and he's like what do you think about cancel culture and i was like i i don't

i just don't think about it like i don't think about it like i'm not gonna say nothing that's gonna offend like religions or ethnicities or

sexual preference or no shit like that.

But I, yeah, I don't, I don't, that doesn't register to me, dude.

Yeah.

You know, I can see that.

Yeah, I just want to be free, bro.

I just want, you know, the way I am right here is how I'm with my daughters, how I am at the parent conference.

I, I, I just want to be free, bro.

Do you feel like you've achieved freedom right now?

Um, I'm knocking on the door.

I'm knocking on the door.

Um, and the reason why I say I'm knocking on the door, like, if I want to say, hey, man, nice to see you, peace.

Let me go get that fucking, you know, private jet right now,

like, I could do it, but it's going to hurt.

Like, that's not, you know,

what I, what I feel like I have achieved is

I've been able to

actually be myself.

So, you know, I grew up with a lot of brothers and sisters.

I grew up with a lot of Mexicans and I grew up in the hood, bro.

So this is how I am.

So I remember when I was in corporate, I actually became a president of college.

Wow.

Because, you know, my workout is disgusting.

My skills are pretty high.

So I was a career advisor.

at for-profit education, UEI College, Concord, Kaplan, like you'll get a medical assistant degree.

So I became number one in the first month, boom, became a director, became number one the first year, became the regional number one, then became a president.

I was just smoking everybody.

I was killing everybody.

So I remember being a president.

It was weird for me, dude.

It was weird.

It was weird as fuck for me.

I was like 27.

That is young for a president.

You know what I'm saying?

You know, I was making six figures in corporate and shit.

I had two felonies.

So I remember like,

taking that office and all of a sudden everything changed.

Everybody, can I get you anything, sir?

Can I help you, sir?

Nice, nice suit, sir.

Are you losing weight?

It was, it was weird.

It was like weird for me, you know, because I was like used to just being on the other side.

And I hated the corporate shit, dude, because I hated being, I felt like I was being fake.

Hey, how you doing?

Mike Barron, good to meet you.

Hey, yo, that absolutely.

Okay, pull up the numbers.

Let's look at the re, I hated the shit, bro.

And I was still young.

I was 27.

And I remember I had like a couple of my ghetto homies from uh corporate.

We'd go out there and have a cigarette and talk shit.

Like, fuck these motherfuckers these motherfuckers like like i hated that

so now

when i when i got into business i i my company's limelight media from 2015 to 2017 it was limelight media i bought out my business partner and that's when i started kind of building like my my personal brand

and uh i just started being me

and you know from from damn near the time i wake to the time i go home there's a camera in my face

so i i i need to get better but we don't really script hey we don't script shit.

We don't really

go now, Sean Kelly, and just make sure you say that one soundbot.

Like, we don't, it's all raw, yeah.

We don't do none of that shit.

Wow, that's but I could get better because, like, just get more intentional.

But there's just, there's, there's just a camera.

There's a camera, it's just, it's just rolling, and whatever he, him and his team want to put out, they, they put out, yeah, yeah.

So, we're talking about freedom.

So, now one day I have a mastermind, it must have been about two years ago.

There's a guy named Brandis.

This motherfucker's huge, bro.

It looks like he can kill me.

His calves are like this big.

Jeez.

Yeah.

He's like 6'3,

small waist, fucking,

he got like a body and a half on me.

He looked like Marshawn Lynch in the face, braids.

And I'm talking to him.

I'm like, hey, man, why the fuck, you know in the NFL, bro?

You look like a damn war.

Like, how are you not in the NFL?

That's impossible.

Like, you look like a freak.

He blowed his knee.

So he's kicking me for about two, three days.

There's about 25 people in San Diego for this mastermind at my deal.

so last day everybody has to go home time to say goodbye i said hey man you know you learn anything you learned some sales some sales

he's like yeah i did but he's like mike the biggest thing i learned from you

the most important thing i learned from you that

i'll take forever

he's like you gave me permission to be myself

this he's an it guy he must be making like 180.

i said how the fuck he like like trumping over me, like 6'3 and shit.

I was like, how the fuck did I give you permission to be you?

He's like, bro, the way you move.

I've seen you talk to your daughters.

I've seen you talk to your wife.

I've seen you talk to your team.

I see you talk to the landlord.

We had a mansion Airbnb.

He's like, I see you talk to the valet driver.

He's like, dude, you don't change.

He's like, for the longest time, he's like, you know, I'm a big, scared looking dude.

I feel like I got to fall in these little, you know, confined in these walls so I don't scare people.

And, you know, the way I'm at work is not the same way I really am.

He's like, you gave me permission to be me.

And for me, that was like a fucking huge compliment, bro.

This motherfucker looks scary as fuck.

Big six, 265 pounds rip motherfucker.

And I gave him permission to have the courage to be himself.

So I'm becoming more free.

I'm becoming more free.

I'm always me.

So that's cool.

I got to get a little more paper, though.

That 1.4 I'm bragging about.

That ain't, that ain't.

That ain't shit, bro.

It's never enough, no matter what you're making.

I know.

Even billionaires are like, I'm not making enough.

Oh, they did.

A real shit?

Dude, I talked to them.

Yeah, sentiment millionaires, billionaires.

Really?

I feel like there's no end.

Nah, nah, there's no end.

Like, we're in a video game.

We are in a video game.

You know, it's funny, too?

The shit people used to say.

I was like fucking around with some network marketing.

I never did it.

I would just go show it to the events.

You know, the motherfuckers wouldn't retire by the time they're like 35, 40.

Why the fuck you want to retire?

That's boring.

That's stupid.

Like, how come Jeff Bezos ain't retired?

How come Elon hasn't retired?

That's stupid as fuck.

You know, we got a small window here.

If you're lucky, it'd be like 85.

If you're lucky, lucky, it'd be like 100.

Not everybody's lucky.

You got a small window to actually create your life's work on this planet that hopefully could live forever.

You got a small fucking window.

So me, I'm like,

you know, I'm running out of time, dude.

I told you, I got some real estate.

What did I say?

Making like 20 bands passively, bro.

You have guests.

that would see that clip and will clown on me.

They would be like, he's wearing the $8,000, $9,000 jacket.

He makes $20,000 passively.

What a fucking, I'm running out of time, bro.

You know, if I, if I, if, so I'm 41, you know, we're millionaires now, but I'm, but, but my, my, my passive income is weak.

My earned income is 1%, whatever.

But if I, if I, if I bounce here and got hit by a bus and it won't happen, but if I did,

my wife would be sad, obviously, but she would start freaking out.

Yeah.

Like the cars would go away.

My multi-million dollar house would start shrinking.

Like,

so so I need, I'm running out of time, bro.

I need to go grab this real estate so I can get to my fucking kids and not worry about shit.

You never know, man.

I just took out a life insurance policy.

Oh, did you?

You never know.

I'm telling you, dog.

I got a life insurance policy.

I've lost family is in their 20s.

I've lost friends.

You just don't, you just, like, we all want to fucking live and fall, you know, die in our sleep and create this incredible.

You just don't know, bro.

You know, we've lost.

A lot of good ones.

We know people that we lost in high school.

You're, you're younger than me, man.

You just don't know.

Dude, it seems like every year there's someone.

I'm telling you, bro.

It's very, yeah.

It's scary.

A lot of disease these days.

A lot of mental health issues.

It just

shit.

Things just happen, bro.

You know, crazy shit fucking happens.

So for me, I'm like running out of time, bro.

I, I'm, I, I, I, like, I, I've already,

I'm not gonna say I made it, but I'm making it.

But I've already broke everything that was expected of me.

So I, I need what

right now, I'm in a mission to go free my family.

I need to go free my family.

I need to go free my grandkids.

That's what I'm on right now.

And I know, Sean, I was given a lot of courage, a lot of strength, a little bit of intelligence to go do that.

So if I don't, you know, if I don't, if I don't go maximize that, bro, it's a disrespect to the creator, in my opinion.

You know what I'm saying?

I got it.

So I'm going to sacrifice everything this lifetime.

You're going to put your daughters to work?

Are you going to let them host?

uh no they are that's got to get to work though those motherfuckers got to go to work they don't got to go to college though they don't if they wanted they could do whatever the fuck they want um

they got to work though bro my so i got a 14 year old i got a four year old and a one year old my oldest my 14 year old

um my oldest juliana she uh she's way different than than me you know she got like the uh the anime

on on the um you know on on the on the fucking walls and shit she got the uh k-pop and all that I know the culture is when I was her age, bro.

I was already thugging.

I was already stealing shit.

I was already a bad motherfucker.

She's a little more introverted.

She's a good girl.

She's a wrestler.

She got like fourth in CAF as a freshman.

My four-year-old daughter, she's just like me.

She's bad as fuck.

Yeah.

She just see it at that age.

100%.

They're all different.

So the four-year-old, she has to dress a certain way.

Her hair has to be a certain way.

Her outfit needs to match.

Like

my wife will run her out the house house because they're running behind and she got the wrong shoes.

So she'll go crazy from the house to the freeway.

I'm always like, we're not doing this.

We're not doing this.

And she'll turn around and give in.

So she kind of spoiled.

And then my one-year-old, she's the smartest one.

This motherfucker is one.

Dog, she is out of every spectrum or every where they should be trending.

This little motherfucker is just a wizard, bro.

She could have a full-blown conversation with me.

At one?

Bro, I'm telling you, one and a half.

Jeez.

it's crazy they're all different though yeah she's gonna be the one to take over the shit yeah dude that's impressive but they all they got that they gotta work bro you know they they gotta they gotta learn some shit so that's where you disagree with the red pill because they want the sons to work and the daughters to just marry rich or whatever yeah i dog i don't got no sons deanna could we can we make a son

i know you want a son for sure of course bro i told her though but nowadays me and her could afford it we can go do the laboratory shit they can guarantee a son and put it in that bitch and fucking the little son comes out out.

You know what I'm saying?

Diana?

We have a little son.

A little crazy motherfucker.

We'll give him a mohawk and all this shit and give him some tattoos and shit.

Would you name him Mike Barron Jr.?

You know what?

You know, it's funny.

I had a name lined up for a long time.

Oh, yeah.

Do you know who Vanderlay Sil is?

No.

Okay, Vander Lay Sil is a crazy ass UFC fighter.

Is that Anderson Silver?

No, but he trains with him.

But he was before Anderson.

He's from Pride in Japan.

He's a crazy cat that has the tattoos in the back of his head.

And he used to just fucking kill.

He was undefeated for like eight years.

Damn.

So he's just a psycho.

You should look him up.

So I told my wife, I was like,

I came up with two names.

I said Vanderley was one, but Vanderley kind of old school now.

So like,

but I had a, I had a dude I used to work for named Carlo.

That's kind of a cold name, Carlo.

So Carlo, no S on it, just Carlo?

Exactly.

Yeah.

That was your first mentor or something?

It was my first mentor.

One of my first mentors, yeah, Carlo.

Stoke.

Shout out to him.

Yeah, shout out to Carlo.

Yeah, I passed you.

S up, Carlo, what up?

What business was out in?

He was a dentist.

Ooh.

Yeah, but he was, he was, he was, he was like really.

So I used to do insurance when I was like 20 years old.

You did a lot of jobs, man.

I did a lot of shit, bro.

I used to have a, yeah, I've done a lot of shit, bro.

I did valet.

Yeah, I've done a lot of shit, bro.

I was trying to figure it out, man.

Valet's probably good for networking.

Yeah,

it's great for networking.

So watch this.

I was a president of college, 27.

The school shuts down.

They lose accreditation.

I got six months unemployment to start my business.

I'm doing okay, but I'm not, but I'm kind of making it because I got unemployment.

Unemployment's about to run out and it's holiday season.

So I'm like, fuck, man.

I really don't have that much money for gifts.

So I run into my old corporate boy.

He hits me up.

Like, B, what up, man?

What are you up to these days?

Man, I got my website company, man.

I'm killing it.

Wasn't doing shit.

He's like,

dude, you should come down to the office, dude.

I'm a recruiter now for Ace Parking.

You know, Ace Parking?

No.

Okay, they're based out of San Diego.

It's like the biggest.

The valet.

He's like, just come down, dude.

They pay like $22 an hour.

Like, it's chill.

I was like, nah, I ain't trying to do that.

It's like, bro, just come.

So I went to go apply.

I got the job.

So I was already a president out of college.

Got let go.

It was tough for me to get a president job.

That's a whole different story.

So now I find myself as a valet driver

or manager.

The biggest fear, bro, I had

because I was kind of the man, always, you know, like I was like in the yearbook.

I was like, class clown and shit.

I was, you know, motherfuckers know me.

I could beat people up in the neighborhood and shit.

You know, girls kind of liked me and shit.

You know, I was kind of popular.

The biggest fear I had was that I was going to run into someone from back in the day.

And they're like, dude, Mike became the valet guy.

Like, what a loser.

Parentheses.

So I did the valet shit.

I used to hide.

I'd go into the parking tower and I would just hide.

I would disappear.

I'd clock in and I'd disappear and I'd clock out.

And I did that for like two, two months.

And

one day, there's this big event.

There's cars everywhere.

I'm...

Well, before I go to that, one day some Asian dude pulls up with the GTR.

He got like three Asian girls, everybody good looking.

He good looking, they all good looking.

He throws me the keys.

I was like, what the fuck?

I was like, how the fuck am I driving this dude's valid?

Like, how am I driving this GTR?

I'm going to get me a GTR.

So that's why I got the GTR.

But anyways, now there's a big event

and I'm, you know, I'm helping out park cars.

I just hear, Mike, Mike Baron?

And I look and I was like, fuck.

It's the last dude I wanted to see.

This dude was like prom king, but he's younger than me.

So he looked up to me.

He had like this pretty girl.

He's like, What are you doing here?

And he handed me the keys, bro.

And I was destroyed.

And there's no shame in driving valet.

I just, that's how I felt.

I always knew I was destined for bigger things.

So that happened.

And

I told my wife, I was like,

I got to go.

I can't do this.

And then I actually called Grant and I was live on his YouTube channel.

And I told him kind of the situation.

He invited me in Miami.

And that's when I got my feet wet with the sales shit.

No way.

Yeah, bro.

Wow.

It was like in the same week.

That's nuts.

I talked to him on Thursday.

I was in Miami, like on Monday.

Holy crap, yeah,

yeah.

Well, I was like, What are you gonna do?

I was like, I'm gonna go learn from this fucking nine-figure cat, and I'm gonna go learn his shit, master it, and come back.

We're gonna get rich.

So, I was like, We'll be there for about two years in Miami.

It was only four months.

Crazy, yeah.

When you look at all the people he's touched, it's nuts.

Like, Hormozy trained under Grant, yeah, yeah, bunch of big dogs.

Now, he, he, bro, he's a uh

so there's a term called first movers advantage.

So, if you have an opportunity to change your life, you got to move.

And it's not always,

it's like the, it's the people that get to the market first.

So like Ty,

he's like a pioneer in this shit.

Yeah.

Hey, man, me in my garage.

Hey, man, creating an ad agency for where I'm from, Billie Gena's marketing.

These guys, like Grant, he was on YouTube fucking before 2010.

Like these guys are like pioneers.

Like Grant's the truth.

I know that for a fact.

He's the fucking truth.

But

me personally, I know most of these motherfuckers.

I could whoop all these motherfuckers.

Like, whatever the game is.

Like, we could fist fight.

We could play darts.

We could play.

Like, whatever.

I'll whoop all.

You're competitive.

I'm very, but for real, though.

Like, camera, no camera.

I'm very...

Any one of your guests, bro.

I'll fuck up.

I'm just, I'm sorry.

Like, I don't care what it is.

Whatever.

You want to go race on the car?

Andy Elliott?

I'll kill that motherfucker.

That bitch ain't shit.

He ain't nothing, bro.

Like, I'm competitive.

I know he's a good guy.

And props to him, but he ain't fuck with me, dog.

Hell no.

Motherfucker got veins in his neck.

Steroid motherfucker.

He ain't shit.

Hell no.

Wes Watson?

I'll fuck him up, too.

Any sport, anything you, anything you want to do, I'll fuck him up.

And he knows me.

But anything, anything he wants to do.

I don't care what it is.

Any, any, any, any,

I don't care.

We could ride a tricycle.

Anything.

Like, yeah.

Anyways.

So.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm, I'm kind of, I'm kind of, I'm kind of ready to go now.

I'm ready to go now, dog.

Business is a a sport, man.

People don't know.

Yeah, I was kicking with Ty, man, and

he's like, we're talking about billionaires.

And I'm like, yeah, man, I'm going to be a billionaire.

He's like,

are you ready to go there?

He was just like, the billionaire, he knows.

He's like, dude, it's, he's like, in business, bro, they will fucking slice their own brother's neck.

In business, it's just, it's that, it's that lethal.

It's cutthroat.

It's that cutthroat, bro.

He gave me similar advice when he came on.

He said,

there's a certain revenue you want to stay within if you want to to maintain your lifestyle.

Oh, yeah.

Tell me more about that.

He was saying if you can net profit six figures a month, like that's the perfect range to be in because you can avoid major lawsuits.

Yeah.

You don't want people fucking you over as much.

That's what Ty said.

That's what he told me.

Yeah, you know, the lawsuit shit's weird.

I imagine nobody fucks with you.

I've had, I've had to settle two so far.

Former staff?

Former lawyer, and then what was the first former lawyer?

Customer.

Man, that's

so it must have been like 2018.

I'm making like a quarter million a month.

And uh, my coach was like, Mike, um, you have counsel?

Like, what the fuck are you talking about?

He's like, Do you have like legal counsel?

I was like, Nah, he's like, Dude, you're making money now.

He's like, It's inevitable, you're gonna get sued.

I was like, How the fuck?

How am I gonna get sued?

What the fuck do I do?

He's like, People don't, not everybody plays by the rules.

He's like, It's gonna happen.

I was like, okay,

so long story longer, bro.

Um,

you know, motherfuckers like to sue you.

Yep.

You know, like, like,

and it's, and what, what I, what I, what I, what, what pisses me off is when the attorney says, hey, dude, just cut them a check because this thing could, you know, could, like, string out and you'll end up fucking swollen 100K versus this 10K.

And I hate little fucking rats, little fucking criminals getting a $10,000 check.

I hate that shit.

So I have a business partner that runs most of it.

I'm like the guy out front.

Yeah.

And it fucking irks me, dude, when they're like, this little piece of shit says we own 20K and we're going to settle for 15 and we don't own shit.

That kills me.

There was one son of a bitch

that was working for us.

Must have been in 2021.

We get a lawsuit in 2024.

So-and-so says he worked for you.

So-and-so says he could not take lunch break.

So-and-so says that he was not paid overtime.

So-and-so says we violated A, B, and C.

Like, who the fuck is this guy?

So we start looking up all the, you know, all the people we hired.

Okay, cool.

This dude was one of our supervisors during COVID.

Everything's virtual.

And he made a claim that he could not take lunch breaks, restroom breaks.

He's at his fucking crib in Sacramento.

Oh, my God.

Right.

But, you know, what sucks about that is we spent like 12K to fly out John and Mark there, to fly out the attorney team, to fucking have the...

It's still a bitch to get the hotel.

Like, it's still...

And the judge just,

he's an idiot, though.

The guy didn't have no facts, and

yeah, you dumb motherfuckers trying to beat beat us.

It's crazy, very unavoidable, man.

You could be the best person, you could be a charity giver, you could be whatever.

You know, did you see a video when someone came to my house in the middle of the night?

What happened?

Okay,

so um,

you know, we have we partner with private lenders who fund our students,

and uh

one of our lenders, private lender, so let's say our

uh program's 10K, yeah,

They'll put up 10K.

They'll pocket like their 25%.

And then the student pays them.

Right.

So they're putting up the money, you know.

And we have a stipulation where there's no buybacks.

So the student doesn't pay them.

We're clear.

We made that clear.

So these motherfuckers wanted, you know, some people defaulted on them and they were trying to collect money from us.

They're trying to say, you know, we have these delinquent accounts from your students.

We're like, no, fuck you.

There's a disclaimer here, no buybacks.

So they want to collect, it must have been like 30 bands, nothing crazy.

They want to collect 30 bands from us.

We're like, yeah, no, no, you got to talk to your attorney, talk to our attorney.

So

they end up hitting us with like a little mini lawsuit.

They want to collect the 30 bands, really light.

So we're getting some dude came to my house like fucking 11 o'clock at night, 12 o'clock at night.

And And I'm, I'm, you know, I'm usually in bed, but I'm looking at it.

And I just see this motherfucker like looking through the windows and shit.

Like, what the fuck is this?

You know, like, I live in Del Mar.

Yeah.

Ain't nobody come to my crib unannounced at first off one, but not know 11 o'clock at night.

So, dude, I had to go get the piece, man.

I had to go get that shit, dude.

And I went on the little French doors, my daughter's balcony, and I was just like, clink, clink, what the fuck you doing, bitch?

And

that, how many views views I get?

Like a million?

Yeah, but yeah.

He was trying to serve you.

He's trying to serve me.

That's all it was.

Damn.

Yeah.

And guess what we did?

We cut a check for like fucking 12 grand.

Shit pissing me off.

Yeah.

And what does attorney say?

Well, you know, we can stretch this thing out.

It's going to take, you know, six to 12 months to settle.

At the end of the day, you're going to.

This shit irks me, bro.

Yeah.

I shouldn't be telling those motherfuckers who try to sue me now.

I know.

It's unavoidable, though, man.

Stupid, bro.

Do you have a lot of disgruntled former employees that try to sue you?

Nah, nah, the reason why we have disgruntled employees, I'm going to tell you why,

but they don't try to sue me.

They're too low level.

They've got no damn counsel.

They ain't even got no damn paper.

Yeah.

So

this is where

I have about 100 people on my team.

This is where people,

this is where people can't stand me

on my team.

So every closer, we must have about eight closers on my team,

18 appointments that are, every closer on my team is a multiple six-figure earner my top closers are making anywhere from like 600 to 800k yeah so you got to think dude like some of these motherfuckers i'm cutting checks for for like 50 60 70k

a month bro right that's not not a bad gig right you know so i have people on my team making 80k a month not me this is the check i cut anyways so now

my my thing is i demand a lot you have to hit your numbers if you don't hit your numbers we are going to work these 14 hour days We are going to be there six days a week.

And on Sundays, we're going to put in some time too.

Like, like, you are going to be in this kind of cult.

Like,

we demand that you're all in.

You're not going to have no side deals.

You're not going to be dealing with no other motherfuckers that are enemies of our company.

So, we demand so much.

But

me,

I will demand more of you than anyone before me.

But in return, I will give you more than anybody before me.

So, there's always like this, like, and I don't, I don't, I have a CEO.

Hey, have you ever seen me in an executive meeting?

No.

Yeah, I don't, I have a guy that runs a company.

I thought you were the CEO.

One of my coaches said, you're the CEO.

I don't play the game, dude.

I made the game.

That's a bar.

That is a bar.

I don't play the game.

I made the game.

I say, hey, here's the confined walls.

Here's what you can and cannot do.

Here's the rules to it.

Here's the sticks.

Here's the gunpower.

You motherfuckers go do it.

No, dude, I'm not.

I do whatever the fuck I want.

I could disappear for a year.

You know, obviously I'm working hard, but

my team demands a lot.

I demand a lot.

So you'll have this, you know, it happens once a year.

And anyone who's in the online coaching space knows this shit.

It's usually like a salesperson.

They go like this.

We ain't doing shit, but making Mike rich.

Fuck Mike.

Let's go do our own shit.

so it's it's always like kind of like fuck mike because

they were shackled they were confined they were yeah so that happens that happens in any sales organization yep i've seen it in solar i've seen it in a hundred percent and then and you know what happens though we call it an infestation

it'll be like you know it'll be like a you know it'll be like a big producer he'll bounce and then he starts he starts to kind of recruit but then they start doing fuck shit they start trying to steal leads and shit they start trying to download your fucking crm like dude get the fuck out of here

yeah i was gonna call somebody out right now but i ain't gonna give them the credit but i see them signing up our clients right now damn so it's happening right now as we speak yeah yeah i you know it's funny though because i just took a screenshot to send to my team you know you know it's right here

right here i ain't gonna say his fucking name

you know like

If you're with me and you come up and you leave, dude, more power.

Like, I'll see you at at the UOC fight.

Fuck with you.

But what kills me is like, why you got to go take our public?

Why you got to go take our fucking customers?

Why you got to go recruit our...

Go do your own shit, bitch.

Yeah, you spend money acquiring those customers and those leads.

Dog,

I'm spending a little bit of money.

I must be spending like four G's a day on ads.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like, stop trying to take our shit.

What's your approach when they become an enemy?

Patrick Beth David has a book on this.

Like, do you go after them?

Do you kind of let them

out?

So me, I cut them off and then I just let John handle them.

And the way John handles them is with the attorneys.

So you go the legal route.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I want to go pull up a motherfucker and kidnap him, throw him in the fucking trunk.

And, you know, put them in.

How old you would do that?

Oh, fuck you.

Yeah.

I kidnapped somebody before.

I think the best way to deal with enemies for me, at least, is success.

Yeah.

Just dominate.

100%.

This is how I feel, bro.

So I think it would be a privilege for any tech person to work with Steve Jobs in the last, you know, when he was here.

You know, you got a small window here.

I feel love him or hate him,

but I feel like it'd be a privilege for any engineer or aerospace engineer to work with Elon right now with, you know, the SpaceX.

So

I have a thing where I, so I'm going to tell you who my crew is, man.

I got the Suicide Squad.

You go look at Grants people, bro, they're good looking.

They're sharp.

They're very fucking sharp.

They're very fucking disciplined.

I'm taking like, almost like the reject crew and turn them into winners.

Like, I'm almost, it's a weird thing, but I kind of take the people that are kind of like

no one ever thought they were going to be shit.

I turn them into winners and they start changing.

Like, the ugly dude starts to become handsome.

The girl whose face is all broken out, she starts to become pretty.

Gabe, go look at it, go look at the old content.

You'll see them.

They start filling themselves and they start actually shining.

The glow up is crazy.

So, um, the reason why I tell you that, bro, is

because

you know, um,

I

take losers and I turn them into fucking winners.

Like,

I, you know, my top guy really makes about six, seven hundred a year.

He's a construction worker, and you know, and there's no shame in construction, but that's kind of what I do.

And it's like, for and I'm very,

I got a hundred people I fuck with

six, eight people on my team,

But

even the ones that I'm not as close to, dude, every Thanksgiving at my office is a Thanksgiving thing.

Why?

Because people, people, most of my people are from out of town.

There's very few people from San Diego.

They all come into the city to join this rocket ship we're building.

Wow.

Christmas is handled.

Thanksgiving is handled.

We take care of people.

So for people to come on my deal, come up, grab a bag and leave and be like, fuck, Mike, man, that's lame to me.

You take it personal.

I take it very fucking personal, dude.

Very fucking personal.

Very fucking personal.

Yeah.

Yeah, I could see that.

Yeah, because, because

we're, Abe, you think, you think I'm a pretty nice guy?

He might be biased, though.

He don't think I'm nice.

No, it's,

I take it personal, dude.

And I shouldn't.

And my wife, who's right here in the audience, I used to get hurt.

You know, I'd put a kid up, take him from his grandma's house he's making 20 30k a month now i would put him in the house because he's trying to find out his he's trying to you know find his apartment he just came to san diego my wife's like michael we have a daughter how do you know this guy i was like i know him from zoom i've been home for six months but how do you really know him no he's my boy like i talk to him every day michael i i we can't have him here it's fine two weeks please okay fine and that same kid was still for me in six months damn this is like years ago so i i used to get

i used to get hurt bro like it, it, like, like, how could, like, how could you?

Yeah.

So, then, what happened?

I started putting up a wall.

And I'm like, fuck everybody.

Like, it's just, it's me, my, my wife, my daughter, said the end of the day, fuck everybody.

But then, what happened was I was blocking good people in my world.

So, now my, my, my, my bullshit detector needs to get better.

Yeah, because there is good people, and there's weird people, too.

And what, what, my, my conclusion is like, my conclusion is this:

um,

a fake motherfucker, motherfucker, a fake person, a liar, a cheater, a stealer, someone that's not loyal.

A fake person could never identify with the real person.

And a real person can identify with a fake person.

So I'm out here feeding people on Thanksgiving.

I'm out here putting people up.

I'm out here helping people with daycare.

I'm out here going above and beyond.

I'm out here, you know, just doing whatever I got to do to be a decent human being or be a decent fucking leader of my team.

They can't see that.

They can't see it.

So I see all these little fake motherfuckers, all the fake motherfuckers hang out with the fake motherfuckers.

That's what y'all do.

Same frequency.

You attract each other, right?

You attract each other, man.

100%.

Yeah.

Dude, it's been awesome.

Let's keep doing these episodes.

You're a great guest.

Bro, it's good to see you, man.

And I just want to tell you, man, why, because I don't see you like this very often, bro, but I want to tell you, man,

congratulations on everything you're doing.

Everybody I know in the space, some of the biggest people, they all know you because your name comes up all the time.

Obviously, you know, you have a huge following.

You have a lot of respect.

You have amazing freaking guests.

I'm honored to be put on this platform.

And then on just on a human level, bro, when I say you always check up on me, you always just, hey, Mike, you're going to be here.

Hey,

man,

that goes very far with me.

And you have a brother with me.

And you just tell me when you want to come to San Diego.

I'll put you in first class.

I'll get you the nicest thing.

We'll go break bread.

You and your fiancé come, whatever it is.

But you got some real good people in San Diego that care about you, that support you, and want nothing more from you than to fucking just turn up, bro.

So appreciate that, brother.

Thumbed a lot of episodes.

I was never off the.

Thank you.

I got you, though.

Check them out, guys.

See you next time.

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