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. It's it, they're just glorified hustlers.
Meanwhile, I got fucking 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 Barron.
Yes, sir. Damn, how much is this outfit right here? This one right here.

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

nine bands.

Wristpiece, about $50.

Johnny Dane, 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.

We got so, so, 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 shit's going to be on Vice.

You'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 own joint.

I see your little setup, bro. Yeah.
That shit nice. You got some sponsors now? I know.
So John, of course. Pretty mom and pop, right? You growing, bro.
Yeah, you too, though.

I've been seeing you everywhere. Just saw you with Ty Lopez.
Ty Lopez, fucking around Bandman Kevo.

I was on No jumper you know i'm just trying to do 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 it's not it's not like

i'm gonna do my thing i'm gonna talk my shit i'm gonna wake up at 4 30 in the morning i'm gonna work 12 hours i'm gonna have veins pop out my neck talking about become the peak version of yourself But the main goal of these podcasts, bro, is more influence.

You know, 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 Kevley's like, Mike, you're, you're the realest motherfucker I've ever met that nobody knows. I'm like, what? I'm like, Batman, what the fuck? What do you mean nobody knows, bro?

I got 180,000 followers. He's like, come on, Mike, stop.
So, you know, we got a real business, dude. We did, we did just north of 1.4 million with the receipts last month.
Damn.

And 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 go to airports now and get noticed.
Get stopped. 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 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 said, 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.

Go expand. Yeah.
You're in the big leagues with a jet. Yeah.
Yeah.

Have to.

Have to.

You know, in my work too.

It's kind of a bitch,

but it's not.

But it's like, okay, this dude got the new Lambo. Oh, no, no.
Now the Lambo's ain't shit. Now it's like a Bugatti.
Now Bugatti ain't shit. Now it's a fucking, you know, it's a

it's a CONASEC. It's a fucking, it's a private jet.
You know, that $10,000 penthouse ain't shit. Now it's a fucking $50,000 penthouse.

It's a crazy game that we're playing, bro. You know, 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. Ban Man Cable 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. And 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 i i want to say i'm pretty conservative but it costs about a hundred thousand dollars to sustain my life a month a month a hundred thousand just to sustain damn and that that's my cars that's my mortgage that's my properties that's my travel just to live the way i want to live yeah so i got a lot of motherfuckers on my team that are making half a million six hundred seven hundred thousand 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.
I want to go even harder.

But some people, it destroys them. Yeah.
Mentally. Yeah.
100%, dude. I'd say most people.
Yeah.

Yeah. Because 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.
Yeah. But for me, it's just motivation.
Yeah.

So like like some of your guests, who are some of your big guests you've had? Grant Cardone, he definitely flexes. Tate, he flexes.

How was

those guys in person?

I like them in person. Grant is a great podcast guest.
I don't think I'd ever work with him. Yeah, I used to work with him.
Yeah, I remember the first time you 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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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 to twist it a little bit, I think.

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'll 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 Ramosi.
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 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. And then $5,500.
30% of them buy a 30K offer. And then there's another offer.
I forget how much that one is, but brilliant business model. Nah, he's a genius, bro.

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

So if you guys don't know me, you know,

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 it's it 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 my treasury department meanwhile I got fucking eight people to handle my social media meanwhile I got a quality control department so it's it's just a fucked up it's it's it's it's it's all fake most 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 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 can 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, not, not, not a lot. Not what you'd imagine.
$100,000 coaching package. Yeah, my shit's volume.
I do over a thousand transactions a month. So here's low low ticket.

You're not doing the high tickets.

Ten thousand. 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, 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, 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, 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. Damn.
I had,

there's a, there's a triple OG in the internet game, Neil Patel. I know Neil.
You know Neil, right?

So his, his team, his, his marketing guy runs into my team at Albert Pristiata's event.

And apparently he knows me. And he's like, you know, we can help Mike.
We can help him 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 how I can get to the next.
And Neil is a

damn near a billionaire now, according to them.

And they're like, you know, just tell me about your business. So I start showing him the business.
I start showing my SOPs that are like two, three phone books. I start showing him my administration.

And he's just like, dude, I

like 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

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 yeah when you were 18 to 26 bro dude you know i walked out of high school as a two-time villain you know like my mentors were like kg king gorilla

you're gonna say killer garnett

i wish dog now my mentor was killer gorilla bro And uh, you know, what was, what was the game he gave me, bro? Just don't take shit for nobody and control the block. block.
Yeah, fuck you.

I was miscotted, bro. Yeah, fuck yeah.
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, you know the homeboy that just got jacked? Oh, Jack Doherty.

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 uh ferraris and supercars and shit and they're selling crypto or they're doing some sort of coaching so i think that's the culture um but either way you can get a bag you can go fucking you know put some you know go do your only fans 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 a 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 shit. And I'm like 28 years old.
And

I got a fucking flag out. I'm just fucking patrolling 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 in 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.
Now it's almost like 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, what the fuck is this? This motherfucker didn't need a job at Taco Bill or some bullshit. Well, hip-hop was hot back in the day, too.
Now I feel like Tupac.

Yeah, so my mentors, too, man, were like in in the early 90s were like tupac and don't be a menace and blood in blood out and you know i just i wanted to be i wanted to be a tough guy bro yeah that's your lame bro when did you get out of that mindset um i got in trouble when i was so

from like 15 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 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 generally graduate in June. When I turned 18, dude, I was fucking 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 of 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 to 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 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 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,

luxury things. And then life happened to me.
So I had to get realistic. I had to go get a job.
Became a young dad. So I ran into her.
Her name's 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 smack 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 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.
Yeah.

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 i'm a i'm a connector i'm not gonna shake your hand when i see you whoa i'm gonna hug you when i when i see my peoples and my my loved ones i'm not gonna say hey how you been i'm i'm i'm gonna embrace you 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 to f1 nah bro i'm not gonna 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 my my peoples I'm close to my team.

But me and my mom are like oil and water, bro. Yeah, she's crazy as fuck, by the way.
She's 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 wasn't, 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 going to touch her. She's like, she's a six-year-old woman.
She 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. He went to prison for like 10 years slinging cocaine.
So I got that hustle game. I'm trying to put it together and make sense of it.

I got the hustle game from 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 crazy, bro. She nuts, bro.
That's nuts. Yeah, she used to beat the fuck out of me.

She can. She was physical like that? Oh, bro.
She stomped me out.

hit me in the back of the head with a stick yeah that was that generation though you know yeah it was normal my dad used to get the shit rocked out of him oh your dad did not me but like he

his dad beat him up okay you got siblings uh 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 to give 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

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? In Jersey.
Oh, no shit.

No way. Yeah.
Okay. Usually I can read it.
Usually I'm like, you from the East Coast. Yeah, you don't got like no Twain or like no East Coast accent.
Really?

I like East Coast people more than West Coast. So do I.
Really? I thought you were going to 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'm, 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 raw there. If you have a good conversation, if you're a decent

person,

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 cool.
West Coast is too laid back for me. It is.
It's slow as fuck.

San Diego is slow as fuck, dude. Yeah, no one's grinding out there other than you, but but like.
San Diego's slow as fuck. Yeah.
LA got some hustle. LA crazy as fuck, though.

You know, a lot of people getting robbed in L.A. right now.
You would get robbed if you wore that on Mountain. 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 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 kicking with one of my students named Louie. 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 Carolina. So we pull up.
I pull up with his boy, Boston John. So we go to like this fancy ass steak restaurant.
He's like, hey, man, I'm with Mike. Hey, what's up? What's up?

What's up? So I got my SEO out there. I got my GTR out there.

they rented a Ferrari, so you know, we're kind of heavy. Hey, man, we're right here.

So, dinner's over, you know, $4,000 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 yeah, 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 stay on the opinion and nobody could rock it. Like, like, if they said we got to leave, can nobody tell me no different?

So

they were all my ass. Like, let's just go.
Let's just go. So 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 them at gunpoint, put them on the ground, snatched the fucking roly.

Took, they tried to steal the damn Ferrari, but they didn't know how to put in reverse some amateurs. And I was like, it was kind of like

it was eye-opening to 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, 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, my boy was strapped.
Jeez. You know, they come through the parking lot, dude, with guns.

Somebody going to die. Shit.
Yeah, it's L.A. crazy, bro.
That's nuts. L.A.
fucking nuts. Yeah, I'm in and out when I go to L.A.
Yeah. It ain't worth staying there for the night.
Yeah.

So, like social media, we don't post nothing real time.

What did I tell you today?

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 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, a while ago.
I posted 100K cash. Oh, fuck me.
No. Oh, bro.
Yeah. You were 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.

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 this is just a job uniform. Yeah, this is a job that's 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 can actually talk to you. And 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 okay click and then my motivation shit comes out and then i can actually you know talk to you i also think you're you're really relatable because you came from nothing yeah thank you man i appreciate that you know what this is what i believe

i'm uh

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

I'm pretty tough. I was like, captain of my football team, captain of my 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

I'm at O'Guerra Lamborghini. They have one right there in, what is it, the wind, 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 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 call me, sir.

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

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

hey, man, 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.

Their 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 come now. They're circling me.
I was like, don't ever fucking think that you're not deserving.

Don't ever think that they're better than you, bro. These fucking motherfuckers ain't.

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Better than you because they got a Lamborghini, bro? Go, go, 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 A.

Mama had me at six.

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 and going to the gym and everybody's fucking passed out.

i 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 i i i don't 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 gonna do this to you because because you my dog yeah so i go i go to ties tight tai lopez's joint where it is it got to be at least the house is 100 million 100 million i believe it's like 25 000 square feet

it's it's it's bro it's ridiculous Right. So I go there and I blazed high

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.

I just, I'm very competitive, bro. I promise I won't say that about him.

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 knows, this motherfucker knows 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 are important to me yeah you talk about going to basketball this 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 motherfucking playing 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, Joe.

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

half-look. you know, yeah, I let them speak their mind, you're professional, I keep them comfortable, yeah.

I feel like I get some ratchet shit, gonna get some little OnlyFan chicks and shit that crazy and 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.

Yeah, that was good, bro. Once a month, I'll have an OF girl, spice it up.
I see, okay, okay, okay. 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 not either nah no i don't i don't i don't really

i don't really that that doesn't register register to me someone asked me there was a big youtube guy that pulled up on me um was it spencer cornelia nah he's from canada but he you know he's a cat that pulls up hey today i'm visiting mike baron he's making 1.4 million and he you know he does his like 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 don't,

I just don't think about it. Like, I don't think about it.
Like, I'm not going to say nothing that's going to 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 just want to be free, bro. Do you feel like you've achieved freedom right now?

I'm knocking on the door.

I'm knocking on the door.

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 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 at a college. Wow.
Because, you know, my work ethic 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 that is young for a president you know i'm saying you know i was making six figures of corporate 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 Baron, good to meet you.
Hey, 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 corporate.

We'd go out there and have a cigarette and talk shit. Like, fuck these motherfuckers.
These motherfuckers like shit. Like, I hated that shit.

So now

when I got into business, I, I, 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 personal brand.

And

I just started being me.

And, you know, from damn near the time I wake to the time I go home, there's a camera in my face.

So 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.

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 right. It's just, it's just rolling.

And whatever he, him and his team want to put out, they, they put out.

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 is huge, bro.

It looks like he can kill me. His calves are like this big.

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

Like, you look like a damn war. Like, how are you not in the nfl that's impossible like you look like a freak

um he blew out 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.

He's an IT guy. He must be making like 180.
I said, how the fuck? He like trumping over me, like 6'3 and shit. It's 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 in 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, scary 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, it's 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.
Yeah. So I'm becoming more free.
I'm becoming more free.

I'm always always me so that's cool uh i gotta get a little more paper though that 1.44 i'm bragging about that ain't that ain't that ain't bro it's never enough no matter what you're making i know that's even billionaires are like i'm not making enough oh they did a real shit dude i talked to them yeah senti 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 you know it's funny too the the shit people used to say

i was like i was like fucking around some network marketing i never did it i would just go show it to the events you know the motherfuckers want to 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'd I say? Making like 20 bands passively, bro.
You have guests that would see that clip and would clown on me.

They would be like, he's wearing that $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 bust 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 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, 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've 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.

Things just happen, bro. You know, crazy shit fucking happens.
So for me, I'm like running out of time, bro.

I've already,

I'm not going to 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, what, 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, uh, 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 to to the creator in my opinion you know i'm saying i i gotta so i i'm gonna sacrifice everything this lifetime all the you put your daughters to work are you gonna let them host uh no they're their ass got to get to work though those got to go work they don't got to go to college though they don't if they want to they could do whatever the 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, she's way different than me. You know, she got like the anime

on the, you know, on the on the fucking walls and shit. She got the K-pop and all that.
I know the culture's, but 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 bad as fuck. Yeah.
She could 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 will will run her out the 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. She,

I'm, dog, she is out of every spectrum or every where they should be trending this little motherfucker is just a wizard bro she could she could have a full-blown conversation with at one bro i'm telling one and a half shees it's crazy they're all different though yeah she's gonna be the one to take over the

yeah dude that's impressive but they all they got they gotta work bro you know they gotta they gotta learn some 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 can we make a son?

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. You know what I'm saying?

Deanna, we have a little son, a little crazy motherfucker. We'll give him a mohawk and all this shit, and give us 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 Silva is? No. Okay, Vander Lay Silva is a crazy ass EOC 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.

Shout out to him. Yeah.
Shout out to Carlo. Yeah.
I passed you. That'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 had a lot of jobs, man.
I done 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 is 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 shit.
He's like, bro, just come.

So I went to go apply. Apply.

I got the job.

So I'm already, 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'll 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. And I was like, what the fuck?

I was like, how the fuck am I driving this dude's value? 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 was 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.
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 what 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 a Monday.
Holy crap. Yeah.

What a story. Yeah.

Well, I was like, what are you going to do? I was like, I'm going to go learn from this fucking nine-figure cat. And I'm going to go learn his shit, master it, and come back.
We're going to 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 bro he's a uh

so there's a term it's called first movers advantage

so if you have an opportunity to change your life you got to move and and and it's not always

it's like the it's the people that get to the market first so like tai he's like a pioneer in this shit yeah hey man me in my garage amen creating an ad agency for where i'm from billie genus marketing these guys like grant he was on youtube fucking before 2010 like these guys are like pioneers like grants the truth i know that for a fact he's the fucking truth um

but i i i i me personally i know i know most of these motherfuckers i i could whoop all these motherfuckers like whatever 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? You want to. 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.

Staroy motherfucker. He ain't shit.
Hell no. Wes Watson.
I'll fuck him up, too.

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.

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 sport man people don't know yeah i was i was kicking with ty man and um

he's like

we're talking about billionaires and i'm like yeah man i'm gonna be a billionaire he's like are you ready are you ready to go there he was just like the billionaire he knows he's like dude it it's he's like in business bro they will slice their own brother's neck neck in business.

It's just, it's that, it's that lethal. It's cut throat.
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 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 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 my coach was like, Mike, you have counsel? I'm 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 going to get sued.
I was like, how the fuck?

How am I going to 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 it 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

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

so i have a business partner that runs most of it i'm like the guy out front yeah and it it fucking irks me dude when they're like this little piece of shit says we own 20k and we're gonna settle for 15 and we don't own shit that kills me there was there was one son of a bitch

um 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 breaks.
So-and-so says that he was not paid overtime. So-and-so says we violated AB and C.
Like, who the fuck is this guy?

So we start looking up 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, resting 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 is he's an idiot though the guy didn't have no facts and

yeah you you dumb motherfuckers trying to beat beat us is it's crazy they're 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 you know we we

we partner with private lenders who fund our students.

And

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

program is 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 if the student doesn't pay pay them, we're clear.
We made that clear.

So these motherfuckers wanted to, 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 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

usually I'm 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 i was just like clink clink what the fuck you doing bitch

and uh that how many 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, 12 twelve months to settle.
At the end of the day, you're going to.

This shit irks me, bro. Yeah.
I should be telling those motherfuckers are trying 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 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 settled. Every closer on my team is a multiple six-figure earner.
My top closers are making anywhere from like 600 to 800K.

So you got to think, dude, like some of these motherfuckers I'm cutting checks for for like 50, 60, 70K

a month.

Right. That's 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 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.

You are going to be in this kind of cult.

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 despair 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 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 100%.

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 to kind of recruit. Right.
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 going to call somebody out right now, but I ain't going to give them the credit. But I see him signing up our clients right now.
Damn. So it's happening right now as we speak.
Yeah. Yeah.

You know, it's funny, though, because I just took a screenshot to send to my team. You know, you know, it's 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 at the uoc fight with you but what what 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 yeah go do your own bitch yeah you spend money acquiring those customers and those leads dog i'm spending 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 when they become an enemy patrick bet david has a book on this like do you go after them do you kind of let them yeah

so me i i i cut them off and then i just let john handle them and the way john handles them is with 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 old you would do that oh fuck yeah i kidnapped somebody before

i think the best way to deal with enemies for 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 so i'm gonna tell you who my crew is man i got the suicide squad

you go look at grants people bro they're 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 turning them into winners Like I'm 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. And 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 I gave you go look at go look at the old content you'll see them they start 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 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, $700 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 100 people. I fuck with

six, eight people on my team.

But

even the ones that I'm not as close to, dude, every, 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. Every birth, 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 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

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, no, 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 we can't have him here it's fine two weeks please okay fine and that same kid will steal from me in six months damn this is like years ago so i i used to get i used to get hurt bro like it like like how could like how could you no

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 daughters at the end of the 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 because there is good people and there's weird people too. And

my conclusion is like, my conclusion is this.

A fake 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 the 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, they, they, 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 need 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 the 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, my brother.

I filmed a lot of episodes. I want to ever offer the.
Thank you. I got you, though.
Check them out, guys. See you next time.
Peace.