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

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 on the internet right now, don't have a real business.

Speaker 1 They're just glorified hustlers. Meanwhile, I got fucking eight people to handle my social media.

Speaker 1 It's all fake. Most of that shit's fake.

Speaker 2 All right, guys, got him back on. Come on, drove over today.
Let's go.

Speaker 1 What up, dog? Got Mike Barron. Yes, sir.

Speaker 2 Damn, how much is this outfit right here?

Speaker 1 This one right here.

Speaker 1 It was $20 on the side of New York City, but market value. The jacket about

Speaker 1 nine bands.

Speaker 1 Wristpiece, about $50.

Speaker 1 Johnny Dane, this about $200.

Speaker 2 Shout out to Johnny. He's coming on next week.
Oh, is he?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So he, he got me, he got me right here. This shit's going to be on vice.

Speaker 1 You're about to be on the documentary. What's up with you, man?

Speaker 2 I'm chilling, man. Been a lot of changes since you last came on.

Speaker 1 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 Johnny, of course.

Speaker 2 Pretty mom and pop, right?

Speaker 1 You growing, bro. Yeah, you too, though.

Speaker 2 I've been seeing you everywhere. Just saw you with Ty Lopez.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 2 What's your main goal with going on these pods? You trying to inspire the younger generation?

Speaker 1 Yeah. So, so

Speaker 1 to, to be honest with you, man,

Speaker 1 it's not like

Speaker 1 I'm going to do my thing. I'm going to talk my shit.
I'm going to wake up at 4.30 in the morning. I'm going to work 12 hours.

Speaker 1 I'm going to fucking 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.

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 Who the fuck are you? And how do I not know you?

Speaker 1 You know, Bamman Kevley's like, Mike, you're the realest motherfucker I've ever met that nobody knows. I'm like, what? I'm like, Bamman, what the fuck? What do you mean nobody knows, bro?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And I just, I need to become famous, bro. Like you, you got 10 million followers, bro.

Speaker 2 I'm starting to notice it. Like, I'll go to airports now and get noticed.
Get stopped.

Speaker 1 It's always get stopped.

Speaker 2 It's from the podcast.

Speaker 1 Yeah, of course, man. A lot of motherfuckers know you, man.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 1 Did I show you last time?

Speaker 2 You showed me at my event in Vegas.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me show you again, man.

Speaker 2 No guru has ever done that to me.

Speaker 1 Nah, because they're lying, bro.

Speaker 1 Listen, all these motherfuckers on the internet, dude, they're bullshitting.

Speaker 1 And no disrespect to your guest dude but all these

Speaker 1 are lying bro ain't nobody really making no money like that and there's a there's there's a there's a handful that are but even the ones that are bro they don't 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

Speaker 1 this ain't none of that

Speaker 1 okay

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 2 Seven figures a month, man.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And I was from Section 8 housing from a single mom, no dad, bro. Yeah, God is good, man.

Speaker 2 That's nice, dude. People dream to make a million in their lifetime.
You're making it in a monthly basis.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I'll do it this month.
I'll do it next month. I'll do it every month.
I'll do more.

Speaker 2 How long did it take you to get to seven figures a month?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 You want a loan for $22 million? So we're working at that loan right now for $22 million, man.

Speaker 2 What are you going to use that money for?

Speaker 1 Hire more people?

Speaker 1 Go buy a jet.

Speaker 1 Go expand.

Speaker 2 Yeah. You're in the big leagues with a jet.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I have to.

Speaker 1 Have to.

Speaker 1 You know, in my work too.

Speaker 1 It's kind of a bitch,

Speaker 1 but it's not.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 it's a CONASEG. 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Let me get a $50,000 chain. Ban Man Cable making fun of my $50,000 chain.
Let me go get a $200,000. It's a crazy world, bro.

Speaker 2 Now, do you think that's sustainable, though, just to keep getting more and more expensive?

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And when you go start talking to the real smart motherfuckers, you know, it's like, don't live above your means.

Speaker 1 So for me, dude, like it costs about i 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

Speaker 2 Yeah. I feel that.
Yeah. Comparison.
Like, for me, it motivates me. Like, I'm like you.
Like, I see some people killing it.

Speaker 1 Like, I love that.

Speaker 2 I want to go even harder. But some people, it destroys them.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Mentally.
Yeah. 100%, dude.

Speaker 2 I'd say most people.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 newest, whatever the hell that's that's out right now. Yeah.
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?

Speaker 2 Brant Cardone, he definitely flexes. Tate, he flexes.

Speaker 1 How was

Speaker 1 those guys in person?

Speaker 2 I like them in person. Grant is a great podcast guest.
I don't think I'd ever work with him.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I used to work with him. Yeah, I remember the first time you came on.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 That's how you made your name, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. I used to work at Grant.
So I love Grant.

Speaker 1 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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Speaker 1 He's He's 12 to

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 2 Yeah. That's just off the coaching, of course.

Speaker 1 Just off his coaching shit.

Speaker 2 Yeah. You got to twist it a little bit.

Speaker 1 I think.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 1 Yeah. He's doing 96 million.
Well, he's a different cat. Yeah.

Speaker 1 He's actually like a wizard.

Speaker 2 He's going to do $96 million this year.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Was he on your joint? No. I want to get to get his ass.
I know he lives here, too. Yeah.

Speaker 1 He's a different kind of cat. He's cautioning it.
Yeah, he's a fucking genius.

Speaker 2 He has three workshops a month. Each person pays $5,000.

Speaker 1 He sells them some shit after that. I think it's $5,500.

Speaker 2 30% of them buy a 30K offer. And then there's another offer.
I forget how much that one is, but brilliant business model.

Speaker 1 Nah, he's a genius, bro.

Speaker 1 He's one of the people that are the truth in this industry. Yeah.
He knows his shit.

Speaker 2 He's someone that, yeah, because a lot of these gurus, I don't trust, dude.

Speaker 1 No, they're full of shit, bro.

Speaker 2 But he, I actually, I trust someone like him.

Speaker 1 So, see, see, the problem with, with, with these gurus.

Speaker 1 So if you guys don't know me, you know, I, I, uh, I'm an internet entrepreneur. Um, I just showed you guys I make over one and a half, well, one and a half million dollars a month.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So I get paid on the front. Then I have a staffing agency on the back.
And

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 on the internet right now, don't have a real business.

Speaker 1 They're just glorified hustlers.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Meanwhile, I got a quality control department. So it's just a fucked up.

Speaker 1 It's all fake.

Speaker 2 Most of that shit's fake. Yeah, you're providing a real service.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 2 And the thing is, you're teaching a skill that they can apply to multiple industries. Anything, bro.

Speaker 1 Sales. Sales, bro.
You learn how to sell. you could be a great stripper.
You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 2 What's the most expensive thing you've sold in your life?

Speaker 1 You ever do a one-off?

Speaker 1 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 ticket.
You're not doing the high tickets.

Speaker 1 10,000.

Speaker 2 Oh, that's pretty high ticket.

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 like a resort that I own. I'm doing, I'm doing baby deals, but I do high volume.

Speaker 2 You think you could get to the billionaire status doing that?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Making money, stacking money, investing money, making money, stacking money, investing money. All the money I'm investing into is in real estate.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 rental income.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Did you learn that from Grant?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 When you look at my content, I'm traveling. When you look at my content, I'm buying a $600 fucking Wagu

Speaker 1 A3

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I don't really speak on that that much. Damn.
I had

Speaker 1 there's a, there's a triple OG in the internet game, Neil Patel. I know Neil.
You know Neil, right?

Speaker 1 So his, his team, his, his his marketing guy runs into my team at Albert Pristiata's event.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So I sit down with the guy. He's just talking shit about how I can get to the next.
And, you know, Neil is a

Speaker 1 damn near a billionaire now, according to them.

Speaker 1 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 phone books.

Speaker 1 I start showing him my administration. And he's just like, dude, I

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I thought you were just like a social media shit talker. And, you know, why don't you put that out? And

Speaker 1 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 got the back and we got all the systems and all that shit.

Speaker 1 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, you know, like that crazy.

Speaker 2 Did you feel like you were misguided at those ages? Oh, fuck yeah.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 You're going to say Keller Garnett. Fuck, I wish, dog.
Now my mentor was Killer Gorilla, bro. And, you know,

Speaker 1 what was the game he gave me, bro? Just don't take shit for nobody and control the block. Yeah, fuck you.
I was miscotted, bro. Yeah, fuck yeah.

Speaker 2 Are you seeing that with today's generation? Now it's a different era with social media, I feel like.

Speaker 1 I feel that

Speaker 1 right now,

Speaker 1 you know, the culture,

Speaker 1 if you go look, like, if you go look at my shit, it's like all OnlyFan bitches, like with BBLs and big tits.

Speaker 1 And then it's like the influencers, like, you know the homeboy that just got jacked?

Speaker 2 Oh, Jack Doherty.

Speaker 1 Yeah, like it's kind of like, it's kind of like, it's kind of like the streamers. It's like that.

Speaker 1 But then there's like the, like, kind of like the young gurus that are like whipping Ferraris and supercars and shit. And they're selling crypto or they're doing some sort of coaching.

Speaker 1 So I think that's the culture.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 But yeah, the culture is different, bro.

Speaker 1 So I was born in 1984.

Speaker 1 And when I was born, dude, the culture was like,

Speaker 1 like for me at least,

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 I'm out here. It's 2025.
And I'm on the block and shit. And I'm like 28 years old.
And

Speaker 1 I got a fucking flag out. I'm just fucking patrolling the block.
That's just lame, bro.

Speaker 1 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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Speaker 1 You're selfish.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Yeah, shit, that's shit lame, bro.

Speaker 2 When did you get out of that mindset?

Speaker 1 I got in trouble when I was so

Speaker 1 from like 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

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I was like, damn, I can't fuck around no more.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 know I got like two more months before I finish high school. I'm about to get kicked out of my crib.
And yeah.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 I got in trouble one last time when I was 18.

Speaker 1 And, 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 We're sworn by all these cop cars. And I just remember,

Speaker 1 put your fucking hands in the air or you're going to die. And I was just like, fuck.

Speaker 1 So I kind of got off.

Speaker 1 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 uh change my life i need to go get like a job or some shit damn yeah but i was i was always like um

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And I remember this girl was like, Mike B, why are you selling all this candy

Speaker 1 and um

Speaker 1 i was like because i'm gonna buy a rolex she's like okay

Speaker 1 and then for the for the whole semester yeah we gotta buy we gotta buy candy for mike b because he's gonna buy that rolex we gotta you know she's like my homegirl we gotta buy this candy for mike b because he's gonna buy rolex so then uh you fast forward i was about 25 i ran into that same girl

Speaker 1 And life happened to me, dude.

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 who that 15 year old ambitious kid was. Like I, I, she, she like, she like grabbed me.

Speaker 1 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 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

Speaker 1 so i just wanted to make that point damn yeah

Speaker 2 so your mom actually kicked you out she kicked me out when i was 18.

Speaker 1 did you make up with her Nah.

Speaker 1 Nah.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 When I see my peoples and my loved ones, I'm not going to say, hey, how you been? I'm going to embrace you. I'm very affectionate.
I like to touch. I like to feel.

Speaker 1 You know, every time you hit me up, yo, Mike, yeah, you pulling up to F1? Nah, bro, I'm not going to make it, bro, but I really appreciate you. You know, I like to connect.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 i'm close to my team but me and my woman my mom are like oil and water bro yeah she crazy as by the way she crazy so even after all your success and wealth she she didn't like

Speaker 1 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 gonna 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.

Speaker 1 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 slinging cocaine.
So I got that hustle game.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but my wife's like, you guys are exactly alike. That's why you don't get along, but she, she's crazy, bro.
She nuts, bro. That's nuts.
Yeah, she used to beat the fuck out of me.

Speaker 1 She can.

Speaker 2 Yeah. She was physical like that.

Speaker 1 Oh, bro. She stomped me out.

Speaker 2 fucking 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

Speaker 1 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 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 yeah

Speaker 2 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 yeah.

Speaker 1 Here in Vegas? In Jersey. Oh, no shit.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 2 I like East Coast people more than West Coast. So do I.
Really? I thought you were going to say West Coast.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Because

Speaker 1 they're more raw there. If you have a good conversation, if you're a decent

Speaker 1 person,

Speaker 1 you could be just hanging out at a damn barn grill. You start talking to people,

Speaker 1 they'll start fucking with you. In San Diego, at least, you start talking to people.
They're looking at you like,

Speaker 1 do I know you, man?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I love the East Coast, bro. I fucking love these coasts.

Speaker 2 West Coast is too laid back for me.

Speaker 1 It is. It's slow as fuck.

Speaker 1 San Diego is slow as fuck, dude.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no one's grinding out there other than you, but like it's san diego slow as yeah la got some hustle la crazy as though you know a lot of people getting robbed in la right now you would get robbed if you wore that on mountain i'm telling you bro i pop when i pull up bro i i was with kev was gonna get mad and when i if i say this

Speaker 1 but i when i when we went on no jumper we must have had like three armed cars jeez

Speaker 1 two in the front two in the back and yeah bro we ain't 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 there.

Speaker 2 Watch this.

Speaker 1 I got a story for you, man.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So he invited me out to LA.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 What's up? So I got my SEO out there. I got my GTR out there.

Speaker 1 They They rented a Ferrari. So, you know, we're kind of heavy.
Hey, man, we're right here.

Speaker 1 So dinner's over, you know, $4,000 bill, whatever. And Boston John says, hey, hey, hey, Mike, you want to meet

Speaker 1 my guy? He was on the VH1 reality show. He's, 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.

Speaker 1 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 we got the cars here.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 We've had some drinks. Fuck that.

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 we're going to crash on your couch. Oh, yeah, all day.
No problem.

Speaker 1 So I talked to my camp. We're going to crash at Boston John's.
They're like, no, Mike, we have to leave.

Speaker 1 99.9% of the time, when I have an opinion, I stand on the opinion and nobody could rock it. Like, like, if they said we got to leave, can nobody tell me no different?

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I start seeing all these text messages at like 3, 4 a.m., like 911. Like, what the fuck? I call my boy.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 They got pulled up at gunpoint with like four cats. Damn.
Pulled them at gunpoint, put them on the ground, snatched the fucking roly.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Somebody going to die. Shit.
Yeah, it's LA crazy, bro. That's nuts.
LA fucking nuts.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I'm in and out when I go to L.A.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 It ain't worth staying there for the night.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so like social media. We don't post nothing real time.

Speaker 1 What did I tell you today, Abe?

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 Yeah. I'm the same way.
How many stories are you putting out? Like, are you putting out a lot of stories?

Speaker 2 Nothing real time.

Speaker 1 Nothing real time? Nothing, bro. Really? i almost got kidnapped no way yeah dude what yeah when uh i was so dumb dude it was my fault i was 21 years old oh while ago i posted 100k cash oh

Speaker 1 me no oh bro yeah you're asking for that one the next morning they're at my apartment son of a bitch 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 yeah yeah lesson learned bro i don't that's why i don't flex anymore yeah yeah yeah you know i only flex business now i I don't flex anything.

Speaker 1 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 your brand and you got it. Yeah, bro.
It's just a uniform.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 oh he got such okay click and then my motivation comes out and then i can actually you know talk to you i also think you're you're really relatable because you you came from nothing yeah thank you man i appreciate that you know what this is what i believe

Speaker 1 i'm uh

Speaker 1 I'm the guy on the other side of the tracks that kind of like broke through. You know,

Speaker 1 I'm pretty, 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.

Speaker 1 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 he could be shit.

Speaker 1 So like

Speaker 1 one day I'm at

Speaker 1 I'm at O'Guerra Lamborghini. They have one right there in, what is it, the wind, the McLaren?

Speaker 2 Oh, they got a McLaren store there.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. O'Guerra.
So Lamborghini La Jolla, O'Guerra.

Speaker 1 I'm pulling up and shit. I'm pulling up heavy.
And, you know, throw the car, the guy, the keys, go inside. It's a VIP event.
They're about to reveal, what was it?

Speaker 1 It must have been like the Technica or some shit

Speaker 1 a couple years ago, two years ago, three years ago. So I'm there drinking the fucking champagne, eating the hors d'oeuvres.
I make my way out to, you know, the valet having a cigarette.

Speaker 1 You know, I don't really smoke like that but you know i'm outside

Speaker 1 hey sir nice car man so i start talking

Speaker 1 hey man uh be honest i had the 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 lay

Speaker 1 the kids talking to me and he's like

Speaker 1 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 i said man come here man let me let me help you understand something bro don't fucking say one day.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Don't ever think that they're better than you, bro.

Speaker 1 These fucking motherfuckers ain't better than you because they got a lamborghini bro go go go learn some go apply that and you can have that too so i turn i start telling my story i grew up in six section eight my mom had me at six so that that's 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

Speaker 1 ritzy parts you know i live with the rich white people

Speaker 1 so like my neighbors are like doctors and

Speaker 1 i'm like the token wannabe rapper and uh i love everybody if you cool bro but i love waking up at 4 30 go to the the gym and everybody's pastel i 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

Speaker 1 like

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Bro, it's ridiculous. Right.
So I go there and I blazed high

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I did that shit to Brad Lee.

Speaker 1 I just, I'm very competitive, bro. I promise I won't say that about him.

Speaker 1 It don't register, but him. It's my dog right here.
Again, 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.

Speaker 1 I was like, I know he knows, this motherfucker knows billionaires.

Speaker 1 this cat literally knows billionaires i don't know what the it is about me but every month hey mike we should do something soon hey mike you know go on my whatsapp hey mike are you going to miami f like you got good energy bro i'm all about energy you always

Speaker 1 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 talked 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.

Speaker 1 You want to go tomorrow morning? I was like, oh, man, excuse, excuse. I i was like i ain't trying to play the motherfucker i'm playing tonight oh

Speaker 1 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 it

Speaker 1 you always show me love bro for real yeah you always show me love i gotta 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 my my uh My business partner, he's kind of like conservative.

Speaker 1 Is he your co-host? He's my co-host. You need a good co-host.
But

Speaker 2 you're chill, but you're, I give my guests half floor, you know. Yeah.
I let them speak their mind.

Speaker 1 You're professional.

Speaker 2 I keep them comfortable. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I feel like I get some ratchet shit. I'm going to get some little OnlyFan chicks and shit, that crazy shit.

Speaker 2 I mean, you got to mix that in there to get views.

Speaker 1 I do, too.

Speaker 2 I have on Lily Phillips or whatever.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. I've seen that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that was good, bro.

Speaker 2 Once a month, I'll have an OF girl, spice it up. I see.

Speaker 1 Okay, okay.

Speaker 1 Okay, that was the million dollar bar I needed. Yeah, my wife's here.
So when she fucking talks shit, I'm like, Sean Kelly says it's okay. So it's okay.
See?

Speaker 2 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

Speaker 1 i don't really that that doesn't regis 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

Speaker 1 He pulled up on me. I got to find his name.
And he's like, what do you think about cancel culture? And I was like, I don't,

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Let me go get that fucking, you know, private jet right now.

Speaker 1 Like, I could do it, but it's going to hurt. Like, that's not, you know,

Speaker 1 what I feel like I have achieved is I've been, I've been,

Speaker 1 I've been able to

Speaker 1 actually be myself.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So I was a career advisor at for-profit education, UEI College, Concord, Kaplan, like you'll get a medical assistant degree.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I was killing everybody.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 You know, I was making six figures in corporate and shit. I had two felonies.
So I remember like

Speaker 1 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 weird.

Speaker 1 It was like weird for me, you know, because I was like used to just being on the other side.

Speaker 1 And I hated the corporate shit, dude, because I hated being, I felt like I was being fake. Hey, how you you doing? Mike Barron, good to meet you.
Hey, yo, absolutely. Okay, pull up the numbers.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So now,

Speaker 1 when I got into business,

Speaker 1 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 kind of building like my personal brand.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 I just started being me.

Speaker 1 And, you know, from damn near the time I wake to the time I go home, there's a camera in my face.

Speaker 1 So I need to get better, but we don't really script. Hey, we don't script shit.
We don't really

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 There's a guy named Brandis. This motherfucker's huge, bro.
It looks like he can kill me. His calves are like this big.

Speaker 1 Yeah. He's like 6'3,

Speaker 1 small waist, fucking, he, he got like a body and a half on me. He looked like Marshawn Lynch in the face, braids.

Speaker 1 And I'm talking, I'm like, hey, man, what the, 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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 shit?

Speaker 1 He's like, yeah, I did, but he's like, Mike, the biggest thing I learned from you,

Speaker 1 the most important thing I learned from you that I'll take forever

Speaker 1 he's like you gave me permission to be myself

Speaker 1 this he's an IT guy he must be making like 180.

Speaker 1 I said how the fuck he like trumping over me like six three 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 seen you talk to your daughters I seen you talk to your wife.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 This motherfucker looks scary as fuck.

Speaker 1 Big six, 265 pounds ripped 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.

Speaker 1 I'm always me, so that's cool.

Speaker 1 I got to get a little more paper, though. That 1.4 I'm bragging about,

Speaker 2 that ain't shit, Brian. That's never enough, no matter what you're making.
I know that's even billionaires are like, I'm not making enough.

Speaker 1 Oh, they did. A real shit?

Speaker 2 Dude, I talked to them. Yeah, senti millionaires, billionaires.

Speaker 1 Really?

Speaker 2 I feel like there's no end.

Speaker 1 Nah, nah, there's no end. Like, we're in a video game.
We are in a video game. You know what's funny, too? The shit people used to say.

Speaker 1 I was like fucking around with some network marketing. I never did it.
I would just show it to the events. You know, motherfuckers want to retire by the time they're like 35, 40.

Speaker 1 Why the fuck you want to retire? That's boring.

Speaker 2 That's stupid.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 You got a small fucking window. So me, like,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 They would, they would be like, he's wearing that $9,000 jacket and he makes $20,000 passively. What a fucking, I'm running out of time, bro.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 But if I, if I, if I bounce here and got hit by a bust and it won't happen, but if I did,

Speaker 1 my wife would be sad, obviously, but she would start freaking out. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like, the cars would go away. My multi-million dollar house would start shrinking.
Like,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 2 You never know, man. I just took out a life insurance policy.
Oh, did you? You never know.

Speaker 1 I'm telling you, dog. I got a life insurance policy.

Speaker 2 I've lost family is in their 20s. I've lost friends.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 2 Dude, it seems like every year there's someone.

Speaker 1 I'm telling you, bro. It's very, yeah.
It's scary.

Speaker 2 A lot of disease these days. A lot of mental health issues.

Speaker 1 It just

Speaker 1 shit. Things just happen, bro.
You know, crazy shit fucking happens. So for me, I'm like running out of time, bro.
I'm, I, I, I, like, I, I've already,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I need to go free my family. I need to go free my grandkids.
That's what I'm on right now.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So I'm going to sacrifice everything this lifetime.

Speaker 2 You're going to put your daughters to work? Are you going to let them host?

Speaker 1 No, that's got to get to work, dog. Those motherfuckers got to go to work.
They don't got to go to college, though.

Speaker 1 They could do whatever the fuck they want.

Speaker 1 They got to work, though, bro.

Speaker 1 So I got a 14-year-old. I got a four-year-old and a one-year-old.
My oldest, my 14 year old

Speaker 1 um my oldest juliana she uh she's way different than than me you know she got like the uh the anime

Speaker 1 on 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.

Speaker 1 My four-year-old daughter, she's just like me. She bad as fuck.

Speaker 2 Yeah. she could see it at that age

Speaker 1 100 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

Speaker 1 my wife will will will run her out the house because of 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.

Speaker 1 And then my one-year-old, she's the smartest one.

Speaker 1 This motherfucker is one. She,

Speaker 1 um, 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 me.

Speaker 1 At one, bro, I'm telling you, one and a half. Jeez, it's crazy.
They're all different, though. Yeah, she's going to be the one to take over the shit.

Speaker 2 Yeah, dude, that's impressive.

Speaker 1 But they all, they got, they got to work, bro. You know, they got to, they got to learn some shit.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 1 dog, I don't got no sons. Deanna, could we could we make a son?

Speaker 2 Can we make a son? I know you want a son for sure, of course, bro.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 You know what I'm saying? Deanna, you haven't no son. A little crazy motherfucker.
We'll give him a mohawk and all this shit and give us some tattoos and shit.

Speaker 2 Would you name him Mike Barron Jr.?

Speaker 1 You know, you know, it's funny. I had a name lined up for a long time.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Do you know who Vander Lay Sil is? No. Okay, Vanderley Sil is a crazy ass UFC fighter.

Speaker 2 Is that Anderson Silver?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 I came up with two names. I said Vanderley was one, but Vanderley kind of old school now.

Speaker 1 But I had a dude I used to work for named Carlo.

Speaker 1 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 s up carlo what up what business was out in he was a dentist oh 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 did a lot of bro I used to have a yeah, I've done a lot of shit, bro.

Speaker 1 I did valet. Yeah, I've done a lot of shit, bro.
I was trying to figure it out, man.

Speaker 2 Valet is probably good for networking.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 it's great for networking. So watch this.

Speaker 1 I was a president of college, 27. The school shuts down.
They lose accreditation.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So I'm like, fuck, man. I really don't have that much money for gifts.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 He's like, um,

Speaker 1 dude, you should, you should come down to you know the office, dude. I'm a recruiter now for Ace Parking.
You know, Ace Parking?

Speaker 1 No. Okay, they're based out of San Diego.
It's like the biggest. The valet.

Speaker 1 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 i went to go apply

Speaker 1 i got the job so i'm already i was already a president out of college

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 or manager the biggest fear bro i had

Speaker 1 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 uh you know motherfuckers know me i could beat people up in the neighborhood and shit.

Speaker 1 You know, girls kind of liked me and shit. You know, I was kind of popular.

Speaker 1 The biggest fear I had was that I was going to run into someone from back in the day.

Speaker 1 And they're like, dude, Mike became the valet guy.

Speaker 1 Like, what a loser. Parentheses.

Speaker 1 So I did the valet shit. I used to hide.
I'd go into the parking tower. I would just hide.
I would disappear. I'd clock in and I'd disappear and clock out.

Speaker 1 And I did that for like two, two months.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 one day, there's this big event. There's cars everywhere.

Speaker 1 I'm, well, before I go to that, one day some Asian dude pulls up with the GTR.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 you know i'm helping out park cars i just hear mike mike baron

Speaker 1 and i look and i was like

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 and uh 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 for bigger things yeah

Speaker 1 so that happened and uh

Speaker 1 i told my wife i was like i i i gotta 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 why 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

Speaker 1 yeah

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 It was only four months.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 1 Now, he, he, bro, he's a, uh,

Speaker 1 so there's a term. It's called first movers advantage.

Speaker 1 So if you have an opportunity to change your life, you got to move. And, and, and it's not always,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I know that for a fact. He's the fucking truth.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I'll whoop all. You're competitive.

Speaker 1 I'm very, but for real, though. Like camera, no camera.
I'm very,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Steroid motherfucker. He ain't shit.

Speaker 2 Hell no. Wes Watson?

Speaker 1 I'll fuck him up too. Any sport, anything, 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

Speaker 1 i don't care we could ride a tricycle anything like yeah anyways

Speaker 1 so

Speaker 1 yeah yeah i'm i'm kind of i'm kind of i'm kind of ready to go now

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 he's like

Speaker 1 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's he knows he's like dude it it's he's like in business, bro.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 2 He gave me similar advice when he came on. He said, there's a, there's a certain revenue you want to stay within if you want to maintain your lifestyle.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Tell me more about that.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I imagine nobody fucks with you.

Speaker 2 I've had to settle two so far.

Speaker 1 Former staff?

Speaker 1 Former lawyer. And then what was the first? Former lawyer? Customer.
Man, that's.

Speaker 1 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? Like, what the fuck are you talking about?

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 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 going to happen.

Speaker 1 I was like, okay.

Speaker 1 So long story longer, bro. Um,

Speaker 1 you know, motherfuckers like to sue you. Yep.
You know, like, like,

Speaker 1 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 strong, you know, could like string out and you'll end up fucking swollen.

Speaker 1 100K versus this 10k.

Speaker 1 And I hate little fucking rats, little fucking criminals getting a $10,000 check. I hate that shit.

Speaker 1 So I have a business partner that runs most of it. I'm like the guy out front.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 There was one son of a bitch.

Speaker 1 that was working for us. Must have been in 2021.
We get a lawsuit in 2024.

Speaker 1 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 A, B, and C.
Like, who the fuck is this guy?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And he made a claim that he could not take lunch breaks, restroom breaks.

Speaker 1 He's at his fucking crib in Sacramento. Oh, my God.
Right.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And the judge just

Speaker 1 is. He's an idiot, though.
The guy didn't have no facts. And

Speaker 1 yeah, you dumb motherfuckers trying to beat us. It's crazy.

Speaker 2 Very unavoidable, man. You could be the best person.
You could be a charity giver. You could be whatever.

Speaker 1 You know, did you see a video when someone came to my house in the middle of the night? What happened? Okay.

Speaker 1 So, So,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 we partner with private lenders who fund our students.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 one of our lenders, private lender, so let's say our

Speaker 1 program's 10K. Yeah.

Speaker 1 They'll put up 10K.

Speaker 1 They'll pocket like their 25%.

Speaker 1 And then the student pays them. Right.

Speaker 1 So they're putting up the money, you know.

Speaker 1 And we have a stipulation where there's no buybacks. So the student doesn't pay them, we're clear.
We made that clear.

Speaker 1 So these motherfuckers wanted, you know, some people defaulted on them and they were trying to collect money from us.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 they ended up hitting us with like a little mini lawsuit. They want to collect the 30 bands.
Really light.

Speaker 1 So we're getting some dude came to my house like fucking 11 o'clock at night, 12 o'clock at night. And

Speaker 1 usually I'm in bed, but I'm looking at it.

Speaker 1 And I just see this motherfucker like looking through the windows and shit. Like, what the fuck is this? You know,

Speaker 1 I live in Del Mar. Ain't nobody come to my crib unannounced at first off one, but not know 11 o'clock at night.

Speaker 1 So, dude, I had to go get the piece, man. I had to go get that shit, dude.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 that, how many views did I get? Like a million?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 This shit irks me, bro. Yeah.
I shouldn't be telling those motherfuckers are trying to sue me now.

Speaker 2 I know. It's unavoidable, though, man.

Speaker 1 Stupid, bro.

Speaker 2 Do you have a lot of disgruntled former employees that try to sue you?

Speaker 1 Nah, nah. The reason why we have disgruntled employees.
I'm going to tell you why.

Speaker 1 But they don't try to sue me. They're too low level.
They don't got no damn counsel. They don't even got no damn paper.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 this is where

Speaker 1 I have about 100 people on my team. this is where people

Speaker 1 this is where people can't stand me um on my team so every closer we must have about eight closers on my team 18 appointments centered 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

Speaker 1 a month bro right that's not not a bad gig right you know so i have people on my team making making 80k a month not me this is the check i cut anyways so now

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 you like like you are going to be in this kind of kind of cult like like We demand that you're all in. You're not going to have no side deals.

Speaker 1 You're not going to be dealing with no other motherfuckers that are enemies of our company. So we demand so much.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 me,

Speaker 1 I will demand more of you than anyone before me. But in return, I will give you more than anybody before me.

Speaker 1 So there's always like this like,

Speaker 1 and I don't, I don't, I have a CEO.

Speaker 1 Hey, have you ever seen me in an executive meeting?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't, I have a guy that runs a company.

Speaker 2 I thought you were the CEO.

Speaker 1 One of my coaches said, said, you're the CEO.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Here's the rules to it. Here's the sticks.
Here's the gunpower. You motherfuckers go do it.
No, dude. I'm not.

Speaker 1 I do whatever the fuck I want. I could despair for a year.
You know, obviously I'm working hard, but

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 They go like this. We ain't doing shit, but making Mike rich.
Fuck Mike. Let's go do our own shit.

Speaker 1 So it's always like, kind of like, fuck Mike, because

Speaker 1 they were. Shackled.
They were confined. They were, yeah.

Speaker 2 So that happens. That happens in any sales organization.
Yep. I've seen it in solar.
I've seen it in 100%.

Speaker 1 And then, and you know what happens, though? We call it an infestation.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 They start trying to steal leads and shit. They start trying to download your fucking CRM.
Like, dude, get the fuck out of here.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I was going to call somebody out right now, but I ain't going to give them the credit. But I see them signing up our clients right now.
Damn.

Speaker 2 So it's happening right now as we speak. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know, it's funny, though, because I just took a screenshot to send to my team.

Speaker 1 You know, it's right here.

Speaker 1 Right here. I ain't going to say his fucking name.

Speaker 1 You know, like,

Speaker 1 if you're with me and you come up and you leave, dude, more power. Like, I'll see you at the UOC fight.
Fuck with you. But what kills me is like, why you got to go take our public?

Speaker 1 Why you got to go take our fucking customers? Why you got to go recruit our go do your own shit, bitch.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you spend money acquiring those customers and those leads. Dog,

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 how old you would do that oh fuck yeah

Speaker 1 i kidnapped somebody before

Speaker 2 I think the best way to deal with enemies for me, at least, is success.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Just dominate.

Speaker 1 100%. You know, this is how I feel, bro.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 You know, you got a small window here. I, I, I feel love him or hate him,

Speaker 1 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. like you

Speaker 1 so

Speaker 1 I have a thing where I so I'm gonna tell you who my crew is man I got the suicide squad

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 no one ever thought they were were going to be shit. And I turn them into winners and they start changing.
Like the ugly dude starts to become handsome.

Speaker 1 The girl whose face is all broken out, she starts to become pretty.

Speaker 1 Gabe,

Speaker 1 go look at the old content. You'll see them.

Speaker 1 They start filling themselves and they start actually shining. The glow up is crazy.

Speaker 1 So the reason why I tell you that, bro, is

Speaker 1 because,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 I take losers and I turn them into fucking winners. Like,

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 i got a hundred people i with

Speaker 1 six eight people on my team

Speaker 1 but

Speaker 1 even the ones i 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 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.

Speaker 1 Wow. Christmas is handled.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 2 You take it personal.

Speaker 1 I take it very fucking personal, dude.

Speaker 1 Very fucking personal. Very fucking personal.
Yeah. Yeah, I could see that.
Yeah, because

Speaker 1 we're, Abe, you think, you think I'm a pretty nice guy?

Speaker 2 He might be biased, though.

Speaker 1 He don't think I'm nice.

Speaker 1 No, it's,

Speaker 1 I take it personal, dude, and I shouldn't. And my wife, who's right here in the audience, I used to get hurt.

Speaker 1 You know, I'd put a kid up, take him from his grandma's house. He's making 20, 30K a month now.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 no he's my boy like i talk to him every day like i i we can't have him here it's fine two weeks please okay fine and that same kid will steal 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 no

Speaker 1 so then what happened i started putting up a wall

Speaker 1 and i'm like everybody like it's just it's me my my wife my daughters at the end of the day fuck everybody but then what happened was i was blocking good people in my world

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Same frequency. You attract each other, right? You attract each other, man.
100%. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Dude, it's been awesome. Let's keep doing these episodes.

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And then 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, what do you, man,

Speaker 1 that goes very far with me. And you have a brother with me.
And you just tell me when you would come to San Diego. I'll put you in a first class.
I'll get you the nicest thing. We'll go break bread.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So appreciate that, my brother. I filmed a lot of episodes.
I went over off of the. Thank you.
I got you, though. Check them out, guys.

Speaker 2 See you next time.

Speaker 1 Peace.