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Danny Seliger: From Serving Aces to Serving Insights in the Digital Arena

February 21, 2024 Omar Medrano
Danny Seliger: From Serving Aces to Serving Insights in the Digital Arena
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What If It Did Work?
Danny Seliger: From Serving Aces to Serving Insights in the Digital Arena
Feb 21, 2024
Omar Medrano

Ever considered dropping everything to chase a wild dream? Danny Seliger, also known as Coolness, did just that, and in our latest episode, he recounts his amazing transformation from accomplished collegiate volleyball player to the VP of a leading social media agency. This isn't your average success story; it's an exploration of bold decisions, the value of real-world experience over formal education, and the power of parental support when making life-altering choices. Danny's tale is one of breaking barriers and the societal expectations that so often bind us to traditional paths.

Get ready to be inspired by a journey that touches on college athletics, the leap into the uncertainties of entrepreneurship, and the thrilling world of online branding. Danny's ascent to social media stardom—with over 1.5 million followers to his name—proves that when it comes to carving out your own niche, conventional wisdom doesn't always apply. As he shares his strategies for amassing an online presence and navigating the choppy waters of crypto investments, you'll see just how much tenacity and vision can achieve when combined.

Wrapping up, Danny imparts wisdom on the evolution of digital marketing, the importance of authenticity, and the necessity of aligning with those who elevate you. It's a candid look at the highs and lows of following passion over expectation, underscored by the importance of self-belief in the face of criticism. This episode isn't just a motivational talk; it's a roadmap for anyone brave enough to chase their dreams with eyes wide open. Join us for a conversation that's as enlightening as it is entertaining, with laughs, lessons, and a whole lot of Coolness.

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Ever considered dropping everything to chase a wild dream? Danny Seliger, also known as Coolness, did just that, and in our latest episode, he recounts his amazing transformation from accomplished collegiate volleyball player to the VP of a leading social media agency. This isn't your average success story; it's an exploration of bold decisions, the value of real-world experience over formal education, and the power of parental support when making life-altering choices. Danny's tale is one of breaking barriers and the societal expectations that so often bind us to traditional paths.

Get ready to be inspired by a journey that touches on college athletics, the leap into the uncertainties of entrepreneurship, and the thrilling world of online branding. Danny's ascent to social media stardom—with over 1.5 million followers to his name—proves that when it comes to carving out your own niche, conventional wisdom doesn't always apply. As he shares his strategies for amassing an online presence and navigating the choppy waters of crypto investments, you'll see just how much tenacity and vision can achieve when combined.

Wrapping up, Danny imparts wisdom on the evolution of digital marketing, the importance of authenticity, and the necessity of aligning with those who elevate you. It's a candid look at the highs and lows of following passion over expectation, underscored by the importance of self-belief in the face of criticism. This episode isn't just a motivational talk; it's a roadmap for anyone brave enough to chase their dreams with eyes wide open. Join us for a conversation that's as enlightening as it is entertaining, with laughs, lessons, and a whole lot of Coolness.

Join the What if it Did Work movement on Facebook
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Speaker 1:

I never told no one that my whole life I've been holding back. Every time I load my gun up so I can shoot for the star, I hear a voice like who do you?

Speaker 2:

think you are. I've got with me. I would have to say you're one of my youngest guests. I've had younger but but you're definitely you're paid a lot more than my youngest guests. So, danny, it's Silliger, right? Yeah, sallager Sallager Silliger, you're from South Florida. Are you living in South Florida now? So it's okay to butcher your name. Danny Silliger, aka coolness, 21 year old social media entrepreneur, dropped out of college with the 4.0 GPA. You know, his mom gave him shit about that. He played beach volleyball professionally for two years and completed at a D1 level in college before leaving that behind to pursue his career in social media. Since then, he has amassed over 1.5 million followers on Instagram and is now the VP of an eight figure social media agency or an empire brother. How's it going?

Speaker 3:

Dude, it's going awesome man. Pleasure to be here, omar. Thanks for the intro.

Speaker 2:

Dude, you're only 21. I figure you're like 23-24.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I just turned 21 back in September, so I was 21. First moved down to Florida. It's been a ride for sure.

Speaker 2:

You're originally from Long Island, right.

Speaker 3:

I'm originally from Syracuse, new York, so upstate went to school in Long Island for a couple years before leaving and coming here.

Speaker 2:

Syracuse, dude. So I got a little secret to tell you that was my dream school for like the longest time to go to Syracuse, and you know I wasn't the most studious. And then when I applied, I got that little. You're too young to remember this. Back in the day, they either give you a big packet that's the packet you wanted with a little form letter, and I got the form letter until that very day. Man, there's two teams I cheer against Syracuse in Alabama.

Speaker 3:

I got you man. Honestly, I feel like you dodged a bullet there. I get nothing but bad reviews from people from Florida. They come up to Syracuse and see the weather in the winter and they just they leave after the first year.

Speaker 2:

Oh, dude, one of my employees. He did that. He had a transfer after one year back to and he went to the University of Miami, graduated and all that. But I remember he's a high school senior. He's like I got accepted, I'm going to Syracuse, I was hating life, I was bitter for a second. And then months later he's like can I get my old job back? It sucks, man, there's nothing cool about it.

Speaker 3:

So there you go man, yeah, not a bad place to go, but I don't consider it a tourist attraction at all either.

Speaker 2:

No, dude, hard to get a flight man. It's not exactly, you know, the Mecca. When people think of the NYC, they think of the NYC. They don't think of the Q's by any means.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, maybe we'll put it on the map, though We'll see.

Speaker 2:

Bro. So is that why you chose to play and to go to college Long Island, because of proximity to New York City?

Speaker 3:

I got a scholarship there for volleyball so I wasn't going to go to college at all in the first place. I know you said in the intro that my mom probably gave me shit about dropping out of school. I got most of the the shit from my parents when I told them I wasn't going to school at all in the beginning so I wasn't going to go, took a quote unquote gap year and then got like a really big scholarship to go play volleyball at LIU so I took that figured I'd be missing out if I didn't do it.

Speaker 2:

And then Well, dude, the way things are going, there's two things. They're going to have this, two things that come out of LIU, lamar Odom and you.

Speaker 3:

Well, dude, I hope, I hope to be at that level one day and maybe even surpass him. So I definitely, definitely appreciate that.

Speaker 2:

I think everybody surpassed him. I think he's broke so. But, dude, it's easier than anybody can make the money. It's all about keeping it and multiplying it. Hey, I do, look at me. An idiot like me made plenty of money. Now keeping it, that was a different story. So, dude, and trust me, I get it. Because I didn't want to go to school, except from my assistant principal said it'd be a cold day in hell the day I graduated and my mom would always push me. She was always like Omar, you don't like manual labor. Between that and academia is a business. My guidance counselors always were like you know, making it look like I'd be sucking dick and living under a bridge if I never went to college. So you know that put the fear in me. I know now no labels and it's OK to do that, you know, for guys. But back then when I was growing up, man, that was like the scariest thing I ever heard. So that got me to college.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, I remember like because I dropped out less than a year ago was May 2023. I remember sitting across the table from my counselor was like the most liberating feeling ever, just leaving it and not really having to answer to somebody that I didn't respect. But I remember looking at the lady and she was like I said she like, oh well, I'm not going to need any classes next year. She go, what happened? You're going to go to another school? I said no, so you're going to like, take a year off and come back? I was like, no, no, I'm actually leaving, dropping out, not doing school anymore.

Speaker 3:

And she was like he leans in and she's like, oh, you're making a big mistake. And I was thinking to myself this is a counselor at a low level university. I can't imagine I'm making much less than this lady is right now. I was already doing pretty well for myself when I was in school, so it was. It's just an interesting feeling just hearing that from somebody that's not in a position where you want to be and you know well, she's trained man.

Speaker 2:

That's her livelihood, if there's a good sales.

Speaker 2:

If there is most Danny's out there that said, fuck this, I'm leaving, she'd be out of a job, of course she's going to be like dude, you're going to regret it. Statistics will tell you. There's baristas out there with degrees from Harvard. Man, it's a person. How they sell themselves, they're hustled, they're drive. That stuff that you know you can't quantify by going to any university. Dude, there's billionaires that dropped out of high school. Are we supposed to tell them they're? They're frigging idiots because they don't have a GED or because you know? I mean, these are people that can buy their own university and they can jobs and shit. Dude, like Richard Branson. But yeah, you know, we're like oh my god if you drop out. So, but what got you to that point that you're like just do you're an athlete, athletes have it made. I don't care which board, it's way easier. You know you have a harem of chicks, you've got the free food, you've got the notoriety, you got your friends. What was that deep down inside that said, hey, man, it's not really serving me.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I mean to be honest, I didn't really want to be there in the first place, like it was kind of like, oh, I'm just going to go try this out, and I've always been the type of person where if I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it to the best of my ability. So I have like the 4.0 is there. We accomplished everything we really needed to do. We were an entry level D1 program so we weren't that good in scope like D1. We got the chance to go play against Hawaii, the national champions. We played against Long Beach State like number two team in the country.

Speaker 3:

We actually took a set off of Hawaii and for anybody that's listening, that knows like sports betting odds or odds to win a set were plus 20,000 and we want to set. So it was like a pretty big accomplishment. I was on the court for that. I was freshman all-american, my first year as a libero and defense, and I felt like the itch was scratched. I felt like I did what I needed to do and now the itch was somewhere else to be scratched. I needed to leave and pursue entrepreneurship.

Speaker 2:

Now, danny, your gap here. Now, how did you talk to your parents? And to let me take a year, I mean they, they sound like you know they were adamant. Danny was going to go to college, danny was going to get his MBA. Hopefully one day, you know, get a job with that S&P 500 company, that corner office somewhere, maybe in Buffalo, maybe maybe in New York City.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, well, I mean honestly, like I'll preface by saying like my parents are two of the most supportive people ever, like I don't know if I'd be where I'm at right now and like able to take the risk that I am if it wasn't for them. Like my mom, she's my number one. Like I know she'll support me with whatever I do. She trained me to be this way, so there's no other way to go about it. But I had it easy a little bit, because I graduated high school during COVID. It's like I didn't have a graduation. It was 2020 and I actually had another scholarship. To play at a D3 school called Kyuka College was like an hour away from home. I was going to be the captain as a freshman. Like I was kind of just going so I could like dominate the team and, like you know, just do my school or whatever. About a month before I was supposed to leave to go to school, I get a call and they say you know, covid's happening, we're cutting programs volleyball is one of them. Like you don't have a scholarship anymore. Like you'd still love for you to come here, but there's no sport for you now, and it was like it was like August was way too late to go pick other schools and stuff like that. I figured I was making a rush decision. So I was conscious like okay, like I'm just not going to go, I'm not going to do. It wasn't meant to happen. So I pretty much told them I was just taking a gap year, when in reality I wasn't planning on going at all.

Speaker 3:

And then I played in a beach tournament at the pro level, age 18 and I got discovered by the Long Island University coach. They're starting a new program is D1. He was like hey, like you look young, like are you going to college? And I was like no, I'm not planning on Going to school at all. He's like well, dude, I'd love to have you come out to New York, show you the facilities. Like let you at least see what you be missing out on. I was like sure, I'll take it. You know I go to New York get wind and dying, get offered a scholarship. And then I was like dude, I feel like I'd be a fool to not go test this out. So that's what got me in there in the first place. I was never like fully into it, but it was fun while I was there, for sure.

Speaker 2:

Now are you, were your parents entrepreneurs.

Speaker 3:

No, my mom's. My mom's an accountant, my dad's an engineer, so, honestly, like the opposite of entrepreneurs. But I got the spirit in that gap year. So if you were to ask me in 2020, right when I was getting out of high school, I would have told you I was going to go to college and get like whatever job and like finance or something. Didn't really know what I wanted to do.

Speaker 3:

The interest got sparked, actually, from doing door dash. I started a door dash account during coven and I was just drive around and that was my first kind of taste of like you make as much as you work. So if I want to work one hour, I can make 20 bucks. I want to work from 7am to 10pm in my car delivering food I can make a lot more than that. You stack that up in terms of week over week over week. I was bringing in like $1500 a week at 18 just door dashing, and that was around the time that crypto was really low and it was about a boom.

Speaker 3:

In 2020 and 2021, I'd invested into a bunch of Ethereum at $200 a coin with the money I was making from door dash. So I just watched myself make like 3040,000 over the course of like a couple months from the door, dashing and throwing my money into Robinhood. So it was like really cool to see that and I was hooked ever since. Obviously it wasn't that easy. I mean I was like moving forward. That was probably the easiest it's ever been, but that that's what got me hooked. There's no going back after that.

Speaker 2:

Dude, talk about timing, man, because when I invested in Ethereum and now I had people tell me to do it, to do it, to do it, it was already like at $2500. But congratulations, man on that dude. Most people would have taken that money and pissed it away, would have been waking and baking with it, would have been drinking, would have been partying 100% just out that door.

Speaker 3:

Oh, I pissed it away, but not that way.

Speaker 2:

But literally you were investing in your future.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I mean dude. I would literally just go on YouTube. There'd be some old dudes talking about which cryptos to invest in. I didn't know any better. And this one guy that I watched I forget his name, but he was just like dude, you have to get Ethereum. And I was a very malleable brain. I was like this old guy says that I have to get Ethereum, so I must have to get it. At 200 a coin. You look down on a couple of months, it's at 2700. I was like, wow, that was pretty cool.

Speaker 2:

Well, good thing you weren't listening to the people that said the Dogecoin and Shibu like went dude, that's another story.

Speaker 3:

I've had my whole net worth in GameStop at one point. Really. Yeah, I took all the money from Ethereum and put it all into GameStop during the frenzy and doubled it.

Speaker 2:

Dude, you have like the horseshoe stuck up your ass, man. Because everything about you is the improbable becoming the probable man.

Speaker 3:

Oh, that no. The winning and investing certainly ended right there, at least for a little while I went to college I thought that was kind of just the norm, like you invest in whatever and it just goes up and I'm a genius, I'm telling my friends and stuff what to invest in, and that's when you start to lose right there, of course, I'd lost a ton in NFTs a ton in options trading, by the way just because I literally didn't know what I was doing. Even when I was investing in Ethereum and GameStop, I had no freaking idea what I was doing. I was just getting lucky and thought I was good, invested in a bunch of NFTs, invested in a bunch of options plays at like thousands of dollars.

Speaker 3:

I was in math class in college, just invested in options plays on the Robin Hood on my computer. It was one math class. I lost $4,000 and it was like it was like I think it was like 1030 AM. My professor was talking about math and he was like asking me to pay attention. I was like dog, I just lost $4,000. Like I don't want to hear what you're saying.

Speaker 2:

Dude with options. Always go with covered calls. Dude, if it goes up you still make a profit. Worst case, you keep on getting dividends. But I was like that. I was buying calls left and right and I am asked a big fortune. Now I pretty much stay clear of buying calls because one time it was like when wind was just blowing up and I put like a $12,000 option, bought $12,000 worth, and then like overnight it just cratered and I was like that's not.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, that was the best it was.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, exactly, dude. So now Long Island. What were you doing, dude? You didn't have enough time in the day to make money, right? Because pretty much as an athlete and as a student, you're going full time both playing and school, right?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, yeah it was definitely a lot, but I managed it. I still ran like a boutique agency that I had at the time because we were fortunate enough and some people listen to this one and say it's fortunate, but I think we were fortunate enough to have practice at 430 in the morning. It was from 430 to 8 every single morning. It was up at 4 in the gym at 430. Practice was out of the way. That was like a three, four hour time block that was just gone by 8am. So then you could kind of go to the calf, get your classes out of the way early and then I'd be working from pretty much like 2 to 7pm and then I was knocked out by like 8.30 most nights. Like most of my teammates would get out of practice, sleep most of the day away. I'd go to bed early and work on my agency and which ended up merging with the EDST, the company with VP up now and dude honestly, honestly worked out pretty well.

Speaker 2:

What was crazy is people always live in the room. They're themselves, dude, and I don't have enough time and the data. Dude. If you're making a must, you set it right there. Plenty of people can get their asses up at 5am to work out. I don't have enough money to invest, dude, there's 24 hours. Instead of screaming bullshit, and instead of cyber stalking your exes and all that, you know, you can create a side hustle, dude. You can work for postmates, uber, oh, but I don't want anybody to see me. Can you go check, go cash that check the banks, and Chase is going to be like oh man, you made this money off a side hustle.

Speaker 3:

No, dude, it's ridiculous. I mean, the amount of excuses that are out there are really. It's really running rampant. It almost leads to the point of, like you can't talk to that many people because the average person, the majority of people, are always going to be making those excuses like, oh, like I can't do this because of XYZ, oh, you know, I don't want to trade options, I don't want to invest in stocks because it's risky. Oh, I don't want to do this because it's risky. I think the biggest risk is no risk at all. Like if you don't take any risk and you just conform to whatever society tells you they have to do. You know, you go to college, you get your degree, you get your job at 60k, you're paying off your quarter million dollar debt that you incurred from college. I mean, I think that's a major risk because you don't get to see any actual success or freedom until you're 40 at a minimum. You're paying off that debt and not even doing something you love. I think that's the biggest risk.

Speaker 2:

Dude, and it's not inflation when I went to school here's a perfect example Out of state tuition. Now I didn't graduate in 1950 or anything crazy like that. Out of state tuition LSU 9000 bucks, everything included, a year, a thousand if you're in state, and they raised tuition 1,100. All the insators, all these poor.

Speaker 2:

Oh my God, we're going to go broke playing that extra 100 bucks a year. Now fast forward. My kid, my oldest kid, is a senior. Mom and dad my ex-wife entrepreneurs. But somehow, you know, the ex wants her to go to college, wants a good LSU like her dad, and it's like 47,000 bucks a year. But dude, the crazy part, we went to one of those college fairs and some no-name private school persons like oh well, to this school. It's only 75,000 bucks, $2,000 a year. But don't worry, it's easy to get loans and financial aid. It's like, dude, talk about Unless. You're like you find a cure for cancer. Dude, you're like in debt up the ass forever.

Speaker 3:

I think it's literally the worst investment by far, like right now, as opposed to when it was even like 30 years ago, because 30 years ago or 40 years ago not everyone had the degree, so the degree was like more prestigious because less people had it and it was like you were saying, significantly less. Now the tables have turned ridiculously. It's a stupid amount to be a part of it and everybody has a degree Like. There were multiple occasions when I was in school and I'm looking at the guy next to me and this dude is I don't know what kind of stuff I can say on here, but like Dude, you can say whatever you want. You're in a safe place. I'll put it this way At our basketball celebration we do like the March Madness.

Speaker 3:

This guy was this guy. He's on the ground twerking in front of everybody and he's wearing whatever kind of outfits. This guy's on the ground twerking in front of the whole school. I look next to him in my finance class and I'm thinking this guy's going to get the same exact degree that I'm going to get if I finish this out. What's the value of having? We're both going to have the same piece of paper, so why don't I just leave and actually make something of myself, because why not? This guy's going to have the same thing as me.

Speaker 2:

Dude, I'll tell you when I realize there's all the fucking scam. Degree in journalism. I got a second degree, my master's in journalism, because my mom lied to me to come back home and said it was going to be a lot of fun. It's not, dude, postgraduate's all bullshit. But I'm sitting at my first job with a bunch of other LSU grads in journalism and everybody else had their dad. Mom worked two jobs to provide, so I didn't have that dad. We were crying because there was people with the same fucking job with only a high school.

Speaker 2:

To this day, nobody's ever asked me for my college transcripts. Yeah, so it was a gap 20 years of being a business owner, but there was plenty before. After. Nobody's ever asked Shit. I couldn't just put on my resume. I went to Utica. Nobody's gonna fucking call Utica up and say, hey, did Omar, did Omar Valdrano graduate from your school? Dude, it's a fucking scam. All people go to college for it's just like normal school is.

Speaker 2:

Can you put up with bullshit? Can you show up on time? Can you do busy work? Can you sit the fuck down there Because we tell you to sit down. Here's your rules and congratulations. You have a degree means you can put up with a lot of bullshit. That's all it means. The only thing I got out of college was how to talk to women, how to sell myself to women and how to drink hard liquor. Because, in case you had a notice, in South Florida, dude, everybody drinks like pussy drinks, man Grown ass, men, all built and all that drinking pina coladas and trying to be an alpha man. It's like no, no, dude, anywhere else in the country you'd get your ass kicked for drinking that. Yeah.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I guess, other than New York City, and there was a lot of dudes who were drinking the Klaus, the white Klaus, where they were drinking.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, exactly dude. But that's also a new generation man, because we had that shit back then and it was only for chicks. It was only for chicks or dudes. That eventually would come out A lot of something. So the only thing you miss is what volleyball.

Speaker 3:

I miss volleyball a little bit and I miss having the friend group. You know what I mean. There were friends that I had that weren't connected to business in one way or another and it was a way to kind of decompress. Like I love my boys from school, like they're the best. I still keep in touch with a lot of them to this day and I miss the volleyball here and there too, like the guys they just started their season this year. They went and played Long Beach again. They're the number one team this year in California and you see the trips and it's like, yeah, I wish I was there.

Speaker 3:

But to me it's just not worth the 4 am wakeups every day to do something I don't want to do, to follow it up by classes that I don't want to be in, and I feel like I'm losing brain cells as opposed to learning, because I've always been a big like proponent that I can learn more in the books that I choose to read, that are in the business section or the personal development section, than the textbook that they give you that you have to pay $300 for to be a part of a class that you pay $200 a day to be a part of. So I don't regret it at all. I know I made the right choice, but I do miss the boys a little bit.

Speaker 2:

Danny beach volleyball. Right, You're a fucking, you're awesome at it. Dude, you weren't in the LBC, you weren't in South Florida, you weren't anywhere near remotely a beach. How did you get interested in so good at beach volleyball?

Speaker 3:

Dude. I mean I joined volleyball in the first place so I could get some brownie points on the baseball team. I'm not gonna lie, like my coach for baseball the varsity coach for baseball was also the varsity coach for volleyball. So he was like hey, dan, like you want to join the volleyball team and try it out in the fall of next year? I was like okay, do sure I don't play a sport in the fall, I'll try it out. Tested it out. I was like I was okay. I was like sure, I'll do a season.

Speaker 3:

Conch meandered through it the first couple of years. But volleyball in New York, if you are remotely good at it, or kinda good at it, you're like a superstar in the area. Like I wasn't even that good at volleyball. There were plenty of people that I know and stay in touch with that are way better than me at the sport. But just for the fact that we were in Central New York, I was one of the best players there. So it kind of gave me that confidence and almost like oh, dude, like I thought I was like really, really good at the time before I met players from California, florida and like in the warmer state. So I always thought I could hang, and I always liked being the underdog. So I just kind of play with that dog and me and hope for the best and actually refine the skills over time. Learned a lot in college too, though.

Speaker 2:

I can't tell from your social media Baseball volleyball you're what like six, three, six, four, six, what?

Speaker 3:

Only yeah. Oh, dude, I was a midget compared to my teammates. I had one roommate. He was from Bosnia. He was seven foot one. He would walk up to you.

Speaker 2:

I was expecting you to be like six, three bitch. I'm like six, five, six, six. There's six that are six feet tall, doing beach volleyball.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I was in the back row as I was like a defensive player. So volleyball junkies, I was libero in college. I was outside hitter in high school so I could actually play in the front row in New York because no one was really that good. But college I had to go play libero in the back row. But I was thinking about it for a second. I'm like I don't know who's listening to this podcast. Seeing I'm six three, I might just say yes to this question. Well, dude.

Speaker 2:

Did everything come easy to you? Did school come easy? You said 4.0. Photographic memory or smart guy?

Speaker 3:

If I'm gonna do something then I'm gonna do it right. So I was in school. I was like I'm not gonna lie, like I can't do this and not give it my best effort. So I tried my hardest in the classes. It wasn't like I just kind of walked in there and Mike Rossed it with the law exam and stuff like that. I just went in there, I did my best, I studied Plus like towards the end when I knew I was dropping out. I'm not gonna lie, I really grinded for that last 4.0. So I could say that I dropped out with a 4.0. I'm not gonna lie, when I knew I was leaving, there was no reason to keep pushing, other than for the fact that I could come on here and just say something like that.

Speaker 2:

Well, dude, most people that drop out of college, it's because they're like dude. I realized this shit wasn't for me. Man, I was hustling, I was grinding, I was up for that 2.0, that 1.9. You never hear. Yeah, man, you know 4.0. I gotta say it was a 4.0. But then I dropped out. I wanted to show this school hey, a big fuck you. I don't need you, you need me.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I mean, and clearly I wouldn't be surprised if that institution goes out of business over the next decade. I would agree with that statement that they probably do need me and the next student more than I needed them for sure.

Speaker 2:

Dude. Think about it, man. Unless you're like an architect, an accountant, an engineer, like your parents, a doctor, you really don't need college. What the hell can you do with the degree in sociology or African-American studies, Hispanic-Americans? There's so basket weaving. There's so much bullshit out there. People get a degree because you know, follow your passion, Bro, follow what makes you money. Yeah, Really right, yeah. I'm gonna be dead. Follow your passion.

Speaker 2:

Dude. The best part is, you know people that say that like, yeah, gary Vee's wealthy, he can sell frigging baseball cards because he's Gary Vee. But, dude, there's so many frigging morons out there opening up like a baseball card store. It's like, dude, you can sell this shit online, man, you don't need a brick and mortar to do this. And it ends badly because, shit, dude, as a little kid I remember everybody thought all these baseball cards that they're mass producing, they're just gonna be like big pimping spending Gs, just like you know, on their private jet because they had the 1000 Ken Griffey Jr wealthy cards.

Speaker 3:

Dude, you're preaching to the choir man. Ever since DoorDash, I've made every single dollar from my phone, so I don't know a thing about brick and mortar.

Speaker 2:

Dude, it took me forever because I thought and my ex-wife kept on telling me this right, yeah, we're so way smarter. You don't need something tangible, especially times like these, but so many people feel that they need the brick and mortar, feel that they need to go to an office, feel that they need to sell something tangible, whether it's shoes or whatever bullshit. Dude, all that is is you have to hustle more because you have to pay Uncle Sam more taxes, you have to pay your local municipalities, you have to pay the electric bill, you have to pay the friggin' landlord, and if the landlord decides he wants to paint the shit, you're getting the assessment. Why are you drinking fucking pina coladas Pina coladas on the beach somewhere in Bali while you're in your pain? So crypto? So is that you took all that money and that's how you started your own business, your own company.

Speaker 3:

Well, I mean, yeah, I'm in marketing, so there's not much overhead. When you get a new client, it's just kind of like once you start the marketing, it's when you actually have to pay. I've always been like direct sales and everything has came from referrals, so there was never really any overhead to the business. I, honestly, when I started my own agency when I was in college, I had no money. It was because I ran it up when I was like 18, 19, DoorDash, crypto and then lost everything in terrible investments. Like I was down to zero again when I was in college. So I had to run it back up and I did my own thing with marketing.

Speaker 3:

It was kind of it was really boutique. I only had like 10 or 15 clients at the time because I was in the middle of all, of all season. I was doing all classes, I tried to have somewhat of a social life while I was in New York City, so it didn't scale that fast, but it kind of just kept me afloat when I was in school and then came across the opportunity to merge with EDST, when I was like right, thinking about dropping out of college with February 2023. And then that's when I knew I was like oh yeah, I'm definitely out of here. Well, we're gonna talk about that full disclosure.

Speaker 2:

I'm one of Danny's clients. Danny's so fucking good that I saw him out. There was no marketing. There was no ad spend sent, finding me the only thing ever good, dude, value attainment, working for it. What a piece of shit. But, raphael, I'm sure told you that I definitely heard it a few times. Yeah, dude, a fucking nightmare. I met great people, young guys too, that had good head on their shoulders and my relationship with you I mean, I guess my time there was so I could become a client.

Speaker 3:

But I appreciate that. I don't know how much you mean that that was one of the best things that came out of value attainment, but I will take it as that you mentioned. I appreciate that, brother, seriously.

Speaker 2:

Well, it is dude. It certainly wasn't working for Pat Dude that could be sitting right next to me right now and he wouldn't know that I fucking worked for him for six months. Crazy ass shit there. So you have 1.5 million people following you.

Speaker 3:

Or, as it's 1.7 now, my last video has actually been going viral.

Speaker 2:

Oh, I'm such a piece of shit. I'm so sorry, dude, for undercutting you. Man Congratulations. Now how did you get such a knack at marketing man?

Speaker 3:

Well, dude, I mean, instagram's literally the easiest algorithm to crack. Like, you have your TikToks, your YouTube, your Facebook, your Snapchat, your LinkedIn, your acts, your threads. They all focus at least the video ones in short form. They focus a lot on retention time. So, like it's difficult to market and get somebody to watch the entire video, instagram's the easiest platform to market because Instagram doesn't judge a post based off retention, it judges a post based off how well it does within the first two hours every time you post. So, like, if you post, we can drive traffic from our networks into the post within the first two hours. So the Instagram goes wow, this is a really good post, let's show it to more people.

Speaker 3:

So now, all of a sudden, you're on the explore page. You're ranking at the top of the hashtags you're using. You're ranking at the top of the locations you're tagging. You're popping up as suggested posts on other people's feeds that don't even follow you, and if you do well enough, you might get become a suggested profile under like a celebrities, which has happened to me. That's how I went from 1.1 million to 1.5. In August, I was a suggested profile under David Dobrik's account and I'd went up 400,000 followers in a matter of weeks. It was crazy.

Speaker 2:

Clearly, you didn't learn this in college, though.

Speaker 3:

Dude? No, actually, no, I did pick it up in cultural anthropology. That was where I learned it. Cultural anthropology, yeah, that's where I learned. It was in college. That's why I stayed there. Holy shit, dude, totally kidding.

Speaker 2:

Oh, okay, I was gonna say you almost had. I'm a high school back class 30 years ago. Dude, there's no way. It's usually taught by some foreign guy that can't even speak English there you go.

Speaker 2:

I really understand man it was Everybody was dropping out of my class. It was some Indian guy, your grad student or whatever, and it was like me and like seven people left. Man, I mean, after that I could pretty much like communicate with somebody from Bombay or go to 7-Eleven or Dunkin' Donuts afterwards. So was this trial and error or you just like, learned this somewhere?

Speaker 3:

Well, dude, I've been posting videos online since I was like 14. Like I had a you're familiar with Dude Perfect, Like the trick shot guys.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, but you make it look like I've been doing this for a dude. That was seven years ago, man. For me to say 14, that was like fucking like 1988 or something like that, man.

Speaker 3:

Well, I mean to be fair, like seven years in social media, like that's well over half of its existence. Like Instagram, I think, was founded in 2009. No one really started using it until 2011. So I it's like half of its existence. But I was 14 years old, like making trick shot videos at my house, like posting them on YouTube. That's actually the video that's ended up like doing.

Speaker 3:

Really well, I found a video of me saying like my goal is to post every single day in 2017, like happy new year. It was like new year's 2016, 2017. And then it like cut to a couple of clips from right now. That's a video. It's up to 600,000 views right now, over 100,000 likes, which is like really really good ratios I'm really happy with and it's been continuously growing.

Speaker 3:

So, but it was kind of just like all right, like what's a repeatable strategy? Because you can literally subscribe to newsletters for every single platform and they'll update you like twice a week with what's changing with the algorithm. It's all like you wanna focus on getting shares now or you wanna focus on getting saves on this post and like, even as somebody who does this all the time, like I've already posted, I've already put out 21 pieces of content today, even as someone that literally does this full time for myself and for other people, that gets to be a lot where it's like two updates per weekly you're freaking, kidding me Like what's staying the same across the board? So like the one thing that I'd seen stay the same across the board, especially for Instagram, was just that two hour window where, like Instagram, judging your post based off how well it does within the first two hours, you get good engagement within the first two hours you do well.

Speaker 3:

So now it's like a real combination of can we make good content that people actually like and can we finagle the algorithm a little bit to actually give us a chance to be shown to people? So we can finagle the algorithm for even the worst post, but you'll only get that initial boost and you'll only be shown to the first batch of people. If you get to that first batch of people and it's actual good content and that batch of people is engaging with it, they're saving it, they're sharing it, they're putting on their stories, we'll get shown to a bigger group of people and if that group does well with your content, you can show them to even bigger group, and so on and so on, and then you have a viral video. So if you can find that sweet spot of like marketing it properly and actually having good content, it's dangerous and pretty easy to grow, honestly.

Speaker 2:

You make it sound like, oh, while there's people out there shaking their ass, getting hit in the balls, doing whatever, frigging like, starting their car on fire, doing whatever to go viral, and you make it sound like, well, you know, from one million followers to 1.5 million, I just had to tweak this.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, well, I did send in that bio like a week and a half ago, was at 1.5, but it's honestly not as hard if people make it out to be.

Speaker 3:

I think a lot of people fall into the fallacy that it is hard, just as an example and a reason for them not to actually get started, because the hardest video to make is the first one. The hardest button to press is the record button for the first time, and the next hardest one is to click the post button. So once you get past that initial hump, it's literally just kind of like self-correcting, as long as each video gets better and better than the last one and you learn from it. Like dude, I've invested thousands pretend to thousands of dollars on like courses on how to make your content better, how to make your editing better, how to market on Instagram Like. I'm actively investing into myself too. I'm like I use the same exact services that I sell for living that I built the agency off of for my own page at a bigger stream than probably anybody else, just to make sure that my posts get out there too.

Speaker 2:

So dude, you said the number one thing to start to throw that out there, to post that video and to do it on a consistent basis. In order to be decent, add something. You have to do it over and over and over again. You know people, I mean shit. Dude. If you listen to my first like 12, 15 episodes of even this podcast, people would say you could do a drinking game, because I would always say and all that, and all that, and all that and all that, dude. Or, oh my gosh, your videos.

Speaker 2:

That's from getting a degree in mass communications, motherfucker, that was back in the 90s. Man, no man, it's stuttered him and him and Han and doing all that. And what happens is, yeah, you suck, but it's like riding a bike, it's like being a dude. I sucked the first year of being in business. You just have to consistently do the work and believe it or not. Nobody's gonna friggin' judge you based on a fucking stupid post. You know what I mean? It wasn't like. They're like. You know, danny's 14 years old and somebody's like ah have you seen Danny's post he?

Speaker 3:

made it to the sick. That's kinda how it was man. Oh, dude, I got bullied in high school.

Speaker 2:

I look at it now, man. No, those people that bullied you, they peaked dude. They're working at Circle K. They're frigging.

Speaker 3:

That is so real, like there's a person that comes to mind that legitimately works at Circle K I'm not even joking. Like you said, that.

Speaker 2:

That is for sure it's karma, man, the chicks that were super hot in high school. You're too young now, man. In a few years you're gonna be like, holy shit, are you 60? And she's like, no, I'm 30. There's people that peaked in high school, man. It's like the law of nature, you know, they get all the puss, the dudes, but then it dries out because, you know, women wisen up and they're like, yeah, the guy pumps gas for a living. You know I'm not gonna go out with him, but back, you know, when you're 16, 17, you could give a shit.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, exactly yeah. I think that I feel like women bring so many men down. There's so many great kings in history that got down because of the women. I haven't figured it out yet. I'm under the theory right now. This is the new theory that I've been operating off of with women is that I'm 21 and any of the younger audiences listening right now, like men that wanna be something of themselves or you wanna really make something good. If you really visualize like your dream wife, like your dream female, odds are no matter how good you're doing from ages 21 to 28 or 18 to 28,. There's no way you could pull her right now. So the objective is not to go after and try and chase and try and find your dream woman, but the objective would be to just max out yourself, like become a 99 overall man, and then you know when you're 32, 33, like maybe you'll have a chance at pulling her too, and then you start to like that's really how you get it.

Speaker 2:

But that's me operating under this you could be the love doctor, man. Holy smokes. Not only the marketing genius, but, danny, dude, you have a sound mind. Man, you're pretty mature Because, believe it or not, at your age I was finishing up college. I graduated before I hit 22. And then I was like a severe fuck up, for I graduate, I left a degree. It's collecting dust. I worked for one job as a journalist pays like shit and then went into sales. But all the money that I was making, man, it went to frigging weed. It went to chicks. It went to trips. It went to trips to impress chicks. Stupid shit, man. I didn't wise enough for years.

Speaker 2:

But you're right, people chase because we live in scarcity. What you're talking about, too, when you chase is because you don't see who you become. You see, you're not seeing yourself as that 14 year old kid anymore, but a lot of times we see ourselves as the fuck up or whatever. I was a super introvert Dude. I went out with a chick you know divorce. She was like my neighbor and I was like, oh my God, she's just amazing. She's amazing because it took me forever to ask her out, because fear of rejection, and it was like you know, looking back at it now it's like fuck, chick peaked. You know and what you know, the chick dumped me until she wanted me to get like a friggin job at Uber. Didn't want me like exactly.

Speaker 3:

I say, at least attract this thing possible, someone that does this for you.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, dude. Or like telling me who was I to write a book, man, and. But in all reality it was because I was chasing the past, and you're right. So when somebody's like, hey, let me pop bottles, let me show this chick what I have, no, man, you don't have to impress anybody, you know, it's like you focus the ones you do impress.

Speaker 3:

doing stuff like that, like that's not your queen. Like if someone's getting impressed by popping bottles and you know big fancy cars and stuff like that's not your queen, that this is not cause she getting impressed by the next guy that does that too.

Speaker 2:

Danny, what happens is in any business. Unless you're a warm buffet, there's an ebb and flow, and there's an ebb and flow when it comes to cash flow. If you're with a chick, that's with you. Only because you know you're able to pop bottles right now and you know you have the fucking Gucci kicks and the whole nine yards the moment you hit a little turbulence, you know like hey, honey, maybe like in a month or so, it's like click, she goes to you, dude, but that's because you went after that. And then you know we blame the chick, when we should just be blaming ourselves for chasing. Chasing something that you know you're not that. You know sad person, you're not that. Bullied person, you're not that person. I'm not that person that's fearful of rejection, dude, I've been rejected now hundreds of thousands of times, but at one time I was so fearful of hearing the word no, you know, and it's crazy, man, but it's like what you said. You have to start, you have to be consistent. What you said said it best.

Speaker 2:

You know, post that video. You know nobody's gonna look like Grant Cardone, one we don't have. You know we're not Anthony Robbins. The world doesn't need any of that. We don't have the studio. We don't have the production, we're not actors. But if you're promoting something, we all have something to promote. There's no need to friggin. You know, I need to do the 100th take because I stumbled. Who cares? The world needs to see people stumble. Anyways, man, post away. You know you need people to know what you sell, you need people to wanna buy your services, and we're all selling something 100%.

Speaker 3:

And I mean I think people think that they're way better than they actually are and the videos, when they first start posting them, are a big like tell tale that they aren't as good as they think they are. And like one of the biggest things that I live by I'd heard this first one on was 18, is everything starts with two words. The change starts with two words my fault. So many people just wanna point fingers and blame everybody but themselves. But the second you take the finger from this to this, it makes it a different game, because now it's up to you to change the circumstances around you, and that's why I've ended up in places that take me away from people.

Speaker 3:

Like I don't like to hang out with that many people If people aren't on the same timing as me, if they're not supporting me, if they can't look at that video and give me constructive criticism as opposed to like chirping and making fun of me like we can't be friends. There's no room for that. If you wanna really like, level up quickly, you know there's no room for people to bring you down.

Speaker 2:

Well, dude that people are afraid to post or they'll quit posting because somebody took a shot. And you know what? Nobody that's more successful than you will ever take a shot. It's always some asshole that lives in his parents' basement that's taking a shot at you.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, dude, I could pull up one of my recent YouTube shorts. I got seven comments on it and they all say you're gay, you're gay, you're gay, you're gay, you're gay. And I'm like, look at these profiles. He's like 15 year old kids with like poofy hair and big glasses. I'm like are you gonna think I'm gonna let this guy get to me?

Speaker 3:

Well, dude actually, if the video wasn't that good, I gotta look back at it and see there's probably some things that could have fixed from that. Maybe this guy was right. Maybe Edgar, the 15 year old guy with poofy hair and big, thick glasses, like maybe he was right. Maybe they look gay in that video. Like maybe I should fix some things, you know.

Speaker 2:

Well, you don't look gay man. I'd tell you if you did. But a lot of times, man, and you know what I keep all comments. Somebody wants to take a shot at me. So be it. You know I've heard worse from people that I thought loved me. I've heard worse from people that have left me. You think some fucking person that I don't know is gonna bring me down it's mindset because you have to laugh about it. Stop taking a shit, dude. My life time is so valuable. It's not like I scroll on social media. I'm like let's see who I can take a shot at.

Speaker 3:

Exactly. What kind of person does it take to actually do that? You gotta think of the thought process You're scrolling on social media. Oh, let me tell this guy he's gay. Like what are you doing?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, dude, okay, so I can use social media. I can go on YouTube and find ways to make more money, make myself a better person, or I'm just gonna randomly scroll and take shots at people and try to bring them down and I'm the big alpha male for like two seconds.

Speaker 3:

Dude, it's like dog. I've generated over a million dollars from just Instagram sales only Instagram and people will go on there and drop hate comments and think it's a fulfilling day. Like you can use the app for better. My guy like coming from me.

Speaker 2:

Or oh my gosh, Danny, you're such a fucking scammer. I'm sure you've heard that too, man Like there's-.

Speaker 3:

Oh yeah, well, when people don't wanna believe this stuff is that I don't get the scammer one as much because I don't ever flaunt online. Like the car I drive is a car I bought for $1,000 when I was 15. It's a 2010 Chevy Cold Ball. It's got 160,000 miles on it. I drove it all the way down to Florida. Like I don't need to spend money on stuff like that and I don't flaunt anything because, quite frankly, like I don't buy a lot of stuff to flaunt, I don't really buy anything to flaunt. I think if I had bought a really nice car or if I had like post that I'm in like a really nice house or rent and design and stuff, I think that's when you get like the scammer type of comments I stay very humble with my stuff because I just don't think I need that kind of stuff. It never scratched an edge for me, so I don't get a lot of it, you just reinvest.

Speaker 3:

Oh yeah, Dude I've the biggest investment-.

Speaker 2:

It's not only yourself or into assets that produce more money for you.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, my two biggest investments right now each month are crypto, which is like sizeably the biggest one, and my personal brand. So the marketing, the editing, like the recording of the content. Like, for example, I'm going to Columbia next week to meet another client and I'm bringing a videographer with me and paying for his flight, paying for all his food, like making sure he doesn't have to pay for anything, and then paying him a little bit on top of that. That's an amazing investment for me, because the hardest part about going and traveling and wanting to document it is having to like the burden of having to film yourself and having the camera. So if I can spend a couple thousand dollars to bring this kid that's also in South Florida over to Columbia with me and just have the camera in my face the whole time, we can do some intentional content, we can do some riffing, like.

Speaker 3:

To me, that's a great use of a couple thousand dollars, when in reality, I could use that couple thousand dollars a month and put a down payment on a McLaren and pay 2,400 a month to drive that around and post it on Instagram, but I'd A depreciating asset, exactly. I'd rather love both. My brand I'm all about the brand. Do look, I come on this podcast as a billboard. This is the outfit every single day.

Speaker 2:

Dude. I know, I know.

Speaker 2:

I'm a. I tell people all the time promote yourself and promote your friends, promote small businesses. Dude, anybody can go to friggin' Nobu. Anybody can go to SDK Steakhouse. Anybody can go down to Brickle or Manhattan anybody can go anywhere. It's called credit cards, yeah. But yeah, you know, hey, I'm, you know, hey, I'm at the Wynn Casino. The best part is, like everybody you see with their Vegas stuff, it's always like the Wynn or it's like Caesar's Palace Bellagio. You never see anybody wearing like the other fucking casinos, but they seem to be full, yeah.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, 100%. I'm actually bad from Caesar.

Speaker 2:

Bro, everybody wants to stage their life to make it look like they're a baller. Hashtag, balling, hashtag, winning. You know it's like you said it best Winning is when you're reinvesting that money. Dude, when you're old, nobody's gonna give a shit that you have a Lambo. In fact, you can't even get your friggin' ass inside that Lambo because it's so low.

Speaker 4:

When you're old man and the grand scheme of things, you know, when you're dying, you're not gonna be like please bring me my keys to the Lambo and the keys to my hot tub and everything else, and can you show me the pictures of all the times I was spending Gs?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, no, it's about the people that are surrounding you at that moment, dude, and you know what You're taking a videographer.

Speaker 2:

There's two people that are gonna get a lot out of that trip you and you're gonna show that videographer. The possibilities are endless. The possibilities are real If you dream big, if you think big, if you work at big things can happen 100%.

Speaker 3:

The biggest things you have to actually believe in yourself.

Speaker 3:

Everyone's like, oh, believe in yourself, believe in yourself and it's all I believe in myself.

Speaker 3:

But once you actually believe in yourself, there's nothing you can't do.

Speaker 3:

I think most people just don't have the evidence behind them that they work very hard and that they're a trustworthy person and that they can trust themselves in order to believe in themselves. They don't do any of the things necessary to believe in themselves, so they don't believe in themselves when, in reality, if they woke up at six every day, hit the gym, worked on their business, ate good like read at night, did all of the right things over a decently low time horizon, you'd believe in yourself because you know that you put in the work every single day. So the people that are in college like fucking off all their money like smoking a bunch of blondes, like playing Fortnite while they're there, of course, they're not gonna be the ones that end up dropping out and taking that risk because they don't believe in themselves. If you're building your business, you have something going for you, you have something to leave and actually end up doing like, yeah, you can take those risks, but you gotta put the inputs in first and actually work in order to truly believe in yourself.

Speaker 2:

Dude as long as you believe in yourself, you don't need any cheerleaders, you don't need anybody telling you to go for it, man, because a person that has confidence, a person that believes in themselves, a person that knows that they will be successful, will find success. Dude, I'm not a smart guy. I've found it multiple times. You're young as hell, dude. The possibilities are out there, but you have to believe in it. But you have to have the courage. People need to have balls, man. I'm not talking about the type that you put on a truck and you swing away. No, man, you have to have the courage and you have to have the belief.

Speaker 2:

Dude, I'm stubborn man. I can't stop. Yeah, am I where I wanna be with everything? No, but why am I gonna quit? And I'm stubborn, I don't care. Who says it's not gonna happen. What I've never heard from anybody way more successful than me? It's always some fucking idiot that's never even had their own dreams, that has never even dreamt themselves. But yet they're telling me not to believe in myself and not to believe in me. It's because they didn't believe in them. Well, danny, talk to us about marketing. You did that, but talk to us. How do we find you a more important? Yeah, dude speaking.

Speaker 3:

So, 100% so existence man.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, for everyone that's listening on the Audioly podcast. I just puffed my shirt out that says at coolness on there, just how it sounds C-O-O-L-N-E-S-S. You can find me on there on Instagram. If you shoot me a DM, I answer them quickly. I sit on Instagram all day. That's how I operate my whole businesses and, honestly, probably the best to take advice from someone that's sitting on the app 16 hours a day and using it for the best purposes. So I'd be excited to work with anybody. I love working with new entrepreneurs, new businesses, helping them get their business off the ground and even in terms of like content, editing, consulting stuff like that like we've taken brands from zero to 100 really quickly, and not just with the numbers but with the visuals too, whether it's editing any kind of stuff like that. So I'd be really excited to talk to anybody that's listening.

Speaker 2:

Danny is good at marketing. Danny can help you promote. Enough of pain just for ads that go nowhere. Enough of pain for coupons. But people still do those, man. I can't believe it. Man, I get that shit in the mail. Nobody looks at those coupons, they throw it in the trash. You said it best what you're doing is you're saving the most valuable resource, and it's not money, because money is printable. It's time. You're condensing time, man. So the websites? What?

Speaker 3:

EDSTcom.

Speaker 2:

EDSTcom. Danny can get you hooked up. Marketing Dude, I didn't know you had all those other services.

Speaker 3:

Oh, dude, I mean, honestly, these services have been around, we've been working with them around the clock and, honestly, man, maybe even off podcast, we can chop it up a little bit and see if that's something that you'd be interested in. But, dude, you're already crushing it with the content right now. So I never brought it up just because.

Speaker 2:

I Look at that man. You're smoking like dude. I'm not talking to a 21-year-old man, I'm talking like someone my age man. You're a pitching machine dude. Well, here, edstcom At coolness. He can help you market, he can help you create content. He can do a lot of things and if you do want that, mclaren, if you do want that, lambo, if you keep on posting, if you keep on using these services, he'll get you there. Now, that's a stupid way to spend money, but we all have different lives, different needs, different beliefs. Danny, for somebody that is a true believer, somebody that's confident in themselves, somebody that's gone the distance and keeps on pushing past it, one final question what words of wisdom do you have for that person that's still on the sideline, that person that's fearful of starting a side hustle, that person that's fearful of taking any action, that fearful of just going out and going for their dreams?

Speaker 3:

Easy. Don't listen to anybody that has what you don't want to have or that doesn't have what you want to have. In other words, if you want to drive a Ferrari, don't take advice from someone that drives a Prius.

Speaker 2:

Exactly Good thing, man. I would never want to go ask anybody that drives a Prius because usually they're like super anti-capitalist. They're usually super woke. So I'll put one A. He says don't take advice if you want the Ferrari from a guy that drives a Prius. And I can say this. They don't listen to my fucking podcast anyways. They're not my market. Fucking extreme left people like that. Anyways. What Nanny's trying to tell you is, if you're woke, more than likely you're broke. So don't ask them for any advice, man. Now don't ask them who to vote for, don't ask them for pronouns, don't ask them for anything like that bro. Hey.

Speaker 2:

I love you, dude, thank you for the time. And this man had to reschedule because of me. My kid had seen your night last week, so I apologize, but, dude, thank you for redoing it, rebooking, and we created an hour of informative, inspirational, motivational, great content. Brother, thank you.

Speaker 3:

Omar, I love you too, man. I appreciate you having me on here, and I'm about to have these clips edited up, not just for me, but I'll have some clips for you too. I'll send you a Google Drive in like a week. Oh, look at that man.

Speaker 2:

Look at that, Always promoting the man. Hey, I love you, danny, thank you.

Speaker 3:

My man appreciate you have a good night. What if it deep?

Speaker 1:

world. What if you took action and made it happen? It started living inside of your purpose. What if it deep world? Right now you can make your choice to never listen to that negative voice no more. The hardest prison to escape is our own mind. I was trapped inside that prison all for a long time. To make it happen, you gotta take action. Just imagine what if it deep world.

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