Mindset and Business With Dan Chudy

On this episode of Dual Coast Podcast, we sit down with serial entrepreneur, inventor, and speed racer Dan Chudy to break down what it really takes to build a business and survive the inevitable ups and downs of entrepreneurship.

Dan shares powerful insights from his journey building companies across multiple industries, revealing the mindset required to push through setbacks, learn from losses, and stay motivated when things don’t go according to plan. This conversation dives deep into the psychology of entrepreneurship,  how to maintain belief in yourself, develop resilience, and keep moving forward when most people would quit.

If you're building something, chasing a dream, or trying to level up mentally and professionally, this episode delivers real lessons from someone who has lived it.

In this episode we discuss:
• The mindset needed to build and scale a business
• Why losses and failures are necessary for growth
• How successful entrepreneurs handle setbacks
• Developing unshakeable belief in yourself
• Staying motivated during the toughest moments
• Turning adversity into opportunity

Dan brings a raw, honest perspective on entrepreneurship, showing that success isn’t about avoiding failure... it’s about learning how to rise stronger every time you fall.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:01

What's up, Dual Coast fans? Back to another very exciting episode of Dual Coast Podcast. Joined by a man who needs no introduction this morning. Good friend of mine and Russ's, Mr. Dan Chudy, down in Missouri right now, I believe, right? Dan, still in Missouri. Yep, yep. Still uh down Table Rock Lake, right outside of Branson. Awesome. Awesome. Thank you so much for being here this morning. We're excited. My pleasure, man.

SPEAKER_00 0:26

My pleasure.

SPEAKER_03 0:27

Yeah. I I told Dan last week, I said, get ready, man. Grip it, grip on the edge of your seat because this is going to be a hot one. That's right. We never we never know what's going to come out of this guy's mouth.

SPEAKER_00 0:40

You know, I I installed a filter this morning, so we should be we should be good. Yeah, nobody's getting canceled today.

SPEAKER_03 0:48

Oh, that's awesome, ma'am. Well, you know, we we go back uh you know just over a year. We all met in in Missouri.

SPEAKER_01 0:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 0:56

Um, and uh it was it was an amazing time, you know, hooking up with you, Dan, meeting you, learning a little bit about you, hearing your story uh from the stage, and you know, spending some time on the phone with you throughout uh the last year or so. And um amazing to get to know you, entrepreneur, businessman, startup, headhunter, hot rod racer, speed racer, you know, we go back to speed racer days. Yeah, you know, this guy does it all. And so what is keeping what's keeping you busy right now?

SPEAKER_00 1:30

Man, um so much, so much. So my wife owns a a salon, salon slash medical spa. You know, they do you know injections and and haircuts and toes and nails and massages and you know everything in between. So uh anytime she needs to build something at the salon, I'm I'm the uh I'm the go-to handyman or the gopher, because truth be told, she does most of the heavy lifting. Like she's she's very fluent in construction, you know, building walls, hanging doors, drywall, laying floors, like she does it all. But I'm basically the go-to cheerleader. So, you know, she tells me, you know, remember when you were a kid and your dad said hold the flashlight?

SPEAKER_04 2:18

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:19

That's basically me. That's basically me for Missy now, you know, when she builds anything. So uh we're currently in the process of building three more salon suites, put adding plumbing and electrical and drywall, and then we're doing two more two more bathrooms in this 11,000 square foot gargantuan of a of a salon.

SPEAKER_03 2:42

So but you got nothing but space out there, yeah. Right.

SPEAKER_00 2:45

Got got all kinds of space out there, so that's that's one project. Um, another project, I I launched a company about six or eight months ago called Doorskins. Uh, we're working with the uh patent and um trademark office right now on the product, but it has really taken off. So, and I really like this company. You know, I've I've probably started 10 or 12 companies and had a pretty high success rate. About eight of them did really well, were able to sell them at a at a profit, and some of them are still up and running, but I've never felt as excited for a company as this because it's nice to be, you know, uh an inventor or a founder of a of a new product. And uh, I've got since I've been doing this, I've met a lot of other inventors, you know, and they always say, like, the best invention is one where somebody says, I can't believe somebody hasn't already thought about that. I can't believe that product doesn't exist. Like everybody would want one of those. So I right that it's a good time.

SPEAKER_03 3:50

Yeah. So how did you come up with the concept for the company focus on?

SPEAKER_00 3:55

Yeah, yeah. So um, you guys remember COVID? Right?

SPEAKER_03 3:59

Remember it's it's it's becoming more and more faint.

SPEAKER_00 4:03

Yeah, so you know, during during COVID, um, a lot of people had to stay home, right? You couldn't go out, you couldn't do the things that you wanted. So a lot of those honeydew lists got done.

SPEAKER_04 4:14

Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_00 4:15

Uh we've always wanted to do this, we've always wanted to do that. I wanted to make a man cave out of my garage, I wanted to repaint everything, you know, whatever it is, you know, home improvement soared at that point in time. 100%. So we saw we saw a lot of garage renovations being made. And before that point in time, you never saw those epoxy floors, you know, those acrylic epoxy floors, people are doing the garages, you look all over social media now, you see these twenty thousand dollar garage floors, you know. Um, and people, you know, let's say you're into sports or automotive or whatever, you know, people are turning their garages into works of art. You know, they've got hexagon lights, they've got, you know, these crazy floors, they've got custom-made cabinetry, you know, hundreds of thousands of dollars in and tools and and all this stuff, you know, like my garage. I've done my epoxy floor twice now, and I've got, you know, half a million dollars in cars sitting in there on any given day. But the ugly thing when you looked in that garage, especially if you're coming from the house, is the back of the garage door, right? They're they're plain, you know. It's a huge, it's the it's a huge canvas, you know. Most garage doors are 16, 20 feet long by eight or nine feet tall, and it's ugly. Yeah, you know, you know, the rest of your walls are black or gray and have art on them, and then you've got this gargantuan thing that you use more than any other surface. You know, you open it, you close it, you open it, you close it, and it's just uh it was an eyesore. So my my original thought was, well, I'll just wrap the back of the garage door, right? No problem. And uh that's what I did. I I I had some vinyl made, I printed on it the design that I wanted, and I put it across the back of the garage door, me and a buddy, and it looked like shit. And the reason the reason it looked like shit is the back of your garage door, most garage doors have the consistency of knockdown drywall. It's not flat, right? You know, it has peaks and valleys and high points and low points. And when you put a high definition over something like that, all you see is the imperfections in the surface, right? Uh yeah, the glare, you you lose it, it almost looks worse. So then I set off on well, how do I make that surface smooth, right? Well, okay, you can bondo it, you can sand it, you can you spend hundreds of hours making this thing surface and then put a wrap on it, and that wasn't that didn't translate to any sort of a business, right? That that I'm not good at that. I I I couldn't do that, so I racked my brain for a couple months, couldn't figure anything out, and then one day I just happened to go to my gro uh my refrigerator in my in my kitchen, and there was a sticker, what I thought was a sticker, of my daughter from playing volleyball um on the fridge, and I went and grabbed it and it was magnetized. And I said, Well, I said, Well, that was kind of my aha moment. I'm like, I wonder if I can scale that. You know, can I scale that? Can I make a high definition image on something that would have enough pull force to, you know, because garage doors half the time they're open, yeah. You know, it's it's a vertical drop. So then I was on the hunt for, you know, let's find a magnet company where I can print on something. Um, so went down that rabbit hole and it wasn't as easy as you would think because you need a very unique substrate to print on, especially if you want to roll these things up and store them, right? Because my my uh goal even at that point in time was well, I could do them for the outside too. You know, people could decorate their house for for Christmas or Halloween or special events, or you can piss off your neighbors. Oh, oh man, we we we have we have a door skin, we have a door skin in production that um a good friend of mine when he watches this, Courtney Kirkpatrick, kind of inspired. So he he's a car guy, right? And um he had a Karen that lived next to him. And he bought a yard sign that said, beware Karen, and an arrow at her house. So we we have a we have a uh I won't I won't say until we launch it, but it's uh it's a a Karen warning with an arrow, you know, basically.

SPEAKER_03 8:48

That's so funny.

SPEAKER_00 8:49

So yeah, and we have some anti-HOA ones and you know things like that. But so uh that process took a little little bit of time because um you're printing on a big magnet, and if you run a magnet through a printer and it goes back and forth, what happens is it magnetizes the printer, and the printer doesn't work anymore. So so the printer, just the printer and the plotting table, what we use to cut the magnet, um, total is about$550,000. And we use a very unique substrate that we print on in a very, very unique ink. It's a UV ink that as we print it, UV light comes over it and dries it. So that allows the image. You can roll it up as tight as you want, it doesn't bend or crack. Wow, uh, it stores well, you can put it on, put it off. Um, you can be outside, you know, we can do an additional UV coating for like businesses. We do a lot of gyms and and uh especially in in towns where they have a lot of uh marketing signage issues, you know, you're not allowed to do a lot of a lot of a lot of stuff. Well, you can you can put that on your garage door just the same as you can paint your windows for Christmas, right? It's pre-existent.

SPEAKER_03 10:12

Yeah. So my my question is is on this, like on the you know, doors have three or four breaks, yeah, right, as they roll up. How do you deal with that separation when it's when it rolls up and starts curving?

SPEAKER_00 10:24

Yeah, so if we're printing the door on the or we're printing the door skin for an interior garage door, there's gonna be about a quarter-inch gap. Okay. Um, from the bottom panel to the top, and that's so when the door articulates, you don't get any binding. Uh, my first one I made was for my house, right? Kind of the the beta, and we didn't we didn't leave any um and we had some binding issues. So we got up there, and as it would articulate, it would bubble and then it would flatten back out, but it it it caused caused some issues. So we took about a quarter inch off, no problem. Now, if we're doing it on the outside, the image can be flush because the door doesn't bind that way because it's it's opening wider, right? Right, so yeah, yeah, no, no problem. We've also we've also incorporated a lot of garage doors have uh windows built into them, right? We've got we've got a window perforation treatment where we can continue the image seamlessly onto the window. You can see into it, but you can't see out of it, so it's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_03 11:32

That is cool.

SPEAKER_00 11:32

That's done a bunch of those. Yeah, yeah, those are trick. Fun to install, too. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:40

Just ask your wife.

SPEAKER_00 11:41

Just ask your wife, she can flip to you. Yeah, because I I don't I don't have I don't have the finesse. I'm the guy who will uh hammer in a thumbtack, if you know what I'm saying. Yeah, smash my finger doing it, right?

SPEAKER_02 11:58

This company's gotta be a lot of fun, man. You see, you could play around with it, like that's gotta be a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_00 12:05

You know, the design that you know, bringing somebody's design to life is what's cool. You know, somebody says, Hey, you know, I want you know this car with these plates on it, you know, on a racetrack at sunset, and I get to go in and I get to make it and send them, you know, two or three revisions. They pick it, we print it, we stick it, we're done.

SPEAKER_03 12:26

Yeah, yeah. That's all that's so cool. That's awesome. Yeah, and just like that changes the inside.

SPEAKER_00 12:31

Changes changes the inside like you wouldn't believe. Yeah, all right. We've got a Instagram, a Facebook, a TikTok, a YouTube, any of those just uh door skins, D O O R S K I N Z, no spaces, we'll take you right to it.

SPEAKER_02 12:47

Yeah, that's amazing. That's awesome. That's awesome. It's funny because you were talking about the epoxy floors, and like five minutes before I came on here, I was on Instagram and Cam Scatterboo like just got his garage floor done in Arizona in like epoxy, but they didn't show any the back of the garage door, yeah. And now that you say that, I'm thinking about it. I'm like, I'm like, yeah, wow, that's actually really true.

SPEAKER_00 13:08

Yeah, so yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:13

Let me ask you. So you've built across multiple industries, you have the salon right now. I remember I asked you a question when you were on stage in Missouri about real estate, you were into real estate. What identity would you say you think an entrepreneur has to adopt before they ever succeed?

SPEAKER_00 13:31

Well, I think as an entrepreneur, you're gonna have to be comfortable with the uncomfortable, right? You're gonna have to live with imposter syndrome for a very long time. Like we we all do that. I you know, the first time I got on that stage, I'm like, what the am I doing up here? Right? Like you guys remember that event? We had people from NASA there, we had authors, you know, Russ, you're an author, we had doctors, Dan Hier, and like I'm up there, like, yeah, you know, I'm the guy with the Lamborghini, you know, making it until I make it sort of deal. So um, I I think I think everything in life can be distilled down to two things, right and wrong, right? So as an entrepreneur, you need to be fixing the problem, right? So look at what's wrong and and find a way to make it right. I think that's the easiest way to articulate what what separates uh a wanted to an entrepreneur, right? You're actually doing something that's gonna have an impact that people want, and you're not just uh feeding the algorithm.

SPEAKER_02 14:47

Yeah. I got you.

SPEAKER_00 14:50

I think you did great on stage that day, just for uh, you know, all yeah, you know, that was uh that was probably one of my most fun uh speaking engagements because I had my my my family there. You know, I had I had my uh I think I had my oldest daughter there. I don't know if Remy was there, but Brooklyn was there, and that was that was really cool, you know, because she doesn't really get to come to events like that. And it just happened to be in in town, so it was like, all right, well, let's go.

SPEAKER_03 15:22

Yeah. I just remember there was no filter on the microphone that day.

SPEAKER_00 15:27

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I think I probably had um took an IV of Red Bull or something because I was I was amped up, man. You know, I had like I had like a hundred grand in cash on me on the stage.

SPEAKER_02 15:43

Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I remember you dumped the foot back.

SPEAKER_00 15:48

Yeah, I I remember Kyle. Yeah. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 15:54

Oh, that was amazing.

SPEAKER_00 15:55

I don't know if I would do that over again. That's funny, man.

SPEAKER_03 15:59

That was fun. That's good. So, how many how over your over your career of being an entrepreneur, how many businesses have you started? How many do you still have? How many have you sold, like startups, you know, all that kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_00 16:13

Yeah, so you know, I think my first um venture into entrepreneurship, I was probably in my mid-20s, and I started a graphic design company, and that kind of parlayed into a clothing line, and then I ran that probably for a year or two. And, you know, it wasn't it, you know, it wasn't super successful. I did baseball jerseys and softball teams and soccer teams and schools and and you know, funny, funny shirts for different businesses. And then I ended up I ended up selling that with all the equipment. And you know, if I broke even and paid my bills, that's probably what it was. But I think that's where I got the first um the fix. Like, man, this is nice. I I don't want to work for somebody else, I want to work for myself. And uh from there, um had a couple different sales jobs, and you know, I'm not I'm not really a salesperson because I don't I don't I know I seem like an extrovert, but I'm an introvert, you know. Like I don't I walk into a room and I'm like I don't like this, you know. I unless I know everybody and I know what's going on, I know where the exits are, like because I I I'm I'm the king of the Irish exit, you know. Where'd it go? You know, he's he's going. So yeah. Um but I'll we'll we'll start with kind of like the um we'll we'll work our way backwards. Okay. So Doorskins is the is the most recent. Um previous to this, I had a home improvement surplus store. That that was that was how I was able to get that business really centered around a car I bought in 2014. So I bought a Lamborghini in 2014, and it was the best recruitment tool ever. So at that point in time, I worked for a Fortune 500 company, I won't say the name, um, but it was a in a sales organization, right? Locally. And when other people in the town would see that car, people would come up and they say, Hey, what do you do? How do I want to do what you're doing, right? Right. And man, I recruited the best talent in the area, and our our company went from a$20 million location to a$50 million location in about 18 months. So having having that car, um, and then I, you know, then I I sent it to Underground Racing and Twin Turbo Day, and then I started racing it around the country. And when you have a car like that, you meet other people who have cars like that. And that got that got me into a lot of rooms and conversations that otherwise I probably wouldn't have been privy to. One of the people I met um at one of these events during COVID, what his company did is they would house I don't know the correct term, but unusable product. So let's say let's say you own Home Depot, you own Lowe's, you own Menards, somebody comes in during COVID and they buy a chainsaw and they get home and they already had that chainsaw, or the chainsaw doesn't work, or they didn't need it, and they take it back and they return it. Home Depot can't take that piece of equipment and put it back on the shelves because if you have COVID and they give somebody else COVID, right? They don't want the liability. So they would take all of this stuff, all of this inventory, not only returns, but out of season stuff, right? As a season stuff, maybe people have touched it too much, we're getting rid of it. And I think there was some sort of some sort of program with the government where they were allowed to turn this in and probably get costs or retail back for it. So they were literally dumping off inventory to these warehouses, these wholesalers. So a buddy of mine called and he's like, Hey, you need to set you need to start a resale company. I'm like, what do you mean? He's like, Man, I I can get you a semi-truck, 53-foot semi-truck full of Lowe's or Home Depot or Best Buy or Target or Amazon goods, I can get it shipped to you for about 5300 bucks. Wow.

SPEAKER_01 20:44

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 20:44

So I was like, man, I don't I don't know how to I don't know how to start a resale store, but I'll give it a shot, right? So at that point in time, yeah. At that point in time, we didn't have uh our building. So Missy was renting retail space, and there was two retail spaces open. So I was like, all right, well, I'll rent those two, right? There was one big enough for storage, and there was one that we could do a storefront. So I was like, all right, you know, whatever. You know, rent's cheap in Missouri. So I think I was given like 900 bucks for both units. Order the first truck. Thank God there was a um place called True Value, and they rent heavy equipment, forklifts, uh telehandlers, things like that. So I rent a telehandler. It's basically a forklift with a boom on it. And we order the first truck. The truck gets delivered at like eight o'clock at night. Bro, we had no idea what we were getting into. So fifty three feet of semi truck holds about twenty to twenty four pallets. You know, the pallets are probably four or five feet tall and fifty three feet long. So when you unload that and you put it into a uh a space, it takes up a lot of space, man. Like we could barely close the freaking door on the storage. Like we had we had that thing like a Tetris, you know, everything was just stuffed in there. And then that's where that's where the addiction came in, because the best part of that was going through everything. So at that at that point in time, what we did is we had um we had a Home Depot app. And the Home Depot app allows you to scan the item, tells you what it's for sale for, tells you how many are at this location, whatever that location. All right. So what we did is we took an inventory, we scanned every single item, and it would tell us the retail. So you know, you you scan this lawnmower, it's$569. You you scan this hose, it's$123. These LED lights, you know, eight dollars. So in that first truck of$5,300 cost delivered, plus the like$300 telehandler renter, we were like like less than six grand. There was sixty-three thousand dollars in retail. So all we did is we marked it 30% off, yeah, 40% off, 50% off, right? Now, some of not everything was in the box. I would say 80% of the stuff was in the box, 10% was lightly used, and 10% was garbage, you know, just broken shit that you know people returns or damage in transit. And man, that was a that was a huge thing for us because in in in Branson, there's a lot of hotels and resorts, and and you know, they like to buy stuff cheap to keep the costs down. And we we we worked with a couple larger contractors and and local people, and that business did great, ended up selling it, and it's still up and running. So that's awesome. That that was a cool one. Um, back back from that, um, in 2018, um, I started a company that helped people get out of different types of contracts. Um, in our first year, we did like$5.5 million, ended up selling that company. Um, now that business has sprung me into what I currently do full-time now is work for different companies and kind of terraform their sales side to an environment where top talent wants to live, right? So teach them some systems and processes, some hiring, how to how to look for people. Um, you know, because that's that's the thing. Like, if I said the word apex predator, what comes to mind? What animal?

SPEAKER_03 24:59

Lion. Lion, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:01

Lion, right? Apex predator. What about if you're in the water?

SPEAKER_03 25:04

Alligator. Yeah, crocodile, alligator.

SPEAKER_02 25:07

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 25:07

What if you're in the ocean?

SPEAKER_02 25:09

Shark.

SPEAKER_00 25:10

Right. So any of those, when I say apex predator, everybody thinks the same thing. Yeah, everybody can recognize that, right? Everybody knows if you're in the ocean and you see a fin, right? You're beat. If you see a lion, right, you're you're beat.

SPEAKER_03 25:28

You just have to outrun your friend, that's all.

SPEAKER_00 25:30

That that I'm gonna trip you, I'm tripping you and I'm gone, right? Yeah, so it's easy recognizable. Most people can't tell an apex competitor from a normal person, they don't have that skill set yet, right? We only know what an apex predator is because our ancestors got eaten by lions and crocodiles, and most people don't see an individual and can say that guy has has what it takes. You know, I can take this person and apply this to them, and they can they can they can be a shark, right? They they can be a lion, whatever it is. So that's where my skill set lies is finding those people and helping them unlock that and you know, do really well. So 2018, uh, back from that, man, I had uh I had bars, I had nightclubs, I had restaurants. Um, that's where I kind of got over my introvert lifestyle, right? That's that's where I had to be the face of the business. I had to interact with people, and I think that's where you grow, is is forcing yourself to get outside of that that comfort zone and developing skills that normally you wouldn't have. And you know, let's thank God I did that because that's it's that was uh a major inflection point for me, right? I changed the trajectory of my life by doing things that were uncomfortable, not only uncomfortable, but I had no desire to do. I didn't know it was going to you know transform me into the person I am today. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 27:17

You know, we know we all know that you know there's a lot of hardships, there's uh a lot of challenges, you know, in starting up uh companies, there's uh the details in the work and everything like that. So you got to have a proper mindset, knowing that this thing could succeed or it may not. And what how do you go in and how do you prepare yourself from a mindset standpoint when you go into door skins, you know, having you know done done very well, you know, broke even on some businesses and stuff like that. How has your mindset changed and how do you prepare yourself for that?

SPEAKER_00 27:50

Right? Great question. So in my in my closet, I have a blackboard, you know, just like a whiteboard, but it's black, and I use different color markers on it, and I track my business and I usually put a slogan for the year. Last year, my slogan was um, if it costs you your piece, it's not worth your time. So I use that daily to cut out people in my life or processes in my life or things in my life that that stole stole away my piece, right? If it if it took away my piece, it's not worth my time, right? Uh this year on my board, it says do the hard thing first, right? Um, I think it was Benjamin Franklin. I might get corrected in the comments, but Daniel does it. Yeah, yeah. I believe it was, I think it was Benjamin Franklin. He said, if it's your job to eat eat a frog a day, do it in the morning. If it's your job to eat two frogs, eat the big one first. Right? So the mindset that I apply to business is is do the hard thing first, right? Do do the groundwork, right? Build the foundation before you you jump into the deep end, right? So Dorskins, I have spent zero dollars in marketing so far. I have spent so much time making sure that the product is right, that the process is right, that the intake sheets are right, that the measurements are right, that the staffing is right, that there's no errors front to back, because once you apply marketing, especially on a product like this, you know, we're gonna have hundreds of orders being filled. And if you don't have the systems in place, the processes in place, then the business is gonna fail. Like, how many how many businesses have had a great idea they've launched, and because they launched too early, they failed. Yeah, you know, yeah, so there's there's a fulcrum point there between launching too early and then failure to launch, right? How much of how much of life is wasted waiting, right? If if you wait for the perfect moment, it will never come. So there's a there's a sweet spot in there where you're uncomfortable to do it, but it's the right time. And I think the the more you operate within that space, the more companies you launch and they fail or they succeed, that margin gets bigger. Maybe it doesn't get bigger, but your ability to see it gets better, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:44

Right? Yep, absolutely. Dan, you hear a lot of these entrepreneurs on Instagram and everybody talking that you have to fail first in order to succeed. It's necessary that you fail first. Do you think that's true? And do you think that can be avoided with the right strategy? And I think your answer is going to be yes, you can avoid it with the right strategy. But you always hear people say you have to fail first. What do you think about that?

SPEAKER_00 31:09

You know, uh Andy Frazella says it best. Uh, he says that there's no um win or lose, it's win or learn. So these these failures, they're not failures, they're stepping stones, they're stepping stones to perfecting the process, right? Um there's a quote that says the difference between um successful people and and failures is the successful people failed, but they didn't stop, right? They did it that one more time and they became successful. So nobody remembers the 37 failures that they have, right? Because celebrations are celebrated, uh victories are celebrated in light, victories are one in darkness, right? So all those failures nobody sees now because all they see is oh my god, you know, you're Russ Rogers, the you know, the the author, the the you know, you're you're the man. Nobody sees the 120 years, because you're 130, right? The 120 years, you you know, you like Moses, like Moses, right?

SPEAKER_03 32:20

Yeah, I look pretty good, don't I? That's it.

SPEAKER_00 32:26

You know, you know, I didn't know Rick Van Winkle could legally change his name to Russ Rogers, but yeah, oh my gosh, I love it, man.

SPEAKER_03 32:38

Yeah, yeah. So what's uh what you know, what what besides doorstands, what what is what piqued your interest outside of business?

SPEAKER_00 32:47

Um, you know, family, um, being a father, being a father is the best thing you can ever have bestowed upon you, like the honor of bringing kids into this world and being a a mentor, and like the the way that kids look at you is the way you wish everybody would look at you, right? Like you're a hero, probably until they're 12, 12 or 13 or so. Maybe, right? Yeah, squeeze as much out of that as you can. Um, yeah, also um, I like I like seeing other people succeed, I like being able to mentor people, teach them the ropes, and see them going from making you know fifty, sixty, seventy thousand dollars a year to making three, four hundred thousand. Some people make a million, so that's that's an amazing thing to do. Yeah, that's an amazing thing to be able to change people's lives by by just unlocking what they already have, you know? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 33:48

That's so cool.

SPEAKER_00 33:50

That's so cool. It's amazing. Yeah, I'm sure.

SPEAKER_03 33:52

But it and then outside of people's lives, you you've got the hot rods, right?

SPEAKER_00 33:57

Oh man, I I've got I've got uh I'm a I'm a I'm in recovery, I'm a recovering car addict, you know.

SPEAKER_03 34:06

You go to AA car meetings, man.

SPEAKER_00 34:08

You know, I yeah, I go to Cars Anonymous, you know. AA, you know, automobiles anonymous. That much is better. Yeah. So, you know, I've got uh I've got two project cars right now. One of them's about finished. I just sold my twin turbo Lamborghini, and I'm I'm on the hunt for another one, but that one will probably be another year or so off. Um, but yeah, I I I love I love going fast. You know, there's a lot of people faster than me that'll say, Well, you're not very fast, you know. That's the circle of pe the circle of friends I have are unfortunately uh much faster than me because I have a car addiction and these guys have like jet and plane addictions, you know. It's like so I'm still a peon in in in the in the pond I'm swimming in, but yeah, I'm in it, so I'm thankful for that.

unknown 35:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 35:03

What's your top what's your top speed in in one of your cars?

SPEAKER_00 35:07

Um fastest I've had the Lambo is like 222. Um, but that was a little little past the half mile. The fastest I've had it in the half mile, which is the event that that I raced in, was 207. 207. Yeah, 2020 and like you know, 2600 feet and like a little over 11 seconds. That's that's moving. That's moving, man.

SPEAKER_03 35:31

Thanks for flying by quickly.

SPEAKER_00 35:33

That's getting done. But I tell you what, the the really fast guys, um uh buddy of mine, Mark Rao, he's the fastest in the world right now, and you think 207 is fast, his car uh 260, 260 miles an hour. And now I think his car makes probably 3,500 horsepower plus. Wow. My mine made less than half of that.

SPEAKER_03 35:59

Wow, what kind of car does he drive?

SPEAKER_00 36:01

Is it Lambo or he uh he's got he's got a few. He's got a couple Lamborghini Hurricon STOs, yeah, and a couple R8s, but the STO I think is what he holds the record in. Lambo, yeah. My gosh, you know, it's a million dollar plus build, you know. I'm sure. I'm sure. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but yeah, he's got it, he's got a pretty cool business. He owns um az cycle parts, so they buy wrecked exotic cars, motorcycles, regular cars, take them all the way apart, and then resell everything on eBay.

SPEAKER_01 36:38

Oh wow, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:40

So uh I went to his warehouse uh I don't know, probably about a year ago or so, maybe less. And it's all indoor. Like you would think, like um you would think that you know, a place that houses all wrecked cars, it would be out outside, you know. Yeah, it's all inside, you know, 50-foot ceilings, everything is on these these huge racks, and like it was as clean as a surgical room, like you could eat off the floors. There was no oil on the floor, there's no dust. I was like, man, this place is crazy. Place is cleaner than my house, you know.

SPEAKER_03 37:19

Hey, speaking of your house, uh lean lean one way or the other and show us what's behind you. Right on the on the shelf. Yeah, there we go.

SPEAKER_00 37:28

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 37:30

Tell us about those.

SPEAKER_00 37:32

Okay, so the uh the painting here is from my favorite artist in the world. His name is Brian Garcia. He goes by BG Paints. BG Paints. BG Paints. He's on, I've got probably seven or eight of his originals. Um this here is from an artist called Jack of the Dust. Uh, he's out of Australia, so he makes really cool sculptures. This is from the word. Uh I believe this is from the Mandalorian when they kill a bunch of stormtroopers, and but it comes with like a certificate of authenticity and all that.

unknown 38:15

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 38:16

This is Wolverine. This is kind of a Wolverine Deadpool mix. Uh, I have a really good buddy who is a world-renowned painter. His name is Nathan Curry, and uh, he him and his father own Curry's hot rods, hot bikes. But my father-in-law 3D printed this, and then I took it to him, and he he airbrushed it for me.

SPEAKER_03 38:44

That is so cool.

SPEAKER_00 38:45

This is uh this is Darth Vader. This is also 3D printed. My father-in-law made it for me.

SPEAKER_03 38:51

That's awesome. But yeah, 3D printing is insane. Yeah, that's so great. I love the lightsaber in the picture, man. That's yeah, I do too.

SPEAKER_00 39:01

Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's pretty cool. And then the other thing is just a stormtrooper helmet that my uh daughter likes to run around in and terrorize the neighborhood.

SPEAKER_03 39:14

Oh, that's awesome, man. Well man, thanks for thanks for sharing that. That's really cool. That first one is unbelievable. I'm glad you brought it up to the camera, man. The detail is incredible.

SPEAKER_00 39:24

So yeah, and it comes with uh oh, we got more.

SPEAKER_03 39:28

We got more.

SPEAKER_00 39:29

Well, it comes with uh little death certificate. Yeah, that's usually, really cool work, and they're like limited production sort deals, and yeah, he's he's phenomenal to work with. And do you tickle the ivory as well behind you? You know, um, I can play happy birthday and fera Jaca and uh like a Dr. Dre song, but that's about it. Um Missy, Missy, on the other hand, can can okay she can play, she can hear something and and play it.

SPEAKER_03 40:03

Wow, that's that's a that's an amazing ear.

SPEAKER_00 40:07

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's I don't have that talent. I'm I'm not musically inclined at all. Yeah, unfortunately.

SPEAKER_03 40:18

Oh man.

SPEAKER_00 40:19

It's probably one of the talents that like you know, like if you could do anything, like I I wish I could carry a tune. I wish I could, you know, I'd start a boy band with you two right now. Like we'd nail, we'd murder it, man. Right? Totally agree. We're we're we we could be like we're like the three guys who peaked in high school, right? We could start a little boy band.

SPEAKER_03 40:48

Hey, you'll appreciate this. I had a w we had a band, and it was a fake band, you know, it was like an air band back in high school, high school called Flash Flood and the Cadillac Cats.

SPEAKER_00 40:58

Oh, that's cool. That's that's a that's a great name.

SPEAKER_03 41:03

That's a great name.

unknown 41:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:05

Oh yeah, not quite. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:14

Well, what air instrument did you play?

SPEAKER_03 41:18

Uh piano.

SPEAKER_00 41:19

Piano, okay. Nice. So you you just uh looked like Ray, Ray Charles.

SPEAKER_03 41:25

Ray Charles, yeah. There you go.

SPEAKER_00 41:29

You just gotta change the tent on your glasses, you'd have it nailed.

SPEAKER_03 41:32

That's it.

unknown 41:33

Right.

SPEAKER_03 41:34

Well, my hair in high school looked like Skoka's, you know, it was really, it was really yeah, yeah, it was like that. Well, most of my life it was like that.

SPEAKER_00 41:42

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 41:43

My hairline was a little lower than his.

SPEAKER_02 41:46

Yeah, I've gone back a little bit in the years. And you know the news.

SPEAKER_03 41:51

Do you know the news about him from last week or two weeks ago? No, have you talked to him?

SPEAKER_01 41:56

Scope, no, got engaged, got engaged, dude. Congratulations, thank you, sir. Thank you, man. Awesome. Appreciate it, appreciate it. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 42:08

My filter is really kicking in right now. Yeah, yeah. That's it. I'm super happy for it. Yeah, thank you, man. Thank you. Appreciate it. Yeah, that's that's killer, dude. Um, when's when's uh when's the wedding? What's the what's the plan? What are we doing?

SPEAKER_02 42:28

Uh so the plan is actually to try to get married at the tail end of this year. So uh pretty soon. Not gonna uh not gonna push it too much farther, honestly. So tail end of this year. Hopefully, we're kind of putting everything together now and trying to get a plan together, but it's uh I don't want to say a rush, but you know, it's a bit urgent because it's it's close. So we're trying to plan everything now kind of quick. All right, let's let's let's uh let's switch seats here for a second. So where'd you guys where'd you guys meet? Oh wow, I'm in the I'm he's in the driver's seat now. Yeah, we actually met from a uh family friend. So a family friend kind of threw a few acquaintances, put us together. So it was uh buddy of mine's we'll say buddy of mine's wife's aunt is friends with her mother. So kind of holy cow.

SPEAKER_00 43:21

I'm gonna translate for the audience what that means. We met on Tinder.

SPEAKER_02 43:25

Um Tinder involvement here.

SPEAKER_00 43:31

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 43:33

That was too long of a story. That was too long of a story.

SPEAKER_00 43:36

Yeah, and he was looking up and to the right, so he was accessing big little yeah. I was uh you know, it was a burning building. I rushed in. That's right. That's right, yeah, yeah. Dude, that's that's awesome. That's thank you, bro. Yeah, congratulations. Thank you, man. Thank you. You gotta come down and uh race in the Lambeau. Oh man, yeah, uh come come on. Down, we got plenty of room.

SPEAKER_02 44:01

Awesome, man. Awesome. Dan, what would you say? What are some daily mental habits you have that or daily habits in general that help keep you sharp? Whether it be physical, mental, meditation, gym. Talk to us about that for a second.

SPEAKER_00 44:19

Um, so isolation brings elevation, right? If if you want to get you get better at something, you kind of need to have some alone time. You really need to focus on write it down what it is that you want. Um, that I I try to I try to keep that on like in we'll say my mental bucket, on my physical bucket. Um, in my house, I have a cold plunge. I have a cold plunge, and right next to my cold plunge, I have a steam sauna. So, like if you're if you're ever feeling down or drained or not in a good mood, the cold plunge is the last thing you want to do because it's not going to be fun. But you get in that sucker, you know, I and I get in for about three minutes. I keep my water about 45 degrees. When you get out of that thing, you are in the best mood ever because it dumps um endorphins and serotonin um for about three hours. So your energy levels spike, you're in a much better mood, you have a lot more clarity. And then the the steam sauna, I think there was a you would know more about this, but there was a medical report released a couple years back that said if you take a sauna for 20 minutes once a week, it reduces your risk of uh cata um cardiovascular disease death by like 20. If you do it two times, 40 percent, and if you do it three times a day, three times a week for 20 minutes, it's like reduces it by 80 percent.

SPEAKER_02 45:58

80 percent, yeah. 80 with the staff, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 46:01

Yeah, so it's like what what do you like? Yeah, do it. Like that's that's a non-negotiable, right? Like, who's we know? I mean, chances are I'm not gonna die of a heart attack, I'm gonna die in a car, probably, right? But you know, so good thing for the freaking sauna and the cold plunge, idiot. Yeah, yeah. But you know, I think there's risk somewhere, yeah. Yeah, we got to mitigate some sort of risk. Um, yeah, so um obviously the gym is is a big thing. Um, we were talking about businesses. I didn't bring this up, but um, I'm partners in an MMA gym here in Branson. It's called Doghouse MMA. My business partner is uh Marco. Uh he's an Afro samurai, he's a he's an amazing fighter. He runs it, he lives there, he lives, eats, sleeps it. So he's uh DeMarco Hutchinson is his name, and he's just he is probably the coolest person I've ever met. Like, this guy is so selfless and has been through much so much trauma in his life. Like, um, I have a speaking engagement in Chicago, and he happens to be from Detroit. So I'm taking him and I'm gonna put him on stage and I'm gonna force him to kind of share his story because this guy has come home to his roommate, was his best friend and committed suicide, and he was the first one there. And you know, he's uh he's had multiple, you know, deaths of people, violent deaths in his life, and it's just like this guy this guy would help anybody if he had the the means, even if he did, even even if he didn't. Like this guy is just a salt of the earth type of person. So I'm really excited for that um event because he I don't think he's ever like shared his story publicly, and I think that would help a lot of people. So yeah, yeah, and good things happen when you when you help people like that energy just comes back, right? It it just comes back more it's amplified, absolutely, right? It gets like a kinetic charge.

SPEAKER_03 48:13

Absolutely, yeah. So when you're you know, when you're dealing with business people and all this kind of stuff, it for all those that are listening today who you know are stressed out, maxed out, what what can you challenge them with today? You talk about coal plunge, you talk about the sauna, but what for those people that aren't balanced in that with work life and you know exercise, what would you challenge them with today?

SPEAKER_00 48:40

Well, I I think you need to know that you're gonna need to relocate. You're now gonna live on the corner of hurry up and wait. Right? Because that's that's what an entrepreneur is. You're you're you're grinding, you're grinding, you're grinding, and then you're waiting, right? You're planting these seeds, you're watering them, and then you're waiting for it to sprout. Right. And a lot of people, a lot of people want to force that process. One of the I do a I do a meeting um with a lot of high-level salespeople, and I'll I'll go around the room and I'll say, what are the ingredients to making a cake? You guys go ahead and say some things.

SPEAKER_02 49:25

Flour. Flour, eggs, milk if you need it, milk, sugar, sugar, right?

SPEAKER_00 49:32

Whatever filling you're gonna do.

SPEAKER_02 49:34

Icing.

SPEAKER_00 49:34

All right, so so if I take all those ingredients and I'm and I mix them all up, I blend them up, I do all this real good. There's my cake. Right? Yeah, is that a cake?

SPEAKER_03 49:46

No, not yet. Gotta bake it.

SPEAKER_00 49:50

You gotta bake it.

SPEAKER_02 49:51

You gotta bake it for for what 350 for 350 for uh 20 minutes.

SPEAKER_00 49:56

350 for 20 minutes. Okay, so let me ask you this. I've done all this work, I've made this. Can I bake it for 700 degrees for 10 minutes? No, twice the heat half the time. No, yeah. See, that's what most people think an entrepreneur is. They they want to cut the time down. I swear to god, if you make that cake, it's gonna look like a uh char-grilled steak on the outside and it's gonna be pudding on the inside, right? That cake ain't gonna bake, right? Because there it takes a specific amount of heat. Now, what is heat in being an entrepreneur? It's like the cake doesn't like it in the oven, it's hot, right? It's a difficult time because it's it's going through a transitionary phase, it's going from liquid to somewhat of a solid, right? So, same thing. Like, as you're going through that difficult time as an entrepreneur, know that that's solidifying you, it's taking you from that gelatinous material of I want to do something, but it takes a specific amount of time to do so. So, what I would tell people is give yourself a long fuse. Don't think that you're gonna get it done in 30, 60, or 90 days. Times that by 10.

SPEAKER_03 51:18

Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_00 51:20

Give yourself give yourself enough time, build up a war chest before you go into this, um, or hire people who have already done it. Right, like that's like I built a website for door skins, it sucked. And I've I've uh a buddy of mine uh who I used to be business partners with in a bar, his name is Ben Ubanger. Um, he introduced me to the guy who did his uh website, his name's Dan Soka. And this guy is is a ninja. Like this guy is Spotify, like he's taken my website and he's done things to it that I never would have thought, and he's done such an amazing job. But you know, like you can't do it all, you're not an expert. It's worth hiring experts at certain things. That you know, if you go to court for something, you should probably hire an attorney, right? You know, if if you're uh if you're sick, you might not want to just ask chat GPT what I need to do. You might want to go see a doctor. True, right? So, you know, I guess does that kind of give you a a a good answer?

SPEAKER_03 52:31

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 52:32

That's great.

SPEAKER_02 52:34

Awesome, awesome. Dan, where can people find you? Where can people find door skins?

SPEAKER_00 52:39

Yeah, so the social media is just door skins, just like it says on the hat, uh door skins. I also have a personal, it's just Dan Chutie, uh D-A-N-C-H-U-D-Y, um Instagram, Facebook, um, YouTube, all that stuff. Um, my wife's salon is high volume salon. She's got a website. So if you want to come in and get your nails done real pretty for your wedding, yeah, I'm happy to do that for you. Be on the house, buddy. You know what? I'll go with the toes, too. I'll do the toes, I'll do the whole, and I'll do it personally. Well, you to do it. I get to pick the colors, though. Yeah, fair deal. Fair deal.

SPEAKER_03 53:21

Oh, that's amazing. That's amazing. Uh Dan, last question.

SPEAKER_01 53:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 53:27

Wellness is not about perfection, it's about progress. What does that statement mean to you?

SPEAKER_00 53:34

Well, I I agree with it uh wholeheartedly. Um I think when you're when you're talking about wellness, people need to commit or quit, right? Either commit to it or quit talking about it, right? Because it's it's important, right? Your your wellness, whether you're talking about your your mental wellness and clarity, your physical wellness, like guys, we only have one body, we only have one mind, right? So, like your wellness is should be a focal point in your daily routines. You should jot something down and have a wellness exercise, a uh mediation corner, an exercise room, something you can do to center yourself and propel yourself throughout the day. Yeah, you know, it's that's awesome. My two cents.

SPEAKER_03 54:27

That's good. We'll take it, we'll take it. Love it, man. Man, it's been uh been amazing to have you here uh toolpost today. We've been looking forward to it. Uh Dan and I have been talking about it. Yeah, so you know, we we were enlightened today, we were challenged today, and thank you for challenging the people that are here that are listening, and for those that are gonna listen in the future. Uh, a lot of great insight. Love your energy, love who you are as a person. That's the most important part, you know. So um, thank you so much for coming on today. We really appreciate it. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 54:58

What was the over-under on me saying the F-word? Uh I made it.

SPEAKER_01 55:06

I made it, guys. Oh, you made it. You just blew it.

SPEAKER_00 55:12

Damn it. Oh, that's well, thanks for having me. It was an honor, and uh love both you guys. Look up to you. Can't wait to collaborate on something in the future with you. And uh yeah, keep killing it.

SPEAKER_02 55:25

Sounds good, man. Awesome. Thanks for being here. Thank you so much for being with us, guys. We'll see everybody next week. Please check us out on all social media handles at Dual Coast Podcast. We're available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music. We'll see you guys next week. Dan Shuty, thank you so much again. Yep, thank you, buddy.

SPEAKER_00 55:40

See you guys.