#159: How to Build a Business Without Losing the People You Love // Daryl Kelly // Next Level Podcast

The Founder Podcast

Chris Lee

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to a new episode of Next Level Pros! In this episode, we dive deep into the realities of entrepreneurship and family life. Daryl Kelly is joined by his daughter Evelyn Kelly for an honest conversation about growing up in an entrepreneurial household, balancing ambition with family connection, and the lessons learned along the way. This episode is for parents chasing big goals without losing touch with what matters most, and for kids witnessing the journey up close.

Highlights:

"Being an entrepreneur isn't just about building a business. It's about carrying the weight of providing while trying to be present at home."

"Success isn't just one thing, it's a million things combined."

"I just want to be able to have whatever, keep my choices open."

"The reason I want people to be at my house is to see that I'm not chasing money, but I'm building a family."

Timestamps:

00:00 – Introduction

01:33 – Evelyn’s Unique Path: Graduating High School and College Early

02:37 – Realizing Dad Was Different: The Entrepreneurial Mindset

05:01 – Quality Over Quantity: Making Family Time Count

10:31 – The Impact of Absence: When Dad Was Away

16:10 – Childhood Hardships: Seeing the Ups and Downs

19:14 – Redefining Success: More Than Money

22:36 – What Drives Evelyn: Going 100% in Everything

28:55 – High School Side Hustle: Building a Dance Business

40:46 – Family as the Why: Building a Legacy Beyond Wealth

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0:00.0	Being an entrepreneur isn't just about building a business. It's about carrying the weight of providing while trying to be present at home. And honestly, there's a pull between the two. And it's real. This is an honest conversation about what it's like growing up in a house where the drive to build never really turns off, the times I showed up, and the times I didn't.
0:17.8	This episode is for every parent out there who is trying to chase
0:20.9	big goals without losing connection with the people who matter most. And for every kid who's
0:25.3	watching the journey up close, let's dive in. Daryl, today we've got a extremely special guest.
0:36.2	I think maybe even more special to you more than me,
0:39.1	huh? Yes, it is. It's the infamous Evelyn Kelly with us. Welcome, Evelyn. Thank you.
0:45.5	Evelyn, how are you related to this idiot right here? This is my father, dad, Darryl, Kelly. Yes.
0:52.7	So it's interesting. I wanted Evelyn on. She's leaving the house soon. So she's my oldest daughter and she is going to be going to college. And Evelyn is a unique individual. And so I wanted to have her on because I think there's a lot of things that we can talk about that really apply to, you know, people who are out there raising kids,
1:11.6	business owners, and I think she has a good perspective to share.
1:16.3	Ellen, let's just start at the beginning.
1:18.0	Okay.
1:18.4	So you just graduated high school just a month ago, right?
1:21.8	Yeah.
1:22.6	And what's special about that is you kind of graduated twice in like the same week or something.
1:29.8	Yeah.
1:30.0	You graduated with a high school degree and an associate's degree?
1:34.2	Yeah.
1:34.5	There's a program where we live called Running Start where you can, the last two years of high school, you only take college courses.
1:41.6	And it makes you able to graduate with an AA and a high school
1:46.0	diploma and you just turned 18 I'm still 17 still 17 you've got a college degree in a
1:52.7	in high school degree yeah wow smart woman yeah congrats but the real reason you're here is we
2:00.7	want to figure out what it was like for you
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