Having grown up in a family where we were always tight on money, it occurred to me that

being financially strapped all the time wasn't how I wanted to live my life.

And so I sat down, had a conversation with myself, I think I was probably 15, 16 years

old.

And I remember thinking, I am not going to live this way.

And so I decided to commit myself to reading all of the self-help books that I could

and studying the best practice systems that actually work, you know, so I read Think

and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki, how to win friends

and influence people by Dale Carnegie and other books like that.

But then I kept going, I kept reading case studies and I wanted to figure out, how was

it that this business is successful and what makes this business not successful?

What makes this business scale and what makes this business unscalable?

And eventually I figured it out and so I was 16, 17 years old, I started a DJ entertainment

company out of my parents' basement and scaled that thing.

I no longer own the company but I grew the company called DJConnection.com to the point

where that event, where that company would do about 4,000 events or weddings per year.

Well then I scaled it and grew it and scaled it and I started a party rental company and

then a wedding bridal show and then moved into the haircut men's grooming haircut business

with EITRLounge.com and moved into commercial real estate, I began flipping homes, got involved

in dentistry and with a law firm and just a lot of different businesses that I scaled.

And at a certain point it was 2005, a lot of people began asking me, hey, could you teach

me how to scale my business or could you teach me how to grow my company?

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