How This Former Drug Dealer Became A Millionaire | Ivan Flores
Wealthy Way
Ryan Pineda
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2023
⏱️ 78 minutes
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This inspiring episode features Ivan Flores, a former drug dealer who overcame a challenging upbringing to achieve remarkable success.
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Growing up without a father and facing tough circumstances in his neighborhood, Ivan made choices that led him down a troubled path. He flunked out of school, became a teenage parent, and engaged in drug dealing until he ended up in jail.
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| 0:00.0 | I started at 12 years old. |
| 0:01.3 | I bought an ounce of marijuana, broke it up in dimes and nickels, and hit a profit out of that. |
| 0:05.8 | So I got a lot of my business acumen from the drug world, right? |
| 0:09.2 | You know, they tied me up, they robbed me, I had guns to my head, right? |
| 0:13.4 | As a young age, I always told my mom, I'm like, you know what, I'm not gonna make it after 24 years old. |
| 0:18.0 | And I'm gonna end up in prison or dead. |
| 0:20.5 | You have a kid when you're 16, you know, you go to jail, you're a young married guy. |
| 0:25.5 | You know, you quit selling drugs. What's your plan now? |
| 0:28.0 | One of the hardest things I think is knowing if God wants to close the door open for you. |
| 0:34.8 | What's up, wealth builders, Ryan here today. |
| 0:36.9 | I have a really cool guest. |
| 0:40.0 | This guy was a drug dealer all the way, starting when he was 12 years old, |
| 0:45.4 | ended up doing that for 10 years before getting locked up and, you know, |
| 0:49.8 | having a kid very young and just all these crazy things. |
| 0:53.0 | But despite that, he's been able to grow as an entrepreneur, |
| 0:56.3 | where he now has 50 different restaurants. |
| 0:59.9 | He's franchising like crazy, they're doing over $50 million a year. |
| 1:03.5 | And he's also one of my only one-on-one students that I coach. |
| 1:07.2 | And so I've gotten to know this guy behind the scenes and happy to have Ivan Flores. |
| 1:12.0 | What's up, man? What's up, bro? |
| 1:13.2 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:14.0 | I appreciate everything you've done for me, so thank you for that. |
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