Selling Solar: The Ultimate Personal Development Program That Pays $50K/Month | Michael Gutschmidt E483

The Rich Somers Report

Rich Somers

Business, Investing

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🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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If you are sick and tired of being sick and tired or even broke, busted, and disgusted you need to shock the system and do something radical. Hit me up on IG and we'll get you on the right track @michaelgutschmidt. Energy is about to become one of the biggest opportunities—and problems—of the next decade. Rich sits down with Michael Gutschmidt to break down what’s actually happening behind the scenes with energy in America—and why most people aren’t paying attention. They dive...

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0:00.0	Brownouts are happening, they're happening more rapidly, and electric rates are going through the roof.
0:04.2	When I first started solar a decade ago, the average electric rate per kilowatt hour was like 10 cents.
0:10.0	Pretty darn cheap.
0:11.9	Now in California, the average cost for electricity is like 36, 37 cents.
0:16.8	The electrification of America, AI data centers, Stargate, the most expensive real estate
0:21.5	project in history. That's an AI data center for the government. That stuff is going to
0:26.1	pull so much energy. And they just don't have enough gas and nuclear plants coming online.
0:31.3	I think it takes five to 10 years to commission a plant like that where solar, we can install
0:36.3	it in five days welcome to the rich
0:38.9	summers report where we talk real estate business and wealth building all while keeping it real no
0:43.8	fluff no BS I hope that you enjoy the show all right guys today I got the mega-watt millionaire in the building.
0:57.7	We're going to talk big things on energy, what's going on in the solar industry.
1:01.7	We're going to talk the number one skill.
1:03.5	I believe you can learn today if you are in your 20s, in your 30s, looking to get into business, entrepreneurship.
1:09.8	I got my man Michael Gutschmidt in the building. What's up, Michael? Woop, who. Thanks, Rich. Thanks for having me on. Do appreciate you coming on, man. You took the big drive down here from Vista, about 30 minutes north, a San Diego man. And I got to ask you, you deem yourself the megawatt millionaire. That's right. What the heck does that mean?
1:27.9	So megawatts, a unit of electric measurement. I've installed megawatts. I've overseen megawatts and
1:33.0	I'm a millionaire. Damn, that's pretty good. That's pretty good. So we're in a national emergency
1:40.7	today as of January last year. Yeah, that's right. In terms of energy, power, all that
1:46.1	sort of stuff going on. And you were telling me, before we started recording, we're going to have
1:50.6	more rolling brownouts here in America if something doesn't change soon. Yeah. What are the rolling
1:56.9	brownouts and what are the things that need to a change 100%. So the president signed in a
2:02.8	national emergency saying that we don't have enough energy production, right? We're operating at
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