The Mentor Who Robbed Me: The $40K/Month Brand I Lost Overnight
Millionaire Mindsets
Xavier Miller
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
At 25, Darius built a thriving home decor brand through dropshipping, pulling in over $40K/month from his laptop. But in the middle of burnout, he trusted an older “mentor” who offered to help him scale. What started as a partnership turned into betrayal. One contract. One signature. And he lost everything, his brand, his revenue, even his slogan.
In this episode, Xavier exposes how paperwork, pressure, and misplaced trust can destroy a business.
We unpack the red flags, the lessons, and the painful truth: being the creator doesn’t mean you’re the owner.
If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed in business… this is your warning, and your blueprint to move smarter.
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| 0:00.0 | Yo, what's up everybody? Welcome back to the greatest show on NIRF, the Millionet Monset podcast. |
| 0:05.1 | I'm your host, Xavier Miller. And today, as y'all know, I got another amazing, dope, |
| 0:11.7 | valuable episode for you guys. But before we get started, I'd like to advise all our listeners, |
| 0:15.8 | watch us, please hit that like button, subscribe, leave a five-star star rating and leave us a review we really appreciate |
| 0:21.8 | that we read all the reviews so if you guys can do that we will greatly appreciate and let's get |
| 0:26.0 | it right to it today this is another episode of money mistakes and secrets uh this is the second |
| 0:32.3 | episode of the series we released the first one last week and i can't tell you all the great |
| 0:36.9 | feedback we got i got a lot |
| 0:38.8 | of emails sent to my email the email i created for the show or all type of crazy very |
| 0:44.8 | interesting stories that i'm still funneling through so i appreciate y'all for um giving me |
| 0:49.6 | some feedback on this i see a lot of people that's enjoying it so we're going to keep this thing |
| 0:53.7 | going and um i got a like i said i got a lot of people that's enjoying it so we're gonna keep this thing going and I got a like I said a lot of good content for you all so today I got another |
| 0:59.0 | this is a this is a this is a really good one with some with some valuable lesson so I |
| 1:03.4 | would definitely pay attention to this share this with somebody that may need it |
| 1:08.0 | and we don't get we're going gonna get right into it and today's story |
| 1:12.2 | when i read it today i'm going to leave my commentary for the end i'm gonna just go through the |
| 1:17.3 | story first and then uh just leave my commentary so the story could just be fluid and straight through |
| 1:22.8 | so let's just get let's get right to it as y'all know i'm I don't want to, you know, put their personal business out there because they sent these to me privately for me to share. |
| 1:34.2 | But I'm going to just take their names out of it. |
| 1:36.0 | So I'm going to get straight to it right now. |
| 1:37.4 | So here's the email I got. Hey, Xavier, I debated whether or not to even send this, but I listened to your episode about losing six figures on a bad deal and it hit close to home. |
| 1:48.4 | It made me realize that I wasn't the only one. |
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