Millionaire Explains: How To Get Rich With $0

I'm a 28-year-old multi-millionaire. And if I had to start over today from scratch with literally zero dollars, this is exactly what I would do to get rich again. And it's pretty funny because I actually had to start from zero multiple times. Growing up, we had absolutely no money. I had no real mentors. And I was the first one in my bloodline to figure all this out. At around 20 years old, I made my first hundred thousand dollars through the internet. But then, two years later, I blew it all and I had to start all over again from scratch. I honestly thought I was cooked at that time because this time I wasn't starting from zero. I had racked up over $30,000 in debt. But thankfully, by the grace of God, I bounced back. And in the last five years, I made over $10 million online through e-commerce, digital products, and software. So, let me tell you exactly what I did to get back on my feet and reach financial freedom in just a few years. It all starts with making that first $10,000. I'll be extremely honest with you. This is the hardest part of the entire journey. Most people never make it past this exact point right here. And a big reason for that is that most people are trying to do it by starting a business. And this is a huge mistake. And I'm speaking from experience here. I spent the first five years of my entrepreneurial journey stuck behind this wall of $10,000. No matter how hard I tried, no business I created was getting me over that hump. And I was in high school at this time. So, I had many things going for me. I didn't have expenses. I had some good business ideas. I had a mom that believed in me. But none of the businesses I started were able to put thousands of dollars in profit into my pocket, no matter how hard I tried. And sure, maybe that was a skill issue. But after working with thousands of entrepreneurs over the last 10 years, I found this to be a very common occurrence. So, if you want to speed run your first $10,000, don't start a business. Do this instead. You probably don't want to hear this, but the first thing that you need to do is take an audit over your life. Oftentimes, we think we need to add more things to become successful. But a lot of times, our biggest growth can actually come from subtraction. Some of the singular greatest leaps I've had in the beginning of my journey were from cutting out bad habits. For me, the biggest one was smoking weed. I didn't think that it was impacting my life that much until I quit and everything got better around me instantaneously. This is a concept called addition by subtraction, and it's something that I learned from one of my early mentors that I used to study on YouTube, this guy named Sam Ovens. The basic premise is that we are going to be able to elevate faster by cutting out the things that aren't serving us as opposed to stacking on more good habit. And I've tested this so many times throughout my 28 years of this life, and I can tell you that it's an absolute truth. So, before anything else, before we get into any strategy or game plan, this is step number one. And it cannot be skipped. You've got to take a serious audit of your life and your situation and truly ask yourself, what is one thing right now that is seriously holding me back from my highest potential? If you're serious about this journey, I know you are because you clicked on this video, you need to cut that thing out before moving on. I don't know what that thing is for you, but I know you do. Now, to start putting some money in your pocket and take that leap from zero to $10,000, I recommend you do something called unleveraged work. Now, look, it's not going to be the most glamorous thing ever, but it's going to get you to that 10K mark faster than almost anything else on the planet. When I talk about unleveraged work, I mean that the money you make is tied directly to your time and effort alone. I'm talking about things like working a regular 9-5, doing side hustles like DoorDash or mobile detailing, or just reselling old stuff around your house. When I had 30 grand in debt, the first thing I did to start getting back out of it was selling all the stuff that I liked but didn't really need. I sold my PlayStation. I sold some of the shoes I had. these items that were worth money that weren't really adding any value to my life. And that put a couple hundred bucks in my pocket. I also went and I started reselling items. So, I would go to Goodwill. Craigslist. I would go to Facebook Marketplace. And I would try to flip things for a profit whenever I could find. And you might think that this is small change, but pretty quickly, I was able to save up a nice nest egg that I could use to do something better. And then, in the nighttime, my version of unleveraged work was editing video. I was trading my time for money with a basic skill that I had acquired over the last couple years. From doing this, I was able to stack up a couple extra hundred dollars a week. And while it wasn't that much, it continued to help me build that nest egg that I could use to start my business down the line. So, for you specifically, it can be as simple as going to work a 9-5 job, but don't stop at that. If you're really serious about this, you need to go get a 9-5, and in your free time, you need to be figuring out how you can get money coming in from another source. It doesn't have to be cool. sexy. It's not going to make you millions of dollars. But if you're broke watching this video with zero or a couple hundred bucks, you need to be aggressively accumulating capital like your life depends on it. Look, the real key is to combine at least two of these. I suggest you guys go out, work a regular 9-5, and lock in on a side hustle that will build you a skill that we can later use to start a leveraged

and scalable business. I'm going to explain this a bit later more in this video, but pretty much all your free time right now needs to go towards putting some money in your pocket. Depending on how much work you put in, this alone can take you to your first $10,000 in savings relatively quickly, which is crucial because it gives you a safety net, which we can then use to take risks and pursue big opportunities, which we're going to need to do if we really want to make some serious money. All right, so the next level is trying to save up your first 30K. For me, this was the number when I finally started to feel a taste of financial freedom. You know, I started to let my shoulders down a little bit. And I was just reading some statistics about this, and it absolutely terrified me. Did you guys know that less than 15% of Americans under the age of 50 have ever reached this amount of money in savings? Is that not crazy? I'll tell you the reason why this is, and it's that nobody ever prioritizes mastering one skill. Going from 10 to 30,000 is simply a matter of getting so good at one skill that you can sell it for a lot of money to businesses that need. And I'm not the biggest fan of the agency business model for making millions, but it is by far one of the best ways you can stack up your first 50K because businesses can pay you anywhere from one to $5,000 a month depending on the skill that you're providing. The first one, with no surprise, is AI. Pretty much everything around us is being replaced by AI. And as a result of this, companies are paying thousands of dollars to anyone who can help them integrate it into their business. And what's crazy is you don't even have to be a super expert with these things because most people haven't even tried it for themselves. If you go to your grandma right now and you show her nano banana generating a picture of her on top of the Eiffel Tower, she'll probably freak out. People don't understand the capabilities of these things. So, even just introducing them to some local businesses that haven't seen it yet is enough to give them that wow factor to potentially want to give you some money. I've heard so many different offers that people have been able to sell to local businesses successfully, like AI lead generation, setting up systems where you're sending out outbound emails for potential customers and validating those leads with AI. Or AI receptionist. People call into companies, and instead of having a girl at the front desk for 30 grand a year, you can have an AI bot doing it for $1,000 a month. These are things that businesses are actively looking for, and they don't know how to do, so they need people like you to go and do it for them. A perfect example of this is a friend of mine named Wyatt Rodgers. He was able to drop out of school and build a full-time business simply selling AI receptionist services to local businesses in his area. This was the business model that took him to that $50,000 mark and now actually well beyond that. And it's something that he did without years of going to college or years of experience. But if you feel like AI is not necessarily for you, there's another skill that I think is equally as valuable in the market today, and that is viral content. As we all know, because it's been said a million times, attention is the most valuable form of currency in the world right now. And it's actually one of the few things that AI is struggling to replace. There are billion-dollar brands out there that are still struggling to go viral on social media. There are super rich people that I've seen now try to get into the Instagram and content game just because they want to have this attention. If you can simply figure out how to get views online, your price goes through the roof. Not only could you sell this to businesses, but you can bring your services to different creators and different people that want to blow up online. People have paid me as much as $30,000 just for a consultation about growing their online brands. This is something that people want more than anything. So, if you can just get half decent at it, you can make some real money with it. If you can become competent in either of these skills, you can easily offer your services to other businesses and charge them anywhere from two to five grand a month. And it's genuinely only going to take you a few clients until you have a business that's bringing in a couple thousand dollars a month in straight profit. And if you were smart and kept your 9-5, that's going to take care of the majority of your expenses. So, you can stash away pretty much as this cash as possible. And I know it might sound like I'm oversimplifying this whole process, but I've just seen so many different stories of people that became millionaires. And I've worked with so many people over the past couple years. And reflecting on my own journey thousands of times, this stuff that I'm saying today really works, and it really is as simple as I'm describing. You just have to go for it. Most people never even start in the first place. I mean, sure, they might come up with an idea, a business name, a logo, but nobody's picking up that phone and calling businesses to try to sell them services. Nobody's going door-to-door hustling trying to get deals done. And if you really want me to be honest with you, that's the thing that's going to take you to this next level and get you your first taste of financial freedom. It's the thing that 99% of people simply never do. My journey was a little bit different though because I went straight into building a business once I saved up

my first two grand. And in hindsight, I wish I took a year to focus on the things I'm telling you right now. It would have given me so much more freedom and capital to build my business the right way as opposed to trying to bootstrapping everything and literally going back to zero multiple times. But thankfully, the business that I did build ended up being the thing that made me my first hundred thousand dollars liquid. In fact, it's a very specific type of business. And in my opinion, it is the best way to take that leap and stack up your first hundred thousand dollars. Once you stacked up some money and develop at least one or two of these valuable skills, you're finally ready to start a leveraged business. Most people skip the first two stages and that's why they stay stuck for their entire life. I promise, if you do them, you're going to succeed so much faster. But you can't do side hustles or work with clients one-on-one forever if you really want to unlock scale. To do that, you need to combine your skills and capital to build a leveraged business. What does this mean? Simply put, this is a business that can make you money while you sleep. And I'm not talking about passive income. I'm talking about a real business that is making you money that is not attached to your time directly. These businesses typically consist of one or three things. They're either product-based, software-based, or media-based. And I've done all three. But the one that made me my first hundred thousand in my twenties was e-commerce, selling physical products online. I was able to do this right out of college. I ended up building a drop shipping store that turned into a pretty successful brand and we sold that brand in 2024 for a life-changing amount of money. To be honest with you, e-commerce is my favorite business model for those that are looking to build a leveraged business, especially considering the fact that drop shipping exists so you don't have to have a huge amount of capital to get started like building a software. And now we have so many AI tools to assist us in the process of starting a store. With the tools that exist in the market today, I'm very confident that you can build a profitable online store in less than 30 days. Just a couple months ago, we took a brand new store from zero to over two thousand dollars a day in under a month with this business model. And it wasn't even for me. It was for a complete beginner that had never done it before. I worked super closely with him to help get this thing off the ground. And this business went on to do over two hundred thousand dollars in sales. That is a leveraged business. And like I said, AI played such a big part in that entire process. We used AI tools to find the product, to build our store, to create our ads. Pretty much all the things that I used to have to do by myself, now we're able to do them so much faster and with so much accuracy thanks to tools like Claude and Higgsfield and ChatGPT. Now, for anybody that's watching this video that has a little bit of extra capital and wants to learn how to do e-commerce the right way, I launched a program around seven months ago called AI Commerce Academy where I work directly with people from my community and help them build a profitable store in 60 days. The results in this time have been absolutely insane. We helped so many people get their first hundred thousand dollars in sales with e-com and most of them had never even done this business model before. Inside of the coaching program, we hold your hand through every step of the process. We validate your products for you. We help you put your store together. We even approve your ads before they go live. And you guys get the chance to talk to me every single week. This is not for everybody, though. If you only have five hundred bucks to your name, this is not for you. This is for those people out there that want to build a store. They want to do it the right a team of people who have done it consistently over and over again. So if you're interested in starting your online store the right way, check out the link in the description where you guys can book a call with a member of my team to see if you're a good fit for the program. And even if you're not a good fit on that call, they're going to create you a custom game plan to help you start your own store within the next 30 days. And the call is 100% free. So the link for that's going to be down below. And this is not me continuing to promote the program, but one of the biggest things I did to take that leap from 30 to a hundred thousand was continuing to invest in specialized education, buying courses, buying coaching from people at a higher level than me, and joining these paid communities where other people are at my same level or above. Like even at this stage of my life, I spend over a hundred thousand dollars every single year on coaches just to make myself better. And along every step of my journey, I've always been putting thousands of dollars a month into having coaches, into being in programs, into being in communities. So yeah, it's something that I'm always going to invest in and I've always seen a ROI from it in my life. And the last thing of this phase, if you really want to get to that 100k as fast as possible, you need to live like you're broke and reinvest everything you make. I did the exact opposite and it almost destroyed my entire life. Like I said in the beginning of this video, I moved to LA in my early twenties. I made around a hundred thousand dollars and I lost all of it. It's so easy to spend money when you ain't never had anything. I was fully a victim to lifestyle inflation. I had a super expensive apartment, super expensive car, no.

I was around people that had me spending money at restaurants and clubs. Then I got hit with my first California tax bill and the money almost literally did some David Blaine magic trick and disappeared out of my hand. Once I reached that point of being in extreme debt, I pumped brakes on everything. I literally cut my lease. I moved back to my mom's house. I dropped my expenses down to near zero. And funny enough, immediately after that, I started having some money coming in. The moral of the story is that I find that it's easier to make more money with less expenses. That's not to say you shouldn't go and get yourself something nice once you start getting paid, but keep it as low as possible and you'll find that things are way easier in terms of growth. The best analogy I can give is that we're hiking up a big mountain here. And if you can stay as light as possible, it's going to be easier to make that trip. In total, it took me around four years from when I started to when I had a hundred thousand dollars in my bank account after taxes. But I genuinely believe you could do it much quicker if you just follow what I'm telling you in this video. One of my mentors told me if I saw further, it's because I stood on the shoulders of giants. I'm not no giant, but I've been through a lot, so please listen from my experience. Now, I don't want to spend too much time about going from a hundred grand to a million because the reality of it is most of you guys are not even close to a hundred grand yet. And the information I shared before this is way more important. Here's what I will say. Once I hit that first 100k in savings, everything in my life took off financially. Like collectively, like I told you, it took me around four years to get to that 100k mark. But then the jump to 200k literally happened 90 days later and I became a liquid post-tax millionaire around a year and a half afterwards. Biggest challenge of your life is going to be finding something that can take you from zero to one. Once you find that thing, it's simply a matter of putting your blinders on, not falling victim to distractions or other opportunities, and just continuing to go all in on your thing. The same business that got me to my first hundred grand was the one that got me to my first million. And that's the lesson I'm trying to teach you. But if I wanted to get to that first hundred grand faster, I would do all the things I said in this video. And if you do them, maybe you'll get there, too. I believe in you. Thanks for