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Episode Title
Obsessed With the Process: Daniel G on Sales, Purpose & Winning in Life Host: Mara Dorne Guest: Daniel G
Overview In this episode, Daniel G engages in a thought-provoking discussion on the nature of sales, personal growth, and success. He challenges conventional beliefs surrounding money, power, and purpose, emphasizing the importance of mindset and effort to achieve lasting success.
Key Themes and Insights
- Money vs. Power
- Main Argument: Money is not the ultimate source of power.
- Insight: True power comes from confidence, discipline, and the ability to communicate effectively with others.
- Sales as a Belief System
- Sales Definition: Sales is not about manipulation; it’s about belief.
- Personal Experience: Daniel shares his journey from initially not recognizing himself as a salesperson to embracing the role through experience.
- Misconceptions About Sales
- Common Misbelief: Sales is often perceived as unethical.
- Counterpoint: Sales is a moral career as it facilitates connections and transactions that drive the economy.
- The Importance of Resilience
- Failure as a Stepping Stone: Successful individuals often experience more failures than successes.
- Mindset Shift: Viewing starting over as a strength rather than a failure is crucial for growth.
- Skills Over Talent
- Key Point: Skill will always outlast talent in sales.
- Advice: Emphasizes the need to develop communication skills, which are essential for success in sales and beyond.
- The Role of Competition
- Healthy Competition: Competition drives improvement and innovation.
- Perspective: Rather than viewing competitors negatively, successful people should view them as motivators to push one's limits.
Daniel G's Philosophy on Life and Success
- Life as Purpose: Daniel believes simply being alive is a profound purpose.
- Gratitude for Life: Encourages listeners to appreciate the gift of life and the opportunities it provides.
Practical Takeaways
- Continuous Improvement: Always strive to develop both personally and professionally.
- Choosing Your Cult: Emphasizes the importance of surrounding oneself with positive influences and communities that support growth.
- Embrace the Process: Success is a journey that requires persistence, discipline, and a willingness to confront failures.
Final Thoughts Daniel G's energy and insights provide a compelling narrative about redefining success through resilience, communication, and a deeper appreciation for life's opportunities.
Connect with Mara Dorne and Daniel G
- Mara Dorne: [Instagram](https://instagram.com/maradorne)
- Daniel G: [Instagram](https://instagram.com/danielg)
- BILFPOD: [Instagram](https://instagram.com/bilfpod)
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOThe Nature of Sales: Born or Made?
0:45 to 4:10
Discussion on whether sales skills are innate or can be developed.
“An unsuccessful person's always like, oh, that person's life's so easy.”
Daniel's Journey into Sales
4:10 to 9:30
Daniel shares his early experiences in sales and how he got started.
“I didn't think I was in like a network marketing company.”
Misconceptions About Sales
9:30 to 12:20
Exploration of common misconceptions regarding the ethics of sales.
“So why do I think sales is like, I think it's the best in the world because I think you earn your check and you can never stop.”
The Value of Sales Skills
12:20 to 14:00
Discussing the importance of sales skills and their impact on success.
“So when somebody says a job is safe and secure, I say, whoa, whoa, how about the skill of fricking talking to people's sales where you can never fricking go broke inside of life?”
The Importance of Self-Reliance in Sales
14:00 to 16:40
Learn why working for yourself can be more rewarding than traditional jobs.
“to me that people will work 40 hours, 40 to 50, 60 hours for somebody else, but they won't do it for themselves.”
Building Confidence Through Adversity
16:40 to 19:00
Discover how facing challenges in sales can enhance your confidence and character.
“You can, you can tell just for your whole demeanor.”
The Reality of Failure in Success
19:00 to 23:20
Understand the role of failure in achieving success and how to embrace it.
“hoping and praying that something's going to work out because something didn't work out.”
Risk and Reward: Rethinking Perceptions
23:20 to 26:20
Examine how perceptions of risk can influence decisions and outcomes in life.
“But I mean, I feel like I like the truth.”
Health, Fitness, and Business Success
26:20 to 28:01
Explore the connection between physical fitness and professional success.
“I'm like, Steve, turn on the video so I can make it real.”
The Interconnection of Fitness and Success
28:01 to 29:51
Explore how physical fitness impacts mental clarity and business success.
“it already sets you up for a routine in life, right?”
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Running: A Metaphor for Life’s Challenges
29:51 to 31:58
Discuss how running reflects personal challenges and success in life and business.
“Think of running as the most - All right, all right, you got me.”
The Mindset of a 'Psycho' Salesperson
31:58 to 37:58
Understand the mindset required for success in sales, emphasizing obsession and high standards.
“Like the point where I wouldn't want to work with you because you're psycho.”
Finding Purpose in Life
37:58 to 42:00
Learn about finding purpose through gratitude for life itself rather than external goals.
“All those things, no, people need something more.”
The Sales Cult: Embracing the Right Mindset
42:00 to 43:52
Learn about the concept of 'cult' in sales and how it influences motivation and success.
“I think as soon as you put in like D a, then all of a sudden you like pop up, uh, Daniel G on Instagram.”
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:00I can't go broke. I can't be poor.
0:02Daniel G:If you know sales, then you are definitely gonna know today's guest because he truly has been voted. That was a good intro. Not as good as you. Do you think that people are just like innately born to sell? Can you develop into a salesperson? You can't teach somebody to be hungry. It's just if somebody's hungry or not, if they're gonna be doing really well at sales. I didn't think I was in sales. I thought I was literally like in a labor job. People think sales is risky. I also think a job is risky. One thing people don't talk about is how many times they were unsuccessful. So how many times were you unsuccessful?
0:33Whoa, like monthly, daily, like weekly? Yeah. When somebody looks at a successful person, you got to realize like that person just dealt with a lot more failures to get to that one yes that suffocates all the failures. An unsuccessful person's always like, oh, that person's life's so easy. No, you didn't see in the morning that they were unsuccessful up until 3 p.m. So for me, it's like a lot of times. I didn't put the position on the pedestal. I was just hungry enough. and when hunger outweighs emotions, that's when you work.
1:02Daniel G:Welcome back to the Bill Fod, where authenticity trumps authority. Now, if you know sales training and you know sales, then you are definitely going to know today's guest because he truly has been goaded. He's been on stages with Alex Hermosi, Bradley. I mean, this guy has been from Dubai to Miami. You name it, he's been there. He is absolutely incredible. His energy is fantastic. Please welcome Mr. Daniels. Thank you for having me. I'm excited. Thank you. I'm excited. Thank you. That's all you got. Thank you. I'm excited. No, I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm like, I was waiting for you to be like, thank you.
1:33That was a good intro.
1:35Daniel G:I did good, right? That was a good intro. Not as good as you. Well, for something that wasn't like scripted word by word, I'm like, she gets it. I got it. Yeah, you're good. I feel like I got your vibe. Yeah. Yeah. I'm so excited to have you. I watch your stuff on Instagram. So it's like, you know, meeting royalty right now. Thank you. Yeah, I thought I knew sales, but you really happened to like really just nail it. So we're just going to get into it. You ready? Yeah, I'm into it. So what's really impressive about you, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, is number one, you've been on hundreds of stages, right?
2:05Trained over 2 million salespeople, but you've done this before the age of 31. Yes.
2:11Daniel G:That's impressive. Yeah, I'm 32 now. So before? So yeah, before the age of 31, I guess. That's incredible. and you started. So I read that, you know, it all started, you were in a grocery store and you wanted to get candy. Right. And your dad was like, no. Yep. And that just kind of was that everybody has this aha moment. That was a breakthrough. Yeah. That's it. That was one of them. Like, I think there was a lot of micro series. That was just one of them for me to get inside of sales. It was just the thing that nothing was ever going to be handed to you. And I was way too young to get a job.
2:37Yeah. Right. So my, my sales career started when I was 15, 14 and a half, 15, because I couldn't apply to McDonald's.
2:45Daniel G:That's crazy. So, So what were you selling? I was selling door-to-door home services for, like there was lawn services, painting services, deck services, driveway services. I was back in Toronto, Canada. So we had a whole bunch of services we could sell. I didn't know I could build a sales team probably into a year in. Like I was 15 and a half when I started building a sales team. So when people ask like, man, how did you get into sales training? I'm like, no, I've been doing this since I was a baby. Yeah, so there's no child labor laws there. You can just go do it. No, I was working illegally.
3:12Daniel G:Oh, okay. Under my brother's insurance card. I was illegal. I wasn't legal into the, into the company. My name was Steven. Steven. Yeah. My name was Steven going to work. And what if I actually how old you are? What are you going to say? 16. Oh, at 16, you can go door to door. Yeah. That's pretty sure at 16, 16 or 18. Anyways, I worked under my brother. My brother was three years older than me. That's great. So do you think that people are just like innately born to sell? Is that like a, or can you develop into a salesperson? Here's what you can't do. You can't teach somebody to be hungry. Yeah.
3:41So like, like people, people always say like, man, are you born to sell? or are you like, or do you train somebody and develop into sales? I'm like, well, it's just if somebody is hungry or not, if they're going to be doing really well at sales, that's it. Because like for me, I didn't even, by the way, I didn't think I was in sales. Like for the first two, three years of my career, I didn't really think I was in sales until somebody gave me a sales book and they're like, Hey, go master this book. I'm like, I'm just knocking on doors.
4:05Daniel G:That's so funny. I didn't think I was in sales. I thought I was literally like in a labor job. Yeah. You didn't know that's what happened for me too. And then they said, go recruit. I didn't think I was in like a network marketing company. I was just like, I'm just going to recruit now. I'm going to hire. So like, so, so I didn't, I didn't put the position on the pedestal, whether it was good or bad. I just, I was just hungry enough. And when hunger outweighs emotions, that's when you work. So like sales is just more like if the person's hungry, they'll just figure out a way. Yeah. So then how did you end up in, in sales training?
4:33Daniel G:Like, so here, well, because I was always doing it. So I never wanted to be a sales trainer. I was doing sales training since I was 15 and a half. You're young when you use half of your age at 15 and a half. I'm doing sales training for five, six years straight, like training people on every Saturday, every morning meeting, recruiting people that were four or five years older than me, dealing them with objections, prospecting, closing. So by like 23, 24, I was in another company after that. I moved into a B2B sales job. I said, all right, let me just start training people in colleges and universities.
5:04Right. Like my path, how I done extraordinarily well inside of sales. Why don't I start training people how to do it. And then I just realized like, wow, when people came up to me and they're like, dude, like that was freaking awesome. I, I learned this. I went to go get the sales job. I just fell into it. Just like I fell into sales.
5:20Daniel G:So it's like a natural thing. Yeah. I fell into sales training. Like I was always like, I always looked at my managers. I'm like, you taught that wrong. Can I go teach it? And I was like 16. I feel like, I, I feel like people are naturally, I feel like there's natural born leaders. There's also naturally born salespeople. It's just something because what you were saying is like you didn't even realize you were selling and that's kind of same thing for me when I came into insurance I didn't realize that I was selling and then it went into the recruiting and I was just offering an opportunity I had no idea so it always just felt very natural now what would you say is like one one misconception about sales that people that one misconception about sales um I think that it's not a moral career yeah that's how we've always thought of sales and that's the threshold to people like when some people come inside of sales they almost are like well i'm gonna do this for a bit and bank some money yeah because they you're not taught that it's like a very ethical career when it's probably the most ethical career in the world like think if sales didn't exist nothing happens yes it is absolutely insane like when i tell and everybody comes to 360 because i've been ridiculed since i was like 14 15 because everybody's like oh that's a sales kid that's a sales guy you get you become a sales trainer.
6:32Like you get all like, yeah. Like, so, and then, but everybody comes at 360. Now all my friends, whether it's a construction company, Hey dude, I need to get more clients. Oh, do you? Yeah. You need to learn how to sell sales makes the world go around. So I think the biggest misconception was just like sales is a non-moral thing to do. It's not ethical thing to do. And for me, at least my job now, like, I think I do what I do now because I'm like going against what we've been taught. And I feel like I'm in a battle with every single education system. Like, how wasn't this taught when we were young?
7:03How wasn't, how weren't kids taught to deal how to communicate with arguments, which by the way, it's just an objection. Like an objection is just somebody wants to start an argument with you. It's the same thing. You deal with an argument. You deal with an objection. You just don't fight fire with fire. Why is the teacher never told us, Hey, when an argument comes in from your significant other, your mother, your father, this is how you deal with it. Acknowledge it. Step number one. Yeah. Completely understand.
7:25Daniel G:Yeah. We were never taught that. So like, to me, that's crazy. Like it is absolutely absurd that a kid will go through their whole life and they won't learn the number one thing that they have to do for the rest of your life is communicate. Like we are not, we don't communicate with plants. We communicate with other human beings. So like, how are we never taught communication when we're young? So the more I think about that, the more I get fired up to be like, all right, let's keep going. Let's keep going. Let's keep going. And there's this younger crowd coming in now. And now that I leverage social media, that younger crowd gets influenced and they say, Oh, this is actual career.
7:54Why have we been taught this, et cetera. So that's why I love social media.
7:56Daniel G:Yeah. I love social media too. I'm like a little on the fence about it because I see the next generation coming up and i watch my kids interact with their friends and they don't interact they interact like like this yes yes yes but i'll tell you you know i grew up kind of the same way you know i grew up that the only acceptable career is growing up whether a lawyer or a doctor sales was very cliche and nobody was a salesperson because it was like seen as very menial bottom of the barrel but you talk about like i've seen a lot of your reels before i even knew that you were daniel g i would like come across you on my on explore something sure my for you page and you specifically talk about like entrepreneurship and sales being the best career?
8:36Daniel G:Can you talk a little bit about that? Yes. Because, you know, um, for, for me, I think it's the most rewarding career in the world because it's, it's, it's for anybody that works hard and you're in a job and you look to the person right of you and you earn the same wages. That's why I say nothing beats sales because in sales it's garbage in garbage. Oh, whatever you put in is what you put out. which you get inside of sales. To me, like wages are safe and secure. Profits is what you shoot for inside of life. Profits, profits, that's a commission. When you help somebody get what they want, you make a profit that creates a fortune inside of life.
9:12When you, cause that's sales. Like once you help somebody get what they want, you get a profit. That's just a commission, right? They always said like, you know, your profits equal fortune, right? And you can live a great life. I'm not, I don't bash jobs, by the way, jobs are great. You can live a good life with a job, but you can live an extraordinary life with sales. So why do I think sales is like, I think it's the best in the world because I think you earn your check and you can never stop. And it pushes you to be a better individual every single day. And you learn so much about yourself. Like, you know, sales forces you to show up every single day, like a baby.
9:47And I don't think jobs really force you to do that when you're in sales. Think of sales, the ability, like, I don't think I've ever talked about this, but like the new day doesn't give a shit about who you were yesterday for the good and the bad. Meaning like if you just shit the bed inside of sales and you didn't make a sale for eight weeks, then you day in the new customers don't know and they don't care. Absolutely. And even if you're a millionaire, you've done extraordinarily well. The new person doesn't know and doesn't care. It forces you to show up like a baby. You and I are talking right now.
10:14I can't come on and be like, well, yeah, you know, sales is good. I got, Hey, this is my energy. It's a new day, new person, new show. I got to give it to them. I got to show up like a baby. It forces you to keep leveling up and be better inside of life. Yeah.
10:26Daniel G:And I also like, I say this all the time. You can fire yourself one day and rehire yourself the next. So it really doesn't matter what happened. You're only as good as your last sale. Like you said, it's a double edged sword. It's good and bad. But I think the best thing about sales, you know, people think when you think of salary, they think safe and it is safe. It's safe. It's very safe. But you're capped out with commission. What's the whole thing with commission? It's endless, right? It's uncapped income potential. And I think there's a huge misconception when you think of salary versus commission that people get scared because they don't have that safety net.
10:57Daniel G:So how do you, how do you kind of like over talk or talk people out of believing that you can't - People have to understand like the, the, the system, the government basically says, since people will not know what to do with all this money, they're smart. Human beings are smart, but we have to show them that they're not smart. Cause if we, if we show them that they're not smart and they don't know what to do with money, we'll control it all. And we'll pay everybody equal. That's wages inside of life. That's a salary inside of life. People don't know what they want until they experience it a little bit.
11:26That's why I always say like, try. You might not know, like there's somebody watching right now that is so charismatic, but they're like, I don't know, be a bit about sales. Try it. Cause your brain doesn't know until it experiences like you might rip or shit on somebody flying private until you fly private. And you're like, wow, I don't even want to fly business class now. Right? Like your brain doesn't know what it wants until it experiences. That's what I say with sales. I always say, I'm like, listen, yes, people think sales is risky. I also think a job is risky. Like I don't, I don't think, I don't think people say it's safe and secure.
11:57Here's what's safe and secure. Like I think sales is the most fricking safe and secure because I can't, I can't go broke. And I hope people like, I hope they get mad when we say shit like this.
12:08Daniel G:I can't, they're going to get offended, but it's okay. Yeah. Like I can't be poor. No, I can't. I can't, I can't be broke. I don't know how to be broke. It's not in our repertoire. You too as well. Why? Because there's 8 billion people in the world and we learned how to talk to those 8 billion people. So when somebody says a job is safe and secure, I say, whoa, whoa, how about the skill of fricking talking to people's sales where you can never fricking go broke inside of life? Because if you can learn how to talk and communicate to people, there's no shortage of people. By the way, there's shortage of jobs.
12:38There's shortage of products, but how many babies are born every single day? Let's wait, let's check the stat. Watch this. Cause when people say sales is risky, how many, how many babies are born daily in the world? Cause this is the way I measure. There's 360 ,000 people born every single day. The way I, the way I think of that is like, if you can learn how to communicate with humans, there's no shortage of humans in the world. Sales is the, like the least riskiest job. It just requires the same thing as salary does a salary. You show up, you work and you get paid sales the same thing you got to show up you have to put in right like like if they just mask it like a sales and a salary is the same thing it's it's both they both pay you off production well no daniel a dentist doesn't get paid a salary a dentist does well if they work for a teacher does if a teacher doesn't show up and teach she doesn't get paid if a salesperson doesn't show up and sell they don't get paid yeah but daniel when they get a salary it's guaranteed to get no the job's not guaranteed forever.
13:35And by the way, they both require skill sets, sales. They require skill set to deal with somebody's objection. That's all it is. Like you deal with somebody's you. Okay. Yes. There's lay downs, but they're both skill sets. I think, I think people don't understand that sales as a skill it's production number one. And then it's skills. Number two, you learn how to deal with hard people and people that are negative. You learn how to go through these emotions and deal with people's problems. You get paid more inside of sales.
13:59Daniel G:It's crazy to me that people will work 40 hours, 40 to 50, 60 hours for somebody else, but they won't do it for themselves. And you can make more money and then nobody's taking a piece of your pie. So this is mind boggling to me that somebody would really go into a dispense because you're not indispensable when you're in sales because you really have a skill set that you can take anywhere. So today, I couldn't sell insurance. I know the skill set of connecting with people and how to talk my way through anything. It doesn't matter. So once you understand how sales works and the psychology behind it and connecting with people and knowing a little bit about everything, you can literally take that skill and never have to worry about being in or being responsible ever.
14:38I love that. Yeah. It's like that. That's so important because people don't yield toward things that people can't strip away from them. And I'm like true confidence inside of life, like real confidence doesn't come from having money because money is something that can always leave you. Real confidence doesn't come from having the nicest watch because you probably meet people with my, like myself, there are millionaires, but they still don't have confidence. confidence means like when you know you're good that's what that's what confidence is like i say like when people say like daniel why do you have confidence i'm like because i can't lose
15:07Daniel G:that's how i feel like i can't lose i can't walk on water i'm telling you i can fucking yeah yeah i can walk on water don't tell me i can't do it that's a high level of confidence why because you have this thing inside of you that nobody can ever strip away so when i talk to people i tell them i'm like i know you want money money's great it's gonna be amazing you're gonna get watches cars, money's closed, blah, blah. There's only so much you can have, right? You're going to get everything you want. However, the most, the thing that's going to make you the most confident side of the world is when, you know, you can go out there and go fricking make money.
15:38Cause there's something inside of you that nobody can ever strip away. I said, that's, that's why when something, when sales is hard, when things are hard, even inside of sales, I say, go through it. Cause you're building the character thing that when things are easy and then you lose money, when things were hard, you built the character to hold onto. I'm like, don't be, don't try to rush the thing that's going to hold on to your confidence for a freaking lifetime or hold on to money for a lifetime. I I'm glad I think in my head, it didn't happen fast. You know, I used to, when I started sales training, I was 23, I was young.
16:08And, um, I remember going to my car, my God, the world needs to hear how I train salespeople. I'm like, come on, just give me a stage. Give me an event. Give me a stage. Give me an event. And I'd sit in my car always. And I was already making money at the time. I've made all the money I wanted to make when I was young, but I was sitting down. I'm like, God, somebody give it, like, just give it to me. And I thank God it took years to get like of the first crack or the first shot, because I think I hold onto it longer now. And I respect the longer now, just taking a little bit more, like a little bit more time.
16:40Yeah.
16:41Daniel G:Fast money is always scary money. Yeah. And people can make it fast. You're like, we're in a job where you can make it fast, but you got to own sometimes when the process is taking a little bit longer than expected, you got to own it a little bit because then you hold on to, You don't want to be a one hit wonder inside of sales. So question for you. I mean, you are absolutely successful. You can, you can tell just for your whole demeanor. One thing people don't talk about is how many times they were unsuccessful. So how many times were you unsuccessful? Whoa. Like monthly, daily, like weekly. Yeah.
17:11Like, and I'm talking about the big losses, like a company gets shut down, whatever. But I'm talking about when somebody looks at a successful person, you got to realize like that person just dealt with a lot more failures to get to that one. Yes. That suffocates all the failures and unsuccessful person's always like, Oh, that person's life. So easy. No, you didn't see in the morning that they were unsuccessful up until 3 PM. But like that, that, so for me, it's like a lot of times, a lot. Like, I think I was talking to a friend last night, his name's Mark Shapiro. He's an investor in real estate.
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17:42We go for dinner last night and he's like, man, cause he's in this online space. Now he's probably made a billion in the real estate game. We're having dinner last night. I think Mark's about 60, 65 years old. And he's like, I started him online about two years ago. I said, Mark, you got to create courses, go on content, just go crazy. And he turns to me yesterday. He's like, I didn't realize how fast paced this game is like online. And like, you just got to move so fast this partnership. And then this guy, and this guy's still, he's going to run ads. He's like, you're it's so fast. He's like, I'm like, yeah, dude, it goes to the same.
18:13You double the rate of your success. You you got to double the rate of your failure, right? Like you can't, it's not like you're etching for failure, but like, you can't, you can't be down on yourself when you fail because that's how you double the rate of your success. It's just like business. You know, you double the rate of your nose, double the rate of your guesses.
18:28Daniel G:Yeah. But there is, my point is there are a lot of, you know, when we show up people, I love when people are like, you make it look so easy, but they have no idea. Yes. Anxiety. Yes. Like the intense feeling that you get up sometimes in, especially when you're overseeing people and you're, you're doing sales training. You want them to succeed. Same thing for me. They don't know what it's like that overwhelming feeling in the morning when you wake up and you have this pressure on your chest that you want everyone to be successful. They don't see that part about it or the part where you're literally talking to God, hoping and praying that something's going to work out because something didn't work out.
19:04Daniel G:But I think the premise of that is you have to be willing to risk and know what that risk feels like in order to be successful. You don't just wake up and you're in like, I didn't wake up appearing. Like, oh, Amara, the success story. No, it didn't work like that. Right, right. Yeah, I love that you talked about that. But I also weigh out risk, meaning like I said to my guys on the car ride here, you know, I said, you know, it's very interesting. People say like you try to sell them something, it's 500 bucks, 1 ,000 bucks. They're like, oh, I don't want to risk it. And I'm like, you know, we're in a car right now.
19:35And I said, knock on wood, that is such a risky thing to be in a car. There's car accidents 24-7. You know how risky it is to be in a car. It's less riskier to fly than it is to be inside of a car. I'm like everything I remember Jim Rohn saying this he's like When I started network marketing I was a baby.
19:49Daniel G:He's like everything's risky. You know, he's like life is risky He's like everything's risky. So I tell people i'm like You say it's risky. I'm like really like like you think you're gonna how bad is it really? I'm like down to my last 500 and then what like you go broke. Okay, cool What happens when you go broke you go live at your parents house? Yeah, i'm like how risky is that? Is it that bad? Like, is it, like I asked myself this question too. If everything bad happens to Daniel, all my millions vanish, employs, and I have no brand. I'm not even Daniel G anymore. My dad has a home in Toronto, Canada that he'll give me my bed to sleep on.
20:28So does my mom, so does my grandparents. So do I have aunts and uncles. And if I had none of them, I would have a friend that gives me a couch. I'm like, how risky is it? I'm like, is it that risky? I'm like, is it the bad? Because if you go back to our ancestors, go back to your ancestors, fucking maybe like a hundred years ago, they didn't have the freedom to be like, oh, somebody is going to accept me in. They would like freeze and die outside if they didn't like, it's not like it is today. There's this generation of people that put in work for us that can give us a bed. If really, really, I mean, even for the young people that are like, it's risky.
21:01It's probably not. You'll probably just end up sleeping at your freaking parents' house, which isn't that bad. You slept there for already the first 20 years of your life. Literally, I'm saying that already making millions. I would be okay. I'd almost probably be even more fired up. Like if I lost everything, the whole world would shit on me. I think, I think this fires me up.
21:17Daniel G:I thrive off of that. Not a lot of people do. Like I thrive off of when shit happens to me. Yeah. Like somebody's counting you out. Yeah. Someone's like, fuck you. You're not going to. Yeah. Like I think, I think of this thing. I tell my guys, I'm like, you know, if I lost everything, because there's always people there that are quiet, that want to peek out of the woodworks when something bad happens. I'm like, everybody would shit on me. And I'd be like, well, that person, that person really. and then I'd be like, so I'm at my dad's house. I'm sleeping on the same bed and then I just go build that shit back up in 90 days instead of like nine years.
21:45I'd go build that shit back up in 90 days. That's necessary inside of business to like, you know, have that inside of your head to have that competition inside of your head that doesn't even exist.
21:54Daniel G:And have to create this false competitor. Yeah, I do this all the time and I'm always in this, maybe just because I didn't grow up wealthy. I didn't grow up poor, but I grew up wealthy. Yeah, so I'm always in this, like if the world, if I didn't have what I had today, would I be able to accomplish it tomorrow? Yeah, absolutely. I would. And I'm sure everyone would shit on me too, but I would love it if they did. I like that. But that's not everybody. Not everybody can thrive off of negative energy. I do. And I use it positive to be like, all right, I'll show you. Fuck you. I got you. I got you.
22:21Like the response is in the wind.
22:23Daniel G:Yeah. Like that's like, like, like I think what turns on a players, like actually turns on a players is if I see a thousand comments or I just hear people talking shit, I tell my team 24 seven. it. I'm like the, the, the, the, the, the, the thing to never can do is ever reply to them like this. I'm like, never reply back to them like this. I'm like only reply back to them with success. I'm like suffocate people in your wins. I'm like, that is like, I'm like, as an eight player, you love winning because it silences people. And I'm like, if that like demotivates you, businesses and for you, because when you're a basketball player, a baseball player, a football player, you go into a stadium, just think of it.
22:58Like, I think people lost a competitive edge inside of business and sales. You go into a stadium and like you go in and you're literally saying let's shut this freaking audience up that's what an athlete thinks everything used to walk on eggshells let's be politically no no no no like an athlete literally goes in there when you're lebron and you go into you're like let's shut them up let's drain a three let's keep them quiet that's like an athlete's thinking let's walk let's go into visitors right that's how i think i'm like let's go into visitors town silence them all walk out yes that's how business should be that's how
23:29Daniel G:sales should be well i would say that's a big i'm sure you would agree it's a big problem now everybody gets a participation award. Right. Everybody. Right. You can't say the truth. But I mean, I feel like I like the truth. If I suck, I want you to tell me I suck. Yes. But now the society has turned so much to like, it's okay. We'll do better next time. Next year, we'll have better sales. You don't worry about it. So be very gentle. I don't know when that happened because sales, it's a production based business. Why are we not judging the standards on? Yeah. It's like, it's a competitive, it's a competitive sport.
23:59Number one, it is competitive. There's, there's competitors within your industry. There's competitors with inside of the company. And that's what makes it thrive. And it's healthy. And you know, you know what I actually love about competition. It's not negative at all, by the way, it's healthy because you wouldn't have made millions if there was no competition, because you wouldn't have been, you would have never, you would have never been motivated. Actually, believe it or not, if nobody was by your side, whether it was real inside of your head, like a false competitor that you made or somebody real, you, you and I would have never made millions.
24:25So honestly, I think when, when an unsuccessful person sees somebody that's successful, they have this grudge towards him or when an unsuccessful person sees another competitor inside of their space, they feel like grudge towards him. In my head, I'm almost like, thanks for playing at such a high level.
24:41Daniel G:Right. Like, thank you. I've met my competitors in my space. Funny enough, we're friends. Why? Because we thank each other. I've literally thanked my competitors. How many people do this? Like, yo, thank you for being successful. I love it. Shake their head. Like people see me with our competitors because there's only a few people in our space. There's like three to four people in my space. And they're like, man, yeah, we're friends. Why? I thank him for becoming successful because if he wasn't successful, I wouldn't be where I'm at because competition, competition either innovates you or intimidates you.
25:10So for us, I'm like any real A player is like, thank you so much for becoming a millionaire. Like I, like, even if it's somebody at the top in the company, thank you so much for showing me what's possible. Thank you so much for keeping me on my fricking toes. Cause I seen you wake up this morning and work your ass off. I need you because you leveled me up. Like, I think it's great. I love competition. I'm thankful for it.
25:30Daniel G:I love it. It makes you level up. If you are the most successful person in that room, you got to get out of the room. Get boring. Get out of the room. Go around people that are going to make you, that are going to push you to level up. That's what you want to do. I mean, especially if you're in sales and you're competitive. But here's a question. And I go back and forth with my salespeople about this. I'm really big into the gym. It's part of my competitive nature. Do you think that sales and being in the gym are so not? Yeah, 100%. Yeah. And I'll tell you why. You validated everything. Here's why I'll say this.
25:58I'm going to give you two people that are watching this right now. There's, so one day I'm finished a run. I'm not a big gym guy. I'm in fitness.
26:04Daniel G:Oh, I see you running. Yeah, yeah. I like, I like running. I have good, I have good genes that if I work out two, three times a week, I'm good. Like, you know what I mean? Like, I'm good. I'm good. I'll keep a good body. I'll keep a fit body. But so I'm done a run one day and I just, I kick it to the curb and I have Steve shoot me. I'm like, Steve, turn on the video so I can make it real. and I'm like, Hey, listen, I said, you know, you won't beat me inside of business. If I'm healthier than you, you just won't win long-term. You'll just never win. So I made that video. I didn't make it for the people that are broke.
26:34I made it for the people that already made millions. I'll tell you why. Because when I say fitness and health is so important, there was people I knew who I want to trigger. When I make reels, I know who I want to trigger. Right. So I'm like, I'm triggering the person that's already made money because I have friends that have dad bods and they're millionaires. So I want those people to reply back to me. I'm waiting for it. And Like, you know, I made a million, like they laughed at some of it because my friends that are millionaires, they got a dad bod. It's cool. Then I asked them this question.
26:59I said, yeah, but what if you didn't have it? Because I said, life is not, I've already made it. And I have a dad bod. Life is the question of, imagine I didn't have the dad bod. I said, why are you killing your potential? I said, dude, you made a million. I said, I made this post for you. I didn't make the post for the broke people right now. I made it for the guy that's already made a million in sales. Cause I'm telling you that if you didn't have it, you're worth 10 million. So I said the question is not i'm already doing good. The question is what if I didn't have it? Like what if I was more fit because somebody's watching us right now and being like oh i'm okay But i'm not that fit.
27:32Yeah, yeah good So if you're okay and you're not that fit and you already made five thousand dollars a month Imagine you were fit. Imagine how good you feel about yourself You never like you like health is the most important thing because like it's how you feel about yourself So like I'd say If you've already done well and you're saying, well, I've already done well. Well, just sell yourself that you're back to it too and be like, what if I didn't have a dad bod? How would my sales actually look? Because you already figured out a bit.
27:57Daniel G:Yeah, I think it just goes hand in hand. When you have a routine in the gym, it already sets you up for a routine in life, right? And then in the gym, for me, like I'm looking for results, right? Same thing within business. I want results. If I'm not looking good and feeling good, guess what happens in my business? I'm not looking good and I'm not feeling good either. there. So it kind of goes hand in hand for me. When you look good, you feel good. When you feel good, you do good. So that's why I weigh them. And honestly, like the more fit I became, guess what happened? The more successful I became.
28:24Weird. Just weird. And there's so many. And listen, there's so many, like, it's, it's like, there's so many factors. Why? Right. So we could sit down here and be like, cause when you're in the gym, it's mental. You know, when you're like pushing for an extra two sets, you're like, if I do these two sets, I'll rip my day today. Right. Like, like that's what the gym does. The gym pushes you outside. So it's like, you want to test yourself in business, test yourself outside of business, right? Like, that's why I like running because running is very measurable. It is so measurable because when you do like 8K, you're like, okay, today, can I do 8.5?
28:55It literally, running smacks you in the face very fast. I'll tell you why.
29:00Daniel G:I don't love it. It makes you, it makes you, it punishes you for your fuck ups the day before. What I mean by that, if you don't sleep, you'll feel it on a run if you if you smoke the cigar which daniel likes doing it hits you it punches you in the face like it literally says hey dummy you smoked last night just refer to yourself in the third person yeah you did yeah i'm just laughing it was just funny that you said it like if if what would i say if daniel like yeah if daniel smokes a cigar right if daniel smokes a cigar the run is gonna say yo dummy you smoked and then i'm gonna feel it the next day like oh like running literally it uncovers everything that when you get into the gym you're like shit this is this thing's so easy like a sidewalk exposes you because like it really does it makes you it makes you go into deep waters that you've never felt before that's why i like running like you experience moose you run right clarity and you work out moose is a jacked guy okay moose is jack what's harder running or working out right it takes you to a place that you don't want to go to that most people are just like, I don't like doing it.
30:05Of course you don't. There's nothing fun about it. It's a fucking sidewalk. Think of running as the most -
30:10Daniel G:All right, all right, you got me. It's challenging. No, no, but think of it. It is the most boringest shit in the world. So when things are boring, it makes you tap into this person inside of you. Because think of sales. It's the most boringest shit in the world. Somebody would be like, no, it's not. Dude, you got to repeat the same task every single day. And in boring means consistent, which basically means in repetition is success, right? So like when I do boring shit, I'm like, nobody wants to be on a sidewalk. Who wants to be on a sidewalk? You know why I like running? You know why I like doing it?
30:35I don't think I ever talk about this.
30:36Daniel G:Because no one else likes doing it. It's fucking empty. The road is empty. We live in the most beautiful place in the world. Tampa, Miami. Beautiful. Weather is gorgeous. Right now it's a bad week. Shit, it's 15 degrees Celsius or 20 degrees Celsius. Why is the sidewalk empty? Why is the sidewalk empty? Are you shitting on people as you're running? Like, fuck you, I'm - Of course. I'm like, of course you are. Because you're - I'm not saying - I'm almost trying to - like promote it when I'm running and people come to the sidewalk and they're like, yo, Daniel, I'm like, don't film me. Come let's roll.
31:08Come on. I don't want you to film me. Like guys this week, I was done running a 25 mile. These guys were waiting for me at the end. They're like, dude, you're a legend. I'm like, shut up. I'm like, come on my run the next time with me. Don't tell me I'm a legend. I'm like, I'm, I'm good. I'm on the sidewalk. You don't have to hype me up. I've had myself up. I'm like, you have to put yourself in the, in the path that's less traveled. So when shit's weird and there's nobody around you and you're at the office at 1am, you better know you're doing a freaking right job when you just went bankrupt and you still can work and you're starting to question yourself and it's dark at nighttime you're doing the right job nobody wants to take the path that's hard when it's all empty and quiet you're in the right space you're not failing you're in like the completely right space inside of life you do everything that's weird you got to be weird to be successful yeah you got to be a psychopath nobody talks about
31:51Daniel G:eccentric i always say i'm definitely eccentric i'm fucking weird you gotta be psycho yeah you You have to be psycho. You have to have a screw missing to do sales. You have to. I am fully. Like you're psychotic. Out of my fucking mind. You're crazy. Out of my fucking mind. Like the point where I wouldn't want to work with you because you're psycho. Yeah, I'm a psycho. Yeah. I tell people you don't want to work with me. You're psycho. Do you think I'm a psycho? Do you think I'm a psycho? No. She's crazy. I'm fucking crazy. But he ain't going to say it. She's crazy though. He knows I'm a little stupid.
32:16Dude, like you are psycho. And why is that a bad thing? Like I'm glad that I met a psycho lady, right? I should have had you speak at my ladies event. I have a ladies event February 1st. So crazy. But the next one, I say, being a psycho means you're obsessed. You are. You're just obsessed with winning. And most people are like, well, I want to stay on the fence. I'm like, you don't want anything in your life that's average. You want to have psycho results. You want to have crazy bank accounts. You want to have crazy cars. Why is it bad being crazy?
32:47Daniel G:It's not. I think for a long time, I would always kind of take it back. But no, you're right. Absolutely. I don't want to be mediocre ever. No, I don't want mediocrity. I don't not listen. Everybody else can do what they want, but for me, it's either it's zero to 10. There's no in between. That's it. That's just love that. There's only, there's only one mode in zero to 10 all the time. I'm flying high. I'm going, I'm moving because there's high standards, high expectations. Not everybody else has to do it, but that's what it is for me. It's obsession. So as we end this, what is next for you? I mean, you've, I feel like you've accomplished so much, but you're still so young.
33:19Daniel G:What's next for you? keep doing what we're doing and just bigger and just like, you know, keep, keep trying to figure out ways where we can reach more people and help more people. Like that's my, that's always my thing. All right. So Dan, you've really accomplished so many things. You've been all kinds of stages. You're going here, you're going there. What is next for you? I think, yeah, again, just what I said, it's just reaching more people. So for, for us, I think the beauty about social media is that we can, we can attack more people. We can, we can see like, for, for example, when somebody new comes into me and they say, Daniel, can you go do this event?
33:52Like I'm, I'm in such a yes stage. I get inside of my life. Like I, I show gratitude in the doing. So I'm not, you know, one day, I don't know if you guys ever spoke to Andy Elliott.
34:04Daniel G:No. Okay. So like one day I'm sitting down with him and I'm like, and I'm saying, I'm like, you know, it's crazy, dude. Like we've done so much sales training and stuff and we run in the same space, but he's a good friend of mine. And I said, it would almost be like a disservice to stop now that it worked out. Most people like, like how, how do you stop when it works? Like I am more fired up than ever right now, but I've already a clock. And so when people are like, well, how do you still get this burning desire inside of life? And I say, well, because it worked. I'm like, wait, you're going to tell me that you're going to make a sale.
34:37Cause think of this. I always say this, a broke person, when they make a sale, they just look at the money, a rich and wealthy person, when they make a sale, they look at the signs that whatever they did in the freaking past worked out. So for business and entrepreneurs and people that make moves inside of life, it's the same as sales. Whatever you do inside of life, the moment you win, it's a sign that whatever you did in the past worked out. So when people ask me why you've so fired up, I'm like, cause my eyes seen that I can one two years ago. So my eyes can't unsee that. So now that my eyes seen that I won, I'm more fired up than ever because I take that as a sign that it worked out.
35:10So now I'm going to go double down. So wins are a sign. A commission check is a sign. Only a broke person sees a commission check as money. A rich and wealthy person sees a freaking commission check. It's a sign that it worked out. Even if it's$17, you should sit down, let the broke person spend the 17, the rich person that only made$17. You are rich. If you look at that as a freaking sign that whatever you did this morning, prospecting, hunting, presenting, following all that shit that, Oh my God, I should double this down. I should double this down. and that's why. And the other thing is like, I'm always fired up because I realized that most people in life try to find a purpose and I don't.
35:48Like that's my true formula is this. There's books out there that say, start your why, find your purpose, all that. I'm like, it's great. But how about this? Let me give somebody a different perspective inside of life. Because I believe in this perspective that like life within itself is a purpose. So imagine you wake up one day and you're like, my purpose is to, you know, make$50 ,000 to feed my kids. Great. Everybody has that. If I go around a room in a stage, my purpose is to pay my mom's car off. My purpose is to help my mother. Everybody has the same purpose. And why? There's a very common denominator.
36:21Why do you wake up in the morning? Go to do da, da, da. Why do you do this? Find your why, find your why, find your why. If I ask somebody this, hey, isn't the why inside of life, just life within itself that you've been given? Like, shouldn't that be high enough gratitude? Watch this. God gave you something called life, life, which when people just be conscious for a second. I hope somebody can slow down and think of this. You've been given life. When people ask me, Daniel G, how are you fired up? I got this freaking thing called life. Like I got it from God. He's like, Hey, you got to be blessed with this thing called life.
36:52The way you live this life is going to dictate the eternity of your life because life is just a test, right? So the way you live life, how don't you get fired up with life within itself? If you say, Daniel G, I need to find my purpose. What you're indicating is The life that God gave you is you're not grateful for that. So whatever your purpose is, you're putting on a higher pedestal than life within itself. So if you say my purpose is to feed these people, you're not grateful for life. So you need something else to fire you up instead of just saying, I'm fired up because I've been given life.
37:24Imagine that. People say, where do I get my energy? You've been given life. Because you would not trade it for anything inside of the morning. You would not trade anything else. your faith, your life, and your health and your family, you wouldn't trade that for anything that you're trying to find your purpose. If I said tomorrow morning, you gotta make your$5 million to go pay off all these things but tomorrow morning, you don't wake up. What would you choose? Life or that stupid why that you're fighting? Life. So the most simplest things inside of your life, family, health, and life. Those three things, family, faith, health, and life.
37:58All those things, no, people need something more. They need more inside of life. why you've been given it all you wouldn't trade any of that stuff up think of that like you wouldn't trade any the the book where it says find your why whoever wrote that book it's stupid it is the stupidest thing in the world there's a book that literally says find your why i can etch out that book and say life within itself think of that life within itself you wouldn't trade it's almost like so disrespectful to say i'm not i don't have a purpose inside of life and you've been handed life within itself is the greatest purpose inside of life so when people ask me, Daniel G, why are you fired up?
38:32I'm like, eyes open life. How are you not fired up? You got fricking life. What a beautiful thing. You made it. You know how crazy it is to say that you are a human being, how cool that is. Like some people need to find all these other energy things to get them fired up. And yes. Okay. I have a coffee. Okay. Maybe three a day, never done drugs inside of my life. Like actually never done drugs inside of my life. Everybody thinks I've done drugs, blah, blah, blah. But I'm like, dude, I'm just fired up. I got this thing called life. I'm going to try to live my best life, my most pure life. We're going to sin.
39:01We're going to do these bad things, but I'm going to try to live my best life, my most energetic life just to show God, thank you for the life you gave me.
39:08Daniel G:Amen. Right. And hopefully I do good enough where I end up on the good side in eternity. Right. I mean, there you have it. I mean, I wholeheartedly agree with it. When people say find your why, I think your why changes too. Yes. I don't think there's one definitive why you can't just say you find, you know, your why might be whatever it is, but you're, it all comes back to the purpose of life. Well, how about somebody thinks of that they should think of life within itself as your why maybe just a greater motivator but i don't think like a greater motivator meaning a greater motivator can be like okay buy a car that's a target and a goal but your why if you that's your why that's yeah if your why when you sit down you're like how don't i find energy and gratitude in this thing that i've been blessed that you know how many people would love to be in your position that you had this thing called life and there's people listen i've traveled the whole world people haven't i've traveled the whole world i've been everywhere around the world probably with Steve.
39:59Like we do 250 flights a year. When people say it's hard and they live in America, I say, go travel, go travel. Cause you haven't seen nothing. You haven't seen what a blessed life you've been given. And, and, and that is even just the second of it because the people that still have a smile on their face and they don't have no money, they're blessed just, just to have this thing called life and just live it to their best capabilities, treat people the best. So they end up, cause I said, life is just a test. It's just, it's just you know when when you're a judge at the end of the day you did good you did bad it's on the scale i said they are just blessed within itself just to have life that's it like that's why you have to go travel because you're like i i wonder what makes these people happy
40:38Daniel G:that they're blessed to have life absolutely like they're literally just blessed to just live a life yeah so maybe maybe traveling when i say what's your greatest teacher inside of life to get more energy just travel because i i've had the most energy inside of life because i travel more than anybody in our industry. So I've seen, I've seen everything. I've seen everything. I've seen the poorest of the poor with smiles on their face. And you realize that the only reason why there's a smile on their face is because they're so grateful for life and just to live it. Cause they know that this was just, this is like, it yields nothing in comparison to what's after.
41:12So that's why they have a smile on their face. And that's why they're happy. Cause if they're like, I can live a happy life now, I get judged a little bit better. I get judged a little bit better. Eternity is much better. That's why they have a smile on the face. Like the formula is actually not that hard.
41:23Daniel G:That's it. I mean, that's it. Mic drop. That was great. People are going to think I'm crazy after watching this, but you guys got to think of it. You sound like a little cultish, but it's good. It's good. I found like cultish, a little cultish, cultish, cults, like a cult, like your cult leader. Oh no, no. Because like, I'm literally saying like whatever religion, just think of it. Like whatever religion, whatever you believe in, whatever you believe in, just think of what I just said right now, because you would get a little bit more fired up. Just think of it. Just anybody could think of like, wow, maybe he's right.
41:52Like I just take this thing for granted.
41:54Daniel G:Like it's so many people do. Yeah, absolutely do. They do. So if anybody wants to find you, where would they find you? Even though you're everywhere. I think as soon as you put in like D a, then all of a sudden you like pop up, uh, Daniel G on Instagram. Yeah. I run a good cult on my Instagram page. If you come in my Instagram page, you're never, you're never going to get out. Like, like everybody's in a cult. You just picked your cult. Like when people say it's in cult, I'm like, okay, yeah, obviously like, like what, which one are you win or you're brainwashing somebody you've been washed to you've been brainwashed so you pick your culture cult culture you pick which one you're part of like everybody's in one by the way i know like like like literally everybody's in a freaking call i'm in one like like think think of think of people's cult when you're in a salary you're in a cult when you're in a sales job you're in a cult one has freedom one freaking says you can't work hard enough this one's culting you to be like don't be so good this one's culting you to say you could be the best in the freaking world And by the way, if you win, I win.
42:48Isn't that such a beautiful job? You know, people that come inside of your business, they're scared to pull to their full potential because they're like, well, if I win, my leader is going to make money. At least you know how much your leader freaking makes. At least there's no blurred lines. You see in other jobs, when you show up to corporate America and you work hard, you're like, why is my leader so happy today? You know why your leader is happy inside of your business. They're going to freaking make money off you. You should be so happy that you're inside of a sales cult and not a salary cult because you know why everybody's doing what they're doing because everybody's pushing to their full potential.
43:19Like I'd rather be in the sales cult rather than the salary cult because I know why my leader's pushing me and happy. Why? My leader's gonna make money off me and this is how much she's gonna make and it's gonna be shown on stage. When you work in a salary job, there's people that come to you and they're like, hey, Bob, how you doing today? And you're like, dude, why are you so friendly today? Wrong cult to be in. There's blurred lines. In sales, there ain't no blurred lines. Commission checks are thrown on the stage. You're always gonna be in the cult. You just gotta pick which cult you're in.
43:43And in my, I got the best cult. Like my cult is like, I'm going to push you to just be the best person possible. Then you pick your cult.
43:53Daniel G:All right. All right. Well, there you have it, Daniel. Well, at least you got a hit pod. Fucking crazy. You're insane. I love it. Your energy is great. I hope that we can connect again. It was great. Let's rock it. Let's go.
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Everyone talks about money.
Very few talk about power.
In this episode of BILF Pod, Daniel G challenges some of the most repeated ideas in business and self-development:
• Why money isn’t the real power source
• Why sales isn’t manipulation, it’s belief
• Why “finding your why” might be misleading
• Why starting over is strength, not failure
• Why skill will always outlast talent
This isn’t surface-level motivation.
This is a perspective that forces you to confront your ego, your excuses, and your identity.
Daniel G breaks down what it actually takes to build confidence, discipline, and long-term success, without hiding behind clichés.
If you’ve ever questioned your purpose…
If you’ve ever had to rebuild…
If you’ve ever felt pressure to “figure it all out”…
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