TODAY IS BRANDON THOMAS DAY, a day in which I coronated 4 myself as I became a full time entrepreneur at age 22 on May 22nd 2018.

Here is a short thread on the actions that lead to me jumping into entrepreneurship, how I got where I am today from 5/22/2018, and lessons learned

Let’s start at the end of ‘17, prior to getting into entrepreneurship I was HEAVILY invested into the conscious community being apart of the black Hebrew Israelites(look it up, too much to explain), anyway towards the end of 2017 I was fading out of that due to a book...

...that I read that really exposed the beliefs of the group, and at the same time I had a family friend that was always talking to me about this Forex stuff(IML). At first I was hesitant but I went through with it anyway, this was around November ‘17.

I knew about Forex but I really didn’t know much about financial literacy, all I knew was my mindset was changing, especially the job I had at the time was boat detailing so I was around wealth all the time.

I stuck with IML although I never got into the recruiting, I just wanted to learn the skill of trading...moving into early 2018 is REALLY when my mindset changed. 3 things that helped my mindset was Todd Mill Podcast, that lead to reading RDPD, I also started listening to Nip

Early 2018 I started brainwashing myself by listening to black success and reading to books about black success. These are some of the books that helped. At this point I’m working in the food industry and still learning, yearning to get the f*** out

At this point it’s still early 2018 and my main focus was becoming a forex trader, that’s when I heard about Al Pickett(a forex mentor, no MLM) on Todd Millionaire podcast. Did a consultation with him and I started saving up to be apart of his mentee group.

While in the process of saving up for his mentee group I had already started making goals to exit the 9-5 life and I was gonna do it with Forex, at age 22 my goal was to be free from the 9-5 by age 25 but then I got smacked upside the head with some BS that made me dip out faster

It’s May of 2018, at this point I’m still working hard but dreaming of getting out...that’s when God heard my cry I guess lol. So basically one day while I was at work the assistant manager pulled me to the side to talk to me about something....

....basically he was like “bro I don’t agree with what I’m about to tell you but the manager wanted me to because she’s scared to tell you”, so off top I know some BS about to come out his mouth.

He basically told me that the head manager thinks they pay me too much and I don’t work hard enough, he said he didn’t agree but somebody was hating, I’m making $11.75 at this point. I thought it was BS so I got in my feelings and I’m like “f*** these n****”

So we walked back in the building after our conversation and I went to the dish pit to finish the dishes and the only thing running through my mind was just walking out...I gave myself 3 options, walk out, give 2weeks notice, or just don’t show up the next day

Which one do y’all think I chose lol? I just didn’t show up the next day, I had about $1500 saved up, was still learning forex, and I knew I could replace my income doing Uber but I had other sources of income to help

I was serious about entrepreneurship even though I really didn’t have a lane locked so that’s why I took the chance and said f*** a 2week notice, I had to burn that bridge to make me go harder, and I go hard then a mf to this day

So after I quit I doubled down on learning forex and saving this cash to get into this mentor ship which was $2500, I ended up getting the cash but this girl I was messing with kept asking me to meet her “mentors” which led to me getting with with the insurance.

So the end of August I met with these folks at WFG(World Financial Group, insurance MLM) and they presented me with the opportunity, so at this point it was either forex or insurance and I chose insurance. Although I didn’t sign up to recruit I already had salesman skills

I ended up getting my license in October of 2018 and started learning the aspects of insurance that they taught me but I realized the MLM business model and what I wanted to do was different. I did not know that I would be here today, never planned on owning a brokerage

I stuck with WFG up until March 2019, tried to recruit a few of my homies at the time because they didn’t have anything going on but you know how that went. Decided to go independent at that time and learn more than what WFG was teaching, they only taught their products

At that point I was on my own, had no insurance mentors, nobody helping me help build. All I had was vision and grit. From March 2019 up until now I had to learn everything from trial and error.

Since then I’ve been building a brokerage that serves every family member from children to the elderly, I’ve had to come up with a marketing strategy, an organization strategy, and I have to deal with the BS but it’s an honor to be able to serve and protect families

Most of 2019 I was going broke investing into what I do, still reinvesting but times are definitely better. Goal is to keep expanding, from October of 2018 till now I’ve expanded from 1 to 7 states, set up systems, hired VAs, and helped numerous families.

A few lessons I’ve learned along the way:
-Pick one thing and go hard at it, do not be a jack of all trades, of course it’s cool to have side hustles but you can’t grow two things at once
-you don’t need to have it all figured out to start, just pull the trigger

-don’t expect your family or friends to support at first, some will, some won’t. Just ride above
-you gotta be open to the fact you will outgrow your friends, most people don’t have enough GRIT to last, mfs will fold
-reinvest profits
-have grit

-Consistency leads to small and big wins
-educate yourself with books and podcast
-don’t be a weak mf