- I'm 25 years old this year.
My career just started.
I graduated from high school,
went to college for 5 1/2, six years, took my time.
It was a four-year degree, but took my time.
And in the process I worked non-stop part-time jobs,
starting from when I was about 19.
So I tried a lot of different things.
I did delivery, delivered tofu.
Worked a lot of just entry-level service-based jobs.
So that's where I kinda built my people skills,
and I'm very grateful for that.
But I quickly learned that it's a horrible life
to really be at the bottom of a company,
especially, you're extremely replaceable.
So I started looking at how,
what people actually get paid most to do in companies.
So that led me to work more my communication skills
as well as leadership skills.
So after doing university, that's what I focused on most.
So leadership skills, communication skills.
After that, I graduated,
and right now, not sure if you know this,
but millennials kinda go through
what we call a quarter-life crisis,
where there's too many people with degrees
and you don't know exactly what you're doing.
That's kinda what I went through,
so I kinda jumped on the first thing that came up,
which was being a part of a start-up,
a mobile gaming start-up.
And for two years, I worked full-time.
Every single, it was like seven days a week,
more than like 50 hours a week.
Every single Friday night from seven 'til 9:00 p.m.
Every single Saturday from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Every Sunday night, too.
And this was before I met Dan,
and I was actually really struggling with my career.
And that's why I was kinda like just jumping
on a bunch of different projects all at the same time.
None of them really going anywhere.
So that's kinda where I was at before I met Dan.
That's where I was at a point in my life,
I was just struggling.
I'm like, okay, I need someone who's been there
and done that with the lifestyle that I want.
Because that's the shortest way of doing anything, right?
Figure out who has done it before you,
and just copy and paste, copy and paste.
So I went onto Google,
and I just Google searched Vancouver millionaire.
And I just kinda went down the list
of every single person I could find,
came across Dan's website.
Of course, you're skeptical at first.
You're like, who is this guy
involved in so many different companies?
He has a jewelry business.
Table tennis?
What the hell, that's kinda weird.
But got past that skepticism, went to his first event,
and really started just,
I got a lot out of the first event.
And that's why I kept on just coming back to events.
And after a couple of months, I was like, oh, my God,
I have so much I can learn from Dan.
And that's why I approached him.
Like hey, Dan, can you help me with my career?
And every single time I went with a question to him,
he always answered it,
but also gave me so much more than I expected.
You know how you kind of always have an answer
you kind of expect before you talk to somebody, right?
He gave me so much more than I expect,
and I was like, holy crap, I have a lot to learn.
And since then, eventually under Dan's mentorship,
he eventually took me under in his mentorship program,
and it was by far the best decision I've ever made.
At first, it was scary,
because there's up-front commitment that you have to do.
And it's a sizeable chunk of my income.
I wasn't making that much.
And since joining his mentorship program, what happened was
first of all, I didn't have a skillset before.
So I was kinda like young, hungry,
and with the start-ups I was working with
I was just doing everything.
With a start-up, you kinda just put on
a lot of different hats, and you try to do everything.
I didn't have a high-income skill,
or something that I could just bring to,
just that could make me money for life, essentially.
And immediately after working with Dan,
he started figuring out what my strengths are,
what my weaknesses are.
He's very upfront about it.
So it's good to have that kind
of relationship with somebody.
Someone who's been there and done that,
who can also judge you on your business skills,
and say, okay, you should put your energy
into this and into that.
So if you don't have that in your life,
really, you're missing out quite a bit.
So I got that.
Then that's kinda why I joined
the mentorship program in the first place.
And I just kept on, I leveraged him as much as possible.
I just kept asking him as many questions.
Whenever I had any kind of doubt,
I'm like, oh, should I take on this new client?
Oh, the client is asking me, do this,
how should I handle it?
It's just so good.
It's like having your personalized Google
that just knows you,
and knows all your problems and challenges,
and also can plan out a vision and a road map for you.
So that was extremely helpful.
And since then, I picked up the skill in copywriting.
Something that I had no idea
even existed prior to meeting Dan.
And since day one, Dan has been giving me clients.
So literally, he's not only gave me a new skillset,
but he's given me the clients,
and these clients are paying me money.
So he built my entire career just by himself.
And since then, those clients
has referred me to other clients as well.
And literally, everywhere I go now,
I can tell people, and proudly, hey,
when people ask you, hey, what do you do?
Before I would be like, oh, you know, I'm just a hungry guy
that wants to get into business, right?
Now I can say I'm a copywriter,
and I have this to offer, I have this marketing skills.
And when people talk to me,
they can tell that I'm being coached,
and that I have expertise, and a lot of value to offer.
And that's all because of what I learned from Dan,
and also being a part of his Inner Circle group,
as well as just surrounding myself
with also other people in his network
who are also very, very smart as well.
When you first meet a serial entrepreneur,
you think, okay, what exactly do they do?
Because you're not sure.
They're involved with so many different things.
You think, okay, what I'm seeing online,
this can all be constructed.
This could all be fake, all these images.
All you have to do is pay a photographer,
and you know, you could slap on a couple of company's names
on your website, and there you go, right?
So that's what I originally thought,
and I think that's what a lot of people actually think
when they go onto not just Dan's website,
but any kind of serial entrepreneur's website.
You're like, okay.
But how I got over that fear,
and actually, it took a very long time, not gonna lie.
It took just first of all, a little bit of faith, right?
So you know you can't have faith and fear at the same time.
So okay, I'm like, what's the worst
that can happen, essentially.
So I came out, I emailed Dan.
I'm like, "Hey, let's meet up."
And he was like, "No, we're not meeting up." (laughs)
He's like, "Come to my event."
And I said, "Okay, I'll come to your event."
So step one, so it's kinda like baby steps, right?
Still extremely skeptical.
Go to his event, and like I mentioned earlier,
right off the bat I got a lot out of the first event.
But I'll tell you, even at the event,
I was extremely skeptical, because you know what I saw?
What I saw was a bunch of people
who has already worked with Dan a lot,
and they were just praising him.
And there was this one guy with a mustache,
older gentleman, 50-something years old with glasses,
and he literally got on the mic
and started crying and tearing up (laughs)
while he was just saying how Dan changed his life.
So imagine me, I'm the first time going to Dan's event,
and there's this dude crying.
And in my head, I'm like, what the hell?
This is not normal.
This is just totally staged.
So that's what was going through my head.
So it actually took months.
Good thing Dan was having these events,
I think it was twice a month back then at VEG,
Vancouver Entrepreneurs Group.
And I just kept coming because I got a lot of it,
and I enjoy meeting other people at the meetings as well,
because they're happy people,
they own businesses, very interesting.
So that's why I kept coming back.
Came partly because of Dan,
but also for the other people in the group as well.
It takes time, honestly.
And then it got to a point where I'm like,
every single question that I asked Dan,
he's able to just blow my mind with his answer.
And every single person I talk to about Dan,
and they always tell me they changed their business,
through that entire process,
then I was like, okay, you know what?
This guy is the real deal.
And then at that point,
it's just like I don't even think anymore.
Whenever Dan tells me to do something, I just do it.
So that was kinda my process, (laughs)
from moving from fear all the way to where it is today,
which is just absolute faith.
So first word that comes into mind,
I'm just gonna speak very unfilteredly, is mentor.
And this is something that I should bring up,
because when you think,
if you've never experience mentorship with Dan,
it's very, very different
than what you probably have in your mind.
Before getting into the mentorship program,
I was thinking, okay, I'm gonna join this program,
and whenever I have questions, I would ask him,
business-related questions.
But the truth is I've gotten so much help
outside of business as well.
For example, questions like work-life balance,
questions like meeting expectations of family members.
All these kinda things that you don't directly think about
when you think about a business mentor,
I also go to with Dan,
because he's able to give so many answers.
He's been through it before.
I don't know how many businesses he's ran in the past,
but he's worked with a lot of different types of people,
been in a lot of different situations
and business dynamics, things like that.
So definitely when I think of a word
to describe my relationship with Dan
it would be someone that I really trust,
and basically the first person I go to
whenever I have a question.
Like I said earlier, it's kinda like
highly personalized Google, where I ask him anything,
and if he doesn't have the direct answers,
at least he can give me some insight
of just a different perspective, right?
Because a lot of times that's what we need.
We need a different way of viewing things.
And Dan has been through so many businesses,
and he has so much experience
in so many different industries
that he's always able to provide a new perspective.
So I think that's extremely valuable.
How has working with Dan changed the way I do business?
Well, to be honest, it changed everything.
There's just so much that you don't know
in business, and marketing, and sales.
That which is what I learned mostly, personally,
what I get from Dan, which is just marketing and sales.
I had no direction or career.
All I had was an end goal in mind.
All I knew was I wanted to make money,
and I wanted to be involved with a lot of businesses,
but I have no idea how to get there.
So working with Dan, how he shaped my career
was he literally showed me what was possible.
It's something that you can't really fake.
And I hope that whoever's watching this
can really understand that if you're struggling,
the worst thing you can do is really hide
and keep to yourself.
You need help, let's just face it.
That's why I got in contact with Dan,
and it's made all the difference.
So Dan Lok Inner Circle,
it's gotten better and better since day one.
When you're in Dan Lok Inner Circle,
what you have access to is really his brain
and also his network, not to mention his network,
which is really, really powerful.
My favorite part is definitely
seeing how Dan faces
and answers business challenges.
So in DLIC, not only do you get to share your own problems
and challenges with the group,
who are the other members of DLIC and also Dan,
but you also get to see other people's challenges
and also hear what Dan has to say to their problems as well.
So I really enjoy that process,
just watching how he answers and helps other entrepreneurs.
I recommend Dan to other entrepreneurs
because he provides just guidance and clarity,
and really, he's there to help you, specifically you.
You're not buying into a kind of like a system,
where you kinda have to figure things out yourself.
It's really a hand-held process.
I remember at certain points,
I've worked with Dan for about a year now,
at certain points where I'm in major transition stages,
I literally email him every day,
and he gets back to me extremely quickly
with valuable, valuable advice.
So in terms of the entrepreneurs who are thinking about
either working with Dan or joining DLIC,
what do you have to lose?
Just put down your ego,
and see and check out,
find out for yourself what he's actually all about.
He probably has something extremely valuable
that you can use right away.
If he doesn't, he can point you to somebody
in his network who can help you right away.
And it's not just a short-term gain,
but long-term gain as well.
Just from myself in the past year,
I can see such a huge shift in mentality.
Before, it's thinking in a certain way,
but Dan was able just to expand my thinking
and see what is possible in so many different ways,
and grow me personally as a business person,
entrepreneur, whatever you wanna call it.