Visualizing A Future Version of Yourself with Daniel Millers
Daniel Millers is a young experienced entrepreneur. In this episode, he talked about how he started his entrepreneurial journey being a salesperson and eventually getting a client who inspired him to establish a coaching program. He also discussed the different ventures he has undertaken to thrive in his career. Enjoy the episode today as he shares his wisdom of knowing what the future holds and the ability to envision the future.
Daniel Miller (Co-founder of GenRevv)
Daniel graduated from UMass Amherst in May of 2020 and planned on taking the whole summer off between May and September. During the summer, he kept himself busy by playing tennis and day trading. Halfway through Summer he got a notification from the company he work for that they would cut back his salary by $1,000 due to COVID. As soon as the news hit, he had to figure out how to earn the $1,000.
Along with his friend, they did some research, and found a few options. Whether to become a decent salesperson by being a middleman, or the white label salesperson for people that sell high-ticket products, online courses, masterminds, one on one coaching, etc. So he started by building a website to make the business looks more legitimate. He then reached out to his very first client — Jason Dress and ended up working for him on a project that required them to build a coaching program. Since Jason's background was in E-commerce and his friend was copywriting, they took up the project with the intention to work on commission-only base.
He worked for free for 3 months, and his job at PwC had started. Eventually, the group program was a pretty big success that gave them a decent pay check and they quit their jobs in December of 2020.
Biggest Mindset Shift — Visualize A Future Version Of Yourself
At PwC there was an upward trajectory in Daniel’s salary of up to $130,000 yearly. Once he started interacting with Jason, he realized that there was more, out of his annual paycheck of $70,000 working for up to 60 hours weekly.
Jason Dree has been a huge part of his success by helping him to realize that his young age can be taken advantage of and risk more as there is not much to lose but more to gain. He further explained that the concept of shifting frames by Jason is rooted in visualizing a future version of yourself, the outcomes that you're expecting to have, and the things that you want to achieve, then reverting to your present self, your current body, and then operating as that future version.
The Beginning of the Journey
Daniel was an Engineering Major at UCom and he was certain he wasn't smart enough for this major. To fill up his time, he decided to start an eCommerce business. At the time there was a popular apparel brand like On-Demand Printing and fulfillment. The idea was to sell clothing but not have any inventory. So what he did was uploading some pictures of the product on a webstore, and when the order gets placed, an API calls over to Printful, or whoever the fulfillment partner is, and they print it, package and ship it.
Daniel had a joint venture deal with Jose Canseco, who was a big, major league baseball player during the steroid era. Daniel intended to partner with different players and make personalized branded clothing for each of the players. He reached out and FaceTime Jose from his mansion in Las Vegas, and ended up working out a deal, though he spent on legal fees to draft up the joint venture agreement and go through the whole process. Afterwards, he got to do business with other players on the Red Sox and Fenway.
Eventually, Daniel got sick of the business and sold it to a minority partner.
The Good & The Bad Times
Being an entrepreneur, Daniel elaborates that a good time for him is the ability to :
Get up daily and work with his best friend from college.
Have great client results e.g. raising $1.2 Million in 90 days
Certainly, there come the bad times where he has to :
Give up an 8-5 to work from 8-10 plus weekends
Have to manages employees especially since he works with small teams
Giving negative feedback, or terminating employees.
Challenges Along The Journey
As a business owner, Daniel gives everything to the business 7 days a week. A lot of times he feels like his identity is tied up in the business, particularly when it comes to client relationships. When one’s identity is so tied up in the business, so is their day-to-day emotional state, which is now worsen. It is noticeable that ever since post-COVID, people are struggling with mental health.
Daniel’s advice is that everyone should be aware of their own mental health. He has overcome the correlation between personal happiness and results in the business by recognizing that independence of the business matter and his own life matter.
Reach Out to Daniel Today
Email: danny@genrevv.com
Connect with his LinkedIn
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