Brandon Payton

Before any of it

2016–2022

I was an only child. Bald little head, sunglasses, anger issues. As a young child I was actually like a very big nerd.

Growing up I read books for my mom. Then it just became the thing I did with my free time. I read feverishly. I would destroy books. Fantasy books, nerd books, science books, anything I could find. I would just go through a book in a week. Back then I wasn't playing video games, I wasn't going out with friends, nothing.

What that did is it helped me find out I really love reading. And it helped a lot with writing as well. Writing is something I genuinely really love doing.

It played over into school. I was a gifted student. I had a 4.3, 4.4 GPA overall, took all high honors classes. And extremely lazy.

I've got very good memory recognition or whatever you want to call it. I read something and I can recall it very well. So I wouldn't pay attention in class at all. I'd sleep the whole time. Then the day before the test I'd read the whole entire thing about three to five times. As much as I could get through. Fully invested in it. Then go in and take the test and do very well. That worked for me a lot all the way through high school.

My AP English teacher used to actually take me out of that class every single week to talk about how good my paper was. I was fucking lazy and it still came out good.

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I'd been playing soccer since I was a little kid. Always been very good at soccer but very very very lazy about it.

Sophomore year I got a knee injury where my bones started rubbing against each other. Sat the whole year out. That was the year I thought I was going to be starting for the first time.

Came back junior year and I was not as good as I could have been. By then I was smoking weed every single day. Started talking to girls a bit. Playing Fortnite all the time.

Junior year I was actually trying to become a professional Fortnite player. Then I watched a few clips of how good these other players were getting, like Mongraal.

There was no fucking way I was ever gonna become a professional player.

So I got a summer job.

The summer it flipped

2022

So I got a summer job. It was at my own high school, working the summer camp.

There were two people there I owe everything to. One was in my grade, the other one was his older brother.

Their dad had them being entrepreneurs since they were very very little kids. Middleman wholesale real estate, they'd done sales, he made them take all the sales courses. The dad's a very big YouTuber himself, so many different things.

I spent so much time with them that summer and I learned their mindset. The hustler mindset. What it actually meant to make money, to focus on yourself, self development, meditate, all these things.

And it was the first time I'd ever seen somebody actually sit down and read a Bible. Their dad led Bible study. That was unbelievable to me. I never knew people really did that.

It opened my mind up a lot. All this stuff I was doing was lame. So I stopped smoking.

Then I started practicing soccer every single day. The second we got off work I'd go straight to the field.

And when I got my paycheck I'd go with them to the Chase bank right by there and cash it, just so I could flex the money I made. The little two hundred dollars or whatever it was. Best feeling ever.

Then I'd go home. I'd work out, I'd hit my meals, I'd watch Jared McCain's documentary with Nick in the Cut. That started that exact summer. It changed my fucking life.

They put me on Jordan Peterson too. He was the first one I ever started watching, and that's how I found out about all these motivational speakers.

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Then randomly I decided you know what, I'm gonna go start reading again. Walked into Barnes & Noble and the first book on the table I saw was Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. And a book by David Goggins called Can't Hurt Me. I grabbed them both and went home and started reading.

I credit everything to them. Think and Grow Rich changed everything. Everything about how I thought, what I thought was possible, what I could do, how I interacted with myself.

I always knew I'd be rich or well off. I just never once thought I wouldn't work a job. Never applied to a single college either. Never even thought about it, didn't care about any of that at all. Then I read that book and I realized I could be whatever I want. I could be rich, I could have freedom, do any of these things.

Then I started finding these other guys like Ty Lopez, the top guys in the space. Reading more and more books, just devouring all of them. Outwitting the Devil. Got on Audible and started destroying every single book I could find. Watching every podcast I could from Jordan Peterson and Chris Williamson, all these guys. I was just growing as fast as I could and I massively started seeing major changes in my life.

By the end of that summer camp, going into my senior year, I was a completely different person.

I was thinking about making money now. And I was actually focused on going and becoming a college soccer player. I wanted to play at Florida Atlantic. I'd gone to camp out there and done well, so the plan was perform really good over the season, get the offer, go play there, eventually go pro.

Locked in.

The $20,000 credit card

2022

Shout out the girl I met around this time. She knows who she is. I owe so much to her, so many different ways. She's a blessing. I wouldn't be here without her. Anything she ever needs from me she's got it, immediately.

We started talking and about a month in I started dating her.

Somewhere in there my parents gave me a credit card for the first time. I had no idea what the limit was. No idea how it was getting paid. Camp was done by then, I didn't have a job. So every time me and her went and did something, I put it on the credit card. Put it on the credit card.

That went on until they pulled me in. What the fuck are you doing on this card. You've maxed it out. You have to pay this now.

I ended up having to pay it off. It was a lot of fucking money. About twenty thousand dollars.

And they're like you can't keep doing this. We can't even really pay this off. You have to get a job or do something.

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My dad owns a few rental properties and I'd been doing work for him, so I knew how to gut a house, clean gutters, cut yards. Did that one summer when I was much younger and made enough money to get NBA 2K17 Legendary Edition for a hundred bucks. He had a pressure washer. He told me why don't you just start pressure washing, they'll pay you three four hundred dollars a job.

Three four hundred dollars is I'm rich.

Boom. This is perfect. I jumped on it.

I went and did everything you don't have to do. Researched everything about pressure washing. About the different soaps, about the different machines. About LLCs, about credit, about finance. Took me about two three months before I finally got the LLC. Pelican ShineRite.

Reached out to my grandma for a loan and she loaned me fifteen hundred dollars. I'd never seen that much money in my life. I got a pressure washer and two surface cleaners, which I didn't need, because the plan was to hire a bunch of my friends from school, have them each handle their own neighborhood for a percentage, and I'd manage the entirety of the business.

That ended up not working out. Led to a bit of a falling out with my friends too. That was all me. Looking way too far ahead when the step was right in front of me.

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Eventually landed my first job after signing up for an app for like side hustles. It wasn't even a pressure washing job, it was landscaping.

I showed up so fucking excited. Was texting my girlfriend at the time about all of it, oh my god I can't believe this, etc etc. Took photos of it. It was an older couple, they were so sweet, I still remember them to this day. I think I got about a hundred to a hundred fifty dollars to landscape that yard.

Took me three four days. It was the hardest fucking work. Trench work. Right after school, showed up, got to work. It was serious fucking work. To this day I hate landscaping because of it.

But I got paid every single day. And it was unbelievable to me. I'm making money right here without needing a job and it's all on my schedule and I made it happen. Mind-blowing to me that I could step outside and want to make money and then go make it.

50 texts a day

2023

I went around asking my neighbors if they needed anything pressure washed. Got a couple jobs for like 100 bucks, 50 bucks. Got the before-and-afters off them and made a small amount of money off it. I wasn't making as much as I wanted, or as much as I knew I could make. Especially not enough to pay my grandma back.

Then I was sitting in my entrepreneurship class. My soccer coach was the teacher. He showed me Zillow.com for the first time and there's real estate agents on there with their phone numbers. I realized I had access to every property on there, and to these people who have tons of properties, and I could literally just message all of them. So I did some research. Put together a pitch. Found out curb appeal is very important for selling, et cetera et cetera. And I sent out minimum 50 text messages every single day.

There's not a single real estate agent in the state of Louisiana that hasn't gotten a text from me. If they were working in 2023, they got one. Not one. Recently I went looking at rentals and every person I reached out to, I already had their contact. Shows how much I did this.

Every day during school. I'd leave class and go to the library with one of the brothers from summer camp. He'd sit next to me doing crypto or wholesale or digital real estate. Most times he'd just sit there and read his Bible. I'd go straight to the computer. Pull up Zillow. Phone out underneath the desk, we were allowed to have it. Text every single agent I could find.

First job off it was stucco, I think, and I fucked it up pretty badly. Couldn't get the mold out even though I promised him I would. He paid me and I was so scared I ghosted him, because I had no idea what I was doing. I still feel very bad about that to this day.

Kept reaching out anyway. Got a few that kept referring me. Got to the point where I was known in my class as the pressure washing guy. And I was done with school by then. Senior year I'd already taken all my hard classes and got a 33 on the ACT, so I didn't have to worry about it at all.

Then soccer season began and I couldn't focus in on the business like I wanted. So I put all my focus into soccer and playing in college. Towards the end of the season, going into playoffs, I was one of the leading goal scorers.

They moved me to defense.

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I kind of lost my love for soccer and it transferred fully into entrepreneurship. I had such a love for making money myself. For marketing. Everything I could do with it and how far I could take it. I was thinking about running an actual pressure washing business with trucks. Biggest guy in the state. I didn't want to do anything else. All my focus was on that.

$700 to $1,100 a week. Spent all of it as soon as I got it. Not on fun things, not on anything cool. The most useless business expense I could think of, every time. I'd make $300 on a job and go find a way to spend $150 that same day, thinking I was investing back in the business. I did not see profits from that. I'm fucking horrible with money when it comes to being profit first. Only recently sat down with a mentor and actually learned it. And I had a girlfriend. I was cooked.

Me and her went through serious problems that matured me. The most unbelievable shit ever. All while I was trying to start a business. That's the closest I've ever been to depression.

But my love for business was so strong. The mindset, everything. I fell in love with it. If that was any other time I would have been horribly depressed. Because of how much I was reading, how many podcasts. How I viewed everything now, it's a game. Going to bed watching Andrew Tate and Luke Belmar and all these guys. I fell in love with every single ounce of problems that came my way. And figuring out how to solve them.

I started praying every single day for God to give me the hardest tribulations and trials he could give me, as quick as possible, so that by the end of it I'd come out being the exact man he needed me to be.

I prayed it every single day. Every single day. And I'll let you know, he did it. A hundred percent. And I can't sit here and say he's done.

On the news

2023

I reached out to every single news station in the area. Told them how good my grades were and how I was hustling a pressure washing business, and that'd be a great thing for them to have a segment on. Shows young kids are out here working, chasing after their dreams. Really all I wanted was free publicity and I figured this would work great.

WGNO reached out. They came to the school, took me out of class, recorded the whole thing, gave me a shit ton of aura at the school. Helluva cool. I was mogging on everybody. Off that I got about four or five jobs. I was immediately getting hit up by a ton of people asking me to come over and do work for them, congratulating me, all that.

In the segment I said I was making my money to study at LSU and become a lawyer. Now was that completely true? No but I understood that an emotional grasp of it all would work.

At the time my whole idea of success was being a lawyer because I watched Suits. Keep the pressure washing going and be a lawyer on the side and I'd truly be successful and respected. That ended up changing after I pressure washed for an actual lawyer and found out not all lawyers are like the ones in Suits. So that threw me off of it.

I just fully embraced entrepreneurship. I did dabble a little bit in local politics though. One of the biggest things that came from the news was Ivan Scionoux reaching out to me, because I'd mentioned law and politics on there. He was about 22, running for politics out in Ponchatoula, Louisiana. That's where I've got family, it's kind of a smaller area. He asked to get lunch. We met up and we sat there and spoke and he said come under my wing. Everything I do, the events I go to, you come with me. Meet these people, get involved, see how it all works.

After that he brought me to the state capital, and I got two things out of it. One, I don't like Baton Rouge and I don't want to go to LSU. Two, politics is all business.

We had a one-on-one with the state treasurer, who was getting ready to run for governor. What our goals were for doing this, how we make our money, how he makes his money. Anything we can do to help him, let him know. Anything he can do for us, let us know.

Shortly after, my dean or my headmaster got in contact with Bill Cassidy, our US senator at the time, and set me up with a one-on-one with him as well. Cassidy and the treasurer both offered me an internship after about a year or two in college. With Cassidy I'd be up in the White House, in his office, helping out up there. I also met another guy who'd worked at the White House who said he could give me a spot over there in a couple years.

After meeting all these people I realized I don't like politics. It's all business, so why don't I just focus purely on business. That's what I decided to do.

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Moving away from pressure washing, I learned about Facebook ads. Started running a few in class. I was at about $1,000 a week around then. I made the ads on CapCut. Put $10 on one and get a $300, $400 job out of it. That was printing money to me at the time.

A week before school started

2023

Soccer season ended and I had offers, but to go play I'd have to completely devote my life to it, and I'd seen that at the camps I went to at FAU, morning soccer, afternoon soccer, night soccer, next day soccer, no time for side hustles, whatever's left goes to school because if you're not doing good in school you're off the team.

As much as I love soccer and love playing it and just recently started playing it again, it wasn't my actual passion. My passion was entrepreneurship, taking ideas in my head and making them real. So I said I wasn't going to play anywhere, then kind of folded, okay, LSU with all my best friends.

I was diving into every piece of knowledge I could find and stumbled across high-ticket dropshipping. You become an online retailer for brands, list their products, run Google Ads, SEO, emails, outreach, and once somebody buys at whatever MAP is you place the order with the manufacturer at cost, that split is your profit. I saw that from Brooke Hiddink, shout out to him. Looked super cool, all online, I could do this while I'm in college, scale it up, have a real legit cool business.

It was a lot more work than I thought and I found myself extremely distracted that summer. I needed to get sales tax certificates. Needed to learn Google Ads. Needed to learn how to build a website, needed to learn Shopify. The biggest hurdle was outreaching to these brands and closing them, and I'd done door-to-door and cold called realtor agencies but never a large business. It felt like a big big jump into something I had no knowledge of and nothing to prove I could do it.

Built out a shitty presentation, started sending emails, sent out about 20 to 50, got none of them closed. I was like damn okay. It knocked me off for a bit, back on pressure washing, but I really wanted to get this done so I focused and looked at everything, why was this not good enough? What were they saying? It was my website. My website was shit. Took some of the money I had. Hired this VA I found and had him rebuild my website while I was on a summer cruise.

On that cruise I read non-stop about sales. Me and my girl at the time thought some things were coming up. I thought I wasn't making it to college and would have to start working immediately. So I read every single sales book I could find, every money book, every speaking book, every pitching presentation book, and stayed in my room the whole time while everybody went around the cities, and finished 12 books in about one week.

Decided I'm getting a sales job, I'd already applied somewhere on the cruise, so I completely pulled out of LSU and started interviewing. Then I finally broke it to my mom. Hey Mom, this is my plan. I want to do sales, and while I'm doing sales take that money and put it into high-ticket dropshipping and build this online business. Within three or four years I believe I can make it. I think I can do it.

She completely broke down, because my mother came from the hood, very, very low, and she made it out through education and working extremely hard. So it's a very different perspective on it all for me to say everything that's helped you build up your life, you work so hard to be able to provide for me, and I just don't want it, I'm completely turning it away. It felt like a slap in the face to her and reasonably so, and it caused major friction in our relationship.

My girl at the time was going to Ole Miss and she said it has the best entrepreneurship program in the country, best business program, why don't you go tour it. The other hurdle was my best friends, and as much as I love these guys to fucking death, I understood I'd be distracted away from what I really want to do, which is build myself and build a real business.

So I toured it and loved it, beautiful campus, peaceful, met the business school people, the entrepreneurship program, people I thought had done what I wanted to do. My girl was there, so I was like you know what, I'll give college a try for a year and see what happens.

So I chose Ole Miss a week before school started. It was major breaking news to all my best friends and their family, caused issues for maybe a couple years, but I knew that I had to do it.

The trenches

2023–2024

At Ole Miss I was absolutely fucking locked in. I completely changed everything about myself. Deleted every single piece of social media for a complete two years.

Only thing I had on my phone:

Brain FM
YouTube, podcasts and documentaries only
Books
My Bible
My laptop

That was literally all I had. That and my girlfriend. She was the only outside thing I had besides just straight fucking trenching.

During this time I focused on high-ticket dropshipping. Entered multiple pitch competitions, met billionaires and I fucking failed immeasurably a ton.

I got to the lowest I've ever been in my life just from working. Migraines for days on end, never-ending, because of how hard I was working. Up at 4 a.m. Worked at a desk to make $8 an hour, just so I'd be able to pay for McDonald's for whatever it is we wanted to do. Have some money and maybe enjoy life a tiny tiny bit. Completely void of happiness and fun, and I hated everything that wasn't me becoming successful.

During all of that I started an online furniture store. Six months to get my first sale. It came in at 3 a.m. and I jumped out of bed in my underwear and started jumping up and down about it, because it was a $2,400 sale.

Next day I found out I couldn't fulfill it. I'd never actually reached out to the manufacturer to get the price I needed. So I refunded it, on top of the $500 Shopify fee, right before winter break. Now $500 negative.

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When I look back at it and speak to people that knew me back then, I get asked all the time. Do you regret it? Do you regret how far you went? My answer is no, every single time. I don't, because I understand how far I can go now, how much farther I can go from here, and that's not the life I want.

At the end of the day I love business, I love it all, but that's not what life is.

Life isn't work.

I had to push away everything I had at that time to fully focus. It kind of sped the process up, eventually I had a good grasp of it and started making a bit of money. But it left me with a massive hole to fill.

I had to eventually leave her. She was unhappy in the relationship because I wasn't able to spend time with her. I showed no attention to her. I wasn't fun. I didn't enjoy life at all. I hated life.

My family relationships went completely bad because I didn't speak to anyone. I had no friends. Literally zero friends, I had zero friends at all.

5am, picking up trash

2024

Going into winter break I had to go back to what I knew. I outreached every real estate agent I knew, and my girl's mom at the time gave me some work.

I went to this strip mall and I'd be there at 5am every morning picking up trash. Just picking up all the trash there. I'd pressure wash it when they needed that for extra money, get homeless out of the corners for extra, literally anything there I figured out how to do it. I learned how to paint, I learned how to insulate pipes for cold, anything that was needed. Then I started DoorDashing on top of it, and that's how I made it out of that negative.

Took that money and put it instantly back into high-ticket dropshipping, but I changed the niche. Furniture was extremely saturated. And the thing I kept having to deal with was I had to figure out logistics on my side. Now that's not an aspect of high-ticket dropshipping you usually handle, but with furniture a lot of the warehouses and factories I'd picked didn't do the shipping themselves. They just provided the product, because they were working with physical retailers. So every order, I place the order, then I go reach out to multiple shipping companies to figure out how to get that thing over to the customer.

I learned a bunch from that. How shipping works, how logistics work, and how to organize it all and manage it. My biggest bottleneck was the actual accounting of it all and having good margins, which I still struggle with over and over and over again.

Then I got my first ever payout hold, because I ended up just cancelling maybe 70 to 80% of my orders trying to figure this out. So I decided this isn't working. I can't make it work. Close to a year and a half on that thing and it was very, very difficult. I said fine, I'm gonna do some research and we're getting straight into something else.

By now it was the summer after my freshman year. New niche was biohacking health. I found a company on TikTok and reached out to them. Told them look, I know Google Ads and Meta, I grew a podcast organically, let me retail your product on my website. Nothing on your side. Just give me a margin I can work with and I'll scale it for you.

Echo Water closed. I built the site, made videos of Gary Brekka, ran my first TikTok ads. They didn't do well because I didn't understand ads. Understood spamming content, not ads. So I went to my bread and butter, went to Google Ads, and that's where the first sales started coming through. Hydrogen water bottles, hydrogen water machines, all these different things.

First ever 10K month, and it kept going up. So I decided okay, let's get some more brands. Red light therapy, saunas, cold plunges, everything we could find. I listed them all on the website, ran Google Ads for them, did organic SEO for them, and that started scaling.

I was on a break with my girl during this time, so I completely focused on it. That's where I actually made profits online, and I was still in school. I did it with my best friend at the time. He'd seen me posting screenshots from the sales I was getting with the furniture store and he wanted in, so we both worked on that store together.

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As you can tell I haven't once talked about school. That's because I failed every single class. I did not show up, did not take tests, did not do homework, completely failed, and I got my scholarship suspended at Ole Miss.

When I came back home I had to break the news to my parents. I said hey, you know what, I'm just gonna go to community college here at Delgado to save money and I'll be back at the house so I can focus on what I really want to do, which is business. They agreed to let me.

I'm dying or I'm doing this.

Bags under planes

2024–2025

I saw a tweet laying out how to dropship regular products and how exactly to do it.

Go find viral content
Rip their ads
Run them on Meta
Profitable first three days
Scale it

Sounded easy. I did it on the side and got a job at the airport for GAT, basically throwing bags underneath the planes and loading and unloading them and getting the planes pushed off so they could take off. 3am to 7am, 3pm to 7pm, to make as much money as I could. End of every day we could take 50% of our paycheck and withdraw it same day, so I did. Had $27, put that into ads and my Chipotle bowl.

I had to break up with my girlfriend to fully focus on all of this. Most difficult time of my life, like a thousand percent by far. I was completely alone.

The breakup, all the suffering I had gone through, all the work, all the years wasted, all the failing in college. I wasn't a failure. Felt like one though. I truthfully looked like one too.

So I started trying to find ways to fill up my time so mentally I'd keep growing, because I just wanted to prove to myself I could do this. Went full focus on that job, took every shift I could. Started MMA training every single day, every single night, just so I could sleep, because I was so stressed and upset and sad and all these things. In between I just worked. I learned everything I could about ecom, by the courses, by the mentorships, watched the YouTube videos, tried new things, came up with new ideas, anything to make this product scale. Eventually it started to.

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I was so scared of it I wouldn't touch the budget more than once a week. Bank account started stacking. First $1,000 in forever. First $3,000. First $5,000. Then three 5K days going into Q4. Kept pushing, until I lost the ad account and had to start back over from scratch.

Slowly worked out of it. Knew exactly what to do. Got it back up, started speaking to my friends again, started working on getting my relationship with God closer. Still training MMA, testing more ads, hired people for the first time, still learning from everything I could. Black Friday I hit my first ever $10,000 day on that store, and then had to turn the ads off for the next three days. I wanted that $10,000 day so bad I put all the money I had into the ads and didn't have any for the weekend. Went back to two $3,000 days after that, then slowly scaled it back up.

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I started posting around this time. Twitter, then Instagram. I accidentally built a Telegram channel, which grew into a whole free Discord community, now known as Run It Up. People joined up off what I was posting. They shared what they were learning, I shared what I was learning, people asked questions, became friends. That's where I got the connects I needed. For banking, for personal ad accounts, for insiders, for things I never even knew of. Met my closest friends in the space through it too, and the guys I'd go on to start Dialed with, Cadare and KD, all because I decided to post and build a "personal brand" for myself, and it was a life-changing decision to do it and to focus on it.

And I no longer felt like I was doing this all alone.

Everything gone

2025

We launched a second product. A female version of our hero product. We had our UGC creator make content for it. My editors flipped it up off our top performing ads but specifically for women. We launched them and it instantly ripped.

We went from around 6-7K days to 15K days in about 3 or 4 days. Still pushing crazy hard.

Then Chinese New Year. Manufacturers stop shipping, so we took every dollar we had and put it into stock so we could have the warehouse and keep shipping product out. While we're waiting on the product to get manufactured, Shopify goes, you know what, we're putting you on a payout hold until all these orders ship, because we were scaling so fast it looked insane. We were waiting on that money to come in and ship product that Tuesday. It was around $60,000. They didn't give it to us.

Back down at zero after I thought I was at the top of the world. I was egotistical. Thought I completed everything. I was set for life. Money can get taken away at any time. I was just trying to figure out how to navigate through it.

A week later my best friend ended up getting killed.

Thank God I got to spend some time with him before that. We were in an Airbnb and I got to teach my friends a bit of ecom.

Everything I had built myself on internally was that I was good at ecom and I was rich. I made the money and I lost all of it overnight.

And now I was faced with the reality of dying young. What does life mean? Why couldn't it be me?

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Back to $500 in the bank account. I did the only thing I knew how to do, which was try and work it out. Got back to training, found God, and got the closest I've ever gotten, because at the end of the day the only thing we have is Him.

Money, money is vanity. Friends, we love them, but they come and they go. Relationships, they come and they go. It's all vanity. It's all fleeting. The only thing that's eternal and always there with us, no matter what, is God. I learned that during this time. I put my focus on Him and on doing a little bit of work every single day.

Now I'm telling you, I would go to sleep not wanting to wake up. My God, was that deep, that low in my life. I just kept moving one step in front of the next.

Where I'm at

2026

Took a few months. Then I finally started to see some progress. Hit a winner on a couple products. Started scaling up my main one.

That was when I did my first $45,000 day.

Then I scaled that brand extremely fast. Blessed. Just no longer struggling as much as I was, and from then it's just been up.

The community started growing more. I started posting on YouTube. I started Dialed with my friends. Working harder. Building what you guys now see.

I grew my personal brand and the brands I run. And now I have the opportunity to live a life of freedom, focused on God and my friends. I live a life of balance and extremity.

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There are still so many details I left out of all this. But at the end of it all, I just want you guys, if you're gonna take any lesson away from this, to remember that everything operates on God's timing.

And remember that I prayed two, three years ago to be living the way I'm living right now. The freedom. God and my friends. That didn't mean I prayed and woke up the next day and got here. No. It was suffering, it was sacrifice, it was death, it was thinking horrible, horrible things, being brought so low that God was the only one that would meet me there.

I used to put this prayer out every single day, thinking I knew what it meant:

Lord, I ask you to put me through everything I need to be put through as extremely quick as possible so that on the other side of it, I may be a man that I'm proud of.

That is exactly what happened.

Now, twenty-one, about to turn twenty-two. Stay your eyes upon God and patiently run the race set before you.

Brandon Payton

I’ve done over $10,000,000 in revenue through ecommerce at 21. Here’s how:

About me

For you

Before any of it

The summer it flipped

The $20,000 credit card

50 texts a day

On the news

A week before school started

The trenches

5am, picking up trash

Bags under planes

Everything gone

Where I'm at