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Without A Plan: Interview with Jeremy Delk
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Jeremy Delk is the founder of Delk Enterprises Strategic Capital, renowned for his role in scaling America's fastest-growing companies. His journey from a young investor on Wall Street to a serial entrepreneur has been marked by impressive achievements, including being part of the Inc. 500 list. Jeremy has a diverse business background, having ventured into fields like real estate, building materials, regenerative medicine, and health care. He's a published author with a book titled "Without a Plan," reflecting his unconventional path in entrepreneurship and life.
Episode Summary:
In this engaging episode of the Uncommon Wealth Podcast, host Phillip Ramsey sits down with Jeremy Delk to discuss his dynamic journey through entrepreneurship, family, and personal growth. Known for his fearless approach to business, Jeremy shares how his early career on Wall Street shaped his path toward founding Delk Enterprises. He emphasizes the importance of embracing failure and the courage to pursue one's dreams without a rigid plan. As the conversation unfolds, listeners gain insights into Jeremy's ventures across diverse industries, each marked by innovation and strategic thinking.
Jeremy Delk's story is a testament to the power of resilience and adaptation in entrepreneurship. From starting with a modest inheritance to scaling businesses to impressive heights, his career trajectory exemplifies the rewards of taking calculated risks. The episode delves into his experiences in the real estate sector, exploring how each of his ventures has contributed to his unique understanding of business operations. By sharing personal anecdotes and discussing his holistic approach to balancing work and family life, Jeremy offers valuable lessons for aspiring entrepreneurs looking to carve their own paths.
Key Takeaways:
- Embrace Failure: Jeremy emphasizes viewing failure as a learning opportunity rather than a setback. This mindset allows entrepreneurs to innovate and grow.
- Entrepreneurial Curiosity: The multi-industry ventures of Jeremy Delk highlight the importance of curiosity and willingness to learn in achieving success.
- Challenges as Catalysts: The episode underscores the role of challenges in developing resilience and adaptability, essential traits for any entrepreneur.
- Work-Life Integration: Jeremy discusses how he balances his businesses with family life, advocating for being present and cherishing relationships.
- The Power of Recalibration: Jeremy Delk shares insights on the importance of reevaluating and altering plans as new information emerges in the business landscape.
Notable Quotes:
- "What if you don't do it and it was successful?"
- "It's the emotions and the actions that we apply to those set events that will dictate if they were a good or bad thing."
- "If you love what you do, it's not work, but you just figure it out."
- "There's nothing in life that happens, good or bad."
- "I've struck out, but I'm not done swinging."
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Transcript
Introduction to Uncommon Wealth Podcast
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Everyone dreams of living an uncommon life, and the best asset you have to achieve your dreams is you. Welcome to the Uncommon Wealth Podcast. We're going to introduce you to people who are living uncommonly. We're also going to give you some tools and strategies for building wealth and for pursuing an uncommon path that is uniquely right for you.
Meet Jeremy Delk
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Hello and welcome everybody to another episode of the Uncommon Wealth Podcast, where I'm your host, Phillip Ramsey. Today we have an amazing guest, and I can't wait to just get and hit record, let him talk, and I'll just stop talking. His name's Jeremy Delk. He's with the Enterprise, sorry, Delk Enterprises Strategic Capital. He talks, he's got a book, he's got all these different things. He is part of America's fastest growing 500 companies, kind of cool. And it's just doing some amazing things.
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understands how to scale, knows how to, I guess, use people in order to get further than what he even had, ah knows how to inspire people. So Jeremy, welcome to the show, my man. Thanks for having me.
Parenting vs. Business
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Yeah. Okay. My first question is always, it says in your bio, your father, husband, how long have you been a husband? Let's start there.
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So I've been a husband. um i'm i'm um'm I'm remarried. So, um, I guess cumulatively like 12 years, 13 years. Um, but I've remarried and we're actually on our second anniversary. So I've had three kids, 10 year old, five year old and a seven month old. And, uh, yeah.
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Would you rather, do you think it's easier running a business or being a father? Fucking businessman. Business is easy. All day. All day. Business is easy, yeah. I agree. Yeah, for sure. We were at ah an event last night, ah a good buddy of mine, his wild wife opened up this, like, luxury shoe boot boutique or something. So, like, we went to the to the kids out to dinner.
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and, um you know, supported, said hi, and then I left my wife there with all the other wives, and I took the kids home and, dude, bathing and putting down a seven-year-old, then the five five-year-old, the ten-year-old's pretty self-sufficient, he's he's he's pretty pretty cool, but, I mean, all of them are cool, but like, he's like 10, they're basically small small adults, but yeah, Jesus, just like, I can put me in the boardroom, in like, a hostile situation, I'll murder him. This oh, with this?
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But after work, you're like, yeah, I've nailed it. And like, of course, like my wife comes home and I'm like, well, you just, you know what I've done. And she's like, yeah, I do it every day. every other night right right It's such an interesting job just being a mother and parent, but I agree with you. Like it's way, I'd rather run a business than, than parent at times because it just seems like it's just a little bit more weighty and it seems like it constantly is changing. Like I feel like I figure out my kids, my kids are a little bit older than yours. i have a 15, 14, and 11 year old. But what my poor wife does, it seems like she has like an Uber job and she just Ubers them around all over the place. It's crazy and logistics that she has to go through. I'm like, I can't, I can't do it for one day. So it awesome. All right. Let's talk about just your uncommon path and how you got to where you're at. Cause I love talking about that. Like just the
Path from Kentucky to Wall Street
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history. How did you get to where you're at and how all the roads kind of point to where you're, you're currently at. So let's talk a little bit about your history.
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Yeah. So, I mean, I think i hopefully I'm a pretty good guest because I uncommon path. Like I literally wrote a book called Without a Plan. And I think that's that's how I've kind of basically i executed it. I mean, there's <unk> even if I laid you out every single step, it would just be a zigzag winding round of stuff that doesn't make a ton of a ton of sense. But.
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um I'm from Kentucky originally, um grew up in a small town called Bardstown. We're the bourbon capital of the world, so probably 20,000 people. So at that young age, I always had this kind of yearning desire to kind of want to be more, see more, and and do more. And I i think, you know like Sinatra said, if you can make it ah in New York, you can make it anywhere. And I always had that thing. I wanted to end up in New York City.
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and Um, growing up ah you know in bar town, there's the cultures and it's also the eighties, right? Like it's the culture and what I'm exposed to, like all I did in New York was it was like the mafia and wall street, right? So I'm awesome. So Germany, English isn't going to really work out in the mob. So, um, I started, you know, looking and reading investment business daily in the wall street journal in high school.
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And that um ended up propelling me to an early career on Wall Street after going to school in the Northeast. I started day trading in high school. and open Really the smart, noble market. It made a few million bucks. $30,000 inheritance from my dad passed away. Turned that into two million bucks and managed to blow it up in four
Learning from a $2 Million Loss
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days. So that was a that was a great, great time.
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good learning life but but In the moment, I'm like the biggest failure, like drinking myself to sleep and like waking up at 6am. It was just a catastrophic thing, but looking back, and it's quite possibly the top one one or two best things that's ever happened to me in my life. It gives you that perspective because um You know, you look at people and that's why I speak a lot and I talk, you know, on podcasts and on stage, you know, we as humans have this really poor and negative conversation and relationship with fear.
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and fear of failure, mostly, right? And I found that, you know, a lot of that is, you know, that's not a lot, all of it is really in between your ears, right? It's so much in your head that you're, you're so scared of what's, what's going to happen and not to you, but if I fail, what ah everyone else is going to think of you. And, you know, I try and tell you, once you get comfortable realizing no one fucking cares about you, like other than like your kids in your life, probably like yeah mom like it's a very like just washing away emotions like wow like I'm uh I'm okay and then once you kind of get that oh where it doesn't matter what people think because they don't really care they have their own problems when you look back at failure um it you know, humans are resilient, right? We're one of the most resilient species, but also our our minds are pretty smart. Like we have this self protected property where we don't like to dwell and think on trauma and negative things. We always just look, just take, you go through it, someone passes them away two days later, you're okay. Like you're mourning and then you're good. We we just put that in a box. And I don't really,
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Promote looking back and dwelling that's not productive, but you really should we've all had failures Like I lost my dad when I was seven. when I blew up a couple million bucks. I've had but high highs and super low lows You know when you're in that spot, you know, and it's and you've got ah an event that's happened That's oh, wow. This is a big punch in the face. And what am I gonna do? Like what
Leaving Wall Street for Entrepreneurship
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happened for me? Like when i I was on Wall Street and I started duck enterprises 20 years ago The courage for me at 20, and I was making it this point on Wall Street in New York through a very windy road. I talked about in the book how I got there. um I was making more money than my mom and my stepdad combined. And I just pulled myself back up from losing this 2 million bucks. And I told my mom one day, like proudly like, hey,
00:07:43
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I've resigned. i'm I'm going to start my own company. I'm going to go. Cause I'm just, I want, I'm not inspired. I don't, I feel like if I stay here, I'm going to die inside, right? And she's like, you're fucking crazy. You just kind of got your shit together. And ah she was right. Probably that I was, it was crazy. I would, you know, I've still got friends that are on wall street and and are very successful and happy, but I would be miserable. I wouldn't have truly died inside. But the thing that,
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made it completely a no brainer for me to go and do it was what's the fucking worst that can happen? Right. I just look like I lost two million bucks in four days. And now I got some money. If I go start with my own company, fucking worst case, ah I'm not going to be down to 2 million and I can go back. and go right You can go land on your bridge. yeah It's good. Yeah, exactly. But but it's if I didn't have that first step, it's all the fears. I mean, you hear about people that have the greatest idea and they're sort of a company and they've talked about for two years. So I'm a big proponent its of the the book. and What I speak about is both you family, personal life, which is a lot of trauma. I kind of.
00:08:46
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like self, probably trauma, but talk about the the personal side of business and then the business side of the business. And the biggest takeaway that i I try to really land home is change your perspective on failure. And, you know, no one has it that fucking figured out, right? show Show me, like I love, sometimes I always do some podcasts. I love like if there's a live call in, like show me someone that had a fucking a forecasted business model for a global pandemic in a 2019 business plan. I'll give you everything I got. It doesn't fucking happen. You can control every piece. And I think so sometimes you can over-complicate and over-plan, with which is which is just poor strategy. right You have ah ah an idea of a direction of on the horizon of where he wants to go. I think that's great. But you know oftentimes, I've seen it happen so many times with you know people, i you know founders I invest in, or I'm mentoring, or I'm coaching, and they've got this 75-point plan.
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before they get started. And then at, you know, month nine, they're at a fork in a road and they had planned to go left when all the current information is fucking blaring your faces to go right. They are so some will go right. But a lot of people will still go left because that's what their plan was. And it's just it's just silly. Why why can you audible out, audible out Omaha, Omaha? Let's go. No, it's not exactly. Yeah.
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Right. It's crazy because I was just thinking about this the other day. I was talking to a friend. I was like, hey, what if you knew you couldn't fail? What would you do? So that was like how I kind of baited him a little bit, which was interesting. And then I i saw that's also the quote was um something if you knew you couldn't fail, how big would you dream or something? Oh, that's it all right. like That's good. which is Right. Which is not right. Because I think that's every time you get another level, I remember like I was making a few hundred thousand dollars on Wall Street. I was like, dude, all thing I do is So I'm in a company, if I can replace that and make 300 grand a year, but dude, I'm fucking set. yeah Okay, now like that's I probably can't get by a month or so, right? But right right yeah you you scale, but there's always those different levels. um And I think that's, you know, right just get bigger, go bigger, like why why not? And if you have that childish naivety approach, like why can't it be me? Why why can't it work out? right like And I love talking to people who are employees and I'm like, how much money do you think you made your company? Like a 10%? just take 10% of whatever you've made of your company. like You'd be set for life and they're like, oh my goodness. like So you're valuable. How do you do that? So after I asked this guy, like how do you, like what if you couldn't fail? And then I'm like, but what is failure? like Think about your life and think about where you're at currently. And you tell me that it's been the the good things that happen is the reason why you are today. Whereas it has been the the challenges and the trials and things like that. And he's like,
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Yeah, it's definitely been all the hard things. And I'm like, OK, then is it that you'd fail or is it that it just wouldn't go according to plan and you had to learn and you had to adapt and you'd finally have a good road road map to get to where you want to go? And he was like, right. Yeah, that's a good point. Like it's all in our head is is's basically what I'm edifying. What you said is it's in between our two ears of failure.
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because especially the optimistic ones and the ones that don't fall victim, the ones that take ownership, are the people who are like, yep, that happened, but we're gonna adapt, we're gonna learn, we're gonna overcome. That's what I'm talking about. So cool.
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Yeah, just, you know, the the other piece, I think, you know, we, I see a lot of people struggle with is, and it's, you mentioned employees, which were kind of triggered, triggered for me because like new employees of mine, um, they just fucking aggravates the fuck out of them because like, I walk, through like we're going to a meeting and.
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you know, big meeting right in multinational company like what's the plan? Like, I don't know. like but I just watch what I do and it kind of got through and then and then or you'll get like a lawsuit or you'll get like some event and like, Oh my God, god like what's going on? And you know, it's like that old proverb, you know, um well, let's see. Well, let's, let's, let's. Oh yeah. that Right. Is it good? We'll see.
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We'll see. And I think that's the idea. like you know if you you know I'm a firm believer that there's nothing in life that happens, good or bad. There's only events. It's the emotions.
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and the actions that we apply to those set of events that will dictate if they were a good or bad thing. And that's the thing that really just frustrates people like, oh my God, I've got lots of people. OK, well, let's let's just see how it kind of goes and and and understand it. And don't create that. that there doesn't A, it's not productive. like you can You can be upset, mad, but that does not do anything. So you know you took a bad loss. Cool. Cry. Fine. Get the fuck over it. Cry faster, right? It doesn't matter because that's not going to get you back on the path of, of of you know, where you're headed in any way. Right. Okay. So you quit your Wall Street job. You tell your mom, I'm out. And she's like, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. And then you start, is that when you start bulk enterprises?
00:13:56
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yeah yeah that sorry dock enterprises um in 2001. I was 21 years old I'm 44 now. So that's my been my main holding company from then. um And while the path, I never had a plan, that the key kind of piece that's always been there is this curiosity and willingness and and and eagerness to kind of really learn. But it wasn't super,
00:14:27
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I'm thought out at all right so when I was making a bunch of money I was a bunch I was making good money um for a twenty year old old in in New York. um I love real estate and that's where I was going to go in to build things that I liked to see like ideas and creating on Wall Street we weren't making anything but money either we're just moving trades and moving money around.
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So that was something that really drove me. So I didn't have New York City money to be a developer, but I was sitting money back home in Kentucky and I was building houses and four plexus duplexes, cutting your roads and divisions and stuff diversifying.
00:15:02
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Yeah, so I was doing that and ah one of my first business partners, who he actually his family was in the lumber business in Brooklyn for like 80 something years. He was with Dreyfus. I was with Fidelity and he left um the firm to start his to join his family business or or a division of his family business, business which is going to be in windows and door.
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And I didn't know know about a window and door other than like they opened and closed. Right. But the idea was that it was so simple that, hey, um I'm building shit in Kentucky. They have windows. You have a window thing.
00:15:39
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Let's see how it worked out. And and that's that's how the idea of impurity. And then from from there, we learned that was really probably my best. I studied business, but that was my really business school um because we took that a retail distribution or a retail window store in Long Island, New York.
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I became a partner of that business. And we grew that from distribution, right? So we became a nationwide distributor for a Canadian line. Then we became, started importing European tilt and turn doors. And we ended up, we did like Carl Icahn's house, Calvin Klein's house. So we're now doing like $2 million window jobs,
Diversifying Delk Enterprises
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these massive house in the Hamptons. And then started OEM. So then we started doing our own manufacturing and then went through distribution, like a two step distribution model. So, it was literally like, hey, selling windows to people coming in for their house and remodel, and we looked up the entire value chain. This was over a four-year period, and my business is still around. I sold it, and my partner is still in it. But that was the really antithesis. It gave me a lot of understanding of just how business works. And I use that same principles now in any business. It's like we're looking at buying a distillery. We're doing a commercial DeBrazie conversion piece. We've got, you mentioned Ink 500. That's my landing. I actually have my second Ink 500 company now. This year, which is cool. First one was 24, I think, 24th fastest growing company. This one's like 140 out of the 500.
00:17:13
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I'm pretty excited about that. So that's the very utility way ah of how I saw an opportunity wasn't glamorous. We made a ton of money in that business, but it was literally like that simple. And I think that's what people forget. They make things so fucking complicated when it doesn't need to be. Right. So so that was the first piece of Dell enterprises continue to say development and then the building materials.
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um I moved back to ken Kentucky or or began to move back to Kentucky, you know, commuting and met my first wife. um My grandfather had a ability material business. I bought that company for my brother and, you know, put him, installed him in there. And I started spending, you know, more time in Kentucky than I was in New York.
00:18:00
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And the the windows and doors that we were selling in New York, it just wasn't gonna make sense. I couldn't go back into finance finance because Kentucky is just not the epicenter of finance. So I found myself like, well, what what the fuck am I gonna do? Right now what? Yeah, now what? Right now I'm here. And my grandfather had been in the equine business, owning race horses and stuff. And oh interesting I got into horses and then just through some random relationships. At the heat of the horse industry, we met these ah guys from Australia. And they had started, this was in 2008 and 2009, and they had started a regenerative medicine stem cell company. um So treating dogs with osteoarthritis or disease like fat drive stem cells.
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and And that, I can sell anything. I remember getting like the pitch up and I'm like, yeah, dude, I can't, I have no, I can't help you. I had no medical training. I've never sold a door before in my life or windows. yeah And like what happened? Yeah. Yeah. So I became an investor.
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um Like, yeah, I'll throw you a couple hundred grand and see what happens. Then we became like a master distributor, from see see a trend, right? And then I became the CEO of the global company. We took that company public, public took it private, made a lot of money transactionally with that business. Traveled the world, which was really kind of but cool a cool piece of like the kid that always wanted to kind of go and do and see more. It afforded me to go to 28 countries or something. And so distribution.
Healthcare Ventures and Challenges
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And that was my entry into healthcare.
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I'm in that little building block. in a random meeting in Dubai when we were over there working with Sheikh Mohammed and Sheikh Khalifa. I'm at my next business partner, also from Australia, from Melbourne. And he was in the heat. Gosh, does anybody from Australia just have to be successful because their accent? Like, come on. Yeah, exactly. Come on. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And it's besides Florida, too, it's like 20 something million people. Yes. It's like everyone just, like, striking hard. And I get it. Because, like, they talk. And I'm like, yeah, just take my money. Do it. Yes. Get it done.
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But yeah, so that that led me into, he was in the human health, like I can't do anything about human health, but I do know something about cell biology and bio bioactive peptides and macrophages, like all self-taught through, you know, because I had to know. And we opened up a pharmacy business that was the first Inc. 500 company and um scaled that, had ah a lot of fun, made a ton of money, um made a ton of money and um I lost you, um made a ton of money and you know got a $600 million dollars offer on that business, um turned it down.
00:20:45
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because I was probably making like a million a month, something like that. So like I had a billion friends and like they weren't living much differently than I were. Like I was, you know, chartering my planes, they owned theirs. Like that was mainly the main Delta. And three days later, um I was at the gym and I got like a panic phone call from the pharmacy. I think like 60 FBI um agents. An FDA raided our pharmacy and um there was this whole sports, actually it was a sports horse doping scandal from the old company that I had exited. wow I think they thought that's what it was. um Clearly it wasn't, that we weren't doing anything on the human side, on the animal side rather, but
00:21:31
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and Yeah, that was ah that was a really high rocket ship down to a massive crash. or That was a ah pretty big bus. all That was probably the 20 year. I guess i guess like hopefully I hopefully I only need two of these in my life. But the first one was losing a few million bucks. Right.
00:21:50
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And then 20 years later, getting fucking punched with that one. So hopefully I'm done. like ah ah a Wow. um And this was right. This was like in March of 2020. So this is right. Wow. ah Yeah. so um And it's a highly regulated industry. And like and like we started that business from zero to 60 million bucks, like and really quickly. So we you know there's definitely some things that we should have done differently and what have you. So it cost me um a lot of drama, a few million dollars in fines. and um I exited that business, like just like risk. Like I was like from the guy that's fearless and doesn't care about risks, went to like fuck this. they got smell Also fucking popsicles, man. Like fuck this shit. I don't need this. Especially when your freedom is threatened and all those things. It's just a very scary time. Yeah, yeah. It's not worth it. It's not worth it. No. And then you want, you get real perspective. Like, cool. Like all this money, but what does it matter matter if like you can't go and stick your kids to school and that kind of stuff?
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so um I, you know, paid the fines. um We began to sell the business and um I ended up taking half, 50%, so eight, well, a lot less. I sold it for seven million bucks. So it left about 580 something. My lawyer's like, oh, you got to be happy with that, right? All the scrutiny and stuff. I'm like, it's- I knew what I could have gotten. Right. I'm upset about $7 million, dollars but we actually had an offer of 12.
00:23:18
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And we had an offer of 12 million, and it was from a Florida pharmacy. But they were going to just buy our book of business, because we grew to the biggest in the country. We kind of brought this technology, peptide. I don't know if you're doing regenerative, or HMI, genetic hormone therapy, or something like that. We kind of godfather that into the US. Now it's super mainstream. oh That was probably the biggest one now. Right, right.
00:23:40
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um So they were gonna just buy our book of the business and then there have been 107 jobs that we just would have put out of business. wow um i do it Like fuck that dude. Like I gotta live here. I'm not moving. all right it's like yeah all right The extra 5 million isn't gonna change my family's life that much. But so so you take that and like that's a really bad fucking horrible thing. What it was me?
00:24:09
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six months before my business partner, um and he was our big sales guy that was killing it for us. He had this idea of measuring your your age or biological age, right? Because what we were doing is a lot of anti-aging stuff, but there was no right marker for it. marker and um he had this idea we had spent a million in cash and bought all of this day-to-day equipment and we were just making so much money and busy and busy and having fun like whatever it just wasn't a priority that that um equipment was still in our and our warehouse when when this whole raid happened.
00:24:46
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So, um, I look at that as like, okay, that was a good, it's like, all right, well, fuck this business. yeah right but But, and so that that, I think, I don't know if we, if we, I truly don't know if that rate didn't happen. Cause I get asked all the time, would you take the money? Like, I don't think I would have. Um,
00:25:06
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I wouldn't have done anything differently. I think I would have, you know, and it's weird to say, but the only way to turn down the money wasn't because of money. I wanted to hit a billion dollars. I think it's a very few. It's rare to take that shot and I don't care about missing. I would take the fucking shot. Right. Right. Right. So that business got a bit of a of a lift like all right well maybe we actually do this We bought another building the building i'm in today and we launched that company in April of 2020. That company is the company I just mentioned on the Inc. 500 list. second wow second so um It's called True Diagnostic. It's pretty ah pretty exciting. if you
00:25:46
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but if you're into into human optimization or anything like that. You've heard of Brian Johnson. So like that's all us, like that's Brian. Oh, that's great. yeah yeah so jeremy um So super cool. So like you, you the the the whole point of it is.
00:26:01
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you know, just could you get a fucking right hook by Tyson? Doesn't mean it's over, man. Right. Right. We we always have, you know, ways to to be resilient. But you got to do it. Right. Because you got to get it. You got to step in the ring. You got to step in the ring. I can't remember like one of my one of my best friends. He's on this golf trip with me because I wrote this book. First time I wrote the book, it was dog shit because it was lie it wasn't lies, but it was just all about business. Yeah. In personal.
00:26:29
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And business is so personal. So the second part was took six more months because it was hard. But I just I left out like the shit about my failed marriage and just like a lot of really stuff. And I wanted to kind of show that. And then I close out the book and he talks to him. He's like, dude, you're a little fucking bitch. I'm like, why? He's like, you just sound like a scared bitch that you're closing. And like he was, like the way I ended the book, I was doing all the things, but it was just like the way it reads, he's like, so now you're done? So cool. Like, what are you going to do? And like, I changed the, I refocused the editing. I said something like, you know, I may have struck out, but I'm not done swinging or something. Yeah, right. That's good. Very cool.
00:27:09
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So, how do you keep everything organized and still got a family, got a wife? Like, how do you keep all your priorities in check? Like, do you have like an accountability group? It's like, hey, I can get dialed into this business thing and completely forget about things. Like, where do you at now? Yeah, well, I guess, I don't know. You had an an unpopular opinion maybe, but like, I think, you know, work-flight balance is fucking bullshit. and I don't believe that at all.
00:27:35
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um you And if you in a it's super cliche as well. I'm just spitting on kinds of cliches, but like, if you love what you do, it's not at work, but you just figure it out, right? I mean, like this morning, I got to take the kids to school, drop them off. I went to the gym, check out some projects. I went on this podcast and went back downtown to do and a new meeting for a new development piece. Like you just kind of figure it out. um I try to be as present as I can be. Like I used to, I wasn't happy with my last marriage and I wouldn't, like I would find reasons to stay at the office and like, and you can always find reasons to stay, but like I won't miss dinner at home. Like i I do the pickups. Like I do, like I try to be there because like the amount of time and remind me for a trip challenge. I want to want to make sure we hit on this before cause it's, it's important.
00:28:21
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Um, but I try to just be as present as possible when I'm there and then get the work done. So like but my routine may not be for everybody, but like I actually just, you know, go home and then I get the most work done, not at the office. I have to be at the office because you need to be seen and you can kind of go through, but like most of my stuff, like get the kids down.
00:28:42
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Wife puts on a show and just sleep in fucking 30 seconds. So once she goes once she goes to bed It's like quiet I grab the laptop out and it's you know, my best probably genius work is between 10 and 2 a.m And then kind of roll from there so that works for me You just you know pallet on and you know the ebbs and flows in business like you've got a tennis up on it's stressful and then like um You're then you're not so bad Right. Okay. So what's the future, our future for delk entertainment or delk enterprises? Like what, what's the future for you and your companies?
Future Aspirations for Delk Enterprises
00:29:15
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I mean, and really you probably don't know who knows. It sounds like you're just going to take it as it comes. No. I mean, like like the, the goal, and I think you should have big goals. Like we want with the true business and I'm i'm not, you know, I've, I'm out of that business from a, I'm a big, big investor and you know, I take some, uh,
00:29:34
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advisory meetings and that type of stuff, but I've brought in adults to kind of of run it now, which is which is good, because it's profitable at scaling. But I think the goal of that business is to to you know be one of the most valuable healthcare companies ever, right? And it's but the shot of what it can be is, and this is like a really bad elevator your pitch, which is why I'm not leaving it, but it's it's while we're we're hitting on biological age, but We're looking at over 850,000 cpgs and biomarkers. So we have a lot more data behind that. So the idea is like Theranos, but not a fraud, right? those thereoos One text, but they were looking at a different thing. We're looking at DNA methylation. So what if it's, you know, switch on. So that's my big billion dollar lottery ticket that, you know,
00:30:17
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will come or won't come or, you know, I think the money, I don't care about it, but I think we can change this fucking broken system of healthcare care that we have a little bit and be a part of it. I think that would be good. And that's that, that's business and then for personal and do i mean i I'm looking at a bourbon deal and do maybe investing in a distillery and you know, there's all sorts of different, you know, interesting things that I'm curious about. And I like that value. I'm a firm believer that business is business is business.
00:30:45
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But, you know, I want to take time and enjoy all this shit too, right? And I feel a bit of an obligation to, you know, give back and, you know, we do that with charity and stuff, but these podcasts and things I think are important in speaking on stage because I guarantee there's someone in your audience that's listening that's struggling or going through ah on that kind of cusp of like, do I do it or not? And just like, you know, it's not,
00:31:09
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What if you do it and fail? What if you fucking don't do it and it was successful? Like, like, that's the thing they that they don't look at, right? Like, Oh my God. Like, what if you fucking him don't do it? he Like, what if I just fucking packed it in? We wouldn't have as like, what if I just, in it and that's the choice and we're all allowed with them. um So that's that.
00:31:29
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on a personal thing. Cause I know like with your audience and your piece, something I've still from, I like the Japanese sometimes I still it make a little bit better, but I so i still do this. So still it for me, I've kind of coined it like this four trip challenge and and I started doing it with my, my oldest son and it's changed so much. I mean, the relationship that I have with all of my kids, I mean, the baby is not there yet, but it's, we talked about like your, your wife's doing the fucking unpaid Uber driving and fucking do so much. Like I was like, I did fucking bath night one out of a hundred. You know what I mean? Like, so the the moms are the fucking heroes and that the moms are naturally the nurturers. And you always have that. Like you're you're going to have that. The dads are more like what's up with your homework and that kind of piece and how bad with the sport. But the four trip challenge is basically, you know, you've got, in my opinion, four opportunities and four,
00:32:26
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experiences that can shape and cement lifelong relationships with your kids.
Building Relationships through Milestone Trips
00:32:33
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Um, so it's on every birthday milestone at five, right? So five, 10, 15, and 20 years old. Um,
00:32:45
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You separate them to make it more special. You all can separate to make make them, you know, save up for them. And, because you know, yeah they don't have to be extravagant or expensive, but like you just let them go. So my son, his birthday is right after Christmas on the 27th, kind of gets shipped out like, Hey,
00:32:59
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um what do you want to do for your father-son type of deal? And his five-year trip was Legoland. This past year, 10, he upped it to Dubai. yeah I'll actually hook him up with you. He does all kinds of crazy shit. So he loved this thing we talked about in Switzerland. um,
00:33:16
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If you go on my Instagram, you'll see him. Like I check it out. Like I was like, dude, I'm, I did all kinds of stuff. Like I hate snakes. We went to this, uh, shakes private zoo or holding snakes and doing all kinds of stuff and feeding alligators and lions. This kid ziplined and Dubai, Marina, um, by himself. Like, I think it was a 49 high story, 49 story building through the marina. It's the coolest thing ever. It's awesome. It's so cool to see them come into it. We flew to Dubai and rented some cars and did all this stuff and had great dinners and just talking and bonding. My daughter, her five-year trip was
00:33:59
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Um, obviously she loves Barbie. She's all girl and she wanted to go to Barbie world. So what the fuck is that? So I had to find a Barbie world. It turns out there is one, I think it moves, but there was one in Dallas. Wow. And, uh, her and I did that and she had the Barbie hat on and we, we her and I just flew to to Dallas for a few nights and did Barbie world and American girl doll and you know, sugar factory for dinner and like, you know, all those things and just.
00:34:24
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I had so much fun of just just us if us, me and I was traveling. i's It's just that one-on-one complete experience. And yeah, I get way more out of it than they do. but i shouldn think like they mean And they already talked about it. like We came back from Dubai. My son's like, Ava, what are you going to do for your 10-year trip? I mean, they're already kind of looking forward to it. It's so fucking cool. Steal that from me and and do it. it's why one the It's such a great great thing. I can't can't recommend it enough. That's cool. That's really cool. Well, Jeremy, I love what you're doing. i Really appreciate your wisdom and just your guidance here because I think there's a lot of people that are just like,
00:35:05
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drinking everything what you're saying. It's like, you know, you don't have to, you don't have to tap out. You might got hit in the face and you might be on the mat, but man, just like Rocky, just get up. The better stories are when you get up and then beat them. So I love it. um Thank you for your time, man. I appreciate you. Thanks for impacting the world like you are. And yeah, thanks for just being uncommon. I love it.
00:35:29
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No, thank you, man. Appreciate it. Yeah. Well, you've been listening to Uncoming Wealth Podcasts. I've been your host, Philip Ramsey. And for more information for Jeremy, you can go to his website. He's all around. So Jeremy Del. D-E-L-K. Thanks again for listening. And you've been great. Appreciate it.
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