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Michelle Weinstein, AKA The Pitch Queen, is the host of Success Unfiltered, which features an array of unique and inspiring guests. She talks to all kinds of innovators and achievers, including multi seven and eight figure entrepreneurs, Shark Tank veterans, authors, performers, and investors.

Her guests share their most intimate stories, no holds barred. It’s the raw and vulnerable stuff that you don’t always hear about, like major rejections, epic failures, and unrelenting setbacks.
They share their most inspiring stories of overcoming adversity, never giving up, and achieving success beyond their wildest imaginations.

She created this podcast to help entrepreneurs realize that they are NOT alone. Everyone who has attempted something epic has had their share of setbacks, failures, and NOs. By sharing unfiltered stories from extraordinary individuals who overcame hardships and ultimately achieved their version of success, her hope is to inspire others to stay in the game and hold out for their own dreams.

Her mission and goal is to inspire rising entrepreneurs to break through barriers, overcome obstacles, and make a bigger impact in the world. It’s her passion to show people how to take action, own their value, and grow their top-line revenue. You CAN build a successful and flourishing business and make a global impact by doing what you love, and Success Unfiltered will inspire you ever step of the way!

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121 | Dan Fleyshman Shares the Importance of Failure

Sep 18, 2019

121 | Dan Fleyshman Shares the Importance of Failure

How can you turn your failure into a win?

Dan Fleyshman is the youngest founder of a publicly traded company in history. At the age of 23, after selling $15 million dollars worth of clothing in six department store chains and surpassing expectations with his $9.5 million dollar licensing deal with STARTER apparel, Mr. Fleyshman launched the “Who’s Your Daddy” energy drink into 55,000 retail stores.

He later went on to launch Victory Poker, which became 1 of the top 5 online poker brands internationally. 

Along the way, Fleyshman became a very active Angel Investor and advisor to 29+ companies that range from mobile apps and tech companies to travel sites and celebrity clothing brands. 

As a serial entrepreneur, some of the successes include launching a media site to garner over 300,000,000 views in the first year, a hoverboard company to $5 million+ revenue in 4 months and multiple subscription box companies to gross over $48 million dollars in combined sales. 

Currently his social media agency “Elevator Studios” works with over 600 influencers and manages campaigns for a variety of large companies. The agency has also hosted 30 live events called “Elevator Nights” which has helped 1000’s of entrepreneurs learn from and network with investors in multiple sectors including cannabis & cryptocurrency. 

Playing poker as a hobby, he’s managed to win multiple championships and more importantly use the game to be able to raise millions of dollars for various charities by organizing dozens of poker tournaments around the world. 

Over the last 7 years his main passion has been his charity www.modelcitizenfund.org which creates backpacks for the homeless filled with 150 emergency supply items inside.

Money talks, and sometimes, it’s telling you that it’s time to shut down your business.

But what then? How do you face that “failure”? How do you face the giant NO?

When I closed FITzee Foods, I could hear the money talking, and it was saying NO. People were not buying the meals at the rate that I needed to sell in order to be successful and keep the company open. I had to make the tough decision to listen to the money talking, and say NO to FITzee Foods. 

But what then? What about all the people who are watching me? How could I work with that failure, and find a way to turn it into success?

I chose to turn my past experiences into a success, teaching others to love the sales process, and telling the stories of so many entrepreneurs on this podcast. 

You could even say that through saying NO to FITzee Foods, I have said YES to something far better!

This week’s guest on Success Unfiltered Podcast, Dan Fleyshman, knew that he was going to have to close his poker business, but he was able to leverage his experience in such a way that he turned a potential failure into an absolute success! His “failure” brought him more success than he had found in his original business!

If you’re worried about the aftermath of failure, make sure that you tune into this episode of Success Unfiltered! You won’t want to miss this inspiration!

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Special thanks goes out to Dan Fleyshman for taking the time to chat with Michelle. Be sure to join us next week for our next new episode!

What Do Successful Entrepreneurs Know (That Most Entrepreneurs Don’t)? That rejection in sales doesn’t mean failure. It means that you’re that much closer to the success that you desire...as long as you don’t quit! But how do you put yourself back together when a dream deal goes south? Grab your copy of my FREE checklist “5 Ways To Come Back From Sales Rejection” and learn how you can harness the power of NO for yourself!

Here are a few key secrets we talked about in this episode:

  • Michelle introduces Dan Fleyshman.
  • Dan saw the writing on the wall that he would have to close his online 8-figure poker business - his competition was being shut down, and he knew that his time was coming!
  • Rather than wait to be shut down, Dan decided to be proactive and shut it down first.
  • “It’s not easy to have that failure on the scoreboard. When you look at history, you see wins and losses.” ~ Dan Fleyshman
  • Dan’s choice to shut down proactively made him look like a good guy, and he was able to leverage his experience and get hired as a consultant at multiple casinos!
  • “By taking the loss, I actually had more wins.” ~ Dan Fleyshman
  • Staying in a bad business too long can be like being in a bad relationship: you’re working hard to make it work, but it’s not a good fit. Eventually, you have to rip the bandaid off!
  • People vote with their wallets. If they aren’t saying YES with their spending, then you need to know how to move on!
  • It’s better to end a business prematurely when you know you have to say NO to it, and be able to give something back to investors, rather than have nothing in the end!
  • Better to stop at 70% done instead of 100% finished!
  • After closing his poker business, Dan decided to never have all of his eggs in one basket again! He has taken on multiple investments, and has become an angel investor in many companies.
  • Someone with a “failure” on their record has valuable skills! You can be a very valuable consultant: people want to learn from someone who has been there and has experience!
  • “Failure” can lead to a lucrative speaking career, helping share your story.
  • Failure can be a million dollar MBA, and teach you valuable skills. You can have a taco truck, but you’ll be better in business if you teach others how to have better taco trucks!
  • We’re always going to make mistakes: it’s better to run your business under the guidance of someone who has been there, done that, and made the mistake! They can guide you through because they have been through it. That’s so much better than any marketing course.
  • When Dan was making his pitches with his beverage company, there wasn’t a NO option! He asks, “Would you like to be my distributor in the southeast, or nationwide?” There is not a NO option for that question!
  • Know and address objections before they become objections!
  • “I don’t want there to be a single NO in the room!” ~ Dan Fleyshman
  • For a service-based business, Dan talks about showing the expertise that qualifies you above anyone else.
  • Sometimes it can be hard to work with large companies, especially when you are projecting sales, and you don’t have a lot of money to work with, and they pay you after the product has been delivered. You have to learn to anticipate their needs, their re-ordering, and be ready for whatever - and sometimes, that requires that you be creative when working with suppliers.
  • When pitching investors, make sure that they know that they are in it for the long game: you won’t make money with your business for a while; they won’t see a return on their investment for a while!
  • When you’re just beginning, it’s ok to keep your job. In fact, you may need that income! It could be years before your business takes off.
  • Make a plan for when you succeed!
  • Dan has a “red ropes” policy for potential clients. When they cross any of these boundaries that he has for his business, he says NO to them as clients, because they will be the wrong kind of client for the business he wants to have!
  • One red flag for Dan that he looks out for in potential clients is that the clients that want to work with him to sign an NDA.
  • Dan shares what he would tell his younger self.

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What Do Successful Entrepreneurs Know (That Most Entrepreneurs Don’t)? That rejection in sales doesn’t mean failure. It means that you’re that much closer to the success that you desire...as long as you don’t quit! But how do you put yourself back together when a dream deal goes south? Grab your copy of my FREE checklist “5 Ways To Come Back From Sales Rejection” and learn how you can harness the power of NO for yourself!

Music produced by Deejay-O  www.iamdeejayo.com