The Cult of Dan Lok PART 2: Losing $50,000 in 6 months

and Anthony, that it wouldn't take them anywhere, so no, really these numbers are important because people live in a state of fear and shame I can't tell you how many people emailed me to go hey I don't even know why I they send emails it's like I'm their priest or something because they don't want to make it public I don't want to, no, I totally get it, like they just want to tell someone because they're like, Hey, I'm $50,000 in debt. I can, I will leave it on record. I don't want to say or say anything because I'm so embarrassed to hear that's what they want, they're like finally someone is saying this doesn't work so I don't feel so bad, I don't feel like a loser.

Haven't you essentially fallen prey to what I think is, let's be legal here, careful here? I think I'm an unscrupulous marketer, so yes, I'm trying to destigmatize this stuff and get more people talking about it. these predatory systems because the more you talk about it, the more Garrett talks about it, the more people say, hey, this happened to me too. I'm not ashamed of it, it's something that was

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of my life, you know, and I can, I can. help other people in the future yesexactly and again no one again no one forced me to join HTC force magrunner before going to the assistants, forced me to join HTM, they were all my decisions and I accept them and the consequences of the same were huge for me and of course I'm just more than I'm happy to finally share, at least on a broader public audience scale, what my personal experience was in the way I know I personally handled things and the consequence is specific to my case, of course, so for me I have to say The worst

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wasn't even the money because I mean, I'm young enough, I'm out there enough that I can, you know, still choose, like I'm now getting into the trades, which I discovered I loved. much more to be honest, I didn't even know I wanted to go into sales because I'm an introvert, I mean I tried it in a few places in the city that were sales places.

I tried it for a while and I wonder why I don't enjoy this, even if I mean some decent money later using what I learned from that new trainer I had hired and then, from all the expenses, I mean, that's the no. Sorry, but I didn't enjoy sales in general, so now I'm in trading. I enjoy it and know that in a couple of years I will be making decent money doing it. Without words, happy. Oh, I want to do that electrician job. That would be awesome, that's cool, man, hey, yeah, I'd like one of the things.

I'm a big fan of their trade school like, oh, it's so much cheaper than damn lawyers and dude, it's actually fun, this is what I'm trying to crack. people have the mentality that you have to be rich to be happy, that you have to be, you know, a lot of these gurus like to badmouth jobs that don't make a lot of money. Interesting, I mean, even with electricians, plumbing, HVAC. and if you're really good at it, carpenter, you can make six figures a year doing that easily, oh yeah, but they look down on it, even though they say, hey, that's the part I don't understand because it's like, sure, like you know.

I can't do the same job if I wanted to do it in Morocco. I can't go there overnight, but the thing about the trades is that once you get certified in Canada, it's the Red Seal, you can do it anywhere in the world. world, yeah, it's just that you can't stay for a weekend, you'll probably have to stay at least six

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and you know, or most likely on a summer cruise when they need extra help, but same principle, just kind of different job, it is more physically demanding. Of course, but I see that you're adding demonstrable value to the world, which there's something to be said for that, whereas a lot of these laptop lifestyle people, what are they doing, what are they really doing if you're taking money from the Someone else's gas station?

We're not adding demonstrable value to the world, that's how I see it now. I specifically chose exchanges because I was already done with the feeling that you almost had to like screwing people over to get what you wanted, yes, and I was. Instead of doing that, I'd rather build something that fits what they want and they still pay me very well for it and they'll love it because if they choose to live in that house for 15 years, then they know they will. make a daily profit you know it's a thankless job I don't care it's something I chose because I'm happy with it you know you don't think about who installs your lights you know you just turn on the light switch and it's fine but if you can make a hundred thousand a year doing that and I don't have to work in a retail store, I'll do that any day, so yeah, that's my thought on it and I'm talking about a year or two of education. for them to take care of that is theirs, you can almost avoid it.

I can't, of course this doesn't apply to everyone. You can almost avoid debt by doing this if you get a head start in high school and work part-time. save some money and there are so many scholarships for the trades it's amazing especially women get some there is a skull there are a lot of scholarships for women in the trades - there are two girls in the class I'm working with right now what I'm for I'm doing carpentry and then my second year I'll be an electrician and they're great at it so it's not just an exclusively male thing that I know a lot of people think about too so I'm really glad, really happy that you said.

That's cool, that's really amazing, so play very well. I mean, I guess the only thing we haven't really talked about yet that I guess we need to get to is when you left HCC, when did you realize, oh wait. this is not working, yes, so it was during the Kavon events last December, it's already been a year, yes, it's already been here mm-hmm, so I can think in my life about what happened, of course, they broke up, it got pretty ugly, specific because What I heard was some kind of agreement between Dan and Kavon where Kavon couldn't do something like HTC even though he was a co-founder, it wasn't just Dan who made HTC, it was Dan and he showed up and then Kayvon made his exit and then he came in, he did it anyway and then you know he also started recruiting people within HTC and Dan didn't like the battle on his turf so he released a video that was deleted shortly after specifically said or these very closely you know the HTC community is now declaring war on Kayvon it was holy I wish he wouldn't do that even for his own brand because people sent death threats which wasn't cool and yeah , death. threats so yeah that's why they took down that video pretty quickly because that was not a good situation at all and people got really excited just to go help and destroy it the image came out the brand the community and what whatever you were trying to build.

It just paralyzed the guy in any way necessary. Anyone who followed him. Anyone who spoke about it. Removed from the group. You are no longer part of the HTC community. So the guy says, “Yeah, yeah,” it was pretty intense and then when they realized it, they quit. That's also when they realized maybe it wasn't a good idea, removed the video, and then stopped banning people unless someone caused Lee to say, "You know," some like Justin being an example. I'm not saying anyone said this, but you know. The coupon thing is better than HTC, so if it was like that, you were out, but if it was like, guys, why are we doing this?

So they didn't necessarily kick you out anymore, it was just up to the community to decide what to do with You know, and all the people who defended you well were already kicked out, so I mean, and as for the people who were kicked out, one didn't want to come back. to enter, but two, I think there were a couple of people. who tried to see if they could come back anyway, were denied access and then started getting a little angry about it because now this thing that they paid for, that was in the advertising, was supposed to have lifetime access to the rice cooker, now they are Well, they wanted ramifications for that, so they went out and started their own Facebook group specifically just to hate on the HEC community.

The irony and that's unreal, I know, but something crazy should happen and during the middle of it I thought, "Okay." I'm done with this. I've already wasted enough of my money on this. I have an I'm out. I was done so I left and I was really angry about everything at that point. He was angry at the angry world. I got mad at HDC and then finally realized that, well, I already dropped out like I did in November because I was neglecting my classes so much that I was just failing bullshit, you're too busy focusing on HDC.

I couldn't miss, I mean, I missed more days of school and, you know, I couldn't miss, you know, trying to get new influencers when the other one didn't really work out or that wasn't making money and I was. I had better work my way into a backup plan, so it was pretty sad how it all turned out because if anything, the only thing I had left after that, other than $40.00, was my girlfriend, who by what Jesus? Christ taught me to write that there that she is definitely not with me for any kind of money or anything like that.

I love her very much and she is everything, so to this day she is and she has helped me in my recovery, so I have been working like crazy to try to get that money back as quickly as possible. Yeah, it might be time to put a ring on that cock. She's fine, so she's a good girl. Yes, stay with you through thick and thin. Yes, exactly, she is everything else. Wow, oh boy, hey man, that's a good place to leave it. Do you have something that I always say as two number one things? You know, Dan Locks is listening to this right now, so say something to the shellfish, please, if your final balls fool you, I mean, yeah.

Dan personally or D, someone weird, someone's mentor to my Desmond or anyway, someone close to him, someone from HEC, we're going to be watching this right now. I just have to say "like" and this will catch everyone watching this off guard, but me. First I have to say thank you for teaching me how to get up bad or not again. I made those decisions, but the consequences of moving forward with everything I was doing I have never worked so hard in my life to recover from something I want to say now I go to the gym my daily schedule is 8 to 3 I attend my carpentry classes 5 to 9:30 at night for winter time I'm working in a lumber yard and then from 11:00 to 1:00 in the morning I was at the gym and before that, no way and how was I so busy they hit you?

They let you hit rock bottom. Yeah, they taught me how to do that side pretty good. So anyway, thanks for that, I guess, and yeah, next time. I'll have to do it I guess I'll have to hold on next time I'm not going back even a few seconds I think one catastrophe is enough for a lifetime so yeah, yeah man you learned that if it seems too good to be true, unfortunately it is, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's, that's good and then what about people? A debt to your brothers and sisters. Sorry, I'm being a little ironic in Asia.

It's great. Great, then to my HTC people I'd have to say, "You know, of course, I'm sure some of you automatically, I'm just talking about the people who are really in tune with HTC, automatically hate me right now, so default". for people who know, maybe they're giving an open year, maybe keeping an open mind about some things that I have to say, you know, of course, I'm happy that you listened to me because this is my true story. I'm back in the United States. I missed. everything, I even lost the opportunity to be with the person I love permanently.

I have to figure it out now and try to find a way to get her here, so be aware, look at yourself, make sure you're doing the right thing for yourself, it's not big, no. doing something because someone told you to do it I know you can think independently I know you have it in you and for the people who are gone, please consider sharing your story because you know the more the more the more testimonies we have. you know the more real it gets and I know you know what I mean when I say that so we both went through the same thing and Garrett did too so I trust you to know what's right for you in your situation and I just back off.

For people who are HTC die-hards, you know, I'm just going to respect your opinion, which I know you can't do, so that's it.