MEET DAMION LUPO:
Best Selling Author in personal finance and retirement planning, host of the Transformation Nation podcast, owner of 30+ companies and founder of his own martial art – Yokido ®.
The only thing Damion really fears is REGRET. His formula for success AND a fulfilled life by making tons of mistakes as quickly as possible. This guy literally plays by a different set of rules, even buying his first rental house on his VISA, a move that snowballed into 150 rental houses in less than 5 years. In 2008 he lost the entire 20 million dollar business but 4 years totally recreated his wealth and reinvented his life.
Today he leads 3 global companies with one unified mission:
To free people from money bondage.
Perhaps his fierce independence and self-reliance had something to do with growing up in Alaska dodging polar bears working at 80 below zero in the arctic circle. Perhaps he simply rejected norms and truths from the past.
Regardless, his path was set early, tattooed into his soul- that of a free thinker, an entrepreneur, a disruptor and a change agent.
Following high school, Damion was invited to work at a classified department of energy particle accelerator lab in New York and then in DC for the US Senate after which time he was awarded a full Air Force ROTC scholarship, sights set on becoming a fighter pilot.
But that Mach 3 path got shot down quickly by concerns of being trapped in a regimented system wrapped in red tape and spiritual containment; systems that would no doubt limit his ability to pursue his dreams, and a path to them developed on his terms. This angst led to his dropping out of college… not once but 4 times.
One of those times in the late 90’s was the result of being angry that students were forced to use the official campus bookstore to buy and sell used books. Monopolies made him crazy because they take advantage of a captive population and in this case, every student was required to buy and sell used books through the official store and get gouged all the way. This seemed more like Communist Russia than the United States.
Annoyance and an ongoing fixation on fixing market problems led him to start an alternative bookstore inside his dorm room to compete with, rather…to DOMINATE and DESTROY the corrupt campus bookstore.
With the established monopolistic player on the verge of bankruptcy, Damion was kindly invited to shut down or be thrown out of school by the dean. Not being dissuaded from his disruptive pursuits to put more money in the hands of his fellow students, he declined shutting down, executed his high speed used book exchange and in 1 week of balls to the wall campus book exchanging he earned enough to pay his full tuition.
Since then Damion has started 37 businesses, including an insurance agency – the youngest agent in history for the fortune 500 company, a global precious metals firm, a dozen real estate development and investment companies, a private equity firm, several consulting firms and a network marketing company that he grew to 4000 people in 6 months.
While many people struggle with building a network marketing business, Damion did his “all in” maneuver and tapped into one of his secrets of success, modeling. He found the million dollar earners and did exactly what they did and like magic the firm grew vertically.
Blind faith is either rewarded or punished by the universe with gentle taps or stinging slaps and Damion got both in half a year.
He’s learned, without exception, in venture after venture, one thing is always true, that without total devotion and a to the death loyalty to the cause there is a zero percent chance of epic results or real fulfillment.
Damion is the published author of 7 books on topics ranging from real estate to precious metals, although his favorite one by far is his true story of transformation and personal development, Reinvented...
