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February 20, 2025 • 12 mins
🌟 Thinking about moving to a new city? Here’s why you should!

I’ve moved cities twice by the age of 21—and I’m about to do it again. Those bold moves completely changed my life. By 21, I made $500K and by 24, I’ve built a thriving solar company in Tampa, Florida, while investing multiple six figures. The secret? The strategy of moving cities, and in this video, I’m sharing exactly how it worked for me—and how it can work for you too.

Here’s what I’ll cover in this video:

✅ Why adopting a sink or swim mentality can push you toward success
✅ How moving helps you eliminate distractions like family, friends, or bad habits
✅ Why meeting new people and avoiding stagnant routines keeps you fired up for growth

And here’s the thing—you don’t need money, connections, or family in the new city to make this work. If you’ve been longing for a fresh start, this is your sign to take that leap!

👉 Do you think moving cities could change your life? Drop your thoughts in the comments, give this video a thumbs up, and don’t forget to subscribe for more life-changing strategies!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I moved twice before I was twenty one years old,

(00:02):
and I'm probably gonna do it very again.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
And here and here's why you should took.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
This strategy allowed me to make five hundred thousand dollars
at twenty one, and now I'm twenty four. I own
a business, and I've invested multiple six figures and I
live a pretty awesome life. I'm Sean, I'm twenty four.
I own a solar company in Tampa, Florida. And the
only reason I have the success I have today is
because of this strategy of moving cities. I'm going to
show you why you should move cities and why you
don't need to have a bunch of money or connections

(00:28):
in that new city to be able to do this.
When I was twenty years old, I had a sales
job and I was really not that good.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
I was doing okay.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Within six months, I'd probably made about thirty thousand dollars,
which was good, which is not bad for a twenty
year old. You know, that's about sixty K a year,
not too bad for someone with no degree. But something
was wrong. You know, I was in my hometown in
Rhode Island. Every day was just this monotonous, over and
over again. In this town that I already live in,
I'm working a sales job. All my friends are in college,

(00:57):
they're in fraternities, they're partying it up, and so something
just wasn't right, something just never felt right about being there.
And so I actually took an offer to go take
a job in California. So I flew out there. You know,
I go to California and immediately, man, I'm alone. I
don't know a single person. I get picked up at

(01:18):
the airport and I go sleep on the sales manager's couch.
That night, we'd go out to the field and go work.
But immediately, man, I'm working so much harder than I'd
ever worked before. I have no distractions, all family, you know, family, friends, girlfriends, nobody.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
I'm just it's sink or swim.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
I have to either succeed or I'm gonna have to
go back home and tell my parents I failed, tell
everyone around me I failed. That old company probably won't
take me back anymore. But within the first I landed
in September, and I remember over December, my first sales
commissions were hitting and I was sitting there saying, oh
my god, I was getting a fifteen thousand dollars check here,

(01:57):
twenty thousand dollars check here within one month. And it's
not that the business change, the opportunity change, or anything
I change.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
When I move.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
So I'm going to go over why it's important for
you to take the strategy of moving cities and how
you can do it even.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
If you don't have any money or connections in that city.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
The reason number one you need to move, especially from
your hometown, but not only your hometown, whatever city you're
in now, is you need to have that sink or
swim mentality. If you're in your hometown, you have your parents,
and if you don't have your parents, you know legal guardians, aunts, uncles, cousins,
people that really love you.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
And this can sound.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Weird, they love you, but they can be the biggest
attractor to your success because they love you so much.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Parents obviously they want to see you do well. They
want to be proud of you.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
They want to, you know, have created a person that
can go and kill it and crush it.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
But the number one thing that they that they want
for you is your safety. Right.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
They don't want you to risk it. They want you
to just be steady secure this and that. So taking
advice from your parents is probably one of the worst
things you can do. Less they are where you want
to eventually be, right, which is very rare. If there
are already millionaires and they crushed it in life and
they own a mansion in Tampa, in Florida and they're
they're killing it.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
But probably I would guess it's not your situation.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
You don't want to actually take advice from them because
they haven't got where you want to be in life.
So they're gonna give you advice that will give you
to where they got in life, which hopefully that's not
where you want to be. Hopefully you want to go
beyond that, and they want that for you to again,
they just want to make sure that you're safe. So
moving cities, you're gonna face some resistance to this. They're
gonna hate it, probably, and that's totally fine, But you
have to do it when you move cities, especially to

(03:36):
a city where you don't know anybody, you don't have
any connections. It's sink or swim men, it's you versus you.
Nobody's going to be there to save you if you
don't make it right. The only thing that's gonna save
you is getting a flight back home or wherever you're from.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
So that's sink or swim mentality.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
If you've never put yourself there, but I guarantee you
you have at some point in your life you had
a sink or swim.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
If I don't get this done, I'm screwed. Maybe you
had test coming up the next day, you didn't study
for it at all.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Now, all of a sudden, this lazy kid turns into
one of the most studious people that are for four
hours in your bedroom staying up.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Late and turning into a beast.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
It's the same thing when you move cities and you
have no one around you. It's sink or swim. You're
cramming for that test, but maybe not for four hours,
it's for weeks, months. And besides the money that you
may make in that period of success, you may have
whatever the skill you learned learning how to work hard,
and all the skills you get from working hard that

(04:31):
long are going to pay dividends for the rest of
your life. Reason number two is the distractions. If you're
in your hometown or you're in a city that you've
now lived in for two, three, four, five, years, you
know a ton of people. You may know tens, if
not hundreds of people, especially in your hometown. Yet you
have your high school friends, you have your girl, your
ex girlfriends, your all your friends, family, cousins, everyone's there.

(04:54):
These are massive distractions. Now you love hanging out of them.
I'm sure you love going to the bar. That's why
most people that watch this video, they're not gonna do this.
They're gonna stay in their hometown and unfortunately probably die there.
But you know your family and your friends. I want
to put you in on something. If you're watching this video,
you probably want to be very successful. I have to

(05:14):
give you a little bit of insight into that. That's
maybe not that great to hear. In ten years, in
twenty years, when you are super successful, you're going to
have lost almost every single one of your friends anyway,
except for maybe one, maybe two or three. You're gonna
have lost them anyway. They're not gonna be on the
same page as you. Things are gonna happen where they

(05:35):
get married. You're over here. You're gonna lose those friends anyway.
So I know, it seems like you'll be buddies forever,
and you can be you still go to their weddings
and see them and visit and have you know, you know,
have them come out to where you are. You come
out to them, but you don't need to live right
next to them and go to the bar with them
twice a weekend and all this stuff.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
You need to get out of there. Those are distractions.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
So family friends, you know, the local bar that people
expect you to be at, girlfriends, whatever. Moving cities forces
you to just be away from that. And I promise
you you may have this feeling of like, oh my god,
but when I leave, I'm gonna have this crazy fomo.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
I'm gonna miss out on all this stuff. I promise you.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
If you land in that new city, those thoughts aren't
gonna be there. Something happens, especially when you cross like
state lines, when you know you're not just a drive
away anymore, where you're like that doesn't exist anymore. Whatever's
going on over there doesn't exist. And your whole focus
is when I do come back for Christmas, let's say,
or whatever in six months.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
I want to be a whole different person when they
do see me.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
I want them to I want to blow their socks off,
and I want them to say, like, man, who did
Sean become?

Speaker 2 (06:38):
Who did you become?

Speaker 1 (06:41):
And that will happen, and I will put another caveat
to that. When you do this, you're going to get
a lot of hate. You're gonna get a lot of
people saying, who does Sean think he is? He thinks
he's a big shot, he's out there. I've had people
call me a scammer because they just don't understand what
I'm doing, you know, and obviously they there's no one
in that town like I say, I meant half a

(07:02):
million dollars of twenty one years old, no one was
making even close to that. I think the person still
to this day that makes closest to that is like
these Goldman Sacks guy. But these guys have got jobs
of gold and Sacks making maybe one twenty one to thirty.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
So they're not gonna understand it. They're gonna think you're
a scammer.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
Pretty much every entrepreneur has gotten those those comments before,
So just don't worry about it. It's a good sign
that you're doing something right. And guess what, just keep
hammering and in ten years they're gonna have no choice
but to accept that you're just a good business person,
good salesperson because of the whole trash.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
Record that you built. Reason Number three.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
When you stay in a city for too long, whether
it's your hometown or it's another city you've been in
for over three years. Let's say things start to get stale.
You've met almost everyone that.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
You can meet.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
Sure, there's more people you can meet, but you've met
pretty much the whole town. It means it's time to go. Right,
there's another city out there, maybe a bigger one, with
more opportunity and more people for you to meet, more
hands to shake and.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Connections to make.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
So when I was twenty two, I moved to exactly
one year after moving to California, I moved to Florida,
and it was.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
Something that the company had me do.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
It actually wasn't my so much decision, but I wanted
to as soon as I told go, oh, Florida, this
is weird. Let's see how this shows. And I moved
with Florida, and guess what, the same thing happened again.
I was hit with this motivation I've never been hit
with before. Besides the first time I moved where I'm like,
oh my god, this is a new city.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
I need to make a name for myself. I need
to make it for myself.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
I know how to make money in California, I don't
know if I can make money in Florida.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
I have to prove it to myself.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
But I promise you, when you move to a new city,
you moved to a new city, you're gonna have this
insane motivation of like, I need to make it here,
and I need to show these people what's up because
nobody knows who I am.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
I need to show the people back.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
From where I'm from that I can make it happen here,
because again, if I don't make it happen, I'm gonna
have to go back to where I already know how
to make money. So something happens. When your motivation goes
through the roof. You're not going out anymore. You're not,
you know, wasting time, You're not watching Netflix. You're grinding
for at least six to twelve months, and then you know,

(09:14):
you get to a crazy point in life, and then
it's your decision where it's like, Okay, do I want
to do that again and just absolutely crush it again,
or do I am I happy with where I'm at
now and stay here, but you know the discipline and
the skills and the connections that you built from doing
this strategy, You've already become.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
A whole new person.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
And it's up to you if you want to get
content there and stay there or to keep freaking climbing
and maybe move cities again. And a lot of people's
biggest concern when I tell them this, when I tell
them about this strategy, they goes, yeah, well, you probably
had a million dollars because they see me now right,
and they think that I've just had a lot of
money for a long time.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
No, when I was twenty.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
Years old, I moved to California, I had you know,
I had fifteen thousand dollars, which was great.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
You don't need that you move to a city.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
All you need is an opportunity with an opportunity that
doesn't have an income potential, something that you get paid
based on your effort and not your time. Number one
thing that I hope ninety percent of you guys, eighty
percent of you guys end up doing is send sales.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Is you're an entrepreneur, you have no limits your income.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
It's solely based on how hard you work, so you
can get up early, and you can stay out late.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Right.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
If you don't hit the deals that you needed to hit,
you can just stay out later.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Man, I used to take appointments at eight, nine, ten pm.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
I've gotten out of sales at one point thirty in
the morning before, not not often, but I was totally
used to it in those first six months in California
and Florida. Getting home at ten eleven pm, like that
was like and I felt this sense of pride every time.
I'm like, man, I worked a full shift. No one
else is willing to do what I'm willing to do.
And so when my friends back at home and they say, oh,
he's probably scamming and he's doing this, he's doing that,

(10:50):
they don't understand the hours that I put in and
the work that I put in.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
So you can feel proud about that.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
But you don't need a bunch of money, and you
don't need friends or family in that area. You do
need an opportunity or a plan, right, So if you
don't have a job that you're gonna be landing into
that you're pretty sure is gonna be solid, They're gonna
pay you, they have a good track record.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Great. If you don't have that.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Then you need a plan, right, you need some sort
of entrepreneurial thing that you're gonna do. And I think
that this would be awesome if you wanted to open
a restaurant out there, you wanted to do some sort
of e commerce, or you were already kind of getting
it going where you're from. Moving cities is going to
put jet fuel in that engine, and it's gonna have
you take off. It's gonna have you go to the

(11:31):
Moon Way quicker than you would have.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
Now. It's not gonna be easy. You're gonna get there.
You're gonna be scared, You're gonna be anxious, You're gonna
be fearful. But fear anxiety and these are some of the.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
Best emotions that drive action, right, that drive you to
actually go take action and do something.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
Get up off the couch.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
I always say, you don't get up off the couch
on a lazy Sunday to change the thermostat unless it's
too hot or too cold. Right, you felt an emotion,
you felt uncomfortable, you had to get up. So that
fear in that anxiety is exactly why we're doing this.
We want to produce that inside ourselves to force us
to work ten times harder than we ever would have
back at home.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
And you know, I'm gonna get a lot of flak
for this, like, why would you want to be uncomfortable? Man?
Why would you want to do this? Video is not
for you?

Speaker 1 (12:14):
If that's what you're thinking, you're someone who wants to
go to the moon. You feel a little bit stale
where you're at, This is the number one strategy to
go do that. So if you want to take your
life a step further, if you've been in the city,
maybe it's your hometown, or you've been in the city
for you know, four or.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Five years, maybe it's time for you to pack up, move.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
To a new city somewhere you've always wanted to go,
some cool place and go and crush it out there,
and then in two years it's up to you if
you want to stay there. You've built this awesome lifestyle
and then you can go maybe do it again.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Try to like, comment and subscribe

Speaker 1 (12:45):
And when you do end up doing this, come back
to the video in six months and tell me how
it went.
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