Steven Edisis grew up in Edison New Jersey watching his family scrape by through the entire decade of the 1970s. By college he was throwing black paint parties on tennis courts for five dollars a head, promoting nightclubs in Miami and eventually moving into a house the Real World cast just vacated and charging a hundred dollars a head at the door. He figured out how to monetize fun before he ever figured out how to build a business.What followed was three decades of massive wins, massive failures and the kind of hard lessons that only come from doing it with no mentor, no roadmap and no one to call. He did not find himself until he was 40 years old. Everything before that was figuring it out.Today Steven is the founder and CEO of Dynamic Capital, a company that has deployed over a billion dollars in working capital to more than 15,000 small businesses across the US and Canada. He serves the businesses that traditional banks turn away — the mom and pop operations, the minority owned businesses, the women owned businesses, the ones with cash flow but no collateral. His philosophy is simple. The businesses that survive long enough to become great are the ones that never run out of cash.In this episode Steven and Sean get into what it actually takes to build from nothing, why the CEO must always be the number one salesperson in the organization and the three non negotiables every founder needs to lean on before they build anything else.This Episode Explores:✅ Growing up in Edison New Jersey watching his family transform from lower income to middle class in real time✅ Throwing paint parties and promoting nightclubs in Miami to blend fun and finance in college✅ Buying bars on Washington Avenue and learning that early success without systems will knock you on your ass✅ Why he did not find himself or his real path until he was 40 years old✅ Founding Dynamic Capital to serve the businesses traditional banks refuse to touch✅ Why minority owned and women owned businesses were the first ones he chose to fund✅ How Dynamic Capital looks at gross revenue instead of net profit and what that means for small business owners✅ Why the CEO must be the number one salesperson in the organization and what happens when they are not✅ Don’t let a little success cause a lot of overhead and the other rules he lives by as a CEO✅ The three non negotiables every aspiring founder needs before they build anything else🔗 Connect with Steven EdisisInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/stevenedisis/Dynamic Capital: https://www.instagram.com/dynamiccapital/Follow REAL Mentors PodcastInstagram: https://instagram.com/realmentorspodcastHost Sean Martin: https://instagram.com/theseanmartin