We recently connected with Danny Calafell and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Danny, thanks for joining us today. How did you scale up? What were the strategies, tactics, meaningful moments, twists/turns, obstacles, mistakes along the way? The world needs to hear more realistic, actionable stories about this critical part of the business building journey. Tell us your scaling up story – bring us along so we can understand what it was like making the decisions you had, implementing the strategies/tactics etc.
During my boxing career my first business was in the music industry where I not only built relationships in the entertainment industry, but starting submersing myself with information an surrounding myself with successful entrepreneurs.
In 2012 I started my consulting firm because I was tired of relying on others for the success I wanted. I knew I wanted to help a lot of people and their businesses and I knew it was up to me to get it done how I wanted and how I knew it could be done. I dove deeper into business, surrounded myself with nothing but success, my father became more involved since his background was in corporate with a background of working with some of the largest companies in the world and I dove into sales.
I grew the business from nothing to now having over 100 people working for me and relationships with some of the largest companies in the world. I’ve been around Billionaires on down and I continue growing to maximize my potential and submerse myself with more information. My company offers well over 20 different services for scaling businesses globally. The key was the right information and being around the right people. That will always be the case.
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
Coming from the streets since 14, jumping into the sport of boxing at 17, then becoming a pro Boxer..
For 18 years that was my career. I’ve been along side and been in the ring with the best fighters in the world. Fought on multiple tv networks, features in articles, built great family like relationships with huge well known names in the entertainment industry, Mainly music, and I always was into learning and wanting to be around the best.
I applied that to business. I wanted to be great so I leveraged relationships to be around extremely successful people. I got into the music business built more relationships and then started learning sales and business. Diving deep into understanding more and more breaking it down, I began forming new innovative ways to deliver, and began applying that to myself and other companies.
I started Triworld, which is a global business consulting firm.
We work with businesses scaling them to maximize their potential. From large companies to small. I have over 20 services that we offer to companies. From training programs that have over 4,000 courses for sales and business, to marketing, software implementation, programs for scaling, and more. I have relationships with some of the largest companies in the world. Names like Google, Grant Cardone, TriNet and more. along with world-class resources I’ve solidified deals with, providing even more to our customers. What I’ve created and put together has become one of the most powerful resources for business growth, in the world.
Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?
My life’s been nothing but pivots. Being on the streets as a kid at 14, to walking into the boxing gym at 17. With my boxing career I knew I couldn’t fight forever and eventually I would have to do something else. School was never my thing and I saw so many successful people who never even finished and realizing it was the skills and qualities you needed not just the knowledge. That was the real value. I got into the music industry from my passion for music when I was younger. When you’re in the entertainment/sports world as you go along through your career you meet and get around others in similar spaces and my focus was building relationships. Doing that I took on an Idea a friend of mine had started a record company and used the relationships I built over the years and also building new ones. My pivot out of the industry was because I didn’t see it getting as big as I wanted. I made the right choice because the industry has changed a lot since. Then again pivoting and starting my consulting company Triworld.
I can say Pivoting is extremely important in anything you want to grow successfully.
We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?
Pretty much everything I was taught growing up was wrong. We all learn the same stuff. Go to school, get good grades, go to college and you’ll be successful. We all know that’s not the way it works
like the fairytales we see in movies. This is why majority of the U.S. struggles to pay bills and most college grads are either
unemployed or work doing something completely different from what they went to school for or the degree they got.
So I had to unlearn that by modeling the people I put myself around who were extremely successful. Who were doing things differently and who were in much better positions in life whether it was career wise, business, relationships or personally. I learned you got to get around the right people and put yourself in those situations to be around more of them.
I now can help educate others because of what I’ve learned and the people I’ve been around. The main key is to never stop learning but making sure it’s the right sources and the right information.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://dannycalafell.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamdchamp/
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/iamDchamp
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannycalafell/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/iamdcchamp
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC622lIVKgErR7AkmG-TCJYg
- Other: Company Website: https://triworldinc.com IMDB: https://m.imdb.com/name/nm12546769/bio?ref_=m_mn_ov_bio
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Phil Talleyrand