Today we have a guest who is a bestselling author who, in college, had already build a franchise from zero to $1.2 million in annual revenue. He then co-founded CC Solutions, a real estate development company, and he grew it to $6 million in revenue within two years. Directly from San Diego, California, we have Christian Chasmer. How’s it going?

Christian: It’s going well, Quin. Thanks for having me.

Quin:

My pleasure to have you here. Christian, it sounds like you started your

entrepreneurship career pretty early. Do you know what caused this? Was your

family very business-oriented?

Christian: Yeah, great question. My family wasn’t necessarily

business-oriented. We were [inaudible 01:05] scrappers and hustlers. I

grew up in a not so great family, but I had an awesome mom who brought in a

bunch of the cousins and raised them. She was a single mother taking care of

everyone. That definitely showed me a little bit about hard work, about doing

whatever it takes. 

But I was really on a [inaudible 01:25],

actually, until I got to college, until my Junior year college, going through

the motions, wanting to make a lot of money like most people and I figured out

just be a lawyer, work in New York City, and that’s that. But then, I actually

came across this piece of paper on my desk that said, “Run your own

business over the summer. Make $10,000.” I had $30 in my name so I said,

“Sign me up. I’ll do whatever it takes.” That wound up being that

franchise program that I ran in college [inaudible 01:55]. 

That completely changed my life. From there, it was no more law

school. It was entrepreneurship and personal development and meeting people all

the way. I think I grew up always being a hustler. I’m doing things like

shoveling driveways and doing different things to make money. I was

entrepreneurial but I didn’t think I was going to be an entrepreneur until that

piece of paper really changed my life.

Quin:

By the age of 26, you already had two mutually successful companies. Does that

mean you sacrificed all of your college years of fun and just dedicated to

work, work, work?

Christian: No, no. I would definitely say I had a lot of fun in college.

Probably a little too much fun. By the first three years, I was a random chips

partier. Like I said, I was just going through the motions. I got good grades

but I partied hard on the weekends. I definitely did all of that. Even when I

was running my franchise, I was definitely more disciplined that I used to be.

Waking up early, I was going to sleep early. I was definitely controlling

myself a lot more ’cause I was focused on the business. But definitely during

college, at those points, it was a work hard, play hard mentality.

Quin:

Very good. Still have any of those businesses today?

Christian: The franchise model, I walked away from to start my real estate

developing company. Then at the beginning of last year, I sold my equity and my

real estate development company. I actually sold that to start what I’m doing

now with Elevate.

Quin:

Now, what is Elevate?

Christian: Elevate, it is a 12-week coaching, executive training system

for entrepreneurs. There’s two levels to it. The first level is me going out

and working with seven and eight-figure entrepreneurs and their leadership team

helping them implement systems and process it so they can scale.