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James Devón Johnson (JD)

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279 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
Marine Recon to Millionaire Matchmaker: JD’s Wild Journey to Success

And the way a brokering works for the audience who may not know, basically you get a contract and it's subcontracted out and you basically try to bid on the contract and then you sub hire the work to fulfill. So you got to calculate the difference. So like Home Depot is offering, I think like $300 an hour for one security guard in one of their Northern California locations.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
Marine Recon to Millionaire Matchmaker: JD’s Wild Journey to Success

And the way a brokering works for the audience who may not know, basically you get a contract and it's subcontracted out and you basically try to bid on the contract and then you sub hire the work to fulfill. So you got to calculate the difference. So like Home Depot is offering, I think like $300 an hour for one security guard in one of their Northern California locations.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
Marine Recon to Millionaire Matchmaker: JD’s Wild Journey to Success

And the way a brokering works for the audience who may not know, basically you get a contract and it's subcontracted out and you basically try to bid on the contract and then you sub hire the work to fulfill. So you got to calculate the difference. So like Home Depot is offering, I think like $300 an hour for one security guard in one of their Northern California locations.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
Marine Recon to Millionaire Matchmaker: JD’s Wild Journey to Success

And they bid it to another company that bid it to another company that bid it to another company. Eventually it got down to us. So we got it at like 55 an hour and then we subcontracted it out for 35 an hour. So that was our first deal in the private security industry. business. That's amazing. Eventually we built that up. We had more contracts.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
Marine Recon to Millionaire Matchmaker: JD’s Wild Journey to Success

And they bid it to another company that bid it to another company that bid it to another company. Eventually it got down to us. So we got it at like 55 an hour and then we subcontracted it out for 35 an hour. So that was our first deal in the private security industry. business. That's amazing. Eventually we built that up. We had more contracts.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
Marine Recon to Millionaire Matchmaker: JD’s Wild Journey to Success

And they bid it to another company that bid it to another company that bid it to another company. Eventually it got down to us. So we got it at like 55 an hour and then we subcontracted it out for 35 an hour. So that was our first deal in the private security industry. business. That's amazing. Eventually we built that up. We had more contracts.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
Marine Recon to Millionaire Matchmaker: JD’s Wild Journey to Success

Eventually I went over to Las Vegas and I was still like, you know, I was out of the gutter, but I didn't have much money at the time. So Zara, he was kind of like the head of the whole operation. You know, he paid for me to go down to Vegas because we got this security contract for a construction site, drove out there, met everybody, closed the deal, set it all up, drove back.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
Marine Recon to Millionaire Matchmaker: JD’s Wild Journey to Success

Eventually I went over to Las Vegas and I was still like, you know, I was out of the gutter, but I didn't have much money at the time. So Zara, he was kind of like the head of the whole operation. You know, he paid for me to go down to Vegas because we got this security contract for a construction site, drove out there, met everybody, closed the deal, set it all up, drove back.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
Marine Recon to Millionaire Matchmaker: JD’s Wild Journey to Success

Eventually I went over to Las Vegas and I was still like, you know, I was out of the gutter, but I didn't have much money at the time. So Zara, he was kind of like the head of the whole operation. You know, he paid for me to go down to Vegas because we got this security contract for a construction site, drove out there, met everybody, closed the deal, set it all up, drove back.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
Marine Recon to Millionaire Matchmaker: JD’s Wild Journey to Success

And then from there is just like one after the other.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
Marine Recon to Millionaire Matchmaker: JD’s Wild Journey to Success

And then from there is just like one after the other.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
Marine Recon to Millionaire Matchmaker: JD’s Wild Journey to Success

And then from there is just like one after the other.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
Marine Recon to Millionaire Matchmaker: JD’s Wild Journey to Success

Just from my connections alone, I've made a, what do you call it? Like a finder's fee. Yeah. So I met someone who needed to fulfill Ralph's locations with blueberries. And I knew a guy, he's actually based in Miami, who was able to get blueberries. So I just made the introduction and I got a finder's fee for making the deal happen. See, money opportunities are absolutely everywhere.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
Marine Recon to Millionaire Matchmaker: JD’s Wild Journey to Success

Just from my connections alone, I've made a, what do you call it? Like a finder's fee. Yeah. So I met someone who needed to fulfill Ralph's locations with blueberries. And I knew a guy, he's actually based in Miami, who was able to get blueberries. So I just made the introduction and I got a finder's fee for making the deal happen. See, money opportunities are absolutely everywhere.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
Marine Recon to Millionaire Matchmaker: JD’s Wild Journey to Success

Just from my connections alone, I've made a, what do you call it? Like a finder's fee. Yeah. So I met someone who needed to fulfill Ralph's locations with blueberries. And I knew a guy, he's actually based in Miami, who was able to get blueberries. So I just made the introduction and I got a finder's fee for making the deal happen. See, money opportunities are absolutely everywhere.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
Marine Recon to Millionaire Matchmaker: JD’s Wild Journey to Success

And I've just always had this knack for being able to spot opportunity and somehow financially profit from it.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
Marine Recon to Millionaire Matchmaker: JD’s Wild Journey to Success

And I've just always had this knack for being able to spot opportunity and somehow financially profit from it.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
Marine Recon to Millionaire Matchmaker: JD’s Wild Journey to Success

And I've just always had this knack for being able to spot opportunity and somehow financially profit from it.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
Marine Recon to Millionaire Matchmaker: JD’s Wild Journey to Success

Yeah, so that definitely stemmed from the OF management, because working with girls, right? Now, it is a long process to get into the coaching aspect of it all. Basically, my bread and butter right now is running an atmosphere modeling agency. So atmosphere modeling, for those watching who may not know, I know it's huge in Miami.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
Marine Recon to Millionaire Matchmaker: JD’s Wild Journey to Success

Yeah, so that definitely stemmed from the OF management, because working with girls, right? Now, it is a long process to get into the coaching aspect of it all. Basically, my bread and butter right now is running an atmosphere modeling agency. So atmosphere modeling, for those watching who may not know, I know it's huge in Miami.