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From Stutter to 8-Figure Success: 21-Year-Old's Journey | Anthony Cirino DSH #926
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From struggling with a severe stutter to building an 8-figure roofing empire at just 21 years old - Anthony's story proves that limitations only exist in our minds! 🚀 Watch as Anthony shares his incredible transformation from a high school student who emailed teachers to avoid speaking in class, to a successful entrepreneur crushing it in door-to-door sales. Learn how he turned his perceived weakness into his greatest strength, using his stutter to connect with clients on a deeper level. Discover the pivotal moments that changed everything: from getting kicked out of his house, connecting with his mentor Moe Fala, and making the bold decision to skip college despite D1 football offers. Anthony breaks down how he built his multimillion-dollar roofing business, shares the mindset shifts that propelled his success, and reveals the spiritual awakening that helped him overcome his fears. This raw, honest conversation will inspire you to push past your own perceived limitations and show you that success isn't about waiting for perfect conditions - it's about taking action despite your fears. 💪 #Entrepreneurship #BusinessSuccess #PersonalDevelopment #Motivation #SalesSuccess #RoofingBusiness #YoungEntrepreneur #Inspiration #speechtherapy #howtostopstuttering #freefromstutter #overcomestutter #5inspiringindividuals CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:35 - Leaving College and Overcoming Stutter 08:11 - Triggers for Stuttering 11:35 - History of Your Stutter 12:49 - Traumatic Incident and Stutter 15:47 - Getting Into Roofing 18:17 - Passion for Roofing 20:54 - Benefits of Commission Work 22:33 - Using Stutter to Your Advantage 27:00 - Hailstorms and Their Impact 27:30 - Storm Chasing Adventures 28:42 - Finding Anthony Online APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Anthony Cirino https://www.instagram.com/_anthonycirino/ https://www.instagram.com/lifetimerestorations/ LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: How did Anthony Cirino overcome his stutter?
was only a problem because i let it hold me back and like actually become a problem when i just chose like consciously to not let this be a problem anymore it just went away All right, guys. One of the youngest guests I've had on out of a thousand. We got Anthony here today. 21 years old, man. Wow. And already killing it financially, too.
Yeah. I mean, when I graduated high school back in 2022, I... basically just dropped out of college and left, went across the country to do sales. And now... You jump ahead two years, and I'm running an eight-figure business doing it. Wait, you left the country, you said?
No. Back in high school, I graduated 2022. And then June 2022, I went from Ohio to Florida to do door-to-door sales. And I learned a lot doing sales. Got it. So you just left on a whim or did you have someone there doing it already? I had a mentor. Do you know Mo Fala? Yeah, he's been on the show. Small world.
He's my mentor. I just had a call with him like an hour ago. Nice. But he ran the solar company that I went to work with and stuff. But yeah, I mean, it was crazy because I went from back in high school. I didn't really speak to people. I would... literally email teachers to get out of speaking in front of the class or like it was 12th grade I had a
teacher calling me and I was just like, oh crap, why'd she call me? And then I wrote her an email and I was scared and I was like, please don't call on me ever again because I was stuttered and I was like, Jesus sucks. And then once I graduated high school, I had a couple Division I Hoffers to play football. Mm-hmm.
And I didn't go. And my parents were like, what are you doing? Like, why don't you go to school? You have all these offers. You can go to school and you don't have...
pay and I was like I'm not gonna go to the NFL like I don't want to go then yeah like because if I went to school yes I would get a degree but like it wouldn't lead to any kind of job that I wanted um so when I told my parents that I wasn't going to school they were like okay well then You got to leave. I was like, all right.
So I hit up Mo, and I was like, hey, pretty much I am getting kicked out of the house right now. I know, like, you hate college too, and I know that you – run a successful company, and what do you do? I didn't even understand what he did. How did you find his page? So he actually grew up 12 houses away from me. Oh, your neighbors? When I was a kid. He was my neighbor. I knew him. He's about...
eight years older he's in my older brother's uh grade yeah yeah and he'd hang out with him and i was like 12 years old he was in high school well yeah 12 and he was probably 20 or whatever and i'd hang out with them and i was like hey well i gotta hang out with them and then um
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Chapter 2: What led Anthony to leave college?
Once I like had to speak and it was like, okay, like you got to give, I was giving 20 plus presentations to homeowners like every day. And within that, after about one week, it was almost gone, my stutter. Wow. Yeah, which is crazy. That is crazy. And then if I, like when I handle stuff that,
is pretty uncomfortable, and I just handle it often, and I just consistently do stuff that is uncomfortable, then the speech problem kind of goes away when I do that. That's fascinating. Isn't that weird? Yeah, I didn't know that about people that had a stutter. I thought you just had it in all aspects.
No. And it's pretty crazy that like... I haven't had it my whole life. It just like kind of spawned in like in fourth grade. It just like spawned. And I was like, I have a stutter, I guess. Was it like a specific incident you remember?
Yeah, it was. It was fourth grade. I was giving a presentation. And I just couldn't speak. And everyone was laughing. And I was like, oh, frick. What the heck? It's embarrassing. I can relate to this. It just compiled. And then after the presentation, the teacher was like, hey, come here. And then it was like, you have a stutter. You got to have this helped out and whatever.
And I was like, oh, well, I guess I have a stutter. But prior to that, I don't have any recollection of like having a stutter. Interesting. So it's like a traumatic incident triggered it almost. I guess. You know? Yeah. Dude, when I had to give presentations in school, I would purposely either skip or just take a zero. Really? That's how scared I was. You just didn't do it?
I hated it. It was so uncomfortable. You used to do podcasts.
I know, but that's the thing, right? The biggest growth is when you overcome your fears. Yeah. Now I'm doing public speaking now, to be honest. Really? Yeah. I'm speaking at Erwin McManus' event in a couple weeks. It'll probably be the biggest crowd I've ever spoken at. How many people? At least 1,000, I'd assume. He's got a huge church and everything. Yeah.
That's scary stuff. Yeah. It's good, though. It's good, yeah. I'm a little nervous, but I know there's tremendous growth through that.
Yeah, no. I mean, that's one of, like, the... Like, it hit me... 2022, I would say October of 2022 is when I understood that, like, the only... and only limits are created in your own head. Like, it isn't even real. Like, any problem or any stuff that, like, holds you back is just created in your own head. And I understood that, and I understood that, like, the...
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Chapter 3: What traumatic event triggered Anthony's stutter?
yeah and he is still um he's he's my coach like got it i pay him and then what was that next step once you were working for him for a bit with mo i worked there um from june of 2022 up until april of 2023 and then i got into Roofing in Ohio. Mm-hmm. Do you move back move back to Ohio? And from April to August I was like 20 back then right I made I 190 grand. Wow. April to August.
Three and a half months. Three and a half. Holy crap. And I was just like, all right. That's all commission? Yeah. All commission based. Like everything's just all commission. And I love that about like this industry is that like if you have a scale like you get rewarded in correlation to kill level.
And like when I understood that the income that I make is directly correlated to like what I like produce um i understood that like this is the closest thing to actually owning a business without actually having to own a business right because like if you don't produce you don't make money it's Just like you owning a business, like you have to...
to generate revenue to make a living, that's how it is in this as well. That's why I personally like commission. I would never take a salary job. Never. You know what I mean? It's not smart anymore.
Just because I believe in myself and I've done commission jobs in the past and done well. And you could translate commission mentality to almost any industry too if you're good at sales, which is what you are.
Well, yeah. I mean, I went from, it hit me in August of 2022 that I was like, okay, I'm pretty good at sales. Like I can use this. And it's because like when you have a stutter, like, and you speak to a homeowner or any kind of,
prospect it hit like almost makes you a human to the homeowner and the and if a homeowner and let's say i knocked on his home and was like hey what's up and i start to hudder He, like, hears me out, and he's like, what's this kid talking about? I feel that. And then if he hears it out, then he's going to do it because it's just, like, it's either solar is, like, an absolute – no-brainer.
And the way that we're doing roofing as well, it's just like, okay, I mean, it can help me. Like, why not? Yeah. So, when you're in sales, like, your job when you, like, cold call is just to... get the homeowner to hear you out. And if he hears you out, he's going to do it because it's just like, dude, this makes a lot of sense. Yeah.
So having the speech impediment helped me in this industry where I wouldn't have ever understood that if I didn't take a risk, though. And I wasn't like, I'm just going to do it. Got out of my comfort zone, and I was just like, I'm going to do it. And then it ended up working out. Crazy. I was in awe that it worked. Yeah, you used it to your advantage, the stutter.
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