The Dillon England Show

Would you rather be the guy running the property or the bank lending on it? Learn how to collect monthly income outside the stock market and stop trading your evenings for more doors. Thomas St. John is the founder of North Corp Capital, a fund management firm that invests its own capital in private credit, real estate debt funds, and multifamily properties alongside high income professionals. Ove...

Is your sales team stuck trying to close deals that were never qualified in the first place? Learn how to stop giving away your expertise for free, ask the questions that earn real credibility, and protect your team before AI replaces every seller who refuses to adopt it. Alana Nicol is the Owner and President of Sandler by Gerry Weinberg & Associates in Southfield, Michigan, a Sandler Certifi...

Greg Wahl came here from Canada, met his wife at a CPA firm, and started his own audit firm in their garage right after their first son was born. By mid 2017 that firm had 42 offices across the U.S., China, Mexico City and Colombia. A family office had already valued it at $45 to $50 million. Then the SEC came after three of his smallest clients, and him. His $1 million settlement offer was reject...

Larry Namer is the Co-founder of E! Entertainment. He started his career splicing cable wires under the streets of Manhattan for $90 a week. A few years later he cofounded E! Entertainment. Everyone told him and his partner Alan Mruvka that regular people don't start TV networks. You had to be Disney or Fox. They heard no around 157 times. The going rate to launch a network back then was $60 to $1...

Marco Savone co-founded Scusa Media, a revenue agency helping home service and construction companies turn leads into closed jobs. Before any of that, he spent two years working with stage four cancer patients at the University of Michigan Cancer Hospital. He got into two medical schools after failing the MCAT twice. At the same time, his uncle's small liquor brand was starting to take off, and Ma...

Craig Ceccanti built Pinot's Palette from one location in 2009 to 150 across the country, then exited the business in 2020. Now he installs the same operating system in other people's companies. For years he ran things by working harder than everyone else. He calls it "Craig OS." He held every title, head of tech, head of marketing, head of finance, and the business hit a ceiling because of it. It...

Ted Edginton has spent 25 years doing mortgages the hard way. In person, on the phone, at the closing table. He started this business straight out of Michigan State, driving around town with paper checks for his clients' loans. One blew right out his car window on Hall Road. He turned around, got it reprinted, and still made it to the closing. That's basically been his whole career since. He built...

John Anderson started the EO Detroit chapter in a conference room in 1996 with two other guys and no money. He's now a business coach, an author, and one of the most connected people in Michigan. He used to deliver mortgages by hand as a mailroom clerk making $30,000 a year. One man in that office, the chairman of the board, pulled him aside and told him he was going to do great things. That singl...

Peter Skaggs runs a mortgage company and a 250 door real estate portfolio, and he built both at the same time without quitting his day job. He bought his first investment property in 2007. Then 2008 happened. By 2011 the house had lost half its value. He held on anyway. For fourteen years. He also spent years chasing apartment complexes, land, and short term rentals before realizing he was collect...

Virgina Prodan grew up in Communist Romania, watching her parents whisper behind closed doors about a government that took a little more from them every year. She decided as a kid she was going to become a lawyer and find the truth. She did. Top ten percent of her class, using a forgotten law book she found in a library to get Christian prisoners out of jail. Then the dictator took notice. He sent...

Brandon Grysko spent seven years wearing a badge before he ever put on a suit. He started out chasing a fireman's paycheck, landed in EMS, and then his dad, a career sheriff's deputy, pointed him toward policing instead.  Brandon started noticing he liked the union side of the job more than the job itself. Contract negotiations. Discipline hearings. The parts that looked a lot like law. Now he run...

Ronia Shamona has spent 20 years in local news. Overnight shifts in Las Vegas. 20 years of live TV. Now she anchors FOX 2 Detroit Live in the 2 and 3 pm hours and hosts her own segment, Rona's Rundown. She did ten years on overnights before she had kids. After two kids and a stretch of postpartum on that schedule, she said it became impossible. She stepped away for six years to raise her kids befo...

Dr. Tim Tenneriello started out as a high school athlete who wanted to coach… which turned into a career running schools, then buying and scaling companies, then rebuilding wealth management practices from the inside. Through his career journey , he learned nobody actually cares about your resume if you can just help them get from point A to point B. That mindset took a struggling school to the to...

Robert and Doug both stumbled into financial advising. One was a chief engineer building lithium ion batteries. The other was a high school science teacher and football coach. Today, they run an independent practice built on faith, stewardship, and small decisions that add up. What we covered:  → Why chief engineers and high school teachers make surprisingly good financial advisors  → What it actu...

What does 30 years as the voice of Detroit sports teach you about business? According to Matt Dery, it’s all about who you know.  As the Business Development Lead at Freedom-First Pathway, Matt has seen the 'fragmentation trap' destroy countless businesses. He explains why your advisors are failing to communicate and how to bridge the gap between your life, your wealth, and your business. In this...

John Glon spent a decade at GE climbing a ladder he wasn't sure he wanted to be on. He left corporate America in 2014, bet on himself, and built Great Lakes Essential Power from the ground up in Michigan. The company grew but Covid hit hard. When the debt piled on John found himself running a business on an operating system while ignoring everything it was supposed to fix.  He was golfing and conn...

Dave LT works with a company that pulls data from connected cars to make roads safer: Compass IoT. He grew up in a small corner of Australia, watching the rest of the world through a TV screen and assuming he'd never really register in it. Self-confidence began to disappear in high school, but when he started saying yes, he learned that trying actually makes things possible. In this episode we got...

Most people know Blake's from the cider mill out in Armada, MI. Five years ago, Bobby Blake took that heritage and launched Bakehouse 46. Today they have six locations across Metro Detroit, from Ann Arbor to Grosse Pointe, and a menu that covers cupcakes, gourmet donuts, savory pastries, bagels, and a full cafe line. They make their donuts fresh in every single store, every morning. I invited Bobb...

At the peak of George Rivera building his company, he was practically printing money, but was working 90 hours a week and hating life. The business had everything. His family got what was left. He had to stop being the answer to everything inside his company. He built the systems, transferred the ownership, and stepped back. Two years later the business had scaled past $50 million and he was worki...

Trevor Baker built one of the most respected YouTube agencies in the world starting from a roach-infested apartment in New York - editing videos for $20 a pop. A LinkedIn message changed his trajectory: One conversation turned into a coffee meeting, which turned into a business partnership, which turned into even more partnerships. That gave Trevor the proof he needed that he could build something...

Manager Jon has worked with TikTok, brokered KSI fights, built podcast studios, and managed some of the biggest creators on the internet. But that's only half of it, the version everyone sees. He’s spent years grinding through YouTube channels through a difficult childhood. After one rough night with his dad, his mom tried to comfort him with, "It's okay, son. We were never made to get out." As he...

Daniel Russell is VP of National Sales at Trion Solutions, one of the fastest-growing PEO companies in the country. He’s been in sales for over 26 years and he helps businesses manage payroll and HR for over 1.2 million employees worldwide. And he has a 98.7% client retention rate. In this episode of The Dillon England Show, we covered: → Why the question "How much does it cost?" is never really a...

At 40, Mike “C-Roc” Ciorrocco had everything most people chase. He went on a self-discovery journey, started surrounding himself with mentors who had what he wanted, and made one commitment: getting on podcasts to build relationships, and eventually- see where it leads. What it led to was over 2,000 podcast appearances, a top-tier booking agency called That1 Agency, a WhatsApp community of 600+ op...

Matt Loria built a top-tier cybersecurity and IT firm without a single tech degree or certification. Back when he and his brother ran a computer recycling business, they went repeatedly through IT providers. It was always the same: things started great, then the service just vanished. When Matt eventually told his brother he was starting his own IT firm, his brother pointed out the obvious.. "You...

Most people who want to change the world start with a cause, not with Chris Lambert, ‘coz he started with a crisis… Chris Lambert, Founder & CEO of Next Level Nonprofit, grew up in a small town in northern Indiana, gave his faith the finger at 16, then spent six years chasing whatever he thought would make him happy, but no, it didn't, then there became a chance encounter at a church service i...