Today we’d like to introduce you to De’Vonte Owens.
De’Vonte, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
Before Entrepreneurship, I was aspiring to become one of two things all black kids in America aspire to be, a professional athlete or music artist. Fresh off my 1st year at Blinn College, I was living in Grand Prairie with my mom and I was introduced to Forex trading in the late spring of 2016. Through Forex and its power, I was exposed to concepts like financial freedom and income without a job. Being exposed to that stuff was such a revelation to me because I come from the world where section 8, projects and being homeless was all I knew, so your sort of taught your only way out is sports or music. You know, your good old cliche growing up black story, the usual. After my mind was opened up with Forex, the bigger picture of that was being financially free and having the ability to change the course of my family’s future. From that point on in 2016, financial freedom was all I cared about and all I fought for! Although it may have hurt who didn’t but, I really didn’t care who supported me or not because I started to understand the mental indoctrination that my parents and peers had been victim of. I had to understand this was going to be a journey I’d be navigating on my own, and because of that I knew this was going to be very difficult. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take, besides, I would rather starve in a studio apartment with no tv eating sardines working on a business vs working my life away. So I went down the journey anyway refusing to just work, pay bills and die, I refuse.
Soon after I dove into forex education, I started networking with like minds and joining business opportunities soaking up every little piece of information I got my hands on. I joined an MLM selling electricity, besides experience, I joined with the sole purpose to fund my trading account. I was successful and a top leader on the team, ranking up and making residual. After a year or so I was pretty much kicked out of the group over a conflict between the leader and a group member I was close with. I was hurt but when you have a narcissistic leader with a just as narcissistic mentor leading a bunch of 20 years old and teenagers that care more about appearance than actual progress what did I expect? At the same time, my team is collapsing so my money was getting shorter because of that, bills were not being paid and to top it all off, I was going through a bad break up from a 5+ year relationship at 20 years old. All of that sent me into a mental breakdown in 2017. After getting my mental health back, I started having more revelation like theories about entrepreneurship that I was still unsure about. Because for the life of me could not understand why nothing was working for me. After spending a year in a MLM I joined another one selling forex education after how the first one went. I joined because at that point MLM was all I knew and it revolved around what started me on this journey, Forex trading. It was after that MLM is what fast-tracked me to where I am today. I realized a lot of taboo secrets about the truth behind not only MLMs but entrepreneurs in general. I can’t really get into it but I’ll say the revelations made me realize I’ve been chasing financial freedom the wrong way.
Mid 2018, I buckled down even harder on forex and started to rely on my skillset to pay me vs putting my bag in other people’s hands. I started to do what a lot of young entrepreneurs and people my age in general don’t do, which is focus on myself, compete with myself, and be bluntly honest with myself. Once I started doing that I started seeing progression in my life so fast, faster than I’ve ever experienced before. I had finally figured it out and wanted to save others that are very serious about forex and entrepreneurship from going through what I had to. If my life and situations did not create such a desporation for this entrepreneur stuff to work I may have quit a long time ago and I know it’s people going through that, especially my people. So I started The Profit Hunters to teach not only forex the right way but entrepreneurship. It’s to many fake gurus in this space passing off scams to people actually trying to change their life and I want The Profit Hunters to put an end to that. Fast forward to now 2020, I live in Uptown Dallas with a profitable trading skillset, profiting forex education business and profitable dropshipping store. I plan on releasing a course on dropshipping/E-Commerce in 2021 to add another skill set to students to ensure everyone’s freedom that I come in contact with me.
Has it been a smooth road?
Has not been smooth at all, you can tell by my previous response. But I’d say the hardest and biggest obstacle was actually two things. One was the fact that I was trying to start and run a business being broke all the time. After the mental breakdown, financially it took me damn near two years to recover from that, combined with the fact that I bought two cars that broke down on me. Well, one broke down the other was repoed due to payments. My credit score was in the 400s because I had my identity stolen back before I even went to college so I could not get a car that was easy on my pockets without a cosigner. Also, because I’m broke and out of college, to my mom and relatives, I’m chasing pipe dreams with entrepreneurship so nobody would co-sign for me because of trust in me making payments. I’m sure if I said the car would be for college somehow they would but that’s another story for a different day. I was broke but happy Because I always say there’s two types of broke. You have business broke where the majority of your money is going towards your business and you have the more traditional broke where you don’t make enough money to support your cost of living. They are different to me because being business broke doesn’t last long, it’s a temporary sacrifice. But, when you are traditionally broke you are in that situation until you change it.
Second most challenging obstacle was just the ability to be honest with myself. Hearing that may not sound that difficult but for me personally it was extremely hard to be honest with myself. Like admitting that I need help, admitting I’m not as good as I thought I was, admitting I’ve made decisions that complicated my journey, and etc. After I finally figured out how to be honest with myself things started popping off as I previously outlined. A lot of times it is not just young entrepreneur’s biggest obstacles but just regular people in life biggest obstacle. Just simply being honest with yourself, your situation and your contribution to the current situation can be so hard but yet it’s so easy.
I always wondered after I figured it out why was that so hard for me to do. The best way I can make sense of it, I believe I was just scared of failing and I didn’t want to admit to myself that I was doing something wrong or I needed help. At the time, I felt myself admitting failure meant entrepreneurship didn’t work when really my failures were just getting me closer to my success. I did not fully understand this at the time so my mind didn’t allow me to be honest with myself. Looking back at it if I was able to be honest myself earlier than I originally did it I could have been here but I’m grateful for the experience to be able to teach me that and make it stick versus someone telling it to me.
So, as you know, we’re impressed with The Profit Hunters – tell our readers more, for example what you’re most proud of and what sets you apart from others.
My business teaches people how to trade on the Foreign Exchange Market, or Forex for short. We do it the right way by having a live ten weeks course not a set of pre-recorded videos. That’s what separates us mostly from other Forex education platforms, our course is live like an online webinar that allows you to ask questions with your voice not a chat, it’s like a classroom about learning how to make money. There is another major thing that separates us from other education platforms but I don’t want to get into it too much because my copycats and competitors are reading this. But I’ll say we don’t teach a casino like money flipping mentality that riddles this industry because that mentality is the exact reason why most people that get into Forex Trading are always either losing money or blowing their accounts entirely.
I’m proud of the impact we are having on people’s lives because of that. From the more major things like having a student turn $20 into $1000 in 2 weeks, to the smaller things like having a student go part-time at work because forex is making up that other half. Impact is impact and however we are able to do that it makes us extremely happy and proud because it’s nowhere but up from there!
Let’s touch on your thoughts about our city – what do you like the most and least?
I love the diversity of this city and the iconic Skyline the most! I moved here into the actual City in uptown in October 2019 and I was surprised by the amount of not only diversity that’s here but the amount of people my age and even younger living here. I’m 23 and I know a good amount of my age group here because they are either trust fund or suburb babies with their parents paying the majority if not all their living expenses. However, the ones I do find that are out here on their own dime like me, entrepreneur or not are inspiring to me. But overall, the diversity in age and race was surprising to me for sure. If you take Interstate 30 west for about 25 minutes you run into a not so diverse city in Fort Worth, Dallas is amazing.
Contact Info:
- Website: TheProfitHunters.com
- Email: theprofithunterss@gmail.com
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/iamdevonteowens
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iamdevonteowens
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