Today we’d like to introduce you to Connor Yeager.
Hi Connor, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstories.
My name is Connor Yeager, and I am 27 years old.
My story – this will be the full one! Feel free to cut out!
In 2015, in Kansas at the age of 19, I made several mistakes including selling marijuana that landed me in state prison. I was convicted of distribution of marijuana and sentenced to five years. Out of that, I did four, followed by three on parole.
When I got out of prison, I went to Wichita, Kansas. Within a year of being there, I had settled back into a negative lifestyle that consequentially lead to me shattering my wrist in a do-or-die situation.
Shortly after that, in august of 2019, I took a leap of faith and rode a bus to Kansas City, Missouri to look for a new life.
When I got to Kansas City, I worked in restaurants and insurance for about a year. I saved as much money as I could and the summer of 2020, during the pandemic, I took off for four months to travel. I went to Chicago alone, then Michigan, then Colorado, and lastly Texas.
When I returned, I took a new job in the freight industry as a broker. During this time, I’d also began pursuing my passion of music, replacing drugs and crime with music and business.
Throughout 2020, I established myself as a DJ in the Midwest. By 2021, I had began making my own music and quit freight to pursue music fully.
Between 2021 and 2022 I made many accomplishments with music/music business. In those two years, I performed at 11 music festivals, traveled to Colorado, Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma to perform. I began selling my beats I was making to earn money, made Merch, began pricing myself for shows at high values. I also did wedding gigs during this time. I met my still current partner, Paulina, and my life seemed uphill.
By the middle of 2022, it had become apparent that music was enough to pay my own bills, but not the bills having a relationship can incur, like getting a car together or a house.
Fall of 2022, I took a job selling Solar in Kansas City, Missouri. The day I got the job, I called my friend Jake Frum, who had relocated to California to sell Solar. I’ll never forget that conversation; he told me “Man you could be making way more money here! Don’t waste your time in Kansas City!” What sold me on this idea of coming to California was when his mentor got on the phone and reiterated not only that but expressed they would help me make the transition to California if that was what I wanted to do.
December 1, I packed my life up and left the life I’d built in Kansas City to come to San Diego and sell Solar. This was probably the hardest thing I’d ever done. Just last night I looked at a photo of my music studio back home and realized that 99% of people would have not taken a leap of faith, moved their entire life just to pursue a job. Not where I’m from. Especially not when they had built this entire life, this image already in one place.
But this move to San Diego was the best thing I ever did for myself. Resigning all fear of taking a risk, especially a big one, setting my pride and comfort aside with a larger goal in mind, it was the best thing I ever did.
I’ve now been in San Diego 5 weeks. In five weeks, I’ve managed to bring opportunity to the table for my company; I’ve managed to earn more money in one month than I ever could have in Kansas City over several. My girlfriend will be coming here in March so we can begin our new life here too!
To sum my story up, I came from the bottom. I started with nothing and nobody. My family and I have not been close since I was a teenager, and my friends did not support my decision to move to California. But I chose to do what I felt best for me, not them, and it has already began working out for me.
I still run my music business; look me up, TRIPPYSIPPYCJ. I am performing a as of today SOLD-OUT SHOW at the Meow Wolf in Denver Colorado February 10. Many people think my life and opportunities are a culmination of luck, but I’d argue my life is a. Culmination of choices, both good and bad, and hard work. Solar for me has began becoming a successful opportunity, and music continues to be successful.
My goal is to by 2025 to transition out of solar and begin pursuing music full-time under my own label. But this time with finance to back it and ensure I don’t have to do it poor again lol.
My last thing I will say – my best advice to any young person wanting to pursue being a business owner, or seek out more in life, is to just do it. Take that risk. Take that leap of faith. Do not be afraid to ask for help. I have a beautiful support network of people who’d help me with anything, and I had to develop those relationships, but I wouldn’t be here in San Diego without them. Be grateful, and feel blessed always because everything you experience is for a reason, and whatever you want in life you very much so can have – it’s just about hard work and commitment.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey has been a fairly smooth road?
Absolutely not! I’ve had to make sacrifices. I’ve lost friendships, I’ve sacrificed comfortability. I had to lose my freedom to know what it was worth. But today I look around and I can say I’ve succeeded to this point; I have much work to go, but this is nothing but the start of my full story.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I have two lines of work I’ll elaborate on here.
1) Music. I put this first because this is the business I independently run and plan to pursue the rest of my life. As a musician, I am a music producer, a DJ, a sound/tracking engineer by trade, and a mixing engineer.
I’m most proud of my come up with music. I still have a long way to go, but that is part of the process, isn’t it? Climbing from the bottom to the top?
Some of my best accomplishments in music are being nominated for the All Missouri Music awards as best male DJ in 2022. Also receiving the bookings I have received, such as Meow Wolf or Breakaway KC where the Chainsmokers headlined.
Then Solar!
I go door to door every day and knock. I seek out people interested in making the switch to Solar whose homes qualify, and I help walk them through a solid financial and personal investment.
I’m proud of selling Solar and being able to make a positive impact on my community as well as my
Own life.
In both of these, the things that set me apart most are passion and ambition. I do not take life as it presents itself but rather try and make it what I want it to be. An ambitious person should always be seeking opportunity and finding new ways to make their opportunity the best it can be. In Solar, I knock more than anyone else in my company. I work hard. And results show it. With music, I practice every day. I study it. I seek out knowledge and opportunity constantly.
So maybe we end on discussing what matters most to you and why?
The thing that matters most to me is freedom. I had my freedom taken due to poor choices as a young man. Now, as I get older, I feel like working a regular 9-5 job, making regular money, it is limiting. I came here to chase the million-dollar dream not so I can say I’m rich, but so I can travel and experience the world for what it is, not just hear about what it could be. Our society runs on money, and the best way to free yourself of the shackles of society is to work hard enough you can buy your way out.
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