Episode 1316: Building Men Through Brotherhood and Accountability with Daniel Krynzel

What happens when you achieve the money, cars, and freedom you wanted, yet still feel something important is missing? In this episode of Sharkpreneur, Seth Greene interviews Daniel Krynzel, Founder of The Big Balls Brotherhood, who shares how achieving financial success without personal fulfillment inspired him to create the Big Balls Brotherhood, a leadership and accountability community for entrepreneurs, business owners, and executives. He explains how purpose, mindset training, supportive relationships, and gamified accountability help men follow through on their commitments and achieve higher levels of performance. Daniel also discusses overcoming entrepreneurial isolation, building a mission-driven life, and surrounding yourself with people who genuinely want you to win. Key Takeaways: → Financial success doesn’t automatically lead to fulfillment. → Entrepreneurs need an environment that fosters action, accountability, and growth. → Group accountability helps entrepreneurs maintain momentum by establishing external expectations for their commitments. → Mindset training helps leaders focus on what they want to create rather than constantly reacting to problems and circumstances. → Consistent micro-decisions shape long-term results and help people become their strongest selves. Daniel Krynzel is a serial entrepreneur, business leader, and founder of The Big Balls Brotherhood. He has built multiple million-dollar businesses, closed high-stakes deals, and developed a reputation for decisive action, fearless leadership, and the pursuit of ambitious goals. After experiencing both extraordinary success and profound personal loss, Daniel redefined his purpose and committed himself to helping other men become stronger leaders. Through The Big Balls Brotherhood, he challenges men to move beyond mediocrity, lead with courage, and build lives grounded in strength, purpose, and intentional action. Connect With Daniel: Website: https://bigballsbrotherhood.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bigballsbrotherhood Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigballsbrotherhood LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/big-balls-brotherhood/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bigballsbrotherhood

• 0:00Speaker 00

  Welcome to the Sharkpreneur Podcast with Kevin Harrington and Seth Green. Kevin Harrington is the inventor of the infomercial, one of the original sharks from the hit TV show Shark Tank, and has generated over $5 billion in TV and digital direct response sales. Seth Green is the world's first trusted authority on cutting-edge direct response marketing, a bestselling author, and the only three-time marketer of the year nominee. On the podcast, Kevin and Seth interview sharkpreneurs who share straight talk on what it takes to explode your business.

• 0:38Speaker 01

  Forty-nine faces looked to him in triumph. Over the last 12 months, they had each taken turns and promoted his business for a week at a time, driving over $987,342 in revenue. What if you had a network of 50 centers of influence who promoted your business every week for a year? Grab your copy of the number one Amazon bestselling book, The Ultimate Guide to Growing Your Business with a Podcast at 33% off the Amazon price by going to ultimatenpodcastbook.com. Again, that website for 33% off the Amazon price is ultimatenpodcastbook.com. Welcome to the podcast. This is your co-host. Today, we have the good fortune to be joined by Daniel Krynzel from the Big Balls Brotherhood, a men's leadership and accountability community for entrepreneurs, business owners, and executives. Daniel, thank you so much for joining us.

• 1:24Speaker 02

  Yes, it's my pleasure.

• 1:26Speaker 01

  Well, let's go back in time just a little bit. How did the Big Balls Brotherhood get started?

• 1:31Speaker 02

  It started with a thought. I was actually coming off of a large real estate career for about 22 years, and I was in business consulting at the same time, and there was something missing. I couldn't figure it out. And I was making all the money. I was driving the cars, living in the houses, going on the vacations. Everything was perfect, except for inside, I was dying. And this thought came that I needed to build the Big Balls Brotherhood. I needed to elevate men. I needed to help men step into their full potential. So that's kind of how it started.

• 2:04Speaker 01

  Awesome. And you say, I've read that you say it wasn't just a business idea, it became a mission.

• 2:11Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 2:11Speaker 01

  Talk about that.

• 2:13Speaker 02

  Well, every man at the core level is looking for ultimate fulfillment. You know, we reach pinnacles of success, Seth, and we get there and we look back. We're like, okay, we just made the million, or we just made the 500,000 in a week, or whatever it is. And we look back and we're like, wow, I thought it was going to feel better. And that's what I was feeling. I was feeling it for the whole 22 years I was in real estate. Like, it was this gnawing on my soul and in my heart, where it was like, there's something else I'm supposed to do. And it was that fulfillment I was searching for.

• 2:49Speaker 01

  The name certainly gets people's attention. What's the story behind that?

• 2:54Speaker 02

  So I was connected. I spend every morning with God. I'm in the Word. I'm spending some time. I'm doing my thing, my daily routine. And then I just feel this whole, it was like a movie that was playing in like HD in my mind. And it was like, you need to build this. You need to call it the Big Balls Brotherhood. I never would have called it the Big Balls Brotherhood unless I got that inspiration. So that's kind of how it started.

• 3:18Speaker 01

  You have said that most successful men aren't missing more information, they're missing the right environment. Why do you think that?

• 3:25Speaker 02

  Well, a lot of men go to seminars, they buy courses, they learn the marketing guru language, and they start building funnels and running their stuff. But they don't have a real purpose behind why they're doing it. Like, the only real reason why most men and entrepreneurs and leaders and women are building business is to make money. And money is very important. You know, money gives us every single ability to make the decisions that we want to make. But at the same time, at the end of the day, when we are just chasing the money, the money will come in, but that fulfillment piece won't be there. So if you're not on mission and if you're not on purpose, if you're not focused on

• 4:09Speaker 02

  making an impact and using your gifts and talents that you were given to change the world, that's where the missing piece always lies.

• 4:20Speaker 01

  What makes the Brotherhood different from like a group coaching program or a mastermind group?

• 4:25Speaker 02

  Yeah, that's a great question. We have a couple of things that we do differently than anybody else in the world. Like, there's nothing that even comes close to, you know, the success that the men have, but also just kind of how we operate. First and foremost, we have an environment where all the men want each other to win. I've been a part of a lot of country clubs and things, and, you know, I'm not really that good in golf, but, you know, I've been in those environments. And the one thing is, when you're done with your game and you're having food and you're having lunch or whatever with your guys, they wanted you to have a good time and they want to communicate with you and everything, but they don't want you to beat them. They want to win.

• 5:09Speaker 02

  And same thing, so I race cars. I'm in the Radical Cup Series at Spring Mountain Motor Speedway and Country Club, which is, it's like a golf club community, but we don't play with golf balls, we play with race cars. So same thing happens there, too. It's a great environment. I love the place. But after we're done racing, and we get out of those cars, and we're having lunch, we're having dinner, we're hanging out, they're always wanting to win. They always want to have a faster lap time. So the environment that is created in a lot of these, you know, places is not an environment where men get elevated. And that's something that we've completely made sure, and I've made sure to know that

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  everyone, when they step in, we're here to help you win. We want you to win. There's so much out there, there's so many opportunities for everyone to win, and that's one of the big differences we have in our environment.

• 6:06Speaker 01

  Well, I do think entrepreneurs often become isolated as they become more successful.

• 6:13Speaker 02

  I agree with that. You know, every strong man that has created something massive has always been with other men. We've heard the old adage, you know, the five guys you spend the most time with, you divide that, that's your income, you know? And that's the truth. So when we become isolated, what happens is, is we just start running on our own pace and at our own speed. No one's pushing us, no one's pulling us, no one's raising the bar for us. So having group accountability and having other men that want you to succeed, and these other men are winning at a large level, that's the difference. That's when men actually become alive.

• 6:57Speaker 01

  What does healthy accountability actually look like?

• 7:00Speaker 02

  Yeah, so we have what we call gamified accountability. We play a game, which has been really fun to watch, the men just blow past their goals. We have the Big Balls Brotherhood app, we have a scoreboard inside our software. And this scoreboard, when we go into strategic planning, when we meet on Saturdays as a group, we have time to set our, you know, next logical steps or what we call weekly commitments and our wealth, our strength, and our leadership. So as we set up our scoreboards for the week, when these men actually complete the task and the commitments that they make, they get points on the board. And these points on the board absolutely represent like a dopamine hit. It's a chemical release that we have in our body as a man.

• 7:44Speaker 02

  And when we have this sense of accomplishment, what happens is, we get pulled and we get addicted to this feeling, and we love it, and we embrace it. So then that's when the men actually reach out and they step further. They're like, you know what? I did this this week, now I'm going to do this next week. And then they know Friday night comes around, and they know that they have that last workout in that they committed to doing for their strength pillar. And then they go to the gym at 11 o'clock to make sure they get it done. So when they show up on Saturday, they're 100% on their scoreboard.

• 8:18Speaker 01

  What habits have had the biggest impact on your own growth?

• 8:22Speaker 02

  My mindset training. That has been absolutely, that and my connection with God. But the mindset training is the biggest impact. I work with quite a few individuals. I have a billionaire that is my mentor, and I spend two to four hours every single morning making sure that my mind, I'm training my mind. I'm creating what it is that I want to create in my life. I focus on what I want, I don't focus on what I don't want. And so many men, they live by default, and they just let the world just come to them. And they're in reaction mode. So when I was able to flip that, and this was years ago, and I always get better at

• 9:04Speaker 02

  it every single day, even today, I was in mindset training, you know, before we got to have this meeting. But it's so important to be able to focus and actually control your mind, because if you can control your mind, you will control your results.

• 9:21Speaker 01

  Amen to that. What does a great day look like for you now?

• 9:24Speaker 02

  Yeah. So getting up and getting to the gym first, if it's a Monday through Friday kind of deal, always lifting, I lift heavy. I want to build more muscle every single day. I come back, I enjoy my cigars, I have my mindset training, I have what we call the daily inspired, which is something all the men do. And this daily inspired is actually a routine that we have inside of our software that gets the mind right to where we're focusing on what we want. So I'm stepping into that, and then I'm on calls and I'm running the businesses that I run, you know, throughout the day. And it's pretty amazing. And then on Saturdays, I still do quite a bit of work. I love working on Saturdays. I don't feel like it's work anymore.

• 10:06Speaker 02

  Feel like I'm serving, I feel like I'm growing, I'm feeling, you know, like I'm building a movement. And then Sundays, I still do a little bit of work, but I like to relax and spend some time with the family on Sundays.

• 10:17Speaker 01

  Who is an ideal member for the Brotherhood?

• 10:20Speaker 02

  An entrepreneur, a business owner and a leader, those are the men that we're looking for. Men that that have that mindset and that mentality of they're not going to show up to a nine to five. They're going to create something. They're going to make an impact on the world. They're going to control their time and they're going to control their income. Those are the men we're looking for. Those are the men that we can elevate the most.

• 10:43Speaker 01

  Um, how do they find you?

• 10:45Speaker 02

  Yeah. So the Big Balls Brotherhood website is the easiest way that you could start connecting with us. Um, we've got some free software on the, uh, on the actual website. The Big Balls Brotherhood app is a free download. And, uh, for those individuals that want to start and check us out there, that, that's where we start into the mindset training and everything. And there's some massive results that, that happen when you start really stepping into the mindset training.

• 11:12Speaker 01

  You've helped so many men. What's your biggest challenge now?

• 11:16Speaker 02

  My biggest challenge is just to continue to push and continue to grow. Every single time I feel like I get to the top of the mountain and I think that I'm going downhill, the mountain gets taller and I gotta keep pushing and I gotta keep running. So the challenge is I gotta keep running and, uh, it's always a decision. It's, it's, you know, you're one decision away from massive success and those decisions are micro decisions that just happen and they just keep coming every single day. And when you step in, you say, yes, I'm going to do this because this is where I want to go and this is what I want to create. That's when you become a different version of yourself.

• 11:55Speaker 01

  Your passion is obvious. What do you like best about what you're doing?

• 11:58Speaker 02

  The men, uh, straight up, you know, we, we, we have engagement daily, weekly and quarterly. In the quarterly events, when I get to spend time with the men, I mean, we're racing NASCAR, Seth. We're, we're, we just got back from Florida. We, we rented out, uh, the Freedom Factory, Cletus McFarland's, uh, racetrack and we were racing his Crown Victoria's. Like we have so much fun together and there's a real reason why we do, it's not just fun. It's not just a group of fun, but there's a reason why we actually focus on adrenaline competition. But my, my most exciting part is when I get to actually spend the time with the men because I'm watching them grow. I'm watching them change. I'm watching them literally get stronger as a man. And that's, that's what we need in this

• 12:42Speaker 02

  world. You know, politically over the last, you know, we, we go back six years. I mean, this was the opposite conversation that would be talked about, you know, men, men need to lead, men need to be strong, men need to be masculine, men need to take big swings and men need to have big balls, straight up. That's, that's why it's called the Big Balls Brotherhood.

• 13:03Speaker 01

  I love it. For our folks who are watching and listening and want to learn more, where is the best place for them to go to check it out?

• 13:08Speaker 02

  Yeah. Go to the website, bigballsbrotherhood.com. You can start there. You can also follow us on Instagram or any of the other social channels, but, uh, the website is the most powerful because that's where all of the, the tools are for the men to start stepping in and start changing right away.

• 13:24Speaker 01

  That is awesome. Well, we greatly appreciate your time. We know it's incredibly valuable. Thank you so much for joining us.

• 13:29Speaker 02

  Thank you, Seth.

• 13:30Speaker 01

  This has been Seth Green with Daniel Krynzel from Big Balls Brotherhood. Thank you all for listening. We will talk to you or see you next time.

• 13:38Speaker 03

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