Hi, I’m Michael.
Entrepreneur, cold email nerd and serial traveler, based in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
I grew up in Stuart, Florida, in a middle-class family with no business background. I got hooked on business as a teenager, started more ventures than I can count (most of them failed), and somewhere along the way fell in love with cold email. I’ve been doing it since 2014.
Today I run DFY Meetings, which books sales calls for B2B companies with cold email and direct mail. I teach the same playbook through Grow B2B and on YouTube.
The other big thread is travel. My first solo trip was to India at 18. My goal is to see every country in the world; I’m at 60 countries and territories so far. Chiang Mai is home base, and I built Chiang Mai Picks as a local’s guide to it.
Off the clock: I’m an Eagle Scout, I like adrenaline, and I try to live by “1% better every day”.
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Chiang Mai, ThailandHow I got here
Built from my old site, press interviews, my posts on X and my company sites. Each step lists where it comes from.
- Early years
Grows up in Stuart, Florida
A middle-class family with no business background. Gets hooked on business in his mid-teens.
Source: Archived About page; X post, Jul 2023 - 2014
Starts doing cold email
The skill everything else gets built on.
Source: Michael; dfymeetings.com (“12 years of experience”) - 2015
First business: a network of themed Instagram pages
The network passed 1,000,000 combined followers.
Source: Archived About page - 2016
Starts the agency MG Social Marketing
Monetizing the Instagram network and testing side ventures alongside it.
Source: Archived About page - 2017
Sells most of the Instagram network
Uses the proceeds to fund new ventures. Starts the YouTube channel in March.
Source: Archived About page; YouTube channel join date - 2018
First solo trip: India
At 18: Delhi, Agra, Alwar and Kota. Then Europe alone, then Asia.
Source: X post, Aug 2020 - 2019
MG Social Marketing becomes Nomads with Solutions
First six-figure year. Co-founds Resource Operations International, an outsourcing company, and becomes the Titus Center’s first student franchisor.
Source: Archived About page; Starter Story; Palm Beach Atlantic University video - 2020
Remote agency, press run, one closed store
Featured by Starter Story, eBiz Facts, Thrive Global and others. Closes a dropshipping store after a $30,623.25 month to focus on the agency.
Source: Archived Features page; archived blog post, Jun 2020 - Early 2022
CEO of Done For You Meetings
Cold email lead generation for B2B companies.
Source: Archived About page (Jan 2022); dfymeetings.com - 2023
11 countries in a year, Chiang Mai as base
Thailand, Malaysia, Qatar, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Cambodia and the USA. By late 2023 his cold email training program, Grow B2B, is live.
Source: X posts, Nov 2023; growb2b.io - 2024–25
$100k/month agency, 17 countries, a house
Moves DFY Meetings to a fixed-retainer model focused on 7–9 figure B2B companies.
Source: X posts, Apr 2025 - 2026
Building in public
Weekly-ish YouTube on B2B lead gen, direct mail (“Lumpy Mail”) added to outbound, and Chiang Mai Picks launches.
Source: YouTube channel; dfymeetings.com; chiangmaipicks.com - Next
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Elsewhere
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