A Dropship Breakthru Review: The Program That Helped Gustavo Rebuild After Bankruptcy

Entrepreneurship. Many people strive to become entrepreneurs because of the financial benefits, lifestyle, or pure necessity. Some stumble upon entrepreneurship accidentally, while others try and never succeed. Entrepreneurship is fascinating and can be extremely lucrative and fulfilling if done properly. In this article, I will show you my journey, including the good, the bad, and the ugly.

My entrepreneurial journey all started when I was in a small business administration class as a freshman in high school. I learned to love entrepreneurship and the fact that you can create/build/assemble something and "flip" it for more money than what you originally spent. After I completed this class, my life changed forever because that is when I wanted to do anything and everything to be a successful businessman. I never really liked school, but I always loved to learn new things that interested me. Towards the end of high school, I kept thinking to myself, "What business am I going to start?" and most importantly, "What do I do to start?" This led me to go directly into a bachelor's program for business administration.

I applied to several colleges in the Massachusetts and Rhode Island area and ultimately decided to enroll in the bachelor’s business administration program at Worcester State University in Worcester, MA, and commute to college. Throughout my bachelor’s program, I worked part-time jobs and always had many ideas for businesses. One of them was an idea that I brought to one of my business professors to try and get funding for through a pitch contest. The business plan was calling for an initial investment of $500,000 to build a farm in Brazil (where I’m from) that harvested cacao beans and latex sap. These raw materials would then be harvested and sold for the production of chocolate and organic rubber products (mainly condoms due to the hypoallergenic effect of natural latex). Sadly, my business professor didn’t like the idea of pitching for funding to build a business overseas. I never made it to the pitch contest, but it was a great experience in building a thorough business plan. Throughout college, I learned several important skills that would make me a better entrepreneur. Some of those skills were time management, organization, communication, negotiation, and awareness.

Once I graduated with my bachelor’s degree, I went directly into the workforce because I didn't have a solid business idea/plan and I didn’t have the capital to start anything. It wasn’t until four years later that I had a turnaround in life. I went to get my CDL (commercial driver’s license). I worked about a year driving a truck for an asphalt company when I thought, "Hey, if I'm driving this for someone else, all I need is to buy a truck and drive for myself." That’s when Bispo Logistics LLC was born.

Bispo Logistics LLC was my first "legit" business. Even though I had a bachelor’s degree, I didn’t know how to register an LLC or do all the paperwork to get my truck on the road, and that was the fun part. After getting everything situated and getting the truck street legal and ready for work, my dad would drive the truck during the day and I would drive overnight. Shortly after, we purchased a second truck. About two and a half years later, we purchased a third truck. Being an entrepreneur requires strategic thinking and vision, but also requires being a realist. I kept thinking, "If I buy one more truck, I’ll have more money coming in," but I didn’t really think about the debt, which forced me to close the business, sell all the trucks, and declare a Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

Now, with a fresh bankruptcy on my credit, all I could do was find a job and try to build back up when my credit became better or when I had some capital saved up. While I was saving up some capital and paying off other debts, I decided to go back to school and get my MBA because I honestly thought that entrepreneurship wasn’t for me. I had many doubts about myself becoming a businessman and being able to start, run, and grow a business, so obtaining an MBA would make me more qualified to get a professional "desk job."

I applied to three MBA programs and chose to enroll in the MBA program with a concentration in Operations and Supply Chain Management from SNHU (Southern New Hampshire University). This program was more geared towards higher-level organizational thinking (strategy, leadership, and visioning), which are all the main skills I lacked when I had my trucking company. About halfway through my program, I decided to start another business. This time, something that didn’t require me to invest a large amount of money upfront. Through my research from one of my supply chain management classes at SNHU, I discovered a fulfillment method called dropshipping. That’s where I started Global Doodah LLC.

When I first started dropshipping, I had no idea how the business was supposed to be run. But I went on and tried for about six months and got nowhere. That’s when I decided to invest in a coach. I invested $4,500 into a coach and it started off great. Although the coaching program didn’t yield the results I wanted, I knew it was just another step to get closer to my goals because I learned industry-specific skills through that coach. Skills such as social media paid ads marketing, organic social media marketing, managing orders, customer service, product research, adding products to my store, editing my website to have it look the way I wanted, and many other skills. While I was working on my store, I always kept listening to "The Dropship Podcast" on Spotify while I was driving to and from work. Through this podcast, I learned so much from a free podcast that I couldn’t even imagine how much information was available through their course "Dropship Breakthru." Once I noticed that I needed a little more help and I wanted to switch from low ticket to high ticket dropshipping, I signed up for their program.

Dropship Breakthru is probably the most thorough program I have ever been part of, and trust me, I’ve been part of many programs—from credit building to automating your business. This course has so much content and so many videos with useful information that anyone can start a high ticket dropshipping business with zero knowledge and zero experience. With this course, I changed everything from my low ticket store to a high ticket store: Precision Engineering Supply.

I’ve been operating my high ticket store for about three months now and have gotten $26,000 in sales. Although it isn’t much, it’s quite the milestone for me. My store offers tools and equipment for engineering companies such as enterprise drones, GNSS receivers, micrometers, microscopes, total stations, 3D printers, and more.

My future as an entrepreneur is looking very optimistic because I have so much experience and knowledge on a variety of skills and topics that I know for a fact I will be that successful businessman that I imagined I would be back when my entrepreneurship sparked for the first time when I was 15 years old as a freshman in high school. Also, I am continuously learning and making better business decisions which elevates me even further. For 2026, I forecast my store to hit $450,000 in sales.

My final words to you, whether you are in high school, college, working professionally, or looking for a career change after decades in one company, is to find out your "why." This has been my biggest motivator to continue to learn and progress even though I’ve been in not-so-perfect situations in my life before. Entrepreneurship is a journey, not an end result. If you truly understand that, then you have what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur. Continue to learn, continue to ask questions, be curious, understand how things work and eventually, you will have that "overnight" success.