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Welcome back to Heart of a Hero, our recurring blog feature where we look at some of our amazing Kajabi heroes created their businesses!  

You can check out previous Heart of a Hero posts here!

In today’s Heart of a Hero, you’re going to meet Dan Baumann, a 20-year veteran of the contracting industry who has been teaching students to design homes using software since 1993. You’ll learn how Dan went from working 20-hour days to earning his $250k Kajabi Hero pin in just three short years!

Before Kajabi:

Dan Baumann started working in the remodeling industry in 1976.

And he hated it!

Dan had worked as a contractor for almost twenty years when he discovered a new software in 1993 called Chief Architect.

Dan recalls “As soon as I saw it, I knew it was going to be a huge hit in the industry!”

Dan learned this software inside and out.

He got so good at designing houses with Chief Architect that other contractors started asking him to teach them how to use it themselves.

Sensing an opportunity to escape being a contractor, Dan started teaching other contractors how to use the software

For a few years, Dan just sold the Chief Architect software.

Dan would go from town to town lugging his bulky computers with him, to give workshops and demonstrations on how to use Chief Architect. 

He was making money and helping a lot of people but Dan wanted a way to get off of the road.

In 2005, Dan started his first membership site on a software called Membergade.

Dan loved the passive income his membership site brought in but found Membergade difficult to use and limiting. 

Dan remembers, “It got to a point where every time I wanted to create something in that software I would have cold sweat and I would cringe because I knew that two-hour project was going to take a day!”