About Andrew Adin AKA "Dean"

Dean's experience in real estate began early and under constraint. At 17, he launched his first wholesale operation, learning the business from the ground up through daily outreach, negotiation, and execution. Because of his age, he was unable to approve contracts himself, which forced him to operate through partnership and structure from the very beginning — an early lesson in responsibility and collaboration.

After months of consistent effort, the operation began producing results. Dean later partnered with a mentor to co-found a larger wholesale business, where he helped study, refine, and systematize the model before scaling it beyond a single market.

In early 2020, the business expanded into multiple states through new partnerships. Over the following year, the operation grew to include multiple offices, hundreds of team members, and transactions across more than a dozen markets. The experience provided exposure not only to deal-making, but to leadership, systems, hiring, and the realities of scaling under pressure.

After several years, Dean made the decision to step away. The exit was intentional — driven by the understanding that growth is not only about expansion, but about alignment.

That chapter led to the founding of Certified Home Buyers, a new real estate venture built with a longer-term mindset and a deeper focus on structure, stewardship, and sustainability.

The lessons learned in real estate — discipline, risk management, systems, and responsibility — directly shaped the foundation of Certified Empire and the Certified System.

Dean’s introduction to the stock market began with curiosity, not certainty. As a teenager, he became interested in the idea of financial independence and began studying markets seriously. What started as watching content and learning terminology quickly turned into a long-term commitment to understanding how markets actually work.

Before risking real capital, Dean spent more than two years studying charts, strategies, and market behavior without placing live trades. That decision proved foundational. When he eventually began trading with real money, the gap between theory and reality became clear. Progress was not linear.

There were periods of loss, frustration, and repeated resets. The market exposed emotional weakness, impatience, and flawed assumptions — often at a cost. Rather than stepping away, Dean treated each failure as feedback, returning to study, refinement, and discipline.

Over several years, thousands of trades, and multiple restarts, the focus shifted from chasing profit to building consistency. Risk management, structure, and repeatable process became more important than outcomes on any single trade.

That long arc — from curiosity, to failure, to refinement — ultimately led to the development of a disciplined trading approach grounded in patience, structure, and accountability. 

The lessons learned in the markets reinforced a central principle of Certified Empire:
without structure, effort leaks; without discipline, opportunity collapses.

Boxing became a discipline, not a performance. It was chosen not for appearance or recognition, but because it demands honesty. The ring exposes weakness quickly. There is no room for shortcuts, excuses, or self-deception.

Boxing requires presence, endurance, restraint, and courage under pressure. It tests physical conditioning, emotional control, and mental clarity all at once. Progress is earned through repetition, patience, and the willingness to endure discomfort without quitting.

For Dean, boxing serves as a proving ground — a place where principles are practiced, not discussed. It reinforces the belief that discipline must be embodied, not merely understood.

The value is not in winning or display, but in refinement.

Showing up consistently.
Submitting to the process.
Learning how to remain steady when pressure is applied.

These lessons carry beyond training and into work, leadership, and life itself.

“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?”
Romans 8:31

Music has always been a meaningful outlet for Dean, but it did not begin as a platform or ambition. It began as expression.

Earlier in life, music existed more as imagination than practice. As responsibility increased, attention shifted toward work, structure, and building stability — years spent working in his family’s restaurant, managing businesses, and operating in professional environments where communication and leadership were daily requirements.

After stepping away from those pursuits for a season, Dean returned to music quietly. Walking, writing, and freestyling became a way to process thought, reflect, and slow down. During that time, his faith deepened, and with it came a recalibration of intent. Music stopped being about performance and became about honesty.

There was a deliberate internal shift away from ego and toward stewardship — allowing the message to matter more than the messenger. The focus moved from self-expression to articulation, from ambition to obedience, using music as a disciplined craft rather than an identity.

Over time, consistency replaced inspiration. Through daily practice, Dean wrote and recorded hundreds of freestyles, using repetition as a way to refine clarity, presence, and restraint. The process became less about output and more about faithfulness to the work itself.

Certified Records exists as a place to document that process — music created as practice, reflection, and offering. Not for spectacle, but for substance. Not for scale, but for sincerity.