I’d describe my life as a grand adventure and a journey of lessons. I’ve earned millions and lost millions, but my most important number is impacting millions. Before any of this though, I had to grapple with an emotionally difficult lesson from my childhood.
My parents were very different.
Dad was a professor who made a meager $10,000 a year; mom was raising four boys – me the youngest – while he worked. Financial stress, worry, and fear blanketed our family.
Dad was a professor who made a meager
$10,000 a year; mom was raising four boys
– me the youngest – while he worked.
Financial stress, worry, and fear
blanketed our family.
Dad became an entrepreneur, and we moved to Orem, Utah.
Suddenly he was traveling a lot, gone two weeks out of
the month.
I would wait for him to come back, knowing he would return with tales of places with exotic names such as Switzerland and always a little gift for me. (One time, he brought a stapler, obviously a last-minute grab to have something for me. But even that I cherished!)
Dad was successful as an entrepreneur, and it changed our family’s fortune. A lovely new home, a Porsche and other nice cars, more and more nice things for us kids such as new bikes.
Dad became an entrepreneur, and we moved to Orem, Utah.
Suddenly he was traveling a lot, gone two weeks out of the month.
I would wait for him to come back, knowing he would return with tales of places with exotic names such as Switzerland and always a little gift for me. (One time, he brought a stapler, obviously a last-minute grab to have something for me. But even that I cherished!)
Dad was successful as an entrepreneur, and it changed our family’s fortune. A lovely new home, a Porsche and other nice cars, more and more nice things for us kids such as new bikes.
But mom didn’t like the changes.
Mom grew up poor. To her mother, my grandmother, Subway sandwiches were only for the ultra-wealthy.
So our new lifestyle scared my mother.
It stretched far from her childhood reality, and it felt like
“too much.”
So as Dad demonstrated abundance, mom felt compelled to reinforce scarcity.
But something inside me rejected my mother’s insistent and persistent messages of, “No, you can’t.” It caused arguments between us. But it also lit a fire in me to be happy, say yes to my dreams, and reject being told,
“No, that’s not possible.”
And my father’s empowered dreamer mentality became who I am.
At around 20 years old, I made a splash as a commercial model jump-started by me appearing in a world-wide Levis commercial.
I made a million, blew it all before I knew what I spent it on.
It was my first taste of entrepreneurship; I still had so much to learn.
At 23, I co-founded a technology business with my dad. With a single cold call to Boeing, whose number I found in the Orange County Business Journal, I got a meeting with Boeing’s CEO and our fledgling company’s first big contract.
(It’s quite a story – oh, the things you can do when no one tells you that you can’t!) Dad and I’s company became a huge success.
I was on shows such as Good Morning America and Direct Selling Live, showing people how my product could find them an extra $200 to $500 every month. This company kept growing
for six or seven years.
At one point, we were selling 10,000 units a day. I found a leadership role in the network marketing community and spoke all over China to millions. By 2012, I had a new product called Rocket Recruiting, and in 2015, after three and half years of working on it, I released my book, To the Top.
Today I’m a stoked husband, a proud father. I’ve had a lot of different businesses, but only one wife. Family is my core, what fuels me.
I’m excited about my new Abundance Pub and Insider’s Edge Podcast. Both are to help people become better and have a place where they can connect. And important to me, every podcast, we feed 1000 children.
Every tool, every technology that I have now, everything I do, a child gets fed.
Last year my mother and I finally had a long in-depth conversation about how I felt growing up.
She deeply listened, shared her personal story, and apologized. It brought me to a beautiful realization.
Everything that happens to us – everything – happens to help us live our purpose.
My mother’s influence gave focus to my dreams and ambition. It instilled in me an unextinguishable desire to help others be happy and empower others to know that anything is possible.
My purpose is to help others who have thoughts or voices in their life saying, “No, you can’t,” respond confidently with,
Everything that happens to us – everything – happens to help us live our purpose.
My mother’s influence gave focus to my dreams and ambition. It instilled in me an unextinguishable desire to help others be happy and empower others to know that anything is possible.
My purpose is to help others who have thoughts or voices in their life saying, “No, you can’t,” respond confidently with,
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