Have you ever had to change careers? How easy was that for you? How much of your mindset did you have to change when you changed careers?
A Canadian-Filipino, Dave Greig from Grow With 1st Class has been involved with two succesm sful real estate startups. But when he first immigrated to the U.S., he found that his Canadian degree and his English teaching experience were considered worthless. His American-born wife had to work and support the family because all of his skills didn’t translate to the American job sector.
Dave credits Rich Dad Poor Dad and the Bible for being the two most influential books in his life. There’s no such thing as luck, he says. When an opportunity comes along, you should jump at it. That’s why he jumped in feet first to a job opportunity his Realtor friend suggested to him. He still honors his English teaching background by approaching his sales career just like a teacher. He works to figure out what a person needs before he finds a solution for their problem. And he just doesn’t care for the hard sell because that doesn’t fit in with his teacher mentality.
As you were growing up, you absorbed certain lessons about money, and not all of those lessons were good. You’ve probably heard the phrase, “Money is the root of all evil”. For Dave, unlearning his money beliefs helped him break through the mental barrier he’d put in front of his success. He realized that if he was wealthy, he could provide jobs, give back to his community, and donate to charity.
This was such a great conversation with Dave Greig. I truly believe that breakthroughs can happen in just one conversation with a mentor who can help you see patterns and goals that you might miss on your own. I would love to help guide you through that journey. Let’s connect at 1ConversationAway.com.
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Do you need to access the equity in your home? What if you could access your home’s equity without going into more debt? And what if that new tool was NOT a HELOC or a reverse mortgage?
Are you house rich and cash poor?
Are you looking for capital to start a new business?
The traditional way for homeowners to unlock their home equity was to go to the bank and borrow that money. So even though a homeowner had a hard asset, they still had to borrow money to access the cash value in their home. Matthew Sullivan solves real problems for homeowners with his company QuantumRE that helps them unlock their equity. This is not a HELOC, a loan, or a reverse mortgage. It’s a new financing tool that can potentially free up the $83 trillion that Americans have locked in their home assets.
QuantmRE is an option agreement as a lien on the title. Nothing happens until you sell the home, refinance, or decide to end the agreement. This is not a debt product, and both parties have some risk. If the house collapses in value, then Matthew’s company risks losing the amount they loaned to you, but if the house increases in value, you can pay back the option. There’s no monthly cash payment, no interest, or rent, and the homeowner is still on the title.
As a Brit, Matthew has set up businesses in India and Australia, but setting up a business in the United States has been one of the most exciting experiences for him. Each country has its own rules, and this can apply to the different regions of the U.S. A lot of business can be done on a handshake in the U.S. because they do still appreciate that sort of man-to-man business agreements.
For English-speaking immigrants; Matthew says that you shouldn’t assume that just because you speak the same language, that the culture is the same.
There are 50 different rules, laws, and regulations, plus cultures all across America! Research your market before you create a business. Ask yourself: Is this going to work? Is this actually going to be beneficial? And then jump into the land of opportunity.
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Do you know how to break free from the negative mindset, negative generational ideas that are holding you down?
For you, what does it look like to have an inner drive?
Ever feel like you don’t fit in? If you don’t fit in, how can you use that to your advantage?
Family comes first for Mercedes Torres. She was born in Los Angeles to a Mexican mother and Puerto Rican father, but was raised in Puerto Rico.
Her family frequently moved around between the three countries, and Mercedes struggled to have a sense of belonging as she was always labeled the “outsider”.
Even within her own family, the age gap between Mercedes and her siblings made her feel like she didn’t quite fit within her own family.
Here’s the thing… Mercedes’s parents were hardworking, but they were always poor.
Now, Mercedes loved her family, but she didn’t want to live her entire life poor. She knew that she would need to get her information and education from a different source than her family. That’s when she left home, determined to make it on her own.
Today, Mercedes has a real estate education company where she teaches others to either invest in real estate or do it for them with a turnkey operation.
In her first year in real estate, she flipped over 24 properties, and after 16 years, she’s bought, sold, and rented out thousands of properties.
Mercedes says, “When you come into my world, there is no ceiling.” To her, personal growth is a never-ending quest to be a better version of yourself.
She’s built a community around herself that pushes her to live her best life on her own terms.
So, the question is…
Do you know how to get that drive? How to live with no- ceiling? More importantly, do you need a strong “why” to get things accomplished?
Mercedes says yes, but also no. A strong “why” can get you up and going every day, but you need one more key element to watch your success skyrocket which we share in this episode. I love Mercedes’s positive mindset that you can just hear through this episode. If you’re interested in real estate investing, whether it’s buying fully renovated turnkey investments or creating turnkey investments for yourself, Mercedes would love to connect with you.
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How confident do you feel about hosting or presenting in a virtual event?
Do you think a virtual conference should cost more or less than an in-person event?
Were you caught unprepared by the pivot into Zoom meetings last year?
No matter what industry you’re in, last year completely changed how businesses reach customers. Virtual events are here to stay, and if you’re not ready for this pivot, your business is going to miss out.
Miroslav Beck from the Czech Republic runs Overnight Success Studios, an AV company that provides technical support for companies who are running a live event.
Pre-COVID, Mira’s company did 80 events a year, but like many of you, he’s had to adjust to COVID and learn to run events for a completely remote audience.
If Tony Robbins is the picture in your mind when you think of a well-produced show, then you might feel intimidated by the amount of work that goes into a virtual event.
But Mira wants you to know that you don’t need to spend that kind of money to still give your audience a great experience.
On the lowest level, you can just sit on Zoom and deliver your information. For a paid event, or even if you’re just interested in impressing your audience, Mira has advice for how you can convert more clients by:
Mira loves what he does, and he believes that businesses that adapt to virtual networking are going to outperform those who are stuck in the 2010s.
If you’d like more information about how you can give better virtual presentations, Mira would love to connect with you. Send him an email at mira@beckav.com
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Have you ever heard of the terms upper cervical care, upper cervical adjustment, or atlas bone adjustment?
Do you have health problems such as gut problems, headaches, migranes, stomach issues, neck pains, sinuses, different pains in your body?
Are you popping pills trying to fix one problem, and then two more issues crop up?
What if I told you that you could adjust just ONE BONE in your entire body and improve your body’s health?
Don’t believe me? Then listen to this episode and remember this name: Atlas bone.
When the brain and body aren’t connected, health problems start to manifest in your body in different ways. For Dr. Eddie Weller, it showed up as Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
Here’s the thing…
Every nerve in the whole body meets at the base of your skull, and if there’s pressure on that nerve center, it “dims” the messages your brain is sending to the rest of the body. When Dr. Weller’s brain and body were reconnected after he received an upper cervical adjustment, his IBS disappeared.
For 22 years, Dr. Eddie Weller has been adjusting patients, and he is so passionate about helping patients get well again. He sees his jobs as true healthcare because to him, chiropractic care is about giving your body the best chance to succeed.
Dr. Weller is also passionate about helping others. During the pandemic, he was friended on social media by a fellow young Christian man from Pakistan.
After he learned about young children being kidnapped and sold into modern-day slavery, he felt inspired to change lives in Pakistan.
Today, he’s working on building a home for orphaned children in Pakistan while purchasing them out of slavery so that they can live normal lives.
He connects with these children weekly on virtual phone calls, and he is raising money to increase the impact of his project.
If you feel moved to donate to Dr. Weller, it doesn’t take much. For only $20, you can feed 20 children a month or you can donate to his school project.
Check out his website Chalk to Clay for more information.
What if I told you that failure is where the magic happens?
How can you fail and find the courage to get back up and try again?
What if you turned failures into core company values?
Amir Erez is an Israeli-American immigrant who runs a seven-figure real estate business based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. When he arrived in the U.S. in 2006 with $365, he rolled up his sleeves and worked every job you can think of until he decided to get into real estate in 2012.
Today Amir is the CEO and co-founder of Fair Deal Home Buyers, a wholesaling and flipping company that purchased 140 homes in 2020.
If you’re an immigrant, you actually have an advantage in the land of opportunity. You’re willing to work harder than the average Joe, and when you fail, you’re going to be able to get up and keep going.
Amir and I had an amazing conversation about what to do when you fail. Failure is inevitable, but it’s still surprising for many of us, and it makes us second guess our choices.
And quite frankly, it can be discouraging. For Amir, personal growth was directly tied to all of those times when he failed. He saw his resilience built up as he got up, dusted himself off, and tried again.
Hiring employees that match your company culture will require more than just hoping you pick the right resume off of the stack on your desk.
Amir has been very careful about finding just the right employees, and he shares how he builds his company culture by making decisions around his core values, and why failure can be a core value.
Listen, it’s not the big, sweeping actions that drive success; it’s the small, daily things that add up over time that lead to success. Even failure is a chance to fail forward, says Amir.
Focusing on the goal and your ultimate “why” is going to help you get back up again.
Do you know you can turn your weakness into strength or as I’d like to call it, turn your weakness into your superpower?
Do you have a weakness that you don’t like about yourself?
Do you spend so much time thinking about starting a project that you never actually get started?
If so, check out this episode because this episode answers those questions. More importantly, it deals with the limiting beliefs around your weaknesses.
So, the question is…
Are you ready to smash some self-limiting beliefs today?
When Dwan Bent-Twyford heard about real estate for the first time, she thought it meant that she’d go around buying houses and redecorating them.
Imagine her surprise when she found herself doing all of the tiling, painting, landscaping, and everything else she had to do to get the house ready for sale.
As a single mom with an ex-husband in jail, she had one thing on her mind: providing for her daughter without putting her in daycare.
Dwan didn’t have enough knowledge when she started in real estate investing to realize what she didn’t know. She just figured out the first step she needed to take, and then she figured out the next step when she got to that point.
She simply didn’t have time to get paralyzed by the whole process of real estate investing. She wants you to know that if you spend so much time prepping that you never actually do anything, then you’re getting lost in the details.
On her first flip, Dwan made $22,000, and she never wanted to go back to a regular job. And she wanted to teach other people to do what she did too.
But breaking into the boys’ club was a huge boundary. She was one of the only women in the real estate industry, and she couldn’t get them to take her seriously even though she was doing more deals than they were and giving speeches every month at Real Estate Associations.
We might worry, “What if people don’t understand me?”
Because so much of Dwan’s job is all about talking to people, she has some advice for anyone worried about a language barrier. Dwan and I have known each other for a decade, and she talks about how powerful it was when I embraced what I consider a weakness.
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Do you know how to find your purpose in your life?
Are you struggling with uncertainty and looking for peace of mind in your life?
As you work and study, how do you find the REAL, authentic genuine you?
These are the questions we will be answering on this episode.
I think you’re going to love hearing from this amazing woman because she is so enthusiastic about helping people identify their true purpose and move forward with confidence.
Doc Peace Uche, a Nigerian immigrant, became a doctor of pharmacy and then realized that she wanted a career that felt more authentic for her true self.
That’s when she became a Transformational Rhythmic Speaker and wrote “doc.Peace of Mind Method: A Poetic Guide to Living Your Best Life.”
Here’s the problem…
Most people will create a goal and then take some steps towards their goal…
but they won’t take the right steps.
Doc Peace works with clients to help them connect their actions with their goals, and to do that, she uses this simple acronym “G.O.L.D.” to define the 4 steps they need to take:
Here’s the deal…
If you don’t know how to achieve something, then you’re going to walk around in a confused state just hoping you eventually stumble upon your goal.
One solution is to reach out to a mentor or someone just ahead of you in your journey, someone who has been there and succeeded in what you are going after. This is by far, one of the most effective ways to shorten your journey to finding your true passion.
Listen, do you have a weakness that you feel is holding you back?
We all do, right?
For Doc Peace, it was her lisp. For me, it was my accent.
Doc Peace believes that embracing who you are will free you from concern about your perceived limitations. She herself overcame a lisp to become a paid public speaker.
As you become open and vulnerable about your own challenges, she says that you’ll step more fully into your authentic self.
I loved this conversation with Doc Peace because it was so hopeful and positive.
If you’d like to have a discovery call with her, you can text GOLD to 619-363-5490 to set up a time to talk. Even if you’re not ready for a discovery call, she’s offering a free gift with a $100 value to help my listeners with self-affirmations.
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Do you know how to develop a strong self-discipline mastery?
Do you have a place where you can reconnect with other people?
Do you have a way to build trust in your community?
How do you strengthen the children in your family and community?
Since he was 5 years old, Michel Pereira has been taking jiu-jitsu lessons after his mom noticed that he was a little hyperactive in school. Her primary purpose in enrolling him in classes was to help him get all of his energy out.
However, as soon as he started working with his body, he felt like he’d found his calling.
Today, Michel is the Head Coach for Carlson Gracie in Miami, and he holds 26 belts in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which is a black belt to the 5th degree. In addition to Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Michel also practices karate.
After Michel moved to the US in 2005, it took him about three years before he opened his jiu-jitsu school in Miami. Today, his dojo is a place of escape in his community where he teaches his students about trust and integrity.
Michel says that within the dojo, they don’t talk about politics or racism, and instead choose to focus on positivity and the human connection.
Michel and I had an amazing conversation about some of the challenges people face when they’re striving for excellence, including self-discipline. By combining karate with jiu-jitsu, Michel finally began to understand that he needed to take care of his body and how to be disciplined.
Combining these two martial arts, Michel began making the mind/body connection that he now teaches his students about. Today, he is a self-discipline master.
Listen, if you’re in the Miami area, Michel would love for you to drop in and see how jiu-jitsu can help you achieve your goals.
However, if you’re not able to meet in person, you can still connect with Michel on Facebook or Instagram and pick his brain, there’s a lot of powerful lessons in there.
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Are you worried that embracing kindness will turn you into a doormat?
How do you deal with hate when you encounter it?
How do you create a culture of kindness in your business?
As the author of Empowering Kindness, Canadian immigrant Nathan Caldwell has a powerful message that will change your life.
Known as “The Culture Evangelist” for a $1.2 billion dollar software company, Nathan has helped coach countless people to find their passion and inspire them to be great.
In his best-selling book, Nathan shares a new approach to understanding and building a company culture that people will love.
Kindness for the wrong reasons will give us zero benefits. But if you come from a pure standpoint and truly want to help others, kind acts can radically change your physical and mental health.
In fact, how you approach your place in what you’re doing can change your attitude about the work you do.
Nathan compares this to two men laying bricks for a building. For one man, it’s just work. For the second man, fixing his eyes on the cathedral that he’s building lifts him up past his every day cares.
Nathan cautions that kindness doesn’t equate to weakness. Sometimes, figuring out how to help someone is going to result in a little tough love.
True kindness isn’t about saying yes to every request that people make of you. As you build a lifetime of acts of service, you’ll start to recognize how to strike that balance between kindness and tough love.
I really believe that God created us for good works, and I love Nathan’s message about changing the world by changing the culture around you. Be sure and check out Nathan’s book or connect with him on Facebook or LinkedIn.
Are you going through a tough time right now?
When you find yourself going through a difficult time, how do you cope with everything in your life?
Do you turn toward faith or a belief in a higher power?
Today’s amazing conversation is with Andrew Kim, my teaching pastor at Kensington Church located in Troy, Michigan. I think that Andrew’s parents’ journey to Detroit from South Korea by way of Vancouver is a beautiful story of faith, resilience, and grit.
When Andrew’s parents came to Vancouver for school, they anticipated building a better life for their family together. But Andrew’s father got sick and died, and Andrew’s mom needed to make a choice for how to move the family forward.
Andrew’s mom told him over and over again how God showed up for her in her lowest moments. Through her lens and her perception, it was God every time that brought her out of every terrible situation.
When she opened up a flower shop in downtown Vancouver, she did it so that she could stay in Canada and build a better life for her kids.
As a teaching pastor, Andrew is able to sit with people as they deal with difficult transitions. He shares some of his thoughts on how perception can shape the events we see around us.
Andrew talks about living in reality and that has to do with your mindset while accepting what’s real around you. The way that we see will determine our course of action, but sometimes our perception is incorrect.
When God gives us blessings, he doesn’t intend for the blessings to stop with us. Instead, Andrew says, we should think of ourselves as the conduits for the blessings as we allow them to flow through us. We’re meant to impact the world around us.
This conversation was an amazing way to take hold of hope again. If you’d like some personal encouragement, you can connect with Andrew on Facebook or Instagram.
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Do you worry that your accent will hold you back from success? Have you ever wanted to stay home with your children, but you also needed to work? Have you wanted to invest in real estate, but you don’t know how to get started?
The drive for entrepreneurship was already in her family, so after Anne Hillyard immigrated to the Phoenix area from Finland, becoming a real estate investor seemed like a natural next step.
Even though she’d studied English for years, she worried that her accent would hold her back as she talked to Realtors and brokers about building a real estate portfolio. With a $6.5 million dollar portfolio and a mission to help other moms achieve the same kind of success, Anne has found that her accent never really held her back.
Anne is passionate about helping moms earn passive income so that they can spend more time with their children.
For those who want to get started small, simply buying a house with a guest house, or even a duplex or triplex can help a newbie investor get a foothold in the investing world.
House hacking can help you pay your mortgage while you save money to invest in other properties.
One of the biggest hurdles for Anne was overcoming her scarcity mindset. She had to dive in deep with mentors and courses to help her move past her block.
For new investors looking for a mentor, she recommends connecting with a real estate investor at a brokerage who’s also a Realtor so that you can start building your network there.
Most people are stymied by fear and a dose of perfectionism. Anne says that you don’t need to know everything; you just need to know enough, and then take the first step.
Anne is hosting the Rental Income Summit on November 18th-20th for anyone who’d like to know more about passive income from real estate. You can sign up through her website Rental Income Academy.
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To tie this episode up, I decided to open something up, something I have never done before.
On Thursday(s) on Zoom at 1 pm EST, I’ll be having one-on-one FREE CONVERSATIONS, clarity sessions for anyone who wants them.
My goal is to help entrepreneurs create a life first and then a business to support this. If you’re ready for a conversation that will put you on a better path toward entrepreneurial success, reach out to me or head over to this site https://www.1conversationaway.com/
If you’ve lost your dream, how do you regain it?
How do you make the impossible possible in your life?
What if everyone around you thought your dreams were too big and crazy?
I have such a story-driven inspiring episode for you today because Simone Severo has an amazing story about her immigration from Brazil.
When she was a little girl, she knew that she wanted to make it to America some day, but she was surrounded by a culture that wanted her to stick to the status quo.
Consequently, she felt completely out of place as she spent her free time studying English and learning about America so that she could make her dreams happen.
When someone told Simone “No,”, what she heard in her head was “No, but…” because she didn’t want to accept the word “No”.
That refusal to hear the word “No” meant that she could be flexible about the different paths to take to America as long as each path took her one step closer to her goal of immigration.
It eventually took her 32 years to get to America, but the timing didn’t matter to her.
Simone always wanted to be a photographer, but she quickly realized in the early days of the internet that digital photography was going to be the next big thing.
As she worked to build her business, she challenged herself to take a portrait picture every single day of the year. She spent about 1,500 hours working on this one project and after that, she realized that she could do nearly any kind of photography.
I loved talking with Simone and hearing about her zest for life. She radiates fun and passion, and her portraitures are truly works of art.
I hope that you’ll be inspired by her determination, excitement, and entrepreneurial spirit.
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What kind of mindset does an immigrant need to succeed in the United States?
What if I told you that you already have all of the skills and talents you need to succeed?
And what does your life look like when you create something bigger than yourself?
Success in America seemed like a wild dream to Carlos Reyes when he was growing up in Mexico. He came from very humble beginnings, and survival mode was a way of life for him.
As a child, he shared a bed with his grandparents, and his shower was a bucket outside. But Carlos credits his childhood experiences for helping him become so successful.
Even as a child, he was interested in entrepreneurship. He started his first joint venture as a child by joining with a friend’s mom and selling her Mexican bread door to door.
When his mother immigrated illegally to America, he continued helping the family out until she helped to bring him over the border.
When Carlos first came to America, he thought his dreams were big. And he really thought he’d made it when he landed his first corporate job making $70,000 a year.
Today, Carlos is a legal US citizen who owns over 25 businesses, and seven of his businesses are grossing 7 figures a year. He started with no money, but he had tons of heart, commitment, and a work ethic. He wants every immigrant to stop dreaming so small.
Immigrants will happily put in 10-15 hour days for their families, but Carlos wants them to dream even bigger.
God and family are at the core of Carlos’s life, and you can really hear his passion for serving others as he talks about his businesses.
He sees his success as a tool for him to help other people. If there’s one thing he wants every immigrant to know, it’s this:
“Change your mindset or else you will continue to pass down the generational financial curses we’ve all inherited.”
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What do you truly want from life?
How do you find your true identity?
What is it like to reinvent yourself after finding tremendous success?
This is Alex Pardo’s second podcast with me, and I’m so excited to share about the next step in his journey.
As a successful real estate wholesaler with over $40,000 in business a month, Alex realized that wholesaling just wasn’t as fulfilling for him.
He had founded FlipEmpire.com and its parent company RE-Solutions LLC, and had flipped over 300 properties, but he decided that after 15 years, it was time to leave it all behind.
But leaving behind the business he’d built was hard! He spent some time trying to be half-in, half-out of the business, but as he says, “You can’t be half-pregnant”.
He realized he needed to be in or out entirely. In the meantime, he’d launched Ascend, a real estate mastermind and coaching business, which he found that he absolutely loved. And that’s when he decided to leave active real estate investing.
Alex is so passionate about connecting with other people that it’s become an integral part of his identity. He settled on three things that completely fulfill him, and built a new life around them:
Listen...If there are “nudges” in your life, what do you do?
You know what I’m talking about; you wake up and you’re thinking about something or someone, or you can’t get something out of your head. When you feel those nudges, the key is to act immediately, says Alex.
You can just hear the excitement Alex has for his new path in life, and his enthusiasm to help other entrepreneurs find their passion again. If you’d love to connect with Alex, you can contact him on his website or through one of his social media channels.
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What if growing up in the U.S, you assumed that you could grow up and have the American dream, just to find out that you couldn’t legally work, drive, or take out loans in America?
Do you know how the DACA program works for children of illegal immigrants?
Diego Corzo came to the United States when he was 9 years old. When he was 15 and went to apply for a driver’s license and discovered that he did not have papers to be here legally.
So everything that he assumed he’d be able to do just like every other American teen got turned on its head. He was worried that he would get shut out of a lot of traditional opportunities.
As the oldest grandchild and a first-generation immigrant, Diego felt a lot of responsibility to lead by example. Not only did he have to learn English, but he also struggled to speak through a stutter. And of course, companies could not pay him legally and he couldn’t take out any student loans.
When you hear Diego talk, you can really hear how positive and upbeat he is about his life. One reason for this is his mindset.
Instead of focusing on “Why is this happening TO me?”, Diego framed his circumstances around “Why is this happening FOR me?”
Even though companies couldn’t pay him, he could form an LLC with a friend, and receive payment through that LLC. He constantly looked for ways around all of the limitations placed on him by his immigration status.
When you change your mindset about what’s happening for you rather than to you, you'll be able to experience a significant impact on your life.
Today, Diego is a Realtor in Austin, TX, and he is on his way to financial independence with 15 rentals. If you’re looking for a house or you’d love to connect with a fellow millennial, you can email Diego on his website.
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How would you like to learn a strategy that will help you get your product out there, even if you have no money to produce it?
How can you use crowdfunding to build your company?
What do you do when you don’t have the money to launch your product?
You’ve got a problem. You want to take a trip with your favorite guitar, but it’s too fragile to toss into the belly of an airplane or the trunk of a car.
Every great company sets out to solve a problem for people. Adam Klosowiak realized that people wanted to travel with their guitars, but wooden guitars were too fragile. That’s why he created a prototype carbon fiber guitar to solve that problem.
Adam is the co-founder and CEO of Klos Guitars, which he started with his brother Ian when he was a senior at Princeton finishing up his electrical engineering degree.
He grew up outside Chicago, home to the second largest population of Poles live outside of Poland. Today, Adam lives in Park City, Utah where he focuses full-time on his work at Klos Guitars. But when he started, he only had two guitars and no money.
Adam turned to crowdfunding as a way to raise money for his idea. He says that the benefits of crowdfunding are:
If you’re interested in starting your own company, Adam advises you to not be too focused on perfection. In fact, putting your product out there and getting feedback on it will help you see the features you need to improve faster, and it’ll let you get your marketing dialed in before you scale up your business. Check out Klos Guitars on nearly every social media marketing channel.
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What does it take to make it in Hollywood?
How can someone who doesn’t fit into traditional molds break into modeling?
As an immigrant, what is considered a respectable career?
Do you have to be a lawyer, an accountant, or something safe because you’re a first generation American and you have that expectation on you?
Daisi Pollard Sepulveda can be compared to an ‘80s supermodel meets Devil Wears Prada with Ashley Graham confidence. With Jamaican, Jewish, and African-American heritage, she has a fusion of culture to choose, so she doesn’t see just one thing that influences her life.
Modeling and beauty pageants shaped the beginning of Daisi’s career, and she’s represented famous brands like Sephora, Fiverr.com, and Makeup Forever.
But today she works with young talent to help empower them in a way that she didn’t have as she broke through barriers as a young girl. As a woman of color in this country, Daisi did not experience positive affirmation about what she wanted to do and she wants to change that.
In modeling, when a scout or modeling agency wants to put a girl in a box for the kind of work she can do, Daisi wants to wreck that box. She wants to empower girls to say “No” to work that isn’t what they want to do.
It’s a different kind of industry and other people’s opinion about what you look like is going to have an effect on your career, whether that’s negative or positive.
Speaking about Hollywood, Daisi has some encouraging words for the invisible barriers we think are there.
While it might seem like Hollywood is the ultimate American institution, there are a ton of people in Hollywood who are not American.
Because the Hollywood brand claims them, you forget that their origins are not American. Sometimes when you sit in an audience and watch the actors up on the silver screen, you forget that they started somewhere small too.
If you want to connect with Daisi about acting or modeling advice, you can email her at: info (at) daisipollard.com.
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What makes us act in certain ways?
How can you change the circumstances around you?
Where can you find lasting happiness? And what does happiness have to do with your past?
Shervin Hojat came to the US from Iran when he was 17. He got a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science because that was something that was expected of him. Sound familiar?
But then he decided that he wanted to take an entirely different path. After Shervin’s father died unexpectedly in 2006, he realized that waiting until you retire to live life on your own terms was too long to wait.
We spend a lot of time avoiding experiences that we think are bad, but these experiences help us feel the whole gamut of human existence.
And yet, bad experiences can also hold us back from enjoying the present. Shervin wants you to live in the moment so that you can be more effective and make better decisions.
On Shervin’s journey of personal discovery, he’s discovered the benefits of meditation, forgiveness, and nature in helping him peel back the layers of why he acts in certain ways.
On this episode, Shervin walks you through an exercise for how a person can take a moment and reframe their point of view.
Most of the time, 90% of the things we do are done subconsciously, and it takes some effort to become aware of your actions and the reasons behind them. Shervin describes it like peeling an onion; each layer peeled back exposes truer happiness.
For more on this amazing topic of finding true happiness through personal discovery, you can check out both of Shervin’s books, or contact him through his email: shervinhojat (at) gmail.com.
You can also connect with him on Facebook or his website.
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Do you sometimes feel like there’s no room for success for you, your life or your business because of how difficult things are or have been?
Whether it’s in life or your business, adversity isn’t unique to one person…everyone and every business has those moments.
The question is:
What drives you?
Do you have a “WHY” that pushes you through adversity?
When you have a “Why” so deep that it drives you forward through any adversity, then you know that success is going to be a big part of your life.
Andrew Samuel was born into humble circumstances in India, but today he is the CEO of LinkBank Corp because he internalized his sense of purpose from a young age.
Every step of the way in his journey, Andrew knew he had to apply himself because his dreams weren’t going to happen overnight. He really believes that having a chip on his shoulder would’ve held him back.
Even as he worked jobs that others might consider beneath themselves, Andrew approached them with grace and hard work. He saw it this way:
One day, you might be serving them, and the next day, they might be serving you.
Many people credit luck for their success, but Andrew believes that it’s just seizing the opportunities that show up in front of you.
I used to hear this funny phrase and think it was true that, “In America, money grows on trees”.
Of course, it doesn’t, but the opportunities in America are out there for you, as long as you work hard and do it intentionally.
with that said, listen closely to the top 3 talents Andrew says you need to succeed. One of the really cool parts about Andrew’s company is that he has a Chief Cultural Officer whose sole job is to create the company culture and protect it from outside forces.
As a coach, I know that if I want my clients to do something, then I need to model that for them. If I want them to be on time, then I need to show up on time too.
The idea that the culture should start at the top is a huge part of my coaching method too, and I loved that Andrew values this enough to create this position.
You are not going to want to miss the end where Andrew shares his next big project which I believe will really revolutionize the small banking industry.
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The Way of the Shepherd: Seven Secrets to Managing Productive People
Our American Dream: Cultivating a Life of Success, Joy, and Purpose
Have you ever had that experience of only wanting something simple but wake up with something bigger than you have ever dreamed of, let alone planned for?
As if one day you just realize, “When did this get this big? This isn’t what I had in mind…” Yes at the same time, you wouldn’t have it any other way.
After 30 years in America, Atul Vir has over 18 patents and a successful appliance company business. But when he first came to America in 1991, he didn’t intend to start a business. He just wanted to help his wife with the laundry on the weekend.
Assimilating into American culture required him to completely change his mindset. One of the first lessons that he learned is that everything he knew didn’t apply at all in America.
Learning everything new all over again is hard, but his experience in India and Africa helped him see how being an outsider could help him.
When he started his own business, Atul was open to all kinds of possibilities. He rented an office, and then he realized that the more he sat in his office, the less money he made.
I hear this same false idea all the time too. People tell you, “Build a website and you’ll make some money”. That’s not how it works, my friend. You have to make things happen; get out and hustle hard.
When we come into this country, we see a completely different way of looking at American problems. This perspective gives us a chance to see the opportunities that regular Americans don’t see. But beware of legal and cultural issues that you might not know about.
Atul experienced some failure as he dealt with these differences, but today he is happy that he can take what he’s learned and use it to help solve problems in his home country.
Keep an eye out for Atul’s book, All I Wanted Was to Wear Clean Clothes, which will be released very soon in hard copy and audio book.
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After a serious soccer injury, Lee Holden had a revelation. He realized that we’re not doing the right thing in Western medicine with our focus on pills instead of true healing. So Lee apprenticed himself to a Qi Gong master in Thailand, and started immersing himself in that world.
Today Lee is an acupuncturist and a doctor of Chinese medicine. He’s been on public television since 2005 where he teaches people how to use Chinese medicine in our busy Western lives.
Instead of treating the illness, he treats the source and the core energy, and today he talks about how you can tap into this energy and have mindfulness.
Stress is a survival mechanism, but for most of us, we have an overactive survival mechanism. A little bit of stress can be good, but when you have too much, it depletes you.
Most of us, our perception is that we have to drink a lot of caffeine to overcome this fatigue. But your body is trying to tell you something, and Lee wants you to tune into the message your body is sending.
Passion, excitement, and your alignment with your vision fuel your tank. I use this Qi of the mind with students too. We work on vision, and then we tap into some fuel. Lee talks about how energy can charge up entrepreneurs and help them regain their passion for their projects again.
Lee’s new documentary “Superhuman” focuses on healers, spiritual practitioners, and energy workers who are the best in the business. Then Lee digs in deep to find out how we can learn from these masters. You definitely do not want to miss this.
If you’re feeling like you’re low on fuel and passion, he has a 30 day challenge right now to de-stress your life and tap into your own power again.
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Nathan Amaral is a second generation immigrant from Portugal, and he caught the entrepreneurial bug early from his dad. Growing up in the family bakery, Nathan’s parents made him learn how to do everything, including grease the bread machines. Nathan’s dad used the family bakery like a university to instill good business habits early on.
You could say that Nathan is passionate about the entrepreneurial journey; he currently owns 10 businesses! And he is passionate about the entrepreneurial mindset. He’s able to share some of the best ways of growing a business because he’s done it again and again, and he knows what works and what doesn’t.
When it comes to being a millionaire, you need clarity, confidence, and cash flow. But most of all you need to let go of your fear mindset. Nathan shares how a limiting belief can really hold you back. In fact, it can not only hold you back, it can put you into a pattern with employees or your business that sabotages your own progress if you don’t recognize how your beliefs are holding you back.
If you’re too focused on not burning bridges behind you, you might actually be keeping too many options for yourself. You have to remove distractions by saying “No” more often. Nathan talks about how to gain clarity and confidence by aligning yourself with your vision.
I love the chance to dissect, strategize, and get into the minds of successful immigrants to understand what makes them so impactful on the world. If you loved today’s episode, like us, share us, and leave us a review!
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Contact Nathan at: Fearless-Millionaire.com
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