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[Music] the wisest person I ever met in my life a third-grade dropouts why is this and drop out in the same sentence as rather oxymoronic like jumbo shrimp mm-hmm like fun run ain't nothing fun about it like Microsoft Works y'all don't hear me I used to say like country music but I've lived in Texas so long I love country music now I bet ya I hunt I finish I have cowboy boots and cowboy y'all I'm a black Nick redneck do you hear what I'm sayin no longer oxymoronic for me to say country music and it's not oxymoronic for me to say third grade and drop out that third grade dropout the wisest person I ever met in my life who taught me to combine knowledge and wisdom to make an impact was my father a simple cook why is this man ever men in my life just a simple cook left school in the third grade to help out on the family farm but just because he left school doesn't mean a Jessica education stop Mark Twain once said I've never allowed my schooling to get in the way in my education my father taught himself how to read taught himself how to write decided in the midst of Jim Crow ISM as America was breeding the last gasp of the Civil War my father decided he was going to stand and be a man not a black man not a brown man not a white man but a man he literally challenged himself to be the best that he could all the days of his life I have four degrees my brother is a judge we're not the smartest ones in our family it's a third grade dropout Danny a third grade dropout daddy who was quoting Michelangelo saying those boys I won't have a problem if you aim high and miss but I'm gonna have a real issue if you aim low and hit a country mother quoting Henry Ford saying if you think you can or if you think you can't you're right I learned that from a third grade drop simple lessons lessons like these son you'd rather be an hour early than a minute late we never knew what time it was in my house cuz the clocks were always ahead my mother said for nearly 30 years my father left the house at 3:45 in the morning one day she asked him why daddy he said maybe one of my boys will catch me in the act of excellence I want to share two things with you Aristotle said you are what you repeatedly do therefore excellent taught me I have it not an act don't ever forget that I know you're tough but always remember to be kind always don't ever forget that never embarrass mama mm-hmm yeah if mama ain't happy ain't nobody happy if daddy ain't happy don't nobody care but you know I'm tell you next lesson lesson from a cook over there in the galley son make sure your servants towel is bigger than your ego ego is the anesthesia the deadens the pain of stupidity y'all might have a relative in mind you want to send that to let me say it again ego is the anesthesia that Denton's the pain of stupidity pride is the burden of a foolish person John Wooden coached basketball in UCLA for a living but his calling was the impact people and with all those national championships guess what he was found doing in the middle of the week going into the cupboard grabbing a broom and sweeping his own gym floor you want to make an impact find your borough every day of your life you find your broom you grow your influence step way that way you're attracting people so that you can impact them final lesson son you're gonna do a job doing right I've always been told how average I can be always been criticized about being average but I want to tell you something I stand here before you before all of these people not listening to those words but telling myself every single day to shoot for the stars to be the best that I can be good enough isn't good enough if it can be better and better isn't good enough if it can be best let me close with a very personal story that I think will bring all this into focus wisdom will come to you in the unlikeliest of sources a lot of times through failure when you hit rock-bottom remember this while you're struggling rock-bottom can also be a great foundation on which to build and on which to grow I'm not worried that you'll be successful I'm worried that you won't fail from time to time person that gets up off the canvas and keeps growing that's the person that will continue to grow their influence back in the 70s to help me make this point let me introduce you to someone I'm at the finest woman I've ever met in my life mm-hmm back in my day we'd have called her a brick house this woman was the finest woman I'd ever seen in my life there's just one little problem back then ladies didn't like big old linemen The Blind Side hadn't come out yet they liked quarterbacks and running backs breathless dance and I find out her name is Trina Williams from Lompoc California and we were all dancing and we're just just excited and I decide in the middle of dancing with her that I would ask her for a phone number she Katrina was the first one Trina was the only woman in college who gave me her real telephone number the next day we walked to Baskin and Robbins ice cream parlor my friends couldn't believe it this has been 40 years ago and my friend still can't believe it we go on a second date and a third date and a fourth date mm-hmm we drive from Chico to Vallejo so that she could meet my parents my father meets her my daddy my hero he meets her pulls me to the side and says is she psycho but anyway we go together for a year two years three years four years by now Trina's a senior in college I'm still a freshman but I'm working some things out I'm so glad I graduated in four terms Nixon Ford Carter Reagan so now it's time to propose so I talked to her girlfriends and it's California it's in the 70s so it has to be outside have to have a candle and have to have you know some chocolate listen I'm from the hood had a bottle of Boone's Farm wine that's what I had she said yes that was the key I married the most beautiful woman I've ever seen him I y'all ever been to a wedding and even before the wedding starts you hear this how in the world and it was coming from my side of the family we get married we have a few children our lives are great one day Trina finds a lump in her left breasts breast cancer six years after that diagnosis me and my two little boys walked up to mommy's casket and for two years my heart didn't beat it wasn't for my faith in God I wouldn't be standing here today if it wasn't for those two little boys there'd have been no reason for which to go on I was completely lost dad was rock bottom you know what sustained me the wisdom of a third grade dropout the wisdom of a simple cook we're at the casket I'd never seen my dad cry but this time I saw my dad cry that was his daughter Trina was his daughter not his daughter-in-law and I'm right behind my father about to see her for the last time on this earth and my father shared three words with me two changed my life right there at the casket it would be the last lesson he would ever teach me he said son just stand you keep standing you keep sitting no matter how rough the sea you keep standing and I'm not talking about just water you keep standing no matter what you don't give up and as clearly as I'm talking to you today these were some of her last words to me she looked me in the eye and she said it doesn't matter to me any longer how long I live what matters to me most is how I live - all one question a question that I was asked all my life by a third grade dropout how you live in how you live in every day asked yourself that question how you live in here's here's what a cook would suggest you to live this way that you would not judge that you would show up early that you'd be kind that you make sure that that servants town is huge and used that if you're gonna do something you do it the right way that that cook would tell you this that it's never wrong to do the right thing that how you do anything is how you do everything and in that way you will grow your influence to make an impact in that way you will honor all those who have gone before you who have invested in you look in those unlikeliest places for is enhance your life every day by seeking that wisdom and asking yourself every night how am i living [Music] my grandmother became my first hero growing up my grandmother never used an alarm clock but every morning my grandmother would wake up at 4:15 and at 4:16 her feet would hit the floor usually right in front of my face and that's what would wake me up but I would lay there and I would pretend like I was still asleep because me and 4:15 really didn't get along but grandma would look at the back of my head I could feel her staring at me and then finally she would say now sugar grandmama know you ain't sleep you just want to go on and get on up and get ready for school my grandmother was known for saying things that would kind of make you a little angry because they made so much sense you can argue other parents you know there's things that you when you become parents you start to say to your own kids my grandmother would say now son you knew when you lay down there last night that you had to get up this morning I don't know why every single morning you lay there in that surprise he asked to be faithful that the lowest saw fit to wake you up this in your right my but what my grandmother was encouraging me to do was simply to be grateful for the opportunity in spite of all that I had been through in my life she just wanted to make sure that I understood the opportunity that I've been given my life got started it was a little rough a little rough start I was born too much premature my mother was walking up a flight of stairs and she had noticed at the time but a woman she had had an argument with earlier was standing above her holding a pot of boiling water as my mom made her way up those stairs that woman dumped that water onto my mom and since her tumbling down the stairs need to premature labor she was here 30 degree burns over 25 percent of her body and when we were finally allowed to leave the hospital as you can imagine my mom was in a great deal of pain those burners just nearly barely missed her face and covered most of the front of her body so when we got home she began taking a heavy sedative pain medication to help her recover when she took that medication it was very difficult for her to watch me so I would bounce around a lot I'd stay with my mom for a little bit and I'd go stay with Grandma now I stay with some neighbors of aunties and then back to my mother's house I did that for the first three years of my life I was three years old I was back to a mom's house and I got it to her person I found that medication I swallowed everything in the bottle when they found me they rushed me to the hospital and my heart would stop and eventually I wanted to a coma but because of that accident because of that incident the state of California they did an investigation and the conclusion that they came to us that it wasn't an accident they removed me from my mother's home made a ward of the ward of the state and eventually I went into a foster care system shortly after I arrived to one of my foster homes my foster mom her name's miss Alexander miss Alexander began lock him inside the closet you know like she'd opened the closet door she kicked me hitting me with a stick or a strap or whatever see whatever she had it was while I was in that foster home that I was sexually abused for the first time oftentimes people will ask you know if that has to be a worst thing that could happen to something I've scars on my body that you can't see have a burn here in my hand that she would deal with an iron but all that pain went away worse teen that mrs. Alexander would do is to open the closet door she was standing over me she would say it you stupid and you never amount to nothing that hurt me more than any other physical kicks on the physical team because I believed it for a long time I believed that that I would never amount to anything just like she said I didn't notice at the time I found out a little bit later but my grandmother my healer she had started going back and forth to court trying to prove that she could take care of an active handsome little Ward and eventually the state of California they granted her full custody of me and I'll never forget I was I will never forget standing on this Alexander's front porch waiting she had my little belongings everything that I had I remember standing there you may have only been a half an hour but it felt like an eternity and I can remember thinking maybe no one's coming after a while at the end of the block I see the ugliest car I've ever seen in my life and the car pulls up right in front of the porch and I remember all I can see these two big glasses bifocals and I found out later that grandma had glaucoma she wasn't supposed to be driving but she gets out of that big car and she's got on this white floppy hat with this it was a flower right there in the middle and I remember she had on this long white dress that came all the way down to her ankles and I found out later that you know that was Grandma Sunday best it was not fit that she only reserved for special occasions I can remember for once in my life feeling like I was some special occasion I remember jumping into grandma's arms and squeezing her and I remember her whispering and saying to me everything's ok your family and everything was ok just like grandmother said and I had a lot to look forward to I found out that my mom was going to court trying to prove that she could take care of me and I could remember sitting there with my mother and we we talked and we had a lot of different conversations one thing I can remember saying mama you know one day when I get big I'm about your nice house with a fireplace said mama one day I'm a-gonna body with nice car not like Grandmama's and get you a nice home but the truth is I just really wanted to become a family again and that's what I looked forward to when I was 12 years old I was asleep on my grandmother's floor it was about 4 o'clock in the morning we get a knock on the door and it was my mom's roommate miss how I miss how I come quick miss how was my grandma she said come quick it's Ruth Ruth was my mom so I can't wake her up I think she's dead I can remember laying on that floor you know kind of wishing it was thinking hoping but it was maybe a dream but it wasn't and that's how I found out that all the hopes and dreams and things that I had to look forward to weren't gonna happen I became very angry I became confused I was hurt I didn't really understand what was happy I started acting out hanging out with wrong people breaking in houses started stealing cars I remembered not really caring what happened to me continue that behavior until I was 19 I was 19 I was very myself standing in front of the judge I was handcuffed had a chain around my waist and wear handcuffs were attached to that chain the judge looked at me since the state of California sentences you 15 years in prison for armed robbery and assault gentlemen that day when that door closed behind me for the first time as a convicted felon I remember standing in that empty cell remember I need started to get weak and they start to shake uncontrollably and I collapsed I fell to the floor I just started crying alone I remember hearing voices heard the voice of my foster mom saying you stupid me whenever Mountain nothing heard the voice of family members and friends of family I said that boys end up just like his father my father was a career criminal I can remember laying there thinking to myself that this is where I'm gonna die but here's what happened that would change my life shortly after I arrived to that prison there was an educator there his name was Charles Lyell's 6 to 3 ex-marine and I don't know what it was about me but every time he saw me he said hey mr. Humphrey he has his big smile on his face I smile that my kids would say that's creepy but he's smiling he said hey mr. Humphrey how are you doing he always called me mr. Humphrey you gave me that respect he walked into my cell he looked at me he said mr. Humphrey says prison doesn't have to be your life he says you can get out of here and you can do great things she started to walk away him before he walked out of my cell he turned around one last time he says mr. Humphrey I said yes sir he says I believe in you he walked out of my cell and if he I continue to stand there he would have seen the tears running down my face because no one had ever said that to me but I remember just thinking to myself I'm gonna make some changes and I'm gonna change my life and a little over four years after the day I could originally collapsed and fell to the floor I walked out of that prison that was over 18 years ago I've never been back other than the mentor and help other people but here's what I know I know that when you've had a rough life when you feel unwanted I know that when you have hopes and dreams and when you have things that you can look forward to and when you have people in place that support you and push you I know that that gives you a reason to live it is a great day to be alive and that's something that I haven't always said but now it's something that I say to myself every single day at some point if I'm having a great day or a bad day that's something that I say but what I also understand is that what my grandmother was taking her higher power for each and every day was for the opportunity that she'd been given and she never missed an opportunity to tell anyone that would listen especially me it's a great day [Music] well I'm not supposed to be here I'm actually not supposed to be alive I thought I was going to die I felt like I was in prison I was scared I was born in Abbotsford British Columbia Canada on December 21st 1969 my parents Elio and William Ranallo were immigrants from Italy who of course like so many millions of others came to North America looking for a better life and they put down roots on our six acre farm at a very young age I knew that there was something a little different with me in terms of the way I reacted to people and and sounds and I became infatuated with television and radio my father and I always had issues in terms of who I was and who he wanted me to be my dad being your stereotype of the old-school immigrant dad working hard getting their hands dirty life is tough nothing is easy nothing's gonna be given to you I was the antithesis of that and it caused a lot of problems between my father and I growing up I was an artist I was very high ultra-sensitive I didn't like doing manual chores and because of that I became even more ultra shy where I would lock myself in my room or being almost a mute at home so in school I was put in lockers the kid that was bullied the kid that was picked on the kid who was made to feel stupid even though he got great marks it was not a good time it was a very depressing time and thankfully one friend that I was able to make was Michael John Janssen we lived not too far away from each other and quickly discovered that we both shared a love of professional wrestling you know other kids would make fun of it or whatever even though most of them were probably watching I thought wow this guy gets it we were over at each other's house every weekend doing their own wrestling matches and it got to the point we were putting on wrestling matches in the hallway at lunch where you would think the school the would say okay enough of that no more they ended up watching us there would be like a hundred kids making circles because we like we'd have maths I put together storylines like we create this Improv Theater in the hallway and and people loved it and we're like wow we're popular now and so he and I just just had this incredible bond we both enjoyed the same thing we we both suffered through the the same thing you know in terms of socially maybe being a little awkward otherwise with the girls or whatnot so he became another member of my family and when I was 16 my best friend and I'm Michael John Janssen went to the high school charity show after practice the promoter al Tomko was doing the ring announcing he asked if any of one of us had handled a microphone before and Mike starts laughing saying well Mauro's the biggest month in the school he's in announcer he loves this stuff I end up announcing the rest of the show at the end of the show the promoter comes out of the back smiling and he goes what's her name kid and I said I'm more over now though you like I think I have some work for you are you able to come to the BC TV television studios the following Tuesday yes for sure okay great see you then I didn't quite understand what it just happened but I had gone from being the shy quirky class clown with dreams of being on television one day and working for all-star wrestling - all of a sudden having the promoter of all-star wrestling al Tomko invite me to be CTV television studios the following week my friend Michael Jansen lost his mind screaming running down the hallway Mauro's gonna be on TV morals gonna be on TV I was just enthralled with what was happening and I'm I mean I get goosebumps now I was over the moon and I thought this is it I'm I'm gonna become a superstar my lifelong dream is going to become a reality [Music] on July 7th 1989 his sister Debbie phoned me so it was about 6:00 in the morning I answered the phone half awake and I thought that his sister Debbie was laughing but she was in you know just devastated crying hysterically saying that something had happened that Michael was gone I hang up the phone not really being able to absorb what I just heard I didn't believe it I guess I I didn't understand I thought she was making a joke or I I was totally disconnected wasn't until I saw my mom that I completely lost it and it realized that my best friend had died at the age of 19 due to a heart attack that set off a spiral downward that resulted in me being hospitalized by my girlfriend at the time there was a hurricane in my mind I felt like I was in prison I was scared I thought I was going to die and I was diagnosed with manic depressive disorder they say that mental health issues is triggered by traumatic events and it doesn't get more traumatic - losing your best friend at the age of 19 and it's not easy it's not easy [Music] I got really angry at the doctors and everyone else who had the audacity of the temerity to tell me that there was something wrong with me I'm living the dream I'm doing more work than anybody I'm making more money than anyone I know I'm I'm helping people I'm a good person what do you mean there's something wrong with me in my brain and my 20s were a complete and utter disaster but I was hospitalized multiple times for the longest being three months and the toll that it took on my family my employment my personal relationships it is truly I believe a miracle that I survived my 20s and my refusal to acknowledge that I was mentally ill so I did what was necessary I myself to treatment when I finally admitted that yes my name is Mauro Ranallo I suffer from bipolar affective disorder I need help then and only then that I finally get to see sustained success in all realms of my life it almost is because of my dad and the relationship and the struggles that we had that proved to be the fuel that I needed I I continue to fight and proving to my dad that hey your son a is not only going to be okay but be I went on and you know became the first broadcaster in network television history to call MMA boxing pro wrestling and kick boxing on network TV I've called the two biggest combat sports pay-per-views in history that is why I want to share all of my story with people is because you must never truly give up and that's why pressure the cliche says will either burst pipes or create diamonds well I've first a lot of pipes and I'm still that proverbial diamond in the rough I think we're all in a fight every day is a fight it's not always a negative thing a fight a fight sometimes you're fighting for your voice to be heard you're fighting for civil rights all of us have a gift every single human has a gift and a purpose in life and for the large majority fear is precluding them from pursuing their true path people need people to tell them you know what it's going to be tough but you can do it people need to stop hearing no you're not good enough no you're not pretty enough no you're not smart enough [Music] my wife came into my life inside to ask me why is it that you don't talk to your family that often and I'd told her story like I didn't I don't think they love me I don't think they want me I think they don't appreciate me I don't think they care honestly so my brothers l didn't mean about three years and so the grandparents smother him with love and then my parents brother Hamlet loves he's getting love from everywhere what would happen is often I would be wearing the same clothes that he wore to school because it was always first used by him I get everything secondhand say there was a matters on the floor and that was for two people that was me and my brother now how brothers are me and my brother start fighting for space because my brother was bigger than me say it would push me to a corner but like though no I need more space I'm bigger elder than you and as we were arguing and fighting my mom stormed out of a room and goes I did go to sleep and I'm like but I can't go to sleep I don't have enough space and brothers fighting me for the space and I can't really sleep in this little space and my mom goes no I just go to sleep I take my pillow and borrow my head into it and I start sobbing in India when somebody is a loved child they called him Mira la which simply means you had loved one all the time I used to say he's your la I am you her which means he's the one that you'd really love and I'm the one that you're indifferent towards or you don't care what I was really trying to say is I don't feel the love and why I'm why am i hated so much our life started to change a little bit because now I was growing older I was in getting into my teens and my brother left the city and as he was moving away the expectations start to rely a lot more on me and so it was constantly told hey go become an engineer you need to go become an engineer you need to study hard so you can become an engineer and as I was studying for these exam as I was preparing for these exams I realized that if what I'm studying right now is what I have to do for the next four years or for the rest of my life I'm going to be miserable and that kind of gave me a dimensional saying hey why am I doing this I am doing this because my mom says so then I've taken many chances in life after that and every time I would take a chance if it seemed like the stupid thing to do but I will constantly take them because I just knew that what I really wanted to was I need to be successful I need to get out of this house and I was able to do that by the time I was twenty eight twenty nine [Music] seven years later what I'm realizing on the inside is that my health was deteriorating I couldn't sleep without a drink I had grown even more distant to my parents it was almost like a you know it's like a task that you check off oh I should call mom at least once a week said would be one of those things where I'm actually doing something else while she's on speaker right there was no connection my wife came into my life inside to ask me why is it that you don't talk to your family that often and I had told her story like I didn't I don't think they love me I don't think they want me I think they don't appreciate me I don't think they care honestly she kind of said why don't we do this we were going to India just to travel but you like why don't we go together and why don't you bring your parents on and bring your body brother and your sister-in-law and their kids to come together and we'll go to like a retreat center and just hang out for a couple of days by just four or five days just hang out and I was like I've never done that we haven't hung out since ever probably and so I we bring the family together we find this retreat center close to the city that I'm from Jaipur and and we all go there and one of the evenings in this is I think the the second-to-the-last evening where my my my wife and then girlfriend suggested hey I did we are here like this is the time you can actually have a conversation about this that you've been talking about I mean sitting all all across the table the same table and and I start sharing I start more than me sharing it was more a question for the table it was like okay what is it that you feel about each other let's share some honest truths about each other and what we're proud of what our concerns are so forth and and my turn comes and I say I've never felt loved by my mom and dad and they were right there and I've never felt that the bonding and the connection and and they listen very quietly and they listen very quietly they listen and hear me all out and then my dad asked me a question and the question was I did you have two hands right like yes like your right hand on the left hand which one do you love more and it's like both of him I mean it's not one hand that I love more and so he said that's like having kids you don't love one of your hands one more and you don't love one of your kids more but when one of your hand is in some pain you just pay attention to it you have to because it's in pain right now right but as soon as there it's healed you don't pay attention to it anymore you you treat them equally you love them equally in the moment it was just a metaphor but it became my truth eventually that it's not that somebody loves you or somebody doesn't love you especially parents it's not that you love somebody I don't love somebody in context for example it's me getting a oversized shirt wasn't about they love my they loved my brother it was about them not being able to afford new shirts all the time me getting the second-hand bicycle wasn't about me not one them not wanting to give me a new bicycle but it was about them being able to only afford one bicycle at a time that was a big release for me because I had held on to that for all of my life and I was driven from place of I'll show you only recently when we actually had a child I realized that as much as much power the word love has it doesn't do justice to what you feel and you have a child what I have for my son I can't explain I can't explain because transcends love it's important that we know how loved we are the fact that we take up space means something that we are worthy of love giving and receiving and that no matter who we are the way we show up in the world is deserving of love and if ever you feel unloved remember that all you need to do is change your perspective for love is always there I was in a crib and two adults were yelling but my mom came in the crib and was like it's okay and my mom I could remember my mom crying so my very earliest memory as a human is instability my dad was like a big he was a pro bodybuilder he's a big strong guy and I would tell people about my dad like he was still in my life I never told them cuz they'd be like well where's your dad and I'd be like oh he's busy he can't come but the truth was he was they didn't cared that much my mom says hi when I was pregnant with you the FBI kicked down the door with guns put guns in my face took your dad away and brought him across the country to Terminal Island off Long Beach I remember was my birthday my dad when he got out of prison he he just stayed in Long Beach but for that birthday my dad's like I will drive down and take you out to dinner and he said he'd be there at like 5:00 p.m. and she had to go to work she had a night shift job and she's like okay your dad will be here soon so I'm gonna leave you out the house alone so I sat there I was kind of on the couch and I remember waiting for my dad and it was like 5:30 came 6-nothing we had a home landline like waiting for the phone to ring 7/8 I remember being like super sad going but you're a little kid so you're like I have hopefully he's still gonna come in just late he's just lately just late I don't remember how long it was but my mom said she came home at midnight I was just asleep like literally like on the couch just like looking out the window and he never came and so I remember that being like super painful and being just like my dad doesn't care about me life will throw tremendous blows at you you'll have the betrayal of a close friend or family member you'll have you know sickness death life is painful if I perceive it as what it was supposed to be but the second I switch in and go wait no life's like a puzzle that I was handed here's your puzzle light of life tie we took a piece out the dad was gone and when I look at life like that my life's like an adventure and I'm thankful for even the stuff that sucked in the most painful day and sometimes in the moment I couldn't see it there but in hindsight I'm like but I wouldn't have found that puzzle piece nobody in my family had ever really made money and you know they say poverty is systemic and it's true like most people you can't rise out of like your socio-economic class like one of the biggest predictors of where you'll be in life is where you're born it sucks breaking the cycle is something that has to start happening in the world and what broke the cycle for me was like realizing that I was doing it wrong I was in a mobile home in Clayton North Carolina and I did not have a job I didn't have a resume I didn't have anything to put on a resume I didn't have a college degree just laying there on the couch and when I was laying there the question that came in my head was is this it all my friends went to college they had parents that have more money and they had this and like I missed this I remember just going to sleep I was just depressed and the next day my mom was there and she said you should read this book Tony Robbins and I remember being like oh I don't want some self-help book that she's I can't you should read it look so I read it and I don't remember that much of what I read but I remember the one-page and it said all greatness starts with failure because when you succeed you party and when you fail you ponder and all greatness comes from pondering your situation and I remember thinking that's what I was doing last night on the couch I was like pondering like what did I do wrong and and I made myself vulnerable to the fact that maybe I did make mistakes maybe I had to change my life maybe we had to listen to different people maybe I had to try a new path you know Einstein said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results and I'm like ty you're being stubborn so after I read that book I was like imma try something new so I went back in that mobile home I found a yellow pages and I remember flipping through it going to the financial section and there was this full-page ad by this guy Mike Stainback it said Stainback financial services and I kind of pretended I didn't lie but I kind of pretended I was coming there to be a customer and I get to the place and I'm like I'm Ty can I speak to your boss and I'll never forget he was sitting like this like um big like lazy boy chair and he had this big mustache he looked like Tom Selleck I wanted to be super honest with him I said listen Mike you don't know who I am but I know you must be successful because you've got a full-page ad in the yellow pages that's all I know about you but I know that costs a lot of money if you teach me what you know about making money I'll work for you for free and he was sitting like in this charity he was I was talking to him this way and he was sideways and he just slowly pivoted his chair you know I've been looking for someone like you for 20 years you come back in the morning and I'll set you up with your own office and you can work for me and I promise you if you listen to what I'm going to say one day you'll hug my neck and he did have an office but what he had done was he cleaned out a closet with no windows and he had put a desk it's where all the filing cabinets was i sat down on the chair and he plopped down pieces of paper and said Cole call these people I'll give you a percentage of the money you make from them no guarantees working for me so I just started calling and I sucked at it I would coffee bought six you know after 6:00 at night they were like all of you they were hanging up on me I remember being like oh no I think I've gone from nightmare to another nightmare but I started to get curious and creative and I wrote down a few little different things I would say to the people and I remember in that first month I started opening up deals for this might stain backer and I opened a deal that was one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in commissions if the deal went through and I remember going Wow life can change like fast and within nine months I went from zero dollars to making a hundred grand I remember being like this is the pinnacle of my life and I went out from then like a madman I became a CFP a certified financial planner I got into finance I learned I read every book you can either be paralyzed by what life gave you and let the pain because there will be pain that will be drama you can either let it build up and like build scar tissue that that just paralyzes you or at some point you go the cars didn't weren't dealt for me like I wanted and so I'm gonna go recreate those cards and that's what mentors well for me and I think for every person you got a different path that you have I just spoke on this subject that I think is like the ultimate puzzle piece you get this down most your problems go away I call it the law of 33% basically you should spend 33% of your day around people who have not accomplished what you've accomplished yet you can help them like you mentor them and there's always those people and you need to spend time around people that you can help and then you spend 33 percent of your time around people who are on your level like you're about at the same level of a cop of what you're trying to do those are your become your close friends you know those are the people you hang out with on the weekend but the last 33 percent is the magical one that doesn't happen in our school system and almost no one even tries to find these people unfortunately you should spend 33 percent of your time around people who are 5 10 20 30 years ahead where you want to be and if you do the math you know that's like a couple hours a day and now you can do it YouTube video so you can do it with a book you can do it with an audio book you can do a face input videos if you can start absorbing from the world's greatest line download their advice into your brain there are 40 years of experience in pain and reward in making mistakes in accomplishing great things and you can you basically get like a cheat sheet and if you can absorb that and this is what I tell myself every day I wake up it's like Thai law 33% we spending time with I think the most pain that we get in life is when we think life is like a straight-line start-finish and here's what's supposed to nothing supposed to happen there today it doesn't work that way sometimes the photo piece to swap out and you can't overreact in life if you want to have a complete life you go find a piece you put the piece back in you have to take your destiny in your own hand and try to recreate what you missed out on for good or bad today I control my own destiny [Music]

Channel: Goalcast

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Id: k6hTa5ti35E

Length: 44min 1sec (2641 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 31 2019