- It's really interesting
looking back in the mirror,
as I sit here today, as a business owner,
an entrepreneur that has an audience
of a quarter million plus people,
a business that'll do over 10
millions dollars in revenue.
Being a multimillionaire,
it's always like a pinnacle
point looking back,
because I feel like no one
ever really sees the story.
And it's hard, you know,
it's really difficult.
People glamorize entrepreneurship.
I mean, I look at my Instagram story,
and everyone is saying
"hustle, hustle, hustle."
But, it's not fun when, you know,
you get your phone bill
turned off, you get your,
I had my light bill turned
off three different times.
And it's really weird cause you
just wanna put it out there,
you just wanna put your value out there,
you're just trying to make it work.
And my story, might maybe be
a little similar to yours,
maybe a little different,
but I was an entrepreneur.
I remember the first time
I ever sold anything,
I was seven years old.
My father brought home
some Rhode Island Red Hens
that had the brown eggs,
and I was in the farm,
literally a farm boy in
the middle of nowhere
in Newfoundland, Canada.
And, you know, I wasn't an
entrepreneur because I saw some
Gary Vaynerchuk ad, or
some Grant Cardone ad.
I wasn't that, I was doing
what, I was just having fun.
Things progressed and by the
time I was 15/16 years old,
I was really doing well,
I'd won all these awards.
I didn't even know what an
entrepreneur until I was 16,
you know, someday someone said
"Oh, you're an entrepreneur".
And so, things progressed and
things were going really well,
as sometimes they do,
sometimes you start and
things go really well,
and you catch a couple of
breaks and you work hard,
and you make it happen,
and then things didn't go so good
and because of my over-inflated ego,
because I'd never failed before,
because of a lot of things,
I ended a lot in debt, almost
a million dollars in debt.
Through that time,
it was one of the most
difficult times of my life.
I remember having to ask my mother
to remortgage their house.
I remember getting a tax bill
for 300000 dollars that I couldn't pay.
I remember a while ago
I looked at this email
and I remember "Hey, I need", via email,
"I need some money for lunch,
cause I've only got two
dollars and 67 cents
in my bank account" and
all my credit cards,
and credit was maxed out.
It's tough because, nobody
gets you ready for it,
you can't read a book and
understand the emotion
that goes behind it,
no one understands what's like
to not be able to have a
relationship with your mother
because it feels more like
a business partnership.
Nobody understands what
it's like to go through that
with a significant other.
Nobody understands how
much you abuse your body,
I don't know how many
times I drank Monsters
five times a day through it,
how many times I didn't
sleep for two days in a row.
I was just doing everything
I could, and, you know,
then it just, sometimes things hit.
And, so much focus and so perspiration
and so much determination,
you're just like,
is this going to happen?
And, then what you realize is that,
you don't even know who
you are in the process,
you look in the mirror
and you've destroyed
the version of you are, the
identity of who you are,
is not even who you are anymore.
It's such a surreal time,
a lot of people look at me,
and they see a version of success,
and I guess nobody truly knows
what it is that it takes to go through.
But, we keep on going
on the Instagram feed,
we keep on talking about
our success stories,
we keep on doing the things that, I guess,
we need to do to be the
delusional version of who we are,
so that we can have a
reality distortion field,
so that we can keep on doing it.
In shooting this video,
I don't even know who I'm shooting it for.
You know, I think all our
stories are important,
I think all of our lives
are important and, you know,
it doesn't matter if you're 50000 in debt,
it doesn't matter if you're not in debt,
entrepreneurs are the ones
that change the world.
It's not the corporations,
it's not the government,
and it's why I've dedicated
this part of my life
to being able to help
entrepreneurs like you and me,
because I know how my life's changed.
I know how amazing it is
to live in Venice Beach,
in a beautiful house.
I know what it's like to be
able to drive the cars I want.
I know what it's like to
be able to give the way
that I want to, I know
what it's like to be able
to live in abundance instead of scarcity,
I know what it's like not
to put the credit card in
and wonder if it's gonna get rejected.
I know what it's like to
get the phone to ring now
and it's not a collections agency,
I know what it's like to not be afraid
every time the door knocks,
because it's somebody serving me a notice
that I was getting sued.
So, I don't know your
version of entrepreneurship.
All I know is there's a better way.
I really wish someone
took me and brought me,
when I was younger.
I been doing this for a long time,
I've made a lot of money and
I've lost a lot of money.
In the last three or four
years its been a ride,
it's been going from a million in debt
to generating tens of millions of dollars
and having all this influence
for other entrepreneurs
and all I ever come back to
is I want to make it easier,
because I don't think it
has to be as difficult.
It can actually be a lot more simple.
And it doesn't have to take 15 years
to be an overnight success,
it's the dumbest quote I've ever heard.
It can be some much
easier with mentorship,
so much easier just being
able to ask for help.
But, then it's so isolating
and there's all these pieces
and nobody gets this ready
and all I can say to you today
is keep going, it's worth it.
Because if you do keep
going, piece by piece
you will figure out the puzzle,
you will figure out yourself
and remember that the
destination that you have,
the big goal, that isn't
why you're doing this.
Its because you know theirs a
better version of this world
and you know there's a
better version of yourself,
and evolution hurts, evolving hurts.
When a caterpillar goes
into a butterfly, it hurts.
And it might feel like everything
is being taken away from you,
you might feel completely,
just crazy, in the moment.
You might lose everything
around you, but it's worth it.
Because when the moment happens,
when those moments collide and everything
starts conspiring for you,
instead of what might feel,
against you.
You'll know why you did it.
And the version of you will be beautiful,
the version of you, the
evolved version of you,
it will make you cry,
because it's that version that
will go and change this world
the way it must be changed,
and I'm so proud of you that
you're doing this right now.
I don't care if you're
a millionaire right now,
I don't care if you're
completely broke right now.
You being an entrepreneur
is the most important thing for your life,
you being able to change the world
the way that you're doing
is the most important thing
for this world and never
lose sight of that.
It's gonna be hard, it's gonna
be ups, it's gonna be downs,
you're gonna go through the rollercoaster
that is entrepreneurship
but I believe in you
and there's so many
others that believe in you
and if there's nobody
else besides the person
looking back at you, believing
in you, that is totally okay.
I've had years of that and
builds you, who you are.
So, I don't know why I
made this video today,
I just felt compelled to tell you,
that it's worth it.
