Agent Academy: How I went from Broke to Making 7 Figures
On this episode, I want to share my story with you. Recently I have been asked a lot, “How did I grow my business from scratch to making 7 figures in the last calendar year?”
If I had to narrow it down to one thing, it is the people you surround yourself with. I am going to share my story with you that explains how I did it.
We have to go back to when the market crashed in 2007. I was dead broke, to the point that I opened my bank account to find no money. I then had to make a decision.
Did I want to stay in Real Estate or did I want to get out? I stayed in Real Estate. But, that meant I had to become a real businessman.
I decided to invest a lot of money into a website platform, more than I probably should have at the time. However, because of that investment, I reached out to a top producer from Kentucky and he invited me to a conference with other top producers.
He definitely didn’t do much research into who I was or how broke I was. I was not producing at the same level as any of the people that would be at this conference. I didn’t feel like I belonged in that conference. I also wasn’t sure I could afford to be away from my business.
I decided to go and Thank God I did because that changed my business.
Who you hang out with matters, I was in a room with people who were selling a couple of hundred home a year. I didn’t even know that was possible!
Just being in that room and hearing their ideas, getting the chance to learn from them even though I couldn’t understand half of what they were saying at the time changed my life!
My mind expanded! I was putting together business plans and creating ideas that I couldn’t even of thought of just the day before.
I stayed in touch with those people, and they have influenced and impacted the rest of my career.
Who are you hanging out with? Who is in your circle of friends at home and in business? What are you spending your time reading?
We are the sum of what we are reading and who we are hanging out with.
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