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From Drugs and Abortions To Focus and Family: Meet Brian Scrone

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Wes Schaeffer
June 23, 2017

Your reality is in between your ears…so fix it

Stream below or right click here to download the episode. 

Commitment Tips you’ll learn in The Sales Podcast…

  • Grew up in a loving household in NJ near NYC…but it was a little too fast-paced

  • Got into drugs at age 13 and was even a drug dealer

  • Despite the trouble he lives with no regrets

  • Your challenges in life are either crises or opportunities

  •  Hit rock bottom at 23

    • Got a couple of girls pregnant at 21 within six months

    • Both ended in abortion

    • Sent him into a deep depression for a couple of years

    • Sought help

    • Surrounded himself with loving people who had been around the block

    • Now he’s careful with those that are around him

  • Keith Cunningham in Austin presented the 5Fs to Brian 20 years ago…but it didn’t sink in

  • Multi-millionaires before 30…and bankrupt by 32 after the 2008 real estate collapse

    • Was living beyond his means

    • Was not mature enough to handle the growth and income

    • His wife stuck with him through it all

  • Moved west when he hit rock bottom (“You can’t fall off the floor”)

    • Was in Arizona then California

    • Was shoveling horse manure and teaching and couldn’t pay his rent with his business partner

    • They researched industries and came to the conclusion that real estate was the way to make money

    • Got his money from Family, Friends, or Fools

    • His dad had some trust and unconditional love to fund some of their early investments

  • “You can’t do a good deal with a bad guy”

  • How to succeed without hitting rock bottom

  • How to enjoy life

  • You get what you focus on

  • We all live in our own realities…that are between our ears

  • This is a process, not an event

Steven Benson left Google to fill a need he saw in the marketplace. That’s how Badger Mapping came to be. Stream below or right click here to download the episode. 

Links Mentioned In The Sales Podcast

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