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26. Was there anyone who helped give you the willpower to change things in you life for the better?
Mike Filsaime: Yes, my dad. My dad’s nick name for me when I was a kid was top shelf. I wrote about that in Butterfly Marketing. My dad is my hero and my mentor. My dad always used to talk to me in positive ways.

He brainwashed me a little bit. He never told me I was better than anybody else. He told me I could be the best and I can run with the best. I never realized what a difference that made until someone that you look up to in your life says negative things to you.

Maybe holding a beer can and saying “You are nothing but a piece of garbage. You are going to turn out to be nothing just like your grandfather on your mother’s side.” Kids are impressionable.

I watch some of these movies these days where you are a hero to run around with a gun and drive a Hummer and talk about “popping caps”. And sayings like “get rich or die trying” and other things. Again these kids are impressionable today. As much as those things may be entertainment they are really poisonous to the youth of our society.

Get rich or die trying is a terrible, terrible thing for people to look up to. And these young kids actually look up at these stars and say I want to be like this person.

The messages in those movies are horrible because those people end up having success at the end of the movies. So it’s telling you that you need to be a thug or die trying. Man, it just bothers me. There are so many better heroes out there to learn from.
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Paulie Sabol: Yes, actually. Not necessarily connected to all the difficulties, but in the overall sense, there is one person that I actually alluded to earlier. I said I had hoped to get a chance to say more. Without a doubt, it is Mr. Robert Allen, who is the best selling author of Nothing Down. It is a real estate book.
He provided a path that both influenced me financially, but he also was the person who I was mentioning to you that I joined a $30,000 club to be able to hang out and be mentored by him. In the course of just the first year of doing that, he has opened up for me both by specifically spending time with me, but also by just allowing me to see somebody who was given a higher performance operator.
I had the ability to see for myself. The gift of letting me start to connect with my intuition is something that if he would have told me that would be the benefit I would get, I would have passed on the opportunity. I wouldn’t have made the investment if he had told me that was the reason why.
And my failure to have done so, would have prevented so much of the change that is making my life even better and better. So we just can’t even imagine what we are going to get when we connect with the very best people on the planet.
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Donna Fox: I really wish that I could say there is this strong mentor in my life at those times, that there was a driving force and somebody to lean on. But I think in hard times, more than any other time, you feel alone.

When I think back on those times the only person I leaned on was me. It was the only person I had the ability to lean on at that time because I felt like the only person in the world.

In hindsight when I was a teenager my mother was there. She would have helped but I didn’t ask for it. I didn’t reach out. When I was going through a divorce, my family could have helped. My friends could have helped. But I didn’t ask for it. I didn’t reach out.

I got a little bit better later on as I was going through financial troubles and feelings of fraud and at those times I shared those feelings with my business partner and my fiancé who mostly couldn’t understand them because they saw the me that I see now.

They saw the me outside of the adversity and I think that is important to remember when you go to people to help they are going to see the positive in you because people do that. They see the positive in you.

At the time when you are really low you may not be ready to hear that. So ultimately during those down times I turned to me and I still think of myself as being the only asset that I have that no one will take away from me.

Really try to focus on improving “me” and building “me” and growing “me.” If I am all I have, then I still have something pretty good.

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TOM BEAL: Oh boy. Books, tapes, mentors and my grandfather. My grandfather was probably the stable rock I had in the chaos as a child. My mother was 17 so he was at an age where people his age were having kids.

Through all the adversity I lived with him a lot. He owned a business, a hardwood flooring business. I would go with him when I was about 7 or 8 or 9 years old with him and lay some hardwood floors and he taught me.

He’d say “Tom go clean up that room up we were just in.” I’d go clean the room. He’d say”OK everything is good but you didn’t clean this room over here.”

I called him ‘Papa.’ I’d say “Papa we weren’t even in that room.” He’d say “Exactly, Tom the lessen in life is to leave a place better than when you got here.” And if we could all do that, leave this place better than when we got here I think that pretty much sums it up.

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