so many things. This was the time he was going to go. Of course, I'm, let
me read them all list, but instead.
You said, nothing that I can think of, and I don't know if it broke my
spirit or if I thought I had hit rock bottom. I hit another layer, but when I
got back home, actually I was fired from my job. My marriage had fallen
apart. I had no money left in it. That I'd paid to support him. So I got
evicted from my apartment and then back in my mom with my mom at
the age of 30 so there I am, 30 years old, working 16 hours a day for 20
years, and I have absolutely nothing to show for it except maybe a skill
set on how to work hard.
But I'll tell you what, when you're down there and you think there's
nothing left, it's the foundation to grow from. I thought, what am I going
to do now? And some little bird mentioned real estate. So I thought I'd
get into real estate. I got into real estate and that's when I met my first
mentor that transformed my life.
I was in my office one night really late, and I was having a conversation
with my mentor and he walks in and he leans against the door and he
goes, you're still here? And I said, yeah, and because you really have a
great work ethic. And I went, I'm talking to me, said, I'm talking to you.
He goes, you're awesome.
I'm like, he's still talking to me. He's like, I never had anybody tell me.
That they believed in me. My father. Certain was always, you could do
better. You could do better. You could do better. Yeah. It drove me, but it
didn't make me feel confident and I doubted it at first. And we started to
talk and he goes, Oh, so you've labeled yourself stupid as a loser and a
skinny little kid.