I used to be FAT!

[00:00:00] Welcome to the Successful Life Podcast. I'm your host Corey Berrier, and I used to be fat hell. I'm still a fat boy at heart. Like my friend Caleb Feyerhiesen says, look, confidence is the number one thing that you need to have a successful life. My first fight with confidence. Was when I was called fat at age 12.

I went on a diet after that experience and I never gained the weight back, which helped me tremendously with my confidence. Am I still, am I super confident now? Not really. I'm probably more confident than most why? I'm willing to look stupid in front of people. And I'm willing to learn, and you might be thinking Corey, what does this have to do with sales?

Let me tell you a story about having no confidence or belief in myself and how it affected my ability to sell and provide for my family. So back in 2018, , I had a bad business deal or a business deal go sideways; I made a bad decision with this business, and we lost everything in that business.

Everything. I lost everything. My wife still had her business, and the most important thing that I lost in that whole situation was my confidence and my self-esteem, like I was so depressed. And I was depressed cause I didn't believe in myself. And so I met a guy and I had to tell him I didn't believe in myself, which was probably one of the hardest things that I've ever had to do.

Imagine having to tell another dude, man, I just don't believe in myself, man. I'm just not confident enough to even sell myself, and I need your help with. . That was a humbling moment. The second thing that was a humbling moment was his fee. At the time, his coaching fee was $2,500 a month. That is $800 more than our house payment.

But here's the thing. I needed to pay that [00:02:30] amount of money every month. The reason I needed to pay that amount of money every. was because I needed the experience of what it was like working with someone at that amount of money a month working with someone that's that high level. But most importantly, I got to see what was possible for me.

I got to see what was possible for Corey. I got to see what Mike did for that $2,500 a. and it was phenomenal. It got me exactly where I needed to be. Without that guy, I probably wouldn't be talking to you like this today because he's the guy that introduced me to the trades. To be perfectly honest with you, Mike Cladio is the reason that I do what I do today.

Look, he, Mike Claudio, helped me find my confidence when I just couldn't believe in myself. I didn't, you know, I'd made so many bad decisions. And once you start making bad decisions and you have to reap you have to reap or you have to repercussions from those bad decisions, sometimes it's really hard making those decisions again in fear that things are gonna go sideways, but you can't live that way.

And he taught me. I borrowed Mike's belief in me until I could believe in myself. And if I could offer anything for you today and take away from this podcast is if you don't believe in yourself, borrow somebody else's belief until you can believe in yourself. If you don't have the confidence to go for to take your business to, from two to $3 million, hire somebody that can help.

hire somebod

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