It was the sixties. There I was, eight years old, sitting in the back seat of my parents' friends’ brand new
Cadillac DeVille Convertible. I opened this little door on the armrest and there was my very own lighter, ashtray and power window button. I was so impressed that I decided right then and there that I wanted to be a rich and successful businessman and this was the life for me!

But life has a way of kicking you in the teeth. When I was only ten years old my father passed away.

My normal childhood was over and I was crushed with grief.

Life had become financially challenging for my mom and I, so when I was 13 years old I decided to go to work.

That was when I started my first business.

I rented space from a local barber shop and set up a shoe shine stand. Kids at school would sometimes make fun of me for shining shoes. That was until I would pull out a wad of cash . . . that shut them up pretty quick. That experience gave me my first taste of being an entrepreneur.

Success did not come easy. Little did I know that my journey was going to take years. It would be paved with success at some points, but it also went along with a lot of soul-crushing defeat and agony.

Through my teens and into my early twenties there were a few dozen businesses I had been a part of, or started. Many of them didn’t work out no matter what I did.

Still, I never quit. Because of that mindset (18 years after sitting in that Cadillac) I actually bought my very own Cadillac Coupe Deville, plus a new house that included a swimming pool in the backyard!

Fast forward 14 more years and now I have over 70 businesses under my belt. Some were great successes while others were huge losses.

But here’s what I did: I took all those lessons of 25 years, 70 businesses and endeavors and created my own playbook for success.

I then started another new business and it was hugely successful from day one!

But this was the key:

I was only doing what I knew worked and avoiding everything that didn’t.

By following my own rules from hard lessons learned my success exploded!

My life changed with an explosion of money & satisfaction. I felt like I had become who I was meant to be.

I even found the love of my life and married her. I was finally super happy and fulfilled. Yes! I was having the time of my life!

From that point, only a few years later by using everything in my playbook, I helped my clients generate over $100 Million Dollars.

Very soon after that I was sitting across the desk from my good friend and best-selling author Hal Becker. Hal had just released his 2nd book. I said, “For the last 20 years I’ve wanted to write a book.”

Hal leaned forward in his chair, looked me square in the eye and said,

“So what the F&*K are you waiting for?” Wow, that was a wake-up call! Thanks Hal!

(No matter how or where you are in life sometimes you need a good wake-up call!

Maybe this is yours. Now back to my story)

That afternoon I went home and immediately started on

The $100 Million Dollar Playbook.

27 months later it was finished and an instant best seller.

Fast-forward to the present day and

I’ve helped my clients generate Billions by following my Playbook.