Retired at 35, Got Bored, Then Built an Empire | Jeff Fieldstad on REAL Mentors Podcast Ep 93

Retired at 35, Got Bored, Then Built an Empire | Jeff Fieldstad on REAL Mentors Podcast Ep 93

Jeff Fieldstad built a successful financial services business from the ground up starting at 22 years old. He got comfortable, recognized the danger in that and moved his entire family to Las Vegas deliberately to surround himself with people operating at a higher level. He had another great run, sold the business in 2020 at 35 years old and thought he was finally done. He was not done. Three years into early retirement he came back as co-owner of a national window replacement company with something he did not have the first time around. Clarity on what actually matters. Jeff's entire philosophy is built around one idea. How you show up at home is exactly how you show up in business. A man who builds a fortune but loses his family in the process has not built success. He has built the opposite of it. In this episode Jeff and Sean get into what it actually means to let go of control in business and in parenting, why your path to a goal will constantly change even when the goal does not and what growing up watching his siblings make destructive decisions taught him about hunger, drive and the life he refused to settle for. If you are an entrepreneur trying to scale your business, build wealth and keep your family intact at the same time this episode is exactly what you need to hear. This Episode Explores: ✅ Building a financial services career from scratch at 22 and walking away at the top ✅ Moving to Las Vegas on purpose to surround himself with high level earners and what that environment did for him ✅ Selling his business in 2020 at 35 years old and discovering that early retirement was not what he imagined ✅ Coming back as co-owner of a national window replacement company with a completely different mindset and set of priorities ✅ Why his wife's instincts have been right more times than he can count and what finally listening to her changed in their marriage and business ✅ Growing up in a tough environment watching his siblings make decisions he refused to repeat and how that shaped his hunger ✅ Why building wealth while losing your family is not success but the opposite of it ✅ The Jim Rohn principle that completely changed how he approaches every challenge he faces ✅ Why you cannot control the path to your goal and why surrendering that control is actually what moves you forward ✅ How you show up at home is exactly how you show up in business and why that single idea changes everything 🔗 Connect with Jeff Fieldstad Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mr_fieldstad/ [https://www.instagram.com/mr_fieldstad/] Follow REAL Mentors Podcast Instagram: https://instagram.com/realmentorspodcast [https://instagram.com/realmentorspodcast] Host Sean Martin: https://instagram.com/theseanmartin [https://instagram.com/theseanmartin]

From Drugs and Grief to 7 Figures in Direct Sales | Nate DeTracy on REAL Mentors Podcast Ep 92

Nate DeTracy was 23 years old when he lost both of his parents in a car accident. No safety net, no roadmap and no one coming to save him. He fell into drugs and alcohol until the day he walked into a gym and watched a man completely transform his body on stage. That single moment redirected everything. What followed was a career built on discipline, identity and an obsession with pulling other people up with him. Nate became an IFBB Pro Bodybuilder, built multiple seven figure organizations in direct sales, survived the 2008 financial crash when everything collapsed and rebuilt from scratch. He has personally developed over 30 six figure earners on his teams. Now he is partnered with MAKE Wellness, a groundbreaking peptide wellness company, where he broke every direct sales record in the company within his first three months. But what actually drives Nate is not the accolades. It is the why. In this episode he and Sean dig into what keeps people moving when the grind wears them out, why most people stop dreaming somewhere between high school and their first real failure and what it actually means to build leaders instead of just building a downline. This Episode Explores: ✅ Losing both parents at 23 and choosing the gym over the streets ✅ Building his first fitness business around elite athletes before the 2008 crash wiped it out ✅ How his wife walking into his gym started his entire direct sales career ✅ Why 20 percent of all millionaires were made through the direct sales channel ✅ What MAKE Wellness is doing differently by making peptide science accessible to everyone ✅ Why the hybrid affiliate and direct sales model is the future of network marketing ✅ How to get clear on your why before the grind burns you out completely ✅ Why your brain is literally wired to drive you toward or keep you away from your goals ✅ The difference between raising good kids and raising good adults ✅ Why it is never about who you are but always about who you are becoming 🔗 Connect with Nate DeTracy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nathandetracy/ [https://www.instagram.com/nathandetracy/] MAKE Wellness: makewellness.com [http://makewellness.com/] Follow REAL Mentors Podcast Instagram: https://instagram.com/realmentorspodcast [https://instagram.com/realmentorspodcast] Host Sean Martin: https://instagram.com/theseanmartin [https://instagram.com/theseanmartin]

40,000 Agents and 3 Rules That Built It All | Brent Gove on REAL Mentors Podcast Ep 91

Brent Gove has three rules for life. Life isn't fair, you are entitled to nothing and no one is coming to save you. Not the Republicans, not the Democrats, not your mentor and not your coach. You have to get on the struggle bus yourself and ride it all the way through. Brent sold over 5,000 homes, ran one of the largest Keller Williams franchises in the country, reached the top 11 agents worldwide at Re/Max and built an organization of over 40,000 agents by getting around the right people and actually implementing what they taught him. In 1999 he lost thirty thousand dollars in three hours and says it was the best thing that ever happened to him because it forced him to ask a question he had never asked himself before. In this episode Brent and Sean get into why suffering is a right of passage not a punishment, what it actually takes to build a real estate empire from scratch and why the biggest room in the world is always the room for improvement. This Episode Explores: ✅ The three rules of life Brent lives by and teaches his kids every single day ✅ Losing $30,000 in three hours in 1999 and why he calls it the best thing that ever happened to him ✅ How asking one question he had never asked himself completely changed his production overnight ✅ Getting around Zig Ziglar, Tony Robbins, Jim Rohn and John Maxwell and actually implementing what they taught ✅ Why the limiting factor in your life is always you and so is the solution ✅ Building an organization of 40,000 agents and what leadership at that scale actually requires ✅ Why suffering builds character and why protecting people from struggle quietly destroys their potential ✅ How becoming a Christian shifted the way he leads his business and his family ✅ Why you can never hit a goal you have never been willing to set for yourself 🔗 Connect with Brent Gove Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brentgoverealestate/ [https://www.instagram.com/brentgoverealestate/] Website: https://www.brentgove.com/ [https://www.brentgove.com/] Follow REAL Mentors Podcast Instagram: https://instagram.com/realmentorspodcast [https://instagram.com/realmentorspodcast] Host Sean Martin: https://instagram.com/theseanmartin [https://instagram.com/theseanmartin]

Built a Business. Lost His Daughter. Then He Made It | Jason Shipley on REAL Mentors Podcast EP 90q

Jason Shipley started his first business with ten thousand dollars split across two credit cards, a triple net lease on an old pizza building in Hutchinson Kansas and no idea what he was doing. What he did have was an absolute will to win and a promise he made to his first employer — that in five years he would know more about the business than anyone. He kept that promise. Today Jason is the CEO of Midwest Custom Engineering, building custom industrial equipment for the bioeconomy, biomass and material processing industries across the country. He also runs a portfolio of companies and investments across real estate, debt notes and equities. He built all of it from nothing, taught himself plumbing and electrical along the way and never stopped learning. But the most important part of this episode has nothing to do with business. Jason shares the most devastating moment of his life and how he found his way through it one empowering decision at a time. This conversation will stay with you. This Episode Explores: ✅ Starting a smoke shop on an Indian reservation with $10K on credit cards and no income ✅ Cold calling a commercial real estate CEO on a Saturday and negotiating a triple net lease as a broke kid ✅ Teaching himself plumbing, electrical and real estate from a $4,000 starting point ✅ Promising his first employer he would know more than him in five years and delivering on it ✅ Building Midwest Custom Engineering into a leading American manufacturing company ✅ Investing across real estate, debt notes, equities and blockchain assets ✅ The moment that tested everything he believed about God, life and resilience ✅ How gratitude became the tool that pulled him out of the deepest despair of his life ✅ Why everybody is going to go through something and how you find your way out 🔗 Connect with Jason Shipley Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jasonshipleyofficial/ [https://www.instagram.com/jasonshipleyofficial/] Website: midwestcustomengineering.com [http://midwestcustomengineering.com] YouTube: youtube.com/@MidwestCustomEngineering [http://youtube.com/@MidwestCustomEngineering] Follow REAL Mentors Podcast Instagram: https://instagram.com/realmentorspodcast [https://instagram.com/realmentorspodcast] Host Sean Martin: https://instagram.com/theseanmartin [https://instagram.com/theseanmartin]

From Goldman Sachs to Making History in Government | Vanessa Baird-Streeter on REAL Mentors Podcast EP 89

Vanessa Baird-Streeter grew up in one of the most segregated areas of the country where her family could afford a better neighborhood but was never shown those houses. That experience became the lens she has carried into every room she has entered since. She started her career as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs, spent a decade in finance and then made history as the first woman of color to serve as Suffolk County Deputy County Executive. In that role she managed a $3.7 billion municipal budget, chaired New York State's most comprehensive police reform plan and led the COVID-19 response for Long Island's most underserved communities. Today she is the President and CEO of the Health and Welfare Council of Long Island and she is still doing the same thing she has always done, which is changing systems from the inside out. In this episode Vanessa and Sean get into what it actually costs to be the first in rooms that were not built for you, why success means nothing if you are not opening doors behind you and what it looks like to build a decades long career rooted in purpose over recognition. If you are interested in leadership, public service, generational wealth, breaking barriers or what it takes to create real change in your community this episode is required watching. This Episode Explores: ✅ Growing up in a deliberately segregated Long Island community and what that shaped in her from the start ✅ Building her career on Wall Street at Goldman Sachs and what finance taught her about access and power ✅ Making history as the first woman of color to serve as Suffolk County Deputy County Executive ✅ Chairing New York State's most comprehensive police reform and reinvention plan ✅ Leading COVID-19 response efforts for Long Island's most underserved and vulnerable communities ✅ Why she turned down grad school at University of Chicago and what that decision actually gave her ✅ How always leaving on good terms and building bridges became one of her greatest career strategies ✅ Managing a $3.7 billion municipal budget and what that level of responsibility requires ✅ Why AI is eliminating entry level jobs and what education needs to look like going forward ✅ What it means to lift others up without losing yourself and why she believes that is the secret to a fulfilled life 🔗 Connect with Vanessa Baird-Streeter Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vanessa.b.streeter/ [https://www.instagram.com/vanessa.b.streeter/] Health and Welfare Council of Long Island: https://hwcli.com/ [https://hwcli.com/] Follow REAL Mentors Podcast Instagram: https://instagram.com/realmentorspodcast [https://instagram.com/realmentorspodcast] Host Sean Martin: https://instagram.com/theseanmartin [https://instagram.com/theseanmartin]