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Arjun Dhingra is a two-time world champion in taekwondo and is currently one of the co-head coaches of team USA. When asked what he believes the difference between people that perform at an elite level and those who don't, Arjun answers with, "It sounds almost cliche but its mindset, its mentality you know? Mental toughness, resilience, and the ability to bounce back." He adds that in this day and age, with social media, it is easy to see everyone's victories and not the work they put in or where they fall short. 

"I just remember feeling these huge lights and then stopping for a second. I kind of developed this mantra that I use now before anything big where I stop, I calm myself down by taking a few deep breaths, and I say the same thing every time, which then makes me equal to the moment, which is 'everything that's happened in my life up to this point has prepared me for this. I live for these moments. I love these moments. I am ready.'" Arjun describes how he pushes through his nerves and helps other people learn how to as well. He explains that it is all about practice, gaining experience, and using visualization to prepare. "It's like the old mantra; practice makes perfect, but you do it over and over again, and while you can't duplicate it, you can still create a little bit of that and be able to channel some of that energy to when you do arrive at a big moment there is some familiarity."  

Arjun tells people that you have to be equal to the moment. No matter what it is, you match your energy to it. If you come in too small, it will overtake you like a wave crashes over a surfer and spits him out. If you come in too big, you won't respect it and underestimate what it will take to win. You have to be equal to the moment and know you are there because you belong there. 

When asked what challenges he faced when becoming a top-performing athlete, Arjun explains that the biggest challenge is taking the losses as lessons and not treating them like they're permanent. Learn from the failures and have that mental toughness to turn them into tools to win. "There's those that win pretty much off the bat, right? They've got a formula, and they're awarded for that success. I'm not saying it came easy, but they won. That is a mindset now that is a pathway that you can always tap into and a formula you have forever. Then there's the winning mindset that comes on the heels of a loss, and these are the ones that I enjoy the most because I have experienced this both professionally and athletically. I think then you can get someone who is really kind of invincible." He admits that recovering from a loss and channeling it into a lesson is hard to teach, and some people just aren't wired that way. But, as a coach, he helps his team learn ways to combat that. 

"Everyone attaches themselves to the outcome." He advises to fixate on the process and not focus so much on the big goal at the end. Focus on improvement and the small goals along the way, and the result will take care of itself. 

"I think vulnerability is absent in a lot of leadership and performance coaching. There's a lot of people that come to things with a philosophy and they, use it as a one size fits all approach. The reality is that human beings are extremely complicated, very different, and dynamic creatures. A one size fits all philosophy doesn't work." When speaking about the people he coaches, he believes that it is crucial to get to know your team and teach them in a way that permits them to learn to the best of their ability. "In leadership, you have to do the same thing." 

When asked what principles he's seen carry across all aspects of his life, from coaching to being influential, Arjun says, "Being equal to the moment is one. Another trait I drawback on is you use each day as a chance to be better; I need to improve somewhere and doing the intro...

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Jen Cudmore is an energy coach who started her career in holistic kinesiology. When asked how she sees energy and mindset impacting business professionals' success, Jen says, "If you're wanting to vibrate as, you know, a high-level business person or create a level of success, you need to first create it in the spiritual before it can become in the physical. To me, it's sort of a no-brainer. Everything I've created for myself and the success that I've had has started because I had a flicker. Like I had a light switch on..., and then I had the strategy to follow." Jen is a true believer in manifestation. She believes that if you set your intention and it is something you truly want and believe can happen, it will come true. She adds that for someone new to this type of mindfulness, it may take practice and work. 

"What I see working so well for the long-term game and for the integrity piece is really you're here for something. You're here to help people you're here to serve, and you're here to do something bigger. Once you've locked and loaded in your brain pathways...then you just get over yourself and go and do what you're called to do." Jen believes that when you are in true alignment with yourself that you will attract opportunity and success. When asked if she thinks we get signals when we are out of alignment, Jen answers with, "I think we all get signals, and some people don't read them. Some people just don't want to go that deep." She explains that some people think a strategy is not working, or they need to do something different, but the truth is that they are just not truly aligned with themselves. Jen explains that for someone to figure out who they are meant to be, they have to want to, and if you're really activated in who you're meant to be, other people will be inspired by that. If you feel like you are being blocked from realizing who you truly are, you may have to work through trauma or find what is stopping you. And when asked how she helps people get through those hurdles, Jen explains, "There are usually things to clear, there is something in childhood, something in the generational line... I am going into every corner and sweeping out that corner, and I follow the kinesiology on it."  

When asked how she navigated the lows in her life, she says, "I learned pretty early on that if things were ever not going well that I would get help straight away." She reiterates how important it is to recognize when something is affecting your energy negatively and how to get the proper care when it happens. Her driving force is not wanting to see anyone in pain, and that is where she finds her passion. 

Jen explains what vibrations mean in referring to one's energy and feels that it truly is the magnetism of you as a person. "We are evolving always into a higher level of consciousness, and the higher that you go, the lighter your energy is, so you've got a lighter sort of frequency. So when we are working with money and when we are working with success, people think they have to go heavy and hard, but you actually need to go lighter. From that lighter energy, they've got more access to imagination." Jen believes that when you reach that level of lightness, it will attract like-minded people to you. 

Jen challenges us to manifest for more while simultaneously knowing that what we have is enough.

If you would like to connect with Jen, you can find her on Instagram @jencudmore or on her website: www.jencudmore.com



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Brad Jenson is the Sober Body Builder and owner of Key Nutrition, which he started five years ago. He is also the Key Nutrition Podcast host with over 200 episodes and approaching a million downloads; it has been wildly successful. For as long as he can remember, Brad felt very uncomfortable and anxious. His friends picked on him for being bigger than them, and it took a toll on him. At the young age of 13, he was offered alcohol for the first time and proceeded to continue to drink to help cope with the anxiety.  When he was around fifteen years old, he went to a bookstore with his mother and found a fitness magazine that caught his attention. He decided that he would put all of his focus into fitness, and it quickly became his number one passion. As soon as he got his driver's license, Brad got a gym membership and dove headfirst into working on his fitness. He went to the gym every day after school and completely transformed his body. He was offered pain pills in his high school years, quickly became addicted, and started selling them. Eventually, Brad stopped taking the drugs and was suffering extreme withdrawals. At that time, he was hanging out with the wrong people and was offered heroin. He chased that feeling, and everything got progressively worse. He was fired from his job as a personal trainer, admitted his problem to his parents, and got into a treatment center. Once he got out of rehab, he started drinking alcohol again and, unfortunately, relapsed on heroin. His parents ultimately decided they could no longer "love him to death" and cut him off. In November of 2012, he hit rock bottom when he did heroin in the back of his mother's car while driving to his grandfather's funeral. Following that experience, he had one final arrest, and that is when his life started to change for the better. 

When asked how he found the strength to rebuild his life after years of addiction, Brad says, "There was something greater than me guiding me. I had to deploy a lot of mental grit, too.. there's no doubt about that...but there was a spiritual being guiding me, and relying upon that was huge, and then surrounding myself with like-minded people was so important... I truly believe that you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with." He adds another critical step in recovery and actually creating a successful life was getting back into fitness, reading, gratitude journaling, and a strict morning routine. 

Brad discusses what it was like to learn to trust himself again, "People severely lack patience in their life when it comes to their results when it comes to their transformation within themselves, with habit building. I think that patience gets in the way of so much. For whatever reason, I was blessed with some patience this time. It happened kind of slow and gradually, but I probably didn't start trusting myself fully until I was about four or five years sober." He continues explaining that he learned a lot in those five years, and to build his self-esteem, he did good things for others. If he has moments where he is at a crossroads, he surrounds himself with the right people to give him good advice and lead him in the right direction. "Your intuition is not in your head; that's your intellect; your intuition is in your heart and your gut," he adds. 

Brad contributes his success to understanding the importance of gratitude and, specifically, the appreciation he feels when helping others. "This gal looked at me at the end of our call, and she starts crying. She said Brad, you have helped me so much more than you know. My marriage is better because I am feeling better about me, my relationship with food is better, and she's crying, and I get teary-eyed... I was so happy. It was the feeling I had been chasing in a needle, in a pill bottle, in an alcohol bottle my whole life.

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Keri Shull is the epitome of resilience. Having moved 13 times before the age of 18, she learned how to adapt and thrive while being introduced to a new environment. Those skills helped shape her future and made it possible for her to build a residential real estate team of over 120 people. Admittedly she had no plans to be a real estate agent; in fact, she was a very successful sales manager at the age of 22 and had no intentions of leaving a job she loved. However, when presented with an opportunity she could not pass up, she took the risk and fell in love with being an agent. When asked how she remains at the top of her game, Keri admits that she has always been somebody who loves to work. She finds joy and fulfillment in helping others and striving to promote her own personal growth. "Be in the room with people who have been where you want to go."

Keri explains how starting a family made her feel as a very career-focused individual, "for me as a mom, it caused me to have hesitation. I always knew that I wanted to have children; that was a really important element of my plan in life. But I didn't know how having children would impact my ability to do work, to do my job, and fulfill my mission on my work journey. And I grew up with a mom that stayed home, and one of the things she told me, which I now believe was a limiting belief, was she would tell me, you can't have both, Keri. You will see when you have children you can't be a mom who works and a mom who's really connected to your kids... that limiting belief was inhibiting my potential." She describes what it was like to come to the emotional realization that she was stuck, and as a woman who values personal growth, she had to overcome this. "I think there are a lot of entrepreneurs, we get stuck, and we don't know where to go or what we want to accomplish next. Or maybe we accomplished what we thought we wanted, and then it doesn't feel as great as we thought it would, and so we have to recalibrate what we're after." Keri elaborates on how moving so many times as she was growing up helped shape her future success, "I am really comfortable with change, and so I think for a lot of entrepreneurs and people in general, we resist change to our detriment because just around the corner of change could be something great."

Keri shares one of the scariest moments of her life and what she learned from it, "So I just had my fourth child when he was two weeks old, maybe two and a half weeks old I had a moment where everyone was melting down...I was trying to feed him, and the sling flipped, and I almost dropped him on a tile floor... here's what I learned from that moment I have four children, five and under, and I still have multiple businesses that I am running, I have my family. I am going to be living in chaos for a while, and I am going to have to calm down and be okay with that." She realized that what she needed was to quiet her mind and not allow herself to get overwhelmed by the chaos, which has rung true in other aspects of her life. "We can't control everything that's happening to us, but our reaction and how we choose to move forward, that's all we can control."

"My message for anyone out there is know what makes you tick and then move in that direction." Keri discusses how she finds a balance between work, family and her own needs. She prides herself on setting boundaries and carving out time to dedicate to each aspect of her life yet obtains the freedom to work when she wants to. When asked what has consistently been on the other side of fear for her, Keri answers with, "It's always a big win. And no matter if what we are doing works out the way we wanted or not, it's a big win because there are so many lessons involved." She discusses how being around people who are where you want to be is a substantial motivating factor. Still, anyone who says they have never doubted themselve...

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Long Doan has a story that would impact anyone who listens. Originally from Vietnam, Long came from a well-educated family. His mother and father both got scholarships to study at the University of Florida, and both graduated with high degrees. Unfortunately, everything changed when America pulled out of the Vietnam war in 1975. In a communist country like Vietnam, they were threatened by those who could think for themselves. Because of this, when Long was eight years old, his father was arrested and sent to a reeducation camp. He wouldn't see him again until he was 32. Now the man of the house Long was responsible for collecting his family's rations every day. His mother and grandmother wanted a better life for him, so after three attempts to escape on a fishing boat with over 150 other people, he made it out onto international waters. Unfortunately, he was not safe yet. In the current state of the world and the tough economy, fishermen had been known to turn to pirates, and target boats like the one Long was on. Thankfully, one day shy of running out of their resources, the boat he was on came across a larger fishing boat that contacted the closest refugee camp, which happened to be in Malaysia. On the camp known as "Hell Island," all of the emotions Long had just endured would finally catch up to him. The following day, he decided that he would no longer feel like a victim but realize he was the victor. This new mindset would shape the rest of his life. After college Long got into the mortgage industry and then decided to get into real estate, which he has now been in for fourteen years. Currently, he has a real estate company with a roster of over 650 agents.

Long explains what it was like to figure out his why in life. "I remember thinking back and digging for myself until I found it, and that's when I realized that moment and night on the beach was my why." Now he is always looking to help other people hoping they will never have to feel the way he felt that first night at camp.

He goes on to discuss the considerable impact his father had on the world, "They finally negotiated the release of my dad, the US, all the pressure around the country, but before then I kind of become the poster child for human rights...I would get flown by organizations all over the country, to Canada, to meet with congress members, senators, in Washington DC, all over the place on my dad's behalf. As a matter of fact, I accepted several awards on his behalf...a lot of pressure for someone between the ages of 16 and about 20. Finally, my mom and my brother came over, and she took over and helped out." Eventually, his father agreed to leave Vietnam, and he moved in with Long.

When asked what some of the lessons he learned from his parents, Long says, "It is better to do the right thing than what is easy or popular." He also mentions how his father taught him that to achieve your goals in life takes a lot of sacrifices. When speaking about his mother, he has a lot of admiration for her hard work and determination. "The things that she has had to endure, I hope no one would have to go through it."

"Mindset is so powerful...there are three ways we learn as humans... by imitation... the second way we learn is the hardest way to learn, and it's by experience...and the third way, which is considered the most noble, is by reflection." Long explains that his goal every day is to be a better version of himself and use those three tools to grow as a person and help others succeed. "MAP to success: M is for mindset, right? We talked about if you have the right mindset, anything can happen, which leads to action, which is A. Action comes in everything you do.. and then P is purpose; without purpose, you won't keep going. For me, that is always me reminding myself of the map to success which leads to the other acronym Mike, and I have that's called LIFE. Learn, Implement,

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Brittney Pino is a real estate broker in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She first started her career in real estate when she was twenty years old. With an entrepreneurial spirit, she was determined to be successful and always strived for more. Brittney went on to get married, have two daughters, and remained in the industry during this time. Despite her tough divorce in 2016, she grew as a person and learned so much about herself. While rocking being a single mother and a high-producing real estate agent, Brittney grew her business to be a team of eight in 2018 before downsizing and going solo. With a fantastic admin team behind her, she focused all of her efforts on building relationships with clients. In 2020 when the pandemic hit, she not only homeschooled her children but also opened an independent brokerage firm that is now up 30% and crushing their records.

Brittney discusses the mindset it takes to be successful and not let fear hold you back. "I get to this point in life where I'm in a situation where I feel like I'm kind of sitting on the edge of a rock, right? and the next place that I need to be is quite a leap, and below me is... there's some distance there... I believe wholeheartedly that is truly the difference between somebody who is maybe an elite performer or somebody that is super successful vs. an average person, and it really just comes down to choice. Facing that fear and pushing through." She goes on to explain that focus is critical in becoming successful and gaining financial freedom. "Figure out exactly what it is you need to do, focus, and then take action. You just have to get a running start sometimes and then hold your breath and jump." It is hard, but it is up to us to make our own choices on what we will do.

When asked what drives her, Brittney talks about how she has to feel things rather than think about them. "Your heart is going to tell you exactly what you need and what you want, and it's going to send signals, it's going to send that desire...if you really practice the quieting of your mind and to feel where you need to be". She explains that it is vital to remember to choose to take action and let your mind follow your heart. If you feel it but take no action, then nothing will ever come of it. Brittney quiets her mind by writing out her goals and aspirations, long-term and short-term, and not engaging or entertaining the opinions of others. This method helps her understand that her decisions are 100% hers and there are no outside influences. "A lot of people look outside of themselves for answers, and it's just that maybe they haven't been exposed to the idea of looking within."

Brittney also drives home the fact that health and wellness is a crucial part of being successful, "When I really added that piece and when I really understood that, I cannot even stress how much of an impact that had on my...entire life." To have a fulfilled life, you have to put yourself first, and then everything else will follow.

When asked how she stays a top producing person, she says, "I think that it is constantly being a student, constantly learning and striving to be better. I'm open-minded to new things and how I do things and changing and evolving. It's really important to operate with honesty and integrity...I am who I am, and I operate with a lot of heart; I love what I do." She emphasizes that when you are doing what you love and are passionate about, it creates magnetic energy that attracts people and helps build success. When you are your true authentic self, it is easier to connect and gain that trust that is essential for any business.

Brittney describes how it feels to step through her fears and make that leap into where she knows she needs to be, "It's anxiety, its paralyzing sometimes, its self-doubt everything just creeps in until you know that ok I'm going to do this.

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Brian Culhane is the first President of eXp Realty in Scottsdale, Arizona. He is one of the most influential and consistent driving forces behind eXp's Creation, Culture and Meteoric eXpansion.

Brian is a consummate real estate entrepreneur creating expansion teams and companies around North America. In 2019 he was named Scottsdale Homeowners Magazine's 2019 "Man of the Year", and in 2020 started The Success Philosopher Podcast.

He grew up in Chicago surrounded by successful people, with his friend’s parents CEOs of big companies. He did whatever it took to get his foot in the door and learn how to become financially independent. He played sports and learned a work ethic. He got a scholarship and finished college in Kentucky. After college he headed out West, not really sure what he was doing or where he was going. He used his last $400 to go to real estate school. 

One of the first people he connected with on Craigslist was Glenn Sanford, an early expansion team rain maker at Keller, and he travelled to different warm weather cities- one of those being Phoenix, the area where Brian ended up settling.  Glenn offered him a team leadership position, and that gave him the confidence to succeed from the beginning. 

Brian had some health issues with his hip from a bike accident that gave him some setbacks. In retrospect, he can see that he has done his best work when his back was up against the wall. He finds himself managing mini crises to put himself back in that headspace. Many people get complacent when things are good, but when things are uncertain you have to push through and find a way to succeed no matter what. 

“You don’t learn anything from winning,” Brian says, “Winning masks a lot of problems your team has. Maybe you figure out where the wheels are coming off, where the weak chains are. So, you learn more from losing; now what you do with that will determine what direction your story goes in. Fall seven times, get up eight!” The difference between good ideas and the genius is that geniuses actually go through and take action to make those great ideas happen. 

“Obstacles are not in your way; obstacles are the way.” He uses obstacle-immunity, which is a skill you can develop by intentionally putting obstacles in your path, such as jumping in a cold-water bath or running hills if you are trying to build physical endurance and the fight-or-flight muscle in your brain. 

Brian talks about the power of words. “What you think is what you say, what you say is what you do, and what you do becomes your legacy. Brian believes that you can speak your words into existence and reality.” If you think negative thoughts toward yourself, it will do negative things inward, and do even worse things if you say them out loud. 

“You can build an amazing life, or destroy, and it is all about what comes out of your mind and mouth,” Brian says.

You can connect with Brian on Twitter @brianculhane Facebook @RealEstateBro Instagram @BrianCulhane or his website at AgentWealthDevelopment.com

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Veronica attributes a lot of her success to being around really great people from the very beginning. When she has come up against trials, she has been able to push through because she has had good people behind her encouraging her and supporting her. Her cousins taught her to fight for what she wanted by creating obstacle courses to beat in order to play, and this taught her to persevere from an early age. She knew that it was okay to be daring, different, and unliked.

She grew up on a military base in Germany, Kansas, and then back to Germany; so, she was used to change and adapting. With allowed her to be really successful with the introduction of technology. She watched her mom as an entrepreneur on the base, opening bodega shops and selling records or whatever was trending in the States. It was natural for Veronica to learn from her and become and entrepreneur herself. Her mom taught her the mindset that if she wanted something, she had to work for it. 

At 16 years old, Veronica got pregnant, and she feared becoming a statistic, but she decidedly pursued something different. To Veronica being a statistic meant, “Your life is over, you’re going to be on welfare, you’re just another 16 and pregnant Puerto Rican girl; that’s it, you’ve thrown your life away. It played in my head over and over again…and I was like, ‘no’ that’s not what has to happen… I should be able to overcome this.” Every time she wanted to give up, she looked around and reminded herself that she didn’t want to be that statistic. She finished school, worked hard to support herself and her child, and not let her circumstances interfere with her future. Her grit and grind are a huge part of where she has come from and where she is today.

Veronica was divorced at the age of 25 and early on worried about providing for her small children. She started thinking about how to provide for them with a single income. She wanted to do something special and had an overconfidence about what she was capable of.

When Covid hit, she panicked, but her coach, Jon Cheplak calmly told her, “This is where we show up as leaders.” And instead of becoming a hermit she went all in and became a great leader and showed up for her team. They went from a once-a-week meeting to a once-a-day huddle to overcome challenges of mental health and doing everything they needed to do to be there for one another and the community. 

She realized there wasn’t a playbook for Covid Leadership, so she made her own. She wanted to help others, not just her own team, but others. They started relaunch live, Fire Fridays, they were on every video podcast, they launched Zillow Flex, they did a lot and adapted quickly. After all these things rolled out, she needed to step back and reflect. She retreated to the beach for a few weeks to think. “The beach is my safe place… and we need that whiteboard space in our brain and find that kid inside ourselves,” she explains, “We are taught as adults to not show our emotions… but I know that it’s also okay to be vulnerable.”

“I’m a connector, I connect people who are connected to each other and I’m not even connected to them anymore!” She says laughing. This is a strength of hers that she is proud of. If someone is not in her circle now, it is intentional, “I’m not willing to sacrifice my joy. Before I wanted to make everyone happy and what I was doing is I was harming myself. We can be cool, but we aren’t going to be close. If we are going to be close, it is because you bring joy to my life.”

She saw a big leap in growth three years ago when she hired her coach and it has changed her life, “The first thing you have to do is be coachable.” She went from selling around 100 homes a year with her small team, to now selling over 1,000 homes in a year. Her coach tells her that her version of mediocre is other peoples’ version of greatness,

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Carla runs coaching and training programs with agents and women. She has been in business for 17 years with various businesses since the age of 23 with a UPS store. She is a licensed real estate. 

She has suffered from depression and anxiety, and in the past, it has held her back from achieving what she wanted to achieve. She grew up with a mentally abusive father and was also constantly bullied, beat up, and told she wasn’t enough. She even found her marriage falling apart at one point. She didn’t feel worthy of anything and came against so many hurdles because of how she grew up. You can read more about her store at dothework.com

She had pent up frustration and anger and took it out at the gym in weightlifting and competition. She also took it to the video camera and shared out. She quickly realized that this anger had to be dealt with. She burned a lot of relationships because of this anger. 

She is an outgoing, loud and assertive woman, but it took her years of being beat down by her own words and thoughts to grow out of that and become who she is today. “When you’re at the bottom of the pit, instead of crawling your way out to the top and continuing running, stay at the bottom of the pit and start to talk to yourself and continue to go even deeper than that, and when you find yourself so deep those stories will start to rise. My stories went all the way to the age of three, so when I started talking to myself, to that little girl at the age of three and taking it slow, I started to realize that who I thought I was- I’m not that person. That’s who people told me I was. So, I started tearing the labels off myself… When I started to rise, I became untouchable,” Carla explains about her self discovery process. 

When she was going through her depression, she wasn’t able to own it and go through the hump, but when she allowed herself to stay there and dig deep, she was able to do the hard work. “The cure wasn’t to tell my story to family and friends; the cure was to tell my story to strangers.”

The difference between growing to the top and growing to the top with passion is her faith. God has been with her since she was at the bottom of her pit. She surrendered herself in that place and believed that everything in life has happened for a reason. When she found herself at the top, she realized that she could help other women who have found themselves in a bad place grow out of their own pit. “No longer was it business, but it’s personal… You have all the faith in the world when the lights are on, and you know what’s going to happen, but somehow your faith starts to question when the lights are off… I just started running in the dark and going hard when I was in this pit and trusting God.” Coming out of her pit opened the door for others to see her journey and ask her how she had come out of it. 

When anxiety, fear, or depression creep up she owns it, she doesn’t suppress it. She isn’t mean or rude. If pressure rises, she takes a step back. She doesn’t apologize or people-please. “Every time I feel like I’ve over-extended myself with that madness, I say, ‘That’s who I am, deal with it. Don’t apologize, you’re powerful. Leave it at that.’”

Being authentically herself makes her run at a faster pace and get more done. She meets more goals when she isn’t constantly stopping to meet everyone’s expectations. Her day starts at 4am and it doesn’t end until she decides it ends. When new clients walk in the door, they are sometimes surprised that she is exactly what they see from what they have seen on her social media. “I wake up every day knowing that I’m going to change someone’s life, make someone laugh... I have these goals on a daily basis and I get them done because tomorrow might not come and I appreciate life because I almost lost my life, I almost gave my life, I’m not supposed to be here… I’m an incredible hum...

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Evan is 26 years old and already has an amazing success story. He is an agent investor and entrepreneur; he uses technology to solve problems in a variety of start up businesses. He has tens of billions of dollars in business. At 12 he started writing a blog for Pulse, which is now LinkedIn’s platform. He wrote on different technology advances and trends. He had 250k readers and decided to make an app for his blog since apps for the iPhone was a new entity. When he was 16, he found problems he could solve by building apps- one for sports viewing and an app for the Dubai subway. He made a couple million when he sold them at 17 and invested that back into technology. He invested early in Eaze.com and that company grew exponentially, growing his portfolio. 

Google hired him early on to develop and promote the Android as an alternative to the iPhone, and from there he went on to speak in several conferences and Ted talks. He spoke about Technology, CryptoCurrencies and Blockchain to huge audiences. He has also spoken at the United Nations, TEDx, Google, Crypto Investor Show, Blockshow and more.

Evan is a well-known influencer with over millions of followers across various Social Media platforms primarily Instagram.com/evanluthra and has been featured on multiple TV shows and press sites. 

He believes in stepping out of the comfort zone and exploring the power of conceptualization, innovation and execution. 

Technology is so expansive and has a potential to grow exponentially. Once you have a found a product market and figure out how it works you can help others by meeting the need. Access to knowledge is free with the internet, so the possibilities of success are endless. “Always ask!” Evan says. You will find the answers eventually that help you to become more successful.

“I spent a big part of my time in my youth and early adulthood doing what I love, which is entrepreneurship and solving problems,” Evan explains. He has a love for solving problems through innovation and that passion has made him into the successful person he is today. 

His biggest takeaway from his success? “Do what you love! Your passion will carry you to achieve what you want to achieve.”

“Opportunities don’t happen, you have to create opportunities. You can sit in an empty room with your computer off and expect opportunities to come, but it doesn’t work that way,” Evan says, “Exposure plays a big role, too; the more you are exposed to, the more you can imagine and the better you can be.”

His exposure to different cultures has made him aware of different business processes and broadened his cultural mindset. He has taken the great things he has learned from other countries like Australia, China, the Dominican Republic, and over 50 others to learn how to build the best products possible. 

Many people think that money is a thing to collect and use later, but Evan has the mindset of using money as a tool to enter into more markets and invest in businesses that will potentially grow. “If your goal is to make money, and not focus on what you love doing already, the best thing you can do is to enter the space of decentralized finance, which is called Defi Insured.” The American dollar is centralized, so the government can control it by taking money out or putting it in. Decentralized finance cannot change, no government or bank can control how many Bitcoin are on the market. 

Evan recommends reading Principles by Ray Dalio if you want to get started in building a healthy mindset about investing and spending. “Books are an amazing way to expand and learn from other mindsets… Don’t take advice from people you wouldn’t trade lives with. There is so much misinformation out there because it costs nothing to publish an e-book.”

Evan explains that failure in life is healthy. The only way to truly fail is to give up. “If you have the right mindset,