Overview
On this episode of Build Your Network, Host Travis Chappell interviews Grant Cardone, massively successful entrepreneur, real estate investor, sales trainer, consultant, and public speaker.
Topics Discussed:
- About Grant Cardone
- Owns the Grant Cardone TV network
- Hosts, directs and produces programs that help people do whatever it takes to succeed.
- Bestselling books – The 10x Rule, Be Obsessed or Be Average.
- Owns the Grant Cardone TV network
- Where it all started
- Grant’s dad started making good money and they bought a lake house.
- Their neighbors were doctors, he felt that his parents had made it.
- His dad passed away 18 months after he bought his dream house.
- As a child, he was collecting data on everything around him.
- He was crushed – he had an ideal life and then it abruptly came to an end.
- He went from grief to pissed off.
- When he was ten they moved back into the city.
- What happened when he was a teenager.
- Drugs came along, he knew as soon as he picked up weed that it was a problem.
- Now he has shame and guilt, fear, and he’s stealing.
- Next thing he knows he’s smoking week every day, popping pills, drinking.
- When he’s 23, he had guys at the house and they had someone there to rob him.
- He went to the hospital for four days, he was using drugs in the hospital.
- He couldn’t stop because by this time he had a compulsion and addiction.
- His mom told him not to come back – he finally went to the treatment center.
- He realized that quitting was possible
- He was told that he would never make it in business and needed to be obsessed with staying away from drugs.
- He never did drugs when he was active, it’s only when he was bored.
- He came back from treatment and took all the addictive energy and put it into his job.
- He reached the top 1% of all the auto salesman around.
- Your network has to have open eyes, be honest, and have ethics.
- The automotive environment he was in was filled with a lot of very average people.
- Prior to being in this industry, he had always been searching for a mentor.
- He started watching all the gangster and James Bond movies.
- He was searching for “who can I be” and there weren’t a lot of good role models there.
- When you study mentors, you’ve got to find out where they are in the cycle.
- Prior to being in this industry, he had always been searching for a mentor.
- The middle class in America is based on comparisons.
- To a degree, even rich is a fancy middle class.
- You need to go out and prove that you’re blessed.
- The great payback is to prove that there’s a God and fulfill your potential.
- Do you believe that what you know or who you know is more important and why?
- Who you know, your connections accelerate everything.
- You don’t want to compete with people, you want to collaborate with people.
- There are a lot of people who are less talented than Grant who became successful faster.
- What does sharing the platform to for Grant?
- It edifies him.
- You need to eat with kings and queens and power players
- You need to flow power to people.
- Give, give, give – don’t try to get something or get on his stage.
- Flow power to power
- The temptation is to help people who haven’t earned it yet.
- The guy that helps broken people over and over is broken himself and is looking to fix his own brokenness.
- What’s your number one tip on networking?
- Make a list – who do you want to network with?
- You work for people, not companies.
- You need to read a book, read everything a certain person puts together and learn from him or her.
- Estimate how much you’ve spent on mentorship, books, etc.
- Success is a direct result of the time and money you put into development.
- He’s spent millions of dollars just to be in the right places.
- The reason people don’t want to do the self-improvement thing is that education failed them.
- Very few people attribute school to where they are today.
- Is there too much learning?
- Keep learning, eventually, something will stick.
- You need a bunch of bad books, mentors, and advice to know what’s good.
- You don’t need a life coach, you need a business coach.
- It’s never too early or too late, and there’s never too much.
- Frequency is the way to greatness.
- Unless it’s bad for you, don’t quit.
- Why is it bad to buy a house?
- Houses are made for banks, not people.
- Houses are a ball and a chain in the cement and you can’t leave it.
- Don’t buy where you live, only own real estate you make money from.
- He only buys things that give him a check.
- His plane was paid for in three months – it helps him get to the network that gets him more money.
- What real estate do you invest in?
- Multi-family or office properties.
- Has to cash flow from day one.
- He went to the hospital for four days, he was using drugs in the hospital.
- Drugs came along, he knew as soon as he picked up weed that it was a problem.
The Random Round:
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- What profession other than your own do you think it would be fun to attempt?
- The Wall Street Hustle
- If you could sit on a park bench with anyone for an hour who would it be, and why?
- Jesus
- Kennedy
- How do you like to consume content best, books, blogs, podcasts, or videos?
- Course room
- Give us a glimpse of your morning routine
- Wake up and go to the bathroom
- Write goals down
- Work out
- Eat
- Work
- What is your go-to pump up song?
- Doesn’t have one
- What are you not very good at?
- Organizing
- Grammar
- What is one place where we can find you online?
- Wherever you are
- What profession other than your own do you think it would be fun to attempt?
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Tweetable Quotes:
- People underestimate kids, there could be 50 things going on and kids pick up on all 50 of them.
- Everybody obsesses about something.
- It’s the people in life who care for you that cause the most damage.
- Flow power to power.
Resources Mentioned:
Buildyournetwork.co– Podcast website
BYN.media/fb – Facebook Group
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