A Drug Dealer From Facing 60 Years to 8 Figure CEO | Kelly Siegel on REAL Mentors Podcast EP 86

About this episode

Kelly Siegel shares his journey from a troubled childhood and drug dealing to becoming a successful CEO and motivational speaker.

Kelly Siegel grew up with alcoholic parents who beat him when they came home drunk. He learned early that showing fear meant weakness and that survival required toughness. By college he was shipping weed on planes and slinging hundred dollar bags of dope to pay tuition. Then he got arrested, everybody testified against him, the college threw him out and the system threw the book at him. He looked in the mirror and said he did this. Then he negotiated his way back into college at twenty years old while fighting criminal charges and did four months in county jail. That moment in a jail cell is where he decided he was never putting himself in that position again. Today Kelly is the CEO of National Technology Management, a high seven figure company approaching eight figures, a motivational speaker and author of Harder Than Life: Weaponizing Poverty, Addiction and Violence. His message is simple: you can learn every business system in the world but if you don't do the work between your ears none of it matters. In this episode Kelly and Sean get into generational cycles of abuse, what it actually means to heal, why scaling yourself is the only real business strategy and the TLC…

People in this episode

Host: Sean Martin

Guest: Kelly Siegel

Topics covered

• overcoming adversity
• personal transformation
• business strategy
• generational trauma
• motivation
• addiction recovery

Keywords

• drug dealer
• CEO
• motivation
• generational cycles
• business success
• personal growth
• addiction
• overcoming challenges

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: National Technology Management

Books & works: Harder Than Life: Weaponizing Poverty, Addiction and Violence

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