Encore: Creating Success in Your Career – This Will Be Eye-Opening!

About this episode

John and Kelly discuss the importance of emotional connection in achieving career success and share insights on high-performance skills.

In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast , John and Kelly share their observations on creating success in your career. John mentions that he started out as a CPA and became an entrepreneur when he was 30. Then he was in seven different businesses in his 30s and 40s. But in retrospect, he sees that he was not connected to any of them emotionally. Then when he turned 50, he got in the reverse mortgage business. A business he was, in fact, emotionally connected to. Because he had seen how investment advisors had tried to coerce his mom into various investments after is dad had died at John’s age of 24. He saw that those investment advisors didn’t have his mom’s best interest at heart. So when he got into the reverse mortgage business, he was committed to treating all his customers like his own parents. So that was the emotional connection. And the big Takeaway is that whatever business or industry you are in, you need to be passionate about it. You need to be emotionally connected to it in order for you to thrive long-term. John then gets into more detail about what took his income, when he was in his mid-50s, to 25 times the $200,000 – $300,000 a year he making the prior 20…

People in this episode

Hosts: John Mitchell, Kelly Hatfield

Topics covered

• career success
• emotional connection
• entrepreneurship
• high-performance skills
• personal growth

Keywords

• career
• success
• entrepreneurship
• emotional connection
• high-performance skills
• personal growth
• reverse mortgage

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: reverse mortgage business, investment advisors

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