Paul Martinelli is the past president of the John Maxwell team and has built five multi-million dollar companies. After building his cleaning business from nothing to millions, and then co-founding and building The John Maxwell Team into a globally recognized public speaking and training organization with over 20,000 members, Paul has proven he understands the formula for success.
What Bart and Paul Martinelli discuss in this episode:
- Paul shares that he was not raised with a safe upbringing. It wasn't safe emotionally. It wasn't safe verbally. He recounts going to school in the third grade with a black eye, which caused him to suffer from low self-esteem early on.
- He started his first company which was a commercial cleaning business, not because he had a passion for cleaning toilets, but because he felt it was becoming of the self-image he created for himself. "I figured any dummy could clean toilets and I was a dummy."
- Paul believes that God placed an angel in his life. Patrick Hayes was someone he ran into while trying to sell him cleaning services. Patrick handed Paul a copy of Think and Grow Rich, and that sent him down a path of living a life bigger than he could have ever imagined.
- Most people struggle to find their purpose in life and that might be keeping them from seeing that the answer is right in front of them. It might blind them from seeing the angels that have been placed in their way with hints about where they should go.
- It's not until we look back that we realize how much we've been prepared along the way.
- How we show up in our lives is how we show up. There is no private good or private evil.
- Paul shares how we each operate through a learning model. Everything we do today we've learned from someone else. Even things that someone didn't specifically teach us, were intuitively gifted by God with the awareness to take that next step.
- Listen to the full episode to learn even more from Paul Martinelli and Bart Nollenberger.
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