4 Lessons From Losing $1 Million Dollars with Mike Zeller: An EOFire Classic from 2021

Light that Sparkfire Nation, JLD here, and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire, brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals with great shows like Systems Save Me. Today we're pulling a classic episode from the archives, and we'll be breaking down four lessons from losing one million dollars. To drop these value bombs, I have brought Mike Zeller into EO Fire Studios. Mike has done over three hundred million dollars in sales, studying under masters of the industry such as Tony Robbins, Russell Brunson, and Jay Abraham. In today's Far Nation, we'll be talking about how crisis are there to remake you. Do the personality tests and find your zone of genius. I'm an eight on Enneagram, by the way. Your identity, procedure, destiny, fire nation, and oh so much more. And a big thank you for sponsoring today's episode goes to Mike and our sponsors. DTC Pod, hosted by Ramon Barrios and Blaine Bolis, is brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. DTC Pod is a podcast about all things direct to consumer. Ramon and Blaine cover everything from starting, growing, and optimizing e commerce stores in DTC brands. If you're interested in the stories behind your favorite consumer brands, brands, this podcast is for you. One recent episode on how the best brands are built is a must listen. Listen to DTC Pod wherever you get your podcasts.

Yeah. Mike, we are back, brother. Say what's up to Fire Nation and share something that you believe about becoming successful that most people disagree with. J O D, great being here, Fire Nation, so excited and the number one thing. that I love to speak on is your identity precedes your destiny. So often we get obsessed with working hard, we get obsessed with a certain strategy or acquiring more customers or whatever it is. Well, I've seen over and over and over in the hundreds of entrepreneurs I've worked with that

If they don't have the identity that supports the higher level of achievement that they want to step into. Think of uh lottery winners. Why do lottery winners Seventy four percent of lottery winners end up bankrupt three years later. 'Cause their identity didn't support their new reality. Yeah. Same thing with NFL players, things like that after they retire.

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