Grant Cardone - From Drug Addict to Undercover Billionaire, The Secret Journey of the 10x Man

Dec 21, 2020

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Today’s guest is none other than Grant Cardone. He is a New York Times Best Selling Author of 11 books including the 10x rule and If You’re Not First, You’re Last. He is also a serial entrepreneur and owns and operates seven privately held companies, and a private equity real estate firm, Cardone Capital, with a multifamily portfolio of assets worth over $2 billion. He is the top crowdfunder in the world, having raised over $500 million on social media. Moreover, he was named the #1 marketer to watch in 2017 by Forbes Magazine. Grant uses his massive 15 million plus following to give back via his Grant Cardone Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to mentoring underprivileged and troubled youth in financial literacy.

He will give incredible tips on how to overcome not only addiction, but any other setbacks, and the value of owning your choices, taking responsibility, and knowing that your identity can change.

He will make us realize that you do not always have to be that victim that messes up, and that you can be something great and experience massive success.

If you’ve experienced some struggles related to any of those mentioned, then this episode is for you!

Grant’s Backstory:

Grant was a danger to himself, his family, his reputation, and it was not good and was very painful for him not just because of drugs, but how he felt for himself.

The issue for him was when he went to treatment, people were like, “Look. You're powerless, and your life is unmanageable.” But Grant thought that if he’s powerless, how is he going to go create the rest of his life? And that was the one thing he always struggled with.

He then realized that if his only game was just to stay clean and sober for the rest of his life, he’s just gonna end up back on drugs again, because he needed to replace that thing he was doing with a new thing that he wanted to do, and that was good.

In the beginning, his big problem was really just boredom and a lack of direction and inspiration. He never dreamed about where he is now today, but he knew he was capable more than he was doing. Grant certainly knew he was capable more than being just a “druggie.” He had to quit that, to find and be where he is right now.

More of Grant’s stories as he shares his answers to these questions and topics:

Was there ever a specific moment in Grant’s life when he’s absolutely positive that he would overcome the addiction and never go back to it?

Grant’s experience with the people who always doubt his capability

The story when Grant can’t even do a pull up

How did Grant get into fitness

Grant’s routine to stay in shape

Grant’s advice to the people who fall into the comparison trap

The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

Read this book to achieve "Massive Action" results and accomplish your business dreams!

The 10 x rule is basically a multiplier that's saying, “Hey, I don't have to depend on one of anything. I can get a lot of things going and help people reach out to a lot of people, not just drug addicts, not just one group of people, but I can help a whole lot other people that maybe don't have the drug problem, but that have a money problem, or that have a physical, they're not taking care of themselves physically, or they're not contributing back to society enough. I want to build the help in all those arenas, not just a small group of people.”

Takeaways:

“Anybody that's actually able to get through an addiction, if you can really harness the energy and power around it, the ability to be obsessed with a target, the ability to get something no matter how hard it is, and no matter what the obstacles are, if you can convert that energy into something positive, you are unstoppable threat for great things.”

-Grant Cardone

Being ignored is way worse than being lambasted.

Don’t worry about haters, but worry about people that can’t even see you and can’t even acknowledge you because that just means that you're not doing anything, and you're not doing enough to have anybody actually be annoyed by you.

You just need to be happy with what you’re doing, and not be satisfied with the potential to do more and help out more people.

Connect with Grant:

Website: https://grantcardone.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/grantcardonefan

Twitter: https://twitter.com/GrantCardone

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grantcardone

The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure:https://store.grantcardone.com/collections/best-sellers/products/the-10x-rule-book

Discovery Channel's Undercover Billionaire Season 2:

https://www.discovery.com/shows/undercover-billionaire

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