Damian Maldonado

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575 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 19 Feb

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Leap Academy with Ilana Golan · From Homeless Shelter to Building a Billion-Dollar Mortgage Company | Damian Maldonado | E146 · 19 Feb 2026 podcast

With a smile.

And those kind of scenarios where really physically demanding, he's like that.

But then on a regular life, how he treats everyone exactly the same is really humbling because somebody as magnetic and as a big personality of the world, a world leader, I consider him not just a business leader because he's very involved.

and so many different things.

To be that humble and nice and kind to everyone is really eye-opening because you meet people that aren't even close to his level treating people badly.

And I'm like, why did he do that?

Yeah, I definitely agree with you.

Like you see these little things and we've traveled around the world with Richard Nutter's book, just seeing how they are even saying, you know, we just took a trip to India and arguably India is not the easiest country to travel.

And what you see is really eye-opening and you're like, wow.

And, you know, one of the speeches we saw on the Strive that we were together on is when, what was the guy's name that was traveling with us?

Yeah, Vishal, Vishal, that's who it was, yeah.

But one of his speeches, he said, he was brought up like a lot of the people that we've rode on our bikes were like extreme poverty, like the kind of poverty that I experienced having a shelter and a system for that.

I imagine they have that in some areas in India, but I don't think the majority of India has even a system.

Like you're literally homeless.

There's nowhere to go to get a bed and a food.

And that's very wild.

But he goes, when I was growing up like that, I didn't even know I was poor.

And that was really eye-opening to me because as we were riding through that, I'm like, huh, I wonder if a lot of them know they're poor.

And he goes, until I went to university, then I'm like, oh, wow, I'm very different than a lot of the people here.

And that was really eye-opening to me.

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