Grant Cardone

Nobody starts thinking, okay, I'm going to become a drug addict.

I grew up in a family where there was a lot of losses over a very short period of time.

But, you know, I made a lot of poor choices.

And then at 25, I started pulling myself out of it and turning my life around.

And then I started making bad decisions out of those losses as I carried them around with me.

And the last 35 years now has been me trying to figure out how to be the best version of myself.

From the age of 15 to 25, my life, I went from having a middle-class life with a lot of love and a great family and

Most of the time, having no idea how to do that.

A lot of stumbling, the self-made thing.

My parents did everything kind of by the book and they did it right.

I mean, I'm not made by myself, but I'm certainly, I didn't have any debt, didn't have any connections.

And they didn't make any mistakes.

I did.

Started making very poor choices because I didn't have the right people in my life.

I didn't have banks to help me is what I mean with the debt.

I didn't have credit cards.

I was in debt, failed at seven jobs.

I was a bit of an outcast, black sheep kind of.

A lot of people, they see me today and they're like, bro, you got it made.

rebel, didn't fit in kind of guy, didn't like school.