Nick Mornard
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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If you do the wrong thing, the wrong thing will come to you. I do believe it. If you do the right thing, the right thing will come to you eventually. Don't give up. Don't expect anything fast. But if you are consistent, because a lot of people have great ideas, they have the great start, but they're not consistent because they want instant success. Instant success, I don't believe it exists.
Wow, you have a couple of hours? Thank you, Ryan, first of all, to have me on your podcast. I really appreciate the offer. I'm looking forward to it. So yeah, that's a loaded question. So I moved to the US June 25th, 2013. So it's been 12 years. I couldn't speak a word of English when I moved. It was my childhood experience.
dream to move to the united states i was nine years old the first time i thought of it but um but yeah i won the lottery the green card lottery okay so that's very different than most people i was very lucky to want it but i applied since i was 18 years old and i won at 33 after seven years playing the lottery wow so i was consistent with it and you can only play the lottery seven years and so that was the last year that i was eligible to play the lottery that i won it
So it's a long process. It's not like I received a green card in the mail after two weeks. It's a long lengthy process. But I received the card on June 22nd and on 25th I was in the plane to Miami and I figured it out. I literally landed with six luggages and that was the hardest three years of my life.
But I was always thinking, thanks to my mindset, if I can make it in a country like Belgium where we are taxed 53%, I can probably make it in America, which is the land of opportunities. And the first three years, I could have given a million times, but I was confident that I was going to succeed. And I'm not where I want to be now, but I'm further than I thought I would be after 12 years.
But yeah, the journey was fantastic. I learned by speaking to numerous people, making tons of mistakes, and I keep making them. But if you dare, you will succeed. And I believe that in a lot of different areas, definitely in language as well.
Yeah, that's a great question. So the confidence I have, I think, is from a young age. I mean, my dad was an employee all his life. He always provided for me. It was never a problem. But he was not an entrepreneur. My mom was a stay at home mom. They had a very mindset of you go to school, you go to work and then you retire and you enjoy your retirement.
And that's something I never understood since I was super young. I'm like, why don't you build a business? I was always like that. I don't know where it came from because no one in my family were entrepreneurs. At 16 years old, I became a professional basketball player. And I think that's when it changed. I had my mindset set on playing ball for a living. And I achieved that at 16.
And after four years, every pro athlete, you know, scared of his injuries. And that's what happened to me. So I couldn't play professionally after that. And I'm like, oops, what am I going to do? I don't even have, you know, I don't have any degrees.
and so I started door knock sale literally to start making money to pay the bills and then from there I grew and I know you did insurance and that's that was my field health insurance life insurance sorry so I did life and dead insurance and I grew a team of 3200 people in seven years in eight countries and
is just because i believe in listening to people who did who did it and not try to reinvent the wheel because i knew nothing about nothing i just knew that that person was successful so i listened to that person i had a mentor i believe in mentorship wholeheartedly and i'm like just tell me what you did i'm gonna replicate it monkey see monkey do and that's literally what i did and it made me successful then when i was successful
I wanted to improve it by tweaking things because I'm already there. The problem I see a lot of people do is they try to do everything their own way from the start before getting there. And so to answer your question, I think that it's the having a lot of great mentors around me, picking very well the five person I spend the most time with around me because I refuse negativity in my life.
And that's something that was very clear and I was very blunt about it. And i probably hurt some people's feelings when i was in my early 20s but i'm like you don't have the lifestyle of the life that i want to have so i wish you the best but i'm not gonna be hanging around you too much longer and i was literally telling those things and so it helped me when i moved to the us like
that's what i did the first three years it was literally trying to get to understand how the system work here but america is the best country in the world and i do believe it i'm the most patriotic non-born american that you can find everything is perfect no but it's pretty damn close and that's my vision
Yeah, so again, a great question. Everybody has an ego, like you mentioned, and it's fine as long as the ego doesn't stop you to go where you want to be or you need to be. And I think that's the biggest problem. When you start working with someone that you are willing to learn from, you need to...
excite their ego and put your ego on the side because i do believe i mean i maybe i'm lucky but i doubt i think that if you want to reach out to someone to help you out If you're genuine about the ask and the person feel like you really want it, very rarely someone will tell you, no, I'm not interested. Because you will literally state all the things that they do that you look up to.
And you would like to get like 30 minutes with that person, you know, online, having coffee if the person live close by. Nobody will tell you no, maybe not at the time you want, but they will do it. And I think the problem is that a lot of people, they tend to go on one of those calls and they take what they want to take from the conversation.
If it's someone that I really look up to and I want to be where they are today, I'm going to take over everything they tell me and I'm going to apply the hell out of it. And I will learn of it and I will follow up with them, thank them, but also follow up with, you know, here's what I learned during this conversation. Here's what I want to apply.
Here's my goal the next two weeks, a month, two months, regardless, timeline. They love that because people, when they spend time, you know, that's very valuable for successful people to actually help you. They love to see that that's not for nothing. And I built such strong relationship with some majority of my, my mentors. And I still have close relationship with them to this day.
And it's, I think because I value them, I respect them and I don't waste their time when they give it to me. And I think it's important. Can you learn that? Yes, you just need to know the reason why you want to talk to that person. And you need to be very clear about what do you want to get out of it.
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