Nick Mornard
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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And you would be surprised what the universe is coming back to you, thanks to actually doing the right steps. It's not easy, but if you set yourself in, if you think about a certain way, saying like, hey, I know that I will have challenges. I know it's not going to be an overnight thing, but you have a plan. you're going to be fine.
And that's exactly, to get back to my story about moving to the US and having a hell of three first year, I was prepared. I knew it was not going to be easy, but I knew eventually it's going to happen. So when all the challenges and all those things come in between me and my goal, I smiled and I took a step back and said, look where I came from. Look at the steps I already did today.
I have a lot to do still in front of me. But look back at what you did. Celebrate the small wins, like I always said. And then move fast, move forward. And if you do that consistently, you will be successful. I have zero doubt with that. But you need to have that mindset and that readiness of what's coming. And that's my belief.
Absolutely.
Yeah, definitely. It definitely happened a few times. And the thing is that the people back home, my dad, for example, that I know has the best intention, he told me a million times, come back, you have your life here. You have everything you need here. And I'm like, I will not. I will succeed here first. And no, there's no way I ever come back. But I had my mind so set on this.
But like you mentioned, there are things that people don't realize because they're born here. The credit score and the way to build a credit, we don't have that in Europe. So it was new to me. So it was like, it took me two weeks to get an apartment to sign for a lease because I had zero credit history. And that was like a first learning. Of course, learning the language.
know lease a car how it works here things are so many so different like you pay so much more insurance because i need to do a new you know i need to get a driver driver license that the one in belgium didn't come for here so i need to start back but then i'm a new driver at 33 years old so the insurance fee wasn't insane so a lot of things that i needed to understand
I thought I was going to come here, we'll get into the sports business, you know. And I realized that I had offers for 2D1 school basketball to be an assistant coach. Those people do it for $30,000 a year and they have zero life. So people look at Calipari, Coach K and stuff. Those are the exceptions. The people in the bench, like the assistant coach, majority of them don't make money.
They just spend all their day and night at the school, at college. They have one month off a year and the rest is on campus or recruiting. And I love basketball, but that was not the life I wanted to be. And so I decided, OK, what is the first step I should be doing? So, of course, learning the language was one. The second step was like learning how, you know.
It worked with credit because that was a huge thing that I was not expecting. And then Hawk and I started making money because I came with $20,000. So $20,000 was done in six months just with rent, with leasing a car. I mean, that was just the way it is. And so I figured it out. Then I needed to find a mentor. And so I literally was...
walking around in malls and things like that and trying to figure out someone you know someone the way they were talking or dressing or things stupid like that but that's how i started and then i started introducing myself with my broken english and that's how i got invited for Something that was a direct selling, ACN, I think it was at the time. And I went invited to one of those meetings.
And I'm like, oh my God, I know because I built a huge organization in live insurance in Europe doing that. And so let's see. But of course, when you don't know no one, you cannot invite no one in those meetings. And I'm like, you know what? I'm going to just find people in the street. And that's literally what I did. I literally went to every single mall and place like this restaurant.
And I was talking to people and knowing people literally and inviting them to a meeting that may change their life. I'm not kidding. After three months, I had 17 people in my team. And so when people say that, I don't know, I don't know what to do in the United States. I don't have like, you know, there is no enough work. There is nothing.
There is work everywhere, but you need to do actually action on them. And so I start doing that and I grew the team to be 230 people in a year and a half.
and i was not making a fortune at all but i was making enough to pay to pay my my rent at the at the roommate.com that i was staying at and i'm not i don't have any any issue sharing that because it's in my book as well i spent a year and a half eating hummus with pita chips from costco and drinking water from the fridge from my roommate and but from there it went up and i started like making connections who were very influential to me
and then making some good decision every time I have like a couple of thousand dollars invested and got lucky. But you need to do something to get lucky. And then things start getting better and better. And I start getting requests to be working at the bank. And so I started working at the banks. I hated it.
But after a year, I got another job from a client at the bank and I go up and up and then I start building my own business. And so I know I have three businesses who are well established and continue to grow, but it literally started with zero. So when people complain about they cannot do it, there is work, but you need to work. You need to actually act. And that's the problem I see here.
I mean, the same in Europe, but here even more. People complain that people don't do nothing. And there are so many opportunities in the U.S. That's just insane. And I want to just, if I can influence one person on this call who says, you know what, I'm going to get up from my seat or my sofa and I'm going to push the doors myself. Well, it's a success.
And I always said, if I can influence one person every single time I talk on a podcast or live or anything like that, that's a win. And I'm pretty sure you think the same way because you also love to influence people.
but yeah even though it was hard i always made sure to do something valuable each and every day that will bring me closer to where i want to be and and then i start you know renting something better myself then buying a house and then do an investment who just paid off completely unexpectedly then covet happened which was the best for me because that's where all the investment exploded positively and then the rest
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