Ross Mandell

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Mick Unplugged · Reinventing Ross Mandell: Success, Second Chances, and Redemption · 6 Mar 2025 podcast

How you feel really doesn't really matter when you have purpose. What's your because, man? What's that purpose for you today? You know what? It's something that's natural for me. I love to teach, to educate, to help.

is the word accountability. If I don't do a transaction that day, I don't make any money. The firm doesn't make any money.

A lot of people, you know, they get the mindset, they're so worried about executing perfectly that they never get off first base. Just jump in the fucking pool. Splash around. You'll figure it out. It'll come to you. But in the meantime, don't miss a day. You can't wait till you get something perfect. You got to get in the game. You'll take a few lumps. You'll get hit. You'll make a few mistakes.

Guess what? That's how you learn for real.

Bro, thank you so much. I'm a big fan of you, of your podcast and what you're doing. And when Stephanie told me that I was going to get to meet you today, I was really excited. And I'm on a journey now, much like you, in this new world of media that has exploded. And it shouldn't be lost on anybody that when President Trump was trying to get his final message out before the election,

He didn't go to CBS or BBC or ABC. He went on Joe Rogan's podcast. No agendas, no corporate influence, no bullshit, no FCC regulation. You know, all this corruption we see in government and all their sort of the NGOs they call them, you know, non-governmental organizations. But these shadow people that, you know, are ruling our lives, which is so wrong.

And he got 30 million downloads in 12 hours. Never happened before like that. And so now we're in that race, we're in that game, you know, and I feel like we have a few years to go. The unregulated business, media, we're able to reach the masses with the truth. You know, I created a company called Raw Media because it's raw. I don't have an agenda. I'm going to be raw.

I'm going to share with you what I really see, what I really feel, what my experiences are. No bullshit. No disguises, no secret messages. When my dad passed away, I was freaking angry. I was angry at God. God was dead to me. And I became, I just fueled, I couldn't handle what I was dealing with. I was taking pills. I was snorting drugs. I was eating drugs, drinking like an animal.

For 17 straight years, I was high. When I tell you high, every day, at one point I had viral pneumonia. with bronchial respiratory complications, and I'm in the hospital, and I got an oxygen mask on me, and double IVs, and my friend still smuggled me in weed, so I could smoke and put the oxygen mask on me.

I mean, I look back at that particular incident, it's like, it was defining, like, what the fuck, man? And I went into therapy after I got sober, when I was clean a year. And Dr. Arthur Knaut, God bless him, he passed away of pancreatic cancer right before I got married. But he said, you have a river of rage running through you. a river of rage.

It's like fire, you know, God created fire, gave man fire, nature, if you don't believe in God. Fire, the most destructive force in our universe. It can destroy a city, eat you alive. You see what's happening in LA with the fires? Lightning coming down, I mean, crazy. And then you have, but if you corral fire, if you manage it, It could light a village. It could heat a whole city.

It'd use it for cooking. So, you know, all this abundance of rage, which is akin to a fire, I learned how to sort of manage it and steer it. And it gives me almost like a superpower. Men like us that have suffered pain Great pain turns into rage. It's fuel. It allows people, it'll eat you alive and destroy you. Eat you alive and destroy.

But if you understand it, if you can manage it to corral it, you can use it to fuel. So when I went into the stock market, you know, they said, you know, got to make 300 calls a day. And a lot of guys would make 100 and they get fed up, 150. They go out, take a walk. They call their girlfriends, act like they're on the phone. Me, smile and dial, smile and dial.

300, okay, they told me 300 calls a day to be a millionaire. I made 400 just to be sure. You know what I'm saying? Because I didn't care. What am I gonna go home? I'm broke. Go home and smoke weed and play video games. I said, I might as well just work because I got nothing. I got no money to do anything. And some people said, so how much did you make? What was your salary?

I said, there's no salary. I'm a commission guy. I never took a salary in my life until I was building companies and we had $100 million in the bank. Then I put myself, my first salary was like $2.5 million a year. I never took money. It's eat what you kill. What does that mean? If I don't do business, I'm in a transaction business on Wall Street.

If I don't do a transaction that day, I don't make any money. The firm doesn't make any money. Who's going to pay for your seat? Who's going to pay for your computers? Who's going to pay for your secretary? Who's going to pay for all the statements that they got issued? So I quickly learned that I better sit there and I better generate transactions. Buy, sell, opening new accounts, doesn't matter.

It's got to be transactions. I learned essentially how to kill. You eat what you kill. I learned how to do business. I learned how to do deals. I learned how to make stuff happen. Now, I got to say, if you're getting a salary, you're not going to get to that point because it took me a minute. I used to wonder how the fuck I was going to eat. I'm not talking about pay rent. How am I going to eat?

I had no money. I mean, you know, you're working, you're working, you're working, you're grinding. And my work ethic today I see in this particular arena that we're in is very helpful to me. You know, one of the guys, in fact, you just spoke to him briefly, Johnny, said to me, you know, one thing about you, we know you're never going to quit. I just show up, man.

That's what I'm doing since I'm a kid. Win, lose, or draw. Broke, or at my height, I had $150 million personally. I had a real net worth, real capital, liquid money. And my company had $200 million, my companies. So I was valued at about $450 million at my height. But you got to remember, that's 20 years ago. Today, that's like $4 billion.

The world is very different today with all the things that have happened with the mismanagement of our economy by government and circumstances, et cetera, COVID, and a lot of different things that have happened and gone on. But, you know, the one thing is clear. I can add a lot of value to the youngsters and to the people. You know, funny thing is I have a mastermind program.

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