Chapter 1: Why is being counted out an advantage for your comeback?
The people who told you no were not protecting you. They were protecting themselves.
Chapter 2: What is the ladder trap and how can it hinder success?
From their discomfort of watching you try something they never dared.
Chapter 3: What does it mean to leave your comfort zone without burning bridges?
From their embarrassment if you succeeded.
From them having to explain themselves and why they never did it. Gatekeepers never guard the gate for your benefit. They stand there because they can't bring themselves to walk through it.
Chapter 4: How does the 'ugly middle' contribute to personal growth?
But I have something wrong with me. happiest when I'm counted out.
Chapter 5: Why do cynics get to be right while optimists get to be rich?
I'm hungriest when my seat at the table gets taken. If you give me a chip on my shoulder, I'm a thank you. But I didn't always have that mindset.
Chapter 6: How can money be viewed as the sword of the 21st century?
So if you have been denied, ignored, rejected, pushed away, this episode is your counterpunch. This is The Big Deal Podcast. I'm Cody Sanchez, and this is the comeback episode.
Before we go any further, if this lights a fuel for you, I want you to do something. Subscribe.
Chapter 7: What lessons can be learned from Michael Jordan's comeback mentality?
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Chapter 8: How did Sylvester Stallone's journey illustrate the power of belief?
And it tells us what is really resonating, which guests we should book, what to go deeper in. My producer just told me that 76% of the people watching my videos are not subscribed, which means we're reaching a lot of new people that are part of my tribe. Like you are my people. I created a big deal for the ones who are serious about building something and don't want to be sidelined.
So if that's you, I want you here every week. So hit that subscribe button. I see you and I'm so grateful for you. Now, here is the pitfall nobody warns you about. I call it the ladder trap. You climb the ladder, you get the fancy title, you get the paycheck, and then one morning you wake up and realize this ladder is leaning against the wrong damn building.
I spent years on Wall Street, like Goldman Sachs, State Street, First Rest, years. I was really good at it. That's the worst part. When you're good at something you don't love, the golden handcuffs get tighter. My time was tied to a clock of a person I didn't even like. My income to somebody else's decision. I was making money for people that I didn't actually want to make more money for.
And I had this like sickening realization that the most smart people I've ever met at some point said, I either want to be able to grow more here or I want to stop being your product. And like everyone around me was fine with it. You know, the paycheck was big enough to keep my friends, my family comfortable, to never leave. But here's what I learned in Juarez that applies directly to you.
The most dangerous prison is the one where you don't know you're locked up and you do it to yourself. Right now, there's something in your life that you know you need to do. You need to take the risk. You need to ask for the big thing. You need to move a tiny step forward that feels like a giant jump. I know because I did it too. I left Wall Street after I had bought a lot of laundromats.
of the most prestigious financial institutions on the planet, Goldman Sachs, Vanguard, and instead I wanna go work at a place where people wash their underwear? They're gonna laugh at you. And that's the thing I want you to realize. The laugh is the win. When nobody believes, that's when you know you're actually doing something interesting. You wanna know what loneliness sounds like?
It sounds like the silence from people who used to cheer for you. I remember my family at the time said replacing Goldman Sachs with Cody Sanchez was a huge mistake. The Wall Street friends I used to have, gone, right? The invites dried up. The calls stopped. Nobody says it to your face. They just disappear. And the few who do say something, it's always dressed up as concern, you know?
Like, are you sure about this? That seems a little risky. You've had such a good thing going. Is the grass always greener? Translation is, I don't understand what you're doing, so it has to be wrong. And I want you to think about that again and again and again, because I cannot remember one transition in my life where somebody cheered me on and told me to do it.
And, you know, what's funny about this is I think today everybody's telling you, go be your own boss, go be an entrepreneur. It'll be great, they said. Right. Then you get the company like, fuck me. What did I sign up for? And actually, I'm going to have a lot of years of not making a lot of money and not doing this. That is true. You don't have to go burn the bridges to have a comeback story.
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