Building a Winning Culture: Lessons from a Former Addict and Elite Athlete
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Who is Tony Hoffman and what is his story?
You can have a desire to quit, but there has to be action that's followed up with it. And the only way that you can achieve that action or for that action to achieve what you want is to actually connect with people that have done it themselves. Right. We know that as business people. Right. If you want to make a million dollars, you better get around people that are making a million dollars. You can get lucky. You can hard work yourself into a million dollars. And I've seen how that's kind of worked into my life. I can get to seven figures. But seven figures on hard work alone isn't going to show me how to scale that seven figures into eight, how to make the proper investments, how to understand tax codes, how to make sure that I'm doing X, Y, and Z. Because I have to get around other millionaires to understand how that works.
Welcome to the Home Service Expert, where each week, Tommy chats with world-class entrepreneurs and experts in various fields, like marketing, sales, hiring, and leadership, to find out what's really behind their success in business. Now, your host, the Home Service Millionaire, Tommy Mello.
Before we get started, I wanted to share two important things with you. First, I want you to implement what you learned today. To do that, you'll have to take a lot of notes, but I also want you to fully concentrate on the interview. So I asked the team to take notes for you. Just text NOTES to 888-526-1299. That's 888-526-1299.
And you'll receive a link to download the notes from today's episode. Also, if you haven't got your copy of my newest book, Elevate, please go check it out. I'll share with you how I attracted and developed a winning team that helped me build a $200 million company in 22 states. Just go to elevateandwin.com forward slash podcast to get your copy. Now let's go back into the interview. All right, guys, special podcast day today. I got Tony Hoffman in the house. This guy is a little bit different than we normally talk about. He's been through a lot of life challenges. He's a pro at public speaking, mental health, and addiction recovery. And I know you're asking yourself, what does this have to do with home service?
Well, first and foremost, all of us are addicted to something, whether it's health, whether it's Netflix. It's just what are we going to be addicted to? Especially a lot of us have alcohol problems. A lot of us overdo it. We don't even realize we have a problem. And, you know, this isn't for everybody, but I'll tell you this. We're going to talk a lot about business, public speaking, marketing yourself, becoming a marketer yourself, and a personal brand. But, Tony, it's a pleasure to have you here. I'm glad you made it into the place here. From prison to the Olympics, let's hear your story. Thanks, man. Yeah, you know what? I grew up in a pretty average home. in the middle of California. My mother and father were in the trucking industry. They retired from the trucking industry 40-some years. So I grew up around hardworking people. Dad was up at 5 o'clock in the morning, out the door at 6 o'clock, come home 10 o'clock at night. Same with mom.
Worked in the same office with my dad for 40 of those years. We never didn't have what we needed. But one of the things that I was missing was my parents even being around. And that was a confusing thing for me when I started to get to my teenage years was like, you know, I need my dad around here. I feel like I need my dad around here to kind of validate my existence and kind of these things that I'm starting to question that we've all questioned starting in our teenage years. You know, it goes from recess to feelings and wondering what how to do things and really quick overnight almost. And so I was a really gifted athlete. That was my thing. I sucked in school. I didn't like books. I didn't like reading. I didn't like taking tests or studying. I liked the basketball court. I wanted to go to the NBA when I was a young kid. And I lived for that dream for many years of my life and was very good. I was one of the best athletes in my town. But one thing that made me unique as an athlete was I didn't just play one sport. I could play any sport.
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