Special Family Q&A with Tommy Mello's Niece and Nephews!
episodePreviously titled “Special Family Q&A with Tommy Mello’s Niece and Nephews!” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 4, 2026
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What does courage mean in the context of success?
Courage isn't the absence of fear. It's doing something even though you might fear it. A lot of people, they just avoid that rejection.
What financial lessons can we learn from 'Rich Dad Poor Dad'?
When you learn from failure, you learn that doing it again will cause you to fail again. So if you learn from your failure, you should succeed in the end.
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.
How can embracing rejection lead to success?
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. 1 2 9 9. 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 elevate and win.com forward slash podcast to get your copy. Now let's go back into the interview.
All right, here we are. We are live on the Home Service Expert podcast. Today, I got Emma, Nate, and Ty with me. They are my nieces, niece, and two nephews. And what we started to do is a book club. I wanted these guys to start learning at a decent age. They started out with probably one of the hardest books ever called Green Eggs and Green Ham. No, I'm kidding. But We started out with a book. We started a book club. They get $400 each if they could quiz out of the book. But today we're not going to do a really fancy quiz. We're just going to talk about a book. And the first book they read was Rich Dad, Poor Dad. And if you guys don't mind, tell me what you learned from the first book. We've already done the quizzes. You guys already got your money.
We're going to talk about the new book, but tell me your first lesson that you learned. We'll start with you, Ty. What did you learn about the book by Robert Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad?
I learned that buying assets that can grow over time is the best way to put your money into.
Good answer.
All right, Nate, what about you?
Yeah, I think the main takeaway I took away from the book was that focus on buying appreciating assets more than the depreciating ones. Because the more you buy depreciating assets, it's just going to take away your money. But if you focus on buying an appreciating asset, you'll get the money over time either way.
Why is learning from failure important?
And save your money. What else, Emma?
Well, I was kind of like the same. Like, I guess like assets put money into your pocket. Liabilities take money out. And so I thought that simple piece of advice was really important because I think a lot of people like get confused or they don't value that just simple piece of advice of just putting your money into things that will grow versus.
Do you guys think my DeLorean will go up or down in value? down it should go up in value yeah so ty is 15 nate 16 emma's 18 she's getting ready to go to college uh these guys really want to earn 400 today so let's listen we are uh we're gonna go over the book it's a quick easy book it's called go for no what is it what is the main title here what is it about
Yes is the destination and no is how you get there. So it's basically just, like, people sometimes will focus just on, like, the final end goal, the success that comes with it. But I think this book really highlighted that rejection and the word no is part of the process. It's part of the journey of getting to success. So... Yeah, I think that was probably the most important thing.
What are the future aspirations of Tommy's niece and nephews?
And like desensitizing yourself to the word no and just putting yourself out there and not avoiding that rejection is so important.
Yeah, that's really good. And the subtitle says, do you want to achieve success? If the answer is yes, then you need to get more no's. This book is how to show you why and how. And it's by Richard Fenton and Andrea Waltz. What I'll tell you guys is I buy this book for every single new technician and installer that starts at the company. So I've bought a thousand of these books.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What does courage mean in the context of success?
0:00–0:09
2
What financial lessons can we learn from 'Rich Dad Poor Dad'?
0:09–0:37
3
How can embracing rejection lead to success?
0:37–2:47
4
Why is learning from failure important?
2:47–4:01
5
What are the future aspirations of Tommy's niece and nephews?
4:01–6:21
6
What sales strategies help overcome rejection?
6:21–8:01
7
How does curiosity drive personal and professional growth?
8:01–9:39
8
What are the final thoughts on courage and personal growth?
9:39–38:36
Speakers
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