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10 years ago, I get an email. I'm doing this event with Richard Branson at his home in Verbier, Switzerland. Would you like to come? Impostor syndrome through the roof. And I'm trying to study Richard because obviously he lives a quality of life that I just can dream up.
What he taught me was this philosophy of essentially replacing yourself out of the doing and really learning to work through other people. And that's when I designed this thing called the replacement ladder. Welcome to the Martell Method. I went from rehab at 17 to building a $100 million empire and being a Wall Street Journal bestselling author.
In this podcast, I'll show you exactly how to build a life and business you don't grow to hate. And make sure you don't miss anything by subscribing to my newsletter at martellmethod.com. My promise. To every person in this room, by the end of this time together, I will give you a framework, a process, a life philosophy that if you apply it, will change the game for you.
It'll actually make you feel guilty because you'll be making more money and it's not gonna be as hard as you thought it would be. Your business will grow and your time will expand. You'll be like, I should be working harder? No. That's not how it has to be. Before I can get into that, I have to share with you a quick story. As a child, I went through tough, tough challenges.
I grew up in a home with an alcoholic mother. I had a father that wasn't around very much and the second oldest of four. And I got diagnosed with ADHD when I was 11, put on medication, My whole life, I thought I was broken. I didn't value myself. I had zero self-esteem. For a long part of it, I didn't even feel like I deserved to breathe the air I was taking.
And that caused me to make a lot of bad decisions. I'm just curious. Anybody else in this room get arrested for getting a high-speed chase from the cops? Anybody? Show of hands. Oh, OK. I guess I'm the only one. But essentially what happened after ending up in juvenile detention twice and getting into trouble, I got released. They allowed me to go get some therapy.
And I ended up in this place called Portage. And Portage was a therapeutic community for adolescents with a drug addiction. And that was me. Most people do five months of therapy. I did 11. I had some real stuff to work on. You see that? Now, this place saved my life. It taught me my personal worth. It helped me rebuild the relationship with my brothers and my family.
It helped me understand basic values. And through that process of rebuilding, honestly, my identity, I started to... have a vision for the future. And that's what I'm so excited about the theme of this event. is getting ready for the future. And here's what happened.
At the end of this 11-month period, I decided to stay for the summer before going back out into my normal world, because I wasn't ready yet. I didn't feel comfortable. And I was helping Rick, the maintenance guy. He'd been there for 20-some years. And he was kind of like a big brother to me. I was helping him clean out the property.
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