Listen "Against All Odds: Paul Martinelli on Overcoming Trauma, Forgiveness, and Building Billion-Dollar Success"
Episode Synopsis
In this episode of The Secret KeepHers podcast, I host Paul Martinelli, a coach, mentor, friend, and successful entrepreneur. Paul shares his personal journey, beginning with a difficult childhood marked by stuttering and emotional and physical trauma. He describes how his hidden secrets, fear, and bullying contributed to his struggles with self-worth and academic failure, contrasting his path with his more academically successful siblings. This episode is a MUST listen! About Paul Martinelli: Paul Martinelli is an internationally acclaimed speaker, trainer, mentor, and coach who truly believes that if you can dream it, you can do it. While many people know Paul as the Founding President of The John Maxwell Team and Co- Founder of the Dr. Amen Brain Health Certification, what they may not know is that he is a high school dropout who overcame a stuttering disability to share the stage with some of the biggest names in leadership and personal development - names such as John C. Maxwell, Seth Godin, Dr. Robert Cialdini, Jack Canfield, Wayne Dyer, Brian Tracy, Denis Waitley, Zig Ziglar, Les Brown, Nick Vujicic, Dr. Daniel Amen, Dr. Bruce Lipton, Joseph McClendon 111, and Mark Victor Hansen. Paul was raised by a single mother in a Pittsburgh lower class family. In the late 1980's, with just $200.00, a used vacuum, and a dream, he founded a small commercial cleaning company in South Florida. He combined smart sales tactics with personal development teachings and propelled his business to unbelievable heights. Just 15 years later, he sold his commercial cleaning company to pursue his passion and purpose of teaching people how to achieve success in their own lives. His awareness and ability to apply the success strategies and principles that he has learned and taught to others, led to Paul's success in life and business, including building 6 multi-million- dollar companies., with sales exceeding 1 billion dollars, and clients in more than 162 countries throughout the world. He now leads the Empowered Living community, a global platform of more than 2.3 million followers, providing personal and professional development training and education to help individuals and businesses build and grow beyond their current results. Alongside of this, his most recent endeavor has him positioned as a leader in the field of sales training where his signature sales program teaches sales professionals what he has learned in his more than three decades experience as a successful entrepreneur and business leader. Paul Martinelli may not have a wall of diplomas, but you can't argue with his PhD in results. Having worked his way up from mop bucket to multi-millionaire, Paul has practiced and proven what he preaches. Contact Paul: [email protected].
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