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REAL = Real Examples Altering Lives Mentors ⭐️ We shed light on mentors and leaders who are impacting lives and creating success stories for everyone, most especially the youth.
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From Harder Than Life to Happier Than Life | Kelly Siegel on REAL Mentors Podcast EP 100 (opens the original)
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Kelly Siegel already wrote the book on grinding through pain. Harder Than Life was the story of weaponizing poverty, abuse and addiction to build a successful company. Then he got to the top of that mountain, made the money and realized he still was not fulfilled. That is when the real work began.In this episode Kelly comes back to the REAL Mentors Podcast for a second time and goes deeper than he has ever gone publicly. He talks about the three beliefs that ran on repeat in his head for most of
Homeless Teen Mom to Army Veteran to Founder | Madeline Martinez on REAL Mentors Podcast 99 EP (opens the original)
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Madeline Martinez was a teenage mother living in the New York City shelter system before she was old enough to graduate high school. She got her GED the same year she would have walked across that stage, enrolled in college and kept moving. Then life pulled her back under.What followed was fourteen years of addiction, an $800 a day habit, sex work, evictions, shelter system violations and a morning she woke up at 108 pounds with no shoes, people crossing the street to avoid her, and two kids she
Crack at 9, Juvie at 16, Built a $100M Recovery Empire | Adam Roth on REAL Mentors Podcast Ep 98 (opens the original)
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Adam Roth was smoking weed stolen from his mother at nine years old. His father taught him how to smoke crack. Anger was the only emotion he knew because at twelve years old he made the decision to stop feeling anything else. From sixteen to twenty he cycled in and out of institutions. Every single day he did not know if he was going to live or die.He got clean at 26 and never looked back. Today he is the Chief Executive Officer of We Love Walk, overseeing six addiction treatment centers across
Spiritual Fitness and the Secret to Your Potential | Adam Jablin on REAL Mentors Podcast Ep 98 (opens the original)
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Adam Jablin was standing in a room full of people who loved him, listening to them read letters about who he was and begging him to get help. His only thought in that moment was what everyone else was going to think. That is how deep the addiction had taken him.He went to treatment on a ten day trial basis because he could not imagine being gone for twenty eight. He never left. What came out the other side was a man with a gift he had been resisting without even knowing it — the ability to look
Born 3 Months Early With Cerebral Palsy, Now a Global Advocate | Kevin McShan on REAL Mentors Podcast EP 94 (opens the original)
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Kevin McShan was born three months premature with cerebral palsy. At nine years old a doctor told him he would never walk without assistance. What happened next is what this episode is about.Kevin built a career in sports broadcasting, professional speaking and disability advocacy by refusing to let anyone else write the story of what he was capable of. He launched a podcast called Let's Have This Conversation during COVID because he decided there were only so many hours of news he could watch.
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