I used to be FAT!

<p>[00:00:00] Welcome to the Successful Life Podcast. I&apos;m your host Corey Berrier, and I used to be fat hell. I&apos;m still a fat boy at heart. Like my friend Caleb Feyerhiesen says, look, confidence is the number one thing that you need to have a successful life. My first fight with confidence. Was when I was called fat at age 12.</p> <p>I went on a diet after that experience and I never gained the weight back, which helped me tremendously with my confidence. Am I still, am I super confident now? Not really. I&apos;m probably more confident than most why? I&apos;m willing to look stupid in front of people. And I&apos;m willing to learn, and you might be thinking Corey, what does this have to do with sales?</p> <p>Let me tell you a story about having no confidence or belief in myself and how it affected my ability to sell and provide for my family. So back in 2018, , I had a bad business deal or a business deal go sideways; I made a bad decision with this business, and we lost everything in that business.</p> <p>Everything. I lost everything. My wife still had her business, and the most important thing that I lost in that whole situation was my confidence and my self-esteem, like I was so depressed. And I was depressed cause I didn&apos;t believe in myself. And so I met a guy and I had to tell him I didn&apos;t believe in myself, which was probably one of the hardest things that I&apos;ve ever had to do.</p> <p>Imagine having to tell another dude, man, I just don&apos;t believe in myself, man. I&apos;m just not confident enough to even sell myself, and I need your help with. . That was a humbling moment. The second thing that was a humbling moment was his fee. At the time, his coaching fee was $2,500 a month. That is $800 more than our house payment.</p> <p>But here&apos;s the thing. I needed to pay that [00:02:30] amount of money every month. The reason I needed to pay that amount of money every. was because I needed the experience of what it was like working with someone at that amount of money a month wo