Hi, I'm Natalie Jill, fat loss expert turned high performance coach.

When odds are stacked against us, how do we shift and create everything from nothing?

How do we level up when we aren't feeling it yet or we've had a big setback?

On this podcast, I'll be talking to some of the most inspiring and courageous men and women on this planet who, at their

worst, learned how to achieve success greater than they ever dreamed possible, leveling up and

creating everything from nothing. Born in Iran under a strict regime and no freedom of speech,

Sam Bakhtiar was a very poor child, and not just

financially. From ages 3 to 11, he went to sleep to the sounds of sirens and bombs. In fact,

there was a constant firework of missiles and air attacks throughout his whole childhood.

His parents divorced when he was just three and he never saw or heard from his dad again.

Raised by his grandparents and a single mom,

Sam thought this war-stricken poverty way of life was normal. And then in 1985, Sam's world began

to change. He and his mom left his refugees with just $500 to their name and one piece of

luggage. They made their way out of Iran. Coming to the U.S. was not what Sam expected.

His expectations of the U.S. were based on shows like Dallas and dynasty and even the A-team,

but the drug dealers, prostitute-filled streets and abandoned buildings that he came to know his

home was not what he expected of America. Barely speaking English, being a minority, being poor,

and living in a foreign country, he longed to fit in. His love of sports gave him his first

excitement to try out for a basketball team. But when that five-foot-five Sam was rejected,

on a two-hour hike home in the snow he vowed that day, he would one day become a known success.

A success is what Sam is now.

He leveled up, transforming his own physique from scrawny, awkward kid to a champion bodybuilder

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