Hello, world, welcome to discover your talent, do what you love. I'm your host, Don Hutchison. Every Monday and Wednesday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.

On Fridays, I interview a well-known expert from the fields of personal or business development who share experiences, tools, and insights to help our listeners along their journeys.

Damien created several businesses from his college dorm room.

When one of his startups was putting the campus bookstore out of business,

the college invited him to leave.

Soon it dawned on him,

Hey, I'm supposed to be creating my own career path here.

I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Damien Lupo. Hey, I'm supposed to be creating my own career path here. I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Damien Lupo. Welcome, Damien. Hey, Don, it's good to be here. Thanks for having me.

It is our pleasure. Damien, are you using your talents doing work that you love? You know,

I feel like I am. I really do. All righty. Well, we want to hear the whole story. Damien is an entrepreneur

at heart. He started his first business at age 11 and 30 more cents, founded his own martial

art, Yikido, and holds three other black belts. He paid for his first rental house with a visa,

bought 150 houses in seven states over the next five years and then went through a $20 million

meltdown in 2008. Today he runs an Austin-based financial technology firm dedicated to

disrupting Wall Street by getting people off the Wall Street roller coaster and in control of

their money and financial future. He's written five books with two more being

released in 2017. Damien, do you think you got enough on your plate there? I was actually thinking

I needed a bigger plate. Well, that's a congratulations on this great life. That's a pithy summary of your

career. Tell our listeners around the world what you're engaged in right now that has you excited and motivated, if you would, please. What I'm doing now can be summed up in two words. I was thinking about this. This came up because I was reading The Power of Broke by Damon John, and he said, you've got to know who you are, what your brand is, what you represent in two to five words. And my brand, who I am and what I'm doing is all about financial transformation.

Good.

Okay.

So as we've discussed, as you know well, everyone's life is composed of turning points or passages

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