You're listening to the Impact Theory Podcast, your source of empowering ideas and actionable

techniques from the world's highest achievers.

Join host Tom Billio, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of the billion dollar brand Quest

Nutrition on a journey to unlock your potential and realize your vision of success.

Welcome to Impact Theory.

Everybody, welcome to Impact Theory.

You're here, my friends, because you believe that human potential is nearly limitless,

but you know that having potential is not the same as actually doing something with it.

So our goal with this show and company is to introduce you to the people and ideas

that will help you actually execute on your dreams.

All right, today's guest has had one of the most staggeringly diverse and successful careers ever.

He began acting in commercials when he was an infant and then after being cast in roughly 150 commercials,

he got his big break in Hollywood when at the age of 13 he landed the role of Weasel Weisel on Save By The Bell, the new class.

Over night, he was a teen celebrity, but the show did not last long and it was over just as quickly as it began.

But rather than lament the death of his Hollywood dream, he skipped a few grades, graduated early and headed off to college,

graduating from Harvard at the age of 19 and then Harvard law shortly thereafter.

He went on to clerk for Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg,

ultimately becoming a litigator for the U.S. Justice Department, where he argued more than a dozen cases in federal court,

never losing a single one.

Somewhere in there, he also founded an internet tech company that would later sell for over $230 million.

After realizing that his high-powered career in law wasn't for him, he finally left his high-paying man,

a hat-and-base international law firm, and bought a rapidly failing cement company in Orlando, a very unlikely choice that nearly cost him everything.

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