9 Brutal Lessons I Learned in 2025 I Wish I Knew Earlier
The Martell Method w/ Dan Martell
Dan Martell
4.9 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I break down 9 powerful mindset shifts that changed everything for me in 2025 and made me millions, plus a bonus that most people never talk about.
If you want 2026 to be your breakout year, these are the inner upgrades that will get you there.
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| 0:00.0 | I've got nine mindset lessons I learned in 2025. I want to go through each one, tell you a story, |
| 0:06.3 | and tell you what impact it had on my life so that maybe it could serve you at where you're at right now. |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome to the Martel method. I went from rehab at 17 to building a $100 million empire and being |
| 0:17.6 | a Wall Street Journal bestselling author. In this podcast, I'll show you exactly |
| 0:21.7 | how to build a life and business you don't grow to hate. My bestselling book, Buy Back Your |
| 0:26.3 | Time is out now. Grab a copy at buybackyourtime.com or at any of your preferred online retailers. |
| 0:32.9 | The first one is every level requires a new level of letting go. |
| 0:39.1 | Learning to let go continuously becomes a theme in my life. |
| 0:43.3 | What beliefs do I have that keep me stuck? |
| 0:46.2 | What are areas of my life that I know better that if I just learn to let go would |
| 0:50.4 | change everything in my business? |
| 0:53.5 | And that for me this year was a big takeaway, is that every |
| 0:57.0 | new level has a new devil. And part of that devil to defeat it requires to let go. That's one. |
| 1:03.0 | Two, people will attack you when you surpass them. It's human nature. See, it sucks that like there's |
| 1:10.4 | probably people that you worked with a long time ago, went to school with a long time ago, are probably good friends of yours today that were your cheerleader, your fans, they supported you. |
| 1:19.0 | They wanted to see you do well in life. |
| 1:22.7 | Until the moment you surpassed them. |
| 1:26.1 | I don't know if you can resonate with this, but I guarantee |
| 1:29.2 | there's something you've done recently where somebody criticize you for doing it. And you might |
| 1:35.5 | take it as like, why would they do that? That's not nice. Like, why can't they support me? I'm |
| 1:39.5 | telling you that on the come up, the people that were your biggest fans have to criticize you because |
| 1:48.2 | in the moment that you surpass, you've essentially showed them where they let go. |
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