Whenever I hang out with other successful entrepreneurs, they always ask me, how do you have such a great team?

Or they'll say, I need this person for my business, or how do you find such talented people?

And I realize I never sat down and explained my process. It's a very simple way to get people

on board with your vision and push your business forward without you being involved. So I'm going to take you on the

journey of how I went from hating the business I had built and feeling like no one was on my

side to today building a business where I'm pumped to hang out with my team and love every second

of my day. And it all comes down to this one skill, leadership. Welcome to the Martel method. I went from rehab at 17 to

building a $100 million empire and being a Wall Street Journal bestselling author. In this podcast,

I'll show you exactly how to build a life and business you don't grow to hate. My bestselling book,

Buy Back Your Time is out now. Grab a copy at buybackyourtime.com or at any of your

preferred online retailers. The first part of leadership that you need to understand, it's this.

Your team doesn't work for you. You work for your team. So I moved to Silicon Valley and I got

exposed to a completely different way people led. I had these 26-year-old kids running around raising hundreds of millions of dollars,

leading these companies of 1,000 employees.

The way I thought you managed people was a certain way,

and I was exposed to a completely different style.

That's when I learned the three levels of leadership. The first leader is the title leader. This is maybe the person you've worked with when you worked at like an entry level job or just starting in your career. This person pretty much says the words, I'm your boss, do what I tell you to do. Because they have a title, they think everybody's got to listen to them. So most people get it wrong and then they have people that are leaving them all the time because they're paying them a little bit more an hour, an extra 50 cents an hour person leaves. They don't quit the company. They quit their boss, usually a title leader. Worst way to lead people. The second level is the trader. This is a person that says, if you do this for me, I will trade you for these things.

The challenge with that style is that the moment somebody else will trade them for more,

they're going to bounce.

They're going to leave you.

The highest level of leadership, the third level is the servant leader.

When you show up as a servant leader, every meeting isn't about let's get done.

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