Being The Best Begins With Knowing Yourself Better - with Mike Zeller

On a Mission Podcast

Ellie McKay

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week, I’m On a Mission with Mike Zeller, a serial entrepreneur whose businesses have achieved over $300 million in revenue, a joint venture partner in over twenty businesses, an author, coach, and mentor to many high performing entrepreneurs around the world.

Mike talks about the highs and lows of his journey, in which he has lost it all and built it all back once more, his personal mission is to help a million people figure out their own genius, and how by knowing ourselves better we can become the best leaders in the world.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

We all have genius in side of us, but to bring it out takes special care, and less of a reliance on the system, such as formal education and society in general, which only helps the few to ascend.
True power begins inside of us. Until we know ourselves better, we cannot hope to know the world around us. The best leaders invest in knowing themselves better on a day to day basis.
We cannot hope to reach our goals if we spend our entire lives in emulating others. We need to be ourselves at all times, for that is the only way to carve out our own unique path in life.
We restore and nourish our creative sides by breaking the patterns from time to time - by disrupting the routines and searching for ways to fill the creative banks inside us.

BEST MOMENTS

'My mission to help a million people figure out their genius'

'To know thyself is the beginning of all wisdom'

'Be yourself, everybody else is taken'

'We have an obligation to find that space for creativity, for that space of genius'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

On A Mission - https://omny.fm/shows/on-a-mission

Mike Zeller - https://mikezeller.com/about/

ABOUT THE HOST

The On A Mission Podcast brings you Ellie Mckay's no holds barred chats with some of the UK's top business leaders, entrepreneurs, celebrities, athletes, top thought leaders, influencers and mindset experts.

On a Mission is for unconventional thinkers that want to challenge the status quo. For all those people on a mission to live their best lives and take control of their own destiny.

Ellie is a straight-talking, successful property entrepreneur who passionately believes that everyone has the power within themselves to transform their lives no matter what their situation.

As a mumpreneur with 3 young children and multiple businesses, Ellie likes to keep it real with her no-bs insights and share the things that have helped her achieve the level of success she has enjoyed to date.

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Clubhouse: @ellie83

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Mike, thank you so much for being with me today.
0:03.0	Ellie, pleasure, cannot wait to dive in and I love your theme being on a mission.
0:09.0	You are certainly a man on a mission.
0:12.0	You know, I've done so many of these podcasts now,
0:14.0	but one of the best part is about it for me is sort of doing a bit of a deep dive into people's stories
0:21.0	and learning a little bit more about what makes them tick.
0:24.0	You know, a common theme that I do seem to come up against
0:28.0	is the adversity that most high performance people have overcome.
0:33.0	So I'm really keen to explore that because there's been...
0:37.0	You're someone who's from the outside, you've had it all, you've lost it all,
0:42.0	and then you've rebuilt and it's just been a really interesting journey to kind of observe from afar.
0:49.0	So let's get straight to it.
0:52.0	Your dad was an immigrant over from Germany.
0:56.0	What brought in did you have and where did this ambition come from?
1:00.0	Yeah, my dad, you know, he came to America, not speaking in word of English.
1:05.0	He grew up in post-World War II, Germany, and his parents were actually pretty anti-Hitler,
1:12.0	but in that time, you had to have a picture of Hitler hanging in your house or your residence.
1:20.0	Otherwise, you could get thrown in jail or worse.
1:23.0	You could actually come and check your house to make sure you had a picture of Hitler hanging.
1:27.0	They would put the picture of Hitler in the back of their storeroom in a closet,
1:31.0	so they could be true with that.
1:36.0	But they had a season where they would eat meat once a week,
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