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The Playbook With David Meltzer

From Adversity to Achievement with Michael O'Donnell

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I sit down with Michael O'Donnell at Solar Con to discuss the journey from humble beginnings to extraordinary success. Michael, VP Sales/Partner at SunSolar Solutions and a 10X Golden Door Award winner, shares how his upbringing and the twelve-step program shaped his resilience and vision. We explore the significance of maintaining a high self-image, the importance of daily non-negotiables, and the transformative power of mentorship. Michael recounts his experiences in Tahiti and explains how challenging conventional beliefs can lead to new opportunities. Discover the secrets to thriving in sales, achieving epic goals, and living a life of purpose and service.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Playbook, where each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities, and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and professional playbook to success.

0:12.0

Hey, this is Dave Beltser live at SolarCon

0:14.8

with Entrepreneurs The Playbook.

0:17.1

I almost said favorite book.

0:18.7

And that's because you're my favorite friend,

0:20.9

especially in Solar and Sales. He is a legend and he's humble, which is why I love Michael O'Donnell.

0:27.7

Michael O'Donnell, welcome back.

0:29.2

Thank you so much.

0:30.2

So good to be with you again.

0:31.2

I think you just like me so much because every time we're together

0:34.0

we're in these amazing epic places with crazy stuff going on. So that's got to build this

0:38.7

affinity affinity affinity. I have to tell you something that we have a greater chance of being in these

0:45.0

epic places that not because we live epic lives. Yes we do. And majority of the days

0:50.3

I'm in an epic place around epic people, whether it be Tahiti, New York City.

0:56.4

Tahiti was good.

0:57.4

Great.

0:58.4

And you brought, speaking of Tahiti, a side of your personality that I love is that you understand the idea that we never will overachieve our own self image. And there are some things going on in Tahiti that are not

1:17.0

comfortable I think my daughter explained it is we did some uncomfortable stuff

1:20.9

yeah I was up in a tree for like 18 hours. Like why am I

1:26.1

in T. E. D. And up in a tree for 18 hours. Yeah why were rich people

1:30.1

doing a vision quest? Yeah why are rich people paying to do things poor people hate to do?

1:34.0

I did have a good view from that tree.

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