How the hell did you rob a bank?

I think my subconscious mind just overrode my conscious mind and said, hey, badass, it's time to rob a bank. No way. Oh yeah. I'm about to do something that's going to change the trajectory of my life forever. This is a do-or-die moment. Luke Lunkinheimer. I think once a bank robber, always a bank robber. The best salespeople in the world have the most experience.

You can't fight that.

What is it that makes people buy?

The simple answer is emotion.

You raise a customer's dopamine level exponentially.

They're euphoric and they will transact with you voluntarily because they love the way that you're making them feel.

I was always the black sheep. I was the one that wanted to do big things. I wanted to be an astronaut. I wanted to be a cowboy. I just wanted that really high value lifestyle. I suffered some injuries playing football. All right, well, scribble, scribble, tear. Go bring that to the village pharmacy. Okay, and that's when I was introduced opiate pain medication. Wow. hydrocodone percocet oxycodone you're talking about just a terribly just nefarious downward

trajectory from some assemblance of a normal human being to I've slept under bridges

eventually you get to the point where sober moments are so painful because you just have

nothing that you have to go out and

you have to seek out the next high because you just can't live with normal.

The biggest misconception about what it takes to be a great salesperson is that it takes

someone to be a good talk. The best salesperson, Omar, is...

Hey guys, welcome to episode of The Passionate Few Podcast.

Today we have an incredible episode as we sit down with none other than Luke Lunkinheimer.

Today he's going to share his incredible story, but how he went to hell and back and what he's learned to help you maximize your life, your business, your income, and ultimately take it to the next level. So Luke, thanks so much for being on the show today. Very happy to be here, brother. Absolutely, bro. I know it's been a long time coming from the East Coast. You're here today, so glad we got to make it happen. Feeling is mutual, brother. Absolutely. So before we get into your incredible story, man, I know you help people all over the world with sales training.

I know it's your number one passion in life to help teach people how to persuade and influence.

But before you became this like sales legend, right, helping people.

Take me back, man, because I know you had quite the story.

I know from Robin Banks to addiction to self-mastery.

But before any of that stuff, take me back.

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