Welcome back to the Mike Dillard podcast where we help entrepreneurs like you get the knowledge and skills that you need to bring your dreams to life.

You know, making a living and supporting a family can be difficult and stressful even in the best of times and circumstances.

Building a business can be infinitely more difficult

because it is all up to you and there are no safety nets. And then that's usually when the

excuses start to come out. It's too expensive to start a business. It doesn't work. I don't have the

right personality. I'm just not good at selling. And the list goes on and on. But you know what?

At the end of the day, most people

actually have it really easy because all of the stories and challenges are simply based on

stories that they've made up in their own minds. They're wearing invisible handcuffs.

Well, I'll tell you what's tough and what's difficult. Tough is spending five years in prison

and then walking out the gates with nothing.

Tough is knowing that you have a felony record and that nobody is going to hire you.

Tough is knowing that no matter how much you've changed and what you want to accomplish now that you're free,

that all of those opportunities that are ready and waiting for you and I to take advantage of

have a giant

fence of judgment surrounding them for our guests today. And yet here he is. He's overcome

every challenge you can possibly imagine and then some. In less than 24 months, he's turned

his scarlet letter into his story and a badge of honor in order to inspire and motivate others

to never give up and to always do

their best no matter what life throws at them. If you think you have challenges when it comes to

building a business, well, today's interview is going to give you a brand new level of perspective

and it might just inspire you to take off those invisible handcuffs that you've been using

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