Boom! Shake the room, Fire Nation! JLD here and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire. Brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network with great shows like Being Boss. Today we'll be focusing on how a United States Air Force veteran won from $27,000 a year to multi-seven figure companies in just three years. To drop these value bombs, I've brought Tyler Austin into EO Fire Studios. Tyler is a husband dad,

a real estate investor and Air Force veteran. He went from a $27,000 a year job to multi-million dollar companies in a three-year window and he loves cigars, whiskey, the outdoors, and being with family.

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Tyler, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something that you believe about becoming successful that most people disagree with.

John, thank you for having me on. What's going on Fire Nation? And, man, I took me a while to think about this question. And what I came up with is essentially that a lot of people determined success as a dollar value or I determined success as a mental state.

And I really do believe Fire Nation, when you're thinking about success and happiness and just everything that you're doing in this world.

Think about it as how are you feeling in this moment? And when you're waking up every morning, looking in the mirror, asking yourself, like, am I doing what I feel like my purpose is am I doing what I feel like I'm meant to be doing every single day.

And you're saying, yes, more often than not, it's not having to be every day because there's going to be off days, then you're winning the game. So Tyler, as I teased to Fire Nation before we jumped on here, I'm looking forward to chatting with a fellow veteran and you're from the Air Force.

I want to talk about how you went from $27,000 a year to multi-seven figure companies in just three years.

So I love the story and I want to hear about motivation because we do hear that word a lot, brother. So I want you to break it down for us.

How can we Fire Nation find our true self-motivation?

Sadly, something has to happen in your life where you get into a state where you have to kind of dig in deep and find it.

But hopefully I can give a couple of ways that you can shortcut the path to it. And the very first thing, see, what happened to me is I was getting out and then I turned out that I had a baby on the way and I ended up no longer being the breadwinner in my family.

And so mentally and physically, like I started going down a really bad place in 2015. And so I ended up having this moment where I got on the phone with my dad and I ended up essentially having the first moment that my dad ever seen me cry or heard me cry.

And I just broke down on the phone. And later that night, I was sitting there and I was like, dude, like what am I going to do? Like what is it that I'm even like meant to do? I was like the only thing I know how to do is build bombs for a living.

That's not really useful outside the military. And so what I realized is that I was trying to live life based off the lenses through someone else's eyes.

So I sat down and I did a self reflection on myself. I did a self reflection of the reason why I wanted success. And I realized that the only reason I wanted it was for me.

And up until that point, I was saying that I wanted it because I needed it for my family. I wanted I needed it because I need my family to have the byproducts of my success.

And it all reality, that's not true because if really I cared about my family, I would have been spending more time with them. I would have been I would have been focusing on more of the things that would have made them, you know, have me more. And so when I became honest and I sat down my wife and I had said, you know, listen, I think that I've realized that this whole success thing, this whole me trying to do this path, me leaving the military me, you know, needing you to basically pay our bills like all of that is really just me being really greedy.

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