"I Made $100+ Million In One Day! — Meet the High School Dropout Who Took One Risk & Won Big"

The Passionate Few

OMAR ELATTAR

Education, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Business

4.9 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Eric Spofford is a successful entrepreneur and investor who built one of New England's largest addiction treatment organizations, sold it for over $100 million, and now leads Spofford Enterprises, specializing in real estate, private equity, and behavioral healthcare.

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0:00.0	Stuck a needle in my arm and shot my first bag of heroin
0:02.7	I was 15 years old. You got social anxiety, not anymore. You got a fucked up life, don't feel like it. You got pain, trauma. It makes you bulletproof. I dropped out of high school and it was just ripping and running. There wasn't a day that I didn't do something that could have got me 5, 10, 20, 25 years in prison. I didn't set out to be a drug addict. I set out to be a fucking gangster.
0:02.3	I love that shit. could have got me 510, 20, 25 years in prison. I didn't set out to be a drug addict.
0:21.6	I set out to be a fucking gangster.
0:23.6	I love that shit.
0:24.6	He was an ex-addict, sold his company for $115 million.
0:28.6	Ladies and gentlemen, on your feet, welcome Mr. Eric Spoffo!
0:33.6	Police surround the neighborhood, they're looking for me for this robbery.
0:38.3	I go in this closet because I think the cops are going to kick the door right.
0:41.3	Something told me to pray.
0:43.3	And I'd never prayed before in my life.
0:44.3	The silence is something about solitude.
0:47.3	I think that's spiritual in nature.
0:49.3	And that was it.
0:51.3	What was it like the day the wire transfer cleared for $15 million?
0:55.6	I got millions and millions and millions of dollars just in outer space somewhere.
1:00.2	And I scrolled it one more time.
1:02.5	BOW!
1:03.7	Just a number was there.
1:04.7	My life in this one moment changed forever.
1:07.1	How do you start your first recovery center?
1:10.3	Nobody knew what a soberhouse was in 2008.
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