He's a best-selling author and the world's number one trainer for entrepreneurship and network market. It's time to go pro with Eric Worry.

Hello everybody, Eric Worry here. Welcome to another of our top leader interviews. This is a place where we take people who are true network marketing professionals and we find out about their story. We find out about what makes them tick how they think.

Today, I've got a dear friend and a guy who's just really crushing around the world. His name is Iban Tapia. How are you doing?

Good to see you. Thank you for coming to our studios. I know some of your story, but I'd like to hear it again because I kind of know the stage story.

Here's my stage story, here's where I was before. What I'd like to know is, and for those of you listening or watching, Iban is an extremely high earner in the very, very top echelons inside of network marketing when it comes to income monthly yearly.

And what were you like? How old are you now? 36. Young man, 20 years younger than me. My gosh, that's depressing. So 36 years old, what were you like as a kid? I mean, if somebody were describing you as a seven year old looking at you, how would they describe you?

Well, the seven year old, oh man, I would probably be a little kid to do their own thing. I would love to play sports. I was a big sports guy, baseball, video games.

What was your video game when you were growing up? Oh my God, any video game? I know, but what you had to have a favorite.

Oh, well, I used just to play Nintendo, just Donkey Kong. I remember right now, sports, anything involved with sports. Where were you born?

Tijuana, Mexico, originally. Tijuana. And that's where you grew up until how long? I grew up in Tijuana until I was like 18. Okay, 18 years old. All right, so you grew up there. What are your parents do?

Well, my mom, she's actually a nursing profession. She actually got retired when she was 20 years into profession.

We kept you develop a weird system, nervous disease that you could adjust, barely walk. And then my dad, he used to work for this drug store for like 30 years for a public hospital in Tijuana, Mexico.

Okay, so you watch your mom and dad hardworking people. Very hardworking people, both of them. Yeah, my mom actually started doing entrepreneurship through network marketing. Really? Yes.

She actually has a photo of her and Jim Rohn get out of here. So back in Herva life days. That back in the Herva life days. Oh my goodness. So when I was 13 years of phase, she used to grab me and take me to those Herva life meetings.

So you got a little exposed to it. Did she ever make any money with it? She made around $1,000 per month. That's big. That was big. She was huge for Tijuana. Yeah. Oh yeah, for there. She made it.

But she was up in it. She was always one of those entrepreneurship mothers always trying to help the family bring food to the family. She was just amazing. Yeah, brothers and sisters. I actually have two brothers and six sisters. Check that out.

I'm the youngest one. You're the youngest. I'm the youngest. So what's it like to be the youngest of that whole crew? Well, I'm eight years younger than the oldest one. So I was just a pamper.

Are there like double twins and triplets or something? No, well, you have to give it. Yeah, it's like a blended family. It's like a blended family. Got a step five. Got a got a got a got a got a got my dad right now. He's like 84 for example. My mom is like 72.

You know, so over there older, I was like the last drop. So it's at some point did did your mom dad get divorced? No, no, they're actually the last couple. Okay, the last couple. I understand. So there was previous. Yes, there was previous marriages of my dad, previous marriage of my mom.

Okay, when they came together. So they're the only mom and dad you've ever had. And I am their only son of them. Really? Yes.

So the rest were kind of combined from other things and you're the like the glue that holds everybody together. Exactly. So what was it like me? I'm the oldest. Okay. Okay. So I don't know is like to be the youngest for for my youngest brother. Okay. He's like.

Everybody was my parents were really strict with me because I was the oldest and they didn't know any better. They're very very strict by the time my youngest brother was born 10 years later.

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