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The Jon Gordon Podcast

Joel Marion | Broke at 25 to $100 Million at 30 - From Success to Significance

The Jon Gordon Podcast

Jon Gordon

Leadership, Teamwork, Success, Positiveuniversity, Jongordon, Health & Fitness, Positivity, Education, Positiveu, Happiness, Teambuilding

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Positive University Podcast, Jon Gordon talks with Joel Marion. Joel’s story is compelling. He went from broke at age 25 to $100 Million by age 30. Now, he’s leveraging his success for significance and sharing the lessons he’s learned along the way.
A few highlights from this interview:
  • How Joel went from 25 and struggling to making it BIG.
  • How what seemed like a major failure in Joel’s career actually become a significant opportunity.
  • The importance of adding value to others and building relationships.
  • How Joel handled constant rejection to learn, grow, get better and overcome.
  • Why it’s important to not just think about what’s best in the moment but to think about what’s best to get you to where you want to be in the future.
  • Why you must commit and be willing if you want to achieve your dreams.
Learn more about Joel by listening to his BORN TO IMPACT podcast. You can sign up for his inspirational emails at TransformationInsider.com
About Joel Marion:
Joel Marion is a man of faith, husband, father, entrepreneur, 5-time best-selling author, and fitness personality. Joel has appeared on NBC, ABC, and CBS, SIRIUS satellite radio, and has been featured in world renown publications including Men's Fitness, Entrepreneur Magazine, Inc. Magazine, Forbes, Woman's Day, Maximum Fitness, Oxygen, Clean Eating, MuscleMag International, and Muscle & Fitness Hers.

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0:00.0

Welcome to John Gordon's Positive University podcast, where John and his guest will share positive

0:07.4

inspiration, encouragement, and lessons to help you overcome your challenges and make a greater impact.

0:13.7

Our goal is that you know it, live it, and share it.

0:17.2

Let's begin.

0:19.2

Hey I'm John Gordon with Positive University and today my guest is Joel Mary and

0:23.8

Joe you doing doing great brothers. Thanks for having me here I'm looking forward to

0:28.2

providing some value to your audience. Well I know you will and we get right into it.

0:33.8

So you're at a cocktail party.

0:35.8

Someone asks you what you do.

0:38.1

How would you describe that today?

0:40.3

It depends on what kind the party I'm at.

0:46.0

It's interesting because I come from the online direct response industry

0:52.0

and no one really understands what it is we do.

0:56.4

So I used to just kind of just dumb it down and say I sell healthy fitness e-books.

1:03.7

Nowadays with the supplement company

1:07.1

I said, oh, I own a one of the largest

1:11.0

nutritional supplement companies in the United States.

1:14.6

E-commerce direct to consumer, we don't, we're not in retail stores or anything like that.

1:19.4

We're, we just sell directly online and that's kind of the skill set that I've mastered is being able to

1:27.8

Run pretty extensive online marketing campaigns to acquire customers and leads and sell direct.

1:33.0

Talk about that company, Biotrust.

1:36.0

Yeah, so Biotrust has been, it was something that I never really planned to get into.

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