Hey guys, welcome to this episode of The Passionate View.

Today we have on somebody who's been an inspiration to me for a long time.

He is a serial entrepreneur.

He's a badass online and he's helped over a million people with his email list. He's none other than Mike

Diller. Thanks so much for being on the show today. Mike. Yeah, glad to be here. Yeah, man, absolutely.

So for those that don't know, Mike, I know you've built three eight-figure online education

companies. I know you have your hands in a lot of different things and you've helped a lot of different people. But can you just catch the audience up to speed as to a little bit about what you've done in business and sort of, you know, how you got to what you're doing today and what you're working on these days? Yeah, absolutely. So I knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur by the time I was a senior in high school.

I was waiting tables at the original macaroni grill in Bernie, Texas before it was a chain.

And I didn't like that I was being told when I had to be at work for how long I had to be

at work and the amount of money that I was making and I would come home smelling like food

after working a 14 hour double shift on the weekends and uh you know one in the morning and would

plop down in front of the TV and back then this is in the late 90s the only thing on television

was infomercials and so I discovered people like Carlton Sheets and Tony Robbins.

And that really opened my eyes up to the fact that there were other opportunities out there besides,

you know, getting a normal career. And so that's where the bug was caught. Also back in those

days, the only real opportunity available for someone in high school or college that really had no money was the

network marketing industry. This was like web 1.0 days before, you know, video was even a thing

online. And so I got my start in that industry. I failed miserably at it for five or six

years, company after company, opportunity after opportunity. I didn't make a

dime in any of them. And I finally realized that I was the problem. It wasn't the business because in

each of those businesses, there was always people who were making millions of dollars. And yet,

I continued to struggle. And finally, a mentor of mine said, hey, if you want to essentially earn this kind of

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