You're listening to the Creating a Brand podcast success story segment.

I am your host, Alex San Felipe.

In this short segment of the show, I bring on friends of the podcast to share a motivational,

inspiring, and sometimes even challenging story from their entrepreneurial journey,

along with a

practical takeaway for us to implement.

The point is for each of us to be able to learn and grow from the experiences of others.

With that said, please enjoy today's success story episode.

In 2015, I got in a terrible motorcycle accident, and I'm not even sure how I survived it.

It was actually 100% my fault, but somehow I survived it.

Hi there.

I'm Kyle Gillette, the owner of Gillette Solutions, and the creator of the sage mindset,

and I wanted to talk to you briefly about what that accident revealed for me and what it did

for me and some lessons that I learned.

So I had a Harley Sportser at the time when I was driving around to this really nice new

development area going up a really steep hill, which I thought was just a hill and not a curve.

Well, it turned out it was a curve.

And as I got towards the crest, it started to curve, and I hit this curb in the road,

slammed into it at about 45, 40 miles an hour.

And when I came to, I had flown from where I hit the curb

to wrapping my legs up in a barbed

fence about 30 feet. And the motor of the motorcycle was no more than two feet from my head. So

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