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.

My name is Robert Raymond Rio Pell, and I am an international bestselling author, app designer,

serial entrepreneur, and of course I've been blessed to travel all around the world and

personally impacted the lives of over half a million people in my trainings.

And today, you know, I just really want to share the story of

how I became a trainer because it is a question I get asked all the time. And I love to tell people

it's amazing how five minutes can change your life. When I became a student of personal development,

it changed my world and allowed me to go from being deep in debt

to retiring financially free. And one of the ways I gave back was to volunteer. My wife and I

would volunteer a lot, especially with our mentor, to really say thank you, help others, and

also to stay in the energy because I know I am a procrastinator. We'll talk about that

in a moment. I remember being at a training. It was a five-day camp. And one day, my mentor who at this time,

I didn't even know if he knew who I was or not, he sees me and he goes, hey, Robert, come here. And I said, yeah, he says, get in my car.

I'm all, okay, what's going on? He says, are you ready? And I'm like, am I ready? Am I ready for what?

He says, I need you to take over tonight. I'm creating a new program and we have our guest on the

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