08. Freedom Isn't Free - What Does It Cost?

The Contagious Thoughts Podcast

SUMMARY

In this conversation, Darwin interviews Pekens who is a well experienced entrepreneur

with experience in commercial real estate as both an agent and an investor,

podcasting, selling on Amazon, and has been featured by Gary V (Vaynerchuk). He

is a loving husband and father with a large heart for humanity. The discussion

spans everywhere from where Pekens journey started as an entrepreneur to

motivates and drives us as people. Pekens drops several insights and nuggets so

please keep your pen and pad out to take notes!

TAKEAWAYS

• When we are young our interests and dreams can be heavily influenced by those around us even if we don't want those dreams ourselves
• Sales in a nutshell is providing solutions for needs
• Putting yourself in the other persons shoes is the best way to go about business
• Once you realize you have one life to live and you can't get life back, you start valuing the days you have
• To make a vision happen, you have to work past many internal road blocks no matter the starting point so don't discredit someone's accomplishments on the basis that they started from a place that was closer to the finish line than you
• Most people are trapped in some way or being held back from something

CHAPTERS

[00:00] - Intro & Important Disclaimer

[02:27] - Beginning Of His Journey

[10:48] - What Was The Dream Of Your Youth?

[16:06] - Proving Yourself

[19:30] - Rocky Quote

[24:37] - Why People Need To Prove Themselves

[31:03] - Most Challenging Moment

[34:16] - Starting a Website Design & Online Marketing Firm In College

[37:19] - Dropping Out Of College

[38:11] - Getting Diagnosed With Type 1 Diabetes

[39:48] - How Getting Married Impacted Decisions

[41:08] - Taking Ownership Of Decisions

[43:01] - What's Next?

[44:26] - Where Does The Desire For Freedom Come From?

[48:08] - Why I Value Freedom

[50:55] - No Regrets Segment Of The Show Transition

[51:38] - Reminders

[54:20] - No Regrets Segment Of The Show

[01:00:29] - Outro

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