Truth be told, I never planned to become a world-class public speaker I am today, with hundreds of events under my belt over the course of the last 8+ years…
In fact, I dreaded being on stage and had a seemingly insurmountable fear and anxiety when it comes to public speaking. I was that shy, weird, nerdy guy, who spent most of his time in his room, behind his desk.
When I first started out, all I had was this big dream and a vision of my future as one of the top-earning online entrepreneurs in the world. But, it felt like I was miles away from coming anywhere near the goal I set in front of myself.
I was morbidly obese at a time and painfully self-aware. I had next-to-no self confidence, and every time I tried to picture myself on stage, it would turn into a nightmare of the entire audience laughing at me either because the way I look, or something I say.
If someone told me back then, that I would be hosting LIVE events every single month just a few years later, I wouldn’t have believed them.
Funny enough, public speaking has become one of the CORE pillars of what took me from zero to over $30 Million in sales.
You see back in 2009, I had tried to do all sorts of things, being a broke, frustrated and university dropout in my final year I knew I had to make dramatic changes (both in my personal & professional life) to create the lifestyle of my dreams and to achieve financial freedom for myself and my family….
And the more I researched and the more I became a part of the online marketing world, the more apparent it became that in order to achieve success as an online entrepreneur, I HAD TO start speaking at LIVE events.
That was the only way to position myself as an authority, gain the respect of fellow entrepreneurs and potential customers, forge strong business relationships, and ultimately scale my business to the seven-figure income I envisioned.
But, like I said, there were a couple of issues with implementing this plan...
I was overweight, morbidly obese.