Recognizing The Delusion Of Passion: Helping Millennials Find True Freedom - Mark Nathan (AoL 023)

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"Being financially free. What a goal. Man, if we could only be financially free, we wouldn't have to work!" Has said many a millennial entrepreneur as they set out on their first business. I know that was the case for me when I first fell into entrepreneurship. Just like, I'm sure, anyone else that has read Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Those of us who have read Robert Kiyosaki's work knows that ideally we want to have as many passive income streams as we can. In fact, he says that one of the easiest ways to build passive income is get started with a direct sales company or MLM. So, in 2006, that's what I did. Shortly there after, I met a guy who was quickly rising in the ranks of success in my group. Someone that inspired me quite a bit to leave the shell of an engineer behind. That someone was this session's guest, Mark Nathan. Mark has been financially free since 2009 and has worked his tail off to get there. Over the years, the speeches that I have seen him do and the videos that I have seen him in have made me realize that doing what he's done is possible... and that anyone can do what he's done. Like Pat Flynn, he's a very relatable guy and a teacher at heart. But he won't back away from giving you some tough love. Recently, Mark has been using his financial freedom to help other startups in the Chicago area get off the ground. And I assume, that one of the things he's realized is that a lot of us Millennials think that what we want is going to come easy to us. (I mean, why wouldn't it? So many of us have only ever had to be in school... and that was relatively a cake walk!) Well, that reason is why a lot of us fail at projects we set out to do. We simply don't realize all the hardships that we're going to face to achieve what we want to achieve. So, to help us get the right state of mind of what it takes to succeed, he and his co-author, David Anderson, wrote their first book: The Delusion of Passion - Why Millennials Struggle to Find Success. Who better to give us struggling Millennials a little tough love than a fellow Millennial who's reached the Summit? In today's chat, Laila and I talk with Mark about his ups and downs in business, what being financially free means to him, and what he and his wife do with their "extra" time.