Mike Simmons has shared the stage with Gary Vaynerchuk, Ryan Serhant, Jocko Willink, Russell Brunsson, Walter Bond, Andy Frisella, and Tom Ferry among others. As the owner of a successful real estate investing company, and also partner in one of the country’s largest real estate mentorship/mastermind companies, Mike specializes in helping entrepreneurs create systems, processes and automations that allow them to work on their business and not be a slave to it. Mike has personally worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs to help them optimize and grow their business. Mike is also the producer and host of his own online show and has conducted over 350 interviews with entrepreneurs who run 6, 7, and 8 figure businesses. Mike is also a husband and father of 2 girls and 1 boy. Residing in Michigan, Mike is always looking for reason to escape the cold weather and get to a beach!
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Andy
When business started difficulties overcame:
“The biggest difficulty I had to overcome was an entire lifetime of being raised to think and act and strive for certain things that were what my parents wanted and not necessarily what I wanted… I never felt like I was an entrepreneur growing up and I wasn’t encouraged to be an entrepreneur, I was encouraged to go and work for a company… So the biggest struggle for me, and this was tough… I liken it to the gravitational pull of the earth. There is a certain amount of energy that has to be spent to break the gravitational pull of our planet. And I feel like that gravitational pull was holding me back and keep me working at a nine to five for a company that I didn’t want to work for because I just had beliefs that were limiting ”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business Book by Gino Wickman
- Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Wi Book by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
Favourite Quote:
“Everybody Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth … today may only recognize” Mike Tyson
Recommended Online Resources:
YouTube, LLC is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google’s subsidiaries.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“the thing that I think stops most people from getting ahead or succeeding at anything… It’s the hesitancy, it’s the fear that something is going to go wrong and what are people going to think… Don’t overthink it, don’t try to over educate yourself, don’t spend too much time in the learning phase and get more invested in the action and the execution of doing it… I think if people took more ownership of everything that goes on in their life for the better or for the worse whatever it is. If they took ownership and didn’t try to blame the government, their boss, the wife, their husband, their parents and just took ownership and accepted the blame and the credit for everything that goes right and wrong in their life I think we would be better off”…[Listen for More]
More About Mike Simmons:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.” Isaac Newton
Other Quotes From the Chat with Mike Simmons:
- “when I was starting out if I would have known that nothing, I was afraid of would never be nearly as bad as I built it up to be in my head I probably would have done more faster. I allowed fear to kind of permeate before I got started for sure, it froze me, it made me paralysed. But even after I had started, I had such a limiting idea of what was possible ”
- “execution is humongous… I think massive and relentless execution will almost overcome everything”
- “I think that people also have to focus… I think laser focus on what it is you are trying to get done, try not to be too many things to too many people… It’s like chasing two rabbits. You will never catch two rabbits at the same time. You have to focus on what you are trying to do. Catch that rabbit then you can chase the other rabbit.”
- “In business and in life we can come up with plans. What needs to be considered is what happens when those plans don’t go as planned… We have to have a great plan but we also have to have the flexibility to adjust on-the-fly”
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