Grant Cardone

I learned that your father actually passed away when you were just 10 years old and your oldest brother passed away just a few years later.

So you were raised by a single mother.

I could imagine that wasn't the easiest time.

And after doing my research, it became really clear to me that you're a self-made man.

And honestly, that made me respect you like 10X more, right?

And so I'd love to learn about that time in your life, you know, your childhood, your teenage years.

How did you grow up and what were some of the biggest life lessons that you learned?

Yeah, so again, thank you so much for having me.

And yeah, my life, you know, people ask me, my wife asked me, why are you so hard?

I said, dude, it was hard.

I grew up in a family where there was a lot of losses over a very short period of time.

And then I started making bad decisions out of those losses as I carried them around with me.

From the age of 15 to 25, my life, I went from having a middle-class life with a lot of love and a great family.

My parents did everything kind of by the book and they did it right.

And they didn't make any mistakes.

I did.

Started making very poor choices because I didn't have the right people in my life.

I was a bit of an outcast.

black sheep kind of rebel, didn't fit in kind of guy, didn't like school.

I liked all the hot chicks in high school, but I wasn't on the football team.