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Shawn Meaike

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623 total appearances

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Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Adversity to Triumph: Shawn Meaike’s Journey to Building a Billion-Dollar Insurance Empire

Like you got to make decisions, stand up for your family, protect people. I get all that. But also at the end of the day, I've had some people that nobody's believed in them. And I think we have a lot of, you know, people that work with us that people have given up on.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Adversity to Triumph: Shawn Meaike’s Journey to Building a Billion-Dollar Insurance Empire

Like you got to make decisions, stand up for your family, protect people. I get all that. But also at the end of the day, I've had some people that nobody's believed in them. And I think we have a lot of, you know, people that work with us that people have given up on.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Adversity to Triumph: Shawn Meaike’s Journey to Building a Billion-Dollar Insurance Empire

But I'll tell you what, dude, you take somebody that people have given up on and you believe in that guy, and all of a sudden he starts to have success and he's had some dysfunction in his life and he has a resilience that you talked about earlier, dude, be careful. That was what I knew about the people we recruited, man. We had a lot of really good people.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Adversity to Triumph: Shawn Meaike’s Journey to Building a Billion-Dollar Insurance Empire

But I'll tell you what, dude, you take somebody that people have given up on and you believe in that guy, and all of a sudden he starts to have success and he's had some dysfunction in his life and he has a resilience that you talked about earlier, dude, be careful. That was what I knew about the people we recruited, man. We had a lot of really good people.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Adversity to Triumph: Shawn Meaike’s Journey to Building a Billion-Dollar Insurance Empire

But I'll tell you what, dude, you take somebody that people have given up on and you believe in that guy, and all of a sudden he starts to have success and he's had some dysfunction in his life and he has a resilience that you talked about earlier, dude, be careful. That was what I knew about the people we recruited, man. We had a lot of really good people.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Adversity to Triumph: Shawn Meaike’s Journey to Building a Billion-Dollar Insurance Empire

It didn't mean that my first ad was now hiring athletic or military experience required. It was my first life insurance ad I ran. People would call me up and be like, hey, man, I'm in. I played ball at NC State. What's the job? I'm like, dude, you're going to be perfect. Come down tomorrow morning. We'll talk about it. We'd be a half an hour into it. They wouldn't even know what we did.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Adversity to Triumph: Shawn Meaike’s Journey to Building a Billion-Dollar Insurance Empire

It didn't mean that my first ad was now hiring athletic or military experience required. It was my first life insurance ad I ran. People would call me up and be like, hey, man, I'm in. I played ball at NC State. What's the job? I'm like, dude, you're going to be perfect. Come down tomorrow morning. We'll talk about it. We'd be a half an hour into it. They wouldn't even know what we did.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Adversity to Triumph: Shawn Meaike’s Journey to Building a Billion-Dollar Insurance Empire

It didn't mean that my first ad was now hiring athletic or military experience required. It was my first life insurance ad I ran. People would call me up and be like, hey, man, I'm in. I played ball at NC State. What's the job? I'm like, dude, you're going to be perfect. Come down tomorrow morning. We'll talk about it. We'd be a half an hour into it. They wouldn't even know what we did.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Adversity to Triumph: Shawn Meaike’s Journey to Building a Billion-Dollar Insurance Empire

They'd be fired up. Sometimes they'd get up in the lead and be like, hey, what do we do again? They just wanted to be around me, and I liked them.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Adversity to Triumph: Shawn Meaike’s Journey to Building a Billion-Dollar Insurance Empire

They'd be fired up. Sometimes they'd get up in the lead and be like, hey, what do we do again? They just wanted to be around me, and I liked them.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Adversity to Triumph: Shawn Meaike’s Journey to Building a Billion-Dollar Insurance Empire

They'd be fired up. Sometimes they'd get up in the lead and be like, hey, what do we do again? They just wanted to be around me, and I liked them.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Adversity to Triumph: Shawn Meaike’s Journey to Building a Billion-Dollar Insurance Empire

No, mine's 100%. But as an independent contractor, the biggest thing I'm rabid about is accountability. I'm rabid about accountability. If I go, hey, man, tell me about why you're here. Well, I was working at this other company, and they suck, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, well, somebody made money there. I always go, well, somebody made money there. Why did they make money and you didn't?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Adversity to Triumph: Shawn Meaike’s Journey to Building a Billion-Dollar Insurance Empire

No, mine's 100%. But as an independent contractor, the biggest thing I'm rabid about is accountability. I'm rabid about accountability. If I go, hey, man, tell me about why you're here. Well, I was working at this other company, and they suck, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, well, somebody made money there. I always go, well, somebody made money there. Why did they make money and you didn't?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Adversity to Triumph: Shawn Meaike’s Journey to Building a Billion-Dollar Insurance Empire

No, mine's 100%. But as an independent contractor, the biggest thing I'm rabid about is accountability. I'm rabid about accountability. If I go, hey, man, tell me about why you're here. Well, I was working at this other company, and they suck, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, well, somebody made money there. I always go, well, somebody made money there. Why did they make money and you didn't?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Adversity to Triumph: Shawn Meaike’s Journey to Building a Billion-Dollar Insurance Empire

And then it's get quiet. I'm just like, and I'm waiting. And if you go, yeah, you know what, Sean, I could have, no, it just, the place sucked or this happened or that happened. I'll nicely go, Hey, let me ask something, John, if you don't mind. Do you ever take responsibility for anything or do you blame everybody always? I've got a really good asking questions people want to ask.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Adversity to Triumph: Shawn Meaike’s Journey to Building a Billion-Dollar Insurance Empire

And then it's get quiet. I'm just like, and I'm waiting. And if you go, yeah, you know what, Sean, I could have, no, it just, the place sucked or this happened or that happened. I'll nicely go, Hey, let me ask something, John, if you don't mind. Do you ever take responsibility for anything or do you blame everybody always? I've got a really good asking questions people want to ask.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Adversity to Triumph: Shawn Meaike’s Journey to Building a Billion-Dollar Insurance Empire

And then it's get quiet. I'm just like, and I'm waiting. And if you go, yeah, you know what, Sean, I could have, no, it just, the place sucked or this happened or that happened. I'll nicely go, Hey, let me ask something, John, if you don't mind. Do you ever take responsibility for anything or do you blame everybody always? I've got a really good asking questions people want to ask.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Adversity to Triumph: Shawn Meaike’s Journey to Building a Billion-Dollar Insurance Empire

And I don't ask them to be a prick. I ask them because I want the information. And a lot of times, and if they're uncomfortable, I said, you know why I'm asking those questions? Because I genuinely care. It'd be easy not to ask those questions and just move on and dismiss you until you get contracted and never talk to you ever again. But I want to know why you think that way.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Adversity to Triumph: Shawn Meaike’s Journey to Building a Billion-Dollar Insurance Empire

And I don't ask them to be a prick. I ask them because I want the information. And a lot of times, and if they're uncomfortable, I said, you know why I'm asking those questions? Because I genuinely care. It'd be easy not to ask those questions and just move on and dismiss you until you get contracted and never talk to you ever again. But I want to know why you think that way.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Adversity to Triumph: Shawn Meaike’s Journey to Building a Billion-Dollar Insurance Empire

And I don't ask them to be a prick. I ask them because I want the information. And a lot of times, and if they're uncomfortable, I said, you know why I'm asking those questions? Because I genuinely care. It'd be easy not to ask those questions and just move on and dismiss you until you get contracted and never talk to you ever again. But I want to know why you think that way.