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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

I knew at a very young age, my brother had no desire to do anymore. And we lived in the exact same house, exact same circumstances. So I went to college, played baseball, got a degree, uh, And then got myself a job immediately working with abused, neglected children.

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

I knew at a very young age, my brother had no desire to do anymore. And we lived in the exact same house, exact same circumstances. So I went to college, played baseball, got a degree, uh, And then got myself a job immediately working with abused, neglected children.

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

And yeah,

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

And yeah,

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

And yeah,

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

I'd like to give you a much better answer other than if you choose to be unsuccessful, you're going to be unsuccessful. If you choose to be cowardly, you're going to be cowardly. If you choose to cry and mope and whine. I got a faith, dude. There's nowhere in that book anywhere that says to be a coward. be a punk, be a complainer, like nowhere. I've read it. Like I read it a lot.

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

I'd like to give you a much better answer other than if you choose to be unsuccessful, you're going to be unsuccessful. If you choose to be cowardly, you're going to be cowardly. If you choose to cry and mope and whine. I got a faith, dude. There's nowhere in that book anywhere that says to be a coward. be a punk, be a complainer, like nowhere. I've read it. Like I read it a lot.

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

I'd like to give you a much better answer other than if you choose to be unsuccessful, you're going to be unsuccessful. If you choose to be cowardly, you're going to be cowardly. If you choose to cry and mope and whine. I got a faith, dude. There's nowhere in that book anywhere that says to be a coward. be a punk, be a complainer, like nowhere. I've read it. Like I read it a lot.

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

And while I don't understand all of it all the time, it doesn't say that anywhere. So I think that was the path my brother chose, you know? So I chose to not be what bothered me the most as a kid, to be honest with you, John, by far the most was the way people looked at me.

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

And while I don't understand all of it all the time, it doesn't say that anywhere. So I think that was the path my brother chose, you know? So I chose to not be what bothered me the most as a kid, to be honest with you, John, by far the most was the way people looked at me.

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

And while I don't understand all of it all the time, it doesn't say that anywhere. So I think that was the path my brother chose, you know? So I chose to not be what bothered me the most as a kid, to be honest with you, John, by far the most was the way people looked at me.

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

looked at me based on what we didn't have and i always knew it because i was listen i was in ap classes in high school i hated my ap classes because i hated the people in my class and i'm like none of you all play ball at all i don't have anything in common but i realized i really didn't love myself enough and i felt uncomfortable around them because they were they had good clothes

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

looked at me based on what we didn't have and i always knew it because i was listen i was in ap classes in high school i hated my ap classes because i hated the people in my class and i'm like none of you all play ball at all i don't have anything in common but i realized i really didn't love myself enough and i felt uncomfortable around them because they were they had good clothes

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

looked at me based on what we didn't have and i always knew it because i was listen i was in ap classes in high school i hated my ap classes because i hated the people in my class and i'm like none of you all play ball at all i don't have anything in common but i realized i really didn't love myself enough and i felt uncomfortable around them because they were they had good clothes

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

they're from good homes and i just didn't fit in so i was like let me get out of these classes but i knew i wanted something different and i knew that my brother didn't and i knew i wanted my mother would always tell me it's like people i said well how'd you why'd you want to be an entrepreneur my father who wasn't around was a business owner my father did not work hard my father made good money i mean he lived his life that was his life um and

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

they're from good homes and i just didn't fit in so i was like let me get out of these classes but i knew i wanted something different and i knew that my brother didn't and i knew i wanted my mother would always tell me it's like people i said well how'd you why'd you want to be an entrepreneur my father who wasn't around was a business owner my father did not work hard my father made good money i mean he lived his life that was his life um and

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

they're from good homes and i just didn't fit in so i was like let me get out of these classes but i knew i wanted something different and i knew that my brother didn't and i knew i wanted my mother would always tell me it's like people i said well how'd you why'd you want to be an entrepreneur my father who wasn't around was a business owner my father did not work hard my father made good money i mean he lived his life that was his life um and

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

later in life i've come to build a relationship with them because after not talking to somebody for 10 plus years you realize like bro is it hurting you or hurting them like what does it matter so i reach out them all man we have you know we have the relationship but we have but i built a lot of resilience too but i never thought of it that way like i knew that my mother dated guys and when they would come to the house and i would be 14 15 years old and they'd be like where's your mom

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

later in life i've come to build a relationship with them because after not talking to somebody for 10 plus years you realize like bro is it hurting you or hurting them like what does it matter so i reach out them all man we have you know we have the relationship but we have but i built a lot of resilience too but i never thought of it that way like i knew that my mother dated guys and when they would come to the house and i would be 14 15 years old and they'd be like where's your mom

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

later in life i've come to build a relationship with them because after not talking to somebody for 10 plus years you realize like bro is it hurting you or hurting them like what does it matter so i reach out them all man we have you know we have the relationship but we have but i built a lot of resilience too but i never thought of it that way like i knew that my mother dated guys and when they would come to the house and i would be 14 15 years old and they'd be like where's your mom