Thomas Procopovich
Appearances
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
You were just like, I'm a good salesperson. I'm going to kick butt. You know, always that mentality.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
They only had 34 on this one.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
I say that because of the next transition that I had was a lot tougher.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Like a year.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Like what, what was, what happened? First month made 600 bucks. Okay. Went online and I got a program. Well, I went online saying how to sell better, like how to, how to get better at sales. And the video of Andy Elliott popped up on YouTube. And I guess Andy was just really smart. He was using specific keywords or whatever.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Well, my name is Tommy Prokopovich. I was born in Venezuela. I was actually an illegal immigrant. I came to the States when I was two years old, here to Florida, actually. Lived in Florida for like 29 years, but 20 of those years, I was an illegal immigrant for a very long time. Didn't come from money.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Yeah. And when that happened, I watched his video. I'm like, dang, this guy is freaking fire, bro. He's speaking to me right now. I want to be like this person. The way he talks and influences and sells.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
I can tell you exactly. There's just one word I can say. It's hope. Hope. We call ourselves hope dealers.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Because I like that. He gives people a chance to want to believe again. Right. And at that time, I don't know if you want me to go into the addiction part now.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
So to understand where was that mentally? I'm going to backtrack a little bit from the beginning when I was, um, I graduated a 4.25 GPA. I couldn't go to college for three years cause I didn't have a social. I didn't end up getting my social, my driver's license till I was 21. I was battling a drug addiction from the age of 17 till 31 years old. So that's 16 years, right?
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
A 16 year long drug addiction. Um, I started with painkillers and then it led to more difficult things like heroin fentanyl I was an IV user by and I'll shortcut it a little bit but by 2020 I had just no I'm sorry by 2021 I had just gone through my fourth drug overdose so I've overdosed four times um and it was just a really hard moment at that point at that time
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
when I transitioned to Toyota, the reason why it took me so long to find a job is because I was abusing drugs. So no one would hire you? It wasn't that. You weren't mentally there? Yeah, I wasn't mentally there or capable of... Once COVID hit, it's like I went deeper. So I've had certain periods of my time that...
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
I was like a functioning drug addict until my life became unmanageable, which is a lot of people that you think you can manage it, but you got to understand addiction is a disease designed to take you out no matter what. It doesn't care how much you love someone. It doesn't matter if you have kids.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
It doesn't matter if you have that amazing job, if you're a CEO, if there's people depending on you, it's going to take you out no matter what and steal everything from you. And that's what it was happening to me. Sierra at that point didn't understand because I was hiding everything until when I got that job at Toyota, Got that. So Andy Elliott's video popped up.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
I was like, this is my chance again to reprove myself, that I can be a good person, that I do have what it takes in order to get out of this life. Because what this guy is talking about is really speaking to me. I bought a program for 300 bucks. The very next month I made $17,500 from that program. And then it started putting me, and then I found personal development.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
You know, things are, you know, and you know how Hispanic upbringings and everything is very like... I hate to say it, but it comes from a very scarcity-lack mindset, at least within my family, and it's pretty common within a lot of Hispanic families because they're just brought into work and work and work and a lot of labor jobs too. But came down here, didn't really have the ability to...
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
This is why we talk about if you really want to change and you want to compress that timeframe, you've got to develop yourself. You know, we spend money on so many different things, but when you actually start spending money on you to get better, right? Don't wish for life to be easy. Wish to be better. If you were better, life is going to be easier.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
So then a lot of times we start asking the wrong questions. We're like, well, how are we going to get there? It's the wrong question. It's not how. It's the right question is who? Who can teach me the how? The person that changes the fastest is always going to win. So it's not about reinventing the wheel.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
It's about modeling a proven practice that's going to help you bridge and close that gap and compress that time frame. I found the who, which was Andy Elliott. I started buying all these programs at that time. That year, I did about $168,000. So it was the most money I ever made at that time. And I'm like, cool. And then I went to my first event.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
When I went to my first event, I was like, I go up to Andy. I'm like, dude, I want to come work for you. Like, like, this is what I want to do. He's like, keep recreating. Right. And it was like that period. And then later that year. So now it's like October, 2021 is, was my last overdose for my fourth drug overdose. My, my wife found me on the bathroom floor. Let's talk about that.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Let's talk about that real quick.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
I was still working there. um it's now so i got started around two years around it was like around october 2020 yeah um i went to my first event may of 2021 um that's when i'm like i want to go work for you and he's like keep recreating keep training you're doing good and you can also see something was up with me i'm super skinny
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
You know, he could, he could see I was going through something and I even opened up to him like, dude, I'm addicted to drugs. Like I need help. Got it. And he's like, dude, you got to get off the drugs. Like you're worth it, man. Like there was two people in my life that believed in me the most. Right. My mom. Yeah. She believed in me to a certain extent. Yeah.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
But the thing is like, I didn't give her many reasons to believe in me because of what I put her through. Right. I mean, I was addicted to drugs for 16 years and she would catch me and I would still do it, you know? So it was very hard on her for a very long time. But it's two people that believed in me, that they saw something bigger inside of me that I can become something great. Right.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Which is my wife. My wife's here. And Andy. Yeah. Andy believed in me in a way where he gave me a lot of hope and a lot of belief in myself that I could get out of this and that I can become something great. And it was through his trainings that allowed me to. change my perspective and focus on what I wanted. And for the first time, I'm like, I can do this. I can get off drugs.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Like I didn't really have a leading example for a very long time. I just knew that I didn't want to be like my parents growing up. Yeah. For a very long time. You know, always like, hey, be careful with your clothes. You know, make sure that you, you know, you're eating your food properly because this is all the food that we have. Don't leave any leftovers.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Well, it was just an obsession, right? I mean, at that point... I mean, I think I was already at, I mean, 13 or 12 years into my addiction. Yeah. I believe 12, 13 years into my addiction. And or 14 years. I don't even remember anymore. But at that point, I had stopped using needles already for like about a year. Right. So I hadn't touched needles for a long time. So I was an IV user for 10 years.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Destroyed my veins. I mean, I'm just getting my vascularity back and the doctor is saying it's going to take a little bit more time to heal, right? I think this didn't happen in a day. I was very vascular my whole life and then just destroyed them through, you know, IV use is just one of the side effects. And that year after I met Andy, even though I still use, it just, it wasn't, I would use,
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
deal with the withdrawal be clean for a little bit relapse use for a period of time deal with the withdrawal get clean relapse and that was just a chronic relapse relapse relapse relapse like consistently so i had already gone through three drug overdoses now we're in um in 2021 i go to the event in may come back everything's good then july hits start using again so And it just picked up.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
And the thing is, I wasn't really utilizing needles at that time. I was doing them in other ways, like smoking it or snorting it or whatever.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
It was 100% the current. Yeah, it was just all the people that I knew. At that time, Sierra still didn't have a clear idea. I could tell Sierra, hey, man, I'm just going to go meet this friend. She'd be like, oh, okay. I can't tell her that now. You know what I'm saying? She's caught on big time on everything, right? But she didn't know my patterns really.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
And at that time, I was still leveraging like, oh, you know, I'm still bringing in money. Everything's all good. But like I said, the addiction is just like first you get that craving, you get the thought, then you start obsessing. Now you're in the compulsion. You're acting it out, which is you're going to go pick up. You're going to go use. And like I said, this isn't designed to kill you.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
It doesn't matter who's in the way or what you have going on. You're still going to keep doing it. Now, my life did become unmanageable where I was falling asleep at work. Even though I'm like, I'm a functioning drug addict. There's people that would seem like, dude, you're on drugs right now. Started becoming a problem. Work started finding out. And then one day, this is in October.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
That was the same month Andy offered me the job.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
And I was just, I was pretending like everything was all good. And I remember I was on 441 here in Florida, getting a tire put on, and he gives me a call. And he's like, hey, I want you here in January. Pack your stuff and everything. You're going to come work for me. I see that you're kicking ass. You're doing so good. I want you to come with me. I'm like, cool. So super excited.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
But then it's like I was a master self-sabotager. It's like I self-sabotaged everything in my way for so long.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
that same month i think it could have been a weekend or a few days i remember the exact time in october 2021 i was at toyota i went to go i was living in hollywood florida we had a house there and then when i was there i had a lunch break with sierra sierra's making food i had picked up drugs i had a needle decided After not using it for a year, hey, I'm going to go shoot up.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Just like that, dude. During lunch, you were just like, fuck it. Just like that. And that's the thing with addiction. It's just like the moment it gets inside your head, you're already acting on it. I was still really heavily addicted. I mean, it was 14 years of using it. And then I remember perfectly when I was there. I didn't even finish it all the way.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
And it was always like a very lack, scarcity mindset. And it just didn't fit well with me for a very long time. And of course, going to school, I was... I didn't have the ability to go to college, so I went to school, got really good grades in high school, had a 4.25 GPA, had scholarships, but I couldn't take them because I didn't have a driver's license, I didn't have a social, I was illegal.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
And then all of a sudden I wake up on the floor, Sierra on top of me giving me CPR. Wow. So what she told me, because clearly I was out, when I went to the bathroom to go use, she says she was calling my name for 15 minutes and I wasn't answering. So I was just using the bathroom. The door is locked. She breaks down the door. I don't know how she did that. You know, Sierra's a little girl.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
She's a tiny girl. Yeah. But she was filled with adrenaline because I'm not answering. So she was getting spooked out. She breaks down the door and finds me like a pretzel in between. You know, there's a toilet and then there's a tub. Sometimes it's like a half bathroom. That little space is very tiny. I was in between that.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
And I had like a bump here because my head hit the faucet thing of the tub, right, where the water comes out. And she said, like, she saw me there and she sees the needle. She's never even known that was an ID user because I was hiding everything. Dude, Sierra, she was probably like, holy shit. She was just like, she sees me gray. Yeah. Purple lip, like no oxygen, not breathing. Right.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
So she pulls me up with adrenaline, takes the needle out of my arm, starts giving me CPR, trying to bring me back.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
and at the same time calling the paramedics on speaker while she's doing this wow gives them the address and everything she should have became a cop yeah i mean she reacted fast if she didn't react fast i would have been dead yeah and then all the other times i didn't have that i i would just lose two hours of time and wake up in a puddle of jewelry bruise on my face wow on the other overdoses but that time i think i would have died for sure yeah
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Um, especially since she had to bring me back till I give me oxygen again. And like, cause I was like not breathing my heart rate. She said she couldn't feel it when the paramedic says like, does he have a pulse? Like I can't feel his pulse. And like she told me the whole story. So she was really freaked out by that. She brings me back after doing this for 10 minutes.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
So I was unresponsive for 15 and then giving me CPR for 10 minutes. By the time I got up, I'm hearing a banging on my door and it was the paramedics. And the first thing I told her was, who did you call? It wasn't like, Hey babe, I'm sorry. It was all about me protecting me. Who did you call? Who did you tell about this? That's all I cared about was drug addict. Yeah.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
We're very self-centered, very selfish. Yeah. You know, and I remember she's like hysterically crying. And the paramedics come in, they're like, wait, did he just have a drug overdose? She's like, yeah. How is he awake right now? Yeah. They couldn't. They couldn't understand in the health space, medical space.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
No. And we'll talk about how God ties into this. Like looking back, I know every single time God is like, it's not your time. It's not your time. It's not your time. It's not your time. Like all four times, because even every single time that I went to the hospital on a stretcher, like, wait, you were in arcane. And then this time with the paramedics, I'm like, wait, you didn't Narcane him?
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
So the whole time I'm living in a panic mode. I was living from didn't want to be like my parents, trying to figure out my identity, Couldn't go to college, even though I was a good student. And I was really just trying to figure myself out for a very long time.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Did you have Narcane? He's like, no. She's like, wait, you brought him back just by giving him CPR? That doesn't happen. So they were confused. And just seeing the look on their face, I'm like, whoa. I'm like, I'm thinking it's normal. I'm like, yeah, she just gave me CPR. I was like, no, you need to be Narcane. And at this point, they're like, well, we don't need to Narcane you anymore.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
You're fully awake. So then they just left. And then later that day, I still went back to work. And then a few hours later, because I was high as a kite, when you wake up from an overdose, you are... obliterated the best way that I can describe it. I'm slurring my words. Sierra was working for a network marketing company at the time. And Sierra is a very strong woman.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
She had to put on a face to go to a network marketing event that she was hosting and shaking hands and meeting people, pretend like everything's okay. I have to deal with that. Yeah. So Sierra is very, very strong minded for that. And even later that night, I still went and picked up and used. Wow. I just said, I'm not going to shoot up because then I can die.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Let me just smoke it because at least I can control it. Man, that's wild. I know. After just almost dying, it's just like, this is why, you know, addiction... It doesn't it doesn't care. Doesn't care if you're heavily addicted. My heart's go out to you. I know it's not easy, but understand.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
I always tell people and a lot of people reach out to me because they hear my story and I post it all over my social media. And they asked me, Tommy, I want to change to how you did. And I asked them, okay, number one, are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Yes. Okay. Are you in a position right now? Do you want to be healed? Do you want to stop? Are you really ready for that now?
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
I hadn't come to a point until I was ready until March of 20. So I stopped talking to Andy, right? And I'll explain this. So I stopped talking to Andy. he finds out that something's going on, so he pushes back. He knows it has to deal with drugs, because he knows it's battling that. And then, me and Ciara, March of 2022, we're just like, we're just gonna move. First of all, me and Ciara split.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
She was living, I heard, at this place in Hollandale. I went back to living with my sister at that time. I burned through all my money, was broke, lost. And the thing is with loss, I didn't know how lost I was and that's the thing with lost people. When you're lost, you don't know how lost you are. But I was lost looking back. I can't believe that was my life at that point.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
I was weighing 145 pounds at the time. Very scary looking individual. I have it on my Instagram pinned on the first photo if you guys want to see it. And I had this like crazy beard. It was just ridiculous. But at that time, I'm like, Sierra, I want to make this work with you. Like, give me another shot. Give me another shot. We're going to move to Arizona. She said, what do you mean?
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
It's like, we're just going to move out there and figure it out. the pain of me staying the same and staying where I was at was far greater than the risk of moving across the country from the Southeast to the Southwest for maybe I might work for Andy Elliott. That right there was much better than my current situation. I was willing to take that risk.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Yeah. So of course, when I got into the automotive industry, when I made all that money, She knew Andy would send me voice notes. This is like when Andy was building the company, right? Andy had just started building the company back in 2020. So at that time, he had a little bit more leisure, right? More available time where he was connecting with a lot of people.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
And then, of course, with people that wanted to work for him. And... She knew the plan was for me to work for him. But the thing is, I was destroying it with my own habits. So when I told her that, she's like, hey, if you're going to do this, I'll do it with you. It's like me and her had already been together for since 2018. So we've already been together for three years at this point.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
You know, we've gone through some crazy stuff together. Yeah. And she's seeing that like I want to change. Like I'm willing to do this. If you do it with me, like I'm in. Right. So we just packed up all of our things. to my Corolla, attached a five by eight trailer, towed 1500 pounds, with a dog, two cats, and a snake, my snake, in a box. And we drove 55 hours.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
And it takes 33 hours to get there, but I couldn't drive past 60, because I was driving a Corolla. So, 55 hours and moved to Arizona. And yeah, we just made the move. I was working for an insurance company over the phone. Wasn't making a lot of money. It was like 250 bucks to a thousand dollars a week sometimes.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
So it was very, but it was enough to pay some bills, even though things were a little hard at the time, but we did it. And then this is where God starts playing a big role.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
So March of 2022 is when we decided to move back to, when we decided to move to Arizona. Just leave everyone behind.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
My thought process is like, I got to get close to Andy. Okay. I just got to get around him. If I could just get around this guy. my life is going to change. Right. He just, he had everything I wanted. He was a leader, amazing shape, amazing husband, an amazing father.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Um, you know, building this company, making millions of dollars a year, like everything, the way that he spoke, his mindset, I'm like, it was just so infectious. I'm like, I just have to get close. And I was willing to do whatever it took, which was leaving my, all my friends and family behind, which is me and Sierra that left everyone behind. We didn't know anyone.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
In Arizona, besides me knowing the other group, the twins, you know, a few people from the other group, Annie and Jackie, and that's it. And she, Sierra had never met any of them, but I met them at that one event in May of 2021. So those are the only people that I knew somewhat of. And the twins were my coaches at that time, helping me through the programs too.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
For over...
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
like actually about four weeks three three and a half weeks or so so it's like we moved there march of 2020 and we moved there like right on like march 28th or something like that and it wasn't until like april 20th april 21st somewhere around like the third week of april sierra is flying back to miami to do this job to make some more money because we're struggling and andy and jackie only go to florida once a year
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
The flight that she booked, out of all the flights going, all the different airlines, out of all the seats, when she sits down in the aisle seat, Andy and Jackie were sitting right next to her. Wow. And She's like, she told me the story because of course I'm not there. And then Andy's like, Sierra. He knew who Sierra was because he was vetting me. So he's seen her profiles.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
That's what they do, right? We're going to bring someone to her home. Let's find out who they're with, this and that. Like, who is this person? But of course she's like, oh my God, Andy's right next to me. Jacqueline's right here. And they're like, whoa, Sierra. It's like, Andy. It's like, what are you doing here in Arizona? It's like, where's Thomas? We moved here.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
He's like, wait, Thomas is living here now? And again, this is the story she told me. She said, yeah. She's like, tell Tommy to stop being scared of me were his exact words because he knew I didn't contact him. And I was contacting him a lot. He's like, is he off drugs? He's like, he's off drugs. He's like, tell him to stop being scared of me.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
I want you guys to meet me at this church called Impact Church. And I don't know what else the conversation was like because I wasn't there. But the point is we met him at this church that I started going to consistently. We met him at the end of that month or in May. Which later, that was the church that I found my faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and got baptized at.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
So it was almost like, God, this is why you got to be so aware in life. If you're a believer or not a believer, listen, God is going to move you. in a specific way and use people to give you an idea, give you a word, just give you a sense of feeling in order to move, in order for you to change. And he's going to be using people.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
And sometimes if you're not aware of these things, you're going to miss a huge blessing in your life. And God used Andy to get to me so I can have a relation because I didn't have a relation with God. I'm 31 years old now. This is 2022. I didn't have a relationship for God with all my life.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
205. Nice. So 145 pounds. This is still 2022. He's like, Tommy, you're too skinny. I'm like, hey, I go to Andy. I'm like, Andy, I want to work for you still. All right, what do I have to do? I'm here now. I'm ready to join. He's like, hold on a second. And then when he said that, I remember like, oh, I was let down. Like, I gave him like, oh my God, what is he going to say now?
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
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And he's like, you're too skinny. You need to gain 20 pounds. He's like, you want to come work for me? Gain 20 pounds a month. I'll give you one more year. And I remember in my head, I'm like, oh man, another year. Another year. It's like, shoot, I just did a whole year and a half of trying to create myself, move out here since I met you. Now you want me to do a whole nother year? But whatever.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
20 pounds of muscle, he said. I want you to join this company. Become number one. and stay clean. If you do that, I'mma hire you in my company. So I obeyed, I listened to him, got this job at this huge Toyota dealership in Arizona. And recreating, buying more programs, going to events and everything. When I got there, I didn't know how many salespeople there were.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
I'm thinking it's like back over here where I was in a store with 34 people. Which I think it's a lot of people. When I got to this store, I'm like, hey, so I trained with Andy Elliott. He told me to ask for this person that you guys can help me out. Oh, yeah. Oh, you're training with Andy? All right, can you start right now? I'm like, right now?
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Cause I'm like, cause of course Andy's car sales training and he knows I was training in car sales. I'm like, well, I can start tomorrow. He's like, okay, you got the job. I'm like, whoa, that was the most craziest hiring process. Just name dropping someone. And when I got started there, I'm like, Hey, how many salespeople are here? Is there like 30, 40 people? Say no, there's 120. Ooh.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
120 salespeople. And I'm like, in my head, I'm like, this is a test.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
That's insane. So then in my head, I'm like, oh, this is a test. I'm like, and then now all these lies start coming up. You're not good enough. All the self-doubt, fear. How am I going to do this? Like, am I even going to make it? I'm never going to work for Andy. I'm just like all this negative self-talk started building up because I didn't have the right identity at the time. Right.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
My mom cleaned houses. She still cleans houses to this day, which I'm working on retiring her too. Bought her a dream car as well. So that was awesome. My dad is still kind of doing like, he's like an independent contractor. Like he's just like fixing things.
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Which happens to a lot of people. The unknown, the fear of the unknown. I'm like, whatever. I'm going to listen to him. He told me to do it. I have the programs and I'm going to go dark. I was training for an hour a day, role-playing for 20 minutes a day, do a 15 minute lot walk before the dealership even opened up. And Andy's like, when you go there, that is your dealership.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
You're going to own that place. You're going to be in service drive. You're going to be shaking everyone's hand, pass by finance.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
build relationships with everyone in there bring the service drive pizzas and freaking feed everyone let them know that you're there and thank them for taking care of your customers if they needed anything that you were their guy so i just started like becoming like as if i owned the spot i didn't know anyone there by my third month i was the number one salesman nice how much revenue were you bringing in that month i brought in like twenty seven thousand dollars
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Nice. In one month. So I was averaging around 27, sometimes 20, sometimes 34. And this is your profit. Yeah. Like how much you were making. Yeah. Commission. Okay. Yeah. As far as revenue. That's awesome. Yeah. It was a lot more because each car is like 30,000. I was selling about on the low end, 20 high end, 34 cars a month. Yeah. So it would range, but I did very well. Okay.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
So did that gain 38 pounds of muscle that year. I was ranked like number three out of 33 locations in the company. And then I stayed clean for a year. And this was in 2022? 2023 now. No, no, 2022. So it was from 2022 July till July of 2023. I was literally there for one year.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
She was blown away. You could see that... She was more bought in now. She's like, okay, she's seeing the person becoming, right? And of course, since I started changing my physique and my identity, I was waking up early. I was working out. I was putting in like 10, 12 hour days, right? Sometimes even up to 15 hour days. I was freaking grinding. We moved from this.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
crappy spark part in phoenix arizona where there was a bunch of drug addicts there yeah actually and i didn't mention this when i moved here even like right before i met with andy i had relapse when i was down in arizona too yeah so i had a small relapse but then you know dust it off um and then that's what led me also to getting on that medication called methadone september 1st of 2022 where i finally broke the obsession yeah i was on that medication for two years but
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
For like, kind of like a handyman.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
joined Andy on... So I quit the job July of 2023. And then for two months, even though Jackie was messaging me, they were reaching out to me to get started. Months, like in March of 2023, I didn't feel worthy. I don't really tell... I haven't really told a lot of people this, but I didn't feel worthy. There was two months... that I quit the job and didn't pick up a job.
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Yeah. So he does that. Okay.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
I was thinking about doing high ticket sales or something like phone closing. There's all these high ticket closing companies that they'll train you and then you can do that too, right? But then Sierra's like, and this is why I love my wife, because without
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Having her on my side and her pushing me, this is why having a good woman in your life or a good person in your life that believes in you is so freaking important. She's like, Thomas, she calls me Thomas, you're missing out your chance. The Elliott Group is growing like freaking crazy.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
If you're gonna join them, which they've already offered you the job, you've recreated, you've proved to them, you gained all this weight, you were the top person in this company, like, you know, you're clean now, Like, you need to call them. And if not, you're going to regret it. And you're never going to forgive yourself. I'm like, okay. As soon as she said that, I called Evan.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Evan, bro, I'm ready. I'm ready. And then Evan was trying to, I don't know, Tommy. You think you're really ready for this? And who's Evan? It's one of Macklin twins. There's Evan and Ian.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Yeah, Evan and Ian Macklin. They're two incredible human beings. And they're like brothers to me now. And I'm like, Evan, I'm ready. And I remember me and Sierra were running sprints. So because I was doing very well, we moved to North Scottsdale, the Cureland Commons, right? Completely different environment. Completely different environment. You went from the hood to the boot.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
And a half brother. And are you the youngest, oldest, middle? I am the oldest out of my two sisters. Okay. And then my half-brother's a little bit older than me from my dad's side. Okay.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Went from an $1,800 apartment, now paying over almost $5,000 a month for an apartment. I was doing decent. I was comfortable. Really nice apartment. So the transformation was happening, right?
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
But there was... during that period of time when I was recreating, there was like ups and downs of that. Cause I was still battling an identity problem. I didn't completely change my identity until I got onto the earlier group to where everything just, I just started becoming a completely different person. Yeah.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Like I don't even know who that person was in 2023 in the beginning when I was selling cars, like I'm a completely different person.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
yes starting from 2022 yeah right so 2022 changed to 2023 and then once 2024 hit or i would say once so i joined andy's company september 1st of 2023 and every month since september 1st of 2023 i've changed every single month hot I believe more, my identity is different. There's a thing called perspective and vision.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
So let me say this, and by the way, me and Sierra changed, which is super important. A lot of people, they expect to grow in business, but then they don't grow in their personal life or in their home life or with their partners. What ends up happening, let's say we're both great in business, but you have a horrible home life, but I have an amazing home life, I will whoop your ass.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
However, us as human beings, we're not really good at making decisions or anything or trusting ourselves because you lie to yourself a lot. A lot of people say, well, I'm going to become this person, babe. I'm going to do this. I'm going to be a better father. I'm going to get in better shape. I'm going to wake up early.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
but then this is why you can't excel or why your identity takes a dip because you lied to you. So if you won't be in a relationship with someone that's consistently lying to you, this is what happens. And this is what causes people to get stuck. why the time keeps going by, they're getting older, but they're not growing and they stay the same. This is called identity, your mindset.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
My youngest sister actually has two nieces. Yeah. And then my mom still goes to my wife and is like, Hey, when are you going to get me? When are you going to make me a grandma? It's like, you're already a grandma. Yeah.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
And we talk about it a lot. And the thing is with your identity, it's when you're chasing a big life, greatness is found in the extremes, but you're gonna have to fight like hell and you're gonna have to change. You can't be the same person you are right now. I couldn't be the drug addict To reach seven figures or I couldn't be the drug addict to be the loving husband that I am right now.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
I couldn't be the drug addict. Like I couldn't be that person to gain 60 pounds of muscle in three years. Like I couldn't do that or to change lives. Now I get messages every single day from people saying you changed my life, dude. Hey, Oh my God, look up to you. And it's crazy to hear those things because now I'm starting to see the ripple effect of, of how hard I worked in the dark.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
And it all happens when no one's watching. is when the real work gets done, where the real person gets built, when no one is watching, because that is the real you. And the thing is with a lot of people out there, they let themselves slide. They say they want it, but then if we could put a camera watching them, Let's play that back to your family.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
If you say you're after a big life and you say that you want it, if I show that to your family, is that gonna, are they gonna be like, oh yeah, yeah, it shows that they're working hard. Of course, they said that we're gonna be going on all these vacation. I can see all the work that they're putting in. They say they wanted to get in better shape.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
I can see them eating healthy, not having cheat meal. I can see them going to the gym. I can see them doing all these things because look, we're watching the tapes now. That's my dad. That's my mom. That's my relative. Yep. Or are they going to be like, what the heck is this? Why have you been lying to us this whole time?
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
And that's where a lot of people feel like they can get away with it because no one's watching. So if you want to really change, you're going to have to get stirred up or come from a place of just kind of want it. And I talk to you about this a lot, right, in business or in sales. It's like in our company, we hire underdogs, a lot of them, and a lot of them are killers, but they don't know it yet.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
And a lot of the time that has to be developed, right? There's some people that develop it early and that's freaking amazing. But at the end of the day, if you wanna develop, if you want a killer, that person needs to be developed to be a killer in life, business, sales, whatever, right? Like you, you had to put yourself through a lot of dark times. And you had to work when no one was watching.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
And you was like, I'm gonna do it, that's it, period. That's how winners talk. I'm either gonna do it, I'm gonna win, or I'm gonna win. For so long, I was fighting to survive. now i fight to win so there's a difference right when you and and there is going to come a point in life where you're going to have to fight to survive a little bit to get yourself from
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
You're gonna have to start running away from a life you don't want. That's fighting to survive. And then eventually you start fighting towards, you start running towards the life you want. Now you're just fighting to win, right? And that's the way I look at it as far as like changing your identity and becoming the person.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
And I love what Andy says because he's like, he's just been an incredible example. He's like, Tommy, I'm not hiring you because you were a drug addict. I'm hiring you because if you can stop giving your power away to these things and you start channeling it to the person you wanna become, you're gonna be the top person in my company. And he was right.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
He's just always been that example, always giving me the right things. And he just gives me the cold heart truth. We're very direct with each other. And we're also very loving to each other. So that's a missing piece too. You got to come from a place of love, which he did. But he's like, don't chase the dollar. For so long, you were chasing money. Don't chase the dollar. Chase the man.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Or if you're a woman, chase the woman. Who you become is going to determine what you get. And for so long, I was just trying to chase money, money, money, money, money, destroying everything. My path was really self-centered. I was making money. My God. Then I got baptized. I found my faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Now I was looking to serve others.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
And I was chasing myself on this person so I can be a better husband. you know, be good to me, a better leader, be an example to others, be a standard setter, be an overcomer, taking that initiative within myself to help others, right? But it all started when I stopped chasing the dollar, started chasing the man. And then when I started doing that, I started loving myself more.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
And when I started loving myself more, now I'm coming from a place of knowingness where things just start clicking and now I have more confidence, more self-belief. Like the way I speak, I can speak with more authority, conviction, and it just helps me all around in life. I love that, dude.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
So we got married last year. She's going to kill me because I don't have my wedding ring right now. Oh, snap. I know. We left it back in Arizona. I was putting on lotion, took it off for a second, and she's like, where's your wedding ring? Yeah. I'm like, oops, sorry.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
um so july 31st of last i mean i'm sorry july 21st of 2024 there you got married we decided we were going on a business trip we were actually going to go to wealth con um uh ryan pineda yeah ryan pineda no no no no disrespect no disrespect but yeah we were going to go see ryan pineda andy was speaking there so we're going to wealth con and we're like hey why don't we just get married
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
You had told me you just got married.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
And then I'm like, dude, I think I'm going to get married too.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
And I'm just going to, we just did it, right?
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
So this is a very easy question to answer because Andy gives us so much free range, right? We have the capabilities to do eight, nine figures ourselves. Of course, that's called the build. So it's not something that you can just build right away. It takes a little bit of time.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
But as of right now, we're definitely, this year, we're going hard on our personal brand, building ourselves up, being the example to others. My darkness is a light to others. It shows people what's capable of because you can become whatever it is that you want to become. All you gotta do is change.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
It's like, well, Hey man, uh, some people was like, Hey man, I was thinking about moving to this place because this place is not really soon. I'm like, okay, move. But yeah, but no, no, but move quick. The secret to success is urgency. Being urgent, make quick decisions, just take action. Right.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
And that's why a lot of people deal with stress because stress comes from the decisions and the actions you are avoiding. And a lot of people just get stuck and they just allow themselves to get stressed. But the more actually you take, the less stress you have, right? So if you feel like moving or something's not serving you, leave, change, and then find out if that works.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
But staying where you're at and then hoping and praying is not going to do anything. That was me for a very long time. What if I fail? Okay, if you fail, go to, listen, if left don't work, go right. Some people are not willing to go left to figure out that right is the right way.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
So I joined Andy Elliott about 15 months ago, 14 months ago. And who's Andy Elliott? Andy Elliott is... The example that I needed in my life, he's also the world's number one sales trainer, big brand, and he knows how to reach into people and help them change. He's someone that builds people up. from nothing, and you'll find out a little bit more how he built me.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Right. But, and that's just how success is. That's how entrepreneurship is. Like sometimes you're going to have to pick and choose different paths, see which one works. Oh, I'll take a little bit of this from this one, but this one serves me more. So I'm going to go over here. Right. And it's just about making quick decisions. But yeah, that's basically it, when a lot of people reach out to me.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Now, if you want to design a new life, do exactly what I did. Find someone that you believe in, that you can model off of,
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
and just learn everything from chew everything up use some of it get rid of the rest that works and then apply it to your life and that's what i did so that's basically what i'm doing right now and that's what real entrepreneurs do in the personal development space they find people who have done it have a blueprint they take what they want from it leave the rest and then apply it to your life so then they can compress the time from then they can change so that's what we're doing right now as right now our vision for this year is we're building our brand
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
We're building ourselves as a power couple too. Sierra's building herself self-developing. She's doing all these new programs and, you know, we're just looking to get better. So the goal is to always get 1% better. Every single night when we go to sleep, we ask ourselves, did we get better today? Or are we still the same person? Am I still thinking the same? Was there something that moved me?
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Something that I can utilize? That I can be a little bit different tomorrow? And some of us go every single day. 60, 70,000 thoughts a day. Don't take in any new information. And they had the same thoughts they had yesterday. Same thoughts they had last week. Same thoughts they had last month. And then the one's like, oh, I just want to change. I don't understand.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
It's like, you're not doing anything. The only way that you're going to get better is you have to take in new information. So studying like crazy, where I'm training every single night, reading, and honestly, I don't like reading. I wasn't the best reader, but I forced myself. And I know eventually, subconsciously, I'll be like, okay, I can do this now. But I'm still working through that.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
I read like five, ten pages, so I'm not an avid reader. I'm not like Andy that can read 100 pages in a day. He chews up like one to two books a week. It just reads a lot. But then that really helps.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
By something Peel. Norman Peel.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
I think it's The Power of Something Positivity. I'm sorry. I don't remember the exact title. Okay. The guy's last name is Peel. D-E-E-L-E. Okay. I'm having a blank right now. But those are really powerful because you want to make sure a lot of people have very negative self-talk. A lot of people can't. So that's a really good book. Or The Power of Positive Thinking, I think it's called.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
There we go. Very powerful book because a lot of us are really not good to ourselves. So if you can change and rewire the way you speak to yourself internally, it's not about changing yourself externally, it's about changing yourself internally. When you change the way you see things, the things that you see begin to change. So it has to come from in here, from the heart, from the mind, from you.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
And then Become Your Future Self Now allows you to start identifying with the person that you want to become. And so many people... in life, they, they almost underestimate or they, they don't take enough action today because they are They can't see themselves as becoming this person in the future in the next five years.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
So then they don't do the work or they're like, oh, well, I can never become that. And then they underestimate that. Right. And the more you can identify with your future self, the more that you're going to be able to. So if I see myself as this person in the next five years, the actions and the decisions I make today are going to feed that person to bringing it now. Yeah.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
right and a lot of people can't identify as their future self which then they don't keep they don't make those decisions that are going to move them forward and it's all about the long game like five years is not a lot of time when you're living for 60 80 90 years that's just a little small point in your life so if you're focusing and identifying as so i start seeing myself as this person i see myself as a worldwide speaker i see myself with a massive brand in five years i see myself doing you know easily like high eight figures right of profit
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
I am his top sales coach in his company. So what I do is I help with consulting, helping build sales teams, closing packages to help people recreate to get better in sales, leadership, life coaching. If they're looking to better themselves on their mindset, on their identity, I mean, we do several things helping people build their brand as well.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
I see myself in, you know, still being a coach with Danny Elliott, but being a leader inside of this company, maybe managing a whole organization inside of his company and also being an entrepreneur in other business because I'm an entrepreneur. I love that, right? The entrepreneurial mindset. So I see myself with different types of businesses, big brand, changing lives.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
But the decisions that I'm making today now have to start feeding that person. And some of us just, we don't know what we want. And the two hardest questions we can ever ask ourselves is, is who am I and what do I want to do for the rest of my life? The moment you figure that out, it then becomes easy. But those are the two hardest questions a human being can answer. No, absolutely, man.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
That's simple. Number one, an actionable right now that you can do, you can change right now. Like right now, apply something as soon as you're done watching this podcast is if you have a hard time making decisions. And the reason why you have a hard time making decisions is because you don't trust you. Again, you've been lying to yourself.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Would you be in a relationship with someone that consistently lied to you? No. So this is what happens to a lot of people. That's why when they get on the phone with me, I'm someone who makes quick decisions. I'm someone who's really good at that. Who's going to get all the trust? I am.
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I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Because the person's not going to be able to because they don't know what to do because they can't even follow through on how to live a productive life. So first things first is trust. Start taking action with like working on you, focusing on you, go to the gym, get in better shape.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
If you can master your food, your sleep and your exercise, that automatically is going to allow you to become more accountable within yourself. And you're going to grow very, very quickly because there's a lot of people that do a poor job eating, poor job exercising and a poor job sleeping. And if you can master those three things, you're going to feel good. It's all about feeling good right now.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
And so many of us don't feel good. We're tired, two o'clock hits, we're exhausted. We don't want to wake up early. We're getting our asses beat before we even get out of bed because we're snoozing. So if you go against someone that isn't snoozing, that's holding themselves accountable with their food, their sleep and their exercise, they're going to beat you every single time.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
So that's what I would do first. Second would be find someone that you resonate with. Dude, any Bob down the street with a, with a sales training program. A lot of people come to me. They're like, well, Tommy, hey, I think I want to think about this a little bit more, like in a sale. I'm like, okay, totally understand. Let me ask you a question.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
But in reality, we just help build people or build teams, build companies.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
How long has it been that you've been looking to make more money, get better at sales, and do this? Has it been on your mind the last week or so? Well, no, it's been on my mind the last two years. Okay, so do you think if you would've got started with something like this two years ago, your life would be in a much better position than you are right now? Well, yes.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
I'm like, hey, can you do me a favor? This is on a sales call. Hey, can you do me a favor? Can you get started with somebody? Dude, you've been thinking about this for two years. Start it. Why the heck are we going to repeat the past? Get started with someone. If we don't lock arms and we hop off this call right now, get started with someone. Because look at the way your life's been.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
You've been thinking about this for two years. Go to Bob down the street. Something. It's going to allow you to push that needle forward. But find someone that you like. Find someone you can resonate with and start chewing up their program and apply it. Because if that person has gotten results, you can find how they've done it through a program and invest in yourself. So you want to self-develop.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
So first, hold yourself accountable. Master your food, sleep, exercise. Start self-developing. And another one, have a relationship with your creator, God. Because I give all glory to the Lord. The reason why I feel like I've grown so much in such a short period of time.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
I went from being a drug addict of 16 years, overdosing four times, weighing 145 pounds, being broke to becoming this person that I am right now. And the way I wake up in the morning, I'm waking up with a different identity, a different mindset. I get to see things. I envision myself. So I play a game. We were eating at this place called Casa Neos.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
i'm not sure bro it was a really cool spot it was a really cool on the water but then we see this yacht and we're like you know i'm always practicing my mind and being a multi-multi-millionaire i'm like okay so all right let's see about that yeah so we're all like okay so that probably is like 80 80 foot like let's see how much that costs right so i start playing like if you want to become a millionaire then think and act like a millionaire if you're on a yacht and you see all these like palm trees and everything like that be like okay well i want to live in the house well how much would that house cost yeah
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Right? Oh, palm trees. Okay. So if I'm going to be making decisions as a millionaire and I want to buy palm trees, I need to find out how much those palm trees are. This guy has like 20 palm trees and they're like, I don't know, $80,000 a palm tree. Then I'm like, holy crap. That's 1.6 million in palm trees. You know what I mean? So it's like, you start to think like a millionaire. Okay.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
And initially, Andy and you guys, you guys started with auto sales, correct? We started. So the way that we built the company, Andy now has a nine-figure business. He built a nine-figure business with him.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
So it's going to cost me 1.6 million in palm trees. You know, I want a little deck. I want a yacht, which will probably cost me like five to $10 million for the yacht. And now you're starting to play a game because when you're making, or you're at that caliber, you're going to start thinking as a different human being.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
So start bringing in that future self into the present moment as much as possible. Even if you're not it, what did Patrick, but David said, future truth, future truth. Call things as they're going to become in your life and talk to yourself this way. And that's what I would do as far as taking an action. I love that. I love that. The future looks great, guys. Future looks bright.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Everybody started speaking to me before you even finished. Yeah. Do it now. Do it right now. Do it now. Do it now. Do it now. The moment that you feel like, oh, maybe I should do it. No, do it now. You feel like procrastinating? Do it now. If you can just start doing things right now. you will begin to change. Anything that should be done today should not be put off for tomorrow. Do it now.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
four years the way we did it is we niched down first we started in car sales he was a car sales trainer i mean he was a car salesman created a car sales training company but then as we did that for the first year and a half two years then we went wide now we go from dog training insurance to real estate to wholesale to hotels food and beverage to coaching companies I mean, everything.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
If there's a program and you're on the phone with someone and you know it can help you, do it. If you wanna move, move. If you need to be a better person, be a better person. If you're not being the hero to your kids, be the hero to your kids. Do it right now. You can change right now. It's a split decision. They say, you know, you're only one decision away. It's super true.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
If you could just do things right now and operate this way, the moment you feel like, ah, maybe I should stay in bed. And you're like, the moment you feel procrastinating, the moment you feel complacency, the moment you just feel like you want to be in comfort, that voice should speak in your head and be like, do it now. All right, do it now. Uh, maybe, you know, you finished eating.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
You're like, I'll do the dishes. I do it now. Just do it now. I start taking more action and you're going to start to change very quickly. I love that brother. And where can they find you? They can find me at Thomas Proko, T H O M A S P R O C O. Love it.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
We cover everything. Home services, roofing.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Yeah, it's unheard of.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Especially for a company like... I feel like we're... It's crazy because since we were growing so fast, we didn't have our systems down that we have now. And I feel like everything just started growing within the last two years is when we really started like... creating the company. I mean, before we didn't even have a CRM for two years. You know what I'm saying?
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
It was like, you know, Excel and everything until we started dialing everything down. And when you start dialing everything down, it changes. One thing we did have though, the reason why we grew is we had a standard. We had values inside of the company. There's no complaining in our office. There's no gossiping. We're coming there to work and it's to work. We're there to change people's lives.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
And we didn't get started in business to make money. We got started in business to help people change. We were so addicted to helping people recreate because we created, recreated in the program that we felt like it was up to us to start taking it to a whole different level because there were so many people reaching out to us because we built a brand almost by accident.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
And he was just posting online and then all of a sudden he just started growing the brand. Now our brand generates us about a hundred million plus views a month with over a thousand leads a day organically. I would say, um, you know, majority was practically all organic and we have a small percentage on paid ads.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Thank you, man.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
That's a real warm welcome.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
So I did have sales experience to an extent. So I did sales for the travel industry, like Carnival Cruise Lines, Royal Caribbean, but just like phone sales, maybe a little bit of venturing sales too.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
I just submitted, it's funny enough, to get the job for Royal Caribbean, I actually just arrived there. They're like, hey, you need an appointment. Okay, well, I'm not leaving until I talk to the owner.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
I know I can bring in a lot of value. Yeah. And I can make the owner a lot of money. Just tell me, give me a chance. And then the security guy's like, we're going to have to kick you out. I'm like, I'm just going to sit right here. Right. And I just sat all the time until an owner came out. And I just pitched myself. And they're like, whoa, I like that you just came in here demanding a job.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
We'll give you a shot. Amazing. I did, and I became one of their top reps.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
So what ended up happening was I was in rural Caribbean for about three years. I was doing very, very well. Around that time, I was doing like 110,000 to 160,000. And around what year was this? This is back in 2017 or 2020. Okay.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Well, when COVID hit, the traveling industry was destroyed. If COVID didn't hit, I wouldn't have embarked on this path. Wow. I wouldn't have decided to get clean and off drugs, which will cover that too. Yeah. Right? But COVID hit. I lived off my savings for six months. And my rent was like 2,400 at the time, living with my wife, who was my girlfriend at the time.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
Me and Sierra had been together for seven years. And at that point, I'm like, Sierra's like, babe, you gotta get a job. Like, we were just living off my savings. It's like, you gotta figure something out. And I was trying to figure something out, but the thing is, I wasn't doing, I was trying, right? And we always tell people, try not, just do. And then I'm like, all right, let me just get a job.
The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
I Overdosed and Became a Millionaire FT. Thomas Procopovich
So I got a job as a car salesman. First month, sucked, made 600 bucks.