The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
$147 Million Exit Gone Wrong: Eric Cline Reveals How He Lost Everything and Rebuilt His Life
11 Oct 2025
What happens when your $147 million empire collapses overnight? In this powerful episode of The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex, Eric Cline (@theericcline) opens up about his jaw-dropping journey from building a 9-figure company to losing it all — and how he rebuilt his life, purpose, and wealth from scratch. Eric shares his rise from rock bottom — battling addiction, lawsuits, and betrayal — to leading one of the fastest-growing operations overseas. His story is a masterclass in resilience, mindset, and the power of second chances. If you’ve ever faced failure, loss, or doubt, this conversation will show you how to turn pain into purpose and rebuild stronger than ever. 🎯 Key Takeaways: How Eric scaled a business to a $147M exit — and what went wrong The truth about losing everything and starting over Why your rock bottom moment can become your greatest advantage How discipline, self-awareness, and faith can rebuild your life and business What real freedom looks like after surviving total collapse 💡 Success isn’t about how high you climb — it’s about how many times you rise after falling. Your Network is your NETWORTH! Make sure to add me on all SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS: Instagram: https://jo.my/paulalex2024 Facebook: https://jo.my/fbpaulalex2024 YouTube: https://jo.my/ytpaulalex2024 LinkedIn: https://jo.my/inpaulalex2024 Looking for a secondary source of income or want to become an entrepreneur? Check out one of my companies below to see if we can help you: www.CashSwipe.com 📘 FREE Copy of my book: “Blue to Digital Gold - The New American Dream”www.officialPaulAlex.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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we jumped into the timeshare exit space. First company we ever started, built it up to where I had over 150 W2 employees in my office. We were doing 34 million a year. We were netting 12 on that. My wife and I own 67% of the business. That's 8 million a year. Now my dear friend, Don, he goes, have you ever thought about selling this thing? No clue what he was talking about.
I didn't know you could sell a business. And then we started getting offers in. We had offers from 147 million to 92 million. I'm like, how the hell did we build something? I want to get closer to God. It's always been something that has been very confusing to me without any shadow of a doubt. A guy like me without something out there looking over me doesn't make it at this table.
Hey, guys, and welcome back to Level Up Podcast. This is Paul Alex. And today we have another phenomenal guest. He goes by the name of Eric Klein, guys. Eric Klein is with me. He went from hitting rock bottom to building and selling multimillion dollar businesses, guys. Yes, it's about to be another one.
And he's trained thousands in real estate sales, in mindset, and he's the founder of Run It Remote and the Refuse to Lose brand. Guys, we're going to dig deep into his story. He has a phenomenal story, dude. I've been following him for quite a while. He's part of Andy Elliott's Brotherhood. I mean, that's our connect right there. And I can't wait to tell you guys more about Eric.
Eric, welcome to the show, brother. Thank you. Appreciate you for having us out here. Thanks for coming out like right in early, dude. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, from Fort Lauderdale to Miami, traffic is insane. It's on another level, dude. Dude, when I first moved here like two years ago, man, I come from California. So I was like, there's no way it can be L.A. traffic. And, dude, it's horrible.
It's comparable.
Yeah, bro. It is actually way worse. I'm like, Jesus Christ, right? And I ended up buying a home like 30 minutes away in the sticks, bro, because I want to land, right?
Of course.
I didn't want to be in Brickell. And, dude, hour and a half traffic down. But it is what it is.
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