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got three things that I'm going to share with you that I think will transform your life.

Three things, these ideas that will help you go from waking up, dragging your feet, not motivated, skipping workouts, lack of discipline, to somebody that absolutely crushes their day.

Somebody that other people look up to.

Somebody that walks with a level of energy and a pep to their step that is undeniable.

Welcome to the Martel Method.

I went from rehab at 17 to building a $100 million million empire and being a Wall Street Journal best-selling author.

In this podcast, I'll show you exactly how to build a life and business you don't grow to hate.

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The first thing is you got to understand,

this is built through service.

Purpose requires you to help other people.

It's like when I remember a long time ago, I went to Peru and I went on this retreat with my buddy Philip.

And it was like this,

you know, this process that I did not understand.

I flew for two days to go down to Peru to spend 10 days without a clue of the agenda or what I'm doing, but I trusted.

And what happened was, is part of the process was visiting orphanages.

And what was interesting was the way Philip introduced them to us.

It started with, you know, basic orphanages where, you know, the parents just couldn't take care of the kids and they needed more support.

Many of the kids had a relationship with their parents, but they lived in this orphanage.

And we went and visited that one and it was really fun and we played soccer with the kids.

And then it went to like the next orphanage, which is, you know, children that got taken from their homes.

And then the third orphanage, which was the one that broke my heart open the biggest, was kids with mental disabilities that were just left on the side of the road.

And

it was really hard

to watch and see and be

and I remember when we were at the first orphanage

Philip saw me playing with the kids in a way he'd never seen me play before see he knew me in a work capacity my whole life just achievement oriented goal oriented and I remember we're on the bus about to leave and he says hey Dan who's that guy And I said, which guy?

He's pointing at the field.

I'm like, there's nobody on the field.

He goes, you on that field who was that guy that was playing with those kids that were cracking jokes that you literally almost took a kid's head off you kicked the ball so hard on purpose by the way i kind of laughed i said why he goes

that guy's cool that guy's fun that guy very determined that guy i could see you wanted to win but it took nothing away from you to also enjoy yourself

And that was the beginning of a conversation for me

around

really leaning into making it about other people, but choosing the other people.

Choosing, for me, it's kids.

I'm on a mission.

I have a purpose.

It's very simple.

I want to rid the world of any kid feeling like they're broken.

I want every kid to understand no matter what they're going through, what they've gone through, what they've done, what people have said about them, there's nothing wrong with them.

They are not broken.

The world is broken.

They're not broken.

The other thing is, and this one's a hard one.

This may not be something that you can work on right away.

It might take you some time to figure this one out, but I believe.

That your purpose, what you're meant to do with your time here on earth, sits right next to the worst thing that's ever happened to you.

The thing that for a lot of people put in a box, bury that box,

bury it at the bottom of the ocean.

They have a lot of shame around it.

They don't want anybody to know.

I was that person for 15 years.

After rehab, after ending up in jail twice as a teenager, after getting sober, starting to find my way, even though it took me years to be successful from a business point of view, I didn't want anybody to know.

I had massive amounts of shame around the things that I had done, my decisions,

and we never talked about it as a family.

For 15 years, nobody knew.

Even after I sold my first company, wasn't enough.

Even after I got named number one angel investor in all of Canada, wasn't enough.

Even after I built and sold another one of my companies, wasn't enough.

It wasn't until I got put in a position to help these kids, this place called Portage that saved my life.

And only because of that, did I had the courage or the drive or the desire to actually share my personal story publicly?

And man, was it hard.

Did I have a face full of snots trying to share this?

Did it feel like I had just broken my heart wide open?

Was I worried?

You better believe it.

But I also know that when I I got off that stage and I had people coming up to me, sharing with me things that they'd never shared with another human being ever,

and finally feeling understood by people that were like, hey, Dan, why do you think you're such a risk taker in business?

You have no idea

what I've done.

This, the business stuff, that's easy.

Here's what I discovered, and this is my question for you.

What pain have you experienced that you would like to help other people avoid?

What pain have you gone through that you would help other people get through easier, heal easier?

What did you experience?

What part of your life

that is

something you don't want to think about, but if you think about why you're successful, It may not be something you wish happened, but you definitely know because it happened, you are better for it.

I believe this.

Pain is the perfect teacher.

Pain is the perfect teacher.

It is an appropriate teacher in your life to show you where you got to go do the work.

And if you've been blessed enough to do it, I actually believe that your purpose on earth is to help other people with that.

Your mess is your message.

It is one of the most powerful things you have.

that is unique to you.

That if you have the courage, you're brave enough to share with other people, it will save other people.

The last thing I want to share with this

is

intuition is shouting.

It's screaming.

Your heart, your desire knows exactly what it should do.

It wants you to do it.

But what happens is we have our ego, our perceptions of what other people expect of us.

And it pushes back on our decisions to follow our intuition, to follow follow our hearts.

We know what we want to do, but we deny it.

Our purpose sits right there,

but we say no.

I remember a couple years ago, I was frustrated when I moved to Kelowna, and that's where I live now.

I made a decision to get active in my community like I had out east where I grew up.

I visited the rehab center to save my life.

I would do a lot of community projects and I had this like incredible community.

So when I moved here, I wanted the same thing.

And I'd been here for a couple of years and I realized that up to that point, yeah, I did a few talks and I went and spoke with a few organizations and my wife and I supported a ton of nonprofit projects, but I didn't have that proximity and connections with the kids that I had back home where I grew up.

So out of frustration one day, I said, enough's enough.

Whoever wants to come, I want us to go find four kids.

And I called the social worker and I said, hey, do you have any kids that you think are ready and would benefit from spending some time learning about life and being successful and looking at cool cars?

Because that's also a big part of my life.

And she found four kids.

And those four kids came into my office and we sat down and we talked.

And I shared some stories and I shared some ideas and I shared my car.

And it started with four kids.

The next week, or maybe like a few weeks later, it went to eight.

A few weeks later, 16, 32.

Today, we had to move King's Club is what it's called to an auditorium of 100 seats.

There's 500 kids in my town.

We do it every month.

And it sells out.

It's free.

It doesn't cost anything, but massive impact on my life, my ability to support these troubled youth that I absolutely adore

because I didn't wait.

My intuition told me do something with it.

And I think my gut tells me it's talking to you.

and you know what you've got to do and you've been putting it off because it's not big enough or you think I need to get this person to say yes to support me in it and if I can only get this person and this person involved then then it'll be worth doing no no no no we don't do that I need you to make a commitment to decide to give back to support others stop making it about you see you can get anything you want in life if you help other people get what they want.

It's the cheat code of cheat codes.

You receive what you desire for others.

If you want more money, help other people get more money.

If you want more love in your life, help other people find it.

If you want richer relationships and friendships, help other people.

You want to get healthy?

Help other people get healthy.

The moment you stop making it about you, your whole life will change.

So that's why I truly believe that purpose is the most powerful thing you can have because without it, the pain is just suffering.

With it, the pain is fulfillment.

It is drive.

It is, it's an energy that can move mountains.

But like I said, it's built through service.

It sits right next to the worst thing that's ever happened to you.

And that your intuition is shouting for you to do something with it.

Below, I want to hear from you.

I need to know your.

I need you to leave a comment letting me know what your purpose is.

One simple thing.

Don't make the mistake of making it this big thing.

Just tell me what it is.

Why do you do what you do every day?

What is the reason you're going to do what you do every day?

Because if you make it about somebody else, you'll do way more for them than you'll do for yourself.

That's why most people raise a bunch of money and train because they do it for charity.

Tell me below in the comments.

That's my request.

Do that and you will crush it in life.

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