Greg Yates shares his journey to massive business success followed by massive personal failure. He teaches us how being broken helped him become a much better man.
Take away: Money is not going to create happiness.
Action step: Find the simplest thing and take action on it.
Money Learnings: Greg's parents didn't talk about money and school never taught him about money. Greg didn't learn about finances until later in life. Greg has intentional in teaching his kids about money
Bio: After more than 30 years in business, owning as many as 14 businesses at one time with hundreds of employees, Greg found himself in denial, without trusted advisors when the Real Estate market crashed. He made decisions that ultimately cost him tens of millions in capital and a year in prison. Going from massive success to the brokenness of failure, Greg came face to face with the False Beliefs that had blocked his decision-making process and left him isolated as a leader. Now, Greg trains high-level teams the 4 essential GETS if they want to Break through the barriers of limitation, and lead a mission of contagious engagement.
Greg takes leaders into a training environment he calls The Practice Zone where these four essentials and the HABITS necessary to implement them can be intentionally developed for success. Greg is the author of 4 books and his 5th book, entitled “Circumstances Lie”, will be released in the fall. His first book, an international Best Seller is titled “Broken, how being broken unlocked the greatest success of my life”. It details his life, leadership, success and the entire story of his legal battles and prison. It’s a brutal story with extensive details Greg journaled in prison and how his return home sparked the desperate search for a new belief system and significance.
Greg is a speaker, author, trainer, and coach but his ultimate mission is building the “Yates Mastermind”, where Leaders connect, train and network together. Leaders need a place to have conversations they can’t have anywhere else. Greg believes this network would have prevented catastrophic brokenness in his own life and is sharing purpose, passion and potential as the catalyst for exponential Breakthrough in The Yates Mastermind.
Highlights from this episode:
- How Greg taught his kids about money.
- Greg's journey to building a $100,000,000+ business.
- Why Greg transitioned out of the business at 37.
- The 5 areas of life: body, mind, relationships, faith, and finances.
- The health scare.
- My personal definition of success.
- The real estate business growth and crash.
- What's the prison experience.
- Rebuilding life experiences and the book.
- Conversations with God.
- Who is the new Greg?
- No more head trash!
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