“Most people who find success are people like me who are too dumb to quit… You are your own champion. Nobody else is going to choose you to stand out front. You get to choose yourself and become that champion.” -Donnie Boivin
The first step in chasing our dream is knowing how much it’s worth. (Read that again.)
One of the common traps we will encounter in our journey is the trap of going back to a “safe” space when life takes a sudden turn. But we want to remind ourselves that the most important thing about our dream isn’t how great it is, but rather how much time and effort we put into it from day one. Our dream will increase in value only if we don’t stop working towards it in the first place!
In this episode, I sit with Donnie Boivin, the CEO of the Success Champions family of companies. Donnie was successful at what he does— sales. He knows how to make a sale easy and he can talk about it with burning passion anytime. But when this one thing was taken away from him, not only was his dream crushed, but he also felt what most of us, men, feel— a mix of negative emotions when we know we let our loved ones down, and worse, we let ourselves down.
One evening, he was invited to dinner and his business partner told him something that changed his life forever. What was that conversation about? And how did he go from almost losing everything he had to owning a network of companies, being a top podcast host, and having 5 best-selling books?
Listen in as Donnie and I talk about how we can champion our own success, why we should not let the promises of a “secure job” depreciate the value of our dreams, how a true CEO thinks and acts, and how we can build a business so that we’re not creating “just another job” for ourselves but enjoying the freedom of being able to follow our dreams.
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Highlights:
- 01:51 One Fateful Dinner
- 06:59 When You’re About to Lose It All
- 11:24 2 Choices
- 18:26 Champion Your Own Success
- 22:08 How a CEO Acts
- 28:44 Two Types of Fear
- 34:57 How to Meet Your Real Self
- 39:24 Recap
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Quotes:
10:20 “It’s hard to do it in a moment but it’s the ability to look back on it and go do it.” -Donnie Boivin
12:07 “It felt scary to walk away from the comfort of everything and start your own thing. I needed a catalyst.” -Donnie Boivin
13:52 “Let’s go grab a life! — because you either get in the game or shut up.” -Donnie Boivin
16:12 “If I throw in the towel, I prove their fears correct.” -Donnie Boivin
17:25 “Most people who find success are people like me who are too dumb to quit.” -Donnie Boivin
20:41 “You are your own champion. Nobody else is going to choose you to stand out front. You get to choose yourself and become that champion.” -Donnie Boivin
20:54 “We’re in the war of our lives. You’re either in the war building someone else’s dream or building your own.” -Ted Phaeton
22:44 “A CEO never thinks how, they only think who.” -Donnie Boivin
23:59 “You got to have a vision so strong, so valuable, that others want to help you create it.” -Donnie Boivin
26:31 “Sales is the final conversation where you get to yes or no? Business development is everything else that leads up to that ‘yes or no’ conversation.” -Donnie Boivin
29:15 “If you’re scared of what’s going to happen if you do that thing, that’s the exact thing you should be doing.” -Donnie Boivin
36:21 “If you really want to meet yourself, start a business. Because at some point, you’re going to get to that point where you run out of excuses. When you work for other people excuses come easy.” -Donnie Boivin
36:56 “When you realize that success is your fault and so is failure, there’s nobody left to blame but you.” -Donnie Boivin
40:01 “As long as you’re feeding into someone else’s dream, they’ll find something for you to do.” -Ted Phaeton
40:25 “A lot of us can’t look in the mirror without feeling uncomfortable. If you are in that position, I want you to know you have the power within you to turn that around and start building off of that.” -Ted Phaeton
41:01 “When you are chasing your dream, the universe is going to throw a distraction… and your commitment to that dream will be tested. But keep on staying the course because as long as you’re in it, you won’t fail.” -Ted Phaeton
Meet Donnie:
At 40 years old Donnie Boivin discovered he’d been living other people’s dreams; for two decades he mastered sales but made other people wealthy. Confident in his sales ability and the local brand he jumped out on his own to chase his dream of speaking on stages and inspiring others to go for their own business freedom.
He quickly learned he had an employee mindset (not a business owner’s) and ran his business straight into the ground. While struggling to find his footing and build his business he began to discover himself. Donnie’s journey led him to build the Success Champion family of companies.
Donnie is considered one of the leading global minds on sales, business development, and business growth. He is described as the first person to make sales and business development relatable and human. Donnie is also a top-200 Apple Podcast host of the world-renowned Growth Mode podcast. He’s been called a motivator, a straight talker, and an authentic badass