habits. What actions are you taking every single day? Are you moving toward your goals, or away from them? It boils down to that simple formula. Dennis: What changed for you when you realized you were helping others?
Before thirty, I didn’t bust $500,000 in a year. But after thirty, I started busting $500,000 per week. I think if you focus on helping other people, money will come. We get up every day asking, “How do I make money?”
You make money by solving problems, fool! You’ve got to solve problems for Brad: I didn’t realize it somebody. Solve your until later in life, but own problems while the shift was when I you’re helping people helped somebody go solve their problems. The from earning minimum world would be a better wage to earning $15,000 place if everyone woke a month. I saw the up every day looking to impact that had on his help people, for money family and his life, and or not. I thought, “Man, that feels cool, I want to do I’ve dedicated the rest that again,” so I quit my of my life to focusing on job to go help people helping other people, make money by training and in turn, I’m helping them in sales, influence, myself. I’m not a pure persuasion, closing and angel, but at the end of other skills. the day, I recognize the formula. Until I was thirty, I only looked out for myself. It’s fun making an impact I wanted to figure out on other people’s lives. how to get rich for A lot of people message myself. It was always for me and tell me that I’ve me. I didn’t really care changed their life and too much about other I’ve kept them inspired people. when they were ready to give up. It feels good When that shift knowing you’ve made an happened, that’s when impact. the real success started coming. 10
Dennis: When did you start your training platform, Lightspeed VT? Brad: In 1999. Lightspeed is a technology I developed to help people deliver, track and measure information so they can develop their human assets. I thought a website would suffice, but our team built technology instead. I started the online learning space. It’s easy to share knowledge. The mission of Lightspeed is to deliver knowledge from the people who have it to the people who need it. Dennis: How did you come up with the idea for Lightspeed VT? Brad: When I went to train other people, I knew how to take the average person and turn them into a pretty badass salesperson. If you’re able to sell, persuade and close, you’re able to make money. I was very successful in showing people how to do it all these years, so I thought, “I’ll just run out and do it for myself and charge