 I don't care what I want to get what I need every single day I'm heading off to my dream and I get everything that I damn well, please I don't give a damn if you all listen to me. Hey guys, it's Andy Elliott. Welcome to the one percenter podcast today I've got a special guest a real treat. He's an overcomer. I Love watching people that come up. Okay. I mean a lot of you right now. You got scars. Okay? I love people that got issues I love people that got problems people then this world that go through stuff are the most dangerous people that can handle adversity Get to the top people that can't have handle adversity get their ass kicked and this guy loves it And he's a great leader and he's a coach now, you know our whole goal to make everybody great Our whole goal to make everybody great is to truly at one point have when you become great teach others to be great That's the whole goal. Okay. There's this thing called fulfillment the art of achievement and the art of fulfillment The art of achievement. He's crushing it making a ton of money But he's got this fulfillment now where he's teaching a lot of people How to make money and how to kill it and crush it and how to not waste any more time where you got this short life And you got a lot to do. Okay, so man, thanks for being with us today number one I should tell everybody what you're doing now, right? Like what you're doing today Yeah, and and I've spent a lot of time with him guys. I vouch for this guy. He's amazing I just got back from Florida. He's got a beautiful wife kids are super cool So he's an amazing person outside of business. Let me just say that because I think that's important to know But but also I want it. I want you to tell him what you're doing now Yeah, but then let's go back because you know like I was talking to Andy Frazzell He's a good buddy of mine and and I like when he goes back to and he tells me when they were buying the plywood And they're opening their first business and they didn't make money. How did they get through that, right? So I want you to tell your story guys a story is gonna change your life And I think a lot of you are gonna identify with him He can do it so can you but tell him what you're doing now and then let's go back and let's just go up The things that you learn the lessons things you did right the things you did wrong. Yeah, and what yeah, there's a lot of it Yeah, so my name is Eric Klein 42 years old Happily married to my beautiful wife Shila. I have two amazing kids my daughter's 21 In college right now senior year. I got an 11 year old son and I just watched and witnessed you have an amazing Conversation with him and kids of the future man, man When I when I tell you I was I was standing back honestly try not to get emotional Because that the conversation was powerful and I appreciate you for having that Yes, it's it's everything to me because 14 years ago. I never thought I'd be sitting where I am today My family obviously being one of my my best accomplishments. I've ever done but today, what am I doing today I I Just under three years ago jumped into the the wholesaling industry for real estate I had just come off of a massive lawsuit that I'll I'll get into when we go back in the story But I didn't you know ended a lawsuit was wondering what I was gonna do now as a grown man with a family, you know just Was getting ready to exit a company for stupid cash And I lost it all man I lost I lost everything but four million dollars and I was you know me and my wife were making really good money And we were looking at a nine-figure exit and we went to I want to tell everybody This is when you get tested. Yeah, okay I always say the stress test your your marriage Stress test the things that are important to your stress testing because I see a lot of people and things like this happen And I see you and your wife here today and you're thriving. I know that that was hard Yes, but but that's how I know that you guys are gonna be together till you die. Yeah, because when you make it through that Well, that's that's how you're powerful And that's why this second round it might be the 20th round you get stronger and each time Most people can't take a blow like that when you think something's gonna happen what you'll tell a story Yeah, most people crumble and they're like my life's over your life's never over, right? Okay in the middle of it. It seems like it do listen. I always tell people like dude in three days Yeah, you're gonna look back and you're gonna realize that everything's okay Yeah, you just got to give it a couple days till that time by yeah, I mean by the way But that's what that's why I think you're so uniquely Qualified immensely qualified to coach and help people because the things that have happened to you You can make sure that they don't happen to anyone else. Yep, dude. I love a coach with experience I love a coach that has been burned. I love a coach that has burned people so they know that that's about you I love people that have been through challenges because dude as I'm as I'm coming up and and somebody's gonna help me like I Want to know not what to just look for but also like like what to like stay away from course Hey guys, what's going on? It's Andy a lot of you leave comments telling me that you need help Do me a favor I'm gonna take the best way to get a hold of me shoot me a text message right now 918 210254 918 210254 I'll help you with whatever you need. I got your back for life. Let's get back to the video You know, I mean like like handshake agreements contracts all this stuff like all this stuff matters, you know I mean and there's a lot of people that are just like you That lost just like you. Yeah, that never came back and then there's ones that went 20 times bigger I feel like that's where me and my wife are exactly Yeah, you're getting ready that happened for you to get ready for the big daddy one, of course Anyways, let's keep going so that happens In three years you've been able to build this whole this real estate wholesale game Yes to a whole new level now you teach all virtual cells all virtual, but you've you've you have a niche for wholesale real estate You learned really quick. Yeah, and you're making a lot of money with it But you're teaching people how to make a lot of money with it. Yeah, so my my first 12 months in the wholesaling industry. I didn't know anything about real estate outside of buying personal residents for me and my Why that was it? That's all I knew. I've never flipped a home I didn't know what an ARV was how to run comps how to underwrite a deal none of that But I picked I knew how to get someone on the phone. I knew how to generate leads no sales That's it and how to generate the traffic the leads to get people on call centers and stuff too, right for the last 15 years That's that's all I've done. So you know how to generate leads in market. Yes, you know how to sell Yep, so you're in the wholesale game now and you said in 12 months. You did what first 12 months I did a hundred and 18 contracts for 2.6 million and I netted it at 58% Which was 1.5. Yeah, and I had new industry new brand new industry Netted a million and a half my first 12 months. Love that and anybody can do that, right? Yes, this is super easy. Yeah anybody watching this right now. Just so we're aware, okay? If you're not making a million a year by the way, you did this all through the phone Oh, I'd never walked in a single where everybody understand that you create your own life You do it from a phone. Yep, you guys will see a number on the screen. We guys just text that number He's literally built out a training curriculum showing exactly how he did it and you can just do it Rents repeat. It's done. Yeah. All right. Let's keep rolling. So I'm in now just coming up on three years in that the industry have done Just just over eight million dollars again all virtual. I don't go out to these properties In that short period of time. I've also built for the wholesaling industry I own my own proprietary software for a CRM that they can get on it's super important. Yep, and then I've Have a pretty sizable call center that generates leads for the real estate space. Good guys So as you're watching this remember that number I gave you guys can text them You can ask them questions about a CRM you can ask them questions about Obviously, it's programmed what they're doing and then you can just learn. I mean, maybe you need leads I mean, I'm just giving example whatever it is you guys Context remember anything that I can do to provide value to our audience Like there's a lot of people right now that are on their journey. Just like look, let's go back three years ago Yeah, someone planted a seed. Yeah, I don't know who it was But they planted a seed that made you get wholesale real estate. Of course. Okay, you didn't just go man I think I'm gonna wholesale some real estate somebody said something at some point Yeah, and you didn't know what to do and you go, okay I'm gonna do that and that's what I like to do with people that people are in certain places in their life And I think a lot of people are waiting for their their opportunity their way out Of course that makes sense. Yeah, a lot of that's what they're waiting on and and this could be a lot of y'all's opportunity here So so let's go back to when you're younger now So you're kicking ass you did about eight mil this last year you're you're learning you're growing obviously seems like you're playing the Doubles game every year. Yeah, okay, so I can guarantee if you did eight now you're gonna do 16 You're gonna keep rolling in this doubles game, but let's go back to you know, where'd you come from? How are you raised? You know what's life like because I think that right there if I tell somebody hey This guy didn't may a million last year he's in sales people like oh man I'm not qualified to do that because of this this this this and this yeah all that bullshit So I want you to tell some of the nasty side of human beings that most people are afraid to tell Yeah, and so that they can realize that whatever the hell they're up against whatever They're trying to slay whatever issue it is. That's all bullshit. Yeah, they can start today and go get it So the the guy sitting here today Was not the same guy. Let's say 15 years ago. We can go all the way back to my childhood listen I grew up in a broken family My parents got divorced when I was in sixth grade and I was a middle child And I remember you know, my my older brother was the jock my younger brother was the mama's boy Nothing wrong with that but I was in the middle and I was lost and when my parents Went out when I was in sixth grade decided to get a divorce. I remember that was the time where you know, my my my younger brother went with mom my older brother went were actually they both went with my mom and for the first time I was Sitting in front of a judge in front of both my parents and they were like you have to pick which parent you want to go With in front of my parents crazy. Hey guys already interrupt the podcast All right, so as you're listening to my man Obviously cool killer comeback story. This guy's crushing and killing the game if you're in virtual cells He does so many things if you're in virtual cells It means that like you make a living by the phone you guys you see this number on the screen You need to text this number this guy's training modules as courses that you can take his curriculum will absolutely show you how to Be a ninja on the phone not only how to smash everybody in the industry But just how to be the best and make what you're worth So if you're gonna take the time to you know be on the phone you might as well get paid all the dough Right so you guys text this number below He'll train you he'll help you any questions you have shoot him a text and let's get back to the video and knock on wood man, I'm the only one right now in my family outside of my sister that that is still married today. Everyone's gotten divorced and and I Remember picking my father because I felt bad for him And it was one of those I made a decision that wasn't I knew wasn't best for me But it I felt bad for somebody those people pleasing so I Remember like at sixth grade the first time I put a mood or mind altering substance in my body. I was 13 years old Going on 14 and the first time I ever drank I blacked out drunk and It was the best feeling because I didn't have to feel anything anymore and from from from 13 to 28 years old I Medicated myself heavily with With the drug that ultimately brought me to my knees was crack cocaine. I was kicked out of high school I was kicked out of the military Didn't get my license till I was 28 lost it at 22 for DUIs five driving on suspenders like I was a Everyone in my family disowned me not cuz they they didn't love me. They just couldn't handle me Yeah, and you know what I always tell people I say listen, dude, you know hurt people hurt people Yeah, you turn your wounds into your weapons Yes, and the deal is is that when you're not around a good mentor yet 100% and you're not around somebody That's telling you like the talk I had with your son. I'm saying hey Let me tell you what I see in you. Let me tell you what you're gonna do Yeah, this is what I see happening over the next five months. Yeah, there wasn't people telling us that when we were younger No, okay, like I did the same thing kind of like on your deal Hey, if I could have just found something to find interest in yeah I could have been really good at a lot of things earlier in life But proximity is power. So if you're around people doing drugs if you're around people that are giving you bad advice Yeah, well shit, man. It ain't like you're a bad person. No, I mean my bad people You're some of the five people you're around. Yeah, I mean my father was my drinking buddy for many many years Right. Yeah so the the for me what kind of it was my aha moment Andy is I Was blackballed from all the the union jobs in Chicago. I was a union carpenter at the time and I was at this time I'm 28 years old and I was able to get the my union to give me out of my annuity I was able to have them. I manipulated $3,500 Saying like I needed it for a place. I was getting evicted out of or whatever and at this time I was renting a house a Bedroom from a Chicago police officer and he would rent these rooms out to all these college students Well, I just so happened to be the one guy in there that wasn't going to college. I was actually in there doing dope and I had $3,500 and I Remember the dope man would come to the to the back door like clockwork for eight days straight and I was I was smoking crack and I I was so paranoid if I doubt anybody in this room has went eight days without sleeping before But I was I was consecutively up to eight days with no sleep. This is crazy well You'll see by the end of the story how crazy it really was but it was ultimately the the Pivotable moment for me that changed my life is I'm pissing in the corner of the room because I couldn't go out of the The bedroom to use the restroom. I was that paranoid I'm at this point 128 pounds I'm stripping extension cords to gut them and pack sockets to put the crack on it to go out in the You know get the courage to go out into the to the kitchen and light a gas stove And I was I was smoking the the socket off of this heat But I had to get so close to the flame. I was literally burning my face So I burned off all my eye Eyebrows I had no eyelashes. I had you know Golf ball or baseball sized blisters on both sides of my face because I'd have to get down so so close and I would switch it because it would hurt so bad and You crazy son of a bitch Hey, so you know what I love though I love that, you know when you tell this story, right like most people won't tell Anything bad. Well, no, but they won't tell anything. Yeah I think a lot of people they're in prison because they don't talk about any of the shit They've ever been through right and because they're ashamed of it when really you're like, listen to me number one I don't I'm not saying I would go do it again, but I'm trying to tell you that Wherever you are and whatever you've gone through and whatever the hell you're up against. Yeah, you can beat it Decision so tell us this this pivotal moment. So I get it now. I see All right, I see the picture. I'm all right. All right. You got it. All right. Did I paint it good enough? But but it's real like there's no sugarcoat in here it for so I'm I'm eight days into this and and at this point You know, I'm under my my covers in my room just shaking sweating and I hear the Helicopter start going over the house I hear the the the police lying the street the ambulance show up the front door gets kicked in and I'm just in my room Paranoid is can be thinking the gigs up My family know everyone knows and I remember I'm coming down the hallway You could hear the commotion coming down the hallway. My mom's out there crying hysterically Just saying leave him alone. He's dead leave him alone. He's dead. My brother's out there You know wrestling with the cops and the paramedics and finally after all this and I'm again I'm in my bed just knuckles clenched to the sheets like this and I didn't want to say anything, you know, I was thinking maybe they didn't know I was even in there and I heard they get they get everybody back And I the paramedics, you know open click the stretcher up a little bit because they had to pivot it to get it in the room and They said on three we're gonna kick the door and I heard him say that and they got you know, everyone was back it was calm and I hear one Two so I jump out of bed and I open the door and I'm like I'm alive And there was no one there it was me in a hallway in my underwear by myself and it was it was August 9th of 2009 and It's crazy It was the day I literally decided to To start living for the first time at 28. Dude, that's some crazy shit. You know, that's gone Yeah, so you want to know it's what's weird is I've told that story. I've been clean now almost 15 years from all mood or mind alter and substances nothing's went in my body and I Used to tell the story of I hallucinated and I didn't say I hallucinated on this time telling the story to you and I Went and spoke in front of right. I did this on Bradley's podcast and he goes dude. You didn't hallucinate He goes that was that was the power greater than you. It's gone. Absolutely. So I quit saying I hallucinated Yeah, that's his holy spirit without a shadow of a doubt. Listen. It's like when you go to a store and Something says pay for this person's groceries. Yes That doesn't happen all the time, right, but when it happens It doesn't just accidentally happen. Yeah, you're like This is weird I'm gonna pay And they're like no no no no my take the card man. We're paying for the groceries It's like cuz I can't I have to do this. Yeah If I don't do this it's gonna drive me crazy. Mm-hmm. You know I'm saying and that's all it was Yeah, I love it. But did that is cool dude. So at that point you're obviously it's a shit show to shit show Right. So yeah, so what do you do? You start cleaning yourself up? Yep You start you start going and obviously the next couple years you get back at work. You start exercising. What do you do? Yep, hey guys already interrupt the podcast. All right So as you're listening to my man, obviously cool killer comeback story This guy's crushing a kill in the game if you're in virtual cells He does so many things if you're in virtual cells It means that like you make a living by the phone you guys you see this number on the screen Text this number this guy's training modules his courses that you can take his curriculum will absolutely show you how to be a ninja on The phone not only how to smash everybody in the industry But just how to be the best and make what you're worth So if you're gonna take the time to you know be on the phone you might as well get paid all the dough, right? So you guys text this number below He'll train you he'll help you any questions you have shoot him a text and let's get back to the video I'll tell you exactly what I did I started taking suggestions for the first time in my life Because my way that's a good one my way did not work for 20 they start running a new play Start running a new play if someone that's done it before me I had eight dollars to my name hopped on a train that brought me back to my hometown Which ultimately there was a guy there that threw me on a plane to go out to Fort Lauderdale to check myself into a treatment center and This time I wasn't getting clean to save a job save a relationship make my mother happy I was literally getting clean to save my life for the first time. I wasn't doing for anyone other than myself But I was taking suggestions from people that had some clean time already that were you know used to be drug addicts or alcoholics and He threw me on a plane brought me down to South Florida Checked myself into a treatment center stayed in that facility for like 60 to 70 days somewhere in that range and while I was in there I thought I was just gonna go back to Chicago. I cleaned myself up and I was gonna get back in the Union and Again where I said I started taking suggestions that some of the facilitators in that treatment center They were like I don't think it's good for you to go home. I think you should check yourself into a halfway house So I went into a halfway house. I stayed there for like six or seven months now The day I walked out of treatment was the day I met my wife I actually met her three days prior to get in out of treatment She met me at my all-time lowest. I was literally still in a treatment center She had four and a half years clean now at this time because she used she used to bang heroin. Yeah, and So you guys grow together for this but she was way ahead of you She was ahead of me and she saw something in me that I definitely didn't see in myself yet That's cool. She had the confidence in the you know I always say she's my number one cheerleader man whenever I have that self-doubt She's always there next to me saying you got this come on now, man So I ended up getting in went to a halfway house started, you know, she went and bought me a nice You know slacks and a button-up shirt and this tattoo makeup to try and go and find the job and Nobody would hire me like I legitimately could not find a job I ended up being a bus boy like I was a bus boy at a restaurant at 28 years old Two buses there two buses home. I worked there for like a Two weeks three weeks they ended up handing me a paycheck For two weeks worth of work. It was a hundred and forty six or a hundred and forty seven dollars still have that check today and and I Remember she picked me up and I had the efforts. I'm like F this I want to go back to Chicago There's nothing here for me and she's like maybe you just need to settle down and go to a meeting Raise your hand get vulnerable. I Did that walk, you know, she brought me back to my halfway house and the piece of paper that has all ultimately again This is a very pivotal moment in my life She drops me off at my halfway house. Now mind you she's paying my halfway house rent where I got a rent of bed and At one moment one point of me living in this halfway house. There was bed bugs like all this stuff Sure, and she drops me off at my halfway house walk around I get ready to open the door to go into where You know my room was and there was a white piece of paper it said telemarketers wanted fifteen dollars an hour and I ended up calling that number and I said listen. I live in a halfway house. I'm full of tattoos I got 90 days clean. I don't have a license. I'm trying to get my stuff together Like I was just honest with them I didn't want to go there and then be like dude We can't hire you because the way you look so I just got it all out of the way before I even showed up and they're like You're just the kind of people we're looking for Like I got into a call center and the rest is history dude Worked there for a year and a half Became their number one guide not because I was the most talented. I just out worked everybody Like when I say I was hungry. I was hungry. Yeah, you were eating that shit alive. I was hungry. Yeah, you hated your life Yeah, man, and I saw I saw an opportunity for me. I saw guys that look like me walk like me talk like me You know in this call center of two three hundred people And I became his number one guy in a year and a half and then I felt I cared about the company more than anybody that was there And I'm like I was the first one there the last one to leave They had to let me in and tell me you got to go And uh after a year and a half me and my wife were like Someone brought me an idea of you could get somebody out of a timeshare And they used to this business model already existed But they would get a bunch of people in a room Pitch them from a podium and then break them off into tables And I'm like if they can do that in rooms like that, I can do it over the telephone Someone gave me the idea me and my wife bought a stack of leads started in a bedroom And we ended up in in nine and a half years building the largest timeshare exit company in the united states Yep, that's what I heard grew it to I had we had over 150 people In in our office in Fort Lauderdale. We were building out a 30,000 square foot facility We were getting ready to exit to a private equity firm. We had uh, we had offers from 147 million for a hundred percent down to like 97 million The deal we ultimately ended up signing an lli with letter of intent Is uh, we were gonna sell 51 of the business for 54 million Me and my wife were gonna retain 49 of it for the second sale And so it would have been a nine figure exit for us and uh like 60 days before the deal was to be done We ended up getting sued by two of the largest timeshare developers in the world. Yeah and uh By at this time, you know me and my wife We got all the houses the cars were made. We're netting eight million dollars a year at this point Like life was really good. So I want everybody to remember this just real quick because this is important You know as we do our podcast. We always try to keep them like whether They have something really to chew on big time right now. You're coaching people on on on A level that can take anyone without going through any of this experience to another level quick Yes going back you literally go through this crack life Right, which everybody no matter what your problem is his problem is we all have the same nasty ass problem They're just they're just different. Of course. Okay. One person. Oh my god. I can't believe that. You mean like, oh my god I can't believe that it's not crack. It's pouring. It's alcohol. It's whatever form of poison. Yeah, but anyways You you get sued you're 60 days away You guys go through this. Yeah, and then literally on the flip side of this, which you said just a minute ago You you find a wholesale real estate. Yep And you start over we still literally picked I I picked the phone back up sat down in the seat just like the damn telemarketing deal It started starting when you're in the halfway house. Yes And so I just want to tell everybody on this call right now Like I think this is super important because I think everybody can relate Without I don't care where you are what I care about is where you're going. Yes. Okay. I don't care what's going on today What can tomorrow look like? It doesn't take long. You made a million dollars in a year doing wholesale real estate a million and a half Which was net you're away. Yeah, so if anybody I think this is important Everybody knows if anybody is in any place right now Like today's the restart day. Yeah, of course. Okay I would want to know every way that you speak every way that you talk the scripts that you use And you have all that recorded you everybody can train on that Make sure everybody who's watching this you guys see this number below I want you guys to shoot him a text. Okay, if you guys want to Learn how he's built these so quickly. He teaches that now. Yeah, which is crazy And I know you do zoom call like masterminds and stuff like that But also there's training curriculums that people can actually without getting on a zoom call Yes, they can actually just train on and they can do it in their own time and write down everything Uh Lastly one piece of advice right because I want to do we're gonna do a lot of podcasts together We're gonna talk about a lot of stuff You're you're about to blow up in this industry and go to a whole another level and do it right this time What's one piece of advice that you would give anybody that doesn't have the life that they want right now I believe sales and leadership. Yeah, we'll get you rich And you've proved that your sales skill and your work ethic will make you rich What's something that you would what message that you would give Man to someone that's getting ready to get started or wants to change So where your feet are today, they absolutely do not have to be there tomorrow And I'm like I'm a living example of that multiple times over again What I had to do is is literally put the blinders on block out all the noise and just get to work Like for me, it's a lot of people will see it Yeah, you can you lead a horse to a water. You can't make him drink You gotta take action Like if you ain't willing to put in the work, you're gonna continue to sit on the sidelines and just watch all of us do our damn thing Like social media can sometimes be very uh tricky. Yeah, but you got to do I like what you did and I'm gonna remember this You go On the count of three you go. I'm alive. Yeah, and no one was there right I just would pay all I paid 10 million dollars to see that. Yeah, awesome So, but but that's what you got to do is you got to be like alive And then you got to just restart Guys, uh, how do they follow you on instagram? The Eric Klein E R I C C L I N E the Eric Klein guys Make sure you follow him on instagram. This guy's about to blow up. He's gonna be kicking some ass He's has a lot of students. He's helping them grow and go to new levels and make a lot of money So I want you guys to reach out to him. I love that. He's an overcomer. I love Overcomers those are the future leaders in the world 95 percent of the world is lost We need other people that are lost that change to show us how they changed So Eric, I'm pretty sure for you man I appreciate you do just a short amount of time that we have this podcast Bro, there's so much shit to chew on I guarantee dude. I mean on the other side of that camera There's probably a million people's lives that will be changed. Thank you. Appreciate it So love you bro. Make sure you guys hit him up DM him on instagram Or you guys can just text the number below and uh, we'll see where it goes Okay. Love you guys. Have a blessed day. See you in the next video Hey guys, I just want to tell you the true one percenters you made it till the end of the video Do me a favor. Share it with the friend that wants to go to another level Make sure you like the video comment below so I know who you are Set your notifications and then subscribe to the channel. We got daily sales training videos dropping I'll see you soon