 I'm excited to introduce the next speaker okay his story is probably like nobody's ever heard he and I have become buddies over the last couple years right I went to Tulsa and trained his whole team for a whole day right had a ton of fun he's also been in our studio sat right here and has gotten over 20,000 views on our interview probably 30,000 by now maybe 40,000 by now it just freaking keeps flying off okay if you haven't seen it check it out okay homeless to a hundred thousand dollars a month what and he sat right here and we interviewed together okay and it's blown up on YouTube okay so please help me welcome my good buddy who's doing an amazing job and continues to help the industry the dude cares a ton and I'm excited to see the knowledge right this was the one that everybody keeps saying dude bring Marlon on from the they're like dude where can I hear more Marlon his story is amazing I keep hearing it so we just dropped another YouTube video here lately okay please help me welcome to the stage bring him up dude's unbelievable speaker okay one of the best unknown speakers in the insurance industry dude you're gonna do amazing I believe in you and thank you for being a part of this also thank you for being a part of this as well okay please help me welcome let's welcome and chat you've seen him you've heard of him please welcome to the virtual stage my good buddy mr marlon pop tonight I was watching a Netflix movie with my wife Heather and my youngest son Josiah and we were watching a show called animals on the loose you versus the wild and it was this interactive movie with bear grills and it's about these wild animals that escape from a wildlife sanctuary in Africa and you get to interact or make choices that tell bear grills which way to go or which animal to pursue right and even which bugs to eat and I think at one point he was eating a leech and he was he was doing something crazy but you get to kind of help bear grills and you get to tell him and make decisions that'll help him consequently bring the animals back to their protective habitat but if you chose wrong that means you had to start over and the cool thing about this is I was watching this my youngest son Josiah and I got to watch him learn and grow and and make different decisions the look on his face when he finished the movie and he'd helped get all the animals back it was priceless like I'll never forget that and I love that here's why I love that because I believe this with everything in me I believe that every person every person listening right now I believe that every person deserves a second chance see most of my life I didn't believe that I deserve a second chance um I don't know if has anyone ever felt that except for me like I didn't feel like I was worthy of another chance in life as a young kid one of my first memories in life when I was growing up was in second or third grade and I was in school like most boys and we were very mischievous my friends and I we were always looking for trouble and one day we found it we were walking around the playground and we we were away from the playground equipment and we were walking and there it was on the ground there was a cigarette that was smoked I guess it was still smoldering so I guess someone flipped it over the fence and drove by well one of the kids picked it up and stared at it and being the attention seeker that I am I went and grabbed it and started acting like I was smoking it and telling jokes and I didn't see the teacher walk up behind me and she grabbed me my heart dropped and to her it looked like I was smoking the cigarette so I don't blame her for what she did but for the record I never smoked anything a few minutes later I was sitting in the principal's office and listening to my teacher call my dad to come and get me I was suspended I missed the next few days of school but I sat there in fear waiting for my dad to come pick me up because I knew this was not good see my dad wasn't like most dads he was different see my dad was an abusive alcoholic and he wasn't like most dads and so on the right home he didn't say one word he got home and he told me go up to my go up to his room and I went up to his room and I sat there waiting and I'll never forget him walking in and taking off his his military belt I don't know if you've ever seen a military belt before they got these huge buckles and I remember seeing that thing flying through the air at me boom and he kept swinging and swinging and swinging and he wouldn't stop it started getting harder and harder and earlier that year I started taking Taekwondo and I don't know when it happened or when I clicked but something inside of me said that's enough I went to protective mode and I saw that belt buckle coming at me one last time and I dodged it and I spun around and I kicked my dad in the chest my mom says that she ran into the room because she stopped hearing me cry and she said he was punching me as hard as he could with his fists that was the first time that was the first time I felt less than I felt like trash I felt unlovable why why would he do that why would he beat me like that why would anybody do that to someone that they loved from that point on I I just didn't feel like I deserved greatness can you imagine being six seven years old something inside of me died that day I remember thinking I'm never gonna be successful I'm never gonna be great I'm never gonna win in life if you're if my dad will treat me that way the only thing that I could do was dream I always start I started to dream a lot and I thought one day one of my dreams will come true I didn't share my dreams with my with my friends I didn't I didn't share my dreams with my mom I didn't share my dreams with my wife when I got married I never told people what I wanted to do because I didn't think I deserved it because anybody ever felt like that before is it just me over the next 30 years I had failure after failure after failure bad decision after bad decision after bad decision I didn't think I had a second chance I thought when that happened to me that was my life that's what I was supposed to be even relationships I never had very successful relationships with when I met my wife my beautiful bride even when I married her I thought and she can't even really love me she doesn't really know me enough to love me deep down I was still that little boy laying there clinging to life clinging to consciousness feeling unloved and unsupported unsupported I didn't feel good I ruined everything in my life guys for 30 years no good relationships no good jobs at a certain point my my wife had to make a decision that probably one of the toughest decisions any woman has to make that I wasn't fit to be a father I wasn't fit to be a husband and we decided that I had to leave so in 2014 guys I left my home and I was homeless I didn't have anywhere to go and I would stay on friends couches until I ran out my welcome or I would you know try to stay at the YMCA and I was so embarrassed I was eating out of trash cans it was the lowest point in my life and I believe in second chances because I'll never forget sitting on my buddy Brian Hinton's couch and stated a bunch of friends different houses and my buddy Brian was gracious enough to let me sit with sleep at his house and I was on the porch one night because him and his wife were inside fighting because I was eating a lot of food I wasn't paying bills I was laying around and they were fighting about if I could stay there anymore and I was on the front porch thinking of a reason to live and my phone rings and I pick it up and it was Nate offered and I hadn't talked to Nate in a year or two and he starts talking about this insurance company and I'd sold insurance for 15 years and never made more than $30,000 $30,000 was a good year like when I made $30,000 we were taking friends to Sizzlin like I was tipping people an extra like $30,000 was a lot of money to a homeless guy right but I never made more than that and Nate offered calling me about insurance and for some reason I started listening but not only did I start listening something was awoken in me I started dreaming right then right there on that porch what if this is my second shot what if I get to turn my life around of all the crap that I messed up all the things I've done what if I can go from here and I can do better I always thought that if I really got a second chance I wouldn't need a third have you ever wanted a second chance in life have you ever wanted to redo what if 8% nation is your Nate offer call what if this is your second chance I got started at Symmetry Financial Group and and one of my first conference calls one of the owners Casey Watkins is on a conference call he's talking about being different and the thing that I love about second chances is number one if you get a second chance at life you got to do it different and so he's talking about George Costanza off of Seinfeld and George Costanza is one of my favorite characters but George has this really crazy life and so one day he decides to do everything different and it was unbelievable his results were crazy because he lived his life different than he lived it in the past and I thought that's it what if I do something everything that I do what if it's opposite of everything that I've ever done what if I think opposite of every thought I've ever thought what if I do opposite of everything I've ever done see my life wasn't working I didn't I didn't it didn't matter what I did I was homeless I had nothing so when I started there you know when I started I decided to you know if you're going to do it again number one is you got to do it different I wonder about people are watching in right now what if you had an opportunity to do it different what what if you had the chance to start over or to or to or to to flip the book and start a new chapter in your life that's what I got that was my wake-up call the second thing that I understood was if you get a second shot at life you have to understand that there is no there can never be a plan B when I got that call when I started with that insurance company that was it that was I knew this would be the last job I would ever have I was never gonna have to there was no plan B there was no well I've got my resume and send it out this is it this is it we were watching that bear girl show the animals gone wild or not animals gone wild animals on the loose and and there was this challenge where bear grills towards the end he has this difficult task and the decision you have to make for bear is he has to go across this gorge and it's about a thousand feet in the air and the only thing separating the both sides was this rope and the option was either you can scoot across on this rope and maybe you have the opportunity to fall to your death or you can climb down the ravine walk all the way across the valley and then climb back up we'll be in Josiah said let's take it let's go we're we're adventurous let's go get it and so we chose for bear girls to scoot across the rope and guys I wasn't doing it I was just watching I was terrified like my hands were sweaty and I was nervous and I was watching him but it was pretty it was pretty cool because what he did was he he laid down kind of military style we put the feet around the rope and he starts scooting and he's getting tired and he would rest and then he would start scooting some more and he'd get tired he'd hold on and he'd rest it seemed like hours but he made it he was scooting and he rests he's getting the rest and he made it and he said something so profound when he got to the other side I wrote it down I want to share it with you he said you'd be surprised how much strength you have when you have no plan B number two you'd be surprised how much strength you have if there is no plan B number two is if you get a second chance at life there can be no plan B there can't be any other options you gotta burn the bridges you gotta burn the ships you've got to go all in and see most of my life guys I've never gone all in I did anything not in my marriage not on myself not with my kids not in a job I've never gone all in this was my shot this was it number two is if you get a second chance you gotta go all in you got to number three if you get a second chance at life you can't quit quitting is not an option quitting is not you know you can if you get a second chance at life this is what I'm doing like Will Smith said if you want to beat me I will die before I get off this treadmill I knew that when I started this job this was the last time I was there was no plan B do you have a plan B maybe plan A isn't working because plan A knows that there's a plan B what if you did that like with your marriage like you get married you're telling your wife you know I love you but the things that work out babe I've got another girlfriend in my path that things don't work out between us you know what if you say that your marriage vows how long would your marriage last right there can be no plan B number three is this don't quit when I went to my first conference at Symmetry Financial Group I was a few weeks out of being homeless I still wasn't living at home I was literally sleeping in my car in my driveway because I made the decision that I'm gonna be the man that I all I committed to my wife I'm gonna be the man that I committed to my kids and I wouldn't go anywhere else I was gonna win them back I messed up everything else in my life so one day I had to go to this conference I didn't have money to go I was homeless so when my wife went to work and my kids went to school I went home and I broke in I stole some money from my wife I knew where the stash was and I even got my kids piggy banks they were saving up to go to Disney World and I knew that I was going to change their lives so I I stole that money and I went to that conference and when I was at that conference I'll never forget I was listening to Brian Pope he's another one of the founders of Symmetry Financial Group now this is the wealthiest guy in the room millions and millions and millions of dollars and he's talking and I'm sitting there writing and I'm looking around and he says this he says you can make it here if you just don't quit and I wrote down just don't quit and I looked around nobody else was writing just the wealthiest guy in the room he said you can make it here if you just don't quit I started writing it over and over and over just don't quit just don't quit just don't quit tears we're falling out of my eyes onto the paper just don't quit just don't quit just don't quit I remember thinking I can make it if I just don't quit I can make it I wonder how many jobs that I still be at I'm glad I'm not there but I wonder if I didn't quit if I didn't give up if I believed in myself if I let other people believe in me so guys if you get a second chance at life number one you gotta do it different you gotta do it different than you're doing it can't do the same thing you gotta wake up different you gotta get dressed different I took different ways to work you gotta do it different number two is there is no plan B I got nothing this is it all my eggs are in one basket this is it there is no plan B this is the plan we gotta make it work number three is you can make it if you just don't quit you can make it if you just don't quit every now and then I'll lay down at night and then I saved my marriage and uh golly I get to tell my kids I love them every night sometimes when I'm laying in bed before I go to sleep that I I envision myself walking up to that second grader and telling a man I see myself looking at that decimated kid that that kid that had no hope I see myself telling a man everything's gonna be okay just keep your head up you're gonna be great one day I envisioned myself telling that kid millions of people will be moved by you you're gonna change the world because of your story you're gonna change the world I look at that kid I tell him how proud I am of him for not quitting for not giving up what if you can go win so you can tell your old self thank you what if you get a second chance one of my favorite superheroes is batman and uh he's got this quote so my favorite quote says everything is impossible until somebody does it everything is impossible until somebody does it everything is impossible until somebody does it I get to go back and tell that kid man if you just don't quit we're gonna do the impossible and we're gonna change the world let me ask you this I'll leave you guys with this you got one life to live if you get a second chance what are you gonna do with it if you got one life what are you gonna do with it don't quit thank you guys so much Cody thank you so much for letting me be on here I'm honored and blessed to be a part of this you guys have a great day 8% nation baby let's go talk to you guys later see you at the top hey if you enjoyed this I got another one you're gonna love it's right there click on it see you in there something about you that when I was listening to your story we're gonna go through it a little bit today I was like I got to know I gotta hang out with everything I get to know that dude and you and you've been you've been the exact same way you know you've been you text me every morning you're