Dean Graziosi: Learning From The Past, Preparing For The Future

Today, my guest is Dean Graziosi, a multiple New York Times best-selling author, entrepreneur, and investor. Dean has a magnetic personality, and I’ve been happy to call him a friend since the day I met him. Dean is a great example of how you can break the cycle of generational trauma. He loved his parents, as he put it, but he didn’t want to become them. His parents were from families that we would call today “dysfunctional.” They both married and divorced multiple times because they didn’t learn how to have the mental and emotional tools to have a healthy relationship from their own parents. They worked hard, but they were always living paycheck to paycheck. He resolved at a young age to give himself the options that his parents didn’t have, and to one day become a better parent than his own. A large part of why he was able to achieve those dreams successfully was because he didn’t ask “how” he would be successful, he asked “who” he had to become in order to make an impact. And he learned how to let go of the past and focus on the present and the future. This interview is full of lessons that he learned that go beyond real estate and focus on mindset and emotional fitness.