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From Failures to Fortunes: Redefining Success with Robert Allen

• Jana and Jason Shelfer • Season 5 • Episode 62

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Embark on an inspiring journey toward a life filled with luck, resilience, and success! Join hosts Jana and Jason in this invigorating episode as they uncover the transformative power of choice, the wisdom of motivational speaker Robert Allen, and the art of framing adversity as an unexpected advantage. Dive into their insightful conversation on the mindset shift that turns negativity into a catalyst for personal growth and success.

Through captivating anecdotes and personal experiences, they explore the profound impact of reframing failures, asking empowering questions, and embracing challenges as guiding lights toward a purpose-driven life. Discover the secrets behind reshaping your inner dialogue to perceive adversity not as a setback, but as a stepping stone to greatness.

Learn from Robert Allen's remarkable journey from a string of rejections to becoming a legendary real estate mentor, illustrating the power of decision-making and turning obstacles into opportunities. Delve into the concept of radical gratitude, the choice to live extraordinarily, and the influence of spirituality in manifesting success.

With poignant insights and compelling narratives, Jana and Jason reveal how their unconventional experiences, from wheelchair adventures to navigating inaccessible terrains, offer invaluable lessons in breaking self-imposed limitations and finding strength in adversity.

This episode isn't just about creating luck; it's about living lucky every single day. Whether you seek motivation, resilience strategies, or a fresh perspective on life's challenges, this podcast is your guide to transforming obstacles into avenues for personal growth and success. Tune in and embrace the power of living lucky!

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*Previously Recorded

Speaker 1:

Are you ready to create a life you crave? Let's spin that doom loop of negativity into an upward success cycle and start living lucky. Good morning. I'm Janna, I'm Jason and we are living lucky. I'm so excited, jason. I heard this speaker named Robert Allen, and he motivated me so much.

Speaker 1:

I was like I have to buy his book, I've got to buy his book. And the minute that I thought, wait a minute before I buy this, I'm just gonna go into Jason's closet and I'm gonna check his bookshelf just to see if he's got it. And guess what Did I have it? It took me less than five seconds. It was boom right there, third shelf, right in the middle.

Speaker 2:

Thank you for that. Tell me who Robert Allen is, because that name is really ringing a bell.

Speaker 1:

First of all, he's a real estate guru. He actually was the one who mentored Robert Kiyosaki. Really, yes, that's fantastic. Yes, and some of his stories are just I mean, he's 75 years old.

Speaker 2:

I was gonna say he can't be some young whippersnapper. No, he's not a whippersnapper.

Speaker 1:

He's not a whippersnapper and if I just saw him on the street, I would. I mean I hate to say this out loud, in fact, I don't even know if I should admit this on the podcast, but I'm gonna admit it to you and whoever's listening. You're gonna say oh my gosh, jana might have some biases, but I'm human. If I just met him on the street, I might go oh, he made me a little old fashioned. However, you start talking to him and he is so wise, he's so wise.

Speaker 1:

And there's something connected about him. He's very spiritual.

Speaker 2:

And someone that age has got to know like the real estate markets because he has been around the block.

Speaker 1:

So that's how he made his the name for himself is back when he was like 24. First of all, when he graduated from I think it was business school, he was the one person from his business class. I think he got his MBA and he was the one person from his business class that could not get a job. And he literally applied to general mills, general motors, all the generals, like all the big general companies.

Speaker 2:

You should have tried the majors and the corporeals.

Speaker 1:

That was really. That was good. You know what? I'm gonna use that if I ever meet him. Anyway, he got, he got rejected after rejection after rejection letter. In fact he at one point he had 30 rejection letters.

Speaker 1:

Oh, my God, he had them all laid out on his bed and he put them all into a book. And then he held up this book while he was speaking and he said this is the most important book of my entire life. It's my book of failures. And for me, it just reminded me of my TEDx speech radical gratitude, because sometimes we need to hit those rock bottoms in life, because that that's what fuels us. That's what fuels us. The difference is how we perceive those moments and some people, some people, can say you know, those moments come and we have a choice. We have a choice as to whether or not we're gonna let those moments knock us down and and lay us flat. Or we have those moments where we can say you know what this is, where we find out what we're made of.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, they can flatten you out or fuel you forward. It's a choice point. I love it.

Speaker 1:

Choice point, and it's a point where, like I, look back in my life and I don't even like to call them failures, I like to call them feedback moments, because they're the moments where you, literally I mean, there's times where I was at such a rock bottom but you think, oh my gosh, well, now I've got nothing to lose, right, I've got nothing to lose.

Speaker 2:

That's a dangerous spot right.

Speaker 1:

I mean, it's like I might as well go all in because I've got nothing to lose. And that was the point where you and I looked at each other and said we were meant to be extraordinary.

Speaker 2:

And we're going to make extraordinary decisions.

Speaker 1:

Let's decide to be extraordinary, yeah.

Speaker 2:

And in micromonets of life. We're going to be extraordinary and make extraordinary decisions.

Speaker 1:

And one thing that I learned from Robert Allen. The word decide comes from the word homicide, which I think you've actually told this to me before in the past too, Jason, but just hearing it from him this weekend it refreshed my memory and the word homicide means to kill all other options. That's what decide I mean, or side. The word side is to kill, and decide means to kill all other options. So you go all in. This is where I'm going. I'm going in this direction. Yes, I know, I know this goes right along with everything that you learned this past weekend in choosing your path, choosing the stories we tell ourselves, choosing our identity. We have choices in life. We have choices and, yes, sometimes our circumstances don't work in the way we wanted them to Right, it doesn't.

Speaker 2:

sometimes you get punched in the face and you feel the sting. You step in crap and all you can smell is the crap. All you see is the crap. But it's. You get a choice. Then you have another choice point. You don't change where you're going. If you've decided, if you know your purpose, if you're aligned, you just pivot a little bit and you just get over through and around that obstacle.

Speaker 1:

Because we all can adapt and adjust and really in those moments it all has to do with the questions we ask ourselves. Are we asking ourselves the empowering questions or are we asking ourselves the disempowering questions? He held up that book and said this is the most important book of my life. It's my book of failures, he goes. I cherish it with every ounce in my body. He's literally had it since he was 24 years old. Now he's 75. He's one of the wealthiest real estate mentors in the world. He's mentored some of the best real estate people in the world.

Speaker 2:

He's a legend, a tycoon.

Speaker 1:

And where he really, really made, it was once he got all those rejections. He decided well, I have to make something of myself, because all of these companies said you can't do this.

Speaker 1:

So I'm going to prove to them that I can. So he decided that real estate was where it's going to have to be, and he actually was challenged to go to a city any city and for $100, see if he could buy a property with $100 and make money on it. I think there were some other stipulations to that, but anyway, he started doing that and he actually went to. San Francisco was the city that he ended up going to, and the media started getting involved. So then he's like oh my gosh, my reputation is on the line and all of these companies that have rejected me and wouldn't hire me are all watching. And here I have now, declared publicly that I can go to any city in the world and for $100, I can buy a property and flip it, make money on it. And he not only ended up buying seven properties in that 24 hours, but he ended up giving $20 back.

Speaker 2:

Oh wow, he turned into the San Francisco kid.

Speaker 1:

And he ended up in the front page of all of the newspapers and with those seven properties, the amount of money he made was I don't even want to give you the statistics because I don't want to get it incorrect, but it was pretty incredible with the amount of money he made with just $80 in 24 hours.

Speaker 2:

That's crazy. I love it Right and it's mindset. And he said this is what I'm going to do. And he went and did it. He just acted on it.

Speaker 1:

He did and he had to think differently. I mean, he had to think differently. He said the first I forget how many hours, but there were a few things he did that you would think, oh, I don't know if that's quite ethical. One thing he did was he went and started making phone calls in a really swanky hotel lobby so that when he would call people he would say I'm here at the Hyatt Hotel, but he wasn't really staying at the Hyatt Hotel.

Speaker 1:

But he was in the hotel lobby. Yeah, he was like in the pay phone in the hotel lobby make him phone calls, so then he would leave messages and that was the phone that they could call him back on. So that was one thing. It gave him credibility. And then another thing is he only had $100, so he had to make that last and he needed a place to stay the night. So he ended up having to stay in the Red Light District. So he had to walk like four blocks down the street and he ended up staying in a really, really shady area.

Speaker 2:

But he had some visual entertainment. He didn't have a wallet or so like checking in, but when you only have $100, you don't need anything to keep it in.

Speaker 1:

And so he said that was a little scary. He ended up staying in a hotel that was $35 a night. And then, when he did find a property, he then he found a like a foreclosed property. That was the first thing he found, and then he had to start making negotiations with people on how he could buy it with no money down. So then he had to start buying people and saying, hey, I've got this great property, and then would you be willing to buy it or be my partner or invest with me?

Speaker 1:

So that's how he he got his money kind of brokered the deal, using other people's money and getting buyers before he even owned it.

Speaker 2:

Yeah Well, so it worked for him, and that's so. Let me just say this, because this is one of the things that I the benefits of being married to you and what I didn't even realize for so long was when we travel together, when we do things together, is I have this new, profound way of thinking and different way of thinking about life in general, because of all the things that we do on a regular basis, just on a daily basis, because we do everything.

Speaker 1:

Which is out of survival, like it's just normal for us. I mean, think of our dancing as just an example. I look at our dancing video and I think, wow, you know, we really think outside the box, the way we were doing even the waltz and the way we have been, and there's one point where we literally do the swing, where we're literally doing the jitterbug swing, where we're kind of intertwined with each other and I'm sitting in my wheelchair, you're practically doing a back bend and I'm thinking, wow, we look like pretzels and I've never seen anything like this. It's almost impressive just watching it and I think, wow, that is just, I've never seen anything like that before. And you're right, jason, we think differently because we have to, but for us that has just become our normal way of living.

Speaker 2:

It's our way of living, but we help people do that on a regular basis when we work with people, because we've climbed to the top of the acropolis, we've gone on safaris in Africa, we've traveled in other countries. You just got back from two weeks in Costa Rica by yourself. I mean, these are things that we do on a regular basis, where we travel in places that are completely not accessible for wheelchair travel. But we make it accessible because, just like when they told him he can't and he said don't tell me, I can't do something, because I will do it and I'll take pictures and show you and I'm going to be powerful in how I do it. And this is so many times we tell ourselves stories of why we can't do something and we limit ourselves. We fight for our own limitations. I think it's so powerful that he has created this career and I love that. It's a motivation for people and it also creates this income for people. But it's just a beautiful story of that radical gratitude. Yeah.

Speaker 1:

No he resonated with me so deeply and he also has the spirituality to him that, for me, really, really captured me in that at one point in one of his speeches he said don't you think there's a higher power that knows where all of the great deals are? And don't you think, when you get connected with that higher power, they're going to lead you to exactly where you need to be. And I'm like he's living lucky. He's totally living lucky.

Speaker 2:

He's speaking my language.

Speaker 1:

He is. He is speaking my language. So, yes, I felt like I actually felt by being at this summit and hearing him speak. I was exactly where I needed to be, because I have a couple of speeches to write, and it felt to me like, yes, my book of failures, my radical gratitude. Thanksgiving is this week, and sometimes it's just a good reminder to know that it's all about the way we frame it in our head. Yeah, sometimes the lucky ones are the ones that have faced adversity, because we know that it's an advantage, we know that it has trained us for perseverance and resilience and I know, looking back at everything that I've done in my past, that I don't give up. I don't give up and so success is inevitable because I don't quit.

Speaker 2:

Right, and when you hit that choice point, look for the sun.

Speaker 1:

Thanks for joining us and happy Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2:

Keep living lucky, bye-bye.

Speaker 1:

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