Jerome Myers - The Red Pill

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In today’s episode, our guest is Jerome Myers. He went from corporate America and now teaches people how to guide themselves towards lives that are of significance by focusing on living a centered life. They create opportunities for APEC performers to connect with each other. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[7:39]</span> <strong>Why should we listen to you?</strong><span style= "font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I figured it out. I went to the bottom and I know your story well. You've been there too, but I went to the bottom after being at the top and I realized that they're not so different. It's a matter of how you think about life.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[8:16]</span> <strong>How'd you get to the top from wherever you started from?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I went to engineering school, played football for four years in North Carolina, and T state university. Left that and got into engineering and got on the fast track. I felt like my career was on a rocket ship, 2009 happened. And one of my sponsors got Lego from the company. It was like, Oh, well, you're great. Now you're not. And nobody wanted to touch me. And so I sat in that job for like 30 months. Eventually, I had to leave the company went somewhere else, went to another company. The culmination of corporate America was building a $20 million division for a fortune five 50 company. And in that my big reward was laying people off at the end of the year. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[10:31]</span> <strong>What was it like choosing a different direction?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It's terrifying. And the craziest part for me is I was going to get that dream off the shelf that I had in college, which was being a multifamily owner and investor. Me and my buddy were sitting on the stoop and we realized the guy that owned the complex was making $700,000 a year. We were like, well, we can figure