Now this is a story.
I'm going to introduce you to a man who had it really tough, and then turned everything around and built an empire.
My listeners might know him as the co-creator of the Rocket Languages foreign-language instruction program, which can be found in 50,000 libraries around the world.
Beyond that, he is one of the most successful marketers in the world.
His mother, who was raising him alone, had schizophrenia (it was later discovered), and when his parents split, she got custody.
Home life was hard.
When she started showing up at his school because she thought she worked there, a guidance counselor finally took him aside and eventually he went to live with his father.
In my discussion with him he describes how he went from a low like that to a confident young entrepreneur.
Every single business he's created since is online only, and he runs them from his computer. He's been doing this for close to 20 years.
During these insane times, when people are being shut down or told to operate -- impossibly -- at 50% capacity, it seemed like a good time to talk to someone who's able to avoid all this, in case you'd like to know how such a thing is done.
This is truly the Tom Woods Show episode for our present times, so be sure to carve out the time to listen:
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