Red Phoenix Freaks and John Hudson aholics!!!! Happy to have you here and I hope you enjoy this blog today. I have been talking with a lot of clients, and for every story of success that has lead to the heavens has started from a seat in hell. Friends, I'm going to share a small part of my story with you. I'll keep it short, but the idea is to keep reminding you that no one person is alone in this struggle of life.
I have been around and self employed since I was 21 years old, I'm now 35. If you've ever been self employed you know what kind of hell that can bring along with some great and fantastic times. I cut my teeth in the financial planning world and it was a great place to be. I had a young family and needed to have a career not just a job. So why not become a financial planner, seems easy enough! After getting all my insurance and investment licensing, the training the everything I was up and going and doing a great job. Then September 11th happened, just a bad thing in America. However, I wasn't going to let one of Americas most horrific tragedy's stop me. I was one of the top young financial representatives going. I had done well enough to get a little spot in Time Magazine with a couple of other top youngsters! Fast forward a little bit and I was broke trying to grow and expand my practice. I had got into such a hole and was so broke I gave it up and had to file for bankruptcy, a very low point in my life. I had failed after 3 1/2 maybe four years of sweat and hard work. I was done! Then the mortgage business grabbed me and it grabbed me by surprise. A client had offered me a position to come work and learn from him, so I took it. I was back on my feet and 6-8 months later I was opening my own company with some guys. It was awesome, making money and growing yet another business. I was successful and earning respect in the world. I was back on top and life was going well with three companies, wife, kids a nice home and stuff we wanted. Things were rocking so well that I even made a little appearance in the Wall Street Journal as one of the Mid-West's top young entrepreneur's. I had done radio and magazine interviews, I was nearing the top! Fast forward some years and then life happened again. I had made some poor choices and was in a deep hole personally, financially and my profession was taking mass amounts of criticism and getting an extreme make over. Then divorce happens, had to sell my companies close another and lost my house to foreclosure. I was out once again and it seemed my seat in hell had never been sold. It was right were I left it, staring up at the heavens once again. Friends, I did not give up no matter how low and bad things seemed. I learned patience among other things and was left with nothing but my thoughts and mass amounts of humility. Negative thoughts were serving no purpose but I still had them just like you do. I was at one of the lowest points I had ever been in my life. I had nothing left, my kids were stripped away from me, my home was gone, I didn't even have a car. Holy buckets, my bike was even stolen from me in a time I needed it the most!
With the help of family, my girlfriend and friends came the idea. The idea was to take what I had been through and help people. Living out of my Grandfathers basement, using a computer that froze up half the time and a printer that didn't work that well Red Phoenix was born. My air mattress doubled as a desk. It took a while to develop, but I have people who love and support me. That girlfriend of mine gave me a lot of ideas and helped out a ton getting me going. She and others gave me something I'll never forget and it was something so simple but so powerful. It was the courage to believe in myself again and the confidence that I was doing the right thing for myself. By doing the right thing for myself it would allow me to be strong and great again for my kids and others. Friends, I'm getting a little long winded in my little summery and that's not the idea. With out many of the details you can see I've been through a couple things myself. The point being, that unique situation of yours that no one else could imagine what it feels like to go through?!?! hahahhaa! ya right friends! You're not alone in this, don't be afraid to ask for help. Friends, I hope this helped you a little bit. If you need help getting your credit figured out, maybe just need to chat or need some direction. You know where to find me, I'm always around....
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