A high school dropout from a Pittsburgh working-class family, Paul overcame a stuttering disability and a dim future to rise from janitor to millionaire entrepreneur. He has shared the stage with such personal development masters as John Maxwell, Seth Godin, Les Brown, Mark Victor Hansen, Jack Canfield, Wayne Dyer, Brian Tracy, Denis Waitley, Nick Vujicic and Zig Ziglar. Today, Paul is President of The John Maxwell Team, an elite group of certified coaches and communicators mentored by the #1 leadership expert in the world and New York Times best-selling author, John Maxwell.

On This Episode:

• Paul explains why the first half of his journey is a “loser’s struggle.”
• Learn the key to growth and internal change.
• Find out how and why leaders should introduce structural change.
• Paul tells Denis why he wishes we could get rid of the “gotcha culture.”

Key Takeaways:

1. You can’t afford the luxury of an unchallenged negative thought.
2. The content of our life is the curriculum of our evolution.
3. Have the guts to break things as a leader.

Tweetable Quotes:

• “If a high school drop out can change their life and lead major corporations, anyone can, you just have to be willing to do the work necessary.”
• “A person never outperforms their own self image.”
• “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.”

Recommended Resources:

• The True Believers by Eric Hoffer
• Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz

Paul Martinelli:

• https://paulmartinelli.net/

Denis Gianoutsos:

• [email protected]
• www.LeadingChangePartners.com