Your parent is a doctor, so everyone calls you Doc. Because of course, you’ll be a doctor too. But that’s not what you want. You have other gifts. But what if no one else can see them yet?

This was the path that Mando Sallavanti III, Financial Planner at a MassMutual agency in Pennsylvania, walked before he became a go-to financial planning voice. In this inspiring interview, Mando shares how he uses self-discipline to consistently take the good actions that make it unreasonable for him to miss out on his goals.

In this interview you’ll take away:

2:15: Shattered dreams of pro football

4:15: Overcoming the gap between expectation and reality

8:25: Uncovering Mando’s natural gifts

9:10: Learning business by sneaker reselling

11:10: Seeing our natural gifts when we look back

15:20: The advice that changed his career path

17:24: Mando’s values and core belief

21:55: The hardest thing he had to learn in business

26:50: Motivation drives discipline

31:15: Stepping out of our parents’ shadow

33:25: The Inputs vs Outputs model

37:45: Mando’s advice to his younger self

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Learn more from Mando Sallavanti III: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sallavanti/

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Armando Sallavanti is a registered representative of and offers securities and investment advisory services through MML Investors Services, LLC. Member SIPC. Supervisory Office: 2 Bala Plaza, Ste 901, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004. Tel: 610.766.3000.

MassMutual refers to Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (Springfield, MA 01111-0001)