Seeing his uncle build this big beautiful house on Long Island, Tom Ierna remembers saying to himself as a kid, “Wait! I want to be able to do that for myself too.”  That turned out to be the starting point that has driven Tom to become successful in his 20’s. 

 

He was a kid from Long Island, New York who always felt special in a weird way. He's relaxed about everything and lived with the attitude ‘life would work out its own way’. Tom happened to be always around a lot of successful people during the process.

 

Tom always did well in school but when he went to New York city to go to college, it wasn't so much about college. For him it was just to live in the city.

 

Though only 28, Tom feels like he is 40 and a lot of people say, ‘He's an old soul.’

 

As an 18-year-old Tom started his bead and bracelet business from a hotel boutique which soon started selling online and to celebrities. He soon rubbed shoulders and shared space with popular names like Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan.

 

But Tom was always ethical in conducting himself. The moral values he learned at home as kid, he always carried with him. Living by them made  him attractive to people who continue to work with him.

 

Listen up, as Tom speaks about how he lives his life with honesty, integrity and with the right character, in a world like Hollywood where there’s so much drama that’s opposite the personality of Tom.

 

Insights from the Episode:

 

I taught myself everything, learned on my own; I really don't know what I really got from college if I'm being honest

 

You can manifest anything you want, if you put out the work

 

Some people are so good at something that they don't even recognize what they're doing and it's hard for them to explain it or potentially teach it back to somebody

 

Knowing right from wrong: your morals, values and all that is important

 

It's super important that you be very honest

 

I am here where I am career wise because I'm just very honest with people

 

If you believe in something; you should defend yourself, stand up for yourself and don't let people walk all over you

 

It's really important to surround yourself with a good group of people:

like-minded people

 

It's very easy for me to work through things and if I do something wrong,

I'm very able to see that and apologize. It's very easy for me to clean up the mess, if there is a mess

 

I like to actually hang out with older people who are successful

 

Everything will always work out, it always does in some way

 

You just got to keep good people around you that you could fall back on and not get stressed out by certain things

 

You just don't want the appearance of being successful, you actually want to be successful

 

Social media used to mess me up a bit. It would make me feel insecure. I would see other people that were around the same age where it all looks like ‘it's so pretty’. But everybody has their own issues

 

If you create regardless of what it is, it ultimately will make you happier

 

It's really important to take time to check in on yourself to make sure you're happy

 

Just be more calm and not worry about what everyone else is doing, just focus on yourself and if you work hard you know it's going to pay off

 

It's not that hard to be successful if you're willing to put in the work.

 

When you're working hard eventually something's going to stick but you got to have like a direction

 

Everybody wants to be famous these days, but it's better to ‘just calm down’

 

As human beings, if we don't grow we're going to be stagnant and being stagnant doesn’t lead to good things