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I am joined on the show today by Carl Allen, a world-class entrepreneur, investor, and corporate dealmaker who has worked on more than 330 transactions worth close to $48 billion. In his 30-year career, Carl has analyzed thousands of businesses, big and small, in 17 different countries and across nearly every business sector, including technology, pharmaceuticals, transportation & logistics, engineering, manufacturing, business services, retail, professional services, finance, packaging, and corporate clothing. He started on Wall Street working for Bank of America, Hewlett-Packard, Forrester, and Gartner. He advised some of the world's largest corporations on investments, mergers, acquisitions, disposals, and restructuring... until he almost missed the birth of his second son. Carl then quit the rat race and began brokering businesses for himself. Today he is considered one of the world's premier experts on small business acquisitions. He is the founder of Dealmaker Wealth Society, where he offers his knowledge and wisdom to others. Don't miss this fascinating and valuable episode!

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Often, I have found the three most challenging words to speak are, "I need help." But I will have you consider the possibility of a life filled with people willing to help, lend support, motivate you, and believe in who you are as a human being, as well as having even more people in your life that are just rooting for you and want the best for you. Receiving the help and boost from all of these people in your life begins with willingness to let your ego rest, be humbled, swallow your pride, and say the words: I need help.

Why is determination essential for success? Simple, no one's coming to save you. Life doesn't stop for you. It keeps coming at you, day after day after day. You have a simple decision to make. Live a life of truth, or live a life of lies. Honesty is what is needed to go after what you want. Once the truth is told, determination is required to go get it.

There is a strong connection between all the primary domains in your life: faith, family, fitness, and finances. When one of those domains is weak, it affects all the other areas.

Last week, I took one of the biggest steps I've taken in my life in a long time. I took a trip on my own for a few days. This may seem like something insignificant. No big deal. However, I'm coming to you from a place of permission: giving myself full permission to be all of me. I can't think of a specific time in my life when I fully embraced this lesson. The question is, why? Why is it so hard to be your true, authentic self? To embrace it. Live it. Be it. What I found on my trip was that it's in the moments and experiences that we create and embody that we are exposed to another version of ourselves. Now the challenge comes: am I willing to embrace this lesson not only on trips like these but each day?

Healing is possible. Change not only happens around all of us, but it happens within us. As I keep going and moving forward, I feel certain this is the way, because it is the only real option I have; it's the only real option for any of us, unless we just want to give up and die. We just have to focus on putting one foot in front of the other, step by step. Everything keeps changing. I will keep changing. You will keep changing... and that is natural; that is good; that is LIFE.

Every time you love yourself better, build your self-awareness, understand your patterns, improve your ability to communicate, or expand your compassion for others, the future of humanity grows brighter. You not only impact your own life, but you impact the world.

Men face a variety of challenges that are often not openly discussed due to societal expectations, gender norms, and stigmas. Today, I want to tackle 10 of the biggest challenges facing men today.

You know healing is real when you find more joy in unexpected places. You were built for redemption. We were all born into imperfection and live it daily. But just as we can make mistakes, we can also learn and improve. With enough conviction, we can understand where we went wrong and not keep making the same mistakes. Break free from the past. Learn better, kinder ways of existing. The most powerful change you can make in this world is to know yourself.

As you grow, you level up... but operating at a higher level does not mean that things get easier. On the contrary, they often get more difficult because the standards are now higher, and it takes more work to clear a higher bar. As we continually improve and level up, we must accept each new level of difficulty and rise to meet it, not only in expectations, but also overall mindset, discipline, and determination.