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In this conversation, Mike Hambright interviews Brad Chandler, a successful real estate investor who has shifted his focus towards personal and mental health. Brad shares his journey of overcoming limiting beliefs and the impact it has had on his business and personal life. He emphasizes the importance of compassion in leadership, the need to address subconscious barriers, and how true happiness comes from within rather than external achievements. The discussion also covers the significance of creating a positive company culture and the difference between coaching and managing teams.

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Investor Fuel Show Transcript:

Mike Hambright (00:00.814)
Hey everyone, welcome back to the show. Today I’m here with my old friend, Brad Chandler. Not that we’re old, but we’ve just been friends for a long time. And we’re going to talk about, Brad has had an interesting ride in his business. He’s done over 4,500 deals, or like a major player in the real estate investing industry, but has taken a little bit of a turn over the past few years with his focus on kind of personal health, mental health and things like that. And it’s the impact that’s had on his business. So we’re going to be talking about the hidden liabilities.

BradChandler.com (00:06.104)
Ha

Mike Hambright (00:29.026)
that are destroying your life and business. Brad, welcome to the show. Yeah, good to see you. So I found myself lately a few times telling people like, you you were on the Flip Nerd show. I think that’s probably how we met a long time ago. It’s probably been eight to 10 years ago. It’s been a long time. And we’re wiser for it, right? Yeah, awesome. Well, hey, I’m excited to talk about this because I do think that a lot of

BradChandler.com (00:32.962)
Teddy, thanks for having me.

BradChandler.com (00:45.73)
Yeah, for sure.

BradChandler.com (00:50.613)
Absolutely.

Mike Hambright (00:57.644)
A lot of entrepreneurs are, you know, so-called kind of balls to the wall, right? Just going a million miles an hour and trying to build something. If you’re successful, that success ruler is typically measured with money or financial, you know, financial success, I guess, and not necessarily on health or happiness, which if you don’t have your health or happiness, the money doesn’t matter either, as you know. And I think this is something that you’re uniquely positioned to talk to us.

about today. So before we jump into it, like tell us your your backstory.

BradChandler.com (01:31.182)
Yeah, because all the way back to ninth grade, I read a book by Robert Allen on how to buy real estate with no money down. And at that point in time in my life, I was like, this is what I’m going to do. And I went to school. went to Virginia Tech undergrad for property management and real estate, got my MBA from University of Wisconsin in real estate. And in late 2002, an investor bought my neighbor’s house in Vienna and I went and talked to him and he said, yeah, I buy houses at 30 % below market, fix them up and resell them. I was like, boom, I’m going to do that. So my dad had been an attorney all his life and

Back in the early 80s, he actually pioneered TV advertising. His two partners were like, we can’t do that, that’s unethical. And he’s like, well, the heck with you, I’m going to go start my own firm. And he got two guys and started. And for years, that’s how he built his business. So started running TV ads back in 2003 and since it bought 4,500 houses.

Mike Hambright (02:20.652)
Yeah, yeah. So over the past couple of years, let me just talk about this journey you’ve been on, because I know over the past few years, you got to a point in your life, and I don’t know if it was because of COVID or if it happened during that era of just like you realizing that there’s kind of more out there for you. So maybe share a little bit about that.

BradChandler.com (02:37.728)
Yeah, the funny thing is, Mike, I wasn’t even looking like I my whole life. I was a Tony Robbins fan and I read the Zig Ziglar books and all the personal development. I was trying to get to be a better human being every day. But I there was just something missing.

And I didn’t really figure it out until I wasn’t even searching. was trying to help get my son help for anxiety. And I was on a call with a performance coach and within minutes she was like, Brad, you have a tick. And I was like, what are you talking about? She’s like, you blink like crazy. When you talk about your childhood, you may have some unresolved childhood shit that’s actually affecting your son’s anxiety. And I’m like, no chance. I’ve been a single dad for years. Like no way, but okay. If you think so, I’ll come out and talk to you. So she invited me out for a weekend with her and her ex Navy seal husband and

over the course of a weekend, really three hours in this Airbnb bedroom, laying on this bed doing this like, I don’t

what do you call it? Like a talking thing with the sex Navy SEAL. My life forever changed, right? And I came back from that and I started sharing my story and people were like, wow, you’re telling me more stuff than my therapist is. And so I just was fascinated by how I could change so fast and so profoundly. So I started studying under some of the best people in the world. And for really for the last two or three years, that was what I’ve been spending most of my time doing is helping people get rid of these self limiting beliefs that are hidden in their subconscious

mind that’s driving the behavior that they so badly want to change but can’t change.

Mike Hambright (04:04.558)
Yeah. What are some, could you share some examples of like how it’s impacted your life or some of the early signs that you saw that kind of made you a believer?

BradChandler.com (04:12.814)
Sure. mean, so one thing people, mean, what did someone call me recently? A mastermind. One person was like, do you know, uh, Brad? And they’re like, yeah, the chief chief smile, smile officer. Um, I’m smiling all the time and you might’ve seen me back in the day smiling probably because I was high at that by 4pm. I’d probably be high at these masterminds. So I haven’t smoked weed and I can’t even tell you the last time I used to smoke every night. I used to drink a lot to the point I was drunk. I’ve been drunk in four years. I 396 days or something.

days without a sip of alcohol. I’m in a person, I’m in an intimate relationship that is by far the best I’ve ever had in my life. My relationship with my kids is good. My net worth has never been higher than it has. So.

I’m just in this place of, you know, I said this off the before we chatted, I am stealing this from a book, but I’m unfuck with a ball. What’s that? What’s that mean? Is that there’s really nothing anyone can say or do that’s going to get me too off kilter. And if I do, it’s going to be minutes and it’s not going to be days like it used to be. So, yeah, I just I’m a different human being. I treat people differently. I see the world differently. I step into more compassion and curiosity than judgment. was always about judging myself and judging others because I was hurt.

Mike Hambright (05:28.866)
Let’s talk a little bit about what that, you know, the, I guess the focus on,

You know, in the past, I guess, with your team, like you very much were probably, and a lot of us have been there. I’ve certainly been there where I’m just like, I don’t really care about anything other than the end result. Right. And sometimes you get hung up as a, as a business owner of, know, it’s not that you don’t, it’s not that you don’t care about people, but you don’t think about how they think or how they feel or what their goals are, or things like that. You just kind of are, you know, they’re, they’re just, they’re pieces on the chessboard ultimately.

You know like you could care about everybody, but you’re not really considering What’s going on in their lives because everybody that works for you has shit going on in their lives, too right and so maybe just talk about kind of I guess how your how your Approach or your beliefs have changed and how you help people change really from a leadership perspective How do how do you become and how do you help people become a better leader?

BradChandler.com (06:28.654)
Yeah, great question. I mean, when I look back over my 22 years of doing this business, the wrong hires that I made because my, my limiting belief was that I wasn’t worthy. I wasn’t enough. So I would hire people that I thought could make me a bunch of money, not necessarily fit the culture, but just made me a bunch of money. And just like you said, it was all about the end results. Like I don’t, you know, it’s, it’s callous to say, I don’t care. Cause there was a part of me that cared if they were struggling and what not, it wasn’t some, you know, like inhumane.

person. But it was always like just money. We got to make money because for me that’s how I was going to survive. Not survive from the standpoint of like having money to eat, but survive from the standpoint of not getting kicked out of the tribe. And if I had enough money that would prove my worth and I’d be in the tribe. And what is this tribe I’m talking about? For six million years we’ve survived on this planet. And for most of those six million years we lived in tribes. When you upset the tribe leader and the tribe through

you out what would happen to you Mike?

Mike Hambright (07:33.646)
completely isolated.

BradChandler.com (07:34.86)
Yeah. And what was the ultimate thing that would likely happen? You would die, you would die. So when you shut down with your spouse or you come home and you drink four glasses of wine, or you, you know, eat too much, or you’re depressed, or you’re anxious, this is this is kind of

Mike Hambright (07:37.737)
die.

BradChandler.com (07:50.35)
I’m going to wrap a couple things in here. This is this is the secret to life in 30 seconds. Every negative behavior that you have in your life is driven by an underlying thought that your mind actually thinks is worse. So all the negative behaviors actually a solution to something over here that it thinks is worse. That thing that it thinks is worse is always made up from the ages of zero to 10 when your brain was being programmed and formed. And it’s always an it’s always an untruth. And it’s always about having your needs not met. And that untruth is always about

the survival about getting kicked out of the tribe. So at five years old, mommy doesn’t give me a cookie. I tell her that I hate her. She cries for two hours. Dad comes home from work, hits me and says, don’t you ever make mommy feel that way. So the learned behavior is I better not be my real self and my authentic self because the tribe is going to kick me out and I’m going to die. So what you do is you figure out those untruths through the work that I do. And then you through neuroplasticity, can actually

rewrite the neural pathway that’s holding that untruth that’s causing the negative behavior. When you do that what do you think happens to the negative behavior?

It vanishes, it goes away because it has nothing to fuel it. There’s not one person in the United States, in the world, that was born with eating problems, smoking, addiction, depression, nothing. It was all learned behavior. So going back to your question, this pervades every area of society, from the trailer parks to the yacht clubs to the boardrooms. Everywhere you go, people are suffering and 99.9 % of people who are suffering or struggling with obesity

depression, anxiety is the exact reason what I just said.

BradChandler.com (09:33.47)
It is a solution to something they think is worse, but the thing that they think is worth is just an untruth. So you’ve got people drinking that are missing work. You’ve got people fighting with their spouse. You’ve got anxiety, depression. All of this stuff is affecting business, right? So now I come at it instead of being like, why can’t you make me more money? I can sense, I can feel the energy. you, you feel anxious. Let me have a talk with you. And then I do this deep dive and we figure out just like I do with my clients. What is this?

underlying thing, Mike, that’s causing this anxiety. And we figured out all the time because it’s all there. I’ve created this process over four years. So that’s what I’m doing with my people. I’m sharing with them that no matter what they’re going through, whatever negative behavior, it can be fixed. And of course, not everyone’s raising their hand running to me, but I’ve worked with several people and have dramatically changed their lives in this company. And that’s what I’m going to keep doing. I’m going to keep shining my light. I’m not trying to change anyone.

I’m shining my light and the people that want to come towards my lighthouse, great. And the people that are like, no, that’s fine. I think I’m going to actually repel some of those folks like out of the company and I’m going to attract people who just want to get better in all areas of their lives. So that’s what the company exists for now is to bring people in who just want to get better in all areas of their lives.

Mike Hambright (10:54.574)
Yeah, that’s great. if you can help them improve, you know, from a, guess talk about what that means from a culture standpoint, it’s obviously very different than the traditional real estate investor culture, which honestly is for a lot of folks, probably toxic, but maybe just talk about that importance in your culture.

BradChandler.com (11:16.942)
Well, I’ve heard people that say like they were scared of me forever. And now that they understand that I’m not this this mean guy and that, you know, I get up and I say, we made a mistake here. And I talk about, you know, smoking weed every night for years. I talk about drinking. I talk about losing $9 million. I talk about, there’s nothing I won’t talk about. Cause if you want to judge me, I now realize it has nothing to do with me. Like I’ll tell them that, you know, I used to ask my second wife to tell me all the time how handsome and sexy I was because I felt so bad about myself.

I couldn’t hear it enough.

If you’d have told me to say that 10 years ago on the show or you know, this is gonna be heard by thousands of people I’d have been like dude, there’s no amount of money you can get me to pay now I don’t care like that’s my that was my broken soul self And if you want to judge me, it’s fine because I know it has nothing to do with me It just feels how you have to you know, how you feel about yourself. So it’s just it’s just a culture of like continuous learning I’m huge in the health. I’m a health and longevity nut We provide a bunch of snacks and stuff. I’ve told the guys I don’t want any more

crap food in here like we’re gonna stand for just constant improvement in eating ice cream and and chips and shit like that like I’ll pay if you want to buy that stuff I’m not gonna ban it here but the company’s gonna only pay for like good stuff I’ve gotten them with this mine Valley has an amazing program I’ve said anyone who wants to do that I’m gonna offer here soon too I did I did the the body scan where it measures using x-ray it measures your body fat and your bone density Dexa scan I did that so I’m gonna

Mike Hambright (12:45.826)
Dexa? Yeah, yeah.

BradChandler.com (12:49.208)
say if you want to go do that. So it’s just it’s becoming more more fun because

Everything was gauged. My whole life, Mike was gauged on how much money I was making. If I was making a lot of money, I’m in the gym dancing and singing, right? But if I had a bad month, I wasn’t dancing and singing because I was like, I’m a schmuck and I don’t feel good about myself. So everything was measured by how much money I was making. Now, if we lose money, I don’t love it, but you’re not going to see me moping around or not singing and dancing. It’s just like, I’m always happy. I realized that for 47 years, I chased everything.

external boats, car, money, women, whatever it was thinking that’s going to bring me happiness. Everything you’ve ever needed to be happy you have inside of you right now. And you always had, but so many people right now are so miserable because of what they don’t have, but they have it all. You have it all right now.

Mike Hambright (13:46.562)
Yeah, that’s amazing, yeah. And the truth is, is if you don’t have that mental health or the physical health, even if you are successful financially, it doesn’t matter. Like what’s the point of that if you’re not gonna be here or you’re not enjoying it or you go home at night and you know, are upset about where you’re at in your life, right? mean, those, like if you don’t have those things, nothing else matters.

BradChandler.com (14:08.334)
Yeah, and that’s probably one of the biggest arguments. I did a video, one of my viral videos on TikTok years ago at a Marina. And I was just walking by all these yachts in Harbertown, Hilton Head, saying that they’re having the same issues as the people in the trailer parks.

And again, people are like, you have no idea because you have money like money. Money does bring you happiness. It doesn’t. It doesn’t look at look at look at the Amy Winehouse’s and the Matthew Perry’s and the Prince and Kirk. They’re all dead. They had all the money in the world. So if you want to keep living the lie that all you need to do to become happy is make more money. You can do it, but you’ll never be happy. Because if you don’t feel enough, it doesn’t matter if you have $1 or $10 million in your bank account. It doesn’t change it. There are people right

that are worth a billion dollars that are doing crazy things on Instagram to try to get attention because they want more money because it’s they don’t feel enough and they’ve got a billion dollars there’s billionaires right now that are considering suicide if having all the money in the world makes you happy why are they thinking about taking their life?

Mike Hambright (15:12.726)
Yeah, that’s crazy. Let’s talk about the, you you talked a little bit about this already, but kind of coaching versus managing your team. Cause I think a lot of us are, you know, a lot of us are solopreneurs that got to a certain point to where we’re not the leaders that we necessarily need to be. But again, we’re trying to manage the KPIs and stuff in the business. Talk a little bit about more of a coaching style versus just a straight up managing style for your business.

BradChandler.com (15:41.204)
Yeah. So if you have an organization, there is a 100 % chance that you have multiple people in that organization that have some of these limiting beliefs.

Very few of us escape this. And I say very few, probably like a half of 1 % escape like no bad thoughts from childhood. You may not be consciously thinking it. I didn’t consciously wake up and say I’m no good or I’m not enough, but I did. So if you have, you definitely have those people in organization, you’re not getting the most out of them because something’s holding them back.

So if you can be a coach more than a manager, yes, the numbers are important and having the KPIs and actually helps them. So what I’ve started to do is, and I got this from Visham at Mindvalley is the three most important questions. It’s like, what do you want to do with your life? What’s the biggest impact? What did you love to do as a child? I’m messing them up because I haven’t done this in a month or two because I got so sidetracked with so many other projects. Once I came back to express home buyers, but you really want to find out what is the why behind the person.

And then if you get the why, then it’s kind what Gary Kelly used to do.

bring people in that want to make their world bigger inside your world and their world can get actually bigger inside your world than it could outside of your world. So you just find people who fit your core values, figure out what it is that’s really important to them, and then help them get that thing that’s really important. And I promise you a huge component of getting what they want is to clear out these subconscious beliefs. So most people aren’t qualified to do this. So it’s something you could offer your people, whether you work with me.

BradChandler.com (17:23.088)
or anyone, it doesn’t matter. But figure out who in your organization are being held back. And we have this simple three minute self love quiz mic that is 12 questions. And it actually will tell you, do you have extreme self love? Do you have mild self love? Or do you have lack of self love? And if you have the two bottom categories, it means that you absolutely have some of these blooming beliefs that are holding you back. And it’s not just one area of your life. Because if you lack self love, every single area of your life is

is negatively affected to some degree. So be the coach, be curious, lead with compassion and curiosity instead of judgment. If someone’s showing up late all the time, there’s a reason. If someone’s not closing enough sales, there’s a reason. I’ve coached people who were afraid to get on the phone because they were afraid that someone would judge them like their parents did. Had people who, myself being one of them, who was terrified to get up on stage. Why? Because my learned behavior from an early age said, if you

mess up, you’ll get ridiculed because my dad used to make fun of me anytime I said something wrong. Well, again, that’s a that’s a survival thing, right? So when I walk towards the stage, I’d get this terrible reaction. And it was my brain saying stay away from that stage because someone’s going to ridicule you, you’ll get kicked out of the tribe, like I said, and then then you might die. So just lead with lead with your heart, lead with love. And you would be absolutely shocked on the impact it’ll have on your business and your culture.

Thank

Mike Hambright (18:54.126)
So how do you, can you talk a little bit, let’s talk about how to assess some of these things, because I think there’s a, I mean, we all have some junk in our, we all have junk in our history, right, that probably causes issues here. So what are some ways to kind of identify these things?

BradChandler.com (19:09.966)
So the number one thing is take the quiz like that. That will tell you everything. Have everyone in your, in your company, take the quiz. And if you’re, if they’re vulnerable and open, share the answers, like this is, this is a perfect example. What I’ve taken that quiz five years ago and shared answers. Anyone? Hell no. I’ll share every answer with anyone. I’d love to discuss this with anyone that wants to pick up the phone and call me. Um, you can, you can do that. Uh, we have these incredible resources on our website for free. Um, under the resources tab, one is a limitless you lie detector.

And basically, the negative behavior, remember, is protecting you from something. So what we basically, through this exercise, we ask, if we took that negative behavior away, what would you have to face? And that’s the thing that’s keeping the negative behavior. So let’s just give the example of the cold calling.

you would ask, what if you got on the phone and for the first time ever, you didn’t have any anxiety? What would that feel like? And most people are like, I’d be great. I’d make all these calls and make all this money. But the truth is you have anxiety because your brain is doing something it thinks is helping you. So if you took that away, what would be the downside? The downside is then I’d have to talk to someone and that person might judge me and ridicule me like my mother did when I was a little girl.

So you figure out times in your life when you weren’t ridiculed or you were ridiculed and people didn’t take away their love, their love. And then your brain has a mismatch detector. It literally is like ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, Cause you can’t hold to conflicting thoughts. Your brain, just can’t do it. That starts the process of rewriting that neural pathway. So in the instance of the person who’s afraid to cold call, we would show times in their life where they may have gotten up and spoken at church or at a business meeting and maybe they

messed up, but no one ridiculed them and they’d be like, wow. So I don’t need to be perfect. And if people do ridicule me, it doesn’t really doesn’t really mean anything. Right. So that that’s one way is to is to figure out if you take the negative behavior away, not what are the positive things, but what’s the one negative thing that you’re going to face. And that negative thing is that untruth from childhood that you can rewrite. Does that make sense?

Mike Hambright (21:27.16)
Yeah, how do you, as entrepreneurs though, how do we, I think sometimes like, we don’t know what we don’t know, right? We think we know something. We don’t, you know, we don’t remember, like I don’t, it’s hard to remember. I mean, I don’t know if it’s hard to remember your childhood, but it’s hard to remember things in your life, because they’re so deep seated, that they, and the way they impact you, that you don’t really think of it as a cause, you know?

BradChandler.com (21:53.206)
So recall and remember are two different things. You’re saying remember, but I think you really mean recall. You never forget. From the third trimester in your mother’s womb till today, your subconscious mind has never forgot one thing. And why is that? When you’re 10 years old and you walk by a bush and it’s shaking, but you pay no attention to it. And the lion goes out and grabs your arm and bites your hand off.

Mike Hambright (22:00.482)
right?

BradChandler.com (22:20.066)
When you’re 80 years old and you walk by that bush and it starts shaking, your subconscious mind is going to remind you to keep you alive. It’s all about keeping your life because that’s the only reason your subconscious mind is here. So your subconscious mind holds the key to all of your problems. Your subconscious mind knows the source of all of your problems.

The problem with traditional therapy and life coaching is they never go to the subconscious mind. They always stay in the conscious mind, which only represents 5 % of your daily behavior. So what we do and what I’ve been doing for years is we just access the subconscious mind. How do you do that? Some people do it through drugs, psychedelics, meditation. We use hypnosis where we just get you in a deeply relaxed state. And then Mike, if you came to me with anxiety, I would get you in a deeply relaxed state and I’d say, Mike, tell me a time, a place, an event in your life.

that has all to do with the reason and the cause for this anxiety. And in a state where all the noise is cut down and you’re deeply relaxed, you’re going to say, my gosh, when I was five at my birthday party and my dad made fun of me in front of all of my friends.

I’m making this up, obviously, I have no idea. But I’ve never, out of nearly 100 clients that I’ve worked with, I’ve never had one client that said, I have no idea. Every single one of them, and some of them were like, I don’t remember anything before the age of five. And their memory was, why do you have the condition that you have? They were brought to a scene where mom was locked in a bathroom threatening to take her life.

never ever ever could recall it, recall it, but they sure as hell remembered it because it affected their behavior well into their 40s.

Mike Hambright (24:08.12)
Yeah. Why don’t you talk a little bit about, folks that are able to get this kind of clarity.

I guess both physical and mental clear, like what you think the impact can have on your business. Let’s say it this way, a lot of real estate investors, a lot of entrepreneurs are on a path and they’re making X and they want to get to X times 1.5. Like they have some goal this year to grow, right? But they’re so focused on the traditional side of the business. I need more leads, I need better salespeople, I need…

the wind to be blowing in the right direction, like whatever it is. And I know that you believe, I want you to kind of share your thoughts on this, that what’s really holding you back isn’t necessarily those things. It’s some of the other junk you have in your life, the physical and mental side of you as the owner of your life.

BradChandler.com (24:56.302)
100%. So.

Before, if you want to go from making a million to a million and half dollars, the best advice I can give you is do this exercise that’s on our resources section of the website as well, seven levels deep. I want to make million and a half dollars because, and then right at the top of the page. And then whatever the answer is, the next question, why is that important to me? And then whenever that question is, ask and ask and ask. I’ll tell you that in 2008, I started Keller Williams team with Leo Pereja, who now is the CEO of

EXP Realty. And our goal was to be the first agent team to ever sell $1 billion in a year. We ended up losing $1 million. We got to like $120 million and 800 transactions or something. But had I done that exercise back in 2008, the last answer would have been because I feel unworthy and I want to prove my worth.

Is that a reason to go start a real TT and to make a billion, to try to sell a billion dollars? Hell no. So first of all, you have to know your why, because when you get seven levels deep, you’re going to either be in tears or you’re going to be shocked by what the answer is. And it just has nothing to do with business. Why do I want to marry a hot blonde? Why do I want to buy a Ferrari? Whatever it is, do the exercise, do it every day if you have to, you know, only take a couple of minutes. Figure that out. What you’re going to figure out.

oftentimes is it’s not the real reason and what’s holding you back is the beliefs, the hidden beliefs. So if you look at my business,

BradChandler.com (26:37.494)
It was in constant chaos, Mike. I’d go to these masterminds with you. I’d come back. I’d tell my wife how dumb I was because, you know, Mike from Osborne from California owned 50 million, $75 million worth of real estate. And he started after I did what the hell’s wrong with me. Then I come back to my team and I’d be like, we got to do these 30 initiatives. I was trying all this wild shit to like hit the home run because I was trying to make a bunch of money to stay alive, to survive. I don’t do that.

anymore. Like, while I still have a lot of ideas, I’m not trying to do a gazillion things, I don’t need to go make $10 million. I’m trying to make money now so that we can just have a cooler company do more things, give more back to the community. So everything, everything shifts the way I look at the people, the way I coach the people, how I’m not all over the place. It’s just

Yeah, you don’t need another marketing guru or a marketing plan or some fancy consultant. The best thing that you can do for yourself and your business is to do this internal work and figure out what are these stories that are still being run in my subconscious mind that are holding me back.

Mike Hambright (27:50.892)
Yeah, awesome, good stuff, good stuff. Well, Brad, if folks want to learn more, I know you’ve mentioned a quiz a couple of times. Tell us where folks can kind of go learn more, maybe where they can take this quiz. Learn more about you, connect with you. You you’ve kind of planted a couple seeds here. Obviously, you’re a successful real estate investor, but also do some coaching to help folks kind of get that mental clarity as well. So where do they go to learn more?

BradChandler.com (28:12.802)
So if you like this type of subject and you want to go deeper, we have a podcast called How to Be Happier for Entrepreneurs that you can check out. It’s on all the major sites. And our website is unlocklimitlessyou.com. The quiz is right on there. You can also schedule a free session with us. And if you want to check out the real estate side of things, I’m at expresshomebuyers.com.

Mike Hambright (28:34.094)
Say that website one more time, Unlock Limitless U.

BradChandler.com (28:36.138)
Unlock LimitlessYou.com. That’s what we’re all about. We’re about unlocking the limitless you because you are limitless. If you’re struggling or suffering, it’s not your fault. It’s just a mechanism that your brain is doing to try to protect you. It can be changed very, very quickly. So don’t blame yourself. You got a shitty marriage. Kids are misbehaving. Your business sucks. It’s not your fault. But now that you’ve heard this, you have an awareness and a responsibility to go do something. If you don’t, then you get to keep living the same life.

But I’m here to tell you that if you want to do the work in a few short hours your life can profoundly change

Mike Hambright (29:12.974)
Awesome, awesome, good stuff. thanks for sharing some stuff with us today, Brad. Appreciate it. Yeah, we’ll add the links down below here in the show notes, everybody.

BradChandler.com (29:18.306)
Thanks for having me.

Mike Hambright (29:23.532)
You have so much opportunity in your life, but I can tell you from Brad’s story to lots of other people that I know, and myself as well, right? There’s times where you have some level of success. I remember a time where I was sitting in a stoplight with my wife, Lindsay, who you know, Brad, and I remember that somebody had just said, I’d asked them, it was a coaching student, like, what do you want to do? And they said, I want to be like you. And I remember thinking to myself, I don’t know if I want to be like me. And I remember sitting at the stoplight and I just said to Lindsay, was like, is this what success

feels like because we were just burning it at both ends and just kind of wiped out and tired, right? And so just because you’ve been successful financially doesn’t mean that you’re happy necessarily and you could be happy. you know, we all know people, there’s this line of ignorance is bliss. Like we all know people that aren’t doing particularly well by our measure, but they’re just happy as hell. And there’s something to be learned there about how we can have that as entrepreneurs too. So that’s why we fight this fight, right? It’s not about, it’s not necessarily

about making the money. It’s about having the freedoms and the life and the happiness and the joy and being able to kind of share all that with everybody. So if you’re, if you have some level of success by most standards, which is financial, and you’re not seeing it somewhere else, maybe you should talk to Brad. So Brad, thanks again for joining us today, buddy. Yeah, everybody. Hope you have a great day. We’ll see on the next show.

BradChandler.com (30:37.987)
Thank you.

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