Tony: Hi!
It’s Tony Robbins again.
Welcome to the another edition of The New Money Masters.
This edition I think you’re going to find very interesting, it’s going to be a little
different.
I thought for this session it might be interesting to do a case study on someone who started
with absolutely nothing, who wasn't a brand, who learned from some of the same people that
I just described to you, studied Frank for example and Eben and who was able to find
a niche for herself, actually a couple of niches, and really maximized it and build
herself a brand from scratch, build an extraordinary lifestyle and really had a damn good time
doing it and still be able to balance so many tough areas of her life.
How do you be a great business woman and still feel feminine and still feel excited about
your life and make a difference in the world with other people.
So I brought for you today Marie Forleo and she’s an extraordinary woman, she’s jersey
girl.
She built it from scratch and I’m really grateful to have you here.
Marie: Thank you so much!
I’m so honored.
Tony: I understand, you know it’s interesting we have a lot of common friends.
Marie: Yes.
Tony: With Eben and with Frankand so forth and I understand you went to Unleash the Power
Within many years ago.
Marie: I did and it was like of course when I got this call I was so excited because you
were really my gateway drug to the world of personal development.
Tony: I don’t think I’ve ever had that term before, gateway drug.
Marie: It was a really good experience but I remember in the beginning when I was trying
to find my way and knowing that I have potential inside me but not understanding how to get
that potential out and make it into results.
You were one of the people that I went to and I was listening to you at the gym and
the treadmill and I have these dreams of dancing and these dreams of coaching and these dreams
of helping people but I didn't know how to make that a reality and you were one of the
people that really got me started.
Tony: Well, I’m really pleased to hear that and thrilled to hear that.
Well tell me, you’ve developed an incredible success.
You’ve got what, an international best selling book now in what, 6 languages?
Marie: Yes.
Tony: And your title is?
Marie: It’s a Make Every Man Want You: How to Be So Irresistible You'll Barely Keep from
Dating Yourself!
Tony: That last line kills me!
Haha.
Okay.
And your primary market is for women.
You’ve done four best selling DVDs on dance and exercise and fitness.
You kind of branched out in both dating and fitness in those areas.
You’ve got a coaching business.
I understand you worked with Fox News online as a coaching consultant for them as well.
So you’ve done incredibly well but you did not start out knowing this is where you really
wanted to be.
You started out as I understand really interested in business and finance is that right?
Marie: Yeah, I did.
I went to school for finance and my first job out of college was on Wall Street on the
New York Stock Exchange and I remember I loved it because I have a ton of energy and there’s
no seats on the New York Stock Exchange so you run around like a mania screaming all
day so that part I absolutely loved but something inside me kept saying that this is not what
I’m supposed to be doing in the world.
And it was really disturbing because you know my parents have invested money, I invested
my own money getting my education and then discovering like wow this is not where I am
supposed to be but I don’t know what I want.
And that was the scary part.
Tony: Now so many people are in that place.
They’re doing something they don’t love, some people out of necessity, you know the
current economy.
Other people, they picked an area they thought they were gonna love or an area that everybody
encouraged them to go to.
And a lot of people when they get there they know they’re unhappy but they don’t know
how to change.
How did you make the shift?
How long were you involved?
9 or 10 months if I remember right?
Marie: Yes, 9-10 months.
And it was such, I had a strong sense of intuition that this little voice inside me kept on saying
that this is not where I am supposed to be and it grew louder and louder and louder until
I couldn’t ignore it anymore.
It felt like I had to make a change or something in me was going to die and I literally, I
called my parents and I said I know you’re gonna think I’m crazy but I need to go find
what I’m meant to do in the world and I was just 22 at that time and I’m said I’m
just gonna to go on some Odysseys ‘cause I feel like I’m really strong in business
but I’m also really creative and i don’t feel like I get that satisfaction from being
on the floor of New York stock exchange.
So I did a little dabbling in publishing.
I was at Gourmet magazine in the ad sales department and spent some time there and I
love the people I worked with but I didn’t want to be my boss.
I didn’t want to be a publisher of a magazine and very quickly, thankfully I figured out
it was like wow If I don't want to be my boss, if I don’t want to be the head of this magazine,
this isn’t where I should be.
So I said, well maybe it’s not the ad sales maybe it’s like fashion, the more creative
side.
So I popped over to Mademoiselle magazine and you know for any young woman that’s
like a very cushy job.
You play with clothes all day, you go on this fashion appointments, it was very luxurious
and it was fun but I have had that feeling again like I don’t want to be the editor-in-chief
and then I started to feel like I was broken.
I said, I know I’m smart.
I graduated valedictorian of my class so I knew I was a smart girl, it was like time
was starting to go by but I didn’t feel satisfied and I certainly wasn’t making
great money.
Tony: And you’ve now been on three Odysseys, none of which really fulfilled you.
Marie: Exactly.
And that’s when I stumbled upon this article about life coaching and it was so funny because
I found it on the Internet and you ever read something and you just go, Oh my God there’s
something in there.
Like something in me lit up and I realized that that was a piece of my real path.