They say that the human race is doomed.
That we have lost touch with our true nature.
That the media has corrupted us,
and that the planet has no future.
I disagree; I believe that humanity is full of hope.
And that our salvation lies within each one of us.
My name is Brian Rose, and my job is to listen.
The oldest method of learning known to man.
Each week I seek out individuals
that are changing the world.
People that are living and thinking in a different way.
Their stories will challenge your beliefs.
Make you question your choices.
And perhaps, inspire you to change.
I never planned on doing any of this.
But now, I can't stop.
Join me on this mission, and
make humanity something we can all be proud of.
This is London Real, I am Brian Rose.
My guest today is Brandon Lowery.
Recent graduate of our business accelerator, welcome.
- Thank you.
- Tell us about you, where are you from, what do you do?
- Born in Lubbock, Texas, raised in Dallas, Texas.
I've spent pretty much my whole life
doing blue collar work right out of high school.
I went to work with Ford, so I went
to be a Ford technician, and after that,
I ended up being a welder, tried college
a few different times and never really
kind of panned out for me, so I've been
a welder until about a year and a half ago
and I scored a wonderful job as an I.T.,
actually it was an RND Engineer.
Very fortunate to get that job, but
it's actually what allowed me to, or
freed up enough of my finances so that
I could actually make this happen, so yeah.
- Hmm. That's an interesting career change.
- It was.
- How did you pull that off?
- Knowing the right people you know?
I mean I started kind of a weird journey.
About three or four years ago, when...
It was actually one of my college experiences.
I went to the foremost Christian college
in America, like where you send your kid
if you want your kid to be a preacher.
And I had a terrible experience.
I couldn't, I just had a terrible experience.
Three months into it, I actually got a ticket
in my little Fiat 500, out of town,
third gear, flat on the floor, going back to Texas.
And it was just a terrible experience.
Well, college failed, so what do you do now?
You go to trade school, and that's where
the whole welding thing came from.
So I went to this school called
The Tulsa Welding School, and
it wasn't too long before I was working
in the night time janitorial services.
Well they were reconstructing
a portion of the building, and there was
a gentleman by the name of Jack Novak...
- So let me just check, just power through,
so you went through welding,
you got this RND job, but I'm still curious
why did you join the business accelerator?
What was going on in your head
to come join us for this crazy journey?
- Well this is the good story, because I
didn't even really know your name
until maybe two or three weeks before
I pulled the trigger on that.
- Okay.
- I found you through Simon Sinek.
I was starting a business, and
I was getting into this morality of
this kind of a new formed morality of business,
and Simon was a big part of that.
A lot of the stuff he's put out
was just very inspiring to me.
Alright so I saw that video with you,
I guess on YouTube it just sort of,
you started popping up after that video,
and it was the fifty billion dollar man.
That's what got me, Dan Pena.
I got curious, you know, because
that was...
- Was that our movie with him you watched?
- Yeah! Well he's just such a trip!
Anyway, I started, I basically realised
that mentorship was a necessary part of
I would say a healthy business,
growing into a business experience.
And I got a chance to see through YouTube
what he did for you, because you were
doing pretty well, as far as YouTube stuff goes,
you were up there, and then you did the
Castle Seminar, and then it changed you, visually.
Because it was so strange,
when I was watching the YouTube videos,
I would see one video where you were
the previous version of yourself,
and then the next video you were
all suited up you know, and I would just
go through these things and I
didn't quite know what was going on
until I learned about the experience
that you had with Dan, and...
- And so that made you seek out
some of your own mentorship?
- Yes, yes it did.
I've come to the conclusion that I'm gonna
continue getting mentors as often as possible.
I don't have the business experience.
I don't come from a line of people
who even think about business.
It's kind of why I ended up being a welder,
because my parents just default, default.
- Yeah so you have to really change
your mental patterns to even
get on this journey of being an entrepreneur,
and so that's what you were doing with us.
And what made you finally pull the trigger
and say 'yes I'm gonna go with these guys?'
- I don't know, see I didn't do much research.
I didn't know what to expect after I did it.
I haven't been terribly successful
because I didn't do my research, and didn't
quite know what I was getting myself into.
The digital product, that is probably
the most unexpected thing that I've come across.
I want to do drone services, and
I had this conflict because how do you
turn drone services into a digital product?
And I'm still fighting that conflict.
But one thing that I know 100% for sure
is no one else in my industry is even
kind of thinking about looking
at it from this perspective.
And that is so powerful.
- Yeah, I'm telling you, when you crack this,
and it will take time to get your head
around this stuff, and I know in the course
we threw a lot at you real fast,
and I wanna hear a bit of your experience with that,
but if you can get your head around it,
and by the end of this weekend,
maybe you will, then I think,
like you said, it's a super
powerful position to be in,
and I think you could make
some real waves in that business.
- Oh yeah.
- First tell me what was it like
that first two weeks in the programme?
I mean you're on my team, you're
thrown in with all these people,
I'm asking you to upload videos,
what was it like?
- Painful, immense amounts of pain.
- You saw the pain movie, what
did you expect me to do? [Laughs]
- [Laughs] No it's true, well it's
what I want, it's why I'm here.
I am changing my life; that's happening.
I've learned through experience
you've gotta surround yourself
with people who are headed in the same direction,
and that's sort of what I got
out of the idea of mentorship.
You just surround yourself with people
who know what they're doing, and
that want to see you succeed, and
that's something that's very special.
The first two weeks of the course
the course work wasn't difficult,
but my biggest problem, or my thing
to overcome, was Facebook believe it or not.
I had no idea how to use Facebook.
I had maybe used it 10 years ago,
and I had zero social media experience.
I had never used it, no one around me
had ever used it, it was just
something I've heard about, so that was
the most difficult thing for me to overcome.
Because I had to figure out how to use Messenger,
I had to figure out how to use the Facebook groups.
That was difficult, you know, Facebook is complicated!
- It is at first that's for sure.
You're not the only one that struggles with that.
Tell me about the community, you've met
some of them here so far, you'll
meet a lot more tonight, we've got
a huge master class in the studio,
there'll be like 80 people here,
but yeah, you mentioned peer group before,
but what's this community like?
What did you learn from them?
- You know, Yanni and Enrique he,
well, Enrique particularly, when I
first got into this, my mindset was terrible.
I was suffering from terrible depression.
I mean really, really bad depression,
and I almost immediately realised
that I have to fix this because I am
not going to be successful if I don't
get this addressed immediately.
So I can't even remember how it happened,
I think I just, maybe on the messenger,
I asked for help, and Enrique, per his usual
self, was right there, willing to do
whatever it took to help me through it,
and then Yanni with dieting, so
I joined a gym membership and I just started
running on the treadmill, and
that was such a big moment because
brain chemistry changes with that sort of thing.
I have no real experience on this.
I don't, no one around me...
My environment is 100% different.
So it was just interesting.
It was really what these guys
were telling me to do and I just
buckled down and I got it done.
And I started seeing the benefits of it.
It was very beneficial and I am very
appreciative to those people.
- So they helped you even on a personal level,
just change your own self and your own mindset.
Yeah it's a very close group,
you get real close to people.
- Yeah London Real, what you've got
going on here, you become a magnet
for just really, really good people.
And that's something to be proud of,
because that doesn't happen often,
even in my experience in business,
it's almost the opposite, you know?
And I know you have a background
in Wall Street, and you understand
this better than most, but I've never
seen or heard of anything that
attracts quality people the way
this does and that's incredible.
- Thank you for that observation,
and I feel the same way.
For me, if I don't feel good energy
every time I walk in the door,
I might as well go back to the banks
you know, and do horrible stuff.
So for me, I always get to surround
myself with great people, team leaders,
great energy and great students too.
So tell me about the biggest takeaway from the course?
And I know certain things were
struggles and certain things weren't,
but you pushed through, you
made it here to graduation.
What is that thing you're gonna take away?
- It's always gonna be painful; making changes.
Uprooting, because something that
I'm gonna have to do is I'm gonna have to uproot
a lot of my friends that I've had for 10 years.
I've tried really hard to show them what I'm doing,
to kind of convince them that this
would be good for you too, and
I'm just not getting any positive feedback.
Going through the course and watching
how everyone interacts with each other,
that's something you gotta have.
If everyone's going the same direction
it's so much easier for you to
walk that direction as well.
So it's just kind of difficult to say really.
But I think that elevating my peer group
is probably gonna be the biggest
thing I take away from this.
- The truth is, this is your new family,
and these are the people that are
gonna help you on that path, and
the reality is, you're probably gonna
have to purge 70 or 80% of those other people,
at least for now, for 6 months or for a year,
and get yourself to where
you've got momentum going forward.
And honestly, if they watch you
make that change, some of them
will come around and say, 'you know what,
what are you doing Brandon, you've got
some good energy, I wanna do this.'
And some won't, and that's the cost.
But life is short, and you know
where you need to go, and you've got
this incredible group of people here that
not only want you to go there,
but they expect it, you know?
They expect you to make these changes,
so I would just say from everything
I've seen in my experience, it's hard,
but you're gonna have to let those people go
and hang out with this amazing
group of people for now, and luckily
you have this incredible support structure,
and for the next 12 months, you're
gonna be on these calls, you've got
incredible people on this team like
Enrique and Yanni who are invested in you,
and who are expecting some big things,
like me too, I wanna see my goddamned
digital product and again, this
drone space is fascinating.
You know honestly, I could
buy your digital product.
I'm going to Chattanooga, Tennessee
in 37 days to compete in my Iron Man
competition, and I'm bringing a video team
and we don't know how to fly the drones.
We always do kind of an okay job.
But I would pay right now good money
for a digital course that would at least
take me from a two to a five, and so,
I'm telling you, there's a need
for this course, and you could make it happen.
So I'm gonna push you to go a little further there.
- Oh it'll happen.
- Alright Brandon, last question,
if we walked out on the street
right now and bumped into the old Brandon,
the guy that hadn't gone through this course,
how is he different than you?
- He's running from the pain.
He doesn't wanna experience it.
Changing is difficult, changing is
a very, very difficult thing.
Far, far more difficult than
I ever thought it would be.
The internal struggle is just unreal almost.
But you gotta do it, you buckle down,
and if it hurts, it hurts, keep going,
don't stop, ever, turn around,
you just gotta keep it going.
That's what I would tell him.
- Amen to that. I live with that every day man.
And who knows how long it'll take?
But each day, just push through, get the
right people around you, stay focused.
Last question, to someone who's on the edge,
not sure if they should go this route,
this accelerator, they don't know
what's going on in this course, not sure,
what would you tell them?
- You gotta make a move, and if you're
gonna make a move, get with people
that have pedigree any way you can.
Here in a week I'll be talking to Dan.
Dan Pena in South Carolina.
Just because I have to, didn't want to,
still don't want to, probably gonna get yelled at,
but it's something you gotta do.
And if you don't do it now,
the chances that you'll ever do it, decrease.
I mean by the moment, you give yourself
one way out, you will find that way out
every time you try to change something.
- It's so true, I always tell people
this is the moment in time, you tell me
'oh I'll wait 3 months, I'll wait 6 months,
I'll wait til I have my baby,
I'll wait...' It's never! Matter of fact,
this is the closest you'll ever be
to making this big change, and ever second
you wait, you're actually getting
further away, so it's like at some point,
you gotta take a deep breath, and then
what do you feel, do you feel this?
'Yes I do,' and then go for it,
and that's true about life.
Brandon, love hearing your story here
and you're on the start of a journey,
we're all actually on the start of our own journey.
But I was right where you were,
six, seven years ago, not knowing
what was going on, doubting my old peer group,
not knowing the way to go forward,
struggling with all sorts of things you know?
So you see this vision going forward,
and you're right, it's gonna be hard,
but just push yourself into that fear,
because the fear is exactly that,
false expectations appearing real.
It's a phantom that causes you to live small,
and it's a bunch of B.S. when you get there
and you realise well actually, this was nothing,
and yet it kept me from living my life
for 10 years, 20 years.
So, we'll be watching you, we're on
these calls the next 12 months,
let's do some big things, and
welcome to the family.
- Thanks sir.
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