Dec. 15, 2023
Owning Your Story: Lessons from Marcus Ogden's Life
This episode, we have Marcus Ogden as our guest who shares his journey from being an NFL player to losing everything and then rebuilding his life to become a successful executive coach, motivational speaker, and trainer. Marcus talks about his "spoil...
This episode, we have Marcus Ogden as our guest who shares his journey from being an NFL player to losing everything and then rebuilding his life to become a successful executive coach, motivational speaker, and trainer. Marcus talks about his "spoil milk moment" and how it motivated him to turn his life around, emphasizing the importance of accountability and responsibility in achieving success. He also discusses his experience of starting his speaking business and eventually becoming a bestselling author, business coach, consultant, brand ambassador, and podcast host. Marcus highlights the significance of focusing on small steps to achieve long-term success and shares how he was hired by major organizations to train their staff. He also mentions the role of his trusted circle in helping him get his first speaking opportunity.
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This episode, we have Marcus Ogden. He's sharing with us how he,
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after leaving the NFL, developed a
company earning eight figures and then after several
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years ninety days, he lost it
all and in his downward spiral, he
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eventually came to be making eight dollars
and twenty four cents, but then deciding
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this is not the end of his
story, turned it all around. Now
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he's an executive coach, motivational speaker, a highly sought after a trainer.
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He's going to share with us his
story. Welcome to night Beat Media's Living
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the Dream podcast with your host Gregory
Tucker, where we discussed the entrepreneur's journey
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of turning a dream into reality,
showing you how to learn, overcome,
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and to strategic action steps. If
you're ready to turn your dream into a
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reality, then get ready to take
action. Here's your host, Gregory Tucker.
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As always, Marcus, what we
always like to ask our guests is
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to tell us about yourself. Gregory
Marcus Ogden is a current national international keynote
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speaker, business coach, consultant,
best selling author. Podcast hosts of the
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Get Authentic with Marcus Ogden show,
We are right in the top one percent
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worldwide most popular podcast. Gregory and
I am also from Washington, d C.
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And I currently now live in the
Raleigh, North Carolina area as well.
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Okay, and one of the things
as I was reading your bio in
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your history along your journey that amazed
me and especially far As for show.
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It's called living the dream, and
that is the journey you took when you
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saw a failure. Now you were
on the world stage of what most young
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men dream about, and that is
becoming an NFL football player, being at
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the top of your game, and
then one day leaving millions the millions of
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dollars and traveling around the world in
order to come back or as from what
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I understand, eight dollars and twenty
four cents tell us at any point that
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you have the reservation or were you
at one point thinking how am I going
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to make this right here? Or
falling into a downward spiral? Yes,
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Gregory. So when I moved to
raw North Carolina after losing my business and
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everything that I owned, I went
through making an eight figure I had an
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eight figure year construction company, and
I made eight dollars and twenty five cents
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an hour on the Great Yard Shift
Gregory as a custodian from ten pm until
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five am, and I was struggling, missy with how to support my family,
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what to do next, lots of
hardships, lots of over drinking,
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and this being very just mad at
life and mad at the world. And
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what I realized at that time Gregory, was I had no accountability and I
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had no responsibility in my life.
And I realized at that moment, which
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was called my spoiled milk moment,
where someone was trash and rotten meat,
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Gregory nasty, protruding garbage over my
body, my skin, and my clothes.
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And I had that moment. It
made me real life either to get
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up off the curve and fix my
life or stay on the curve and complain
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about my life every single day.
And that's what drolls me to say,
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you know what I was meant for? More, I can do more,
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I can be more. Let's get
going down the path. And that started
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me down the train of getting my
life together to be where I'm at today
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as a speaker, author, coach, consult and of course a podcast host.
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Okay, now all of those things, because a lot of people go
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through that and they begin to make
their way back. But all of those
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things don't come together just overnight,
because when we hear about the overnight success,
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usually that turns out to be years
in the making. Tell us about
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that journey far as putting all those
components together, if you would please,
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great question. So I ended up
after my spoilt milk moment, I went
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home and I down my stream biggest
strengths, and what I realized was I
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was a good communicator. I was
a good storyteller, and I wanted to
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help people. And those three things
formally me becoming a keynote speaker, and
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I began my entire business journey on
that path. For two and a half
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years, though Gregory not one paid
job, not one. And I tell
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people I realized now woman ever,
I was fulfilled in my journey because I
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never gave up when times got hard, when things weren't looking right, I
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never gave up. I kept going
forward and kept pushing forward. So I
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was very fulfilled in that aspect.
And after a lot of hard work,
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a lot of sacrifice, I got
my first page speaking job with Millermont College
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in April twenty sixteen, and from
at that point Gregory I continued to work
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and build, and I then started
to really perfect the speaking business. Then
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I became an author. Then from
there I became a business coach, then
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became a consultant. Then I became
a brand ambassador and a business owner,
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and I became a podcast host,
and I start now ISSU some pr and
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marketing for specific clients wanting to get
on podcasts and grow their brand. So
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it did not happen overnight. I'm
going to tell your listeners, in order
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to achieve what you want for the
long term, you got to focus on
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the small steps. And I did
that because if I didn't perfect speaking right
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Gregory, and learned the trade and
learn how to actually connect with people the
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art of storytelling, the artic bringing
value, I hadn't perfected that right,
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Gregory. Now I'm not where I
am today as a business leader and all
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those type of things. Now you
are hired by some major organizations in order
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to come in and train their staff. Tell us how did those things come
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to foolish? Well? I started
off with and I talk with this all
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the time. Lean on your trusted
circle. One of my good friends,
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Dave Missmisky, works for NetApp,
a Fortune five hundred technology brand here in
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the Raleigh area. I trained both
of his sons in football private one oh
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one coaching lessons and technique. Well, Dad gave me my first chance to
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speak for a Fortune and fiverership brand
for no money to build my resume.
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And after doing that speech, I
thought I did phenomenal, But unfortunately I
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didn't do phenomenal because when I be
pack from said Marcus, great, great
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passion, great energy, wrong topic, and I was talking a lot about
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my business and my business failure.
And they were medical people, right grat
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they wouldn't care about my concussions and
ct and football. And as a result
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of not knowing my audience and not
knowing how to do what I need to
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do, I bombed my first ever
Fortune VD client speaking job. Now,
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luckily I was a friend who gave
me another opportunity to speak for them.
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About six months later, did that
job and I crushed it. But over
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time I've had to learn how to
pull in parts of my story, parts
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of my life that really make the
audience feel that the message is speaking directly
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to them. And once they feel
and once they feel that energy, right
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Gregory, at that point you become
a inspirational keynote speaker. I can do
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aspire in enlighten and educate audiences.
Now, that was one of the things
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I had heard Les Brown say in
one of his pieces, and that is
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when he was first starting out.
That one time he was on his way
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to speaking, he had got finished
speaking, and I guess he had came
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from an engagement and he was coming
back and he said something like, oh,
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I can do that. But he
said something to the effect that he
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stood up, but his mind shut
down. And that is that, Hey,
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sometimes it's as you had mentioned,
and that is the first time you
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bombed. But how did you overcome
that fear? First of all, and
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that is stepping in front of an
audience. My first ever speaking job was
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in October of twenty thirteen for the
Boys and Girls Club. I remember holding
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onto that podium for dear life like
it was a force field that kept the
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audience away from me. And over
time to practice through failure and through see
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back and through watching myself speak and
learning how to stop saying oh and ah
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those killers and just continue to work
on my crafty WoT that the morning you're
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after year, that's where things start
to get better. So for me,
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if anybody's listening, learn how to
enjoy the process and study and learn how
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to perfect your craft every single day, because the more you're perfecting your craft
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every single day, the more you're
actually working towards learning goals into accomplishe every
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single day. So did you do
U? Would you advise someone to utilize
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Toastmasters for instance? So absolutely,
Gregory. Toast Masters is a phenomenal organization
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to practice your craft right anywhere you
can go to get in front of people
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to perfect your craft and get feedback, it's going to be awesome. But
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doing things like what we're doing right, Gregory, getting on the podcast right.
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People are consuming content now more than
ever on podcasts, and when I
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go on every podcast, right Gregory, I treat it like a speaking job.
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I don't want to use space fillers. I don't want to stammer.
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I don't want to stutter. I
don't want to for my words. I
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want to be very polished, I
want to be very proficient. I want
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to be very excel at speaking because
this is another opportunity to practice what I
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do. That's my job. I
speak for a living. I talk,
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I coach, I educate, I
inspire, I try to ENLiGHT. If
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I'm one podcast treating it like this. Oh, it's another podcast. It's
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gonna talk like this, and I'm
just gonna go bs around, right,
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Gregory, that's not doing me any
good to better myself at my crap of
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speaking. So I'm gonna challenge your
listeners. Get into toast as if you
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want to speak awesome, but also
get on the podcasts radio when you're having
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conversations with people, being titched about
how you're talking. Good pace, good
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inflection, good energy. All those
things are gonna make a huge impact on
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what you do. And it's with
anything. What about having a coach,
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Oh, coaching is everything. I
don't don't care graduate what you do,
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what, industry, professional sports,
working, corporate America. Everybody needs a
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coach, right. Plato was a
successful teacher. He was taught by Socrates.
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Plato taught Aristotle in his school.
Aristotle left the school when Plato died.
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Aristotle coached Alexander the Great to be
a better, more well rounded individual,
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and that type of leadership did what
made Alexander the Great one of the
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greatest conquerors of all time. Because
he was coached by Aristotle. What how
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to be diverse, how to be
well rounded? How to approach life from
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not just a war prospective, but
math, astrology, English literature, poetry
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that made Alexander what prepared for anything
on the battlefield. So coaching, Gregory,
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can change lies and the trajectory of
time and mentorship. Mentorship is all
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about having somebody that you can trust
that is going to give you sound advice
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when you reach out to them.
And that's important because mentorship is another level
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of coaching, but as somebody you
can lean on and talk to, have
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a dialogue you know has your best
interest at heart. Okay, well,
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Barcus, this has been very valuable, especially far as to our listeners or
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are looking to pursue that journey of
going into being an inspirational or a motivational
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speaker. Now, what are some
of the ways that they can contact you
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or that they can follow you on
your social media? Thank you very much,
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Gregor. And they can follow me
on Instagram at Marcus Ogden, m
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A r q U E s O
g d E N. Facebook is Marcus
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Ogden, TikTok is at Marcus Ogden, seventy one's at Marcus Underscore Ogden,
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Late tinnis Marcus Ogden. We can
also go to our site www dot marcusden
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dot com or shoot me an email
Marcus at Marcusogden dot com. Reach out
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to us. We'd love to connect
with you. Okay, this has been
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great right here. I know you're
a very busy man and it is much
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appreciated that you took the time out
of your busy day in order to appear
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on this podcast here. So as
always we like to tell our viewers or
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our listeners, and that is,
whenever you're writing the story of your life,
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make sure that you're holding the pen. And I'm hoping that our listeners
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have at their pen at they're ready, because you drop some very valuable gems
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right there. Now. Is there
anything else that you would like to leave
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the listeners with? I will say
this and Plato made it very well known
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through his teaching, which I could
agree with. More own your story.
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If you're going to go out and
try to position yourself to speak coach and
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like start whatever, own your story. There's only one of you and that's
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more than enough. When you own
your story, you own your place in
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the world. Wow. I hope
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This episode, we have Marcus Ogden. He's sharing with us how he,
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after leaving the NFL, developed a
company earning eight figures and then after several
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years ninety days, he lost it
all and in his downward spiral, he
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eventually came to be making eight dollars
and twenty four cents, but then deciding
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this is not the end of his
story, turned it all around. Now
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he's an executive coach, motivational speaker, a highly sought after a trainer.
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He's going to share with us his
story. Welcome to night Beat Media's Living
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the Dream podcast with your host Gregory
Tucker, where we discussed the entrepreneur's journey
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of turning a dream into reality,
showing you how to learn, overcome,
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and to strategic action steps. If
you're ready to turn your dream into a
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reality, then get ready to take
action. Here's your host, Gregory Tucker.
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As always, Marcus, what we
always like to ask our guests is
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to tell us about yourself. Gregory
Marcus Ogden is a current national international keynote
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speaker, business coach, consultant,
best selling author. Podcast hosts of the
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Get Authentic with Marcus Ogden show,
We are right in the top one percent
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worldwide most popular podcast. Gregory and
I am also from Washington, d C.
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And I currently now live in the
Raleigh, North Carolina area as well.
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Okay, and one of the things
as I was reading your bio in
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your history along your journey that amazed
me and especially far As for show.
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It's called living the dream, and
that is the journey you took when you
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saw a failure. Now you were
on the world stage of what most young
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men dream about, and that is
becoming an NFL football player, being at
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the top of your game, and
then one day leaving millions the millions of
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dollars and traveling around the world in
order to come back or as from what
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I understand, eight dollars and twenty
four cents tell us at any point that
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you have the reservation or were you
at one point thinking how am I going
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to make this right here? Or
falling into a downward spiral? Yes,
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Gregory. So when I moved to
raw North Carolina after losing my business and
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everything that I owned, I went
through making an eight figure I had an
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eight figure year construction company, and
I made eight dollars and twenty five cents
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an hour on the Great Yard Shift
Gregory as a custodian from ten pm until
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five am, and I was struggling, missy with how to support my family,
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what to do next, lots of
hardships, lots of over drinking,
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and this being very just mad at
life and mad at the world. And
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what I realized at that time Gregory, was I had no accountability and I
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had no responsibility in my life.
And I realized at that moment, which
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was called my spoiled milk moment,
where someone was trash and rotten meat,
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Gregory nasty, protruding garbage over my
body, my skin, and my clothes.
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And I had that moment. It
made me real life either to get
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up off the curve and fix my
life or stay on the curve and complain
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about my life every single day.
And that's what drolls me to say,
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you know what I was meant for? More, I can do more,
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I can be more. Let's get
going down the path. And that started
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me down the train of getting my
life together to be where I'm at today
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as a speaker, author, coach, consult and of course a podcast host.
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Okay, now all of those things, because a lot of people go
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through that and they begin to make
their way back. But all of those
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things don't come together just overnight,
because when we hear about the overnight success,
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usually that turns out to be years
in the making. Tell us about
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that journey far as putting all those
components together, if you would please,
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great question. So I ended up
after my spoilt milk moment, I went
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home and I down my stream biggest
strengths, and what I realized was I
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was a good communicator. I was
a good storyteller, and I wanted to
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help people. And those three things
formally me becoming a keynote speaker, and
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I began my entire business journey on
that path. For two and a half
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years, though Gregory not one paid
job, not one. And I tell
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people I realized now woman ever,
I was fulfilled in my journey because I
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never gave up when times got hard, when things weren't looking right, I
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never gave up. I kept going
forward and kept pushing forward. So I
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was very fulfilled in that aspect.
And after a lot of hard work,
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a lot of sacrifice, I got
my first page speaking job with Millermont College
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in April twenty sixteen, and from
at that point Gregory I continued to work
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and build, and I then started
to really perfect the speaking business. Then
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I became an author. Then from
there I became a business coach, then
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became a consultant. Then I became
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and I became a podcast host,
and I start now ISSU some pr and
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marketing for specific clients wanting to get
on podcasts and grow their brand. So
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it did not happen overnight. I'm
going to tell your listeners, in order
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to achieve what you want for the
long term, you got to focus on
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the small steps. And I did
that because if I didn't perfect speaking right
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Gregory, and learned the trade and
learn how to actually connect with people the
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art of storytelling, the artic bringing
value, I hadn't perfected that right,
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Gregory. Now I'm not where I
am today as a business leader and all
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those type of things. Now you
are hired by some major organizations in order
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to come in and train their staff. Tell us how did those things come
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to foolish? Well? I started
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the time. Lean on your trusted
circle. One of my good friends,
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Dave Missmisky, works for NetApp,
a Fortune five hundred technology brand here in
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the Raleigh area. I trained both
of his sons in football private one oh
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one coaching lessons and technique. Well, Dad gave me my first chance to
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speak for a Fortune and fiverership brand
for no money to build my resume.
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And after doing that speech, I
thought I did phenomenal, But unfortunately I
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didn't do phenomenal because when I be
pack from said Marcus, great, great
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passion, great energy, wrong topic, and I was talking a lot about
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my business and my business failure.
And they were medical people, right grat
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they wouldn't care about my concussions and
ct and football. And as a result
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of not knowing my audience and not
knowing how to do what I need to
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do, I bombed my first ever
Fortune VD client speaking job. Now,
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luckily I was a friend who gave
me another opportunity to speak for them.
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About six months later, did that
job and I crushed it. But over
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time I've had to learn how to
pull in parts of my story, parts
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of my life that really make the
audience feel that the message is speaking directly
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to them. And once they feel
and once they feel that energy, right
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Gregory, at that point you become
a inspirational keynote speaker. I can do
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aspire in enlighten and educate audiences.
Now, that was one of the things
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I had heard Les Brown say in
one of his pieces, and that is
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when he was first starting out.
That one time he was on his way
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to speaking, he had got finished
speaking, and I guess he had came
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from an engagement and he was coming
back and he said something like, oh,
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I can do that. But he
said something to the effect that he
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stood up, but his mind shut
down. And that is that, Hey,
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sometimes it's as you had mentioned,
and that is the first time you
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bombed. But how did you overcome
that fear? First of all, and
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that is stepping in front of an
audience. My first ever speaking job was
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in October of twenty thirteen for the
Boys and Girls Club. I remember holding
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onto that podium for dear life like
it was a force field that kept the
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audience away from me. And over
time to practice through failure and through see
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back and through watching myself speak and
learning how to stop saying oh and ah
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those killers and just continue to work
on my crafty WoT that the morning you're
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after year, that's where things start
to get better. So for me,
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if anybody's listening, learn how to
enjoy the process and study and learn how
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to perfect your craft every single day, because the more you're perfecting your craft
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every single day, the more you're
actually working towards learning goals into accomplishe every
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single day. So did you do
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Toastmasters for instance? So absolutely,
Gregory. Toast Masters is a phenomenal organization
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to practice your craft right anywhere you
can go to get in front of people
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to perfect your craft and get feedback, it's going to be awesome. But
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doing things like what we're doing right, Gregory, getting on the podcast right.
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People are consuming content now more than
ever on podcasts, and when I
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go on every podcast, right Gregory, I treat it like a speaking job.
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I don't want to use space fillers. I don't want to stammer.
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I don't want to stutter. I
don't want to for my words. I
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want to be very polished, I
want to be very proficient. I want
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to be very excel at speaking because
this is another opportunity to practice what I
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do. That's my job. I
speak for a living. I talk,
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I coach, I educate, I
inspire, I try to ENLiGHT. If
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I'm one podcast treating it like this. Oh, it's another podcast. It's
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gonna talk like this, and I'm
just gonna go bs around, right,
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Gregory, that's not doing me any
good to better myself at my crap of
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speaking. So I'm gonna challenge your
listeners. Get into toast as if you
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want to speak awesome, but also
get on the podcasts radio when you're having
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conversations with people, being titched about
how you're talking. Good pace, good
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inflection, good energy. All those
things are gonna make a huge impact on
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what you do. And it's with
anything. What about having a coach,
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Oh, coaching is everything. I
don't don't care graduate what you do,
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what, industry, professional sports,
working, corporate America. Everybody needs a
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coach, right. Plato was a
successful teacher. He was taught by Socrates.
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Plato taught Aristotle in his school.
Aristotle left the school when Plato died.
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Aristotle coached Alexander the Great to be
a better, more well rounded individual,
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and that type of leadership did what
made Alexander the Great one of the
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greatest conquerors of all time. Because
he was coached by Aristotle. What how
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to be diverse, how to be
well rounded? How to approach life from
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not just a war prospective, but
math, astrology, English literature, poetry
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that made Alexander what prepared for anything
on the battlefield. So coaching, Gregory,
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can change lies and the trajectory of
time and mentorship. Mentorship is all
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about having somebody that you can trust
that is going to give you sound advice
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when you reach out to them.
And that's important because mentorship is another level
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of coaching, but as somebody you
can lean on and talk to, have
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a dialogue you know has your best
interest at heart. Okay, well,
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Barcus, this has been very valuable, especially far as to our listeners or
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are looking to pursue that journey of
going into being an inspirational or a motivational
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speaker. Now, what are some
of the ways that they can contact you
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or that they can follow you on
your social media? Thank you very much,
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Gregor. And they can follow me
on Instagram at Marcus Ogden, m
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A r q U E s O
g d E N. Facebook is Marcus
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Ogden, TikTok is at Marcus Ogden, seventy one's at Marcus Underscore Ogden,
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Late tinnis Marcus Ogden. We can
also go to our site www dot marcusden
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dot com or shoot me an email
Marcus at Marcusogden dot com. Reach out
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to us. We'd love to connect
with you. Okay, this has been
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great right here. I know you're
a very busy man and it is much
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appreciated that you took the time out
of your busy day in order to appear
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on this podcast here. So as
always we like to tell our viewers or
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our listeners, and that is,
whenever you're writing the story of your life,
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make sure that you're holding the pen. And I'm hoping that our listeners
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have at their pen at they're ready, because you drop some very valuable gems
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right there. Now. Is there
anything else that you would like to leave
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the listeners with? I will say
this and Plato made it very well known
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through his teaching, which I could
agree with. More own your story.
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If you're going to go out and
try to position yourself to speak coach and
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like start whatever, own your story. There's only one of you and that's
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more than enough. When you own
your story, you own your place in
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the world. Wow. I hope
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