Dan Martell - January 08, 2025


I gave my brother $173,000


Episode Stats


Length

55 seconds

Words per minute

240.90746

Word count

223

Sentence count

25


Summary

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In this episode, I talk about how my brother quit his job and how I helped him get back on his feet. He was close to being a millionaire, but he couldn t afford to buy a house. I stepped in and paid him back.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 My brother calls me up and he goes, you can't come home.
00:00:02.140 The police are waiting.
00:00:03.060 He tells me where to meet him.
00:00:04.320 And he pulls out all the money he had, emptied his pockets, $63.50.
00:00:10.260 And he says, it's not much, but you got to get out of town.
00:00:12.740 He never knew for years how much it meant to me.
00:00:15.200 And then you fast forward.
00:00:16.460 I'm two years into my first successful company, close to being a millionaire.
00:00:20.220 And my brother calls me up and decides to quit his job.
00:00:23.400 He worked at this place for six years.
00:00:24.800 He was a mechanic.
00:00:25.600 He wanted to buy the shop.
00:00:26.620 The guy lied to him.
00:00:27.660 And I go to his house.
00:00:28.560 He goes, I think I want to be a home builder.
00:00:31.020 I said, I got you.
00:00:32.080 And I wrote him a check for everything I had in my savings account, $173,000.
00:00:36.220 And I said, bro, I don't care if you ever pay me this back.
00:00:39.520 Just always make the right decision, and I'll never be upset.
00:00:42.600 That is incredible.
00:00:44.060 We ended up doing personal development together.
00:00:46.360 We were reading books.
00:00:47.640 We were going to seminars.
00:00:49.180 Looking back and just talking to so many people that didn't have that kind of relationship with their brother,
00:00:53.240 it's one of the things I'll always cherish.