Adam Hill - How to Rise Above Fear and Transform Your Life #23

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Written by Nick Halaris

This week on the 🎧Nick Halaris Show we’re switching gears and diving into a topic that our regular Profit+ readers will be very familiar with—fear.

Ready to dive in? Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music and Youtube or on your favorite podcast platform.

Our guest this week is popular speaker and podcaster, Adam Hill, an expert in personal transformation and a leading voice for those hoping to establish a better relationship with fear in their lives. He’s the host of the Flow Over Fear Podcast, where I’ll be making an appearance soon, and the author of “Shifting Gears,” a bestselling book that chronicles his journey from struggling alcoholic to world class triathlete. When he’s not on stage or in front of a camera sharing his inspirational message, you’ll find him either with his family, working as the CEO of a 9-figure 4th generation family business, training for a triathlon, or even making Tri Comedy. Yes, that’s actually a thing!

Not only is Adam an incredibly humble and interesting person but he also has quite an inspirational story and message. What I respect so much about Adam is that he’s become this popular messenger for personal transformation not by talking about all the wins and successes he’s had in life but by sharing his struggles and failures. He’s literally living proof of the notion that there’s something special about a person who’s willing to be vulnerable.

In this fascinating conversation we cover:

  • Adam’s Fight, Face, Embrace Framework for Fear

  • Why “rising above” is a better way to think about the challenge of dealing with fear

  • How to use fear to get into flow and stay there

  • Why 80% effort + 5% past your comfort zone is optimal for growth

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  • Adam’s powerful vision for the responsibilities that come after a successful personal transformation

Adam also shares the story of his personal struggles with anxiety and alcoholism and offers advice for anyone suffering in similar ways.

Thanks again for tuning-in!

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Nick Halaris

I’ve been fascinated by investing for as long as I can remember. As a kid, I would read the Wall Street Journal, the Economist and Barron’s, pouring over the data tables, stories and interviews with a passion and an insatiable kind of curiosity. As I grew into adulthood, I struggled to find the right outlet and channel for this passion and spent much of my twenties wandering and trying out different things. I had a very brief career as an attorney, spent some time as a strategy and leadership consultant for big multinational companies, failed in an attempt to start a hedge fund, and even ended up helping run a scrap metal recycling operation for a while.

At the age of 30 though, I took my stand. I made up my mind that no matter what I was going to be an entrepreneurial investor. As crazy as it sounds, I owe everything in my life to this one foundational decision—even my amazing wife and my beautiful kids. I don’t think I would ever have met Alicia had I not made this one choice. At that moment in time, the financial world had just been devastated by the crash in the housing market and the near systemic failure of the global banking system that followed. I’ve always had a contrarian bent to my investment thinking; so, to me the carnage in real estate looked like an opportunity.

It all started with one house in Compton California. The business plan was simple: buy a distressed foreclosed home from a bank, bring it back to life with a big renovation and sell it to a first-time homebuyer. Things progressed slowly as they tend to do with real estate. In the first years of this, I think I did 6-7 homes. But then after plugging away day-by-day, suddenly it seemed, things just came together. I found the right investors and the right loans and the right deals and in just a few short years I ended up investing in over 100 such transactions, building a portfolio of almost 2,500 multifamily units and creating a fully vertically integrated real estate company with almost 100 employees.

Fast forward to today and I’m running the second evolution of my entrepreneurial investing career and having so much fun that I have to stop and remind myself that this is all real.

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