Although today I’m the bestselling author of Born to Rule: 7 Steps to Claiming Your Freedom and Living Your Purpose and a successful legal services broker of 26 years with a team of agents who have been paid over $20 million in commissions and residual-based income, that’s not how I began.

By the age of six, I didn’t want to be alive. I didn’t know who I was, why I was here, or that freedom was my birthright. I couldn’t see a purpose for my life.

That began to change when I discovered I was born for more. I started to believe God had given me a gift, just as He gives each of us a gift. I wanted to discover mine, learn how He wanted me to use it, and serve people with it.

I didn’t want to trade my purpose for a paycheck, so I started going to seminars looking for mentors, a system, and help putting what I learned into practice. First, I had to figure out how to pay for the courses.

In high school, I went from scraping together pennies to pay for public transportation to building my first six-figure side business. I started with cake by the slice and M&M’s. Before long, I was selling snacks and candy out of my five lockers.

Then I read Robert Kiyosaki’s Cashflow Quadrant and figured out how to implement it. I went from earning one type of income to three. I became financially independent at 22 and went on to build a multimillion-dollar business that grew from local to international.

As I coached entrepreneurs one-on-one, including people who’d already built wealth, I saw the same problem. People would fill notebooks with ideas, then still wonder what to do Monday morning.

That’s why I created Born CEO Academy, to inspire, empower, and equip purpose-centered people to activate their royal identity, claim their freedom, and build a business that supports their gift so they can live their purpose.

And if you’re wondering about those five lockers, I still have them. Now they’re online, and you can open them from anywhere to learn, earn, get coached, network, and protect what you’re building.

I still sell candy. I just changed what’s inside.