Aaron Walker: Founder of Iron Sharpens Iron Mastermind & Author of View From the Top
Sep 14, 2022, 10:00 AM
Excellence, Leadership, and Mentorship. Those words exemplify the life of this week's Team Never Quit guest, Aaron Walker. Aaron and Marcus kick around the adventures of entrepreneurship, a spectacular marriage, and how he applies that which he learns from his experiences – good and bad - to propel him to new heights. After learning tough lessons from a horrific life event, and then being guided by the finest financial and spiritual leaders, Aaron now plays it forward by mentoring others.
In this episode you will hear:
- I didn’t have anything at 18, and I was able to retire at 27.
- I played golf every day, I fished every day, and you can’t do that but so much, because you gotta have a purpose.
- While driving, I watched an older man walk across two lanes, he got to the median, and stopped. As soon as I got to him, he took off running to catch a bus, and I ran over him. It was literally like my life came to a standstill.
- One day I made the decision: I’ve been chasing money since I was 8 years old. I’m 40 now and I’m retiring – I’m through.
- Through a series of events, I spent 21 years sponsoring Dave Ramsey’s show, and we became best of friends.
- The Mastermind radically changed my life.
- We can’t quit. People need you. You can’t sit on the sidelines. We have to get up because nobody can live your life but you.
- I had great success financially, but I had no significance.
- I want my legacy to be that those I come in contact with are different as a result of having interacted with me.
- I want to leave a legacy of helping, giving, supporting, encouraging, lifting people up and helping them accomplish their dreams and goals.
- God is always working in the background.
- The thing that I thought was taking me out was the catalyst for transforming the lives of other people.
- We all need trusted advisors. Don’t do what I did and have a pocketful of money only to come home to a house full of strangers.
- You can go faster alone, but you can go much further together.
- Failure is in not trying, not in not succeeding.
- Go out there today. Go for it. Never quit.