65: Creating Value by Being Unapologetically Herself with Corrie LoGuidice

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Corrie LoGuidice overcame endured the grief of miscarriage, divorce, and the loss of a loved one to suicide in the span of 4 years. Today, she runs a coaching practice that teaches other survivors of adversity to find emotionally fulfilling lives and manage value driven businesses. In this episode:

  • Becoming SVP of the family business, but doing so by earning the position
  • How to earn respect from non-relative coworkers who use to know Corrie as a child
  • Miscarriage, abuse within a relationship, divorce, and loss of a loved one from suicide within 4 years
  • Learning how to process and accept grief while remaining open with other coworkers
  • How the birth of her son opened her eyes to the abusive relationship she was living in
  • Overcoming miscarriage by talking about it openly with others
  • Blindsided by the shock of suicide by her boyfriend
  • Why suicide cannot be compared to any other type of grief
  • Finding help in a suicide loss survivor group
  • Jumping into the coaching world of entrepreneur – coaching survivors of adversity create value driven businesses
  • How helping someone on social media defeat suicidal thoughts turned into one of her best employees
  • “Be unapologetically myself”

You can learn more about Corrie at www.corrielo.com and on social media @iamcorrielo

64: Undocumented and Unlikely with Diego Corzo

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Diego Corzo is a “dreamer”, an undocumented immigrant that came to the United States as a young child and calls the USA home. He was not able to get a job or a drivers license as a young adult because of his illegal alien status. However, his grit could not be defeated. He formed a business, invested in real estate, and became financially free at 27 years old.

  • Growing up in Peru and coming to the United States as a “dreamer”
  • What he could and could not do growing up as an undocumented immigrant
  • What is DACA? What is a dreamer?
  • Non-eligibility for work and scholarships led to a LLC and an IT business
  • Grabbing the opportunity to speak up and share his voice on a national platform after DACA was canceled by the government
  • Jumping into real estate through house hacking
  • Financially free at 27 years old
  • Supporting himself through college and paying the price of admission at the same time
  • Working through a speech impediment to become confident in public speaking
  • Giving a TED talk in his old college town – Tallahassee, Florida
  • Helping other undocumented immigrants find affordable housing
  • Build a bigger life, not a bigger lifestyle

You can follow Diego on Instagram @corzo.diego and you can learn more about him at www.househackingclub.com

Diego’s TED talk can be listened to here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfgUfgCZZ_I

63: One Armed World Champion with Baxter Humby

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Baxter Humby has lived his entire life without his right arm, but it hasn’t stopped him from becoming a world champion kickboxer. In this episode:

  • Losing his aright arm after entanglement with the umbilical cord at birth
  • Standing up to bullies by fighting back
  • How a seemingly weakness became a great strength
  • The difference between tae kwon do vs. kickboxing vs. muay thai
  • How did he get the nickname, “One Armed Bandit”?
  • Making the Canadian Paralympic team as a long distance runner
  • How he proved the doubters wrong and won a Kickboxing World Championship
  • The only man in history to win world titles with one arm
  • The only limits you have, are the ones you put on yourself
  • Acting as a stunt double for major Hollywood productions

You can follow Baxter’s Facebook fan page at https://www.facebook.com/BaxterOneArmBanditHumby/

62: The Great Comeback with Ebo Elder

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Ebo Elder is a retired professional boxer who reached a ranking as high as the #5 lightweight boxer in the world. However, his battles continued outside of the ring. Ebo turned to drug and alcohol abuse after a painful divorce, but turned his life around when he found the Lord. He returned to boxing and fought the #4 fighter in the world in the biggest fight of his life inside the ring. However, the most triumphant moment of his life was pursuing his wife after divorce and remarrying her in a way that no one could have predicted. In this episode:

  • Growing up to become a professional boxer since childhood
  • Boxing grown men as an amateur teenage boxer
  • Boxing the #1 ranked amateur fighter 7 times and losing 7 times
  • Surviving a horrific motorcycle accident
  • Knocking out his opponent in the 1st round of his first professional boxing fight
  • The Greatback – coming back from divorce, depression, drug abuse, and defeat to find a fulfilling purpose in Jesus
  • Experiencing marriage, divorce, and remarriage with his wife
  • Why it is a bad idea to believe that marriage will solve preexisting relationship problems
  • Finding out his wife filed for divorce the night of his US National Championship fight
  • Contemplating suicide and almost going through with it, but turning to God at the last moment
  • Fighting to get his wife back, and fighting in the ring
  • Reentering boxing after a long break to take on the #4 boxer in the world
  • Entering the 12th round of the toughest fight of his career
  • Praying with his opponent in the ring after he knocked him out in the 12th
  • Remarrying his wife in the most unforeseen way possible
  • His daughter was a “rescue mission” to bring him and his wife back together
  • Working through the pain of the past with his wife after their remarriage

Ebo Elder is the author of The Great Comeback: Coming Back from Abuse, Depression, Divorce and Defeat to Find Victory, Freedom and an Amazing Life. You can follow him on Instagram @eboelder and you can find out more about him at www.eboelder.com

61: A Green Beret and His Shoes

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Anthony Aguiniga is a Green Beret and the founder of a shoe company, Woobies. Anthony has a big plan to become the dominant shoe company in the industry. He shares how he overcame alcoholism and a lack of a fulfilled purpose in his career after the military to form the shoe company that he is so passionate about today. In this episode:

  • Deciding to join the Army
  • Starting his military career with no desire for infantry to only  change his mind a few weeks in
  • The path to become a Green Beret
  • Swallowing his pride by leaving an intense career as a Green Beret to attend the fire academy in Dallas
  • Struggling with alcoholism after the military
  • Losing a mother to drugs and a father to alcoholism
  • The creation and motive behind his shoe company, Woobies
  • Why the name Woobies?
  • Customer, Customer, Customer – What separates Woobies from the rest of the shoe industry
  • Anthony’s unlikely admission process to Southern Methodist University MBA program … one of the best business schools in the country
  • Finding his confidence in an academic setting through his entrepreneur experience
  • Biggest challenge – sustaining his lean business model while gaining market share

You can follow Anthony on Instagram at @anthony_aginuiga and @woobiesshoes.