Apr 27, 2020
In this episode of the Millionaire Mindcast, we have a candid guest, Templeton Walker who speaks about setting your life and business to the highest level, the importance of being genuine and transparent, why you should show up your truth, tips on how to become a successful realtor and agent when you should listen to your ego and drop it, how to avoid financial stress, and how to balance your life!
Templeton Walker is a successful realtor, investor, a certified personal trainer, and owns and operates the Templeton Group Arizona Real Estate, specializes in working with buyers, sellers, and investors. He has a passion for helping clients achieve their financial and life goals through real estate. By nature, he is loyal, honest, and motivated. He works diligently to understand market trends and conditions to make sure his clients are satisfied, whether they are a first time home buyer or a high-end seller. Templeton's diligence and research ensure the best deal possible for his clients. During leisure time, Templeton enjoys spending time with his family and friends, participating in anything athletic or competitive, and reading books (usually about buying and selling real estate).
Templeton came from nothing and was not the best kid. At the age of 18-25, he was still trying to figure out his life. He was kind-hearted, ambitious, a big thinker, and with a ton of potential but not much work. He was really wild and loves the spotlight on him. Therefore, Templeton used that energy to pivot from a hard partier to being like a potential best leader or the best mentor. But he wasn’t disciplined or mature enough to navigate his life in the right direction. He was not investing himself sooner, but relying on the books he read until he learned to spend thousands of money to get a personal coach, mentors, and surround himself with the right people.
Accordingly, he became intentional to pursue his passion to become an investor, so Templeton tried to become a real estate agent. Luckily, he became the Top Salesperson of The Year for the small brokerage in his first year and has sold $5M to $6M for real estate. He strived hard because he doesn’t want to experience financial difficulties anymore. Gratefully, Templeton has been in real estate for 3 years now and has grown his wealth, achieved financial independence, and created an amazing portfolio.
He achieved all of these because of tapping the truth and being congruent. For Templeton, the problem starts when you’re having things that are not congruent with your highest and best needs but just your way to perceived people. It’s just a validation for your success and it doesn’t matter at all. You’re just being ego-driven and false. Templeton believes that if you’re a good human being, there is no worse feeling in your heart than feeling like you’re an impostor, feeling like you’re not living your truth or lying.
Likewise, when you’re incongruence you’re dangerous and powerful. You vibrate at a different level and people can perceive it and feel it while bullshit vibrates at a certain level. Being anything other than yourself takes effort because to be you take no effort. It requires energy and effort and it’s exhausting to be anything other than you.
Currently, Templeton wants less for material things but more time with his family and kids. He is living on purpose with all these people that are important to him, with his philanthropy, and making a difference in the world and not just always thinking about money. The most important to him is the way his children, spouse, friends, and inner circle feel about him. It considers a win for him.
Some Questions I Ask:
- Where did it all of these start? (01:27)
- Was that from day one that you had this vision of what you wanted life to look like? (08:02)
- What was looking back one of the worst financial decisions you’ve ever made that you would share with other people to ensure they don’t go down that same path? (12:00)
- When did you get to the place where you’re kind of like you don’t really care what other people think and know what you’re doing? (16:04)
- What insecurities do you have that people may or may not know about you? (18:43)
- What do you want to be? (24:29)
- How do you show up on a daily basis with your kids, wife, friends, and in your business? (26:15)
- How do you manage when life is good? (34:19)
- How have you been able to manage the money stresses along the way to unlocking the freedom and the luxuries that so many people look up to and want to create in their own life? (38:19)
- If you were to give some advice to an early stage investor that is looking to get started in the vertical of real estate that you do, what do you tell them to do? (42:48)
- What is the big vision, and the end game that you’re pushing towards? (49:08)
In this Episode, You Will Learn:
- How to become an effective realtor and agent (05:18)
- When to listen to your ego and when should not (13:58)
- Why is it important to show up your truth (20:36)
- The three things that you can control and you can show up (23:12)
- Personal development and Spiritual development: Creating balance in life (28:56)
- How to reduce financial anxiety (41:31)
Quotes:
- “Energy is one the best things that you can control and navigate in this life.”
- “Are you gonna be the guy that just always gonna have a ton of potential and never does shit or are you going to step into your greatness and your potential and become something?”
- “I’m a realtor, I’m excited about it, and I want to help you.”
- “Money and things don’t necessarily make you happy, it’s the relationships and the moments that you have.”
- “The money is just the byproduct of operating the right way.”
- “If you’re a good human being there is no worst feeling in your heart than feeling like you’re an impostor, feeling like you’re not living your truth or lying.”
- “When you’re not telling that truth, it pushes you out of your greatest power as a human being.”
- “When you’re in congruence you’re dangerous and powerful.”
- “Bullshit vibrates at a certain level.”
- “When you’re being anything other than yourself that takes effort because to be yourself takes no effort.”
- “Everything starts in love and ends in love.”
- “Death is arbitrary and it can take anyone at any time.”
- “God show’s up in the smallest, simplest stuff.”
- “Sometimes you get this season of life where everything is perfect.”
- “Less people, less money, less processes can be more if they are efficient and if they are optimized.”
- “Time is not a renewable resource, money is.”
- “If making money is second nature to you as breathing, you’re not worried about your next breath you just know you’re gonna get it.”
- “Anxious and fear come from lack of preparation or lack of experience.”
- “It’s about the journey, not the destination.”
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