"So, I do know the show's not for everybody. If you don't believe in meritocracy, I get it. If you're committed to blaming external forces, like I used to do, if you're married to resentment or not a good spouse, you probably won't like what I have to say. And that's okay. But if you're coachable, hungry for more, ready to take ownership of your own results, you are in the right place. So let's go back to 1999. During the dot com bubble, I was grinding it out, paying down my first mortgage on my townhouse. I was living below my means, not way below it, but way below a typical, w-typical type of salary than I had below that for sure."