EP 23 - Tyrone Odiowei - The Importance of Having an Awesomer Mindset

As entrepreneurs, we all face challenges along the way. Surrounding yourself with the right people, having a positive mindset and plan of action can help you get through it all. On today’s episode, we get to know Tyrone Odiowei and his classic rags to riches story. Tyrone is a consistent Amazon top earner and founder of the Inner Circle Mastermind. Here are more awesome details on this podcast: How Tyrone leveraged a terrible work situation to kickstart his E-commerce journey. The challenges he encountered along the way and the valuable lessons he learned from them. How to take advantage of any negative situation. The importance of having an Awesomer mindset and understanding your limitations to achieve your own level of success, and more. So listen to today’s podcast and be inspired to take action and overcome challenges on your Awesomer journey. Welcome to the Awesomers.com podcast. If you love to learn and if you're motivated to expand your mind and heck if you desire to break through those traditional paradigms and find your own version of success, you are in the right place. Awesomers around the world are on a journey to improve their lives and the lives of those around them. We believe in paying it forward and we fundamentally try to live up to the great Zig Ziglar quote where he said, "You can have everything in your life you want if you help enough other people get what they want." It doesn't matter where you came from. It only matters where you're going. My name is Steve Simonson and I hope that you will join me on this Awesomer journey. If you're launching a new product manufactured in China, you will need professional high-resolution Amazon ready photographs. Because Symo Global has a team of professionals in China, you will oftentimes receive your listing photographs before your product even leaves the country. This streamlined process will save you the time money and energy needed to concentrate on marketing and other creative content strategies before your item is in stock and ready for sale. Visit SymoGlobal.com to learn more. Because a picture should be worth one thousand keywords. You're listening to the Awesomers podcast. 1.15 (Steve introduces today’s guest, Tyrone Odiowei.) Steve: This is episode 23 of the Awesomers.com podcast and as always you can go to the Awesomers.com/23 webpage. That's Awesomers.com/23 to find all the show notes and relevant details about today's episode. Now today I'm lucky because we're interviewing Tyrone Odiowei and he's really a classic rags to riches story. And as recent as 2015, his future looked very bleak indeed. He was unemployed, living on less than $400 a month and he had just dropped out of college after considering going into medicine but realizing that wasn't his passion. He got fired from his first paid job no less than ten days after starting. It was not awesome and what he did then is he was able to leverage kind of a really weird and terrible situation he had with his employer and he won a little Scooby Snack of compensation out of that and he's gone on to double down in the E-commerce world. His first three months of business, Tyrone reached over 20,000 a month in gross sales and has gone to grossed over a million dollars in online sales including many months where he's exceeded extraordinary numbers. He's experienced many of the ups and downs along the way as we all have including suspension issues after reaching 150,000 a month in sales. Imagine the pain that is involved when you get suspended when you're doing that kind of volume. Tyrone has spoken at many conferences across the US and Europe and he shares his knowledge and experience within the online marketing space particularly Amazon related regularly. Tyrone also hosts his own mastermind and is generating big influencers in the E-commerce space at large. Tyrone's main focus is scaling his