This Recruiter Scaled a Business to 25 Million and LOST I...

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Today’s guest is Chris O’Connell. Chris's story is like something out of a movie. He enduring horrible abuse as a kid by his stepmother, to working in a gas station wondering what the heck he was going to do with his life. Eventually, he found his footing in recruitment and went on to build a business worth 25 million. He became a millionaire by the age of 26. And then… he lost every single penny. Today, we’ll be diving deeper into Chris's story, understanding what it was like growing up in poverty and then going on t earn so much money that he could literally spend 40k on watch To then losing every single penny and grappling with suicide. This is going to be quite the roller coaster, guys.

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