Determination: S4:E26 🎙️LIVE with Franklin Ndeffo

7 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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Franklin Ndeffo walked onto a Navy base in 2017 and decided to become an officer. He's pursuing that goal alongside becoming a Chief Information Security Officer, treating every rejection as a learning opportunity. The conversation touches on Think and Grow Rich as a source of sustained motivation.

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I would be an officer. I am today, an ensign select. The day I set foot into the US Navy, interacting with some leaders and saw what being a leader was and saw how a leader can impact a sailor's life, I said, I will be that person. It doesn't matter what it takes. It doesn't matter how much time, sweat, blood it takes. I will be that person. I started in 2017. Yes, it happens in 2025, but it was a goal. I said I was doing it. And I had to do it. Uh, same with me becoming a CISO. I would be a CISO. Someone would give me a chance because every time I have a no as an answer, I will better myself. I will learn, and I will even get hands-on experience in virtual rooms, you know, um, VMwares, and learning how to become— learning what I need to— I need to do as a CISO. I will learn and be ready for the next opportunity because that's what I set my mind to.
Now there is another book, uh, Think and Grow Rich. I don't know if I've talked to you, uh, about that yet, but that's one book I read every single year. Have you heard of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill? I have it over there. Yes. Okay, okay, very good, very good. That's one book that helped me a lot. I read it every single year, talking about