In this solo monologue, Mike Michalowicz shares his personal conviction that aligning with a higher purpose—specifically, a mission to eradicate entrepreneurial poverty—creates an unstoppable drive that fuels daily action. He argues that when entrepreneurs run toward a calling rather than away from financial struggle, the energy of genuine service naturally attracts money, connections, and impact. Drawing on the maxim “if you want to make millions, serve millions,” he expands the idea to illustrate how athletes, surgeons, and community volunteers each serve large or deeply‑impactful audiences and thereby merit substantial rewards, whether financial or intrinsic. Michalowicz emphasizes that true compensation can be both monetary and the internal sense of recognition that comes from caring for others, positioning service as the primary engine for both personal fulfillment and financial success.
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And maybe this is just my life experience, so I can't speak to others. When I'm in alignment with purpose, so I have a calling to eradicate entrepreneurial poverty. That's the term I use, but I feel so called to do it. It does feel like this unstoppable force. Yeah. Like I get up every morning. I could not wait to come in today and record the podcast. I'm like, oh, we may impact someone here. Right. I can't wait to write a book. I can't wait to do these things. There's an energy. In the past, I think it's running away from struggles. Like I got to just earn money so I don't struggle. You don't run that fast, but when you're running towards something, when you're getting pulled in almost magnetically, it's this energy that I can't equate to. And this might just be my my story, the money finds its way. You still gotta work really hard to figure out how to do it. It's not like magically it just appears in your hip pocket. But when you're really of service because it's really of purpose to you and you're really caring for other people, money comes in. A connection's made. There was an author who says, if you wanna make millions, serve millions. I wanna expand on that. If you care for millions or contribute to millions, you will make millions. These athletes, it frustrates me when someone says, oh, you know, athletes can make so much money, they don't deserve it. They're entertaining millions of people. They're giving people an outlet of expression and relief and joy and happiness and sometimes frustration when it's the Hokies. My God, you guys got to win. But they deserve that money for how they're serving millions. I want to expand that we can also serve individuals deeply, maybe millions of layers deep. That doctor who's doing that heart surgery that saves someone's life, also she deserves millions. And maybe the person who volunteers at the local food shelter is impacting their community. That's millions of that. And maybe the compensation won't be financial, but it'll be the gift of recognition and reward that they just give themselves, the good feeling.
