John Wetmore talks about years of struggling in commission-based sales with chargebacks and unpredictable income, and how his difficult upbringing—raised by a teenage mother in poverty without a father—became the push to change his mindset and build something better for his five kids.
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Yeah, so I took, I messed it up for 4 years, then I got in it and I like dinked around with it for 2 and a half, right? And I was super mediocre at it. I was paying my bills, just getting by. Like who's there? You're getting commissions, right? You're paying your bills, but if a chargeback hits at the same time the lead bill comes out, especially around Christmas, that shit hurts. I feel your pain. Apparently that happens a lot in this industry still. It ain't changing, you know? So it's like, will you change today? Now I get to look back and go, I remember the day I changed. And now I can see where it led me. But the day I changed, I didn't know. You know what I mean? I had no clue because I was the same person. Now for me, it was financial obligations. I got 5 kids and the first 2 grew up completely broke. Like we were still on like government housing when they were little. And I was born to a teenage mom also. Like grew up on welfare and stuff. And my grandma was teenage mom. So it was like 3 generations teenage parents. And we grew up in the hood. So that's all I know. I didn't have a dad. So I had no direction. I had no business sense. Nobody owns anything in my family at all. I'm saying that to let y'all that have that know you can do it too, right?