After losing everything in the 2001 dot-com crash, Vishen Lakhiani lived on a couch while working sales. He learned meditation and visualization techniques that tripled his income and led to a VP promotion in three months, eventually inspiring him to build Mindvalley into a $100M company.
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So I want to tell you something I've never said out loud on social media. Before I started Mindvalley, I was pretty much homeless.
I was sleeping on a couch that I rented from a Berkeley college student.
Now people see the stages, the millions of students, the mega events, but what they don't see is that version of me that was broke, humiliated. And what people don't know is that learning manifesting is what changed everything. Now here's what happened. 2001, the dot-com crash, and then San Francisco and I lost pretty much everything, including $30,000 that my dad had loaned me.
And the only job I get is a dialing for dollars job to sell software to lawyers.
Now, I'm an engineer from the University of Michigan, and I'm getting told to F off every single day from busy lawyers in Texas that I'm interrupting. So I get on Google and I said, dear Google, why does my life suck so bad? And I stumbled across this class on meditation. Now, I'm the only student who shows up. This class, they didn't know marketing. I learned altered state I learned manifesting, I learned creative visualization, I learned intuition. I go back, it's Sunday. Monday I start my job. I was able to, in the office, go into the theta level of mind, run my finger down the book and feel in my heart if it was a yes or a no.
I only called the yeses. Overnight, I doubled my sales. I started using a technique called subliminal communication. I used a technique called the 3 scenes technique. I used creative visualization. I ended up getting promoted 4 times in 3 months and made VP of sales. My career transformed and I decided to become an entrepreneur. The company I founded was Mindvalley.
But it all started because when I was in my lowest, I decided to master my mind. But it isn't easy.
It takes a while to get there. This is why for the last 3 years we've been running Manifesting Summit. Last year we had Joe Dispenza, Gwyneth Paltrow, many incredible teachers. But what we found is that the highest rated trainings didn't come from the celebrities. They came from me and many of the Mindvalley teachers that came to teach the profound wisdom that we had learned through learning from masters all across the world, like Bert Goldman, José Silva, and many teachers that are no longer with us. So this year, we're making Manifesting Summit free.
And we wanted to do this because, well, the world is in a bit of a chaotic mess right now, and we believe that the best way to get out of this mess is to develop a vision for who you truly need to be.
I've been broke. I've been near homeless. I've lost everything. But the secret was learning how to use the tools that were already inside me to build a whole new reality for myself. And I'd like to teach you those same tools.
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