Leadership, Performance & Aliveness – Oliver Manalese

Hello Everyone investing in real estate!!

I have always wanted to give blood but my fear of needles held me back.

After the van attack in Toronto, I wanted to help outside of donating money, and one very important way to help the victims is to give blood. I’m always looking to push limits and test fears, so Team Titan member Tammy Ditomaso and I did on Friday. Like anything, things gets easier with practice. Whether it’s giving blood or real estate investing, and it wasn’t so bad.

The funny part is the questions they have to ask. I know I’m different, but it’s a different thing to explain how weird you are, talking out loud to strangers. While signing in to give blood, the conversations goes like this:

Nurse: Have you had breakfast?

Me: No, I had a fatty coffee, I fast in the mornings (after speaking, I realize I should have just said “yes”)

Nurse: You really should eat something before giving blood, this is taxing on the body

Me: I train MMA, I can handle it, I fight adult men all the time (I say MMA thinking it is a more widely known term than Brazillian Jiu Jitsu but whatever, I didn’t properly think through this conversation)

Nurse: Please have a juice box, what flavour would you like? (I’m sure they offer juice boxes to all the wannabe tough guys)

Me: I’ll have apple. <I sip my first juice box since high school>

The whole thing was quite painless compared to the other things I do. I still don’t like needles, but like anything, it gets easier with experience.

If you’ve heard our previous interview, you know listening to Oliver Manalese will expand your mind. Today’s interview is no different. He was co-owner of Rent Busters, a leading Rent To Own company and he gave it all up to pursue more fulfilling work as a personal performance coach. We talk about business, investing, how he was a catalyst for a mutual friend (a successful real estate investor) who ended their divorce and got back together with his wife, making his kids the happiest kids in the world. The stuff that really matters. This same friend is travelling the world with the whole family including Trinidad, Croatia, Australia, Thailand, more places than I can count.

Pretty cool, eh?

If you’re interested in what Oliver offers, he’s hosting an Upcoming Workshop Reinvention Roadmap – June 16-17

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Oliver is also the host of The Oliver Manalese Show available on Apple Podcasts.

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