Michael Sartain grew up around poverty, gangs and drugs. A few of his friends ended up in prison.
He assumed that’s what high school was like for everyone.
And yet, his home life was solid. Both of his parents were professionals. His grandfather was a professor.
Witnessing this dichotomy, he observed how the journey of hardship stood in contrast to the road to success.
Whatever. He graduates, goes to the University of Texas at Austin, joins a fraternity, right?
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“I fell in love with the idea of intellectual curiosity,” Michael says.
“I started studying things like physics and astronomy. I started learning for the sake of learning, not for the sake of GPA. I didn’t really care about that,” he admits.
“I did end up getting my business degree though. And when I get out, Enron, WorldCom, they go out of business. It’s the end of the dot com bubble,” Michael remembers.
“And I end up working at a strip club.”
“And this is an interesting transition for me because at this point, I would only get 80% of what I wanted. Never 100.”
The job, the body, the girls he wanted to date, whatever it was, Michael was perpetually coming up a few inches short.
Working at the gentlemen’s club did have a silver lining though.
No, not free lap dances from Bambi and Raven. Michael was essentially getting a PhD in psychology – in the human condition.
Like seeing actual people deal with the reality of their situation.
For example:
A woman treated like a dented can in the clearance aisle by per partner, and yet she stays with him.
Or how a rich guy carries himself.
Whatever it was.
Then 9/11 happens. Michael wants revenge.
He joins the Air Force, learns the difference between good and bad leadership, molds himself into a good man – a man that will not lie, cheat or steal, nor tolerate anyone around him who does.
Integrity had to come first.
But then, while deployed, his father gets killed by a drunk driver, and this chick he’d fallen head over heals for leaves him.
So with the grace of a lead balloon, Michael plummets into the unforgiving depths of rock bottom.
He’s a dumpster fire on legs.
Luckily, he reads this book: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.
This teaches him about the importance of:
- Present awareness
- Gratitude
- Having people around that you love and trust
- Valuing experiences more than possessions
And it changes everything.
Michael gets out of the military, ends up living in LA for a couple of years before bouncing to Vegas, which he now considers the greatest city in the world.
In Sin City, you’re surrounded by abundance. Food, night life, networking. Michael’s happy place.
“I made these changes in my life because I needed to,” he says. “Because I would rather die than not make these changes.”
“I wanna tell you right now: if you wanna get the most out of my Men Of Action program, you can’t just wanna do it. This has to feel like life or death for you.”
“You need to get to a point where nothing in the world is more important than you making these changes.”
“I don’t want you to want this, I need you to need this. I need this to become a life and death situation for you,” he emphasizes.
“Where you would rather die than go back to what you were doing before. That’s the place you need to be to get the most out of this situation.”
“This is going to be work. There’s a lot of pillars we have to work on.”
“Social networking, entrepreneurship, leadership, and mindset.”
“These are the pillars that you are going to have to change in your life. And it’s not just one or two; it’s all of ’em.”
“That’s how you become an attractive man with an abundant lifestyle,” Michael finishes with.
The cost of MOA Mentoring? Easily north of $5k, considering how well they’ve buried the price.
What’s my take? You’re maxing out your Visa card for make-believe status.
Once you leave an MOA event, where everyone either paid their way in or got paid to attend, it’s straight back to your dark, musty apartment to get high and binge Peppa Pig – alone, of course.