Dear graduates, today I come to you to talk about an important phase of your life that you are about to embark on. While this could or technically should be about whether or not college is right for you, I have already written enough about that. Instead, I would rather chat about the importance of understanding why things happen, something especially…
Pejman Ghadimi
I Haven’t Seen my Father in 30 Years…
Those of you who know my story know that I was raised by a struggling single mother for the majority of my life. What you may be wondering is who or where my dad is. This Father’s Day may be the perfect time to have such a conversation so that hopefully it can help many of you both as a…
A Letter to Poor People
Dear Poor People, My name is Pejman Ghadimi, and it is very likely that you have never heard of me. This is partly because I am nobody, and partly because you had no interest in learning about anything outside of your immediate needs. Who I am is irrelevant, but what I do actually is relevant, because I do it to…
Creating Success Even When Faced with Adversity
For the past 19 years, I have hustled and worked very hard to push my life forward. I overcame incredible odds like not being legally allowed to work, not understanding the language of the place I lived and still having to find work, not having the opportunity to go to school, and questioning if I would ever have a place…
Secret Academy Challenge Recap
In 2006, my two co-founders, Alan Dang and Navid Norouzi, and I came up with the idea of having a lifestyle platform, filled with incredible stories and illustrated with some of the world’s most beautiful imagery, dedicated to motivating our generation. This gave birth to the motivational platform that would help evoke entrepreneurship within people: Secret Entourage.
10 Things Only Poor People Do
The word “poor” can usually be linked to someone’s monetary status, but it also has significance in many other ways. In numerous cases, financially poor individuals have poor mindsets, which is oftentimes why they stay poor; there are exceptions of course, but we are talking about the majority of people. Over the years, my goal has been to help more individuals change their poor perspective and mindset to find financial freedom through entrepreneurship with my book Third Circle Theory. There are a few things; however, that you can associate to poor people’s behavior and I have pointed them out to make sure you don’t fall victim to them.
The word “poor” can usually be linked to someone’s monetary status, but it also has significance in many other ways. In numerous cases, financially poor individuals have poor mindsets, which is oftentimes why they stay poor; there are exceptions of course, but we are talking about the majority of people. Over the years, my goal has been to help more individuals change their poor perspective and mindset to find financial freedom through entrepreneurship with my book Third Circle Theory. There are a few things; however, that you can associate to poor people’s behavior and I have pointed them out to make sure you don’t fall victim to them.
How Getting Fired Ended My Career but Gave Birth to the Real American Dream
Despite being a well-known entrepreneur today, my earlier business experience encompassed success by working for others. I worked as a telemarketer in my early years and moved up to the director of that very same company by age 18. I then moved on and began a very lucrative and powerful career in banking, where I not only became one of…