Hooman Hamzehloui Interview by Nancy Welker.
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009Nancy Welker: Thank you for taking the time to be with us today, Hooman. Tell us more about yourself and what you currently do
I am a motivational speaker living the life of my dreams. I have overcome adversity in my life to achieve greatness. It hasn’t been easy, achieving extraordinary outcomes never is. I have made it through the toughest of times remember quotes like this one which is one of my favorite quotes, “Only when it is dark enough can you see the stars,” by Martin Luther King.
I am set to release my first book this year which will show people how to overcome adversity with power and control over your thoughts and actions.
Currently with this economy, I am helping all kinds of people and businesses overcome their current obstacles so they can achieve the results that they desire. Just because the overall economy is bad, doesn’t mean that your economy has to be bad.
I have several exciting projects with the web that I am working on. I believe that the web is the way to go for entrepreneurs. There is just so much reward with so little risk. You have to truly stand out above and beyond your competition because it is a very competitive marketplace.
I am also a single father of an 11 year old boy and an eight year old girl. They are my pride and joy. I feel like the luckiest man in the world because I have them in my life.
Nancy Welker: You once faced a very difficult period. An NBA player, Dikembe Mutombo, took insult to a comment you made, and this caused you to become banned from going to games nationwide, receive hate mail, and go into depression. Please tell us about that, and what happened since.
I believe everything happens for a reason. I just couldn’t see what that reason for that experience was at first. I was having the best year of my life. I was almost done building my dream home which was a two year project. My real estate company had just sold 55 million in sales which I was personally responsible for 30 million all by myself. I had four cars, I thought I had it all. I was so wrong.
Well after I saw how bad of a mess I had gotten into, I blamed nobody but myself. I felt like I had brought out all of this racist hate from people all over the world. I didn’t have a racist bone in my body so I really felt horrible for what I had done. I beat myself up so bad that I went from being one of the most motivated people in the planet to a person who didn’t care about anything. I was spiraling out of control in a deep and dark depression. All I did was sleep. I couldn’t do anything but sleep. After six months of feeling terrible from my depression, I was looking in the mirror one day and said, “Hooman, this isn’t you. You are an achiever, not this loser you have become. You have to turn this unbelievable negative into the greatest positive in your life.” That experience became my catalyst for change.
I realized that this horrible experience happen to me to inspire me to pursue my life long dream of being a motivational speaker. I knew I didn’t want to be remembered by that incident. I wanted to be remembered as the person who turned the worst night of my life into the best night of my life. I wanted to help people who were suffering from depression. I saw how easy it was from me to go from being super motivated to being super depressed by having bad thoughts. I knew the reason I had this experienced was to tell people my story so they could overcome their bad experiences and turn their lives around. That is why I decided to write my book and pursue my dream of becoming a motivational speaker. I wanted to help as many people as I could to overcome their limiting beliefs so they could achieve the success that they had always dreamed of.
Nancy Welker: Your optimism and determination surely come through in what you write. At one time you were, in your words, “afraid of failing.” That’s something we all can relate to. How did you transform that fear into the positive attitude you now have?
When I was selling cars I heard my first motivational speech at the age of 22. I knew that was going to be my dream job. I knew that one day I would become a motivational speaker. I just had convinced myself that nobody would listen to a 22 year old. Henry Ford said, “Whether you believe you can or whether you believe you can’t, you are right.” I had convinced myself that if I tried to become a motivational speaker that I would have failed. However, I was just making excuses because I was afraid to even give it a try. Looking back, I could think of many different audiences that I could have motivated.
I decided to continue to pursue a career in sales because I had a baby when I was 22 and I had to feed my family. I knew that I would have to have a lot of sales success under my belt before I could even consider a chance to become a motivational speaker.
Ever since my first motivational meeting, I always had a positive attitude. The more motivational books I read and the more motivation I listened to, my attitude and my determination grew. The more success I achieved the more determined I was to succeed.
I think a positive attitude is critical to being a happy person in your life. It is also critical to becoming a successful person. One of the other keys to becoming successful is you need to have unstoppable determination. You must be determined to succeed without letting anything get in your way. I had many failures and setbacks along the way. Each time I experienced a setback, I learned from it. Through my motivational studies, I learned that failure was just a part of the process to becoming successful. I learned that failure can either be used as a stepping stone, or a stumbling block. I learned that failure was just a chance to begin again with a better approach. One of my other favorite quotes is by Henry Ford. He said, “Win or learn, there is no failure.”
I am at a point of my life now where I am not afraid of anything. I know that there is nothing that is going to come my way which I can’t overcome. If you truly want to be successful in this crazy world that we live in, you must fear nothing and you must have a burning desire to succeed. The other critical key to success is that no matter what business you are in, you must take care of your clients or else someone else will. Your clients are everything. You must go out of your way to exceed their highest expectations.
Nancy Welker: One of the things you focus on is helping others “break out of their normal, daily lives…” What are some of the first things you suggest to people who want to achieve that?
One of the first things that I suggest my clients do is to eliminate negative thoughts. I tell them that the quality of their lives is going to come down to the quality of their thoughts. I get them to understand that they can achieve anything they believe in. We are all created equal. We all have the ability to achieve greatness in our lives. It is up to us to unleash that greatness.
So for anyone out there that is struggling, I recommend that you start by resetting your mind so you can create a complete new and empowering belief system. Don’t believe in what others believe you can achieve. It only matters what you believe you can achieve. You and only you are the master of your destiny. You can achieve any result that you desire with power and control over your thoughts and actions.
Nancy Welker: What are your own goals for the future? What would you like to achieve most?
My goals are as following. I want to start traveling throughout the United States and various destinations overseas with my motivational speaking tour. Anthony Robbins in my opinion is the greatest motivational speaker of all time. I want to follow in his footsteps so I can achieve similar results. I believe that success leaves clues. You can achieve the same results as the top achiever in any field by modeling their habits and beliefs.
I want to continue with my business ventures online so I can create as much wealth as possible because I want to use this money to open up a chain of private schools. I don’t believe in the education in America. I believe that we can teach the children of the future knowledge that will have them better prepared for the real world. I would love to teach the kids better communication skills. I would love to teach these kids better belief systems that can get them to achieve much more in life than the average person. I want to show these kids that the sky is no longer the limit, outer space is. Half of my students will be under privileged kids who will not have to pay tuition because of their parents economic situations. The other half will be kids be from parents who can afford the tuition. I believe that every child deserves the best education. I believe that every child deserves an equal opportunity to succeed.
Nancy Welker: One last question. How do you define beauty?
To me beauty comes from within. There are so many people who believe that beauty is from the outside but I tend to disagree. They will bend over backwards trying to work on their physical appearance and they will not pay any attention to their inner beauty. I have met people who are absolutely beautiful on the outside but as soon as they open up their mouths they make themselves look ugly. I have also met many people who are absolutely stunning in appearance and their inner beauty is even more beautiful than their outer beauty. This makes a person become incredibly beautiful. I believe that if people have a great personality then they are absolutely beautiful.
At this point, I say thank you once again for joining us. In particular, please let me know where I can tell my readers they can find your book, “Mutombo and Me”.
My book will be out by fall. It will be available on my website, amazon.com, Barnes and Nobles and various other book stores. Thank you so much for your interview. I hope your readers will enjoy it.
Nancy Welker is the CEO of Nutrabeautiful, Inc. Nancy is a fabulous lady with a lot of knowledge. She is a Master Trainer, Fitness and Nutrition Professional.
Hooman Hamzehloui 2009
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