Whole-Life Millionaire Highlights: Get to Know Our Tribe!
We are so proud of our Whole-Life Millionaires for playing full out in our tribe in order to lead epic lives. So, we’re sharing their stories. Meet some of the people who make our tribe so special, and let their journeys inspire you to take the next step toward your whole-life wealth, fulfillment, and happiness. You’re next!Â
Bryce Stewart
- Starting Net Worth: $600K
- Current Net Worth: $1.9M
- How Long Did it Take You to Reach Millionaire Status? 1.5 Years
- Most Improved Garden: Financial & Investment
- Favorite Book: Aside from the Bible, probably Think and Grow Rich
- Fun Fact: I've been a two-time guest on the Bigger Pockets Podcast (Episode #276 and #442)
Cara Kennedy
- Starting Net Worth: 780.000
- Current Net Worth: $1.065.000
- How Long Did it Take You to Reach Millionaire Status? 3.5 years
- Most Improved Garden: Health & Wellness
- Favorite Book: Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, T Harv Eker
- Fun Fact: Used to play club and varsity rugby. I love camping and the outdoors!
Michael Jones
- Starting Net Worth: $150,000
- Current Net Worth: $2,566,753
- How Long Did it Take You to Reach Millionaire Status? 4 Years
- Most Improved Garden: Financial & Investment
- Favorite Book: Richest Man in Babylon
- Fun Fact: I have a resting heart rate under 50 beats per minute.
Michael Sjogren
- Starting Net Worth: 361,000
- Current Net Worth: $2,028515
- How Long Did it Take You to Reach Millionaire Status? 3 years
- Most Improved Garden: Personal Growth
- Favorite Book: Psychocybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
- Fun Fact: I've snowboarded in the Austrian Alps, Ridden a motorcycle 160mph, run the NYC marathon, was a high school All American lacrosse player, and told my best friend the day after I met my wife that I was going to marry her (5 years later we were married).
Phil Capron
- Starting Net Worth: Negative
- Current Net Worth: $1.560.000
- How Long Did it Take You to Reach Millionaire Status? 2.5 years
- Most Improved Garden: Environment & Tribeess
- Favorite Book: Atlas Shrugged
- Fun Fact: I have done over 450 skydives
Paul Thompson
- Starting Net Worth: $2.9M
- Current Net Worth: $4.1
- How Long Did it Take You to Reach Millionaire Status? 2 Years
- Most Improved Garden: Real Estate
- Favorite Book: Awareness by Anthony de Mello
- Fun Fact: Only child and a preacher's kid
Christopher Benedict
- Starting Net Worth: $661,640
- Current Net Worth: $1.2+ M
- How Long Did it Take You to Reach Millionaire Status? 1 Year
- Most Improved Garden: Health / Relationships
- Favorite Book:
- Fun Fact:
Real Estate / Leverage
My horizontal income has changed drastically. I look at money very differently – I look at assets vs. liabilities in a whole different way. Seeing money as freedom has been a huge shift. Living beneath my means is not a punishment, it is a source of a pride. I look at health differently now as well. Not doing the work , not following the healthy guideline, is the punishment.Â
The ability to transform my life.
If you’re suffering from doubt, depression… Do the work, change your self limiting beliefs. I never realized how evil that negative voice is until M1. Don’t doubt yourself, instead think “Why not me?” Success breeds more success.
Edward Dawson-Taylor
- Starting Net Worth: $845,000
- Current Net Worth: $1.5+ M
- How Long Did it Take You to Reach Millionaire Status? 1 Year
- Most Improved Garden: Business
- Favorite Book:
- Fun Fact: I have my pilot's license and regularly fly to Big Bear and beyond.
Creative / Real Estate
Having a conscious focus of ‘what is great about this challenge’ rather than focusing on the problem, as well as connecting with people who are doing better than me and increasing my peer group has really helped shift my mindset.
Animation
Find what you are passionate about, expand your skills and grow your gifts. Get really focused on one or two things and put everything behind that.Â
Jamie Gruber
- Starting Net Worth: $752,321
- Current Net Worth: $1.1+ M
- How Long Did it Take You to Reach Millionaire Status? Less than 10 months
- Most Improved Garden: Business
- Favorite Book:
- Fun Fact:
Real Estate / Insurance
My Real Estate assets are growing very quickly since joining M1. I’m much more planful and forgive myself a lot more. I have developed a much stronger emotional IQ. My horizontal income is 4 to 5 times more than when I joined.Â
The skill to recover quickly from the ‘downs’ of life.
You are good enough to partner, you are smart enough, you do have enough value.Â
Brad Pickett
- Starting Net Worth: $525,000
- Current Net Worth: $4+M
- How Long Did it Take You to Reach Millionaire Status? Less than 1 year
- Most Improved Garden: Personal Growth
- Favorite Book:
- Fun Fact: I was a firefighter.
Real Estate / Coaching
M gave me structure and accountability. It gave me the community of likeminded people and made me commit to be a millionaire.Â
Determination
How bad do you want it? Determination and commitment is key. Ask yourself – what happens if you fail? Anything with a big reward, you really have to be committed to it.
Rory Cummins
- Starting Net Worth: $783,000
- Current Net Worth: $1,934,667
- How Long Did it Take You to Reach Millionaire Status? 1 Year
- Most Improved Garden: Friends, Family, & Relationships
- Favorite Book: "The One Thing" by Gary Keller
- Fun Fact: Traveled solo to more than 40 countries across 5 continents, wrote a book when I was 23, went fully broke in Shenzhen China, have had food poisoning in 5 different countries, swam just a few miles from the Arctic circle, had a flip flop stolen from me on an island in Thailand which I later recovered 4 days later 3 miles from where it was taken, floated down croc infested waters in Nepal, was chased by a pack of rabid dogs while on the beaches of Goa, India, got stranded while traveling in a remote region in Tibet, spent a weekend living with Mongolians in a Ger tent, and have a life long goal of living to at least 120 yrs old which I take very seriously:)
Linzee & Steve Ciprani
- Starting Net Worth: $600,000
- Current Net Worth: $1.3+M
- How Long Did it Take You to Reach Millionaire Status? 1 Year
- Most Improved Garden: Personal Growth
- Favorite Book:
- Fun Fact:
Real Estate / AirBnB
 Being in M1, we realized that there wasn’t fulfillment ( in our previous jobs). We didn’t have the time outside of our work life that we wanted. M1 came in at the exact right time, taught us how to be a leader. The accountability, learning and growing together, make a difference in our lives.
Being parents & entrepreneurs
It will be worth every risk that you take. There is a palpable pain of realizing you are not where you could be, but working and growing through that, shedding the old identity, really makes an impact. If someone else can do it, there is no reason you can’t.
Jordan Leithart
- Starting Net Worth: $160,000
- Current Net Worth: $1M
- How Long Did it Take You to Reach Millionaire Status? 2 Years
- Most Improved Garden: Personal Growth
- Favorite Book: Untethered Soul
- Fun Fact: I worked in the video game industry
I have learned how to look at the positive rather than the negative in the situation. That alone has changed things a lot. I am also no longer working out to pursue an aesthetic, but rather as a way to get my day started.
Inspiring Others
Don’t listen to that voice – don’t criticize or complain, don’t fall in to the doubt. Change the questions you are asking yourself to be more empowering.
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Michael Jones
- Starting Net Worth: $150,000
- Current Net Worth: $2,566,753
- How Long Did it Take You to Reach Millionaire Status? 4 Years
- Most Improved Garden: Financial & Investment
- Favorite Book: Richest Man in Babylon
- Fun Fact: I have a resting heart rate under 50 beats per minute.
Paul Thompson
- Starting Net Worth: $2.9M
- Current Net Worth: $4.1
- How Long Did it Take You to Reach Millionaire Status? 2 Years
- Most Improved Garden: Real Estate
- Favorite Book: Awareness by Anthony de Mello
- Fun Fact: Only child and a preacher's kid
Not much has changed other than I have a better lexicon of concepts/ideas to deal with daily life
Listening and Business Strategy
Build your wealth brick by brick. And choose what your “brick” is very carefully
Cara Kennedy
- Starting Net Worth: 780.000
- Current Net Worth: $1.065.000
- How Long Did it Take You to Reach Millionaire Status? 3.5 years
- Most Improved Garden: Health & Wellness
- Favorite Book: Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, T Harv Eker
- Fun Fact: Used to play club and varsity rugby. I love camping and the outdoors!
Passive stock market and Real estate
I used to pride myself on overworking and self sacrifice and previously thought life hard to be hard to progress for success. I have since increased my health & relationship efforts, and have found a better balance to life and now expect good things to come to me as I get in “flow” in my holistic approach to life.
I am great at building rapport with people and making them feel comfortable and welcome! This benefits me in sales environments as well as in large social settings. I can read emotions pretty well too, which can be very helpful in seeing through half-truths.
Focus on the process. Be patient. And keep showing up for yourself. Progress doesn’t happen overnight and you’ll be your hardest critic along the way. Surround yourself with people who will help and push you. YOU’RE WORTH IT!!!
Phil Capron
- Starting Net Worth: Negative
- Current Net Worth: $1.560.000
- How Long Did it Take You to Reach Millionaire Status? 2.5 years
- Most Improved Garden: Environment & Tribeess
- Favorite Book: Atlas Shrugged
- Fun Fact: I have done over 450 skydives
Multifamily Real Estate
Before M1, I had a pretty good life. I pursued and found varying levels of success in several endeavors including playing drums in a traveling rock band, playing poker professionally, and being selected to serve in a Special Operations unit in the US Navy. However, there was something holding me back from achieving the highest of level of success as I walked each of these paths. When I separated from the military, I didn’t have much to show for myself and quickly got to work as a real estate agent (as I wasn’t qualified to do much else). Again I did well, but not well enough for my standards. I thought perhaps flipping houses was the answer, and found that to be more profitable than real estate brokerage, but it still didn’t afford me the type of lifestyle I’d always wanted. At that time, I found M1 and got to work on myself.
The supportive and encouraging environment the Tribe provided was really what I needed to step up to the next level. Within 6 months I had closed on my first small apartment building, and within a year I had closed my first major deal with the help of one of Rock’s Board of Advisors. That deal added approximately $400,000 to my net worth and $50,000 to my Horizontal Income. Since then, I’ve closed on over 470 apartments in various partnerships and syndications.
I’m enjoying a constant string of Bucket List Adventures with my wonderful girlfriend like becoming Scuba Diver certified in the Dominican Republic, searching for the Northern Lights and touring the frozen tundra on a dog sled in Sweden, touring the historic sites of Europe, and house hacking a million dollar beach house by converting the downstairs into a guest suite that pays for our mortgage and then some.
The wonderful thing about M1 and being around a Tribe of awesome people is that it gives you license to not just make more money or take more vacations, but to expand in all areas of life.
I’m a connector! I find ways to put together deals in which everyone wins.
Focus. Small daily actions compound over time. If it was easy, everyone would do it. Don’t quit!
Michael Sjogren
- Starting Net Worth: 361,000
- Current Net Worth: $2,028515
- How Long Did it Take You to Reach Millionaire Status? 3 years
- Most Improved Garden: Personal Growth
- Favorite Book: Psychocybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
- Fun Fact: I've snowboarded in the Austrian Alps, Ridden a motorcycle 160mph, run the NYC marathon, was a high school All American lacrosse player, and told my best friend the day after I met my wife that I was going to marry her (5 years later we were married).
Real estate, specifically short term rentals and boutique hotels
Before M1 I was working as an accountant dreaming of becoming a full time real estate investor and teaching others how to do the same. Today I am living that dream.
Teaching. I can take complex subjects and simplify them into bite size chunks that people can understand and implement.
Get crystal clear on the life that you want to live. What does your ideal day look like for you from the time you wake up to the time you go to bed. Then make the decision that you are going to live that life and work everyday until you make it happen.
Bryce Stewart
- Starting Net Worth: $600K
- Current Net Worth: $1.9M
- How Long Did it Take You to Reach Millionaire Status? 1.5 Years
- Most Improved Garden: Financial & Investment
- Favorite Book: Aside from the Bible, probably Think and Grow Rich
- Fun Fact: I've been a two-time guest on the Bigger Pockets Podcast (Episode #276 and #442)
Local Real Estate
I lost 20 pounds, hyper-charged my personal development journey, started making leisure/lifestyle goals (who would have thought?), and tripled my net worth.
My superpower is communication/public speaking. I have not (yet) monetized this gift to the same extent as real estate investment.
Find the next, smallest, incremental step. Take it! There’s no such thing as a Big Step, so don’t wait until you’re ready for one.
Rory Cummins
- Starting Net Worth: $783,000
- Current Net Worth: $1,934,667
- How Long Did it Take You to Reach Millionaire Status? 1 Year
- Most Improved Garden: Friends, Family, & Relationships
- Favorite Book: "The One Thing" by Gary Keller
- Fun Fact: Traveled solo to more than 40 countries across 5 continents, wrote a book when I was 23, went fully broke in Shenzhen China, have had food poisoning in 5 different countries, swam just a few miles from the Arctic circle, had a flip flop stolen from me on an island in Thailand which I later recovered 4 days later 3 miles from where it was taken, floated down croc infested waters in Nepal, was chased by a pack of rabid dogs while on the beaches of Goa, India, got stranded while traveling in a remote region in Tibet, spent a weekend living with Mongolians in a Ger tent, and have a life long goal of living to at least 120 yrs old which I take very seriously:)
All aspects of Real estate (RE brokerage, flipping, MF rentals, and STRs)
Life for me has changed dramatically since joining M1. My drive and determination is still there with work, finances and my level of fitness but I’m now much more balanced in my life, a better father and husband to my family and I’m eating and sleeping way better. In essence, I’m full circle from where I was in terms of living an ideal lifestyle that is more in line with my overall goals and not overly focused in just one area (or garden).
I feel that I have many skills and abilities to offer the world but the one thing I’ve realized that has been super powerful for me is that I am able to achieve 99% of the goals I set out to achieve, whether that is deciding to travel the world solo for a year and a half, reaching financial freedom or creating an amazing lifestyle that I envision for myself. And I realize that this all stems from being able to vision what I want in life, planning and breaking down the steps to achieve it and then following through and taking massive action towards the things that I want without getting distracted, losing focus or listening to all the negativity that may surround me in the process.
Start with defining your big why, educate yourself constantly, level up your peer group, get creative, find a way or make one, follow the signal and not the noise, don’t let naysayers get in your head.