I didn't trust people I didn't love people I didn't love myself and I didn't ever feel like I had anyone to uh turn to I was the third of three children my brothers were about six and eight years are about six and eight years older than me and my uh my oldest brother I have so much love and compassion for him today and he struggled his whole life with severe addiction was actually arrested for threatening to kill kill me when I was 10 and taken to jail and there was a lot of guilt there I remember the look in his eyes when he was put in the uh police car so there was just a lot of uh a lot of pain and I just felt uh worthless and he was just struggling you know he it wasn't about me and I I learned that later in life um we were all just doing the best we could but also that same year my other brother had a friend who was 18 and uh he was the first person in my life that showed me any like good attention positive attention and you know he was uh sexually inappropriate with me um and so my perception and relationship with uh just people I guess in general was always very complicated there was a time in my life for many years where I felt completely stuck broken miserable alone and hopeless and I didn't see a way out now today I have thriving businesses I have been on this journey of transformation and I want to share that Journey with you and I want to help as many people as possible in my lifetime achieve their highest human potential in all areas of life financially physically mentally spiritually and relationally so that's what I'm passionate about welcome to my channel I'm the host of The Hannah Hammond Show where I'll be sharing my journey to self-actualization and interviewing the most amazing people out there and I'm also the CEO and founder of the firm re a commercial residential real estate brokerage and HB Capital which raises capital from investors and lend to Real Estate Investors uh for short-term Bridge financing across the country so thank you for being here today I hope to hear your story as well and let's grow together welcome to the Hannah Hammond Show today I'm going to share something that's deeply personal person to me it's my journey and my story this is the journey that's brought me here today it shaped who I am and it fuels the work that I do every single day for many years of my life I was broken I was deeply insecure I had so much hate for myself I had no genuine relationships I struggled from uh severe mental and physical problems from chronic back pain to uh crippling anxiety and depression and I'm going to share go into a little bit about what my childhood was like and then my journey to success in business and then still realizing that I had a lack of fulfillment in my life and felt very disconnection and struggled with a lot of addiction issues as well so my story is a story of transformation and I'm on that Journey today and my mission is to be able to share my journey of transformation with the world and help others with the suffering that they may be going through and show everyone that it is possible to really truly create the life that you want and it doesn't matter where you came from it doesn't matter what your history is what your family life is like what you're uh whether you're raised in a a wealthy household or a not wealthy household what your ethnicity is anything is truly possible especially in this country country that we live in and it's it's all a mental game up here and unfortunately Society doesn't teach us the things that really help us be connected and whole and healed and fulfilled and creative and loving individuals you know the things that we learn in school don't really teach us much it's a decent foundation for normal life skills but other than that it doesn't teach us much about business or financial wealth and definitely not about mental and emotional health and the medical system here in the US is very very flawed you know we're poisoned by big food in big Pharma um that was a story for me when I was really struggling as a kid I was put on multiple medications and I struggled with eating disorders my whole life and still do today um being chubby as a kid due to the really unhealthy food that's provided to American citizens especially in the lower income families the earliest memory I have was when I was 6 years old and I loved food I was already addicted to food it was my emotional support and I just love it in general and I really my dad used to kind of sneak away to McDonald's to get himself like fries or burger or something like that and I really really really wanted an Oreo McFlurry and he wouldn't buy it for me he said we couldn't afford it we didn't have any money and if I wanted an ice cream he would get me one but it to be the 69 Cent vanilla cone and I remember looking at his eyes and I told him I hated him and I told him I was going to be a millionaire so I could buy myself McFlurry someday and so that was a very pivotal moment for me because from six or seven years old I dedicated my whole life to building freedom and having freedom and because my family didn't have a lot of money and the conversation was always about money we don't have money we need more money we can't have this you can't have that or just tension and and arguing about money all the time I was like nobody's coming to save me nobody's going to take care of me I need to make money I need to have an abundance of money and all I'm going to dedicate my life to is trying to figure that out so paired with uh like abandonment issues from my dad who worked at a pawn shop making minimum wage and still works at that pawn shop today in the West Valley in Phoenix uh who I have compassion for him and love him um but he wasn't there to support his family like a family needs to be supported and him and my mom had a very challenging difficult relationship my dad was working all the time and uh had a long commute so we didn't really see him much anyway and when we did see him it was a lot of fighting um he would turn the the air conditioning up really high to try to save money so I remember remember being really really hot in the house we live in Phoenix it's 120 degrees in the summer um in the winter I remember being really really cold because he wouldn't like to turn the the heat up uh to save money he wouldn't like to turn the lights on if you tried to turn a fan on he would turn the fan off and then he would tell you that he didn't touch anything which is a lot of um narcissistic and kind of like manipulative and lying behaviors which was difficult for a child to be raised around and then my my sweet mother did the absolute best she could and loved me very much uh but she too was suffering and she didn't have money and she didn't have love and she was abandoned by her father and uh she you know had a lot of difficult things that she carried into our household unknowingly but she tried so so hard uh to to give us kids the life that we wanted although it um you know she did the best she could and then another Dynamic was I was the third of three children my brothers were about six and eight years are about six and eight years older than me and my uh my oldest brother I have so much love and compassion for him today and he struggled his whole life with severe addiction issues from a very young age um and I can 100% see why but when I was very young he he he was very traumatizing to me and he would throw me to the ground and say tip a cow and grab you know grab my fat all over my body and twist it really hard and leave bruises on my body and he would um call me really bad names he uh was actually arrested for threatening to kill me when I was 10 and taken to jail and there was a lot of guilt there um that my mom felt and I felt I remember I remember the look in his eyes when he was put in the uh police car so there was just a lot of uh a lot of pain and I had a severe anxiety for as long as I could remember and chronic back pain from the time I was really young and I just felt um I just felt really alone and I felt really unworthy and I just felt uh worthless and so the way I was able to cope was by overachievement and from uh from kindergarten all the way through engineering school and college I was always the top of my class I had I have I still have a stack of principl lists today uh which in Arizona that just means you have like straight A and so that's where I really was able to find a sense of self-worth and uh value and accomplishment and it also served as a way for me to escape my reality and if I wasn't working towards something or studying for my exam or accomplishing in school then I was I was in a really painful place I was miserable and and I was dying inside and so I became obsessed with that and uh I I read Rich Dad Poor Dad when I was 13 years old and uh I mean I back up before that a little bit so my brother uh threatened to kill me when I was 10 my mother called the police to protect me and he was taken to jail and she didn't want them to take him to jail she just wanted him to not kill me um but they had to take him to jail because it was abuse right and so uh there was a lot of guilt there from from both my mom and me and a lot of um betrayal I'm sure my brother felt as well and he was just struggling you know he he it wasn't about me and I I learned that later in life um we were all just doing the best we could but also that same year my other brother had a friend who was 18 and uh no I think it was about a year I think it was about 11 he so uh maybe 11 or right around there and uh he was the first person in my life that showed me any like good attention positive attention and you know he was uh sexually inappro rate with me um and so my perception and relationship with men in particular and women uh just people I guess in general was always very complicated and yeah it was always just very complicated and uh challenging and I didn't trust people I didn't love people I didn't love myself and I didn't ever feel like I had anyone to uh turn to or anyone to help or ask the questions to and I struggled a lot with religion because at the time my mom and dad were very very religious people they still are today and I felt like God never came I prayed a lot to God and um I went to church for a while as a young kid but I felt like God never came and God never answered and God never presented himself to me so I began to hate God very much so and uh which made me feel even more alone and isolated because it's like if I don't even have God then who the [ __ ] do I have you know uh so when I became uh when I started High School I started to learn you know social media started become a thing and uh caring about how you look was a thing and boys became a thing and all of that and so I was so tired of being made fun of for being fat that I went I started dieting and I went to the doctor to get prescribed Aderall to help suppress my appetite which had severe neurotic effects on me severe anxi added to my anxiety added to my depression um made me very very isolated destroyed my personality like normally you know you know me now I'm a very outgoing happy bubbly person um but Aderall took all that away it made me completely in my head completely in my body completely anxious and isolated and then I started starving myself and therefore I isolated from any friends and going out to dinners or birthdays or parties or things like that um parties that involve food I would only go to the parties that involve drugs and uh I just work you know school school school school and at at 13 years old I read Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert kosaki who has always been a hero of mine and is now a dear friend today um any of those any of you who follow me know that um I I spent a lot of time with him but that book changed my life and that book is what was a pivotal moment for me to decide I was going to be a real estate investor and I was going to be a business owner and I was never going to be a slave to the system and that I it was important to mind my own business and have control over my business and over my life and over my wealth and be able to literally create a life that I always wanted because it's very hard to build wealth if you're working at W2 it's the system isn't built for it and it's very hard to have a beautiful fulfilled Balanced Life if you're working a normal W2 because you're a lot of times overworked and underpaid and you're building somebody else's dream life and there's no tax strategy around it so half of the money goes away to the government and all of these um flawed systems and so that book and Robert I will hold close to my heart forever and if anyone hasn't read richd poad or Rich Do's Guide to Investing please drop everything right now and read that book it'll change your life and he's changed 40 million people's lives on how they view money and uh it taught me assets versus liabilities and the importance of acquiring assets that put money in your pocket and not acquiring liabilities that take money out of your pocket and um I decided from that day I was going to be a business owner and real estate investor so I worked really hard in Co in high school because I still wanted to go to college because I was the first in my family to get a college degree degree and I didn't have a college fund so I uh ultimately graduated with a merit scholarship applied to ASU because it I didn't have the money to go out of state and I wanted to just get my real estate license right away in Arizona and so got a full right scholarship and I went I uh I picked engineering school because the counselor said that that's what would pay the most amount of money in the least amount of time because I didn't I was like I don't have you know enough money to get a doctor degree nor do I want to cuz I knew I was going to be an entrepreneur so I was like I'll do a four-year degree in three years I graduated early I graduated summum L um with I think it was 3. 95 or something sumacum L close to a 4. 0 GPA and I wanted to still check Corporate America off the Box because I had this book that told me not to do Corporate America go build my own businesses but I still had this fear and I had everything else in the world telling me go get a job you know save money get a job go to school do that and so I'm really glad I did I uh ended up getting offered a job um for engineering at cat which is a big you know the global mining engineering and construction company and they were doing a billion dollars a year in sales and so I really learned how to build a business how to run a business and how a large scale operation is run and most importantly I learned that I didn't want to be in Corporate America and I um um before I got that job going back a few years on my 18th birthday I signed up for real estate school I got my real estate license and I just was planning to be a real estate investor I never planned to be a real estate agent I don't know maybe I had too much of an ego or stigma around like agents are just what people do when they don't have anything else to do type thing which is so not true there's a bunch of amazing incredible agents but there's also a 100,000 agents in Arizona that just hang their license and they don't ever do a deal so uh I asked a broker at my office if I could hold one of his listings open and it was just a house that was really close to the patio home that I was living in with my mom at the time um because my mom and dad split up right when I turned 18 and so my mom and I moved into this little uh Patio Home by ASU and I held that house open in the middle of summer it was worth I think $200,000 and this was over 10 years ago now one person showed up in the open house and it was the neighbor which in real estate we call those the nosy neighbors and I just built a relationship with him and I listened to him and he talked about the Chemtrails in the sky and he talked about his traumatic divor or you know baby mama situation and I just listened to him and looked you know respected him and saw him and I don't think he'd ever been seen either and he ended up listing him 1.
1 million commercial property with me like within a week or two and my brokerage told me you can't do the listing we can't do commercial you don't know what you're doing you have to refer it out to someone else and I you know still did the Hannah way and says no I got this I'm going to do it they also told me that it wasn't worth a penny over $400,000 and he wanted 1. 1 million so I knew I was only going to get a listing if I listed it for 1.
