The Founder
Mike Fish, Founder
My name is Mike Fish and I am the founder of Sound Life Education. I have been investing in real estate for 15 years and I have been helping people do the same for just as long. Over this period of time, I came a cross many individuals and families that were interested in owning their own homes but they weren’t sure how to make that happen for themselves. Helping people has always been important to me so when I saw this road block happening time and time again, I made it my personal goal to collect the information those people needed and help them use that information to get into their new home. This has been such a rewarding experience. With the economic crisis facing the world today, I felt like it was time to reach out to individuals and families all over the United States. I am so excited to finally be bringing this type of information for success to everyone who is ready to make their lives everything they’ve ever wanted it to be.
In the Beginning
Throughout my life, I have always had the desire to accomplish great things. I had many ideas and dreams but in my experiences, I quickly found that no one was willing to take the time to help me so I set out in life knowing that I was on my own and that failure was not an option.
In the 80′s I started a life with my first wife, which produced two beautiful girls. I helped her through college, working at a gas station everyday just to afford her tuition. The day before my first daughter was born was when my first challenge appeared–I broke both of my legs. My wife was fresh out of the hospital after giving birth and I was in two full leg casts. Neither of us were able to work at that time and ninety days later, we lost our home.
I relocated to Arizona hoping to rebuild the life I had lost. After a couple of years there, things were going well so I planned to move back home to California. All of my relocation plans were complete but when I got to the place I had rented over the phone it was a dump. My first two jobs there didn’t work out and again, I found myself with no place to live and no work, this time with two young children to care for. At this point, I had to sit down and make a new plan. I decided to work a couple more bad jobs but three months later, I leveraged the little money I had to purchase my very first business. I was twenty-seven years old.
Finally, things were going well in my life. I had a six bay auto service that was bringing in $300,000 a year. That allowed my wife and I to have a beautiful home, company cars and provide a wonderful life for our children…in short, we were on top of our world. In early 1991, I looked to expand my business but was surprised to find that I was losing the one I had. My wife had a substance abuse problem that eventually led to my divorce and the loss of my business and home. I became the single parent of two girls, living in a camper on the back of a pickup truck. For six months, this is the way we lived, parked in Grandma’s front driveway.
Starting Over
I eventually got on food stamps, welfare and moved into a small apartment back in Phoenix, Arizona and we lived there for a year. I decided not to work because I didn’t want to leave my children since their mother already had. But after a year I realized that it was time to start building my life back as this is the only life I have. I set out to find a new job. Fletcher’s Cobra Tire hired me to work six days a week while caring for my children and doing laundry on the one day off I had each week. Sometimes I wondered what I had gotten myself into.
One day, when things were at their worst, it was as though my children could tell. Even though they were young and small, they stepped up and started helping Dad make our life better. That was when I knew we would make it. I pushed forward with Cobra Tire to eventually become a manager.
I had no idea the extent of the damage of my divorce until I did my first tax return. I had tax liens and defaults that I thought had been resolved prior to my divorce. The penalties and interest that accrued turned into something I had no idea to take care of. Knowing that I couldn’t sweep this under the rug, I began again to repair my life and this time, I knew I wouldn’t let anything stop me. And I didn’t.
Sharing My Experience
Today, fifteen years later, I am proud of my success. I own six companies and am opening a seventh. I am currently involved in thirty properties in multiple states. I love my home in the mountains and the ability to ride my Harley whenever I want. I have escaped from the rat race that I’ve wanted out of my entire life. Most of all, I am happy that I now have the freedom of time and the ability to live each day as I choose.
In hindsight, I realize that had I known then what I know now, I could have accomplished this so much quicker. Looking at the economy and the suffering of so many innocent families, I know that it’s time to come forward and share the basic life skills that should have been taught in school.
My course is going to teach you to help yourself, your family, your children and everyone you care about to see the opportunities that are out there. This world has been designed for you to succeed; everything is at your fingertips but no one knows it’s there. This course is going to teach you strategies and help you understand the systems that have been made available to you to succeed that no one ever told you about. I’m going to tell you.
Upon completing this course, you will have the confidence to face some of life’s most difficult challenges head on. This course will give you the knowledge to build a solid foundation for your dream. We are going give you the tools to succeed.
