Manny Kess on Creating FREEDOM and a Life of Experiences
Always on the GROW with Manny Vargas
Release Date: 01/04/2024
The Mindset of Growing and Scaling your Business with Joni Wolfswinkel
Always on the GROW with Manny Vargas
“You have the audacity to come knocking on my door, you better get off my property before I shoot you” The words were not copied word to word from a Hollywood movie. They’re the actual words Joni Wolfswinkel had to face from a man in Texas because she knocked his house which was about to be auctioned. Yes there had been times where Joni was carrying her baby to knock on pre-foreclosure doors. “Doing the things that I wasn't comfortable doing, eventually you do more and more of that, it just becomes natural to you” is what Joni believes. Her grit and perseverance eventually made her...
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Have Faith after Disappointments
Always on the GROW with Manny Vargas
“Rebounds are happening at every moment of our life, if you choose” Imagine being the team that goes all the way to the finals and then loses. Imagine a relationship you’re in that goes on for 5 years and then fails. Imagine building a business for 10 years and then it crumbles. What do you do? The least thing you want to do is go swimming in it, making it a theme park that you're living in and having a good time around. Because that's where it starts to become a problem, you've lived in it too long. You see “Life is full of adversity, life is nothing but adversity” And when you see...
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How to Stay Consistent with Podcasting
Always on the GROW with Manny Vargas
“Commitment means you're committing to something and you're in it to win it, you're burning the boats”. I Manny Vargas, the moment I’m committed to doing podcasts, I knew I was ready to go on a 10, 15, 20 year run. But what about the vanity metrics everyone is going after? Big brand name, status, becoming famous, looking cool etc. Am I getting them? No. Do I not like them? Of course I do. I too got into podcasting just for those metrics? But, what if I do not get the results as I wanted them to be? Will my podcasting disappear? It’s never going to disappear. There was always going to...
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How to Sell High Ticket Offers
Always on the GROW with Manny Vargas
There's different types of environments that you can get the opportunity to sell high ticket offers. I've been selling high ticket offers for quite some time, probably about 7 years. These different environments that I've sold were: Live Events, over the phone, and one to ones. Interesting part — a lot of the hard work is not done by someone like me in this High ticket environment, but a lot of the work gets done by the speaker themselves when they're on stage. I've sold products anywhere from $2,000 all the way up to $250,000. Right now, my sweet spot is in between $10,000 and $50,000....
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Take Responsibility and Recreate Yourself
Always on the GROW with Manny Vargas
Leadership, hiring and training, and other sorts of the intricacies of business are the building blocks of business. Back in the day when I was running restaurants here in Las Vegas, I was doing a pretty good business. At least, that’s what I thought. Till the day, I received a nasty email from one of my employees. It’s a resignation letter where she explained what a laziest and most self-involved person I was. I was hiring employees, finding fault with every small thing, putting the blame on them for every mistake of mine — it was all a “big mess”. Now it was back in 2013, the year...
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Mike Yam on Life as an NFL Host and Living in his Purpose
Always on the GROW with Manny Vargas
Mike Yam is a sportscaster and studio host for NFL Network and SiriusXM radio. He has worked at ESPN, NBA TV and Pac-12 Network. Yam is a graduate of Fordham University. Mike grew up with a Chinese immigrant father from Hong Kong and an Italian mother. As a kid he always thought he was the only person on the planet who was Chinese and Italian. When it came to deciding on food, Mike finds himself torn between his Chinese and Italian heritage. So, Mike went on writing a children’s book titled ‘’ Armed with an obsessive character, Mike is his own best critique and obsesses over his own...
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George Chanos on an Enlightened Perspective for the Future of America?
Always on the GROW with Manny Vargas
Get ready for a political masterclass conversation. George Chanos is former Attorney General of Nevada. He practiced law for 40 years. He’s argued before the United States Supreme Court and won a sixth amendment case 9 – 0. In 2012 George had a heart attack which sent him on a whole new direction. He wanted to prepare his 15 year old daughter for her future and wrote his first book ‘. His second book: ‘ is to make his daughter, nephews and nieces and other people be future ready. George is called a futurist and a visionary. He’s an author, speaker, and mentor. As a...
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How to Shift your Identity for a Better Life
Always on the GROW with Manny Vargas
What if you could change your identity to become more? Becoming alert to behaviors that hold you back. How many of those little things that seem insignificant are getting in the way... Awareness and drive to improve works wonders. This episode highlights the importance of becoming conscious to the idea that you are limiting yourself in various ways. In this episode, you will learn: · The importance of choosing new over old · How shifting your identity in the micro moments matters · ...
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Heath Treasure from Going Broke to Millionaire, Twice!
Always on the GROW with Manny Vargas
Heath Treasure dropped out of college. Because his professor in the marketing class said he's going to teach them how to write a marketing plan for a Fortune 5 Company without himself officially building a marketing plan before. Listen to FULL INTERVIEW HERE Watching people enjoy fruits of their hardworking labours, Heath started working hard at an early age. He’s become a millionaire in early 20s. He lost everything in matter of days, became broke. Heath started as a truck driver driving whole nights and days at a stretch to rebuild himself. He started building businesses from...
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Firefighter turned Entrepreneur with Ronald Patterson
Always on the GROW with Manny Vargas
Ron started a barbeque business just to make a little extra dollar so that his wife can stay at home with the kids. Listen to FULL INTERVIEW HERE His job with the government did not stop him taking the chances of becoming an entrepreneur. Because being an entrepreneur runs in his blood—many of his family members are entrepreneurs. As a devout Christian, Ron follows great Christian values especially in his relationship with his wife and kids. Before starting his food truck business, Ron served 19 years as a fire-fighter with the government. Retiring from his fire-fighter career, Ron...
info_outlineA man that got hit by tragedies at a young age is now helping tragic lives!
He had to go through the challenge of becoming an adult real quick, overnight.
A conversation that tackles “whether the experience is bitter or sweet, we need to do the best we can”…
Watch FULL YOUTUBE INTERVIEW HERE
Manny Kess along with his sister Elena started the Kess group in 2013. The Kess Group is the staple around the world for whatever you need. Manny is an entrepreneur and elite businessman, with more than 20 years in the food, beverage and nightlife industry.
Today, Manny is a multi millionaire who built half a dozen companies through sheer hard work.
Manny travelled around a 100 countries living life the way he wants while his businesses are making money working.
He gives back where ever he can. He leads groups of people who want to help others
Before all this, Manny had to work through two tragedies: loss of his father at a young age, his business going broke.
At 19, Manny began a successful run opening restaurants and watering holes throughout New York City.
A frequent patron of Las Vegas, Manny was recognized for his youthful business acuity and his ability as a connector. He was recruited by Angel Management Group (AMG) a Las Vegas-based nightlife company and moved to sin city in 2011.
By the end of his first year with AMG he was promoted to Lead VIP Host for the Wet Republic Ultra Pool at the MGM Grand.
In 2012 Manny seized an opportunity to open his own company and created “Tonight I’m VIP”. His company rapidly grew into a boutique concierge agency known by an unmatched level of service and a worldwide depth.
In this conversation you will take away 3 promising insights (plus many more)
- How can one take a bitter life experience and make the best out of it
- What is the decline America is going through, why is it happening and what can one do about it
- How do we regain the DNA of what made us
Important Quotes from Manny Kess
- When you’re in hospitality, you’re always helping people
- When you become an adult real quick, overnight; it’s really challenging
- In life you can deal with trauma in one of two ways: you can use it as Motivation, or you make bad decisions and become an alcoholic, drug addict
- We have to take the lesson, whether it’s bitter or sweet and do the best we can
- My Mom was always loving me and kept giving me life lessons
- As long as we strive to be better than the day before, we’re making progress
- My father instilled in me a work ethic, the notion to just be a man of your word
- 95 out of 100, I always did what I thought was right
- Today, My Mom can look at me today and say ‘I’m proud of my son’
- If you’re better to yourself, you’d be better to others
- What triggers us is a mirror of ourselves in others
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