How to Find Your Passion with Dev Gadhvi

0:01Light that spark fire nation JLD here and welcome to entrepreneurs on fire brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network with great shows like Marketing Against the Grain. Today, we'll be breaking down the story of going from the slums to being a multi-millionaire. To drop these value bombs, I brought Dev Godvey into EO Fire Studios. Dev is India's first passionpreneur, mentor, TEDx speaker, twice Amazon bestselling author. And he went from slums to multi-millionaire, which we'll talk about today. And he's on a mission to transform one billion, that's with a B, lives. And today, Hey, Foundation, we'll talk about purpose.

0:38We'll talk about service. We'll talk about finding your true calling and break down the steps to take to find your true passion and so much more. And a big thank you for sponsoring today's episode goes to Dev and our sponsors. Business Made Simple, hosted by Donald Miller, is brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. Business Made Simple takes the mystery out of growing your business with episodes like how to get out of your day-to-day operations without crashing your business. Listen to Business Made Simple wherever you get your podcasts.

1:11Many EO Fire listeners have launched franchises in a variety of industries outside of food, and Fran Bridge Consulting has guided them to these premier opportunities. The founder, John Ostenson, has done more placements than any other in the country. Sign up for a free consultation with John or get a free copy of his book, Non-Food Franchising, at FranBridgeConsulting.com. Dev, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something that you believe about becoming successful that most people disagree with. I think the success is all about knowing your true self and serving others selflessly. That is what it is.

1:58Like when you give more to people, when you serve more people, that is true success. And success with fulfillment. And Fire Nation, that's why today's topic is all about how to find your passion. And Dev is the guy to chat about with this today. Because Dev, you've had quite the story, my brother. Give us the quick and skinny. Hello, Fire Nation. So this is Dev Gedwies. I was born in a very humble family. My dad was a truck driver. I did not know what to do in life except for just work really, really hard. In fact, my English was horrible. I could not speak proper English grew up in slums basically you know it was surrounded people drink fight gamble and abuse and from that neighborhood learning to speak proper English getting job worked in job for 16 years and I was still lost in fact I was suffering from a disease which I feel majority of the people are suffering or having and most of them they don't even know that they're having this disease.

3:05It's called mediocrity. And that is what I was suffering from. I realized this, I was mediocre when I was in, you know, in 2016, when I started reading some self-help books, Grant Cardone's book, it just blew my mind and made me realize that, man, I think we all have huge potential, but we don't even use 5 % of it. And that gap of not utilizing my potential, I think that became vacuum and it led to dissatisfaction. That led me to soul searching and finding who I truly was and what I want to do. And I found my passion in doing maximum that I can in anything I did. When I was in a job, I did maximum and did massive calls, prospecting closing it made me feel happy and I said man this is beautiful by just changing my thought process changing my mindset if I can change my life I started getting amazing results I said man I want to help other people and that's when I started my journey of content creation writing a book and today I'm very fortunate in India we got hundreds of thousands of followers thousands of people who have found their passion through passion printer programs and building their business on it.

4:28So this is me, wrote a couple of books, TEDx speech. So that's my story, going from nobody to somebody in the job to now passion printer mentor, helping people to find their passion and convert that into business. Well, I love your story. And that's obviously one of the reasons why you're here with us today. And another thing is we keep hearing that we need to find out what our passion is. We just keep hearing that over and over again. You need to find your passion, find your passion, find your passion. But no one ever really tells us why. So Dev, step up to the plate. Tell us why we need to find our passion.

5:07Well, it's pretty straightforward. If you see majority of our life, you know, what are we going to do is we're going to work, right? We're not going to just sit at home and do nothing and if you see one-third of life we probably sleep and do the household chores and basic things and maybe one-third we spend with family or leisure right but what about the other one-third or in many cases especially in India two-thirds of our life we spend almost working really really hard but most of the people working on the most important aspect of their life which is spending most of the time of their life is in job career profession if you don't like that if you don't love what you're doing what's the point i think gone are those days where work was like just for survival and hobbies and things that you like doing it is just on a weekday or a weekend and just chill.

6:07But I think right now we're living in times that what you love can be converted into business. Why not do it and do this both? Make money from your passion. That's what you should do it. So Fire Nation, I really hope that you're taking in everything that Dev is saying here because this is a person who's walked the walk and talked the talk for a long time now. But I still want to ask you why, Dev? Because there's a lot of people out here that are just not able to find their passion. Why is that the case? Well, people not able to find their passion is because, you see, as we were born, we were given name.

6:45We never chose our name, right? We didn't choose our parents. We didn't choose our relatives. A lot of things we did not actually choose, even the careers and professions. We think we chose it, but most of the people, they were by default conditioned by the society and the people around us. we chose those careers and profession so when somebody asked you who are you most of the people actually don't know why are you born most of the people don't know and I was one of them I did not know who I am what my passion is what my purpose is and I was just going round and round in the circles and that's why there was dissatisfaction so according to me it's really important to find passion, but how to find the passion, I think is very important.

7:30I think that more than why, I think it's how to find the passion. People are starting to get aware now as to what they should do, not just for survival, but actually for success. I think slowly, slowly things are big, people are getting aware. Earlier was not the case, but now people are getting aware about this. And Fire Nation, with the help of people like Dev and Entrepreneurs on Fire, we're going to keep spreading this out to the world. And again, the focus of what we're talking about here today is how to find your passion. And we have so much more to talk about when we get back from thanking our sponsors.

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11:08That's FranBridgeConsulting.com. So Dev, we're back, and we talked about the why, why we need to find our passion. We talked about why people are not able to find their passion. Let's now talk about the how. Let's talk about how to find our passion. And let's go deeper as you're talking about maybe a couple of specific examples of people that you've worked with, your customers, your clients, your followers who have done so. Tell their story. How to find passion? I think it's very, very simple, actually. People think it's complicated. It's actually not. it basically boils down to asking yourself deep questions people not able to find the passion because they don't ask themselves questions as to who they are we do not choose our our passion or purpose actually passionate purpose chooses us so everything that you want in life is already there within you like you you want to know your passion just look within right this is a time to choose who you truly are and live that.

12:09So what kind of question to ask? The first and foremost question is, what problems would I love to solve for others? See, most of the time, we've been just like, man, my money, my house, my cars, we are always like, me, me, me, me, me. But the moment we say, what problems can I solve for others, when you help others solve problems, then you start making more money. I'll give a classic example. One of my mentee, Prakash, when he came to me, he was in a job. He was stuck. He did not know his passion and purpose. And I asked him, so what do you love? Like what kind of problem do you like to solve for people?

12:45He said, Dave, you know what? I was really heavy and I was fat. I wanted to lose weight, but I do not know how. I lost weight. That's one thing I can help others solve. I said, what else? He said, I'm passionate about dogs. I love dogs and I have two dogs and I want to make sure that people take care of the dogs. I said, okay, what can you do to solve problem for others in terms of health as well as in terms of dog? He said, maybe I can do fitness. I said, okay, how about you combine fitness with the dogs, the pets? He said, yeah, I can do that. I said, okay, and then can you solve more problems for the pet owners.

13:29They don't know how to train the dogs, how to take care of the dogs. Can you train them? I mean, can you teach them how to do that? I said, yes, I would love to do that because that's what I do for myself. And by just this question, he discovered his passion. And today, he's already making six figures based out of Bangalore, India. So that's how he found his passion. there are many other people one of my mentee was stuck in a job and did not know how to grow in career so he started learning and he grew himself into vice president and big positions and he he he felt the pain of people getting stuck just like him and he said man i want to i want to help other people to come out of this mediocre or stuck career and i want them to grow so he started teaching people, helping people, started writing the book and became the bestselling as well.

14:21So the question is, it's not about what can I get? It's about what can I give to others? What problem can I solve for others? And once you start doing that, you will find your passion. This is the best way to find your passion. Hey, Dev, one thing that I really want to be clear about is that my listeners, Fire Nation, they are entrepreneurs. They are businessmen. They business women. So I want to get down to the nitty gritty and talk about how we can convert this passion into a business. Because I love what you just shared. I mean, I was taking tons of notes. I mean, you were asking, you know, who are you, Fire Nation?

14:57You need to choose who you are and you need to live that. You need to ask the right questions. Ask what problems you want to solve. And something that I've always said and I stand by is become the number one solution to a real problem, not just any problem, but a real problem, because people will be the path to the doorstep of the number one solution to their real problem. So Dev, I ask you, how can we convert this passion that we're finding into a business? Everything that you want to do in life is based on the process. Now, if you're already an entrepreneur, you know it, that you're building a business is a process, having six figure process, a seven-figure process.

15:38Same thing, if you found your passion, find a process. What is the process? Step one is, how are you different? You have passion, great, but how are you different than all the people who are in your niche? What is your micro niche, right? So, let's say, for example, your career coach, right? How are you different than all the other career coaches? can you dissect that career coaching into maybe a specific industry right or maybe career coach only for you know based on the gender like for men or based on designation like career coaches for senior people or people are senior managers or maybe for geography so getting the clarity of who you are is good but also how you're different in business is also very crucial because the passion that does not pay becomes poison that's what i say you need to find how to make money from your passion by solving problem for others but you need to be different that's step number one number two is visibility like if nobody knows you nobody can buy from you nobody can work with you so find how can you get known like whether podcasts like how this is fire nation like you can start your own podcast you can create your content on social media today we have so many ai to chat gbp and so many things are available learn how to put out the content you know it's surprising thing is for example linkedin right linkedin has got i don't know what half a billion or more subscribers right now or users right now do you know how many people actually create content on linkedin not even one percent right one to two percent people are creating it 98 people are not creating the content so it is it's a huge open space for you to go out there and conquer it that's what i did actually i when i started my journey as a passion for a mentor i just started creating content on social media without any ads people found me people wanted to learn and that here we are right so that's number two is visibility number three is productization so you have your passion right you got your differentiation which is a micro niche now you got the visibility but But when people reach out to you, what are you going to sell?

17:53Right. So find a way to build multiple product portfolios, starting from free to low ticket to mid ticket to high ticket or premium. Build multiple programs or product portfolio, whether physical, digital, coaching, training, whatever it is. And, you know, that's number three. Number four is monetization. how do you sell your product whether it's one-on-one or one-on-many from the platform or you know or is it somebody from your team closing the deal like find a way how you can close the deal because if you cannot close the deal nothing can move forward and last but not the least is automation like how do you automate by building the funnels the processes and setting it in a way that you can scale the lead flow and conversion in an automated manner.

18:46So these are some of the steps to convert passion into profession or full-time business or grow your business. Now, Fire Nation, this is why you listen to a podcast about how to find your passion because we talk about why people are not finding their passion. We talk about why you need to find your passion, how to find your passion, and then how to convert that passion into a business. You You now have the tools. So Dev, step back. Give us the one key takeaway you really want to make sure we get from this conversation today. Serve others and serve selflessly. When you give selflessly, you get back tremendously.

19:26Like what you're doing with this podcast, John, Fire Nation, you're giving selflessly, you're serving people, helping people. and that's your powerful story, which has changed your life and has changed other people. But first you changed and impacted other people's lives. You served them and you continue to do that. And that's why you're getting everything back. So a lot of people start a business, but like, and how do I become rich? How do I make money? That is not the best way to start a business. You start a business by serving others. And when you start serving people, you will start loving it.

20:00And that will become your passion and purpose. and that you will become unstoppable and then sky's the limit. That's what I did. I went from six figure to seven figure. Now on the way to be eight figure this year, all because man, I want to serve people. I want to transform life and I'm going to mission transform 1 billion lives. So go ahead, serve as many people as you can. Dev, where can Fire Nation connect with you? Where can they learn more from you? Where is your call to action for us going today? Well, you can find me on Instagram. just find Dave Gudvi D-E-V-G-A-D-H-V-I 10X that's my handle just find me there and in that bio you will find all the links and you can find me everywhere I'm almost on all the platforms just search Dave Gudvi 10X and you can follow me there Fire Nation you're the average of the five people you spend the most time with and you've been hanging out with DG and JLD today so keep up the heat and if you want to get the links to everything that we've been talking about here today, visit eofire.com, type dev in the search bar, D-E-V, and the show notes page will pop right up.

21:11And Dev, I just want to say thank you, brother, for sharing your truth, your knowledge, your value with Fire Nation today. For that, we salute you and we'll catch you on the flip side. Thank you so much, brother. It was a pleasure to be here. Hey, Fire Nation. A huge thank you to our sponsors and Dev for sponsoring today's episode. and Fire Nation's successful entrepreneurs accomplish big goals. That's why I created the Freedom Journal to guide you in accomplishing your number one goal in 100 days. And we're talking step by step. Visit thefreedomjournal.com and I'll catch you there or I'll catch you on the flip side.

21:45Business Made Simple, hosted by Donald Miller, is brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. Business Made Simple takes the mystery out of growing your business with episodes like how to get out of your day-to-day operations without crashing your business. Listen to Business Made Simple wherever you get your podcasts. Many EO Fire listeners have launched franchises in a variety of industries outside of food and Fran Bridge Consulting has guided them to these premier opportunities. The founder, John Ostenson, has done more placements than any other in the country.

22:17Sign up for a free consultation with John or get a free copy of his book, Non-Food Franchising at franbridgeconsulting.com. Thank you.