Unique Leaders: Sebastian Rusk
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Sebastian was a very active kid growing up. He just wanted to be heard, which was hard during the 80s. There wasn’t much in way of kids having a voice. He was and is very close with his mother. They go divorced when he was 9. It was very hard for him. His father remarried and his step mother struggled to be a mother for him and his sister. They later ended up moving to Miami with their mother.After her graduated high school his mother gave him 2 options. She would pay for an apartment and his real estate license or go work with his sister with the military. He chose to have his own place. He had a few years living a college/party life. He ended up moving back to Miami and went into sales. At 19 he found out that he was going to be a dad. His response was excitement. He yearned for responsibility but the woman was not interested in taking on this responsibility. He ended up getting into the domain name game -selling domains to companies that need a website. He needed to pay for the coming baby. They ended up moving to Chicago to take this job. He ended up making good money but he was not wanting to be in the cold anymore.One morning he ended up seeing an infomercial on a “business in a box” idea and he decided he wanted do it. He went back and forth with this guy to go work for him in California. This didn’t work out at that time. Later Sebastian contacted him again and he ended up getting the gig. He did very well and they moved to Southern California in 2001. He made the top salesman of the year and within the year he quit. He became an entrepreneur in 2003. At the time he didn’t have character development-humility. He had a cocky attitude, he was young and dumb. During the 2008 market crash, he started to loose everything. He endedup moving back to Florida with his daughter. His wife was not interested in being a mom and after a short marriage they got a divorce and he became a single dad at a very young age.In 2011 he had an awakening moment, character revelations. He has been continuing to chip away at himself to allow the person who he is supposed to be to manifest. He believes that we all have a calling, the question is will we take on that calling. More people need to have more awareness about this calling and how to chip away the things that aren’t a part of them and find this person they are designed to be.Today he is well known online presence, an author, a speaker. He loves to create and he enjoys helping people find themselves through his podcast company and his content. He loves helping others in what they want to do.
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