Fire in The Belly“The Setback Is Just A Set Up For My Comeback.” - Mike Duffy Interview
Mike Duffy, CEO of Happiness Wealth Management and public speaker joins the Fire In The Belly podcast today to share how the loss of his mother at age 17 sent him on a journey to regaining his happiness. They discuss how life’s tragedies can often help create beautiful things, how purpose plus progress equals happiness and how the law of reciprocity can aid a long and happy marriage.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Sometimes in life, it is tragedies that help create beautiful things. A lot of times in life, if you look at the silver lining, some of the hardest things that happen to you, become the greatest things that happen to you if you choose to go the right route.
- Purpose plus progress equals happiness. You have to identify the purposes in your life, we all have many of these. Then, as you make progress in those purposes, that is when happiness shows up.
- There are two types of happiness. There is platonic happiness whereby you go out and drink; take an expensive vacation or go shopping and spend a lot of money that grant you temporary happiness. Then, there is a thing called sustainable happiness, which is the happiness you get as a result of giving to others.
- Every year you should write down your goals. Revisit your goals during the year so that you can go back and write down the date when you achieved the goal. There is something extremely rewarding when it comes to ticking off your goals.
- Resilience is such an important skill for people to understand. You can either treat the bad things that have happened to you as painful or you can look at them as happening for you. Look at these situations and see how much stronger they have made you. The setback is just a set-up for your comeback.
- When you are in a relationship, especially a marriage, you always want to put the other person before yourself. The law of reciprocity states that if you are good to somebody, they want to be good to you. So why wouldn’t you want to be good to your partner? It will come back to you.
BEST MOMENTS
“I tried to figure out a way of how I could regain my happiness.”
“This life is very short.”
“This setback is just a set-up for my comeback.”
“ Bring the energy! If you want to convey the message, convey your energy and people will listen to you!”
ABOUT THE GUEST
With over 28 years of planning experience, Mike Duffy dedicates his expertise to helping high net-worth clients achieve greater financial independence. Having worked for some of the financial industry’s leading firms, Mike’s extensive history includes roles at Paine Webber, Citicorp Investment Services, Bank of America Investment Services and Merrill Lynch. While thriving in advanced asset management strategies at the top brokerage firms, Mike recognized a growing need to provide clients with more personalized solutions. He established Happiness Wealth Management to give individuals, families and business owners the unwavering and objective attention they deserve. Mike excels at helping clients identify their objectives and builds a bridge to achieve them. An exceptionally service-oriented advisor, he provides solutions truly catered to his clients’ specific needs. For clients seeking socially responsible investing agendas, Mike selects investments that perfectly align with their values. He is a longtime member of Kingdom Advisors, the largest Christian financial planning association in the United States. Actively involved in his community, Mike is a member of the St. Charles Men’s Club and the Irish Technology Leadership Group. He coaches basketball, football and volleyball. He has a homeless outreach that helps homeless people on the Peninsula. Mike is married to Shannon Duffy who is a Senior Vice President at Salesforce. They love travelling, finding great restaurants and spending time with their two beautiful children, Kendall and Michael.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-duffy-30ab0518
Website: https://www.happinesswealthmanagement.com/team
ABOUT THE HOST
The ‘Mighty Pete Lonton’ from the ‘Mighty 247’ company is your main host of ‘Fire In The Belly’.
Pete is an Entrepreneur, Mentor, Coach, Property Investor, and father of 3 beautiful girls. Pete’s background is in Project Management and Property, but his true passion is the ‘Fire in The Belly’ project itself. His mission is to help others find their potential and become the mightiest version of themselves. Pete openly talks about losing both of his parents, suffering periods of depression, business downturn and burn-out, and ultimately his years spent not stoking ‘Fire In the Belly’. In 2017, at 37 years of age that changed, and he is now on a journey of learning, growing, accepting, and inspiring others.
Pete can connect with people and intuitively asks questions to reveal a person’s passion and discover how to live their mightiest life. The true power of ‘Fire In The Belly’ is the Q&A’s - Questions and Actions!
The ‘Fire In The Belly’ brand and the programme is rapidly expanding into podcasts, seminars, talks, business workshops, development courses, and rapid results mentoring.
CONTACT METHOD
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