The Power of Reinvention | CAULIPOWER'S Gail Becker on Her $500M Second Act

Hello, and welcome to the Tony Robbins podcast. It's Mary b with a thirty second intro to this episode. You're about to hear a one on one conversation that was recorded at last year's business mastery conference. I just wanna let you know that this year's business mastery is coming up. So if you are interested in taking your business to the next level with Tony's help, then please come join us. I'd love to see you at business mastery twenty twenty three. It's August. You can come get right in on the action in person with us here at the Palm Beach Convention Center. Or if you prefer, you can attend right from the comforts of your own home through Zoom. Just go to tonyrobbins.com/businessmastery to apply. We can't wait to meet you. Now on to the show. Reinvention is what keeps you hungry. It's what keeps you engaged. It's what keeps you curious. It's where the sparks of innovation live. We're gonna begin here initially with a lady who, you know, she's had tremendous background. She'd been a vice president of communications at Warner Brothers. She worked with the Clinton administration. She worked with Edelman, the PR agency. And at 52 years old, she decided to become an entrepreneur. And she was so successful that literally, she turned things around. I think the first year, she made 5,000,000 in gross revenues. But within three years, she's doing a $100,000,000, and she did it to solve a problem like most great entrepreneurs, in this case, or two of her family members. Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for Gail Becker, founder of Colin Power, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah. We're thrilled to have you. Thank you. I'm so thrilled to be here. What's your experience with what witnessing these crazy people we're all doing together here? I'm curious. It's amazing. It's palpable. It's wonderful. Well, listen. You have you had a storied career in corporate America and in politics as well. After sixteen, seventeen years at the age of 52, you just started to start a business. What creates this career change for you on such a massive scale? Will you share with us the story? How did a nice girl like me end up in the pizza business? That's right. That's what you're asking. So it was really three things that happened at the same time. One was, the passing of my father, who came to this country with nothing. He was an entrepreneur. He was a entrepreneur. He was a holicos survivor. He was, both my parents were and I am actually a first generation American. But he came here with nothing, actually less than nothing. No family, no schooling, no money, no language skills, and he built a small business. And when he died, something inside me really just changed, and I knew I wanted to do something more meaningful, something that was gonna make a difference in people's lives. I didn't know what it was. Yeah. …