The "Day In Thirds" Schedule Burned-Out Owners Need To Steal | Danny Morel

The Home Service Expert Podcast

Danny Morel, a former real estate mogul who built a $1B annual sales company with 400 agents, shares his transformative journey from burnout to spiritual

Key takeaways

• Success without inner healing leads to burnout and emptiness.
• True love begins with loving oneself before loving others.

Main topics

• The Day in Thirds schedule
• Healing emotional wounds from childhood trauma

Notable quotes

"You want to have it all? Make as much money as you want. Just don't ever work more than 20 hours a week to make it."

Conclusion

Danny Morel's story illustrates that true fulfillment comes not from external achievements, but

Transcript preview

Speaker 1 (0:00) Tommy, by the time I was done with real estate, we were doing a billion in annual sales and I was working the business three hours a week. I'll tell you what my mentor taught me that blew my mind. He says, Danny, you want to have it all? And I said, yeah. All right, here's the key to having it all. Make as much money as you want. Just don't ever work more than 20 hours a week to make it. Speaker 2 (0:20) Today I got Danny Morrell and this man is a legend. I'm really excited to have you on because I always talk about pulling out the best in people. I do orientation. I got 64 guys coming in this month. And I'm like, I'm going to pull out the best part of you, whether you like it or not. And if you don't like that, this is not the place for you. Danny's the author of Awaken Your Highest Self. And through his work, he's inspired thousands and thousands around the world to heal from the past and step into the highest versions of themselves. Danny, let's just jump into. You know, I know that your mother was part of your motivation and she passed in 2016. And I'm very sorry that that, you know, I'm super close to my mom and my dad. And, you know, I can't imagine what you've been through, but I know that that's a big piece of why you pushed yourself and the motivation for the Higher Self Movement. Could you just tell us a little bit about, you know, your upbringing and kind of the whole story? Speaker 1 (1:23) Yeah. My story begins with a mother whose mother passed away at 13 days old. And I say that that's where my story begins because our story begins with our parents, really, and everything that they experienced in life. And since my mother didn't have her mother at 13 days old, then my mother was disconnected from her feminine, her heart, and receiving the maternal energy of love. Well, when she had me, there was no way that she could pass or give to me what she never received. So I had a really deep feminine wound. I had a really deep heart wound. Then my father, my father was born to a father that disowned him from the day he was born because my father was the product of an affair. So my father didn't have that guidance, that leadership, that masculine energy. So there was no way that he could provide for me what he didn't have himself. So I immediately came into life with both of these woundings. And on an energetic basis, Tommy, I didn't feel neither the love that my heart was looking for or the leadership that the boy in me was looking for. And what we do unconsciously is we create a story. And we create a story that something is wrong with us. And the only way that we can fix it is if we go out and fix it someday. So that's what I, all of this is unconscious, by the way, decided to do. I said, you know what? I know where I'm going to find love. I'm going to find love when I get married. So I was this young guy who was always looking to get married, where everybody else was like, you know, screwing around. I wanted to get married. And when everyone else was partying. I wanted to build a business because I, in my mind was looking for on a deep energetic level, significance, acceptance, and love through success, power, and relationships. And all of this was happening like at the deepest level of myself. So I went out, I built a billion dollar a year real estate sales company. Um, I had 400 realtors working for me in Southern California. We did 2,500 sales a year. Uh, I, I had it. all a billion dollars in annual sales, 40 million in revenue. And one day my mom passes away and she passed away from cancer. Speaker 1 (3:53) She passed away from lung cancer, never smoked a day in her life. And when that happened, it's as if I finally like something happened. I was connected spiritually. And all of these questions started showing up that I had been afraid to answer my whole life. Number one, was I happy? I didn't want to answer that one because I knew I wasn't. Number two, was I in love? I didn't want to answer that one because I had been married for 13 years and I knew that I wasn't. And number three, did I love what I do? And I didn't want to answer that one because I knew I did it. And that's where like life really shifted for me, man. And my spiritual journey began. And I discovered the reason why my mom died of lung cancer was because the lung is what holds grief. And she was grieving her entire life, not having her mother. And so I just went into like understanding all of life, understanding God, understanding why I was the way that I was. And I awakened spiritually. And that's what I help people do now. I help people to really have it all in life. But the only way you're ever going to have it all in life is if you stop chasing and you start understanding that you are it all. So can Speaker 2 (5:05) I just break this down a little bit? Yeah. Today, you're in Austin, not California. I mean, today you're in New York, but you reside in Austin. Speaker 1 (5:15) Yeah. Speaker 2 (5:15) So let's go through this. Am I happy? Are you? Speaker 1 (5:23) Today? Speaker 2 (5:24) Yeah. Speaker 1 (5:26) Oh, you know, it's really interesting. The answer to that question is I'm more than happy. I just am. And when you just are, there's nothing else that you really need to be. You're at peace. I think peace is more important than happiness. So I would say I'm a level deeper than happy. Yeah. Speaker 2 (5:48) Yeah. You know, I always say I'm happy and sad throughout the day. I would say, do I feel? I feel so excited to be on this earth. I'm really like, I'm excited about life. There's this, there's this little video of this dog running in the beach and he's like, come on, we only live once. Enjoy yourself. You only live once. And I love that video so much, but I, I just like every morning, I'm just so thankful. And I'm, I still feel like in my life, so humble and a lot of humility and like, man, God's working in miracles in my life. So The next question is, am I in love because you were married 13 years? I'd love to hear a little bit about that. Speaker 1 (6:31) Yeah, there's no way, this is really important. There's no way you can ever fully love another human being, at least not to the level that love is available to us until you first go on the journey of loving yourself. Because you cannot give what you don't have and you cannot receive what you are afraid to receive. And a lot of us, what happens is that we never receive love to the fullest capacity. We receive the version of our parents. uh that was their absolute best with what they had and that creates a wound yeah and so what i did was the more and more that i healed and i went deep deep deep into connection with the spirit world and i started to heal and release all of this energy the more and more that i started to find peace and love within myself and when that happened i attracted my my now wife and uh Yeah. Again, it's, I would say it's more than love. It's, it's, yeah, it's, it's, it's finally just being at peace with another human being while also understanding like the deep spiritual unraveling that's available to people when you are no longer in the energy of fear. So, yeah. Speaker 2 (7:49) And the final one is, do you love what you do? Because obviously real estate Speaker 1 (7:54) wasn't Speaker 2 (7:55) fulfilling. Speaker 1 (7:57) Yeah, I got a deep answer for that one. When you clear all of the energy inside and you heal it, you no longer actually do anything. There's no longer any effort. There's no longer a goal. There's no longer anything to strive for. There's no longer anything that you're working towards. You're just being yourself. And your business and what you do, is just a byproduct of who you are. So if you were to ask me, what do you do? I'm me. That's what I do. I just be me all day. And what comes from that, yeah, is a beautiful business where I get to help millionaires and so many people from all over the world heal that little boy and little girl inside of them. Yeah. Speaker 2 (8:54) You know, you got me really thinking, and I don't want to take up too much time here because I got a million questions, but my dad came from a family of 12 and got the shit beat out of him his whole life by my grandpa. And my mom... And grandma worked, she was on food stamps because grandpa left right after my mom was born. And I think what they did is they changed the cycle. Although they got a divorce when I was seven, but my dad was around. He quit drinking when I was born. And man, he was like my, in first grade, I said, everyone said, I want to be Superman. I want to be Batman. I said, I want to be my dad. He was there. He was at every field trip. He was my soccer coach. Taught me how to golf, shoot a gun. And my mom, the reason I'm where I'm at today is no matter what my mom said, I love you no matter what. And I'm going to be there. And she was super feminine. And I got both sides, at least through those critical years. And then it turned sideways. And I will tell you, the little boy, I still go back to that version, whether it's a Freudian thing, I don't know. But I'm still trying to prove something. I will say that. Like, the first thing is admitting you got a problem. And I will say there's this little boy in me that you talk about that I'm like. This enough is never enough. And there's still a fear of loss because we lost everything. And no matter how much money it is, I mean, the company's done well, like in every sense of the word. But I still people are like, when's enough enough? And I'm like, well, with AI and everything else. But where does somebody like me start? Speaker 1 (10:29) Hey, guys, just a quick heads up before we get back into it. 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