If you had told Eric Bailey that playing professional basketball would cost him as much as it did, he would have probably quit long before he got started. As a result of playing basketball, he has had nine knee operations, a hip replacement and chronic arthritis. But Eric also knows that if he had not gone through that pain, he would have been stuck in the hood and failed to become the person he is today. He says he was willing to go through whatever it took if it got him out of the hood and out of poverty.

Eric Bailey is a former professional basketball player and a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP). He is considered one of the world’s most sought-after motivational speakers. Becoming a professional athlete is extremely hard, and very few people ever make it to professional sports. Eric says to become a professional athlete he not only needed to be hardworking, skilled, dedicated and committed; he also needed to be passionate. He needed to be passionate enough to keep going even when times got hard.

Eric was brought up in south Los Angeles. His parents adopted him when they were in their forties. As a young person, Eric used to go to a barbershop near their home where he would polish people’s shoes and get paid some money. He loved the conversations that were going on at the barbershop, ranging from politics, race, unemployment, travel. The conversations created a desire in him to want to get out of the neighborhood and travel the world.

Today, Eric works with companies and individuals to help them become the best in whatever they do. He coaches people to think like the best, for them to become the best. He presents a message of resilience and bouncing back emphasizing the need to embrace the mindset of a champion. His life is a testament that your race, your religion or your financial background does not have to dictate how your life pans out. And with everything going on in the United States today, Eric feels he has a message of freedom he can share with the nation. Eric is the Co-Owner of Wolf Leadership. Based in Brisbane, Queensland Australia.

“I have a really profound message that I would love to deliver to as many people as I can that, ‘hey, you know what, it does not matter where you are right now, you can get to that next level’”, He says, “We were born to win. I want to free people to be able to dream bigger than they ever dreamed in life.”

Wolf's ideal client is anyone who is serious about making some improvements in their lives, personal development, sales, leadership and mental well-being. We go through a rigorous structure of identifying how serious our clients are. Over the past 30 years, Eric has been dealing with corporate clients. He’s worked with many Fortune 500 companies, including Procter and Gamble, Qantas, RE/MAX, Ford, McDonald’s and AMP.  He has specifically been helping people in the sales/leadership departments in various companies. He says selling is not just about the actual product that you’re selling. It is also about selling yourself and your confidence. And coming from a sports background, he says he had learned to sell to his opponents his confidence, showing them that they needed to bring their ‘A-game’.

In this episode Eric is interviewed by World Class Magazine. Other guests include: Sir Richard Branson, Tony Robbins, Bob Proctor, Rafael Nadal , Kim and Robert Kiyosaki, Deepak Chopra, and thought leaders around the world. 

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