EP 120 - Chef Mad Dog Maggert, Losing A Leg and Finding A Path

Losing a leg would be devastating in anyone’s life, but what if that’s what led you to your path and the things that truly make you feel happy and fulfilled?

In 2011, Chef Mad Dog Maggert got flesh-eating bacteria. In 2015 he had his left leg amputated due to complications. At that point, he asked me one question, “how can I make sure I never get sick like that again?” 

 Mad Dog then turned to food, studying everything he could about eating good food. He became so fascinated with food that once he retired from the military, he went to the Institute of Culinary Education in Manhattan NY to become a chef. 

What You Will Learn:

• How Mad Dog went from being a weapons specialist in the military to being a chef

• How Mad Dog got flesh-eating bacteria and how that changed his trajectory

• What happened when Colin Powell got a flat tire and the impact surrounding that

• Why Mad Dog is so invested in helping other people and trying to be of service

• How the nickname Mad Dog came to be when Mad Dog was in the Marines

• The 3 things that Mad Dog lives by and where he picked them up

• Why it’s more efficient to do things right the first time instead of phoning it in

Favorite Quote:

“Nobody cares if you’re sick, nobody cares if you’re down. Everybody wants you to be that thing man. You gotta play the part. If you got hustle, people are looking for it”

-Chef Mad Dog Maggert 

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Patrick Bolanos is a serial entrepreneur, business owner, and CEO of Trailer King Builders in Houston, Texas.

He was raised in Nicaragua, exposed to extreme poverty, and also had the fortune of being exposed to life in the United States traveling back and forth to both countries. 

After college, Patrick’s career took him into the corporate world of banking where he learned the important lessons of understanding what you’re selling and why it’s important to believe in it. 

Back in December of 2017, Patrick was fired from his job as a CFO for a Restaurant Group.  With only $500 to his name, rent due, his wife, 3 children at home, and one on the way, he was forced to figure out how to pull his family out of this financial abyss that was strangling his life. 

With no knowledge of how to build a trailer, Patrick simply figured all of it out and has now built it into the thriving empire of what’s now become Trailer King Builders.

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