Meet Rolando Gonzalez

We were lucky to catch up with Rolando Gonzalez recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Rolando, thanks for sharing your insights with our community today. Part of your success, no doubt, is due to your work ethic and so we’d love if you could open up about where you got your work ethic from?

My work ethic is deeply rooted in my upbringing. My exposure to unhealthy experiences caused me to develop a strong desire to seek validation and approval from others, feeling the need to constantly prove my worth and avoid letting people down. This drive has shaped my work ethic, pushing me to strive for more in everything I do. I’m a dreamer. I believe every human is worthy of their dreams and good enough to acquire the skills to accomplish them. I’m also on a journey of self-discovery and growth, aiming to overcome these challenges and be a positive example for others facing similar struggles.

Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?

When my parents first asked me what I wanted to be as a child I said “an actor”. After some healing and quite a bit of inner work I realized that it may have stemmed from me wanting my father’s attention. My father loved watching TV and I sat there next to him mesmerized by films. I was so inspired by movies like Rocky. The way Rocky made me feel was that anybody and everybody has a champion inside them as long as they keep fighting for it. That feeling is what I want to give others. The feeling when I hear a Bob Marley song or a Tupac song, there is just something that calls forth the purest of your spirit when consuming art that truly resonates with you. Acting has challenged my willingness to be vulnerable, which in turn revealed to me that my sensitivity was not my biggest weakness but in fact my biggest strength. Acting is an opportunity to work collectively with other storytellers and I feel like I won the lottery to even have an audition. To even be able to work with these amazing talented people is a blessing. This journey has been so synchronistic for me there is not a doubt in my mind that this is what I was meant to do.

One of my dreams is to help others achieve their dreams. I started my own digital marketing business that brings people into a step by step program to learn how to create a passive income by utilizing the power of social media in only 2 hours a day. This program has come in divine timing and is now currently changing lives and creating millionaires. People are having more time with their family, doing more of what they love, and in a down economy, having an increase in their income. It never felt right to my spirit to be trapped in a building for 9 hours a day in order to just squeak by. I have grown exponentially in the process, this program truly breathed new life in to me. Time freedom is everything to me now, and being incentivized by growing others is in my opinion the true path to success.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?

Looking back I believe the three things that continue to help me in my journey are vulnerability, humility, and resilience. I believe vulnerability is one of our super powers, but as a Mexican American male I was brought up around mostly machismo, so I was never really encouraged to explore this. I always felt the need to wear this mask, mostly to protect myself, but once I was opened up I was blown away by the connection to others and the world around us. Just to be clear I am still working on the vulnerability piece, I feel like i’ve really only dipped my toe in the water. Humility is huge for me because it allows me to be in the student role at all times. In order to teach one must learn first, what follows is extraordinary. As you are teaching things become much clearer to you, I love the saying “when one teaches two learn”. Resilience to me means believing and trusting in the unknown. I wholeheartedly believe that everything that has ever happened was happening for me and not TO me. I once had a mentor tell me “faith and fear both demand you believe in something you cannot see”, this quote from Bob Proctor stuck with me. I continue to press on in my journey with faith that everything is working for me for my highest good.

Thanks so much for sharing all these insights with us today. Before we go, is there a book that’s played in important role in your development?

From Poverty to Power is a book written by James Allen. Most people know his book As a Man Thinketh and although that book is amazing as well, from Poverty to Power had me on the verge of weeping. This book explores the human experience and our relationship with both the physical and the divine. He emphasizes topics such as the power of thought, self reliance, and the power of character and outlines a path to prosperity that involves cultivating virtues such as patience, humility, and gratitude. He argues that true prosperity comes from aligning our actions with universal principles and serving others selflessly.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.everydayispaydaynow.com
• Instagram: @rgonzalez619
• Email: [email protected]