Transforming Life at Any Age: David Nassef's Journey

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Welcome to the Internal Shift Show. I'm Debbie

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Longo, Transformational Coach. This show explores

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how the way we think, decide, and respond internally

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influences where we end up over time. Today's

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conversation draws on real experience and expertise

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to look at how small internal shifts can change

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direction, momentum, and outcomes. We have a

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special guest today, David Nassif. Good afternoon,

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David. Welcome to the show. Hi, Debbie. Thank

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you for having me. I'm thrilled to be here with

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you today. Thank you for being on. I would like

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to talk a little bit today about where you were

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and what happened in your life and what is the

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result of that? What positive results? So if

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you want to tell us a little bit about your story

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and like, for example, the accomplishments that

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you've made and your goals and dreams that you've

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set. In the beginning, you were here, and then

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you got over the hump and you are here now. Well,

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the beginning was kind of rough, I'll be honest

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with you, Debbie. I was 63 and I just got fired

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after 18 years with the same company. I would

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not wish that day on anybody. The math was brutal.

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When I analyzed things, if I drained all of our

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savings and all of our retirement, we'd be broke.

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by 65. And at this point, I'm thinking, who is

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going to hire me at my age? Now, this is the

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hardest part. Driving home, all I could think

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about is, how am I going to tell Mary? We've

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been married for 30 years. She did not deserve

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the mess I just threw our life into. I felt like

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the biggest loser. I'm just being frank with

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you driving home that day. So after a couple

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months of dead end job searching, I decided to

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take a huge risk. And I went to work as an independent

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sales agent. on straight commission. No salary,

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no safety net. The first months were absolutely

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brutal. Cold calls, I was getting constant rejections,

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rookie mistakes. It was just everything that

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could go wrong, seemed like it was going wrong.

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But with all those rejections that came about,

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I felt like I was starting to develop more of

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a mental muscle. Sometimes resistance, I think,

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is good for you, okay? So anyways, I was developing

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this mental muscle and about 10 months after

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this, I achieved what I thought was really a

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milestone, and I was suddenly making now more

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money than my good paying corporate salary. And

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for a very few seconds, I thought to myself,

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all right, we've made it. But unfortunately,

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reality set in. I realized we had saved nothing,

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and making money was not enough. I need to learn

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how to invest and save. So I couldn't waste time

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with a bunch of complicated theories on investing

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and all that kind of thing. So I just dug into

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myself and I just started researching and I created

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this one page wealth compass with a set it and

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forget it approach. Six years later, at the age

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of 69, I achieved what I thought was impossible

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from terrified of being broke to a seven figure

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portfolio in real financial freedom. So Debbie,

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I now understand something. That it's never too

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late because if I can pull that off starting

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as late as 63 Anybody can with the right direction.

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Yes, and that was very good. Thank you So you

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started later in life and you had a career and

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then you changed your career later in life and

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a lot of people i've worked with people that

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have been through this and like you said Who's

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going to hire me at this age? But age is just

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a number It doesn't really mean that much. It

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goes by, how do I feel mentally? And how do I

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feel inside? And do I know that I could accomplish

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my goals and dreams, whatever they are? And not

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only that, if I don't have a job, then, you know,

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I need to put food on my table and eat, you know,

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and put ants in my bar, my family. So those are

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basic and shelter. But you still, regardless

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of that, right, because you could have sat home

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and said, poor me, poor me, and said I'm old

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and I can't find another job. And you could have

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sat in that and not done anything. Instead, you

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didn't do that. So this is a very, very good

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experience that we're talking about here. So

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how did you specifically accomplish this? And

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how did you get to where you are today? And how

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do you feel about your life today? Well, first

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of all, not to harp on the 65 thing, because

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this is true for any age, but I just happen to

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be 63. I mean, when people say it's too late,

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that is such a lie. I believe that lie. That

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day I got fired, Debbie, I'm going to be honest

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with you. I'm being transparent. I believe that

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lie. I thought it's too late for me. I blew it

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and I was ashamed, I was embarrassed, I was humiliated.

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And then I realized something as I started to

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just pick myself up is that, wait a minute, it's

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not so much about how much time you have left.

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It's really more about how you use that time,

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whatever that amount of time is that you have

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left. And so, so many people at my age would

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would panic and they'd either get in maybe high

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risk investments because they got to catch up

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and then ends up tragically or they get so conservative

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they can't even keep up with inflation so they

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go backwards i took a different path i said to

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myself wait a minute i need to figure this out

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and i created what i call this one page wealth

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compass because i want to if it can't fit on

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one page i didn't want to do it i just i needed

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to simplify it simplify it so i because i was

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needed to do other things too other than just

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think So I simplified it on one piece of paper.

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What it did is it kept me focused on boring,

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unsexy, proven principles that work. And that

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made all the difference for me. As a result,

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my portfolio started doubling. In some years,

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my portfolio increased greater than my gross

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annual income. And I was making really good money

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now with this new company of mine. And when that

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happens, it stops feeling like catching up. And

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now it starts feeling more like real freedom.

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And there's not a person on the planet that can't,

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if they choose to navigate in a more effective

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way, that can't turn things around no matter

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how impossible they seem. Because my situation

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would seem pretty impossible, I'll be honest

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with you. I mean, I think a lot of people, to

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me, just from my experience, do go by their age.

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Because at any point, you're absolutely correct.

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What you're saying is 100 % correct. Because

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at any point, somebody could be changing jobs

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or get fired or get asked to leave at their job

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or whatever. And they know that that part of

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their life is over, is now, now they have to

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make a decision to change, to do something different,

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maybe go on a career path, a different career

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path, whatever the situation is. But to me, just

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my experience, a lot of people think about that

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it does have to do with age. But the point is

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that You know, we're not specifically talking

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about this, like you said, but the point is that

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what is the positive result, the end result,

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the end game? What happened to you and how are

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you happy now and how happier are you than you

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were before based on everything that you've said?

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Because when I, as I get, as I grow in my life,

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I gain experience. And some of that experience

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is negative and some is positive. The idea is

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to not continue with that negativity or to turn

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that into a positive or just get rid of it somehow

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and just try something different. So that's my

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question because we want the end game. We want

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the end results, right? That we're talking about

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here. What the topic that we're focusing on.

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And then we want the end result to What is the

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positive in that? And how could be how you're

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happy? It could be financially happy, just happy

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yourself. Sure. Well, I'll tell you, on that

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day I got fired. Like I said, that was the worst

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day of my life or my career. OK. But what the

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funny thing is, Debbie, looking back on it now,

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it was the best day of my career because I did

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not have the courage. I did not have the guts

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to quit my job. and do what I did. And I'm ashamed

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to admit that, but I didn't. I needed to be nudged

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out of the nest. That company that fired me did

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me the greatest service. To this day, I don't

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talk one word bad about them. In fact, I'm grateful.

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I'm grateful for that situation. And what it

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did for me, it gave me a kind of freedom that

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is so... much beyond money. I mean, money is

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really good. I'm not going to downplay that because

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it's much better to have money than not, okay?

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But it was so much better because I took this

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compass concept I have on putting the principles

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on one page and the tools on one page and I used

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in other areas of my life. For example, when

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I was in my mid -50s, this is before that, I

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went to the doctor and he says, David, you have

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cholesterol of 235, we need to put you on statins

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immediately. And I said, wait a minute, let me

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go and do a little research. He did not want

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to hear that. He gave me this story about how

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his father died. And if he only had statins,

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he had lived, blah, blah, blah. I said, okay,

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I'm not arguing with you. I'm just, let me give

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some research. I did some research, Debbie, and

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you know what? Within 90 days, I got my cholesterol

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from 235 to 175, which is below what the standard

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thing of 200 is. I went back and I want to tell

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him, I want to tell him, I say, he didn't want

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to hear it. He didn't want to hear it. If it

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wasn't a prescription, he didn't want to hear

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it. So my compass, my health compass I have now

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today, it gives me freedom. I mean, I don't have

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to rely on just doctors. I'm not putting doctors

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down. They're good people, but I need to be in

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charge of my own life financially, health -wise,

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spiritually, and that's what the One Page Compass

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gives me in different areas of my life. And that's

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the kind of freedom, Debbie, that I wish for

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everybody because it's just, it's so much more

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than one category of your life. Yeah, that was

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very, very, very good. And I agree with that

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100%. And hoping that there is somebody out there

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that is listening to this podcast that has had

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even one of these experiences that we're talking

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about can relate to one of the things that we

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spoke about here. Because like I said, these

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to me from my experiences are very, very common.

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scenarios. These are very common things that

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a lot of people deal with in their everyday life

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or making a major change, whatever the case may

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be. And I don't want it to be something where

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people have to sit in that. I want them to know

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even whether they do it or not is not up to me.

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But I want them to know to understand that there

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is a way out. There's another way. that they

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can do it. They don't have to be the way that

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they are and sitting in their negativity. If

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they're happy, that's fine. They probably won't

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be listening to this podcast. Everything is perfectly

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fine when nothing is wrong. But if they are,

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then something is going on or they're just curious.

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So this was this was definitely definitely a

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very good conversation. Is there anything that

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you would like to say in closing about anything

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that we've spoken about? Yes, Debbie. I have

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the actual OnePage Compass that took me from

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63 being broke to 69 to where I am now. And I

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still use it today, this OnePage Compass. I'd

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like to share it with your listeners if they'd

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like. No cost or obligation. It's just, if they

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just go to my website, OnePageWealthCompass .com,

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and the very first thing you're going to see

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is to get the one -page PDF download when you

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join the newsletter, okay? And the newsletter

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just supports the compass, gives you free tips.

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There's nothing to buy. You can't buy anything

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on my site. I'm just here to help people, because

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it has such a traumatic effect on my life in

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a positive way. I'd like to share it. And so

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if you'd like to copy that compass, just go to

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onepagewealthcompass .com and get your free copy

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with no obligation or nothing else to sell. That's

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perfect. Thank you. And also for any additional

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information, if the listener is interested in

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hearing. or reading anything more detailed that

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we have just spoke about. They can just get some

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more information from this one page PDF. Absolutely.

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Thank you. I appreciate that. So as we close

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this conversation as a reminder that progress

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really comes from one big decision or from the

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internal choices we repeat. If something from

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today's conversation. connected with you, take

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a moment to notice how those internal choices

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show up in your own life. This has been the Internal

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Shift Show. Thank you for listening. Thank you,

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David, for being on the show. I appreciate it.

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Thank you, Debbie, for having me.