In this episode, Phil shares his rags-to-riches story of how he went from living in a 3rd world country to becoming a successful seven-figure entrepreneur and business coach. He opens up about overcoming personal and family struggles, his transformative experience in the Marine Corps, and how he harnessed his tenacity and belief in himself to thrive in the online business world, even during the recent global shut down. Tune in as Phil shares powerful lessons on resilience, mindset, and success, providing a proven roadmap for anyone aspiring to turn their worst adversities into their proudest achievements.
Welcome to The Phil Bohol Show, hosted by USMC veteran, mindset coach, sales expert, self-made entrepreneur, husband, and father, Phil Bohol. On this podcast, we don't just offer strategies — we offer a war cry, a call to arms, a challenge to rise, to break free from the shackles of mediocrity. You’ll learn the raw truth on how to break your limitations, scale your business to 7-figures, and level up every area of your life. Together, we won't just face challenges. We will crush them. Relentlessly.
Timestamps:
(0:52) - Early Life
(3:42) - Teenage Struggles
(4:26) - Military Experience
(6:00) - Corporate Career
(6:51) - Transition to Online Business
(10:24) - Entrepreneurial Success
(11:33) - Podcast Goals
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Transcript:
[00:00:00] Welcome to the Phil Bohol show.
My name is Phil Bohol, and in this podcast, I'm going to be covering everything from personal development and growth to business to health, nutrition, family, finances, marriage, your relationship with your kids, everything that has helped me go from a third world country.
[00:00:30] To working a nine to five corporate job to going online and building multiple seven figure businesses and how somebody that almost dropped out of high school was able to do that.
And the best way that I'm going to be able to share with you exactly all of those things that I'm going to be training throughout the duration of this entire show is sharing a little bit about my background and experience.
[00:01:00] So back in the nineties, my father brought us here from the Philippines.
And we moved to Arizona in Phoenix and we started really in humble beginnings.
We had a house, it was like a nice little humble house, but it was the best possible house we could ever have.
I mean, way better than what we would have had in the Philippines.
And we had this in my mind, a dream life, something that I thought you'd see in like Hallmark movies.
We had the family, we had the house, we had, you know, property that was ours.
We had food on the table.
We could experience things like Christmas.
[00:01:30] Thanksgiving, all these holidays that you see in movies.
And for me, it was like picture perfect.
It was like the best thing.
And I lived in like this dreamland.
And when we went from Phoenix, Arizona to California, things started to kind of change.
Our lives leveled up.
My father got a promotion.
He got into this bigger company.
And that's when things started to kind of change.
So by the time I hit 10 years old, that's when my whole world shattered.
I went from this happy go lucky kid.
[00:02:00] That basically lived in a bubble of what he thought was a movie of a life, to going to the deepest, darkest areas of his life.
True darkness.
And from the age of 10 and onward, I went through the hardest times of my life.
This is where I lost my family.
We separated because my mother and father, you know, went through their divorce.
It was very messy.
It lasted almost a decade to actually finalize.
And throughout that time we were bouncing back and forth between parents.
[00:02:30] Personally, myself, I was bouncing around from house to house to house, sometimes wondering where am I going to live next?
And for a short period of time, I was actually homeless.
I didn't have somewhere to actually live for the long term.
I had to find places to live and to crash at people's places because the toxicity in the household was just, it was too much.
By the time I was about 12-13 years old.
Is when I started actually dabbling in the online era.
[00:03:00] So that was Myspace at the time.
And I learned actually how to code during that time where I built my first business at 13 years old and I was making hundreds of dollars here and there.
So for a 13 year old, that's a lot of money.
I did a 5,000 deal at 13 years old.
That 5,000 I made from selling what I sold online allowed me to buy my own 1993 BMW 325i, cash.
And I couldn't even drive it.
But I bought that because that was something.
[00:03:30] That nobody could ever take from me.
I earned that.
And it's very different from how I felt when I was 10, when I felt like everybody took everything from me.
Everybody took the life that I knew from me.
So I had this weird chip on my shoulder to prove to myself that I can provide for myself and for my loved ones how I wanted to.
Where nobody can take that away because that's me, that's my work ethic.
After that time, that's when things even took an even worse turn.
That's when I started drinking, doing drugs, hanging out with the wrong crowds.
I mean, I'm talking about partying like I'm 30 years old.
[00:04:00] Well underage.
I was hanging out with the wrong crowds that could have probably got me killed because of all of the environments that I was in.
I was doing some shady things with some shady people in shady areas just to get by.
Just to provide, just to have some type of living.
And I knew I was on this dark path.
That dark path led me to having this, you know, moment in my life and clarity that I was not being the best brother, I was definitely not being.
[00:04:30] You know, that father figure that I could see myself being in the future that anybody would look up to.
And that's when I decided to join the Marine Corps.
The Marine Corps allowed me to forge myself from a fundamental standpoint and take all of this darkness, all of this pain and create a version of me that I could actually be proud of.
And that's why I became a machine gunner for me, being a hundred some odd pounds.
I went into the infantry, um, at 115 pounds.
And if you don't know anything about how heavy machine guns are.
[00:05:00] Look up the M240 Bravo, the 50 Cal and the Mark 19.
That's almost half of my body weight, just the guns alone, but that allowed me to really carry the weight of the world on my shoulders and battle test my mentality of how bad do I really want to find myself?
How bad do I want to find this most lethal version of me.
So I forged myself in the military I found myself even feeling that depression that if at 16 years old I almost took my own life.
[00:05:30] To joining the Marine Corps to actually have my life mean something.
So if I died in battle, at least I would have died for something.
A good cause.
When I Left the military, my body was a little damaged.
I rate 30 percent disability.
And so I had like these weird things that were happening.
I was aging super fast, but my maturity and my self worth rose.
It was crazy, but I lost myself again.
[00:06:00] So after I left the military I was that Marine for so long that once I separated from it, I lost my identity again.
So I started finding myself in a corporate nine to five job.
Now, the crazy thing about these corporate jobs is most people will spend a decade without earning any substantial amount of money.
What I decided to do was take what I learned in my life and through the military to take that level of confidence and bring that to the corporate world.
So I demanded the price that somebody would have to pay me to work under their charge.
That's when I started making a six figure income.
[00:06:30] Because I was charging.
That's how I looked at it.
I was charging companies.
To have me work for them, because I knew that whatever company I worked for, I would give all of me to, and that's when I started to really, truly value myself because for a long time in my life, I didn't value myself.
I basically thought my life was so meaningless that I could just end it, and I'm going to share with you a lot more stories about those.
Because it was actually a very dark time, and you might be experiencing some of those times right now.
[00:07:00] And I'm going to share with you stories throughout these episodes of all of those things and how I was able to transition.
But more importantly, how I went from that corporate nine to five guy to becoming a business manager right before a global shutdown.
And 2020, my wife and I were celebrating these promotions.
I became a business manager.
She became an operations manager at a fortune 500 company.
We went to dinner so that way we could celebrate this new chapter in our lives.
[00:07:30]
We were just going to live the corporate life forever.
On the way home, after a very short dinner, we had some steaks and we left.
We just wanted some steaks to celebrate, and we left.
We were coming up on a bend on the highway, and that's when somebody was on their phone and lost control.
So, we were in the slow lane, they were in the fast lane.
You can imagine, on a bend, what that looks like when a car hits you once, love taps you, and then completely slams into your left side.
[00:08:00] That was about six to eight months of physical therapy and adjustments because it caused me, personally, nerve damage, tissue damage.
My left side was actually so tense from the collision that my feet were actually not the same height anymore.
My left side was actually higher than my right side.
So I had a limp for those six to eight months, which was absolutely crazy.
When we realized that life was so short, life can be taken from us.
We decided that my wife was my person, I was her person.
[00:08:30] And we would start a family together.
And we both, by the way, gave up on love and the idea of marriage and all of this stuff, because how we were treated in previous relationships.
But we decided to do it together, to live life together.
We decided to have a baby.
As soon as we found out we were pregnant, news of the global shutdown started coming.
And That was the scariest time in my life to have to still be going through physical therapy to now knowing that we're pregnant or expecting a child.
[00:09:00] That we'd be responsible for to now going into a global shutdown where there's just whispers of everybody losing their job.
And we knew that my wife is going on maternity leave soon so for a new father, for a new husband, for somebody that's going through a global shutdown for the first time, emotionally I wasn't as mature as I am now, but it forced me to level up.
So I found out that I was actually losing my job.
[00:09:30] And I had two options.
I could either battle everybody to work at McDonald's, even though they probably weren't hiring because everybody was losing their job, and live a mediocre life and only provide a mediocre upbringing for my family, which is not what I wanted because my personal family went through a lot of financial hardship.
I didn't want that.
Or I can go online because there's so much opportunity online.
I decided to take the hard path.
I decided to make my way into the online industry.
Within 90 days, I started making 15,000 per month.
[00:10:00] Closing high ticket deals for online remote companies.
Most people apparently have been trying for years.
The industry's been around for years, but people were having trouble making this amount of money and everybody started asking me, well, Phil, how are you able to do that?
I've been trying for years, not only to find opportunity online, but to actually like monetize it.
And in my mind, I'm like, I didn't really do anything different than anybody else.
I was just confidently myself and understanding my worth, my value and what I bring to every company, just like I did in the nine to five, just like I did through my upbringing, through the Marine Corps and finding myself.
[00:10:30] So I realized that my operating system was far different than anybody else, which is how I launched my first confidence coaching program.
I built that business to seven figures teaching people my operating system.
After that, I launched a secondary company, a sales agency with a business partner of mine, and that became a 1.2 million business in just its first two weeks.
I launched a third company, my mastermind.
This is a community of people that I do life online together with.
And I mentor them.
[00:11:00] I guide them.
I teach them all the things that I've learned.
That third company is already on its way to becoming a million dollar business in its first 12 months.
And the reason why I'm saying this and telling you my entire journey up until this point is I came from a third world country.
I barely graduated high school.
I almost took my own life.
I was drinking.
I was doing drugs.
I was all over the place in my life.
And somehow that guy, that same guy is able to now have a beautiful family.
[00:11:30] Beautiful teams inside of my companies.
Awesome clients to work with living in abundance and just living a life that I could only dream of.
I didn't even know to dream of this life and what I want to do in my podcast and my show is share with you every single lesson that I've learned.
So I can hopefully transfer this torch of knowledge and experience just like my seniors did in the military for me that changed my life, so through this podcast, I can change your life.
My goal, my intention is to cover anything and everything because I don't believe it's one thing.
[00:12:00] I don't believe it's just one subject matter that's going to help you change your life.
I want to take a more holistic approach to teaching you behind the scenes, the psychology, the thoughts, the, the mindset, the disciplines that I have that's allowed me to become this because I do believe in the 80 20 rule.
80% of what we need to focus on to have the lives that we want, that we can be proud of has to do with our own personal development of who we are, how we identify, and 20 percent is a tactical strategy.
[00:12:30] So I'm going to give you a totally different taste of how to level up in every area of your life.
Whether you are just a parent wanting to get guidance and counsel in that sector, whether you're in a marriage and you want to do the best for you and your spouse, whether you are in your nine to five and you're looking for a way to level up in your career.
Whether you're in the nine to five looking to go online, whether you're a business owner, an online coach or consultant, wanting to grow your business and needing to become the person and the leader you need to be to get there.
I'm going to share with you everything uncut, raw, real all the time.
[00:13:00] This is the best way I know how to help people.
This is how I've gotten my, my own personal private clients, massive results, life changing results in their life.
And I want to give that to you by staying tuned inside of my show.
So once again, my name is Phil Bohol, and I'm very excited to share with you everything that I've learned in my life that allowed me to have the blessed life I have today.
And hopefully you take all of this knowledge, all of this wisdom, all of this experience, my wins.
[00:13:30] And my failures, apply it to your life so you can start changing your life today.
The biggest thing I can ask of you is don't just take everything that I teach you inside of these episodes and let it ruminate in the mind.
Take action on everything that I say in every episode.
And that's the thing.
When you execute on that, you take the action, that's what actually changes your life.
Knowledge is only as powerful as the implementation that follows it.
So just understand that I'm going to give you everything that you need.
But it's going to be up to you to execute.
[00:14:00] And hopefully this show holds you accountable, and I will show you the path.
I will keep leveling myself up in every area of my life and showing you that if a guy that came from the Philippines to the United States can keep rising and rising and rising to different heights, new levels, that started where you're at and possibly even well below where you're starting right now, that you can too.
And I hope that this podcast and the show with every episode serves as inspiration that you can do everything you set your mind to.
As long as you learn to keep your word.
[00:14:30] And your promises to yourself, start to value yourself, start to value your story, and truly understand that you are worthy of everything that you could possibly want.
And every day you have to prove to yourself that you are worthy of what you want.
Once again, I'm excited to have you as part of the show.
Thank you so much for listening.
See you in the next episode.
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