As the CEO of GlobalVisionariez with a handful of varied business ventures, a global team numbering in the thousands of associates, and a social media platform with roughly a quarter million followers, Austin Godsey is a success. Quite often, when we see successful people, we try to tear them down and find a way to discredit some aspect in an attempt to boost our own self worth and confidence. We think, “oh, that person came from a wealthy family and is privileged” or “they got lucky and were simply well connected in the old boys’ club.” Maybe these people screwed others over along their journey to the top or maybe they hurt employees or mistreated partners. Most of all, we want them to have had an easy path so we don’t feel bad about how hard our current path feels. But Austin Godsey isn’t like this conception we often form about successful people.
Growing up poor in Pennsylvania with a single mother from the age of just two years old, Austin switched schools every year until he dropped out of high school. Attending a military academy early on, he went through more than 12 schools in just 12 years–not a situation conducive for academic or personal success and stability. He didn’t go to a prestigious boarding school and rub elbows with politician and billionaire kids. A high school dropout at 17, Austin was homeless and saw the terrible claw-like grip of poverty at an early age. His family abandoned him and soon he began walking in the wrong circles and his life spiraled.
Austin began frequent drug abuse which led to many arrests. He fell into cyclical poverty without a steady job or home or network to support him. Neither his or his girlfriend’s family supported them and quite frankly, they were heading towards generational poverty. This stress only added to more drug usage and thus more arrests and time spent with bad influences.
The impetus for Austin’s rapid successful ascent was the birth of his son Aiden. When his girlfriend first tested pregnant, he knew that he could not bring a child into his current situation–they lived in Austin’s car for the entire pregnancy. Austin wanted to set up his child for success.
So, he got his life on track and pulled himself up by his own boot straps and found a job with a new network marketing company and began educating people on how to trade in a multitude of different cryptocurrencies and foreign exchange markets. But, as he looks back, Austin credits the network this opportunity provided him rather than the money or training for his eventual success. For the first time in his life, Austin was surrounded and supported by achievers who possessed good work ethic and values. They supported him to overcome the hardships of his own life so he could prevent derailing his son in the same ways he himself had been affected.
This is what led Austin to create GlobalVisionariez and begin helping others who had been dealt the cards of hardship but were ready to make a change in their lives and begin the process of becoming not only successful, but a light to others and positively impact their communities.