The Road Less Traveled: Marco Robinson’s journey to financial freedom
Take everything you know about success and what it means to be successful, and think about what makes the very idea of it appealing.
For some, it is the peace of mind from never having to worry about money again. For others, the freedom to actually live life and not slave through the rat race only to finish in second place time and time again.
For Marco Robinson, it is rising from the pitfalls of struggle to immense success, the success most people dream about, but if you ask Marco what his greatest success is, it would be giving houses to the underprivileged and persecuted to get them off them off the street and giving them a fighting chance.
He has just completed filming “My Great Property Giveaway” with Channel 4 in the UK (prime time 30 million viewers) and spent the last 12 weeks finding the most deserving people to give a home to.
Marco Robinson was the only person they could find who was willing to give one of his properties, mortgage free, to a deserving underprivileged family. Not only that, he has helped a beautiful Syrian asylum-seeking family find sanctuary in their own home and help them find peace... it truly is an amazing story, from someone who used to be homeless and giving homes to the homeless!
This TV Show is the most important documentary on affordable housing that has ever been made and the story has gone globally viral.
For the Number One Best Selling Author and awardwinning entrepreneur, success was never an option. It has always been a guarantee; because of the burning desire to fight for everything he has, starting with saving his mum from living on the street.
The 48-year-old may own over 100 properties and have a net worth that ranks him as a selfmade millionaire, but the path that led him to realizing these dreams is one less traveled by many.
At the tender age of just two, Marco had already come face to face with traumatizing and turbulent times at home. His dad was a gambler, and his mum had to leave the marriage to live on the streets. He moved to 35 schools before he was 10 years old and dropped out of school at 15 to get a cleaning job.
When push came to shove, Marco found himself in direct sales. A place in the corporate world he had never imagined himself in. Each struggle that presented itself at this juncture was, in hindsight, a steppingstone for him. With the guidance of a fellow colleague — and together with his innate fiery will to succeed — Marco worked smart to climb the corporate ladder.
Unbeknownst to him then, this seemingly grim reality was only just the beginning of a journey that would catapult him to becoming a highly sought after source of motivation for many today.
But a sudden twist of fate in 2000 saw him losing his job as Projector Director for one of the biggest public companies in Malaysia, his marriage collapsed after his wife had an affair with his best friend and suffered a heart attack at the tender age of 29.
After a good run, Marco was left in the dust once again. However, in the still of the silence, his calling had become clearer.
With nothing but a beat-up Volvo and laptop to his name, Marco wrote his first book, "Close the Deal & Suddenly Grow Rich”, which chronicled his life as a salesperson and went on to become a #1 Best Seller.
Dumbfounded by its success, but barely surviving on its royalty, Marco began asking himself the common question of how he could turn himself into a millionaire.
The possibilities were infinite but it was not until one year later when the light bulb in his mind had turned on. Using his intuition to guide him, history to forewarn him and open mind to constantly push him, he made a personal fortune of $12 million in 2009 from developing the first Vacation Incentive Company in the world! and attracted big clients such as Citibank, BMW, Mercedes and many others
It was finally dawning on him. All of the power to succeed was in his hands and no one else's. And for him, it laid abundantly in the real estate and property investment domain — a domain he had little to no knowledge of at the time.
Today, after decades of struggle and disappointment, Marco has made his name as a multi-million dollar property investor who is now on a mission to help people change their own lives.
He has been invited to speak at numerous events on the public speaking and motivational talk circuit, made countless appearances in a number of radio and television networks in the United Kingdom and is no stranger to the pages of renowned publications such as Forbes and Bloomberg.
His second book, “The Financial Freedom Guarantee”, is an award-winning retirement plan that outlines the strategies adopted by him to amass his own fortune in property.
Many who have had the chance to attend his workshops and boot camps have been explicitly impressed at how he overcame the odds in a time where going against the grain to achieve dreams of success and financial freedom are considered to be unthinkable and irresponsible.
Many have also expressed that aside from Marco's proven tools to materializing a comfortable life by earning passive incomes, his courage in speaking of his difficult past makes him relatable and as such, has inspired them to open their minds to the possibilities that are within their reach and the success that is rightfully theirs.
This is how the self-made millionaire Marco Robinson is now paying his dues — by giving people the guidance, tools and extra push to step out of a world they have come to only know and to stop being at the mercy of someone else's success.
His events held all over the world, have packed in full houses of hopefuls who leave more determined, more focused and more prepared to live a life that does not bind them to ideals, routines and practices that they have forced themselves to believe in and adopt for a monthly pay cheque.
To aptly put it, one attendee of Marco's Wealth Revolution keynote seminar says, her biggest takeaway from the event was the fact that wealth can belong to anybody who knows the right avenues and tools to acquire it.
At a glance, Marco's life may seem like a whirlwind romance with fate and fortune, but his undeterred vision of always setting a new height— and then reaching it — is what has propelled him to the level of financial freedom so many strive for, but few thrive in.
After all he has accomplished, Marco Robinson has every intention of showing people that the road less traveled can sometimes be the most rewarding one.
Marco Robinson is a Number One Best Selling Author, an award winning Entrepreneur, WINNER of the I-Property people's choice best real investor, 2016, Winner Malaysia Tatler's Best Restaurants & Creator of the HIT TV Show “My Great Property Giveaway”.
Marco will be conducting his FREE Seminar LIVE in Miri, Sarawak on 24th June at Hilton. For further information on the event, kindly contact Suzzanne at +60126222997 or email bookyourseat@the-richlist.com.
More information can be found about him at www. marcorobinson.com