Helping Others in Business and in Life: A Conversation with Arman Sadeghi of Titanium Success

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Arman Sadeghi found success early in life as an entrepreneur in the IT industry. He has started a dozen companies throughout his career and continues as a partner in four companies and CEO in two others. Sadeghi is driven by a desire to help and serve others rather than to amass a huge fortune. Although he quit high school to start his first company at the age of 16, Sadeghi returned to school first at Saddleback College and then later at the University of California at Berkeley, where he earned a degree in Neuroscience and Molecular & Cell Biology. He then attended Harvard Medical School for two years.Motivated by a love for technology and the environment, Sadeghi founded All Green Electronics Recycling in Tustin, California where he serves as CEO of the company with more than 150 employees. Inc. Magazine recently ranked All Green as the 366th fastest growing company in the United States.Sadeghi's greatest love and passion is for his Titanium Success Method in which he shares tools that allow individuals to attain high levels of success in business and in life. Sadeghi is a writer, speaker, coach, and dedicated family man. He has invested 22 years of business and life experience into Titanium Success. On August 7, 2015, he hosted his highly anticipated three-day event, Titanium Live, at the Anaheim Convention Center. Sadeghi plans to focus his entire effort on Titanium within two years to follow his desire to help and serve others.Author: Please describe your background-your family, your education, where you are from, and how your life started out.Arman Sadeghi: I was born in Iran and my family moved to the United States when I was 9 years old. We came to Orange County, California and lived a very modest life. There were 12 of us living in a two-bedroom condominium when we first moved out here. To get on our feet, my parents worked two different jobs. I had to learn the language-I did not speak a word of English when we moved here. As a result of my family's financial situation, I was forced to think outside the box. I technically started what could be considered my first business when I was 10 years old. I started selling baseball cards door-to-door. I loved baseball cards and my parents could not afford to buy them for me. I sold the cards one-by-one and was able to make enough from 70% of the cards to buy another box. A lot of my business coaching and entrepreneurship comes from learning things like that.As far as my education, I actually dropped out of high school when I was 16 years old to start my first real company which was a computer company. This was in the 90s when IT was really getting started. I was very successful early on. This started my journey into understanding why people do what they do. Here I was-I had all the things that were supposed to make me happy: money, a nice two-bedroom apartment, a nice car, and a pretty girlfriend. I seemed to have everything that I should have, but I was miserable. That led me to go down the journey to discover what life is really all about. There were things I did right, but also some things I did wrong. Then, I decided that I wanted an education. I attended Saddleback College and then I was able to get into Berkeley, where I studied neuroscience. From there, I went off to Harvard Medical School and studied medicine for two years with the intention of becoming a medical doctor.At that time, I thought that the way to help people might not be through prescribing drugs for them. I felt that I could understand people and with my medical knowledge, as well that I could work with people to give them what they need, but not necessarily through prescribing drugs. I have a unique ability to help people and I thought that I should put it to use to help them in their personal lives, relationships, and in business. Over the years, I formed 12 different companies, six of which I still own today. I am actively involved in two of them today and my partners run the other four. …