Full Name Randy Paul Gage Years active 1991-present | Nationality United States Website RandyGage.com | |
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Occupation Author, Businessman, Motivational Speaker Known for How to Build a Multi-level Money Machine: The Science of Network MarketingRisky is the New Safe Residence San Diego, California, United States People also search for DENISE DE C. ROCHA DELELA, Robert Kiyosaki, Darren Hardy Books Risky is the New Safe: The Rule, Why You're Dumb - Sick and Brok, How to Build a Multi Lev, Prosperity Mind, Making the First Circle Work: Th | ||
Randy Paul Gage, *April 6, 1959 in Madison, Wisconsin, is an American author and motivational speaker who writes self-help books and lectures on the subjects of success and prosperity.,
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Early life and education
Gage was born and raised by his mother. After being charged with armed robbery at age 15 to fund a drug deal, he was expelled from Madison West High School and served time in juvenile jail. Released on probation in 1975, he moved to Miami, Florida and worked as a dishwasher in a Pancake house on minimum wage, becoming a manager at the age of 16. At the age of 20, he started in the network marketing industry with Amway. At 30 he opened his second pizza restaurant, but after it failed was left heavily in debt.
Career
Gage began writing self-help books on the subject of prosperity from 1990. he formed the coaching and training business "Gage Research & Development Institute, Inc." (GR&DI) in 1991, in March 1996 he released the audio coaching programme How to Earn at Least $100,000 a Year in Network Marketing.
In 2001, he published How to Build a Multi-level Money Machine: The Science of Network Marketing, considered to be the seminal textbook to success in the network marketing business. Gage has since written nine other books, including two New York Times bestsellers, the John Wiley & Sons published 2012 best seller Risky is the New Safe, and 2016, Mad Genius. He has also authored a series of self-help audio and video materials, releasing over 50 resources which have been translated into 25 languages. As well as coaching around the subject of prosperity, Gage also lectures globally. A report about his book, Why You're Dumb, Sick and Broke...And How to Get Smart, Healthy and Rich!, says that "Gage asserts [in the book] that many of us have prejudices about wealth and false beliefs about success that are holding us back." An article published in March 2013 by Forbes featured Gage's work as one of the most disruptive marketing trends of 2013.
A member of the National Speakers Association (NSA), in July 2013 Gage was inducted into the NSA's Council of Peers Award for Excellence (CPAE) Speaker Hall of Fame, and at the same event won NSA's Nido Qubein Philanthropist of the Year Award.
Personal life
Gage resides in San Diego, California having lived in the Miami metropolitan area of Florida until 2013. After being shot in Miami in 2000, Gage is a philanthropic and activist speaker/supporter of Shawne Duperon's Project: Forgive.