#38: Roger Travassos

Roger Travassos is a real estate agent who started his career after over 20 years as a session drummer. We talk about his experience as a drummer for hire with international touring acts and how he overcame adversity and imposter syndrome on the “Chitlin’ Circuit” with Motown artist Remy Shand. He describes how his life changed when he adopted his daughter, his early days in real estate and how he learned that “you get what you bring to the door” while knocking on over 100 doors/day. He also shares personal growth work that allowed him to see the suffering of the person who killed his mother when he was 18 and gave him the willingness to forgive.

“One of the things in my past most listeners wouldn’t know is: when I was 18 years old I lost my mother to some really unfortunate circumstances. Someone walked into her workplace and took 3 lives, one of them being my mother’s. My experience of life after that was always that I was irritated. I had a chip on my shoulder. Really in a lot of ways I was kind of playing a victim. One thing that really changed my life is I did the Landmark Forum and I learned how to make my mother present in my life again. And I also started to understand that it’s possible for me to have a willingness to forgive someone for something that they did. And I found that people don’t do things in life just because they want to be mean. That’s how life occurs to them in the moment. I had a feeling like someone was out to really intentionally hurt me or my mother. But I actually started to see that someone was actually suffering. That’s why they did what they did. And that in itself has like a tragedy that allowed me to have a willingness to forgive.”

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ROGER TRAVASSOS
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