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Michael Barreto: I Jumped Out of the Airplane With No Parachute

He landed in Los Angeles with $300, a FedEx ticket, and no idea what he was walking into. At 21, he was living four separate lives at once—wrestling, acting, chasing dreams that didn't stick. A casting director reduced him to a label: "Leonard's guy." But years earlier, he'd watched his father—a towering presence whose laugh could fill a room—build businesses that couldn't survive their own seasons. That failure became a blueprint for the opposite: finish what you start. Build revenue that never stops.

Michael Barreto brings three decades of entrepreneurial moves to Lawsuits & Lessons, from…

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