Inspiring Conversations with Christopher Noland of Maison De Luxe Group DBA The Leverage Lab

Today we’d like to introduce you to Christopher Noland.

Hi Christopher, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
I was born in a town north of Seattle Washington. When I was young and I was a young adult I wanted to be a movie star I wanted to be famous. We grow up with not a lot of money, my mom used everything to seller finance a piece of land and build a house upon it. I grew up on section 8 housing vouchers and welfare. I came from very humble beginnings. When I turned 18, I moved to the big city, Seattle, except it wasn’t the big city, at that time. Seattle was a smaller city, and it wasn’t as much opportunity for what I wanted to do. In 2002 I would move to Los Angeles, I remember when Sunset Boulevard was packed for the movie stars limousines parties instead of the sterile condos today and only memories. I’d always dreamed of going to New York City, like Madonna I wanted to go to New York City with nothing and come out of nowhere and make it. I just didn’t know how hard that would be. My attempt to move from Los Angeles to New York resulted in a tragic car accident in which I almost died, arrived in New York City to find the room that I had rented, my roommates were being evicted, I was in a strange city with no place to go, and I was lucky that an investment Banker on the upper side, took me in and subsequently other people in the city of New York took me in for the next six months as I had no money as I couldn’t work I was going to physical therapy, I met a man that lived on W. 93rd St., he convinced me to give him $8000 upfront for a room, I didn’t know he was in scheme to defraud people, he took my life savings and exchange for a room that had no furniture, and I had to sleep on my clothes. A pile of clothes. I needed money so I activated a free trial of America online Internet, I applied for a job and I was accepted a temporary agency in Paramus New Jersey and worked at the AT&T call center. I had to go to Pennsylvania Station every morning early, I had to beg for money to take the bus until I get my first paycheck. After that I had the luxury of buying a bus ticket. I use the money that I earned at the call center to get my own apartment in West Midtown, I put myself through real estate school and got the license to sell real estate in Manhattan. My first interview was with Manhattan Apartments, I got the job and it was one of the most difficult things I’ve ever done in terms of work I mean up and down all the stairs of New York City with no pay, for months, I had no idea what I was doing. So I quit initially. In between I was going to auditions. I remember seeing a talent manager who told me that I needed a bag of cocaine so I could lose more weight, I was already very skinny. I finally landed a runway show with Louis Vuitton, but the agency did not want to front me the money for the passport, so I was unable to go to Paris for the show. Frustrated with a lack of anything, I went back to the real estate office to pick up a check, and my former partner had advised me that her personal assistant was quitting and that she needed me very bad badly and I told her, I would only do it if she paid me a base pay plus the commission for the real estate. She agreed and reformed a team of 10 to 20 agents with apartment shows in which we would have numerous clients out during the day at once. We made a huge amount of money but at this time, craigslist was very new. There was no social media. Nobody has cell phone phones and one of the major sources of advertising was the Village Voice in New York Times. This was how I started in real estate sales. I worked in New York and went through a lot my grandmother got cancer during the time I was back-and-forth seeing her, and then the Lehman Brothers crash came in 2007, the financial crash, and my grandmother died. Everything became a short sale. Everybody was losing their homes. I worked part time for US airways at LaGuardia airport to supplement my income and also take advantage of the free travel benefits. Once I was off probation from the airline, I took my first trip to Japan, I’d always wanted to go to Japan since I was a child and I was amazed by how advanced it was it looked like I was on another planet, and I immediately wanted to move there. When I landed back in New York, all of the cars and the flu and everything it just didn’t look the same to me anymore. I got my things together and I moved to Japan in 2010 after visiting Paris, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. I was in Japan on March 11, 2011 when the earthquake tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster occurred I was in Tokyo. It was a very scary time, I had been in Japan to try to do what I want to do in New York City, but for some reason for the first time in my life, I felt the need to go volunteer and help the people in disaster I also was very curious what the government was hiding about the nuclear disaster. So I Volunteered taking food up to the affected disaster areas, I started making footage and taking interviews and I made a video of my journey and I put it to John Lennon’s imagine, and I put it onto YouTube. Shortly after I got a message on Facebook from the account of Yoko Ono. I remember setting that Saturday I was very much had a feeling like my life was about to change, I thought I was gonna be sued for copyright infringement. Instead, it was a message for me to contact someone, and that person with Simon Hilton, they featured me in the imaginepeace.com website and encourage me to make the movie. They did not finance it. I did not think I was capable of making a movie, but they thought I was and I think that was all that I needed to keep going forward. So I made the movie that was called 3.11 surviving Japan, I want to contest from YouTube in Japan, a $20,000 prize, and I use that to put the movie into theaters in America because I wanted to get the story into the news media and it worked. Major news outlets like NBC, NHK another worldwide news came to interview me and came to the Premiere of the film. NHK at the interview on the second anniversary of the disaster on the 11 o’clock news to the entire nation of Japan, I was finally famous, but this was never how I intended it to be, I only did it because I promised all of the survivors of the tsunami and the nuclear disaster that I would get their story out to everyone and I accomplished that. I went back to the United States and got a California real estate license in Los Angeles. I worked in the Los Angeles area. I worked mostly with investors and doing video marketing for other agents. I had various startup companies. In 2018 I moved to Germany, I wanted to do more of my film work, the reason I moved to Germany though is because I actually wanted to move to Paris, but Germany was the only country that American could land in and get a visa and then I could use that visa to go to the embassy of France in Germany to get residency in France. Life in Europe was not as glamorous as everyone made it out to be, the winter was cold and dark, I became very depressed, by spring I left for Spain for Barcelona, I was there up until the end of 2019 when I came back to the United States and then the pandemic started. I moved back to Orange County, California to Dana point, but everything in California was closed so I moved to Florida to sunny isles beach. I would go onto to get the Florida real estate license during the pandemic, and build a referral business so that I didn’t have to go out and do the sales person’s job anymore. In the past few years, I have launched horses on how people could make money online with real estate rentals and recently by using business credit to do so. I really struggled in the beginning because I felt all these influencers charging people $10,000 was completely insane. That they were just taking advantage of people’s dreams. But I struggled, selling the product for lower amounts of money. Because I learned something about psychology and that was that if you price the offer too low people do not value it. So I raised the price. In that time. I have lived all over the world and traveled pretty much everywhere. After I left Florida, I went to Thailand, I went to Malaysia, I went To Singapore, I went back a couple times over the last couple of years. Living in Southeast Asia, really taught me to appreciate everything that I had in life, clean, air, clean water, everyone was crazy about Thailand, but for me, the heat was very oppressive, and I couldn’t handle the air pollution. I had to make a choice in the summer of 2025, go to another random country, as I was working remotely, or go back to Donald Trump’s America, something that seems to be escalating and descending quickly into something that was going to be the devolution of America. My plan was to go back see my parents by a couple houses and then move to the Canary islands.

Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. I would say the entire ride was bumpy. I mean, I started off being homeless in New York, I got ripped off by a guy that was renting me a room, I then partnered with somebody in real estate, who would steal my commissions, I would then have to face the financial collapse in the death of my grandmother, I survived the Fukushima nuclear disaster, when I came back to America, it wasn’t the same place or it was worse than it always been my friends that turned to drugs, I was robbed, raped and kidnapped in Las Vegas, I had my car stolen from me by somebody was a friend from high school that decided methamphetamines was going to be their lifestyle, and they betrayed me, when I was just trying to help them out, it was during the time when my father died, and his widow was fighting me over the inheritance, because where she came from I guess she believed that she could just take everything and I think that was her intention from the beginning, I would then injure myself cleaning up the property to sell the house after she abandoned it, I got addicted to pain pills, I lost everything in Los Angeles, I ended up broken Las Vegas and that’s when I decided to clean up and go to Europe and try to have a fresh start. The Pandemic brought its own gifts and challenges, I’ve always been a loaner, but I really learned how to live without people, but it became kind of dangerous. I realized I didn’t need most people anymore. I was always a person that tried to help other people and I realized it was just always weighing me down and I stopped finally.

Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know?
I offered digital services through this business. I still do the real estate referrals through another business. I have courses on how people can buy residential real estate, with creative financing with little to no money down, how they can search for deals and how they can use business credit cards to fund it if needed. I’m going to expand on this and teach people how to buy a cash flow business. I think what set me apart from others is that I don’t want to take advantage of people I truly want to help them. My goal was never to be a millionaire. My goal was never to own everything, my goal was always to be a good person and I think that’s something is very lacking in our world right now and lacking in the space and lacking in the Instagram sphere of multilevel marketing millionaires, they convinced people that for eight to $10,000 they too can have the same lifestyles them when they know, that they’re selling a lackluster cluster course to people and sometimes outright scamming them. I wanted to offer something different from those people and that’s why I started it. I have decided to call it the leverage lab.

Are there any books, apps, podcasts or blogs that help you do your best?
I do not listen to podcasts and there’s no books or blogs that are my golden shrine.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://leveragelabinc.com
• Instagram: Instagram..com/itschristopherrobert
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherrobertnoland?
• Youtube: https://YouTube.com/chrisnolandtv

Image Credits
All images owned by Christopher Noland