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In this special Freestyle Friday today, we tackle the fascinating world of branding and innovation. Discover how brutal tactics and clever strategies have propelled giants like Apple, Oreo, and Volvo to the top of their industries.

We'll delve into the decision chains and touching stories behind these iconic brands. Learn how each has woven a powerful narrative, connecting with their audiences in unique and profound ways. This is your chance to soak up the lessons from market titans and awaken the inner warrior within you.

From brutal tactics to strategic moves, each story is a masterclass in determination and greatness. Find out the purpose and impact behind each successful campaign and how you can apply these principles to your own brand. Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur, an influencer with ambitions, or just someone looking to make an indelible mark on the world, this episode is for you.

Join us and learn how to build a brand with purpose, determination, and a dose of creative brutality. This is not just a journey through the history of branding; it's an invitation to become a legend in your field.

Don't miss this epic journey to greatness! Tune in now and start building your brand with purpose and innovation. #BrandHistory #BrutalInnovation #TitanStrategies #InnerWarrior #LastingLegacy #DreamNation

Diversity in technology is the future's cornerstone. Today, we explore how to forge a successful career without a formal degree and how generational wealth is attainable in the industry. 

Education is not a barrier when it comes to technology. Get ready to jump straight into six-figure jobs and empower future generations.

Right here, right now, I'm giving you the tools you need to shape your future.

Don't fall behind; fight for your dreams!

Guest Jarrett Albritton:

https://www.jalbritton.com

https://www.instagram.com/doctaj/

It's Freestyle Friday, and today we're diving into the real stuff—those business mistakes that can make or break you. Ever felt like you've got it all wrong even when you're doing your best? Trust me, I've been there.

In this episode, I'm laying it all out—my top 3 business mistakes and the hard lessons they taught me. You might think messing up is a setback, but it's actually what keeps us on our toes, keeps us striving for better.

Mistake #1: The One-Man Show

I thought I could wear all the hats—CEO, marketer, you name it. Turns out, that's a one-way ticket to Burnout City. The real lesson? Delegation isn't just an option; it's a must.

Mistake #2: Slow to Fire, Quick to Lose Money

Holding onto the wrong team members cost me more than just money; it cost me momentum. The takeaway? Be quick to cut ties and set the bar high from the get-go.

Mistake #3: Ignored My Mental Game

I was all about that grind, but I ignored the stress building up. Bad move. Investing in my mental health turned out to be the boss move I didn't know I needed.

So, tune in and let's get into it. If you've been wrestling with your own business mistakes and wondering how to bounce back, this Freestyle Friday is for you.

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When you're chasing opportunities, make sure you leave a lasting memory and go the extra mile. Mediocrity won't get you far.

As Mr. Roland put it, the difference between being ignored and being invited to opportunities lies in how you present yourself. If you want to attract the right people into your life, you've gotta prove you're valuable and unique.

Show that you're worth it, and don't settle for less! Are you willing to go that extra mile to demonstrate that you're someone worth having around?

If you see yourself as a bold dreamer and an impact creator, join us in exploring a world full of opportunities. Feel free to follow us and discover more! Subscribe right now and follow us on our social media:

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It's Freestyle Friday, and today we're diving into something real—a topic that's been on my mind and probably yours too. Ever feel like you're falling behind or just not doing enough, even when you're giving it your all? Yeah, me too.

In this episode, I'm breaking down what all driven people, myself included, often feel: like we're failing 90% of the time. Sounds crazy, right? But it's that very feeling that keeps us hungry, keeps us pushing for more.

I'll share why this sense of "not enough" is actually a hidden superpower, a fuel that can propel us to new heights. It's not about wallowing in self-doubt; it's about recognizing that the discomfort is a sign—you're on the path to something greater.

So, tune in and let's get into it. Because if you've been carrying the weight of your ambitions and wondering if it's all worth it, this Freestyle Friday is for you.

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Imagine gaining millions of followers and changing your life through social media. This proves that no matter how skeptical you may be at first, embracing new opportunities can lead to viral success. You can't just sit back and wait for things to happen. You must provide real value to your audience and stay consistent. The power of social media is undeniable, and you have the ability to harness it.

This episode is a call to action. Have you been hesitating to take a certain path? Wondering if you can succeed in a new venture? The answer is yes! But only if you're willing to fight for it. Don't settle for mediocrity; join the fighters and conquer your path to greatness. The time for action is now!

Guest Rolland Pollard:

https://www.facebook.com/RolandP90X/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/roland-pollard-46881577

We're kicking off the very first episode of Freestyle Fridays, and I couldn't be more excited to share this space with you. Today, we're diving deep into this new segment with, "2 Secrets To Getting Whatever You Want In Life". Trust me, these insights are game-changers, born from real, raw experiences.

Just a little sneak peek - I recently connected with Roland Pollard, and it all started with a personal video message that resonated with him. Fast forward to the Invest conference, and our paths crossed amidst some of the industry's giants. It's a powerful reminder that when you step up authentically, great things happen.

But this is just the beginning. I've got a full episode where we'll unpack these secrets together, sharing those transformative insights that can set you on a path to achieving your dreams.

So, stay tuned, DreamBuilders. We're crafting our dreams, one genuine conversation at a time.

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Dr. Rachel is the embodiment of perseverance. From Haiti to Miami, she crushed $500K in student loans and discovered the power of AirBNB investing. She scored a mind-blowing 15X return with short-term rentals. Talk about stacking that paper!

But hold up, there's more. Managing 18 luxury rentals, balancing her career, family, and coaching, Dr. Rachel knows how to slay it all. Her passion is helping people like us create an epic life through real estate. Just two properties can make a massive impact.

And get this, her story even made it to Netflix! She's the real deal, folks. So, if you're a hungry entrepreneur seeking financial freedom, Dr. Rachel is your guide. Get ready to level up and unleash your potential in the world of real estate. Let's go!

links:

www.shorttermgems.com

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www.youtube.com/c/dreamnationcasanovabrooks

Now listen up—this isn't just your run-of-the-mill episode—it's an absolute must-hear! Me and my guy, Michael, are about to show you how entrepreneurs are out here flexing like superheroes. We're going to be sprinkling knowledge like magic dust along the way. Michael's gonna take us on his personal journey, starting from a pivotal book he picked up in '05 that flipped the switch and set his passion for real estate on fire. Now? He's lighting the path for others with his solid coaching and A1 courses. 

You don't want to sleep on this electric convo on Dream Nation—it's your key to unlocking a wealth-filled future with real estate investing! Let's get after it!

Links:

www.themichaelblank.com

www.dreamnation.com

www.youtube.com/c/dreamnationcasanovabrooks 

With the help of these financial literacy experts, people can access the funding they need to start their own businesses. They are providing people with the tools and knowledge they need to get the funding they need to make their dreams a reality. Through their collaborative movement, they are helping people to get the funding they need with no money down.

Don’t miss this opportunity to fund your freedom; check out this episode on the DreamNation Podcast!

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In this episode, we're chopping it up with Joshua Alufa. This guy's story is a game-changer. He went from saving lives in the ER to flipping the script and making major moves as a world-renowned trader, entrepreneur, and coach.

His journey started when he founded Sophiads, a marketing powerhouse that turned $5m in ad spend into a staggering $20m in revenue. But Joshua wasn't done there. He took his hustle to the next level, building a revolutionary real estate education platform, Wholesale Rebels, that's been changing the game for folks looking to secure their financial future.

Joshua's dropping gems on how he built his wealth, sharing insights on everything from trading options to making smart moves in real estate. Whether you're a beginner or you've been in the game for a minute, there's something for everyone in this conversation.

So pull up a chair, get comfortable, and get ready to soak up some game-changing knowledge from Joshua Alufa. And remember, DreamNation, we're all in this journey together. So let's keep dreaming, keep grinding, and keep rising.

And hey, don't forget to hit that like, share, and subscribe button to stay connected with all the inspiring content we've got coming your way. Plus, drop a comment and let us know your thoughts. We love hearing from our DreamNation fam!

Find more about Joshua Alufa and his ventures here:

https://www.closemorecontractschallenge.com/dreamcast

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Over the last six months, life's been a whirlwind. I uprooted my life from Omaha and planted new roots in Dallas. But it wasn't just about a new location, it was about a new chapter, a new journey, and a new perspective.

In this episode, I'm opening up about why I had to hit pause on the podcast, put the mic down, and focus on what mattered the most - my family and my mental health.

Life isn't always smooth sailing. Sometimes, we've got to weather the storm, and that's exactly what these past few months have been about. And you know what? It's okay to admit when things get tough.

But here's the real talk - none of this would have been possible without the power of community. Having a circle to lean on during times of crazy transitions and uncertainty is a game changer. It's not just about having people to fall back on, but having people who lift you up, and I'm grateful for my circle.

So join me as I share this personal journey, the lessons learned, and the wisdom gained. Remember, DreamNation, it's not just about dreaming, it's about living, learning, and growing too.

Don't forget to hit that like, share, and subscribe button to stay plugged into our DreamNation community. And as always, drop a comment and let me know your thoughts. We're in this journey together!

Introduction & Finding the Courage to Quit

• Introducing Amy Porterfield, online marketing expert and bestselling author of "Two Weeks Notice."
• How Amy's journey inspired her to write the book and empower others to pursue their dreams.
• Tips for building the courage and mental strength to leave your 9-5 job behind.

Building Your Dream Business

• Creating a solid strategy for transitioning from an employee to an entrepreneur.
• The importance of setting realistic financial goals and managing expectations.
• Amy's top tips for success in the early stages of starting a business.

Achieving Freedom and Changing the World

• The benefits of remote work and location independence.
• Designing a work-life balance that suits your needs and desires.
• How your business can make a positive difference in the world and inspire personal growth.

Closing Thoughts & Staying Connected

• Common pitfalls to avoid during the transition from employee to business owner.
• The role of mentorship and networking in growing your venture.
• How to connect with Amy, learn more about her book, and access valuable resources.

Join us for this exciting episode of Dreamnation, as Amy Porterfield shares her invaluable insights on quitting your 9-5, building your dream business, and making a positive impact on the world. Let Amy's journey inspire you to unleash your ambition and create the life you've always wanted.

Links:

Amy Porterfield Book - https://bit.ly/3Vr15Ci

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While he started his career working a 9to5 job, he was always entrepreneurial. It wasn’t until he bought his first rental property that he realized the opportunity it represented. When he got laid off from his government job, he vowed to make sure nobody can take away his ability to feed his family. He started buying rental properties, and that passive income helped him quit his job.

He talks about how real estate presented the easiest opportunity among all of his entrepreneurial ventures, the importance of finding a place that has a good inventory, things that can help you get your first property, why you need to build the business first, his criteria for investing in properties, how real estate is a people’s business, and much more. Have a listen.

I wanted to make this episode for you in case you're in this situation, to let you know that comparison is the thief of joy and that becoming that Peak Performer is all about the mindset.

Checkpoints:

- How to execute mindful parenting to foster confidence in our children.

- How people put their fears on us and how to unlearn them.

- Building a support network through relationships.

- "The only way to get to it is to get through it"

I wanted to thank you all for supporting this podcast, our mission is to empower you to build a life by your design, please let us know through your reviews if this has been valuable and help us take it to the next level.

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In this episode, Casanova talks with Fred Moss. Fred is someone who constantly works on realizing, exploring and embracing both the pain and the beauty of life, while wondering how and what his going to do next to make a difference. He talks about the impact of Kennedy assisination on his mind growing up and made him think about how he can make the world a better place, his long ride through both dark and light paths, how he moved away from the traditional medicine and found his true voice, how human connection is at the heart of healing, why psychatiry is a brutal field, why losing our voice is the biggest threat of them all, and much more. Have a listen.

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With data from the Bureau Of Labour Statistics we dive into the frequent reasons starting enterprises fail to reach the ten, five and even one year mark

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On This Episode:

Being intentional in listening and concise on becoming your best self

Only actions bring results - > "To whom much is given, much is tested"

Having more is the result of the previous two, and the cycle begins again

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With examples by Jeff Bezos and Ty Lopez, I share to you my thoughts on morning routines, an internal locus of control, the abundance mindset and other keys to greatness.

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·         Who is the Clark Kent, When it Comes to Nicholas Thompson? [00:02:05]

·         What was His Childhood like Growing up in Boston? [00:02:51]

·         How Did He Get Kidnapped in Morocco? [00:07:48]

·         How was He Able to Keep His Composure During Such Distressing Times? [00:11:08]

·         When Did His Journey from a Senior Editor to a CEO Unfold? [00:16:25]

·         What Helped Him Successfully Land the CEO Position at The Atlantic? [00:19:33]

·          How Difficult is it to Build a Media Company Now? [00:24:16]

·         How Can the Bigger Media Brands Stay Relevant in the Changing Environment? [00:28:15]

·         How Can Someone Share their Story and Write for The Atlantic? [00:31:35]

·         How to Learn the Journalistic Style of The Atlantic? [00:34:06]

·         One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [00:39:33]

·         Where to Find Nicholas Thompson? [01:08:48]

In This Episode, You'll Learn:

In this episode, Casanova and Nicholas talk about all things journalism. He talks about growing up in Boston before moving to Stanford for college, his experience of getting fired from 60 Minutes, why he decided to visit Africa and ended up getting kidnapped, how writing about that incident helped start his career as a journalist, how he managed to keep his composure during turbulent times, how he transitioned from working as a Senior Editor to the CEO at The Atlantic, how his versatility and connections helped him land the CEO position, how Google and Facebook have changed the landscape for media companies, what the bigger brands will have to do to survive in the next six to ten years, and much more. Have a listen.

Key Quotes:

·         "I had been hired because someone wanted to take a chance on somebody, they thought was smart and ambitious…"

·         "So, I go out there, and on my first day, I get kidnapped by drug dealers in Morocco…"

·         "I ended up writing a story about being kidnapped and then my time traveling through west Africa that ran in the Washington Post…"

·         "I just stayed calm, partly because it seemed like the right thing to do, partly because I didn't know what else to do…"

·         Part of what getting knocked down so fast, … and it happened again in my twenties were doing well, and I get knocked flat. Like it makes you a little more resilient…

·         "My dad used to say was he whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make promising…"

·         "I was never like a lone wolf reporter who must be on assignment by himself, in Afghanistan, cut off from the world. That wasn't me. I always liked being with people. I was always very social and enjoyed managing…"

·         I've always got these side things going on. I've always got these projects going on, and so that does do two things. It does exactly the two things you mentioned, it makes you very versatile, and particularly in media…

·         "Power in all institutions and all environments has gone from a center to the nodes. That's what social media does…"

·         "Technology has busted business model, the sort of relationship with readers the way our stories get around in all these complicated and interesting ways…"

·         "No one who does mediocre work, no matter how good they are at understanding Facebook or Twitter will last seven to 10 years…"

·         "I think one of the mistakes that some journalists make and some, even some executives is they're like, oh, Google, it destroyed our business. I'm not going to worry about Google. I'm going to just do my thing. No, you gotta do your thing as well as you can, and you gotta learn every single possible thing…"

·         The next 20, 30 years in my career, like I gotta, there's not a day where I will be able to stop hustling cause as soon as I stop hustling, like some smart person can come and just do what I do and do it better.

·         “If you focus on people you love who are doing really good work. It's a great way to learn, and everybody you want to have your own individual voice, your own individual style…”

·         “As a general principle, the philosophy I like is just keep trying as hard as you can be in the self-aware, as you can, and assume that you get opportunities and ideally you'll make the most of them…”

Here’s a snapshot of a few things He talked about…

·     Introduction

·     The Fear of Failure 01:24

·     Failure Builds Character 03:11

·     Three Questions to Ask When You Face a Failure 03:20

·     Everything that you Want is on the Other Side of that Fear of Failure 07:31

·     What's the Worst That Could Happen? 08:56

Key Quotes:

·     “I quickly kept coming up with and kept finding through reading blogs and through emails that I've gotten, and what was that common denominator now I'll tell you, it is the fear of failure…”

·     “33% of all Americans don't go after their dreams, their goals or business, starting a business because they have a fear of failure…”

·     “Failure is only there to allow you to build character the moment that you failed, you're going to learn some things...”

·     “When you first get into that first year, your expectations are so high, but it's very hard to compete at an elite level…”

·     “All of those things will then create the confidence in you and what confidence leads to is action, and if you can have action, that will remove all of the doubt…”

Links/Resources:

·     The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday

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In this episode, Casanova talks about how he became involved in the Drip Network, what it is and how it works, the difference between Bearish and Bullish market, what makes the Drip Network sustainable, the Drip Network Reservoir, how do you make money through referrals, how much does he stand to earn, how this is an excellent passive income opportunity, and much more. Have a listen.

Here’s a snapshot of a few things He talked about…

·         Introduction

·         What exactly is Drip Network? [04:28]

·         What is Recompounding in Drip Network? [07:05]

·         What Does Drip look like? [10:40]

·         How is Drip Network Sustainable? [14:39]

·         What is the Reservoir in Drip Network? [15:52]

·         How Do You Make Money Through Referrals? [16:27]

Key Quotes:

·         “I come from the background of real estate investing. So I know that again, you gotta be willing to take risks and you gotta be willing to do what other people won't do. Even if it doesn't look very sexy…”

·         “If you put in a thousand dollars, you are going to get 1% daily on your money. So, a thousand dollars, 1% of that is $10…”

·         “Albert Einstein says the eighth wonder of the world is compound interest. So, understand if you keep compounding the more that this is going to grow…”

·         “When people say I'm very bullish on it, or this is a bull market, think of a bull, they got their head already down, but then they're coming up with their own. So, they're thinking that it's going to go up, whereas a bear markets thinking things are going to go down…”

·         For every person that comes on board, you get 10% of their initial deposit, and then it works as a Round Robin System.

·         The reason why this protocol is so powerful, and why it was genius to make is because of the compound interest, but also because of the taxes and it, and because of the community around it.

·         Delayed gratification is going to get you somewhere that that microwave mentality never would.

Links/Resources:

·          https://drip.community/

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·    Introduction [00:00:00]

·    Who is the Clark Kent, When it Comes to Adam Markel? [00:03:09]

·    Was He Always Unhappy with His Job but Chose to Ignore the Thoughts? [00:09:16]

·    The Tragic Event He Witnessed As A Lifeguard at Jones Beach, New York [00:13:15]

·    How To Adopt A Different Philosophy Around How We Look At Change? [00:17:43]

·    His Advice on How to Embrace any Change in your Life [00:22:06]

·    How One Should Deal With Loss and Suffering in the Current Scenario? [00:26:00]

·    One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [00:35:30]

·    Where to Find Adam Markel [00:37:35]

In This Episode, You'll Learn:

In this episode, Casanova talks with Adam Markel. He talks about how we create identities for ourselves that can be changed, the importance of rules in his life, how he became aware of his unhappiness at work, why you need to practice every day, how to see the change in your life, how to leverage uncertainty and embrace the change to build long-term resilience, the importance of recovery, being the master of your own mind, and much more. Have a listen.

Key Quotes:

·    "A big part of why we are the way we are is because of our identity, the identity that we have created for ourselves…"

·    I'm a pragmatic, practical person. I just, I know the things that work and when I've discovered something that is a rule of thumb that works, then when I deviate from what I know works. I receive pain. I get suffering in exchange for breaking the rules.

·    You imagine anything that you could be great at, masterful at whether it's putting a basketball through a hoop the way Michael Jordan did it and supposedly made a thousand shots a day, whether that's the exact number or not, it's not the point you commit to mastery of something like that, it involves tremendous amounts of practice and performance…"

·    "You want to have a great body, you want to have great relationship, you want to have great relationships with kids, you want to have great money, relationship with money, et cetera, it's going to take practice, it's going to take vigilance…"

·    "I ended up in the hospital having a panic attack brought on by that anxiety. I think there's a lot of people are on the verge of that on the verge of just feeling either burned out or needing to take a trip to the emergency room because they can't handle the uncertainty…"

·    "I was 19 years and working as a lifeguard at Jones beach, New York, this first Summer I'm working there, we lost somebody in the surf, they went down, we went searching for him, for well over an hour, closed the beach, searched, couldn't find him and it went from search and rescue to search and recovery and I got first firsthand look at grief and loss and mourning and just pain…"

·    "Change for people is very much that same feeling like you're being, something is taking you and it's out of your control and you're being sucked by it, you have no choice…"

·    "Everything in the future, the future I should say will teach us in the present that everything happening right now is net growth. It is net positive for us, for our businesses, for the world…"

·    "We're constantly in a fight or flight mode, daily the level of anxiety low-level anxiety, I think is even more dangerous today than high anxiety because it's perpetual…"

·    "When we run out of energy, we're more likely to lie and cheat, make poor decisions because we're out of gas, but when we're filled up, when our energy reserves, at maximum capacity, there's almost nothing that we're not capable of dealing with handling and even succeeding at. So, the goal is to be able to refill our energetic tank and then ultimately any change that happens, we're agnostic to it…"

·    "Resilience is not about endurance. It's about recovery, that's the key…"

·    "Business disruptions are opportunities in disguise…"

·    "You want to remove hate from the world, stop being a hateful person…"

·    "You don't like the anger that we're hearing all everywhere, stop being such an angry person…"

·    "You don't like the way people are judged unfairly, stop judging people unfairly…"

·    "To me, the greatest responsibility that we can take in the moment from this perspective and the body of work that is, this book is to be resilient mentally, emotionally, physically in spiritually, and if you work on being resilient in that way, you're going to show up able to help other people…"

·    "What are you baking into your day to create that interval training for yourself physically and even spiritually, so that you're ready for anything…"

·    "It would be that I would have recognized that the master of my fate is always my mind. I didn't realize that till I was in my forties, then my mind, nobody can take that from any of us…"

·         Who is the Clark Kent, When It Comes to AJ Osborne? [00:01:51]

·         How Did He Become Paralyzed? [00:06:34]

·         Two Ways That You Have Value [00:12:38]

·         Why You Should Trust Your Intuition [00:25:49]

·         How Has He been Able to Start Multiple Companies? [00:32:28]

·         Would He Recommend Self-Storage Space to People Starting Out? [00:44:08]

·         Levers That You Could Change in Self-Storage. [00:47:12]

·         The Downside of Self-Storage Business [00:50:38]

·         How to Get Financing for Self-Storage Facilities? [00:57:11]

·         App For Self-Storage Industry News and Analysis [01:05:48]

·         One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [01:07:34]

·         Where to Find AJ Osborne? [01:08:48]

In This Episode, You'll Learn:

In this episode, Casanova and AJ talk about everything related to self-storage, one of the most profitable niches in the real estate market. He opens up about his journey of battling paralysis and going on to start multiple companies, why you should trust your intuition, why he chose the self-storage industry, and what helped him achieve success. He shares insights about what he has learned from his experience and how this learning has made him a more successful entrepreneur, and much more. Have a listen.

Key Quotes:

·         "You don't need to be a superhero to have massive results and massive change…"

·         "Revenue comes from action…"

·         "If you look, so many entrepreneurs and businesspeople, so many of them are salespeople…"

·         "I am playing the greatest game on earth with the coolest people, and I get to do it every day, what a blessing…"

·         "It also, taught me the most important skill ever. I have to have income that is not tied to my time…"

·         "I do mergers and acquisitions. I buy brokerage firms and we take in our technology and skill, turn them around…"

·         "If an asset, for some reason, isn't performing at a market level and that's usually dependent on operators…"

·         "Dynamic knowledge is much more valuable because dynamic knowledge has to do with forced value…"

·         "I understood that how money really works instead of disillusion of the paycheck…"

·         "The people in the economy that are the biggest and the best are the ones that survive…"

·         "As long as I knew I needed a margin of stupidity, I could be stupid and do it. And you can do that in every industry, in every asset class…"

·         "Start small, start with margin of stupidity and be okay with your own stupidity. Get going, start building those small things…"

·         "That is how entrepreneurs work. You're building something in the future that doesn't exist…"

·         "If you're starting out, go find mentors…"

·         "I'm big on self-auditing. I shouldn't be doing this. I'm not very good at this. We need to get somebody that is great on this and implement…"

·         "The revenue management side of self-storage is very dynamic. We look at ourselves like hotels or airlines, they're always changing…"

·         "An American's ability to consume, their dollar goes way more now, today than it ever did yet their ability to house is way lower..."

·         "So, to get started in self-storage, it's never been easier, ever…"

·         "Usually hiring only happens after it's an absolute necessity, and by that time, it's usually too late…"

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Maria Brito illustrates how creativity is merely a series of habits, actions, and attitudes that anyone can develop—regardless of who you are or what you do.

There has never been a more crucial time than now to develop your creativity and your ability to innovate. Coming up with original ideas of value is today’s most precious skill.

With her “Creativity Rules The World” campaign and book, Maria shares with us:

• Overcome limiting thoughts and dispel myths about creativity.
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Why are we so afraid to pursue our dream business?

In this Dream Nation episode, we tackle those questions and provide some tips on how you can start to plan your move to a business that is perfect for you. Along the way, Casanova shares his own background that led him into real estate, why he chose real estate, and how he learned to build something bigger than a real estate agent.

What You’ll Learn In this Episode

• Why you need to write and see your goals to reach your dream life
• The importance of memories in our life
• What inspired Casanova to be a real estate agent
• The “4 Quadrants” in Robert Kiyosaki’s “Cashflow Quadrant” (and Casanova’s experience in each one)
• Why Casanova chose to become an investor
• The importance of ownership
• Casanova’s ultimate goal as an entrepreneur

·         Introduction

·         Who is the Lois Lane, When It Comes to Shellye Archambeau? [00:01:38]

·         What was Her Childhood Like Growing Up? [00:02:39]

·         Did She Have Any Enterpernurial Ambitions Earlier in Her Life? [00:05:38]

·         What Helped Her Get Through Adversity Early On? [00:07:24]

·         How Was She Able to Secure a Position at IBM? [00:13:17]

·         What were the Signs that Led her to Quit Her Job at IBM? [00:20:22]

·         How Did Her Journey Towards Joining BlockBuster Unfold? [00:22:45]

·         How Her Proposal to Work with Netflix Could Have Saved Blockbuster? [00:26:06]

·         Why Did She Decide to Move to Silicon Valley after Leaving Blockbuster? [00:28:40]

·         How Was She Able to Achieve Her Goal of Becoming a CEO? [00:31:58]

·         How Did Her Network of Mentors Help Her Transform Zaplet? [00:35:02]

·         Which Mentor Has Had the Most Impact on Her? [00:36:56]

·         What are her Goals for Her Career? [00:40:03]

·         One Thing She Wishes She Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate Her Journey? [00:42:47]

·         Where to Find Shellye Archambeau [00:45:56]

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

In this episode, Casanova talks with Shellye Archambeau. She talks about her childhood, the adversities she had to face after they moved to LA, why did she decide that she wanted to be a CEO at the age of 16, how her mother and teachers helped her get through tough times at school, how she learned about building relationship by helping others, how she was introduced to power of having mentors, the importance of setting goals and executing the plans, how she climbed the ranks at IBM and why she did she decide to leave the company, how she became the president of blockbuster.com and proposed a collaboration between Blockbuster and Netflix when it was a start up, why she decided to move to the Silicon Valley, how she became the CEO of MetricStream, and much more. Have a listen.

·    Introduction [00:00:00]

·    Who is the Clark Kent, When it Comes to Bryan Clayton? [00:01:42]

·    His Background and When Did He Start His Entrepreneurial Journey? [00:02:33]

·    What was the Motivation that Kept Him Going after Accomplishing His Goals? [00:05:26]

·    Where Did He Derive Motivation from During the Early Days of His Business? [00:07:38]

·    How Did the Sale of His First Business Come About? [00:11:29]

·    What Did the Process of Selling His Business Look Like? [00:14:08]

·    Why Did He Decide to Get Back into Business? [00:15:53]

·    What Does He Think about VC? [00:24:00]

·    When Should You Start Looking for a VC? [00:26:16]

·    What are his Future Plans for GreenPal? [00:29:35]

·    One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [00:31:14]

·    Where to Find Bryan Clayton [00:33:47]

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

In this episode, Casanova talks with Bryan Clayton. He talks about his entrepreneurial journey, how a lawn mowing gig led him to develop a successful landscaping business, how he was able to sell that business to one of the largest landscaping conglomerates in the United States, what was the motivation that kept him going after accomplishing his goals, how he consistently worked to scale his business over the years, why he decided to sell his first business, why did he decide to start a second business and how that entire journey unfolded, and much more. Have a listen.

Key Quotes:

·    “What I like to say is anybody that watches an interview that I've done or read some stuff that I put out, I want them to come away with – If that guy can do it, I can do it…”

·    “Owning your own little business or even having a job when you're young, teaches you all sorts of life lessons that you'll never learn any other way…”

·    “It's funny as you're starting and growing a business, I think your motivation and your why kind of evolves over time, and it certainly has been the case for me as I started and sold my first company…”

·    “I guess the business kind of exposed me to people who we're not any more smarter than I thought than I was, that could, that we're doing big things, and I thought, okay, this can be, this business can be the vehicle that can carry me to places…”

·    “One of my favorite quotes is Mark Cuban; the least you can live on, the greater your options…”

·    “You can be proactive about these things, acquire the knowledge before you start a process like this and be in much better shape than I was trying to sell my company…”

·    The book [The Lean Startup] about launching something, getting it out there, getting it in the hands of customers, meeting with them, and getting the feedback to bake into your next set of iterations, to improve it and using that customer feedback to guide how you develop the product is really like, it's the lifeblood.

·    “If you can get a shitty product in a customer's hand, you will learn more from five of those people, then you will a five years of just reading books and taking courses…”

·    “Business is the same way; you have to get a product in somebody's hands, get the feedback, get that experiential wisdom ’cause that's the only way you're going to learn if you're on the right track or not, and where you got to take it…”

·    “When you know you can sell your mom's house and spend the money and return her three times the money in five years, then it's time to raise venture capital…”

·    “That's one thing like a lot of successful founders they're on their second or third attempt a lot of these things, the only way to learn them, it's just to do them wrong…”

·    “You didn't miss it. It's not too late. If you think software's going to be here a hundred years from now, we're in like year 10 or 20, so you didn't miss it. It's going to get bigger. Get in the game. Because only if you're in the game, can you win…”

On this episode we cover:

• Independence
• Process automation
• Relationships as the base of all businesses
• Defining your service
• Working both online and offline
• Looking for different perspectives to complement yours
• The balance between life and work
• Calculating your income
• Testing the market first, then your ideas

Head on to dreamnationpodcast.com for more resources and tips to bring your entrepreneurial game to the next level.

·    Introduction [00:00:00]

·    Who is the Clark Kent, When it Comes to Austin Belcak? [00:02:09]

·    How Did He End Up Working at Microsoft?

·    How Relationships Can Help You Land Your Dream Job? [00:14:42]

·    What Makes People Afraid of Networking? [00:23:16]

·    What Does He Think About the Current Situation of the Job Market? [00:31:02]

·    One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [00:37:10]

·    His Advice for People Looking to Take Action? [00:43:04]

·    Where to Find Austin Belcak [00:42:12]

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

In this episode, Casanova talks with Austin Belcak. He talks about his childhood, how he struggled to figure out what he wanted to do, how his initial attempts at entrepreneurship failed, why he decided to get a corporate job and the system that landed him a job at Microsoft, how to build relationships, why are people afraid of networking, what does he think about the creator economy and the current job market trends, and much more. Have a listen.

Key Quotes:

·    “The reason I decided to jump ship and take this risk was because I wanted to own my time on my schedule and spend more that with the people I love, doing the things that I wanted to be doing, and so that to me is what this whole thing is all about…”

·    “So I wanted to be an entrepreneur, but I didn't have an idea and I couldn't go out and ask people for money, or I couldn't support myself without an actual idea. So I resigned to go down the traditional path of, okay, let me get a corporate job…”

·    “I truly believe that the best thing you can do initially is to get into a corporate job that allows you to build the experience that you need, pays you enough money to bootstrap yourself, and gives you the flexibility to then work on whatever your dream is on the side…”

·    If we look at great relationships, they have a couple of common values. So first, value is at the core of this. Great relationships, all focus on some sort of value… the last piece, which is essentially, that relationships are built in layers…”

·    “The number one reason that I've talked to thousands and thousands of job seekers, we've done surveys. We've gotten data. Far and away, the number one reason people don't network is it's fear-based, they're afraid of exactly what you said, they don't want to be rejected…”

·    “If a job description has an easy apply button next to it, like everybody's pressing the easy apply button and the easy apply button doesn't work because it's low hanging fruit and everybody else is doing it…”

·    “So, in order to be successful, we need to one overcome our fear, but then also understand that the person on the other side probably has some fear as well, and so we need to diffuse that a little bit…”

·    “So I think what we're going to see is more people being more particular about the career that they go into…”

·    “The best thing that you can do is the acronym I heard. I think it was on a, it was on a podcast somewhere but basically FOCUS; follow one course until success…”

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Links/Resources:

·     The Dream Job System Podcast - Cultivated Culture

·     https://cultivatedculture.com/

·     https://www.linkedin.com/in/abelcak

·         Introduction

·         Who is the Lois Lane, When It Comes to Gretchen Rubin? [00:01:49]

·         Her Journey from Kansas City to Nebraska to New York City? [00:04:23]

·         When Did She Decide that She Wanted to Go to Yale? [00:05:41]

·         Why Did She decide to Leave Her Clerking Job to Embark on Her Writing Career? [00:07:29]

·         What Did the Journey of Publishing Her First Book Look Like? [00:11:10]

·         What Inspired Her to Write The Happiness Project? [00:16:23]

·         Why She Does Not Seek Anyone Else’s Validation for Her Ephipanies? [00:18:53]

·         Self Publishing vs. Working with an Agent [00:24:10]

·         How to Approach an Agent as a Writer? [00:26:01]

·         Is it Still Possible to Land Six-Figure, Seven-Figure Publishing Deals? [00:29:26]

·         How to Build and Start Your Own Happiness Project? [00:33:46]

·         One Thing She Wishes She Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate Her Journey? [00:39:51]

·         Where to Find Gretchen Rubin [00:41:20]

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

In this episode, Casanova talks with Gretchen Rubin. She talks about how she decided to become a writer and leaving her career in law, how she ended up living in New York City, why she decided to go to Yale, how she published her first book, her belief in epiphanies, and why she does not seek validation from others about them, her experience of working with an agent, how writers should approach agents, and much more. Have a listen.

Key Quotes:

·         “What I found in my life as a writer and a podcaster and all the things that I'm doing, like sometimes you got to make up the ladder. Like, no one's showing you the plan…”

·         “For me, the drive came, it was less about wanting to leave law and more, and not even so much wanting to be a writer, it was wanting to write this specific book, which I was already well on the way to writing…”

·         “I think sometimes people know what they want to leave, but they don't know where they want to go, and that's hard to figure out…”

·         “One of the things that I often remind myself is to enjoy the fun of failure, and if you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough, and so I was like I'm just, I just have to try it and see where I get and keep trying…”

·         “Don't wait for somebody to tell you that something's a good idea because they haven't may have their own agenda or their own subconscious beliefs…”

·         “Anybody, who's thinking about getting an agent, you definitely want to go out with the best foot forward at every stage because agents and publishers are very pressed for time, and so they're just going through things as fast as they can…”

·         “I would just say to people, always be focusing on why this is a great book for an eager audience, more than your own passion for it…”

·         “It's always helpful to start with your physical body because our physical experience always colors our emotional experience…”

·         “Great exercise, it's like a magical elixir of life. It calms us down and helps us sleep, but it also boosts our energy…”

·         “Then another thing I would say is, really think about relationships because ancient philosophers and contemporary scientists agree that to be happy, we need strong enduring relationships…”

·         Introduction

·         Who is the Lois Lane, When It Comes to Dorie Clark? [00:01:59]

·         What Was the Childhood Like for Dorie Clark? [00:03:43]

·         Was She Supported When She Went to College at the age of 14? [00:06:08]

·         Why Did She Decide to Get a Degree in Theological Studies? [00:07:47]

·         What was Her Experience Like When She First Came Out? [00:09:28]

·         Her First Entrepreneurial Endeavor that She was Able to Manifest and Turn into a Real Business? [00:13:28]

·         Strategies that Helped Her Reinvent Herself. [00:16:57]

·         How to Successfully Monetize Your Expertise? [00:22:22]

·         How Entrepreneurs Can get into the Monetization Side of Being a Content Creator?

·         How to Build a Strong Personal Brand? [00:26:19]

·         Who Does She Turn to for Inspiration? [00:29:28]

·         How Did She Get into Coaching? [00:31:20]

·         What is Her ‘Why’ Behind Coaching? [00:33:00]

·         One Thing She Wishes She Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate Her Journey? [00:34:58]

·         Where to Find Dorie Clark [00:36:21]

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

In this episode, Casanova talks with Dorie Clark. She talks about her childhood, growing up in a golf resort town, getting into college at the age of 14, getting a Master's degree at the age of 20, her experience as an openly gay person after she came out, her experience of working in various fields and how she was able to repeatedly reinvent herself. She also shares strategies that people can use to monetize their expertise, and much more. Have a listen.

·         Introduction [00:00:00]

·         Who is the Clark Kent, When it Comes to Ryan Neiswender? [00:01:58]

·         What is Congenital dSMA and When was He Diagnosed with it? [00:03:58]

·         When Did He Start Playing Sports? [00:05:49]

·         What Helped Shape His Mindset that He Could Achieve Greatness in Life? [00:09:50]

·         Wh Inspired Him to Believe in Himself? [00:11:59]

·         When Did He Decide that He Wanted to Win Paralympics Gold Medal? [00:14:10]

·         What Does Success Look Like in Paralympics Basketball? [00:17:59]

·         What Does His Normal Work Out Routine Look Like? [00:20:22]

·         What is His Mission in Life Now? [00:22:19]

·         How to Find the Differentiator in Your Life [00:24:33]

·         Where Does He Look For Inspiration? [00:26:30]

·         How Life Changed for Him After Winning the Gold Medal? [00:31:26]

·         One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [00:39:46]

·         Where to Find Ryan Neiswender [00:42:12]

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

In this episode, Casanova talks with Ryan Neiswender. He talks about being born with Congenital dSMA, his childhood, how he turned his disability into his superpower, how he developed the mindset and confidence in himself and his abilities, his journey to the Paralympics gold medal, and much more. Have a listen.

(Transcript of the podcast has been edited for clarity and brevity.)

[00:00:00] Casanova Brooks: What's up family. Thank you for tuning into the Dream Nation Podcast. My name is Casanova. I'll be your host and I'm excited to be bringing to you, entrepreneurs, thought leaders and trailblazers from around the world. Stay locked in with us because we're about to go on a journey that will change your life.

What's up DreamBuilder we are back again and today's episode, as you always know, I say that I'm excited to bring it to you, but this one I'm truly excited because we have a pioneer and we have a pioneer of someone who does not only talk the talk, but definitely walk the walk and taught thousands upon tens of thousands and even hundreds of thousands through all of the books that you've wrote.

And millions of people, I would say financial literacy, and so without further ado, please help me in welcoming my friend, Ms. Sharon Lechter to the show. Sharon, you want to go ahead and say what's up to Dream Nation?

[00:01:01] Sharon Lechter: Thank you so much. I love Dream Nation. What's up Dream Nation, and thank you so much for having me. I'm delighted to be with you today.

[00:01:03] Casanova Brooks: Yeah, absolutely. It's going to be a lot of fun. Now. I always love to start off these episodes and I compare us as entrepreneurs to superheroes, and the reason being is because we're constantly flying around the world, and I know throughout your career, you have been, and you're putting on your cape and you're trying to solve some of the world's biggest problems.

And so from the outside, looking in, a lot of people, they see you as a superhero, as the wonder woman or the superwoman. But a lot of the times, what we can't describe is on the backside when there's no cameras on who is that Lois Lane, let's say, so take us back and tell us when it comes to Sharon Lechter, who is that Lois Lane?

[00:01:45] Sharon Lechter: Thank you so much, and I, we can go dial back many years. I grew up in a very lower-middle-class home, neither one of my parents, even at high school degrees, and my dad ended up running the engineering school for the Navy. So, totally self-taught brilliant, man. But we live in a little tiny house between my mom's beauty shop, my dad's used car lot, I was embarrassed with where we lived. I wanted to be a professional. I wanted to have, my friends had parents who were CEOs or military officers, but we also own a lot of rental properties that I had to go scrub out bathrooms between tenants and orange groves. So, I grew up in an environment understanding the value of assets and expected that everybody else did too.

And so I followed my dream. I got my degree in accounting. I started my career with Coopers & Lybrand where the very first women in public accounting many years ago, and I was very successful, but I thought at the ripe old age of 25, I was like, gosh, I'm working really crazy hours. I'm not in control of my own life. This is, and this is my future forever, and I had a client invite me to join him and buy in a company out of bankruptcy, and I still remember going back to my condo in Atlanta, Georgia, because I was having a great time, young, single, and yet not in control of my life. So, I did the old, yellow legal pad, because this was before PCs or cell phones, pros and cons, and it didn't help me a bit.

I could argue both sides, but my hand took off and wrote across the top of the page. Why not? Why not do something different? Why not take that path less traveled? And that's still my philosophy today, and that's, I think ties in with true entrepreneurs. Why not solve a problem or serve a need? Why not do something, someone else hasn't done? And that's really still my mantra today. So, I left public accounting. It actually was a really bad business decision at the time, but had I not made that choice, I wouldn't have met a young man named Michael Lechter and we've just celebrated 41 years of marriage.

And so continuing on, I started the children's talking book, industry books and had the sound strips down the side. I met the inventor of that and helped him build that. Understood the essence and learned so much about the power of association, cause we had the technology, the kids back then. I know dinosaur days, they didn't have screens, they didn't have no electronics, and so here I am with this thing, I said, how can we get parents to trust us while we aligned with little companies like Disney, Warner Brothers, Sesame Street, Marvel comics, and allowed us to explode that company around the world, and we sold that four years later, and then as my husband moved down to Arizona, and our oldest son went off to college and came home at Christmas time in credit card debt.

And that was December of 1992, and that's when I dedicated the rest of my life to financial literacy, financial education, fast forward, a few years, working with the school systems, hence the white hair. My husband called me one day and this guy had come into his office in Bermuda shorts and a Hawaiian shirt with an idea for a board game, drawn-out with crayons on a piece of which a black paper, his name was Robert Kiyosaki. So, Mike brought us together for the first beta test of the cashflow game, and I'm the only one that got out of the rat race, and I volunteered to help Robert commercialize it because it agreed with my philosophy of investing your time and buying, building, creating assets, as opposed to chasing money, time for money instead of exchanging time for money, lets than invest your time to build the asset that will generate the money.

During that process, he told me he wanted to charge $200 for the game. I said, its kinda pricey. We're talking in 1996, and I said maybe we should write a brochure that explains the philosophy that people will then be convinced to spend the $200, and that's when he asked me to become his partner, and we were equal partners in the company for 10 years, and we wrote 15 books together. But that little brochure that kind of started it all was named Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Most people don't know that, that it was written to sell the game, and we thought we were writing one and done one book and said, people wanted more so said we'll do a trilogy. Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Cashflow Quadrant, Rich Dad’s Guide To Investing.

But then over the 10 years that we worked together, we had 15 books and in 2007, the height of our success, we were no longer aligned with what we wanted. So, I made the decision to leave. People thought I was crazy, but sometimes, and I want your audience to hear this sometimes you have to close one door for other doors of opportunity to open and had I not made that decision to leave Rich Dad, I wouldn't have gotten the call from President Bush. I had the honor of serving on the first president's advisory council for financial literacy for both President Bush and President Obama, and in March of oh eight, I got the phone call from the Napoleon Hill Foundation, which has been an incredible relationship.

They asked me to help reinvigorate Napoleon Hill's teachings during the financial collapse in 2008, and so I wrote Three Feet From Gold, Think And Grow Rich For Women, Outwitting The Devil, and Success and Something Greater with the foundation, and it's just been an incredible working relationship, and then I had incredible honor earlier this year to release the book, Exit Rich in cooperation with the Inc magazine to help people understand most people start a business new and say, do you want to start a business to work until the day you die? Or do you want to start a business to build financial freedom for yourself to get your time back?

Everybody says B, but the vast majority of them do A cause they don't understand how to build the structure and the basic fundamentals of building a company, and so in Exit Rich, I go through that and help them, how to build the successful business into one that sustainable, scalable, and saleable, and that kind of brings you to here. I'd try to do my Cliff Notes version for ya.

[00:07:44] Casanova Brooks: Yeah, no, you did a phenomenal job and there's so much to unpack there. I, hopefully I can do a lot of justice cause I know that there's a lot of people that's watching or listening at this, that they're ... They have a lot of questions. So, I'm going to try to go back in my mind, and first off, I guess I want to know, as a young girl, you said that your parents didn't have high school diplomas, but then you go off and you then start working as a CPA. For you, why did you not follow the path of entrepreneurship early on? Because your dad, you said he had rental properties and everything else. Why did you decide to take a different path? What did you not like about it in the beginning?

[00:08:26] Sharon Lechter: We've heard the phrase, the grass is green on the other side, and that's my friends, their parents were CEOs, and I was the first generation to go to college and I wanted to become a sophisticated professional. I thought that was the path to take a higher level of financial success, and once I got into it, and it was a true gift to go into public accounting because all of my clients, I saw how companies did things correctly, and I also saw how companies did not do things correctly. So, even though it was not an entrepreneurial path itself, it allowed me a window into many hundreds of different entrepreneurs to see how they were doing things. So, it really helped me prepare for the next chapter of my life.

[00:09:10] Casanova Brooks: Got it. No, that makes sense, and then you decide that you don't want to do this anymore at 25, and I can only imagine that your parents were probably up in arms because up until this point, you've been a golden child, right? It's your daughter. She's the only person to go to college. She now has a great job. Why, I guess what was the reaction when you told them, Hey, this isn't what I want to do anymore?

[00:09:32] Sharon Lechter: I have an older sister, so she's the one that was following the pathway. She was in a corporate job, stayed in the same town. I was the wild child and I'm the one that left Florida and went to Atlanta, and then I went to New Hampshire, met my husband. So, they were not always sure what was happening in my world, and I tell them, but, my parents, every night growing up, my dad would ask me, Sharon, have you added value to someone's life today? And he's been gone 16 years, but I still ask myself that every single night and they were always supportive of whatever I chose to do. They were a little surprised when I left public accounting, but they were never judgmental. They were always there to support me and basically their message to me growing up as you can do or be anything you want to, if you just put enough effort and energy into it.

[00:10:29] Casanova Brooks: Got it. I love that. I love that. Have you added value to someone else's life today? That's something that I'm going to start to implement into not only my life, but also to teach my son that and definitely to teach my daughter that as she gets older as well. Let me ask this as you, I think where a lot of people struggle, especially millennials is we understand the power of collaboration, but sometimes when you're talking about getting into partnerships with people, buying companies, as you said in the beginning, there was someone that said, Hey, this company is bankrupt.

We can buy them out. How were you able to be comfortable with doing a partnership early on? Did you just not know any better? Or did you have certain rules and parameters that if we're going to partner, we're going to do this? What did that look like for you?

[00:11:19] Sharon Lechter: I do a lot of counseling with people that are going into work together, and a lot of times their friends or their family, and that's that's a recipe, blood and money is a very difficult thing to mix, and so it's really important. I sit down and do a little counseling ahead of time when I go, plan the divorce before you plan the marriage, because when you're together and you're looking at what you're doing, you're all very excited about it. You respect each other and it's a good time for you to say so let's, maybe in five years, one of us isn't going to be as excited as the other. So, let's talk now about how we're going to separate while we are still excited about the future while we still love and respect each other, because when you have high emotion, you have low intelligence and what happens?

I see so many times people go into business with somebody they're all excited about it, and then things one of them becomes disinterested and it causes a seizure in the family or in the friendship, and so it's always better to think about that upfront so that you can preserve the relationship and maintain that even after a business relationship is over.

[00:12:23] Casanova Brooks: I love that plan, the plan divorce before you plan the marriage, but for somebody who's listening and especially for you, someone who's been profound when it comes to personal development in the law of attraction. What if someone says, isn't that really looking at you're attracting the plan B or the negative, because in the back of my mind, then I know that like, when I don't like something, I don't have to stick it out. It's hey, we already got this plan B over here, I can get to going.

[00:12:54] Sharon Lechter: The plan B is a plan of respect. It's not negativity, it's not attracting negative results. It is saying we are so excited about working together, but let's be realistic. Our lives may not stay on the same path. One of us may have six kids and we want to do something different, or one of us may end up wanting, needing to move out of town, and so what if based on those things and our mutual respect for each other, how are we going to deal with that in a professional and adult way that will help us preserve the relationship, and so it's really not attracting the negative. It's actually creating an opportunity for maintaining the relationship, no matter what happens with the business, cause typically businesses can be hugely successful and then there are problems, and so people's expectations are all almost always different. So, it's better to clearly outline the relationship, the agreements and what those expectations are.

So, for instance, you may go into business with somebody and they end up getting married and that spouse is somebody that you don't want to ever be in business with. If you put that in the agreement ahead of time. So, if one of us. Ha becomes incapacitated or heaven forbid one of us dies. That's not attracting the negative. That's just being prudent and planning out the business and preserving that business because that spouse may not know anything about the business and all of a sudden they're going to step in owning 50%. No, you want to put that in the agreement ahead of time and say, how this is going to work. How are you going to compensate that spouse for the value of the company, but maintain the ability to drive it forward.

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Yeah, no, it was phenomenal advice and a lot of wisdom there. I'm sure somebody is agreeing with me and saying, I never thought of it in that manner. And that could be for business. That could be for real estate. That could be for a lot of things, and I know a lot of our listeners, they are in real estate, so that's something hopefully they'll put in their back pocket. The next time that they're thinking about going into a partnership. Now let's let me ask, because you come in Florida, which is not, where are you from a small town?

[00:16:22] Sharon Lechter: At the time I was, I grew up in Orlando. I left, I graduated from high school the year that Disney opened. So, it was very different city today than it was back then. But we moved there. My dad retired from the Navy. I was eight, so we moved to Florida and we lived in Orlando. I was there from eight to 18, and then I was in Tallahassee going to Florida State for four years. So, I was in Florida from eight to 20.

[00:16:48] Casanova Brooks: Got it. Okay. So, not, I guess where I was going with this, because I wanted to see if you were a small town girl, because you've always had a big mind in everything that you've done. New York Times bestsellers and it seems like you've never said no to yourself. You always just thought the why not, and I know that you said that earlier, but I guess how did you get your mindset? Too early on in the beginning, since you didn't come from big businesses, how did you get that to saying, Hey, I have to focus on collaboration over competition.

[00:17:24] Sharon Lechter: That is an excellent question. So, let me try and unravel the question a little bit, because we, as I said I grew up in very humble beginnings and both of my parents, families were from farms in Alabama, and so I didn't live in Alabama, but I spent summers there with my grandma. I had grandmother who did not have indoor plumbing. So, I, I understood coming from poverty, coming from not having anything, and I had this in inside hunger, as my friend Les Brown says, you gotta be hungry, and I knew I wanted something better. I knew I wanted to elevate myself, and I knew that I could not do that just simply by myself. I had to get the education.

I had to meet the right people. I had to find the right mentor. All right. I had great mentorship with my parents. My dad was brilliant, my mom, but I needed that additional umph of getting to that. My eighth grade English teacher told me I'd be a famous writer. Now I was into math. I thought she was crazy. My house mother in college told me I'd be on stage speaking. I thought she was crazy, but again, always seeking that mentorship and challenging myself to step outside my comfort zone, and today with all my clients, I'm constantly challenging them, and I was asked the question. When was the last time you did something for the first time, cause what happens is we get comfortable in our lives doing the same thing and we don't find new associations. We don't expand our business. I have something called the personal success equation. You can find it a personalsuccessequation.com as a free download, and it's something that I released in the book Three Feet From Gold.

And it talks about combining your passion and your talent. Now my passion came from anger because we're teaching kids about money, but your passion could be love what you do what you love, plus your talent, your education, your life experience, and we combine that, and most of us stop there, thinking we have to do everything on our own while the personal success equation takes up plus T and times A power of association. Do you have the right people on your team? Do you have people on your team who are strong, where you are weak? Do you have the right mentors? Business is a team sport, too many of us try to go it alone. So, your passion, your talent times A power of association, times A taking action.

How many times do we know what we need to do? We just don't do it, and so we hold ourselves back, and then the last element is plus F and that is faith. Faith in yourself, faith in what you're doing, faith that is needed and necessary faith, that you will succeed. Successful businesses, solve problems and serve needs. I think we have a few of each today, and but many of us that F is fear, not faith, and it holds us back fear, paralyzes us, or motivates us. 99% of the people fear holds us back. We are paralyzed, and that's my goal. When I start working with people, when I write books is to address that power of association and that fear and turn that fear into energy, into faith for yourself.

Okay. Make sure who you need to align with to help you go to the next level so that you can magnify your impact. I have something called the Play Big Movement, which has been number one in your field, live your legacy, which means every heart, every single day, every heart you touch every single day as part of your legacy and create maximum impact, and you do that with the right association.

[00:21:09] Casanova Brooks: Wow. So much wisdom in that, and I would definitely agree so many people right now are living in fear rather than faith for you, how have you been able to continuously align yourself with bigger players that are in your field and your mentors, because for a lot of people that are watching or listening, they may say, Hey, but you know what? I don't necessarily know how do I get around the Les Browns? How do I get around the Robert Kiyosakis? How do I get around people like that? And because I listened to them, but at the same time, we also know that there's more than needs to be done in there in terms of actions. For you, how have you continuously, or I guess even from the start, how were you able to get around these people? Like Robert Kiyosaki, when these opportunities came your way?

[00:21:58] Sharon Lechter: I helped create Robert Kiyosaki. When we first met, when he brought that game in to my husband, he was living in a small condo and had two small apartment complexes. He talks about it and retire young retire rich. So, we, I helped create the intellectual property with him and help build that business to get him to the point where he had a larger platform and a bigger voice. But I think each of us you want to focus on, who's been where you want to go. I had the experience to help shape that and create the rich dad company and help it scale. My husband helped us with the licensing strategy to go global, and so you want to seek out the people that can help you go to the next level, and too many times people just become fans and they want to glom on to somebody. You want to be in service. You want to have reciprocity. You want to support somebody. They want to see somebody like a Les Brown. If he sees that you've been there supporting them, you're showing up, you're sharing his stuff.

 It's going to be a lot easier to get into contact with them, but learn from our books. Learn from our programs. I have a Money Mastery Program. That's very inexpensive because I want people to get themselves out of financial distress. To where they can at least start thinking, because when you are distressed about something that impacts every aspect of your life, and you can go to mm.sharonlechter.com. Very inexpensive application to my money mastery program, which is on my website for $1,500. But I want people to have. $97 and it's something I want you to take control of your own life. You are the CEO of your own life. Too many people want to have the easy step one step from, I want this. I'm going to be there.

You really have to earn the right. You have to put in the work. You have to be of service and show, be there share information study because all of us we've written books. We've got programs, take the time to invest in yourself, and as you do that, and you continue sharing information, you get closer and closer to the source, attend events where they are, take the time, wait patiently to be there, be of service, and it's very important for you to understand what you want and setting your goals. I'm in a new company, I just aligned with this year, Oola is something that I reached out to me and … Sharon Lectar. It helps people look at every aspect of their life, their family, their faith, their fitness, their finances, their community, as well as having fun and assess where you are and where you want to go.

And then give you the tools to get there. The specifically designed for you. It's all AI driven, and I love this company. These two guys that put it together are just brilliant, and it's something that I've used. My husband and I have used, we each lost 30 pounds. It's something that allows you to have fun and being accountable to your own goals and dreams, particularly for millennials, they are loving it, and I think it's something that I want you to choose to put the stake in the ground and say, I am the CEO of my own life. I am in control. Don't say I can't do it unless I have somebody like a superstar. No, you are the superstar, you were born perfect, just the way you are.

Just take the actions to get yourself to the next level, and the road to success is not a straight line. You're going to have some setbacks, but get back up and keep going.

[00:25:36] Casanova Brooks: Yeah, and I think for a lot of people, when they first think about, hey, I can go invest into these programs or I can join this mastermind or whatever else. I think the first off they get very excited in the beginning. But then what starts to happen is they go back to their tribe or they go back to someone else, and I know that I've even had this happen to me when I've said, Hey, I'm investing into a retreat. At entrepreneurship retreat, and then we've ever, you're going to spend that amount of money to do that.

And so I think that's what holds people off, but I think that's where it goes back to having faith. Understanding that something that I always say in the beginning, they'll ask you why you're doing it, but in the end, they'll ask you how you did it. So, you have to have faith of what you were talking about, and if you have that unbreakable faith or that unbreakable mindset, I think that will get you over the hump, at least in sticking with it in the beginning, as you build your foundation.

[00:26:35] Sharon Lechter: Well, a lot of people say, take a leap of faith, and I was, I said let's change that word because when you take a leap of faith, you cross your fingers and close your eyes and jump. I want you to take a leap with faith, with your eyes wide open, having faith that you will succeed having faith of what you're doing, and when you do that confidence goes up. So, when I talk about my personal success equation is that power of association, of faith that usually my clients need the most help on, and they go hand in hand when you have the right people around you, your self-confidence goes up cause they won't let you have a bad day.

And so, ask yourself, where do you need help? Passion, talent, association action, faith, and start focusing on how you can take that next level. Expand your association, go to the next level, find the right people that will support you through the process.

[00:27:27] Casanova Brooks: Yeah, I would definitely agree. Let me ask it from the outside, looking in, it looks like you've been able to manage multiple businesses. Over the years, you've been able to have your hands in many different things, and I would love to hear your take and your opinion on, a lot of the times people say focused on one thing, for follow the one course until successful, which is the focus. But for someone like you, who it seems like, again from the outside, you've had your hands in a lot of things.

Maybe you've just had teams in every single one. Do you follow that strategy of I gotta have my hand in one thing until it's going or are you. No, I'm going to do multiple things because I noted on my time is limited. So, that's my greatest asset. So, I'm going to do everything, but I'm just going to find more partners?

[00:28:16] Sharon Lechter: It's a great question because and I think is a very valuable question. Yes, I'm involved in a lot of different things, but I didn't start that way, I think, but let's talk about real estate. When I have clients that come to me and they have money in storage money in three twos, money in multifamily, its like, whoa, let's get focused in one area and become an expert because that expertise is what allows you to get the best deals, and yes, my husband and I invest in lots of different kinds of real estate, but we've earned the right. We've been in it a long time. So, we understand where the opportunities are, but you do want to focus on getting that expertise so that you can become an authority in what you're doing, and it's very important to do that.

Now. Yes, I'm involved in multiple companies where we have teams that help us. We have our guest ranch, cherrycreeklodge.com. I'm into cattle ranching, and hospitality. We have a guest that people can rent for retreats or for family reunion. I have a team that runs that I do very little related to that, except I just got back from hosting my own business retreat there, and so you want to make sure you have the expertise, but you can own a business, not be in the business. All right. I can work on my businesses without working in them, and from many years of experience and being able to do that. But when you're first starting out, you want to fine tune your skills and know that you are doing the best you can to accomplish success in the area that you are in, and then go to the next one.

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Got it. Yeah, no, that's a great point, and I think that someone will be able to listen at that and get a little bit more confidence in just niching down and focusing for you. Do you ever feel like that you had a point where you were lost on who exactly is your ideal customer? Because of the fact that you're in a lot of different areas, personal development, financial literacy just business and marketing, your phenomenal marketer. So, did you ever get to a point where you felt like you were having lack of clarity?

[00:31:44] Sharon Lechter: Another great question. My goodness, actually, a few years ago, we retooled my website because it was like, I was… I have three major arenas. One is financial literacy for people who … in that there's two arenas. One is people that are financially distressed, and then there are people that truly want to take their business and scale to a much higher level and they're two completely different audiences, and then I have my mentoring clients who are high level high dollar clients, that we step into their world and help them build their business. Then I have my speaking business where people want to bring me in to speak. So, those are all very different audiences, and so you have to tailor your messaging and make sure that you are reaching the right audience with the right message.

[00:32:20] Casanova Brooks: Okay, and do you feel like that was hard for you to grasp that concept in the beginning because you have been already doing all of the things with it. So, do you feel like you fought that for a while? Or do you feel like it was, you already knew this is what you needed to do? Do you understand the question? Am I explaining it the right way? Do you feel like that was a, I don't want to do this… Like I'm me, I'm Sharon.

[00:32:46] Sharon Lechter: Yeah yeah, you can be a jack of all trades, and certainly another arena that I specialize in is women and money, and but that's all part of the financial literacy. I think it's really understanding I don't think I ever struggled with it. I always realized it was an issue and we had to be more real, more clarity, because you want to, and people use the word funnels. I talk, let's have a customer journey. You want people when they come to your site to find what they're looking for, and so you have to provide that environment when they get there as to, okay. I want her to speak. I'm looking for help. Financial I'm like, I really want a mentor. So, you want to create the ease of the customer journey.

So whether you, yes, I can do all of those things, and sometimes you have too many too much expertise, and so you have to say, how can I create the message? That's the right messaging for the person coming to give them the ability to make the choices of your best for them.

[00:33:51] Casanova Brooks: Yeah, I love that. You said that about the customer journey, and I think far too often, as we are coming up with all of our talents or our passions, and we're writing those down or putting them into Evernote or whatever we don't think about what is that customer journey, and at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter about you. It matters about how can you serve someone else. The more people that you help, obviously, the more people or the more that you'll get, it's like that Zig Ziglar quote that we've all heard before. So, yeah, I'm glad that you said that and hopefully somebody they write this out and they say, yeah, what is my customer journey, for whatever product or service that I'm trying to offer at this point.

Let me ask for all of the books and especially you now being a part, like you said, of the Napoleon Hill foundation, and as I told you about a month ago, I read that Outwitting The Devil, and that was phenomenal. But for you when you were, or even now when you turn for inspiration or you're looking to read is there any books, now when you're mentoring your clients outside of the books that you've written, are there any books that you tell people, Hey, if you're starting out in your journey, make sure that you're reading or listening to X.

[00:35:01] Sharon Lechter: There's lots and the list keeps growing. But I love How To Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie. I love Good To Great by Jim Collins. I love The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey. So, then those are classics, right? I also love The Ultimate Gift by Jim Stoval, and it's an incredible book about teaching young people about money. It was a great book, The Ultimate Gift.

[00:35:37] Casanova Brooks: Yeah. What are your thoughts now being in financial literacy for so long and obviously, one of your co-authors is big on Bitcoin and everything like, have you started, are you on the Bitcoin train and the blockchain train?

[00:35:52] Sharon Lechter: I have a lot of companies that come to me, wanting me to be a spokesperson for them as they have him, and I've chosen not to do that because my expertise right now, I'm focused on certain areas including overall business building, scaling as well as real estate, and so I have not chosen to become an expert in Bitcoin. I own Bitcoin. I've been part of it. I understand it probably more than most people, but I have not really. I'm not going to become a spokesperson for it anytime.

[00:36:25] Casanova Brooks: Got it. Okay, cool. This has definitely been a phenomenal conversation. One last question that I have for you is for all of your success through everything that you've done to get yourself to this point to accelerate your journey and your dream of where you are today, if there was one thing that you wish that you would have implemented sooner to accelerate that process, what would that one thing be?

[00:36:53] Sharon Lechter: Well, thank you. I get asked that question a lot and my response is always the same. I wouldn't be who I am today, if I hadn't experienced everything that I've experienced in my life. So, I don't like to look back. I don't want people to look back. I want people to know that your empowered to make different choices. We are all where we are today because of the choices we made before today, and if you want something different, something better in your life, just start making different choices. Don't waste time looking back, I have the definition of the word, worry to worry is to pray for what you don't want. It just wastes time and gives you, it makes you physically sick.

So, when you find yourself worrying about something, just catch yourself and say, instead of focusing on what I don't want to have happen, let's focus on what I do want to have happen. It's magic because it does this full circle into the power of law of attraction. Instead of a attracting negative results, lets focus on positive, focus on what you do want, focus on the future, focus on what you can do today to make tomorrow better.

[00:37:53] Casanova Brooks: Got it. I love it. I love it. So, to be clear on this, and that's the it's so funny and anybody who's watching it listening, I'm sure they're smiling. I just like I am, because I used to ask that question. If you could go back and you would have changed anything and people always say, I wouldn't change anything. It made me who I am today, and trust me, I've been through a lot of adversity. But there's still something, there's some things that I would change. I wouldn't lose my mom. I, and I think I could have still been to where I am today without losing my mom.

[00:38:19] Sharon Lechter: I lost a son nine years ago. So, obviously if I could go back and change that I would do that too, but it also made me… I actually went into my world of numb and to neutral for several years and I stopped playing big, and in fact, almost retired. Got a lot of pushback from family and friends, and I actually think my son was in my ears saying, get over it, mom, there's more for you to do, and so it's really helped me crank up my message to play big again. I launched The Play Big Movement, the Facebook group, and it's because I want people. I said, okay I'm going to play big again. I want people to come along with me. I want you to be number one in your field. I want you to live your legacy.

I want you to create maximum impact because people need to hear from you. Everybody watching and listening to this. You've had something that stopped you in your tracks. It could have been a death, a divorce, a financial setback and illness, but you're still here and you're still here for a reason, and what you've been through, you can help others going through it now. By turning that mess into your message, you have the opportunity to help other people and add value to other people's stuff.

[00:39:28] Casanova Brooks: Love it. Love it. Again. This has been such a phenomenal conversation. I want to be the first one. If no one else has told you today to say thank you, and I appreciate you. We will make sure that we put all of the links to your courses, your Facebook group, and your website in the show notes, but for anybody who wants to know tell us where can they stay directly connected with.

[00:39:51] Sharon Lechter: Please connect with me on Instagram at Sharon Lechter. I'm on my professional page for Facebook, Sharon Lechter, Author Sharon Lechter, and of course I'm also LinkedIn Sharon Lechter. My website is sharonlechter.com. So, it easy to find me if you can spell my name and then reach out to me directly info@sharonlechter.com, I would love to hear from you.

[00:40:14] Casanova Brooks: You're not on tiktok yet.

[00:40:17] Sharon Lechter: No, I haven't. I haven't actually, I am, people have put up fake accounts on tiktok, but I personally have not gone to tiktok yet.

[00:40:25] Casanova Brooks: Yeah, no worries. Again, thank you so much for your time. This has been a wonderful conversation, and just as she said, Dream Nation, you have to take action because if you do not, as we all know that dream that you have, and we all have a dream without any action, that dream will only merely be a fantasy. That's all for this one. We'll catch you on the next. That's all we got for this episode.

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·    Introduction [00:00:00]

·    Who is the Clark Kent, When it Comes to Matthew Korban? [00:01:26]

·    What was He Working as When He Learned About His Health Issues? [00:09:05]

·    How Not Having a Mentor Hurt Him in the Long Run? [00:11:08]

·    What Was The Medical Condition He Was Diagnosed With? [00:12:56]

·    How He Was Able to Mentally Coach Himself That He Could Help Other People? [00:21:40]

·    What is The Difference Between a Coach and a Consultant to Him? [00:26:38]

·    Does He Believe in Balance and Why Did He Not Go Back to Consulting? [00:30:33]

·    One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [00:39:14]

·    Where to Find Matthew Korban [00:46:09]

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

In this episode, Casanova talks with Matthew Korban. He shares his journey, how he spent his childhood in the streets of Beirut, Lebanon, what motivated him to work harder and give his kids stability, how learning from a doctor that he only had five months left to live changed his mindset, how not having a mentor hurt him in the long run, why he started coaching others, and much more. Have a listen.

·         Introduction

·         Who is the Lois Lane, When It Comes to Eleanor Beaton? [00:01:44]

·         What was the Turning Point in Her Life that Changed Her Mindset [00:05:04]

·         What Empowered Her to Believe in Her Vision? [00:09:51]

·         What was Her Epiphany Moment that Made Her Go All in? [00:15:07]

·         How She was Able to Overcome and Avoid Burnout? [00:19:23]

·         Where Does She Turn For Inspiration When Things Aren't Working Out? [00:31:48]

·         One Thing She Wishes She Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate Her Journey? [00:45:06]

·         Where to Find Eleanor Beaton [00:50:50]

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

In this episode, Casanova talks with Eleanor Beaton. She talks about how she was inspired by her mom early on in her life to be financially secure and independent, have control over life, her vision to help other women develop sustainable business, how starting her podast helped her business, the sufficency mindset, and much more. Have a listen.

·         Introduction [00:00:00]

·         Who is the Clark Kent, When It Comes to Peter Voogd? [00:01:30]

·          Where Did He Learn His Values From? [00:02:33]

·         Where Did He Get the Inspiration to Move Out of His Small Town? [00:05:01]

·         The Best Investment That He Made on His Way to $10 Million [00:12:48]

·         How Did He Learn His Seven Rules to Seven Figures? [00:19:04]

·         Which Space Has the Most Potential Over the Next Five to Ten Years? [00:31:28]

·         One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [00:35:06]

·         Where to Find Peter Voogd [00:37:51]

·         Introduction [00:00:00]

·         Who is the Clark Kent, When It Comes to Alistair Edwards? [00:01:54]

·          How Working at His Parents Store Help Build His Foundation in Sales? [00:03:33]

·         His Motivation Behind Selling Books Door to Door During Summers? [00:06:51]

·         How Did He Learn About the Power of Leverage and Systems? [00:10:43]

·         What Did He Do to Incentivize People to Keep Working? [00:12:44]

·         What Made Him Stay with the Company for 27 Years? [00:18:01]

·         How Have Legal Shield and Publix Been Able to Keep Him on Board? [00:21:50]

·         One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [00:27:18]

·         How to Stay Disciplined Through Times When it is Difficult [00:30:52]

·         His Advice for People Looking to Take Action? [00:38:17]

·         Where to Find Alistair Edwards [00:42:54]

·         Introduction [00:00:00]

·         Who is the Clark Kent, When It Comes to Salvatore Buscemi? [00:01:34]

·         His Journey from Medical School to the World of Investments [00:04:11]

·         What is Private Investing and How Does It Work? [00:06:09]

·         How Did He First Get into Raising Capital [00:09:04]

·         Three Things to Consider When Looking to Invest for the First Time [00:12:43]

·         How He Learned About the Three Principles of Investment [00:15:43]

·          What He Thinks About Bitcoin And Blockchain From An Investment Perspective [00:20:21]

·         First Step of Investing Like the Uber Wealthy [00:23:12]

·         The Project That He Considers is His Biggest Accomplishment [00:29:15]

·         One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [00:33:41]

·         Where to Find Salvatore Buscemi [00:36:08]

·         Introduction

·         Who is the Lois Lane, When It Comes to Amira Alvarez? [00:01:55]

·         Is She an Introvert or An Extrovert Behind the Scenes? [00:05:02]

·         What Was the Turning Point in Her Journey That Changed Her Mindset? [00:07:01]

·         Strategies That Helped Her Change Her Self-Image and Increase Her Income Five-Folds [00:14:08]

·         What Were Her First Steps When She Decided that She Wanted to Learn [00:19:00]

·          Her Formula for Achieving Goals Faster [00:24:49]

·         How Her Strategies Helped People Achieve Better Results [00:28:00]

·         One Thing She Wishes She Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate Her Journey? [00:30:03]

·         Where to Find Amira Alvarez [00:33:10]

Here’s a snapshot of a few things we talked about…

·         Who is the Clark Kent, When It Comes to Ray Higdon? [00:02:00]

·         His Background, and How His Traumatic Childhood Impacted His Life [00:03:07]

·         How Did He Get into Real Estate? [00:06:36]

·         How Was He Able to Turn His Life Around After Getting Wiped Out? [00:09:21]

·         An Incident That Changed His Life [00:15:30]

·         Three Components of Daily Routine That Made Him Successful [00:18:35]

·         How Did He Make His Videos and Which Platforms Did He Use? [00:23:12]

·         How He Was Able to Stay in Network Marketing for Such a Long Time [00:26:01]

·         Where Has He Seen People Go Wrong When Trying to Do Network Marketing Time [00:31:27]

·         How Does He Challenge Himself After Achieving Great Success? [00:40:22]

·         What is the Best Way of Doing Network Marketing Nowadays? [00:50:17]

·         Where to Find Ray Higdon? [00:52:55]

·         Who is the Clark Kent, When It Comes to Daniel Mangena? [00:01:49]

·         His Background and What Was His Journey Like When Growing Up? [00:01:31]

·         How He was Diagnosed with Asperger's at the Age of 27 [00:03:39]

·         Did He Have a Supporting Partner when He was Diagnosed with Asperger's? [00:08:41]

·         Daniel's Journey of Discovering Abundance in His Life [00:11:13]

·         The Strategies Taught to Him by His Doctor that Transformed His Life [00:14:06]

·         How Self-Love Work Helped Him Get Through Dark Times in His Life [00:16:01]

·         Why he Still Invests on His Personal Development [00:17:27]

·         How He Was Able to Develop the Abundance Mindset, and Then Help Others with It as Well [00:20:25]

·          The Books That Helped Him Develop the Abundance Mindset [00:23:40]

·         What He Struggled with When He Became a Life and Success Judge [00:26:09]

·         How The Flow Funnel Helps People Get Results [00:29:32]

·          People He Does Not like to Work With [00:33:11]                                                                                                            

·         One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [00:39:01]

·         Where to Find Daniel Mangena? [00:41:19]

Here’s a snapshot of a few things we talked about…

·         Who is the Clark Kent, When It Comes to Kendall Ficklin? [00:01:49]

·         His Background and Did He Grow Up Around Entrepreneurs? [00:07:09]

·         What Was His First Real Business? [00:11:22]

·         How is Running a Business Different from Connecting with People and Making Money? [00:12:48]

·         How He Was Able to Manage Egos and People in the Beginning? [00:17:41]

·         How Was He Able to Justify Firing People? [00:19:27]

·         His Journey of Getting Mentoring and Development [00:24:08]

·         Why Did He Decide to Get Mentored by CJ Quinney? [00:29:14]

·         One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [00:36:53]

·         His Advice for People Looking to Take Action? [00:40:32]

·         Where to Find Kendall Ficklin? [00:42:57]

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

In this episode, Casanova talks with Kendall Ficklin. He shares his journey of tribulations, how he overcame addiction, discovered his passion and talent for entrepreneurship, and the role of mentorship in helping him become a trainer, author, and coach.

Key Quotes:

·         During those times of challenges, obstacles, opportunities, and falls is where we develop the most character.

·         I like to tell people I got to where I am today, because I changed one thing: my character.

·         Information and strategy will definitely move your business up to level. That's all it is, but character is what sustains you, character is what takes you from where you are to where you want to be.

·         At nine or 10 years old when I learned how to build, grow, and scale a business without trying to make it so deep like you need all of this stuff now.

·         At a certain level it's just business, and business is about the numbers.

·         Do business, not money and businesses about the numbers, the structure, the strategy, the system, the sustainability…

·         If your personal life is a mess, your business is going to be a mess.

·         My philosophy right now is nothing, and no one is bigger than the business, including myself. 

·         You got to want to grow, you got to want to develop, and most business owners and entrepreneurs, we just get caught up in making money and building business and taking the vision to the next level.

·         My focus now is how much better can I be today than I was yesterday, and then the second thing, I don't wake up every day and say, what do I need to do? I wake up every day and say, who do I need to be?

·         I tell all of my mentees, when you get an opportunity to sit at the table, it is not your time to talk; it is your time to listen and to learn and answer questions.

·         We want what it looks like, but we don't want to go through what it feels like in order to get to what it looks like.

·         Once I conquered that demon, the flood gates opened up, and so I got this theme now I used to say a couple of years ago, I can't go back and people think I'm talking about, I can't go back to being broke. No, I can't go back to being broken.

·         Be honest with yourself of what your demon it is. The thing that you have the most difficulty changing, shifting, getting rid of, and once you identify what that is, kill it, murder it, cut it loose. It is in that discipline, that power will catapult you into areas that you didn't even know existed.

Links/Resources:

·         The Dream Manager by Chris Sienko

·         https://www.kendallficklin.com/

·         https://www.linkedin.com/in/kendallficklin

·         https://www.instagram.com/kendallficklin/

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·         Who is the Clark Kent, When It Comes to Mike Cuevas? [00:01:56]

·         What Made Him Get into Real Estate in the Beginning? [00:04:31]

·         How Does He Help People Become Likeable? [00:07:47]

·         Can We Create Meaningful Content without Being a Video? [00:11:05]

·         What Does It Mean to Have the Perfect Message or is it More About Ideal Customer Avatar? [00:12:12]

·         How to Build a Foundation of the Content Creation for Your Ideal Customer? [00:14:47]

·         How Often Should You Publish Content? [00:17:23]

·         Does He Recommend any Scheduling Tools to His Clients? [00:23:14]

·         How to Change Your Strategy to Compete Against iBuyers? [00:33:49]

·         One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [00:37:22]

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

In this episode, Casanova talks with Mike Cuevas, who has been in the industry for over 19 years. He specifically has been helping real estate agents with video branding, attracting business, and become more comfortable on camera to build better relationships.

·         Introduction

·         How Did Things Start Out for Casanova?

·         How His Backstory Made Him What He is Today?

·         His Journey of Recovery from Cancer

·         How Did He Know that Working for Someone Else was Not for Him?

·         How The Journey is What Really Makes You Who You Are

·         How He Got Started in Real Estate?

·         Why Did He Leave His Sales Job?

·         How He was Inspired by Jay Morrison to be the Lord of His Land

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

In this episode from the series of Casanova’s appearance as a guest on other podcasts, Casanova and host Jamila Souffrant talk about how he overcame adversity, the power of building relationships and how to leverage them, and why having a positive mindset is the key.

Casanova’s backstory is what led him to become who he and what he has accomplished. He grew up in inner city, Chicago, and was raised by a single mom, and his grandma stepped in to help lead the way of being his dad. He had the odds stacked against him, but he did have a strong mind. He had two strong minded women who always tried to protect him. The first stage of adversity that he went through was losing two of his best friends. By the end of his sixth-grade year, his grandmother decided to move him to Sioux City, to keep him safe from the turbulent streets of inner-city Chicago.

While he was sophomore in high school, and things were going great for him, adversity struck again. At 15 years old, he was diagnosed with stage four, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma cancer; where he was two weeks away from death. While going through two years of chemotherapy, what started to change was that everyone looked at him like a victim. He started to wonder how could he cope with these things mentally? Life took a huge turn for him, but he didn't know how to cope with a lot of those things, but that's where his mindset really started to take that shift. These things started to build his armor and build his character.

Casanova had an entrepreneurial mindset from early on in his life, largely inspired by the VH1 show "The Fabulous Life Of". At 8 years old, pumping gas for other people at the gas station, he started to see that he could create his own success. He continued to try different things throughout the high school and then going into college. During his junior year, he started to realize that just having a degree is not going to guarantee him success in life. Along this path, he had 18 different jobs, trying to figure out his calling.

Casanova adds that his motivation behind these decisions was that he wanted to control his own time. He also felt like he was never being valued at what he was worth, and he wanted to have an impact on the world. Talking about the journey, Cass shares that he learned that you have to be committed to the destination. Jamila adds that who you become on the journey allows you to get to the destination. Cass says that it all starts with a dream, for a lot of people, all you have to do is think of the big picture. What is the point I impact you want to have on others? What kind of legacy do you want to leave?

Cass shares his eventful journey to real estate; from playing poker, to wanting to be a professional video gamer, to serving tables, to getting talked into being a car’s salesman. He was not only selling cars there, but he was also building relationships. Then he was introduced to network marketing, and this is where he learned a lot about personal development. He then moved to Omaha, Nebraska to work as a marketing consultant for a big company. He garnered great success in the company, finishing at number eight out of 4000, inside sales reps.

While he was taking every step, he knew that he always wanted something bigger. Then, he stumbled upon a Jay Morrison video on YouTube, where he had said, you got to figure out a way to be the Lord of your land. This was a light bulb moment for Casanova. From that point forward, he got his real estate license, with the goal that he was going to be the lord of his land. Talking about what helped him succeed, he says “what is your gift, right? And so, your gift is what comes easy for you and harder for others.”

His final stint of adversity came in the form of losing his mother, after they had recently moved to Omaha to live near him. On top of that, he also ended up losing his job and his house, all within a matter of weeks. What helped him rebound from search severe losses to the point where he did 46 deals, eight million dollars in volume in his first year, was horning in his biggest strength, which was building relationships.

Cass adds that the only thing you can never control the result, but the only thing that you can control is your effort, and you always have to find some type of positivity out of every single situation. In every situation, no matter where you are in life, you can find some type of hope. He adds “It allowed me to just keep going when I lost my mom to know that everything that I do every minute of every hour, every person who I tried to impact their lives, and I can use her as the beacon of hope that was for me.”

Here’s a snapshot of a few things we talked about…

·       Who is the Clark Kent, When It Comes to O'neil J Parker? [00:01:35]

·    His Background and Did He Grow Up with a Family Who Owned Businesses? [00:02:28]

·    What Does Getting Life Insurance on Your Friends Means? [00:04:20]

·    Why Did He Decide That He Wanted to Go into Retail? [00:06:17]

·    How Did He First Get Started in the Real Estate? [00:07:12]

·    How to Get 10x Profits in Real Estate? [00:08:02]

·    What Inspired Him to Keep Going? [00:09:51]

·     What Was the Reason Behind His Struggles? [00:14:22]

·    How Has He Been Able to Convince Sellers to Go the Owner Financing Route? [00:16:31]

·    Does He Use Any Systems? [00:19:00]

·    How Have Credit Cards Helped Him to Build His Portfolio? [00:21:05]

·    How To Get the Money Off the Credit Card? [00:23:11]

·    Do They Use Text Marketing? [00:25:18]

·    Resources that Have helped him on His Journey? [00:27:37]

·    One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [00:29:25]

·    His Advice for People Looking to Take Action [00:31:44]

·         How Did Things Start Out for Casanova? [00:04:44]

·         What Kept Him Going During the Hard Times? [00:15:48]

·         How to Find the Drive if You Didn’t Experience Challenges in Life [00:19:08]

·         How Did He Determine His Goals Facing Setbacks Following His Move to Omaha? [00:22:34]

·         Resources that Helped Him in His Journey, and What Can We Learn from Them? [00:28:19]

·         How Did He Find His Mentors? [00:32:28]

·         What is DreamNation, and What are His Future Goals? [00:44:18]

One of the reasons why people were really drawn to him is because of his vulnerability. He shared a depth of his failures, his highs and lows, and even his personal marriage life to teach us the lesson of the beauty of being vulnerable. People of all sorts of walks of life can relate to Dean, because as what he says, whatever level we are at our life today, he’d been there. He started or has been involved in 13+ companies, some have failed but surely have changed lives all around the world. But his life is always beautiful. He grew up in a dysfunctional family, where his parents divorced. He learned how to keep his mouth shut, just so his parents won’t argue. He barely graduated high school and did not have any college degree. He even went through his own divorce, which at first he felt was a failure and that he is following his parents’ bad example. But the day that he realize he needed to be honest and vulnerable, things change for the best.

Dean is big on the “impostor syndrome” topic. Most, if not all of us, have something to share with the world to make it a better place. However, this impostor syndrome shuts us. Listen to Dean and understand that you have a voice and the world needs to hear it. Step up now, more than ever, because the world needs you! Be ready to be geared up to become your best self by listening to the powerful wisdom of our guest today. To those seeking transformation and success, here’s your perfect podcast!

·         Introduction [00:00:00]

·         Who is Brad Lea? [00:01:14]

·         Why Being Patient is Not a Good Idea [00:06:54]

·         How to Be Safely Reckless? [00:14:42]

·         How Did He Learn the Business Strategies Besides Trial and Error? [00:17:48]

·         How Do You Get a Stranger to See That You Could Provide Value? [00:20:11]

·         How Money and Status Have an Impact on Your Social Standing [00:25:31]

·         What is Lightspeed VT and Why He Felt like There was a Need for it? [00:29:06]

·         Is There Someone That He Credits for His Success? [00:34:50]

·         The Most Influential Book That He Read in the Past Six Months? [00:38:46]

·         His Advice for People Looking to Take Action [00:41:18]

·         How To Level Up Your Confidence So You Can Build Your Dreams [00:44:30]

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

In this throwback episode, Casanova and Brad talk about how patience can kill your dreams, why you should make assumptions and how to fix your confidence. 

·         Introduction [00:00:00]

·         Who is the Clark Kent, When It Comes to David? [00:01:01]

·         Where Did His Passion for Business and Finance Come from? [00:03:58]

·         Challenges He Faced Earlier in His Career [00:07:36]

·         As a Financial Advisor, What Does He Teach in the Beginning? [00:11:38]

·         How Does He Educate His Clients About Debt? [00:13:25]

·         How Can You Minimize Debt? [00:15:18]

·         Where To Start if You Want to Invest in the Stock Market? [00:22:08]

·         His Mindset When They Started the Podcast and How They Built It Up [00:29:14]

·         His Point of View on Being Neural [00:32:29]

·         Do They Tell Their Guests to be Neutral? [00:35:03]

·         What is Their Future Goal with the Podcast? [00:36:30]

·         His Number One Takeaway from the Keys to Success [00:37:32]

·         His Advice for People Looking to Take Action [00:43:14]

In this throwback episode, Casanova and David talk about his entrepreneurial journey, the story behind The Real Social Proof Brand and Conference.

David says that he always had aspirations of being an entrepreneur. A belief that was further strengthened by his experiences of working different jobs. He was a good rapper, and thought he would have a career in rap, but things changed once he joined some network marketing companies.

He built a clothing brand, called ‘Sleep Is for Suckers’, geared towards entrepreneurship and people that lose sleep doing what they love. He was able to build that and replace his income and became a full-time t-shirt salesman. Then, he ran around the country, teaching people how to do the same.

David adds that the company you keep can have a significant impact on you. Network marketing was also his introduction to reading books and being consistent because they had this concept called the 10 Core Commitments, teaching the principles of consistency. This is where he got introduced to Jim Rohn as well.

He says that Jim’s way of taking big complex concepts, and complex subjects and breaking them down into bite size morsels changed his life. David says that once you start moving in the right direction, people that are going the wrong direction, they won't try to necessarily take you off path if they know you're going there with, or without them, they'll either try to join you or at least let you run your own path, if they're your friends.

Talking about his t-shirt business, he says that he sold over a million dollars worth of t-shirts outside of a kiosk. After he had his store and other kiosk taken away, he realized that he could still make six figures out of a mall, but if he is to scale up, he needs his time and he can't spend all day in the mall or dealing with employees.

He says that if you've never been in a fight, you don't really want to lose the fight, you'll just avoid it. But if you've been in a fight and you lost one, you are less fearful to fight again. He doesn't care if he might lose, he'll jump into that joint.

Talking about his speaking gigs, he says that he can help someone who's making $30, $40,000 a year how to replace that income and reach six figures, for sure. He can teach them how to take an idea and create that side income extra thousand dollars a month, only because that's what he has accomplished.

David says that for the speakers he coaches, his first step is not to teach them how to be a motivational speaker, or how to get gigs. His first encouragement is for them to build something and talk about how they built it.

David also shared some actionable tips as well. He says that come up with a good idea, not just follow your passion. Find a group of people who are all moving in the same direction because you can become successful by association. He believes if you're just in the right environment, your mindset starts to change.

He adds that you can join a network marketing company because there's a whole positive environment, they are in great luck, everybody has a coaching program. David also has a coaching program where they are on the call every single morning, Monday through Friday.

Talking about having a team, David said that he just became somebody that people wouldn't mind following. So everybody on his team were attracted to him because he wasn't spending time looking for a team.

David says that the idea behind his Real Social Proof Conference was to offer people two days of both industry specific information as well as general business practices that everybody needs to know. His Sleepless Knights coaching program is also a phenomenal group of entrepreneurs.

He adds that if you feel like you're not strong or good enough, you really need to write down what your weaknesses are, so you can see them on paper and just attack one of them. . There's an example of someone who is in your situation or worse, that became really successful. Just find those stories.

• Has Intensity Always Been His Thing? [00:00:38]
• His Backstory and How He Grew Up [00:03:39]
• What Helped Him Get Through the Process of Rehab? [00:10:56]
• How Love and Fear are Just Illusions?  [00:21:27]
• Why Do We Visualize Bad Outcomes More than Good Outcomes? [00:24:16]
• The Impact That Writing Things Down Has Had on Him [00:30:10]
• How Did He Lean into Being Vulnerable and Sharing His Life on Instagram? [00:33:17]
• One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [00:39:40]
• His Advice for People Looking to Take Action [00:48:30]

• Who is the Clark Kent, When It Comes to Johnny? [00:01:40]
• What He Bought When He Made his First Make a Hundred Thousand Dollars? [00:10:02]
• How He Kept the Belief that He was Going to Make a Hundred Thousand Dollars? [00:11:13]
• The Role of His Environment in Keeping Him Going? [00:18:58]
• What Keeps Him Going Every Single Day? [00:24:32]
• Where Does He Get His Inspiration From? [00:26:40]
• One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [00:32:22]
• His Advice for People Looking to Take Action [00:38:07]

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

In this episode, Casanova and Johnny talk about his journey and the mindset that helped him become one of the all-time greats in football. 

Johnny is a family man, who loves his great grandkids, and grandkids. He is proud of his Omaha, Nebraska roots. He calls it going against the current, the way several notable athletes and business leaders from Omaha and Nebraska went on to do national and international great things. 

Johnny grew up in the Omaha River bottoms and was a shy and timid kid. When he heard somebody say a hundred thousand dollars, it was the most money he had heard about in his life. From that point onwards, it became the mission of his life; to make a hundred thousand dollars. 

When a boys club leader told his mother that he was special and needed somebody to teach him the finer points and strategies of the game. At 11 years old, he didn’t have a career, but he had the direction, and he had a dream.

• Who is the Lois Lane, When It Comes to Darnyelle? [00:01:55]
• When Did the Shift Happen for Her? [00:03:31]
• What Was the Key Moment for Her When She Decided to Leave Her Corporate Job? [00:08:23]
• Why She Couldn’t Make it in the Entrepreneurship World the First Time [00:13:45]
• Why Did She Decide to Go into Coaching? [00:19:23]
• What is Her Framework? [00:25:52]
• One Thing She Wishes She Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate Her Journey? [00:30:39]
• Her Advice for People Looking to Take Action [00:37:13]

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

In this episode, Casanova and Darnyelle talk about to overcome self-doubt and turn your dreams into reality. 

Darnyelle says that first and foremost, she is a woman after God's own heart. She is really big into taking consistent steps every single day, giving herself lots of grace and self-care and showing up fully, everywhere she can be. When she is not doing any of that, she is quirky and likes to call herself, ghett-u’à; that's ghetto with a little bit of bougie.

Darnyelle can best be found with a book in her hands, reading something to make her soul and my spirit leap because that's something important to her and she loves to laugh. She tries to find moments to laugh as much as possible, and she believes in the best things in life.

She adds that the best things in life are free. They don't cost you anything but your presence, so, she tries to enjoy as many moments as she can, when she is fully present. She says that after the distinct defining moments in her journey where she stepped up, she shined and her ability to command the stage became more authentic, real, and personable.

She recalls three distinct defining moments from her life. First one was when she was graduating from high school. She was the first to graduate from high school, go to college from her college. When she was going to college, she realized that she had an opportunity to really show up.

That was where she started to believe what everybody else was saying. The second moment was in 2004, the day she walked into her boss's office and her full-time corporate job, and realized that she was no longer built to sit behind someone else's desk. 

The last moment was in 2018, when she realized that she had still been holding back, playing small, showing up just enough to get what she knew she could do, because she was really afraid of doing what she was supposed to do.

Darnyelle then started putting all of the things in place to be able to live that out. There was a piece of her that was afraid that if she really let her light shine, she would blind somebody, instead of realizing if she really let her light shine, she would light the path for somebody.

Talking about her last day of working in 2004, she calls it her Keith Sweat moment, as she felt like ‘Something's Not Right.’ She ended up going to her manager and telling her that it was going to be her last day. She felt like she had, for the first time in a long time, made a decision that was going to seal her next step, and what she was supposed to be doing, even though she didn't have a clue what it is.

Darnyelle adds that before doing something similar, you should have a backup plan. For her, things did not work well, and she had to file for bankruptcy. She also had to go back to work a job, while she figured entrepreneurship. 10 years later, now she runs a million-dollar company. 

While working at Mary Kay, she was able to achieve success, but things worked so well for her because it was a proven marketing plan. All she had to do was work it. When you're starting your own company, there is no marketing plan. There is no blueprint because it's a brand-new thing. You don't even know if what you are intending to sell to people is what people actually want to buy.

Darnyelle adds that starting a ground up business is not like transitioning from a proven business model. They are not one in the same. Things didn’t work out for her because she had taken her eyes off of God. So many other things had become the focal point of her existence at that point in time, that she wasn't really tapped in. Darnyelle said that she wouldn't go back and do anything differently because it's made her a much better person, better servant, and a much better business coach. 

She adds that when you try to let your ego lead, things don’t usually go well. Instead, bring yourself back down to earth and realize that everybody needs support, because if you could do it by yourself, it would already be done. Talking about her journey to coaching, she started as a motivational speaker. 

She started telling her story because she had a really impactful story, and that was her first business. She was really in this hustle and grind, because she had to live from speaking engagement to speaking engagement in order to meet her needs.

Then, Darnyelle started working as a consultant, and when she learned about group coaching, it was a hit. Then, she had this coaching group, she started to solidify her framework, which she still uses to this day. She loves coaching because of how she has been able to transform the lives of people she helps out. 

Darnyelle’s 10-step framework, Leverage Your Incredible Factor System covers seven areas in a business that really makes sure that all of the systems and everything is in place. This includes mindset messaging, marketing, sales, operations, talent, legacy, and leadership. They also integrate life coaching, financial management coaching and wealth building as well.

She continues by adding that she doesn't do this for the money, she does it for the transformation. While she charges for her services, being able to bring these pieces together for people is so powerful for her, because most of the people that she works with, they were not born entrepreneurs. They don't know all of the things they need to know; except they know that they want to make a difference.

Talking about something that could have accelerated her journey, Darnyelle said that knowing what she knows today, she would have known that it was just a distraction. It was meant to derail her from the purposes that had already been established and preordained for her. And instead of being overcome by them, she would have just walked into them. 

She adds that if we really stopped and traced it, it could be the catalyst for all of the things that happened, because she was so afraid of what would happen if she realized her own power, but she knows now that her power is what makes her special and it's only when she let it out that she gets to be the transformation that she want to see in the world.

Darnyelle says that there are a lot of people who are sitting in lack, because they don't understand the paradigm of abundance that's their birthright. You can see clearly after it's all said and done, but she thinks that it was all for her own good, and it was all to get her to this place. And knowing that she has arrived here at this moment, it makes it all worth it.

For people looking for inspiration to take action, she says that just like two-thirds of God's name is Go, so, just get moving. Walk the path, take the step, we don't have to know all of the steps. So, get clear about where you're going, and take the next step to take the path, the path will emerge as you walk it.

Key Quotes:

• “I focus on the quality moments and quality time and not materialistic things …”—
• “When you're doing what people expect of you, and when the light is always been on you, you shine…”
• “I just made a decision in late 2018 that I wasn't going to play small anymore. That the God in me was going to play as big as God played when he created me…”
• “I don't necessarily advocate for anyone trying this at home, like don't be going in your boss's office to quit your job. If you ain't got no backup plan. Don't do that…”
• “What you don't need is to be figure out the strategy and worrying about the money at the same time, it's counterproductive…”
• “I made the mistake of not doing market research... and when I was finally ready to share it with the world and put it out there, no one wanted it because it was what I wanted, not what they wanted…” 
• “It took a catalyst, it took my own proverbial rock bottom for me to realize, yo, you need to slow down. You need to back up right…”
• “Ego is really fear in reverse. It's still fear, but you're just allowing the bigness of the fear to be subsided by your own beliefs about the fear…”
• “[Ego] stands for ‘edging god out’…”—Cass 
• “The reason why I love coaching is because of the transformation…”
• “They come to me because they have a problem in their business, but what they leave with is they’re a better spouse, a better parent, a better citizen, a better human…”
• “Unlike a lot of coaches that are out there that specialize in one part of the process or the other, we look at the whole business, the whole CEO…”
• “For me, it's all about the transformation, not the transaction…”
• “We literally get to be the person who puts the puzzle together for them, me and my team, which is just it's magical…”
• “There are really no words to describe the elation, I get to feel on a daily basis because I decided to say yes to myself and stop sitting behind someone else's desk, two times…”
• “It's that shift that comes with wisdom. With, you know, with stumbling and hurting yourself a couple of times and being able to still get up and walk…”

Links/Resources:

•  Leverage Your Incredible Factor Podcast - Darnyelle Jervey, MBA - https://darnyelle.com/podcast/ 
• https://twitter.com/darnyellejervey 
• https://www.instagram.com/darnyellejerveyharmon/ 
• https://www.facebook.com/darnyellejerveyharmon 

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• Michael Jordan and More Discipline
• Motivation Needs Discipline and Habits to Succeed
• Three Tasks Habit
• Your Mind Is Your Greatest Asset
• Keep Your Mind Clean
• ‘The Success Cycle’

• Michael Jordan and More Discipline
• Motivation Needs Discipline and Habits to Succeed
• Three Tasks Habit
• Your Mind Is Your Greatest Asset
• Keep Your Mind Clean
• ‘The Success Cycle’

• Who is the Clark Kent, When It Comes to Mark Savant? [00:01:21]
• How To Make Your Content Valuable and Stick Out [00:04:20]
• How to Get Started with Content Creation as a Realtor? [00:06:31]
• Why He Chose to Go ‘All In’ On Podcasting and Create His Medium Around Podcasting? [00:10:21]
• How to Create Concept, Redistribute and Repurpose it On a Smaller Budget [00:12:20]
• How Did He Gain Credibility with His Podcasts? [00:14:41]
• The Best Way to Gain Traction on Clubhouse [00:22:13]
• Can You do Podcasting on Clubhouse? [00:24:55]
• One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [00:29:06]
• What Started to Change the Needle for Him? [00:31:00]
• His Advice for People Looking to Take Action [00:33:40]

• Read Rich Dad, Poor Dad
• Time is Your Greatest Asset
• We Must First ‘L E I’
• Make Sure That You Are Investing
• Use Your Business to Balance Personal DTI
• Do the Research Before Investing? 
• Business and Taxes in the U.S Economy
• Understand The Principal Core Concepts

In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

In this episode, Casanova talks about how you can get to the next level when it comes to financials.

The number one thing that Cas did when he first started off, really wanting to go after a life by his design, is that he picked Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. It taught him that he was trading his time for money, while working in sales. 

He truly didn't have leverage in his life, and he wasn’t really going after his greatest asset, just like everyone else’s; time. The other thing that it taught him was that he was attaching his income to hours. He wasn't attaching it to assets.

Cas decided to put all his eggs in the basket of a real estate, because it's the one thing, we can't make any more. He further adds that another thing we should do is ‘L E I’. First, we must learn, we must apply it. So, then we can earn, and last, but definitely not least we must invest.

Cas suggests passive income opportunities, where you do the work upfront and then that money keeps coming in on the backend. Like you buy a real estate property one time, and every single month that money comes, coming in without you having to do the work.

One advantage of having a business is that it can help you keep a good DTI, or debt-to-income ratio, if you acquire assets such as a car through your business. So, that's what you have to figure out, how can you invest more?

The first thing before investing in a business is education, or the research. In the US economy, business and taxes hold a significant position. If you have ownership of a business, you can have taxes work on your behalf.

Cas share something that he learned; the poor people, they work, then they are taxed, and then they spend what's left. The wealthy people, they work, they spend, and then they're taxed on what’s left. Understanding these principal core concepts will allow you to get ahead.

It is pretty simple, and dust by having a side hustle where you can go and get you an LLC. and as long as you sell one product a year, this means that you have a business. If you have that business, especially if it's a real estate business, you're able to appreciate a lot of your expenses.

Using those core fundamentals that we want to make sure that we can always be building our assets, our legacies, and our financials.

Key Quotes:

• “[Time is] the one thing that we can't get any more of. It doesn't matter how much money that you have…”
• “You want to make sure that you have enough cashflow coming in from passive opportunities…”
• “In the U S especially, the economy is built off of two things, one business, and then two, taxes…”

Links/Resources:

• Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
• dreamnationpodcast.com

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• Who is the Clark Kent, When It Comes to Ken Joslin? [00:00:45]
• Where Does His Energy and Passion Come From? [00:03:05]
• Where Did Entrepreneurship Come in For Him? [00:05:17]
• How Was He Able to Continue to Keep Transitioning? [00:08:34]
• What's A Way That People Can Add Value? [00:11:35]
• Helping Other Win is Much More Fulfilling [00:16:00]
• One Thing He Wishes That He Would Have Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey [00:30:03]
• Why Did He Decide to Partner Up with eXp Realty? [00:33:48]
• What Does He Feel Like the Vibe Has Been for His Agents Since Joining eXp? [00:36:10]
• Ken’s Advice to Help People Take Action [00:41:38]

In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

In this episode, Casanova and Ken talk about how your mindset can help you make your dreams a reality. 

Ken prides himself on being the same passionate guy, no matter where he is. Whether it is the church, or his family and friends, or GSD, he exudes the same passion about life. He loves helping business professionals build confidence, gain clarity, and create community.

Ken had an eventful childhood, and he moved around a lot. Things changed dramatically in August of 1993 when he gave his life to Christ, and that was his ‘aha’ moment. This is where he began to develop passion. 

While he is not in full-time vocational ministry, he still does as much pastoring, life mentorship and help people win and figure out what life is all about, as he did before. Cas adds that it just shows that this didn't just start overnight, and it's always been who he is. 

Ken’s journey towards entrepreneurship started after his position was let go by a company that he worked for, three days before Christmas. He started with a brand-new church, and grew that youth ministry from about half a dozen kids to about 250 to 350 on a weekly basis.

It became one of the largest youth ministries in the country, and that's where he really started to discover it. After that, he needed a break because he had two little baby girls at the time and went to work for a friend at a mortgage company. There, Ken made $146,000 in his first year. 

Following that, he started his own mortgage company, which has done close to $300 million in real estate transactions. It was just a progression; there’s no overnight success. Ken believes that if you surround yourself with world-class people in your field, you will succeed and grow exponentially regardless of what you do and learn from them. 

Having just literally unbelievable connections and moments with people to people like Grant Cardone, Ken felt like the businessman on the inside of him, just getting born and revitalized again.

He believes that you can grow your business, leaps and bounds into whatever profession you're in if you get around the right people, who have been down the road and who have that 10,000-foot view of what's going on in your life.

Ken adds that being successful and being significant are two vastly different things. For him, he wants to add value and help the people around him win. If he has an intern on his team, and he helped them win, he will go to bed with a higher level of fulfillment than somebody who just added another comma in their bank account that day.

Cas recalls hearing about a Warren Buffet quote on success at a sales meeting. The number of people that show up to someone’s funeral are the people whose lives they had impacted when they were alive. 

Ken believes that for some people, status does not move the needle. They are more concerned about how they can help somebody on their team win and be successful and experience more personally, professionally, and financially. 

For people who lack the financial resources to get coaching from masterminds, or go to boot camps, they can use free resources like YouTube, podcasts, and some of the best-selling books. 

Ken narrates how he discovered Grant Cardone through an Instagram ad, which led to him attending a free webinar, to a $997 mentorship, like a 12-week mentorship, to flying out to attend 10X Boot Camp. 

At that time, Ken was working on a $3 million commercial, that would earn him a $78,720 commission. Unfortunately, following a bank appraisal, the property was valued at $2.625 million, which was $375,000 short.

Ken flew to Miami to 10X Bootcamp, and during a private Q&A session, Grant advised him to close the deal, because if they overpay for the building right now, somebody will overpay for it when they sell it.

They ended up closing the deal, and last six weeks of the year, he closed over 2 million more dollars. His business took off from there, and it has not stopped, all because he took a risk. 

Cas adds that it is the anxiety of what might happen that stops us from taking that leap. If you can even conceive it in the beginning, it’s achievable. Ken describes the importance of three types of relationships every one of us needs; your community, your circle, and your corner. 

He continues that when you get those three spheres of relationships right in your life, it'll take you places you never thought you could go. Ken adds that you should find somebody that is unbelievably gifted, at what you’re doing and learn from them. That is the one thing that he wishes that he had implemented sooner to accelerate his journey. 

Talking about what motivated him to join the eXp Realty, Ken shared that it was not because he was excited about doing real estate, it’s because he wanted to help his team get better every day. eXp Realty is like a nationwide community.

Speaking of the GDS Boot Camp, Ken said that such opportunities allow you to be able to not just rub shoulders with industry leaders, but also build relationships because this can be a game-changer in your life. If you take the risk and invest in yourself.

For people looking to take action, Ken said that you have everything within you. God designed you with everything within you, to live out the purpose that he has for you. You shine and you be you and make a positive difference in the world.

Key Quotes:

• When I had my ‘aha’ moment of ‘God, you made me for more than what I've been experiencing.’ –Ken Joslin.
• “Greg in Three Feet from Gold, he talks about the 19-year overnight success, overnight successes take time…” –Ken Joslin.
• “I say this all the time, get around people who want something for you, not from you…”–Ken Joslin.
• “There's no such thing as an overnight success, but there is such a thing as circumventing the time and process it takes for you to grow as an individual and as a leader, and as a business professional…”–Ken Joslin.
• “My mindset is, how can I help the people around me win; not how can I help my business…” –Ken Joslin.
• “Significant leaders who have been successful, they want to help other people...” –Ken Joslin.
• “If you start out to be significant, you're always going to be successful. If you start out to be successful, you may or may not find significance, and you're probably going to leave a trail of damage behind you along the way…”–Ken Joslin.
• “If you help enough people get what they want, in return you'll get any and everything that you want.” –Zig Ziggler
• “According to Carlos Reyes, the three Ss of entrepreneurship are survival, status, and significance…” –Ken Joslin.
• “If you continuously become a consumer at the end of the day, you'll have overload. You got to take action on something.” – Casanova Brooks.
• “I spent $84,000 with Grant last year, $84,000, but that's been returned four or five-fold already. Listen, you have to invest in yourself…”–Ken Joslin.
• “I promise you, when you do that and you bet on you, it will pay off in ways you'd never could have imagined, I'm a living proof…”–Ken Joslin.
• “I think that anybody can recognize that though, anytime you take a risk, and you get out of your comfort zone, nobody ever regrets it…”– Casanova Brooks.
• “eXp, for what I've experienced, what I've learned, it's collaboration over competition…” – Casanova Brooks.
• “Even if you're being persistent, people want to see, how far are you willing to go– Casanova Brooks.

Links/Resources:

• Three Feet from Gold by Sharon L. Lechter
• Business Made Simple by Donald Miller
• Expert Secrets by Russell Brunson
• Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman
• Tribe by Seth Godin
• Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
• The EntreLeadership Podcast | RamseySolutions.com
• Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
• The Ideal Team Player by Patrick Lencioni
• Growstackdrive.com 
• https://www.instagram.com/kenjoslin 

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• You Gotta Have a Dream.
• Diversification is the Key.
• You Have to Have Side Hustles.
• Decide and Commit.
• Eliminate the Distractions.
• You Have to Have a Positive Mindset.
• Persistence Respects Persistence.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

In this episode, Casanova talks about you can become an outlier, an anomaly, and win at everything that you do.

The first thing is that you gotta have a dream. Somewhere along the way, we stop learning to dream, we stop living the dream. You always have to be a dreamer, never let your dream go and continue to find new dreams, continue to find new passions.

When creating a lifestyle that you want, you have to be diversified in that lifestyle. You're always going to have your main entree but find some hobbies and some things that get us fired up in the morning as well. 

Secondly, you have to decide and commit. Everyone's not always going to see your vision. It doesn't matter if they see the dream or not. You have to see it when others can't see it. Whatever you do, try to make sure that you have a couple hours to hone in on your craft.

Thirdly, look at what are the distractions that's holding you back from whatever you want to do. Eliminate those distractions and look for like-minded people and resources. 

Next thing that is that you always continuously have to have a positive mindset. Your dream is something you could work for without getting paid. So, keep a positive mindset on, that it will work out, and be optimistic.

 People around you are always going to tell you, their problems, but don’t get lost in that ‘woe is me’ mentality. Lastly, you have to learn to be persistent. Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer. 

• Who is the Behind-The-Scenes of ‘Mark Divine’? [00:01:00]
• When Did Mark Decide That He Wanted to Go Down a More Spiritual Path? [00:03:50]
• How Mark Differentiates Between Which Message to Listen to and Which Messages to Ignore? [00:11:58]
• How People Can Unlearn Things from The Past and Reprogram Their Mindset? [00:15:00]
• Have Affirmations Played Any Part in His Emotional State, or Making Him a Thought Leader on the Positivity Side? [00:25:43]
• How Mark Avoids Distractions and Stays Focused? [00:33:23]
• If He Could Go Back and Change Anything, What Would It Be? [00:47:09]
• Words of Motivation to Help People Take Action [00:51:46]

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

In this episode, Casanova and Mark discuss mental toughness and resiliency, and how to train to be someone special.

Mark shares that there's a lot of synchroneity between what he teaches and how he lives. He spends at least four hours of his day, training himself to be a better person; physically, mentally, emotionally, intuitively, and spiritually. He calls them “The Five Mountains.”

Mark firmly believes in walking his talk and leading and living by example. He learned some incredibly valuable lessons, both in becoming a SEAL and leading other individuals in those dangerous, crazy situations. 

Mark’s shift towards spirituality didn’t start until he got into Zen meditation, as a part of a martial art. He also put himself on a routine that would keep me fit. 

Joining a Martial Arts school in New York, and learning meditation alongside karate, he opened himself up to the possibility that there was way more going on than what met the eye. That process led him to completely change the story of the life that he was living. 

Mark adds that the reason why the SEALs are so successful is because they work as a really highly refined team, that can do stuff that other teams can't do, because they're relying on intuition and the explosive power of that team, like morphogenic field. 

Responding to how your mind thinks and receives information, it's both spiritual and mental strength. Mark wanted to teach others what he learned and how he was able to be a good, effective, intuitive, emotionally mature leader. 

Mark has also created his own yoga program, called Kokoro yoga. ‘Kokoro’ means merging the heart and mind into your actions.

Casanova shares how helpful meditation has been for him. Mark adds that how we perceive others initially is usually a projection or a transference projection. Someone who reminds you of a past emotional issue or trauma, you project onto them. 

Mark believes that the conditioned stuff from the past that you need to really, unearth and clean up, as part of your growth, because that stuff will limit spiritual growth. 

When it comes to unlearning something, you need to recognize the actual patterns of what's going to hold you back. Then, you create a separation between you and that pattern. As a thought pattern, we can pull it outside of us and look at it.

After that, we go deep on this stuff in our unbeatable mind programs is to use imagery or guided imagery, in a practice called ‘recapitulation.’ Following those three steps—the awareness of, and then the recapitulation, and reducing the negative and enhancing the positive, it leads to healing.

Mark further adds that what holds people back is that they don't know how to grow. They don't know how to take conscious evolution or conscious control over their evolution. This is what he teaches people. 

He says that the process of accelerated vertical development or vertical growth, where you evolve your consciousness, and you take conscious control over that, is crucial. You got to wake up and you've got to both evolve, take care of your own evolution, and you got to do the emotional cleanup.

When it comes to affirmations, Mark believes that they are useful, but they're just part of the puzzle. A mantra is just an affirmation that's repeated over and over and over. You can have a positive affirmation and a negative emotional state, and it's just going to cancel each other out.

Affirmations are only as good as your willingness to also do the emotional work to root out the belief system that could cancel out the affirmation that says, “I'm feeling good, I'm looking good”. 

When we talk about mental development, you have to learn how to concentrate and to decrease the clutter. Like Navy SEALs, you have to learn take the gas pedal off the concentration and learn to just relax into the experience of being more, so that you could connect more with your heart and intuition. 

Mark adds that to avoid distractions, sometimes we've got to ask, we've got to start with the negative. Like, what am I not supposed to do? Then, you have to as what am I passionate about? what am I principled about? and what is my purpose?

For Mark, he was being held back by his co-dependence, but his spirit was always leading him to pointing in the other direction. He started looking at things that he was passionate about. 

Following that, you have to ask, what are you principled about? This would inform your sense of purpose. So, you just sit with that and meditate on that and reflect on that. 

If you could find the center point where your passion, your purpose and, and your principles, all the stuff that's on the inside, trying to come out, align without worrying about the goals and the mission, then the doing part will get much clearer to you or often reveal itself to you.

If there was something Mark could go back and change, it would be relentless discipline, commitment to protecting the first couple hours, even if it's one hour of his day to do the inner work.

Mark believes the answers lie within, but you got to slow down, pause, look within, and ask better questions than listen. You need to carve out time in the morning or the evening, or at least in the morning.

For the people looking to take action, Mark suggests that you should stop listening to your ego. You got to start focusing on other things. Once that little voice will be gone, and you'll be on a whole new path toward wholeness.

Key Quotes:

• “It's so important to me to continue my own evolution and to take conscious control of that evolution and to take serious action on that every day that I don't allow anything to disrupt that…” – Mark Divine.
• “When you lose your body, you eventually lose your mind…”– Mark Divine.
• “The SEALs are largely, you know, you have to have the physical skills even to get in, but it is the mental strength and your emotional resiliency, that get you through the training and into the SEALs…”– Mark Divine.
• “Every challenge that you have had including in the last year, has a silver lining…”– Mark Divine.
• “The recapitulation process has two points. One is to understand what happened and to forgive yourself and whoever the perpetrators were and to diminish the power of the negative side of that event. And the second is to recontextualize it, reframe it, enter implant the positive lesson as a sense of knowing this and appreciation…”– Mark Divine.
• “We have to be positive and project love, connection and abundance into the world starting with ourselves…”– Mark Divine.
• “Change is one person at a time from the inside out”—Mahatma Gandhi. 
• “My affirmation, when I went through SEAL training, and I said it probably a trillion times so much so that it's the first thing I hear in my mind when I wake up in the morning, was, “I'm feeling good. I'm looking good. I ought to be in Hollywood…”– Mark Divine.
• “Asking yourself what you’re passionate about and then clarifying that by asking yourself what do you not like, what are you absolutely dispassionate about, you start to get a really interesting information…”– Mark Divine.
• “If you don't feel content, if you don't feel peace of mind, if you don't feel love for all beings in reverence for the earth, then you got work to do…”– Mark Divine.
• “Box Breathing, it's in that 30-day challenge. The breathing will clear and calm your mind. And then your mind that gives you the strength then to turn, to begin concentration practice, and that concentration will, will steal your mind further…”– Mark Divine.

Links/Resources:

• markdivine.com
• unbeatablemind.com/challenge 

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Making better decisions starts with three ABC components: Awareness, Being Intentional, and Commitment.

Our guest for this podcast episode can help you, and everyone else gets to the decision you want. Listen to Rha Goddess of Move the Crowd as she helps you stay true to who you are and what you want to go for, without sacrificing yourself. In this episode, you will know how to pursue your actual purpose or calling and still get paid while doing it. 

Rha Goddess is an entrepreneurial soul coach, author, and Founder of Move the Crowd. This movement helps people find their true calling, use their full talent and potential to stay true, get paid, and do good. 

Here's what you missed:

A very rich inner world

• "You know, I think I always had this very rich, inner world as a young girl." (04:09)
• "And I think I always had this very shy. Side to me because I did enjoy being by myself." (04:36)
• "And so I became this sponge, I think, at a very young age. And that lent itself to, I think this more quiet side, I had a more boisterous side, but it was. Um, it had to have a purpose or reason..." (05:45)

Saturn's Return

• "...you know, it, it began for me, I think in terms of really crystallizing. In my early twenties... And so my sense of purpose and calling. From the perspective of wanting people to be free from the perspective of justice, inequality came very at a very, very young age... where your life sort of gets throwing on, on health." (07:20)
• "And then you start asking these very big questions about who you are and what really matters. And for me, It began with death, the death of my mother at 26." (08:36)
• " And so I think it was her passing. At 26 and which was the sort of the beginning of my Saturn's return and then losing five other people in a period of five months were very, very close to me." (09:40)

Thinking bigger

• "That was always a part of just. My growing up in my upbringing was what I'm surrounded by, but the idea of potentially envisioning bigger thinking bigger." (10:18)
• "And then at some point I went back to sleep. Um, and I think that because sometimes it happens. W with all of us, you know, if you live long enough, you're going to have seasons and reasons and stages and phases of an evolution in your calling and your purpose. " (10:45)
• " And I think we all on some level go through that, you know, and, and this is the place where mentors make a difference. This is the place where coaches make a difference. This is the place where advisors, whether they're formal or informal, make a difference." (11:54)

• It comes as a feeling
• "...sometimes when your purpose comes the first time, I think it comes as a feeling." (12:44)
• "But sometimes it takes a while before the actual language were common." (13:10)
• "...and I stand there and then I slowly start to feel this energy, almost like a cloak.
• Come back up and rise up through the top of my head. And then of course afterwards I'm freaking out, but in the aftermath and all of the flashbacks, I kept hearing the message, you know, and that, that I'm here to do something." (15:24)

• Give room to let the gift breathe
• "Cause some of us ask, you know, do I have to hit rock bottom right before I make the term? And the answer is we don't have to. Right. Right. And at the same time, there is a wisdom in our journey that we can't always understand or see when we're in the middle of it. It's only when we can reflect back..." (18:31)
• "...and so we know if we can remember that it often makes sense when we're looking at it in our rear view mirror. Hmm, but sometimes it doesn't make sense when we're in the middle of it. (19:06)
• "Every single moment of every single day you are being communicated with, by whatever you want to call it, God source, creator, the universe love whatever, you know, you choose to call that energy, that higher wisdom of which you are a part of you're always being communicated with. And so the more that we can create space for it." (19:44)
• " So you have to give room to let the gift breathe. " (21:13)
• "And when the idea can't stand up to that kind of scrutiny and that kind of pressure, we abandoned. Right. And so we have to be willing to be in a process" (21:31)
• "And so each of us has to feel into. Where are we in the journey and what is the best next step for each of us based upon where we are." (22:05)
• "And you need to create a space or an opportunity or environment where you can be supported, where you can be encouraged, where you can be cheered for and rooted for" (22:55)

• listen to the clues/ listen to yourself
• "I would say to you pay attention to the things that you're passionate about. Pay attention to the things that are effortless for you." (24:42)
• "These are all of the clues that I say the breadcrumbs, right. That often lead to your purpose. " (25:13)
• " If you stay with those impulses, you start to learn how to be in conversation, dialogue with yourself in a way where you're listening for what's pulling what's tugging, what's nagging.
• Then the big C will, will show itself." (25:39)
• "So my first coaching always to you all is begin to listen to yourself. Start to take your ideas." (27:02)

• Take one step at a time
• "when we do something naturally, I think when we do something, we want to have a major impact in the world on it." (28:17)
• "And I think there is a way that we dismiss the small and the truth of the matter. Is that anything great that has ever been built has been built one brick one step, one moment, one day at a time." (28:58)

You are your biggest asset

• "And so that can, as much as it can inspire us, it can also demoralize us. And so we, we have to learn a particular kind of patience. We have to learn a particular kind of self-love and self-reverence." (30:07)
• "Your get paid is an extension of your love. It's an extension to the degree, to which you are willing to love others through the gifts that you give to the world. And it is the extension to which you are willing to receive love in the form of compensation, whether that's acknowledgement, praise, financial, right, uh, accolades. " (30:36)
• "Because if you want to know where your money is, that's where your money is and the more that we can open up and the more that we can honor. What wants to come through us." (32:05)
• "The more we begin to magnetize when we aligned with the thing that is ours, to bring nothing, nothing can stop us. " (32:28)
• "...somebody already getting paid for whatever that thing is. Right. You just got to figure out how can you be a little bit more unique and how can you love on the audience a little bit more.
• Yeah. And I would say the do not underestimate that you are the biggest asset you have. " (33:45)

The thing that drives you

• "...but who are you as a soul? What were you bought? What were you brought here to do? Let's get grounded and clear about that. And then we can bring the strategy, the marketing and the branding." (34:38)
• "So that when it reaches the people who you are meant to reach, it has such a purity and such an integrity that it becomes irresistible and it becomes undeniable because it's you." (35:20)
• " if I'm able to, through my efforts of being of service to you, contribute to your success than I am by direct result successful" (39:23)
• " if we come back to this idea of profitability, if you allow yourself to be led by love, if you become adamant about advancing.
• And being willing to advance the lives of those you serve in whatever capacity that you serve them, you will prosper. " (39:37)

Understand the laws of nature

• "…for me, the game changer. Was understanding the laws of nature. And understanding the principles of the universe." (41:08)
• " It was the law of vibration, which many of you know is the law of attraction or the law of pure potentiality" (41:47)
• "this idea that I could create. My reality that I could have, that I had, that co-creative power that I didn't have to be at the mercy of my circumstances.
• That by far was what cut the lights on in my reality. " (42:09)

Take your terror with you

• "I think the most important thing for each of us to recognize and understand is that the things that we've won are not as far from us as we think they are... But if we got on the path and started walking, it would start walking towards us to whatever you seek is seeking you." (44:30)
• "it doesn't have to be perfect. You don't have to believe at all. It's your willingness to say today, I'm going to take one step and I'm going to take my terror with me." (45:45)
• "At some point, you'll decide when you want to put them down, but for right now, I don't care. Take it all with you. Move. Be willing to move in. Honor of you. They willing to move. " (46:07)

Quotes and Advice from our host and guest:

• "There but for the grace of God go, I, so you never looked down your nose at anybody" - Rha, (09:24)
• "I knew the world of motivational speaking, but it didn't feel like. That was my work. That makes sense. Um, at the time. And so I was like, okay, I hear you God, but I have no idea how to do what you're asking me to do. And I just kept doing what I had been doing." - Rha, (13:33)
• "...who knows what's good or what's bad." - Casanova, (17:35)
• "…promises that we make to other people often we will keep them quicker than the promises that we make to ourselves" - Rha, (23:16)
• "The get paid comes from a willingness to honor what it is that you are here to uniquely bring." - Rha, (24:26)
• "…when we do something naturally, I think when we do something, we want to have a major impact in the world on it" - Casanova, (28:17)
• It is the small, that becomes a great, and it is the few that become many”. - Lao Tzu, (28:52)
• "Somebody's got to be an innovator. Somebody has got to buck the system or the trend." - Casanova, (43:45)

Books, Mentions, and Links:

Rha Goddess

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Youtube
• LinkedIn
• Instagram

• Tyler Perry
• Lin Manuel Miranda
• Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
• Malcolm Gladwell
• Price Abundance Book by John Randolph
• The Sciences of Getting Rich by Wallace D Wattles.
• Deepak Chopra

How do you do it? There are three keys you should have and do to adapt, build relationships, and push forward to success: consciousness, compassion, and curiosity.

Wouldn't you feel more accomplished if despite the challenges, you still pushed through and you used these as your drive to scale up your life? Take for example how our guest for this podcast, Rob Moore did it to be successful. Being a bullied fat kid, he used this experience and emotional drive to strive harder to be useful and valuable. And until now, he hasn't lost that drive to scale up and help people. 

Rob is The Disruptive Entrepreneur and investor of multiple businesses. He's also authored 17 best-selling business books such as Money: Know More, Make More, Give More. He's continued to share value by being a prolific podcaster, content creator, and public speaker. 

Here's what you missed:

Turn your pain into gain

• "...really what I am is a recovering fat kid. Who's still trying to get noticed and appreciated and feels useful and valuable." (01:23)
• "And it will never be enough. And I don't feel in any way accomplished. And even as I say those things, I just feel like I've got so much more to do." (03:01)
• "And. I think that's because I'm still trying to get the recognition and the praise and the approval and the respect and feeling useful and valuable because even though I lost all the way. I never lost those needs to be..."(03:24)
• "what you've done is you've turned that pain into gain. You've turned that pain into a mission, into a message to inspire the masses with your work and. That's what I'm doing the same thing. And that's why I'll never rest." (4:50)

The biggest drivers of change

• " We all want to be noticed. We all want re recognition." (05:57)
• " The schools I out there was a long summer holiday. It was nine weeks and I lost all the weight." (07:34)
• "and so that taught me that I could do anything I wanted to put my mind to, but it didn't, I didn't lose the feelings. I didn't all of a sudden become a confident person because girls started to notice me and guys didn't take the piss out of me." (08:12)
• "Basically. I was complacent. I was lazy. I didn't like rich people. I didn't like successful people that I was better. I felt everyone else was lucky. I felt I'd been dealt a bad hand and. And on that day, everything changed over the process of a week. I met my business partner, who I'm still business partners with today. " (09:19)
• "...what drives me now is to help as many people on this planet start to scale their business and get a better financial education." (11:12)

Give me anything, I'll try anything

• "My dad kept telling me I should go into property or real estate, as you say in America. Um, and I just, nah, I can't afford it." (12:45)
• "...just dismiss, dismiss, dismiss, dismiss. And then when, with what happened with my dad, I was just like, give me anything, give me anything. I'll try anything." (12:57)
• "He helped me get a job in a property sourcing company and locally, and I was prepared to work for free just to get the knowledge, but, um, they gave me minimum wage, but they gave me 500 pound commission for property sale." (13:19)
• "My share of that got me out of debt and got me up to nearly six, a six figure earner." (13:54)
• "We'd already got 20, but we started full-time sourcing for ourselves and then sourcing for other people as well. So selling deals onto others, the deal packaging. And we bought another 30 that year. And in that year we divided up roles and responsibilities because in the first year we were just doing everything together." (15:32)

Turn your vocation into vacation

• "Well, look, I think the most important thing is to do something that you're inspired by. Turn your passion into your profession, your vocation, into your vacation..." (16:59)
• "The key is what do you love to do? You know, what are you inspired by now 30 years ago, you didn't get to do what you love." (18:15)
• "But whatever you love to do and you're passionate about." (18:39)

Fear of not pushing through

• "…find something that you love, you know, what you love to do. You just have to have the courage to go...because I think what stops a lot of people is one, how do I make it work? 
• " I think another big fear is why would people listen to me? " (19:45)
• "So anyone listening people like you for you, they like your style your way. And all right, there might not be any new information under the sun, but they liked the way you share it.
• They like your values, your vision, your energy, your enthusiasm, your style, whatever it is that makes you, you... The next thing, and this is the most important thing is the single most important thing is the thing that stops nearly everyone. You have to have the courage to be disliked." (20:15)
• "Knowing who you are and showing the world who you are and with no filter, I E not over-exaggerating yourself and, you know, bullshitting and not minimizing yourself. And pretending that you're less than you are just who you really are." (21:17)
• "I think the single biggest blockage to most people's success is they fear ridicule, judgment. They fear making mistakes. They fear what other people will think about their failure. They fear what other people will say about them. You have to get over that. You have to get over it. Cause it doesn't matter. It really doesn't matter." (22:04)

What are you most proud of?

• "I think I'm the most proud of, um, raising two children who are, yeah, they're really good kids, 10 and six, and that's mostly thanks to my wife, but we're a team and I build the empire and she looks after the empire" (22:51)
• " I'm proud of all the people that I've helped. I get daily messages from people who say they're inspired by me" (23:27)
• "...money's money, isn't it funny is money, whatever, you know, that's making millions and tens of millions and hundreds of millions is it's not something to be proud of. It's shifter. It's just the result. It's the outcome of the value you give. " (24:18)

Build a team early

• "I think now more than ever, you have the ability to build a team quicker and in a more lean fashion." (25:31)
• "... you can get a lot of help virtually online for not much money. You can have remote Teddy salespeople on no salary, only commission. So I'd say embrace that as quick as you can, because like, if you go, if you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." (26:01)
• "But, you know, if you've got a family and you know, you're not completely new to business, or you've got a bit of experience in a career, um, and you want to scale quicker and you don't want to do it at the expense of your health and your family. It doesn't have to be that way. " (26:44)
• "So I would definitely recommend people start outsourcing as quick as they can and get used to outsourcing tasks because also the quicker you outsource task, it teaches you to manage people." (27:39)

How to get noticed and be memorable

• "...honoring your own talents and strengths and greatness and being yourself, I think finding a way to get noticed and be memorable." (29:49)
• "I think, you know, doing things for people first people are often trying to get first, but doing things for people. " (30:26)
• "there's always a way that you can find to do something nice for someone that's a bit further ahead of you to, to get noticed." (30:48)

Partnerships, collaborations and hiring people

• "It's two things and I did it, but I did it too slow. I didn't focus on it. Enough. One is partnerships and collaborations and two is hiring people." (32:00)
• "And so I should have definitely staffed up or outsourced much quicker. Number one, and I should have embraced partnerships and collaborations much quicker. I did them, but probably didn't focus on them enough." (32:20)
• " I could name another 10 people like that, who I've I'm in partnership with, um, you know, whether they're speakers or trainers for our company, or we do collaborations together." (32:53)

Have impactful partnerships

• "It depends. They're all different... That that would, that would be one way. It could be that we promote each other and speak each other's events." (33:30)
• "You could call that a partnership or collaboration because obviously he's got great reach, so many different ways to do them, but most areas of business, there is a partnership or a collaboration opportunity." (34:24)

Quotes and Advice from our host and guest:

• "I just want my whole life to be driven by pain. I don't, you know, I don't live in pain all day every day, but I'm driven by not wanting to go back to those places." - Rob, (10:19)
• "I don't want my life to be about pain, but I just want to know the feeling of never having to go back there. To know that I had the choice to change things " - Casanova, (11:40)
• "I think the most important thing is to do something that you're inspired by" - Rob, (17:00)
• "But at the end of the day, we didn't really care about the money. What we care about is what it allows us to do with the money." - Casanova, (24:35)
• "...if you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together" - Rob, (26:13)
• "one minute, planning, saves five minutes doing" - Brian Tracy, (28:59)
• " And I'll say it now, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything." - Rob, (35:27)

Books, Mentions, and Links:

Rob Moore:

• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Money: No More, Make More, Give More

Brian Tracy

Zig Ziglar

Jim Roan

Tony Robbins

Grant Cardone

Jack Canfield

Alexander Mcqueen

Jordan Peterson

Have you ever tried checking out what's the secret of wealthy people when it comes to debt management and financial knowledge? If you're interested, then listen to this episode with our guest, Chris Naugle, America's number 1 Money Mentor, to help us take back control of our money and teach you the steps into the secrets of the wealthy and generate more money. 

Chris manages over 30 million dollars in assets in the financial services and real estate industry. He empowers businesses and real estate investors with money knowledge to help them break from the chains of financial slavery. 

Here's what you missed:

Against all odds

• "...why can't I, if I just do what everybody else is unwilling to do." (02:55)
• "all that practice against all odds and everybody telling me I couldn't do it. I ended up becoming a pro snowboarder and that was kind of my upbringing." (03:43)
• "And I said, you know what, it's the best thing ever. It's all I knew. It didn't matter that other people had more, this is what I had and we made the best of it." (04:03)

How do I not fail?

• "...a lot of people get into business ‘cause they want to be super wealthy to me back then, business was just the means for me not to trade hours for dollars." (05:24)
• "So this was my first crash course into realizing how difficult life can be sometimes" (05:50)
• "...Chris is snowboarder fails at this new venture, which it very well could have. I just lose mom's house. That was the point where I really started focusing on the money side. How do I not fail? And it was a lot more than just, you know, The dream of chasing big dollars." (06:51)
• " I never lost mom's house. That business was a success and all the way up to the early two thousands, I faced my first recession." (07:13)

Start putting the twigs together

• "... entrepreneurs have something about them that makes them more successful in the financial world." (08:07)
• "I started learning a lot. Building a book and building a lot of clients. And I flipped a couple houses in Oh six and Oh seven. So I entered real estate kind of a little bit. And then I was crushing it." (08:36)
• " Sometimes timing is everything in my life I thought was going this direction. And then all of a sudden, when the great recession hit, I was going that direction." (09:23)
• "...they say that a lot of money is made obviously in the downturns" (11:27)

Why do I keep failing?

• "...you never know it when you're doing it... But then I made a massive mistake or just circumstances hit me the wrong way in 2014. And, uh, I took my 37th deal to the bank and the bank said you don't fit in our little square box called debts income." (12:25)
• "...but banks have a certain number of, of mortgages you can do, or your debt to income ratio calculation. And I hit that wall, even though I was making good money as an advisor... because you don't fit in the box, now they open up everything and they, they froze my lines of credit." (12:49)
• " So you can see like my journey, you know, from early years, right on straight through, it's just been this crazy rollercoaster ride. Of just ups and downs, where I had money, I lost it all. You know, I had things, I lost them all." (13:46)

Be around the campfire

• "...the signs have been there your whole life, but you fail to see them when things are going good, or when you are not allowing life to just happen. And you're trying to control everything." (14:39)
• "I'm a pretty high level financial advisor at this time. I thought I knew everything there was to know about money, but they're talking about money in a completely different realm of anything I've ever heard." (15:44)
• "And it made me question everything. Made me question everything I learned that I dove in and I started there's a lot more to it, but I started really following multi-millionaires and billionaires...but I knew the answer to what I needed lied in these people's minds and the only way...the only way I was going to get that is to be there with them, I call it be around the campfire." (16:15)

The secrets of the wealthy

• "We're literally wearing rosy colored glasses, thinking that everything they're teaching us is exactly what everybody needs, but it's really not. It's what they want us to sell." (17:02)
• "And I started figuring the secrets out. I literally untapped and figured out the secrets of the wealthy. And I started applying them in my life" (17:35)
• "And he said, watch the video in that video is where it all changed. And I watched it and I knew the path. " (18:22)

BYOB (Be your own bank)

• "you creating a banking system becoming your own bank." (19:02)
• "So that 90-minute video showed me what the wealthy do, the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, the Ray crocks, the Walt Disney's, what they've done over time and how they've used insurance companies instead of banks to create banking systems that they use to finance all the things in their life and all they did to do this." (19:13)
• "...but I learned. Had to change one thing or add one step to my life. And that was where my money went first...We're taught to go to work or start a business to work hard and make money. We are never taught what to do with that money." (19:36)
• "But because I was being the bank, I got to treat my money the same way I would treat the bank's money or the credit card company's money" (22:15)

Figuring out the Eighth Wonder of the World

• "They understand in order to continue to build their wealth, they need to do two basic things. They need to control their money and have access and control over that money at all times, because if an opportunity comes tomorrow, they need to have access to take advantage of that opportunity." (23:04)
• " The wealthy figured out the eighth wonder of the world. They understand they can put their money there and then they can earn interest on it, but yet still have access and control. But without interrupting. The flow of that compound interest." (23:41)
• "...those that understand it, earn it, and those that don't pay it, we have to then decide how do we tap into compound interest, but yet not give up control" (23:59)
• " So now all of a sudden I've opened up an incredible potential to let my money grow while still going out and having my money grow a second or third or fourth or fifth time all at the exact same time." (24:30)

The Swiss army knife of the financial world

• "I heard about this magic machine, call it the Swiss army knife of the financial world... that sounds too good to be true." (26:17)
• "...whole life insurance as one of two things, very expensive life insurance or money that somebody gets when I die." (26:41)
• "It's not a regular whole life. It's built completely backwards. It's built to work like a banking system." (27:32)

Snowballing

• "But what I did is I stopped putting money in traditional banks, only money I kept in a traditional bank was enough to pay my car payment, car insurance and basic needs." (30:30)
• "Then, what I did is I immediately started taking the money out. I did it on a quarterly basis and I paid down credit cards in a very unique way. It's called snowballing," (30:46)
• "But every time I was using my money, I treated my money like I would the banks line of credit." (32:49)

The circle of money

• "It's a big circle that all lands back in my own bank instead of somebody else's folks" (35:04)
• "That is what the wealthy know that you don't. That is what they do every single day of every single month of every single year. And that is why the families of these wealthy individuals like the rock Chuck Rothschilds and the Rockefellers get richer and richer." (35:14)

Monopoly Money

• "I am always in a liquid state or in control of my money." (37:28)
• "Real estate values come down because if you can't make money in the markets, people lose jobs. They can't afford houses. It brings value down it's supply and demand " (38:20)
• "...many people will not be ready for that because they will have all their assets already deployed." (39:44)

Work the way the wealthy work

• "And FOMO is the most dangerous thing in the stock world of investing or any world of investing, because it always leads you off a cliff." (41:32)
• "we can't time the market. You never can the best in the world. Can't so don't try. " (41:51)
• "You got to change your mind to start working the way that the wealthy work you got to change your mind to understand that opportunity. Is always going to come, but only few have the ability to really take advantage of it." (44:25)
• "I'm just following a set of rules that are very simple. I bought them low. I'm selling them high and I'm not going to lose money. And then when they go low again, I will rinse and repeat and do this process over. " (46:22)
• "Change where your money goes first and tap into uninterrupted compound interest. Be smart about your investing right now. Not saying don't invest, but set rules to your investing patterns in definitive rules." (46:52)
• "Every one of you need to be that light in the darkness, but to do that, you gotta really start planning for it today." (48:31)

Be resourceful

• "It is not about your actual resources. It's about how resourceful you can be." (49:27)
• "You want to be wealthy. You want to be successful. You got to do one thing. You got to go out there and you got to solve somebody else's problem." (49:46)

Quotes and Advice from our host and guest:

• "…buy low, sell high and don't lose money." - Warren, (12:03)
• "…when you're in that moment, you don't realize it, but those are some of your most powerful moments because you're actually willing to receive" - Chris, (14:25)
• "We're literally wearing rosy colored glasses, thinking that everything they're teaching us is exactly what everybody needs, but it's really not. It's what they want us to sell." - Chris, (17:02)
• "…if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's gotta be a duck." - old saying (27:52)
• "And if you just focus on helping people solve their problems, you will be wealthy no matter what, it's just harder than it sounds." - Chris, (36:34)
• "And I always say, it's just like monopoly money if you're not tapping into it." - Casanova, (37:08)

Books, Mentions, and Links:

Chris Naugle

• Facebook
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• Instagram
• 90-Minute Money Multiplier Training

• Warren Buffett
• Albert Einstein
• Dave Ramsey
• Zig Ziglar

What we sometimes don't realize is, we are not alone in this situation. Once you listen to other people's stories, you'll realize you're not the only one experiencing trauma. And this will help you to better handle your own and even help other people who go through it. 

That's why the perfect journey to listen to now is in this episode with Isis Brianna Woods. She had to deal with trauma at a young age but she was able to use her story to help other people and turned her purpose into profit by becoming an entrepreneur.

Isis transitioned from a kindergarten teacher to a successful entrepreneur in less than 8 months by selling Lightroom presets as a side hustle. Now, she's a Digital Guru helping others use social media platforms to effectively monetize their brands and create digital products that sell.

Here's what you missed:

Inventory of your past life

• "...every time I really got to talk to parents and I talked about their divorce and parents would tell you the tea most of them got divorced over something that had to do with money..." (02:48)
• "How could I trust myself to make decisions? If I was the same person who put myself in situations for that to happen too..." (03:37)
• "…there's a lot of decisions that she had to make that were tough because. We didn't have the money...a lot of it has come down to the fact of the lack there, of, of money." (04:18)
• "But I have realized when I have the finances and when families have the finances, they fight through a lot more things." (04:55)

This ain't my final destination

• "I would say I was doing fine. Um, and then I really, I found Lord again on my own." (08:27)
• "... the feeling of safety that came over me just to say it. And I was like, yeah, me too. That's all I said. And I burst out crying and the whole room was like, what's happening? We're hugging. Um, and I, but in that moment, I just felt empowered" (09:09)
• " in that moment I realized just the power of support and I knew I've always been that person. Like when something. Feels good to me. I want to give it to somebody else." (09:46)
• "... I'm going to get my book and I'm going to be a New York Times best seller, and I'm going to help so many people. Um, and that did not happen. The book is not written. I don't know if that's something I want to do anymore, but I'm glad that it brought me to Instagram. " (10:28)

Jumping into entrepreneurship

• "... but I feel like it's so disrespectful to God when he gives you something that you don't use it. " (11:51)
• " I was blessed enough to have two people in my life who were entrepreneurs and who are I say work" (13:47)
• "...if it won't kill you. And what's the worst that can happen?" (14:44)
• "You work more because you pour more energy into it. " (15:12)
• "I don't think it was a big jump for me because I am such a planner... So for me to go on entrepreneurship, I had a, what I would consider a pretty nice cushion to do whatever I want it to do." (15:29)
• " Like everybody's so used to sticking to the status quo and we'll have a job take sick days when you're not sick. And the principal's looking down on us, like, I know y'all were on vacation and I was just like, I don't need this. I mean, I want to enjoy my life."17:28)
• "And it wasn't until somebody deemed me, cause I was just sending them to people for free. And so my ideal to me and said, how much are your presets?" (18:57)
• "...it's $25 if you want one of them. And then if you want me to make a custom package for you, like one just for you, it'll be a hundred for three. And she paid me a hundred dollars" (19:26)
• "I stepped back from creating them and I put out a course to teach people how to make it themselves. " (19:43)

The coaching chose me

• "So I will say I did not choose coaching. Coaching chose me" (22:09)
• "And I started to realize a lot of people were again, deeming me asking me questions because I was sharing publicly my success." (23:23)
• "And I was like fine at the time. I wasn't thinking about selling my value. I was thinking about literally the time of it." (24:54)
• "Like I just felt like I had this anointing, this gift over me, but I didn't really know the worst" (25:54)

Scaling up to a masterclass

• "I went into coaching and from there it turned into, again, my laziness kicked in after those few months and I started to do masterclasses." (26:31)
• "I put on my story, you know, the eye emojis, Richard, like looking, sorry, dropped the eye emojis in the DSMs. If you want to know how to grow your Instagram, or you wanna know how to sell on Instagram. " (27:31)
• " And sometimes I know that you can do like maybe a membership gives pop in and wants to wait. You can do like a, just drop a class or something in that gave birth to my membership. Brown group is a whirl" (29:29)
• "But also in this next season, I really want to get back to how it was when I was doing those presets where it was 80% passive income." (29:59)

Figuring out the structure you want

• " if you're first thinking about getting started, just say, Hey, I'm thinking about putting on X, Y or Z. Would you be interested before you even create the course?" (30:41)
• "Of course I said, I want to go fully into courses and no, I feel like there is a point to that. I have seen where you do exhaust your current audience with the products that you have is so as are necessary. I just never gave myself that time to exhaust them." (32:36)

Back it up with your portfolio

• "I would say my main team, I have people who come and go like I have a go-to graphic designer when I'm doing like flyers for conferences and things like that." (34:35)
• "If there's nothing else you do, please have your Instagram be searchable." (35:18)
• "And so I go on Instagram and I was like, let me just type a personality copywriter. And the first night it was personality driven copywriter. " (36:23)
• "if my business were thriving, why would anyone want to work with me as a business coach? If you, if your, even your captions don't sound good, I need you to have at least some kind of portfolio on your work too, for me to see that too, you know, that's my thing." (37:48)

A main and a side

• "I feel like it takes a platform to grow a platform." (39:01)
• "So I always say have a main and a side" (39:47)
• "But if they don't come correct, it might be a no. If the energy's not good, but stay persistent with it.” (40:20)

Repackaged concepts

• "I'm a huge reader. I am a stickler for having a morning routine and a night routine." (40:48)
• "And I just, so you know, for anybody who's like me, who likes to be all over the place. I get my books on audible. Physical and digital..." (41:36)
• "I want to say this because there's a lot of good stuff to steal nerd. I realize a lot of books repeat the same stuff, read a lot. You realize that everybody learned from each other. " (42:26)
• "...you know, a lot of people will pay more for the same thing. Just packaged in a different way" (42:55)
• "And that was the first time I realized me and people really would just, they won't, they will pay for access. And just to hear you say it in a way that makes sense to them..." (43:21)

Mute everybody

• "...And that was the first time I realized me and people really would just, they won't, they will pay for access. And just to hear you say it in a way that makes sense to them." (45:04)
• " One, because it's so easy to doubt yourself. Yeah. And compare," (45:29)
• "I just felt like it's easy to want to replicate things too" (46:05)
• "And stop looking to the left and the right. Get help when you need it. Stop waiting on help. Struggling too long for no reason. " (46:55)
• "And I think if anybody can understand that the power and building a team, it builds something one that's bigger than you, but it also allows other people to have a hope and a dream that they feel like can come a reality because you set the foundation" (49:47)

Everything about you is right

• "…really leaning into the same things that you feel like are keeping you from where you want to be, or the same things are going to get you there." (50:46)
• " I stopped trying to change those things, those were the exact things that propelled me forward." (51:42)
• "That is so powerful because when you understand that he made no mistakes, I mean, everything about you is right. And everything about you is supposed to be used and, and just sitting in that just feels so good and so beautiful, but it also allows you to celebrate people more." (52:13)

Quotes and Advice from our host and guest:

• "... but the person that I have a cape is the person who realize that when used correctly money can really change some things." - Isis, (05:18)
• "your experiences creates your expertise." - Casanova, (06:20)
• " that the guy gave me something in my heart that somebody needs it because I don't feel like he just gives us something just for us." - Isis, (12:15)
• "when you are operating in your gifts and your calling and your purpose, I promise you things just flow." - Isis (28:53)
• "because you might come across somebody that feels like they have the gems, but they don't have it themselves." - Casanova, (37:12)
• "I think it is definitely the power of building a team and understanding that there's a leverage, uh, that can be had" - Casanova, (48:51)
• "...sitting in what God gave you an understanding is perfect, how it is and understanding how everybody else is, is perfect, how they are, and we all meshed together. And it's not about you" - Isis, (53:25)

Books, Mentions, and Links:

Isis Brianna Woods

• Twitter
• Instagram
• Pinterest

• Russell Brunson
• Stu Mclaren
• 22 Immutable Laws of Branding and Marketing
• The Power of Now
• A Year of Positive Thinking
• Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter by 50 Cent
• Rocket Fuel by Gino Wickman
• Jay Z
• Nicky Saunders
• Marry Woodard
• 
  

What's the number one step? The number one step is understanding that you're only competing with yourself. And to be the best version of yourself, you have to stop looking at what somebody else has done. Understand that everyday you're running your own race, and you can always run better the next day.

Mentions and Links:

• Michael Jordan
• Michael Jackson
• Jeff Bezos
• Steve Jobs
• Kareem Abdul Jabbar
• Tom Brady

How can you make yourself a better investment? Listen to this podcast to learn more.  

Books:

• The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki

Whether we admit it or not, for us to be successful and live our lives by our design, we don't just need talent and skills - we also need money. Money is an integral factor to success and achieving goals. That doesn't mean only the rich people get successful, but it only means you should work out your finances to your benefit. 

This is why we want you to listen to this episode's podcast with Rock Thomas of Rock Your Money, Rock Your Life. In this episode, we'll help you make the choices using how much money you have to better work on yourself. 

Rock is the founder of M1 Mastermind and has helped people attain millionaire status and helped them become financially independent. He is a motivational speaker who has impacted the lives of so many with his viral Goalcast video "How to Change the Way You See Yourself"

Here's what you missed:

Stop resisting to perform in private

• "I've learned that in life. If you don't rock your money, then it's really hard to rock your life. " (01:01)
• "I tell people that when you pay the price of practice in private, you perform in public like a pro." (02:08)
• "So I help people materialize the things that they want in their life, wherever they are in that process...you might as well win the money game. So that you have those choices I talked about before, and then you can do whatever you want. " (03:33)
• "... life just keeps on getting better. When you start to look at those little things and dial in and stop resisting what most people are resisting, which is to perform in private." (08:44)

Become the victor

• "So when you are subject to adversity, I say that in life, if you do it as difficult.... It requires courage, but when you do it, you get to expand your identity." (06:23)
• "...everybody plays the victim card. And then when you play the victim card, what you do is you give up your power to the outside circumstances." (07:37)

Talent pushes

• "…how you do anything is how you do everything." (09:45)
• "Who benefits, who becomes a better person for their next job, the guy who's, didn't give it meaning and mediocre or the guy who made a game up and decided to give it meaning and to serve." (11:20)
• "…whatever you're doing, do it with passion, do it like it's the most important job do it like you can make a difference" (11:46)
• "Like be bold, be bold and serve, be bold and serve. And you'll be amazed. The world lacks so much talent world is screaming for talent. And talent to me is talent pushes non talent doesn't push." (14:27)

Energy comes from vision

• "...people don't think about the, the aura that you really bring into a room when you do that." (12:18)
• "...you visualize it and they're about to come onto your show. You become alive. Energy is produced. It's an inside job..." (16:42)
• "You don't need any fuel. You need a vision that you're fricking connected to. And that's where energy comes from." (17:07)
• "This is if you don't know your vision or right now, you don't feel like you have a vision, surround yourself with other people who do and borrow theirs until you get your own." (17:42)

Keep on Chasing

• "I want to be around bad asses and I got fired up and I got inspired and I started to chase and chase and chase. It took me four years, but I became the number one agent in that office. And then I bought the company and I took it from 300,000,094 agents to 275 agents." (19:24)
• "but one thing for sure. Is they push, they push for their own greatness and the greatness of people around you." (20:27)

Talent needs to be challenged

• "...talent loves to be challenged...People that are, that are struggling often can't handle the adversity." (20:49)
• "…a tree that grows in beautiful soil and flourishes it's because it has rich soil called support. It has the sun called encouragement and it has the wind called challenge." (20:59)
• " if I come from my model of the world and only challenged somebody who grew up with a ton of encouragement and support, they're going to wilt like a flower. I got to give them the right amount of challenge. But I also have to give them the right amount of encouragement and support. " (22:28)

Create a new unfamiliar territory

• "So isn't it fascinating that your past can predict how you are motivated? And if you lack the adversity, a lot of adversity may take that person out. " (23:15)
• "A lot of people, they aren't willing to adapt to whatever the changes" (23:39)
• " tactics change with technology." (25:38)
• "And so most people are not aware that those two principles, the laws of behavior don't change." (25:59)
• "... instead of becoming unfamiliar, right. Going to the unfamiliar. Your past will become your future unless you create new unfamiliar territory." (26:44)

The cash flow quadrants

• "... you were taught to save money, to spend money." (31:04)
• " So I take people through how to win the money game is Robert Kiyosaki's cashflow quadrants. And for those people that don't know it is there's four of them. One is you're an employee and one is you're self-employed that's on the left side, 94, 95% of the population. It's a skill set to be on that site, a certain skillset. Then, then the other side is business person investor, which is about 5% of the population." (32:36)
• "And so if you want financial freedom, you have to walk through that process of where you at in each of the four quadrants." (36:02)

Teach with experience

• "And so now I teach people the four different quadrants, how to build an identity, what to do, what not to do. And you can't teach what you haven't experienced." (37:10)
• "That's not the voice that's working for me right now. If there was somebody on the side who had run that race, they would know what to say." (37:52)
• "So if you want to coach your teach, teach and coach what you've experienced, what you have emotional experience on, and then the person will get that you get them. And there's nothing like that. " (38:18)

Hiring for your weaknesses

• “So I'm a big picture, high D go hard, go quick. Uh, don't like to details... you surround yourself with people that can do what you can't do." (39:13)
• "... find out who you are and delegate to your weaknesses." (42:16)

People try to be the lone wolf

• "I was all about being, um, alone, because I was afraid to admit that I didn't know" (43:31)
• "... we don't apologize for being awesome. Which means that you actually get to celebrate your greatness without somebody shaming you or making you feel bad because you're there, they're not playing full out and you also get to ask for help. And that's really difficult for most people." (44:02)

Say yes and figure it out later

• "Too many people hesitate, waiting to learn the how, and they give up on the opportunity." (47:30)
• "It doesn't matter what you're going through. You're going to have a voice that says, you know, do I deserve to be in this room? Um, am I smart enough? Am I good enough? That's just your ego. That's just fear based thinking... say yes to things that are bigger than you. And then you're forced to grow." (47:56)

Quotes and Advice from our host and guest:

• "…when we all grew up were given labels, they're suggestions from other people, and they are many times not designed to empower us, but more to control us or disempower us. " - Rock, (05:06)
• "Everything was an opportunity for you to create a new neuro connection of possibility... How can you enjoy the moment?" - Rock, (07:56)
• "Pay attention. Be aware, add value, push, bring your energy. Show up. Be playful. Serve the world will respond to that because it's desperately looking for people like that." - Rock, (14:49)
• "if an entrepreneur needs encouragement, they shouldn't be an entrepreneur." - Elon Musk, (15:50)
• "This is if you don't know your vision or right now, you don't feel like you have a vision, surround yourself with other people who do and borrow theirs until you get your own" - Casanova, (18:21)
• " I want to be around bad asses and I got fired up and I got inspired and I started to chase and chase and chase. It took me four years, but I became the number one agent in that office. And then I bought the company and I took it from 300,000,094 agents to 275 agents." – Rock, (19:24)
• " You can do whatever you want. You can bring your energy, your love, your playfulness, and you would at least have a connection. Maybe you would fail miserably. But, you'd never freaking forget it. " - Rock, (28:11)
• "the two most important days in your life is when you're born and when you figure out why?" - Mark Twain, (41:06)
• " So the money game is complex and if you're going it alone and you're making decisions like I did listening to your broke friends, it's going to be a long path." – Rock, (45:20)
• " You're smarter than you think you're more capable than you then, you know, you're stronger. Just put yourself on the field and have some fun. Get in the game." - Rock, (50:13)

Books, Mentions, and Links:

• Rock Thomas
• Instagram
• Goalcast

• Elon Musk
• Dave Liniger
• Wayne Jordan
• Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki
• Mark Twain

If you want to find out how to figure out your driving force to success, then listen to Casanova as he speaks about how to find your drive to succeed in his interview with Frank Mengert of 5 Questions with Frank Podcast.

Quotes from the host and guest: 

• " So you have to be willing to bet on yourself" - Casanova, (05:38)
• " And the best thing about it is we're not animals. We're not trees. We have a mind of our own, or we can formulate our own decision. And make sure that it's a calculated one that works for us because the reality of it is no situation or no investment or no Avenue works a hundred percent for every single person." - Casanova, (08:06)
• "Think about how gifted that you've been so far to make the decisions that's helped you to get to where you are today...you made a choice that so many people are not even able to make, right. You're making the choice to better yourself. So keep going off of your own intuition and keep getting more exposure to things that can help you to level up." - Casanova, (08:43)

Find out how relationships can bring you success from Casanova during his interview with Dr. Brad Miller of Beyond Adversity Podcast.

Quotes from the host and guest: 

• " If you're not exposed to anything, how do you know what you want to be?" - Casanova, (02:39)
• "Relationships is the currency that really creates success." - Casanova, (07:01)
• "...you may be successful in your career and true success in that career is probably built around the relationship that you have." - Dr Brad, (08:50)

Mentions:

Dr. Brad

Learn from Casanova in an interview with Joshua Smith of GSD Podcast, as he shares how he used pain challenges to reflect, learn, seek help from his team and create a better life structure, and ultimately, turn a negative into a positive to catapult forward. 

When you think of credit, always think of credibility. Get people to trust your ability to pay. And you'll learn how from this episode. 

Here in DreamNation, we've always been very consistent in emphasizing the power of relationships. Regardless of which industry or business you are in, you can't be successful if you did not build the right relationship. We can't stress enough its importance that is why for this episode, listen to Casanova as he shares his experience of having a powerful relationship in a podcast interview with Leigh Brown of Crazy Sh*t in Real Estate Podcast.

Quotes:

"And we forget that, look, this still right here, you could lose on. But at the end of the day, it's about that network. It's about so many other tangible benefits that you'll get out of this." - Casanova, (08:36)

"And so the way that you do that is really just by understanding that in this game, It's a contact sport. It's all about the relationships. And if you build off of that, I think that you'll be successful as anybody in your market or anybody around the country, but it's all about the relationships and the people." - Casanova, (09:08)

"…y'all need to pay attention to the fact that this one was not about the money." - Leigh, (13:05)

Mentions and Links:

Leigh Brown

Crazy Sh*t in Real Estate

Quotes:

"Everybody can take a situation and turn it into a positive. It's all about your mindset and how you focus on the outlook of it." (07:01)

"You gotta be aware. If you're not aware your brand can fall quicker than it ever did grow. " (09:15)

You've witnessed success stories and you've met probably met a lot of successful people, friends, or family. When you see them, do you ask yourself why are they successful in life and business even if you think they don't look like they're talented or skilled enough to be one? What exactly do they do to become successful? 

Hey now, don't think this is envy kicking in, but asking these questions shows your admiration for the successful people you've met and you can grab the blossoming opportunity to achieve the same success as theirs. However, what these successful people do is actually building the right and meaningful relationships to help boost their success. Do you have those relationships to help you too?

Listen to Casanova today on how you can get the clarity and determine the strategic steps on how you can be successful in business and in life through the help of powerful relationships.

Here's what you missed:

The common denominator to success

• "So when I first got started selling cars, I had to figure out what was going to be my unfair advantage. What could I bring to the table so I can be successful right away... And I'll tell you where it starts at is relationships." (01:35)
• "Of course I was successful in just about everything that I did when I put my mind to it. But what was the common denominator?" (02:02)
• "With a lot of people, it's the power to build relationships. Relationships are everything." (02:17)

Sprint, maintain, go faster

• "If you have the right relationships, you can conquer anything that you want" (02:55)
• "And I remember when my high school track days, my coach would always tell me sprint, maintain. Go faster. " (03:01)
• "When you think of it like a funnel, when you sprint, everybody gets out of the gates as fast as they can, but then as you're running, some people start to fall off. Right, but you have to continue to maintain. And then in the end you see that only one person wins and then the other people are lagging behind. Sometimes it's a close race." (03:22)

There's no growth without change

• "Who are the contacts that I can make because somebody already has my audience. Somebody already has the people that I'm trying to surround myself with and their circle. " (04:51)
• "You're going to find a lot of people in life as you've maintained those friendships and those relationships, they don't want to go further. " (06:48)
• "So you have to understand that not everybody's going to be on that path. And while you're maintaining, there's a lot of love there, but there's not a lot of growth there." (07:38)
• " Or if those like that, we're very frustrated because our circle, our environment of which we knew is not as supportive as we would have hoped." (08:15)
• "The reality of it is, is you got to work on changing yourself. You got to work on you and then just hope and pray that they'll come along." (08:33)

Going back to your community

• "And so what does that look like going faster? This requires for you to go to another level, but it also requires for you to get a little bit of a new circle. " (08:57)
• "Now you can start to communicate with those people and then you can start to build relationships. And now you got somebody else that's going to hold you accountable. You got somebody else that's going to push you." (10:02)
• "You're going to come back to your community. Everything that you're learning at conferences, everything you're learning at networking events.
• Now you can bring that back to your circle. You can empower them, you can encourage them" (11:08)

Quotes and Advice from our host and guest:

• "There is no growth without change and there's no change without pain or some type of loss." (07:52)
• "That looks like you're leaving other people behind, but you can't be afraid of that because that means that for you, you're getting that much closer to your finish line" (11:30)
• "…your network is your net worth." (12:29)

Many people don't succeed to the level that they could in life because of their fear of failure and rejection. It's an innate thing to feel the fear of failure and rejection, especially when we're at the starting point of a goal or a dream. Whether you're starting a business, you're pursuing a new passion, a new career, that fear may be an automatic feeling. There's a little voice in your head that tells you that you are not enough, you are not capable of achieving great things, that you won't make it, and it tends to voice out louder and becomes the fear that stops you completely.

But the great thing about acknowledging your fear of failure and rejection is, you can overcome it. In this episode, listen to Casanova as he shares with you the ways on how you can overcome fear and rejection and using these two to build your character and to gain the momentum to pursue your dream. 

Here's what you missed:

What is the fear of failure?

• "Now a fear of failure is something that I think lives in all of us." - (00:58)
• "But yet there's a little friend in your head that has maybe allowed you to create a story that you're not good enough that you're not strong enough. That you don't have enough resources and we all have that little person, and that becomes your fear of failure." (01:20)
• "33% of all Americans don't go after their dreams, their goals or business. Because they have a fear of failure " (01:40)

Three questions you should ask yourself when you encounter failure

• "What did you learn from the experience?" (03:30)
• "the thing to really think about and understand is after that year one or after this first try, right? What did I learn from this experience?" (04:31)
• "Number two, what did I gain from this experience? Because we always he's looking at failures as negatives, but the reality of it is, is there's some positives." (04:53)
• " And the last one is what would I do differently next time?" (05:37)
• "most of the time, the reason why you did it in the beginning is because you were trying to solve a problem. You saw that there was a need and you also saw that you could add value" (05:47)

Gain confidence and remove the doubt

• "All of those things will then create the confidence in you and what confidence leads to his action. And if you can have action that will remove all of the doubt." (06:34)
• "So when you think about failure, understand that your failure is not really a failure because you can't fail at your destiny. You can't fail at your purpose. You can't fail at your dreams, right? You're not competing with anyone else. You're only competing with being a better version of yourself the next day." (06:44)
• "...to get to something most of the time you have to go through it." (07:14)

What's the worst that could happen?

• "So the next time that you are thinking about failure, you're thinking about why you can't do something. I would encourage you to look at, Hey, what is the worst that could happen?" (08:44)
• "Even if that worst, that could happen, can I bounce back from it? 99% of the time that answer is yes, 99% of the time your ego might be hurt...but you absolutely can bounce back from it" (09:04)

Quotes and Advice from our host and guest:

• "Failure is only there to allow you to build character." (03:11)
• "…because understand that your dreams and your goals are always meant to be in pursuit." (07:54)
• "That means that I got to get uncomfortable. I got to do something that I've never done before, because I need to experience something that I've never experienced before." (09:25)

Getting a hustle business may be good, but sometimes, it's just not enough or satisfying in the long run. How do you come up with a sustainable business? What are the skills and strategies that you need to run it? How do you step up your entrepreneurial game?

If you're looking to up your game, better listen to our guest for this week's episode. Let Audria Richmond help you to create money on demand. 

Audria is a sought-after marketing launch strategist. Using her signature "Uncloned Marketing Method" she strategically maps and implements talked-about marketing campaigns that lead to exploding results. 

Here's what you missed:

Wanting more than a hustle business

• "You know, how you, in an environment, you don't know what you need. You just know you need something different" (02:28)
• "And I think that it was me graduating from like this hustle mindset to like wanting to actually grow a business." (03:34)
• "...I think that when you are around people who haven't been taught to want more or want more, it can be very difficult to be in the same spaces with those types of people." (03:45)

Finding your tribe

• " I would definitely say at the time I was dating this guy in high school and, uh, he introduced me to computers. " (04:40)
• "So I think that if he wouldn't have introduced me to the computer, I truly believe I would probably have a ton of kids by now. Um, I think that I would be still working a nine to five " (05:21)

Creating money on demand

• " Listen, you got to understand, once you get to these conferences, you're going to meet people in the hallways. And that's where it grows for you. " (07:01)
• "My first introduction to like online marketing or just being online period was watching YouTube... And then. I ended up joining a course. I don't want to talk about who the course is, but I ended up joining this expensive course." (07:27)
• "I did not feel like I was in the right place, but I knew I had made the right investment. " (08:13)
• "I'm this creative person can a creative person make this kind of money." (08:43)
• " I don't care what nobody say until you're able to prove it for yourself. That's when it becomes real. And when I began to put myself out there in the first 60 days online, I made over $20,000." (09:15)
• " I lost it because now I have something to sell...I think that at that moment, I realized that I could create money on demand." (13:41)

Hiring a coach

• "I had to quit those things to really figure out like, what's the missing link. Like these things are actually dope. Like, why are, why are we still getting pink notices? And the common denominator was marketing." (16:34)
• "I really like group coaching because you get the mind share of everybody that's in the group..." (17:10)
• " I have yet to meet someone of his calibre that is diverse enough. That knows about so many different business backgrounds. " (17:31)

A sacrifice for change

• "I was willing to be homeless for change and most people aren't willing to sacrifice on that level." (18:30)
• "Like it's hard to tell somebody, go hard, spend the money. Because there is a thing you have to do with the relationship with money," (19:12)
• "I had some faith and I was willing to risk it all." (19:40)
• "And so for me at that time, I was tired of being broke. It was either make this investment and lose a little, cause it really not losing at the time. I didn't really think about it as an investment...Let me just go and pay for it. See what happens and it ended up being the best life decision ever." (20:20)

A supportive partner

• "It's very rare that both parties come on board to make it happen." (21:26)
• "Like he really allowed for me to like, learn this new thing." (21:43)

It's a natural thing to be scared

• "It's a natural, natural human thing to be scared, to be afraid to, to not know, like, to me, that's natural. That's not a problem." (22:56)
• "I don't think I've personally suffered from it based on what I've read, but I also, you know, have never been a person who like, I've always been a risk taker. I've always been willing to, willing to bet it all and lose it all. " (23:27)
• " I don't think that people think that something's wrong with them. I think more so I would associate imposter syndrome with a fear of success." (24:58)

Get quality creative design and receive an exclusive special VIP offer from DesignCrowd, (23:43)

Who's feeding the funnel?

• "There's two types of people, right? There's visionaries. And then there's integrators. Very few people are both. " (26:55)
• "A visionary. Right. You see it all. And then there's the integrators. There's the people who make the trains run. " (27:06)
• " Like I literally know how to do a full-fledged marketing campaign by myself with no support." (27:32)
• "the truth is no, you got to feed the funnel that ain't, that ain't sleep, know the funnel can't get fed while you sleep. Unless you're running ads" (29:42)

Be a multi-passionate

• "I am that person on the opposite side that embraced the Jack of all trades. Now I do believe that you should focus at a focus on one project at a time that I do believe in, but I don't think you have to limit yourself or niche yourself to a particular thing." (31:13)
• "A lot of ideas are just projects. Just organize them by order of importance or by highest profitability and just roll it out." (31:41)

How to make your first thousand dollars online

• "The first version is get money today. Formula. Literally all you need is something to sell. And someone to sell it to" (32:47)
• "I want to make a heap of money and I only want to do this one time. Then webinars is going to be your jam " (33:34)
• "you've got thrive cart, like all of these cool tools, throw your stuff in there, put your price in there, have a way to deliver what you promise. And then while I go get your money." (33:59)

Graduate from the DIY mindset and hire people

• " I don't need any more. If I get one more opportunity, I'm going to explode and that's supposed to be a good thing, but it wasn't a good thing because not because I didn't have the system, but because I had a bad business model." (37:10)
• "…but it had to be two things would be my business model and hiring help a lot sooner." (37:30)

Get a scalable business model

• " The one-on-one versus the group model. That one-on-one is very hard to scale." (38:02)
• "So that's pretty much my business model, but the accelerator is group and the mastermind is group. There is no one-on-one. I eliminated one-on-one completely from my business model last year. " (38:49)
• "No, do the one-on-one because it makes sense now, but as you get a bigger community, the quicker you can put four and five people in the group. Go ahead and make the switch... there's a lot of data that you get from a one-on-one that you don't get in a group setting. " (39:15)

How do you create and approach a business?

• "How did he approach building a business because. He has he hears, he's so diverse in his thinking and like how many businesses he want to take on and like, like why he want to get in that industry when you're in the camping industry." (40:30)
• "what's his thought process for like what he wants to put in his portfolio or be attached to it" (40:47)
• "I'd like to watch content from people who have people that support them in a way where you see, but you also don't feel far removed from his content... I get excited about his content for sure. Because it motivates me and it makes me be like, you know what? I ain't gotta do all this stuff by myself." (41:21)

Innovation is the key to success

• "And I think you have to allow for diversity because our brain is all about individuality" (42:20)
• "…because if you look at somebody's posts and as soon as you see it, all you can think is I'm about to create the same thing. You cloning, you are cloning. You got to unclone yourself" (42:38)

Start where you are

• "I would say start where you are. I think we're always trying to skip to 10 instead of just starting where we are at the process. It's the process. The journey is the journey. So enjoy it" (44:47)
• "...if it's meant to happen, I promise you God, ain't going to let me miss the opportunity." (45:05)

Quotes and Advice from our host and guest:

• " I always want to know what kind of experiences have you had in life, because if you've had a diverse array of experiences, it allows you to latch on and find things that typically wouldn't be in your scope because it's now being introduced to you." - Audria Richmond, (06:03)
• "But I feel like I sold my soul, but it didn't feel like that back then, because it was life changing...And it allowed me to show up differently that I hadn't been able to do previously." - Audria, (14:10)
• "One thing that I learned, and it was tough for me to, to really feel like it was true until I experienced it. But the best, just like what you said is still works. You give one page and you have somebody book a call with you" - Casanova, (15:18)
• "...don't get hyped for the moment. " - Casanova, (22:47)
• "...your best is your best. And if you do your best, you don't have to worry about other stuff" - Audria, (26:18)
• "And so if you're not being, you know, closed. Uh, responded to people following up with them. You can get lost in the sauce, not being afraid to promote, promote your stuff. Tell people where you at tell them how to get you money. Don't be afraid." - Audria, (35:51)

Books, Mentions, and Links:

Audria Richmond

• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter

• Marcus Lemonis
• Jack Canfield
• Rocket Fuel
• E-Myth by Michael Gerber
• Jia Jang
• Nehemiah Davis
• Pat Flynn
• Dan Henry
• Sam Ovens
• Tiffany Aliche
• ET

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Besides being the host of this podcast, Sadiq has dedicated his life to personal growth, becoming a bolder version of himself and pushed his mind to constantly take action towards his dream of serving and inspiring others.     

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While some think that the grind mentality doesn't work, there are still people with success stories that prove wrong, like our guest for today's episode, Words Taylor.

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If you're an introvert, then this episode will help you learn how to be successful. Learn the introvert's guide to success from an introvert himself, Matthew Polard. 

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If you think you haven't achieved clarity yet, this is a good episode for you to listen to. Get to know Dan Mendilow as he talks all things mindfulness. 

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With so many leadership and success stories you've heard, don't you notice any patterns or habits these leaders and successful people do? In this episode, learn the blueprints of a better leader with Linh Podetti.

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If you want to deliver a message to a large group of people, perhaps the best way to convey it is to speak genuinely about it. But what do you do if you get tongue-tied? How do you become an effective speaker in front of a large audience and choose the best stage for it?

The most helpful thing you can do right now is to listen to Blair Nichols in this episode to learn how you can grow your business through speaking engagements. The Stages for Advance Your Reach's director oversees the Stage Agency, connects entrepreneurs and business owners with stages that will grow their business, and manages its community of meeting planners.

As a manager, coach, and consultant he enjoys helping diverse individuals and socially-driven companies foster new strategies for operations, communications, business development, and partnerships across all appropriate areas to develop and enhance their bottom line and brand.

As our guest speaker for this episode said, "The world has been waiting for your gifts, but most importantly, you have been waiting!". So let Lashana West, a mindset and clarity strategist for over, help you breakthrough any mindset barriers, learn how to monetize your gift, and operate in your zone of genius.

Lashana West is the founder of Ms. West Creative Coaching & Consulting and has experience in the mental health field for 18 years and has helped entrepreneurs unlock their gifts, build confidence and learn business acumen.

Let Stephen Somers of Marketplace Superheroes help you with that through this episode. Stephen's online education and services company helps people all over the world learn how to sell their own products globally on Amazon from complete scratch.

Together with his business partner, Robert, Stephen has won 5 two-comma club awards for Marketplace SuperHeroes, which is now an 8 figure business, and the guys have also helped over 7,000 people to create multiple income streams online.

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In this episode, learn from INC Magazine's “World’s #1 Small Business Guru" Michael Gerber, on developing a system on creating a more impactful business, life, and mindset using the Eightfold Path.

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For today's podcast, listen to Jeremy Slate, founder of the Create Your Own Life Podcast, share how he manages to create a new life path and destination, becoming an entrepreneur while building new and strong relationships through podcasting.

Jeremy's Create Your Own Life Podcast was ranked #1 in iTunes New and #78 in the iTunes Top 100. He was named the #1 Podcast to Listen to by INC Magazine in 2019 and as Top Influencer by Forbes. After his Podcasting success, Jeremy Slate and his wife, Brielle Slate, founded Command Your Brand to help entrepreneurs get their message out by appearing as guests on podcasts.

In this podcast, listen to our guest, Chris Wirth talk about the power of positivity, the power of the tribe, and the power of not quitting.

Chris Wirth, the host of the No Quit Living Podcast, is a sought after keynote speaker and author who began his career in sports coaching as an AAU (Amateur Athletic Union) basketball coach, collegiate and high school basketball coach. His interest in sports had led him to realize the importance of approaching everyday situations differently and getting encouragement from people around you to help you achieve your objectives.

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So, stay tuned and grab your pen and notes as we talk about life decision and how to make the choice that would make us happy.

These questions and more were tackled by our podcast guest, Mr. Johnny Elsasser. He is a former Army Ranger, a men’s leadership coach, and the host of The Art of Masculinity podcast. His journey of becoming a men’s leadership coach began when he joined the army at 17 years old. He spent 10 years of his life in the Middle East. He has been put in the toughest situations and harshest environments and had to persevere. Things went downwards though when he came back to the US. Feeling a loss of sense of purpose, he became depressed and alone. He started to struggle with his own masculinity of who he is showing up as. During these dark times, he realized what he should have done, and that’s to become more vulnerable and honest with what he feels. He also came to understand that this does not mean he is less of a man, on the opposite, this is what real men look like.

Today, he is helping other men to figure out how they can be more empathetic, how vulnerability and honestly actually boosts confidence, and how they could show up in a certain way, every single day, to be able to empower the next generation. Johnny has given out really interesting perspectives and actionable things of what people can do to start to understand who they are and become the person they want to be. I can not wait for you, our dear tribe, to put into perspective the huge nuggets shared in this fire episode!

AD likes to describe himself as someone who work every single day and shows up every single time, no matter what. His entrepreneurial influences from his grandfather, John Dolphin, and his parents inspired him to take the similar path. Additionally, he also long understood that his personality will never suit the corporate world. He is a self-proclaimed ‘rebel ’and he says it would be difficult for him to work for someone else. True enough, he has ventured different industries, from building a vending machine company, investing in a basketball training business, real estate, and currently, The Dherbs- an herb supplement company.

When asked whether it would be best to go for profit or passion first, he says his passion is business. What did he mean with that? Be sure to listen to this podcast episode in full and appreciate his gift of understanding business, a gift you might also have! Listen to him as he relates how he was able to achieve everything so far, and yet still thirst for both knowledge and experience. It’s time to take down notes and be ready to play this episode over and over again!

Maybe you are one of the people who have tried asking themselves one of these questions regarding human existence. Were you able to find an answer or are you still seeking it? Today’s podcast guest, Kute Blackson, also faced the same questions about life when he was growing up, but he felt he had found his purpose after overcoming his struggles and eventually came into some realizations. In today's episode, he shares with us how he was able to overcome obstacles and live a life full of satisfaction and gratitude.

Kute grew up with a religious family. He came from a family of diverse origin and settled in London. In his teenage years, Kute showed no interest at all in his spirituality. He would just do all the things that he felt doing. However, having a father who was so focused on building his family’s spirituality, helped Kute became a minister at the age of 14. As we listen to his journey, you will know that he didn’t lead an easy life.

Let’s listen to him as he takes us into his story and be sure to prepare your notes and pen as you take down important notes I am sure you could relate with.

Here’s what you missed:

• What is the purpose of life?
• How to live your life as your own
• Finding your purpose and living it
• What lies am I currently telling myself?
• Believing in who you are

(1:56) Kute shares about his family and childhood

(3:55) How he had no interests in church spirituality

(4:55) Started to take interests in spiritual seeking

(5:18) He was ordained as a minister at a young age

(7:15) Realizing that there is a different path for him

(9:35) Getting a green card

(14:46) Shares about his relationship with his father

(45:20) Talks about knowing your purpose

(49:09) Taking one step at a time towards your destination

(54:05) Shares about the things that he wanted to change in the past

(57:00) Talks about death

Quotes/Advice:

(3:26) Anything's possible. All possibilities exist. Like there are no rule limits because I was seeing it every day.

(6:03) I realized I could live what everyone else wanted me to live. But if I don't have myself, what, what do I have really?

(6:14) You can't be truly fulfilled and happy being someone that you're not, you can't be truly fulfilled and happy living someone else's life.

(7:56) Sometimes what your soul guides you to do is not always the easy path, but if it was easy, it would be for everyone.

(11:34) When we're not in alignment, we disempower our energy. We start losing trust within our own cells with ourselves, which then takes away from our own.

(12:35) We must be willing to feel the pain of the misalignment acknowledge and feel the pain of the lies that we're living.

(28:39) The reality is we're not who we think we are.

(40:06) So be willing to not know for a moment, this way you're open.

(47:56) So go in the direction of what lights you up, what turns you on of what makes you come alive.

Links:

Kute Blackson Website: https://kute-blackson.mykajabi.com/activating-abundance

                                                https://kuteblackson.com/

Kute Blackson Twitter: https://twitter.com/kuteblackson

Kute Blackson Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kuteblackson

Eric grew up playing computer games, which most of us could relate to. He has played popular computer games from Counter-Strike to World of Warcraft and the likes. Though his friends and family said that he was just wasting his time doing unnecessary things, little did they know that these games helped Eric nurture characteristics which helped him to be the successful entrepreneur that he is today.

As a young adult, he experienced hardships, failures, and rejections but he has built confidence within himself and was able to overcome them. If you are interested to learn more about Eric’s life and his secret to success, sit back, buckle up, and grab a pen and paper as we listen to his words of wisdom.

This episode will help us find the good side of things and focus on them instead of being stressed out from the negativity. Our podcast guests Ryan Bullock, John Lee Dumas, Billy Gene, Chris Gillebeau, Tiffany Aliche, Jason Van Orden, Rhonda Britten, Steve Sims, Genesis Dorsey, Chalene Johnson, Jack Canfield, Sherry Peel Jackson, Allyson Bird, Patrick Bet David, Pat Flynn, Dean Graziosi, Mike Michalowicz, Jon Gordon, Marshawn Evans Daniels, George Pitts, Britney Jeanine, and Sarah Fontenot will share to us their tips on how they were able to get by amidst the pandemic, and that you can do it, too.

This compilation will help us open our eyes to all the possibilities that are open to us. Most of our guests have been in the same situation that we are in—struggling, looking for ways out, and ultimately succeeding. Let’s take a look at these podcast episodes once more and do ourselves some favor. Sit back and put your mind at ease as you take down notes on how to face life head-on.

Here’s what you missed:

• Knowing your kind of grind
• Know the importance of discipline
• How to respond to what’s happening around us
• Avoid the mindset of passing over opportunities

(1:27) Casanova talks about credibility

(2:43) Discipline is greater than talent

(4:28) What a poor mindset is.

Quotes/Advice

(2:15) It is getting up every day, doing what you said you were going to do when you just don't feel like it.

(2:43) The discipline will get you there. And ultimately the discipline will keep you there. Talent can get you there, but without discipline, you will never stay.

(3:02) I don't need to be the greatest, but I need to be a little bit better than where I was yesterday.

(5:26) It was only a dream, but you chose to take action. That time could be today if you choose to take action.

Jason Van Orden

(7:15) Knowing your interests and working on them.

(8:36) Navigating without the feeling of being an impostor.

Quotes/Advice:

(9:19) Follow that curiosity, build, and be willing to experiment.

Ryan Bullock

• Tips on how to make your own vision
• Don’t let the day lead you anywhere; work on it
• Maximize your day and lead it
• Importance of having plans

Quotes/Advice:

(10:01) Know the number one thing. And something that you have to do constantly is write a vision. You have to have a vision, but you also need to write a vision and you need to write it as detailed as you can possibly get it to be.

(10:21) Start with the end in mind.

(11:14) The best way to maximize today is by declaring my tomorrow. By saying, ‘I know where I'm going. Let me maximize what I'm doing on this day because I know where I'm headed.’

(12:04) When you have a plan, you are more prepared for change and for shifts to happen quickly.

(12:18) If you don't take time to build your own legacy, you will spend the rest of your life building someone else's.

Jason Swenk

(13:27) Why you should start your own agency

(13:56) Talks about digital marketing

(14:31) Shares the timelines of the different situations in marketing

(15:38) What is a digital agency?

Tim Storey

• Why you should find the right partners

Quotes/Advice:

(17:02) So there are three main reasons or three main ways that one learns. One is observation. The second is through conversation. The third is education.

(19:51) Number one you got to become awake. Number two you become aware, because you could be awakened but not aware. And then thirdly you got to take inventory.

(21:07) Social media is good, but social media is also silly.

(21:45) Be careful who you follow because if the blind leads the blind, you're both going into the pit.

Jeff Goins

• What a baseline is and how to change it
• Knowing the stories that you want to tell

Quotes/Advice:

(22: 26) The story of your life is not your life. It's just a story.

(25:28) Whatever story you tell about your life ends up becoming true.

(26:23) You’ve got to tell yourself a new story.

His and Her Money

• Should I start blogging?
• Importance of investing in an online presence
• Why we should communicate to our target audiences

Quotes/Advice:

(27:30) The main important thing is to have an online presence.

(28:09) The world's not going to get less digital like we're only going to become more digitized as a society.

(29:36) If your goal is to help somebody through the service, the product that you offer, it is your duty to bring it to them in a way that they can receive it. Because communication is a two-way street.

Kumiko Love

• How to face your struggles
• She tells us her regrets and the things that she wanted to change in the past

Quotes/Advice:

(32:57) When you start doing something only for the income, you lose your value because your mission is no longer with what it started with. Your mission is now making an income.

(34:56) You only fail when you give up.

(35:40) One of the things that I regret is all the moments in time I gave up with my son that I will never ever get back.

Dr. Dennis Kimbro

• Shares with us the pandemics he had experienced in the past
• Thanking God for creating us

Quotes/Advice:

(38:33) Work out your own salvation.

(39:50) Any problem can be solved if only enough people care.

(42:48) We need to get on our knees everyday and thank God we're created in his image.

Brent Manswar

• Making the greatest pivot in his life
• Developing showmanship

Quotes/Advice:

(47:51) There are a bunch of people who are good at presenting information, but they do not know how to own a room. They don't know how to own a stage.

(49:09) You've got to own your content. You've got to be an expert in your content.

Raj Jana

• Talks about his biggest struggle
• Each step is essential to be who you are today

Quotes/Advice:

(50:37) No matter how fast you want to get to the pendulum or to the promised land, you can't skip steps in life.

(51:58) If you love who you are today, and if you're proud of the person you are today, there's nothing you could have done differently.

(53:20) You're now living in a moment of truth and a moment of expansion. And when we stay present to that experience, I think life just gets really, really, really colorful.

Chalene Johnson

• She shares to us how they reversed engineer their situation when COVID came around
• Steps on how people can start generating their own income
• How to take advantage of social media

Quotes/Advice:

(53:58) Nobody expects you to be superhuman.

(56:24) I think many people are intimidated by the thought of being a business owner or an entrepreneur.

(58:01) You can't call yourself a business owner if you don't own any of the means by which to contact your customers.

He will also talk about the possible struggles and winnings that you will experience along the way. We are going to hear some real business gems that would help us get going in this industry. If you are looking for a sign not to give up, this is it! So, get your notes and pen and start writing down what Eric is going to tell us in the podcast.

Eric originated from a simple family and had a humble beginning. But things just didn’t unfold the way he wanted to as he grew up in a harsh environment. Making this as his motivation, he was able to put up his own shoe business with his mother’s help.

His life went up and down when he lost three important people in his life, including his mother. He felt lost for a moment, but being the ‘Eric’ that he is,  he never gave up on his plans in life. Instead, these heartaches are what made him stronger and what made him give his all to make his business a success. Now, Eric is helping young and aspiring entrepreneurs to be like him.

Here’s what you missed:

• Giving up is never the key to success
• When to make a pivot and making sure that it’s a business and not a hobby
• The importance of not sticking to just one profit
• Believing in yourself because nobody else will
• Being flexible in the when thing come in between
• What sets you apart? What’s your story?
• The essence of having a child’s mentality

(1:47) Eric tells us his humble beginnings

(3:03) Why you should never give up

(3:37) Talks about the painful phases of his life as he lost his loved ones

(4:42) Getting into fashion

(6:27) Talks about the possible struggles when entering fashion

(7:56) How he gets to the world of entrepreneurship

(8:44) How Eric moved to LA from Arkansas

(13:02) Not taking a detour in life

(14:57) How our life attracts the things in our mind

(21:56) Eric talks about the importance of representation

(23:40) Reaching out and partnering with people

(26:27) How to enter cross-promotion or collaboration

(29:04) How to be branded the right way

(30:40) The secret to figure out how to stay ready

(33:24) Having a child’s mentality

(41:06) Eric advises aspiring entrepreneurs

Quotes/Advices:

(4:45) Whatever business you step into is going to be closely connected to your lifestyle

(7:00) You'll never be paid what you weren't working for somebody else.

(10:13) If you can’t believe in yourself, nobody can believe in you

(13:12) Your body's a vehicle, your soul, the GPS, and the knowledge that you get from me is the fuel. You need to fuel that car and follow the GPS or your soul or your soul purpose.

(14:42) You are the CEO of your life.

(15:52) It has power in the tone and whatever I say is going to happen is going to happen.

(15:59) No industry is too saturated.

(18:10) The winner focuses on winning and the loser focuses on the winner.

(24:24) Start now because what you have now is all you need.

(24:34) If you didn't have everything you need in the previous moments, you wouldn't even have this moment.

(28:42) Understand the difference between branding and marketing. Marketing is like asking a girl on a date and branding is a reason.

(30:33) If you don't know yourself, your story, your lifestyle, your value offer your purpose, your niche, whatever, you're never going to figure out how to stay ready.

(33:51) As a baby, we didn't know what failure was. We'd get up. Like y'all going to walk and we kept going until we started walking.

Links: Eric Jones Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedoctordapper/

Eric Jones Website: https://www.thedoctordapper.com/

Eric Jones LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-jones-47b99b103

In this episode of the DreamNation podcast, Brittany shares some tips and tricks to keep in mind if we are to walk the path of a successful entrepreneur. She is also going to share her insights based on her own experiences, her struggles, and the lessons that she learned along the way.

Brittany had quite a successful life while still young as she was able to earn her Masters in Public Relations & Corporate Communications. She was also a corporate worker of Pentagon. But her thirst in being her own boss kept on tapping on her until she gave in and became a wedding planner. She was able to stay as a planner for quite some time but because she didn’t have any solid plans, she ‘failed.’

However, being the strong and independent woman that she is, she was able to make a mega pivot which made her to who she is today: a successful entrepreneurial coach. If you are someone who takes inspiration from a story like Brittany’s, now is your chance to learn her secrets as you listen to the podcast. So, sit back, grab your notes and pen, and get ready to be amazed by her journey.

Here’s what you’ve missed:

• That big moment when Britney had to take a pivot in life
• How to be your own teacher
• Helping people define what their pivot is
• Determining the kind of pivot needed: micro, macro, or mega
• Knowing your core gifts
• Your ‘what, why, how and who’

(1:32) Britney talks about her personal life

(2:29) How she started off as a wedding planner

(2:26) One of her unforgettable experiences in planning a wedding

(3:45) Telling herself entrepreneurship is not for her

(4:14) How a big turn happened to her life and how it led her back to being an entrepreneur

(5:20) How she helped entrepreneurs

(6:38) Recognizing your failure and learning from it

(7:18) Being a sole player of her game but learning that she needs other people’s help

(9:56) Tips on how to get started; knowing your core gifts

(11:53) She talks about the importance of knowing your what, why, how, and who to successfully start on something

(13:17) Who she is focusing on helping right now

(13:43) Determining the kind of pivot you are making

(15:53) Why coaches are essential

(17:12) Struggles of being a coach and tips if you are planning to be one

(21:22) Where to effectively start your business, step by step

(23:07) Helping new entrepreneurs land their first client

Quotes/Advices:

(2:23) It took a journey for me to get to where I am now.

(4:25) When it comes to talking about pivoting, I can talk about it because I have legit pivoted from wedding planner to photographer

(5:06) They knew what they wanted it to look like, but they didn't know who the business and the brand was for.

(5:48) I feel a lot of times we stay stuck in something just because we have the fear of the unknown.

(7:54) Ultimately you get to a point in business where you hit a brick wall. You're burned out. Nothing makes sense.

(8:42) I tell all of my folks that I work with that sometimes we got to pop that bubble. Cause that's a bubble that I lived in and it just kept me trapped.

(9:57) It's important that you tap into your core gifts. So, your core gift, the way I like to explain it is, it's something that shows up no matter what you're doing.

(15:53) I definitely think that people need a coach because we can actually limit some of those negative thoughts that are coming in your head.

(18:25) I'm here for a reason and there's no other Brittany Jeanine on Planet Earth.

(19:34) Do not be afraid to use what you already have access to.

(22:33) Start at the core. Start at the foundation and then build from there

(29:37) I'm a believer that everybody can go where God's taking you.

Names mentioned:

Tony Robbins, Dean Graziosi

Michael Todd

Brittany Jeanine Website: https://www.britneyjeanine.com/about

Brittany Jeanine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/britneyjeanine/

Brittany Jeanine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BritneyJeanine/

Brittany Jeanine Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ph/britneyjeanine/

Brittany Jeanine LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bcanidate/

Brittany Jeanine Twitter: https://twitter.com/britneyjeanine

That was how our guest for today, Mr. Kyle Depiesse, felt when he was in the corporate world. In today’s podcast, Kyle will help us determine if we are on the verge of being burnt out and what we need to do to pivot and start something that will satisfy us and help us achieve financial stability.

Kyle had been in the corporate world for more than 10 years, working for other people’s dreams and future. But the time came when he asked himself this question, and you can ask yourself this too: ‘What am I doing with my life?’ It was when he realized that he should start working for his dream, and ultimately for his family’s dreams and future. He realized that he had to make his family his first priority.

That’s when he started to focus on his personal and career growth, sought the help of others who had the same mindset as his, worked on his passion, and eventually created experiences for those who were once like him. If you are contemplating change but are afraid to be vulnerable, sit back and listen to Kyle as he shows us the path on how to create our own experiences.

(2:03) Kyle talks about his life as a family-man and as someone who works in the corporate world

(4:16) How burnout affected every aspect of his life and the people around him

(5:55) Kyle’s turning point: He got to realize that he needed to turn his life around

(7:10) How he was able to pivot and connect the dots for a new beginning

(9:48) Talks about how being vulnerable does not necessarily mean being weak

(12:58) Kyle emphasizes the importance of having a mentor or a coach

(15:40) Tips on how to get yourself out of debt

(18:19) Why it is essential to have a budget

(19:01) Playing offense versus defense; increasing income versus cutting expenses

(23:44) Talks about creating experiences

(28:41) How Kyle started having an impact on other people’s lives

Here’s what you missed:

• How to recognize a burnout and how to deal with it
• Know your passion and connect the dots for it
• Why it’s important to have a mentor or coach
• How to get out of debt
• How to play offense and defense financially
• Getting rid of the scarcity mindset

Quotes/Advices from Kyle Depiesse

(4:27) When you're burnt out professionally, it affects every category of life.

(7:42) Having someone to be there with you to help you through that process speeds up the process.

(9:13) Information is great. Knowledge is great. But application is what really matters.

(9:56) Being vulnerable is not weak. Being vulnerable is true strength.

(14:13) Look for someone who's done a similar transition. If you're in real estate, look for someone in real estate.

(19:44) Be resourceful and look for ways to increase income.

(20:11) It’s better to figure out how to double your income than to cut your expenses in half.

(21:32) If you focus too much on defense cutting expenses, you will inadvertently develop a scarcity mindset.

(22:26) If you can't manage what you've currently been given, why should you be given any more?

(29:10) The rising tide lifts all ships.

(33:58) Whatever I need to support myself are things that I have to do from a day-to-day standpoint.

(35:35) Action brings clarity. Keep taking action, even if it feels insignificant or small.

Platforms:

Website: https://kyledepiesse.com/

Podcast: https://reachingbeyond.libsyn.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Kyle-Depiesse-2200338123398370/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kyle_depiesse/

He is going to help us unveil the hidden skills that we never knew we had and use these to start anew. We will soon learn how to use these skills in helping others to be resourceful and gain something in return.

From a young age, George already knew the struggles of life. Being raised by his grandparents and living together with his sister and older cousins has taught him how hard it is to support a family financially. So, at a young age, he started his own ‘business’ cutting grass and eventually had his friends work for him using their own lawnmowers. This mindset has what helped George become who and what he is today. Despite the difficulties he and his wife experienced while they were still on the first phase of their marriage, he did not let any fear control him but started to look for ways to push through obstacles. In the end, he found the path that led him to digital marketing. Now, George has different platforms where people can reach him and avail the courses that he offers.

(1:38) George talks about his childhood and how he had the mindset of an entrepreneur.

(6:19) Talks about working at a business office of a hotel chain and how he lost his job.

(10:35) Talks about how this sudden loss of job became a challenge to him and to his wife.

(12:10) He finally lands on two work-from-home jobs.

(13:15) Talks about how he came upon digital marketing and how his journey has begun on making websites.

(16:27) Tips on how to get people to avail the services that you offer

(19:53) George’s turning point: People asking him to create their websites for them

(22:19) Steps on how to monetize the information that you have

(30:16) The importance of having a specific group of people in mind when making content

Here’s what you missed:

• How to start something from scratch
• How to have an optimistic view of something that you haven’t tried before
• How to accelerate your path and figure out how to monetize your information
• What is your ‘why’?
• Pressure busts pipes, but also creates diamonds. Are you a busted pipe or a diamond?

Quotes/Advices from George Pitts

(11:53) And I got online. I just started looking. Do you ever look for a job during the holidays? So I started researching, I joined these forums, and I ended up finding out about how you can get work-from-home jobs to handle new customer service with people.

(13:13) - I learned about internet marketing. And this guy was selling a course for 500 bucks teaching you how to build WordPress websites and do search engine optimization for businesses.

(13:45) I started learning about stocks and other things and it just kept evolving into this. You just got to start something.

(14:21) - There's a lot of pressure on me, but here's one thing that we know and something that we can all agree on: Pressure does bust pipes, but it also creates diamonds.

(14:41) You got to ask yourself: Am I a diamond or am I a busted pipe? We gotta figure out how to get you out of that mindset first and foremost, which is the root of it all.

(20:10) I was making way more money doing websites and that wasn't my job, but it has taken all of my time. So, what I did was I learned about outsourcing.

(22:34)  If you walk into Walmart, it has tons of things to offer but if you walk into a shoe store, they just have shoes to offer. So, you just got to figure out what people want from you.

(24:05) People wanted to pay me to teach them. But instead of just taking their money, I ended up hiring someone who was a sales coach to teach me how to be a coach, because I didn't know how to do it.

(30:42) - When you're teaching or when you're writing, always think of examples that are real that people can get with. Make it relatable, and then you just build your content around that.

(31:09) - Not everybody's supposed to want what you do. But you need to know who would want it. You need to know what their ‘why’ is.

(32:04) I already had in my mind who my content is for. They attract to it like a magnet.

(35:38) So we just gotta learn how to become the Moses of this journey to take people from Egypt to the Land of Milk and Honey.

(47:47) You gotta silence that inner critic and you gotta take action because if you don't take action on it, that dream will only be a fantasy.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrGeorgePitts

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mrgeorgepitts/

Website: https://mrgeorgepitts.com/

Pscp.tv: https://www.pscp.tv/MrGeorgePitts/1RDGlPBNDprGL

Wealth Streams Academy: https://georgepitts.thinkific.com/

People mentioned: Billy Jean, Russell Brunson

Sean grew up from a middle-class family but with strong resilience and conviction in his beliefs and mindset. One of which is his natural mentality way back in college as a division one wrestler: if it’s my will versus yours – I will outlast yours. He believes that in real-life, we can’t always tag a partner, and that, to get anything done – we need to be better than what we had to excel. Something that one would bet his life on. He admits that he’s not an expert or a professional in anything. He even had lost his dream job back then, and had to start selling insurance though he only lasted for a year. However, he had built his first company at a young age of 23 – coming from a simple but strong idea of having to service all the cars of the sales people he had to meet with during that time. He started that wax master mobile detailing company, and sold it – gaining him $35,000 passive income during that time (which is a lot in value today). Later on, he tried to convert his home office into an office in Charlottesville, Virginia. He wanted to hire a handyman who could help him with that – yet he can’t find anyone, nobody can even refer anybody. This made him start Advantage Handyman services which made for him a John Gotti kind of money. 21 years later, it has eight different companies and he’s making millions off them.

In this podcast, Sean shared to us how we he was able to build successful companies (more than 15 successful companies to date) from scratch – back to basics and grass roots. Even if he isn’t an expert in fields or by profession, nor a mindset-speaker, he has made top selling books in Amazon: 8 Unbreakable Rules for Business Start-Up Success and World’s Greatest Business Plan. If you purchase and read them, they’re literally a non-BS and practical yet powerful. Be sure to take notes as Sean inspires us with his passion, his beliefs and convictions, as well as teach us tips and strategies in business startups and partnerships, in hope that you, our dear tribe, will also be able to get out from your comfort zone and make your very own dream business or company built starting now.

Here’s What You Missed:

• Going after Passion or Going after Profit
• Business Startup 101 in Simplest but Non-BS Method
• You-Can-Do-It Marketing Strategies for Starters
• Effective use of Value Proposition, and Good Hiring Secrets
• 50-50 Partnerships - When and How 50% is more than a 100%
• Self-discipline – Get out of Comfort Zone; Change Your Story

Knowledge Nuggets:

[01:32] The only way to get anything done was you had to be better than you had to excel; can’t excel at everything, but you gotta have a few things that you would bet your life on, that you can do. “…I have that natural mentality that if it’s my will versus your will – my will will outlast yours…”

[03:36] You gotta know your why. Why and Passion is like our two words and success space – that, along with mindset, and all three can steer you in a wrong direction.

[4:48] There’s actually this virus has introduced – I think what’s happened now is every individual with a skillset has a business. They just don’t realize it, and it’s up to them. That’s that little middle ground that I’ve come to discover over the last year.

[08:17] “…it’s either you solved a big problem, had a massive innovation, or there’s a massive marketplace for it”

[09:07] “…if you can create a niche, you’ll become rich” They took something that’s very familiar, very common, and they’ve improved it. They’ve solved one or a couple of pain points that people have always talked about but nobody thought to take care of.

[11:12] My philosophy is this: passion is an entrepreneurs Mitch’s Mistress. You can be passionate about something, but it fundamentally doesn’t go through the business plan check boxes. Is it marketable? Profitable? Is there a demand for it? Not everything is a fit. You can be passionate about something, but it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.

[12:37] You can weave the two together. I’m passionate about owning my own business because I can create my own income, I can dictate it.

[13:20] Hobbies don’t make great business. Just because you’re passionate about something still doesn’t mean you don’t run it through the vetting process of it being a good idea, fitting the marketplace, is there being a demand for it. Can you staff it? Can you scale it to a level that you know you’re going to make enough money?

[14:52] “…in business you got to have the fundamentals in place”.

[18:27] “If you don’t have a demand, you don’t have a business.” The first thing you have to do is you’ve got to confirm that your idea is wanted by somebody and they’re willing to pay for it. If you don’t have that, you got nothing. You have to do something that gives you the confidence, some data, or verification.

[20:01] You got to have a market, and you either confirm that because you’ve done some beta testing or there’s competition. If you’ve got competition, and you gotta niche it. You got to ask yourself: Does anybody want this? How can I advertise? How am I going to market it? How to attract customers.

[21:04] What is your competition doing? You can copy everything they’re doing but niche it; make it unique. Where are they advertising? Are they on TV? Are they doing Facebook ads? Etc. Mirror it a little bit, make yours unique. That’s the easiest way to do it.

[27:37] Write the ad for exactly what it is you want. i.e., I want to start somebody today, but I want you to have A, B, C, and D – do not waste my time if you don’t have these. If you have these, shoot me a text.

[28:35] “…I reached out to…and I found all the things they did that was wrong. There was a little bit they did that was good, but it was always something that they had a major flaw.” So, I cherry-picked all the good stuff, created my own casserole.

[29:39] “…I knew I needed to have a partner. So I gave up 50% of my profit.” 50% of a lot is better than a 100% of a little. 50% of anything that you don’t have to actually do everyday is better than a 100% of something you got to do every day.

[31:22] You gotta get a, you gotta build one thing first. You gotta have a lane, and you gotta have a model – something that you’re confident in and build off of that.

[32:56] “…that’s what you’re trying to do in business. You’re trying to build a durable, sustainable business. You don’t do that in two years.”

[35:57] “…All of these impressions don’t mean anything to me.  I only got three questions for you, if you can explain that to me every month like I’m a 12-year-old with a learning disability.”  That’s me. I want it that simple.

[39:35] “I don’t do anything with that company. I bankrolled it, but I bet on a superstar. I knew he was going to be a superstar. I knew I was going to win, and so did that and 50-50 partnership.” I make enough money in passive income right now, just off that company that would put me in the top 10% of income owners.

[42:58] “…if I could go back.. or change anything.. I would want to go back to college, or I would have made money first, or did it at the same time” Being in college, I had no idea what I was going to do. It’s a waste.

[43:11] “You gotta have confidence, you got to know how to talk. You need to know how to express your ideas, learn how to build a team.” There’s so many things and skills that you could’ve learnt that have nothing to do with college. If you don’t have them – you got bigger problems.

[45:12] “I don’t have this; I don’t have this and that – but I want to be a millionaire…everybody wants everything so fast.” My point is, I don’t think it’s the speed – it is going further. It’s not thinking fast up – rather, start thinking I want to go further. i.e LeBron – he’s great not just because he’s 260 pounds and six foot nine – it is what he does with that, that makes him an outlier in sports. You gotta be great at something. Find your thing, and you gotta be great at it.

[49:07] Motivation without Education is WORTHLESS. You can get excited all you want but I can teach you how to achieve that. 

[52:53] Whenever I hear this in a course: ‘You don’t have to do this, that.’. Don’t buy it. You have to work to make money. You have to do things you don’t want to do in the beginning. If you don’t want to do that? Fine, stay poor. You need to get out of your comfort zone – maybe you’re the problem.

[54:47] The problem is you’re allowing your situation – your STORY – to BE what defines you. You have to change that. You got to get your goal-muscle going.

[55:25] Self-discipline is the number one muscle in success. If I was starting from nothing, I would just do two things: (1) I would stop talking about what I lack; (2) I’d start with a 30-day incremental goals.

Important Reads and Links:

Recommended readings:

                8 Unbreakable Rules for Business Start-Up Success by Sean Castrina

https://www.amazon.com/Unbreakable-Rules-Business-Start-Up-Success/dp/0989104567

World’s Greatest Business Plan by Sean Castrina

                                https://worldsgreatestbusinessplan.com/

                                https://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Greatest-Business-Plan-Works/dp/1734500018

Sean Castrina Website:             https://seancastrina.com/

Sean Castrina Instagram:          https://www.instagram.com/sean.castrina/

Sean Castrina Facebook:          https://www.facebook.com/seancastrinapage/                           

Sean Castrina Twitter:               https://twitter.com/SeanCastrina

Sean Castrina YouTube:            https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2DX7lLt3zS37jtDELR3rRw

Sean Castrina LinkedIn:            https://www.linkedin.com/in/seancastrina/

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Sarah Fontenot is a small-town girl from Regina, Saskatchewan Canada, with a huge vision. She always wanted to be on a higher platform to influence people. She grew up with the same culture as what adults use to say to us: work hard, grind it out don’t stop. She, too, grew up thinking that success looked like being a doctor, lawyer, etc. She didn’t even know what entrepreneurship was in the beginning nor had a family who’s into entrepreneurship. She even had an acting career – where she loves to act but didn’t love the industry. However, her first venture into entrepreneurship was in multi-level marketing where she took the resources, mindset, tools, and lessons and enabled her to build the top 1.6% of that company, travel around the world to speak and do executive leadership, coaching, and investing.

As a resilient hustler and avid reader, she was able to teach the things she learned to other people and they started to model after her. That’s when she realized that she was doing the right thing in her life following through with who she is becoming instead of being focused so much on how most people tell her what to do or what to become. However, it’s not a smooth drive to the top – she admits that she’s a perfectionist and she struggled a lot with it. She even had an emotional journey when she had to cancel off an engagement and had to reframe her mind to keep herself going and not giving up. Presently, she is a successful philanthropist and a speaker who’s helping out people to get out on their own way emotionally and mentally for a better life and business. In this podcast, Sarah shared her personal mantras, and experience on how she transitioned from WHAT into WHO she wanted to become, in hope that you, our dear tribe, will also be able to figure out by yourself emotionally and mentally in order for you to break out in life or business. So, sit back, dig in, and take notes as Sarah shares her wisdom.

Here’s What You Missed

• Focus on WHO – instead of WHAT – you wanted to become
• Results matter – not what other people say - about your product or service
• How circumstances and situations NOT define YOU
• A Difference between a Hustler or a Worker Mentality
• How to deal with the Troubles of Being a Perfectionist
• How valuable structures and systems are into one’s business
• What is Mastery of Oneself, and How it Helps you to live your life happily, and your business successful

Knowledge Nuggets:

[03:08] A far more powerful question to ask is who do you want to be? Because who you want to become is connected to fulfillment “…for me, like what I think success is, it's not just monetary. I believe that it's your, your physical, your mental, your emotional, your spiritual, and your financial aspects”

[04:15] it's usually us stopping ourselves from tapping into the best version of ourselves. That inner self-talk, it’s usually the fears from being indoctrinated in a belief / narrative that we have to life this life based on settling or based on what other people say.

[08:15] “…because I know that our families and our loved ones, they're trying to keep us safe in who we are. And instead of seeing us for who we can be”. It’s not because they don’t believe in you or don’t think that you’re great.

[08:37] “that’s not for you. You're never going to make it that's for them over there” This family doesn't do that. You need to do this. It may come out in the worst way, but it's really in truly because the people that love you the most, they support you the least.

[10:00] You are not your circumstance or your situation. You’ve got to know where you are, it doesn’t matter where you start it. Are you willing to play the game to get to where you want to go?

[13:00] Just because you're doing something differently, doesn't mean that you're doing it wrong. So, for me, I always knew like just in my heart, my passion is seeing people break out of themselves - out of the cages that we have in our own minds.

[13:50] “…there’s learned knowledge, …applied knowledge, …teaching knowledge, then there’s modeling that knowledge.” Follow the leader, become a leader, create more leaders BUT never stop following the leader – it’s an ongoing thing.

[14:35] if you do feel like you’re struggling with doubt or fear, there’s nothing that overcomes doubt or fear like a result. i.e., when you’re selling a product or service, someone can’t just bad-talk it when it does what you say it’s supposed to do or when you’ve gotten results.

[16:13] A hustler versus a worker. A worker knows when they go to work, things needed to and follow it. A hustler just makes it happen. Oftentimes they can’t tell you what they did, seems almost like a fluke but it isn’t. It’s actually consistent action done daily to the point that you have done enough of it that you’re getting results.

[18:16] In order to be successful in business, you need all three: you’ve gotta do the work, you need structure and systems, and a mindset and energy that keeps you going

[25:51] Our identity works very similar to a thermostat. Our identity is set the same way. It will find a way to come back to where it is set at.

[28:05] What most people are battling against with is not the strategy, tools and resources, but worthiness. It is the story that we have to change. It’s the identity that we really have to get crystal clear on. Confidence and belief don’t happen overnight, but will happen over time.

[31:33] Craziest relationships can get you in rooms that degrees just can’t. Be who you truly are who you say that you are and you keep it real. Just work towards it and God does his thing

[32:29] Most people don’t take the time to do the research to dig all the way deep

[33:39] Most of the times a product doesn’t really sell because people want to buy from people, they don’t want to buy from the unknown

[35:09] in the beginning, when your first starting – ask for support, but don’t expect it. Don’t be afraid to ask for it. Are you putting yourself out there - exposing yourself to enough people?

[39:28] It’ll take you longer if you choose because you only have so much energy, you can only focus on so many things. And if you’re trying to focus on multiple things at once, but you’re actually good at them – it’ll just take you longer to build each thing, as opposed to putting crazy amounts of focus into one thing and stemming off one after another.

[40:14] the right way is the way that works for you. You have to know yourself; you have to be aware of what you’re bringing to the table.  How do you best operate? What are your peak hours? Do things in a way that works best for you – what makes you full and happy, that’s when you’ll thrive. 

[46:32] I’ve never met a hater doing better than me. The people that are doing better than you, they want to see you do better.

[47:49] Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different outcome. It’s never going to happen; you get to choose. Stop looking at social media, stop allowing the things that people, places, circumstances and your situations to allow you to give it all up. You have to believe and go for it - even if you fail at times.

[49:22] A lot of the time people are looking for the one reason why they shouldn’t. However, instead – all you need is one reason why you should. Stop allowing things outside of you to get into your way. Reframe the way you look at things and experiences that had happened to you.

[52:07] You just can’t drift to the top of the mountain; you have to intentionally climb. It’s hard during the process, but it’s so worth it – and you are so worthy. Go for it, and give it all.

Important Reads and Links:

Recommended readings:

                The E-Myth by Michael E. Gerber

                                https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Most-Businesses-Dont-About/dp/0887303625

                Dr. Joe Dispenza

                                https://drjoedispenza.com/pages/about

                DisruptorElite website:

https://disruptorelitegroup.com/    

Sarah Fontenot Instagram:       https://www.instagram.com/mssarahfontenot/          

Sarah Fontenot Facebook:       https://www.facebook.com/MsSarahFontenot/           

                                                       https://www.facebook.com/sarah.fontenot2               

Sarah Fontenot Twitter:            https://twitter.com/MsSarahFontenot           

Sarah Fontenot YouTube:         https://www.youtube.com/c/SarahFontenot                

Sarah Fontenot LinkedIn:         https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-fontenot-9158782a/         

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With his astounding achievements, Chris is no stranger to diversities. He actually said that he had several moments in his life where he realized he is not working on his full potential. He lost his older sister when he was young that sent him on a different trajectory in life. He enlisted in the US Navy before entering the university, where he actually learned a lot of the core values he is currently living by. Chris was employed for multibillion-dollar education corporations where he earned several awards for his sales performances. This is when the light lit up, he was rubbing elbows with the wealthiest people, he was exposed to different things he did not know he could make a lot of money from, and he knew he was making millions for his company was only taking a home a small portion out of it. He talked about his wish to build a business for himself with little support from his father. He thought Chris is in his best place, of course with good intentions. But the negative response did not make a slight difference in his will to succeed on his own.

He discovered the secret to success- it was all inside him. He faced different kinds of hardships, but he learned to lean into it, rather than running away from it. He learned to shed layers of his essence to get into his core inner self, where he knew all the things he needed to succeed lie on. He figured out what will make him inspired and he is happy to be doing it daily now. In this episode, he shares the secret to discovering and realigning to your inner self, the secrets to success with having a 100% virtual team, and how to become the best version of yourself. You will not only receive top business tips but more importantly, you’ll strengthen your spiritual journey. Take out your notes and be sure to rewind this episode multiple times! Because you are about to listen to things that will potentially change your life.

Here’s What You Missed

• Why you need to lean into pain, instead of running away from it
• What are the steps you should take to realign to inner to your inner self
• What does being rich, being successful and having money mean
• Owning your vision- what does it looks like
• Virtual team- why you should have one?
• Become the best version of yourself!

Knowledge Nuggets:

[2:13] What life is about: Become a little bit more aligned and open and shedding the layers of your true inner self from the essence of yourself, figuring out what inspires you and brings you joy. Create yourself from wherever you come from in the world.

[5:23] You see this with the world- people are running away from pain and running away from things that make them feel uncomfortable. You need to lean into that. If you lean into it, you can discover the hidden gifts behind that pain.

[8:44] You're going to know who put it into work during this time in the next two years.

[11:46] Holding myself accountable is the only way for me to be able to approach that and leaning into that pain. Every battle I win man is every day. The biggest battle is at 5:00 AM. No alarm clock needed, your subconscious mind controls your life.

{13:21] Brain dump- Re-aligning starts with being alone, be calm and quite. Then write out everything that's in on your feeling or experiencing at that time. Then you can start reverse engineering. Follow your gut first. Follow your intuition, follow you.

[14:20] Inside your subconscious, everything you need to be successful is there, you just need to discover that.

[17:56] If you have certain skills, and certain things that you already possess, turn it into something. Go make money.

[18:29] Being rich is a choice. Rich is a state of mind. Rich isn't making money. It's about making an impact.

[19:06] Success is all about what you're exposed to in life.

[20:52] You don't need to communicate everything in your vision. You just need to make that vision work. And if you're clear about what you need to accomplish and what you need to do, you're going to go after it because there's no one in life is going to hand you anything.

[24:52] I never like paid money or invested money to learn something I would structure. I would leverage what I knew, leveraged my skill to trade off

[26:56] Being virtual creates power, especially when you're doing it in different continents in different time zones. When I lay my behind down to sleep at night, my team is grinding.

[29:53] I talk a lot more about WHY than I do about HOW. How is done through protocol. Why- gives them the true motivation behind it

[32:47] I'm going to win, right? Because I'm willing to die every day to get to my outcome. There's nothing that is ever going to happen to stop me and prevent me except me.

[36:07] I'm not surprised by the people that I meet. I expect people to meet the people that I meet because I put in the work

[37:10] The only thing separating us from you is just time and money

[39:06] If you always lead with your heart, you'll never lose.

[40:03] Check in with yourself. When you wake up, you owe it to yourself to become the best version of yourself.

Important Reads and Links:

Chris Ross Website:                                                            https://chrisrossofficial.com/           

Chris Ross Podcast:                                                             The Win-Win Effect with Chris Ross

Chris Ross Instagram:                                          https://www.instagram.com/thisischrisross/                

Chris Ross Twitter:                                                               https://twitter.com/thisisChrisRoss 

Chris Ross Facebook Group:                              https://www.facebook.com/winjectinc/

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Ashley grew as a country and family girl; she’s learned at an early age. Since it was a simple life like literally the place where she grew up had no side-walks nor street-lights. She learned to work hard, but even with humble beginnings none feels struggling. The culture of southern-hospitality which is ingrained in her made her a giving person, trying her best in everything she can to help people. She experienced different economic levels; she even had to go sell Avon on her high-school and at times go with her grandma to the farmer’s market and get stuff set up to sell!

She may have an inert gift of making money at an early age, but admits that even though she’s not the smartest nor fastest- her resilience, endurance, and consistency made her successful – she even made a million dollars in her very first company! Today she’s been offering a lot of free courses and training, as well as programs to help small and big entrepreneurs alike to be successful too. In this podcast, Ashley shared her life-background, education, work experience as well as the persons and life-turning decisions involved that made her successful today – in hopes that you, our dear tribe, will also overcome the negative thoughts that’s keeps her you from bringing out your dreams into fruition. So, sit back, dig in, and take notes as Ashley blesses us with her wisdom.

                Here’s What You Missed

• Different economic levels, factors shaping one’s resiliency and endurance
• How education, mentors, and work experiences light one’s pathway
• Being centered on God and the Bible, in decision-making
• How to really listen to clients
• Exposing oneself to different types of people who are masters
• Being selective on types of people to get advice or learn from is crucial
• Learn to stay strong and say no to negative thoughts and persons

Knowledge Nuggets

[3:53] I may not be the smartest, nor the fastest. But you’re not going to outwork me. I’m the most consistent, have the most endurance. When everyone else will fall away, I will still be there.

[4:08] Consistency and Resiliency is the formula for success.

[8:08] A professor noticed that She’s really good at taking high level information and breaking it down so that people can consume it, and making them want whatever it is that she’s talking about

[11:17] we’re just here to inform, and I’m going to put down something, and if somebody wants to pick it up, “Cool! – then that’s the sum total.

[11:54] Listen to clients, figure out how you can help them and educate them on their options to solve their problem or get to the designs.

[12:58] If the deal fell apart, go and look back at them and pay attention to your interactions. Honestly ask yourself were you really listening to your client, or were you just trying to force information about your product and all the cool features and service involved, pressuring them to buy right now because its note going to be here forever.

[14:50] Think of yourself as the guide. You’re not the hero, you’re the guide.

[16:26] Passion does not pay your bills. We want to get to a place where we’re doing that’s that maybe we like to do or we’re passionate about them, but the overall thing is: are you in your purpose?

[18:06] If you have somethings that’s generating profit for you right now, and it can fund your dream or fund your ultimate goal, be resourceful with your resources, use that to your advantage.

[19:19] Have done things that might not be our passion, but it’s a path that created profits for us. Eventually shows a pathway for us to get to our ultimate goal.

[20:22] If you’re split in all those different directions, you can’t really focus on anything, and develop it the way it needs to be developed.

[21:02] Make a list, start figuring out what type of resources does it take to get to this particular vision off the ground.

[21:14] Know what is the demand in the current market?

[22:01] You have to look at the resources is going to take the timing for a certain idea. I.e. whats going on in the world? what people want? Sail by listening: what do people really really want, what they really need.  See which of those ideas you have line up with theirs, start to look and set what you have right now: how much of this is already in you? What do you need to learn or develop?

[22:43] Pick the one that gives you the most favourable results.

[29:18] Being staying connected and centered to God and the bible, made her able to listen and make the right decisions.

[29:37] Intuition, and staying developed on it. Being around with people that master something, and keep seeing what to learn from them; figuring out their systems and how to integrate it into own life.

[31:23] “there has to be some type of balance…”

[31:26] Being around with people who already have lived in dents, being able to overcome hurdles, and experienced things that I may be facing, and being able to go to them for advice – especially the elders.

[33:20] “Maybe someone is really really good at relations, but can be trash in their business - some can be trashed at maintaining personal relationships: like their business is doing great, but everyone in their life hates them”

[36:53] “…anytime that I have got the biggest weapons, the biggest challenges have to pay the biggest prices in my life and business” – not going by own’s intuition or instincts, allowing others to convince you to take certain decisions or actions

[40:36] There are several unqualified people rolling around, disqualifying us on a regular basis

[40:53] Look at the life that you want to live, and get a clear vision of it. Don’t take advice from people who can’t even properly advise you. Look for those people that are where you aspire to be, learn from their behaviours, actions, what they study and pay attention to what they read.

[41:45] Learn how to speak against the negative stuff that you speak on yourself. You’re not going to make progress if you are super negative on yourself, or don’t have any belief in your own dreams and visions

[42:14] There’s nothing wrong with critique; but there is something wrong with condemnation, criticism

[43:58] “You look towards people who are where you aspire to be; you gotta be strong enough to say no people disqualifying you or suppressing your dreams.”

Important Reads and Links

Ashley Ann Free Courses: https://www.ashleyannspeaks.com/free-courses

Ashley Ann Blog: https://ashley-jones.mykajabi.com/blog

Ashley Ann Website: https://www.ashleyannspeaks.com/

Ashley Ann Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Kingashleyann

Ashley Ann Twitter: https://twitter.com/kingashleyann?lang=en

Ashley Ann Podcast: https://sheshow.online/home/

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She describes herself as someone who always had a desire to help others and a fire for figuring out a way to make money. In her early days, she already manifests entrepreneurship. Selling candies during recess, to setting up her first lemonade stand during summer, she learned early on the power of marketing, messaging, sales, and service. When she entered Miss America, that’s where she realized she loves two things: speaking and law. When she focuses on helping others, that’s when the fears and doubts disappear. She spent many years speaking for free in front of kids, toddlers, and nursery homes, which she says honed her to become a better communicator. Making sure the young kids understand what she talks about made her message clearer. The clearer her message is the bookings she secured which bring in more income. That is how she paid for her law school. When she was in 6th grade, she taught 4th and 5th graders how to become cheerleaders. When she won the Interview portion in Miss America, she taught the aspiring ladies who wanted to pick her brain on how to become a captivating communicator. She discovered early on the power of teaching what you already know. That’s what she continues to do until this day.

Marshawn pivoted a lot before being the Reinvention Strategist, Millionaire Business Mentor, and Best-Selling Author that she is today. She was in the professional sports business before, competing and winning in competitive baton twirling, even with having a legally blind left eye. Today, she is helping others how to build an extraordinary life and business. She is helping people to reinvent, women in particular, through faith, upgrading their faith and their beliefs in terms of their thoughts, and then upgrading their actions in terms of what results they want in their lives. Be ready to be pumped up!

Here’s What You Missed

• How to not lose your identity?
• How you perceive what you do is what matters the most
• Faith as a contact sport- how?
• Learn about the voice of 'little me' versus the 'future me'
• How to be a better communicator
• Learn valuable tips on marriage and relationships
• Run your own race on your own pace

Knowledge Nuggets

[3:14] Sometimes we can lose our identity and what it is that we do and think that's who it is that we are. What value do you have if you don't have anything to offer, or if you have something, but you just don't feel like it? I believe my purpose is to help people to believe bigger and live bolder. But even if I don't accomplish that or do that, I'm not a failure in God's eyes.

[6:59] One of the greatest self-care that we can do is to give ourselves permission to just be without any strings, but also to do the things that our heart desires

[10:03] On what Marshawn does: Helping people to reinvent women in particular, through faith, upgrading their faith, how they think about faith, upgrading their beliefs in terms of their thoughts, and then upgrading their actions in terms of what gets some results in their lives.

[11:08] I think how you perceive what you do matters more than how other people perceive it because it determines how you show up. You redefine it for what you want it to be.

[14:34] "What you believe you build, what you doubt you delay."

[16:06] I looked at faith as a contact sport. But we hyper-spiritualized certain things, and then we call it faith. When it's really fear, lack of clarity, we call it discernment when it really doubts.

[18:59] We don't start because we're hungry. We start because we're not hungry enough. If you get brought down to your knees, sometimes that's the only way to get you back to a place of real belief.

[19:39] The voice of little me versus future me: Little me as the voice of fear and doubt and hesitation. Future me is the voice of faith. I believe that the future may conspire with the Holy Spirit, the voice of God, to get us, to see who it is that we really are. 'Little me' wants us to be practical. 'Future me' wants us to be full of possibility and unstoppable

[22:54] Communication: I think it's the most important skill you can have in your life. I became a great speaker by learning how to talk to children. If a child doesn't understand it. Do you really understand what you're talking about? Children make us simplify the message.

[27:35] I think that's all business is, is learning how to communicate in a way that your message gets you to a yes. Stop caring about how you're going to be perceived and just start speaking what you're thinking and it'll come together. Because when you're living in rules, you're living in prison

[32:00] On marriage: I had to do some real deep work around understanding how could I show up in life where I wasn't trying to show up as valuable. Who am I if I'm not of service? Because when you do that, you'll find someone who only wants you for what you do.

[36:57] Your relationships are attached to your ability to reach your dreams. Your proximity to people is going to influence who you become and what will block you from believing. But you can't expect someone to support your dreams when you don't actually believe in yourself. I champion him, he champions me, and together, we're a winning team.

[49:19] On what she could change looking back: "I wonder what I would do if I had what I would have even accomplished more. If I hadn't waited for permission, hadn't waited for approval. And if I trusted my intuition in moments where I hesitated because I wasn't sure if I was doing too much taking up too much space or being disloyal,"

[53:53] Time is something that requires trust humility, surrender, but it also requires pursuit.

[54:13] I might do something a little differently than other people do it, but I'm also going to get there in a way that other people won't because they weren't willing to do what I was willing to do. This is why it's important to run your own race so that you can prepare in a way that is unique.

[57:02] Ask for the courage to actually not only believe bigger but to live bolder.

[58:14] The only way to shut the little voice up is to act and opposite of what the little voice doesn't want you to do. Is literally the only way you cannot rationalize with a fool,

Important Reads and Links

Marshawn Evans Daniels Website:                                  https://marshawn.com/     

Marshawn Evans Daniels Books:                                      https://believebigger.com/              

Marshawn Evans Daniels Instagram:                                               https://www.instagram.com/marshawnevans/            

Marshawn Evans Daniels Facebook:                                                https://www.facebook.com/AskMarshawn/ 

Marshawn Evans Daniels Twitter:                                    https://twitter.com/marshawnevans              

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If you enjoyed this episode and want to keep building your dream,subscribe to the DreamNation podcast using the links below.

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She describes herself as someone who always had a desire to help others and a fire for figuring out a way to make money. In her early days, she already manifests entrepreneurship. Selling candies during recess, to setting up her first lemonade stand during summer, she learned early on the power of marketing, messaging, sales, and service. When she entered Miss America, that’s where she realized she loves two things: speaking and law. When she focuses on helping others, that’s when the fears and doubts disappear. She spent many years speaking for free in front of kids, toddlers, and nursery homes, which she says honed her to become a better communicator. Making sure the young kids understand what she talks about made her message clearer. The clearer her message is the bookings she secured which bring in more income. That is how she paid for her law school. When she was in 6th grade, she taught 4th and 5th graders how to become cheerleaders. When she won the Interview portion in Miss America, she taught the aspiring ladies who wanted to pick her brain on how to become a captivating communicator. She discovered early on the power of teaching what you already know. That’s what she continues to do until this day.

Marshawn pivoted a lot before being the Reinvention Strategist, Millionaire Business Mentor, and Best-Selling Author that she is today. She was in the professional sports business before, competing and winning in competitive baton twirling, even with having a legally blind left eye. Today, she is helping others how to build an extraordinary life and business. She is helping people to reinvent, women in particular, through faith, upgrading their faith and their beliefs in terms of their thoughts, and then upgrading their actions in terms of what results they want in their lives. Be ready to be pumped up!

Here’s What You Missed

• How to not lose your identity?
• How you perceive what you do is what matters the most
• Faith as a contact sport- how?
• Learn about the voice of 'little me' versus the 'future me'
• How to be a better communicator
• Learn valuable tips on marriage and relationships
• Run your own race on your own pace

Knowledge Nuggets

[3:14] Sometimes we can lose our identity and what it is that we do and think that's who it is that we are. What value do you have if you don't have anything to offer, or if you have something, but you just don't feel like it? I believe my purpose is to help people to believe bigger and live bolder. But even if I don't accomplish that or do that, I'm not a failure in God's eyes.

[6:59] One of the greatest self-care that we can do is to give ourselves permission to just be without any strings, but also to do the things that our heart desires

[10:03] On what Marshawn does: Helping people to reinvent women in particular, through faith, upgrading their faith, how they think about faith, upgrading their beliefs in terms of their thoughts, and then upgrading their actions in terms of what gets some results in their lives.

[11:08] I think how you perceive what you do matters more than how other people perceive it because it determines how you show up. You redefine it for what you want it to be.

[14:34] "What you believe you build, what you doubt you delay."

[16:06] I looked at faith as a contact sport. But we hyper-spiritualized certain things, and then we call it faith. When it's really fear, lack of clarity, we call it discernment when it really doubts.

[18:59] We don't start because we're hungry. We start because we're not hungry enough. If you get brought down to your knees, sometimes that's the only way to get you back to a place of real belief.

[19:39] The voice of little me versus future me: Little me as the voice of fear and doubt and hesitation. Future me is the voice of faith. I believe that the future may conspire with the Holy Spirit, the voice of God, to get us, to see who it is that we really are. 'Little me' wants us to be practical. 'Future me' wants us to be full of possibility and unstoppable

[22:54] Communication: I think it's the most important skill you can have in your life. I became a great speaker by learning how to talk to children. If a child doesn't understand it. Do you really understand what you're talking about? Children make us simplify the message.

[27:35] I think that's all business is, is learning how to communicate in a way that your message gets you to a yes. Stop caring about how you're going to be perceived and just start speaking what you're thinking and it'll come together. Because when you're living in rules, you're living in prison

[32:00] On marriage: I had to do some real deep work around understanding how could I show up in life where I wasn't trying to show up as valuable. Who am I if I'm not of service? Because when you do that, you'll find someone who only wants you for what you do.

[36:57] Your relationships are attached to your ability to reach your dreams. Your proximity to people is going to influence who you become and what will block you from believing. But you can't expect someone to support your dreams when you don't actually believe in yourself. I champion him, he champions me, and together, we're a winning team.

[49:19] On what she could change looking back: "I wonder what I would do if I had what I would have even accomplished more. If I hadn't waited for permission, hadn't waited for approval. And if I trusted my intuition in moments where I hesitated because I wasn't sure if I was doing too much taking up too much space or being disloyal,"

[53:53] Time is something that requires trust humility, surrender, but it also requires pursuit.

[54:13] I might do something a little differently than other people do it, but I'm also going to get there in a way that other people won't because they weren't willing to do what I was willing to do. This is why it's important to run your own race so that you can prepare in a way that is unique.

[57:02] Ask for the courage to actually not only believe bigger but to live bolder.

[58:14] The only way to shut the little voice up is to act and opposite of what the little voice doesn't want you to do. Is literally the only way you cannot rationalize with a fool,

Important Reads and Links

Marshawn Evans Daniels Website:                                  https://marshawn.com/     

Marshawn Evans Daniels Books:                                      https://believebigger.com/              

Marshawn Evans Daniels Instagram:                                               https://www.instagram.com/marshawnevans/            

Marshawn Evans Daniels Facebook:                                                https://www.facebook.com/AskMarshawn/ 

Marshawn Evans Daniels Twitter:                                    https://twitter.com/marshawnevans              

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At Dream Nation, we’re all about building dreams. We do that through podcasts that motivate, educate, and entertain our listeners with some of the best entrepreneurs from around the world to get you to the best tips to level up your game in business in life.

If you enjoyed this episode and want to keep building your dream,subscribe to the DreamNation podcast using the links below.

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As a boy, Finnian felt his parents are not interested in what he does and he felt abandoned and unloved. That made a big hole in his life. He tried filling that hole with the achievement of external things. He was driven by materialistic success. He began accumulating wealth, lived in a ski resort, owned multiple 7-figure businesses, received multiple industry awards, and was married to the love of his life. He thought those material achievements will fill the void in his heart- the feeling of being unloved and unappreciated. But the feeling of being lost came back after her wife left him. He was again in the dark, losing his way. According to him, when there’s nothing left to chase, you have no choice but to go inwards. He looked for divine guidance, and he found it. He worked with a spiritual teacher and discovered the power of breathwork. He then found himself, returned to wholeness, and remembered that he is love, abundance, and manifestor. Today, he is teaching everyone that YOU are too. You are love, abundance, and a powerful manifestor.

He is huge in teaching people how to be financially happy. How to be financially abundant and happy and contented at the same time. Practical tips on achieving this including finding spirituality, being present, being intentional, discovering breath work, self-compassion, journaling, books, and morning routine. Be sure that you are ready to take notes and to get them to action because you’ll be receiving huge nuggets from today’s episode!

Here’s What You Missed

• Can you be financially abundant, happy and fulfilled at the same time?
• Connecting money with spirituality- how?
• How can you find your way? Where should you look for divine guidance?
• How important is having morning routines?
• Discover the top ‘Money Sabotages’ that may have been working inside you
• Paying debts vs investing

Knowledge Nuggets

[1:53] Financially happy vs financially abundant: Financially happy is being happy and wealthy NOW. Versus just having money but not fulfilled.

[3:31] It about connecting money with spirituality. Then we can start living in the present because being present is magical.

[5:47] Live life where you feel happy, fulfilled, and flourishing. If you go against your life's purpose, you end up dying

[9:26] You need to intentionally work through life. Be in one with the present moment.

[11:39] Realize that you can create a way out of what you're feeling right now. Self-compassion, tenderness, and being mindful will help you not harshly criticize yourself

[14:20] How to find your way: Breath work. Books. Being around people who you are inspired by. Meditate. Journaling

[22:40] Morning routine: Wake up, smile, set my intentions for the day, do clearing breaths, calm myself down a bit, be present, look for positiveness then write down a couple of gratitude things. Set intentions, don't set structures

[27:42] Little behavior changes the feedback loop, then you start feeling better and starts going to the cycle before you know it, you have an incremental change

[31:34] Money stories: Combination of your family's background of which you're exposed to, and your own experiences with money in your timeline. We are the creators of our realities. We have these '12 Money Sabotages' that are working inside us

[34:09] Money connected with spirituality to make us happier and wealthier. Money is very important because it what enables us to have a choice. Money is just energy and it's what our relationship with it which determines whether it's serving us or not

[36:] Does not matter what situation you're in, if you don't have enough money, just find any way you can invest when you do that you'll start feeling 'this is what an abundant person does' you start feeling empowered

[38:20] Paying debts vs investing

[39:30] Money is a magnifier. If you have a hole, the money will make it bigger. Fill up that hole first while you don't have much money

[43:30] You are not your feelings.

[44:30] If you are happy with where you are, why will you keep operating on the same system? What will you lose? What's the risk of not taking action?

Important Reads and Links

Finnian Kelly Website:                        https://www.finniankelly.com/        

Finnian Kelly YouTube:                                       https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUOzN4ilqmHWNs4m5BkdLxw                                                   

Finnian Kelly Instagram:                      https://www.instagram.com/thefinniankelly/               

Finnian Kelly Facebook:                      https://www.facebook.com/thefinniankelly  

Finnian Kelly Twitter:                          https://twitter.com/TheFinnKelly    

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In 2019, he was recognized as the #1 must watch YouTube channel for making money according to Forbes magazine. After dominating the video creation space, Ryan Scribner diversified into blogging with his business partner Ed Canty. Ryan is the co-owner of the rapidly growing personal finance blog Investing Simple.

Brant is a former rock star in the music industry, but now he is rocking the speaking stage. The reason behind though why he made the pivot from the music industry is a whole touching and moving story. His oldest son was diagnosed with rare blood cancer in 2012. At one time, the doctor said there is nothing more they can do and that they’ll lose their son within 24 hours. Brant called his brother about the sad news. His brother made a YouTube video about their situation and a couple of doctors knowledgeable about the rare disease reached out. Then the thing they thought was impossible happened, Theo’s life is saved! Brant had a lot of realizations thinking back about the talk they had on that night. He said if he had known his non-negotiables that time, the things that really matter to him, that talk would have been different. Those realizations and the fact that he did not want to be away from his family for several days, made him pivot to the speaking space.

In this podcast, Brant shares how you could also be a good speaker. You’ll also get to learn why he is a core values activist and the depth of its effect on your success. The engaging vibe from Brant will want you to devour every knowledge nugget he shared (which you definitely should!). We hope you have your notes ready because you will want to re-listen to this episode or review the wisdom shared by Brant! You will also understand why he says you are enough, and how to deal with negative thoughts that may sway you from achieving success. Get ready to be fired up!

Here’s What You Missed

• The difference between speakers and presenters. Which one should you be?
• What are your black sheep values?
• Why you should figure out your core values and how to do it
• What does it means when you say you’re enough?
• Putting happiness on things that matters most to you- why?
• How to deal with negative thoughts.

Knowledge Nuggets

[6:27] There are two types of people in that world. There are speakers and there are presenters. In my opinion, it's 95% presenters and maybe 5% are speakers. There are a bunch of people who are good at presenting information but don't have the edutainment factor that you need to carry a large room.

[8:14] On how to have 'edutainment' ability: You've got to own your content. You've got to be an expert in your content.

[16:35] Black sheep values: The things that matter most to us in our life.

[17:01] If I would have figured out these non-negotiables for myself, you know, they would have been filled with the things that matter most to me and not with whatever my crazy emotions were feeling at that time. And since then, I just decided that I needed to write this book and become an expert in what drives us in during those moments. And so what drives us are these core values that we can use as a foundation to make good decisions.

[19:52] You are not a wizard and you are not going to control the outcome. You can only control the deliberate intention that goes into making decisions. And so what is in that deliberate intention and the answer is these black sheep values.

[24:09] It makes it really hard for you to feel good and confident about what you're doing when there's no evidence of the things that you say matter most in your life.

[25:14] You are already enough. And anybody telling you any different is a snake oil salesman. If you are not feeding your sheep then they are going to wreak havoc in your lives

[26:38] When you have proof, you don't need belief. Your WHAT- those values and the WHY- your purpose, those are static. They don't change. It's how you honor the values that change.

[29:35] I want people to stop putting your happiness on an outcome and start putting your happiness on honoring these things that matter most.

[32:21] Brant's black sheep: My purpose to creatively impact people's lives by authentically providing hope.

[33:53] The fact that I have discovered my non-negotiables, I have chosen my purpose and I'm living in alignment with those things is just as rare. Just figure your stuff out, choose a purpose that's in alignment with those things that matter most and watch how your life can transform

[35:14] The more successful you are, the more you're going to doubt yourself. You start to feel like maybe you don't deserve it, or you haven't earned it.

[38:11] On dealing with negative thoughts: They want to grab that wheel and steal your steer your life into the ditch, and you can't allow that to happen. So they can have a voice, they can have a seat on the bus, but they are never going to touch that wheel.

Important Reads and Links

Brant Menswar Website:                                   https://www.brantmenswar.com/                   

Brant Menswar Instagram:                                https://www.instagram.com/brantmenswar/               

Brant Menswar Book:                                         https://www.findyourblacksheep.com/         

Brant Menswar Twitter:                                     https://twitter.com/BrantMenswar 

Brant Menswar LinkedIn:                   https://www.linkedin.com/in/brantmenswar

Brant Menswar Podcast:                                    http://www.thoughtsthatrock.com/                

Black Sheep Assessment:                                   http://worksheet.findyourblacksheep.com/ 

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Stu grew up as a shy, introverted kid. He thought he was born that way. He accepted that between the two of him and his brother, he's the shier one and his brother is the outgoing one. But things change for him when he joined a network marketing business where he got his first deep taste of entrepreneurship. There he learned to talk to people, how to go out of his shell and to just get better with people. It felt like he developed a second identity. He traveled to ‘find himself’ for eight months, but he got diagnosed with testicular cancer. That’s when he discovered the real secret to building relationships: vulnerability.

He just discovered the real secret to communication, relationship-building, and self-awareness. Today, he teaches everyone that how we interact with people - and if we can do it effectively - shapes our life. In this podcast, he also shared his dream job: working with his model mentor. He now believes he found where he’s able to serve at the highest level, as a National Trainer for the #1 strategist on the planet, Tony Robbins. Discover how he was able to land his dream job, how he strives hard to qualify for it, and how you too can find your life’s direction. Be prepared to turn into the better relationship builder that you should be to accelerate your business fast, today!

Here’s What You Missed

• How to have meaningful relationships
• The power of modelling
• What is true success
• Can you learn anything?
• Step by step tips to taking action

Knowledge Nuggets

[2:04] If you're in business and you're not good with people, you're not going to be a successful at business, no matter what business you're in.

[5:42] Beauty and pureness in the life in having conversations with whether it's people you love or random strangers in a line, in a grocery store that you got to learn to come out of that shell. So you can truly experience like the fullest parts of life.

[8:30] I was so vulnerable with people and sharing that I would notice instantly people would open up to me and I could have the purest connection just because I was vulnerable. If you want true, genuine, real, authentic, the purest connection and relationships you can have in your life, that you have to have vulnerability.

[12:27] Find someone who has what you want and model them, and then reach out to them very, very persistently and see how you can add value to them.

[14:00] Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure.

[15:30] By building the right connection and by being an effective communicator and networker, that you can literally open any door of opportunity.

[21:44] Success breeds success and failure can't breed success. What are three things that I could take at the end of the day and go, man, I just dominated this today. And then you carry that into the next day, and that allows you to build success on success.

[26:28] Just because someone else has something doesn't mean that they were born with that or everything can be learned

[28:10] How to take action: 1. Visualizing process which will take 3 minutes. literally imagine your head as a file cabinet. And imagined thoughts of, I can't do this. I'm not good enough, whatever those negative thoughts, literally imagine them being pulled out of the cabinet file and being thrown away, and then imagine taking these positive, empowering beliefs, and then putting them now in your file cabinet, which is your head and just visualize that. Do over and over and you're literally rewiring your brain. 2. A shitty plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow because tomorrow doesn't exist. As you keep executing on this shitty action, eventually it gets better and better and better and then you'll turn out to be phenomenal.

Important Reads and Links

Stu Massengill Website:                                     https://www.stumassengill.com/     

Stu Massengill Podcast:                                      https://www.stumassengill.com/findingdirection        

Stu Massengill Instagram:                                  https://www.instagram.com/stumassengill/ 

Stu Massengill Twitter:                                       https://twitter.com/stumassengill   

Stu Massengill LinkedIn:                                    https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuart-massengill-5589745a/      

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Tonya is a successful multiple business owner who was able to defy the odds. She suffered domestic violence, losing everything on her first business to conquering everything she wants today. Her ‘My Finance Fab business was actually founded out of the result of a financially and physically abusive relationship. Right after she was reminded of her worth, that she’s way valuable to let an abuser take away her life, she regained her confidence to start over. Learn how she was able to do just that, what her first year of business looks like, how she was able to acquire multiple businesses, and how her My Fab Finance business makes money.

Learn tactical tips on building a successful business from scratch! Changing your life for the better has never been within your reach! Be sure to listen to this episode in full and start building the confidence of shifting to a life you and your family deserve.

Here’s What You Missed

• Knowing what you want and how to align your life with it
• How to get away from abusive relationships
• Tips on surviving and winning your business’ first year
• Where to find your mentor
• Investment first or debt?
• How to start a brand and partnering with other brands to make money

Knowledge Nuggets

[4:23] I knew that I wanted. I want my family to dictate my schedule instead of the other way around

[5:19] It has been important for me to honor where I am on or where I came from, but then also honor, what else I want out of life and where else I want to be and what else I want to do.

[9:26] There's a standard that I'm operating in because it's a standard in which I was raised.

[11:21] On getting away from an abusive relationship: My life is too valuable for me to throw my life away for this person. That was the first time I chose myself and I really chose my happiness and chose my joy and realize how important it is to do that.

[14:04] Have you done everything possible? Have you exhausted every single option to make sure that your business is operating right?

[14:43] The first couple of years of business is throwing spaghetti on the wall and see what sticks.

[16:45] On lack of mentorship: I set the affirmation. I wrote it down on my mirror and we look at it every day. Then the time came to a conference I was partnered with one of the most successful people at the conference. Then the Frugal Fab Five. Then Friendtors. They are beneficial, but you also have to understand what you want out of that relationship

[25:18] Your investment money should be your play money. You're not going to be a good investor if you're investing what you need

[28:36] You could purchase businesses on Shopify exchange.

[34:34] It's beautiful to see that scale, but don't push it. They can't think about what's their best decision because there's stress taking on all these things that they thought signified success but really didn't.

[41:35] It's lucrative to start a brand. Most of My Fab Finances, revenue comes from our brand partnerships. Then selling courses at a discounted rate for people so they can afford it. Then book sales

[45:39] I think that for anybody who's looking to start think about creative ways that you can work with brands. People have too many options. So you got to figure out how to make people buy from you.

[51:21] Once you start trying that voice gets quiet and the voice might pop back up, but keep trying. Decide to work with work through it and work with it instead of allowing it to work against them.

Important Reads and Links

Tonya Rapley Website:                                      http://tonyarapley.com/   

Tonya Rapley Business Page:                            https://myfabfinance.com/               

Tonya Rapley Instagram:                                    https://www.instagram.com/tonya.rapley/                                   

Tonya Rapley Facebook:                                    https://www.facebook.com/OfficialTonyaRapley/       

Tonya Rapley Twitter:                                         https://twitter.com/tonyarapley      

People:

Mattie James:                                                                       https://mattiejames.com/ 

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Keenya's family was poor. She remembers the many occasions where they lost their light and water because her family couldn’t afford it. Until she got into college and was recruited into a network marketing company. That’s when she discovered her innate ability to sell anything to anyone. She quickly worked her way up in this business arena. She was selling like crazy! Until one time, when she’d develop a really close relationship with God when she said she received like a divine message of her quitting her business. There’s a major reason why she felt why she was called out of network marketing: manipulative selling. She was selling heavily because she was being manipulative! She placed a heavier value on her relationship with God than with her career at that time, that’s why she was willing to call it quits. She ended her business and her team and went ahead to look for a corporate job.

She did work for somebody else for three years. Then her restlessness kicked in, she felt she’s ready to take on another shot on entrepreneurship. With a new approach to selling, she builds her new business. Today, she’s a successful mentor, helping other businesses build their brand and scale up by being authentic and honest. That’s what she’s touching on in this podcast. She shared the correct way of selling, how to use social media especially TikTok, how to be seen everywhere, and why it is so important today than ever to be willing to be mentored. Be prepared to ignite to take action after you listen to this podcast! I am so excited for you to benefit from this!

Here’s What You Missed

• What is the right way of selling
• How being honest makes you more likeable
• The power of TikTok, and how to go viral on this platform
• How to be visible everywhere
• How to use Instagram Reels before you get better on TikTok
• Put yourself in a place to be mentored- how?

Knowledge Nuggets

[9:46] I feel like what God was trying to do was deprogram me as a whole. And say, let me reteach you how to sell, and you may go back into network marketing, but when you go back into whatever you do, you're not going to do it from a manipulation standpoint, you're going to do it as an honest, authentic, you're going to make even more money, but you have to relearn how to sell because I spent my whole life and early life in network marketing, learning the wrong way to sell.

[10:56] Work with a coach who's manipulative and honest. I feel like every entrepreneur needs a coach because you only know what you know, and you can skip a whole lot of steps if you work with somebody.

[12:41] Second, be honest. Thirdly, I would say you got to get deep down and ask yourself if you are trying to make somebody do something that they may not want to do.

[19:26] On TikTok: I start doing little things and the comments section it kept saying your joy is contagious. The more I kept hearing it, the more I kept, like starting to believe it. my email list started exploding. My books started selling like crazy on my website and on Amazon and everything was just blowing up.

[21:55] One of the biggest ways to go viral on Tik TOK is doing something within like five to seven seconds that makes somebody go, wait, what? It makes them watch it over and over and over again. Or it's something where it is super funny or it just makes you go. That's amazing. I got to give it to this person.

[23:14] I've got these funny things, but I've also got all this other stuff around it causing you to go, huh? I thought I liked this girl. Let me follow her.

[25:19] Visibility is King. Our goal is to get ourselves in front of as many people as possible, because if we get them there, we can pull them to our email list or to our other social media platforms.

[27:17] The features on Instagram Reels is a whole lot less than what's on TikTok. Go to Reels and take a Instagram story and then post it to Reels. And if you do those little things on real, by the time become the Tik Tok, you're like, Oh, I've got this because Tik Tok can be extremely overwhelming.

[32:01] I would say the number one thing I have for me, obviously with my relationship with God. But the second thing was all the books that I read in network marketing. And so all the books that I have read my whole life that I hadn't really thought about in my time of like crazy crisis that's all that I could hear.

[34:07] On what she could've done sooner: "Talking to myself a little bit more." I was letting what the environment I was putting myself in tell me who I was and minimize me when I knew that there was more on the inside of me. I wasn't investing in a coach. I wasn't any kind of mastermind.

[35:47] Most of us need more wisdom, more guidance, and the truth is all of us can get access to a library card. All of us have access to social media, podcasts, coaches. Put yourself in a place to be mentored. And then you'll realize I really do have what I need.accomplished business executive, teacher, speaker  helping people build successful businesses and powerful personal brand, influencer

Important Reads and Links

Keenya Kelly Website:                                        https://www.keenyakelly.com/        

Keenya Kelly Instagram:                                     https://www.instagram.com/keenyakelly/    

Keenya Kelly Twitter:                                          https://twitter.com/keenyakelly      

Keenya Kelly YouTube:                                       http://youtube.com/keenyakelly    

Keenya Kelly TikTok:                                                           http://www.tiktok.com/@keenyakelly0

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He often hears other kids’ remarks that because he was in foster care, that is why is no good in anything. He rolled his sleeves up and worked really hard to have the body built and the skills needed to make it to the varsity team. Due to unwavering determination, he was offered a full-ride scholarship to the University of Oregon, and the ultimate goal of going pro in the NFL. He had a wonderful family at this time, and he was feeling he had it all including a bright future. Little that he knows that more adversities are yet to come. Within a two-month period, I went from having it all in the NFL to being a personal trainer at my local gym to support my family. Due to his busy schedule, his marriage fell apart, and his kids missed him always. He then went again to the feeling of being miserable and a failure.

His discovery of someone who drew inspiration from his life was what gave him the push to go forward. That’s where his purpose shifted. He wanted to be happy, so he knew he needed to give out more. People wanted him to teach them how he does what he does. That’s where his coaching career started and his ultimate upgrade. He discovered that success only happens when who you are to your core, your identity, aligns with your life’s vision. That there’s more to just shifting your mindset. In this podcast, he shares about his life’s downsides, his upsides, and his identity shifts. He then started consulting and winning the personal development world.

Here’s What You Missed

• Anthony’s early life and failures
• What really is success and how it’s measured
• What is Identity Shift? And it is vital to success?
• What’s the difference between mindset shift and identity shift
• What’s the key to greatness?
• What are the four kinds of level and structures of people?

Knowledge Nuggets

[3:55] Everybody can attest to some point in life, not feeling like they mattered or not feel like they fit in or dealing with the reactive shifts.

[4:24] There's been multiple studies, especially on entrepreneurs that found that in mindset you can have all the tactics and tools and strategies. But if you do not self identify or self categorize or have an identity of the entrepreneur, then that mindset holds no ground.

[7:44] To your root, that it's who you want to do this thing, 1. It becomes easier and takes less willpower. But mostly we're so deathly afraid of step one, they never reached it for.

[9:23] Success is not what you get in the end. Success is who you have to or who you have to become to achieve it.

[10:45] If you want to do that thing, eventually, if you give up on doing it to watch everybody else live your dream.

[16:45] Get up every day and I'm trying to make my goals happen, to reach something based on how I feel each day, then I will never reach it. I call it, kicking the ball out and I run up to it.And so there's days when I wake up, but I do not feel like doing things, but it's not like I don't, I can't. It's in my calendar, which means it has to get done.

[17:52] And when it's who you are, it's less of a burden, more of a feels weird, if I don't. So it doesn't take willpower. I just kept stepping up to the plate and minimizing the pain of it. And eventually in doing so the thing became easy. It became joyful.

[21:50] You're not trying to achieve the achievement for the achievement. You're trying to achieve the achievement of the transformation of who you become when it's done, because who you are can do that again and again, and again, and the next time it gets easier.

[25:45] It's not that I'm some magical human man that the work that I've I'm now teaching is work that I lived and I went back and said, all right. I know it's worked. It's worked for me. I see it work for clients

[26:08] Mindset is a byproduct of having a good identity, like the ideal identity.

[31:06] But a lot of the progression was nothing more than what you heard. It was me showing up and doing the work, getting opportunities and being prepared from when they came. The information people don't realize that is most important. It's not what somebody gives you in the book. It's what you learn in the book. It's the information you get while applying what you learned in the book.

[34:57] I don't go to the emotions. I go to the fact that I know that my logical brain in that emotional space, not the present space knew that this had to be done.

[38:24] We take breaks when we don't need to take breaks because we haven't done anything yet.

[41:33] People's kind of levels and structures and the tiers to it

[48:55] Own your shift. There's nothing wrong with admitting. But if you keep lying to yourself or if you just keep accepting this limitation and you sell yourself on it, you'll get to keep that. So own the fact that you got something to work on it's your duty to fix it. It may not be your fault, but your responsibility.

Important Reads and Links

The E-Myth by Michael Gerber

Anthony Trucks Website:                                   https://anthonytrucks.com/             

Anthony Trucks Instagram:                                https://www.instagram.com/anthonytrucks/               

Anthony Trucks Twitter:                                     https://twitter.com/anthonytrucks 

Anthony Trucks LinkedIn:                  https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonytrucks                

Anthony Trucks YouTube:                  https://www.youtube.com/user/AnthonyTrucks         

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Dr. Kimbro is universally characterized as one of the most insightful and scholarly writers in the field today. If you are looking for a mentor for human potential, entrepreneurship, and management, Dr. Kimbro is the man to go to. Be prepared to be encouraged to accomplish big things after you listen to this episode in full! Dr. Kimbro did not only shared advice to achieve your full potential, but he also showed us that in that process, you’ll face setbacks and you may need to pivot. He shared how he and his wife almost lost their house while he was writing the books he became famous for. He shared how he needed to pivot, setting aside a book he’s working for at least two years to work on a new project that was given to him. How we sometimes need to take a leap of faith and believe in ourselves. Why you and your partner should not quit together, and why it pays to live fearlessly.

This episode is also full of spiritual nuggets, and just the exact words that you may just need to hear for that little nudge to greatness. You’ll feel his love for the black community and how he tirelessly would love to lecture and give insights to the community. Not only is he successful in his career life, but you’ll also all get inspired by how great of a family man he is and how proud he is of show his children came out to be. As his father said: “The greatest compliment that a man could ever receive in life is for someone to say to him that his children are well mannered.” So, let’s dive into a chat that I’m sure will have a standing impact in each of your lives, our dream builders!

Here’s What You Missed

• How to live life with fulfillment
• Is your why big enough?
• On black wealth: history and current issues
• How successful people become successful
• What do the black community needs?
• What is level five leadership?
• Start now, how??

Knowledge Nuggets

[4:48] Your life is all that you can imagine all that you can see. We're not in this world to set it right, we're in this world to see it right.

[6:05] The Bible says work out your own salvation. It means you got all the power. I gave you all the tools you go to solve the problem. This is your time to go up the rooftop and shout to the world I'm here, this is what I've been sent to do.

[8:03] Gladwell says any problem can be solved if only enough people care. The only reason why you have a problem is that you think you've got a problem.

[12:07] We're all going to leave this world, not by dying, but by knowing the truth. What is the truth? As far as you can see.

[13:20] Whatever you put in the place every single day is going to, reinforce that one choice. It is a choice, and guess you can do that. And how can you do that? If your why is big enough.

[14:08] Peace is the absence of all negative emotions

[16:34[ Don't you ever forget somebody survived for you. If you were African American right now, all you got to do is go back and look at your past generation and somebody survived for you.

[18:09] The middle class keeps score by degrees and titles. The poor keep score by cars and clothes, but the wealthy, they keep score by the bank account. So you get judged 50 million different ways, man. But the bottom line is your character and your integrity. It's a sacred trust and you defend it at all costs.

[20:45] Progress is the key. Are you making progress? Are you making progress in every area of your life?

[24:16] On successful people: They got a dream and there are hungry and nothing is going to stop them. Once they hit their goals and objectives and they've got the same hunger they dominate and see conviction once you're convicted that leads to the passionate, committed mind. That mind can never be defeated.

[28:32] On what the Black community needs: we need financial literacy. There are two sides. What you call recognition and being exposed.

[36:00] It's your belief in your capabilities that make the difference. That's all the difference in the world. Everybody is capable, but those that we call successful, those things we know are enamored with those that we want to emulate.

On pivoting: It is maintaining your strategy. But altering your tactics, maintain the strategy. And change the tactics, regardless of what you've got invested at that particular time.

[1:04:53] We are the only racial-ethnic group that doesn't profile as black creatives, wealth creators.

[1:06:54] Everybody should write down what are the five great events of your life?

[1:09:43] Father says the greatest compliment that a man could ever receive in life is for someone to say to him that his children are well-behaved, well mannered.

[1:13;43] The longer that you can project yourself into future circumstances, the greater, the chance for success. It's the short-range goals that we dismiss

[1:17:22] What is level five leadership? People follow you not because you want them to follow you. They followed you because they want to follow you. And the only way they follow you, what do you stand for?

 [1:19:00] start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough. I don't care where it is. Start, where you want with what you have. if you're weak, I can show you how to be strong. If you're slow, I can show you how to become fast. But I don't have an anecdote for low self-esteem. That is something that you have got to do on your own and the quickest way for you to raise your self-image, just to praise your God. Because when you're praising you, God, you basically praising yourself.

Important Reads and Links

Books

The Country of the Blind Short story by H. G. Wells

The Negro Book by W. E. B. Du Bois

Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice Book by Dennis Kimbro and Napoleon Hill

Dr. Dennis Kimbro Website:                                              http://www.denniskimbro.com/      

Dr. Dennis Kimbro Instagram:                                           https://www.instagram.com/drdenniskimbro/             

Dr. Dennis Kimbro Twitter:                                                https://twitter.com/drdenniskimbro              

Dr. Dennis Kimbro Facebook:                                           https://www.facebook.com/dennis.kimbro/ 

Dr. Dennis Kimbro LinkedIn:                                             https://www.linkedin.com/in/dennis-kimbro-605a4131            

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Mike had an ‘early’ adult life. Right after college, he had his son and got married in his early twenties. He shared how he started from scratch, even moving into a retirement building because of the cheap rent. He and his small family had to live off peanut and jelly and ramen soup. His being entrepreneurial changed the course of their life. Although he did not do it perfect the first time {he had about 10 failed businesses) but these experiences made him ache for small entrepreneurs like himself. He set a clear mission for himself: Eradicate entrepreneurial poverty. He went through it, he knew how he struggled and he knew millions of other entrepreneurs are out there grinding and hoping to make it happen. Through his experiences and interviewing other entrepreneurs, he was able to write books of huge help.

In this podcast, Mike shares very good points on how to build a business, get it to get going, to make it healthy for you, and to get the most out of it using without requiring your full amount of time and energy. As he says and is the definite truth, the ultimate business has no dependency on you. How do we actually achieve the ultimate business? Mike talked about delegation, systems, debts, specifying, and diversifying. All of which are key ingredients to having a healthy business. He talked about his ups and downs in the world of business, his first hires and fires, and how he helped thousands of businesses fix, sustain, and grow their business. Mike has a special place for small businesses in his heart.

Here’s What You Missed

• How to not need money when starting a business
• What is delegation and how to apply it to your business
• What the ultimate healthy business
• The importance of systems
• Differentiate debts
• Specificity in growth, diversity in learning- why?

Knowledge Nuggets

[3:24] On Toilet Paper Entrepreneur Book: There's a certain scrappy community of entrepreneurs that are just hustling and getting out there every day to move their business forward are doing it smartly.

[5:18] You don't need money to get started. There's an innovative way of doing it. In fact, the lack of money forces you to be creative, and that's the power of entrepreneurship.

[8:30] On Fix This Next Book: We go in for the day's work, we have a vision or plan we want to achieve that day, but within minutes, email and at these questions and challenges present themselves, we never get our vision done. The biggest roadblock to growing our business to our vision is the distraction. Our business is only as strong as the weakest part. I wrote Fix This Next to identify the weak link in your business.

[11:55] If we move to our greatness, we will excel and what we have to do to do that is to start removing the stuff that we're just good at and are doing 'cause its required of us.

[12:55] Ultimately, the ultimate business has no dependency on you. We get there by slowly peeling ourselves out and inserting other people, systems and technology to support what we remove ourselves from.

[15:26] You can't build a healthy business without systems. Revenue is just vanity. What matters is how much of that money can I extract repeatedly with the least effort? And that's where systems come into place.

[17:59] True delegation is the assignment of outcomes, empowering employees to tackle the outcome, and when they face challenges to navigate themselves.

[22:26] Behavioral intercept. Look for an an opportunity for what Behavioral intercept to achieve things you wanted with what we already do now, without the need to change.

[24:30] There's three forms of debt: 1. Debt leveraging- where I know there's give me a specific increased return within a specific time period. 2. Debt bridging- where you cover a gap in time where you need cash flow, but you can return the money 3. Debt anchors- debts that is not calculated.

[27:15] The person that needs to show success is often weak. Those are usually the weakest businesses, it's usually just bluffing. Those who are just totally humble and meek are the most successful.

[30:46] The more I explore outside of my paradigm of what I know, I've discovered more and more strength in that learning. Specificity in growth, diversity in learning

[33:16] If you're bold and you're different, you'll get noticed. Money flows to the difference, not to the similar.

[35:21] Whatever the negative frame is, I start off with "I'm so happy that I don't have" in our subconscious mind. We'll start actually making that a win for us.

Important Reads and Links

Books

Fix This Next by Mike Michalowicz

Profit First by Mike Michalowicz

The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur by Mike Michalowicz

Mike Michalowicz Website:                                     https://mikemichalowicz.com/         

Mike Michalowicz Instagram:                                   https://www.instagram.com/mikemichalowicz/           

Mike Michalowicz Twitter:                                       https://twitter.com/mikemichalowicz             

Mike Michalowicz LinkedIn:                                     https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikemichalowicz/         

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One of the reasons why people were really drawn to him is because of his vulnerability. He shared a depth of his failures, his highs and lows, and even his personal marriage life to teach us the lesson of the beauty of being vulnerable. People of all sorts of walks of life can relate to Dean, because as what he says, whatever level we are at our life today, he’d been there. He started or has been involved in 13+ companies, some have failed but surely have changed lives all around the world. But his life is always beautiful. He grew up in a dysfunctional family, where his parents divorced. He learned how to keep his mouth shut, just so his parents won’t argue. He barely graduated high school and did not have any college degree. He even went through his own divorce, which at first he felt was a failure and that he is following his parents’ bad example. But the day that he realize he needed to be honest and vulnerable, things change for the best.

Dean is big on the “impostor syndrome” topic. Most, if not all of us, have something to share with the world to make it a better place. However, this impostor syndrome shuts us. Listen to Dean and understand that you have a voice and the world needs to hear it. Step up now, more than ever, because the world needs you! Be ready to be geared up to become your best self by listening to the powerful wisdom of our guest today. To those seeking transformation and success, here’s your perfect podcast!

Here’s What You Missed

• The power of being vulnerable
• The power of saying no
• The power of finding your right tribe and mentor to condense decades of learning into days
• Riches is in the niches- Is that true?
• Great tips on how to share/teach your truth and story to the world
• The world needs you- how can you step up?

Knowledge Nuggets

[2:26] No matter where you are in your journey, I promise you I've been there. I've been at the lowest of lows and I've been blessed to be at the highest of highs and everywhere in between my personal life, my business life…

[8:20] I just realized I was doing the world a disservice by holding any of the crap back. So I let my self be vulnerable and share my story.

[9:11] Nobody can deny another level of us if we identify, if we use that journey as our fuel, not our anchor. Something about being vulnerable. Really just helps you self identify, who you really are and what your values are.

[11:34] That is what I wish for every single person watching that you have the success, the strength and the depth of wisdom to say no, to say no more than you've ever said in your life.

[13:50] We can condense decades into days. Find somebody who's already done what you've done and do everything in your power to have them mentor. Find a way to cut the learning curve. And, I think today our access to self-education to learning from others is, is so readily available.

[16:15] My perfect avatar, someone that knows they can't settle for half of what their potential is. I believe that there are ways more people that have a desire for more that just don't invoke it or don't wake it up. And if I can wake it up. Then I did my job.

[17:45] Dale Carnegie: "The biggest plight of our world is knowing you have more potential and not using it."

[21:43] The riches are in the niches. Cause that's how you get momentum. That's how you start. So the riches are in the niches only cause it's a starting point. As you see, I didn't settle for the niches.

[24:03] when I say burn the boats in my eyes, it's even if it's an hour a day, commit, go deep, shut off the phone, obsess on it. Like your life depends on it. Just remember, it's easier to live hard now and easier later than easy now and hard for the rest of your life.

[28:10] In every teaching moment, we all had the three S's. We had a struggle, we searched for the answer, and then we found a solution. Struggle search solution. Understanding that framework and then putting the right people in the room and all of a sudden, the one thing that you were missing goes up your confidence

[30:02] I believe your tribe should be a group of people that are doing as well as you and a little better. Napoleon Hill in 1937 said a mastermind is just two. It can be two people. When two people come together, collectively share their wisdom and there's a third mind created.

[39:04] Be vulnerable, be transparent, say it like it is because it's the, it's the quickest way to healing.

[43:45] The world has gone through a major shift and it's still in the midst of it. And there's lots of craziness going on around the world. And I would say if there was ever a time for you to be a role model, to be a leader, to step up, is now. The world needs you.

Important Reads and Links

Recommended People/ Books:

The Underdog Advantage by Dean Graziosi

Dean Graziosi Website:                                            https://www.deangraziosi.com/       

Dean Graziosi YouTube:                                           https://www.youtube.com/user/deangraziosi              

Dean Graziosi Instagram:                                         https://www.instagram.com/deangraziosi/   

Dean Graziosi Twitter:                                              https://twitter.com/deangraziosi     

Dean Graziosi Facebook:                                         https://www.facebook.com/deangraziosipage/           

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Pat did not envision himself to be where he is now. He achieved his dream job of being an architect, but in the year 2008, he got let go from the company he’s working 80 hours a week to impress his boss. However, this event turned out to be for the best because today, he found his voice and his immense joy through helping a lot of people. He’s been helping people to transition from being a dreamer into an achiever. He said he’s all about making the internet and the world a better place through the connections and relationships with like-minded people. A lot of us can relate to him at the core since he’s someone who’s been very authentic with his audience. He’s a husband and a father to two beautiful kids. In this episode, we’ve touched so many areas from parenting and dealing with kids, to tips on growing your podcast and your audience, and to important topics in growing your online business such as leadership, hiring a team, blogging, growing an email list, and even with dealing with haters.

If you are someone looking to grow your authority and to connect more with your tribe, you should have this episode on repeat! Be fired up as we take heed to one of the greatest content creators today. Let’s roll it!

Here’s What You Missed

• Helpful tips on how to involve your child in what you do and to how teach them valuable lessons
• Important tips in starting a podcast and how to grow it
• Kids and parenting lessons
• What are the two types or areas of leadership you need to learn
• How to empower your team members
• Should you niche down?
• Today is best time to step up!

Knowledge Nuggets

[3:21]  You can do whatever you want and you have options.You just need to get through all those things that I was conditioned to think that I was supposed to be. And you need to discover who you are.

[4:13] The thing that's going to help us is what's human soft skills, the creativity, the relationships, and all those little things.

[6:20] You have to realize that there's going to be hiccups. There's going to be. curve balls thrown your way, brick walls sent at you, and you're going to have to discover your way up and around them or under them. We're here to make the internet and this world a better place together

[7:48] That nervousness, that sweat, that sort of anxiety is a result of being excited about what I'm about to do. The same parts of your brain fire up when you're fearful about something and when you're excited about something.              

[8:47] As long as you're failing forward, You're still making progress.

[11:47] Reasons why people want to start a podcast I found in our surveys is because they want to connect with other people. if you're a podcaster and you were struggling to get big names into your show, don't feel like you have to have big names on your show to have your show be impactful.

[13:54] , I try to get my kids involved in what I do as much as possible. I wanted work to bring me and my kids together.

[16:28] There's trolls and haters out there that are going to try and pull it you down.  it's really important to surround yourself with people who are going to lift you up.

[17:44] kids are like sponges. These lessons that we still instill in them now that will continue to be there and we will be there with them even though we're not there.

[20:20] On supporting kids: If that's where his energy is, and he wants to put it there, I will support him. And I'm going to be there, whether he succeeds or fails. We're not going to tell you what to do. We will show you what your options are

[22:50] On parenting. Question before going to school: Who are you going to help today? We are trying to instill like service to others first and you will be rewarded. At the end of the day: what can you teach me?

[25:36] Leadership is important for yourself. You need to be a leader to yourself. You need to be disciplined. You need to honor the calendar and the time you're putting into your schedule. That's the kind of leadership for yourself that you need to step into first, before you can even lead others.

[27:16] I've empowered my team members to own certain pieces of the brand, such that they are responsible, that they have a say. Amazing things happen when you finally start letting go.

[35:01] One way to niche down: To hone in on a certain people's goals. And for me, the goal of everybody despite the age is to create something of their own that they could be proud of that will help them in their career financially and give them freedom of time.

[36:36] The riches are in the niches. You start out small. So you can gain more attention faster from a certain group of people and learn what their problem sets are.

[40:45] Comparison game is dangerous. That's where I am competitive. With my younger self,

[44:52] I wish I would have invested money sooner is in team. I would invest in a mentor much sooner too because you can't read the label if you're inside the bottle.

[48:09] The thank you notes from people I have helped in a form or another are actually my barometer for success. My advice for people who are just starting out is, especially if you're starting a business or something like that, find one person that you can help ASAP.

[53:15] Especially in business, you're email list is, one of the lifebloods of your business.

[54:58] We need to prove these negative thoughts, wrong and get rid of these negative limiting beliefs. "I would much rather live a life full of Oh, Wells than a life full of what if's". So don't let those things die with you. Step up and live with those, oh Wells versus those what ifs.

Important Reads and Links

Recommended Books:

Atomic Habits by James Clear

Pat Flynn Website:                                     https://www.smartpassiveincome.com/                        

https://patflynn.com/       

Pat Flynn Instagram:                                  https://www.instagram.com/patflynn            

Pat Flynn Twitter:                                       https://twitter.com/PatFlynn            

Pat Flynn Facebook:                                  https://www.facebook.com/smartpassiveincome/      

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Early in his life, Chris wanted to become a pro basketball player. But basketball is not a big thing in where he lived, so he went on another thing. He wanted to be a publisher, so he did publish a magazine for about six or seven years which was called the Hong Kong superstars. As a true entrepreneur, he wanted to be a part of the solution. So he opened his first brick ‘n mortar business, a call center facility in the Philippines. It was a very successful venture and is still up to today, but it has caused him to burnout in a big way. The incident was a major wake-up call and Chris had drastic lifestyle changes in both his professional and personal life, which he shared in this podcast which may be the wake-up call you to need today. Sometime during this time Chris also started blogging and podcasting, which grew his online presence and pave the way to his other ventures, like his Youpreneur, Virtual Staff Finder, and him publishing a number of books.

We are very fortunate as Chris opened his life to us, sharing his wins, tips, programs, even his regrets and how he gets back up. We talked about the ins and outs of the remote working business, developing personal brands, and developing a strong mindset in achieving anything you may set your focus on. Gear up and take notes as I’m telling you if you don't do exactly what he said, 1. about not comparing ourselves and having this impostor syndrome, 2. figuring out who were the people that can help you get to your goal even faster, you are doing a disservice to yourselves and of course the people around you. Let’s dive in!

Here’s What You Missed

• The importance of finding or even building your tribe
• What you get out of a mastermind groups
• How do you run a business and not you being run by your business
• The beauty of remote teams
• The truth behind impostor syndrome
• How do you build consistency

Knowledge Nuggets

[11:53] To find it, the tribe, you've got to create, like to be able to attract the tribe, to be able to track people into your ecosystem, you've got to create regardless. You need to create helpful, valuable, original content that can genuinely help solve people's problems and give them answers to their questions.

[15:33] It's tough, but you can do it. You can do it through delegation, plain simple.

[22:11] It certainly helps to have family and those kinds of friends that is just going to give it to you real up front.

[23:16] On accountability: That's honestly what keeps almost all high achievers continuing to want to achieve more and to learn more. Like I often say that as leaders, we've got to continue to learn in order to continue to lead.

[29:07] On remote team: The beautiful thing about this is that we are not. Or we're no longer forced into a pigeonholed geographical constraints when it comes to finding the right people for the role, for which we're hiring for. So absolutely a business can be set up from the outset and built and grow 100% remotely.

[33:00] It's important to compartmentalize those individual aspects.

[39:18] You cannot, you should not compare your 10th step to somebody else's 70 and 80 or 200, whatever it is. They got more, steps on the road, they're already ahead of you because they started before you. You shouldn't be comparing yourself, you know, and that at the core of it, that's what imposter syndrome really is.            

[43:52] Consistency is everything like, make no doubt about it. Like you show up two times a week for your tribe online. Regardless of what you're doing, whether it's a, an Instagram live or, a Facebook live or a blog post or podcast, like what you're doing, like just show up consistently. Become somebody's favorite. ultimately the consistency will create that win for you at some point.

[44:58] Masterminds for me have been the biggest needle mover in my business. When you're investing in a mastermind, you're actually paying for access into somebody's program.

[48:19] We don't actually need more ideas. We don't actually need more content. Even what we actually really truly honestly need is more support and more accountability. We need someone to hold our feet to the fire when it comes to setting and getting our goals.

[50:36] Entrepreneurs do things to better other people's lives. Yeah. They're making money out of it, but ultimately that's what that at the core of every entrepreneur is that problem solver. And if you stop yourself from doing what you feel like you were called to do, you can never affect change in other people's lives because you didn't start it.

Important Reads and Links

Suggested Books:

Virtual Freedom by Chris Ducker

E-Myth by Michael Gerber      

Fix This Next by Mike Michalowicz

See You At The Top by Zig Ziglar

Chris Ducker Website:                               https://chrisducker.com/

Chris Ducker Instagram:                            https://www.instagram.com/chrisducker/

Chris Ducker Twitter:                 https://twitter.com/ChrisDucker

Chris Ducker Podcast:                                https://youpreneur.com/podcast/

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His early days are much like most of the young people in our community, he even says he felt he was dumbed until he is 21. That's because he did not really do well in school, he’s been expelled and has a been a college dropout. He did not have a man model figure growing, since his father was jailed when he was a young boy. So, he pretty much did everything by himself without mentorship from anyone aside from accepting advice and criticism from the elders or people who cares for him. The creation of Black and Mobile started when his twin brother was starting to become interested in black history and culture. They were skipping classes to learn more about it. After some time, they dropped out of college with the vision of helping black businesses in any way they can.

When they got out of college, David started working delivering for Postmates, Uber Eats, and eventually for Caviar where he was making $1,100 for 30 hours of work. That’s when an idea popped that if he’s making this money delivering food on a bicycle, how much more if he owned the company. Partnered with his desire to highlight underrepresented businesses, came Black and Mobile business. Be prepared to blaze your own path as we dive into David’s wisdom and experience about how he bootstrapped his way, how he was able to turn his dream into reality, and what his struggles are and how he overcame them. If you are someone who is looking to dive into the culture and find your own concept and to find your own way and path, this episode is definitely for you. Take heed and take a lot of notes!

Here’s What You Missed

• Why David felt he was dumbed until he’s 21
• What fueled David’s desire to lift black businesses up
• What’s his biggest challenge in running a black startup company
• Understand his motivation and vision
• How to gravitate people to your business

Knowledge Nuggets

[7:19] The richest people don't go to college.

[11:31] Response to not black-owned business wanting to partner with Black and Mobile: "At this time, we are only focusing on underrepresented businesses that need help. In the future, once we have every black owned restaurant across the country on our platform, and they're able to be represented the right way, then we'll be able to do business with you."

[12:49] I knew money would come. I still know more money's coming. So money is not the motivation. And that's what I want to tell anybody that's watching. If you have a business, do not do it for money. I felt that no one can duplicate what I'm doing because it's coming from the soul.

[20:57] If some are where to start and be successful. And as big as us, I will literally applaud them. It's not like a competition thing, to help black businesses. If you want to go help black people and black businesses and put dollars in our community, please go do that.

[22:46] Vision for the future: "Hiring our people, getting our business on there, going maybe it's a ride share and then funding these other businesses that want to start up, whether it's grocery stores or other restaurants, that way they could start up and, serve as the community."

[24:00] "We need to step up and be the warrior class. You need to step up and defend our people and defend our community. And that's really a hundred percent what motivates. We know that they're fighting every day to keep us down. So I'm going to fight every day to keep us up."

[24:52] You have to believe yourself. No one else is going to care or see your worth until you believe in yourself. Respect, love yourself more and start your business.

[26:35] Don't worry about anybody else in your field.  Worry about what you got going on. And then from there, people will gravitate towards your business and support you more than other services.

Important Reads and Links

Black and Mobile Website:                                      https://www.blackandmobile.com/

Black and Mobile Instagram:                                    https://www.instagram.com/blackandmobile

Black and Mobile Facebook:                                    https://www.facebook.com/theculturedelivered/

Black and Mobile Twitter:                                                         https://twitter.com/BlackandMobile1

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After a tenure with a couple of traditional companies, he was inspired to launch PHP Agency Inc. Today, he has 16,000 agents in 49 States with over a half a million square feet of office space. Patrick is passionate about helping the next generation of entrepreneurs by teaching thought-provoking perspectives on entrepreneurship and disrupting the traditional approach to a career. Not only is he successful in his agency and making courses available to other CEO’s and thought-leaders, but he is also very popular with his media company: Valuetainment, which has been referred to as “the best channel for entrepreneurs.”

Be prepared to be inspired today, as Patrick will share how he successfully lead two very successful business simultaneously, what his mindset has been, what’s his leadership skills, and how he imparts them to his family, especially his kids. This episode is the one with so many nuggets, so if you are in a place where you can take notes, you definitely should. Apply them, and they will definitely change your life.

Here’s What You Missed

• Patricks’s early life and how it shaped him into who he is today
• How Patrick successfully run two multi-million dollar company simultaneously
• During pandemic: Passion or Profit?
• What to teach your children so that their dreams becomes a reality
• What’s his number one key to success?
• How to be a good leader

Knowledge Nuggets

[8:17] I don't commingle the two businesses. There's complete different platforms that we have. And once you do that, you earn respect from both sides of the audience and they trust you more to do business with them.

[11:54] there's one of three gifts that we all have. You're either a great writer. You're either a great with audio or you're great on camera. Whichever one you're good with lead with that

[15:03] I think too many people do too creative stuff, way too early.

[18:04] I'm a 20, 20, 20 guy, meaning first 20 years of your life, try to not make a big mistake where you ruin your life. The second 20 years is find a career and stay in it for 20 years and make your money. The next 20 years, I'm going to combine my passion and business together. The last 20 years for me is going to be contribution.

[19:19] Money's gonna make a lot of the big decisions in your life and you cannot treat it casually. You have to take it very seriously. So profit matters just as much as passion does and value does.

[23:12] As a parent, ask these questions:  If you had to show certain values and principles to your kids, to give them the biggest upside to have their dreams become a reality, how would you change your approach to your example  you're giving to them because they're going to duplicate you in what ways would they need to live to have their dreams become a reality?  And if they do what you do as a parent, will their dreams become a reality?

[25:02] I just want to find what excites them the most and what their strengths are. And then I want to put them in that environment that highlights their strengths and their gifts.

[28:07] The number one key to success in my eyes is learning how to process issues.

[35:03]  I think a lot of times leaders are afraid of having civil conversations with people that you have to have would push buttons because they are so concerned about being like all the time. And I think in the world of leadership, you gotta be able to have the courage to do that.

[36:54] Go find somebody that's strong and shadow them for as long as you can, until you no longer need them.

Important Reads and Links

Patrick Bet David Website:       https://www.patrickbetdavid.com/

Patrick Bet David Youtube:       https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIHdDJ0tjn_3j-FS7s_X1kQ

Patrick Bet David Instagram:    https://www.instagram.com/patrickbetdavid/

Patrick Bet David Twitter:                         https://twitter.com/patrickbetdavid

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Chris describes himself as a nerdy kid growing up who loves burying his face into books a little bit more than interaction with people. Even though he loves making deep connections and relationships with other people, if he has an hour to spare, he’ll use it in devouring information from a book. Growing up, he loves to self-experiment and dig into research and get to the bottom of the science behind what makes us human, which is productivity. He’s devoted his time today helping other people live life in accordance with what makes us human and what can make us optimally productive, creative, happy, and fulfilled.

Being productive does not mean working longer hours and spending sleepless nights. Be sure you are taking notes as Chris will be sharing productivity hacks. We will learn more about curiosity, how our mind works when it comes to retaining information, and exploring our creativity. We’ve touched other topics that I am sure will be of great interest to you, DreamNation tribe. Again, take notes and share this episode with everybody!

Here’s What You Missed

• Learn productivity hacks from Chris
• What can make us optimally productive, creative, happy and fulfilled?
• How important is curiosity?
• Understand the 3 things that we are naturally drawn to
• Books and connection with people
• The power of mind wandering

Knowledge Nuggets

[2:51] Sometimes you get the best results just by going into things casually and without pretense and just jumping in and letting curiosity drive you.

[4:57] Productivity: The science of what makes us human on every single level. it's how we function. It's how we perform in a workplace type of environment. It's how we can find calm.

[6:34] I think curiosity is the and should be the greatest driving force in our work and our lives.

[8:48] I like to open my ears instead of open my mouth, because you take in more that way and you're able to process more that way and understand things a bit more that way.

[12:22] "Hey, you have an hour to spare. How are you going to spend it? Right. And if you can't find a genuine connection there or something like that, pick up a book.

[15:19] "Love is no different than sharing quality attention with someone." Quality attention and love are indistinguishable from one another.

[21:54] Our attentions naturally drawn to anything that's three things: noble, pleasurable, and threatening.

[25:07] there is a point at which an algorithm becomes so good at understanding us and what we want on a basal impulsive level that we begin to lose control of our behavior when we're in these apps. The internet is where our intention goes to die

[27:46] We need depth. We just need it because depth is what gives our lives meaning.

[29:20] I think most people don't want to begin working hard. I think people love working hard when they're working hard, but to get from the point of, you know, a nourish of not doing anything to that of working hard, that's a really tough hill to climb.

[31:15] How to speed up? Jump totally into something, but jump into it for an amount of time that doesn't put you off. Self-kindness is one of the biggest missing ingredients when it comes to our productivity. We're so tough on ourselves.

[33:34] Tip: Shrink that resistance. The resistance that we have to do doing things usually that is all stacked at the beginning of a task. We have to get our minds used to work sometimes.

[36:22] Rest for 20 min every hour of work. we need that time to let our mind rest and wander a little bit, which allows us to come up with more ideas.

[37:37] Scatter focus: We think about our goals 14 times as often when our mind is wandering versus when we're focused on something.

[40:40] Ultimately it's mind wandering that gives our lives meaning. We spend so much of our time consuming anyway, that we need a chance to connect all that we have consumed.

[47:09] You have to give yourself no choice but to succeed. And you have to give yourself that choice at the point where you're facing the most doubt. But at the point that you also realize that you know, enough people and you have the resources to make whatever you want to happen happen.

[49:45] How to take action: Understand how the business works and understand how you can bring value.

Important Reads and Links

Recommended Books:

Hyperfocus: How to Work Less to Achieve More by Chris Bailey

The Productivity Project by Chris Bailey

How Music Works by David Byrne

Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson

Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows

Chris Bailey Website:                                https://alifeofproductivity.com/

Chris Bailey Instagram:                                              https://www.instagram.com/chrisbaileyauth

Chris Bailey Twitter:                                                   https://twitter.com/chris_bailey

Chris Bailey Podcast:                                                 https://alifeofproductivity.com/becomingbetter/

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So she sat on a journey to tackle her finances. That’s when the The Budget Mom was born. She understood that she needed to change her view and her relationship with spending. She needed to look for ways she can successfully tackle her debt. She then started to share her journey as transparent and honest as she can. Receiving messages of thanks, of admiration of her courage and of queries whether they can avail her worksheets and resources opened the way for the business side of The Budget Mom. She then left her job in the finance industry in 2019 to pursue running The Budget Mom fulltime. Her passion of helping other people with their finances is so admirable. She’s a risk-averse person, which means leaving her stable job which she spent five years of night school and four years and a half to get her position, to become a solopreneur, must have a driving force greater than the fear of risk. And she feels that helping other people get out of the financial rut she once is way so important. Now, she and her team helps her almost 565k Instagram followers and 1.3M Facebook followers fix their finances for them to live a life by their design.

Even though you have a decent-paying job, if you’re spending money on unnecessary things, desperately trying to fit in to your high-maintenance ‘friends’, you’ll still end up stressed about money, not knowing if you can keep up with your payables and even food on your table. If you feel you still don’t have this whole money thing figured out, listen to this episode intently! You can live a life you want to live in. Dig in to the wisdom Kumiko is sharing today!

Here’s What You Missed

• The importance of habits
• Save or Invest?
• How to help your kids about finances at an early age
• How to deal with debt
• Starting and building your online business
• How to set up boundaries between work and life

Knowledge Nuggets

[7:58] The habits we create for ourselves throughout our entire lives, they're really hard to break as an adult. So I wanted to make sure that I taught my son and we were able to address those horrible habits that I was trying to be as an adult.

[9:11] It's really important to learn the basic concepts of savings. Important to learn about  what it's like to become a patient spender because instant gratification in our lives is dominant.

[10:43] We value things differently when we work really hard for it

[12:16] I believe that saving is important because unless you learn the management and habits behind savings, you will never get to a place where you are investing.  important to learn the concepts of savings before you start investing.

[25:06] For parents to kids: "go out and pursue with anything that you want to do as long you are, as long as you are passionate and you put a hundred percent of yourself into that mission." And to let theem know that you are here, and that you will work it out no matter what.

[27:56] The way that I measure my successful business is not about how much money we make as a business. And it never will be what measures of success of the budget. Mom is the type of value and impact we are making in the world.

[31:33] If you are dealing with debt, if you are trying to save for an enormous goal, if you were trying to figure out your budget, if you want your finances to be better for your family. You have to understand that it is not about the numbers. It's about self discovery and self discovery is the hardest work.

[41:34] You're successful if you change the life of one person. That's where they get hung up. They get so focused in the analytics and growing that they forget about the values and the mission that they started with.

[45:43] When you start doing something only for the income, you lose your value because you're mission is no longer with what it started with. Your mission is now making income. Then you start making a lot of really bad decisions for your business.

[47:40] I'm a big believer that you only fail when you give up. You fail when you don't give a hundred percent of yourself to what you're trying to accomplish.

[49:02] I set strict boundaries for myself, between personal life and my work. Learn establish healthy boundaries in my life

[52:10] I realized that I could not be the best person or the best budget mom for my readers, by trying to do everything, I couldn't be the best, everything to everybody into everything. and I was getting burnt out.

Important Reads and Links

Kumiko Love Website:                                              https://www.thebudgetmom.com/

Kumiko Love Instagram:                                            https://www.instagram.com/thebudgetmom

Kumiko Love Twitter:                                 https://twitter.com/thebudgetmom

Kumiko Love Facebook:                                            https://www.instagram.com/thebudgetmom

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