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1.8 Million Sq Ft Portfolio Of Self Storage (Funded From Twitter) w/ Nick Huber (REPLAY) May 24, 2023

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Nick Huber sold a service business in college for 7 figures and now owns over 59 self storage facilities with 1.8 Million sq ft of storage.
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How To Transform Your Business From A Cash-Eating MONSTER To A Money-Making MACHINE w/ Mike Michalowicz May 23, 2023

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Mike Michalowicz is the Best Selling Author of "Profit First"
Conventional accounting uses the logical (albeit, flawed) formula: Sales - Expenses = Profit. The problem is, businesses are run by humans, and humans aren't always logical. Serial entrepreneur Mike Michalowicz has developed a behavioral approach to accounting to flip the formula: Sales - Profit = Expenses. Just as the most effective weight loss strategy is to limit portions by using smaller plates, Michalowicz shows that by taking profit first and apportioning only what remains for expenses, entrepreneurs will transform their businesses from cash-eating monsters to profitable cash cows. Using Michalowicz's Profit First system, readers will learn that:
· Following 4 simple principles can simplify accounting and make it easier to manage a profitable business by looking at bank account balances.
· A small, profitable business can be worth much more than a large business surviving on its top line.
· Businesses that attain early and sustained profitability have a better shot at achieving long-term growth.
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Action Academy (Almost) Q2 Update: Group Growth, Business Model & How We Will Blow Past 1M ARR This Year May 22, 2023

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I get to brag on my PEOPLE today, posting this to celebrate the small wins along the way. Hope you enjoy.
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Why Most Of The Stories You Tell Yourself Are BullSh** (And How To Overcome Them) May 19, 2023

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Today's show is another course module from our community!

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The Business Of BOOKS: How To Launch Your Income & Impact Through Becoming A Published Author w/ Chandler Bolt May 18, 2023

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Today's episode covers WHY you should write a book, HOW to write a book, and WHEN is the best TIME to write a book (and build a business around it)
Chandler Bolt is an investor, the CEO of SelfPublishing.com, a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, and the author of 7 bestselling books including his most recent book titled “Published.”. selfpublishing.com is an INC 5000 company the last 4 years in a row as one of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the US.
https://self-publishingschool.com/

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510 Doors and 1.3 Million in Annual Cash-Flow at 28 Years Old w/ Farris Gosea (Replay) May 17, 2023

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Farris Gosea is a Multifamily Investor and Commercial Broker out of northwest Indiana. Today we talk about how he created MASSIVE levels of cash flow in under 5 years!
Farris Gosea is the founder and CEO of Rothstone Capital Group. He has extensive experience in the residential and commercial real estate industry, value-add rehab, management, and brokerage. In the last few years, he has scaled his personal portfolio to 510 units in Northwest Indiana. Farris owns and controls approximately $65 million and has created over $20 million in equity through value add processes.

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From Corporate CPA To 50k In Monthly Cash-Flow (Living In COSTA RICA) w/ Shannon Weinstein May 16, 2023

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Shannon Weinstein left her corporate CPA job, started her own Fractional CFO business, and moved to Costa Rica for 50% of the year. Sounds fun right?
Shannon is a CPA and fractional CFO for growth-minded business owners. A teacher at heart, her real-life relatable examples simplify the financial side of business so you can stop stressing and start scaling. She is the host of the IRS's least favorite podcast, Keep What You Earn, which consistently ranks in the top 200 in Entrepreneurship. She is a frequent speaker in business coaching communities and masterminds.
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How To Set Your "Financial Thermostat" & Break Through Limiting Money Beliefs May 15, 2023

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Today's episode is part of our 52 hours of online course material that I'm giving away for free now. Because why not?

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How To Build A Business Around Your Life (Not The Other Way Around) w/ Chad Corbett May 12, 2023

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Chad Corbett built THREE majorly successful businesses, but there was one problem: he hated the life they gave him. Wanting his freedom back, he SHUT THEM DOWN in 24 hours to start from scratch on a business that made him happier. Buckle up for today's episode!
Chad - In His Words:
By this time I was 29, I had 4 real estate licenses, had managed over $1 Billion in closings, and sold over $100 Million in real estate but I had only made it to a net worth of $150,000. I was living in Kaanapali Beach, Maui and I was NOT fulfilled or challenged so I found the courage to follow my intuition and hit the reset button. I left my W2 J.O.B. even though I didn’t know what I would do in the 2011 economy.

Finding Purpose in My Work and becoming Chad Corbett again.

For the next 2 months, I traveled to Canada on an adventure motorcycle with a flyrod, a journal, and a backpacker’s tent. One night by a lake in interior British Columbia, when I least expected it, I had an experience that changed my life, and the lives of many others, for the better. That night I was watching the last light tuck behind the Three Sisters and paying close attention to the feeling of peace and tranquility in my heart. After weeks of being alone nearly 24 hours a day, with no electronics, I finally felt relaxed and at peace with the risks and tranquility of the wilderness. It was at this moment that I asked myself “How do you need to live in order to be in control of this feeling whenever you want it?”. I had a bit of a burning bush moment as the 3 guiding principles I still live my life by came to me silently but in the loudest voice I had ever heard:

Always help others more than yourself
Always net $100k+ so you can live and give the way you want to
Always be able to run it from a phone or laptop anywhere in the world

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