Brian Luebben hit financial freedom through real estate and podcasting at 27 years old. Now he has left corporate america and is traveling the world full time!
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Success is a game of subtraction instead of addition. Success is found in the subtraction of limiting beliefs.
2. The goal should not be to stop working entirely but to leave the jobs you hate for work that you love.
3. Knowing what you want to do and where you want to be is essential.
Check out and listen to Brian's interviews with top entrepreneurs (1-100+ Million Net Worth) that have earned the ability to do "what they want, when they want, with who they want." - The Action Academy Website
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Todd Rampe teaches Stock Options to newbies. His simple TSL method turns the table on the Market Reversal con-game professional traders use everyday, to fool people, so you can profit.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Do something you like and figure out how to do it uniquely.
2. You do not need any experience to get started and grow a small trading account.
3. If you are interested in becoming a full-time day trader, do not rush it and do not complicate it. Just follow simple steps and commit to it.
Check out and master trading in 60 days! - Wealth Builders Institute Website
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Josh Little is a teacher turned serial entrepreneur with four successful tech companies, hundreds of millions of users, and multiple exits. He’s currently on a mission to bring more connection and community into the world with his latest product, Volley–a video messaging app.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. A great conversation can change your life, and great conversations are getting harder and harder to come by, especially one that stirs you, challenge you, and invites you to be better and reach higher.
2. Everyone has ten true fans, ten people that will buy anything that you're willing to sell.
3. On the most successful programs, everyone who's involved understands that they're going to sweat and they're going to put in the work to get the results or the transformation they want.
Visit and get no Volley fees for the first 90 days! - Volley App Gift for Fire Nation
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Daniel Cleland, aka "The Indiana Jones of Entrepreneurship," is the CEO of Soltara Healing Center, guitarist in metal band Savage Existence, and author of "12 Laws of the Jungle: How to Become a Lethal Entrepreneur."
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. The common misconception is that business is easy and pleasurable. It can get that way but the journey to get to that place is absolutely brutal.
2. Undergo the Right of Passage. You don’t have the right to even start the business until you complete it. That is a combination of exercises to learn mental toughness, so even in times of difficulties, you’ll be able to handle it. Hold yourself accountable.
3. Be able to produce professional-level, high quality output in the pressure cooker for a sustained amount of time.
Follow Daniel on Instagram - Daniel's Instagram
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Katrina Ruth is the voice of the multi 7-figure online brand 'The Katrina Ruth Show'. She's here to help leader entrepreneurs remember who they always were - and then become it.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Being magnetic is about unleashing and presenting your true self.
2. Pave your own way. Nobody knows better than you what is right for you.
3. The only person whose validation you need is your own.
Choosing Faith Over Fear - Watch Katrina's video on "Choosing Faith Over Fear to Create the Business and Life You're Meant For!" (Sorry! This link was active when this episode was first published in 2019 but is no longer an active offer.)
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Austin Netzley is an author, investor, and the Founder of 2X, a company specializing in helping 6 and 7-figure service-based entrepreneurs double their business in 90 days.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Growth isn't about getting more leads, it's about working on your sales conversions, maximizing the lifetime value of your current clients, and giving your clients the ability and incentive to share.
2. The secret to scaling your small business? Make things simple. It's all about applying the 80/20 principle.
3. Everything is possible in your business if you can break free from the day-to-day.
Check out Austin's Job Scorecard and the 10-step blueprint - Scale2x
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Chris Ducker is a serial entrepreneur and author of the bestselling books, Virtual Freedom and more recently, Rise of the Youpreneur. Based in Cambridge, England, Chris owns and operates several businesses, including the VA recruiting hub, VirtualStaffFinder.com and the personal brand education company Youpreneur.com. He employs over 350 full-time employees around the world and is regarded as one of the top experts in the world on the subjects of virtual staffing and scaling an expert business.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. No matter where you are on the journey, you're exactly where you need to be right now. It's not about the destination, it's about the journey.
2. Just because you can do all the things in your business doesn't necessarily mean that you should
3. Successful entrepreneurs and leaders define themselves by their ability to work harder, longer, smarter, faster and all that sort of thing. But that hustle and exhaustion will become part of your identity. And before you know what's happening, you’re burning out.
Sign up for Chris’ virtual free 3-day entrepreneurial experience - EOFire.com/you
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Doug Bouton quit his law career and led Halo Top ice cream to #1 brand and $300m in sales. Now, Doug is starting over with Gatsby Chocolate, the first-ever low-calorie chocolate brand.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Take that leap. Remove the monetary value as motivation and find joy in the process and the people. You will never regret taking the leap in.
2. If your product wasn’t good enough, your brand doesn’t matter. If your product is good enough, your brand doesn’t matter.
3. The product should retain the customer. If that doesn’t happen, it’s not worth the time and effort acquiring the customer. It’s like putting water in a leaky pocket.
It's simple: eat better chocolate, so you can eat more chocolate - Gatsby Chocolate
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Arjun Bhatnagar is the CEO and founder of cloaked - a consumer-first privacy startup dedicated to bringing humanity back to the internet.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Think about how to get personal. Every person listening to you wants to take a bet on you and what you’re doing. Your team and your customers are aligned to what you believe in, what you think about the world, and what you want to change.
2. A bad concept with a good presentation is doomed eventually, but a good concept with a bad presentation is doomed immediately.
3. You have to figure out what you resonate with and channel that out. Otherwise, there’s no other way to tell your story that attracts a product or convinces you to a product that you want to build.
Join Cloaked and skip the waitlist! - Cloaked App
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Melinda Wittstock is a 5-time serial entrepreneur in media-tech, and the CEO and founder of Podopolo, the podcast app that makes listening interactive, discovery effortless, and podcasting profitable for creators.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Podopolo is the only app out there built by podcasters, for podcasters as well as for listeners and everybody else. It is a whole ecosystem where everybody wins.
2. Structural problems that prevented creators from easily growing their reach and discoverability, engaging with their fans, knowing their fans, having the deep audience analytics that were actionable to be able to make content more responsive to listeners and viewers.
3. One of the reasons is it can be hard to really discover something new. There's so much to discover, and you have to know what you're looking for.
Download Podopolo in Google Play Store - Podopolo in Google Play Store
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Nicole Cherie Hesse is a self-made millionaire who went from being a broke bartender to a seven figure CEO in just 13 months.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. We think that our skills are not monetizable because they’re natural to us. You have a zone of genius, a skillset. The first mindset change you have to make is to know that you’re valuable. When people ask you how to do things, that’s when you know what you have is monetizable.
2. Sometimes, even when we feel that we’re in the right path, we’re missing something.
3. Create a content strategy that attracts people who are ready to buy now instead of people who are ready to buy in 6-8 months after you poke the pain points.
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Jennifer Allwood is a dynamic business coach and host of The Jennifer Allwood Show podcast. She has an infectious enthusiasm for helping creative women build their platforms and turn their talents into lucrative businesses.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Start by building a substantial audience; then reach out to companies & build relationships with people who have courses or membership groups you wanted to promote.
2. Build followers who trust what you are saying.
3. You have to figure out which revenue stream best fits you and your business and start from there.
Take this quiz to help determine which revenue streams work for you based on your current business model! - Jennifer's Website
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Johnny Wimbrey inspires people to overcome adversity and achieve greatness! He left behind a world of crime and drugs at 18. He turned his life around and created immense success for himself and others.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Winning or Losing is a choice
2. You don’t have to consult your past in order to determine your future.
3. If you're going to act like everyone and anyone, then you are going to become everyone and anyone - and that makes you average.
Check out and follow Johnny on Instagram! - Johnny’s Instagram
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David Meltzer is a world-renowned entrepreneur, currently CEO of Sports 1 Marketing, recognized as a Top 100 Business Coach, is a 2x best-selling author, and hosts The Playbook podcast.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Be more interested than interesting; ask for mentorship and help.
2. Take advice from experienced and knowledgeable people.
3. Lower the bar. Momentum loves action.
Follow David on Instagram! - David’s Instagram
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Ben White is a guy who has a passion for life and adventure, especially skiing. He runs a paragliding school and a home concierge service which are both on fire.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Bootstrapping is rewarding when it goes well. It could be lean at times but that’s okay.
2. We never ever get time back. It’s our most valuable resource.
3. Cutting your day short to not spend time with friends or family is kind of a waste.
Follow Ben on Instagram - Ben’s Instagram
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As recent UCLA graduates, Anthony and Ronald Alcazar founded Mr. Tortilla a business built on the idea that everyone deserves healthy, guilt-free tortillas.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. It is important decisions we make early on to make commitments to charity and hiring adults with special needs. Seeing those efforts you put early on, as you grow, they also scale your blessings and the good that you do.
2. Silent mice don’t get fed. You have to be loud and let the world know because someday, someone will listen.
3. It may take years for you to get in to competition, and you’ll always start at the bottom.
Visit and try their best-tasting products or your money back guaranteed! - Mr. Tortilla's 1 Carb Tortilla
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Anthony Mongiello is a Business leader with a passion for team culture and leadership development. He is the Co-founder of Bulls & Apes Project.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Listening to some feedbacks and ignoring others is exactly what it’s like running a Web3 business right now. We can have people who likes the project but be vocal with what they like and don’t like.
2. It’s not just about connecting digitally or virtually. It’s also about meeting and shaking hands in the real world.
3. Be highly engaged with the community. Help bring ideas to fruition.
Visit and access a lot of information on learn about NFTs, their projects, and courses for NFT 101 and NFT security - Bulls and Apes Project
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Shawn Moore is the Founder & CEO of Vodyssey The World's #1 Vacation Rental Investing Education Company Obsessed With Helping Our Clients Build Lifestyle & Financial Freedom Investing In Vacation Homes.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Don’t limit what you think is possible before you look into it.
2. Saturated markets mean that there’s a lot of demands. Your job is to figure out how you’re going to get your unfair share of business and stand out in the marketplace. You can’t do it by doing what everybody else is doing.
3. You need 3 things for your first short-term rental investment: Downpayment around 10-25% of your acquisition cost, Furnishing around 8-10% of acquisition cost, and 6-9 months of property expenses until you start to hit the ground running.
Visit Vodyssey and access free trainings and a lot of free resources where you can dive in to see if short-term rentals would be a good fit for you - Vodyssey
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From prison of his own mind to prison behind bars. A story about addiction and greed to transformation and redemption. Erik Salzenstein went from Prison to prosperity.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. We can be in prison without physically being in prison.
2. Small steps can create huge change.
3. Be in alignment with your values.
Change is Possible. Visit his website to learn more about Erik! - Erik Salzenstein
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Josh Knutti teaches people how to overcome negative self-talk and self-doubt so they they get out of their own way.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Negativity is natural; positivity is on purpose.
2. You need to get out of your own way if you want to rise to those higher levels of happiness.
3. The most important thing in this world is what we think about ourselves when we are by ourselves.
Tune in to Josh's podcast! - The Overcoming You podcast
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Kenny Kline is a serial tech entrepreneur and the founder of content company JAKK Media, which owns and operates media sites that serve passionate audiences.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Know what you are oddly obsessed with.
2. No niche is really too small. Even small audiences can get big revenue.
3. There is a lot of opportunity to be successful; you just have to take sustainable action.
Connect with Kenny on LinkedIn! - Kenny’s LinkedIn
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Fabi Paolini is a brand strategist helping experts position themselves as authorities that attract high-ticket clients by upgrading their marketing with magnetic messaging.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Speak to your ideal client’s desire and be specific with how you’ll help them get there is the most effective way to attract premium buyers. Focus on heart and truth and lifting them up. It will help enroll even better clients and connect on a deeper level.
2. Premium clients are not people who are responding from desperation or neediness. They are responding through desire and vision.
3. The Ursula effect is the people speaking to the poor, unfortunate soul. You’re leading your contents with problem, pain, and all of these symptoms that attract people who can’t afford you, having victim mentality, not taking responsibility for their success.
Visit and learn know how to attract better quality leads - Fabi Paolini Website
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Dr. Chau Ong went from immigrant to Pharmacist to Airbnb/Corporate Housing Millionaire by early 30s. He then founded his own coaching company Beyond BnB. He has spoke on big stages of Grant Cardone, Brandon Dawson, and mastermind with Tony Robbins, Sir Richard Branson. He is a 2 comma club ClickFunnels winner, 10X stage Finalists and 10X PitchOff .finalists.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Focus on getting financial freedom first. If you don’t get yourself taken care of, you’re not going to be able to take care of other people.
2. The idea of leveraging other people’s property is renting somebody else’s property that’s vacant, furnish it to add value to it, then sublet it with AirBNB.
3. Corporate clients are professionals. It will make your life so much easier because they stay for months instead of days, cutting the work for 10x. They also always pay on time and do not mess around with the property.
Learn How To Leverage Corporate Housing Arbitrage To Generate A Six-Figure Semi-Passive Income And Become A Millionaire - Beyond BNB Secrets
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Brian Ford is the founder and host of the Self Improvement Daily Podcast, where he has shared 3 minute personal development insights for over 4 years to hundreds of thousands of people.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. You are in control of your destiny. You can shape your reality through your choices every single day.
2. Consistency relates back into the subconscious when you engage in a certain intentional conscious behaviors, you are building a new identity one action at a time, and become a person that operates by default in a way that you want to.
3. Self-sabotage is the subconscious force that’s trying to keep things how they are. It is an absolute beast. It’s all about making the unconscious conscious because with awareness comes choice. And that’s where freedom and opportunity lies.
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Scott Harrison is the founder and CEO of charity: water, a non-profit with the mission of bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing countries.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Build a brand that is not shame-based or guilt-based, that invited people to bring the best of themselves, to bring their time and money in the service of others.
2. We are now down to 771 million humans without clean water. That is from 1 in 6 people alive to 1 in 10 people alive.
3. If you were born in a village without water, your life is so different.
Join our community of monthly donors bringing clean water to people in need - TheSpring.com
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