Ryan Umina, a Top 40 Under 40 lawyer, champions justice for self-employed Americans. He's now helping them claim pandemic relief tax credits before they expire.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. A lot of entrepreneurs are so laser focused on the goal that a lot of times some of the other aspect of life are laid aside, there are other parts that make you whole and are critical for you to stay in the right place to really be the most successful entrepreneur and the kind of human you want to be.
2. Tax refunds are not taxable and 16% on top of it is paid by the IRS.
3. The key component is education and getting the word out to people to people so they can understand that it is real.
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Chase Jarvis is an award-winning artist, entrepreneur, a bestselling author, and one of the most influential photographers of the past twenty years. As a lifelong creative pioneer, he's created campaigns for Apple, Nike, and more than 100 other iconic brands. He's an Emmy-nominated director, the host of the Chase Jarvis Live Podcast with more than fifty million downloads and is a serial- and venture-backed Founder/CEO of companies like CreativeLive with more than $100 million in revenue and a public-company-acquisition track record.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. Intuition is the most profound and valuable thing that we have and know the least about and use the least.
2. We’re all scared and we’re all conditioned to play it safe but we need to take a chance in order to live our best life.
3. Constraints are there to keep us down but it is actually our guide posts to lean on.
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Shaan Rais is a Luxury Branding Consultant, helping CEO's, Business Owners and Entrepreneurs position themselves lucratively apart from their competition. His skillset is helping you differentiate and dominate in business.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. Price is a reflection of value and not market trends.
2. Those who pay the least want the most and those who pay the most want the least. The higher the price the more value the client and the less work is required from you so start at the top.
3. No one can be more than you, than you. The stronger your personal brand, the more you attract higher paying clients, higher paying opportunities and higher volume value partnerships.
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Joey Muré is Co-Founder and Partner at Wealth Without Wall Street, an online community that seeks to re-educate business owners & families on how money truly works. Wall Street is not just a street in NY, NY that puts Americans’ money at risk but it is also a commonly taught mindset. Wealth Without Wall Street exists to help people who WANT to become Financially Free, without ever having to invest through Wall Street or becoming debt free.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. Passive income is the money you created that will create money for you.
2. The key characteristics of the perfect place to store cash is it’s liquid, it’s protected and it’s tax efficient.
3. Having financial freedom is when your passive income exceeds your monthly expenses.
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Ex-Hollywood actor Ben Kurland, CEO of DYORLabs, is a blockchain expert specializing in Web3 adoption, digital asset management, and DeFi. He empowers investors with AI-driven insights and advanced research tools for informed decisions.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. DYOR stands for “Do Your Own Research” and has become an industry-wide battle cry to really make sure you do the proper due diligence.
2. It's very challenging to change industries but life lessons apply across the board.
3. Crypto lies in the accessibility and integration and what we are seeing now is a lot of infrastructure being built in the space that support the space itself.
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Dave Scatchard is a former 14 year NHL Pro, international speaker, author of The Comeback - My Journey Through Heaven and Hell. He is regarded as one of the top peak performance life and business coaches in the industry.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. If you can’t bring your mindset and your energy to it, you’re going to default back to old patterns. Do something big with the energy and shift the old way of thinking, being, and focusing, and build a new one based off of your champion moment.
2. When somebody is in a state of overwhelm, they can’t see the way out. It’s almost like it doesn’t exist because their energy is so diffused, spread across too many areas.
3. To gain confidence, do things and make it your mission. Know what you can do every single day that will bring you an edge and a better chance to win.
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Andy Isom is an entrepreneur and business coach who helped build a 1 Million dollars Pet Brand in under 2 years. His coaching program helps others launch and grow their businesses.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. With determination, consistency, and patience - anyone can be successful.
2. Being unique and being able to provide quality products helped them stay on top of their competitors.
3. Have a long-term vision, reinvest your profits, and be patient.
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Brett Swarts, is the Founder of Capital Gains Tax Solutions where he serves as a Deferred Sales Trust Trustee and has closed over ½ Billion in DST's and Real Estate. He was the first to help Bitcoin owners exit millions of gains and defer their capital gains tax using a DST. He is an Author of Amazon #1 best seller of Building a Capital Gains Tax Exit Plan. He brings a unique approach to capital gains tax exit planning using the DST, real estate investment and wealth management.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. The key is to slow down, prepare and do a little bit of planning.
2. When you are going to real estate it is important to have a 3-dimensional view of the cash flow, tax flow and debt flow.
3. Hire the ”who” and don’t be the “how”. Hire the team that excel on things we are not great at doing.
Check out Brett’s page and find links to his Youtube channel, Podcasts and Books - Brett Swarts Web Page
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Since 2003, Pete Vargas (aka The Stage Whisperer) has taught thousands of people how to grow their business through leveraging the power of their signature talk and stages. Pete has worked with leaders like Grant Cardone, Tony Robbins & Daymond John. Advance Your Reach was founded in 2015, and reached the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in America by 2019.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. Good people can win.
2. The foundation of any great platform is taking care of yourself.
3. Be committed to building your platform to have revenue, have freedom, and make a difference in this world.
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The Rainmaker Family is revolutionizing transformation for moms. Ranked number148 fastest growing company in America on Inc 5000, they help families create time freedom, generational abundance and leave a thriving legacy.
Top 3 Vlaue Bombs
1. The most productive thing you can do is rest because the best business ideas comes from the off time.
2. Be intentional with what or when you are spending your time and recognize the patterns to get that Dream Week.
3. Building leveraged business is the way to go.
Check Stephen and Chelsey out in their Podcast - Rainmaker Family Show
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Tom Morkes is a West Point grad, Iraq War veteran, and founder of Insurgent Publishing. He specializes in growth marketing, publishing, and sales funnels, helping brands and businesses grow their reach, impact, and sales.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. Success is a trap and a snare for many people. Its what you become at the end when the dust settles but it is not a measuring stick and should not be use to determine your value.
2. The pricing depends on the over aching strategy or business model. Understand first your business model and what you want to.
3. The mistake both on doing high ticket and low ticket offer is when they abandon or ghost the customer after their low ticket sale and also not producing enough content in between the low ticket and the high ticket offers.
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M.C. Laubscher is a business owner, investor, podcaster, and best-selling author. He is the founder of Producers Wealth, a firm with a mission to elevate the financial well-being of business owners and their families.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. To achieve extraordinary results, you need to do the exact opposite of what the majority of people are doing.
2. The biggest return entrepreneurs will ever get is investing in their own business not by investing in other businesses.
3. There is no such thing as getting rich quick, there is only getting wealthy for sure.
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Tony Petkovich is an experienced deal maker, expert negotiator, and known problem solver who has owned more than 23 business over the course of a 20 year career.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. You cannot have it all. You can have most things, but you have to look at what you are willing to give up to succeed.
2. Look at a roadblock as a speed bump – it might slow you down, but you can go over it.
3. Believe in yourself and try to become the better version of yourself every single day. Spend time reading as much as you can regardless of what it is, and learn from everybody – they might have experience you haven't come across yet.
Visit Tony's website and learn more about him - Tony's Website
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Ann Hiatt is a Silicon Valley veteran who worked directly for CEOs Jeff Bezos at Amazon and Eric Schmidt at Google for 15 years. She is now a consultant for CEOs across the globe.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. You can get your advancement and success by doing invisible tasks and working behind the scenes.
2. To stay innovative, you have to reinvent yourself for your career and your skills consistently.
3. There is no one path towards success.
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Every month we put together an income report to share a behind-the-scenes look at the ups and downs of running a 7-figure business. In full transparency, it’s not easy – but it IS possible. Through hearing about our mistakes, lessons learned, and our wins, we hope to inspire and motivate you to take action in your business with just one step forward every single day. For our full income report, visit EOFire.com/income134, and IGNITE!
October 2024 Income At-A-Glance
Gross Income for August: $140,470
Total Expenses for August: $10,867
Total Net Profit for August: $129,603
Difference b/t August and July: +$30,918
Percentage of net profit to overall gross revenue: 92 percent
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Kevin Rogers is the founder of Copy Chief, a community of direct response copywriters and entrepreneurs where everyone works and grows together on active campaigns.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. The three critical components to any piece of copy are Clarity, Authenticity and Trust – CAT.
2. Authenticity and trust is the human element. You know it’s a good copy if you can feel it and people can feel and connect to it.
3. Story transcends all platforms. What we respond to the most are stories.
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Van Carlson is the Founder and CEO at SRA 831(b) Admin. He is an industry leader in enterprise risk management solutions with over 25 years of experience. Along with the responsibility of bringing SRA’s new products to market, he helps clients achieve their financial goals and aid in protecting a business’s assets through times of uncertainty.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. The idea of wearing all the hats is a fallacy . You should trust your people right away and hire the best people you can and be ready to spend money.
2. Business owners value intangible assets and traditional insurance don’t do a good job in insuring intangible assets.
3. Tool the tool box. 831b is that tool in the tool box that allows you to mitigate the risks in your business.
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Josh Mellicker is a serial entrepreneur, lifelong student of life, technology revolutionist, problem solver, always trying to become more aware of the obvious, and a decent jazz guitarist.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. Problem solving is a skill and anyone can learn the techniques and processes to get better. This skill will translate to all the other things in life, in business as an entrepreneur and in all other important relationships.
2. Being aware of the obvious is a key entrepreneurial trait. The first power tip is don’t waste your time trying to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.
3. Don’t confuse the problem with the symptom. Identifying the problem is a skill and an art form that you can improve.
Connect to Josh - Josh Mellicker Email
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Shelly Lefkoe, co-founder of the Lefkoe Institute, is an international speaker, workshop leader, and author dedicated to helping entrepreneurs overcome the beliefs that keep them from reaching their full potential. Her latest book "Hitting the Wall" shows you how to eliminate the beliefs that sabotage your business and your life.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. It is our beliefs about ourselves in life that determines our success, not just in business but in every area of our lives.
2. You can’t make change without eliminating the beliefs that cause the problem.
3. Beliefs are statement about reality that hold as the truth and it’s the beliefs that cause this patterns. When you eliminate the beliefs, the patterns disappear.
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Mike Zeller has done over 300,000 Million dollars in sales studying under the masters of the industry such as Tony Robbins, Russel Brunson, and Jay Abraham. He has mentored over a hundred high-level entrepreneurs from 4 different continents.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. Crises are there to remake you.
2. Do the personality tests and find your Zone of Genius.
3. Your identity precedes your destiny.
Check out Mike's website to learn more about him - Meet Mike
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Dorie Clark has been named one of the Top 50 business thinkers in the world. She teaches at Duke University, and her new book is called The Long Game.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. If you want to build strong relationships with people, especially with higher profile people, you should not ask for a favor for at least a year; otherwise, they may view it as you just using them.
2. Optimize for interesting - that will help you keep moving.
3. Often many people are giving up too soon; be strategically patient, place your bet and be aware that the results may not come for a while; be willing to persevere while waiting.
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Shaun is a graduate of The Citadel and former United States Army Officer, serving in Germany & Operation Desert Storm. A Police Officer since 2000, assigned to Patrol, Tactical, Narcotics & Training Units. SWAT Officer since 2003. Duties involved community education, fugitive apprehension, directed enforcement & inter-departmental interdiction operations. He served as a narcotics & vice detective, conducting investigations, in-depth reports, search warrants, subpoenas & testimony for various State's Attorney’s Offices. He received numerous awards for individual & team performance. He’s been awarded the Medal of Valor. Currently serves in Public Safety management.
MISSION of the show: Three active-duty police officers in the Chicago suburbs, facing the tough subjects, including police brutality, racial tension, rioting, and more. This is a show about opening a dialogue, accepting that something has to be done, and bringing communities together again.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. You can help create an environment where people can go out and make millions becoming entrepreneurs. Be the gatekeeper for people to move beyond and do better.
2. If you’re miserable, life’s too short to be here. You don’t need approval from people just because you’ve decided to leave something that made you hate life.
3. Listen to the message. Words are words, but you have to dig to see what it is. If it sounds different than what you're used to, it doesn’t mean that you’re wrong.
Rebuilding Community Trust. Visit Shaun’s website to learn more about their podcast - 3 Cops Talk
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Misa Chien is an authentic leader who is known for inspiring others, and helps people feel less alone and more connected through authenticity and transparency. She now helps Asian American female leaders feels less alone and more connected by building a paid community of over 250 Asian American women, uplifting and inspiring each other.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. Success is built on the building blocks of failure.
2. Success comes with a cost and sometimes that cost is losing yourself and your authenticity.
3. Ikigai is a Japanese term referring to something you are extremely passionate about and it is not just a hobby but one that you can make money out of.
Connect to Misa on LinkedIn - Misa Chien The Authentic Asian LinkedIn
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Erika Lyremark, author of Think Like A Stripper: Business Lessons To Up Your Confidence, Attract More Clients and Rule Your Marketing mixes business coaching with personal branding at The Daily Whip.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. You have to design your product as a service and design your service as a product. You have to get rid of all of the fluff, cut out anything that does not serve an immediate purpose to that product or service.
2. Great marketing is saying the same message 100 different ways, 10,000 different times.
3. Design your products and services with what you would love to buy.
Visit Erika’s website, take the bold business quiz, and get a FREE strategy guide - Daily Whip
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Vashaun Jones is a blind entrepreneur of Fedora Outlier LLC, empowerment for the blind by the blind.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. There is a whole world of income out there that can be made. And you were born as a person that has a disability, but more importantly, you were born with a uniqueness to yourself.
2. Be able to trust individuals to make sure that they're doing the right thing and it's done to the standards that you know you would want in your business.
3. If you are a person that has been overlooked in society, know that there is a uniqueness to you. Know that you have a purpose, a passion. And if you bring that to the world, there's a market out there and you will be able to sell your services and yourself, and be profitable.
Checkout Vashaun’s website - Fedora Outlier
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