In this episode Neel and Johnny welcome Sergio Silesky and Chris Munn to discuss different ways to deploy cash.

Sergio is a business partner of Johnny and is in "cash stack" mode so all the income they are earning is getting reinvested into the business.

Chris has often used his active income to invest in more passive businesses like real estate or already-running businesses doing between $1-5M in EBITDA.

They also discuss:

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In this episode Neel and Johnny discuss the business of gurus and how they've both changed their attitude on them over time.

Johnny was formerly a hater until he himself became a "guru" by sharing information in free and paid form. As for Neel, he used to be anti-guru too, until he learned to simply "respect the funnel" and see that these guys did work really hard, even if their style wasn't for everyone.

They also discuss:

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In this episode Neel and Johnny give four proven tactics that they have used to drive hundreds of thousands of dollars of sales for their respective cleaning businesses.

Those tactics are:

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In this episode Neel and Johnny discuss the benefits of a $50,000+ mastermind that Johnny and his business partner joined.

Originally Johnny had hired this company to help with sales and in classic "value ladder" style the company overdelivered on the entry-level product so that Johnny was primed to hear an upsell. Things had gone so well with the original sales help they asked for that it was a no-brainer to join the mastermind (even though they had to split up the payments). Johnny's loved all that has happened since, including a training weekend he recently attended.

Neel and Johnny also discuss:

You'll also hear Johnny share some of his company's values and why they're really important as you grow your company beyond 3-5 employees.

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In this episode Johnny catches up with Neel about his recent visit with the Hazda tribe in Tanzania. Neel got the special government permission necessary to go out there and learned a lot.

Neel's day started with joining some of the members of the tribe hunting for food. He was blown away at how fast the tribal members moved through the bush and how accurate they were with the bow and arrow.

Neel and Johnny also discuss:

You'll also hear about the inside joke Neel built with the tribe around his name, an extracurricular activity of the hunt that brought him back to his college days, and why some Hazda who enter the civilized world end up coming back.

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In this episode Neel and Johnny revisit the old quote about the five closest people to you and talk about proactively upgrading those people.

They discuss:

Neel and Johnny also talk about how easy it is to reach out to people on Twitter but how few people actually make the effort to connect, even via a voice message or Loom.

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In this episode, Neil gives listeners a step-by-step guide to starting their own vacation rental biz.

He starts by highlighting the opportunity: people prefer vacation rentals to hotels now, and there is a huge demand for hotel-level cleaning services and a massive lack of companies to fulfill that need.

Steps which Neel outlines includes:

Neel also discusses other ways you can monetize your business...after you get started!

In this episode Neel and Johnny discuss opportunity vehicles: what you are doing in your career, and how is it helping you achieve your life goals?

Things they consider include:

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In this episode Neel and Johnny chat with Sergio, Johnny's business partner in Orange Window Cleaning, about their recent sale of the business.

While Sergio and Johnny had always had a goal of growing a business to $10M, they realized over time that the vehicle they had built was not going to get them there without a much higher commitment of money and time. By contrast, another business they had built did have that potential, and they realized over time that they couldn't succeed in that business, an e-learning platform, without selling the business they had already built to maturity.

Other points covered:

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In this episode Neel sits down with Dan Andrews of the Tropical MBA podcast.

Neel reveals that Dan is the one who first used the phrase "remote local business" to describe what Neel was doing at MaidThis. Alas, there will be no royalty payouts if the podcast ever sells for a billion dollars :-)

Neel and Dan discussed:

Neel and Dan also talk about what the funnel looks like (from both the job poster and the job board platform's perspectives) from job posting to offering someone a job.