Earning Freedom with Michael Santos

Earning Freedom Mastermind: 8 Achievement

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Earning Freedom Mastermind: 7 Awareness

Overcoming struggle isn't easy. But if we follow the path of masterminds, we realize that we have the power within to triumph. Many masterminds taught lessons that empowered me through 26 years in prison. Those who listen to the Earning Freedom podcast will find these episodes on the Earning Freedom Mastermind course as being beneficial.

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Earning Freedom Mastermind: 6 Accountability

In this module of the Earning Freedom Mastermind Course, I emphasize the importance of creating personal accountability metics. When I began serving a 45-year sentence, I needed to create such metrics to ensure that I stayed focused. To maintain a high level of energy, I kept track of what progress I needed to make every day. That approach from masterminds prepared me for the challenges ahead. Today's podcast discusses how accountability logs can help you.

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Coss Marte grew up in a toxic neighborhood, infested with gangs, drugs, and crime. By the time he was 13 he was selling drugs. He was in and out of prison. By the time he turned 23, he was sent to various prisons in New York state to serve a seven year sentence. Throughout most of his journey in prison, Coss said that he wanted to learn how he could become a better criminal. 

Toward the end, however, he changed. Coss realized that he could empower himself by beginning to live for something bigger than himself. He began focusing on fitness, shredding excess weight and reclaiming his health. He began teaching others how to do the same. Then, upon his release, he found guidance from Defy Ventures, an organization that helps the formerly incarcerated become entrepreneurs. With training from Defy Ventures, Coss succeeded in finding investors. They helped him to open ConBody.com, a gym that teaches others how to use “prison-type” workouts to transform their lives. In only two years, he has built a company that investors value at $5 million.

That’s why Coss is a mastermind! He inspires the formerly incarcerated to live for something bigger than past circumstances. Pursue lives of meaning, relevance, and significance!

Conbody.com

@defyventures

@Catherine_Hoke

Today I interviewed an inspiring guest, Paul McManus. Paul has built a business teaching others how they can use social media to find more clients and build higher income levels. This is valuable information for any listener of the Earning Freedom podcast.

Many people who have faced challenges with the criminal justice need guidance struggle to find employment. I asked Paul to tell our audience about ways they can use the Internet to create their own income streams.

Paul launched his business with only $10. By showing other people how to use LinkedIn effectively, he has build a business that is on track to generate six-figure revenues. He calls his business: 

MoreClientsMoreFun.com

Through his “scalable model,” he offers digital information products. How does he do it? He runs ads on Facebook. Those ads steer people to a free webinar where he and his partners give away from content. Those people either sign up for Paul’s premium service, or they continue to receive free content through his automated email sequences. That insight alone helped me, and it can help anyone who has the courage to act on it. 

Through the Earning Freedom Mastermind Program, we show people that there is a path to success. As we heard from Paul’s story, success doesn’t materialize by accident. It requires a deliberate plan of action. 

Visit MoreClientsMoreFun.com for more information, or find him on LinkedIn.

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Earning Freedom Mastermind: 5 Action

I strive to inspire listeners who are living in jails, prison, or conditions that feel like a jail or prison. The lessons I learned from masterminds taught me how to navigate 26 years of imprisonment. Anyone can learn from those lessons that masterminds teach. Through this Earning Freedom mastermind course, listeners will learn the principles that strengthened me through 9,500 days as a prisoner. They continue to strengthen me now. That's why I feel so passionately about sharing the principles with others.

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Earning Freedom Mastermind: 4 Aspiration

I wrote the Earning Freedom Mastermind course to teach lessons that I learned from true masterminds. Leaders taught me to live a values based, goal-oriented life. Those lessons empowered me through 26 years in prison and they allow me to continue advancing. I urge those who must endure challenging times, including imprisonment, to listen to these messages that i offer.

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Earning Freedom Mastermind: 3 Attitude

The Earning Freedom mastermind course requires participants to go through the prerequisites of establishing values and goals. Our first two modules of the Earning Freedom course shows how I established values and goals at the start of a journey that would keep me in prison for 26 years. With values and goals established, the next step is advance with the right attitude. We define the right attitude as a 100% commitment to success--in accordance with the values and goals by which we profess to live.

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Earning Freedom Mastermind: 2 Goals

Developing the Earning Freedom Mastermind course requires that i record several different versions. I'm teaching the strategies that empowered me through 26 years in prison. Masterminds like Socrates, Gandhi, and Viktor Fankl taught that we can overcome any challenge. From masterminds I learned the importance of establishing a code of values, then setting clearly defined goals. I try to teach these principals to others who live in struggle. In today's podcast, I further develop this course.

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President Obama released a video today that urged Americans to support criminal justice reform. While serving 26 years as a federal prisoner, I always anticipated that more logical minds would prevail at some point in the future. But I expected to serve every day of my sentence. Now that I'm in society, I'm happy to see so many leaders talking about the need for prison and sentence reform. Through the Earning Freedom podcast, I strive to help spread that awareness. As frequently as possible, I'm offering more programs that show individuals what steps they may take to prepare for success, even if they have problems with the criminal justice system in their background.

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