Not only is today Wealth Hack Wednesday, which I hope is one of your favorite days of the week; but it’s the day for one of my favorite things to do.

Wednesday mornings is my Mens Morning Mastermind Group.

These are a group of guys that I got invited to join just a few months after moving to Nashville. It is one of those ‘who you know’ and having the right connections type of thing.

I just wanted to take a minute today to talk about what a mastermind group is, the power of a mastermind group, and how a mastermind group can help you hack your wealth.

Would you really give up 36K a year to be able to say what you want to say?

I think we’ve all been in a situation where we had something we wanted to say. We had something we want to share.

We wanted our voice to be heard.

We had an opinion that we felt mattered.

But, we were in a situation where we weren’t allowed to speak.

I found myself in this exact situation.

I want to share with you where I was, why I felt trapped, and why I was willing to give up $36K.

So I want to tell you a story..

The story begins when I left my old brokerage firm as a financial advisor. I decided to go out on my own and become independent.

I needed to market myself differently, so I decided to launch a blog.

It was exciting...online marketing….social media, etc. I thought “my financial practice is going to blow up!”

Would you really give up 36K a year to be able to say what you want to say?

I think we’ve all been in a situation where we had something we wanted to say. We had something we want to share.

We wanted our voice to be heard.

We had an opinion that we felt mattered.

But, we were in a situation where we weren’t allowed to speak.

I found myself in this exact situation.

I want to share with you where I was, why I felt trapped, and why I was willing to give up $36K.

So I want to tell you a story..

The story begins when I left my old brokerage firm as a financial advisor. I decided to go out on my own and become independent.

I needed to market myself differently, so I decided to launch a blog.

It was exciting...online marketing….social media, etc. I thought “my financial practice is going to blow up!”

A common question I get is “How do I find a mentor”

How do you go from being virtually unknown to having access to some of the biggest named celebrities, athletes, and thought leaders that exist? To be able to interview the likes of Tony Hawk, Russell Brand, Shaquille O'Neal?

I often get asked “What is the key to your success?”

Let me tell you, I’m not the smartest person in the world. I did graduate college but I had like a 3.2 GPA.

I’m back….with another Wealth Hack Wednesday!

So when I was a kid growing up I didn’t have the name brand shoes. No Nike, no Adidas. I had shoes from Payless or hand-me-downs from other boys that had outgrown them.

So when I got my first pair of Nike’s, some ‘Air Jordan’s’ back in 1986, I remember how excited I was to go to school and show them off.

That excitement lasted about a week. Once I got out playing in them and they got dirty and beat up, it just wasn’t that exciting anymore. I wasn’t as proud.

What I like about this story is that we can apply this to our ‘adult selves.’

We are always looking at things that people have. Their cars, homes, and vacations. We start to want these things. We start to obsess about them.

Then we start to measure our success based on these things that people have. It can get very dangerous when you start comparing yourself to others.

You start making bad decisions.

You don’t know where these other people are in their journey. You don’t know what they are trying to achieve.

You don’t know their story.

Chances are that your story and your goals are different.

Let your own success, your own results define who you are.

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There was no reason for me to have any debt in college.

I joined the Army National Guard to pay for school.

I was working 30+ hours a week in college and my living expenses were next to nothing.

My weekend drill pay from the Guard was enough to pay all of my bills.

Despite that I still managed to accrue over $30,000 of debt.

Thankfully, I dug myself out of it.

Here's my story...

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