You may recognize Ron Douglas from the first season of Discovery Channel's Blue Collar Backers. Ron was offered five more seasons, but realizing how much time it took away from his family, he turned it down. He continues to help people on a more personal level. Ron has been an entrepreneur since he was 24 and started then sold several companies. For Ron, it all happened one day by accident. He came up very short for payday and needed some money. He took an extra job where he learned how to make money without having to have a boss or a job. He wrote about his love for the art of creating businesses in his book Six Figures in Six Months.

I have with me Ron Douglas. He is a husband and a father of eight. He has been an entrepreneur since he was 24 and has started and sold many companies. He has started several companies that were making over a million dollars in the first twelve months of operations. Ron has been on Discovery Channel's Blue Collar Backers TV series for season one. Realizing how much time it took away from his family, he turned down the offer for five more seasons and he continues to help people on a more personal level. Ron’s been featured in the New York Times, MSNBC, CBS and Fox. He's the author of Six Figures in Six Months and he loves the art of creating businesses.

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Creating Businesses And Earning Six Figures in Six Months with Ron Douglas

Welcome here to Heartrepreneur Radio, Ron.

Thanks for having me.

There are many different things I want to know about you. You're clearly super entrepreneurial. You started your first business at 24. What led you to know that you wanted to start something at that young age?

My father, he was in the army, retired after 22 years. I was always around military people and I never quite felt like your mindset is go away and work. Find a job, work for twenty, and then collect retirement. I never thought that way, but I didn't know any other way. I always went along with it, but I never did well at it and I always thought there must be some other way but never knew what a business owner was or an entrepreneur was to be honest. I assumed they were rich people and I wasn’t rich. I had to work for somebody. That was my thinking and it all happened one day by accident. I came up very short for payday and needed some money. I knew that on the way to work every day, I drove by a wrecking yard, so I stopped at that wrecking yard and I asked a gentleman. I said, “I'm into cars, I know cars front and back. Do you have any work for me?” At the time, I was working as a prison guard in Texas and we worked four days on and four days off. Those four days off, I started working for this gentleman. His name is Allen Brown. He's still around down there in a little town called Kenedy, Texas.

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He took me under his wing and started paying me cash on a daily basis so that I could put gas in my truck and get to work. I noticed something that nobody else did. He probably had ten employees or so. I was like, “Penny owns the land. He owns all the cars. He owns the shop, the house up on hill he owns free and clear, he's in his 40s.” I was like, “This is what I want,” and I asked if I could take him to lunch and pick his brain about it. We went to lunch. I've seen this many times but thankfully he paid because I was broke. I probably couldn't afford the lunch. He started showing me how to buy and sell cars and he’s like, “I'll show you how to make money.” This is how bad I was. I didn't even understand the concept but once I understood that I could make money without having to have a boss or a job, I can make money on my own,