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Max Pashman is a Certified Financial Planner and has a large following on LinkedIN. He owns his own company Pashman Financial.

We discuss why his business model is changing the investing world for the better, early influences around money and starting a business during a pandemic.

He brings some hard earned wisdom along with industry-certified advice that everyone needs to pay attention to.

0:00 Intro
2:45 Growing up and parental influence on money
8:30 The importance of business and economics
10:15 Starting a business as a DJ in college
12:55 Important money lesson from his dad
13:50 California, life and money
16:50 The importance of social wealth, close friendships in business
24:40 Starting a business during COVID 
30:27 Building trust digitally and in person matters
32:02 Give, Give, Give Then Ask! Leads and LinkedIN
35:45 Resources he found in order to start his business
39:40 Huge difference in money managers - fee based vs fee only
43:40 The problem with how financial companies are set up
47:15 Blockchain, crypto and guiding people through new assets
52:10 The importance of your WHY over money

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The Lifebuilder Podcast helps ambitious entrepreneurs and leaders gain clarity, eliminate distractions, and achieve their goals faster. Each episode gives practical strategies for personal growth, productivity, and building a meaningful life. If you want clear direction, better focus, and proven frameworks to win at life and work, this show gives you the tools to get unstuck and move forward.

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I discuss the 4 R's that my millionaire mentor taught me to help with big decisions. Too many times, we make mistakes when it comes to big moments we have to decide on like whether to take a relationship to the next level, changing careers, quitting and becoming an entrepreneur or having a child. 

By using this simple framework to remove some of the emotion from your decision-making and clear your headspace, you will be able to quickly discover what you truly think is the best move without fear holding you back.

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The Lifebuilder Podcast helps ambitious entrepreneurs and leaders gain clarity, eliminate distractions, and achieve their goals faster. Each episode gives practical strategies for personal growth, productivity, and building a meaningful life. If you want clear direction, better focus, and proven frameworks to win at life and work, this show gives you the tools to get unstuck and move forward.

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Brett Diamond is the CAO of Deangelis Diamond, a $400M construction company but has had quite the unique path to get there.

He started three business between high school and college that all failed miserably but taught him lessons that were just as important as his degree. Then he started a co-working space and started a franchise before successfully exiting from that company.

A lover of technology, he found himself investing in crypto in 2018 and then flipping NFTs in its heyday. The lessons he learned from starting a business and trading stocks ended up being relevant to this skill.

After marrying his longtime girlfriend, Becca, they started a family and decided to raise a family the way they wanted to.

An episode with everything from entrepreneurship to climbing the corporate ladder to love, it’s got it all. 

Key Topics

1:09 – Topic 1

4:32 – Topic 2

9:45 – Topic 3

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The Lifebuilder Podcast helps ambitious entrepreneurs and leaders gain clarity, eliminate distractions, and achieve their goals faster. Each episode gives practical strategies for personal growth, productivity, and building a meaningful life. If you want clear direction, better focus, and proven frameworks to win at life and work, this show gives you the tools to get unstuck and move forward.

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There isn't an unlimited amount of modes to make money. There's just 5. 

When I learned this last year, it changed my understanding of how to make money.

Being able to categorize every business quickly and understand challenges they have will help you in your job, creating a business or running a side hustle.

If you want to accelerate your path to your first $100k or first $1M, then knowing this is an important step. It will impact decisions you make along that path.

0:00 - How to make money
1:28 - Products: Creating a good and digital or physical differences
6:14 - Advertisement: Selling space and time
8:08 - Information: Consulting, spies, and changing the world
10:35 - Deals: Complicated and everywhere
12:20 - Services: Fastest way to make money
14:42 - What doctors, Lebron James, Tom Cruise and Zendaya all have in common
15:50 - How to start a side hustle with experience you already have

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The Lifebuilder Podcast helps ambitious entrepreneurs and leaders gain clarity, eliminate distractions, and achieve their goals faster. Each episode gives practical strategies for personal growth, productivity, and building a meaningful life. If you want clear direction, better focus, and proven frameworks to win at life and work, this show gives you the tools to get unstuck and move forward.

Heroes! Big news around student loans just dropped. Biden forgave $10,000 and up to $20,000 of public student loan debt. 

If you are wondering if you qualify, be sure to listen to this podcast and understand the criteria and how to apply for the loans.

We will also discuss what to do if the loans are forgiven and the broader impact with taxes and inflation this will likely have. 

Share this episode with someone else that has student loans. If they prefer video, my YouTube channel has this with news titles and graphics here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVT9Q62hrDs

Heroes always have a financial plan and try to stay in control of their money! The goal is modern freedom. Work on that first $100k net worth and the rest will come easy.

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The Lifebuilder Podcast helps ambitious entrepreneurs and leaders gain clarity, eliminate distractions, and achieve their goals faster. Each episode gives practical strategies for personal growth, productivity, and building a meaningful life. If you want clear direction, better focus, and proven frameworks to win at life and work, this show gives you the tools to get unstuck and move forward.

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DJ, aka DJ Sneakerhead from the DNA Show on TikTok and YouTube grew up with a family who knew how to hustle. His upbringing impacted the way he saw the world compared to so many, but he never gave up on his love of sneakers. 

With Nike headquarters down the road and a college football career coming to an abrupt ending after a terrible accident, he had to rediscover himself (literally) and break free of the physical and mental challenges that were holding him back.

Fighting through battle after battle, he began to turn a passion into a business. Then he turned the profits of that business into owning properties. 

With a combination of street-savvy and timeless business wisdom, the lessons he shares about money and community is something we all need in today’s world. 

Show Notes

1)    Check out DJ's YouTube Channel

2)    A powerful video on his accident (bring tissues)

Key Topics
0:00 – Intro
4:05 – Growing up in the sneaker capital
12:55 - OG Pokemon Cards
16:15 - Money and business lessons from parents
20:03 - Benefits of social wealth 
22:45 - Leaving home to play college football
32:40 - Getting a job very young and work ethic
38:25 - Not raising dependent kids and telling the truth
44:03 - Career-ending accident and rebuilding his life
53:20 - Special message to sick and injured people
56:02 - Evaluating friendships and social wealth
1:00:03 - The dirty secret of hustle culture and contentment
1:03:01 - Building his sneaker business and making money
1:06:45 - Chasing NFL dreams and dealing with failure
1:10:20 - Secret to making bigger dollars without burnout
1:13:30 - Biggest sneaker deal is shocking
1:16:34 - Social media as a business and data analysis
1:18:10 - Secret sauce to his business success
1:21:01 - Why you should invest money in stuff you love
1:25:00 - Never be in the same place as last year

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This podcast episode of the Stephen Courson Show goes into detail of 3 silent wealth killers running rampant through the world.

You are losing money and you don't even know it. Did you know its possible for the amount of money in your bank account to stay the same but be worth less?

Also, if I told you had to light $75 on fire every month, would you do it? Well, you're probably doing that digitally on things applications and other things you aren't using.

Then, we discuss how companies are hacking our brains through your phone and causing you to spend more money than you ever meant to. These are trade secrets that ever major company in the world knows about.

You can't fight the silent wealth killers unless you know what they are!

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The Lifebuilder Podcast helps ambitious entrepreneurs and leaders gain clarity, eliminate distractions, and achieve their goals faster. Each episode gives practical strategies for personal growth, productivity, and building a meaningful life. If you want clear direction, better focus, and proven frameworks to win at life and work, this show gives you the tools to get unstuck and move forward.

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Marlon Martinez grew up in Cuba and dealt with the communist government and inability to rise above your station. After his parents emigrated to the USA, he saw the work ethic of his parents and how they adapted to their new life in order to provide for their family.

This gave him advantages that have been statistically proven by a recent study done showing that when comparing native US citizens in poverty against immigrants in the US, the amount of immigrants that become wealthy is almost double. So why is that?

Marlon followed the old American Dream playbook, went to college, racked up lots of student loans getting a Masters degree and then bought a home just before the recession in 2008.

Almost $500k in debt and battling thoughts of depression and suicide, he turned things around fought his way back. His systemic approach to making money and then managing it to become debt free in a few years is a masterclass in mindset and execution.

Now a millionaire, he discusses how lessons from his past led him to success and true wealth.

0:00 Intro
3:02 Growing up in Cuba
6:27 Immigrating to America and crying in a candy aisle
11:35 Knowing what is "enough" and finding contentment
13:30 Lessons learned from parents and the advantage of the immigrant mindset
21:02 Adaptability and WSJ research on immigrants outearning poor US born citizens
32:10 Finding his pupose
34:50 Being $135,000 in debt after his Master's degree
35:50 Buying a home in 2008
40:15 Changing careers and making a pivot in life
43:07 $27 in his bank account and considering ending his life
54:05 Using anger for good in order to change your life/MJ and Tom Brady
59:55 Building a plan on getting out of $500,000 in debt

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For my first interview ever, I brought on my wife, Lindsay Courson.

We discuss growing up in Wisconsin and the work ethic her parents instilled in her and her two sisters from an early age. Many of those lessons about the importance of hard work and education would follow her for the rest of her life.

After learning lessons about out-of-state tuition and racking up over $260,000 in student loans from going to med school and becoming a Physician Assistant (now called Physician Associate), she moved to Florida and began her career at a hospital.

Shortly thereafter, we began dating and our money mindsets clashed some. Despite falling in love quickly, we had to come up with a financial plan we could agree on before getting engaged. Many nervous conversations later, our future was cemented.

Lindsay found new perspectives on money and crushed her $260,000 in student loans in FOUR YEARS! That has enabled her and her family to build a dream home, travel and build true wealth.

0:00 Intro and podcast updates
2:22 How money was discussed at home growing up
10:45 Lessons her parents taught regarding work and money
18:10 Choosing a college and leaving home
24:10 Finishing undergrad with $120,000 in debt
28:05 Discussing the 7 Money Personalities
32:05 Going from California to Florida
36:44 Meeting each other online and important money discussions
49:45 How we paid off $265,000 in student loans and celebrating
56:05 Being career-driven and negotiating your salary
1:01:01 One piece of financial advice

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Why are so many people making over $100,000 a year living paycheck to paycheck?

This is a demographic called HENRY, High Earner, Not Rich Yet.

Part of the problem has to do with the new amount of options they have available to them. It lifts them into a new category of spending and the lifestyle options increase.

Once we add FOMO and CYTO to this equation along with poor discipline, we get a recipe for what we see now. People making lots of money with living paycheck to paycheck.

So how can HENRY's avoid falling into this? Turns out the lessons are quite universal. Let's talk about the 5 most common mistakes they make and what to do about it.

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