5 Steps To Make Your First Million - Ryan Smolarz and Harry Sardinas

Meet Ryan Smolarz, a highly accomplished entrepreneur and multi-millionaire, has mastered the art of business success and wealth creation, particularly in real estate. In this video, he unveils five critical steps to achieving your first million, emphasizing starting with limited resources and adopting an investor mindset. Ryan shares his expertise on strategic planning, disciplined execution, and resilience, while candidly addressing the pitfalls of ego and the importance of adaptability. He delves into building self-sustaining business models, avoiding the trap of becoming indispensable, and offers actionable insights into self-storage investments and lean operational strategies for long-term growth.

About The Guest

Joseph Ryan Smolarz is the founder of STOR Partners, which was created to help provide financial sovereignty to medical professionsals interested in holding hard assets to make work optional. Dr. Smolarz has vast experience as an entrepreneur and as an Otolaryngology practitioner. As a medical professional, he has developed a patent for a reflux medication and has another invention that is patent pending. In commercial real estate, he has a broad range of experience in self-storage and assisted living. In these asset classes, he has participated in both development and acquisitions. Dr. Smolarz understands that any successful public or private venture requires painstaking detail in the team-building process. This takes years of training and education, and an MBA from the University of Miami certainly contributes to this skill set. Over the last few years, Dr. Smolarz has become completely engulfed in the financial markets and has spent an infinite amount of time researching their financial and tax benefits, its associated technologies, and applicable use cases in the industries in which he participates in.

Most importantly, the team he is most proud of his family. Dr. Smolarz is a father to his son Asher Drew, his daughter Harper Ayden, his white Spinoni Ollie, and a husband of fifteen years to his wife, Kelli.

Timestamp0:00 Introduction: Unstoppable Podcast

0:19 Achieving Your First Million

0:44 Step 1: Start

1:40 Step 2: Change Your Mindset

3:16 Step 3: Make a Plan

4:28 Step 4: Carry Out the Plan

8:07 Step 5: Constant Reevaluation

10:41 Entrepreneurial Skills

13:37 Ego and Leadership

18:23 Valuable Business Mindset

27:20 Winning and Persistence

33:50 Introduction to Mindset

34:20 Overcoming Complacency

35:20 The Endless Struggle

35:49 Family and Success

36:53 Lessons to Teach

37:00 Choosing Your Path

37:57 Entrepreneurial Mindset

38:39 Challenges in Real Estate

40:22 Sweaty Partner Concept

41:00 Avoiding Financial Mistakes

42:50 Focus on Community Feedback

43:17 Minimal Viable Product

43:30 Balancing Passion with Practicality

45:25 Reality Checks for Entrepreneurs

50:47 Finding Ryan and His Teachings

54:41 Keeping Business Simple

55:27 Self-Storage Strategy

58:38 Conclusion and FarewellAbout The Host

Harry Sardinas is a Business Growth Strategist, Empowerment, Public Speaking and Leadership coach living in London, Influencer with 288,000+ followers, Events Organizer-connecting investors and entrepreneurs with opportunities. Harry helps companies to turn their products into global brands from the stage and He mentors businesses to get pitch ready and investor ready.

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