Men Are Forged

It takes intentionality and time, but most of all sacrifice.

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MEN ARE FORGED develops young professional men to pursue God's calling — so they can grow, lead, and maximize influence in the world around them.

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Zac is a personal finance, real estate, and responsible debt educator. He currently hosts a podcast called DIY Wealth focused on providing free content in order to share in his self-learned wealth accumulation journey allowing others to learn and take action on their own money management and retirement goals. He also publishes short content pieces focused on providing real value that people can carry with them to help empower their money management journey. Zac Juergensen went from being in a fair amount of bad debt with poor money management and financial behavior patterns in his early 20’s to amassing a net worth of one million dollars by 31 through self education.

Highlights
5:05 - Fighting Inflation
9:10 - What do you want?
18:10 - 3 Priorities in Life
23:25 - Success is not linear
32:10 - Objects are not the gate keepers to our emotions
37:30 - Having time to think
42:15 - Tap into greatness

Takeaway Questions from the interview

1. What forms of success have influenced you negatively?
2. What do you want your life to look like?
3. How have objects dictated your emotions?

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MEN ARE FORGED develops young professional men to pursue God's calling — so they can grow, lead, and maximize influence in the world around them.

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This is a recap of the Tim Branyan interview...

Highlights

3:15 - Getting Arrested at 17
6:30 - Becoming obsessed with true freedom
14:00 - The reality of the workforce 
18:55 -  The necessity of restlessness/discontent
23:35 - “getting in the way” of opportunity
30:20 - The importance of failure in the modern day tech discussion
37:00 - Being Deployed to Iraq
43:25 - Money to fulfill his purpose 

Takeaway Questions from the interview

1. What experiences at a young age changed my life trajectory?
2. How have I used moments of restlessness or discontent to create change
3. How do I “get in the way” of opportunity? 
4. How can I position myself to be around the right people? For business? community? personal growth?
5. How do I use money to fulfill my purpose?

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MEN ARE FORGED develops young professional men to pursue God's calling — so they can grow, lead, and maximize influence in the world around them.

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Tim is the Founder of TrueFanz.com. He has earned his freedom and now, he want to help you earn yours. You don’t have to remain “stuck” in your current work-life routine. His mission in life to extend his hand and brain to help others on their way toward creating a better life for themselves. He has put in a lot of time and made plenty of his own mistakes that you can learn from.  It is his goal to help others become better in life. He is a guide through the world of technology and entrepreneurship so you can learn how to build or invest toward the ultimate return: Freedom. He helps brands and content creators turn their influence into income... 

- Dad of two beautiful kids 
- Husband of 1 kickass wife
- Investor 
- Built multi-million dollar apps/software 
- Servant leader
- Proud USAF Combat Veteran
- Gamer 🤓
- Aggressively Curious

Highlights
3:15 - Getting Arrested at 17
6:30 - Becoming obsessed with true freedom
14:00 - The reality of the workforce 
18:55 - The necessity of restlessness/discontent
23:35 - “getting in the way” of opportunity
30:20 - The importance of failure in the modern day tech discussion
37:00 - Being Deployed to Iraq
43:25 - Money to fulfill his purpose 

Questions from the interview
What experiences at a young age changed my life trajectory?
How have I used moments of restlessness or discontent to create change?
How do I “get in the way” of opportunity? 
How can I position myself to be around the right people? For business? community? personal growth?
How do I use money to fulfill my purpose?

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MEN ARE FORGED develops young professional men to pursue God's calling — so they can grow, lead, and maximize influence in the world around them.

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“It is not about being positive because positivity eventually dies out at some point. But what really matters is how you see yourself, how you believe in yourself, and always thinking you can make it and have a lot to give anybody and a lot to give yourself.”
- Edwin Carrion in Episode 80

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MEN ARE FORGED develops young professional men to pursue God's calling — so they can grow, lead, and maximize influence in the world around them.

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Edwin Carrion is 43 years old from Miami, Florida. He is a loyal husband and a proud father of two beautiful girls. A United States Marine, entrepreneur, God-made millionaire, investor & mentor. He is the owner and co-founder of several multi-million dollar companies that specialize in the acquisition and real estate development, transportation and logistics, investment, and business education and consulting. His specialty and passion is teaching motivated individuals his secrets, techniques and proven strategies that will create wealth in any business you choose and as a result of that achieving financial freedom and living life to the fullest.

Highlights
2:15 - Talking to kids as an adult
3:20 - Living without fear
7:30 - Becoming a US Marine
14:40 - Finding mentors in real estate
21:00 - Lessons from the 2008 Housing Market crash
24:50 - Positivity is not enough
27:30 - Income streams
31:00 - What success looks like to him
33:20 - Reach out to Edwin!

Takeaway Questions from the interview

• How have I allowed fear to dictate my life and choices?
• Where are mentors in the industry I want to be in?
• What mindsets are developed in the hard times of my life?
• How can I use my success to help others find success?
• How can gratitude add to my life and lead to action?

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MEN ARE FORGED develops young professional men to pursue God's calling — so they can grow, lead, and maximize influence in the world around them.

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“For me, I have taken a million courses from different gurus in marketing, business, etc, and a theme from all of them is ‘taking massive action’. Perfection is fancy procrastination.”  - Steven Lentz, episode 78

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MEN ARE FORGED develops young professional men to pursue God's calling — so they can grow, lead, and maximize influence in the world around them.

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Steven Lentz grew up in an Air force family, moving every 2 - 4 years across the US. He now lives in the Seattle area with his wife and 2 kids. He loves learning, building businesses, helping others, and being with his family.Professionally, Steven has been an owner and started numerous businesses, as well as recently ending a +10 year career as a Firefighter/ EMT. Steven is a Platinum Level Business Coach with LPW and has his own digital marketing agency. Steven's coaching helps businesses to stop completing on price, grow their profits, and scale their businesses. His digital marketing agency helps businesses become omnipresent on the internet and dominate organic rankings and the map pack. Steven also hosts his own podcast “Subject To Change” where he interviews business owners and entrepreneurs.

Highlights
3:25 - Family vacation to Historical landmarks
7:05 - Finding role models who imprinted values
15:25 - Studying abroad
20:40 - Working at a summer camp
24:15 - Process of becoming a firefighter
30:30 - My “3 points of success” from his story
36:10 - Growing in Expertise
42:40 - Currently strained Relationship with Parents (10 minute story)
52:00 - Growing as a parent
56:50 - Helping his clients

Takeaway questions from the interview

• How has family and upbringing shaped my worldview? Positively and negatively?
• What life experiences have changed my perspective on my life?
• What am I waiting around to do because it isn’t ‘perfect’?
• What have I learned through fully trying to do something?
• What relationship have I lost because of me ‘being right’?

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MEN ARE FORGED develops young professional men to pursue God's calling — so they can grow, lead, and maximize influence in the world around them.

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For more on what we do, go to menareforged.com.