The Prosperity Perspective

Lifelong entrepreneur Jeff Davis joins host Liam Leonard on The Prosperity Perspective podcast to talk about the stages of his multifaceted journey as a businessman. From selling skateboards in college to illustrations for medical/legal firms, Jeff is used to the grit and determination required to run a business. But get his take on pushing too hard–understand the value of making a list of rules for your life and sticking to them. Be optimistic and practical about what is required for a life/work balance.
 

3 Key Takeaways

• Don’t let your natural optimism as an entrepreneur fog the practicality of what it takes to get there. You should remain positive, but be ready to do the work. 
• There is infinite value in transitioning the business so that it can function without you. Not only does this help employees with systemization, it also gives you space to live a balanced life. 
• Don’t hesitate to reach out to entrepreneurs that are willing to help. Visit the library for business books. Take advantage of all the free resources available to you. 

Resources

Schedule a free strategy session exclusively for podcast listeners

Website: 12mavens.com

LinkedIn

Email: [email protected]

About Jeff Davis

Entrepreneur Jeff Davis went from working every night and every weekend with 80+ hour work weeks to traveling for 2 years with his family, seeing 29 countries - all while growing his business.

He attributes making that life changing leap from being stuck in the day to day weeds to being able to travel and focus on the vision to doing 7 particular things.

When any other entrepreneurs go through these same 7 steps, they also build dramatically more scalable businesses, they start growing their companies with more freedom to focus on the bigger impact things and they're also able to pursue other passions in their lives.

Host Liam Leonard is excited to bring a fellow Seattle businessman on the show to share his experience dropping out of school to pursue a life of entrepreneurship. Guest Rand Fishkin also talks about rejecting what you’ve been taught to want and instead focusing on what truly makes you happy–a life that likely won’t involve a focus on 80 hour work weeks, the hustle culture, and your business’s number of hires.


3 Key Takeaways

• Working a full 70 hour work week is likely taking from your productivity next week. According to Rand, the first 15 hours you work are the most productive. 
• You DON’T need to suffer to become a great entrepreneur. Instead, focus on sharing your experiences with others to elevate the both of you. 
• It is your responsibility to give venture partners an increase in value each year. This doesn’t mean you owe the banks money, but consider investing back into the business. 

Resources

sparktoro.com

Rand’s Twitter

Rand’s book: Lost and Founder

About Rand Fishkin

Rand Fishkin is cofounder and CEO of SparkToro, makers of fine audience research software. He’s dedicated his professional life to helping people do better marketing through his writing, videos, speaking, and his book, Lost and Founder. When Rand’s not working, he’s usually cooking a fancy meal for the love of his life, author Geraldine DeRuiter. If you bribe him with great pasta or fancy cocktails, he’ll pull back the curtain on big tech’s dark secrets.

Negotiate and invest; Guest Kwame Christian brings his distinctive insights as a founder and CEO of American Negotiations to talk shop about how to handle your entrance into a life with auxiliary cash flow. He shares with host Liam Leonard the importance of rewarding yourself carefully, hiring consciously, and investing confidently on this episode of The Prosperity Perspective podcast.

3 Key Takeaways

• As business owners, we’re very selfless. But it’s okay to reward yourself with whatever version of self care you deserve as long as its not destructive to others. 
• Investing in your team and therefore yourself as a leader is the best choice you can make.

Resources

LinkedIn

Check out the content form on their website

Go to americannegotiations.com/guide for access to all of their free negotiation guides

Kwami’s first book, Confidence in Conflict: How to Negotiate Anything and Live Your Best Life

Pre order his upcoming book, How to Have Difficult Conversations About Race, releasing on November 13!

About Kwame Christian

Kwame Christian is a best-selling author, professor, business lawyer, and the Founder and Managing Director of the American Negotiation Institute (ANI).

Following the viral success of his TedxDayton talk, Kwame released his best-seller Finding Confidence in Conflict: How to Negotiate Anything and Live Your Best Life in 2018. He’s also a regular contributor for Forbes and the host of the number one negotiation podcast in the world, Negotiate Anything. Under Kwame’s leadership, ANI has coached and trained several Fortune 500 companies on applying the fundamentals of negotiation to corporate success. His second book, How To Have Difficult Conversations About Race, will be released later this year.

Beyond his role at ANI, Kwame serves as a professor for Otterbein University’s MBA Program and Ohio State’s top-ranked dispute resolution program at Moritz College of Law. That said, Kwame’s proudest achievement is his family. He’s married to Dr. Whitney Christian, and they have two lovely sons, Kai and Dominic.

Joe started his real estate investment experience as early as high school, flipping his first house at age 19. Now, he offers his tips to you and host Liam Leonard, Joe having invested in hundreds of properties in the US and Puerto Rico. Hear his strategic framework around reinvesting in your business, the future of the tech industry, high net-worth relationships on this episode of The Prosperity Perspective.

3 Key Takeaways

• We are moving into a digital economy. The exponential growth to be found there is worth considering when it comes to investing. 
• Your business team members become family that you spend a lot of time with as you build a company. Take those relationships seriously and invest in them. 
• You will sleep better and stress less by investing in longer timelines and cash flow-producing options.

Resources

joerobert.com (subscribe to their Digital Assets newsletter)

robertventures.com

About Joe Robert

Joe Robert has over 20 years of experience in alternative asset management, including start ups, seed round funding, real estate, and cryptocurrency. He currently serves as CEO of Robert Ventures which offers clients a 10% fixed rate return through high quality alternative assets. He believes we are in the beginning stages of the transition to a digital economy and the next 10 years will challenge everything we think we know about investing, finance, and wealth management.

Today’s episode brings a fresh perspective from a French Canadian entrepreneur, former investment broker, and multi-business owner, Em Ducharme to The Prosperity Perspective Podcast. Em relates her difficult but highly rewarding journey as an early-starting entrepreneur, explaining how her investment strategy evolved with a new understanding of cash flow, vision, and team.

3 Key Takeaways

• Do not allow yourself to be deceived or disappointed as you decide to invest your money. Your energy and future will change if you don’t accept defeat. 
• You need movement to progress; learn what you want from life by actively seeking it out. 
• Focus on developing a revenue stream that helps the business run itself before considering other investment areas (like real estate).

Resources

Em’s Instagram

Em’s cash injection course

About Em Ducharme

Is a business strategist for influencers and experts looking to monetize and scale their audience through digital marketing and passive income. Her work has been featured on major media outlets such as Forbes and Entrepreneur. 

As a former corporate sales + business development consultant for Fortune 500 companies and major corporations, Em helped to grow and scale businesses for the last ten years in various sectors including hospitality, finances, entertainment, and e-learning.

Em has raised millions of dollars in investor funds for the companies she worked for and personally was able to scale her own companies past the multi 6-7 figure mark in record-breaking time.

Long story short: monetizing and scaling a business (especially if you have a solid audience base already) is EXACTLY in her realm.

Do you have an exit in mind, and have you considered truthfully if your business is sellable? As businessman, podcaster, and multi-published author Robert Glazer explains, most of the people he works with have not fully made this assessment. On this episode of The Prosperity Perspective, Robert, alongside host Liam Leonard, lays out his advocations for clearly defining your values and starting with the end in mind. Prepare your business to sell, starting today.

3 Key Takeaways

• Clearly identifying what your core values will make you a better leader that is able to clearly articulate your trust points. 
• Start with the end in mind. Thinking of your exit strategy will help to set up the right execution/goals. 
• The best way to assess whether or not your business is sellable: what would happen to it if you went on a multi-month sabbatical? 

Resources

Traction, EOS by Gino Wickman

Verne Harnish, Scaling Up

Visit robertglazer.com for his books and courses

Robert’s Weekly Newsletter, Friday Forward

Robert’s Podcast: the Elevate Podcast

Robert’s Community: The Elevate Club

LinkedIn

Twitter

Instagram

About Robert Glazer

Robert Glazer is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency and the recipient of numerous industry and company culture awards, including Glassdoor’s Employees’ Choice Awards two years in a row. He is the author of the inspirational newsletter Friday Forward, and the #1 Wall Street Journal, USA Today and international bestselling author of five books: Elevate, Friday Forward, How To Thrive In The Virtual Workplace, Moving To Outcomes and Performance Partnerships. He is a sought-after speaker by companies and organizations around the world and is the host of The Elevate Podcast.

Guest Paul D. Casey brings his entrepreneurial spirit to the conversation on today’s episode of The Prosperity Perspective. As a solopreneur, Paul shares the steps he took to get to a place of extra income where they didn’t have to stress about credit cards to pay for a broken washing machine anymore. Listen alongside host Liam Leonard to hear how blocking his time and defining financial freedom personally changed the game for Paul.


3 Key Takeaways

• If you’re finding yourself swamped in the business, it may be time for you to consider blocking out your time on a physical calendar.
• Consider what financial freedom and occupational success is to you. Define the parameters before you make goals to reach them. 
• You can invest in more than a 401K, find places to invest that fit your moral ideals. For Paul, that meant upping the percentage he paid to his church and chosen charities.

Resources

Growingforwardservices.net

Paul’s LinkedIn

Facebook

Instagram

Twitter

The Leadership Challenge by James M. Kouzes and  Barry Z. Posner

Getting Things Done by David Allen

Crucial Conversations by Joseph Grenny, et al.

About Paul D Casey

Originally from Chicago, Paul has now been a professional speaker for over 25 years (giving almost 300 presentations in the past 4 years), and he is one of the leading authorities in leadership and personal growth—especially time management—helping people take back their calendars and restore sanity to their lives. He has spoken for organizations like McDonalds, Subway, Lamb Weston, Northwest Public Power, and Autozone—and among the 80 leaders he coaches per year, 25 of them lead at Pacific NW National Laboratories. Paul has a Master’s degree in education, and has been an educator/administrator/Chief Operating Officer in 5 non-profit organizations. He has coached leaders for over 3,300 hours and is an ACC-certified coach with the International Coaching Federation, as well as a Master Trainer, and a member of the National Speakers Association. He was honored as an Entrepreneur of the Year in the Tri-Cities in 2021.

Through his company, Growing Forward Services, Paul has partnered with his corporate and individual clients to transform their vision, their habits, and their lives. Currently, Paul carries out his mission of sparking breakthrough success by contributing daily inspirational growth messages on local radio, other people’s podcasts, and via social media. Also, he has inspired thousands of individuals and leaders to grow forward through his se

Today’s guest on The Prosperity Perspective brings a powerful and raw origin story, but rather than letting losses make him bitter, Matt Cretzman shares with host Liam Leonard what he has done to leverage his experiences to help others. Gain his insight into the power behind building real relationships–even on LinkedIn–and where he invests his extra revenue to make the biggest impact in life.

3 Key Takeaways

• Invest in experiences over gifts, especially for your children. Spending money on experiences shows them how to value relationships over monetary items. 
• The #1 advice Matt gives you: use/find a second business idea that will feed your primary business. 
• LinkedIn is a powerful tool for building genuine relationships. Stop reaching out to people for what they can do for you and instead build that friendship. 

Resources

Website: unleashstormbreaker.com (Send an email to Matt if you know where stormbreaker came from for a free reward!)

Matt’s LinkedIn

Matt’s Instagram

About Matt Cretzman

Matt is the founder/CEO of Stormbreaker Digital, a full-service growth marketing firm specializing in strategizing and executing hyper-targeted, ROI-focused growth campaigns for domestic and international tech startups. 

He is also a strategic partner with various private capital firms (Trivium Capital, Trinitas Investments, Monmouth Ventures) in which his role is connector, netweaver, and global expansion, for both investors and tech startups. 

Matt also spent six years as a nonprofit founder, establishing and leading an international organization called Rooftop Missions. He was a global associate trainer with John Maxwell’s EQUIP International and oversaw his organization’s partnership and training program in countries like Cuba, Dominican Republic, and India. He also started a children’s home in India called the Azlynn Noelle Children’s Home, in memory of his daughter who passed away in 2012. 

Real estate and cryptocurrency investor Blake Templeton sits down with host Liam Leonard to discuss the benefits of real estate investment over classic employment, the crucial role of employing coaching along his business journey (up to this very day), and the way to build more than an efficient team–build a rapport of excellency on today’s episode of The Prosperity Perspective.


3 Key Takeaways

• There are ways to educate yourself to better run a business BESIDES college. Investing in a mentor or master class group made the difference for Blake.
• Do more than employ your team; inspire a rapport of excellence by building a family and seeing to individual limitations and strengths. High revenue will come from it. 
• If ever there was a time to help each other build and grow in business, it’s NOW. Consider sharing the wealth of knowledge you’ve gained, and get wealth from Blake through crypto currency. 

Resources

Take Blake’s free masterclass on how to get started in crypto and how to build your all-weather portfolio by texting INVEST to (877) 771-0615

Blake’s LinkedIn

Boron Capital’s FB page

Blake’s Instagram

Blake’s YouTube page

About Blake Templeton

Blake Templeton is the President and CEO of Boron Capital and is responsible for the strategic direction of the company, capital markets activities, and overall performance of the underlying investments. He has spent quality time with Tony Robbins in multiple countries masterminding over world economics, investment fundamentals, and scaling businesses. Blake has interviewed the great Jay Abraham and Dean Graziosi with both saying the interview was one of their best. He is an experienced and knowledgeable investment and economic speaker that addresses audiences of executives and business professionals nationwide. He is a regular contributor and writer for Forbes as a member of their Business Council and is also a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Council. Blake has been featured as a Financial Expert in “Business Week”, “CNBC”, “Fox News” Networks around the country and many Business Journals for his keen insight on how to protect and build wealth in emerging real estate markets.

A long-term real estate investor and advisor joins host Liam Leonard for this episode of The Prosperity Perspective to help you reach your financial freedom number, and it all starts with a Google search and a focus on the long game. Michael Dominguez shares his hard-earned appreciation of what it takes to get your dream life from day one, whether you only ever invest in one property or a hundred.

3 Key Takeaways

• If you want to reach that freedom number you have in mind, then you need to do thorough research in the markets that interest you. That starts with a simple Google search. 
• Michael reached his financial freedom point by NOT listening to others’ conviction to make money when you buy. Instead, find a location with a quickly growing appreciation rate. 
• It’s important to distinguish real estate as a fund for your life, not the runner of your life. Set those boundaries from the get-go and be better off in the long term. 

Resources

Michael’s book: Armchair Real Estate Millionaire 

Reach out to Michael through armchairrealestatemillionaire.com

About Michael Dominguez

Michael Dominguez is an award-winning sales representative, a member of the RE/MAX Hall of Fame and the founder of Doors to Wealth Real Estate Group, a team of realtors focused on educating and assisting people in residential real estate. After becoming a realtor in 2008, Michael realized the opportunities in real estate investing and bought his first investment property, proceeding to add to his portfolio for 10 consecutive years. Throughout his realtor career, he has completed over 300 investment property transactions.

When he entered real estate in 2008, Michael was drawn towards people who saw real estate ownership as a vehicle for building wealth and reaching their goals. Many of his current and former clients were able to quit their full-time job, do more of what they want to do, and seek their passions. As an investor realtor, Michael discovered a real passion for helping others build their wealth so they can experience the choices and financial freedom they desire.

Michael has been named Investor Realtor of the Year by the Real Estate Investment Network (REIN) twice, as well as Canadian Real Estate Magazine Investor Realtor of the Year. He was also awarded a RE/MAX Jazz Mentorship Award.

In his downtime, Michael is a die-hard Los Angeles Dodgers fan and an avid traveler who desires to have as many once-in-a-lifetime experiences as possible in his life. Currently, he and his wife own 11 two-unit dwellings in Ontario, Canada. Learn more at www.armchairrealestatemillionaire.com.