The Sean Jantz Podcast

In this brand new, LIVE, podcast episode of The BREAKTHROUGH Project...I share with you my journey to hitting my first $1,000,000 as a digital creator and how you can model the same thing me and my business partner, Ryan Smith, did.   

You'll learn exactly how we got started, the fear of quitting our jobs, and the top marketing & sales strategies we executed. 

Gain key insights to what worked for us and what didn't and learn what we would had done differently if we had the chance to go back and start over.  

No matter what stage of a digital creator business you're in, you'll come away with key tactics that you implement immediately in your business.

In 2013, Austin was working an IT job for the state of Kansas and he had a lightbulb moment. He realized he could do this job for other small businesses as an independent contractor. So on the side, Austin started Abbott Unlimited and was quickly gaining several clients where he would build websites and manage their backend IT security. Eventually, he got so busy he quit his state job, cashed out his 401(k), ended up hiring 30 employees, and never looked back. 

And now just recently, with the success of Abbott Unlimited, he went out and bought the number one marketing agency in the city of Topeka, Bajillion, where he is now the CEO, he also bought a video production company called Motovike Films AND started a private lending business with one of his best friends. O, and he's been with his wife for 15 years and he's raising a 3-year-old and 1-year-old and in his spare time runs a sprawling ranch in the countryside of Kansas.

My hope for you is that Austin's story inspires you to think about how you can turn your job and the skills you have into a business and how you can grow your existing business through acquisitions. 

In this episode I have a chat with entrepreneur and digital creator, Jace Young, the founder of Legacy Farmer.

In 24 months, Jace built one of the largest online membership communities for farmers in the U.S. 

Jace is the prime example of how fast your business can take off when you develop a specific solution to a major problem for a specific group of customers.

In this interview, you'll learn specific strategies Jace has used to grow his online business and get insights into how he runs his flourishing membership community.

Hey you! Welcome back to the BREAKTHROUGh Project show where each episode I try to add one small breakthrough to help you either in your business, in your career, with your money or in your personal life.

Last year I did a podcast episode about instead of following a passion of yours, instead I said to follow a purpose.

And in this episode, I want to update my thoughts on passion vs purpose and I talk about the new Disney movie “Soul”.

It’s here. Last month of the year. It’s time to get serious about what’s next for you in 2021 and beyond.

As I’ve been sitting down and writing out my thoughts for next year’s plans and goals, I wanted to give you a goal planning lesson that I learned the hard way.

If you're ready for a BREAKTHROUGH year in 2021, this tip will help you immensely!

If you weren’t a fan of Kobe on the court or don’t follow basketball, I want you to know that Kobe, the man off the court, was an incredibly gifted individual.

If you didn’t know much about him, Kobe after retiring from the NBA moved on to start Granity Studios, a multimedia company which focused on creating fiction stories centered on sports.

Kobe wrote many best-selling books before he passed and even won an Oscar for a short story he created.

The life lesson I want you to learn from Kobe is....

I hope you enjoyed this and if you did, I always appreciate your comments either on my Instagram or email at [email protected]!

There’s a quote I saw on Instagram a while back that I really liked. It was, “There is no such thing as business problems. There are only personal problems that are showing up in your business.”

This statement has resonated with me more and more this year. Being an entrepreneur, a creator, the driver of your own business is hands down the greatest personal development program on the planet.

In this episode, I share why it's so important to continually self-develop yourself and two activities I do nearly every day to keep personally growing as an entrepreneur. 

I wish this was something I would have learned earlier on, like high school or college. All of my academic years were spent trying to increase my IQ. Reading and memorizing facts in textbooks. I got nearly straight A’s all through school and was naïve thinking because of this I was destined for success. And I couldn’t have been more wrong.

If you’re around my age or younger than I’m sure you can relate. Going from college into the real world is a wake up call. I wish I would have learned more about communication and persuasion. I wished I knew how to control self-doubt. I wish I would have learned how to have more confidence. I wish I would have been offered a class on Insecurity 101 or Procrastination 101 or better yet, Stress & Overwhelm 101.

And I can’t blame the colleges, it’s not their fault. You know, there really isn’t anyone to blame. I’m just taking this wisdom and passing it on to my two daughters and you if you’re a parent with young children, and I am going to focus heavily on teaching them EQ skills in junior high and high school.

I use the mindfulness app Calm and I will make them use daily as well. Just like brushing their teeth. I also use an app called Intellect, which provides learning sessions on habits and behaviors. Very cool app and free. Check it out.

I definitely won’t be so obsessed with my kids’ academics. I will be more focused on their communication skills and how well do they handle pressure. Because now I know, EQ training will set them up for genuine success, not memorizing facts in a book.

I wish this was something I would have learned earlier on, like high school or college. All of my academic years were spent trying to increase my IQ. Reading and memorizing facts in textbooks. I got nearly straight A’s all through school and was naïve thinking because of this I was destined for success. And I couldn’t have been more wrong.

If you’re around my age or younger than I’m sure you can relate. Going from college into the real world is a wake up call. I wish I would have learned more about communication and persuasion. I wished I knew how to control self-doubt. I wish I would have learned how to have more confidence. I wish I would have been offered a class on Insecurity 101 or Procrastination 101 or better yet, Stress & Overwhelm 101.

And I can’t blame the colleges, it’s not their fault. You know, there really isn’t anyone to blame. I’m just taking this wisdom and passing it on to my two daughters and you if you’re a parent with young children, and I am going to focus heavily on teaching them EQ skills in junior high and high school.

I use the mindfulness app Calm and I will make them use daily as well. Just like brushing their teeth. I also use an app called Intellect, which provides learning sessions on habits and behaviors. Very cool app and free. Check it out.

I definitely won’t be so obsessed with my kids’ academics. I will be more focused on their communication skills and how well do they handle pressure. Because now I know, EQ training will set them up for genuine success, not memorizing facts in a book.

I was recently listening to a top business coach, and he said something about failure that I really loved. He said he tries to get his coaching clients to look at failure as “cycles”.

Basically, how he said it is every time an entrepreneur has a business that failed, it was just a typical “cycle” of the entrepreneur journey.

And what resonated with me is he said he doesn’t take any coaching clients until they have “cycled” at least twice.

I’ve never heard it been said like that.

I absolutely loved how he put it.

He didn’t say, “A prospective coaching client has to have 2 failed businesses and then I’ll work with them,”.

Instead, he said, “a prospective coaching client must have gone through at least two cycles before I consider working with them.”

He explained that he wants his clients to have already experienced some failure. He knows that if they’ve had two businesses fail and they are still at it, positive, upbeat, good attitude….then they have the X-Factor to achieve success.

So a good takeaway is understand that having a business that failed or is failing, It’s just a normal “cycle” of entrepreneurship. Get up. Dust off. Take the experience and skills with you to the next venture and keep “cycling” until it finally hits!