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Scott Oldford On Failure is Absolute

Scott Oldford started at seven years old selling eggs from his home. By the time he was 16, Scott was running a very successful company, helping those online with their programming and internet marketing. In 2013, Scott’s third company failed while 726 thousand dollars in debt. About a year later, Scott built a company that did nearly 1 million in revenue. Today, Scott continues to fulfill his purpose, while working with entrepreneurs to show them how to stop losing out on 80% of their potential leads by using effective online marketing funnels.

In this episode, we will be discussing:

• Finding pleasure in the pain that is entrepreneurship
• How Scott continued after acquiring $726,000 in debt
• Seeking fulfillment rather than money
• Scott’s view of success as a clue, but failure as an absolute
• Eliminating your emotional immune system to be a successful entrepreneur
• Viewing failure as a character-building pursuit
• Why Scott learns from people who fail
• Why Scott learns his lessons from people around him rather than far above him
• Investing four hours a day for knowledge, character, health, and connections
• Removing our personal purpose from our business
• Separating loss from failure
• How The SSF Method helps entrepreneurs break the cycle

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• The SSF Method
• LeadCraft
• Scott's Website

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Scott Oldford On Failure is Absolute

Scott Oldford started at seven years old selling eggs from his home. By the time he was 16, Scott was running a very successful company, helping those online with their programming and internet marketing. In 2013, Scott’s third company failed while 726 thousand dollars in debt. About a year later, Scott built a company that did nearly 1 million in revenue. Today, Scott continues to fulfill his purpose, while working with entrepreneurs to show them how to stop losing out on 80% of their potential leads by using effective online marketing funnels.

In this episode, we will be discussing:

• Finding pleasure in the pain that is entrepreneurship
• How Scott continued after acquiring $726,000 in debt
• Seeking fulfillment rather than money
• Scott’s view of success as a clue, but failure as an absolute
• Eliminating your emotional immune system to be a successful entrepreneur
• Viewing failure as a character-building pursuit
• Why Scott learns from people who fail
• Why Scott learns his lessons from people around him rather than far above him
• Investing four hours a day for knowledge, character, health, and connections
• Removing our personal purpose from our business
• Separating loss from failure
• How The SSF Method helps entrepreneurs break the cycle

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• The SSF Method
• LeadCraft
• Scott's Website

• Here’s How »

• mitchrusso.com
• Mitch Russo LinkedIn

Dustin Mathews is the co-founder of SpeakingEmpire, a company created to help people get their message out, monetize their message, and build a world-class Speaking Empire. Dustin started as “the geek behind the curtains,” utilizing Infusionsoft to figure out what worked for internet marketing campaigns, but something bigger was deep inside, allowing Dustin to emerge as a powerhouse CEO, speaker, author, and leader. Dustin soon became the “one on stage,” partnering with Dan Kennedy, filling auditoriums, and helping build-up clients who are now featured in Forbes, Wall Street Journal, and MAD Magazine.

In this episode, we will be discussing:

• Dustin’s passion and eagerness to learn that set him in the right direction
• Acknowledging and utilizing your fear to push yourself further
• Dustin’s journey to making his first product
• The challenge that pushed Dustin to create his superior product
• How Dustin built the Speaking Empire we know today
• The power of verbal communication over e-mail conversations
• How Dustin broke down his product to build up his company
• Creating a pilot program
• Utilizing SMS in your business
• How Dustin partnered with Dan Kennedy
• How Dustin is empowering people to communicate their ideas

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Speaking Empire
• Infusionsoft
• Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money - That The Poor And Middle Class Do Not! by Robert T. Kiyosaki
• Fix Your Funnel
• No B.S. Guide to Powerful Presentations: The Ultimate No Holds Barred Plan to Sell Anything with Webinars, Online Media, Speeches, and Seminars by Dan S. Kennedy
• More About No B.S.

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Dustin Mathews is the co-founder of SpeakingEmpire, a company created to help people get their message out, monetize their message, and build a world-class Speaking Empire. Dustin started as “the geek behind the curtains,” utilizing Infusionsoft to figure out what worked for internet marketing campaigns, but something bigger was deep inside, allowing Dustin to emerge as a powerhouse CEO, speaker, author, and leader. Dustin soon became the “one on stage,” partnering with Dan Kennedy, filling auditoriums, and helping build-up clients who are now featured in Forbes, Wall Street Journal, and MAD Magazine.

In this episode, we will be discussing:

• Dustin’s passion and eagerness to learn that set him in the right direction
• Acknowledging and utilizing your fear to push yourself further
• Dustin’s journey to making his first product
• The challenge that pushed Dustin to create his superior product
• How Dustin built the Speaking Empire we know today
• The power of verbal communication over e-mail conversations
• How Dustin broke down his product to build up his company
• Creating a pilot program
• Utilizing SMS in your business
• How Dustin partnered with Dan Kennedy
• How Dustin is empowering people to communicate their ideas

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Speaking Empire
• Infusionsoft
• Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money - That The Poor And Middle Class Do Not! by Robert T. Kiyosaki
• Fix Your Funnel
• No B.S. Guide to Powerful Presentations: The Ultimate No Holds Barred Plan to Sell Anything with Webinars, Online Media, Speeches, and Seminars by Dan S. Kennedy
• More About No B.S.

• Here’s How »

• mitchrusso.com
• Mitch Russo LinkedIn

Steve Gordon is the founder of The Unstoppable CEO and author of Unstoppable Referrals: 10x Referrals Half the Effort. Steve uses his business to help professionals gain more referrals in less time, allowing them to spend minimal time working on growing their business and more time running their business, allowing them the time to nurture personal relationships. Steve encourages entrepreneurs to share their stories with one another in order to identify the traits and character behind every hard-working business professional.

In this episode, we will be discussing:

• How devastating events continue to impact a changing society
• Diversifying your client base
• Choosing what to be persistent at
• Owning your outcomes
• What to do in the face of a traumatic event
• Creating change for your business through yourself
• Obtaining 10x referrals with half the effort
• Aligning your business with self-interest
• The moral obligation of helping others through your business
• Steve’s want to go back to the source of wisdom
• Steve’s mission of enabling business owners to have their lives back

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Unstoppable Referrals: 10x Referrals Half the Effort by Steve Gordon
• The Unstoppable CEO
• Jay Abraham's Strategy of Preeminence
• Free Get the Clients You Deserve E-mail Course
• How to Get Your First Thousand Clients

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Steve Gordon is the founder of The Unstoppable CEO and author of Unstoppable Referrals: 10x Referrals Half the Effort. Steve uses his business to help professionals gain more referrals in less time, allowing them to spend minimal time working on growing their business and more time running their business, allowing them the time to nurture personal relationships. Steve encourages entrepreneurs to share their stories with one another in order to identify the traits and character behind every hard-working business professional.

In this episode, we will be discussing:

• How devastating events continue to impact a changing society
• Diversifying your client base
• Choosing what to be persistent at
• Owning your outcomes
• What to do in the face of a traumatic event
• Creating change for your business through yourself
• Obtaining 10x referrals with half the effort
• Aligning your business with self-interest
• The moral obligation of helping others through your business
• Steve’s want to go back to the source of wisdom
• Steve’s mission of enabling business owners to have their lives back

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Unstoppable Referrals: 10x Referrals Half the Effort by Steve Gordon
• The Unstoppable CEO
• Jay Abraham's Strategy of Preeminence
• Free Get the Clients You Deserve E-mail Course
• How to Get Your First Thousand Clients

• Here’s How »

• mitchrusso.com
• Mitch Russo LinkedIn

Mr. Hartman is no stranger to “trial and terror”; through these trials he has learned the difference between good investments and bad ones. He believes income property is the most reliable monetary investment, but relationships with people are what drives success.

As Founder and CEO of Platinum Properties Investor Network Inc., Mr. Hartman is a business expert. At the young age of 19, Mr. Hartman began his career by earning his real estate license; only a year later he bought his first property. Since then, he has been involved in thousands of real estate transactions and has owned income properties in 11 different states. For 13 years, Mr. Hartman has shared his investment wisdom on his podcast Creating Wealth Show.

In this episode, Jason Hartman and I will discuss: 

• Quality VS quantity
• Client engagement
• Failures in real estate investing
• How to avoid scandals
• Speculations
• The definition of investment
• How a business is different
• Diversifying real estate investments
• Conservative investing
• How to take advantage of the current market 

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• “The Four Hour Work Week” by Tim Ferris
• How to Analyze a Real Estate Investment
• Free Court

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Mr. Hartman is no stranger to “trial and terror”; through these trials he has learned the difference between good investments and bad ones. He believes income property is the most reliable monetary investment, but relationships with people are what drives success.

As Founder and CEO of Platinum Properties Investor Network Inc., Mr. Hartman is a business expert. At the young age of 19, Mr. Hartman began his career by earning his real estate license; only a year later he bought his first property. Since then, he has been involved in thousands of real estate transactions and has owned income properties in 11 different states. For 13 years, Mr. Hartman has shared his investment wisdom on his podcast Creating Wealth Show.

In this episode, Jason Hartman and I will discuss: 

• Quality VS quantity
• Client engagement
• Failures in real estate investing
• How to avoid scandals
• Speculations
• The definition of investment
• How a business is different
• Diversifying real estate investments
• Conservative investing
• How to take advantage of the current market 

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• “The Four Hour Work Week” by Tim Ferris
• How to Analyze a Real Estate Investment
• Free Court

• Here’s How »

• mitchrusso.com
• Mitch Russo LinkedIn

Chris Martenson is a trained scientist who uses his knowledge of data to predict the outcome of the economy. People from all over the world know Chris for The Crash Course, a seminal video seminar that elaborated on a then prediction of the 2008 housing market crash.

In this episode, we will be discussing:

• Chris Martenson predicting the future of market crashes through data
• Trusting data over feeling
• Adopting and adapting strategies in trading
• Chris’s seminar that he uploaded online predicting the market crash
• Utilizing your knowledge to gather information in a “too much information” age
• The ability of quality content to become widespread
• Building a business around helping others understand intricate ideas
• The connection between authenticity, vulnerability, and success
• Permanence in online and offline presence
• Today’s stock market and where Trump is taking its future
• Eliminating hope from strategy
• Learning about your business through the work you put into it

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Summit at Sea
• Peak Prosperity
• Crash Course
• Accelerated Crash Course
• The Crash Course Book
• Chris Martenson's Twitter

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Chris Martenson is a trained scientist who uses his knowledge of data to predict the outcome of the economy. People from all over the world know Chris for The Crash Course, a seminal video seminar that elaborated on a then prediction of the 2008 housing market crash.

In this episode, we will be discussing:

• Chris Martenson predicting the future of market crashes through data
• Trusting data over feeling
• Adopting and adapting strategies in trading
• Chris’s seminar that he uploaded online predicting the market crash
• Utilizing your knowledge to gather information in a “too much information” age
• The ability of quality content to become widespread
• Building a business around helping others understand intricate ideas
• The connection between authenticity, vulnerability, and success
• Permanence in online and offline presence
• Today’s stock market and where Trump is taking its future
• Eliminating hope from strategy
• Learning about your business through the work you put into it

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Summit at Sea
• Peak Prosperity
• Crash Course
• Accelerated Crash Course
• The Crash Course Book
• Chris Martenson's Twitter

• Here’s How »

• mitchrusso.com
• Mitch Russo LinkedIn