Nick has tried a few things, and is investing a lot of time in PPC and optimization, but his sales are now stagnant and have gone down since launch. Ryan helps Nick clear up what it is he loves about his business and how he can do more of it!

Are you about to throw in the towel on your budding brand and switch your focus? Ryan shares insight on discontinuation, actionable tips on where and how to gather intel on your customer base and who NOT to listen to if you’re trying to build a business.

The 6th Capitalism Conference has come to an end but the Capitalism community is stronger than ever!

In this podcast Ryan shares the highlights and takeaways from this massive event and teases some of the upcoming talks you will be able to hear on the podcast.

If you were there this episode can serve as your field notes to remember some of the highlights, and if you weren’t you’ll hear about some of the gems and best ideas from the event.

To learn more about creating your own path to $1 million sign up for our FREE 30 day mini series at:

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My friend Ryan Coisson and I have the same side hustle. We’ve both built successful e-comm businesses and both have a fascination with the stock market. 

But we’re not day traders! To us, that seems like no way to live… eyeballs glued to ten different screens, blood pressure through the roof, making hundreds of trades every day.

No way. Instead, we’re hooked on trading stock options - and we only spend a few hours a month, tops, doing it.

Ryan Coisson’s my mentor in this arena, and I brought him into The One Percent to talk about it. Of course, neither of us is an investment advisor… this is purely for entertainment purposes. 

Tune in, and you may just discover that this stock investment strategy gets you jizzer-jazzered up, too!

Robert Herjavec probably sees more deal flow in a week than most people see in a lifetime, and every business he invests in must be successful.

What is the common thread among those businesses he invests in? Leadership that thinks big.

Today’s episode of the Freedom Fast Lane podcast features a conversation with Robert about reaching his $50 million goal before he turned 50, and how to think bigger than $50 million in annual sales.

The clip comes from his appearance at the 2015 Freedom Fast Lane Live even in Austin, Texas — an event which has grown into The Capitalism Conference.

To be able to go from a small company to a great enterprise, you have to be able to inspire others. You must be in the right market, but the greatest entrepreneurs are adaptable as business changes all the time.

Learn from empire builders, investors, millionaires, and billionaires at The Capitalism Conference held this December 7-9 in Austin, Texas. Grab your tickets today.

Key takeaways:

• Reaching $50 million before turning 50
• Spotting growth potential and making it happen
• Finding the right businesses to invest in

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For more information on Robert’s investments, go to www.robertherjavec.com.

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I have recently become the father again, this time to a baby boy.

Just like when I had my daughter, I've been given the gift of thinking more long-term about where my life is heading.

After stepping away from business for over a month I can see everything more clearly. I have to be more effective with my time. I can see where I was getting in the way.

It's amazing what insights come out of just looking into the eyes of your newborn son...

After years of burnout as an entrepreneur Ryan is finally taking a month off.

And if you follow his work closely, you may not have even noticed. That's because planning for this hiatus required putting the systems in place and delegating others to schedule emails, content, and everything necessary to keep the businesses running.

It is possible to get even more done by scheduling these kind of sabbaticals in work and by listening to this podcast you'll see how you too can create time and space for yourself and come back recharged with fresh ideas.

If you're ready to build a 7-figure business you can sell that doesn't eat up all of your time, watch Ryan's FREE 4-part video series - The Perfect Business
https://www.capitalism.com/perfect/?utm_source=CapPod&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=episode

Ever wonder how private equity firms work or what might attract them to invest into or buy your company?

A private equity firm is an investment management company that provides financial backing and makes investments in the private equity of startup or operating companies.

In this episode I speak with Tony Ludlow, the founder of the private equity firm that bought a majority stake in my biggest exit.

Listen in to this wildly popular talk by Ezra Firestone and gain some insight on how to scale your online business quickly and effectively.

Find out how to target and attract your audience with the use of a wide variety of consumer data-points. Learn the best attention-grabbing advertising strategies on the market and discover how to use Facebook Messenger as an potent tool to scale up your business.

Joe Duff is a healthy food fitness influencer with a ton of followers.
500k YouTube subscribers and over 400k Instagram followers!

So when he reached out to Ryan for some advice he had to get on the phone to do a 1 hour consult - he already has a loyal following, but how could he build a million dollar brand around this?

Of course, if you aren't an influencer yourself, everything in this podcast applies to how you can use anyone else's audience, list, or following to turn this traffic into some real sales.

If you're ready to build a 7-figure business you can sell that doesn't eat up all of your time, watch Ryan's FREE 4-part video series - The Perfect Business
https://www.capitalism.com/perfect/?utm_source=CapPod&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=episode

In this interview rebroadcast interview I talk with Ajit Nawalkha, cofounder of MindValley and Evercoach.

In this conversation we talk about how entrepreneurs can take their purpose, passion, and practicality into account to live big in all areas of life.

He shares his story of growing up with nothing and going from an intern to becoming an abundantly successful entrepreneur and searching for meaning through it all.

If you like this interview, take the next step and get Ajit's book
Live Big: The Entrepreneur's Guide To Passion, Practicality, and Purpose... and maybe leave a review on Amazon while you're at it.

If you're ready to build a 7-figure business you can sell that doesn't eat up all of your time, watch Ryan's FREE 4-part video series - The Perfect Business
https://www.capitalism.com/perfect/?utm_source=CapPod&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=episode

Full show notes at https://freedomfastlane.com/

Making millions without a big team seems, at first blush, rather daunting. How is it possible to make that happen?

As Elaine Pofeldt has found, it’s more common than you think. In fact, you can do it without hiring a single employee.

Before embarking on something like this, you need to make sure you start with your desired lifestyle in mind. A business is a means to an end. If you make the business itself your reason for being alive, you expose yourself to substantial psychological risk down the road (such as if you discover you hate the work or find yourself reflecting on missed opportunities to do other enjoyable things).

Then look to entering a field of commerce that interests you. You’ll find yourself enjoying the work that much more.

Let’s say you like traveling and enjoy writing. You could build up a business as a marketing consultant, traveling around the world, with your “office” being any computer with Internet access. Now you know what the “seeds” are for your zero-employee business.

Once you’ve planted the seeds, you can scale up more easily than ever before, as you can reach a global market through the Internet.
You don’t have to do it alone, though. It’s easier than ever to find non-employee help, harnessing online freelancer marketplaces like Upwork, or, if you have a physical headquarters, hire a contractor to do some tasks while you’re traveling.

Your business does not need a complex human resources system to be successful. You can keep it small while scaling to big profits!

Key takeaways:

• You don’t need employees to reach a million dollars
• There is less friction than ever before in building a business
• Why your next business is immensely valuable to society

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George Bryant is a marketing wizard who helps companies ethically scale.

This means dialing in what is really important to the customer.

Finding what message will resonate on a large scale so that you can advertise to your ideal audience and ultimately grow a massive brand.

We sat down with George on The Brand Builder Podcast to discuss building trust and genuine relationships with customers to create loyal buyers. 

To hear more interviews and case studies like this subscribe to The Brand Builder Podcast.

On this very special episode of #WineWithWyan I am joined by our Capitalism.com Chief of Staff Ines.

We caught up about our takeaways from The Capitalism Conference and all of the inspiring entrepreneurs and business owners we had the privilege of meeting and took a few calls from the audience.

In this short in-between-isode I talk about approaching entrepreneurship from a mindset of FUN.

Really, business is often a proxy for freedom and doing what we truly want in life.

So why are we always so hard on ourselves and why do we make it such a grind?

I have some thoughts...

John Mackey is the founder of Whole Foods Market. 

In this episode, he discusses his views on Capitalism, what it takes to build a massive business, and why now is the best time in history to be alive.

John gave this talk as part of our NFT Mastermind experience.

If you want to be in the room for other conversations like these, head to https://capitalism.com/events

Want to start your $1M business? Download our free playbook at https://capitalism.com/playbook

Timestamps:

(0:00) - Introduction 

(1:45) - How Psychedelics sparked the idea for Whole Foods Market 

(6:45) - How Whole Foods Began 

(10:00) - There’s nothing to be afraid of 

(16:45) - Fear vs. Love 

(22:00) - Having No business background 

(28:00) - John’s thoughts on Capitalism 

(32:00) - Whole Foods being a co-op 

(35:00) - John’s podcast on Joe Rogan 

(37:50) - “Conscious Capitalism” 

(55:00) - Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods

Building your own ecommerce business in a way that makes sense long term is not an easy elephant to eat. There are so many variables and pitfalls - you’ve got to be clear on your business/market identity and exactly who it is you’re trying to serve with your products. And you’ve got to know where to find those people and the influencers who have a high profile in their eyes. Today’s episode is with two guys who have been members in the Freedom Fast Lane community for some time and are building a business just like that. Kevin and Jeremy’s supplement business is a great example of how you can build a great business on Amazon and then branch out to build your own independent ecommerce platforms for greater profitability and customer loyalty, so be sure to hear their story on this episode.

Amazon sales has built a business that is very respectable. But these guys want more.

Amazon private label products have been revolutionary by enabling everyday people realize the dream of owning their own profitable business that reaches people all over the world. It’s an amazing development. But as big as Amazon is, it has its limitations: inability to directly communicate with customers, the limitations that 3rd party fees place on your ability to scale and branch out, and more. Jeremy and Kevin are actively building a business that goes beyond Amazon and are currently working to create their own ecommerce platforms that address the limitations Amazon has brought to their business thus far and expand even further. You can hear what they are doing at present and what their plans are for the future, so be sure to listen.

Capitalists like Jeremy and Ryan are building the economy and changing the world by doing so.

Many people look to the political or social sphere to find world changing leaders. But Ryan and the entire Freedom Fast Lane team believe that one of the most powerful forces for changing the world is the force of capitalism.  Entrepreneurs are the only real wealth creators in the world. Their efforts provide work, jobs, cash flow, and revenue that goes beyond their individual businesses to team members, clients, contractors, and others - all around the globe. On today’s episode you can hear the practical steps two guys from inside the Freedom Fast Lane mastermind group are taking to build a business that matters beyond their own gain. It’s a refreshing perspective you won’t want to miss.

Adding new team members to fuel a new return on investment.

One of the bold steps that Kevin and Jeremy have taken to grow their business to the next level is this: they’re pivoting from an entirely digital business into a physical location. They believe it’s time to build a community and culture in a central location that can create the type of corporate brand presence that they believe will fuel their long term appeal to customers. A significant part of that is hiring the team members to inhabit and work from that space. They’ve already added many to their team and are still looking for additional members of their team. It’s a bold move because they’re doing so much at once and because they’re working out the details of each of the positions as they go along - but they are convinced the ROI is going to be tremendous. Listen in to this episode to hear the details of what they’re doing and how they are doing it.

The Freedom Fast Lane mastermind community has fueled their massive success.

When Ryan asks his guest on this episode - Kevin and Jeremy - how their involvement in the Freedom Fast Lane mastermind community has influenced their success, both of the guys quickly say that without it they wouldn’t be anywhere near where they are at in their business without it. The input, ideas, synergy, and encouragement they receive in the community have enabled them to believe in themselves and make the bold decisions that have made their business so successful ($300K per month at this point) and that move them forward each day as they strive to make the business its own major brand in a very crowded marketplace. If that kind of mastermind is appealing to you - you’ve got to listen to this success story and find out how you can get involved.

Outline Of This Great Episode

• [0:04] Ryan’s introduction to two members of the FFL community and have ROCKED it!
• [2:22] A quick summary of how Jeremy and Kevin grew their business.
• [6:37] The first product was a total, major dud - how it happened.
• [9:20] An entire market change and new products that built their business.
• [12:34] How Jeremy & Kevin decided who they were going to be: the branding process.
• [16:05] Communicating brand messaging to customers and building customer loyalty.
• [20:25] The transition from virtual company to having a “real” office together.
• [22:31] The plan to get an exceptional ROI from their new team members.
• [26:52] How the guys are building the structure to grow independent of Amazon.
• [29:00] The fear involved in making the jump to adding multiple team members.
• [31:08] The things that keep the guys up at night.
• [33:01] Current steps toward independent platforms for ecommerce.
• [40:09] Steps toward building a more reputable brand name in a crowded space.
• [42:00] How the guys’ experience in the Freedom Fast Lane mastermind community has influenced their success and direction.

Action Steps From This Episode

FOR GREATER SUCCESS: Decide on who you’re going to be before you get rolling. Clear and decisive branding will help you make better decisions and position your company to secure greater customer loyalty in the long run.

FOR GETTING STARTED: Think bigger than a product that can make you money. Think about a market you can serve. Broader thinking enables you to build a product line that serves clients in multiple ways. You’ll be able to sell more to each customer and build a brand presence that fosters customer loyalty.

Resources Mentioned On This Episode

• www.FreedomFastLane.com/million - Get your Free Training Series
• www.AirBNB.com
• BOOK: Start With Why

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Jacob has a good problem - he's making so many sales that he keeps running out of inventory!

So Ryan decided to invest in Jacob's brand through The Capitalism Fund.
In this episode you'll hear a kick-off call where they discuss the inner workings of the brand and where Jacob is stuck in order to scale the business.

With the capital investment and strategic advice, Ryan truly believes this brand can 10x their revenue over the next year or two.

To join The One Percent, our community that helps capitalists build million dollar businesses and learn to growth their wealth visit:
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Today is part 2 of Ryan’s interview with Suzy Batiz which is essentially a deep dive into philosophical questions. They share how each of them broke from their faith and how they build their spiritual practice now.

Also, Ryan turns Suzy Batiz’s preconceived idea of Capitalism on its head!

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“The pursuit of truth is also the pursuit of God, and it led me away from Church.” — Ryan Daniel Moran

“I will one day write a book called: ‘Why I Left The Church To Find God’.” — Ryan Daniel Moran

“Capitalism is very simply the way that we organise coming together to solve problems.” — Ryan Daniel Moran

Everything has an ROI. EVERYTHING. If you are investing time, energy, or money into a thing, it needs to be producing a benefit to you that is greater than what you’re investing in it. If that’s NOT the case, then you are bleeding and need to bring it to a halt immediately. On this episode of Freedom Fast Lane, Ryan walks through the 5 financial investments that he believes have the greatest ROI for any entrepreneur. He also gives you 4 “honorable mention” categories of investment that he loves for their own unique reasons. It’s short. It’s sweet. And it’s powerful. You’ll want to hear this one.

Sean’s first engaged quarterly retreat was an epiphany for the whole team. What happens when you go from “being” the brand to building a brand? Your business becomes greater than the sum of its parts.

And when the brand needs to grow beyond you, how do you shift your leadership style? Clarity of purpose will engage your team in a meaningful way and drive them through that first dip in the sigmoid growth curve. Preach your why and rally the masses.

Every year, I like to create an annual predictions podcast to explore what might happen in the year ahead, how the coming changes could affect you and your business, and reflect on my previous year's wins and losses.

This year, in 2025, I’m focusing on a few exciting trends emerging in the worlds of e-commerce, business, and politics.

I often see entrepreneurs predicting recessions and catastrophes year after year. It surprises me that people continue to listen to them, despite their predictions usually being wrong.

Through my optimistic lens, I see growth, opportunity, and unity.

If you want to build your own million dollar brand, head to https://capitalism.com/playbook to download the Free Playbook to start on your own road to $1M and beyond.

To get on the waitlist for the Capitalism Accelerator, head to https://capitalism.com/launch

Connect with me on Instagram at https://instagram.com/ryandanielmoran

Timestamps:

0:00 - Calling out the scammers

0:30 - Recapping my predictions from 2024

3:00 - My number 1 stock pick from 24

4:30 - E-Commerce companies coming together.

5:58 - Moving into 2025.

6:24 - AI SAAS Companies

7:45 - Crypto Communities

11:30 - Wokeness is over

13:14 - DOGE

14:30 - My top stocks for 2025

Annie Vonheim is the founder of Smart Pressed Juice, which she started by selling at farmers markets in 2018.

Annie's passion for nutrition and helping people become healthier has led to massive success selling her juices. In this episode, we go through how Annie thinks about building her company, what she wishes she would've done differently, and how you can use purpose in your business to create the outcomes you want.

If you want to join us at the next Capitalist Pigs meetup, you can check it out at

https://www.Capitalism.com/PIGS

To learn more about creating your own path to $1 million sign up for our FREE 30 day mini series at:

http://www.Capitalism.com/Million

Timestamps:

(0:00) - How Annie Got Started

(10:30) - Shopify vs Amazon

(14:00) - Having A Successful Launch

(18:30) - Navigating Hard Times

(22:00) - Figuring Out Your Real Ratios

(24:30) - Loving The Mission

(27:00) - Starting With Your Purpose, Not Money

(33:00) - The Capitalist Pigs Experience

You have a great product, produced using state-of-the-art technology. But if you don’t talk about how the product will help your audience (its benefits), and only talk to them about its technical specifications (its features), you are losing lots of potential customers.

Through his Swanwick Sleep company, James Swanwick sells blue-light-blocking glasses. They have a number of interesting technical features, but features aren’t enough to get people to make a purchase.

That’s why the company’s website (swanwicksleep.com) says the product will make you "sleep better", “feel energized”, and “look cool” in large font. The benefits, not the features, are front and center.

And they’re so prominent because an interested customer is always asking, "what does this product do for me?" If you don’t talk about the product’s benefits, you’re not answering their question!

James makes a clear distinction between features and benefits. A feature is a factual statement about a product or service. Examples include a self-cleaning oven, or a product being made 100% from recycled materials.

A benefit is an improvement in one’s circumstances caused by the product or service. Examples include convenience, time-saving, and becoming more attractive to potential partners.

You can see the focus on benefits in everyday marketing. Let’s take weight-loss products for instance. If you watch infomercials about them, you very frequently see portrayals of men using the product having attractive, smiling women walk up to them.

It’s the same for a whole host of products. Marketing for anything that improves your physical appearance very often depicts attractive people entering the frame and looking at the user with adoration.

The inference the marketing establishes is that these products will make you attractive. The focus here is on that benefit, not on the technical specifications of the exercise machine or weight-loss program being sold.

James urges entrepreneurs to audit their sales copy, identifying where features are emphasized over benefits, and making changes to focus instead on the benefits. You should ask yourself why your customers do business with you, and ask them, too! You may discover all sorts of benefits your customers derive from your products that you had not known before.

Benefits you should be highlighting in your marketing!

Key takeaways:

• People buy things to solve problems for them
• Focusing marketing on your product’s features, not their benefits, will lose business
• Audit your ad copy to maximize focus on these benefits

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The reality is that we are already in an economic downtown.

So in this solocast I share my own story of going to college for economics, what I’ve learned from the ups and downs in the economy over my career, and what this cycle means for you and your business.

There will be amazing opportunities for entrepreneurs over the next year or two if we play it smart and keep a cool head through it all.

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At Freedom Fast Lane 2016 one of the main sessions featured a case study of Mike Dillard’s new product and the company he’s building to create and distribute it - an in-home organic growing system that anyone can use. Mike brought together what Ryan refers to as a “$100 Million Panel” - a group of men who are serving as his board of directors and are pros in a variety of areas when it comes to business-building, scaling, and profitability. Each of them has his own reason for being part of the team and in this conversation, Ryan asks them why they are involved, what they foresee the path forward being, and what they will each contribute to make the company a success.

Why every entrepreneur needs to give before they seek to get.

As you build a business you’re naturally looking for connections with people that will enable you to gain influence, traction, and notoriety for what you’re trying to do. Honestly, you’re looking for what you can get out of relationships. While that’s necessary, it’s also shortsighted if it’s the only way you view the relationships you build. Mike Dillard's new board of advisors has come together largely because of what has been given to them over the years by Mike, the founder of the company. The lesson you need to learn is that it pays to give from the beginning. Add true value to people every chance you get. When the time to receive comes, you’ll have people eager to help you.

Why you need to avoid the “ready, fire, aim” philosophy many entrepreneurs follow.

There is a benefit to getting started with your business and figuring out things as you go along. Many times you don’t know the right problems to solve or directions to go until you are facing them head-on. Getting started makes that discovery possible. But building a company that way can be a very expensive process. You spend lots of resources trying things that don’t work, pivoting, and trying again - and the second solution may not work either. Doing your homework ahead of time may be the path that brings the best results the quickest. You’ll hear what the all-star panel from Freedom Fast Lane Live 2016 has to say about avoiding the “ready, fire, aim” mentality, on this episode.

One product is not a business, it’s an offer. Here’s why you need to build a product line.

When you only have one product to sell you are not only limiting your options and potential profitability, you’re also not stewarding the relationship you are building with your customers wisely. A business is built on the relationships you have with customers. Those relationships are what give you the ability to discover, understand, and meet their needs. You do that over the long haul with more than one product. It not only enables you to meet the ongoing needs of your customers, it creates a diversified stream of revenue for the company and enables you to invest in even more growth. You can hear how the $100 million panel advises the addition of products to your existing product line in this Q & A session from Freedom Fast Lane 2016.

Any successful sales conversation - in print or media - flows from 3 vital questions.

When you are devising your marketing and sales messages you have to understand that the approach you take has to focus on your prospect, not on you. So instead of talking about the features and benefits of your product, you have to get inside the mind and heart of your prospect and talk about what they care about. You have to ask 3 vital questions that open their ears to the issue, open their hearts and minds to the need in a humble way, and tease your product as a solution to that problem. Every successful sales conversation hits those three main points and you can learn how to apply them to your product or service, on this episode of Freedom Fast Lane.

Outline Of This Great Episode

• [1:49] Ryan’s introduction of the superstars on his $100 million panel and what each of them brings to the team.
• [8:44] How Mike Dillard chose these individuals to be part of his board of advisors and how he pitched them to be part of the team.
• [11:50] The advice the board provides regarding how to hire the right all-star team.
• [22:16] Why Mike is self-funding the project - and what his board thinks of the idea.
• [23:45] Advice for launching a product or service - from a variety of perspectives.
• [31:07] Risk in investing in media advertising for a product launch.
• [49:59] The vital 3 questions that close sales for any product.
• [54:45] Why one product has to pivot into a product line to become a business.
• [59:44] Questions from the live audience.

Action Steps From This Episode

FOR GETTING STARTED: Many people out there are looking for what they can get out of relationships. It’s understandable, but shortsighted. But this board has come together largely out of what has been given to them over the years by Mike, the founder of the company. Learn to give from the start. Add true value to people every chance you get. When the time to receive comes, you’ll have people eager to help you.

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If you can get 4 products to 25 sales per day at a $30 price point that is a million dollar business.

And in this podcast you'll learn from Ryan how to get to 100 sales a day, not just in theory, but how he is actually personally doing this right now with the brand he has taken back over that he sold in 2017.

In this episode we share a portion of a coaching call within The One Percent. The main key for how Ryan is going to resurrect this brand comes back to focusing on "The Who" - the target customers and actual people who will be buying from this brand.

If you're ready to build a 7-figure business you can sell that doesn't eat up all of your time, watch Ryan's FREE 4-part video series - The Perfect Business
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Chad started at 0 and followed the plan outlined in Ryan's book Zero To $1 Million In 12 Months and joined The One Percent community.

He recently had a really great 7-figure exit and he joined Ryan & Justus to discuss all that he's learned. This is a story about how YOU can do this too if you follow the right steps and avoid the common pitfalls too many entrepreneurs can fall into.

To join The One Percent, our community that helps capitalists build million dollar businesses and learn to growth their wealth visit:
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Ryan Daniel Moran is interviewed by John Crestani for an honest, gritty take on why Ryan won’t apologize for his success, what path he took, and what prices he paid to get where he is today.

Listen in for some fundamental insights on how human contact can and will propel you forward, who you surround yourself with will change your biology, and success is a tribal event: it benefits everyone.

Ryan talks with James Altucher, a successful hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, bestselling author, venture capitalist, and podcaster.

In this episode of the Freedom Fast Lane podcast, James shares how to achieve real freedom following four guiding principles for a healthy lifestyle, as well as the investment strategies he would have told his 20-year-old self to follow.

Key Takeaways

[2:46] James talks about where he started out. How after he sold his first company building websites for a lot of money, he figured “if I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere!”. He was wrong, he lost every penny. And then he was wrong several times again.

[4:04] So what was the problem? Why was he having such wild success and such brutal failures? He explains how he set out to find and rectify the cause of this uneven keel and what he managed to distill from this research.

The 4 pillars of health

1. 1. Physical health [4:52]
2. It’s one of the most basic but most important aspect of overall health for high achievers. If you don’t have the energy to get things done, they won’t happen. Eat well, don’t drink or do drugs, stay in shape.
3. 2. Emotional health [5:12]
4. You are the average of the people you surround yourself with, and life is short so be cut-throat about the people you love, value, and spend time with.
5. 3. Creative health [6:40]
6. You need to be creative everyday, if you wait for inspiration you’re already too late. Write your ideas down, think about how to execute them. Do fun, unique, new and stimulating things.
7. 4. Spiritual health [7:15]
8. It’s your fault, no matter what. If something negative happens, take ownership: improve, learn, evolve. Life goes on, so make sure it goes on the way you want it to and move forward.
9. [8:26] If you are healthy and creatively doing things you love around people you love, you will automatically find things to sell, people to work with, businesses to build.
10. Being a choice-ist
11. [9:11] You make 10,000 choices a day from the most mundane to the most important. Most of them will be inconsequential or negative. Being a choice-ist means that that you aim to have the highest amount of the choices you do make in a day be ones that you enjoy making and care about.
12. [10:21] How can you become more of a choice-ist in your own life: delegate the choices you don’t like to make or are not knowledgeable enough to make, to trustworthy people. Setting up these systems may take time, but they will reward you in the end.
13. [12:25] James shares some practical tips on increasing the quantity of enjoyable choices you need to make. Every experience should be a source of earning, what did you not like, what would you want to do more of. Focus on that, make decisions that will serve that goal.
14. [14:00] Money is never the critical factor in freedom. James takes Elon Musk as an example to illustrate this point.
15. “Elon Musk has to wake up at 5 a.m., run six companies, deal with spaceships blowing up, deal with government subsidies to run his solar panel business. He’s making a big bet on the future of energy — a good bet, but a scary one nonetheless — and he’s got to manage thousands of people from 5am to 10pm.”
16. What might be good for Elon may not work for you! You need to think about the lifestyle you want and decide what will make you happy and fulfilled and make choices in your life accordingly.
17. Investing
18. [15:54] James shares advice he would have given his younger self on investment.

1. 1. The Plus-Minus-Equal rule [16:27]
2. PLUS: Find the people that are better than you and learn from them. Read, read, read, read: learn everything you can about investment and everything relating to it, history, related fields, people, etc.
3. EQUAL: Find people at your own level that can constantly challenge you. You’ll be surprised how fast you can evolve alongside a community of like-minded people.
4. MINUS: If you really think you know something; teach it. It’ll remind you of all the basics, and people just starting will ask questions that you might have overlooked.
5. 2. You are the biggest stupid idiot ever [21:24]
6. This alone has reduced James’ chances of failure from 95% to 10%. Despite all that you’ve learned in step 1 you should never invest in anything thinking you are the smartest person in the room. You aren’t.
7. Look up at who is investing alongside you, do you trust them, do you look up to them, are they successful? Trust your “plusses” and talk to you “equals”. You can only bet on people.
8. [29:50] James shares his endgame.
9. Mentioned in this episode
10. James Altucher
11. Mike Massimino
12. Jocko Willink
13. Elon Musk
14. Berkshire Hathaway
15. Warren Buffett

As a business grows it’s tempting to take the route of raising capital - and in some instances, it’s entirely appropriate. But how do you know if you should take on equity partner? That’s a huge step and it can be a risky thing to give away some of your company. In this episode of Freedom Fast Lane, Ryan answers a listener question about when it’s right to take on an equity partner. Ryan’s insight into the things that make a business grow are very helpful when it comes to assessing the timing on this sort of thing, so if you’ll take the time to listen you might come away with a different perspective than you had before listening. And you’ll be better off for it.

Equity partners are not only about getting more funds.

When you hear the term “equity partner” you probably think one of two things: #1 - You’re giving away part of your company (true). #2 - You’re doing it to get more money (half-true). The purpose of any kind of equity move, including the addition of an equity partner, is not just about the cash that will be infused into your business. It’s also about the things you can do with that cash and how they will amplify your ability to scale and grow your company. But there are even more benefits to bringing on equity partners, including what they bring to the table in terms of experience and counsel. Ryan’s got a boatload of advice to dump on you regarding equity partners, so be sure you listen to this episode.

Taxes are really about whether you should make your own choices or others should make them for you.

As Ryan was recording this episode he was in the process of writing a HUGE check for his quarterly taxes and he used the opportunity to make a point about taxes, government programs, and why it’s always better for those who are successfully generating money to keep it instead of giving it to the government. Ryan makes his case on this episode - and it’s sure to give you food for thought. So stick those earbuds in and hit “play” on this episode of Freedom Fast Lane.

How do you deal with haters most effectively? You don’t if you’re smart.

Ryan receives questions quite often about how to deal with haters - those people who feel it’s their duty to let you know how badly you’re doing, how wrong your cause is, or how disappointing your products are. In this episode, he gives a response borrowed from one of his friends and mentors, Jesse Elder. How does Ryan deal with haters? He doesn’t. If you’re curious what that means you can hear the full-blown response and the reasoning behind it, on this episode.

Entrepreneurs are commissioned to fix the problems government creates or can’t solve.

That’s a loose version of a belief Ryan expresses quite often, and he believes it with all his heart. Capitalism is the economic system that enables any person (even you) to create products or services that bring benefit to the world and be paid handsomely for doing so. Then you have the ability to employ people, support causes you believe in, and address issues around you that you feel a compulsion to address. It’s from this perspective that capitalism drives innovation and change in our culture and Ryan’s on a mission to encourage and enable capitalism. You can hear his rant about the benefits of capitalism on this episode of Freedom Fast Lane.

Outline Of This Great Episode

• [0:16] How you can find the Freedom Fastlane TV episodes.
• [1:11] Why money in people’s pockets is always a better investment than giving money to the government.
• [6:28] When are equity partners a good idea?
• [10:19] What’s the best way to deal with haters and trolls?
• [13:09] A case study from a FFL tribe member’s business - and Ryan’s advice to go to the next level.
• [20:02] Why capitalism drives innovation and change.

Resources Mentioned On This Episode

• www.FreedomFastLane.com/Tribe - get into the tribe to grow your business
• Jesse Elder
• Nathan Latka
• Spiderz
• Zen Active Sports
• How the Rich Use Infinite Banking episode
• www.GoWealthpoint.com/freedom

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P.S. Tickets for this year’s Capitalism Conference (Formerly Freedom Fast Lane LIVE) are now on sale. Go get your tickets here!

This episode is a private conversation with AJ Vaynerchuk, who comes in with the tactical, practical side of business and who Ryan believes has been underrated in the success of Vaynermedia.

Tune in to hear some of AJ’s insight on Ryan’s overarching strategy as well as how they agree on what the future holds for products and brands.

Key takeaways

[4:55] AJ was asked to speak at the 2019 CapCon because Ryan has always perceived him as the integrator of Gary’s vision.

Ryan shares his current feeling that he is on the cusp of something bigger and that AJ is the person to ask about how to know when the time is right, and the opportunity is right.

[7:35] There are often several different way to sink your teeth into something, but what do you do when you are unsure of which path to chose? How did AJ know he was sitting on something special? It’s a complex answer:

1. Opportunity. A major part of where Vaynermedia is today takes root in Gary’s and AJ’s 2006-7 belief that social media was the new frontier in communication: they were believers and essentially bet on a sector.

2. Timing. By 2011 they had a head start and it was going to be f***ing hard to catch them. They were talented enough, smart enough and early enough.

3. Expertise. Gary and AJ are both really good at customer service, at every level. Service-based businesses are a natural fit for them.

Find your fit: Having a clear grasp of who you are and understanding your own personality will help you find an industry in which you thrive and are successful.

[10:22] Ryan’s bet is as follows: he posits that influencers will start launching their own brands and it’s inevitable that the likes of Honest Co. — with the pairing of Brian Lee and Jessica Alba — is where things are headed.

Influencers don’t want to learn business, they want to do what they do, so the play is to help them monetize their following as leverage for access to the person with 2 million followers.

[11:57] AJ synthesises that Ryan intends to become the infrastructure and operational partner for an influencer to launch a brand from and agrees that there is in fact a business there, a scalable business to boot: once you do it once or twice, trust is built and the next influencer will fall in.

[14:46] Ryan share the Aha! moment he had with Gary: “Vaynermedia is the play”, it stands on its own and allows Gary to build his own brand and give freely.

It stands to reason that to follow a similar path, 2 choices are available to Ryan:

1. Capitalism.com becomes its own business and infrastructure and liberates Ryan to build his own brand

2. Another business is launched and stands on its own to liberate Capitalism.com as Ryan’s personal brand channel

[17:41] AJ shares how Vaynermedia went through that transition from being Gary’s social media agency to becoming its own independent company, not to the public eye or Gary’s following but in the industry — If you’re the CMO of a multi-billion dollar brand you know that Gary is not spending 20 hours a week on your brand.

Note: It used to be that Gary would work on every account for the first few YEARS!

[20:01] AJ suggests that Capitalism.com should be spun out: create a new business with a new name and independent branding and leverage Capitalism.com as a funnel to get customers. He disagrees with Ryan that the value proposition for something like that would be that it’s part of the Capitalism.com network — a good disagreement is always food for thought and growth!

[25:19] Find the give.

[25:47] Ryan shares his takeaway from this discussion with AJ and Gary and how they run their business is how they empower people and they stay in the owner’s seat. AJ agrees with the direction anthanks listeners and invites them to subscribe to the podcast and send him their comments on Instagram @RyanDanielMoran.

Mentioned in this episode

Capitalism.com

VaynerMedia

Book: Rocket Fuel: The One Essential Combination by Gino Wickman and Mark Win

Today’s episode features a behind the scenes segment from a recent 8-figures workshop held at Ryan Daniel Moran’s lakehouse.

Ryan explains the 3 types of managers you business needs and the formula to go from 100k a month to a million. Are you looking for your 8-figure exit? It will require you to make the transition from hustler to entrepreneur.

Key Takeaways

[2:40] Your audience is already generating content for you.

[5:02] Making a business requires a product that you can convince people is better than the alternatives

1. Have your product down

2. Get your sales optimized and get reviews

3. Put your reviews up as content

[7:36] So you have the business 1-2-3 and you want to push further, go from 100k a month to a million…

How do you do that?

You deepen the product line...

How do you do that?

Figure out what your customers buy after your product...

How do you do that?

ASK THEM.

[10:44] The million $ formula is 3-5 products at 25 sales a day and there is a reason behind this: in order to sell 3 products, you have to know who the buyer is. Really well.

[11:33] Audience building and an ideal customer avatar is about helping you make decisions, and decision drive progress.

[11:56] Focusing on Shopify is great as a way to optimize your sales channel, but it won’t be a multiplier. Your focus as an entrepreneur should be in building your business, your product line.

Or else you’re just a sales channel manager.

[14:03] Building a good business requires 3 types of managers:

1. Ideas manager — inventor

2. Distribution manager — influencer

3. Sales manager — channel manager

Being a business owner means you have all three, you don’t have to be good at all three but your business does.

Mentioned in this episode

8-figures workshop events: Capitalism.com/8

How do successful entrepreneurs get clarity on their goals and priorities to build their empires? Listen to this live coaching session between Geoff Woods and Ryan Daniel Moran to find out.

Following on from his last appearance on Freedom Fast Lane, Geoff returns to talk Ryan through how you can take your business to the next level by adopting the tried and tested techniques used by the most successful entrepreneurs.

Geoff outlines why having clear goals is important and presents a model that will help you and your company to hit your targets time and time again. Continuously in pursuit of the end zone.

Listen in to hear Ryan get clarity on what his top priorities are within his business over the next month, and how you can apply the lessons to your own company.

Key takeaways:

• The one action that will dramatically impact your business
• Identifying the habits that will elevate your company to the next level
• The 411: How to avoid distraction and achieve your goals

Connect with Geoff

Hear more from Geoff on his podcast at The1Thing.com.

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This episode is a full masterclass in making $1 million in 12 months or less.
Ryan is chatting with an influencer you may know by the name of Captain Sinbad, who makes popular personal development and comedy videos.

He recently set out on a journey to make a million in a year or less, and since Ryan's whole book and brand is centered around "12 Months To $1 Million" he reached out to see if he could consult on how one might take a following like this and actually monetize it.

In this podcast they break down how to build and audience and sell things to them in a way that doesn't feel unethical or icky. By the end of this consultation they outline the entire process to launch a whole new business and make a million dollars in twelve months.

If you're ready to build a 7-figure business you can sell that doesn't eat up all of your time, watch Ryan's FREE 4-part video series - The Perfect Business
https://www.capitalism.com/perfect/?utm_source=CapPod&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=episode

Is the world getting better... or worse? Is there more opportunity now... or less? The answer lies in the filters we use to process what we see. 

Many boil this down to whether we see the world through an abundance mindset or a scarcity mindset. But we’re going to take it one step further. Here is the foundational filter that will determine whether you will succeed as an entrepreneur. 

This may be the most important podcast you listen to because this discussion will help you identify what your brain says is possible for you.

Kaye Putnam uses psychology-driven branding to scale businesses and entrepreneur's personal brands and create more loyal buyers.

We talked LIVE in The One Percent group. To join our members area visit:
www.Capitalism.com/1

Whether you're building a personal brand or selling physical products, effective branding is the only way to really stay ahead of the game. In this interview I put Kaye on the spot and asked her assess MY brand after taking her personality quiz online.

There's a lot happening right now at Capitalism.com, and I've learned a ton in 2025. 

In this episode, I'm breaking down my top 8 lessons from the year so far. 

Play the long term game, use dopamine to your advantage, and focus on actions that compound, and you can achieve just about anything. 

If you're interested in how we can help you at Capitalism.com, download our free playbook at https://capitalism.com/playbook 

Most entrepreneurs get stuck at 7 figures.

That’s why I’ve made it my mission to get those entrepreneurs the resources they need to get to 8 and 9 figures. In this podcast, I explain how we can best help you on your road to $1M.

Not all brands have the potential to go to $10M and beyond, but as an investor I have learned what to look for. Whether you are looking to raise capital to scale faster or not, the criteria I share in this podcast will help you build a brand that can go beyond 8-figures.

If you’re just getting started, head to https://capitalism.com/playbook to download our free playbook. 

Work with me in the fund at https://capitalism.com/fund

Scale to the $1M/year mark and beyond in the Capitalism Incubator at https://capitalism.com/inc

Connect with me on Instagram at https://instagram.com/ryandanielmoran

Timestamps: 
(0:00) - The 3 Steps To $10M 

(4:00) - How We Changed Our Deal Structure

(8:12) - How To Become A Brand I’ll Invest In

(11:11) - Building An Audience Of 10,000

(16:50) - Restructuring The Business To Collaborate With Entrepreneurs

(19:00) - How You Can Work With Us

In part 2 of this deep conversation with Brooke Castillo from The Life Coach School we talk about how to actually IMPLEMENT thinking big on a practical level.

Brooke helped me think about some of my own specific goals selling my new book 12 Months To $1 Million, building Capitalism.com, and some day owning the Cleveland Indians.

This is the podcast that will help you connect the abundance mindset of entrepreneurship with taking real action to achieve massive goals.

As we close out the year I want to give you what I think is the best gift that I could possibly give, a lesson about planning what to do with the wealth you create in your life.

The biggest mistake that I ever made in my career was not having a concrete plan after the exit of my company. I thought I could apply the same skillsets I'd developed as an entrepreneur to being an investor and it turned out that growing my money required a completely different mindset.

 In this compound I share how my thoughts on investing have evolved and what you can do to make sure that your profits not only grow, but grow in a way that is diversified, safe, and still exciting to your long-term goals.

If you want to build your own million dollar brand, head to https://capitalism.com/playbook to download the Free Playbook to start on your own road to $1M and beyond.

To get on the waitlist for the Capitalism Accelerator, head to https://capitalism.com/launch

Connect with me on Instagram at https://instagram.com/ryandanielmoran

Dreaming of the big payday?

Coran woodmass shares his secrets on the brands getting bought and sold today. How does he know?

His registered buyers have over 830 million available for buying product brands: Coran is the Founder and Managing Partner at FBA Broker, the first company to focus exclusively on physical products that have an Amazon sales channel.

Want to know what’s killing it in the ecommerce space and what criteria business buyers look at before acquiring?

Key Takeaways

[3:43] For the last 2 years, FBA Broker has been producing a monthly business price guide that tracks and reports on all the public business sales in the industry.

The last 12 months were dismal, the market is flooded with low quality small businesses leading to record low sell through rates.

Comparatively, record levels of capital is being raised to acquire physical products brands.

[7:50] In the 2 to 5 million range, the sell through range is 39% whereas in the 100k range, we’re looking at 13%.

So what is working? Brands. Here are the 5 elements for a brand to always sell, regardless of market condition:

1. Brand synergy — repeat sales to one demographic

2. Product uniqueness and diversification — don’t rely on one hero product

3. Revenue diversification — keep the 30% rule in mind

4. Size — most buyers are not interested below 1 million revenue

5. Growth — Year over year trend

Coran also shares a very important buyer criteria: margins, they are all looking for healthy margins. 30% is the average tracked.

[14:54] What if you don’t have the 5 key elements? Build or acquire them! Coran explains how to do just that.

1. Think like a bigger business

Look offline: US based businesses valued under 50 mil present the greatest legal investment opportunity available. The next 15 years will be the largest intergenerational transfer of private biz in the history of the world worth an estimated 10 trillion.

2. Think strategically

Vertical, Horizontal, operations, shared services, logistic, supply chain: what you want is multiple arbitrage: buy low, combine, sell for a much higher multiple.

3. Get money (Where the f*ck do I get the money?)

There is zero shortage of capital in this world. The shortage is in entrepreneur-led operational teams that know how to deal with product brands.

If you can find the good deal, you will get the capital, if you have an operations team and you find the deal you can get all the capital you want.

[22:24] Coran’s parting thoughts: pay attention to your mindset, read as much as you can, participate in events, hang out with people that are not holding you back from your crazy dreams: be with like minded people, pay for all access, VIP, join the backroom!

Have questions? sales@thefbabroker.com

Thanks for listening! Visit capitalism.com/events for upcoming events and additional content.

If you have feedback, guest ideas or topics to explore for this podcast, email max Kerwick at max@brandbuildingstrategies.com

Because it really does make a difference: don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review on iTunes.

Mentioned in this episode

Capitalism.com

Max@brandbuilderstrategy.com

The FBA Broker

Today Ryan shares some tips on staying motivated, even when entrepreneurship becomes hard, lonely business.

Tune in for 3 practical things you can do to keep yourself on track as well as some down-to-earth real life examples of how those practices helped Ryan through some tougher moments.

Key Takeaways

[:28] Dopamine floods your brain when you start a new business, you are full of energy and drive, but it doesn’t stay there long term so today is going to be about sustaining momentum.

[1:42] First things first, entrepreneurship is very hard and it will demand more of you than you could ever imagine. So it’s virtually impossible to sustain momentum and stay motivated when you’re building a business that you don’t like or building it with someone you don’t like, there’s really no fixing that.

But if you do love your business, here are 3 practical things you can do to keep momentum (there’s a bonus at the end, too!)

1. 1. Focus on the people [3:39] Take the time to be plugged into the people giving you attention and money, or the people you want to serve. The way you get rich and the way you sustain momentum is giving. Quick tip: run a poll or survey to get feedback on your people ask them what you are doing that resonates with them.
2. 2. Plug into a network [8:10] entrepreneurship is lonely, and you will need a community of people you can talk to about your difficulties, other entrepreneurs who will understand what you are going through. Join masterminds, online communities and build a list of people you can count on: every opportunity comes from others and having a network facilitates that.
3. 3. Compare yourself [13:10] but only to yourself! Look at how you did today, and plan how to do better tomorrow. Ryan tries to be transparent about how it can suck so that people who do compare themselves to him can have a more holistic view, but be careful, not everyone does this. You can use other people’s experience as models but won’t be motivation, what will motivate you is your own growth.
4. Bonus! Follow a plan [18:00] you will not always feel motivated and on the days when you don’t feel good you will need to rely on that routine to drive you forward, Ryan uses Tribe 5. This will help you track if you’ve done what you were supposed to do today, and if not? It happens. We are motivated by progress so it’s hard to follow a system and stay unmotivated for very long.
5. Thank you for listening, and If you want more like this: subscribe to our channel.
6. Mentioned in this episode
7. Tribe 5

How can you measure if your life is going in the right direction? How do you know if you are taking the right actions to achieve your goals?

I developed a process called the TRIBE 5 that lets you track 5 areas of investment into your life where you can make small deposits that compound into massive success.

This process has helped me make millions throughout my career, and if you pick your own 5 daily habits and check them off most days it would be hard for you NOT to be extremely successful.

Most entrepreneurs don’t really know how to most effectively use their time, let alone keep a score of the small habits that are creating the biggest change.

If you can stick to this process for even a few months your life and business will change forever.

Head to https://capitalism.com/playbook to see how we grow and scale brands to the million dollar mark and beyond. 

Scale to the $1M/year mark and beyond in the Capitalism Incubator at https://capitalism.com/inc

Connect with me on Instagram at https://instagram.com/ryandanielmoran

Timestamps:

(0:00) The TRIBE 5

(6:00) Time 

(7:15) Relationships 

(9:20) Income

(10:46) Body 

(11:20) Expansion

(15:00) How I’m implementing this in my businesses 

(23:00) Tying it all together

In this episode JP Newman and Ryan talk about what direction to take your life when you have so many options in front of you.

When JP was 35, he pivoted from a career in TV production to getting started in real estate. He had to move back into his childhood bedroom, live with his parents and start all over…

Now that Ryan is 35 he wonders what the next chapter of life will look like and how to move forward in alignment with his purpose.

To subscribe to this new show visit:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/investing-on-purpose-with-jp-newman-and-ryan-daniel-moran/id1617163709

or

https://open.spotify.com/show/0MSz6OVpUpb1CA02TkX8Mq?si=38da9580d1e24cc4

This year The Capitalism Conference is coming again in April of 2023.
To learn more visit:
www.Capitalism.com/CapCon6

You really only need 500 to 1,000 people to have a really profitable business.

If you can spend the next 2 or 3 months building up an audience of really responsive people you can absolutely have a million dollar business over the next 12 months.

This podcast is NOT about how to become an influencer and devote your life to creating endless content.

In this episode I share the playbook on taking a small audience like this and scaling to 7 figures.

To learn more about creating your own path to $1 million sign up for our FREE 30 day mini series at:

http://www.Capitalism.com/Million

Connect with me on Instagram at:

https://Instagram.com/RyanDanielMoran

Ricardo Pero launched a business that lends money to e-commerce companies to fund their inventories.

Most business owners will buy inventory with their own money, and with all of their capital tied up, they have nothing left to do but stress out.

But there is another way of doing things which is use other people’s money to fund inventory, so you still have your own money to invest into growing your business (advertising, product diversification, systems, people, etc.)

Tune in for a great conversation on the challenges people run into while funding their own inventory and how SellersFunding can help you do things differently.

Key takeaways

[6:12] Ryan talks about an idea he had a few years ago and introduces the man who beat him to the punch! Ricardo Pero, Founder and CEO of Sellers Funding.

After working in investment banking for years, Ricardo saw how inefficient traditional credit models were at accurately assessing e-commerce business risk. He saw an opportunity.

[8:14] Traditional business owners usually rely on their own resources (bootstrapping), and tend to be overly conservative in the way they borrow. They don’t have an ROI mindset.

In a lot of cases if you’re going to spend X$ on inventory, it’s X$ you can’t put into anything else. However if you fund it, you will pay interest but because you get the same amount of money when you sell the product your return will be much higher.

A tool for planning cash flow [13:29] The SellersFunding sales prediction model looks into cyclicality and sales performance and provides you with this information so you can make more informed decisions.

You will know exactly when you need to order more inventory, how much of it you need and how much it’ll cost you.

[14:14] Ricardo talks about why he chose to divert his career from investment management to focus on this new enterprise. The main question was always how can I best apply my knowledge of investment management?

E-commerce has the largest dataset to work with in terms of investment evaluation and, as a sector should outperform brick and mortar by a wide margin.

Once he had chosen the e-commerce industry, he had 2 options for building this company he wanted:

1. Partnering with sellers and providing support for their working capital needs

2. Make direct investment into brands

Ricardo decided to move to the credit side because the client pool is much wider.

The cash flow gap problem [19:00] is in essence the problem that SellersFunding solves:

Between the purchase order and the moment the product is available for sale is this gap which — if your products are sourced from abroad — can take up to 100 days for that first sale to happen.

In order to bridge this gap, SellersFunding offers an interest only grace period of about 60 days from the moment the order has been placed. In this manner, the business retains control over as much money as possible and the loan payment can theoretically come out of the profit margin.

Braingasm [21:54] e-commerce businesses are essentially recession-proof.

Qualifying for the capital [22:10] is a slightly different process. You will be evaluated on the traditional business metrics, cash flow metrics, structure costs and inventory levels but — and here’s where it gets interesting — also on Amazon business reviews, customer feedback and account health.

Those metrics are actually more important to SellersFunding because they are a better indicator of your commitment to your customer and ultimately your future performance.

Getting the capital [25:10] SBA loans take many months before funding is received, Amazon lending requires a year’s track record, how does SellersFunding compare?

SellersFunding only needs 6 months of track record. The application form takes about 5 minutes and is then run into the pre-qualification model of 3 million sellers. Depending on the length of your track record, running the model takes a few minutes to an hour. Within the day you will get your answer and within 48 hours, your money.

[28:00] Ryan asks Ricardo where do the funds come from, what his biggest loan cheque to date has been and what the terms look like for a loan.

The biggest sellers get about a year to pay off the loan and the average interest only period is about 60 days, the amortization schedule is matched to the marketplace payment cycle.

Theoretically, you could manage to pay off your loan faster than the term and not pay any more interest, and once you’ve paid off 50% of the outstanding transaction, you’re eligible to apply for a new loan.

[34:54] There is no one specialised in e-commerce! SellersFunding wants to become the leader in e-commerce lending and is looking to partner with clients for the long run.

[39:44] Ryan climbs on his soap box and reminds all physical products entrepreneurs to break out of their cash restraints and go fund their inventories with other people’s money: keep your own money to invest and build up your business!

[44:52] Ryan thanks Ricardo for coming on the podcast, recaps some key elements to remember and encourages listeners looking for funding to follow this link: www.capitalism.com/sellersfunding.

Mentioned in this episode

Capitalism.com

Sellers Funding

LendingClub

We’re leaking Ryan’s Sunday Coffee call with Kevin Wilke. The two discuss the stories we tell ourselves that shape our reality, how they impact us now, and how we can shift our thinking for the better.

Josh Bezoni is a level up from almost every other entrepreneur.

The proof is that he not only created a new business from scratch but he hit $100 million in sales in the first 12 months of the company’s existence. Ryan has long been advocating a system to build a company to $10 million - but Josh has raised the bar big time. The steps he took to build his company seem intuitive at first glance but Josh applied them at a level that improved the normal results by a factor of 10. On this episode you’re going to hear Josh’s story of how he built his company quickly and has navigated the rapid climb to success.

Find someone who has done what you want to do and create value in their life.

One of the things Josh Bezoni did to build his business quickly from the ground up was to build significant trust relationships all along the way. In every interaction he was concerned with how he could add value to the life of the person he was interacting with. He did this for two reasons: #1 - He wanted to be a true asset to them and their goals. #2 - He wanted that relationship to be an asset to him when and if the time came for him to call in a favor or two. His fundamental philosophy was to find the people who had done what he wanted to do and add value to their lives. You can hear how he developed that philosophy and how he implemented it on this episode.

How Josh Bezoni rented a list from a different niche to launch his first product.

It seems like an outdated approach to launching a products but Josh Bezoni tapped his professional network and borrowed their email lists to launch the first product of his new company. It was an old school approach but it worked powerfully. In his first day of sales he brought in $40,000 in sales. You can hear how Josh built a network of relationships that made that approach possible and how he leveraged the success of that initial push to scale the company rapidly - it’s all on this episode.

Josh Bezoni: Once you learn this one skill you can sell anything online.

As Josh Bezoni began to build his first business he knew that the success of the business would depend greatly on the sales copy that was used for each promotion and product. He began to study copywriting and became very adept at implementing a very simple formula: Problem - Solution. On this episode Josh shares a handful of incredible books he read to build his copywriting muscles and tells why it’s true that the skill of copywriting will enable you to sell anything online and build the business you desire. It’s all a part of this great conversation.

The best indicator of future success is past performance.

To build a company to $100 million in sales within 12 months it takes teamwork on a level beyond what most people can conceive. That means a team of quality people has to be assembled. Think “The Avengers” in a business context. Josh Bezoni approached the task of hiring A players for his quickly growing company the way he approaches most challenges: He began to study the subject. Using what he learned in his reading and applying it alongside some pretty novel approaches such as company ownership options, charitable giving, and more, Josh was able to enlist the help of top level producers in their respective skills to scale the company rapidly. Want to know more? Josh gives many of the steps he took on this episode of Freedom Fast Lane.

Outline Of This Great Episode

• [0:06] Who is Josh Bezoni? Ryan’s introduction of his success and journey.
• [2:17] The first business Josh started and how it enabled him to pivot and grow more.
• [7:01] The strategy Josh followed to get his first product off the ground.
• [13:26] How Josh has built his sales processes.
• [17:36] The transition from an ebook company to a much more successful venture.
• [21:59] Using an existing audience, affiliates, and great business connections.
• [24:41] The practical aspects Josh had to deal with while the growth was happening.
• [32:59] How Josh was able to hire rock star talent quickly.
• [34:51] The challenge of not taking the profits so more talent can be hired.
• [37:53] Why most entrepreneurs don’t know how to hire and how Josh learned the skill.
• [41:03] The overall business strategy for getting to $100 million in 12 months.
• [44:34] The most expensive mistake Josh made on the way to success.
• [47:14] The small team of 3 Josh led in his first business: How it was structured and the roles each person played.
• [49:08] How Josh was able to grow to $100 million while remaining VIRTUAL instead of physical.
• [52:36] Why people want to work for and buy from companies that are doing good in the world.

Action Steps From This Episode

FOR GREATER SUCCESS: Don’t shortcut the hiring process. It takes time to do it right but the returns on the time invested are astronomical. Study how to do it right and don’t cut corners.

FOR GETTING STARTED: Start building trust relationships now. Seek out those who are already doing what you want to do and add value to their lives. Once you are on their radar opportunities open up to you in ways you never knew were possible.

Connect With Today’s guest: JOSH BEZONI

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• BOOK: Maximum Money in Minimum Time
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Most of us cannot begin to understand what it is like to stare mortality in the face. Hal Elrod does, and his experience has shifted the way he views his life and his business for the better.

After being diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a rare cancer with a 10% survival rate, Hal emerged the other side with a clean bill of health and a fresh perspective on what was important.

In this episode of Freedom Fast Lane, Hal shares what this life-changing experience taught him and how we can all adopt these learnings, ensuring we focus on what’s important to us.

Key takeaways:

• Ask Yourself: What matters most to you?
• How to Live in Alignment with What Matters
• Redefine Your Relationship with Your Work
• How to Change Your Habits in 30 Days

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How do psychedelics play into the lives of entrepreneurs? Today we dive deep into belief systems, religion, consciousness and all that good philosophical magic.

Tune in for a very human discussion on what it means to strip away some of your certainties and what you can learn in the process.

Who better to talk about this than Ryan, who in his single minded and systematic pursuit of truth ended up shedding a dogmatic upbringing as well as a religious career.

Disclaimer

This interview and associated content is in no way an endorsement or recommendation that anyone should do any illegal drugs — there is nothing you cannot achieve or go do on your own through meditation or spiritual practices.

Key takeaways

Questioning everything [:] Ryan has a history of questioning the established structures around him:

1. He questioned the 9 to 5 workday train and became an entrepreneur

2. He questioned his religion in phase 1 and started a lifelong spiritual journey

[8:00] Phase 2 of his spiritual quest has been centered around questioning reality, he now finds himself in the midst of a spiritual awakening.

Losing my religion [8:36] Losing one’s religion the way Ryan did, cognizantly and rationally, is profoundly traumatic. It requires a systematic breaking away from brutish indoctrination along with everything from which you drew meaning. All of your certainties, absolutes and reassurances. Imagine the pain of ripping from your source of truth, hope, value, worth, connection, community, home and language. The foundation of your entire understanding of life.

He then went through what he believes to be a necessary part of healing, angry atheism.

In the past year, Ryan produced a Documentary — which he has yet to release to the public — called Losing My Religion. In the opening scene Ryan — having never even held a cigarette in his hand — does 4 grams of psilocybin mushrooms.

Who can you turn to? [11:56] After stripping away so much of himself and his old life, Ryan found himself in a spiritual void. But he hear the many accounts of trusted sources that assured their most profound spiritual experiences came from mushrooms.

His first and only [to-date] trip was both a good, and bad trip during which he had never more intensely wanted to go to church. It was also an incredible spiritual journey which led to a deeper understanding of why he broke away from his religion and concurrently, being drawn back into certain elements of it.

It is still an experience he is unpacking but left him with this indelible sense of falling in love with what he believes is true.

[15:24] THIS IS ALL A JOKE, DON’T DO DRUGS.

The decline of religion [17:34] What is this all for— Making money, getting fit, doing anything at all — if the end result is simply death? Ryan now believes that everything we do is constantly changing, growing and evolving consciousness as a comprehensive whole.

Taken back into it’s historically relevant context, religion was the expression of our innermost need to understand our position in the universe. It made sense at the time, as a way to explains our greater purpose as well as the things we didn’t have the technical means to grasp.

As time passes and understanding of the universe grows, the language and means with which we explain it needs to be adapted as well: religion has taken us as far is it could.

The conversation is starting to change and it’s time to move into a spiritual phase shift.

The first trip [19:30] Ryan’s brain began playing every thought he’d ever had, to the point of overwhelm, until he got to the end of the file folder, and then, for the first time ever he felt like he was himself — not the voice in his head he’d always thought he was, but his true self — it was the most freeing, expansive and joyful experience ever.

He now understands he should have listened, he should have stopped when things were good, but he pushed further and took another gram.

And so for 30 minutes of absolute terror, he felt the infinity of time while clawing at the gates of Hell, with no way out.

After that ordeal, he got a glimpse of the world as a whole. A magnificent epiphany of the grand design, his part to play in it as well as that of every other being in existence.

Every choice we make, every person we talk to or play a role in the developing theater of consciousness.

This is what drove his desire to go back to church: everyone plays a part and we’re all riding the same wave.

Getting to the bad place [24:38] Ryan had that beautiful first experience, why did he push it further? Does he tend to go too far?

Yes, and the pattern is identifiable as an almost unhealthy addiction to growth, the emotional attachment to breaking the next barrier, the next unlocked secret, as opposed to being in the present.

Business and psychedelics [26:18] After selling his company for a hefty sum, Ryan found that the money he thought would bring him happiness simply did not. What’s the solution then, make more money? How depressingly tedious...

Cue the MDMA and he realised that he had always thought he was defective or broken in some way, and had been looking for validation from outside sources.

In terms of business it translated to a radical change in perspective, from following systems and ideas — hustles if you will — that would profit him, make him money, to a more creative and generous approach: what do I want to bring to the world, what value can I add?

From the take mentality to the give mentality: what are you giving to the world?

He also understood 2 important things:

1. He can wait for the right opportunity.

2. He doesn’t have to serve the customer that isn’t a right fit just because they have deep pockets.

The inner child [33:12] For a lot of entrepreneurs, their entire life has been driven by the 10,12,15 year old who suffered trauma. We all have stories in our past that are driving our behaviour.

It really doesn’t have to be crazy trauma to have an impact in adult life, but it does need to be addressed and unknotted in order to relearn to have fun and be happy.

It’s hard to be happy when you’re in survival mode.

Building or creating? [46:15] Ryan advises entrepreneurs, and has helped hundreds of them make their first million. The ones that do the best are systematically the ones that create something.

Everyone wants the formula, and Ryan has it, but it’ll never work unless you create... It’ll all just be price wars and review wars.

Capitalism [47:01] Capitalism is the system through which we create things (it’s not the only one through which good ideas come from) but it’s the only system where bad ideas lose

We’re all on the same team. We’re all just fighting about how to get there.

But we won’t get there with less freedom, we’ll get there with more.

Mentioned in this episode

Tucker Max — MDMA therapy

Get ready for today’s episode, it’s finally part 2 of black man vs. White man!

Follow Ryan “Debate” Moran and Billy Gene into a multitude of controversial rabbit holes and hear what Billy had to say that may have changed Ryan’s mind on some subjects.

Key takeaways

Trump or Obama? [5:43] Billy and Ryan set the tone for this dialogue by going over drunken items from the last black man vs. white man debate — are people more divided than during the civil war? Are things better or worse for minorities? — and open up this year’s conversation with a personal story from Billy.

Putting other things first [:] Ryan points out that his choice to support Trump, or not, would be driven by his upbringing and his choice of peers.

Billy rebutts that as a black man, it’s hard to put other things — upbringing, peers, etc. — before race since so much of his experience of the world has been dictated by it.

One racist thing [13:35] Ryan asks if there is one thing about Trump that stands out as racist.

The tagline! Billy offers that Make American Great Again refers to a time past, but which? Maybe the one when people of color were segregated against and women overlooked — what about that could you possibly like as a black man. What the f**k does great again mean?

Representation [18:26] Billy notes that perception is key, and that we understand ourselves in the context of what we see, i.e. when he watches a 1920’s film, he understands that he was the milkman. So building pride and making certain that strong black representation exist in every area of life is important to him, he’s plated his Lambo “I’m black” — even if some white people take it personal!

Ryan concedes a point!

The opposite of racism? [21:40] Ryan asserts that he avoids making assumptions based on race and gender while Billy claims — as an advertiser — to be all about assumptions.

Billy thinks forcing hard conversations may be the one positive thing to stem from the Trump movement.

Privilege [24:38] Billy offers that privilege is the innate leg up that a white man may not realise he has in comparison to a black man. He also offers up the main opposing views of both sides which tend to generate disconnect:

1. Don’t say you came from nothing because you don’t know what nothing is.

2. Don’t villainize me for being born with what I was born with.

The true leg up is having people like you, in your surroundings that were successful, that’s when you believe it’s possible.

The controversial voice of privilege [29:10] Ryan agrees, but counters that privilege is less of a factor in success than ever before. Billy acquiesces but adds the following caveat: it isn’t gone and people are still not equal.

Empathy [31:33] In a “black man or white man succeeding” scenario, Ryan says he would bet on the person coming at a disadvantage. Billy immediately counters that this may be because Ryan doesn’t really truly know what disadvantage is. And that is privilege, with a little bit of lack of empathy sprinkled in.

Billy shares his personal story of privilege and luck which took root in his parent’s fight against disadvantage.

The key to moving forward with this whole debacle is empathy: for people who are privileged to be cognizant and humble about it and for the people who had none not to villainize.

Responsibility [36:40] Both Ryan and Billy agree that people who have privilege also have a responsibility to make other people’s lives better, whether or not that privilege was given to them or if they worked hard for it. And people without have a responsibility to themselves.

But people with too much privilege or too long of a history of privilege tend to get soft…

Is Billy stumped?

Soft, soft privilege [40:00] Ryan argues that socialist government policies like raising welfare, social safety nets and etc. play a role in softening the masses. Billy offers a personal caveat.

What is the role of government? [45:40] Ryan and Billy discuss the role of government: should governments force the “benevolent responsibility” of successful people? Should there be a fee for becoming successful? And once a program is successful, should it not be cancelled?

Ryan offers that Federal Government should only exist to protect our borders, freedoms, rights and constitution and State Government should decide everything else.

Abortion [48:35] Ryan is of the mind that State Governement should decide their own abortion laws — even if he thinks Alabama’s law is whack. The philosophical question that underpins the abortion debate revolves around when a fetus deserves equal protection under the law.

Billy debates whether men should even vote on it.

Marriage [54:33] Billy asks about the white entrepreneur’s recent obsession with open couples. Ryan isn’t even certain what he thinks about marriage but he does think that the recent spike in non-traditional narratives in the entrepreneurial community is driven by loneliness.

Entrepreneurship [1:00:40] Both Billy and Ryan believe that people have come to mistake entrepreneurship and freedom and it has created a fad around becoming an entrepreneur.

Instagram has created this idea that you can have the house, the car, the plane, the travel, the company and it’s a mistake.

Freedom and money are not mutually exclusive.

Looking for a rabbit hole [1:04:58] Ryan and Billy shop for another rabbit hole to tumble into, they go from universal basic income to the next election to what freedom means.

Freedom [1:07:05] Defining what freedom means to you is usually a journey that starts with setting a goal. Humans are easily bored, so finding the problem you want to spend some blood sweat and tears fixing is key and once it’s fixed, it changes!

It always changes and it’s very personal, Ryan and Billy find a very real human common ground.

Rapid fire [1:10:40] Ryan asks Billy business questions:

1. Fear of loss? Losing will make the win look different.

2. Fear of change? Embrace change with grace is a core brand value.

3. Driver for scale? Simplification.

Billy shares the peace he found with letting go of Billygeneismarketing’s reins — and the difficulties of letting the team make mistakes — having it become an asset that permits branching out into new ventures.

Ryan shares how trippy this is for him since Billy is describing the exact path he’s been on for the past 2 years.

Million dollar studio [1:17:12] The financial driver behind Billy’s business growth as well as his awesome studio and team was … *drumroll* … Ads! More specifically ads to video sales, that is the model.

Final controversy [1:19:00] Billy offers up the last piece of discussion: traditional therapy and medications. The typical person who commits suicide is the white male. Billy offers up that the “get bigger problems” might explain why minorities have have a different perspective and much lower suicide rates.

Ryan adds the “get soft and purposeless” as an aggravating factor to white male suicide rates. Two things make our lives feel fulfilled and happy:

1. Meaning

2. Community

Affluent people tend to lose both, especially if you don’t do most of what Billy and Ryan have discussed in the last hour: redefine your goals and focus on social responsibility.

Ryan goes full circle and pick the disadvantaged person again because they will be less derailed by adversity than the one who had it made.

Race again [1:28:20] Billy uses a sports metaphor to illustrate that the idea that “we’ve come so far, let’s double down” is a hard pill to swallow.

Also, if you want the women’s soccer team to get a raise, watch the damn games.

Closing out [1:31:15] Having these types of conversations helps contextualize everyone’s perspective, there is white privilege, there is black privilege.

But for people in the U.S. to have these dialogues, they need to be out of the “needs” category — you can’t worry about other people’s problems if you’re not sure how you’re going to eat.

In the meantime, Billy and Ryan share a hilariously awkward handshake.

Thanks for listening!

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Everyone doing business these days owes it to themselves to understand how digital marketing works. It’s the knowledge that will enable you to reach your niche audience and ideal customers where they are - online. There’s nobody who knows how digital marketing works than Ryan Deiss. Ryan is the founder and CEO of DigitalMarketer, a company that has invested over $15,000,000 on marketing tests, generated tens of millions of unique visitors, sent well over a BILLION emails, and run approximately 3,000 split and multi-variant tests. He’s got the data to tell us exactly how digital marketing works - and on this episode, he’s answering specific questions about how to get started with effective digital marketing. Interested?

If you don’t have a relationship with your end customer, you don’t have a business - you’re a wholesaler.

Ryan Deiss says that digital marketing works best over the long haul when it is focused on building a relationship with the people who are interested in your products, not simply by writing schmoozy content that cleverly gets a sale. Relationships are what build a loyal following that translates into recurring sales. Just look at the comparison between how you perceive Microsoft VS Apple. It’s a tired example but nevertheless, it makes the point. You want your brand to be perceived as friendly and warm - as soul-ish and connecting. Ryan and Ryan chat about the specifics of what it takes to make that happen, in this Q&A session from Freedom Fast Lane LIVE.

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Ryan Daniel Moran recently held a Capitalism.com 8-Figure Business workshop at his house.

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Grant Cardone was a very carefully selected keynote speaker at the Freedom Fast Lane LIVE event last year (2015). Ryan sought high and low for someone who could come to the event and unpack what it takes to effectively invest in real estate to build assets and wealth. When he came to see what Grant has been able to do via real estate he felt like he was the guy to do it. So he invited Grant, got confirmation, then started talking about what he would talk about. On this episode, Ryan shares what happened between the two of them and why he’s publically called Grant out for not delivering the goods.

When you agree to something, you should do it, Grant.

As Ryan Daniel Moran and Grant Cardone chatted about Grant’s involvement in the Freedom Fast Lane LIVE event for 2015 Ryan told Grant his own desire to understand how real estate investing works and made it very clear that the only thing he wanted Grant to address was the strategies behind successful real estate investment. Grant agreed. In fact, he said, “I’ll give the whole talk just for you.” But what happened when Grant got up on stage was something entirely different. Did he mention real estate investing? Yeah, he mentioned it. But did he lay out a framework for what it takes to get started in real estate investing? Not a bit. You can hear what happened in this episode.

The first mistake Grant Cardone made was to stay small.

Most of us don’t have enough courage. We feel inhibited or incompetent and let that rule us. That’s why we stay small. One of the things Grant Cardone spoke about in his keynote from Freedom Fast Lane LIVE 2015 was the need to play bigger than you’re used to playing. He says that his first mistake was to stay small - but when he got past that and decided that it was OK for him to be loud, be obnoxious, and get attention, that’s when everything changed. You can hear Grant’s recounting of the mindset he had to develop to get past his limitations and get to success, on this episode.

Grant Cardone: More is survival, not greed.

The way things work is that everything winds down over time. Even monetary or business success. That’s one of the reasons you have to be pushing to gain more all the time. Growth only happens as you work to make it happen. That’s not being greedy, it’s being smart. In this keynote address, Grant Cardone tells why he is always pushing for more than he has now and tells why the results he gets are the only thing that keeps his business from going backward.

Why you need to feed the beast and starve the doubts.

Grant Cardone refers to his ambition and desire for freedom and success as “the beast.” His business philosophy is centered around feeding that beast and starving his doubts. What does it mean to feed the beast? Set big goals. Review those goals every day. Relentlessly work toward those goals day in and day out. Review them again in the evening and hit “reset” for the next day. How do you starve the doubts? You reset your belief in yourself every day and you fight the nagging voices that tell you that you need to play smaller. You can hear Grant’s approach to tenacity in business on this episode.

Outline Of This Great Episode

• [0:04] Ryan’s introduction to this episode with Grant Cardone - and what happened behind the scenes.
• [1:17] Ryan’s search to find someone who would speak about real estate investing.
• [5:37] What happened with Grant Cardone at Freedom Fast Lane LIVE 2015.
• [8:20] The Twitter war Grant started with Ryan.
• [12:07] Why it’s your responsibility to change your seat if you need to.
• [15:11] The reason “entrepreneur” means “risk.”
• [23:59] Why it is not a natural condition to be overwhelmed and why you will lose if you are.
• [28:51] One of the biggest mistakes of Grant’s life.
• [31:40] The difference between a complaint and an objection.
• [35:30] What is your potential?
• [41:00] Why Grant never wants to own a house again.
• [48:52] Why debt helped Grant become wealthy.
• [57:36] The choices every person has in life.
• [1:00:16] Why Grant protects the wealth he has.
• [1:05:20] Why you have to feed the beast and starve the doubts.
• [1:10:44] Ryan’s summary and explanation of why he was disappointed in Grant’s keynote.
• [1:11:15] What you can expect from Freedom Fast Lane LIVE 2016.

Action Steps From This Episode

FOR GREATER SUCCESS: Think bigger. You are capable of much more than you think you are. You can’t let the obstacles become hindrances.

FOR GETTING STARTED: Learn how to feed your ambition and starve your doubts. As you identify the doubts that are holding you back you’ll see more clearly how to increase your activity level to accomplish clear goals.

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Ezra Firestone’s business spent 13 million in advertising and generated 50 million in revenue from one brand in the last 30 months.

He has learned what it takes to scale an offer, which differs from building a brand to 6 figures.

Want to know the commons problems 6 figure + entrepreneurs face and what to do about it? Tune in!

Key Takeaways

[4:21] Ezra introduces himself and Ryan “Ice Cream” Moran!

Mo’ money mo’ problems [5:50] The 5 common problems of 6 figure + entrepreneurs:

1. Scaling ads profitably

2. Funding

3. Hiring, sourcing and training

4. Diversification of traffic

5. Growth plateaus (1, 5, 10 and 20 million)

Grow your back end [8:21] The game is won or lost on the back end: if you look at what any brand that has scaled really big has done is add more products.

There will be about a 15% increase in COA year over year — so you need to get more from every customer you have.

- Add at least 2 new products a year.

- Go all in on email — gifs in emails get higher clicks!

- Run an email sale every 6 weeks.

- Aim for 20 to 40% of your revenue from email.

Teachings from private equity [13:01] What Ezra has learned from his experience in venture capital consulting.

1. People who have grown brands to 9 figures think differently: your advertising revenue should always be reinvested.

2. The closer you get to a 50/50 customer mix of repeat to new, the higher your multiple.

3. User generated content — there is no better conversion asset.

Paid amplification [19:20] Ezra’s decade of experience running online advertising, gives him insight he freely shares on where the opportunities will be over the next 24 months.

- Instagram is projected to double (to 22 billion) between now and 2021.

- 90% of Facebook’s ad revenue comes from mobile for 6 to 8 seconds, Instagram is even shorter.

Considering the battle for video between YouTube and Facebook, this is where you need to go all in:

- Super short form videos — 5 to 15 seconds long.

- Content sequencing

The sales cycle has gotten really long: about 60 to 90 days so make sure all of these areas are tight to maximise your sales channels:

- Adjust your retargeting.

- Provide images for images for every available outlet.

- Focus on the story and only follow up with the product.

- Do some snail mail.

- Cross sell.

- Upsell on the checkout flow

- Bundle your products

- Price tier order bump (size up options 4oz, 8 oz etc.0

From driver to navigator [36:50] if you only drive you can’t see the mountains in the distance, or what is coming up. You need to free up your time to make it to events, meet people and stay at the forefront. You can’t do that while driving your business.

How are you to work for? [38:13] Ezra invites everyone to check themselves as employers:

2 people can get to low 7 figures

3-7 people can get to mid 7 figures

5-12 people can start to see those 8 figures

Do you give good benefits?

Do you have a comfortable work environment?

Are you investing in your employees?

If you want to scale you have to get good at human resources.

Mobile site on point [39:42] 85% of web traffic is mobile, you need a good looking mobile website.

The header of your head site on mobile is worth 10% of your conversion rate — update it make it nice and easy to use on mobile.

Like going to the gym [41:36] advertising is like going to the gym: will you see any results if you do it intermittently? No. Same goes for advertising, be consistent.

15 to 30% of your top line revenue should be invested in paid advertising all throughout the year.

The Halo effect [42:34] The 8 figure mark often happens in years 4-5-and 6.

Because you spend money to amplify your brand, you generate brand assets: customer emails, people who have bought before, pixeled audiences, etc.

Be premium [43:35] It’s just as hard to sell a cheap product as a premium one, and the premiums often have better profit margins.

The grind [44:32] it’s not about how much you work, it’s about what you produce: don’t burn yourself out, and make room for what’s important to you.

Business will fill the amount of time you give it, so it’s important to set a container on it!

And finally repetition creates mastery: be consistent — keep at your business.

Thanks for listening!

Mentioned in this episode

Max@brandbuilderstrategy.com

Guest Bio

Devin is the Co-Founder and CEO of DSquared International LLC, an eCommerce company specializing in consumer brands.  He is a ninja when it comes to building brands on the Amazon platform. He is currently best-known for his Grillaholics line of barbecue products..

Show Notes

Amazon is a great platform for minimizing the friction between creating a product and connecting it to consumers. But how can you scale up and make a big splash in an ocean of global competitors?

That’s why we approached Devin Dorosh, who has hit some awesome goals and brand recognition, to share with us tips that you can use now in your Amazon strategy - and maybe even get featured on television.

Stay focused on the things that you do well. Devin made sure he launched products that fit the niche he was targeting, with branding consistent with message. He kept rolling out more products, but focused on doing things well on Amazon (his strong suit) instead of getting distracted with new marketing techniques.

Treasure your interactions with your market, both positive and negative. Devin has a policy of replying to every single Amazon review his products get, whether they praise his goods or criticize them. This helped him build a feeling of real connection with his target market, pushing his brand to best-seller status on Amazon with great reviews.

That unique touch Devin takes with his audience is what got him noticed by Rachael Ray’s television show, getting his products and brand in front of the mainstream television-watching population.

Keep to a long-term vision to motivate you through your short-term goals. Growing your business can be a grind. Devin even found himself managing his supply chain during his honeymoon, when inventory matters became time-sensitive. But Devin stays motivated by thinking about the freedom he can give himself, his spouse, and his future children through the strong financial safety net he’s building.

We wish you the best of luck on your own Amazon business journey!

Key takeaways:

• Stay focused on the things that you do well
• Treasure your interactions with your market, both positive and negative, and
• Keep to a long-term vision to motivate you through your short-term goals

Connect with Todd

Find out more about Devin at www.devindorosh.com

• On Facebook
• On Twitter

Connect with Ryan

Find more amazing podcast discussions on FreedomFastLane.com.

• On Facebook
• On YouTube
• On LinkedIn
• On Twitter

Mike Zagare is one of the world's leading expert's on maximizing traffic to Amazon product pages.

Show Notes

A former physical therapist, Mike went all-in on pet products on Amazon and hit it big using pay-per-click (PPC) advertising. Here’s some of what Mike had to say about kickstarting success through marketing:

Go big under one tent

Mike reached his success by focusing on one niche area - pet products. He started with just a few items under one brand name, and expanded to over 40 products under that brand. This lets him get the most out of his marketing spend, since driving traffic to one brand means driving traffic to all his products.

Take your marketing spend seriously

If you're going to drop money into PPC advertising, do it right! Draft awesome ad copy. Craft great graphics. Make it have the best impact possible right out of the gate.

Target the right platforms

Facebook is great for building an audience. It’s not so great for direct response for Amazon products. Make sure that your PPC ads focus on the right venues for the market reaction you want.

It was great listening to Mike!

Key takeaways:

• Optimize your spend with products under one brand
• Craft excellent PPC ads, and
• Put those ads in front of the right audiences

Connect with Ryan

Find more amazing podcast discussions on FreedomFastLane.com.

• On Facebook
• On YouTube
• On LinkedIn
• On Twitter

Connect with Mike

FInd out more about Mike’s company, PPCE Academy, at https://ppce.academy/  

Is the Amazon gold rush over?
Well, not necessarily... but you can't use the same strategies you were using in 2011 or 2012.

In this episode I'll be walking you through the model that we are following when it comes to building physical products brands.

Amazon is just a distribution mechanism. A place to sell things.

In this monologue I'll be sharing my current strategies for selling physical products and building a scalable & sellable brand in 2019.

There is no going back to normal after the pandemic.

But the good news is that there are tremendous opportunities for entrepreneurs.

In this episode I outline the state of eCommerce and what the landscape of the future looks like.

Almost every industry has been hit hard... but there's never been a better time to be a physical product seller.

Aubrey is the man men want to be and the man women want to be with. Living on a compound with Aubrey would mean he would get all the women and own all the resources.

Today, Ryan and Aubrey talks about balance as a way to having it all — ever get tired of your ham sandwich? There isn’t only one menu...

Key Takeaways

Habits or ideas? [1:53] what creates success? Aubrey explains that most of his success came from moments of furiously brilliant inspiration followed by long and often aimless recoveries. Structuring his habits was a way for him to achieve a more even keel.

Having it all [3:47] there is no need to choose, but you do have to dedicate yourself to being fully present: 30 minutes of fully invested time is worth more than 3 days of half interested presence.

Time and energy are the limiting factors — to be present and invested, you need the energy to spend the time.

[5:34] Balance (or counterbalance) is the key to a well rounded life, Aubrey details what that means for him.

The grind [9:43] Entrepreneurs often need to validate themselves externally, which leads to an inability to let go once you’ve reached a goal.

You need to get comfortable with yourself, become aware of the psychological traps that keep you grinding and finally: identify what you are essential for within your company, and build a team that lets you leave to better come back.

Sex and relationships [16:43] society has a lot of rigid ideas about what relationships are but Aubrey’s sample group (athletes, CEO’s, entrepreneurs,etc.) are all in monogamous relationships, cheating or wanting to cheat, becoming more and more resentful.

He shares a bit about his journey towards an open relationship and how it’s helped his couple(s) see their true selves unencumbered by resentment.

Crumbling systems [23:03] governments, religions, society… Aubrey thinks humankind is going through a series of radical metaphysical shifts, beginning with the realisation of self which includes divinity, love and sovereignty over our own bodies and minds.

The crumbling of “parental” structures requires an increase in personal responsibility and structure.

Bad habits [26:37] are lost through knowledge, Aubrey moved towards a lot of good practices through gaining empirical knowledge and removing the intellectual wiggle room not to do them — cold showers are good, but you need every reason you can get to turn the hot water off!

Pain and discomfort [28:49] the ability to push through beneficial discomfort and to collapse your fear surrounding something may be the defining characteristic of really successful people.

Aubrey on wrestling tree cockroaches to collapse your fear into courage.

In a society of abundance, (beneficial) discomfort is a healthy way of getting the yin to your yang and creating growth.

Eat a weird lunch [36:45] Chapter 8 of Aubrey’s book was the most difficult to write — being academic is a tough grind!

Who does Aubrey want to be when he grows up? [38:55] Don Miguel Ruiz, Ted Dekker, Don Howard Lawler.

Delayed braingasm [41:32] the layers of the onion of existence!

One layer is universal love (god)

One layer is consciousness (soul)

One layer is the physical body

The toothpick is the self, it always touches love, consciousness and the physical body.

You can choose to identify with any of those layers, or recognise that you are always in contact with all of those dimensions — and that the onion is entirely made of toothpicks!!

Thanks for listening!

Mentioned in this episode

Capitalism.com

You may know Rob Dyrdek from TV (Ridiculousness, Rob & Big) or as a professional skateboarder, but you may not know about his entrepreneurial background.

Today he hosts the popular podcast Build With Rob Dyrdek where he shares his playbook for building amazing companies while building an amazing life.

Not only has he started and acquired companies, but his primary focus right now is helping early-stage entrepreneurs get clear in their vision, launch, and scale!

In this conversation Rob talks about the kinds of brands that attract him, how he manages his time, and the relentless defense of his own wellbeing and mental health.

Want the playbook to get to over 100 sales per day and build a million dollar business?
Learn more at:

www.Capitalism.com/Playbook

We all love to hear stories of everyday people who find success through hard work and integrity. It’s the thing turn of the century youth fiction is made of. Today’s guests are exactly that, a father-son team who have built a product brand through Amazon sales, selling 100K units of one simple item. You can hear how Mark and Jack got started, how they chose their product, and the role consumer need played in them making the decision to go for it. These guys are a refreshing dose of reality in an otherwise hype-filled entrepreneurial world. You’ll be encouraged by what you hear.

The time-for-money exchange is not the wisest use of your time.

One of the things that was a motivating factor for Mark to start his private label business was something Ryan said when he was a guest on the Smart Passive Income podcast. The point Ryan made was that exchanging your time for money (as in a typical hourly rate based job) is not the wisest thing simply because time is a limited commodity that you can never get back. If you want or need to bring in more revenue the only thing you can do in that model is work more hours or find a job that pays more per hour. If you, like Mark, want to arrange your life where the time-for-money exchange is no longer your mode of operation, you need to hear how this father-son team pulled it off.

Finding a need in the market is the best way to get product ideas.

Look around you. There are legitimate needs out there that are screaming for a product to solve. If you take your time to look for something you can address that will help people, you will find the product you are searching for. But it also has to be a unique approach to the solution that is able to catch the attention of the consumer. On this episode, Mark and Jack, a father-son team chat with Ryan about the success they have seen through the sales of their creative product that adds a handle to stainless steel tumblers. It’s an encouraging story of everyday guys who made a business work through sticking to the basics.

What changes in the mind of a 16-year-old when he is part of a successful business?

Mark and Jack are a father-son business team. Jack is 16 years old at the time this podcast episode published. Have you ever wondered what happens in the mind and life of a teenager when they are able to be part of a successful business at such a young age? On this episode of Freedom Fast Lane, you’ll get to hear how Jack has come to see business in practical ways and why he says that he’s worked his last “regular job” as a result. It’s an inspiring and helpful episode that demonstrates what anyone can do if they are willing to do the work and make it happen.

What does a successful 16-year-old business owner believe about the prospect of college?

So many young people are learning the advantages that come from starting and running their own business - whether via an Amazon model or some other - that many are deciding to skip college altogether. Ryan was curious what a father-son duo thinks about that issue after having significant success on Amazon, so he asked Jack, the 16-year-old son, what his plans are when it comes to college. Will he attend university or not? You can hear how Jack and Mark respond - and why - on this episode.

Outline Of This Great Episode

• [0:24] Ryan’s introduction to his father-son duo, Mark and Jack.
• [2:40] The origins of Mark and Jack’s private label business and brand.
• [5:47] The realization of the time-for-money exchange motivated Mark to change his life.
• [8:32] How Mark and Jack chose products and started their promotion.
• [14:15] Why a product bore out of real needs is important.
• [17:56] What has changed in the way Jack views business (he’s 16 years old).
• [24:10] The struggle to create a brand out of the initial product in a competitive market.
• [27:08] Roadblocks: Copies, knock-offs, differentiation, and other challenges.
• [30:47] Lessons learned and things Mark and Jack would do differently next time.
• [32:10] What’s the best move for young people when it comes to business or college?
• [35:00] The interesting dynamics of a father-son business.

Action Steps From This Episode

FOR GETTING STARTED: Look around you. There are legitimate needs out there that are screaming for a product to solve. If you take your time to look for something you can address that will help people, you will find the product you need.

Connect With Today’s guest: Mark and Jack McGraw

Website: https://www.grivitz.com/

Amazon Product Listing

On Instagram

On Facebook

Resources Mentioned On This Episode

• Smart Passive Income Podcast
• Google Trends
• www.FreedomFastLane.com/bootcamp
• www.FreedomFastLane.com/tribe

Connect With Freedom Fast Lane Live

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Joel Marion is the co-founder of a $100 million+ business, BioTrust Nutrition (we've had his co-founder Josh Bezoni on the show before).

He has truly mastered the art of scaling companies quickly.

Joel has ALSO built a personal brand to 8 figures in 12 months garnering over 1.2 million followers, and 1.7 million emails.

He has really dialed in how to scale, so in this episode he shares what he is doing differently from everybody else and how you can apply these same tactics.

Come see Joel Marion in person January, 21st-23rd 2019 in Dallas, TX
www.TheCapitalismConference.com

“Ryan, I just wanted you to know you’re my hero.” 

Those were the first words I heard from Andri Sadlak. At the time, I didn’t know much about his story. I didn’t know he’d taken his first sale at one of our events, that he’d lost everything and started from scratch, and certainly not that just a couple of years later, he’d have a nice exit.

But all of this is part of Andri’s story. Andri followed my book, 12 Months to $1 Million, like a blueprint. He built a little audience, focused on delighting them, and built a business he could sell. 

I’m excited to share this conversation with you, especially if you’re at the early stages of your journey. Andri is living proof that you can build a meaningful business with just a couple of products and a small group of followers.

Establishing a premium products brand is no easy task. The higher price point that is characteristic of premium products scares most brand builders away. They’d rather settle for a more affordable product that appeals to a broader audience. They believe that approach will generate more sales. But more sales are not what is most important when it comes to premium products. Product quality and a commitment to excellence are what sets them apart. Ryan’s guest on this episode is Chris Ashenden, founder of Athletic Greens. In this conversation, he shares the journey from small startup to becoming a premium products brand that does things outside the realm of what’s normal, on a number of levels.

Why your product is the best possible marketing tool you have.

When building a premium products brand, a commitment to producing the best product available is vital when it comes to marketing. It's not only about the number of eyeballs that see your advertisements nor is it only about getting big-name influencers to endorse your product. Your product itself sets a standard that is hard for the competition to reach, much less exceed. That in itself sets you up for higher pricing and a more loyal following in the end. Ryan digs deep into the journey of Athletic Greens with the company’s founder, Chris Ashenden, on this episode of Freedom Fast Lane.

Nutritional product sales using a subscription model: Unheard of but incredibly successful.

Recurring monthly income is a gold mine when it comes to e-commerce. But it's not the typical way a product based business is able to operate. But the team at Athletic Greens has learned how to make it happen for their premium product green supplements. If you're at all curious how they were able to set up a subscription-based model that retains customers over the long term then you will want to hear this conversation between Ryan and the company's founder, Chris Ashenden. Chris thinks way outside the box and what he shares will challenge you to rethink what you know or think you know about product-based businesses.

If what you’re doing doesn’t match your brand mission you need to stop it.

As Chris and his team built the Athletic Greens brand they did all kinds of things to both learn who they were as a company and to figure out the best ways to market and sell their products. That is normal for most businesses but the unique thing about what happened in their journey is that though many of the things they tried were very profitable, they gave them up when they realized those things didn't match their brand mission. Initially they took a hit financially, but in the long run, those decisions served to move their brand forward like nothing else. Find out why Chris believes that brand consistency matters more than sales volume, on this episode of Freedom Fast Lane.

Knowing and targeting your audience gives greater success than broad stroke marketing campaigns.

Every company has to determine how it is going to go about marketing its products. Marketing is the lifeblood of customer acquisition and company profitability. But the common approach to marketing is not always the best. The Athletic Greens team determined that they were better off taking the time to discover the type of person who is most likely to use their products and then target them, and only them. On this episode founder Chris Ashenden describes the benefits they have seen from doing targeted, smaller marketing campaigns.

Outline Of This Great Episode

• [0:22] Ryan’s prediction about how much this episode is going to help you.
• [3:53] Why athletic greens has become so much more successful than its competition.
• [6:28] The impact influencers have and the most natural way to get their attention.
• [7:28] How and why Chris’ team developed a subscription model for their products.
• [13:26] Carrying the momentum gained by a mention in The Four Hour Body.
• [17:27] How Athletic Greens approaches marketing and promotions.
• [21:15] How company growth did not translate into success.
• [24:00] Sticking to their guns when it comes to premium pricing.
• [28:58] Why the marketing approach Athletic Greens takes is slow but steady.
• [33:47] Advertising priorities: audience targeted, smaller campaigns.
• [38:09] Has being on Amazon changed the overall strategy of the business?
• [41:03] What it takes to follow up the first amazing, successful product.
• [43:50] Finding really great people to build one person’s vision.

Action Steps From This Episode

FOR GETTING STARTED: Make sure you focus on two things: First, understand exactly who you are trying to reach. That’s what will enable you to target your products to the people who will be willing to pay for it. Second, make your product state-of-the-art for whatever it is. Don’t compromise quality for anything.

FOR GREATER SUCCESS: Secondary products need to be a result of discovering what your existing customer base wants and needs. That enables you to build a quick-selling, market-tested sales process.

Connect With Today’s guest: Chris Ashenden

• Athletic Greens
• Chris on Twitter
• Chris on Facebook

Resources Mentioned On This Episode

• The Freedom Fast Lane Backroom: www.FreedomFastLane.com/backroom OR www.Capitalism.com/Backroom
• BOOK: The Four Hour Body
• Taboola - advertising platform
• Dropbox
• BOOK: The Little Big Things

Damien started off as a young 20 year student in the Capitalism Incubator without knowing quite what he wanted to do, he just wanted to become an entrepreneur.

Today he has built the foundation for what will obviously become a 7-figure business.
He launched a healthy cookie brand called Effin' Good Snacks and he followed Ryan's playbook by documenting the start of this brand and growing a loyal audience so that on day ONE he would have tons of sales lined up.

On this call from The One Percent, Damien shared everything he's learned from this process and what is coming next.

If you're ready to build a 7-figure business you can sell that doesn't eat up all of your time, watch Ryan's FREE 4-part video series - The Perfect Business
https://www.capitalism.com/perfect/?utm_source=CapPod&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=episode

Many high achievers get caught up in this idea of “living the dream”—living in a tropical paradise, running a business off of a laptop, working solo.

Then reality hits.

It hit Jeremy Sherk hard. He was living this exact scenario in Thailand in 2012 when he realized that his idea that he would simply “sail off into the sunset” was naive.

There were two aspects of that realization:

1. He wasn’t passionate about the business he was running.
2. He was alone.

That led to a Skype call in 2013 with his future business partner, Kevin Pasco. And thus began the journey to create their company, Nested Naturals.

In this breakout session from the 2017 Capitalism Conference, Jeremy and Kevin share their journey creating a business they actually care about, scaling up to a team of 15 people who they consider family.

They’ve created an amazing culture and team after doing the solopreneur thing off of their laptops. Listen to this episode to learn how.

Check out more great breakout sessions and keynotes from the 2017 Capitalism Conference:

• How to Grow From A 7-Figure ‘Small Business’ To An 8- or 9-Figure Empire w/ Jeff Hoffman
• Hal Elrod: What My Near Death Experiences Taught Me About Money, Business and Freedom

Connect with Nested Naturals:

• YouTube
• Instagram
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Twitter

In today’s episode, Max Kerwick shares a keynote from the Capitalism Conference by Tom Bilyeu — the man behind Quest Nutrition and Impact Theory — a 60 minute compilation of all of his most valuable business secrets.

Tune in to hear what he learned on the path he took from hand-making protein bars in his garage to a multi-billion dollar brand.

Key Takeaways

[03:00] Tom introduces himself and explains how he was not a born entrepreneur: he even went so far as to deliver papers for free because he was afraid to ring the doorbells to collect!

[05:30] The two childhood goals Tom had zero idea how to achieve.

1. 1. Become rich
2. 2. Have 6 pack abs
3. [06:20] The king of menial jobs… So much so that everyone expected him to fail.
4. [08:10] Who is your white rabbit. Tom talks about his two very muscular rabbits.
5. [09:23] Tom’s superpower — Nietzsche said it best to the people he cared for — suffering.
6. [13:40] After Tom endured his work and his riches without meaning, he quit, so he could start asking different questions. Failure and sadness are the only guarantee.
7. Know the odds, while you’re striving for success and happiness, and do something you love.
8. [19:36] A unicorn company is a formula, the before and after pictures are there. But there ares difficult parts: being afraid, feeling stupid, lost and hopeless.
9. [20:49] To build your own unicorn company you have 2 jobs. Job 1:

• - Develop your mindset and understand that what you believe is a choice: the Matrix has you, it’s time to lift the limiting veil.
• - Keep listening for job 2!
• [30:00] From a decidedly utilitarian perspective Tom shares his method to develop usable new skills.

• - Be an eternal student — you are not yet the person you need to be to accomplish everything you want to accomplish
• - Meditate
• - Be open to change, don't just talk about it
• - Execute
• - Develop grit
• [34:00] Have an ego, everyone does, but have it about the right things. Make certain you pride yourself on things that will drive your goals, don’t pride yourself on being right.
• [36:45] Grit is sustained effort over time, persisting through your boredom and suffering, develop this faculty and learn to tell the difference between lack of grit and disinterest.
• [38:24] One of the questions Tom hears most frequently is how do you find your passion? Like for building a Unicorn company there is a formula: Interest + Mastery = Passion.
• [41:41] We said keep listening and here it is: Job 2, build your business, Tom breaks down the how to’s:

• - Find your why and make it blindingly clear
• - Be transparent
• - Focus on value, it’s the only sustainable thing
• - Be authentic
• - Connect with your audience — Tom’s tricks, get the green light from thought leaders and engage influencers to access their 1 000 screaming fans
• - Add value (customers hate your content)
• - Finally, execute and grind baby grind because it starts with a willingness to persist long after it’s boring.
• [1:01:30] The central mantra of Tom’s life is “Just because you’re incapable of something today, it doesn’t mean that you’re not capable of learning that thing. It’s about who you want to become and what price you are willing to pay to become it”.
• Mentioned in this episode
• Quest Nutrition
• Impact Theory
• Book: The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche
• Book: Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink
• Book: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Book: Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
• Book: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
• Joy Remetta Super Fan Award
• Jenna Marbles

In this episode of Freedom Fast Lane, Ryan Daniel Moran talks about the habits you need to develop to help you in maximizing your life.

Listen in to learn the 7 principles of freedom and how these can help you build better results for yourself and your business. Become a real capitalist: responsible, creative, generous, sagacious, coalescent, transparent, healthful.

How would your life change if you owned a million dollar business?

In this interview with Stefan James from Project Life Mastery we discuss the so-called "playbook" to grow an eCommerce business and give you the freedom to move forward.

Stefan is also an internet entrepreneur millionaire who makes content that inspires and moves people to take action.

We talk about the mindset you will never to cultivate in order to make mistakes, beat the competition, and grow your business in 2020.

Full show notes at https://freedomfastlane.com/

Scaling your business to 9 figures in value seems daunting. How can this be done without working insane hours?

Yes, scaling up by an order of magnitude may seem out of reach. But right now, you're probably closer than you think.

Getting where you are now felt difficult, but that’s because you were working so hard to get off the ground. Now that you’ve found some substantial success, you need a sound strategy with a network that suits your business’s products or services.

Going from 7-figures to 8-figures is primarily about dialing up your marketing and sales efforts. Here, you monetize the customers you currently have, increase your focus on ecommerce, and maybe pivot to other marketing channels.

Going from 80figures to 9-figures is about successful investments. And investing for exponential scaling is Ryan’s forte.

Once your company makes $10 million in yearly profits, you can look to an exit for 8-12x those profits. But what if your company is making $3 million in annual profits, with three other competitors about that size in your industry?

What if those competitors are, instead, potential allies? If you merged forces or collaborated on a joint venture, you can package your combined value in a roll-up, and add an order of magnitude in value when selling the package.

And that order of magnitude came just from making a relationship. From calling up your former competitors and seeing what you could do together, you added another zero to your exit value.

You just massively scaled your business without having to do much more work than picking up your phone and dialing a few numbers.

Now you see how reaching entrepreneurial success doesn’t have to be like climbing a long staircase to the peak of a mountain.

There are incredibly effective shortcuts that people have and continue to use to accelerate their growth. Learn more in this episode of the podcast.

Key takeaways:

• Scaling from 7-8 figures in value to 9 figures is not as daunting as you think
• Once you have a good product and vision, building a network accelerates growth

Connect with Ryan

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On Instagram

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Noah Kagan knows how to launch a 7-figure business in a single weekend - and he's done it 7 times.

He's learned that this is the best time ever in the history of entrepreneurship to start a business but too often people get stuck on the details instead of taking action and finding the quickest market validation possible.

In this podcast Ryan interviews him about the importance of having confidence and a clear vision as he shares his practical strategies for launching new businesses.

If you follow Noah's method you can find out in a 48 hour period if your business idea has legs and if you are sitting on a million dollar business before you even have a final product.

To join us at the next CapCon visit:

http://www.Capitalism.com/CapCon

To learn more about creating your own path to $1 million sign up for our FREE 30 day mini series at:

http://www.Capitalism.com/Million

Timestamps

(1:00) - Noah’s Failures

(4:00) - Proving Ideas Fast - What’s The Simplest Way To Test This?

(11:25) - When Do You Know When To Quit?

(19:00) - The Power Of Asking

(31:00) - Business Is A Game Of Confidence

(36:20) - Everything Is Pre-Sold

(43:30) - You Have To Validate Your Idea First

(51:49) - Success Is Boring

(1:01:00) - Solving The Best Problems

(1:04:00) - Now, Not How

(1:06:00) - WWE Smackdown Stories

Today marks the first official show of The One Percent.
In this episode I talk about searching for greater meaning outside of just being successful in business.

I tracked my progress as an entrepreneur for 5 years under Freedom Fast Lane but this is the show for the One Percent bold enough create change, pursue wealth, find freedom, take control of their health, and reach their full potential.

I am an entrepreneur, investor, a father, and a skeptic who is on a journey to meet the world's highest achievers - those who live in the one percent of all aspects of life.

When starting your own product business, it’s easy to tackle a million and one problems at a time. Starting on the simplest problems first sets you on a much better path.

In this episode, Kevin Lavelle, founder of Mizzen+Main, shares how he made “the best damn dress shirt for men” that’s now worn by men across 50 states.

We uncover how Kevin built credibility through a crowded market, boosting immunity through making mistakes, and the risks of scaling too early.

Mike Tecku is a serial entrepreneur who refuses to work more than a few hours a week. 

After a big exit a few years ago, he is now building up a longevity health shake brand that he believes he can scale up to $100M... all while working 2 hours a day!

Ryan brought him on the podcast because this 1 product brand that is already doing $100k/mo and growing quickly seems to defy all of the brand building rules.

Mike shares how he has optimized this business for an amazing lifestyle of purpose and freedom and talks about his mindset for effortless success.


Learn more about Mike Tecku's longevity shake for optimum health at:

https://www.MomentumShake.com

Want to join us at The Capitalism Conference at Austin, TX on April 2024? 
Get on the waitlist today at:

https://Capitalism.com/CapCon

To learn more about creating your own path to $1 million sign up for our FREE 30 day mini series at:

http://www.Capitalism.com/Million

Timestamps:

(0:00) - Conviction & Success

(2:00) - Mike’s DJ business

(8:45) - Creating A Product You Want To See In The World

(12:00) - Shifting Your Identity

(20:14) - Momentum

(23:00) - Business & Creating Products As An Art Form

(28:00) - Creating Effortlessly

(31:00) - Self Transcendence

(35:00) - Arnold Schwarzenegger's Success Secret

(44:00) - Defining The Rules To The Game

(51:00) - Great Ideas Matter

(58:00) - What If Business Was Easy?

(1:01:00) - Finding The Internal Compass

(1:10:00) - Playing An Infinite Game

When Ryan first met Mauricio Rauld it was in the context of purchasing an ownership interest in his favorite baseball team, the Cleveland Indians. In the end, the Indians did not get purchased by a syndicate like Ryan was hoping, but Ryan made the connection with Mauricio as a result and his learning curve about alternative assets took off. Mauricio is an amazing individual who is part of a team that helps people raise money to build investments in real estate and other alternative assets. You’ll be amazed at some of the returns his clients are seeing and how they are achieving those returns. You can hear it all on this episode of Freedom Fast Lane.

What are alternative assets and why are they so attractive these days?

Alternative assets are any kind of investment you can purchase that is not a stock - not related in any way to Wall Street. So buying gold is considered an alternative asset, as is the purchase of real estate. Mauricio Rauld believes that alternative assets are the way to go because they are less likely to be impacted by market downturns and provide a tangible asset that can be used even should a downturn be experienced. On this episode, Mauricio shares how his company is actively investing in mobile home parks and other real estate ventures to provide a great return for their investors. It’s a model more and more people are pursuing, so find out how you can as well by listening.

Why Mauricio Rauld stays as far from Wall Street as possible.

Wall Street, by the very nature of what it is, is tied directly to the ebbs and flows of the economic state of the country. Investing in Wall Street can be very lucrative but can also be very dangerous, especially at a time like we are currently experiencing where a downturn is likely to be on the near horizon. Mauricio Rauld says that he stays as far away from Wall Street as possible simply because he wants to have his money invested in things that won’t be impacted as dramatically by market changes. You can find out how he does that why he thinks it’s the best way to go for the foreseeable future, on this episode.

The REAL story behind passive income.

It’s a very attractive thought to imagine that you can have some kind of “passive” income to fuel your lifestyle. But you need to understand something: that kind of passive income is not a reality. There is always a successful business behind any income that seems to be passive. Think of it as an investment that is funded by the business. The business generates the cash to be invested and the investment does what it is meant to do - generate more cash. Mauricio Rauld explains how investing in alternative assets is one way to realize a source of cash flow that many would consider “passive,” on this episode.

What ahead for this economy (2017)?

As of the middle of the year, 2017 - the United States economy has been on a very long and protracted uphill climb. Statistically, it’s a longer time of growth than we’ve ever seen before. That fact alone leads many to believe that a downturn is coming sooner rather than later. That’s one of the reasons that Mauricio Rauld and his company are investing heavily in mobile home parks. Their belief is that every person, no matter the state of the economy, will need a place to live - and mobile home parks are among the most affordable sources of housing. That makes wise investments in mobile home parks almost recession proof. Find out more about how this kind of investment makes sense in light of a possible downturn, on this episode of Freedom Fast Lane.

Outline Of This Great Episode

• [0:24] Ryan’s introduction of his guest, Mauricio Rauld.
• [6:02] Mauricio’s superpower and why he’s on the show for this episode.
• [7:55] How Mauricio shined a light on Ryan’s way of thinking and approach to investing.
• [13:55] What was it that prompted Mauricio to leave his law practice?
• [15:14] What are “alternative assets?”
• [16:45] Why mobile home parks are one of the more attractive alternative assets at the moment.
• [19:43] Why Mauricio is raising money for investors rather than using lenders.
• [24:00] Mauricio’s take on the current economic outlook (July 2017).
• [26:41] How Mauricio’s team enables his business to work.
• [28:34] How the team acquires its properties so effectively.
• [32:02] How investor agreements are structured in a typical situation.
• [37:13] How depreciation offsets income for real estate investors.

Action Steps From This Episode

FOR GETTING STARTED: Adjust your thinking about how “passive income” really happens. There is always some kind of successful business behind what seems to be passive. Think of it like an investment that is funded by the business. When you get that concept you’ll understand why every passive income opportunity requires a lot of work (by someone) on the front end.

FOR GREATER SUCCESS: Consider adopting Mike Dillard’s philosophy. You don’t need to become an expert in the fields you want to make money from. You just need to find the people who are trustworthy experts in that area and invest in them. You’ll find your returns come more quickly and at a greater rate of return simply because your own learning curve is not the bottleneck to your wealth-building process.

Connect With Today’s guest: Mauricio Rauld

Mauricio on Facebook

Mauricio on LinkedIn

Mauricio on Twitter

Resources Mentioned On This Episode

• www.FreedomFastLane.com/backroom - Join Mauricio and others

Connect With Freedom Fast Lane

Website: www.FreedomFastLane.com On Youtube On Facebook On Twitter On Google Plus On LinkedIn On Instagram

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P.S. Tickets for this year’s Capitalism Conference (Formerly Freedom Fast Lane LIVE) are now on sale. Go get your tickets here!

What if you could live life at your absolute best, every single day?

How different would your business be, how different would you life be?

Craig Ballantyne coaches high-performing entrepreneurs and executives to get more done, have a massive impact, grow their influence... and finally have a fulfilling personal life again.

In this podcast I interviewed him about how entrepreneurs can truly have it all. Craig gives very actionable & practical advice that you can implement today to start to reach your full potential.

Not long ago Roxelle Cho was making products in her garage.

 After she gained the loyalty and support of a growing customer base through Facebook Live, Instagram, and emails she had to scale quickly.

Fused Hawaii is a handmade swimwear brand that empowers women to live comfortably in the skin that they're in.

 In this episode Roxelle shares how she has created a community of superfans who want to buy from the company again and again while spreading their message and telling their friends.

One of the most prevalent things you hear from the personal development gurus out there is about the power of limiting beliefs. The standard party line is that you need to focus on removing those limiting beliefs because, well - they limit you. But Jesse Elder says that you don’t need to focus on removing limiting beliefs, you simply need to ignore them - because what you ignore goes away. Jesse’s got all kinds of outside-the-box perspectives on life and personal growth and he shares a lot of them in this episode - his keynote address at Freedom Fast Lane LIVE 2015.

Life is a process of harvesting seeds that were planted long ago.

And If you want to make changes in your life, the only way to do that is to plant new seeds. It’s true. Every day you are receiving the benefits of what others in the past have done - harvesting seeds. Life will continue on as it has been unless you do something to add to the process, something that plants your own seeds of opportunity, ambition, and success. On this episode, Jesse Elder shares his unique perspective on how you can practice what he calls active appreciation - and he tells how it can not only bring more success to your life but also build a greater sense of contentment and peace for yourself.

If you really want what you say you want, you have to do more. Intentions are not enough.

It’s true that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. That’s because good intentions with no action to back them up are nothing but worthless fantasies. Change, growth, and success are things that you have to take action to see come about. But first you’ve got to be clear on what it is that you want - and why. Listen to this episode as Jesse Elder shares why your road to success is not about focusing on some future goal but rather about measuring where you’ve come. It sounds a bit counter-intuitive so make sure you take the time to hear it straight from Jesse’s own lips.

Look forward but measure backward: the way to grow toward success.

It is important to have goals. It’s important to have something to shoot for. But you’ll put yourself in the gap between where you are and where you want to be if the only thing you do is assess the distance between those two places. You’ll wind up stuck, unable to move because you’re in the middle of a chasm between want and reality with no clear way forward. Jesse Elder recommends that you look forward to those dreams you long for, but to then look backward to measure how far you’ve come. In doing so you’ll build confidence that is tangible, based on the things you’ve already achieved - and that confidence will breed more confidence, which leads to the creativity needed to fashion future success.

We entrepreneurs can bring an idea into the world that truly makes a difference.

One of the most important aspects of being an entrepreneur is not that you get to build your own lifestyle of freedom (though that IS important). Entrepreneurs are the only people in the world who get to bring an idea into reality, move it into the realm of people’s awareness, and through that idea make beneficial changes in the lives of those people. Entrepreneurs are the ones who change the world - iteration at a time, product by product. Hear how Jesse Elder advises entrepreneurs to set goals and move toward them for the good of the world, on this keynote address from the Freedom Fast Lane LIVE 2015 event.

Outline Of This Great Episode

• [0:05] Ryan’s embarrassing confession about his first 5 years of entrepreneurism.
• [2:20] Why Jesse Elder was the first to speak at FFL 2015.
• [10:00] What is the expectation you have of yourself to learn and then implement?
• [11:02] How Jesse learned that looking forward zaps your confidence.
• [20:20] The number one job of leaders: Keep your own confidence high.
• [23:03] A real life exercise to practice the skill of looking forward, measuring backward.
• [28:25] Why you can’t sit around waiting for something good to happen.
• [36:47] Through your perception, reality is born.
• [39:50] The crushing power of, “Yeah, but..”
• [45:57] The benefits of practicing active appreciation in every circumstance.
• [51:13] How Jesse learned to appreciate everything and need nothing, through MMA style fighting.

Action Steps From This Episode

FOR GETTING STARTED: Learn how to look forward but measure backward. That’s the only way you can build up your confidence toward success and build more success.

FOR GREATER SUCCESS:.Destroy the power of the two words that can crush your dreams and potential for success: “Yeah, but.”

Connect With Today’s guest: JESSE ELDER

Website: http://jesseelder.com/

On Twitter

On Facebook

On Youtube

Resources Mentioned On This Episode

• www.FreedomFastLaneLive.com

Connect With Freedom Fast Lane

Website: www.FreedomFastLane.com

On Youtube

On Facebook

On Twitter

On Google Plus

On LinkedIn

On Instagram

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Stacey Boehman has sold everything from $19.99 cleaning products in Walmart to a $36,000 coaching package for entrepreneurs.

Today she helps entrepreneurs make more money and she's learned that your conviction and belief in yourself is ultimately more important than the offer itself or the price point.
At the end of the day, selling all comes down to your mindset.

In this podcast from our #MindsetSeries Ryan asks her about what entrepreneurs of all kinds can do to practice this habit of conviction and shift their beliefs so that anything can become possible.

If you know how to sell, you will never stop making money.

If you're ready to build a 7-figure business you can sell that doesn't eat up all of your time, watch Ryan's FREE 4-part video series - The Perfect Business
https://www.capitalism.com/perfect/?utm_source=CapPod&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=episode

I turned 35 this week.

And it feels like the entry point of the 2nd Act in a Three-Part Act that is our lives.

In many ways this is just the beginning of the next chapter.

This milestone got me to thinking about the things I wish I could have told myself 10 years ago, if only I would have listened.

This podcast goes out to all the 20 something entrepreneurs out there who want more and would be open to a few pieces of life advice.

If you're ready to build a 7-figure business you can sell that doesn't eat up all of your time, watch Ryan's FREE 4-part video series - The Perfect Business
https://www.capitalism.com/perfect/?utm_source=CapPod&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=episode

A-Players are those people who do everything a notch or two above everyone else. And while that may not sound like such a big deal it makes a world of difference when it comes to productivity, morale, and team dynamics. Get more than one A-player on your team and the results become exponential. Russell Brunson says if was starting all over, building a business from scratch, the first thing he’d do is refine his mission and product idea, then he’d go find A-players to help him make it happen. He goes into an amazing amount of detail on what he’d do in this episode, so be sure you listen.

Finding A-players for your team is the key to amazing success.

One of the things you’ll notice about Russell Brunson is that his success seems exponential. And it is for a very simple reason: He finds and hires the very best people to be part of his team. They are the A-players, the ones who are self-motivated, incredibly good at what they do, and who buy the vision of his companies and get behind it full force. Russell says any company that is struggling is probably not building a team to begin with, and those who have are probably not finding the best players for the team. Russell knows what he’s talking about from mistakes he’s made along this line in the past. Find out how he remedied his problem and found A-players, on this episode.

An A-player is worth 30 times more than a B-player. Find them.

It’s easy to find people to do the work you need done in your company. But it’s extremely difficult to find the RIGHT people, with the RIGHT skills and attitude and drive, to do the RIGHT jobs that will move you forward. Russell Brunson says it’s absolutely vital for massive success to find the A-players who will move your company forward. They free you up to do what you do best and amplifies everything your company does. Find out how he goes about doing that on this episode.

It’s fairly consistent what it takes to get to $1M in revenue.

When Ryan described the typical FFL listener - a physical products brand owner who’s approaching or has reached $1M in sales - he asked what advice Russell would give those people about how to reach their next level of success. Russell said it’s not difficult. The same things that enable one company to go from $1M to $10M are the things other companies have to do as well. It has to do with delegation to the right team members, systems and processes, and getting out of your own way as an entrepreneur. You can hear all of Russell’s advice for owners of physical products brands in this conversation.

Will you coast to the end of the year or will you double-down and make more happen than ever?

When your business is doing well you can get complacent, feeling you can afford to sit back and watch your profits come in. But you may find that it’s not very fulfilling to do that. You’re an entrepreneur, you’ve got to be creating, growing, and building something of value. What would it mean for your business if you decided to double-down on your effort until the end of the year? What if you invested in yourself and your company by getting the help and insight you need to make greater success happen? The Capitalism Conference is coming up and it’s an event that will undoubtedly be the biggest thing to happen to your business - ever. Find out more on this episode.

Outline Of This Great Episode

• [0:22] Hanging out with Russell Brunson and how he’s made a name in sales funnels.
• [6:53] Russell’s suggestions for physical products brands to infuse personality into their brand.
• [9:11] Is it possible to build an audience after products are already being sold.
• [10:36] Funnels for people who are selling physical products.
• [14:33] Russell’s observations about what makes people stand out.
• [20:03] How Russell is able to run so many things and get so much done.
• [24:34] The best way Russell has found to deal with the frustrations of growth.
• [26:46] What serves as motivation for Russell these days.
• [29:17] Advice to get from $1M to the next level.
• [32:00] How Russell has changed Ryan’s life: Ryan’s personal story.

Action Steps From This Episode

FOR GETTING STARTED: Find your face, mission, and message to firmly establish your brand.

FOR GREATER SUCCESS: Infuse personality into your brand, even if it’s a physical products brand. People buy more from people than they do from brands.

Connect With Today’s guest: Russell Brunson

• ClickFunnels
• www.ExpertSecrets.com - free plus shipping

Resources Mentioned On This Episode

• The Capitalism Conference 2017
• Russell’s Podcast: Marketing in Your Car
• BOOK: Dot Com Secrets
• BOOK: Expert Secrets
• Bulletproof Coffee
• TV Show: The Profit
• Episode with Kevin and Jeremy of Nested Naturals

P.S. Tickets for this year’s Capitalism Conference (Formerly Freedom Fast Lane LIVE) are now on sale. Go get your tickets here!

This episode is aptly named: E-commerce business ideas for driving traffic and converting customers - and the guy who’s telling us what’s working and how to do it on this episode is Ezra Firestone. Ezra is a long-time, experienced e-commerce entrepreneur who has created a massive 7-figure e-commerce business for himself. He knows a thing or two about running a successful e-commerce business. During this conversation with Ryan, the two discuss the full spectrum of what it looks like to build a physical products brand and Ezra shares how he’s using Facebook Messenger, Pinterest, and email to drive traffic to his sales pages. But maybe the most important thing you'll hear is the most succinct and clear way to run an EFFECTIVE e-commerce sales funnel you can imagine. You will be sorry if you don’t listen to this conversation.

Making people do something before you give them a discount is a hot e-commerce idea.

One of the little gems Ezra Firestone shared during this conversation had to do with the sequence he’s using on Facebook Messenger that is building his list on the FB platform rapidly and successfully. He finds that asking prospective customers to make “micro-commitments” increases their commitment to follow through with a purchase. Ezra shares what he asks his prospective customers to do, why he thinks it works, and exactly how he sets it up in his Messenger sequence, on this episode.

90% open rates - if you use Facebook Messenger for your e-commerce sales funnel.

Ezra Firestone says he used to think of his customer list only in terms of email. But he’s come to see that the people he is able to reach use all kinds of channels to communicate, interact with others, and make purchases. From Pinterest to Facebook Messenger, the e-commerce business ideas Ezra has either tried or is experimenting with are amazing - and on this episode, he shares what he’s done in those areas and the results he’s seeing. It’s nothing but good stuff - so make sure you listen.

Longer form content is actually on the rise in the e-commerce world.

In the past few years, there have been many people advising bloggers, podcasters, sellers, etc. to abandon long-form content. But Ezra Firestone says he’s seeing a rise in both the popularity and effectiveness of long-form content as it relates to his e-commerce business. On this episode, you’ll hear why he thinks this trend is happening and how he advises you take advantage of it to get more customers and sell more products. He doesn’t hold back, so be sure you listen.

An e-commerce business idea that will increase your sales immediately.

On this episode, Ezra Firestone succinctly and clearly shares an e-commerce sales funnel that works. Are you ready for it? Create a problem-solution style video that leads to a product offer page, direct from visibility source to product offer page with retargeting to people who watched “XYX” percentage of the video, and retargeting of people who visited the product offer page, and retargeting of people who made it to the shopping cart. That’s the sales funnel most people use and one of the easiest to set up. More importantly, it’s incredibly effective. Listen to this episode to find out the details.

Outline Of This Great Episode

• [0:22] Ryan’s introduction to his e-commerce expert guest, Ezra Firestone.
• [4:21] A recent appearance Ryan made on national television - and TV show ideas.
• [11:19] The things Ezra sees working in the world of e-commerce right now.
• [18:10] How Ezra engages his audience using Facebook Messenger.
• [24:00] The top converting tools Ezra is using.
• [27:21] How Ezra’s team is using Pinterest to drive traffic.
• [33:80] How Amazon sellers can strategize to build an e-commerce business.
• [36:36] Who you can learn from at Ezra’s upcoming event.
• [42:33] Why Ezra believes you have to be a maniac to become an entrepreneur.

Action Steps From This Episode

FOR GREATER SUCCESS: For an e-commerce funnel that works: Create a problem-solution style video that leads to a product-offer page, direct from visibility source to product offer page with retargeting to people who watched “XYX” percentage of the video, and retargeting of people who visited the product offer page, and retargeting of people who made it to the shopping cart. That’s the sales funnel most people use and one of the easiest to set up. More importantly, it’s incredibly effective.

Connect With Today’s guest: Ezra Firestone

www.SmartMarketer.com

On Twitter

On Facebook

On LinkedIn

On Pinterest

On Youtube

On Google+

Resources Mentioned On This Episode

• www.SmartMarketer.com/Allstars - Get in on Ezra’s upcoming conference.
• ManyChat
• www.Segment.com

Connect With Freedom Fast Lane

Website: www.FreedomFastLane.com On Youtube On Facebook On Twitter On Google Plus On LinkedIn On Instagram

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P.S. Tickets for this year’s Capitalism Conference (Formerly Freedom Fast Lane LIVE) are now on sale. Go get your tickets here!

www.FreedomFastLane.com 

The biggest brands in the world all start with this one thing in mind, and if you get it right, it eliminates all your competition. 

In this 8 part series, I'm going to walk you through every step of building a million dollar business so that you have the tools to build a brand you can scale and sell.

This week we are talking about the importance of starting with your ideal customer avatar, or to put it in other words, choosing who your brand serves.

Head to https://capitalism.com/playbook to see how we grow and scale brands to the million dollar mark and beyond.

To get on the waitlist for the accelerator, head to https://capitalism.com/launch

Connect with me on Instagram at https://instagram.com/ryandanielmoran

One day, Jared Springer was on the verge of filing bankruptcy. Fast-forward just a little bit, and he sells his business for millions of dollars. Staring at his phone, watching millions of dollars hit his bank account, you’d think Jared would have been the happiest man alive.

But he wasn’t. 

That is, until he discovered the secret anyone, anywhere, in any financial situation can use to finally be happy. As Jared discovered, with money, all of your tendencies just get louder and bigger… because now you have the time and money to amplify them.

On this episode, I’m sharing the conversation Jared and I had on a recent Wine with Wyan. Jared tells a harrowing tale of workaholism, physical paralysis, near financial ruin, massive success, and finally… happiness. 

Jared’s the author of I’ll Be Happy When. Entrepreneur, my hope is that you will take what he says to heart now, while you’re building, so you’re not waiting for someday.

I would very much like to hear your thoughts on this episode.