Dream Nation

Life is a game of obstacles. Winners are those who dare to face them with firmness and exceptional courage. Successful leaders are strong and motivated, with a clear vision of the future. They confront constant challenges but never give up.Do you want to be a winner? Then, prepare to face obstacles with courage and firmness.Subscribe to receive inspiration and motivational strategies. Follow our social media to stay connected and be part of this success community. Don't miss the latest updates and exclusive content! Join us on the journey to greatness! #dreamers #dreamnation #motivation #success #personaldevelopmentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Unleash Your Inner Warrior and Build an Empire! | Branding, Innovation, and the Greatness of Legendary BrandsIn this special Freestyle Friday today, we tackle the fascinating world of branding and innovation. Discover how brutal tactics and clever strategies have propelled giants like Apple, Oreo, and Volvo to the top of their industries.We'll delve into the decision chains and touching stories behind these iconic brands. Learn how each has woven a powerful narrative, connecting with their audiences in unique and profound ways. This is your chance to soak up the lessons from market titans and awaken the inner warrior within you.From brutal tactics to strategic moves, each story is a masterclass in determination and greatness. Find out the purpose and impact behind each successful campaign and how you can apply these principles to your own brand. Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur, an influencer with ambitions, or just someone looking to make an indelible mark on the world, this episode is for you.Join us and learn how to build a brand with purpose, determination, and a dose of creative brutality. This is not just a journey through the history of branding; it's an invitation to become a legend in your field.Don't miss this epic journey to greatness! Tune in now and start building your brand with purpose and innovation. #BrandHistory #BrutalInnovation #TitanStrategies #InnerWarrior #LastingLegacy #DreamNationAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Listen up because this is the key to success!Diversity in technology is the future's cornerstone. Today, we explore how to forge a successful career without a formal degree and how generational wealth is attainable in the industry. Education is not a barrier when it comes to technology. Get ready to jump straight into six-figure jobs and empower future generations.Right here, right now, I'm giving you the tools you need to shape your future.Don't fall behind; fight for your dreams!Guest Jarrett Albritton:https://www.jalbritton.comhttps://www.instagram.com/doctaj/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Hey DreamBuilders,It's Freestyle Friday, and today we're diving into the real stuff—those business mistakes that can make or break you. Ever felt like you've got it all wrong even when you're doing your best? Trust me, I've been there.In this episode, I'm laying it all out—my top 3 business mistakes and the hard lessons they taught me. You might think messing up is a setback, but it's actually what keeps us on our toes, keeps us striving for better.Mistake #1: The One-Man ShowI thought I could wear all the hats—CEO, marketer, you name it. Turns out, that's a one-way ticket to Burnout City. The real lesson? Delegation isn't just an option; it's a must.Mistake #2: Slow to Fire, Quick to Lose MoneyHolding onto the wrong team members cost me more than just money; it cost me momentum. The takeaway? Be quick to cut ties and set the bar high from the get-go.Mistake #3: Ignored My Mental GameI was all about that grind, but I ignored the stress building up. Bad move. Investing in my mental health turned out to be the boss move I didn't know I needed.So, tune in and let's get into it. If you've been wrestling with your own business mistakes and wondering how to bounce back, this Freestyle Friday is for you.Catch the full vibe at dreamnation.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In life, you gotta stand out, be exceptional, and show that you're someone worth having around. Don't settle for the ordinary; strive to make an impression.When you're chasing opportunities, make sure you leave a lasting memory and go the extra mile. Mediocrity won't get you far.As Mr. Roland put it, the difference between being ignored and being invited to opportunities lies in how you present yourself. If you want to attract the right people into your life, you've gotta prove you're valuable and unique.Show that you're worth it, and don't settle for less! Are you willing to go that extra mile to demonstrate that you're someone worth having around?If you see yourself as a bold dreamer and an impact creator, join us in exploring a world full of opportunities. Feel free to follow us and discover more! Subscribe right now and follow us on our social media:Instagram:➡️ @dreamnation➡️ @dreamnationpodcastAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Hey DreamBuilders,It's Freestyle Friday, and today we're diving into something real—a topic that's been on my mind and probably yours too. Ever feel like you're falling behind or just not doing enough, even when you're giving it your all? Yeah, me too.In this episode, I'm breaking down what all driven people, myself included, often feel: like we're failing 90% of the time. Sounds crazy, right? But it's that very feeling that keeps us hungry, keeps us pushing for more.I'll share why this sense of "not enough" is actually a hidden superpower, a fuel that can propel us to new heights. It's not about wallowing in self-doubt; it's about recognizing that the discomfort is a sign—you're on the path to something greater.So, tune in and let's get into it. Because if you've been carrying the weight of your ambitions and wondering if it's all worth it, this Freestyle Friday is for you.Catch the full vibe at dreamnation.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This episode is an energy boost you can't afford to miss! Rolland Pollard's success stories serve as a reminder that there are no limits to what you can achieve. When you face challenges, when you dive into transparency and share your experiences, you inspire others and fuel your own inspiration.Imagine gaining millions of followers and changing your life through social media. This proves that no matter how skeptical you may be at first, embracing new opportunities can lead to viral success. You can't just sit back and wait for things to happen. You must provide real value to your audience and stay consistent. The power of social media is undeniable, and you have the ability to harness it.This episode is a call to action. Have you been hesitating to take a certain path? Wondering if you can succeed in a new venture? The answer is yes! But only if you're willing to fight for it. Don't settle for mediocrity; join the fighters and conquer your path to greatness. The time for action is now!Guest Rolland Pollard:https://www.facebook.com/RolandP90X/https://www.linkedin.com/in/roland-pollard-46881577Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Hey DreamBuilders,We're kicking off the very first episode of Freestyle Fridays, and I couldn't be more excited to share this space with you. Today, we're diving deep into this new segment with, "2 Secrets To Getting Whatever You Want In Life". Trust me, these insights are game-changers, born from real, raw experiences.Just a little sneak peek - I recently connected with Roland Pollard, and it all started with a personal video message that resonated with him. Fast forward to the Invest conference, and our paths crossed amidst some of the industry's giants. It's a powerful reminder that when you step up authentically, great things happen.But this is just the beginning. I've got a full episode where we'll unpack these secrets together, sharing those transformative insights that can set you on a path to achieving your dreams.So, stay tuned, DreamBuilders. We're crafting our dreams, one genuine conversation at a time.Find your inspiration at dreamnation.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Get ready for some real estate greatness. I'm your host, Casanova Brooks. Today, we've got the legendary Dr. Rachel Gainsbrugh in the house!Dr. Rachel is the embodiment of perseverance. From Haiti to Miami, she crushed $500K in student loans and discovered the power of AirBNB investing. She scored a mind-blowing 15X return with short-term rentals. Talk about stacking that paper!But hold up, there's more. Managing 18 luxury rentals, balancing her career, family, and coaching, Dr. Rachel knows how to slay it all. Her passion is helping people like us create an epic life through real estate. Just two properties can make a massive impact.And get this, her story even made it to Netflix! She's the real deal, folks. So, if you're a hungry entrepreneur seeking financial freedom, Dr. Rachel is your guide. Get ready to level up and unleash your potential in the world of real estate. Let's go!links:www.shorttermgems.comwww.dreamnation.comwww.youtube.com/c/dreamnationcasanovabrooksAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Alright, here we go! Time to plug in and tune up, 'cause this episode of Dream Nation is about to be lit! I'm your host, Casanova Brooks, and I'm inviting you to a deep dive into the game-changing world of real estate investing with the master himself, Michael Blank. We're about to hit the fast lane to financial freedom, all fueled by the horsepower of real estate. Now listen up—this isn't just your run-of-the-mill episode—it's an absolute must-hear! Me and my guy, Michael, are about to show you how entrepreneurs are out here flexing like superheroes. We're going to be sprinkling knowledge like magic dust along the way. Michael's gonna take us on his personal journey, starting from a pivotal book he picked up in '05 that flipped the switch and set his passion for real estate on fire. Now? He's lighting the path for others with his solid coaching and A1 courses. You don't want to sleep on this electric convo on Dream Nation—it's your key to unlocking a wealth-filled future with real estate investing! Let's get after it!Links:www.themichaelblank.comwww.dreamnation.comwww.youtube.com/c/dreamnationcasanovabrooks Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Derek Boone, Kenny Smith, and Ramel Newerls have created a collaborative movement to help people fund their freedom. Through credit and funding resources, they have been able to help people from various parts of the country obtain the money they need to start projects and businesses. With the help of these financial literacy experts, people can access the funding they need to start their own businesses. They are providing people with the tools and knowledge they need to get the funding they need to make their dreams a reality. Through their collaborative movement, they are helping people to get the funding they need with no money down.Don't miss this opportunity to fund your freedom; check out this episode on the DreamNation Podcast!Links:www.letsfundyourfreedom.comwww.dreamnation.comSocials:https://www.instagram.com/dsboone/https://www.instagram.com/_smittythegoat_/https://www.instagram.com/mogullifestyle_/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

What's up DreamNation! We're back at it again, bringing you stories that'll light that fire in your soul and get you moving toward your dreams.In this episode, we're chopping it up with Joshua Alufa. This guy's story is a game-changer. He went from saving lives in the ER to flipping the script and making major moves as a world-renowned trader, entrepreneur, and coach.His journey started when he founded Sophiads, a marketing powerhouse that turned $5m in ad spend into a staggering $20m in revenue. But Joshua wasn't done there. He took his hustle to the next level, building a revolutionary real estate education platform, Wholesale Rebels, that's been changing the game for folks looking to secure their financial future.Joshua's dropping gems on how he built his wealth, sharing insights on everything from trading options to making smart moves in real estate. Whether you're a beginner or you've been in the game for a minute, there's something for everyone in this conversation.So pull up a chair, get comfortable, and get ready to soak up some game-changing knowledge from Joshua Alufa. And remember, DreamNation, we're all in this journey together. So let's keep dreaming, keep grinding, and keep rising.And hey, don't forget to hit that like, share, and subscribe button to stay connected with all the inspiring content we've got coming your way. Plus, drop a comment and let us know your thoughts. We love hearing from our DreamNation fam!Find more about Joshua Alufa and his ventures here:https://www.closemorecontractschallenge.com/dreamcastDreamnation.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

DreamNation, it's been a minute! We're back, and we're keeping it 100 in this personal episode.Over the last six months, life's been a whirlwind. I uprooted my life from Omaha and planted new roots in Dallas. But it wasn't just about a new location, it was about a new chapter, a new journey, and a new perspective.In this episode, I'm opening up about why I had to hit pause on the podcast, put the mic down, and focus on what mattered the most - my family and my mental health.Life isn't always smooth sailing. Sometimes, we've got to weather the storm, and that's exactly what these past few months have been about. And you know what? It's okay to admit when things get tough.But here's the real talk - none of this would have been possible without the power of community. Having a circle to lean on during times of crazy transitions and uncertainty is a game changer. It's not just about having people to fall back on, but having people who lift you up, and I'm grateful for my circle.So join me as I share this personal journey, the lessons learned, and the wisdom gained. Remember, DreamNation, it's not just about dreaming, it's about living, learning, and growing too.Don't forget to hit that like, share, and subscribe button to stay plugged into our DreamNation community. And as always, drop a comment and let me know your thoughts. We're in this journey together!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Welcome to another episode of Dreamnation, where we bring you inspiring stories and actionable insights to help you chase your dreams. Today, for the launch of season 5, we're thrilled to have Amy Porterfield, author of the life-changing book "Two Weeks Notice," as our special guest and kick-off! Here's what we covered on this episode:Introduction & Finding the Courage to QuitIntroducing Amy Porterfield, online marketing expert and bestselling author of "Two Weeks Notice."How Amy's journey inspired her to write the book and empower others to pursue their dreams.Tips for building the courage and mental strength to leave your 9-5 job behind.Building Your Dream BusinessCreating a solid strategy for transitioning from an employee to an entrepreneur.The importance of setting realistic financial goals and managing expectations.Amy's top tips for success in the early stages of starting a business.Achieving Freedom and Changing the WorldThe benefits of remote work and location independence.Designing a work-life balance that suits your needs and desires.How your business can make a positive difference in the world and inspire personal growth.Closing Thoughts & Staying ConnectedCommon pitfalls to avoid during the transition from employee to business owner.The role of mentorship and networking in growing your venture.How to connect with Amy, learn more about her book, and access valuable resources.Join us for this exciting episode of Dreamnation, as Amy Porterfield shares her invaluable insights on quitting your 9-5, building your dream business, and making a positive impact on the world. Let Amy's journey inspire you to unleash your ambition and create the life you've always wanted.Links:Amy Porterfield Book - https://bit.ly/3Vr15CiAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Welcome back dreambuilders! It's time for the release of Season 5 of the DreamNation Podcast! In this episode Casanova shares where's been over the last 4 months since we wrapped up Season 4 and what's to come in season 5. There are so many great episodes lined up for Season 5 so make sure to subscribe so you don't miss out! Follow me on IG @casanova_brooks for more inspirational content and actionable tips. In The Dream We Trust!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode, Casanova talks with Dustin Heiner. Dustin is a family man who loves the Lord. Real estate investing has helped him on his journey to financial freedom and being “successfully unemployed”. While he started his career working a 9to5 job, he was always entrepreneurial. It wasn't until he bought his first rental property that he realized the opportunity it represented. When he got laid off from his government job, he vowed to make sure nobody can take away his ability to feed his family. He started buying rental properties, and that passive income helped him quit his job.He talks about how real estate presented the easiest opportunity among all of his entrepreneurial ventures, the importance of finding a place that has a good inventory, things that can help you get your first property, why you need to build the business first, his criteria for investing in properties, how real estate is a people's business, and much more. Have a listen.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this age of social media, it's very easy to fall in the trap of comparison. To consider someone else a "Peak Performer" and to overlook our own achievements in our own environment and circumstances.I wanted to make this episode for you in case you're in this situation, to let you know that comparison is the thief of joy and that becoming that Peak Performer is all about the mindset.Checkpoints:- How to execute mindful parenting to foster confidence in our children.- How people put their fears on us and how to unlearn them.- Building a support network through relationships.- "The only way to get to it is to get through it"I wanted to thank you all for supporting this podcast, our mission is to empower you to build a life by your design, please let us know through your reviews if this has been valuable and help us take it to the next level.Write us at team@dreamnationpodcast.com !Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In This Episode, You'll Learn:In this episode, Casanova talks with Fred Moss. Fred is someone who constantly works on realizing, exploring and embracing both the pain and the beauty of life, while wondering how and what his going to do next to make a difference. He talks about the impact of Kennedy assisination on his mind growing up and made him think about how he can make the world a better place, his long ride through both dark and light paths, how he moved away from the traditional medicine and found his true voice, how human connection is at the heart of healing, why psychatiry is a brutal field, why losing our voice is the biggest threat of them all, and much more. Have a listen.Help us out?If you enjoy our podcast, please head over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a 5-star review. By doing so, you enable us to reach more people. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Whether you're an Entrepreneur or a Solopreneur, watching out for common pitfalls of small businesses is a necessity to avoid becoming one of the unfavorable statistics.With data from the Bureau Of Labour Statistics we dive into the frequent reasons starting enterprises fail to reach the ten, five and even one year markPlease subscribe and leave your review - In the dream we trust!Follow Casanova Brooks for daily tips!: @casanova_brooksFind out more at dreamnation.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This is a short one describing this philosophy I learned a long time ago that changed my perspective on life!On This Episode:Being intentional in listening and concise on becoming your best selfOnly actions bring results - > "To whom much is given, much is tested"Having more is the result of the previous two, and the cycle begins again-Please subscribe and leave your review - In the dream we trust!Follow Casanova Brooks for daily tips: My Instagram: @casanova_brooksVisit Our YouTube Channel - DreamNationListen My Podcast - DreanNation PodcastAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this quick episode we go through the aspects of your mindset you can control to achieve success fasterWith examples by Jeff Bezos and Ty Lopez, I share to you my thoughts on morning routines, an internal locus of control, the abundance mindset and other keys to greatness.Follow me on IG @casanova_brooks for more inspirational content and actionable tips. In The Dream We Trust!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Here's a snapshot of a few things we talked about…·         Who is the Clark Kent, When it Comes to Nicholas Thompson? [00:02:05]·         What was His Childhood like Growing up in Boston? [00:02:51]·         How Did He Get Kidnapped in Morocco? [00:07:48]·         How was He Able to Keep His Composure During Such Distressing Times? [00:11:08]·         When Did His Journey from a Senior Editor to a CEO Unfold? [00:16:25]·         What Helped Him Successfully Land the CEO Position at The Atlantic? [00:19:33]·          How Difficult is it to Build a Media Company Now? [00:24:16]·         How Can the Bigger Media Brands Stay Relevant in the Changing Environment? [00:28:15]·         How Can Someone Share their Story and Write for The Atlantic? [00:31:35]·         How to Learn the Journalistic Style of The Atlantic? [00:34:06]·         One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [00:39:33]·         Where to Find Nicholas Thompson? [01:08:48]In This Episode, You'll Learn:In this episode, Casanova and Nicholas talk about all things journalism. He talks about growing up in Boston before moving to Stanford for college, his experience of getting fired from 60 Minutes, why he decided to visit Africa and ended up getting kidnapped, how writing about that incident helped start his career as a journalist, how he managed to keep his composure during turbulent times, how he transitioned from working as a Senior Editor to the CEO at The Atlantic, how his versatility and connections helped him land the CEO position, how Google and Facebook have changed the landscape for media companies, what the bigger brands will have to do to survive in the next six to ten years, and much more. Have a listen.Key Quotes:·         "I had been hired because someone wanted to take a chance on somebody, they thought was smart and ambitious…"·         "So, I go out there, and on my first day, I get kidnapped by drug dealers in Morocco…"·         "I ended up writing a story about being kidnapped and then my time traveling through west Africa that ran in the Washington Post…"·         "I just stayed calm, partly because it seemed like the right thing to do, partly because I didn't know what else to do…"·         Part of what getting knocked down so fast, … and it happened again in my twenties were doing well, and I get knocked flat. Like it makes you a little more resilient…·         "My dad used to say was he whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make promising…"·         "I was never like a lone wolf reporter who must be on assignment by himself, in Afghanistan, cut off from the world. That wasn't me. I always liked being with people. I was always very social and enjoyed managing…"·         I've always got these side things going on. I've always got these projects going on, and so that does do two things. It does exactly the two things you mentioned, it makes you very versatile, and particularly in media…·         "Power in all institutions and all environments has gone from a center to the nodes. That's what social media does…"·         "Technology has busted business model, the sort of relationship with readers the way our stories get around in all these complicated and interesting ways…"·         "No one who does mediocre work, no matter how good they are at understanding Facebook or Twitter will last seven to 10 years…"·         "I think one of the mistakes that some journalists make and some, even some executives is they're like, oh, Google, it destroyed our business. I'm not going to worry about Google. I'm going to just do my thing. No, you gotta do your thing as well as you can, and you gotta learn every single possible thing…"·         The next 20, 30 years in my career, like I gotta, there's not a day where I will be able to stop hustling cause as soon as I stop hustling, like some smart person can come and just do what I do and do it better.·         “If you focus on people you love who are doing really good work. It's a great way to learn, and everybody you want to have your own individual voice, your own individual style…”·         “As a general principle, the philosophy I like is just keep trying as hard as you can be in the self-aware, as you can, and assume that you get opportunities and ideally you'll make the most of them…”Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode, Casanova talks about why so many people do not go after their goals and dreams, why we fear of failure, how it stops us from going after our dreams, three questions to ask when you face a failure, how everything you want is on the other side of failure, and much more. Have a listen.Here's a snapshot of a few things He talked about…·     Introduction·     The Fear of Failure 01:24·     Failure Builds Character 03:11·     Three Questions to Ask When You Face a Failure 03:20·     Everything that you Want is on the Other Side of that Fear of Failure 07:31·     What's the Worst That Could Happen? 08:56Key Quotes:·     “I quickly kept coming up with and kept finding through reading blogs and through emails that I've gotten, and what was that common denominator now I'll tell you, it is the fear of failure…”·     “33% of all Americans don't go after their dreams, their goals or business, starting a business because they have a fear of failure…”·     “Failure is only there to allow you to build character the moment that you failed, you're going to learn some things...”·     “When you first get into that first year, your expectations are so high, but it's very hard to compete at an elite level…”·     “All of those things will then create the confidence in you and what confidence leads to is action, and if you can have action, that will remove all of the doubt…”Links/Resources:·     The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan HolidayHelp us out?If you enjoy our podcast, please head over to Apple Podcasts, and leave us a 5-star review. By doing so, you enable us to reach more people.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In This Episode You'll Learn:In this episode, Casanova talks about how he became involved in the Drip Network, what it is and how it works, the difference between Bearish and Bullish market, what makes the Drip Network sustainable, the Drip Network Reservoir, how do you make money through referrals, how much does he stand to earn, how this is an excellent passive income opportunity, and much more. Have a listen.Here's a snapshot of a few things He talked about…·         Introduction·         What exactly is Drip Network? [04:28]·         What is Recompounding in Drip Network? [07:05]·         What Does Drip look like? [10:40]·         How is Drip Network Sustainable? [14:39]·         What is the Reservoir in Drip Network? [15:52]·         How Do You Make Money Through Referrals? [16:27]Key Quotes:·         “I come from the background of real estate investing. So I know that again, you gotta be willing to take risks and you gotta be willing to do what other people won't do. Even if it doesn't look very sexy…”·         “If you put in a thousand dollars, you are going to get 1% daily on your money. So, a thousand dollars, 1% of that is $10…”·         “Albert Einstein says the eighth wonder of the world is compound interest. So, understand if you keep compounding the more that this is going to grow…”·         “When people say I'm very bullish on it, or this is a bull market, think of a bull, they got their head already down, but then they're coming up with their own. So, they're thinking that it's going to go up, whereas a bear markets thinking things are going to go down…”·         For every person that comes on board, you get 10% of their initial deposit, and then it works as a Round Robin System.·         The reason why this protocol is so powerful, and why it was genius to make is because of the compound interest, but also because of the taxes and it, and because of the community around it.·         Delayed gratification is going to get you somewhere that that microwave mentality never would.Links/Resources:·          https://drip.community/Read The Transcript Here: Help us out?If you enjoy our podcast, please head over to Apple Podcasts, and leave us a 5-star review. By doing so, you enable us to reach more people.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

DreamNation is the perfect place for people who are building financial freedom, to get inspiration, information, and education. This episode is a sneak peek into the world of Decentralazied Finance (DeFi), the Drip Network project, and the principles you need to master in order to win big.This is a quick list of how I calculate risks and make the right decisions while investing and creating new sources of income for me and my family. If you want to know more about the Drip Network, check my YouTube Channel and subscribe!DreamNation YouTubeMy Drip Buddy Link (Earn free Drip tokens!)More links to tips, guides and new episodesAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Here's a snapshot of a few things we talked about…·    Introduction [00:00:00]·    Who is the Clark Kent, When it Comes to Adam Markel? [00:03:09]·    Was He Always Unhappy with His Job but Chose to Ignore the Thoughts? [00:09:16]·    The Tragic Event He Witnessed As A Lifeguard at Jones Beach, New York [00:13:15]·    How To Adopt A Different Philosophy Around How We Look At Change? [00:17:43]·    His Advice on How to Embrace any Change in your Life [00:22:06]·    How One Should Deal With Loss and Suffering in the Current Scenario? [00:26:00]·    One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [00:35:30]·    Where to Find Adam Markel [00:37:35]In This Episode, You'll Learn:In this episode, Casanova talks with Adam Markel. He talks about how we create identities for ourselves that can be changed, the importance of rules in his life, how he became aware of his unhappiness at work, why you need to practice every day, how to see the change in your life, how to leverage uncertainty and embrace the change to build long-term resilience, the importance of recovery, being the master of your own mind, and much more. Have a listen.Key Quotes:·    "A big part of why we are the way we are is because of our identity, the identity that we have created for ourselves…"·    I'm a pragmatic, practical person. I just, I know the things that work and when I've discovered something that is a rule of thumb that works, then when I deviate from what I know works. I receive pain. I get suffering in exchange for breaking the rules.·    You imagine anything that you could be great at, masterful at whether it's putting a basketball through a hoop the way Michael Jordan did it and supposedly made a thousand shots a day, whether that's the exact number or not, it's not the point you commit to mastery of something like that, it involves tremendous amounts of practice and performance…"·    "You want to have a great body, you want to have great relationship, you want to have great relationships with kids, you want to have great money, relationship with money, et cetera, it's going to take practice, it's going to take vigilance…"·    "I ended up in the hospital having a panic attack brought on by that anxiety. I think there's a lot of people are on the verge of that on the verge of just feeling either burned out or needing to take a trip to the emergency room because they can't handle the uncertainty…"·    "I was 19 years and working as a lifeguard at Jones beach, New York, this first Summer I'm working there, we lost somebody in the surf, they went down, we went searching for him, for well over an hour, closed the beach, searched, couldn't find him and it went from search and rescue to search and recovery and I got first firsthand look at grief and loss and mourning and just pain…"·    "Change for people is very much that same feeling like you're being, something is taking you and it's out of your control and you're being sucked by it, you have no choice…"·    "Everything in the future, the future I should say will teach us in the present that everything happening right now is net growth. It is net positive for us, for our businesses, for the world…"·    "We're constantly in a fight or flight mode, daily the level of anxiety low-level anxiety, I think is even more dangerous today than high anxiety because it's perpetual…"·    "When we run out of energy, we're more likely to lie and cheat, make poor decisions because we're out of gas, but when we're filled up, when our energy reserves, at maximum capacity, there's almost nothing that we're not capable of dealing with handling and even succeeding at. So, the goal is to be able to refill our energetic tank and then ultimately any change that happens, we're agnostic to it…"·    "Resilience is not about endurance. It's about recovery, that's the key…"·    "Business disruptions are opportunities in disguise…"·    "You want to remove hate from the world, stop being a hateful person…"·    "You don't like the anger that we're hearing all everywhere, stop being such an angry person…"·    "You don't like the way people are judged unfairly, stop judging people unfairly…"·    "To me, the greatest responsibility that we can take in the moment from this perspective and the body of work that is, this book is to be resilient mentally, emotionally, physically in spiritually, and if you work on being resilient in that way, you're going to show up able to help other people…"·    "What are you baking into your day to create that interval training for yourself physically and even spiritually, so that you're ready for anything…"·    "It would be that I would have recognized that the master of my fate is always my mind. I didn't realize that till I was in my forties, then my mind, nobody can take that from any of us…"Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Here's a snapshot of a few things we talked about…·         Who is the Clark Kent, When It Comes to AJ Osborne? [00:01:51]·         How Did He Become Paralyzed? [00:06:34]·         Two Ways That You Have Value [00:12:38]·         Why You Should Trust Your Intuition [00:25:49]·         How Has He been Able to Start Multiple Companies? [00:32:28]·         Would He Recommend Self-Storage Space to People Starting Out? [00:44:08]·         Levers That You Could Change in Self-Storage. [00:47:12]·         The Downside of Self-Storage Business [00:50:38]·         How to Get Financing for Self-Storage Facilities? [00:57:11]·         App For Self-Storage Industry News and Analysis [01:05:48]·         One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [01:07:34]·         Where to Find AJ Osborne? [01:08:48]In This Episode, You'll Learn:In this episode, Casanova and AJ talk about everything related to self-storage, one of the most profitable niches in the real estate market. He opens up about his journey of battling paralysis and going on to start multiple companies, why you should trust your intuition, why he chose the self-storage industry, and what helped him achieve success. He shares insights about what he has learned from his experience and how this learning has made him a more successful entrepreneur, and much more. Have a listen.Key Quotes:·         "You don't need to be a superhero to have massive results and massive change…"·         "Revenue comes from action…"·         "If you look, so many entrepreneurs and businesspeople, so many of them are salespeople…"·         "I am playing the greatest game on earth with the coolest people, and I get to do it every day, what a blessing…"·         "It also, taught me the most important skill ever. I have to have income that is not tied to my time…"·         "I do mergers and acquisitions. I buy brokerage firms and we take in our technology and skill, turn them around…"·         "If an asset, for some reason, isn't performing at a market level and that's usually dependent on operators…"·         "Dynamic knowledge is much more valuable because dynamic knowledge has to do with forced value…"·         "I understood that how money really works instead of disillusion of the paycheck…"·         "The people in the economy that are the biggest and the best are the ones that survive…"·         "As long as I knew I needed a margin of stupidity, I could be stupid and do it. And you can do that in every industry, in every asset class…"·         "Start small, start with margin of stupidity and be okay with your own stupidity. Get going, start building those small things…"·         "That is how entrepreneurs work. You're building something in the future that doesn't exist…"·         "If you're starting out, go find mentors…"·         "I'm big on self-auditing. I shouldn't be doing this. I'm not very good at this. We need to get somebody that is great on this and implement…"·         "The revenue management side of self-storage is very dynamic. We look at ourselves like hotels or airlines, they're always changing…"·         "An American's ability to consume, their dollar goes way more now, today than it ever did yet their ability to house is way lower..."·         "So, to get started in self-storage, it's never been easier, ever…"·         "Usually hiring only happens after it's an absolute necessity, and by that time, it's usually too late…"Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this short episode I share with you the very personal story of my growing up, the adversities I've met throughout my life, and how I have actively CHOSEN to build a path for my self. Trust me, if I have done it, you can very much do so yourself!Like what you hearing? Checking In With #DreamNationLike what you are hearing? Have a comment or feedback that you want to share? Need to find an earlier episode? Dream Nation on Apple Podcasts Dream Nation podcast website Catch your host on Instagram (@casanova_brooks).Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Painter and installation artist, born in 1948 in Havana, Cuba. Brito came to the United States in 1960. She holds B.E. and M.F.A. degrees from the University of Miami and B.F.A. and M.S. degrees from Florida International University in Miami.Maria Brito illustrates how creativity is merely a series of habits, actions, and attitudes that anyone can develop—regardless of who you are or what you do.There has never been a more crucial time than now to develop your creativity and your ability to innovate. Coming up with original ideas of value is today's most precious skill.With her “Creativity Rules The World” campaign and book, Maria shares with us:Overcome limiting thoughts and dispel myths about creativity.Unleash creativity through concrete data, historical passages, and examples of modern entrepreneurship.Develop timeless habits, principles, and tools that worked six centuries ago and continue to work today.Employ creativity in an everyday context to produce extraordinary results.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Having your own business is the dream of many people, yet something that many people are afraid to step into.Why are we so afraid to pursue our dream business?In this Dream Nation episode, we tackle those questions and provide some tips on how you can start to plan your move to a business that is perfect for you. Along the way, Casanova shares his own background that led him into real estate, why he chose real estate, and how he learned to build something bigger than a real estate agent.What You'll Learn In this EpisodeWhy you need to write and see your goals to reach your dream lifeThe importance of memories in our lifeWhat inspired Casanova to be a real estate agentThe “4 Quadrants” in Robert Kiyosaki's “Cashflow Quadrant” (and Casanova's experience in each one)Why Casanova chose to become an investorThe importance of ownershipCasanova's ultimate goal as an entrepreneurAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Here's a snapshot of a few things we talked about…·         Introduction·         Who is the Lois Lane, When It Comes to Shellye Archambeau? [00:01:38]·         What was Her Childhood Like Growing Up? [00:02:39]·         Did She Have Any Enterpernurial Ambitions Earlier in Her Life? [00:05:38]·         What Helped Her Get Through Adversity Early On? [00:07:24]·         How Was She Able to Secure a Position at IBM? [00:13:17]·         What were the Signs that Led her to Quit Her Job at IBM? [00:20:22]·         How Did Her Journey Towards Joining BlockBuster Unfold? [00:22:45]·         How Her Proposal to Work with Netflix Could Have Saved Blockbuster? [00:26:06]·         Why Did She Decide to Move to Silicon Valley after Leaving Blockbuster? [00:28:40]·         How Was She Able to Achieve Her Goal of Becoming a CEO? [00:31:58]·         How Did Her Network of Mentors Help Her Transform Zaplet? [00:35:02]·         Which Mentor Has Had the Most Impact on Her? [00:36:56]·         What are her Goals for Her Career? [00:40:03]·         One Thing She Wishes She Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate Her Journey? [00:42:47]·         Where to Find Shellye Archambeau [00:45:56]In This Episode You'll Learn:In this episode, Casanova talks with Shellye Archambeau. She talks about her childhood, the adversities she had to face after they moved to LA, why did she decide that she wanted to be a CEO at the age of 16, how her mother and teachers helped her get through tough times at school, how she learned about building relationship by helping others, how she was introduced to power of having mentors, the importance of setting goals and executing the plans, how she climbed the ranks at IBM and why she did she decide to leave the company, how she became the president of blockbuster.com and proposed a collaboration between Blockbuster and Netflix when it was a start up, why she decided to move to the Silicon Valley, how she became the CEO of MetricStream, and much more. Have a listen.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Here's a snapshot of a few things we talked about…·    Introduction [00:00:00]·    Who is the Clark Kent, When it Comes to Bryan Clayton? [00:01:42]·    His Background and When Did He Start His Entrepreneurial Journey? [00:02:33]·    What was the Motivation that Kept Him Going after Accomplishing His Goals? [00:05:26]·    Where Did He Derive Motivation from During the Early Days of His Business? [00:07:38]·    How Did the Sale of His First Business Come About? [00:11:29]·    What Did the Process of Selling His Business Look Like? [00:14:08]·    Why Did He Decide to Get Back into Business? [00:15:53]·    What Does He Think about VC? [00:24:00]·    When Should You Start Looking for a VC? [00:26:16]·    What are his Future Plans for GreenPal? [00:29:35]·    One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [00:31:14]·    Where to Find Bryan Clayton [00:33:47]In This Episode You'll Learn:In this episode, Casanova talks with Bryan Clayton. He talks about his entrepreneurial journey, how a lawn mowing gig led him to develop a successful landscaping business, how he was able to sell that business to one of the largest landscaping conglomerates in the United States, what was the motivation that kept him going after accomplishing his goals, how he consistently worked to scale his business over the years, why he decided to sell his first business, why did he decide to start a second business and how that entire journey unfolded, and much more. Have a listen.Key Quotes:·    “What I like to say is anybody that watches an interview that I've done or read some stuff that I put out, I want them to come away with – If that guy can do it, I can do it…”·    “Owning your own little business or even having a job when you're young, teaches you all sorts of life lessons that you'll never learn any other way…”·    “It's funny as you're starting and growing a business, I think your motivation and your why kind of evolves over time, and it certainly has been the case for me as I started and sold my first company…”·    “I guess the business kind of exposed me to people who we're not any more smarter than I thought than I was, that could, that we're doing big things, and I thought, okay, this can be, this business can be the vehicle that can carry me to places…”·    “One of my favorite quotes is Mark Cuban; the least you can live on, the greater your options…”·    “You can be proactive about these things, acquire the knowledge before you start a process like this and be in much better shape than I was trying to sell my company…”·    The book [The Lean Startup] about launching something, getting it out there, getting it in the hands of customers, meeting with them, and getting the feedback to bake into your next set of iterations, to improve it and using that customer feedback to guide how you develop the product is really like, it's the lifeblood.·    “If you can get a shitty product in a customer's hand, you will learn more from five of those people, then you will a five years of just reading books and taking courses…”·    “Business is the same way; you have to get a product in somebody's hands, get the feedback, get that experiential wisdom 'cause that's the only way you're going to learn if you're on the right track or not, and where you got to take it…”·    “When you know you can sell your mom's house and spend the money and return her three times the money in five years, then it's time to raise venture capital…”·    “That's one thing like a lot of successful founders they're on their second or third attempt a lot of these things, the only way to learn them, it's just to do them wrong…”·    “You didn't miss it. It's not too late. If you think software's going to be here a hundred years from now, we're in like year 10 or 20, so you didn't miss it. It's going to get bigger. Get in the game. Because only if you're in the game, can you win…”Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Making the decision to live a life by your design can be incredibly rewarding, though it comes with its price. With the right discipline, mindset, and expectations we can overcome it and make our dreams a reality.On this episode we cover: IndependenceProcess automationRelationships as the base of all businessesDefining your serviceWorking both online and offlineLooking for different perspectives to complement yoursThe balance between life and workCalculating your incomeTesting the market first, then your ideasHead on to dreamnationpodcast.com for more resources and tips to bring your entrepreneurial game to the next level.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Here's a snapshot of a few things we talked about…·    Introduction [00:00:00]·    Who is the Clark Kent, When it Comes to Austin Belcak? [00:02:09]·    How Did He End Up Working at Microsoft?·    How Relationships Can Help You Land Your Dream Job? [00:14:42]·    What Makes People Afraid of Networking? [00:23:16]·    What Does He Think About the Current Situation of the Job Market? [00:31:02]·    One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [00:37:10]·    His Advice for People Looking to Take Action? [00:43:04]·    Where to Find Austin Belcak [00:42:12]In This Episode You'll Learn:In this episode, Casanova talks with Austin Belcak. He talks about his childhood, how he struggled to figure out what he wanted to do, how his initial attempts at entrepreneurship failed, why he decided to get a corporate job and the system that landed him a job at Microsoft, how to build relationships, why are people afraid of networking, what does he think about the creator economy and the current job market trends, and much more. Have a listen.Key Quotes:·    “The reason I decided to jump ship and take this risk was because I wanted to own my time on my schedule and spend more that with the people I love, doing the things that I wanted to be doing, and so that to me is what this whole thing is all about…”·    “So I wanted to be an entrepreneur, but I didn't have an idea and I couldn't go out and ask people for money, or I couldn't support myself without an actual idea. So I resigned to go down the traditional path of, okay, let me get a corporate job…”·    “I truly believe that the best thing you can do initially is to get into a corporate job that allows you to build the experience that you need, pays you enough money to bootstrap yourself, and gives you the flexibility to then work on whatever your dream is on the side…”·    If we look at great relationships, they have a couple of common values. So first, value is at the core of this. Great relationships, all focus on some sort of value… the last piece, which is essentially, that relationships are built in layers…”·    “The number one reason that I've talked to thousands and thousands of job seekers, we've done surveys. We've gotten data. Far and away, the number one reason people don't network is it's fear-based, they're afraid of exactly what you said, they don't want to be rejected…”·    “If a job description has an easy apply button next to it, like everybody's pressing the easy apply button and the easy apply button doesn't work because it's low hanging fruit and everybody else is doing it…”·    “So, in order to be successful, we need to one overcome our fear, but then also understand that the person on the other side probably has some fear as well, and so we need to diffuse that a little bit…”·    “So I think what we're going to see is more people being more particular about the career that they go into…”·    “The best thing that you can do is the acronym I heard. I think it was on a, it was on a podcast somewhere but basically FOCUS; follow one course until success…”·     Links/Resources:·     The Dream Job System Podcast - Cultivated Culture·     https://cultivatedculture.com/·     https://www.linkedin.com/in/abelcakAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Here's a snapshot of a few things we talked about…·         Introduction·         Who is the Lois Lane, When It Comes to Gretchen Rubin? [00:01:49]·         Her Journey from Kansas City to Nebraska to New York City? [00:04:23]·         When Did She Decide that She Wanted to Go to Yale? [00:05:41]·         Why Did She decide to Leave Her Clerking Job to Embark on Her Writing Career? [00:07:29]·         What Did the Journey of Publishing Her First Book Look Like? [00:11:10]·         What Inspired Her to Write The Happiness Project? [00:16:23]·         Why She Does Not Seek Anyone Else's Validation for Her Ephipanies? [00:18:53]·         Self Publishing vs. Working with an Agent [00:24:10]·         How to Approach an Agent as a Writer? [00:26:01]·         Is it Still Possible to Land Six-Figure, Seven-Figure Publishing Deals? [00:29:26]·         How to Build and Start Your Own Happiness Project? [00:33:46]·         One Thing She Wishes She Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate Her Journey? [00:39:51]·         Where to Find Gretchen Rubin [00:41:20]In This Episode You'll Learn:In this episode, Casanova talks with Gretchen Rubin. She talks about how she decided to become a writer and leaving her career in law, how she ended up living in New York City, why she decided to go to Yale, how she published her first book, her belief in epiphanies, and why she does not seek validation from others about them, her experience of working with an agent, how writers should approach agents, and much more. Have a listen.Key Quotes:·         “What I found in my life as a writer and a podcaster and all the things that I'm doing, like sometimes you got to make up the ladder. Like, no one's showing you the plan…”·         “For me, the drive came, it was less about wanting to leave law and more, and not even so much wanting to be a writer, it was wanting to write this specific book, which I was already well on the way to writing…”·         “I think sometimes people know what they want to leave, but they don't know where they want to go, and that's hard to figure out…”·         “One of the things that I often remind myself is to enjoy the fun of failure, and if you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough, and so I was like I'm just, I just have to try it and see where I get and keep trying…”·         “Don't wait for somebody to tell you that something's a good idea because they haven't may have their own agenda or their own subconscious beliefs…”·         “Anybody, who's thinking about getting an agent, you definitely want to go out with the best foot forward at every stage because agents and publishers are very pressed for time, and so they're just going through things as fast as they can…”·         “I would just say to people, always be focusing on why this is a great book for an eager audience, more than your own passion for it…”·         “It's always helpful to start with your physical body because our physical experience always colors our emotional experience…”·         “Great exercise, it's like a magical elixir of life. It calms us down and helps us sleep, but it also boosts our energy…”·         “Then another thing I would say is, really think about relationships because ancient philosophers and contemporary scientists agree that to be happy, we need strong enduring relationships…”Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Here's a snapshot of a few things we talked about…·         Introduction·         Who is the Lois Lane, When It Comes to Dorie Clark? [00:01:59]·         What Was the Childhood Like for Dorie Clark? [00:03:43]·         Was She Supported When She Went to College at the age of 14? [00:06:08]·         Why Did She Decide to Get a Degree in Theological Studies? [00:07:47]·         What was Her Experience Like When She First Came Out? [00:09:28]·         Her First Entrepreneurial Endeavor that She was Able to Manifest and Turn into a Real Business? [00:13:28]·         Strategies that Helped Her Reinvent Herself. [00:16:57]·         How to Successfully Monetize Your Expertise? [00:22:22]·         How Entrepreneurs Can get into the Monetization Side of Being a Content Creator?·         How to Build a Strong Personal Brand? [00:26:19]·         Who Does She Turn to for Inspiration? [00:29:28]·         How Did She Get into Coaching? [00:31:20]·         What is Her ‘Why' Behind Coaching? [00:33:00]·         One Thing She Wishes She Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate Her Journey? [00:34:58]·         Where to Find Dorie Clark [00:36:21]In This Episode You'll Learn:In this episode, Casanova talks with Dorie Clark. She talks about her childhood, growing up in a golf resort town, getting into college at the age of 14, getting a Master's degree at the age of 20, her experience as an openly gay person after she came out, her experience of working in various fields and how she was able to repeatedly reinvent herself. She also shares strategies that people can use to monetize their expertise, and much more. Have a listen.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Here's a snapshot of a few things we talked about…·         Introduction [00:00:00]·         Who is the Clark Kent, When it Comes to Ryan Neiswender? [00:01:58]·         What is Congenital dSMA and When was He Diagnosed with it? [00:03:58]·         When Did He Start Playing Sports? [00:05:49]·         What Helped Shape His Mindset that He Could Achieve Greatness in Life? [00:09:50]·         Wh Inspired Him to Believe in Himself? [00:11:59]·         When Did He Decide that He Wanted to Win Paralympics Gold Medal? [00:14:10]·         What Does Success Look Like in Paralympics Basketball? [00:17:59]·         What Does His Normal Work Out Routine Look Like? [00:20:22]·         What is His Mission in Life Now? [00:22:19]·         How to Find the Differentiator in Your Life [00:24:33]·         Where Does He Look For Inspiration? [00:26:30]·         How Life Changed for Him After Winning the Gold Medal? [00:31:26]·         One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [00:39:46]·         Where to Find Ryan Neiswender [00:42:12]In This Episode You'll Learn:In this episode, Casanova talks with Ryan Neiswender. He talks about being born with Congenital dSMA, his childhood, how he turned his disability into his superpower, how he developed the mindset and confidence in himself and his abilities, his journey to the Paralympics gold medal, and much more. Have a listen.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

DN 242 - Sharon Lechter(Transcript of the podcast has been edited for clarity and brevity.)[00:00:00] Casanova Brooks: What's up family. Thank you for tuning into the Dream Nation Podcast. My name is Casanova. I'll be your host and I'm excited to be bringing to you, entrepreneurs, thought leaders and trailblazers from around the world. Stay locked in with us because we're about to go on a journey that will change your life.What's up DreamBuilder we are back again and today's episode, as you always know, I say that I'm excited to bring it to you, but this one I'm truly excited because we have a pioneer and we have a pioneer of someone who does not only talk the talk, but definitely walk the walk and taught thousands upon tens of thousands and even hundreds of thousands through all of the books that you've wrote.And millions of people, I would say financial literacy, and so without further ado, please help me in welcoming my friend, Ms. Sharon Lechter to the show. Sharon, you want to go ahead and say what's up to Dream Nation?[00:01:01] Sharon Lechter: Thank you so much. I love Dream Nation. What's up Dream Nation, and thank you so much for having me. I'm delighted to be with you today.[00:01:03] Casanova Brooks: Yeah, absolutely. It's going to be a lot of fun. Now. I always love to start off these episodes and I compare us as entrepreneurs to superheroes, and the reason being is because we're constantly flying around the world, and I know throughout your career, you have been, and you're putting on your cape and you're trying to solve some of the world's biggest problems.And so from the outside, looking in, a lot of people, they see you as a superhero, as the wonder woman or the superwoman. But a lot of the times, what we can't describe is on the backside when there's no cameras on who is that Lois Lane, let's say, so take us back and tell us when it comes to Sharon Lechter, who is that Lois Lane?[00:01:45] Sharon Lechter: Thank you so much, and I, we can go dial back many years. I grew up in a very lower-middle-class home, neither one of my parents, even at high school degrees, and my dad ended up running the engineering school for the Navy. So, totally self-taught brilliant, man. But we live in a little tiny house between my mom's beauty shop, my dad's used car lot, I was embarrassed with where we lived. I wanted to be a professional. I wanted to have, my friends had parents who were CEOs or military officers, but we also own a lot of rental properties that I had to go scrub out bathrooms between tenants and orange groves. So, I grew up in an environment understanding the value of assets and expected that everybody else did too.And so I followed my dream. I got my degree in accounting. I started my career with Coopers & Lybrand where the very first women in public accounting many years ago, and I was very successful, but I thought at the ripe old age of 25, I was like, gosh, I'm working really crazy hours. I'm not in control of my own life. This is, and this is my future forever, and I had a client invite me to join him and buy in a company out of bankruptcy, and I still remember going back to my condo in Atlanta, Georgia, because I was having a great time, young, single, and yet not in control of my life. So, I did the old, yellow legal pad, because this was before PCs or cell phones, pros and cons, and it didn't help me a bit.I could argue both sides, but my hand took off and wrote across the top of the page. Why not? Why not do something different? Why not take that path less traveled? And that's still my philosophy today, and that's, I think ties in with true entrepreneurs. Why not solve a problem or serve a need? Why not do something, someone else hasn't done? And that's really still my mantra today. So, I left public accounting. It actually was a really bad business decision at the time, but had I not made that choice, I wouldn't have met a young man named Michael Lechter and we've just celebrated 41 years of marriage.And so continuing on, I started the children's talking book, industry books and had the sound strips down the side. I met the inventor of that and helped him build that. Understood the essence and learned so much about the power of association, cause we had the technology, the kids back then. I know dinosaur days, they didn't have screens, they didn't have no electronics, and so here I am with this thing, I said, how can we get parents to trust us while we aligned with little companies like Disney, Warner Brothers, Sesame Street, Marvel comics, and allowed us to explode that company around the world, and we sold that four years later, and then as my husband moved down to Arizona, and our oldest son went off to college and came home at Christmas time in credit card debt.And that was December of 1992, and that's when I dedicated the rest of my life to financial literacy, financial education, fast forward, a few years, working with the school systems, hence the white hair. My husband called me one day and this guy had come into his office in Bermuda shorts and a Hawaiian shirt with an idea for a board game, drawn-out with crayons on a piece of which a black paper, his name was Robert Kiyosaki. So, Mike brought us together for the first beta test of the cashflow game, and I'm the only one that got out of the rat race, and I volunteered to help Robert commercialize it because it agreed with my philosophy of investing your time and buying, building, creating assets, as opposed to chasing money, time for money instead of exchanging time for money, lets than invest your time to build the asset that will generate the money.During that process, he told me he wanted to charge $200 for the game. I said, its kinda pricey. We're talking in 1996, and I said maybe we should write a brochure that explains the philosophy that people will then be convinced to spend the $200, and that's when he asked me to become his partner, and we were equal partners in the company for 10 years, and we wrote 15 books together. But that little brochure that kind of started it all was named Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Most people don't know that, that it was written to sell the game, and we thought we were writing one and done one book and said, people wanted more so said we'll do a trilogy. Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Cashflow Quadrant, Rich Dad's Guide To Investing.But then over the 10 years that we worked together, we had 15 books and in 2007, the height of our success, we were no longer aligned with what we wanted. So, I made the decision to leave. People thought I was crazy, but sometimes, and I want your audience to hear this sometimes you have to close one door for other doors of opportunity to open and had I not made that decision to leave Rich Dad, I wouldn't have gotten the call from President Bush. I had the honor of serving on the first president's advisory council for financial literacy for both President Bush and President Obama, and in March of oh eight, I got the phone call from the Napoleon Hill Foundation, which has been an incredible relationship.They asked me to help reinvigorate Napoleon Hill's teachings during the financial collapse in 2008, and so I wrote Three Feet From Gold, Think And Grow Rich For Women, Outwitting The Devil, and Success and Something Greater with the foundation, and it's just been an incredible working relationship, and then I had incredible honor earlier this year to release the book, Exit Rich in cooperation with the Inc magazine to help people understand most people start a business new and say, do you want to start a business to work until the day you die? Or do you want to start a business to build financial freedom for yourself to get your time back?Everybody says B, but the vast majority of them do A cause they don't understand how to build the structure and the basic fundamentals of building a company, and so in Exit Rich, I go through that and help them, how to build the successful business into one that sustainable, scalable, and saleable, and that kind of brings you to here. I'd try to do my Cliff Notes version for ya.[00:07:44] Casanova Brooks: Yeah, no, you did a phenomenal job and there's so much to unpack there. I, hopefully I can do a lot of justice cause I know that there's a lot of people that's watching or listening at this, that they're ... They have a lot of questions. So, I'm going to try to go back in my mind, and first off, I guess I want to know, as a young girl, you said that your parents didn't have high school diplomas, but then you go off and you then start working as a CPA. For you, why did you not follow the path of entrepreneurship early on? Because your dad, you said he had rental properties and everything else. Why did you decide to take a different path? What did you not like about it in the beginning?[00:08:26] Sharon Lechter: We've heard the phrase, the grass is green on the other side, and that's my friends, their parents were CEOs, and I was the first generation to go to college and I wanted to become a sophisticated professional. I thought that was the path to take a higher level of financial success, and once I got into it, and it was a true gift to go into public accounting because all of my clients, I saw how companies did things correctly, and I also saw how companies did not do things correctly. So, even though it was not an entrepreneurial path itself, it allowed me a window into many hundreds of different entrepreneurs to see how they were doing things. So, it really helped me prepare for the next chapter of my life.[00:09:10] Casanova Brooks: Got it. No, that makes sense, and then you decide that you don't want to do this anymore at 25, and I can only imagine that your parents were probably up in arms because up until this point, you've been a golden child, right? It's your daughter. She's the only person to go to college. She now has a great job. Why, I guess what was the reaction when you told them, Hey, this isn't what I want to do anymore?[00:09:32] Sharon Lechter: I have an older sister, so she's the one that was following the pathway. She was in a corporate job, stayed in the same town. I was the wild child and I'm the one that left Florida and went to Atlanta, and then I went to New Hampshire, met my husband. So, they were not always sure what was happening in my world, and I tell them, but, my parents, every night growing up, my dad would ask me, Sharon, have you added value to someone's life today? And he's been gone 16 years, but I still ask myself that every single night and they were always supportive of whatever I chose to do. They were a little surprised when I left public accounting, but they were never judgmental. They were always there to support me and basically their message to me growing up as you can do or be anything you want to, if you just put enough effort and energy into it.[00:10:29] Casanova Brooks: Got it. I love that. I love that. Have you added value to someone else's life today? That's something that I'm going to start to implement into not only my life, but also to teach my son that and definitely to teach my daughter that as she gets older as well. Let me ask this as you, I think where a lot of people struggle, especially millennials is we understand the power of collaboration, but sometimes when you're talking about getting into partnerships with people, buying companies, as you said in the beginning, there was someone that said, Hey, this company is bankrupt.We can buy them out. How were you able to be comfortable with doing a partnership early on? Did you just not know any better? Or did you have certain rules and parameters that if we're going to partner, we're going to do this? What did that look like for you?[00:11:19] Sharon Lechter: I do a lot of counseling with people that are going into work together, and a lot of times their friends or their family, and that's that's a recipe, blood and money is a very difficult thing to mix, and so it's really important. I sit down and do a little counseling ahead of time when I go, plan the divorce before you plan the marriage, because when you're together and you're looking at what you're doing, you're all very excited about it. You respect each other and it's a good time for you to say so let's, maybe in five years, one of us isn't going to be as excited as the other. So, let's talk now about how we're going to separate while we are still excited about the future while we still love and respect each other, because when you have high emotion, you have low intelligence and what happens?I see so many times people go into business with somebody they're all excited about it, and then things one of them becomes disinterested and it causes a seizure in the family or in the friendship, and so it's always better to think about that upfront so that you can preserve the relationship and maintain that even after a business relationship is over.[00:12:23] Casanova Brooks: I love that plan, the plan divorce before you plan the marriage, but for somebody who's listening and especially for you, someone who's been profound when it comes to personal development in the law of attraction. What if someone says, isn't that really looking at you're attracting the plan B or the negative, because in the back of my mind, then I know that like, when I don't like something, I don't have to stick it out. It's hey, we already got this plan B over here, I can get to going.[00:12:54] Sharon Lechter: The plan B is a plan of respect. It's not negativity, it's not attracting negative results. It is saying we are so excited about working together, but let's be realistic. Our lives may not stay on the same path. One of us may have six kids and we want to do something different, or one of us may end up wanting, needing to move out of town, and so what if based on those things and our mutual respect for each other, how are we going to deal with that in a professional and adult way that will help us preserve the relationship, and so it's really not attracting the negative. It's actually creating an opportunity for maintaining the relationship, no matter what happens with the business, cause typically businesses can be hugely successful and then there are problems, and so people's expectations are all almost always different. So, it's better to clearly outline the relationship, the agreements and what those expectations are.So, for instance, you may go into business with somebody and they end up getting married and that spouse is somebody that you don't want to ever be in business with. If you put that in the agreement ahead of time. So, if one of us. Ha becomes incapacitated or heaven forbid one of us dies. That's not attracting the negative. That's just being prudent and planning out the business and preserving that business because that spouse may not know anything about the business and all of a sudden they're going to step in owning 50%. No, you want to put that in the agreement ahead of time and say, how this is going to work. How are you going to compensate that spouse for the value of the company, but maintain the ability to drive it forward.[00:14:36] Casanova Brooks: Hey, Dream Builder. If you are anything like me, you know the importance of setting goals and achieving those goals, and anytime you find something interferes with that, ultimately interferes with your happiness and if that's you, or if you're in a rut right now, I want to encourage you to check out betterhelp.com. Now Better Help is not a crisis line. It's not self-help, it's professional counseling, that's done securely online. Better help will assess your needs and they'll match you with your own licensed professional therapists. You can send a message to your counselor at any time, and you'll get timely and thoughtful responses back.Plus, you can schedule weekly video or even phone sessions all without having to sit in an uncomfortable waiting room, regardless of you're dealing with depression, grief. Anxiety or anything along those lines, there's a licensed professional, just waiting on the other side to help you, and of course, I want to help you as well. I want you to start living a happier life today and because you're a part of the dream nation tribe, and as a listener, you'll get 10% off your first month by visiting our sponsor, betterhelp.com/dreamnation.Again, that's betterhelp.com/dreamnation, and you can join over 1 million people who have taken the charge of bettering their mental health. Now let's get back to it.Yeah, no, it was phenomenal advice and a lot of wisdom there. I'm sure somebody is agreeing with me and saying, I never thought of it in that manner. And that could be for business. That could be for real estate. That could be for a lot of things, and I know a lot of our listeners, they are in real estate, so that's something hopefully they'll put in their back pocket. The next time that they're thinking about going into a partnership. Now let's let me ask, because you come in Florida, which is not, where are you from a small town?[00:16:22] Sharon Lechter: At the time I was, I grew up in Orlando. I left, I graduated from high school the year that Disney opened. So, it was very different city today than it was back then. But we moved there. My dad retired from the Navy. I was eight, so we moved to Florida and we lived in Orlando. I was there from eight to 18, and then I was in Tallahassee going to Florida State for four years. So, I was in Florida from eight to 20.[00:16:48] Casanova Brooks: Got it. Okay. So, not, I guess where I was going with this, because I wanted to see if you were a small town girl, because you've always had a big mind in everything that you've done. New York Times bestsellers and it seems like you've never said no to yourself. You always just thought the why not, and I know that you said that earlier, but I guess how did you get your mindset? Too early on in the beginning, since you didn't come from big businesses, how did you get that to saying, Hey, I have to focus on collaboration over competition.[00:17:24] Sharon Lechter: That is an excellent question. So, let me try and unravel the question a little bit, because we, as I said I grew up in very humble beginnings and both of my parents, families were from farms in Alabama, and so I didn't live in Alabama, but I spent summers there with my grandma. I had grandmother who did not have indoor plumbing. So, I, I understood coming from poverty, coming from not having anything, and I had this in inside hunger, as my friend Les Brown says, you gotta be hungry, and I knew I wanted something better. I knew I wanted to elevate myself, and I knew that I could not do that just simply by myself. I had to get the education.I had to meet the right people. I had to find the right mentor. All right. I had great mentorship with my parents. My dad was brilliant, my mom, but I needed that additional umph of getting to that. My eighth grade English teacher told me I'd be a famous writer. Now I was into math. I thought she was crazy. My house mother in college told me I'd be on stage speaking. I thought she was crazy, but again, always seeking that mentorship and challenging myself to step outside my comfort zone, and today with all my clients, I'm constantly challenging them, and I was asked the question. When was the last time you did something for the first time, cause what happens is we get comfortable in our lives doing the same thing and we don't find new associations. We don't expand our business. I have something called the personal success equation. You can find it a personalsuccessequation.com as a free download, and it's something that I released in the book Three Feet From Gold.And it talks about combining your passion and your talent. Now my passion came from anger because we're teaching kids about money, but your passion could be love what you do what you love, plus your talent, your education, your life experience, and we combine that, and most of us stop there, thinking we have to do everything on our own while the personal success equation takes up plus T and times A power of association. Do you have the right people on your team? Do you have people on your team who are strong, where you are weak? Do you have the right mentors? Business is a team sport, too many of us try to go it alone. So, your passion, your talent times A power of association, times A taking action.How many times do we know what we need to do? We just don't do it, and so we hold ourselves back, and then the last element is plus F and that is faith. Faith in yourself, faith in what you're doing, faith that is needed and necessary faith, that you will succeed. Successful businesses, solve problems and serve needs. I think we have a few of each today, and but many of us that F is fear, not faith, and it holds us back fear, paralyzes us, or motivates us. 99% of the people fear holds us back. We are paralyzed, and that's my goal. When I start working with people, when I write books is to address that power of association and that fear and turn that fear into energy, into faith for yourself.Okay. Make sure who you need to align with to help you go to the next level so that you can magnify your impact. I have something called the Play Big Movement, which has been number one in your field, live your legacy, which means every heart, every single day, every heart you touch every single day as part of your legacy and create maximum impact, and you do that with the right association.[00:21:09] Casanova Brooks: Wow. So much wisdom in that, and I would definitely agree so many people right now are living in fear rather than faith for you, how have you been able to continuously align yourself with bigger players that are in your field and your mentors, because for a lot of people that are watching or listening, they may say, Hey, but you know what? I don't necessarily know how do I get around the Les Browns? How do I get around the Robert Kiyosakis? How do I get around people like that? And because I listened to them, but at the same time, we also know that there's more than needs to be done in there in terms of actions. For you, how have you continuously, or I guess even from the start, how were you able to get around these people? Like Robert Kiyosaki, when these opportunities came your way?[00:21:58] Sharon Lechter: I helped create Robert Kiyosaki. When we first met, when he brought that game in to my husband, he was living in a small condo and had two small apartment complexes. He talks about it and retire young retire rich. So, we, I helped create the intellectual property with him and help build that business to get him to the point where he had a larger platform and a bigger voice. But I think each of us you want to focus on, who's been where you want to go. I had the experience to help shape that and create the rich dad company and help it scale. My husband helped us with the licensing strategy to go global, and so you want to seek out the people that can help you go to the next level, and too many times people just become fans and they want to glom on to somebody. You want to be in service. You want to have reciprocity. You want to support somebody. They want to see somebody like a Les Brown. If he sees that you've been there supporting them, you're showing up, you're sharing his stuff. It's going to be a lot easier to get into contact with them, but learn from our books. Learn from our programs. I have a Money Mastery Program. That's very inexpensive because I want people to get themselves out of financial distress. To where they can at least start thinking, because when you are distressed about something that impacts every aspect of your life, and you can go to mm.sharonlechter.com. Very inexpensive application to my money mastery program, which is on my website for $1,500. But I want people to have. $97 and it's something I want you to take control of your own life. You are the CEO of your own life. Too many people want to have the easy step one step from, I want this. I'm going to be there.You really have to earn the right. You have to put in the work. You have to be of service and show, be there share information study because all of us we've written books. We've got programs, take the time to invest in yourself, and as you do that, and you continue sharing information, you get closer and closer to the source, attend events where they are, take the time, wait patiently to be there, be of service, and it's very important for you to understand what you want and setting your goals. I'm in a new company, I just aligned with this year, Oola is something that I reached out to me and … Sharon Lectar. It helps people look at every aspect of their life, their family, their faith, their fitness, their finances, their community, as well as having fun and assess where you are and where you want to go.And then give you the tools to get there. The specifically designed for you. It's all AI driven, and I love this company. These two guys that put it together are just brilliant, and it's something that I've used. My husband and I have used, we each lost 30 pounds. It's something that allows you to have fun and being accountable to your own goals and dreams, particularly for millennials, they are loving it, and I think it's something that I want you to choose to put the stake in the ground and say, I am the CEO of my own life. I am in control. Don't say I can't do it unless I have somebody like a superstar. No, you are the superstar, you were born perfect, just the way you are.Just take the actions to get yourself to the next level, and the road to success is not a straight line. You're going to have some setbacks, but get back up and keep going.[00:25:36] Casanova Brooks: Yeah, and I think for a lot of people, when they first think about, hey, I can go invest into these programs or I can join this mastermind or whatever else. I think the first off they get very excited in the beginning. But then what starts to happen is they go back to their tribe or they go back to someone else, and I know that I've even had this happen to me when I've said, Hey, I'm investing into a retreat. At entrepreneurship retreat, and then we've ever, you're going to spend that amount of money to do that.And so I think that's what holds people off, but I think that's where it goes back to having faith. Understanding that something that I always say in the beginning, they'll ask you why you're doing it, but in the end, they'll ask you how you did it. So, you have to have faith of what you were talking about, and if you have that unbreakable faith or that unbreakable mindset, I think that will get you over the hump, at least in sticking with it in the beginning, as you build your foundation.[00:26:35] Sharon Lechter: Well, a lot of people say, take a leap of faith, and I was, I said let's change that word because when you take a leap of faith, you cross your fingers and close your eyes and jump. I want you to take a leap with faith, with your eyes wide open, having faith that you will succeed having faith of what you're doing, and when you do that confidence goes up. So, when I talk about my personal success equation is that power of association, of faith that usually my clients need the most help on, and they go hand in hand when you have the right people around you, your self-confidence goes up cause they won't let you have a bad day.And so, ask yourself, where do you need help? Passion, talent, association action, faith, and start focusing on how you can take that next level. Expand your association, go to the next level, find the right people that will support you through the process.[00:27:27] Casanova Brooks: Yeah, I would definitely agree. Let me ask it from the outside, looking in, it looks like you've been able to manage multiple businesses. Over the years, you've been able to have your hands in many different things, and I would love to hear your take and your opinion on, a lot of the times people say focused on one thing, for follow the one course until successful, which is the focus. But for someone like you, who it seems like, again from the outside, you've had your hands in a lot of things.Maybe you've just had teams in every single one. Do you follow that strategy of I gotta have my hand in one thing until it's going or are you. No, I'm going to do multiple things because I noted on my time is limited. So, that's my greatest asset. So, I'm going to do everything, but I'm just going to find more partners?[00:28:16] Sharon Lechter: It's a great question because and I think is a very valuable question. Yes, I'm involved in a lot of different things, but I didn't start that way, I think, but let's talk about real estate. When I have clients that come to me and they have money in storage money in three twos, money in multifamily, its like, whoa, let's get focused in one area and become an expert because that expertise is what allows you to get the best deals, and yes, my husband and I invest in lots of different kinds of real estate, but we've earned the right. We've been in it a long time. So, we understand where the opportunities are, but you do want to focus on getting that expertise so that you can become an authority in what you're doing, and it's very important to do that.Now. Yes, I'm involved in multiple companies where we have teams that help us. We have our guest ranch, cherrycreeklodge.com. I'm into cattle ranching, and hospitality. We have a guest that people can rent for retreats or for family reunion. I have a team that runs that I do very little related to that, except I just got back from hosting my own business retreat there, and so you want to make sure you have the expertise, but you can own a business, not be in the business. All right. I can work on my businesses without working in them, and from many years of experience and being able to do that. But when you're first starting out, you want to fine tune your skills and know that you are doing the best you can to accomplish success in the area that you are in, and then go to the next one.[00:29:52] Casanova Brooks: Hey, Dream Builder! Are your home and auto policies almost up for renewal? If so, and you're looking for a lower rate. I believe I have a solution for you, and it's called Policy Genius. Policy Genius makes it easy to compare home and auto rates in one place, they can help you find home and auto coverage similar to what you have now, but at a lower price, and the best part is they've saved customers on average $1250 per year over what they're already paying for home and auto insurance. Getting started is super easy versus just head on over to policygenius.com and answer a few questions about yourself and your property, and then policy genius takes it from there. They'll compare rates from America's top insurers from progressive to Allstate to find you the lowest quote. So,, head on over to policygenius.com to get started right now. Again, that's policygenius.com and you can find out when it comes to insurance, how they help you get it? Let's go ahead and hop back into it.Got it. Yeah, no, that's a great point, and I think that someone will be able to listen at that and get a little bit more confidence in just niching down and focusing for you. Do you ever feel like that you had a point where you were lost on who exactly is your ideal customer? Because of the fact that you're in a lot of different areas, personal development, financial literacy just business and marketing, your phenomenal marketer. So, did you ever get to a point where you felt like you were having lack of clarity?[00:31:44] Sharon Lechter: Another great question. My goodness, actually, a few years ago, we retooled my website because it was like, I was… I have three major arenas. One is financial literacy for people who … in that there's two arenas. One is people that are financially distressed, and then there are people that truly want to take their business and scale to a much higher level and they're two completely different audiences, and then I have my mentoring clients who are high level high dollar clients, that we step into their world and help them build their business. Then I have my speaking business where people want to bring me in to speak. So, those are all very different audiences, and so you have to tailor your messaging and make sure that you are reaching the right audience with the right message.[00:32:20] Casanova Brooks: Okay, and do you feel like that was hard for you to grasp that concept in the beginning because you have been already doing all of the things with it. So, do you feel like you fought that for a while? Or do you feel like it was, you already knew this is what you needed to do? Do you understand the question? Am I explaining it the right way? Do you feel like that was a, I don't want to do this… Like I'm me, I'm Sharon.[00:32:46] Sharon Lechter: Yeah yeah, you can be a jack of all trades, and certainly another arena that I specialize in is women and money, and but that's all part of the financial literacy. I think it's really understanding I don't think I ever struggled with it. I always realized it was an issue and we had to be more real, more clarity, because you want to, and people use the word funnels. I talk, let's have a customer journey. You want people when they come to your site to find what they're looking for, and so you have to provide that environment when they get there as to, okay. I want her to speak. I'm looking for help. Financial I'm like, I really want a mentor. So, you want to create the ease of the customer journey.So whether you, yes, I can do all of those things, and sometimes you have too many too much expertise, and so you have to say, how can I create the message? That's the right messaging for the person coming to give them the ability to make the choices of your best for them.[00:33:51] Casanova Brooks: Yeah, I love that. You said that about the customer journey, and I think far too often, as we are coming up with all of our talents or our passions, and we're writing those down or putting them into Evernote or whatever we don't think about what is that customer journey, and at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter about you. It matters about how can you serve someone else. The more people that you help, obviously, the more people or the more that you'll get, it's like that Zig Ziglar quote that we've all heard before. So, yeah, I'm glad that you said that and hopefully somebody they write this out and they say, yeah, what is my customer journey, for whatever product or service that I'm trying to offer at this point.Let me ask for all of the books and especially you now being a part, like you said, of the Napoleon Hill foundation, and as I told you about a month ago, I read that Outwitting The Devil, and that was phenomenal. But for you when you were, or even now when you turn for inspiration or you're looking to read is there any books, now when you're mentoring your clients outside of the books that you've written, are there any books that you tell people, Hey, if you're starting out in your journey, make sure that you're reading or listening to X.[00:35:01] Sharon Lechter: There's lots and the list keeps growing. But I love How To Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie. I love Good To Great by Jim Collins. I love The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey. So, then those are classics, right? I also love The Ultimate Gift by Jim Stoval, and it's an incredible book about teaching young people about money. It was a great book, The Ultimate Gift.[00:35:37] Casanova Brooks: Yeah. What are your thoughts now being in financial literacy for so long and obviously, one of your co-authors is big on Bitcoin and everything like, have you started, are you on the Bitcoin train and the blockchain train?[00:35:52] Sharon Lechter: I have a lot of companies that come to me, wanting me to be a spokesperson for them as they have him, and I've chosen not to do that because my expertise right now, I'm focused on certain areas including overall business building, scaling as well as real estate, and so I have not chosen to become an expert in Bitcoin. I own Bitcoin. I've been part of it. I understand it probably more than most people, but I have not really. I'm not going to become a spokesperson for it anytime.[00:36:25] Casanova Brooks: Got it. Okay, cool. This has definitely been a phenomenal conversation. One last question that I have for you is for all of your success through everything that you've done to get yourself to this point to accelerate your journey and your dream of where you are today, if there was one thing that you wish that you would have implemented sooner to accelerate that process, what would that one thing be?[00:36:53] Sharon Lechter: Well, thank you. I get asked that question a lot and my response is always the same. I wouldn't be who I am today, if I hadn't experienced everything that I've experienced in my life. So, I don't like to look back. I don't want people to look back. I want people to know that your empowered to make different choices. We are all where we are today because of the choices we made before today, and if you want something different, something better in your life, just start making different choices. Don't waste time looking back, I have the definition of the word, worry to worry is to pray for what you don't want. It just wastes time and gives you, it makes you physically sick.So, when you find yourself worrying about something, just catch yourself and say, instead of focusing on what I don't want to have happen, let's focus on what I do want to have happen. It's magic because it does this full circle into the power of law of attraction. Instead of a attracting negative results, lets focus on positive, focus on what you do want, focus on the future, focus on what you can do today to make tomorrow better.[00:37:53] Casanova Brooks: Got it. I love it. I love it. So, to be clear on this, and that's the it's so funny and anybody who's watching it listening, I'm sure they're smiling. I just like I am, because I used to ask that question. If you could go back and you would have changed anything and people always say, I wouldn't change anything. It made me who I am today, and trust me, I've been through a lot of adversity. But there's still something, there's some things that I would change. I wouldn't lose my mom. I, and I think I could have still been to where I am today without losing my mom.[00:38:19] Sharon Lechter: I lost a son nine years ago. So, obviously if I could go back and change that I would do that too, but it also made me… I actually went into my world of numb and to neutral for several years and I stopped playing big, and in fact, almost retired. Got a lot of pushback from family and friends, and I actually think my son was in my ears saying, get over it, mom, there's more for you to do, and so it's really helped me crank up my message to play big again. I launched The Play Big Movement, the Facebook group, and it's because I want people. I said, okay I'm going to play big again. I want people to come along with me. I want you to be number one in your field. I want you to live your legacy.I want you to create maximum impact because people need to hear from you. Everybody watching and listening to this. You've had something that stopped you in your tracks. It could have been a death, a divorce, a financial setback and illness, but you're still here and you're still here for a reason, and what you've been through, you can help others going through it now. By turning that mess into your message, you have the opportunity to help other people and add value to other people's stuff.[00:39:28] Casanova Brooks: Love it. Love it. Again. This has been such a phenomenal conversation. I want to be the first one. If no one else has told you today to say thank you, and I appreciate you. We will make sure that we put all of the links to your courses, your Facebook group, and your website in the show notes, but for anybody who wants to know tell us where can they stay directly connected with.[00:39:51] Sharon Lechter: Please connect with me on Instagram at Sharon Lechter. I'm on my professional page for Facebook, Sharon Lechter, Author Sharon Lechter, and of course I'm also LinkedIn Sharon Lechter. My website is sharonlechter.com. So, it easy to find me if you can spell my name and then reach out to me directly info@sharonlechter.com, I would love to hear from you.[00:40:14] Casanova Brooks: You're not on tiktok yet.[00:40:17] Sharon Lechter: No, I haven't. I haven't actually, I am, people have put up fake accounts on tiktok, but I personally have not gone to tiktok yet.[00:40:25] Casanova Brooks: Yeah, no worries. Again, thank you so much for your time. This has been a wonderful conversation, and just as she said, Dream Nation, you have to take action because if you do not, as we all know that dream that you have, and we all have a dream without any action, that dream will only merely be a fantasy. That's all for this one. We'll catch you on the next. That's all we got for this episode.Thank you for sticking around. That truly means a lot to me, and hopefully that means that we delivered massive value on this one. If you haven't already, the way that you could say thank you to myself, and the team is just by heading over to iTunes and leaving a review. That's what iTunes loves to see. That's how we get out there even more, and I would definitely be grateful for it. I know the team would as well, do me a favor and head on over to dreamnationpodcast.com.That's where you're going to be able to find all of the resources that we talked about in today's episode, as well as more exclusive content, and you'll also be able to sign up to our email list, where we have more exclusive content. We always love to hear the feedback from you all, because you're our tribe. So, remember ‘in the dream we trust', we'll see you on the flip side. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Here's a snapshot of a few things we talked about…·    Introduction [00:00:00]·    Who is the Clark Kent, When it Comes to Matthew Korban? [00:01:26]·    What was He Working as When He Learned About His Health Issues? [00:09:05]·    How Not Having a Mentor Hurt Him in the Long Run? [00:11:08]·    What Was The Medical Condition He Was Diagnosed With? [00:12:56]·    How He Was Able to Mentally Coach Himself That He Could Help Other People? [00:21:40]·    What is The Difference Between a Coach and a Consultant to Him? [00:26:38]·    Does He Believe in Balance and Why Did He Not Go Back to Consulting? [00:30:33]·    One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [00:39:14]·    Where to Find Matthew Korban [00:46:09]In This Episode You'll Learn:In this episode, Casanova talks with Matthew Korban. He shares his journey, how he spent his childhood in the streets of Beirut, Lebanon, what motivated him to work harder and give his kids stability, how learning from a doctor that he only had five months left to live changed his mindset, how not having a mentor hurt him in the long run, why he started coaching others, and much more. Have a listen.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Here's a snapshot of a few things we talked about…·         Introduction·         Who is the Lois Lane, When It Comes to Eleanor Beaton? [00:01:44]·         What was the Turning Point in Her Life that Changed Her Mindset [00:05:04]·         What Empowered Her to Believe in Her Vision? [00:09:51]·         What was Her Epiphany Moment that Made Her Go All in? [00:15:07]·         How She was Able to Overcome and Avoid Burnout? [00:19:23]·         Where Does She Turn For Inspiration When Things Aren't Working Out? [00:31:48]·         One Thing She Wishes She Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate Her Journey? [00:45:06]·         Where to Find Eleanor Beaton [00:50:50]In This Episode You'll Learn:In this episode, Casanova talks with Eleanor Beaton. She talks about how she was inspired by her mom early on in her life to be financially secure and independent, have control over life, her vision to help other women develop sustainable business, how starting her podast helped her business, the sufficency mindset, and much more. Have a listen.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Here's a snapshot of a few things we talked about…·         Introduction [00:00:00]·         Who is the Clark Kent, When It Comes to Peter Voogd? [00:01:30]·          Where Did He Learn His Values From? [00:02:33]·         Where Did He Get the Inspiration to Move Out of His Small Town? [00:05:01]·         The Best Investment That He Made on His Way to $10 Million [00:12:48]·         How Did He Learn His Seven Rules to Seven Figures? [00:19:04]·         Which Space Has the Most Potential Over the Next Five to Ten Years? [00:31:28]·         One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [00:35:06]·         Where to Find Peter Voogd [00:37:51]Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Here's a snapshot of a few things we talked about…·         Introduction [00:00:00]·         Who is the Clark Kent, When It Comes to Alistair Edwards? [00:01:54]·          How Working at His Parents Store Help Build His Foundation in Sales? [00:03:33]·         His Motivation Behind Selling Books Door to Door During Summers? [00:06:51]·         How Did He Learn About the Power of Leverage and Systems? [00:10:43]·         What Did He Do to Incentivize People to Keep Working? [00:12:44]·         What Made Him Stay with the Company for 27 Years? [00:18:01]·         How Have Legal Shield and Publix Been Able to Keep Him on Board? [00:21:50]·         One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [00:27:18]·         How to Stay Disciplined Through Times When it is Difficult [00:30:52]·         His Advice for People Looking to Take Action? [00:38:17]·         Where to Find Alistair Edwards [00:42:54]Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Here's a snapshot of a few things we talked about…·         Introduction [00:00:00]·         Who is the Clark Kent, When It Comes to Salvatore Buscemi? [00:01:34]·         His Journey from Medical School to the World of Investments [00:04:11]·         What is Private Investing and How Does It Work? [00:06:09]·         How Did He First Get into Raising Capital [00:09:04]·         Three Things to Consider When Looking to Invest for the First Time [00:12:43]·         How He Learned About the Three Principles of Investment [00:15:43]·          What He Thinks About Bitcoin And Blockchain From An Investment Perspective [00:20:21]·         First Step of Investing Like the Uber Wealthy [00:23:12]·         The Project That He Considers is His Biggest Accomplishment [00:29:15]·         One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [00:33:41]·         Where to Find Salvatore Buscemi [00:36:08]Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Here's a snapshot of a few things we talked about…·         Introduction·         Who is the Lois Lane, When It Comes to Amira Alvarez? [00:01:55]·         Is She an Introvert or An Extrovert Behind the Scenes? [00:05:02]·         What Was the Turning Point in Her Journey That Changed Her Mindset? [00:07:01]·         Strategies That Helped Her Change Her Self-Image and Increase Her Income Five-Folds [00:14:08]·         What Were Her First Steps When She Decided that She Wanted to Learn [00:19:00]·          Her Formula for Achieving Goals Faster [00:24:49]·         How Her Strategies Helped People Achieve Better Results [00:28:00]·         One Thing She Wishes She Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate Her Journey? [00:30:03]·         Where to Find Amira Alvarez [00:33:10]Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

DN235 - Ray Higdon: Simple Rules of Maximizing Time, Money, and FreedomHere's a snapshot of a few things we talked about…·         Who is the Clark Kent, When It Comes to Ray Higdon? [00:02:00]·         His Background, and How His Traumatic Childhood Impacted His Life [00:03:07]·         How Did He Get into Real Estate? [00:06:36]·         How Was He Able to Turn His Life Around After Getting Wiped Out? [00:09:21]·         An Incident That Changed His Life [00:15:30]·         Three Components of Daily Routine That Made Him Successful [00:18:35]·         How Did He Make His Videos and Which Platforms Did He Use? [00:23:12]·         How He Was Able to Stay in Network Marketing for Such a Long Time [00:26:01]·         Where Has He Seen People Go Wrong When Trying to Do Network Marketing Time [00:31:27]·         How Does He Challenge Himself After Achieving Great Success? [00:40:22]·         What is the Best Way of Doing Network Marketing Nowadays? [00:50:17]·         Where to Find Ray Higdon? [00:52:55]Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Here's a snapshot of a few things we talked about…·         Who is the Clark Kent, When It Comes to Daniel Mangena? [00:01:49]·         His Background and What Was His Journey Like When Growing Up? [00:01:31]·         How He was Diagnosed with Asperger's at the Age of 27 [00:03:39]·         Did He Have a Supporting Partner when He was Diagnosed with Asperger's? [00:08:41]·         Daniel's Journey of Discovering Abundance in His Life [00:11:13]·         The Strategies Taught to Him by His Doctor that Transformed His Life [00:14:06]·         How Self-Love Work Helped Him Get Through Dark Times in His Life [00:16:01]·         Why he Still Invests on His Personal Development [00:17:27]·         How He Was Able to Develop the Abundance Mindset, and Then Help Others with It as Well [00:20:25]·          The Books That Helped Him Develop the Abundance Mindset [00:23:40]·         What He Struggled with When He Became a Life and Success Judge [00:26:09]·         How The Flow Funnel Helps People Get Results [00:29:32]·          People He Does Not like to Work With [00:33:11]                                                                                                            ·         One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [00:39:01]·         Where to Find Daniel Mangena? [00:41:19]Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

DN233 - Kendall Ficklin: Change Your Character, Transform Your LifeHere's a snapshot of a few things we talked about…·         Who is the Clark Kent, When It Comes to Kendall Ficklin? [00:01:49]·         His Background and Did He Grow Up Around Entrepreneurs? [00:07:09]·         What Was His First Real Business? [00:11:22]·         How is Running a Business Different from Connecting with People and Making Money? [00:12:48]·         How He Was Able to Manage Egos and People in the Beginning? [00:17:41]·         How Was He Able to Justify Firing People? [00:19:27]·         His Journey of Getting Mentoring and Development [00:24:08]·         Why Did He Decide to Get Mentored by CJ Quinney? [00:29:14]·         One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [00:36:53]·         His Advice for People Looking to Take Action? [00:40:32]·         Where to Find Kendall Ficklin? [00:42:57]In This Episode You'll Learn:In this episode, Casanova talks with Kendall Ficklin. He shares his journey of tribulations, how he overcame addiction, discovered his passion and talent for entrepreneurship, and the role of mentorship in helping him become a trainer, author, and coach.Key Quotes:·         During those times of challenges, obstacles, opportunities, and falls is where we develop the most character.·         I like to tell people I got to where I am today, because I changed one thing: my character.·         Information and strategy will definitely move your business up to level. That's all it is, but character is what sustains you, character is what takes you from where you are to where you want to be.·         At nine or 10 years old when I learned how to build, grow, and scale a business without trying to make it so deep like you need all of this stuff now.·         At a certain level it's just business, and business is about the numbers.·         Do business, not money and businesses about the numbers, the structure, the strategy, the system, the sustainability…·         If your personal life is a mess, your business is going to be a mess.·         My philosophy right now is nothing, and no one is bigger than the business, including myself. ·         You got to want to grow, you got to want to develop, and most business owners and entrepreneurs, we just get caught up in making money and building business and taking the vision to the next level.·         My focus now is how much better can I be today than I was yesterday, and then the second thing, I don't wake up every day and say, what do I need to do? I wake up every day and say, who do I need to be?·         I tell all of my mentees, when you get an opportunity to sit at the table, it is not your time to talk; it is your time to listen and to learn and answer questions.·         We want what it looks like, but we don't want to go through what it feels like in order to get to what it looks like.·         Once I conquered that demon, the flood gates opened up, and so I got this theme now I used to say a couple of years ago, I can't go back and people think I'm talking about, I can't go back to being broke. No, I can't go back to being broken.·         Be honest with yourself of what your demon it is. The thing that you have the most difficulty changing, shifting, getting rid of, and once you identify what that is, kill it, murder it, cut it loose. It is in that discipline, that power will catapult you into areas that you didn't even know existed.Links/Resources:·         The Dream Manager by Chris Sienko·         https://www.kendallficklin.com/·         https://www.linkedin.com/in/kendallficklin·         https://www.instagram.com/kendallficklin/Help us out?If you enjoy our podcast, please head over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a 5-star review. By doing so, you enable us to reach more people. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Here's a snapshot of a few things we talked about…·         Who is the Clark Kent, When It Comes to Mike Cuevas? [00:01:56]·         What Made Him Get into Real Estate in the Beginning? [00:04:31]·         How Does He Help People Become Likeable? [00:07:47]·         Can We Create Meaningful Content without Being a Video? [00:11:05]·         What Does It Mean to Have the Perfect Message or is it More About Ideal Customer Avatar? [00:12:12]·         How to Build a Foundation of the Content Creation for Your Ideal Customer? [00:14:47]·         How Often Should You Publish Content? [00:17:23]·         Does He Recommend any Scheduling Tools to His Clients? [00:23:14]·         How to Change Your Strategy to Compete Against iBuyers? [00:33:49]·         One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [00:37:22]In This Episode You'll Learn:In this episode, Casanova talks with Mike Cuevas, who has been in the industry for over 19 years. He specifically has been helping real estate agents with video branding, attracting business, and become more comfortable on camera to build better relationships.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Here's a snapshot of a few things we talked about…·         Introduction·         How Did Things Start Out for Casanova?·         How His Backstory Made Him What He is Today?·         His Journey of Recovery from Cancer·         How Did He Know that Working for Someone Else was Not for Him?·         How The Journey is What Really Makes You Who You Are·         How He Got Started in Real Estate?·         Why Did He Leave His Sales Job?·         How He was Inspired by Jay Morrison to be the Lord of His LandIn This Episode You'll Learn:In this episode from the series of Casanova's appearance as a guest on other podcasts, Casanova and host Jamila Souffrant talk about how he overcame adversity, the power of building relationships and how to leverage them, and why having a positive mindset is the key.Casanova's backstory is what led him to become who he and what he has accomplished. He grew up in inner city, Chicago, and was raised by a single mom, and his grandma stepped in to help lead the way of being his dad. He had the odds stacked against him, but he did have a strong mind. He had two strong minded women who always tried to protect him. The first stage of adversity that he went through was losing two of his best friends. By the end of his sixth-grade year, his grandmother decided to move him to Sioux City, to keep him safe from the turbulent streets of inner-city Chicago.While he was sophomore in high school, and things were going great for him, adversity struck again. At 15 years old, he was diagnosed with stage four, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma cancer; where he was two weeks away from death. While going through two years of chemotherapy, what started to change was that everyone looked at him like a victim. He started to wonder how could he cope with these things mentally? Life took a huge turn for him, but he didn't know how to cope with a lot of those things, but that's where his mindset really started to take that shift. These things started to build his armor and build his character.Casanova had an entrepreneurial mindset from early on in his life, largely inspired by the VH1 show "The Fabulous Life Of". At 8 years old, pumping gas for other people at the gas station, he started to see that he could create his own success. He continued to try different things throughout the high school and then going into college. During his junior year, he started to realize that just having a degree is not going to guarantee him success in life. Along this path, he had 18 different jobs, trying to figure out his calling.Casanova adds that his motivation behind these decisions was that he wanted to control his own time. He also felt like he was never being valued at what he was worth, and he wanted to have an impact on the world. Talking about the journey, Cass shares that he learned that you have to be committed to the destination. Jamila adds that who you become on the journey allows you to get to the destination. Cass says that it all starts with a dream, for a lot of people, all you have to do is think of the big picture. What is the point I impact you want to have on others? What kind of legacy do you want to leave?Cass shares his eventful journey to real estate; from playing poker, to wanting to be a professional video gamer, to serving tables, to getting talked into being a car's salesman. He was not only selling cars there, but he was also building relationships. Then he was introduced to network marketing, and this is where he learned a lot about personal development. He then moved to Omaha, Nebraska to work as a marketing consultant for a big company. He garnered great success in the company, finishing at number eight out of 4000, inside sales reps.While he was taking every step, he knew that he always wanted something bigger. Then, he stumbled upon a Jay Morrison video on YouTube, where he had said, you got to figure out a way to be the Lord of your land. This was a light bulb moment for Casanova. From that point forward, he got his real estate license, with the goal that he was going to be the lord of his land. Talking about what helped him succeed, he says “what is your gift, right? And so, your gift is what comes easy for you and harder for others.”His final stint of adversity came in the form of losing his mother, after they had recently moved to Omaha to live near him. On top of that, he also ended up losing his job and his house, all within a matter of weeks. What helped him rebound from search severe losses to the point where he did 46 deals, eight million dollars in volume in his first year, was horning in his biggest strength, which was building relationships.Cass adds that the only thing you can never control the result, but the only thing that you can control is your effort, and you always have to find some type of positivity out of every single situation. In every situation, no matter where you are in life, you can find some type of hope. He adds “It allowed me to just keep going when I lost my mom to know that everything that I do every minute of every hour, every person who I tried to impact their lives, and I can use her as the beacon of hope that was for me.”Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

DN 231 - O'Neil J Parker: Getting Creative with Financing in Real EstateHere's a snapshot of a few things we talked about…·       Who is the Clark Kent, When It Comes to O'neil J Parker? [00:01:35]·    His Background and Did He Grow Up with a Family Who Owned Businesses? [00:02:28]·    What Does Getting Life Insurance on Your Friends Means? [00:04:20]·    Why Did He Decide That He Wanted to Go into Retail? [00:06:17]·    How Did He First Get Started in the Real Estate? [00:07:12]·    How to Get 10x Profits in Real Estate? [00:08:02]·    What Inspired Him to Keep Going? [00:09:51]·     What Was the Reason Behind His Struggles? [00:14:22]·    How Has He Been Able to Convince Sellers to Go the Owner Financing Route? [00:16:31]·    Does He Use Any Systems? [00:19:00]·    How Have Credit Cards Helped Him to Build His Portfolio? [00:21:05]·    How To Get the Money Off the Credit Card? [00:23:11]·    Do They Use Text Marketing? [00:25:18]·    Resources that Have helped him on His Journey? [00:27:37]·    One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [00:29:25]·    His Advice for People Looking to Take Action [00:31:44]Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Here's a snapshot of a few things we talked about…·         How Did Things Start Out for Casanova? [00:04:44]·         What Kept Him Going During the Hard Times? [00:15:48]·         How to Find the Drive if You Didn't Experience Challenges in Life [00:19:08]·         How Did He Determine His Goals Facing Setbacks Following His Move to Omaha? [00:22:34]·         Resources that Helped Him in His Journey, and What Can We Learn from Them? [00:28:19]·         How Did He Find His Mentors? [00:32:28]·         What is DreamNation, and What are His Future Goals? [00:44:18]Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy