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Lover of Freedom & Adventure. Daniel 12:3. Founder Leadercast, Stop Slavery, The BAM School & Map Winners.

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My mom, fighting injustice, one piece of junk mail at a time!
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One of my friend's boys build a raft each summer and spend 4-5 days floating down the Susquehanna River. They are college age now but started doing it in high school. Awesome tradition and they will never forget the memories. The dads should borrow the raft at the end and…
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My daughter (20 years old) is in Thailand getting dental work done and saving us truckload of money. She had a bunch of cavities that needed filling and 4 molars removed which are $1000-$3000 each. On the low end her work was going to be about $7000 at a local dentist in…
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@Joe28753 Let's go!
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@BlackLabelAdvsr Word. Their parents modeled it for them as well.
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@simplesamtx I would guess so. Someone it must be auto charged to their account with the barcode.
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I spent 7 hours at a entrepreneur / lawyer's office who owns 5 businesses. I billed him for 3 to get his website back up and running. Then we spent 4 hours talking business and life. At the end of the day, when both of our wives were wondering where we were I said, "I…
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I always tried to teach my kids to be entrepreneurial. But it didn't always go as I dreamed it would. Once my daughter needed money, but instead of asking how to earn money, she got her own idea. She made mud and threw it all over our truck. The she came into my office…
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@RosserJobs Yeah, especially because a lot of parties go into the evening. :-) You can show up at 5 10K richer and still have fun.
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@blmnke I am meeting with a naturopathic doctor (I think she is an OBGYN but acts like a naturopathic doctor) tomorrow who wants to talk about marketing and about organizing trips to Costa Rica to take them to vetted medical care with a side trip to the beach and the whole trip will be…
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Once we had a miscue in our family and our 14 year old, Jack, was stuck at school after basketball practice without a ride home. I texted him and told him to scrounge a ride home. He "couldn't" find one so I drove down and picked him up. At dinner that night we were talking…
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@ForecastSuccess Amazing quote. Makes me want to get out there. I have rafted and canoed down rivers but never anything like this with a big group of friends. Would be great to do. This was my last boating trip.
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@sweatystartup I had to fill out a questionnaire recently and 2 of the questions were who is your favorite person to follow on X and your least favorite person. I answered @sweatystartup for both. :-)
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What's one of your favorite places on the planet? Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland is definitely mine. Bonus points if you post a photo!
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Had my best day in business ever this week. $30K in contracts closed in a day. Much thanks is due to you the good people of X / Twitter because it literally wouldn't have happened without you. There are many more but especially thankful for: @trentjhughes who helped me hire…
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@emmettito_ So true. Crazy. In actuality it’s probably safer now we were just shielded from a lot of the stuff that went on without the internet.
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Do you ever fail the "Are you a robot test?" Asking for a friend. But seriously?!?
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@SuccessWithJake Call their bank ahead of time and ask them to have $34 million in nonconsecutive / non marked bills because you have check you want to cash. I'll charter a plane and meet you at the closest airport. ;-)
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I came back from Thailand to help my 92 father-in-law who got covid in Jan and lost 35 pounds. He is pretty weak and can't really be left alone yet. He needs help walking and getting meals. He spent 7 weeks in the hospital and has had problems with bladder control but refuses to…
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@AwayConsultant If there is anything you can do to make it happen Christian school or home school in general are the way to go. Praying for wisdom and finances for you as I shut my laptop. 🙏
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@alischwanke So crazy! Now that non competes aren't a thing I guess everyone is open game. :-)
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@VarangianMD That would be funny. Don’t think any judge is going to send an 80 year old to prison over 55 cents but stranger things have happened.
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It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
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I've realized after almost a decade out of hands on Anti Human Trafficking work that the heaviness of a broken world will never leave my soul. The weight of the heaviness and grief rises up and surprises me still from time to time. At the same time, I am finding more joy in…
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"Boys always fall for a stop watch." My wife just got me. She came home with a power washer and said, "There's a lot of hoses and everything. It's going to take a while to get this set up." I told her from the minute it hit the deck she would be power washing within 5…
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A combination of being on X, applying what I read in the Bible, deciding to level up in '24, faster execution and hanging out with an awesome group of entrepreneurs at a cigar club has been changing my life rapidly. One of the things I have been trying to do more is to reach…
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@WeldinMF Seriously, so should I tell mom to stop that it's not going to make a difference in the long run or should we keep sticking it to them. :-)
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@mhp_guy Love it. I was inspired to go into business when a friend asked her mom to take her to Paris for the weekend to go shopping and I knew the real estate they owned was paying for the trip. Bought my first small apartment building at 23.
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He is Risen! Happy Easter.
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@Spock0 @Joe28753 Haha. You should go for the record!
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Does anyone in SMB use OKRs as laid out in Measure What Matters or do you find KPIs, big rocks, or something else most helpful?
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@sweatystartup I almost always try to encourage them at one point on the call for who they are and something they did or taught me. When I was 16 my dad had me follow him after I got home from school to drop off one of our cars at someone's house who bought it. When I got there I found…
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We were living in Thailand and I got a text from a friend in another country in Asia "There is no time to explain but you need to go rescue this girl, Amy" They gave me Amy's phone number and I texted her and then called and we came up with a plan of where I would pick her up.…
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My latest client built his own indoor soccer stadium on his property. He invited me to join about 20 guys in a friendly league he started. I played last night for the first time in 3 years. SO MUCH FUN!
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Adult Kid Parenting Hack When we were young adults my wife and I were told we didn't come home enough and didn't stay long enough with the 'rents when we did. We felt like we came home frequently often skipping trips to see friends and it felt unappreciated. Intention we…
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Sherpas don't measure the number of personal summits but rather the number of people they have helped summit. What if we measured our businesses by the number of lives we improved immensely including both employees and customers?
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When @FounderKyle invites you to his house but doesn't send you his address. 🤣😎
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39: The number of school years my kids collectively had before college. ZERO: The number of conversations I had with teachers or coaches in defense of my children or expressing frustration at the job the teacher was doing. I always coached my kids to have the hard conversations…
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Turns out @FounderKyle is a real person and not just an anonymous X account. Thanks for the great conversation and advice on my business.
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4 sentences into my journal before I realized I was writing one sentence a line like on X. :-)
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Shout out to all the moms and dads of young boys. "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." – Frederick Douglass. There may be nothing more important that you do today that a word of hope, belief or encouragement to your young boy. Take 20 seconds to…
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What do you think is the reason for most entrepreneur's success, in one word?
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@thomasmei Yeah, I'm not sending my daughter to Mexico alone. :-) She has been taking public transportation alone or with friends in Thailand since she was 12. 1. She knows the dentist 2. She is staying with a friend who is a nurse should there be any issues. 3. It's a vacation to…
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When I jumped on X I wasn't planning on it having anything to do with my current business. I have 3 meetings today that all originated because of X. 10 am meeting with a potential client with 500+ locations that came from a referral from @NeelBParekh 12 pm Grow Your Brand…
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I killed this bat with my throat. Luckily, I lived in Thailand at the time and not the US. I was cruising home at night on a moped and it flew right into my throat and dropped dead. I wasn't going to get shots but a lady told my wife she had a dream the next day that I…
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Just picked up my second storage facility client to do Local SEO and Google business profile work for. When the owner bought the place it was 100% full. He just asked for a report. 2 years later it's 60% full. @100 units. I offer a worry free guarantee of double the ROI of what…
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@drgurner They build on the or one but they have to disassemble it obviously to transport it and then they store it.
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@ErikKaiser Smart man. I like you already.
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2 Years ago tonight I was at the finals with 2 of my kids. The game was 12 hours from me but less than 2 from my son, daughter and son-in-law. I jumped online and found tickets for UNC vs KU were pretty cheap because no one thought UNC was going to the finals. All the kids…
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@girdley Good stuff. I would add if you are not flying first class be the LAST person on the plane. Wait till last call. Tie your shoe in the jetway. Etc. Then when you step on the plane whatever seats are free are yours for the taking. I get empty rows all the time. We…
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@davidkierz People are saying because the post office gets paid when mail is sent that they would be supporting the post office
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@DTSpann Wow. I would never want to be connected to a place like that. According to these rules my one season working for a Fortune 250 I was committing clock fraud daily for 2 1/2 years. :-)
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What's your favorite place on the planet to visit? For me, it's Lauterbrunnen Switzerland.
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New way to grow on X. Make your staff retweet your stuff and then also follow others and DM them to follow you.
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Last October as I started to get serious about my business I was thinking it would be awesome to get the foot in the door with a franchise. I now have a couple of clients in a national franchise chain and picked up a client this morning with 512 locations that are not in a…
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Proud dad moment. My son hit a banger from 30+ yards into the side of the net.
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What was your first car? Bonus points if you include a picture. Mine. A Ford Elite 150 that was 16 when I was 16. :-)
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@mhp_guy I set up email accounts for each of my kids when they were little. They are all in their 20's now. This was from 2008. You can never know that joy if you haven't experienced it. It seems DINKS maximize for pleasure and peace. People that raise families maximize for joy and…
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Starting a local newsletter this week with my wife. Mapping out the plan and when I will do it.
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This ⬇️
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10% extra story. I always try to give 10% extra in a business, relationship or life. +10% = 2X ROI. Like the old saying goes, there isn't a lot of traffic on the extra mile. A few years ago I hired a coach, Craig, who lived in Phoenix and I lived in Thailand. I found out in…
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@chiefstrader That’s hilarious.
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Move over Cristiano, Taylor and The Rock. My influencer career is about to hit. 🚀 My daughter randomly saw an Instagram meme from KaleSaled of my tweet about my mom that went viral and was like "I know that profile pic. It's dad." 😂😎
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We don’t all agree on politics, religion or border policies. -Because some of you are wrong😜 But I think one thing we can all agree on is that we want Mike Tyson to knock out Jake Paul in the first round.
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Great call with Trenton @trentjhughes yesterday. If you have a business especially in start up / growth / scaling stages you need to be following this guy and see what he has coming in the future for business owners. Loving the X connections.
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My daily routine: Wake up. Coffee up. Read up. Look up. Ramp up. Show up. Screw up. Look up. Make up. Stand up. Speak up. Shut up. Look up. Turn up. Lighten up. Mess up. Look up. Shore up. Rise up. Open up. Fess up. Look up. Buck up. Build up. Follow up. Look up. Finish up. Each…
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"Play Bigger" has been my theme for 2024. So far 2X'd my rate of client acquisition. Joined a cigar club with entrepreneurs. Started playing pickleball and soccer again. Made a bunch of great connections on X. How are you playing bigger this year?
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I have always been curious why Facebook doesn't get rid of obvious scammers on Marketplace. This listing is posted about 100X. Thoughts?
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There are two types of people in this world: Those who leave a mark, and those who just leave a stain. Which kind are you?
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@PhillyJoeD Was about to heart the post until I saw a bunch died. Didn't feel right. Wrote down the book to check out.
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Should I stay or should I go now?
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@trentjhughes Agency for digital business. Power washing for offline business.
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Let me splain. No, there is not enough time. Let me summarize. I am in a couple of paid communities. One of the groups is run by a founder who often talks about how much money he makes and posts that online. He didn't show up for the monthly meeting in his own…
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Small world story. It's 2021 and I'm at a small cafe in Chiang Mai, Thailand talking with a friend Von about parenting moments. I told Von that one of my best moments as a dad was when my daughter and I went on a midnight adventure in Paris on Christmas eve while the rest…
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Another Saturday morning Lowes date. Hopefully this season will be coming to end soon. My wife and I remind each other on house projects: PVO Positive Vibes Only!
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@danefossee Dane, First off amazing job on getting over a thousand reviews. I know that doesn't happen without great work and a lot of intentionality. Just FYI you are leaving so much keyword juice opportunity on the table with your reviews. You (or someone) should respond to each…
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@LukeGardner_ @BlackLabelAdvsr Nepotism? They came up with this on their own. Their parents modeled free thinking not doing it for them. It's probably the furthest thing from Nepotism.
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@willzolpe Yeah the kids are pretty cool. One paraglides, some do youtube. They are definitely creative. Their dad owns a golf course, turned a church into a house and an island in the outer banks, so they come by the creativity honestly.
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Sometimes all you need is for someone to show you that there is a different path.
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Effectiveness Hack
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@girdley Ha. I go through Breezewood every time I visit my parents in Punxsutawney, PA. Looks suspiciously like Southern Spain.
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One day I was walking down the street in Pass Christian, MS and I started talking to this couple, Al & Peggy. They invited me to join them at their table and bought me a drink. It was a super fun conversation. Al told me he story of getting the courage to ask Peggy out for…
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@FoundersPodcast Reminds me of this WIlliam Mathews quote: “The first law of success is concentration- to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.”
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The number one thing you can do to grow the value of your business is to quit. Quit going into the office that is. Absentee owner businesses sell for higher multiples and sell faster than owner operated businesses. Obviously you probably can't do this overnight or the…
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X is pretty powerful if you are following and connecting with the right people. I was thinking today I could probably speed up the journey from a 6 to 7 figure business just by asking the right people the right questions and implementing what they suggest.
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Whoever says money can't buy happiness has obviously never purchased a new pickleball paddle.
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Anyone else feeling like crypto is the MLM of today? I regularly get DMs that start off normal and quickly turn to Crypto.
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Employee = Hours > Output Entrepreneur = Output > Hours
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How to get 48 million views on Youtube. My son made a video of his time at a water park. They used to be stoked if their videos got 250 views. I paid someone $5 to get organic views by posting some links online and hoped it might get to 5000 views. A few months later It…
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Anyone want to have their Google Maps / Google Business Profile roasted? I am training a new staff member and need a victim, I mean volunteer. :-) Will take up to 3. Post "yes" in the comments below so a bunch of people aren't DM'ing me after the first 3, and then DM me your…
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A local entrepreneur was finally able to buy the land on the other side of his restaurant after asking for 6 years to buy it. Don't stop adding value and don't stop asking.
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@FatzHomer That is definitely true if you choose private hospitals. We went to government ones a few times and the car was not near as good.
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@KristjanBackman haha! right?!
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