hey what's up guys I'm Zach Buck just wrapped up my episode of the root of all success with the real Jason Duncan in that episode you'll hear me talking about taking action getting into rooms with like-minded people to help you accelerate your success Journey this is one of the ways to do that listen to these podcasts not just because I'm on it but all of the other entrepreneurs successful entrepreneurs that Jason has had on he's W in his own right of course learn from us learn from Jason and Achieve that success that you won't welcome to the root of all success with the real Jason Duncan a podcast that explores how the world's most powerful entrepreneurs unlocked success and how their stories can help you do the same a successful educator turned entrepreneur Jason has built multi-million doll businesses that have been featured in Inc magazine and Entrepreneur magazine his life's mission now is helping entrepreneurs live what he calls #the exit lifestyle introducing tedex speaker mastermind leader author entrepreneur cigar fishing anado motorcycle Enthusiast and host of the root of all success the real Jason Duncan the real Jason Dunc welcome back to another episode of the root of all success I am the real Jon Duncan I'm so glad that you're here with me today thank you for your faithful listening to the show or watching us on YouTube and if you haven't seen this on YouTube make sure you go to youtube.com theal Jason Duncan there's a playlist with all the podcasts and this is episode number 205 so there's lots of episodes for you to go back and look at and listen to me talking to some pretty amazing entrepreneurs like the one that I've got on the show today I've got Zack Burick on the show today Zach is a uh let me tell you a little bit about this guy normally normally when we when we talk and think about entrepreneurs we think about people that start the business that start it from scratch they go into the the shed they go into the garage they go into you know a spare bedroom and they spend sleepless nights and lots of money to get a business off the ground and and then they finally get it off the ground and we think about that as entrepreneurship and and in fact that is entrepreneurship but that's not the only way that we recognize entrepreneurs um entrepreneurs can can do uh can start in lots of different ways and Zach started as an employee of the company he now owns now I I've said this many times on this show and in front of clients and and and when I've spoke on stages before about the difference between entrepreneurs and business owners and and entrepreneurs are not NE entrepreneurs are not necessarily business owners business owners are business owners are not necessarily entrepreneurs they're there are two different categories but typically speaking an entrepreneur owns it a business typically but a lot of business owners are not entrepreneurs this is a different cat right here Zach Burick is uh he started working for the company he now owns uh over a decade ago he started out as a general laborer and when uh he was still in college at UNCC Charlotte he worked his way up from general labor to do an estimation project management and then he acquired the business in late October 2021 and uh he and I met probably about not quite a year into his maybe six eight months into his acquisition and uh he reached out to me and said hey I think I need a business coach I think I need some help with this I'm not really sure where this is going and uh since then Zach has absolutely catapulted into the stratosphere as an entrepreneur and as a business owner uh increasing revenues but more importantly increasing profitability and he and himself becoming a millionaire through this process process being able to watch his assets grow trying to figure out what the heck do I do with all this money not not not that he Scrooge McDuck with a safe in his house he can go swimming through cash but like there's certainly a lot of cash that's available because of his ownership of this business he also though he also has a cattle business that he started in June of 2022 uh for livestock he he started a beard supply company called west wild beard company which we'll talk about here in just a minute in uh in May of 21 before he bought duins and then he just recently ventured into the real estate market so please help me welcome the one and only Zach Buck to the show hey Zach welcome to the show man what's up man thanks so much for having me well I'm excited to talk to you man you know how much I love you I love I've really enjoyed watching your journey from you know this wideeye young so so you're still really young in your 30s how old are you 30 you're 30 31 31 31 years old so wide-eyed person like bought this business in your late 20s and you're like I don't know what to do man this millions of dollars in revenue and I'm trying to make sure I got enough money in the savings account to make it through the rainy days and you were telling me how much money you had set aside I'm like dude that is that is insane you have to put this money to work but uh but yeah man I I give you a big clap you've done you've done an amazing job and I'm really really proud of what you've been able to build so why don't you uh let's start with uh with this metric thing we were talking about top before the show started um you know you said well this year has been a weird year and of course it's been weird for me too you know that but um but but you I mean I don't want to give too much away but you're like hey revenue is not as much as it was but profitability is still great why is it that so many entrepreneurs Chase Revenue rather than profitability yeah I think a lot of it's just the the society that we live in um kind of that silver object syndrome you know the more that we say we we do in in Revenue you know whatever that number may be um is more impressive than what the bottom line number is but you know before the show I mentioned you can make a hundred million even a billion dollars a year in Topline revenue and still lose money so while while that that number is obviously larger than bottom line it's impressive the bottom line is is what keeps the doors open and allows the company to continue to grow and improve that Topline number one of the things that I was coaching you on um about a year ago we were talking about hey we need to you need to apply for these these Awards and you applied and you started winning these Awards which are awesome and and certainly I like my companies I've won some of those Awards too like for example on the Inc 5000 list it is an award on fastest growing privately held companies in the country but the only metric they use is Topline Revenue they have they do not look at profitability they don't look at anything else and they put out a magazine every year their e 5000 list and they list all 5,000 companies that are killing it in Revenue but I wonder how many of those companies survive the year that they win because Revenue doesn't matter I mean revenue really doesn't matter um I I know it's a vanity metric we talked about that a little bit but when did it become a reality for you to understand that it's not Topline it's bottom line did you have a moment of awareness like whoa whoa whoa whoa it's it's bottom line Not Top Line that makes a difference yeah I I think I realized that before buying the company um just because I was able to what I describe uh as an entrepreneur I acted as an entrepreneur before becoming an entrepreneur so I was working within the company um and I was allowed by the previous owner to kind of treat it as if it were my own um but I couldn't really lose because I was playing on house money um but in doing that you know I saw all the numbers I saw the top line I saw the cost of goods sold I saw the expenses I saw the bottom line all the way up and down the the p&l sheet and you know through nearly a decade of working in the company and seeing those numbers for probably I don't know seven of those 10 years um we had years that were up and down but the profitability typically stayed pretty consistent so even if we were down 20 30% that bottom line number you know stayed pretty close to where it was while it was 20 or 30% higher which just means your margins are even better so um I'd say I learned bottom Lin's a whole lot more important than Topline before ever even going through the acquisition process now you you use the term entrepreneur um so we so I talked about in the intro the difference between entrepreneurs and business owners and entrepreneurs typically are those that build things from scratch they take risks that other people are not willing to take to build something that people can't see it's about about vision and about risk but you use the word entrepreneur what what do you mean by that yeah again just I felt as if it was my business already because I had the freedom to make decisions without asking for permission um I was able to you know if it was a big purchase that I would have liked to have made obviously I was going to go to to Derek the previous owner um but he just gave me a lot of leeway a lot of freedom to make decisions without ever Consulting him just because he trusted me and obviously he was making money so uh as long as he was pading his pockets I guess he didn't really care what I was doing um but I learned obviously I learned our business and what we do right but I also learned business in general um and that was through a lot of it was through Derek I call him a mentor more than a previous boss right and still leas the office from him still see him every day and still lean on him whenever I've got questions are going through something that he's gone through before um that's kind of a long long winded answer but entrepreneur to me is simply just running a business whether you own it or not um as an entrepreneur you don't own it but you know treating it as if it's your own and and learning how to run that business more so more so learning business than learning what your business is and what you do dayto day yeah I think it's a I think it's an interesting it's an interesting word I mean it's not a real word but I think it describes a concept that that you just that you've lived and I think a lot of listeners to this show are probably in that entrepreneur role they are they're employees of a company but they are operating um they're operating as uh somewhat of an entrepreneur inside they have entrepreneurial Tendencies and desires and goals inside inside the business as a W2 employee do you believe that it is important for for entrepreneurs like you like yourself to recognize and build entrepreneurship in your business or is that just kind of if it happens it happens I think it's certainly beneficial to an entrepreneur to have an entrepreneur within the business um because if they have that entrepreneurial Spirit then they you know it's like-mindedness you can bounce ideas off of each other and they may think of something that we as the entrepreneurs haven't and most of us as you mentioned business owners and entrepreneurs are are different right business owners are typically in the weeds still you know running day-to-day operations and such as a a true entrepreneur we're we're kind of looking at everything at a 10,000 30,000 foot View and kind of casting a vision looking down the road rather than five weeks on a schedule we're looking at five years down the road right and so as we kind of get out of the the weeds and the day-to-day operations and we're we're working on the business rather than in it having that entrepreneur that's in the business is certainly beneficial I don't know that I'd say it's a necessity but I'd say it's certainly
beneficial well you know I think I think a lot of us if we probably ad if we are willing to admit it I think we might be threatened by entrepreneurs and our business you know where we are we we feel like um if if we have a Zach in our business that that Zach not only well in your situation A as the entrepreneur you moved up through the ranks and then acquired the business and that was because Derek was ready to move on he's ready to retire do whatever he wanted to do next in life but if if Zach and if Zach was not ready to retire and sell the business he might have been threatened by your entrepreneurship that hey Zach is going to learn this stuff and he's going to go compete with me um do you do you you believe that's a reason a lot of entrepreneurs don't try to encourage entrepreneurship yeah I was actually going to say um as an entrepreneur like all entrepreneurs that become entrepreneurs don't buy the the company or the business that they're working in right so I could certainly see that being a challenge for said entrepreneur but whether entrepreneur entrepreneur employee whatever it all starts with mindset and so for me now as an entrepreneur I can see the advantage and the benefit of having an entrepreneur within the business and then if they decided they wanted to go do their own thing and and they ended up competing against me I've got the confidence and the skills if I had to go back in the business for a short time to still perform those jobs so I personally I'm not threatened by really anybody um I love competition I always have I grew up an athlete and I was pretty good um especially at baseball so I I can see what you're saying and I can certainly understand why entrepreneurs may be threatened a little bit by entrepreneurs that go on to compete against them um I just have the confidence that if that were to happen to me we're going to be good yeah well I think a lot of entrepreneurs do exude confidence and I think it's one of those um necessary I think it's a necessary attribute of an entrepreneur who is going to actually live a successful life and have a successful business but but but I think too there's a lot of entrepreneurs that don't have confidence that they are still playing small that they still look through the lens uh the lens of scarcity at everything like hey this is my thing um have you ever experienced that did you ever have a moments of looking at this with I mean I know you're a confident person but did you ever have those moments of scarcity and I don't know if this like is this right you're fearful tell me about that absolutely especially early on um not as much now I won't say it never happens because it does whenever we're having a Down Season um that's just nature of our industry there's a lot of ups and downs but yeah early on um and this was even after you and I started working together we had I think it was probably three straight months that we were losing money and I didn't have that Reserve built up completely um luckily I had enough in there to to sustain us while we were going through that that downhill slide but um scarcity mindset is it's obviously scarcity mindset but it's scary as well right if you if you allow it to to kind of seep in your mind um it can control you and so that can lead to negative thoughts it can it can hinder that mindset that I mentioned just a minute ago um it can cause depression and all sorts of things so I think experience and as time has going on it's helped me to have much less of a scarcity mindset and not really think about it and just know you know abs and flows we're going to have up Seasons we're going to have down Seasons um but yeah I've definitely experienced it and whenever you're losing money month after month it's it's a whole lot easier for to se in well I want to talk about money let's talk about money for a second because you mentioned it as you correlated money and scarcity and I don't I don't know that you meant to do that on purpose but you said hey yeah I was scared when we were in a down season and what I what I hear you saying is when we weren't making any money sure so that scarcity mindset and fear um is related to I want to see what you believe I I think this is true but I think it's related to lack of money or lack of lack of financial capital and then conversely confidence as an entrepreneur can sometimes be linked directly to the opposite of that which is plenty and money cash flow coming in uh what do you think about that let's take a quick break to thank our amazing sponsors for making this podcast
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a tool so yeah I agree 100% that that scarcity mindset even feeling successful um confidence can and will tie directly into money yeah I I'm with you I know it's controversial and I I I said to somebody the other day and I believe this is that people that say money can't buy happiness are shopping in the wrong places and I'm I don't and I I that's kind of funny to say and and but but the here's what I mean by that and I know Zach you know exactly what this means is that money solves all kinds of problems money can give you confidence money can solve problems money can buy you out of issues money can buy you opportunity money listen money can't give you lasting Joy it's not going to give you inner peace it's not going to give you satisfaction in life totally right that's not what that money it's not what money does but I I'm going through a season of life right now with one of my businesses that is the worst season I've ever been through in my life and it is like sleepless nights worried about how things are going to go and you know my story you know what's going on the back end and you know the reality money would fix everything dude if I won the lottery tomorrow like this would go away like I wouldn't have these problems so when entrepreneurs or or the W2 worker out there who doesn't understand entrepreneurs and they they were they're having conversations about money and somebody says to you well all you care about is money you think money going to buy you happiness and you're like well first of all not all I care about is money but second you're wrong because money money does buy happiness it it does it's not going to buy Joy but it could definitely buy happiness right yeah for sure happiness and joy are not the same we've talked about it and actually we we did a a short stint together where we were basically finding our true purpose right and so I feel like to achieve joy to achieve fulfillment you've got to find your purpose your purpose can't be money right because you can have all the money in the world and if you don't have a a purpose that you're living out you're you're going to be unfulfilled and and just unhappy um and not be full of joy right so money can certainly help us get there to achieve that purpose because the more money I make and the more money I have the more people I can reach the more impact the bigger of an impact I can make in the world yeah you know I believe that too I I I had a I had a a guy who's a very successful entrepreneur here in the Nashville area we had lunch a few weeks ago and uh I think he runs one of the largest masterminds in the world it's it's a it's a pretty significant business that he's created but he started that through his industry that he was in and he and I were talking about money and we we were having this conversation and he said he said something I don't remember what how the conversation turned to this but he said something and then I responded by saying well you know this is what I'm trying to accomplish this is what I want to accomplish and and part of what I want to accomplish is I want to help a 100,000 entrepreneurs escape the ironic prison of Entrepreneurship I want to help people like you who stepped into employed entrepreneur and then work your tail off 60 80 hours a week and missing your kids' lives and all I want to help help you people like you dial that back live a more successful Balanced Life and I want to do that 100 thousand times and and when I said that we also were talking about like Revenue numbers as because he runs a coaching business I run a coaching business like how we're doing he's eclipsed me with lots and lots of zeros on it but he he challenged me he said to do that you're going to need a lot of money if you really really really want to help 100,000 people you're going to need a lot more money than you think you need you're going to need more and and and I I was like well I guess you're right like I don't know I don't know because I I think I don't know what you I don't know what you think about this Zach but I feel like that sometimes I get trapped in this Instagram YouTube like uh cycle of just more more more because all the people that we Chase they they say more you know go do more and I feel like well at sometimes I want to I want more and then I feel like well I don't really need it and then I have somebody challenge me well if you want to make the impact I I'm I'm I still don't know what I believe about all that man I think I know what I believe what you have thoughts on that yeah I go through the same thing of you know could I achieve what I think I want to achieve with the numbers on our p&l and balance sheet as they sit um probably not not five years ago if I saw it I'd say say yeah but as I've as I've grown personally as a professional so have my goals right so I think I think you're both right I think if you've got a Clear Vision and you know exactly what you want and what the endgame is um and you can run those numbers as they sit and that's going to get you there cool um but if you're like me then your goal is just continue to get bigger and bigger and so I know I'm going to need a whole lot more money to do what I want to do and to make the impact that I want to make um compared to what I'm doing right now yeah interesting well what do you think if you look back at the success that you've experienced um just in the short period of time you bought the you bought duin's Welding which I want I want you to well I tell you what before I answer before I ask that question tell everybody give give everybody like a 60 seconds what the heck is douins welding what are you do you guys going around welding the back of pickup trucks and what what do you what do you do um you you would think so the phone calls that we get in the office I got a pinhole in my dry can you fix it no I'm sorry um the material is going to cost more than just getting a brand new dryer right but um so the the name Duggin welding it doesn't necessarily tell the whole story because welding is just a small part of what we do uh but Derek Duggins when he started it back in 1986 it was him a welding machine in the back of the truck and he was basically what you call a rig welder so he would be contracted by General Contractors Ste Erectors Bridge companies you know folks like that he would go and and strike an arc weld the connection and then he's on to the next one right um well then he grew the business from him to a handful of team members to when I started in 2013 we probably had 20 25 people and so we've continued to grow when I bought it we had about 33 I think it was we're running about 50 now um but what we do is conventional structural steel erection so commercial buildings such as has hospitals schools baseball stadiums um even smaller things like retail stores or a drive-through canopy on a bank um the structural steel portion of that is what we hang U most of the time you know we're putting the skeleton up and then they cover all of our pretty work up with drywall and hang fancy lights that you might be a part of and and that type of stuff so in a nutshell conventional structural steel erection and Welding is just a small part of it well the success that you've experience from being the entrepreneur employee to becoming the entrepreneur owner and building this thing and expanding this thing Etc what do you think has been the one key to your success throughout this journey yeah it's really not that hard I think far too many people just talk about it and don't take action but that's all it is I've just taken action so many people don't do that why don't they take action I think they're scared to whether they admit it or not it's they're they're scared of what might happen in a negative light instead of saying well what's the best that could happen and then taking a chance I'm a risk taker right I went all in 100% Allin Whenever Nicole my wife when we decided we were going to buy Duggin right I I maxed out my heli I took every penny that we had in savings literally 100% of what we had I put it into duin what's the worst that can happen well I go bankrupt right what's the best that can happen I achieve what my end goal or what I think my end goal is right now um and I I was speaking to an event last weekend and I got asked a similar question but I'm like I mean if it didn't work what am I going to do go back to being a W2 and a W2 employee and have a salary okay been there done that right so it's just taking action Taking Chances I think that's what separates really successful entrepreneurs or really successful people in general to people that you know work for them or are beneath or talk about well this is what I would do or you ought to do this just go do it what uh how do you define the word success you know what I'm going to say right we've talked about it a million times but to me and it it sounds kind of cliche and so you kind of dig in more but success to me is when reality catches up to my
imagination and tell me what that means it's evolved right so me 10 years ago success to me would have been buying Duggin and um kind of being where I was just a year ago now that I'm here I look in the mirror and I'm like you ain't done [Â __Â ] dog you got a long ways to go um so I don't think there's a there's not a Finish Line to becoming successful or to success it's a it's a verb you know it's something that we do and it's something that for me I'm going to be constantly chasing it um because my goals continue to evolve and and get bigger um so that that that's I don't know if that makes sense does that make sense to you like yeah I I your statement there's not a Finish Line to success is probably the statement of the show and that's the thing we need to I think you're saying is that when you're when your reality what you're actually living and catches up to what you've imagined all this time then that's success but here's the thing your imagination doesn't stop you didn't just say I want to buy Duggin when I buy Duggins I'm out I've done it because you could have bought Duggin achieved the thing shut it down and went on with your life well that's not what you wanted right your imagination had this thing in mind and you you did it so I I I believe 100% there is not a finished line to success and I think that's the quote of the day all of us know this to be be true we I want them I want $100,000 you know okay you get a 100 you're not done like well 200 would be nice 500 would be nice a million would be nice it just continues to evolve and that's not greed it's just the natural part of the process now let me ask you this Zach based on the definition that you just gave uh which is when reality catches up to imagination that is Success do you consider yourself a successful person absolutely but I'm not a su suc uccessful as I'm going to be so it's going to keep moving that Finish Line can keep pushed out to the Future that's it well I want you to um to talk into that microphone and talk to the listeners who are you know driving in their cars or walking their dogs they exercising you know they're trying to go to sleep and they're they're letting the the soothe voice of the real Jason dun get put them to sleep whatever they're doing right now and they're listening to the show what is your your one piece of advice if you had to tell them like you already talked about take action so that's off the table you can't say that but other than that what's your one piece of advice for entrepreneurs who want to become successful I don't know if I can wrap a bow around just one piece of advice but I'd say first and foremost it starts with mindset believing that whatever you think you want to achieve you can achieve it um and then how do you do that well you surround yourself with like-minded people hopefully people that have already done it or are doing it you know for me putting myself in rooms with people that I didn't necessarily feel like I belonged with um has expedited My Success Journey so much now those people in those rooms can't deny me and they're calling me asking if I want to go speak at this event and that event so um it starts with mindset and then once you once you start to get that right um surrounding yourself with like-minded people folks that are further ahead than than where you currently are um you said don't say take action but you got to take action in order to to achieve the success that you want but um the the one thing I'd say that's most important is putting yourself in rooms with people that have already achieved some level of success that you want to get to well I would agree with both of those I mean you said mindset and then surrounding yourself with the with the right people I I would 100% agree with that and and really that's how you and I met I mean y you had a mindset of growth and I need I need to hire a coach I need this so that's why you and I you reached out we started working and then furthermore joining joining a mastermind like the exitor club the one I run that's the idea surround yourself and I know you're member of multiple groups like that you got to get in rooms with people that are smarter you than you that are doing the things that are greater also I think that's one thing that podcasts do that's why I love doing this show is that yeah most of the people listen to the show don't know me most and most people don't know you but they're benefiting from being in proximity to you and me today by listening to the show which gives them the opportunity to achieve greater levels of success uh the people who get so absorbed in their daily work that don't ever listen to the show they're G or or any show not just this one but any podcast they don't watch YouTube videos they're not trying to pour read books they're not getting their mindset is limiting them from being able to achieve that um I want to give you the opportunity as we close down the show today to talk a little bit about your beard company too because you know most people around the country uh don't live in the Winston Salem area in North Carolina to to use douin welding for building a building uh but there's a lot of us uh bearded Brothers out there who could use your uh your assistance with West W beard company talk a little bit about how you started it what you offer Etc yeah for sure uh so west wild beard company started it I launched it in May of 2021 after about seven or eight months in R&D um I spent a ton of time watching videos talking with Consultants uh trial and error you know research on on different types of products or raw materials until I finally put it together and I was I was ready to launch um again May of 2021 the name westw comes from our twin boys Weston and Wyatt um but I make organic um handcrafted beard products from oils to Butters to bombs to mustache wax um and basically what it does is makes your beard soft helps it grow it's not going to promote growth um but as you're putting these products on your facial hair it's going to enhance everything that you've already got naturally um and so yeah it's just helping men um in my opinion achieve even more confidence with their their you know their appearance in front of folks and their wives are going to like it a whole lot better because when they lean in to kiss them they're not going to poke them in the chin with their beard right well West why is the only business that serves across the US and Canada all the products and uh what's the what's the website for people to go check that out yep Westy beard
cco.us and uh check out his products and then if you want to uh follow Zach on any of the socials you can reach out to Zach at Zack Burick and all Platforms in that z a c h b Buu r i c k it's like Buick with an R right in the middle so Zach Burick on all platforms uh Zach it's it's been a pleasure to have you on the show today man I'm really honored to have been your coach for a season in your life and to hopefully we can continue to work together some form or fashion moving into the future but I'm really proud of what you've been able to build I'm excited for you and your wife and your boys um I I remember I remember sitting down when first time I met your wife you guys came to Nashville we sat down had dinner and uh we were talking about things and I looked at her and said uh you're about to make a lot more money I'm gonna tell this guy to start paying you guys more money and she was like she just elbowed you like you got to listen to this guy yeah you heard right oh that was a that was a good one well Zach um I'm gonna give you the last word you are going to have the last word before I sign off for the show anything you want to say anything you can tell people how to get in touch with you you can offer advice you can say whatever you like tell a joke last word is all you well first and foremost thank you for having me on here um what I've been able to achieve is is not 100% my own doing it's again surrounding myself with people in rooms that I necessarily didn't belong in uh you included in in those types of rooms so thank you for what you've you've done and contributed to my life and my business um biggest piece of advice I mentioned it earlier like if you're think thinking about doing something or considering it or you you you want to do XYZ you have these goals and aspirations just do it you don't have to know 100% you know what you're doing what you're getting into because I promise I didn't we learn as we go um but if you're waiting on the perfect opportunity and the the perfect time you're never going to do anything so just take take action surround yourself with likeminded people and folks that have achieved that success emulate what they're doing I'm not saying copy them and try to be like them the steps that they've taken to get to where they're at if you just copy it and emulate them you're going to be successful Tony Robbin says it best success Le leaves Clues right so take action surround yourself with people that are further along than you get in groups such as exitor club and there's a few others that I'm part of as well but um yeah I'm I'm easy to get a hold of I respond to every single DM that comes into my Instagram or Facebook or whatever so um zap Buck across all platforms Reach Out if I can help you in any way I'd be happy to Zach thanks for being on the show man thank you well there you have it another very successful entrepreneur talking about his journey from entrepreneur to entrepreneur and how he became successful and and it's stories like these that keep me doing this show um you know this is the 205th episode of me talking to amazing entrepreneurs like Zach and what's interesting is I think his story is this Entre or this entrepreneur which again this word we talked about at the top for the show this entrepreneur journey of someone taking risks and taking responsibility inside the business and then ultimately becoming an entrepreneur now his journey led him to acquire the business that he' been working for which is not all that's not a normal path although it does happen it's not a normal path but for Zach it did so I want you to really think about where you are M maybe you're still an employee maybe you haven't taken that leap out of entrepr or out of the employment role into entrepreneurship well perhaps you're not you're not taking enough action as Zach talked about perhaps there's something you need to be doing as an entrepreneur right now that'll Leap Frog you into this entrepreneurial journey I want to leave you with this though before I sign off on the show today is that his advice is that you have to surround yourself with the right people now not every single group out there is for every single person there's different groups for different people I run a mastermind as Zach talked about being a member of the exitor club and it's male only male business owners generally speaking doing a couple million dollars a year or more in revenue and we are all committed to this idea of not letting the business run us we want to live very successful and balanced lives if that is an uh an opportunity that you think you would like to take advantage of why don't you go and check it out at the exitor club.com and it's spelled just like the word exit the exitor club.com texi t r club.com go check it out and apply um not everybody's suited to be a member but we would love to interview you let you talk to us about your opportunity and desire to be a part of the exiter club so if that's something you're interested in looking at please let us know we'd like to look at it so go to the exitor club.com so make sure you tune in again next time when I talk with yet another very successful entrepreneur about his or her journey to success until then as always I am the real Jason Duncan and Jesus is King
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