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Entrepreneur Stories 4⃣ Inspiration

031: Profit First (or Finish Last) with Mike Michalowicz

Entrepreneur Stories 4⃣ Inspiration

Millionaire Interviews Podcast & Sir Austin Peek

Careers, Business, Business:careers

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Mike Michalowicz is founder of Profit First Professionals. He's also the author of The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, The Pumpkin Plan, Profit First, and Surge. His books have been translated into 10 languages. Profit First Professionals is an organization designed to support accountants, bookkeepers and other financial professionals to substantially differentiate themselves in the market - so they can dictate a premium for their services and attract more clients. *** For Show Notes, Key Points, Contact Info, Resources Mentioned, & the Fabulous 4 Questions on this episode visit here: Michael Michalowicz Interview. ***

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0:00.0

I belong to the International Organization and you get once a month meeting, we all get

0:08.8

together and I've got frustrated because I go in there and everybody's just kind of scooting

0:14.1

over the top of their thing and we're sitting there not in our heads like we know what they're

0:17.4

talking about.

0:18.4

There's no details to it.

0:20.2

For me it's $700 a month and it's hard to justify, you know?

0:24.4

Honestly, I feel like I've got 10 times more to have a listen to your meetings.

0:46.3

I went out for drinks with another guy at the office.

0:49.5

We're lamenting working for this company.

0:51.6

I'm off to start my own business, I tell the boss, arrogantly.

0:54.5

Are you still drunk?

0:55.5

Yeah, I was a little hungover there.

0:58.7

So it started making a living but it wasn't like this overnight success.

1:01.0

I hustle like crazy.

1:03.0

My name is Mike McCallough, I am from Boonton, New Jersey which most people would know

1:16.6

where that is since we're such a tiny town but it's about 20 miles west of New York City

1:20.6

and what I do is I am an author, full-time author, I've written multiple books.

1:25.4

My most popular right now at least is profit first.

1:27.7

I've also written the pumpkin, plants, surge and some other books and I'm working on a

1:31.8

new one that comes out in 2018.

1:34.0

When you're a kid did you decide you wanted to be an author?

1:36.0

No, I never had an aspiration to be an author.

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