$100M Entrepreneur Dan Martell’s Rules for Buying Back Your Time and Why He Reflects on Death Daily
The BetterLife Podcast: Wealth | Real Estate Investing | Life
Brandon Turner and Cam Cathcart
4.8 • 767 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2024
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Dan Martell is a SaaS kingpin who buys a new software company every month. But as a teen, the only thing he was pursuing was a life of crime - until a stint in rehab introduced him to his first love: coding.
In this episode, Dan shares the philosophies behind his "buy back your time" approach, his top strategies for hiring and training teams, and his counterintuitive takes on parenting, fitness, and building real wealth.
Dan also talks about:
- Top mistakes founders make when hiring (and how to avoid them)
-The "train don't tell" approach to leading teams
- The 10-80-10 rule for empowering your team
- His thoughts on God, spirituality, and living a purpose-driven life
- Strategies for recruiting top talent
- Why building wealth for others is the path to true riches
- The power of constantly taking on new challenges
Books Mentioned:
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
- Love is a Killer App by Tim Sanders
- A Happy Pocket Full of Money by David Cameron Gikandi
- What Got You Here Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter
Connect with Dan:
📖 His Book: https://a.co/d/98Y0mLV
💻 Website: https://www.danmartell.com/
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danmartell/
🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@danvmartell
Connect with Brandon:
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beardybrandon
💻 BetterLife Tribe, Brandon’s Real Estate Investing Mastermind: https://abetterlife.com/
📸 BetterLife Tribe’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/betterlife/
💻 OpenDoor Capital, Brandon’s Real Estate Investing Company: https://odcfund.com/
📸 OpenDoor Capital’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/opendoorcapital/
Connect with Cam:
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cam.cathcart/
💻 Deal Flow Real Estate, Cam’s Real Estate Investing Mastermind: http://dealflowrealestate.com/
💻 Revel City HomeBuyers, Cam’s Real Estate Investing Company: https://revelcityhomebuyers.com/
📸 Revel City HomeBuyers’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/revelcityhomebuyers/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | That's just where I'm at right now because I want to honor the principle of buying back your time to do more. |
| 0:07.6 | But yeah, when I told that to my friend, he's like, oh, so you turned an expense into an asset. |
| 0:12.6 | And I'm like, yeah, dude, what are you doing, man? |
| 0:14.4 | Like, it should have been buying back your time to go look at more deals, not buying back your time to go on vacation. |
| 0:23.0 | Welcome to the Better Life podcast where we talk about real estate investing, building |
| 0:26.7 | wealth, and all in all living a better life. My name is Brandon Turner and I've spent my |
| 0:31.4 | life investing in real estate to achieve financial freedom. And alongside my co-host, Mr. Cam |
| 0:36.9 | Calfcart, we want to help you do the same. |
| 0:40.1 | On this show, you're going to hear from world-class guests who have been handpicked to help you |
| 0:45.9 | level up your investing, your leadership, your goals, your habits, and more to become the very |
| 0:53.0 | best version of yourself. So, join us as we explore the habits, and more to become the very best version of yourself. |
| 0:55.3 | So, join us as we explore the habits, the actions, the beliefs that it takes to build |
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| 1:36.6 | know, all the profits from the show go to charities of the guest choosing. So when you listen to the sponsors |
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| 1:49.8 | Now let's get to the show. This is the Better Life podcast with Brandon Turner and Cam Cathcart's |
| 1:56.9 | not here today. But I'm super excited about this. Last time we talked, it was one of my |
| 2:01.0 | favorite interviews I've done over 500 interviews in my life, one of my all-time favorites. |
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