#39: Day One Dollar Zero with Will Grimes ft. Jayson Waller
JAYSON WALLER UNLEASHED
Jayson Waller
4.4 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In today's special edition episode, Jayson Waller gets interviewed by Will Grimes from the Day One Dollar Zero Podcast on his journey from a poor and abusive childhood to becoming the CEO of a billion-dollar enterprise.
In this candid conversation, they discuss Jayson's experiences at scaling a billion-dollar company, losing it all, and his approach to business coaching. Jayson shares his story of how he built two home security companies, a telemarketing company, and a solar company that is now on pace to reach $800 million in sales. He emphasizes the importance of raising capital to scale, and bringing in expertise in building your personal brand aside from your business brand.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
- Jayson Waller discusses facing significant losses in business but staying focused on growth
- Introduction to Jayson's Day One Dollar Zero Mindset
- Emphasizing the importance of seizing opportunities when they arise
- The need for change when current circumstances become too painful
- Discussing the concept of a person's "Why" and how it can be romanticized
- identifying key aspects of a business to double down on for efficient scaling
- Jayson's method for finding his flow state each day
- Jayson's paradigm shift after refocusing on a new venture
- Social media growth and plans for the next few months
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BAM- Business and Mindset specializes in business and personal mindset coaching.
This will help you achieve success at a high level and keep your mindset right. Jayson Waller has built 4 companies from the ground up with 3 worth tens of millions of dollars and his latest was worth over 1 Billion dollars and was set to go public. Jayson has a proven track record in Scaling, Marketing, Branding, and growing Sales in multiple businesses all while maintaining a Positive and Healthy Mindset.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - PRELUDE
01:10 - Introduction to Jayson Waller
03:00 - Jayson on the show
03:45 - Hick-Hop
05:15 - How much has Jayson Waller lost in his business, but didn’t lose the focus to keep growing and pushing
06:30 - Jayson’s Day One Dollar Zero
09:30 - When a unicorn comes by, you have to jump on the unicorn and ride it [opportunities]
12:00 - People don’t change until it’s too painful not too
12:45 - What are persons why?
14:00 - Jayson’s insights on someone’s “Why” and how it can be romanticized
19:45 - Going against the grain is nothing new for Jayson Waller
24:30 - You need to figure out what is sticking in business and have to double down on that business aspect to scale efficiently
25:30 - How does Jayson find his flow state each day?
28:45 - When a leader thinks he knows everything, that is not leadership
31:15 - How did Jayson Waller weather the storm of having to sell his house and his family not being happy with that decision and not seeing the bigger picture
39:30 - The pain Jayson Waller went through when he lost his billion-dollar company
44:45 - Where was Jayson’s paradigm shift after taking his focus away from the loss of his company and starting something new
57:00 - Jayson’s social media growth
01:03:00 - Jayson’s next few months
01:08:59 - END
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Bam, Jason Waller here with the Bam podcast. |
| 0:02.4 | That's right, business and money podcast. You want to make money, you want to conquer business, you want to go ahead and get that mindset right to take you to the next level and level up, you got to listen to the show. You're going to have all kinds of guests on their billionaires, millionaires, athletes, actors, you name it, we're going to have them on here. They're going to be talking about their success, their struggles, their life, their hardship. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm going to talk about my success, my struggle, my life, my hardship. |
| 0:25.6 | So tune in. |
| 0:26.6 | BAM! |
| 0:27.6 | BAM! Come here. So, such a good vibe to ask the guy on the podcast, what do you think to that music? Because he's out on the East Coast. |
| 1:11.1 | He probably loves country. |
| 1:12.3 | He probably loves rap. |
| 1:13.7 | Well, that's a little thing called hicc hop. |
| 1:15.0 | So we're going to ask him here in a second about that. |
| 1:16.5 | But before I give you guys his name, guys built companies worth over $400 million. |
| 1:22.4 | He's done it several times. |
| 1:24.4 | He's lost a fuck tongue. |
| 1:25.6 | We were talking off there. And the amount of money he's talked about losing with some of these businesses and having to rebuild like makes my stomach want to shit itself. Right. I'm just hearing some of it, but I admire a lot of it. But, you know, the biggest thing that wanted me wanted me to just reach out to him and just be, you know, thankful and blessed enough to even have him say yes to being on the podcast |
| 1:44.8 | was I've been watching his content, right? |
| 1:46.8 | And Eli, you know me a lot, dude. |
| 1:50.5 | People's delivery, people's authenticity, |
| 1:52.6 | people's ability to speak to their own imperfections, |
| 1:55.8 | but just really just be relatable and not feel like there's any character behind anything, |
| 2:00.4 | but they're just |
| 2:00.8 | authentically themselves and having enough strength and just temperament to talk about some |
| 2:06.9 | of those things and give deliverables. I think it's huge because we've been around some guys |
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