4. Friction-Free Living and Scaling to Sell with Clint Salter
Plenty with Kate Northrup
Kate Northrup
4.8 • 842 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
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In this episode, I interview Clint Salter, my friend and neighbor who has built and sold five of his companies before age 40. Clint shares his journey of starting and selling companies and offers insights on scaling and selling a business.
He emphasizes the importance of building a team, creating systems, and having less dependency on the founder if you’re interested in structuring a business that could be a sellable asset. We also discuss knowing if you’re the kind of person to build a personality-focused brand.
Clint shares his approach to spending money in ways that bring joy and the importance of knowing oneself and one's values.
He also shares his keys to fiction-free living, which is inspiring!
We talk about the freedom and challenges of having multiple ideas and projects and the importance of not putting too much pressure on oneself. Clint also reflects on his relationship with money and the lessons he has learned about saving, investing, and so much more.
Let’s take a listen. I hope you enjoy the episode!
Resources:
1. Essay - Eight Lessons to be Rich Not Famous
2. Clint's Website
3. Clint's IG
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to another episode of Plenty. |
| 0:03.7 | Today I have the sweetest guest for you. |
| 0:06.7 | He is my friend Clint Salter. |
| 0:09.1 | He is my neighbor and we love taking walks together around the neighborhood and talking about all things business, music, pop stars, musicals, and more. |
| 0:18.6 | He has had five exits from his companies that he has built before |
| 0:24.0 | the age of 40. He's written two books. He's the founder of Dance Studio Owners Association. He's |
| 0:31.1 | been featured on NBC, Fox, ABC. He's an award-winning entrepreneur. He used to be the company manager for the musical |
| 0:39.5 | Jersey Boys, and he is fun and smart. And in this episode, we talked about what questions |
| 0:47.0 | you should be thinking about if you're thinking about possibly scaling and selling your |
| 0:52.3 | company, how to know if you are the kind of person to build |
| 0:55.9 | a personality-based brand or one that is a sellable asset, how to set your life up for |
| 1:03.2 | friction-free living, how to spend your money in ways that brings you joy so you get a lot more bang for your buck and how to know |
| 1:12.8 | what not to spend your money on and so much more. So let's tune in. Enjoy the episode. |
| 1:19.5 | Welcome to Plenty. I'm your host, Kate Northrop, and together we are going on a journey |
| 1:25.5 | to help you have an incredible relationship with money, |
| 1:29.9 | time, and energy, and to have abundance on every possible level. |
| 1:36.8 | Every week, we're going to dive in with experts and insights to help you unlock a life of plenty. Let's go fill our cups. |
| 1:47.6 | Hey, it's fine. Hi. Thanks for being here. Oh, amazing. I'm excited. I'm so happy you're here. |
| 1:52.4 | Okay. How old were you when you sold your first company? So I had my dance studio at 16 and then |
| 1:57.5 | sold it to my business partner at 21. So it was five years. |
| 2:02.4 | Was there anybody in your family, anybody you knew who had sold a company before? |
| 2:07.9 | No. |
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