Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, the show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge,

skills, insight, and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now while building

a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My name is Joshua Sheets and I'm your host. Today I'm going to kick off a series called

the most valuable lessons I learned as a financial advisor. Some of these lessons will be the lessons that I learned from the business. Some

of the lessons will be the lessons that I learned about personal finance from my clients. But today we kick it off with the number one lesson which is this.

There's always business available, but you've got to get up and go get it.

Now to put that into context let me share with you how I got into the financial services

industry.

In summer of 2008 I was laid off from a job where I had been working in the marketing industry for a small

company but I had been working as a mid-level analyst in that company and they

eliminated my job position and laid me off and after I was laid off I wasn't

exactly sure what I wanted to do. I had desired to leave the company. They laid me off in

June or July. I had been planning to leave in January, but I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do.

I did, however, have some attributes sketched out of what I wanted in a job. Just wasn't sure

exactly how to get there. I wanted a number of different things. I wanted to be

paid for performance, not for time. I wanted to have

revenue that would be built up over time. I wanted to be geographically independent. I wanted

to build something that would last and that would really grow. I didn't want to just go and work in a corporation.

After I left the company, I was having lunch with one of my former bosses and he suggested

to me that I consider going into the financial services business.

I had never thought about financial services prior to that time,

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