Dan Martell: Are you Chasing Financial Freedom or Happiness?
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Not enough people are saying this, but we need to stop making decisions based on other people's perceptions and assumptions. When it comes to creating success as an entrepreneur, the risk of following other people’s paths to success is that you reach the top of your ladder and realize it’s leaning against the wrong wall. You’re not living the vision you thought you were going to be living.
The entire topic can feel confusing and a lot of creatives might stall or self-sabotage when they hit the wall. That’s why I’m talking to serial entrepreneur, husband, father, and athlete Dan Martell who’s lived this, learned from it and coached thousands on it.
Dan is an award-winning entrepreneur, angel investor, thought leader, and highly sought-after coach in the SaaS industry. In under ten years, he’s founded, scaled, and successfully exited three tech companies. In 2012 he was named Canada’s top angel investor. He’s a strong believer in entrepreneurs, creative pursuits, and helping people to create a life of unlimited creation that they don’t have to retire from.
Dan Martell founded SaaS Academy and grew it to be one of the largest coaching companies in the world. He created the company to help entrepreneurs scale and grow their B2B SaaS beyond what they thought was imaginable (beyond the hurdles he’s experienced himself).
In today’s episode, Dan joins me in a candid discussion about his experience from a small town to Silicon Valley and beyond, finding fulfillment as an entrepreneur, and lessons from his new book Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire. This is his definitive guide to help us get over the common obstacle that stops us from scaling and growing in business.
Show Highlights:
- Fulfillment isn’t found by doing things the way someone else tells you to
- Skipping to the end, doing the thing that gets us there
- Being an entrepreneur is about creating a life of creation that we don't have to retire from
- The Buyback Formula
- he Buyback Lifestyle: The benefits of applying the same concepts we apply in business to how we show up at home, with our partners, and with our kids
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I've just always loved the entrepreneur, like the creator. I think anybody that wakes up every day |
| 0:05.4 | to make the world a better place for every other person to live in is pretty cool. I think a lot |
| 0:10.1 | of entrepreneurs forget that, that if we don't wake up to do what we do, the world doesn't get |
| 0:15.2 | better. I mean, it's the essence of what creators do. It doesn't matter what you do from long care |
| 0:20.0 | to photography to, you know, podcasts or whatever. It's't matter what you do from long care to photography to, |
| 0:21.1 | you know, podcasts or whatever. It's like you're creating value or your thing wouldn't be valuable, |
| 0:26.9 | right? Hey, if I was to tell you that time is the one of non-renewable resource that we have, |
| 0:35.0 | this would not be a surprise to you, right? Well, you just heard from |
| 0:39.6 | there a second ago. That's Dan Martel, and he's on the podcast this week. We're talking about |
| 0:44.9 | time, how to buy back your time and get unstuck. This is part of a new book that Dan came out with. |
| 0:52.4 | If you're not familiar, Dan and his work, great guy. |
| 0:55.0 | He's an award-winning entrepreneur. He's an angel investor. He's really focused in coaching a lot of |
| 1:01.2 | SaaS companies. I don't know if you know that term. SaaS is software as a service, but he's a fantastic |
| 1:08.6 | manager and very, very insightful helping founders, entrepreneurs, not |
| 1:14.7 | just manage their time, but sort of manage the ecosystem of creativity. |
| 1:20.2 | His focus in this particular episode and his most recent book is around time because, as |
| 1:25.0 | I opened with just a moment ago, it is the one resource that we can |
| 1:28.9 | never, ever get back. In this episode, we cover a bunch of stuff, things like how to actually |
| 1:35.0 | calculate a rate that will help you decide, should you do this or should you outsource it. |
| 1:42.1 | I found this very insightful. Of special interest to our community here is largely around when to hire services out. |
| 1:52.0 | What should you be doing? What should you hire out? How should you make those decisions? |
| 1:56.0 | It's super insightful. If you're interested in growing your empire, as Dan calls it, empire is you |
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