Ep 593 How to Make Millions Building and Selling a Business | Chantel Ray and John McLaren

Health, Wealth & Godly Wisdom

Chantel Ray

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.0 • 525 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Welcome back to the Health, Wealth & Godly Wisdom podcast. In today’s episode focused on strategies for selling a business for top dollar, featuring Chantel and John discussing key considerations for business owners. They explored the importance of preparing a business for sale, emphasizing the need to transition from working in the business to working on it, which can increase its value. Chantel shared examples of successful business exits, including a strategic acquisition by Home Depot, and highlighted the significance of recurring revenue in boosting a business's value. John and Chantel also discussed the challenges of selling to private equity and the risks involved in earnouts. They stressed the importance of marketing in enhancing a business's appeal to potential buyers and offered insights into the various structures of business sales. The episode concluded with an invitation for listeners to schedule a free strategy call with Canzell Business Advisors to assess their business's readiness for sale. Ready to go deeper? 👇All links and resources are below. 🔹 If you want to learn how to hear God’s voice and walk in your purpose…👉 Go to TUNE IN God’s Voice - https://tuneingodsvoice.com🔹 If you want conversations around health, wealth, and godly wisdom all in one place…👉 Go to the Health, Wealth & Godly Wisdom Podcast - https://healthwealthgodlywisdom.com🔹 If you want practical tools for fasting, food freedom, and living healthy God’s way…👉 Go to The Chantel Ray Way - https://chantelrayway.com🔹 If you want access to my books, coaching, and personal resources…👉 Go to Chantel Ray - https://chantelray.com 🔹 If you want business strategy, marketing, and coaching to grow without burnout…👉 Go to Canzell - https://canzell.com🔹 If you want to build faith, family, and financial freedom together…👉 Go to Finch Freedom - https://finchfreedom.com 📚 Chantel’s BooksBrowse all books in one place 👉 https://chantelray.com/books Or grab them individually below:📖 TUNE IN: God’s Voice, Your Purpose👉 https://a.co/d/5Bgj5cU📖 Delegate Everything But Sex👉 https://a.co/d/hLwH4Vj📖 One Meal and a Tasting👉 https://a.co/d/hCTvGRJ📖 Waist Away: The Chantel Ray Way👉 https://a.co/d/1Xy5r6M📖 Fasting to Freedom: The Gift of Fasting👉 https://a.co/d/8wcJzs0📖 Freedom From Food: A Six-Week Bible Study Course👉 https://a.co/d/cqyiq6q

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0:00.0	She's a business mogul, number one author and wellness expert.
0:05.0	How can I help?
0:06.0	And now Shantelle Ray Fitch and her amazing guests are here to guide you on your journey to health, wealth, and godly wisdom.
0:13.0	Time to level up.
0:14.0	Welcome to the Health, Wealth, and Godly Wisdom podcast.
0:20.0	Welcome to today's episode and we are talking all about how to sell your business for
0:25.9	top dollar. And so I'm here with my co-host, John McLaren, and what we love doing is we love
0:32.6	helping businesses sell for top dollars. So we call it grow, scale, and exit. We love to help people
0:39.6	grow their business, then scale their business, and then exit it. So John, welcome. Yeah,
0:46.6	thanks for having me, Chantelle. I'm excited to be here. Yeah. So let's dive right in.
0:52.7	Let's talk about some of the biggest questions that people ask us all the time.
0:59.3	Yeah. So I think, you know, one of the first ones is just, I think, a little bit about you, about the business.
1:05.4	Like, why are you so passionate about building businesses that can sell, helping other people sell their businesses,
1:12.4	just kind of how did you get into this and so passionate about it?
1:16.1	Yeah.
1:17.1	So I think one of the things that everyone kind of says about entrepreneurship is that
1:22.6	it's kind of like they believe it's a life sentence.
1:25.4	And I just don't believe that like you have to build
1:28.7	a business for hundreds of years.
1:31.2	So like, you know, most of us as entrepreneurs, like we do our best work in a creative setting
1:37.1	for the first couple of years and there's a premium on like problem solving.
1:42.4	I always say it's like when you start a business, it's like
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