From Borrower to Business Owner: How to Leverage Debt to Secure Your Financial Independence with Eric Brotman
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Eric Brotman is the CEO of BFG Financial Advisors, host of the Don't Retire… Graduate! Podcast AND author of the Don't Retire… Graduate! book, and regular contributor to Forbes.com.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. It is not morbid to protect someone's human life value.
2. Leverage your opportunities.
3. Start immediately. Don't wait until there's a trigger event before you do this. Time is on your side.
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| 0:00.0 | Boom! |
| 0:02.9 | Shake the room, Fire Nation! |
| 0:04.9 | JLD here and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire Brought to You by the HubSpot Podcast |
| 0:10.0 | Network with great shows like Business Infrastructure. |
| 0:13.0 | Today we'll be talking about going from Barrower to Business Owner, how to leverage debt to |
| 0:17.6 | secure your financial independence. |
| 0:19.8 | To drop these value bombs, I have brought Eric Brotman into EO Fire Studios. |
| 0:23.9 | Eric is the CEO of BFG Financial Advisors, host of the Don't Retire Graduate Podcast, |
| 0:32.4 | and author of the Don't Retire Graduate Book and a regular contributor to Forbes.com. |
| 0:39.2 | Today Fire Nation, we'll be talking about getting startup capital the right way. |
| 0:43.0 | We'll talk about tax benefits of life insurance. |
| 0:46.0 | We'll talk about great ways to encourage your kids to become Entrepreneurs later in life. |
| 0:51.0 | And we'll talk about keeping the money you make. |
| 0:52.8 | And so much more when we get back from thinking hours, sponsors. |
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| 1:04.7 | genuine relationships with your customers. |
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| 1:14.5 | Are you looking for a proven business coach who has helped thousands of entrepreneurs |
| 1:17.6 | just like you to increase their profitability by an average of 104% per year, all for less |
| 1:22.7 | money that it would cost to hire a full-time minimum wage employee. |
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