You are not a business owner. There has not been a singular minute of your waking existence that you have had control of.

Elementary, middle, high school, college, the workforce, you were told where to be, when to be there, how to be there, when to leave, and when to come back again.

You never had control your schedule. So the only way to have control of your life and schedule is to have ownership.

Building a company is the hardest thing to do.

So you are sales, you are marketing, your fulfillment, you are tax, you are legal, you are everything.

You're wearing 90 different hats and you have to get good enough to be dangerous in each and every one of them.

That two and a half years spent building these companies from scratch, you're telling me I can just go freaking buy one. The way that you know you're ready for something is when you say that you're not. Because you don't learn until you do it. You don't know how to change a tire until you actually have a flat tire. And then you'd go YouTube it and you can figure out how to change a tire, right? People are way more qualified to buy a business than they think. Welcome back to another episode of the Austin Zayback

show. Today, your host, obviously, Austin Zayback. But we've got a special guest today. Today's guest

was one of the top sales reps and a Fortune 500 company. But he walked away from that six-figure career to pursue a life of intentional entrepreneurship.

Brian is now a real estate investor, the founder of the Action Academy,

which is a podcast and community that empowers people to break free from the 9-to-5 grind

and builds lives they don't need a vacation from.

Also, Brian is in the business of buying businesses. And as we sit here

today, Brian is currently about to purchase a business. I'm sure we'll be able to talk about that a

little bit. Brian, I appreciate you being on the show. Thank you so much for having me, man.

At the end of the day, what I'd like to start off with is kind of like a general framing for why

people should listen to the show for

the next 40 minutes because each podcast that we do is people taking time away from their friends,

their family, from their commute to listen to us. And so what you're going to get today is the fact

that this employment is essentially a contract that we sign, right? So we sign this on the dotted line and we say,

okay, Mr. Corporation, Mrs. Corporation, I'm going to take time away from my friends, my family,

myself, and my life to give to you to advance your goals and in exchange, all I ask for is

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