Light that spark fire nation J L D here and welcome to entrepreneurs on fire brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network with great shows like my first million today will be breaking down how to build an exit for multiple eight figures with no college degree to drop these value bombs I brought Hunter Ballu into EO fire studios Hunter is the founder of roofing.com fueled in cornerstone construction and is a partner in a rep card.

He has multiple eight figure companies and helped thousands through annual conferences and retreats and today for our nation we'll talk about surrounding ourselves with mentors how to do so and why we'll talk about building a team that will help us succeed.

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You get your podcast hunter say what's up to fire nation and share something that you believe about becoming successful that most people disagree with what is up fire nation super excited to be here with you today you know for me man actually this is something most people don't hear often talk about this a lot of podcasts when I speak at the retreats that we host you know people talk about work life balance

a lot and they're always trying to find this balance how do you get it perfectly balanced you're at home enough with your family you're at work enough so you're get stuff done.

And for me I don't necessarily think that you have to be dead center I think that you can spend way more time at work and I wish I could draw it out in an illustration but I can't do that because we're audio only.

But I think that you can have a lot more of your time a lot of that work as long as for one you understand your why and I know that's you know overplayed a lot your why your why your why but if you truly know your purpose why you're here if you care about impact of

the income and then secondly if you're married if your spouse understands why you do what you do they're going to be willing to let you be going more than normal people will say normal people would let you be going from the home because they

understand that drought there trying to make a big impact in the world I love that hunter and fire nation you're going to love this episode because we're talking about how to build in exit for multiple eight figures with no college degree necessary.

So Hunter let's get to the core here because passion is important but to make a financial windfall which I know a lot of our listeners wants there has to be both scale and leverage opportunities within that passion so how can we pick an industry that we're both passionate about but that is also scalable.

Yeah, man, so it's funny I found my way into the roofing industry not because I was passionate about it at all you know I'm a guy from a little small town in South Carolina I guess you'd say I'm more of a blue collar guy than a white collar guy didn't go to college never

cared to go to college they want to be a doctor or lawyer or anything like that nothing against it just wasn't the route I wanted to take I went to the Marine Corps then went to the fire department and found myself after the fire department when I wanted to start my business working with some

business partner and then with the market agency and through that I found myself starting and starting an actual roofing company just as a case study because I figured hey man if I could take this thing to a million dollars then I could show all these clients that I'm trying to get that this dumb old dude from South Carolina grew a company to seven figures and knew nothing about the industry and it helped me get more clients and as I continue to learn more about the roofing space I said hey man this is actually industry that needs innovation it's a place where you can come and if you're willing to work with me.

And if you're willing to work hard and innovate and not be stuck in the old ways then you can really make some waves and change lives of a lot of people that you bring onto your team as well so for me it wasn't even necessarily that I was that passionate about it it was just a vehicle where I could help a lot of people my team members the community and then obviously create create wealth on the way to so for me that that's kind of how the story went.

So I think it's important to realize that listen it's important to have passion because you want to wake up every day and you want to out hustle your competition you are not going to be able to do that if you're not enjoying and love enthusiastic what you're doing but guess what if your passion happens to be in something that you just can't scale you're not going to get to those eight figures which by the way is not for everybody but if you're listening to this episode because you're looking to build an exit for multiple eight figures there's got to be a lot of people.

There's got to be scale included there as well and as you can hear with what hunter was breaking down here he kind of fell into this but what he fell into was very scalable now let's ask the question about mentors we know that we should surround ourselves with mentors but tell us why tell us why we should and how to find them.

So for me I've been super blessed to have great mentors locally and across the US that aren't necessarily right here my next next door neighbor and you know the old strategy of having to call somebody up and I'm going to buy them lunch so that it'll take me out teach me all their secrets doesn't necessarily work anymore you have to be willing to push up skin of the game and I've done lots of crazy things you know we had we host our own event and I've been willing to pay

you know 100 grand to bring a speaker just so I can build that relationship and some of the speakers are Ed Malette and built a great relationship with John Maxwell and people like that but continuing to level up the people that you surround yourself with and the people you allow to pour into you it's so so important as an entrepreneur people listening to this I know that your you know

you know listeners are amazing people their hustlers are out there getting it and oftentimes we find ourselves pouring back into other people it's us always pouring into other people but as some people we at some point we have to be filled up and so do you have those people around you that are willing to pour it to you that's the question and if you don't where can you find those there's plenty of masterminds out there across the US across the world we know of them war room multiple club power room Lewis House have one Perry Belcher all all these different people

we have revolt and so are you surrounding yourself with the right people and it's not always just one or two mentors it's a community of people collaboration people that are there that you can build relationships with and hold you accountable I think that's the most important part how you ended hunter holding you accountable because it's so easy to say you're going to do something it's so easy to have the intention of doing that thing but what's hard is the follow through and when people that you know like and trust when people that you respect

are holding you accountable are saying hunter really dude like you're better than that that's going to cut you to your core you're never going to want to hear those words you're never going to want to admit that you did not do what you said you were going to do to somebody that you respect and so that accountability is so huge fire nation so let's talk about building teams hunter how can we build a team that will help us succeed you've done it tell us how

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