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Success Story with Scott D. Clary

Lessons - The Ex-Convict Who Built 3 Tech Companies & Sold Them All | Dan Martell - Serial Entrepreneur

Success Story with Scott D. Clary

Success Story Media

Business, How To, Careers, Self-improvement, Education, Entrepreneurship

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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In this "Lessons" episode, Dan Martell, a serial entrepreneur who built and sold three tech companies, reveals how high achievers break free from old identities to create bigger futures. He shares why the key to scaling is treating the organization as the real product, not yourself, and how designing from the top down attracts world-class talent. Dan also explores the mindset shifts behind abundance, detachment, and building from a place of pure creation—so you can grow without burning out while still living a fulfilled life.

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

In this lesson's episode, discover how high achievers outgrow old identities to pursue bigger visions.

0:05.4

Understand why treating the organization as the product lets leaders scale beyond personal

0:09.3

strengths, explore top-down design with talent-first hiring, and learn how abundance and

0:13.4

detachment fuel bold creation without burnout.

0:31.1

Tactics, how do you manage that idea so an example maybe you are great at selling and you jump on calls all the time and that's how you build your business so how do you remove that out of your formula

0:36.8

yeah i mean most people's, they'll call it selling.

0:40.0

They'll call it their copy skills.

0:42.1

They'll call it their leadership.

0:44.4

I'm the CEO.

0:45.3

I'm the vision maker.

0:46.2

They'll call it their heart, their kindness, whatever it is, right?

0:51.3

Their directness.

0:53.6

Here's what I would encourage people to consider.

0:57.0

Who you are today is not who you need to become to achieve what you want because if you were,

1:02.5

you'd have it. Period, full stop. You don't, people, I hope people get, my life isn't a

1:10.8

byproduct of a decision I made today. My life is a

1:13.3

byproduct of a decision I made six months ago, a year ago, four years ago. The reason I made

1:18.0

those decisions is because an identity that I believed I could become. And I knew I needed to

1:25.2

become that version of me to bring those things into my life. Because if you were actually giving that, you know this, man. They said, Jim, Jim, uh, Roney's talk about this back in the day, said, you should hope you don't be given a million dollars because if you're not a millionaire yet, you'll lose it all. People think having a million bucks makes you a millionaire. My definition

1:44.8

of a millionaire is not a person that has a million dollars in the bank count because any one of the people listen right now, I can wire you the money. Like, I've been thinking about doing this because I think it'd be a great deal, obviously. But you don't even have to do it because you look at lottery winners. We just watched it happen with the pandemic. Yeah. Everybody got the money. it ended up back in the same pockets.

1:42.3

Period, full stop.

1:43.1

So that's the pandemic. Yeah. Everybody got the money. It ended up back in the same pockets.

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