If you've been working hard for years but still feel broke, there's a reason.

And no, it's not because you're unlucky or you're just not cut out for business.

It's because you're stuck in a trap, a trap of trading time for money.

That's the number one reason most people stay poor.

They work an hour, they get paid an hour.

When you stop working, the money stops coming in as

well. And that is the ultimate financial dead end. If you want to get rich, you have to escape

this trap. The way out is something called leverage.

Welcome back to the $100 MBA show.

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for free. Thanks. Let's be real, most jobs, whether you're an employee or a freelancer,

or even self-employed like a one-person service business, you're an employee or a freelancer or even self-employed, like a one-person

service business, you're just a different version of the same trap. You trade your hours,

you trade your energy, you trade your life for a paycheck. And here's the kicker. You can never

work enough hours to get rich. There's only 24 hours in the day. We all have 24 hours in the day. No one gets

more hours than the other person. No matter how good you are, you can't scale yourself. You can't

make more time. That's why doctors, lawyers, consultants, people that make good money can still go

broke. If they stop working, the money dries up. The truth is,

if your income relies 100% on your personal labor, you will never get rich. That's just the

bottom line. So how do people actually get rich? They use something called leverage. I learned this years ago from a guy named

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