Pay Yourself First with Curtis Ray
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Curtis Ray is an Arizona native, married with 5 Children, Collegiate Wrestler at ASU, Best Selling Author- "Everyone Ends Up Poor", Inventor of the Financial Strategy MPI, and a Business Owner with Revenues of $75mm.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. We focus too much on getting home runs, growing, and scaling our business without considering the risks that are in our business.
2. Money does not buy happiness, but it does buy freedom.
3. The most important decision we make has nothing to do with how much money we make, but how efficient we are with the money we make.
Get Curtis' book, Everyone Ends Up Poor!: Why Financial Planning Is All Backwards And How To Fix It - Everyone Ends Up Poor
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| 0:00.0 | Boom. Shake the room, Fire Nation. JLD here and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire, brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network with great shows like Business Made Simple. |
| 0:12.6 | Today we're pulling a timeless EO Fire classic episode from the archives and we'll be breaking down how to pay yourself first. |
| 0:19.2 | To drop these value bombs, I have brought Curtis Ray into |
| 0:22.0 | EO Fire Studios. Curtis is an Arizona native, married with five children, a collegiate wrestler at |
| 0:27.6 | ASU, bestselling author, everyone ends up poor, inventor of the financial strategy MPI and a business |
| 0:33.8 | owner with revenues of $75 million. And today, Fri Nation, we'll talk about what we focus too much on. |
| 0:40.7 | We'll talk about what money does not buy, which is happiness, but what it does buy. |
| 0:44.1 | Hint, freedom. |
| 0:45.3 | And the most important decision that we make, Fire Nation, it has nothing to do with how much |
| 0:49.4 | money we make, but something else you must listen to when we get back from thanking our sponsors. |
| 0:56.4 | Roll by ADP is the only chat-based mobile payroll app, |
| 1:00.2 | specifically designed for small business owners to keep payroll easy, |
| 1:04.4 | like ridiculously easy. |
| 1:06.4 | Visit getroll.com slash fire to download the Roll by ADP app and get your first three months free. |
| 1:14.1 | Business Made Simple hosted by Donald Miller takes the mystery out of growing your business. |
| 1:19.5 | Check out recent episodes like How to Escape a Villain mindset and the framework that makes |
| 1:25.0 | marketing easy. Listen to Business made simple wherever you get your |
| 1:29.3 | podcast. Curtis, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something interesting about yourself |
| 1:36.7 | that most people don't know. What's up, Fire Nation? Something about me that most people don't know |
| 1:43.5 | is on a funny side. I've never eaten a |
| 1:45.7 | hot dog in my whole life. But on a more serious note, I lost $2 million in a single day, a little |
| 1:53.1 | bit over $2 million in a single day. I don't share that with too many people. Recently, I've |
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