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Entrepreneurs on Fire

Pay Yourself First with Curtis Ray

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Curtis 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. When you pay yourself first, it's when you make a decision where your future self thanks you for it.

2. Money does not buy happiness, but it does buy freedom.

3. The most important decision we make is, it has nothing to do with how much money we make, but how efficient we are with the money we make.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Boom! Shake the room, Fire Nation! JLD here and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire

0:07.4

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

0:16.3

be breaking down how to pay yourself first. To drop these value bombs, I have brought

0:20.8

Curtis Ray into EO Fire Studios. Curtis is an Arizona native married with five children,

0:26.4

a collegiate wrestler at ASU, best-selling author, everyone ends up poor, inventor of the

0:31.2

financial strategy MPI in a business owner with revenues of $75 million. And today,

0:37.5

Fire Nation, we'll talk about what we focus too much on. We'll talk about what money

0:41.6

does not buy, which is happiness, but what it does buy, hint, for freedom. And the most

0:45.9

important decision that we make Fire Nation has nothing to do with how much money we make,

0:50.6

that's something else you must listen to when we get back from thinking our sponsors.

0:56.5

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1:02.0

owners to keep payroll easy, like ridiculously easy, visit getroll.com slash fire to download

1:09.8

the roll by ADP app and get your first three months free.

1:14.6

Business Made Simple hosted by Garnard Miller takes the mystery out of growing your business.

1:19.6

Like 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 podcasts.

1:31.7

Curtis, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something interesting about yourself that

1:37.0

most people don't know.

1:39.6

What's up Fire Nation? Something about me that most people don't know is on a funny side.

1:45.1

I've never eaten a hot dog in my whole life. But on a more serious note, I lost $2 million

1:52.2

in a single day. A little bit over $2 million in a single day. I don't share that with too

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