Rich Or Happy?

Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)

David Ralph of Join Up Dots

Interview, Motivation, Online, Businessinterview, Education, Businesscoaching, Entrepreneur, Lifestyle, Income, Business

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🗓️ 23 January 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

My guest today, on the Steve Jobs inspired Join Up Dots free podcast interview is a man who started his entrepreneurial life with a similar vibe to so many people on the planet today. He wanted to scream "Show me the money!" As he says" My dream growing up was to be RICH. It wasn’t about Financial Freedom or having the ability to do what I want or any of that. I just wanted to be rich. My ego wanted everything that went along with it. The big house, the fancy cars…all of it. I loved the lure of it all and in my young, immature, egocentric, male mind I mistakenly thought that money was what this life was all about. For me, in the beginning, money was my GOD. Right when I was finishing up college (I say “finishing” instead of graduating because I never did) we came into one of the biggest Real Estate Booms this country has ever seen. I immediately saw the opportunity and began obsessively looking to buy my first piece of real estate. It came fast, and I bought AND SOLD a house in the same day for a profit of $33,000!! How’s that for a days work?" Now speed on a few years and the words that he had heard so many times "like “make sure you don’t rush things”, “don’t bite off more than you can chew”, “don’t over leverage yourself”, “make sure you get out early, don’t be caught when the market turns” etc…, etc… started coming back to haunt him. As he says "All these really smart and seasoned pros were telling me this, but the cocky 20 something year old thought he knew more than these guys did, and I got burnt BIG TIME." And that is a great place to start this episode of Join Up Dots. So how did he go from crashing and burning to where he is today, where he has built-owned 6 Multi- Million Dollar Businessess across various industries, raised 10+ Million in Public Capital and 2+ Million in private capital, and alongside his wife Amy currently are owner-operators of AKC Fitness, a distribution channel for health and wellness products where they have a team of 25,000+ distributors. And is everything built in a much more stable and consistent way than he had previously achieved in his life? Well let's find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots with the one and only Mr Keith Callahan

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0:00.0	Wherever you are, you are, whatever you do, have a nice day.
0:10.0	When we're young, we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be,
0:14.6	but somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling.
0:18.4	Join up dots features amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams.
0:24.0	This is your blueprint for greatness.
0:27.0	So here's your host, live from the back of his garden in the UK,
0:31.0	David Ralph.
0:32.0	Yeah, I'll tell you what, I'm having a good day today.
0:36.0	I am having... I'm going to tell you, I'm having a bloody good day.
0:40.0	I'm having these kind of conversations with these kind of guests time and time again and I tell you
0:44.2	what if you can't be inspired then I'm going to come around with a wet flannel and whip you around
0:50.2	a bit because I tell you what these guys are rocking and rolling and
0:55.2	rolling he is doing stuff which is um well it's inspiring to say the least
0:59.0	he is a man who started his entrepreneurial life with a similar vibe I guess to so many people on the planet today
1:04.9	he wanted to scream show me the money show me the money as he says my dream growing up was to be
1:10.4	rich it wasn't about financial freedom or having the ability to do what I want or any of that. I just wanted to be rich.
1:16.0	My ego wanted everything that went along with it, the big house, the fancy cars, all of it. I love the lure of it all.
1:22.0	And in my young immature egocentric male mind I mistakenly
1:25.8	thought that money was what this life was all about for me in the beginning
1:29.6	money was my God right when I was finishing up college, I say finishing instead of graduating
1:34.9	because I never did, we came into one of the biggest real estate booms this country has ever
1:39.3	seen. I immediately saw the opportunity and began obsessively looking to buy my first piece of real estate.
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