Income Before Impact: The Melanin Money Blueprint for Wealth
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What misconceptions do founders have about scaling their businesses?
You shouldn't scale your business unless you plan to walk away from it. The grass is always greener on the other side, right, Ryan? But what people don't realize is that underneath that grass is always shit.
It's almost like there's shame put on those people for choosing that option.
Trying to make impact before you make income. Talk about it. It's almost impossible for you to be happy. My early success was built off of fear. I didn't want to be broke again.
It's very important to be truly connected with yourself so that your beliefs are actually yours.
My success is not going to be governed by what I say yes to.
Why is it important to secure income before making an impact?
My next level of success is going to be governed by things I say no to.
Carter, George, dudes, I'm so excited to have you on the show, particularly as we were talking about in the green room, because the way you guys operate your business and some of the ways that you teach, particularly building wealth, fits so in line with some of the struggles that I know the particular audience, my audience here, which is a lot of small business owners in the professional services space, you know, insurance, accounting, legal, et cetera, right? You said something, uh, car. So I'm gonna start with you, um, in a green room where big part of your work and what the two of you teach is that the business shouldn't be the only asset that we're growing as we're, as we're, you know, in our ownership of it kind of, um,
Why do you think that is? Because I know a very common practice and there are consultants out there that will teach business owners this. Just dump everything back in your business. Dump everything back in your business. Why could that potentially be a pitfall?
Yeah, I think it's a great question. And I think the answer is what a lot of business owners need today. And we're going through it actively, right? So... Your business is an asset and your business can be your fastest growing asset. And me and George could testify to this. Our business is our fastest growing asset. But that doesn't mean it needs to be our only asset. Because if you put everything back into your business and you never exit that business, then how valuable... is that business, right? Because if you're not taking profit, high profits every single year, and then you don't end up exiting because a lot of these businesses, if you're important to your business, if you're valuable to your business, then your business is not valuable, right?
And people get to the end of their lives. They get to retirement. They're like, yo, I got this thing I built. Nobody wants to sell it. I haven't taken enough profits to build any personal wealth. So now I'm in this place where I still have to work for the rest of my life. And we all can attest that that is not the goal of entrepreneurship. But I think the hard part that all of us deal with is like, at what point do you start taking profits to start building personal wealth and not feel like you're robbing the business of its growth? And that is something that we actively help our clients decide so that they can have assets outside of just their business.
That's great. And if I can, I'll just add a little more sentiment to that. So So to Carter's point, right, if you're valuable to your business, then your business is not valuable. So I've kind of broken it down into like, you know, four stages, right? And so we have the start phase where, you know, you might still even be working a job, right? And you're just, your business isn't profitable yet. So you're putting money, personal money into the business to get it off the ground, or maybe you're a breakeven, best case scenario, right? So everybody has to start there. Then you have this growth phase where it's like, oh man, like I could just stay here, right? It'd probably be your highest percentage profit margin phase of the business on a percentage basis.
You might make more later on, but it'll feel like less because of how much you're reinvesting and how heavy the business is at that time, right? So the growth phase is where you have to make a very important decision.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What misconceptions do founders have about scaling their businesses?
0:00–0:31
2
Why is it important to secure income before making an impact?
0:31–12:22
3
What are the four distinct phases of business growth?
12:22–15:09
4
How do lifestyle businesses differ from scalable enterprises?
15:09–17:28
5
What strategies can entrepreneurs use to build personal wealth?
17:28–50:14
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