Wellness + Wisdom | Episode 620

Did you know that working less and achieving more was possible?

Dan Martell, Business Coach and Founder of the SaaS Academy, joins Josh Trent on the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 620, to introduce the concept of buying back your time, why he owes his success to the struggles he went through when he was younger, and how you can turn your pain into strength.

"You'll never get a penny more than you think you deserve. Your self-worth is a by-product of your identity. If you don't think you're worth it, you won't go on the journey to develop. If you don't think you inherently have more to give, you won't decide to work on the skills that are going to make you more valuable to the marketplace." - Dan Martell

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In This Episode, Dan Martell Uncovers: [01:30] Time, Money + Energy

Dan Martell
Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire by Dan Martell
487 Jon Vroman | Dumbing Down Dad? Why Media Demonstrates Fathers As Useless + Why We Need Conscious Front Row Dads Now More Than Ever
Energy is the most important resource.
Why you need to audit your energy to attract money.
How Dan connects to the creator in order to create.
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
Oliver Anthony

[08:55] Turn Your Struggles Into Strengths

Learning from the things you don't want for yourself.
Why he's grateful to his mom for raising him the way she did.
What drove Dan to steal guns from people's houses when he was young.
Why he believes anything is possible.
His family kept all of his problems a secret for 17 years.
The challenges he had to face in his life are what contributed to his success.

[15:40] Connecting to The Creator

Why Dan believed people in the religious church weren't connected to God.
The moment he felt God for the first time in his life.
Erwin McManus
312 Kevin Kelly: What Technology Can Teach Us About Self Love

[20:45] From Zero to Millions

How the concept of buying back time came to him.
Why he put all of his time into creating wealth for his ex-fiance.
How Dan became a multi-millionaire a few months after his fiance left him.
Why he thought he wasn't meant to be in a relationship and only focus on business.
How the buyback loop works.
Entrepreneurship is the ultimate self-development program.

[26:30] Pain to Purpose

Why he dedicated everything to building businesses after getting out of jail.
John Maxwell
Why he decided to share his story publicly for the first time 10 years ago.
Tim Ferriss
How knowing someone's past helps you understand them.

[32:00] Buy Back Your Time

Why you need to do the inner work, otherwise you'll take your past everywhere with you.
Your calendar can help you create more time.
Hire people to buy back your time.

[34:10] Entrepreneur + Intrapreneur Mindset

Flip the switch to become an intrapreneur.
Everyone needs to learn to buy back their time.
The common misunderstanding of high performance.
You choose NOT to make time to do what you want to do.
Why you need to realize your own value and self-worth.
Everybody deserves to be rich.

[40:45] Self-Sabotaging Your Wealth Potential

411 Gay Hendricks | The Genius Zone: The Breakthrough Process to End Negative Thinking and Live in True Creativity
How you self-sabotage your success.
The subconscious beliefs you have about rich people sabotage your results.
Why Dan was scared to spend his money, even when he was a millionaire.
Self-sabotage comes from an unresolved belief from childhood.

[45:35] Dan Martell's Weight Loss Journey

Why Dan he didn't want to look skinny.
How he almost sabotaged his weight loss journey when his wife called him skinny.
512 Alison Armstrong: Unconscious Emasculation, What Women Don’t Understand About Men + How To Get The Love You Want

[49:50] Blissfully Dissatisfied

Balancing being driven with being present.
How Dan's friend taught him how to just be without checking off lists.
Why he used to be a control freak.
When your work is more fun, you get better results.
Everyone admires other people's authenticity.
You are here to become the best version of yourself.
Why people want to hear about the struggles that allowed you to have a transformation.

[59:35] Don't Suppress Your Emotions with Vices

It Didn't Start with You by Mark Wolynn
How Josh faced his porn addiction.
Why vices you indulge in are a way to not feel difficult emotions.
The importance of doing the work to be enough.
Seeing the humanity in other people.

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Power Quotes From The Show Hire People to Buy Back Your Time

"Most people make the mistake of hiring people for capacity. Hire people to buy back your time. Fill your time with things that evolve you. And through that, your business will grow." - Dan Martell

Self-Sabotage

"Self-sabotage comes from unresolved belief about achievement from the childhood. It is a judgment around the result. All self-sabotage is a subconscious fear around achieving what you want." - Dan Martell

Heal Your Inner Child

"The more you're willing to go into the inner child and do the work, the further you can go. The lowest you've gone is the highest you can go. That's why a lot of people that have gone through the most, actually have the most to give - if they're willing to explore that." - Dan Martell

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About Dan Martell

Dan Martell is an entrepreneur, angel investor, thought leader, and highly sought-after coach in the SaaS, or software as a service, industry.

He founded, scaled and successfully exited three technology companies within a ten year period.

In 2012 he was named Canada’s top angel investor, having invested in more than 50 start-ups, such as Intercom, Udemy, and Unbounce.

In 2016, Martell founded the SaaS Academy and grew it to become one of the largest coaching companies in the world.

He’s also an Ironman athlete, philanthropist, husband, and father of two incredible boys.

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