How This Man Ran a Company From a Hospital Bed

March 24, 2021 By Sean Leave a Comment

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Sean:

You chose the exit path. The question is, why exit instead of scale? And when in that 12-year timeline did you realize, “I have to get off the next stop? I have to build another train?”

Lee:

It was actually fueled from the fact that I played video games a lot during my childhood. And I was highly competitive. Playing at a very high level. Why don’t I transfer this energy, this passion to get better into a business? That’s going to be leveling up in life rather than leveling up in a game.

I mean, that business pivoted a number of times over those years. But I suppose the point I realized is when I started to get more of understanding that because that business had been fueled by frustration, I was building automations to ensure I could continue to run it, but it wasn’t leveraging other people’s value enough.

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I was still very closed because, It had come from a place of, you know, a place of despair. Really. I was in a very tunnel vision, so I wasn’t willing to delegate much at all. I’m still micromanaging. I was working too much in the business, not enough on the business. And when I became unwell, that was like a lesson. It was like it had to happen to me to knock me out at that pattern of comfort.

And it’s a challenging industry because I know and I’ve experienced the bigger your get, the more ferocious it gets. It’s very, very competitive. And for years, I’ve managed to build to a level where I was not seen as a threat, and that was really integral because they left you alone. And by being left alone allowed me to actually flow in this little channel of my own really well.

And looking back, I could have done it differently. I was seeing competition as a threat rather than a challenge to actually step up into and, you know, tackle. And that again is a mindset shift that I’ve gone through all these years. But when I went into hospital and was still running this company from a hospital bed with one hand, like I couldn’t feed myself properly. I couldn’t go to the toilet. I couldn’t move. But I could still run a company with that one hand that I had working.

Looking back, it was hilarious to even think about that. But I think it was at that point that I realized that, this has all been fueled by a lot of negativity unfortunately. And while it’s given me an amazing chance to recover, while it’s given me this time with my children before they start school, this isn’t my bigger picture.

It’s not going to fulfill me. Doesn’t feel fulfilling. I’m actually starting to not enjoy elements of it. And that fuel, that desire, entrepreneurialism is not easy. It’s actually much easier to go and sit in a job and you have to kind of have that passion. And it became a point where I stopped and was forced to reflect because I was stuck in a hospital bed – can’t move.

Have an awful lot of time to think when you can’t move around, and you can’t just be busy and doing stuff. And I think that everyone should take a bit of time away from the business, even though at first I understand you’re building that momentum. So, you’re working really hard. You have to do that at the start unless you’ve got a big investment. You’re going to be wearing quite a lot of hats. Well, actually use that to think, “these things I don’t enjoy doing, will it have enough passion to keep doing these at some point in the future?” Because that’s a really good test as to wherever this is what you actually truly want to do.

But it could be like it was for me. All of a sudden, a tool and experience because the things I’ve learned from that business that help me in the one that I’m running, that really does resonate with me. It’s not been a journey for nothing. It’s been a journey where I’ve actually discovered myself through doing a business that after 10 years I didn’t enjoy anymore, but you have to find out what you don’t enjoy, because that will guide you to what you do enjoy.

When Do You Make Money Doing Public Speaking?

March 19, 2021 By Sean Leave a Comment

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Sean:

What did they struggle then when, after you’ve given this advice and they’ve done that and now they’re like addicted to it and they’re saying, “okay, but now how do I get paid? How do I turn it into a profession? What do I charge?” What do they struggle with? What are some of the most common questions they ask you?

Brenden:

I would say the biggest thing that they struggle with from going from free to paid is niching down. So most people. So let’s say a good quote. I like to say, “if you want to speak for free, speak on anything. If you want to speak for a fee, speak on one thing”. They get paid to speak because the fee outweighs the problem they’re solving. If you think about me as a communication speaker, you can imagine that people, companies, clients, organizations want to pay me for my time, because the value I deliver is higher than the money, whether it’s a thousand, five thousand doesn’t matter, right. It outweighs the topic that I’m presenting on. And because I’m a subject matter expert from Master Talk and all that stuff, I have the credibility to charge high fees.

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Figure out something that someone is willing to pay for. And the best way to do that, honestly, is to go on like speaking websites, people get paid $10,000, 15,000+ see what topics they present on and pick one of those topics and charge much less for it.

The key to speaking that most people don’t get is it takes a while to get paid for actually speaking. Because you need to have some sort of bread, whether it’s your business, some sort of credibility. That’s why I recommend building your long term brand early.

The key is the second part is to understand that getting paid to speak is not the best way to get paid to speak. Really pay attention to what I just said. Let me repeat that again, knowing that you’re going to get a fee is not the best way to make money speaking. The best way to make money speaking is the secondary way, which is to build a revenue stream of other services.

So when you think about me, a lot of my speeches these days are still free, right? Some I get paid for, for sure. But a lot of them, I don’t, but I still make a lot of money from those speeches. Why? because some of the people want me as their coach. They go, “this guy’s the founder of Mastertalk. I’m the CEO of this company. If I pay him X number of dollars, I’m going to make a killing off my speech. How much do you charge?” And then I just charge whatever I want. Because it just works. I have the authority and the best way to build authority is through speaking.

Because you’re right there or you’re there virtually. You come up as an expert, the person who’s hosting the events puts you there as an expert. The people go to the event, trust the organizers, which means they’ll trust you. The only other way to build trust that fast is referrals or podcasts.

The third thing is speaking. What you want to do, whether it’s through a book that you want to sell, it’s a product you want to offer, or a service that you have. You want to package your expertise in a way that helps people. If you’re passionate about career advice and make sure it’s something people want to pay for also, you’re passionate about career advice, have a career coaching program at the end of your workshop.

If you want to see more of this, do you want to get one of my one on one coaching programs? Here are some of the people that I’ve helped and what they’ve been able to generate and achieve. Work with me. 1% of people will say yes. And once you get those five, 10 clients worldwide, then the rest is history. Then you have too many clients. Cause then it gets annoying. Honestly. Because then they start referring you to everyone else and then you have an overload, then your price skyrockets, and then it gets challenging.

This Simple Exercise Makes You a Better Public Speaker

March 17, 2021 By Sean Leave a Comment

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Sean:

You have done over 900 talks; presentations. And you need to keep on improving daily, right? So 10 hours of podcasts a week, aside from that, what are things that you do daily that affects your improvement in how you deliver talks and in how you craft them? Do you do something every day that just hones you as an individual, as a public speaker? What is it?

Brenden:

Yeah, of course. There’s a lot of daily stuff that we can talk about. Here’s an easy one that people can implement right after this call. It’s called the random word exercise. For the audience’s sake, Sean, why don’t you just give me a random word?

Sean:

Augmented.

Brenden:

Augmented. Is that what you said? Okay. You like giving me a complex word.

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So what I have to do with this word is I have to create a presentation out of thin air. So here I go.

We always think about getting to the next level, whether it’s our business, our lives, our health, our relationships, and the best way to think about that next level is not just about the status quo because the status quo gets us nowhere. But rather how do we augment our lives to a new reality, to a reality that is not like any other. And by augmenting that experience, we’ll be able to create the lives that we want, whether it’s our public speaking skills, our income and our businesses. Or to the relationships that we care about. And that’s exactly why in this week’s presentation, I’m going to be showing you some of the ways that I’ve augmented my life so that you can augment yours.

So notice how I just made that up out of thin air. First thing I want to point out for people right before Sean starts clapping and saying I’m a great speaker is I’ve done this a thousand times. I literally do this on every podcast I guest in. So I’m forced to practice. So the advice for you is all I’m asking for is five minutes every day, five words, one minute each. Go to your house, wherever you already live and just go “lamp, wife that doesn’t like me, laundry, teapot, door – do one minute each”.

And if you’re in a public setting, you don’t need to do the exercise, but at least think about it mentally. If I’m walking and I see a building, obviously I’m not going to present it, but if I was doing the exercise, what would I say for 60 seconds? And over time, if you do this five times a day, five minutes, a one minute each you do this for the year. That’s over 1,800 times that you’re doing the exercise. And if you can present something that you have no idea, like I’ve done this with hippo, like, how am I supposed to do that? I don’t know anything about hippos. If I can do that. If you can do that with subjects you have no clue, no understanding, no expertise in, imagine what you can do with something you actually know something in.

Sean:

Wow. That’s the first time I’ve ever heard about that exercise. I’m going to be trying it out. So that is something that you do daily. Definitely looks like it has helped you tons. And you could do it with the word. By the way, that’s just top of mind. I don’t know why I said that word, but that’s top of mind right now. So, that daily routine helps Brenden to improve his daily craft.

Maybe you want to start with one word. Maybe you want to start with two. That’s fine. But if you can go to five words, definitely would fast forward and would help you to catalyze your growth as a public speaker

What Is More Important: Emotion or Actionable Lesson?

March 12, 2021 By Sean Leave a Comment

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Sean:

I’m cheating a little bit when I ask you this question because this is a hypothetical one. I want to ask you what is more important, leaving a lasting emotion to your audience or a lasting actionable lesson? Now, I know both are important, but if you were to choose one of them, lasting emotion or lasting actionable lesson, what would it be?

Brenden:

My thinking is definitely the emotion. Let me explain why. At the end of the day, as a speaker, whether you’re speaking for a day, like in a workshop, whether you’re speaking for an hour, 30 minutes, two hours, whatever the length is, you cannot teach them everything. That’s just the reality of the situation. Not because you don’t add value, not because you stink, but because you don’t have enough time.

So how do you get them to do the work? The only way to get them to do the work is to make sure that they felt something from listening to you. It goes back to the whole content versus delivery. A lot of people ask me that and the answers for sure delivery, but it’s not even close. And I’ll explain why, think about all of your high school teachers, think of all of your college teachers. They’re all really smart people. How much do we actually remember from their presentations?

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At the end of the day. Best case scenario. If you’re the best speaker in the world, best speakers like the top 1%, people are going to remember one, maybe two things. So if they remember the emotion – how you made them feel in that presentation. They will follow up with you. They’ll buy your programs, they’ll buy your services. They’ll watch your consulting, they’ll watch your free YouTube videos. They will follow up. And if you suck, they won’t. So I would focus a lot more on the emotion than the action because if they feel the emotion, they’ll ask you what the action is. They’ll go, Sean. You’re awesome. What’s the action? And the same way with me.

A lot of my competitors are really dry with communication. They go, “Oh, focus on silence”. As I’m saying, I’m like, I know. That’s not what’s going to get people to take action. What gets people to take action is by bringing that emotion, that drive, that passion, what we do, explaining why we do it, how we do it, and more importantly, giving them that small, quick win that convinces them how to speak and why they should speak.

Let me add a bit more layer there – never focus on the emotion at the beginning. If you’re a beginner speaker, why am I saying that? Because if you’ve only practiced your talk two or three times, the emotion will never come out. Let me explain why. The reason is because you still haven’t mastered your content. Let’s say you have a teacher presenting a subject. They’re not really thinking about how to make this better for their audience. It just stalemates. You can’t like put a joke in there and expect it’s going to change.

What happens is you transition from logic to emotion. I realized that it wasn’t about accomplishments. It was about selling the emotion . And then I transferred, but you need to present the same presentation to transfer from logic to emotion, or you’ll never get there.

When Is the Time to Do Your Passion Full Time?

March 10, 2021 By Sean Leave a Comment

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Sean:

A lot of people ask me this question, actually. Sean, when’s the time to jump ship? Sean, when’s the time for me to quit my day job and just do my passion full time? So I want to know the story behind it for you.

Brenden:

For sure. The short answer to that is if you’re asking the question, don’t jump ship. That’s easy. If you’re wondering whether I should jump ship, should I, should I not? The answer is always no. You’ll know when it’s time to jump ship. So there’s two parts, then, and I’ll explain my own story. Some people say burn all the bridges. Some people say do it on the side. My advice is simple, people who are already burning bridges and going all in don’t need this conversation and don’t need my advice. Let’s focus on the people who are too scared to take action. I’m a huge believer in side hustles because the difference between entrepreneurship and having a job is, a job brings you security. A job gives you a set number of hours. A job gives you a set income stream, but entrepreneurs there’s no set income stream, but in the same caveat, there’s a lot more upside than being an employee.

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My advice is always simple. Work your side hustle until it becomes a full-time hustle. I always say it like this. If you can’t work on your business part time, you can’t work on it full time, unless you’re a burned the ships kind of person, which is not a very huge percentage of the population I would say. For me, it was very simple. I wanted to be an employee my whole life. I had no intention of being an entrepreneur. I wasn’t one of those kids who started in a lemonade stands that wasn’t me. I was 12.

I wanted to be a corporate accountant, got an internship at Price Waterhouse Coopers. I worked really hard, even if I thought it was a water bottling company. For those who don’t know, it’s a big accounting firm in the world. Then after I went on to be a technology consultant, so I got a great job at IBM and all I wanted to do was be a senior level executive. Those executives in Canada, in the U S make $500,000 a year. That’s more than most entrepreneurs in the world cause most entrepreneurs aren’t really successful and I didn’t want to do any of this master talk stuff. But the difference was after I graduated.

After I got the job, I started working. I just asked myself the simple question, Sean, that many of us will ask ourselves when we start to make money for our families, which is, “is this all I’m going to do with my life?” And for me, the answer was no. Was I just going to work as a partner and then die? Yeah, I’ll make a lot of money, but not too much else.

That’s when the idea for the YouTube channel came to be, because I realized a lot of the communication information was pretty bad on YouTube. No one was sharing free videos with people to learn and grow with their communication skills.

I started making videos in my basement. No intention of quitting my job. But then it started picking up. People started watching the videos and here we are today.

Where to Find the Best Business Opportunities

March 5, 2021 By Sean Leave a Comment

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Sean:

The last question I have for you is that the target market of this podcast, The Leadership Stack, we’re looking at leaders and managers and entrepreneurs who are struggling out there more so now because of the pandemic again, 45% unemployment rate is not going to happen if businesses did not shut down. There are a lot of businesses that have died during this time. Given there are some that are thriving, but still, 45% from 7% started this year. At least here in the Philippines.

That is the all-time low. Now in a couple of months, it’s 45%. I am wondering, Jared, what would be your one big advice? If there is one big advice you could tell to these people, what would it be?

Jaryd:

Problems are just opportunities in disguise. What the world needs is help. People want help. If you can find out a way to help people, the money will come. You can get as creative as you like with it. But I feel like at the moment it may be really hard in your niche or what you’re doing. Maybe it’s a luxury item that you’re selling, or it’s a luxury service that you’re selling or it’s something that people aren’t spending money on right now.

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Can you blame them? I haven’t been very impacted because a lot of people were turning to the internet to make money online, but there are still people that have left and can I blame them? No, they’ve stopped working with me. I can’t blame them at all. I’m all like, “Hey, you do what you need to do. If you need to go and look after your family, please do it. That’s the most important thing for you at this time. And if and/or when you’re ready, come back and I can help you.”

I think if we just put ourselves in the position where we’re always putting ourselves in one another’s shoes– our client’s shoes, our audience’s shoes and thinking “all right, cool. Where are they at the moment and how can I help them best? Now how can I serve them the best?”

When you can do that, people will appreciate it and you’ll get paid for that. Sometimes it may not be monetary. Sometimes it’s love. Sometimes it’s an introduction to somebody or a referral. It may not come in the form of cash.

I think probably if there’s one big thing I would say to entrepreneurs that are struggling right now is that if you’re to think about how can you help people right now and serve people with what’s really important to them, what they’re really struggling with, then everything else can just wrap around that.

Gone too Soon

March 3, 2021 By Sean Leave a Comment

Today I mourn with a friend.

Wrote this down – perhaps to express my own grief with what happened as I also have children.

“Gone too Soon”

Happiness, joy, jubilance
These are some of the emotions that coursed through me
When you entered the world
My boy, My little one

Pain, pangs, excruciating
They all flew away when you took your first breath
Replaced by relief and smiles
You are amazing

Peace, stability, security
All I imagined to provide and give as you grew
I thought we would have years
My son, my little one

Shocked, unsure, rattled
I felt a whirlwind in my soul crash against my heart
When I heard the news unsettling
I held you close and fast

Grief, despair, fear
Trying to get a tight grip on my mind and drown me
I saw all the things they did
All to keep you alive

Empty, Hollow, abandoned
I let myself drift into stasis for but a glimpse
As I held your hand cold
Devoid of life and suffering

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Hope, faith, love
What do I have to hold on to but Christ?
You were gone too soon
Gone but always there

The Three C’s of Achievement

February 5, 2021 By Sean Leave a Comment

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Sean:

I’m sure there are those people who are struggling in your inner circle, struggling in your community, and they do reach out for you for help. I’m maybe one of those people because I’m really not a very fast learner. So I assume that these people are, you know, they’re struggling entrepreneurs. They might be leaders on their own right. I wonder what do they usually struggle with?

Jaryd:

You’re right. A lot of people, you know, that join my community, have a job. I think we should probably keep this separate to maybe the inner circle and the community. Because they are separate products and separate services. Within the inner circle this is my mastermind. This is application only. And I’m very selective with who I have. Because I can only work with a certain amount of people and I’ll speak to them every single week.

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Their questions and concerns come up every single week and we also have one on one coaching. But if we’re to do, just the people that, you know, kind of struggling in terms of wanting to buy a website business. The biggest thing that I really struggle with is mindset. Having the right mindset to go the distance because you know what it’s like in business. Business is hard.

Sometimes business is really hard. Sometimes life is really hard. And having the right mindset to deal with these things that pop up is absolutely critical. And I think that’s what most of the people within my community that just start working with me really struggle with the most. Where they may struggle with valuing how important it is to schedule time to go through the lessons. Valuing how important it is to schedule time to look at website businesses to buy.

And then also if there’s a hiccup in life, Still staying strong too, and being committed towards hitting that goal. I’ve had people that have bought businesses and kind of been a bit overwhelmed with running the business and it just wasn’t for them and they sort of fell off track. I teach some mindset principles on how to stay committed. I call it Three Cs to achievement.

So you need to have a vision first. Commitment comes before courage and courage comes before confidence. So the first thing you need is a vision, which if you don’t have a vision, then you can’t be committed, right? Because what are you committed to? You don’t know what you actually want to achieve. And then once you’ve committed, you’ve got your vision. You committed, then only after you’re committed can you be courageous. So commitment comes before courage. Right now, once you’re courageous, you’re out like “Cool I’m courageous enough to throw myself into the deep end and go and learn this subject and fall down, scratch my knees, pick myself back up”. But if you forget what your vision is, then you can’t be committed and you can’t be courageous again. These are the things that you need to have. Only once you’ve got the vision and you’ve been through the commitment phase and the courage phase where you’ve learned everything. You’ve scratched your knees out. You pick yourself back up, you’ve gone through it, you’ve learned the theory. You put it into action and you’ve learned everything you need to know. Then you’ve had experience and then you can become confident. Right?

So commitment comes before courage and courage comes before confidence. The only way you can get to confidently achieve anything or go do anything in life is to go through and have a vision. Be committed enough to that vision. Be courageous enough to act on that vision and learn the things that you need to learn through the whole process. That could take six months. It could take six years, but you still need to have all of that before you end up at confidence. And being confident at anything, that it is that you want to achieve.

So that’s the biggest thing that anybody in my community and anybody in life struggles with.

How This Plumber Created an Online Business Empire

February 3, 2021 By Sean Leave a Comment

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Sean:

I just want to know your entrepreneurial journey. How did you start from being in the plumbing industry? How did you get the idea for buyingonlinebusinesses.com? What inspired you to say, Oh, you know what? I can do much more than this. I can build an online business empire?

Jaryd:

Yeah. So basically, I was plumbing. I got a job straight out of school. Well, I was still in school when I was plumbing. I did three days of school and two days of plumbing per week. All because I was pretty much dumb and I wasn’t very smart when I went to school. And I went into the… I guess dumb is the worst word for it, especially for children, but I went to dumb English and dumb Maths is what they called it.

And so, I just believed that I wasn’t going to do any office work or job and stuff like that. So I went in and started working on the tools. Over that process, I was working big hours– 60 to 70 hour work weeks and commuting in my car an hour to work or an hour and a half to work and then back home again. it was just very tiring. because I worked so much on the weekends, I just kind of wanted to just like get away from that and just started partying and went down a pretty bad track with drinking and doing silly things.

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Over time, I’ve started to save my money as a plumber, and I just really had this massive desire to travel. So I started traveling and went to all this different places around the world and took big, long trips. I would save all my money for a year or more. And then I’d take about six months off and I’d go traveling. Then I’d come home with no money and then do it again. I did that process again and again.

What I realized on one of my trips, I was living in Egypt and I was a divemaster. So I was teaching people to dive and taking them scuba diving around the reef and stuff. And I realize on this trip that “hang on a second, like I’m just running away. I’m just saving my money and I’m running away from the life that I have in Australia.” It wasn’t good. So I really decided I needed to create a new life. I really needed a goal. So my goal was to work out how I could continue doing what I actually love, which is traveling. So I literally typed into Google, Sean “how to travel the world and make money online” which was quite funny. That’s where my journey started.

I started my website business and I didn’t make much more money either. I made a little bit of money, but not much. And that’s because I didn’t really know what I was doing. I didn’t know anything about digital marketing. And from there. I was still working. I went back and working on the tools as a plumber and I came across this stat. And this stat was that 90% of all startups fail.

And I thought, well, hang on a second. I know how to run online businesses now. And I’ve learned so much over the years. Why don’t I go away and buy a website business that’s past that 90% failure rate. Because my other startups were kind of failing and dwindling away.

And so that’s what I did is I typed it into Google again, “how to buy website businesses”. There was not really anybody teaching people how to buy website businesses and do due diligence and the research that you need to do. And the things you need to check off to make sure you buy a good investment.

So I taught myself and I bought a business. And then I bought another one. And from these two businesses, I was making more money than my day job as a plumber. So I quit and I went traveling and I bought another business. And then on my travels, what happened was people like, hang on a second. How come you don’t need to get a job when you go away? Or how come you don’t need to go home and earn some money? And I told them my story and they’re like, wow, you need to teach me how to buy websites. I finished one of my trips and realized that’s what I want to do. I want to help people. That’s where buying online businesses was created.

What Are the Top 5 Books That You Should Read to Become Successful?

January 29, 2021 By Sean Leave a Comment

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Apart from CEO at 22, what are the five key books I should read and why?

I recommended How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie last time. So definitely that is one book that I believe everyone should read.

Second would be the 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell. I’ve read that I think four times already since I was 12 years old. Fantastic book. Those are the laws of leadership. Leadership is important in all areas of your life.

In your own self-discipline, you have to lead yourself. In your marriage, you have to lead. In your family, you have to lead. If you’re the guy you have to lead with protection, with provisions, with spiritual leadership. If you’re the wife, you have to lead with nurturing, caring, and supporting, honoring, respecting leadership is really just super important and learning the laws behind it that will serve you for the rest of your life.

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Another book that I really love. That I recently read would be Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss, the rules of negotiation. It just helped me out because I’m a sales guy and I negotiate. As the CEO, I’m the guy who fixes stuff. There’s something broken or there’s a conflict between people, maybe between client and an account manager. I’m the guy who comes in and tries to fix things. And that involves negotiation. That’s why business people in the Philippines are called negosyante. You have to negotiate. You can’t be a businessman if you can’t negotiate. So that one is a really good book.

Another book would be Patrick Lencioni’s The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Being a team player is super important for me. That book helped me to learn about what breaks down a team. What makes it dysfunctional and how you can deal with it. It’s such an easy read because Patrick Lencioni writes it in a story narrative where he’s just like narrating a fairy tale, but in kind of a real-life, telenovela kind of way. So you learn the principles as you read the story. And that for me, makes it very easy to read.

Another book would be EntreLeadership by Dave Ramsey. Because I’m a businessman and I had to scale up my business. I had to make it bigger. I had to deal with all of the accounting, legal. I have to make processes, train people, improve my hiring processes, improve my firing processes. All of these things that you don’t think about when you’re starting up, because when you’re starting up, all you think about is: How can I improve my cashflow? How can I survive? How can I make revenue greater than my expenses? That book, Entreleadership. is definitely something that I think a lot of people should read. It’s super underrated because not a lot of people know about that book.

The default answer would be the Bible. And I think you might figure that I’m, I’m cheating by giving this answer, but I think it is a book that has changed my life the most. So I’ve read, I’ve read the Bible for 14 times already, and this is my 14th time to read it. I’m in the book of Ezekiel and the principles that I learned there are secondary. What is primary for me is how I am able to listen to God and his will for my life. That for me is life-changing. That for me is super important. That took me from where I was to where I am now.

When I was younger, I said, this doesn’t make sense to give 10% of what you make the God, how can you make more from that? But I fatefully gave my tithes when I finally had my allowance in college. So that was a small amount and I still give my tithes up until now, now that I’m doing business and the revenues is bigger than my allowance and, you know, God has always been faithful.

He has always provided for us. That promise is true. It’s very true in my life. It can be true in yours. That’s why I cannot not include the Bible in the top five books.

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