Zachary Babcock, host of top-rated Apple podcast ‘Underdog Empowerment’ joins the show to share his story of how he went from spending 5 years in prison to building a six-figure business. Together they discuss how ‘fire in the belly’ is to have a burning desire to achieve your dreams, how you can’t control what happens in life, only how you react to change and the importance of knowing when you need to ask for help.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Fire in the belly is the burning feeling in you where you have the urge to go out into the world and achieve your dreams. It is not like an interest or a hobby, you are determined to go and turn your dream into a reality and make it happen no matter what odds are stacked against you.
• Quit blaming other people for your problems and take ownership of each and every single thing in your life. Everything that is wrong in your life, is your responsibility and everything that is right with your life is also your doing.
• Whilst luck may play a small part in things, you control the reality of your situation. Whilst you can’t control everything you can decide to be miserable about your life or you can choose to rebuild your life, be strong and help others that have gone through similar things.
• When you hit that six-figure mark, you have found financial freedom. You have the ability to create systems to remove yourself from the majority of the company so that you are able to spend your time spending quality time with those around you.
• Don’t let your ego get in the way of owning up to your mistakes and what you are doing to fix it. We are all human and we all make mistakes. Whenever you can share your mistakes, you have the opportunity to build stronger relationships with your audience.
• You are one person, and just like everybody else you only have 24 hours in a day. There is only so much you as an individual can do and eventually you will reach a point where you can no longer go forward without other people. The sooner you realise that the faster you can grow.
• Eliminate, automate, delegate. Look at your tasks and ask yourself if you can eliminate the task, if you can’t, ask yourself whether you can automate the process. If the task cannot be automated, delegate it to another member of staff. A business is built to serve you not you to serve it. If nobody else can do the task except you, then those are the ones to focus on.

BEST MOMENTS

“I learned through experience and making mistakes on how to meet the right people.”

“I want to be able to offer resources to come out and be on the fast track to turning their life around.”

“I definitely had imposter syndrome. I think everybody has that.”

“A business is built to serve you not you to serve it.”

ABOUT THE GUEST

“From over 5 years in prison to building a 6 figure business, my name is Zach Babcock, and I help entrepreneurs launch, grow, and monetize top-shelf passive income businesses and personal brands.I interview celebrities and industry leaders on the top-rated Apple Podcast, Underdog Empowerment, and I have a broad perspective from both extremes of life.”

https://www.zacharybabcock.com

https://underdogempowerment.com

ABOUT THE HOST

John Paul Reilly A dyslexic businessman who left school just before his 16th birthday. Barely able to read and write, to the point that at exam time one of the teachers had to read the questions out to him (and then write down his answers in every exam). Written off like most kids who struggled at school and being told by his woodwork teacher he “was nothing and would amount to nothing” he now runs a multi award winning company in the construction industry . A loud but shy person who knew he wanted to achieve great things with no clue what business he wanted to do but knew that’s what he wanted. With his first business started at age 14, to now, he has learned most things the hard way. Now the owner of multiple business with one being multi award winning, John Paul has been in business over many years sharing what he has learned over this time mainly the hard way.

CONTACT METHOD

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