Today Nicholas brings on comedian and businessman, Tommy Berretz. Tommy was not only BDB Live EMCE last year, but he will also be a speaker at BDB Live 2.0. Tommy has built,  exited, and sold at a profit, a multi seven figure business, now helping other people do the same thing. Among the many other things Tommy has done, he’s also made it a priority to pursue his passions, like the comedic arts and building self-running businesses as an entrepreneur!  

Time Stamped:

• [ 02:49 ] Building Businesses that are Self Sufficient.
• [ 05:00 ] Pursuing Your Passions.
• [ 08:06 ] Exiting and Sell a Business.
• [ 12:00 ] Practical Steps to Have More Success.
• [ 14:30 ] Investing in Coaches.
• [ 20:15 ] Vision.
• [ 23:15 ] Progressing in Your Passions.
• [ 30:15 ] Do What You Want.

Takeaways:

• A lot of people close to you are going to think that pursuing your personal passions is illogical. Don’t stop chasing your dreams to live a “practical” life. Instead use what is in your arsenal, skill sets you’ve already cultivated and trades you’ve learned to help you get ahead and then pursue your dreams. At some point you have to ask yourself, “If i had to do what I am currently doing for the rest of my life would I be disappointed and upset, or dissatisfied with the rest of my life?” If the answer is anywhere near yes, you should take a look at and evaluate the direction you are heading in your current job, career, business, etc. In order to find a way to pursue the things that you are actually passionate about. Don’t let your fear hold you back, stop listening to other people and start listening to yourself and trusting your inner voice.
• In anything you want to do in life, you want to emulate the best, and the best, in any industry, invest in coaches. A truly good coach is there to push you past you're potential, even when you don’t think you can do it. You coach is there to tell you the things you need to do to get ahead and to reinforce your training day in and day out. You need to have a coach, mentor, mastermind group to provide you with support. Remember, as coach John Wooden says, “The Best Time to Learn is When You Think You Know It All.”
• Use what you know now to get what you want. Many people work for other businesses and they could be very successful entrepreneurs. They are instead settling for stability in a job that they don’t like, don’t want to grow with, and don’t have a vision for. As long as you are growing the skills you have, even if you aren't using them in your dream job right now, you can use them to help make a profit that can later fund your exit to make a profit doing your dream job is.  

Resources:

• BDB Live.
• The Billion Dollar Brotherhood

Today host Nicholas Bayerle shares with us a peek into his BDB Live 1.0 talk about the four stages of life. Nicholas covers the four S’s survival, stability, success, and significance. He covers systemization and how to master your relationships. This key training has changed men’s lives and helped them propel their lives after BDB Live.

Timestamped:

• [ 02:26 ] Order of Importance
• [ 06:17 ] Control
• [ 08:00 ] Stop Lying to Yourself
• [ 10:00 ] Selfish
• [ 12:45 ] Most Negative vs. Most Positive
• [ 14:45 ] Self Care
• [ 15:30 ] Commitment

Takeaways:

• Relationship and Business are all dictated by you. Out of everything you can control, like your thoughts and emotions, apply to everything else. You can only control you, everyone can only control them. You can apply this to business, relationships, your health. No one can make you get out of bed, workout, get work done, invest in your marriage. It’s entirely up to you, that’s freedom, you are the only one you can dictate you.
• You can be the most selfish and benefit people in your circle, communities, in the world. When you execute on things that make you happy, that you are passionate about, you will be fulfilling and performing to the best of your ability, therefore the people around you will be impacted by you being at your best.
• Commitment is doing what you said you were going to do after the feeling is gone. If you say you are going to do it you actually have to follow through with it and do it. The action of doing will bring you results and that will bring you a feeling that will drive you to follow through with your other commitments.

Resources:

• BDB Live
• Brotherhood Facebook Group

Today Nicholas talks with BDB Live 2.0 Speaker, Jay Abraham, who is a top mentor and consultant to high-level entrepreneurs like Tony Robbins. They talk about the value you should have in your clients, being preemptive and understanding value creation.  

Timestamped Notes:

• [ 02:18 ] Attraction
• [ 07:21 ] Human Condition
• [ 10:36 ] Selling Product
• [ 14:27 ] Customers vs. Clients
• [ 17:13 ] Value Creation
• [ 20:11 ] Interaction and Education
• [ 26:51 ] Impact and Greatness
• [ 36:13 ] Message
• [ 40:00 ] The Process
• [ 48:19 ] The Assets

Takeaways:

• Be obsessed with being a multiplier, not a diminishing look to make everyone around be better off because your business is in their lives. Grow and develop your team and focus on making value based contributions to your market. Be preeminent in your business and personal life, live at a higher strata. Manifest greatness, don’t look to be iconic, but be committed to living a life that is truly meaningful, live with dignity. It is only possible to be seen as the most trusted advisor in any aspect of your life by first being willing to have a rich and authentic perspective. You need to be able to listen, hear and interact with people in the business and marketplace. So many people are driven mad with goals, fear, visions, and aspirations but can’t verbalize it. If you can verbalize your dreams you can express it clearly to your team and clients.
• Everything in your product should have a superior outcome. You have a moral obligation and responsibility to the people you interact with because you have the vision of the greater impact on the lives you are encountering. If you can’t live in a future paced world you are too linear. Learn easy ways to relate to your clients, find metaphors and analogies that they will relate to and that will relate to the product. Don’t fall in love with your business, job, career, or company. Fall in love with the people you are serving and impacting.
• You don’t deal with customers. The definition of a customer is: “Someone who buys a product, service, or commodity.” If you refer to people as a customer you are negating, settling for average, you are saying that you are a generic and transactional company, you’re no better than anyone else. A client is defined as, “Someone under the care and protection of another who is concerned for their well being.” When you have clients you make sure they are aware of every benefit you are offering them, you have a responsibility to make your clients the best they can be.   

Resources:

• BDB Live.
• Brotherhood Facebook Group.