So, naturally, why wouldn’t I think starting a company would lead to the same fast success?
Well, as you can probably imagine, I couldn’t have been more naive.
The truth is…
It was hard.
It was long days.
It was long nights.
It was big cups of black coffee trying to figure it all out.
It was lots of money invested.
It was lots of hard lessons learned.
It was lots of wondering if I had what it takes.
It was lots of my wife pumping me up and telling me to stay in the game.
And of course, it was not without stress.
But I kept going… remembering what my mentor Hank always told me…
“The strongest steel must go
through the hottest fire.”
And so, with lots of prayer…
… and by God’s grace and favor…
I made enough money to support my family during the lean years…
But never enough to feel like I really made it… like I could take a breath.
Then one afternoon – back in 2015 (some five years into my business building adventure) – I met a guy who introduced me to real estate investing.
I remember it like it was yesterday.
I was at my office in Denver, Colorado on my lunch break when this guy Michael says to me,
“You ever think about getting into real estate investing?”
My answer was something along the lines of,
“Well sure. Who hasn’t dreamed about getting rich and earning monthly cash flow investing in real estate?”
Ever since then I’ve been on the real estate path.
But that’s not the part of my story that matters to you. The part that matters comes next.
You see…
After my conversation with Michael I walked away from my six-figure marketing company to invest $20,000 with this guys group.
That’s how I jumped feet first into my real estate investing career.
So, you may be wondering, why such a quick pivot away from something that was successful into something I didn’t know much about?
Because one thing I’d learned as an entrepreneur is that money loves speed.
And, let's face it.
I knew in my gut what I’m sure you know in yours…
Real estate is one of the best ways to safeguard investment capital while experiencing incredible upside financial gain.
In fact, it's been reported (not surprisingly) more millionaires are created from real estate investing than any other industry on the planet.
So it’s safe to say I was no boy genius with my decision to jump into real estate.
Well, anyways…
That $20,000 investment was a great starting point.
It gave me a Netflix style learning experience of all the different avenues one could go…
… but I wanted to avoid being just another generalist.
Instead, I was laser focused on becoming a highly skilled surgical specialist.
Even though I didn’t know what that looked like, I did know I needed more training.
So I invested another $15,000 with a guy named Justin. He taught me the systems and strategies for finding deeply discounted off market real estate deals.
That led to my first big breakthrough as I was experiencing how this one skill allowed me to print money on demand.
It was liberating.
I locked up my first deal in just 17 days and quickly recouped my initial investment with Justin by putting $20,000 into my bank account.
That was 27% of my salary as an officer in the military – from just one deal.
Kinda felt like I had figured out how to create my own personal economy.
I was quickly learning whoever controls the deal controls the game.
I desired to be in control of my own game, and for the first time in my life it felt like I was.
Real estate investing was working!
Putting 27% of a year's salary into my bank account in less than 30 days was my defining moment.
From that point onward I was hooked.
I knew immediately continuing to go deeper as a specialist was the answer to the financial abundance and security I wanted for my family.
I was keenly aware at this point in my 30s that it was specialists who get to live life on their own terms.
It was also at this point I realized…
… if I was going to be trusted to help others experience the freedom I was experiencing, then I would need to be a specialist.
That much was clear as day.
So, I invested another $12,000 with a guy named Ryan to teach me direct mail marketing.
That led to my first six figure year in real estate and at this point there was no turning back.
And just for the record…
It wasn’t all wins and smiles.
Sure I faced challenges.
Sure I made mistakes.
But this method of investing my capital did beat giving up control of my money to some hedge fund manager.
At least I remember thinking that.
None-the-less, real estate investing was now the new professional frontier in my life. I dedicated all my waking time and energy to exploring it further.
So I continued to keep my head down.
I worked tirelessly to master a craft I knew would safeguard my family and create the legacy I wanted.
And for that to really happen I knew I needed to sharpen my sales skills.
After all, they don’t teach sales in the mechanical engineering department at the University of Nebraska.
Sales was a necessary skill I would have to forge on my own.
So, I researched the best and invested another $32,000.
This time with a guy named Bryce. He was contracting over fifty real estate deals every month…
… all from the power of the spoken word.
Turns out Bryce was hired by Tony Robbins to work with his sales team out in California.
Bryce also did sales consulting with the FBI’s top hostage negotiator – Chris Voss – who authored the Wall Street Journal BestSeller Never Split The Difference.
And as you can imagine…
Going through Bryce’s sales training multiplied my success very quickly.
All because of the spoken word.
It reminded me of one of my favorite proverbs, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue.”
And that couldn’t have been more true.
I was now using my sales skills to boost my income on a regular basis.
With this new found power real estate investing became more fun each day.
Little did I know my real estate investing career was about to take a wild turn, and put me on the path I’m on now – helping boomers boost their income and safeguard their nest egg from market forces out of their control.
Here’s what’s funny about the whole thing…
When I was growing up I wanted to be a dentist, then a fighter pilot, then an engineer, and then a professor, and many other things.
But…
Never once did I think I wanted to be a wealth creator and nest egg protector for Boomers.
But here I am… and it’s become a blessing in disguise.
In fact, it’s grown into the most rewarding professional experience I’ve ever had!
After all, how many can say they get to wake up every day and help America’s Greatest Generation live the lifestyle they deserve…
… helping Boomers protect their nest egg, boost their income, and cement their legacy.
HERE'S THE END OF THE STORY...
This is the lynchpin to how I stumbled into it all.
This one random day I decided to place a phone call to a cowboy in Texas named Mitch.
Mitch was the next mentor God put on my path to go even deeper into my specialty.
Cool thing about Cowboy Mitch is that he was best friends with Jesus too, so I knew from the jump it was a match made in heaven!
But I digress…
I first heard of Cowboy Mitch several years prior working with Ryan the direct mail guy.
Cowboy Mitch is a Boomer and he instantly stood out to me as a guy who had figured something out I hadn’t.
And not just any something.
Something super important and valuable. The kinda something that can really change the game in a big way.
In fact, I remember being on that first call with Cowboy Mitch.
I felt like I imagine a medical student must feel in their first year of residency talking to a brain surgeon.
The method Cowboy Mitch was outlining sounded incredible and…
… incredibly complex for the stage of growth I was in.
I knew I wanted Cowboy Mitch’s skill set around this method, but in being honest with myself I knew I wasn’t ready.
So to keep my sanity I would stay focused on what a past mentor Greg always said,
“God’s always got you right where you need to be.”
Now fast forward two years.
My skill set had caught up.
My business was more proven and stable.
Processes and systems were in place and working predictably.
I had also surrounded myself with an elite team of operators.
Now that it was working, I was ready to circle back with Cowboy Mitch.
So I got Mitch onto a call with my business partner Dave.
And that phone call changed everything, because Mitch shared a little known real estate investing strategy that I now refer to as The Black Rock Income Method.
I’ll tell you why I call it that in a second.
But… here’s the cool thing.
Mitch spent three hours with us and shared his entire method.
The God’s honest truth is that it was nothing short of Wow!
And as I was processing this “wow moment" in my head Mitch says,
“If you’d like I can teach you everything I’ve learned perfecting this method that’s allowing me to cash flow six figures every single month. It will probably take about six months of talking several times a week.”
Of course I said YES!
And then a $24,000 swipe of the credit card later my business partner and I were deep into Mitch’s brain on how to make Mitch’s Black Rock Income Method work for us too.
And that’s the story of how I spent $103,000 to uncover this new income boosting method.
There was just one problem.
This company named Black Rock and others were now competing in my same space. (*That's what inspired The Black Rock Income Method by the way)
So now I'm investing into single family home real estate right along side a WHALE of a Hedge Fund.
It goes without saying I was the little fish.
In case you haven’t heard of Black Rock then just Google them.
They are one of the biggest three companies on the planet when it comes to assets under management.
It’s in the Trillions.
Anyway…
With Black Rock spending $120 billion on behalf of its clients I knew we needed to re-position ourselves into our own Blue Ocean.
That’s a business minded way of thinking I learned studying the International Bestseller Blue Ocean Strategy.
The high level summary is this: Pursue differentiation and low cost to open up a new market space and create new demand, thereby making the competition irrelevant.
So that’s what we did in large part thanks to Cowboy Mitch who took us behind the curtain and showed us exactly what to do.
It worked brilliantly.
In fact, it worked so good, I decided to start helping Boomers use the same exact method to boost their income too.
And, best of all…
This new, Black Rock Income Method is one of the SAFEST, EASIEST, and FASTEST ways for Boomers to protect and grow their nest egg. Period.
But as we started rolling this out to Boomers we realized there quickly became one more challenge.
You see…
We are just a small, family owned business.
It’s two former military officers. My partner Dave (red shirt below) was in the military as well.
And we are doing our best to help as many Boomers as we can.
But, as you can probably imagine...
We can only help a limited number, because the vision for our company is to stay exclusive to a select few Boomers who really get it.
SO, HOW DO YOU FIND THE FEW WHO REALLY GET IT?
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