S2 EP 6 | Scaling Beyond Limits: My Blueprint for Entrepreneurial Success

I’ve dedicated my life to helping entrepreneurs break through barriers, scale their businesses, and create lasting wealth. In this episode, I dive into the exact strategies I use with business owners every day — from shifting your mindset to mastering leadership, building elite teams, and creating structures that allow your business to grow without limits. My passion is showing people that no matter where you start, if you’re willing to learn, adapt, and take action, you can achieve extraordinary results. This isn’t theory — it’s the same playbook I’ve used to build, scale, and exit companies for nine figures and beyond. If you’re serious about transforming your business and your life, this episode is for you.

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Episode Transcript

S1 (00:00):
Welcome back to another episode of Building Billions. On this episode,
I'm going to be talking about my personal discipline hacks
and how I stay busy and get a lot of
things done. I used to be a 21 year old
kid working a sales job, and now I'm the owner
of multiple $100 million plus businesses with the discipline to

(00:22):
succeed every single day. So here are the eight discipline
hacks that could change your life forever. Hack number one
is to give control of your calendar away to somebody else. See,
what I do to stay most efficient is I have
multiple people that book into my calendar. Now, these aren't
random people that can just throw an appointment on there.

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These are team members who have to put the reason
for the appointment notes of the appointment, and an agenda
in the calendar. The reason I do this is when
I wake up in the morning, I might have 20
or 30 calls. But here's the beautiful thing. I can
go through those calls and delegate the ones I don't
want to do and prioritize the ones that are most important.

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And this is how I stay more efficient than how
I used to in the past. When I try to
call everyone myself and could never get around to it.
If you try this, make sure the meetings come with
an agenda and a purpose for the meeting so that
you can accurately make choices on which meetings are the
most important for you to attend. Next is Discipline Hack two.

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If there's no agenda, there's no meeting. Here's the thing
if you take meetings without agendas, nothing ultimately will be resolved.
You'll end up just talking and chatting about all sorts
of things. But by the time you get to the
point of the meeting, it will have run on too long.
And this is a problem. So don't take a meeting
without an agenda. Handle the agenda first, then do niceties after.

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The requirement to have any meeting should include at least
three action items to discuss. So if there's problems, the
top three solutions if there's an opportunity, the top three
ideas to go after the opportunity. If there's a person
that they're struggling with the top three solutions, they have
to fixing that problem. If they don't show up without solutions,

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don't take the meetings. You should have those team members
that you're meeting with email over the agendas, action steps
and any follow ups after the meeting to align on
future actions. And trust me when I tell you this,
this is golden and I don't just have them send
it to me. I haven't sent it to my business manager,
who also takes responsibility of following up. Post the meeting

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on to hack number three, which is to delegate, not abdicate.
And trust me, this is consistently confusing for people to understand.
Delegation is when you assign a responsibility or an action
step for someone to take with an expected outcome, something
that they're responsible to do, and that you've transferred and

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translated to them what the process is, what the follow
up needs to be, and what the conclusion needs to be.
That's what delegation is giving them, the tools and the
resources to execute on the project at hand. In contrast,
abdication is just pushing things off to team members and
never being a part of the result. As a leader,

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it is incredibly important to delegate so that you retain
that degree of accountability and oversight. I would recommend sitting
down with 5 or 10 team members and try to
practice this exercise of delegation over abdication. Hack number four
write down your targets every single day. I personally like

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to write down the top things I want to accomplish
during the day. Organize them around who I need to
meet with, what we need to be talking about, what
resources and assets do I need to have present, and
then prioritizing in the right order which of those elements
I take on during the day to make sure the
most important things get handled. Prioritize the targets based on

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the highest priority. Try writing down your daily goals when
you have your breakfast or your coffee in the morning,
just take that moment to do that and this habit
will become a disciplined routine. Hack number five is arguably
the most important. Your health equals your wealth. I love
to start my day with methylene blue, some hydration, and

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a big cup of coffee that gives me the energy
to stay and pay attention to the things that are
most important during the day. Pay attention to what you're
eating and drinking during the day to make sure that
you're properly fueling your body. The healthier you are, the
faster you move. Hack number six is to overwhelm your

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moments and make that time matter more than anything else.
For me, I like to send the message to the
people I work with. I'm super busy and I don't
have a lot of time just to shoot the shit.
Engaging people and being present is critically important, but sitting
around talking about the dogs and the kids and the
weekends and the all these things, there is a time

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and place for it. But here's what I know. If
I make everyone realize I'm super busy and have a
lot going on. It takes the conversations to a higher
value and a lot quicker resolution. If people know you're busy,
they need to ask, answer and move on and that
will help you in your work to get bigger, more
specific results. Remember, you're compressing time into action. If you're

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the business owner, you have to be aware that your
team will follow the leader. If you use your valuable
time to slack off, your team will probably do it too.
So remember that the way to handle these moments and
conversations will directly influence your team. Hack number seven is next.
Take on interesting and difficult challenges. See, I believe as

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a business owner and a leader, you need to be
taking on difficult tasks to actually make the business interesting.
It's the challenges that makes overcoming those challenges fun and
it's what brings the teams together. Otherwise, my experience is
business owners get bored. When they get bored, they stop
focusing on the business. And when they're no longer focused

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on the business, they detract or retract from the business.
And this is a problem. It's through your thinking and
doing that allows your business to actually stretch and grow.
Look for challenges in your life or in your business
that can keep you excited to overcome them and tackle
those things head on. The final hack is to have

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people repeat back to you what you said. You see,
when I sit through these big meetings with lots of
people talking about lots of things, confusion always creates failure.
So if people leave those meetings, those events, and they
think they heard something different than what you intended on saying, boy,

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you're going to have some problems. So what I ask
people to do is repeat back what they think I said,
or ask them to do to make sure we're aligned.
Repetition can help you and your team avoid the communication
cycles of confusion and eliminate those pitfalls altogether.