Cut The Tie Podcast with Delaney William
What if you could triple your income, work fewer hours, and still keep your corporate job title? In this episode of Cut The Tie, host Thomas Helfrich talks to Delaney William, founder of Elevated Tech, about a controversial—but powerful—way to buy back your freedom: remote job stacking.
Delaney didn’t want to be a startup founder at first. He just wanted to make more money and live a chill life. But after going from $80K to nearly $400K by working multiple remote jobs at once, he saw the potential to teach others how to do the same—using automation, strategy, and a high-volume job search system. Now, through Elevated Tech, Delaney helps others break free from traditional career paths and build sustainable income streams that give them true time freedom.
About Delaney William
Delaney William is the founder of Elevated Tech, the world's largest automation-driven remote job placement company. A former corporate product manager, Delaney left behind a half-million-dollar job stack to build a business that helps others do exactly what he did: land multiple high-paying remote roles, create leverage through automation, and build financial stability in a rapidly shifting economy. He now leads a team that has helped clients earn as much as $480K annually—without starting a business.
In this episode, Thomas and Delaney discuss:
- Leaving corporate comfort to stack remote jobs
How Delaney scaled from a $80K salary to $390K by working smarter, not harder. - Why freedom is the only definition of success that matters
And why money alone doesn’t mean success if your time isn’t your own. - The system behind Elevated Tech’s placement strategy
Why applying to 2,000+ jobs a month isn’t crazy—it’s math. - How AI and outsourcing turn one person into a consulting firm
And how you can delegate your way to income without burnout.
Key Takeaways
- Freedom requires strategy, not just hustle
Job stacking isn’t about working more—it’s about working differently. - Systems scale better than effort
If your income is capped by your time, you don’t have leverage. - Paid ads beat content hustle—when done right
Want reliable lead flow? Learn basic ad strategy and build a math-driven funnel. - The game is choice, not desperation
High-volume job search lets you choose the roles that fit your life, not just survive.
Connect with Delaney William
💼 LinkedIn: Delaney William
🌐 Website: www.elevatedtech.us
📸 Instagram: @delaneywilliam
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Cut the Tide podcast.
Hi, I'm your host, thomasHufford.
We're on a mission to help youcut the tide of whatever it is
holding you back in your life soyou can achieve the success
that would you define foryourself.
Today, we are joined by Delaney.
William Delaney, how are youDoing fantastic?
Excited to be here.
Well, I appreciate you comingin today, so we're going to dive
into your story a little bit.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
It's part of.
You're in Austin, Texas.
We're talking offline a littlebit, but just take a moment,
Introduce yourself and what itis you do.
Yeah, absolutely so.
I'm Delaney.
I run a company called ElevatedTech.
We are the world's largestautomation-driven remote job
placement company.
Basically, we help people getremote jobs and stack remote
jobs as a way to reach financialfreedom and create financial
stability in this pretty crazymodern world we live in today.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
That's actually pretty damn cool, Very
competitive space.
I do ask this question a ton.
I think I'd love to hear thisanswer.
You know why should we pick you?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah well, everyone has different goals, right.
So we're not the solution foreverybody.
We're the solution for peoplewho want to two to three X that
remote income, be able to earn200, 300k remotely.
They don't technically want tostart a business, they want to
stick with their corporatehigh-paying skillset, but just
figure out how to be moreefficient and hold down a few
different jobs.
That is pretty blue ocean.
I don't know a single companyteaching people how to do that.
(01:14):
Sure, you can go figure out onReddit how to do it, but we're a
done-for-you service that notonly runs your job search but
really helps coach peoplethrough how do you become more
efficient, how do you takeadvantage of really cool new AI
technology, how do you buildyour own internal team and treat
yourself like a consultantcompany so you can really gain
the benefits of multiple incomestreams without having to work
crazy hours.
So that's our specialty and forpeople who really want to
(01:36):
create financial freedom inyears, not decades, we are a
great option.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Where do you guys make your money in that?
So, is it in the, is it in theplacement?
Is it in the coaching?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah.
So we're not like a recruiterwho has partnerships with
businesses.
We are direct to consumers.
So you're a professional, youpay us directly upfront.
We run your job search for youfor either three to six months
apply to 2000 jobs a month foryou.
So for the average person, 2000jobs a month.
Even if you only get 1%response rate, that's 20
interviews a month.
So we play a really huge volumegame.
(02:08):
So we're charging a premiumprice and we get really quick
results for people and our goalis everyone makes at least a 10X
return on an investment with usin the form of a six-figure job
offer.
Do you guys guarantee that, ordo you have to, or you, you do,
you have to, or you dareactually we guarantee the
interviews so that like and wesupport with the interview
(02:29):
process, however, it's like wecan only do that much.
You have to show up, you haveto do the interviews, you have
to actually crush it in thoseinterviews.
So, um, yeah, we do guarantee,at least if you're working with
us for three months, a minimumof 10 interviews a month.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Awesome.
So, before we get into yourjourney, how do you personally
define success for yourself?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I think success is living in alignment with your
values as best as you can.
So for me, success looks likefreedom.
That's pretty cliche to say,but I think a lot of people who
listen to your podcast wouldprobably agree that freedom is a
really significant value, andif you can achieve freedom,
you're able to do what you wantwith your time.
You're able to because youcould have a ton of money, but
if you don't have the ability tospend time with your loved ones
(03:13):
, do things that bring you joy,like, are you really successful?
So yeah, to me, freedom is oneof the highest values and I
really try to structureeverything in my life around
that.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah, I mean, it's captain of your own calendar,
right.
It's be able to choose whatyou're going to do, when you're
going to do it, so you can getrid of those things that make
you unhappy and be more happy.
I think that's fantastic.
Talk about your journey alittle bit and, along the way,
like what tie it was that youhad to cut to get to that
success.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, Plenty of ties.
I, plenty of ties.
I feel like I'm cutting tiesevery week and I think that's a
sign of growth.
Right Is finding new ties tocut that are holding you back
from what you get to create next.
But yeah, man, really highlevel for me.
I was in corporate straight outof college, so I studied IT
marketing, wound myself in a bighealthcare company.
I actually had a pretty coolgig setup.
(03:59):
It was like an acceleratedleadership program, so a lot of
exposure to C-suite and stufflike that right off the bat.
But it just was not rewardingme the way I was hoping it would
.
I was a go-getter.
I was pouring in so much time,energy, creative input into this
company, but especially bigboring healthcare.
It's so red tape and likethey're winning the game so they
just don't want to disruptanything.
So it did not fit with my driveand I quickly learned to go
(04:25):
okay, I'll collect this paycheckand just see what else I can do
on the side.
So you know, I tried every sidehustle under the sun.
Um, and yeah, I really loveentrepreneurship.
I get it.
I love getting to connect withpeople and like feel like I'm
really transforming anindividual's life.
That's so much more impactfulthan even building software
products that are used by likemillions and millions of people
but like I don't think they'reactually really adding that much
value.
So that's always been my driverand I think you know a lot of
(04:47):
ties that I had to cut throughin that period of time was a lot
of like mindset building, cause, like, if you're going to go
out on your own, be anentrepreneur even like what
we're doing now with jobstacking it requires you to be
original and innovative and takeon some degree of risk, but you
have to believe in yourselfthat you can actually achieve an
outcome.
So I think learning to failforward and be you know, really
cultivate the character traitsof someone who is successful
(05:10):
like that needs to happen beforeyou actually see those tangible
results in your life.
Um, but yeah, just you know.
Again, really high level, fastforward to 2023,.
I was burnt out from myentrepreneurial side hustles.
Um, learned a lot, but I wantedto really just earn a lot of
money and have a chill life waskind of my goal.
So I started pursuing whatwe're now deeming job stacking,
which is could I get paid withfor this corporate skill set,
(05:33):
earning 150 plus $1,000 per job,but work two or three of them
and just really get efficientwith my time.
The company gets a positive ROIand they're happy.
I'm happy because I'mautomating a person to work and
I'm not working crazy hours andI can actually finally do the
things that I value, like beable to work out whenever I want
, like work from home, spendmore time with my family, with
my girlfriend, et cetera.
(05:54):
So I pursued that.
I went from earning 80K to 390Kin a single year, so that was
really profound.
And then I left the comfort ofthat to start a company.
Well, it didn't happenimmediately, but a transition
period where I sacrificedearning about a half a million
dollars a year, pretty much onautopilot, to starting a
(06:14):
business, helping other peopledo the same.
And, yeah, like so muchstrategic stuff, so much
learning, shedding oldidentities, things I like sucked
at.
You know really just having toput in the reps at getting
better at every like.
As an entrepreneur in themodern world I'm sure you know
this you have to become not justfine but an expert at so many
different skills.
So it's not easy, but I thinkif you're aligned with your
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values and you have a vision,that's really exciting, it's a
lot easier to get you there.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah, it sounds like the tie you cut was the
expectation you could.
You had to do the corporatetypical role you could and I
love that because I'm one whosaid I would outforce 90 some
percent of my job to, whileworking someplace, to teams that
could do it better.
The parts I sucked at, but Iwas good at the interactions and
what you're describing isbeautiful because I was like I
(07:05):
could have four of these jobsright now with the occasional.
Hey, I can't make that meetingLike that's where it gets sticky
, like when everyone wants the 8am meeting.
You're like someone's gettingscreaming, but I absolutely love
that.
Just maybe for the audiencehere, which kind of jobs are
best suited for this?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yeah, really anything that can be done remotely.
I wouldn't necessarilyrecommend sales as number one,
but I've even seen people besuccessful stacking two or three
sales jobs, which are usuallypretty face heavy.
So it's really to the degreeyou're willing to push it and
the degree you want it, I thinkit can be done.
But really any field of workthat is heavily remote, we see
the correlation of how quicklysomeone can land it, because
(07:43):
it's really about landing jobs.
Like the stacking part isactually the smallest component,
like the nuances of that.
The hardest thing is to actuallyjust get a job consistently and
quickly in the modern jobmarket.
So you really want to go afterfields where there are a lot of
jobs posted monthly and thenplay that volume game, because
otherwise it's like and directorlevel versus manager level, you
(08:03):
see like a 10X drop in monthlypostings.
So we always encourage go forsenior manager level and below
um usually a, because there'sless like psychotic demand on
you.
You're not as like living inthis.
Yeah, exactly, it's just likeyou get the job done and you
chill, but it's like gone arethe days of oh, let me now
sacrifice my entire wellbeingand work double for an extra,
(08:23):
like 15%, because that's theonly option.
It's like no, you can doubleyour income and still just have
this really chill lifestyle.
So but to give you a veryspecific answer to your question
, my background is productmanagement.
So anything in tech workssoftware development, data
analysis, ux design, marketingroles, sales roles, client
success roles, accounting,finance there's a ton I'm
(08:45):
missing, but any big field ofwork that's standard.
You can usually find thatproduct market fit with your
resume, start getting interviewsand start accepting offers.
And the great thing is I wouldactually prioritize having a
system that helps you getinterviews really consistently,
because then it's more you'replaying a hypothesis than a
testing game, because mostpeople it's like, oh my God, I
get a job offer maybe once ayear, so it has to work out.
(09:07):
But if you really figure outhow to play the game and you can
get interviews coming throughconsistently, you are more
playing a game of choice and youhave the control.
It's like, okay, this may ormay not fit with my vision.
If, if the company's chill andI can automate this work, great.
If not, I'll go find somethingelse.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Well, right, I mean, I love the idea.
You know I have marketing teamsthat work for my marketing
company.
I was like I should go get amanager or a growth or something
where it's like, hey, we needto do these things.
Like, cool, give me the littlerecalls, what do you want?
And I put it to my team.
I'm a hundred percent.
I do that all day.
(09:42):
We'll be talking about this,all right.
Do you remember the moment likea specific moment though when
you knew, like you said, youleft a half million dollar a
year about a?
Do you remember the moment whenyou said I'm doing this?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, so it was.
It was interesting because itwas actually three jobs that I
was working, um, and fortunatelyI was able to leave them over a
period of time, like slowly letthem go.
At the beginning it was great,right, 30k a month, just pretty
much passively collecting andreinvest that into business, et
cetera.
Some of those decisions weremade for me because I started
(10:17):
running ads about a company thathelps you stack remote jobs and
I was working for these bigcompanies.
I was like the likelihood thatsomeone sees these ads.
I was basically made thedecision ahead of time and that
did happen.
Two of the three companies sawthe ads and fired me, which I
was like cool, it worked out ingood time.
But yeah, I think for myself andI imagine for others, it's one
of those things that the voicewill get louder and louder and
(10:39):
eventually it's unavoidablewhere you just know like it
might be based on what you'reearning.
It might be your, like yourrisk profile, you might just be
like I hate this so much and I'mjust no, I'm supposed to be
doing something else and it'sjust this overwhelming feeling.
But you know, for me I think itreally was the decision.
Okay, I'll actually startrunning ads and be very public
facing Cause.
I know like I have to be okaywith literally tomorrow.
(11:00):
All this income stop could stopcoming in technically, um, but
yeah, I just knew for me.
I was just super clear thatthis was not a fulfilling
long-term outcome for me andeven if it was scary, I just got
to do the thing.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, I mean I.
I love your model from somebodywho's just looking to make some
money short term, even like you.
You got.
You got one you like, maybe theprimary you give deference to,
and then you may pick up twomore side contracting jobs that
pay an extra eight K total amonth or something.
That's like you would nevertake out one job, but you're
also not giving a shit if youlose it.
Right, it's why I can.
It's easy to say I'm gonna domy best and they get rid of me
(11:34):
doesn't float when your resumewho cares?
Absolutely, yeah, I get it.
Uh, what's been the impactmeaning in your life, or in some
of the your customers lives,since starting the company and
launching?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
it.
Yeah, I like seriously insane.
And so I get busy in the day today and I just had to remind
myself to slow down and likereally soak in the
transformations that arehappening for our clients.
Like, for me, none of thiswould be here if I didn't take
that stepping stone.
Like I knew I wanted to be anentrepreneur but I didn't have
the financial resources to hirethe best people and build and
like have runway to fail.
(12:07):
But going through that stage ofworking three jobs for a year
gave me like so much financialrunway and I could make mistakes
and I could hire the bestpeople.
So our company only existstoday because I got to do that.
But yeah, for our clients, like,we just had this woman named
Stella she's a data analyst gofrom 150K to now three jobs,
she's making 480.
So she eclipsed me hardcore andis literally earning half a
(12:30):
million dollars a year.
So we have dozens of thosetypes of transformations
happening and it's it's justsuper cool to see there's like
regular people and it's not evenabout being able to buy like a
Lamborghini, but it's likethere's literally so much
uncertainty happening in themarket right now and, you know,
getting to know that I could bethat we could be the difference
maker that that family is likeable to provide and have food on
(12:52):
the table If we go through arough patch in the next couple
of years.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Well, I mean like four, 80 a year.
You shouldn't be violating.
You can never.
You just be very clear.
You don't go net that much.
It'd be.
You know it's amazing how muchtaxes come in once you cross
certain levels.
So anyway, somebody who's madegood money in their life one of
the realizations when I wasmaking it happen you're at a job
(13:17):
.
I'll share this to people.
You realize quickly you'renever actually going to get
wealthy working for somebody,even when you're making that
much money.
You'll have a great life,you'll have good money.
Joy is dependent on them sayingyes to that job.
The thing you're noting is ifyou can keep your life around
maybe 150 a year and you canfind a way to stack another 300
behind it, you are givingyourself a very good enjoyment
(13:39):
of life to do that.
So just go buy a LamborghiniF48.
Maybe a 4.8 mil.
Yeah, go buy what you want, Idon't care.
Definitely you're in adifferent class of Arnie.
What's the biggest lesson you'dgive to our listeners?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
The biggest lesson.
So here's what I think reallychanged the game for me across
the board.
I'll give you two things.
One build systems that get theoutput for you.
I think everything that we do.
There's so much tactics andstrategy, but the high level
core thing is build a system andpull yourself out of it.
So, like whatever you'reresponsible for, if your time is
the bottleneck, you'll neverscale your income.
(14:17):
So, whatever you're doing, seeif you can build a system that
pulls your time out of it,because, like the highest level,
most wealthy people, that'swhat they're constantly doing.
They're figuring something out,they're either hiring someone
or working themselves out of asolution and then going to the
next level.
The second thing that has beenreally transformational for me
is, especially once you're nowbuilding a system and it's not
just you is the more time youcan spend in your zone of genius
(14:40):
.
That's what's really changedthe game for me, especially in
scaling.
We've scaled our business fromzero to a million dollars a year
in 12 months, and that onlyhappened because I didn't listen
to the advice that everyonegives in the online coaching
space.
So this is kind of nichespecific, but I think it applies
broadly.
Everyone in our niche says, oh,you have to be the face and you
have to sell your product,because that's just how it goes.
(15:01):
And so you reach X, like youcan't pull yourself out of it.
I was like I actually think I'mway better at fulfillment and
product than I am at sales andeverything else will suffer.
So like knowing what you'rereally good at, becoming an
expert at a core thing and thenhiring and building around that,
that's been transformationalfor me.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Yep, I could not agree more.
And if you are like you know,not me is for my own personal
business.
I do really want the consultingadvisory strategy piece, but
I'm horrible at delivery my ownpersonal business.
I do really only consult theadvisory strategy piece, but I'm
horrible at delivery.
Like I have a whole teamsbehind that and that was day one
Cause like if, if, uh, if I wasresponsible for delivery,
nothing would ever get done.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Sure, and you know there's power in these.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I can give you strategy and coach you all day,
but then you tell me to gocreate something like it's going
to be a while.
That's, yeah, that's some rapidfire questions.
Who gives you inspiration?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
My girlfriend and soon to be fiance.
Yeah, I think.
Does she know that?
Wait, does she know what she'sabout to get proposed to?
She knows it's coming.
I just got sent ring pics fromher.
I sent her friend to go takeher to the ring store the other
day, so she knows it's coming.
But yeah, the people around meI think you know definitely
(16:12):
hopefully to be engaged soon,definitely see a family on the
horizon, and I think that's whatultimately drives me the most.
It's, like, you know, being asingle bachelor Cool it's, it's
fun to have some money, to havea nice lifestyle.
But I think truly the reasonI'm so committed to all this is
just like building the futurethat I want to be able to
provide.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I'm going to check back you and your mind around 50
and see if you're like ah,seeing what bachelor sounds
pretty.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Yeah, for sure, I hear that.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I wouldn't trade kids and women for any of it, so
it's what you make of it forsure.
What's kind of the bestbusiness advice you've ever
received?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Yeah, I don't want to .
I would have used my sameanswer of of, uh, build around
your strengths, but let me seeif I can come up with something
else good here.
Um, yeah, no, I'll give yousomething new.
This is pretty tactical.
So, and this may or may notresonate for everybody, but I
live in Austin and you couldthrow a nickel and hit someone
who's like a coach, who's likebeing an entrepreneur, uh, but
(17:07):
it's kind of a meme here thateveryone's an entrepreneur, but
and no shade, because this is mefor a long time but like 95% of
people never really do itsustainably, because anyone can
like start an Instagram accountand start posting content.
I don't think anyone has abusiness until you have a
reliable lead flow and you know,I think again, there are
thousands of people out therethat tell you to post organic
(17:28):
content and that's the easiestway to generate leads and like
make your first $10,000 runninga business.
I have found, and sure you cando that.
But I think learning even themost simple paid ad strategy is
like you could hit 50K, 100kmonths in whatever your business
is, really easily if you justspend like 20 hours learning the
(17:49):
most basic ad strategy and thenit just becomes math.
You know, like it's not hard togo out there and just literally
go on a meta ad library and likesee what people in your niche
are doing, basically justduplicate what they're doing and
put it live and throw $50 perday behind it.
So I just it took me a longtime to figure that out, cause I
(18:09):
was just trying to like likelet me just go viral and then
I'll make some money.
A, if you go viral, you have nocontrol over if those are the
right people or if it's just abunch of people in Pakistan that
see your content and that canactually tank everything, as if
now your, your algorithm is allthese people who, like don't
even have money to pay for yourthing.
So if I could give anyoneadvice on where to go, spend 30
hours of their time literallyone hour a day for the next
(18:30):
month, go in some super simpleads and you can make as much
money as you want online.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
You're spot on and like it knows.
So the idea of a kind ofextension is one of the
challenges you'll find too whenwe're a organic content based
company, because we do a lot ofwork with people on LinkedIn how
you use it correctly to makemoney to do just all that for
businesses or, let's say,billion dollar companies.
Right For brand awareness, morestrategic.
But you can't advertise becauseyou can't use the word LinkedIn
(18:57):
for anything.
And so we've grown our businesswithout having to advertise.
Now we've moved over to Metafor some different services we
do.
I will tell you it makes merethink about what I want to go
do on the other side, because itis so much more predictable and
scalable and measurable and youcan.
You know, once you can create acapital machine, put one you
(19:17):
know X in.
You get two X back.
It becomes no brainer how to goscale it.
And I would agree with you ahundred percent focus on a way
to use ads.
Learn Meta's good because it'scheaper than Google right now.
You got to kind of learn it all, so at some point that will
shift around.
I agree that's a better way tobuild a business and build a
business that you can leverageads in.
That's my advice to everyoneDon't build a business like mine
(19:40):
, where it is truly organic andit's you out there.
I just did a post today, by theway, on basically influencers
on LinkedIn are fake and thereason is because they're buying
SMM panel.
Fake like they're doing sharepods, they're using AI and I'm
like that just destroys youraudience.
You're creating a fake viral ofbots, so no one who actually
(20:03):
buys will see that content.
Yeah, 100%, 100%.
If you had to go back in time,or if you could go back in time,
when would you go?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
What would you do different.
Great question, you know, Ithink I have two answers.
I don't know if this first onewould actually.
This is how I've alwaysanswered the question around
regrets.
I do wish in college I was morewholesome with how I use that
time.
I was just a super frat bro andgot way too drunk.
(20:37):
Maybe you got your hat offwhich is good.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
You'd have a hat on it, which is great.
Thank you, exactly.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah, of course.
So yeah, I would say I'd go backand use that time to like learn
skills and build stuff.
My ads guy is like a ninja, likethe best I've ever worked with,
and he's graduating collegethis week and it's wild Like and
he was that person who justactually used his time in
college.
He has fun but, like you know,I would have loved to be a
little more wholesome with thosefour years May or may not have
(21:06):
actually changed anything, butthe other thing would have been
I've always prided myself onjust taking insane action, which
there's a time and a place forthat.
But if I could go back, itwould be to go back to my early
entrepreneur self and shake himand be like just learn, like
what skills do you need to learn?
And just master those skills.
And if you master the skillsfirst while you're creating,
like I was focused more onquantity rather than quality and
(21:28):
I think things really reallychanged for me five years later
than they could have if I justgot really really good at
putting out exceptional qualityacross the board right, like ads
content, blah, blah, blah,right.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yeah, you're still pretty young, I'd say you're
probably on.
Just don't beat yourself up toomuch about that.
You'll also.
The flip side of that is youwould regret it not having fun.
College weight on it too.
So you get both.
Absolutely yeah, no regretsthere.
I was hoping you were saying Iwish I would order just black
coffee, a little cream insteadof a latte.
I think that was where.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
I was.
I actually that's exactly whatI wanted.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I appreciate it.
You went deeper.
Yeah, of course.
If there's one question Ishould have asked you today and
I didn't, what would thatquestion have been and how do
you answer it?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Oh, good question.
Fortunately, someone asked methis recently, so I have an
answer prepared.
I think we talked a lot aboutvery high level scratching the
surface on remote job stacking,all this stuff.
I think the most importantquestion for everyone is why A?
If you're listening to thisbecause you want to earn money
(22:30):
like a, have clarity on why,like what are your drivers for
that?
But I think one thing I spendtry to spend a lot of time
paying attention to is just themacro economic environment right
now, and I don't like to be afear monger and tell everyone
like the sky is falling, becauseevery media platform will do
that for you.
But there are a lot of reallyinteresting trends that I, like
most of us, have.
Yeah, there have been a fewrecessions, but nothing major,
(22:51):
major, major catastrophic Maybe2008 for some people, but I mean
the US debt cycle, how fast AIis moving and just global
tensions rising and the tradewar that's going on, and paying
attention to stuff like what RayDalio is constantly talking
about no-transcript, leastlikely to be disrupted and also
(23:41):
just what can you do to setyourself up so you're not just
back against the wall wishingyou did something different.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I mean it's great advice I'll extend it for you a
little bit is try to livedebt-free, including a mortgage.
You can do it In this day andage.
I'm not sure it's funny.
People are like, oh, own ahouse, do these things, which
ends up being the big debt mostpeople have in mind, which
becomes actually its own form ofa prison for you, because you
think you're earning value andequity but you put so much money
into that every month and itassumes you'll always make that
(24:09):
money.
And, and I will tell you, I'dbe better for you to rent and
not put a dollar into theproperty and take your money and
invest it yourself, yourbusiness or market or something
else, because you'll have a lotmore of it later and then maybe
you pay something for cash later.
It's 100 yours that you can gorent when you go live the filth
for a month, I don't know.
Point is different ways ofthinking.
(24:30):
I agree with you on that.
Prepare, maybe not for you know, like a prepper's level, but
the truth is, prepare yourselfto be able to weather some
storms.
I could not agree more.
A shameless plug time for you,man.
Who should get ahold of you?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
How do they do it.
Yeah, anyone who wants to growtheir remote income by stacking
remote jobs or just landing yournext remote job definitely
reach out.
You can find us atelevatedtechus.
We have a ton of informationand some free resources there.
Also on Instagram, atDelaneyWilliam underscore,
sounds like you guys do a lot ofLinkedIn stuff.
Maybe your audience is on thereas well.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
You can also find me at DelaneyWilliam on LinkedIn.
Wonderful Delaney, thank you somuch for coming in here today,
of course.
Thanks so much for having meAppreciate it.
I'm going to catch you in thegreen room in the back, but for
those who have been listeningand watching, thanks for tuning
in here to Cut the Tie.
Get out there, go cut a tie,something holding you back in
life, right, don't let anythingstop you Address it.
Welcome to the Cut the Tide podcast.
Hi, I'm your host, thomasHufford.
We're on a mission to help youcut the tide of whatever it is
holding you back in your life soyou can achieve the success
that would you define foryourself.
Today, we are joined by Delaney.
William Delaney, how are youDoing fantastic?
Excited to be here.
Well, I appreciate you comingin today, so we're going to dive
into your story a little bit.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
It's part of.
You're in Austin, Texas.
We're talking offline a littlebit, but just take a moment,
Introduce yourself and what itis you do.
Yeah, absolutely so.
I'm Delaney.
I run a company called ElevatedTech.
We are the world's largestautomation-driven remote job
placement company.
Basically, we help people getremote jobs and stack remote
jobs as a way to reach financialfreedom and create financial
stability in this pretty crazymodern world we live in today.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
That's actually pretty damn cool, Very
competitive space.
I do ask this question a ton.
I think I'd love to hear thisanswer.
You know why should we pick you?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah well, everyone has different goals, right.
So we're not the solution foreverybody.
We're the solution for peoplewho want to two to three X that
remote income, be able to earn200, 300k remotely.
They don't technically want tostart a business, they want to
stick with their corporatehigh-paying skillset, but just
figure out how to be moreefficient and hold down a few
different jobs.
That is pretty blue ocean.
I don't know a single companyteaching people how to do that.
(01:14):
Sure, you can go figure out onReddit how to do it, but we're a
done-for-you service that notonly runs your job search but
really helps coach peoplethrough how do you become more
efficient, how do you takeadvantage of really cool new AI
technology, how do you buildyour own internal team and treat
yourself like a consultantcompany so you can really gain
the benefits of multiple incomestreams without having to work
crazy hours.
So that's our specialty and forpeople who really want to
(01:36):
create financial freedom inyears, not decades, we are a
great option.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Where do you guys make your money in that?
So, is it in the, is it in theplacement?
Is it in the coaching?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah.
So we're not like a recruiterwho has partnerships with
businesses.
We are direct to consumers.
So you're a professional, youpay us directly upfront.
We run your job search for youfor either three to six months
apply to 2000 jobs a month foryou.
So for the average person, 2000jobs a month.
Even if you only get 1%response rate, that's 20
interviews a month.
So we play a really huge volumegame.
(02:08):
So we're charging a premiumprice and we get really quick
results for people and our goalis everyone makes at least a 10X
return on an investment with usin the form of a six-figure job
offer.
Do you guys guarantee that, ordo you have to, or you, you do,
you have to, or you dareactually we guarantee the
interviews so that like and wesupport with the interview
(02:29):
process, however, it's like wecan only do that much.
You have to show up, you haveto do the interviews, you have
to actually crush it in thoseinterviews.
So, um, yeah, we do guarantee,at least if you're working with
us for three months, a minimumof 10 interviews a month.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Awesome.
So, before we get into yourjourney, how do you personally
define success for yourself?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I think success is living in alignment with your
values as best as you can.
So for me, success looks likefreedom.
That's pretty cliche to say,but I think a lot of people who
listen to your podcast wouldprobably agree that freedom is a
really significant value, andif you can achieve freedom,
you're able to do what you wantwith your time.
You're able to because youcould have a ton of money, but
if you don't have the ability tospend time with your loved ones
(03:13):
, do things that bring you joy,like, are you really successful?
So yeah, to me, freedom is oneof the highest values and I
really try to structureeverything in my life around
that.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah, I mean, it's captain of your own calendar,
right.
It's be able to choose whatyou're going to do, when you're
going to do it, so you can getrid of those things that make
you unhappy and be more happy.
I think that's fantastic.
Talk about your journey alittle bit and, along the way,
like what tie it was that youhad to cut to get to that
success.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, Plenty of ties.
I, plenty of ties.
I feel like I'm cutting tiesevery week and I think that's a
sign of growth.
Right Is finding new ties tocut that are holding you back
from what you get to create next.
But yeah, man, really highlevel for me.
I was in corporate straight outof college, so I studied IT
marketing, wound myself in a bighealthcare company.
I actually had a pretty coolgig setup.
(03:59):
It was like an acceleratedleadership program, so a lot of
exposure to C-suite and stufflike that right off the bat.
But it just was not rewardingme the way I was hoping it would
.
I was a go-getter.
I was pouring in so much time,energy, creative input into this
company, but especially bigboring healthcare.
It's so red tape and likethey're winning the game so they
just don't want to disruptanything.
So it did not fit with my driveand I quickly learned to go
(04:25):
okay, I'll collect this paycheckand just see what else I can do
on the side.
So you know, I tried every sidehustle under the sun.
Um, and yeah, I really loveentrepreneurship.
I get it.
I love getting to connect withpeople and like feel like I'm
really transforming anindividual's life.
That's so much more impactfulthan even building software
products that are used by likemillions and millions of people
but like I don't think they'reactually really adding that much
value.
So that's always been my driverand I think you know a lot of
(04:47):
ties that I had to cut throughin that period of time was a lot
of like mindset building, cause, like, if you're going to go
out on your own, be anentrepreneur even like what
we're doing now with jobstacking it requires you to be
original and innovative and takeon some degree of risk, but you
have to believe in yourselfthat you can actually achieve an
outcome.
So I think learning to failforward and be you know, really
cultivate the character traitsof someone who is successful
(05:10):
like that needs to happen beforeyou actually see those tangible
results in your life.
Um, but yeah, just you know.
Again, really high level, fastforward to 2023,.
I was burnt out from myentrepreneurial side hustles.
Um, learned a lot, but I wantedto really just earn a lot of
money and have a chill life waskind of my goal.
So I started pursuing whatwe're now deeming job stacking,
which is could I get paid withfor this corporate skill set,
(05:33):
earning 150 plus $1,000 per job,but work two or three of them
and just really get efficientwith my time.
The company gets a positive ROIand they're happy.
I'm happy because I'mautomating a person to work and
I'm not working crazy hours andI can actually finally do the
things that I value, like beable to work out whenever I want
, like work from home, spendmore time with my family, with
my girlfriend, et cetera.
(05:54):
So I pursued that.
I went from earning 80K to 390Kin a single year, so that was
really profound.
And then I left the comfort ofthat to start a company.
Well, it didn't happenimmediately, but a transition
period where I sacrificedearning about a half a million
dollars a year, pretty much onautopilot, to starting a
(06:14):
business, helping other peopledo the same.
And, yeah, like so muchstrategic stuff, so much
learning, shedding oldidentities, things I like sucked
at.
You know really just having toput in the reps at getting
better at every like.
As an entrepreneur in themodern world I'm sure you know
this you have to become not justfine but an expert at so many
different skills.
So it's not easy, but I thinkif you're aligned with your
(06:37):
values and you have a vision,that's really exciting, it's a
lot easier to get you there.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah, it sounds like the tie you cut was the
expectation you could.
You had to do the corporatetypical role you could and I
love that because I'm one whosaid I would outforce 90 some
percent of my job to, whileworking someplace, to teams that
could do it better.
The parts I sucked at, but Iwas good at the interactions and
what you're describing isbeautiful because I was like I
(07:05):
could have four of these jobsright now with the occasional.
Hey, I can't make that meetingLike that's where it gets sticky
, like when everyone wants the 8am meeting.
You're like someone's gettingscreaming, but I absolutely love
that.
Just maybe for the audiencehere, which kind of jobs are
best suited for this?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yeah, really anything that can be done remotely.
I wouldn't necessarilyrecommend sales as number one,
but I've even seen people besuccessful stacking two or three
sales jobs, which are usuallypretty face heavy.
So it's really to the degreeyou're willing to push it and
the degree you want it, I thinkit can be done.
But really any field of workthat is heavily remote, we see
the correlation of how quicklysomeone can land it, because
(07:43):
it's really about landing jobs.
Like the stacking part isactually the smallest component,
like the nuances of that.
The hardest thing is to actuallyjust get a job consistently and
quickly in the modern jobmarket.
So you really want to go afterfields where there are a lot of
jobs posted monthly and thenplay that volume game, because
otherwise it's like and directorlevel versus manager level, you
(08:03):
see like a 10X drop in monthlypostings.
So we always encourage go forsenior manager level and below
um usually a, because there'sless like psychotic demand on
you.
You're not as like living inthis.
Yeah, exactly, it's just likeyou get the job done and you
chill, but it's like gone arethe days of oh, let me now
sacrifice my entire wellbeingand work double for an extra,
(08:23):
like 15%, because that's theonly option.
It's like no, you can doubleyour income and still just have
this really chill lifestyle.
So but to give you a veryspecific answer to your question
, my background is productmanagement.
So anything in tech workssoftware development, data
analysis, ux design, marketingroles, sales roles, client
success roles, accounting,finance there's a ton I'm
(08:45):
missing, but any big field ofwork that's standard.
You can usually find thatproduct market fit with your
resume, start getting interviewsand start accepting offers.
And the great thing is I wouldactually prioritize having a
system that helps you getinterviews really consistently,
because then it's more you'replaying a hypothesis than a
testing game, because mostpeople it's like, oh my God, I
get a job offer maybe once ayear, so it has to work out.
(09:07):
But if you really figure outhow to play the game and you can
get interviews coming throughconsistently, you are more
playing a game of choice and youhave the control.
It's like, okay, this may ormay not fit with my vision.
If, if the company's chill andI can automate this work, great.
If not, I'll go find somethingelse.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Well, right, I mean, I love the idea.
You know I have marketing teamsthat work for my marketing
company.
I was like I should go get amanager or a growth or something
where it's like, hey, we needto do these things.
Like, cool, give me the littlerecalls, what do you want?
And I put it to my team.
I'm a hundred percent.
I do that all day.
(09:42):
We'll be talking about this,all right.
Do you remember the moment likea specific moment though when
you knew, like you said, youleft a half million dollar a
year about a?
Do you remember the moment whenyou said I'm doing this?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, so it was.
It was interesting because itwas actually three jobs that I
was working, um, and fortunatelyI was able to leave them over a
period of time, like slowly letthem go.
At the beginning it was great,right, 30k a month, just pretty
much passively collecting andreinvest that into business, et
cetera.
Some of those decisions weremade for me because I started
(10:17):
running ads about a company thathelps you stack remote jobs and
I was working for these bigcompanies.
I was like the likelihood thatsomeone sees these ads.
I was basically made thedecision ahead of time and that
did happen.
Two of the three companies sawthe ads and fired me, which I
was like cool, it worked out ingood time.
But yeah, I think for myself andI imagine for others, it's one
of those things that the voicewill get louder and louder and
(10:39):
eventually it's unavoidablewhere you just know like it
might be based on what you'reearning.
It might be your, like yourrisk profile, you might just be
like I hate this so much and I'mjust no, I'm supposed to be
doing something else and it'sjust this overwhelming feeling.
But you know, for me I think itreally was the decision.
Okay, I'll actually startrunning ads and be very public
facing Cause.
I know like I have to be okaywith literally tomorrow.
(11:00):
All this income stop could stopcoming in technically, um, but
yeah, I just knew for me.
I was just super clear thatthis was not a fulfilling
long-term outcome for me andeven if it was scary, I just got
to do the thing.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, I mean I.
I love your model from somebodywho's just looking to make some
money short term, even like you.
You got.
You got one you like, maybe theprimary you give deference to,
and then you may pick up twomore side contracting jobs that
pay an extra eight K total amonth or something.
That's like you would nevertake out one job, but you're
also not giving a shit if youlose it.
Right, it's why I can.
It's easy to say I'm gonna domy best and they get rid of me
(11:34):
doesn't float when your resumewho cares?
Absolutely, yeah, I get it.
Uh, what's been the impactmeaning in your life, or in some
of the your customers lives,since starting the company and
launching?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
it.
Yeah, I like seriously insane.
And so I get busy in the day today and I just had to remind
myself to slow down and likereally soak in the
transformations that arehappening for our clients.
Like, for me, none of thiswould be here if I didn't take
that stepping stone.
Like I knew I wanted to be anentrepreneur but I didn't have
the financial resources to hirethe best people and build and
like have runway to fail.
(12:07):
But going through that stage ofworking three jobs for a year
gave me like so much financialrunway and I could make mistakes
and I could hire the bestpeople.
So our company only existstoday because I got to do that.
But yeah, for our clients, like,we just had this woman named
Stella she's a data analyst gofrom 150K to now three jobs,
she's making 480.
So she eclipsed me hardcore andis literally earning half a
(12:30):
million dollars a year.
So we have dozens of thosetypes of transformations
happening and it's it's justsuper cool to see there's like
regular people and it's not evenabout being able to buy like a
Lamborghini, but it's likethere's literally so much
uncertainty happening in themarket right now and, you know,
getting to know that I could bethat we could be the difference
maker that that family is likeable to provide and have food on
(12:52):
the table If we go through arough patch in the next couple
of years.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Well, I mean like four, 80 a year.
You shouldn't be violating.
You can never.
You just be very clear.
You don't go net that much.
It'd be.
You know it's amazing how muchtaxes come in once you cross
certain levels.
So anyway, somebody who's madegood money in their life one of
the realizations when I wasmaking it happen you're at a job
(13:17):
.
I'll share this to people.
You realize quickly you'renever actually going to get
wealthy working for somebody,even when you're making that
much money.
You'll have a great life,you'll have good money.
Joy is dependent on them sayingyes to that job.
The thing you're noting is ifyou can keep your life around
maybe 150 a year and you canfind a way to stack another 300
behind it, you are givingyourself a very good enjoyment
(13:39):
of life to do that.
So just go buy a LamborghiniF48.
Maybe a 4.8 mil.
Yeah, go buy what you want, Idon't care.
Definitely you're in adifferent class of Arnie.
What's the biggest lesson you'dgive to our listeners?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
The biggest lesson.
So here's what I think reallychanged the game for me across
the board.
I'll give you two things.
One build systems that get theoutput for you.
I think everything that we do.
There's so much tactics andstrategy, but the high level
core thing is build a system andpull yourself out of it.
So, like whatever you'reresponsible for, if your time is
the bottleneck, you'll neverscale your income.
(14:17):
So, whatever you're doing, seeif you can build a system that
pulls your time out of it,because, like the highest level,
most wealthy people, that'swhat they're constantly doing.
They're figuring something out,they're either hiring someone
or working themselves out of asolution and then going to the
next level.
The second thing that has beenreally transformational for me
is, especially once you're nowbuilding a system and it's not
just you is the more time youcan spend in your zone of genius
(14:40):
.
That's what's really changedthe game for me, especially in
scaling.
We've scaled our business fromzero to a million dollars a year
in 12 months, and that onlyhappened because I didn't listen
to the advice that everyonegives in the online coaching
space.
So this is kind of nichespecific, but I think it applies
broadly.
Everyone in our niche says, oh,you have to be the face and you
have to sell your product,because that's just how it goes.
(15:01):
And so you reach X, like youcan't pull yourself out of it.
I was like I actually think I'mway better at fulfillment and
product than I am at sales andeverything else will suffer.
So like knowing what you'rereally good at, becoming an
expert at a core thing and thenhiring and building around that,
that's been transformationalfor me.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Yep, I could not agree more.
And if you are like you know,not me is for my own personal
business.
I do really want the consultingadvisory strategy piece, but
I'm horrible at delivery my ownpersonal business.
I do really only consult theadvisory strategy piece, but I'm
horrible at delivery.
Like I have a whole teamsbehind that and that was day one
Cause like if, if, uh, if I wasresponsible for delivery,
nothing would ever get done.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Sure, and you know there's power in these.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I can give you strategy and coach you all day,
but then you tell me to gocreate something like it's going
to be a while.
That's, yeah, that's some rapidfire questions.
Who gives you inspiration?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
My girlfriend and soon to be fiance.
Yeah, I think.
Does she know that?
Wait, does she know what she'sabout to get proposed to?
She knows it's coming.
I just got sent ring pics fromher.
I sent her friend to go takeher to the ring store the other
day, so she knows it's coming.
But yeah, the people around meI think you know definitely
(16:12):
hopefully to be engaged soon,definitely see a family on the
horizon, and I think that's whatultimately drives me the most.
It's, like, you know, being asingle bachelor Cool it's, it's
fun to have some money, to havea nice lifestyle.
But I think truly the reasonI'm so committed to all this is
just like building the futurethat I want to be able to
provide.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I'm going to check back you and your mind around 50
and see if you're like ah,seeing what bachelor sounds
pretty.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Yeah, for sure, I hear that.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I wouldn't trade kids and women for any of it, so
it's what you make of it forsure.
What's kind of the bestbusiness advice you've ever
received?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Yeah, I don't want to .
I would have used my sameanswer of of, uh, build around
your strengths, but let me seeif I can come up with something
else good here.
Um, yeah, no, I'll give yousomething new.
This is pretty tactical.
So, and this may or may notresonate for everybody, but I
live in Austin and you couldthrow a nickel and hit someone
who's like a coach, who's likebeing an entrepreneur, uh, but
(17:07):
it's kind of a meme here thateveryone's an entrepreneur, but
and no shade, because this is mefor a long time but like 95% of
people never really do itsustainably, because anyone can
like start an Instagram accountand start posting content.
I don't think anyone has abusiness until you have a
reliable lead flow and you know,I think again, there are
thousands of people out therethat tell you to post organic
(17:28):
content and that's the easiestway to generate leads and like
make your first $10,000 runninga business.
I have found, and sure you cando that.
But I think learning even themost simple paid ad strategy is
like you could hit 50K, 100kmonths in whatever your business
is, really easily if you justspend like 20 hours learning the
(17:49):
most basic ad strategy and thenit just becomes math.
You know, like it's not hard togo out there and just literally
go on a meta ad library and likesee what people in your niche
are doing, basically justduplicate what they're doing and
put it live and throw $50 perday behind it.
So I just it took me a longtime to figure that out, cause I
(18:09):
was just trying to like likelet me just go viral and then
I'll make some money.
A, if you go viral, you have nocontrol over if those are the
right people or if it's just abunch of people in Pakistan that
see your content and that canactually tank everything, as if
now your, your algorithm is allthese people who, like don't
even have money to pay for yourthing.
So if I could give anyoneadvice on where to go, spend 30
hours of their time literallyone hour a day for the next
(18:30):
month, go in some super simpleads and you can make as much
money as you want online.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
You're spot on and like it knows.
So the idea of a kind ofextension is one of the
challenges you'll find too whenwe're a organic content based
company, because we do a lot ofwork with people on LinkedIn how
you use it correctly to makemoney to do just all that for
businesses or, let's say,billion dollar companies.
Right For brand awareness, morestrategic.
But you can't advertise becauseyou can't use the word LinkedIn
(18:57):
for anything.
And so we've grown our businesswithout having to advertise.
Now we've moved over to Metafor some different services we
do.
I will tell you it makes merethink about what I want to go
do on the other side, because itis so much more predictable and
scalable and measurable and youcan.
You know, once you can create acapital machine, put one you
(19:17):
know X in.
You get two X back.
It becomes no brainer how to goscale it.
And I would agree with you ahundred percent focus on a way
to use ads.
Learn Meta's good because it'scheaper than Google right now.
You got to kind of learn it all, so at some point that will
shift around.
I agree that's a better way tobuild a business and build a
business that you can leverageads in.
That's my advice to everyoneDon't build a business like mine
(19:40):
, where it is truly organic andit's you out there.
I just did a post today, by theway, on basically influencers
on LinkedIn are fake and thereason is because they're buying
SMM panel.
Fake like they're doing sharepods, they're using AI and I'm
like that just destroys youraudience.
You're creating a fake viral ofbots, so no one who actually
(20:03):
buys will see that content.
Yeah, 100%, 100%.
If you had to go back in time,or if you could go back in time,
when would you go?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
What would you do different.
Great question, you know, Ithink I have two answers.
I don't know if this first onewould actually.
This is how I've alwaysanswered the question around
regrets.
I do wish in college I was morewholesome with how I use that
time.
I was just a super frat bro andgot way too drunk.
(20:37):
Maybe you got your hat offwhich is good.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
You'd have a hat on it, which is great.
Thank you, exactly.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah, of course.
So yeah, I would say I'd go backand use that time to like learn
skills and build stuff.
My ads guy is like a ninja, likethe best I've ever worked with,
and he's graduating collegethis week and it's wild Like and
he was that person who justactually used his time in
college.
He has fun but, like you know,I would have loved to be a
little more wholesome with thosefour years May or may not have
(21:06):
actually changed anything, butthe other thing would have been
I've always prided myself onjust taking insane action, which
there's a time and a place forthat.
But if I could go back, itwould be to go back to my early
entrepreneur self and shake himand be like just learn, like
what skills do you need to learn?
And just master those skills.
And if you master the skillsfirst while you're creating,
like I was focused more onquantity rather than quality and
(21:28):
I think things really reallychanged for me five years later
than they could have if I justgot really really good at
putting out exceptional qualityacross the board right, like ads
content, blah, blah, blah,right.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yeah, you're still pretty young, I'd say you're
probably on.
Just don't beat yourself up toomuch about that.
You'll also.
The flip side of that is youwould regret it not having fun.
College weight on it too.
So you get both.
Absolutely yeah, no regretsthere.
I was hoping you were saying Iwish I would order just black
coffee, a little cream insteadof a latte.
I think that was where.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
I was.
I actually that's exactly whatI wanted.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I appreciate it.
You went deeper.
Yeah, of course.
If there's one question Ishould have asked you today and
I didn't, what would thatquestion have been and how do
you answer it?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Oh, good question.
Fortunately, someone asked methis recently, so I have an
answer prepared.
I think we talked a lot aboutvery high level scratching the
surface on remote job stacking,all this stuff.
I think the most importantquestion for everyone is why A?
If you're listening to thisbecause you want to earn money
(22:30):
like a, have clarity on why,like what are your drivers for
that?
But I think one thing I spendtry to spend a lot of time
paying attention to is just themacro economic environment right
now, and I don't like to be afear monger and tell everyone
like the sky is falling, becauseevery media platform will do
that for you.
But there are a lot of reallyinteresting trends that I, like
most of us, have.
Yeah, there have been a fewrecessions, but nothing major,
(22:51):
major, major catastrophic Maybe2008 for some people, but I mean
the US debt cycle, how fast AIis moving and just global
tensions rising and the tradewar that's going on, and paying
attention to stuff like what RayDalio is constantly talking
about no-transcript, leastlikely to be disrupted and also
(23:41):
just what can you do to setyourself up so you're not just
back against the wall wishingyou did something different.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I mean it's great advice I'll extend it for you a
little bit is try to livedebt-free, including a mortgage.
You can do it In this day andage.
I'm not sure it's funny.
People are like, oh, own ahouse, do these things, which
ends up being the big debt mostpeople have in mind, which
becomes actually its own form ofa prison for you, because you
think you're earning value andequity but you put so much money
into that every month and itassumes you'll always make that
(24:09):
money.
And, and I will tell you, I'dbe better for you to rent and
not put a dollar into theproperty and take your money and
invest it yourself, yourbusiness or market or something
else, because you'll have a lotmore of it later and then maybe
you pay something for cash later.
It's 100 yours that you can gorent when you go live the filth
for a month, I don't know.
Point is different ways ofthinking.
(24:30):
I agree with you on that.
Prepare, maybe not for you know, like a prepper's level, but
the truth is, prepare yourselfto be able to weather some
storms.
I could not agree more.
A shameless plug time for you,man.
Who should get ahold of you?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
How do they do it.
Yeah, anyone who wants to growtheir remote income by stacking
remote jobs or just landing yournext remote job definitely
reach out.
You can find us atelevatedtechus.
We have a ton of informationand some free resources there.
Also on Instagram, atDelaneyWilliam underscore,
sounds like you guys do a lot ofLinkedIn stuff.
Maybe your audience is on thereas well.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
You can also find me at DelaneyWilliam on LinkedIn.
Wonderful Delaney, thank you somuch for coming in here today,
of course.
Thanks so much for having meAppreciate it.
I'm going to catch you in thegreen room in the back, but for
those who have been listeningand watching, thanks for tuning
in here to Cut the Tie.
Get out there, go cut a tie,something holding you back in
life, right, don't let anythingstop you Address it.
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