Jeff Rose is an entrepreneur disguised as a certified financial planner, author and blogger. Jeff is an Iraqi combat veteran having served in the Army National Guard for nine years, including a 17-month deployment to Iraq in 2005. He’s best known for his award-winning blog Good Financial Cents and book, “Soldier of Finance: Take Charge of Your Money and Invest in Your Future.” He’s also the founder of Wealth Hacker Labs, a movement to teach accelerated wealth-building strategies to future generations. He currently writes for Business Insider, US News & World Report, Forbes, Entrepreneur and has been featured in major sites such as The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Reuters, and Fox Business.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“the biggest difficulty I had in the beginning was believing that I could do it. I was so paralysed with just having to think of we have got to get a phone system, the Internet, paying rents, we had to find office space, hire an assistant, take care of all of the taxes. It was just overwhelming at the beginning and I was grateful that I had three other essentially cofounders that we all went in together . And a lot of those guys took over a lot of those roles that I wasn’t good at or didn’t want to do. But as I got to see them manage it it definitely made it easier for me to understand how it works to where it was less overwhelming”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The BibleFavourite Quote:
“Always Make Your Future. Bigger Than Your Past” Dan Sullivan
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“focus on who are you trying to help. You always hear of defining your avatar, figuring out niche… And remember that in anything and everything that you do. And what is the next step that you can help that person accomplish. Because any time you can help somebody achieve something even as small as buying a domain or opening an online investment account. They are such small things but they can lead to such tremendous impact and those people always remember you for helping them take action”…[Listen for More]
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Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” Steve Jobs
Other Quotes From the Chat with Jeff Rose:
- “all the things I was doing every single day, there was just so many tasks and activities that were not money making and producing activities. And when I just started recognising how to delegate… Having a framework where I could just start implementing certain things. And that was life changing”
- “there have been so many things that I have tried that have failed miserably… So liked 17 years I have been working on this craft to become an overnight success and a lot of people don’t see that, they don’t see the failed business opportunities, the failed partnerships, all of these great ideas that I have had over the years that have just fell so flat where I wasted time and money and resources and mental energy. But I have come to recognise that those failures don’t define me. I am only defined by what I did after those failures”
- “the second that I am complacent I am going to be obsolete”
- “change is something that you have to embrace because the second you get comfortable is the second it gets scary then”
- “not letting my failures define me because I can’t go back and change what is done the only thing, I can do right now is make it better… What can I do today to make my present and also future bigger”
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