Rock Your Money, Rock Your Life

Do you have a home-based business?  If you answered no, then chances are you are losing out on more than $7,000 a year! When it comes to winning the money game and becoming financially free, paying taxes can seem like you’re giving away all your hard-earned money… But it doesn’t have to be that way.  Courtney Epps is a tax strategist, international speaker, and author of the Best Selling books Mor...

Have you ever been backed into a corner with nowhere to go?  Sometimes life doesn’t go as planned. You pursue your passion, only to be met with endless obstacles and no hope of success.  In times like those, you need to improvise, adapt, and pivot in order to thrive. After studying music production, Ryan Bartlett slipped into a “starving musician” lifestyle, playing piano at restaurants 7 days a w...

Moneeka Sawyer was a world-class dancer until she got in a tragic car accident which left her unable to dance and utterly devastated. She felt like the world was out to get her.  That was until she realized that her mindset was getting her nowhere. She had a choice: to live a life of sorrow or to live a life of bliss. Today, Moneeka is described as one of the most blissful people you will ever mee...

Are you still trading time for money? If you answered yes to that question then it may be time to start thinking about creating passive income so you can get out of the rat race and start living an epic life. We all know businesses are a great way to generate passive income, yet there is one business that is, in my opinion, severely overlooked and highly underutilized.  That business? Selling prod...

Wouldn’t you rather work because you WANT to? Not because you have to?  In my mastermind, M1, I always teach my new students how to create financial freedom by using passive income vehicles so they no longer have to trade time for money. I’ve said this to my students before, and I’ll say it a million times more, the #1 BEST way to create passive income is through Real Estate.  Now you might be tel...

Close your eyes and think about the thing you want more than anything in the world. Now imagine that everything you encounter is trying to stop you from getting it.  You fail twice, ten times, fifty times, but each attempt gets you one step closer to that goal.  Now ask yourself, “Do I have what it takes to be the world’s greatest and make it happen, no matter what?” Kyle Wilson has worked with th...

There’s no doubt that the world has drastically changed since the beginning of 2020 when we were thrown into a global pandemic.  Today, more people than ever are working from home, shopping online, and spending more time outdoors. On the flip side, over 80,000 businesses closed their doors for good in the USA alone.  What we’re beginning to realize is that certain resources, like water, are becomi...

Trigger Warning: This episode contains references to sexual assault and abuse. Everyone experiences hardship in life. Of course, it comes in different forms for all of us, but some of us become stronger, push past our trauma, and create success stories.   Why is that?  Well, the answer is simple. The people who make it in life, no matter what they’ve been through, do so because they want to. Raise...

Brett Gilliland is the Founder and CEO of Elite Entrepreneurs, a company that specializes in teaching entrepreneurs how to scale and grow their businesses using his expertise in organization development, leadership, and strategy. As the leader of the Elite business, Brett has helped hundreds of struggling seven-figure business owners overcome their biggest challenges and achieve new levels of succ...

Stephen is the founder and CEO of Predictive ROI, a digital marketing agency, and the host of Onward Nation -- a top-rated daily podcast for learning how today's top business owners think, act, and achieve.  Since the advent of the commercial Internet, Stephen has collected tens of thousands of data points that have given him the ability to identify what he calls the "8 Money Draining Mistakes" an...

3 days before his 24th birthday while traveling in New Zealand, Stu Massengill discovered that he had testicular cancer. He recalls walking out of the doctor’s office with his parents, feeling the weight of their worry on his shoulders and saying, “Don’t treat me any differently than before, I don’t want that negative seed planted in my mind.” It was this kind of thinking that helped Stu speed thr...

How do you speak to yourself when you make a mistake? Do you say, “It’s okay, You’ll get it next time,” or does it go something like this, “You’re so stupid… you’re always making stupid mistakes!”  We’ve all dealt with a bully at some point in our lives and we know exactly how it feels to be bullied. But did you know that you have an inner bully inside of you who is stopping you from living your b...

Most people begin their fitness journey thinking that there is only 1 way to do it, EAT LESS, MOVE MORE. Well, if I told you that it’s not all that simple and that your metabolism could be sabotaging your progress, would you be willing and open to a new way of thinking? Angelo Poli is an internationally recognized expert in fitness and nutrition. He’s the founder of MetPro, an evaluation-based hea...

I’m sure at some point in your life you’ve seen a Greyhound chase a rabbit around a race track. They run as fast as they can in pursuit of this rabbit, but do they ever catch it?  No. It is always just out of reach. You’d think the dogs would give up after the 3rd, 10th, or even the 50th time chasing it. But they never do.  Every single time they see that rabbit they run as hard and as fast as the...

What’s your edge as an entrepreneur? Most people don’t realize it, but the things we do in our spare time can have a massive impact on how we show up in the entrepreneurial world.  These things can develop into habits that can help you get one step ahead of the competition. Growing up, Sean Castrina lived well below the poverty line, but what he lacked in money, he gained in literal strength and d...

Do you ever end up in the trap of “I’ll do it later,” or “I’ll do it tomorrow,” but things never seem to get done? When you keep on telling yourself that you’re going to do things, and you don’t end up doing them, you end up hurting your own self-confidence, which leads to you doubting your ability to actually do the thing you want to do, which leads you to… more nothing. Procrastination is a neve...

Have you found yourself at a crossroads lately when it comes to building the life of your dreams? After losing his father in 2007 and taking a major hit as a restaurant owner in the 2008 economic crisis, Gino realized that he was at a crossroads.  He didn’t know whose dream he was building, his own, or that of his late father.  Fueled with anger at everything that transpired, Gino decided that he...

Our biggest fear as humans is that we’re not worthy, we’re not enough, and that we won’t be loved.  Your ability to control this fear will be the deciding factor on whether or not you will make a good salesperson or “Rainmaker”. Every farmer in the world understands that a portion of their crop will spoil or get eaten. Just like the best salespeople in the world understand that 10 - 15% of the peo...

Are you living in the past, the future, or the now?  Living in the moment can be such a profoundly powerful thing, but how often do we do it? How often do we look at our lives and see all the things that we have instead of everything we lack? We can acquire all the tools to become successful, but until we live in the present and look at life with abundance, the success we’re searching for will alw...

If I asked you to tell me exactly what you wanted to achieve, would you be able to do it? You’ll be surprised at the number of people who can’t. They want so many things yet nothing is freaking fracking crystal clear. So they wander around for a bit and then give up, dropping their head in the process. There are many things we need to do in order to achieve success, but the VERY FIRST THING that w...

Are you happy where you are in your life? If not, why don’t you change it? There are two types of people who aren’t successful: 1) Those who don’t know what to do and are fishing around in the dark, and 2) Those who know exactly what to do but don’t do anything. Only you can change your life.  Nicholas Bayerle was unhealthy, unconfident, and constantly searching for the approval of his father. But...

No one born on this planet has had it completely problem-free their whole life.   Take me for example. I grew up on a farm with my Dad who pushed me to my breaking point, every…single…day. As I got older I faced real estate losses, divorce, financial issues with my parents - the list goes on. There were many reasons for me to give up and live an average life, but I chose to keep on pushing. You se...

We all experience adversity in some shape or form, but if we don't acknowledge it, we stop ourselves from seeing the beauty in what it taught us  Diane Dewey never expected that she would meet her biological parents in her late 40s. She was led to believe her entire life that they were both dead.  She immediately got the urge to know them more so she could learn more about her roots and confront p...

How do you keep moving forward in spite of fear, doubt, and worry? How do you get fired up or motivated, even if things aren’t going well? The answer? ENERGY But how do you keep up high levels of energy in order to stay motivated and push yourself to the next level? In this episode of the Rock Your Money, Rock Your Life podcast, I talk about how to maintain high levels of energy to stay fired up a...

Even the most successful individuals can struggle with living a balanced life, or lose sight of what really matters. It’s only when adversity comes along that we are forced to look at life from a new perspective. That's when we realize that there is more to life than the things we can hold in our hands. When Dr. Richard Shuster was in his early 20’s, he was a “selfish, obnoxious, materialistic guy...