In this episode of the Creative Collaboration Show, we dive into the world of accelerated banking and financial literacy with Jason Nightingale. Jason shares his journey from losing his cabinet building business to becoming an entrepreneur and disrupting traditional banking methods. He discusses the importance of financial education, networking, and collaboration in growing businesses. Through his company, Safe Money Solutions, Jason has helped clients save millions of dollars and increase their monthly cash flow. Get ready to learn valuable strategies for financial success!
Jason Nightingale is an entrepreneur and the founder of Safe Money Solutions, a company that disrupts traditional banking methods and helps individuals and businesses increase cash flow and savings through accelerated banking. With over two decades of experience in the industry, Jason has transformed his own financial situation and helped countless others do the same. He is a sought-after speaker and author, sharing his expertise in financial literacy and wealth creation.
Key Points Discussed:
[00:02:15] - Jason introduces his belief that using checking and savings accounts means giving up money and discusses the sacrifices people make with traditional banking methods.
[00:06:50] - The importance of financial literacy and education is emphasized, along with the availability of free resources on Jason's website.
[00:09:30] - Jason shares how Safe Money Solutions has helped clients save millions of dollars and increase monthly cash flow through their accelerated banking strategy.
[00:14:20] - The value of collaboration and networking in business growth is discussed, along with specific examples of successful partnerships.
[00:19:45] - Jason provides advice for entrepreneurs and shares how to connect with him for further guidance and collaboration opportunities.
Must-Read Book Recommendation:
"What Your Banker Doesn't Want You to Know" by Jason Nightingale - In this upcoming book, Jason reveals the strategies of accelerated banking and financial forecasting, providing readers with the knowledge to take control of their finances and accelerate their wealth creation.
Connect with Jason Nightingale:
- Visit the Safe Money Solutions website: http://www.yoursafemoneysolution.com/
- Book a free discovery call here: https://calendly.com/idahojason1
- Follow Jason Nightingale on social media: https://inphone.co/safemoney
In this eye-opening episode, Jason Nightingale challenges traditional banking methods, encourages financial literacy, and shares valuable insights on growing businesses through collaboration and networking. Don't miss this opportunity to learn and take action towards financial success.
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Chuck Anderson,
Hello, everybody, and welcome back. This is the creative collaboration
Speaker:show with Chuck Anderson, and I've got another amazing episode
Speaker:for you, and this one here has, I'll just give you a fair warning.
Speaker:This one has a a financial theme to it. So if you
Speaker:care it all about money, if you care about out all about finances
Speaker:or cash flow and keeping as much of it as as possible,
Speaker:then you're really gonna love this episode because today,
Speaker:I have a an expert in that and not only an expert in that. I
Speaker:mean, there's a lot of experts in finances, but,
Speaker:one where, today's guest has, a very
Speaker:unique approach to banking and
Speaker:investing and creating cash flow in businesses.
Speaker:And, and so I this is one that you
Speaker:probably wanna lean into and listen to a little bit.
Speaker:closely because, there's gonna be some,
Speaker:some really great information here and some things that you probably
Speaker:didn't know that you didn't know. And so I'm honored to
Speaker:have, Jason Nightingale here with me today. Jason, welcome to the
Speaker:show. Thank you, Chuck. I appreciate the opportunity.
Speaker:Absolutely. Looking forward to having you on. And, now you heard my,
Speaker:like, little introduction light, and I'm not gonna sit here and read your buy
Speaker:because you know you better than than I know you. So
Speaker:so, was that accurate and and maybe, to, you
Speaker:know, tell everybody, a little bit about who you are and and what
Speaker:your story is. Okay. Well, I've been in business since the mid
Speaker:nineties and entrepreneur for quite a long time. I actually had 2 different
Speaker:businesses. Besides my finance insurance business, I was a
Speaker:cabinet builder, and I did a lot of high end Victorian cabinets,
Speaker:kitchens, bathrooms, built ins, and living rooms,
Speaker:whatnot. And, we had a wild land fire in 2015
Speaker:in August of 2015. that burned that business to the
Speaker:ground. And this business, Safe Money Solutions, there was only
Speaker:a 2 day a week business at that time, not enough to support me as
Speaker:an income, bank would not give me a line of credit when I needed cash
Speaker:flow, and I had all kinds of people up here cleaning up steel and
Speaker:burnt down trees and rubble from the fire.
Speaker:And I said, well, if you won't give me a line of credit because I
Speaker:no longer have the cash flow I had, why don't you let me redraw
Speaker:the $5000 extra I paid on my home last month? Guess
Speaker:what they told me? Nope. She goes, you don't
Speaker:understand the amortization, do you? I said this must have something to do
Speaker:with that four letters in the middle. More Mortician, mortuary,
Speaker:amortization, mortgage, literally means death pledge is what
Speaker:mortgage means. and amortization means the loan that never dies.
Speaker:So I knew that day when I could not get my hands on money and
Speaker:I had a cash flow problem that I needed to change the way that I
Speaker:bank because I had just put my nest egg out, getting everything
Speaker:cleaned up, and finding out my insurance company wasn't gonna release a check
Speaker:for more than 60 to 90 days. I needed some cash flow.
Speaker:My family was recounting on me to make a right decision. And when I
Speaker:came up with after reading a bunch of books and doing a bunch of studying
Speaker:and combining some strategies as what I call accelerated banking,
Speaker:But at the time, I had 14 years left on my mortgage check. I
Speaker:was able to figure out how I could pay it off in 30 months with
Speaker:less money without killing the cash flow that I had. Now
Speaker:that fantastic number saved me a $170.
Speaker:And then my wife says, when are you gonna start teaching this? and it was
Speaker:the catalyst that turned safe money solutions into a
Speaker:worldwide company. We now have 46 states 3
Speaker:countries. We've trained 758 advisors, and I
Speaker:live 38 miles from a stoplight, 68 miles from a
Speaker:Walmart, and 3 hours from an airport. But when I got a webcam and
Speaker:started sharing this, it went viral, and we put out 3 and a half
Speaker:$1,000,000 worth of sales in 22 months. with just our
Speaker:first 1500 clients, saving them $230,000,000,
Speaker:which is an average of a 130 k each, and giving them back over
Speaker:$2000 a piece in monthly cash flow just
Speaker:by changing how they bank. Amazing. I love
Speaker:how this was discovered with your own frustrations with banking,
Speaker:and them set telling you, no. I think we've all heard the word
Speaker:no when it comes to, dealing with the banks.
Speaker:And, and then you found, a great solution
Speaker:around that. And now you're in the business of of helping
Speaker:other business owners with that. So, love all of that. Well,
Speaker:let's let's dive deeper into this. Shall we? So so, I
Speaker:would say a good follow-up to this is, you know, what what are
Speaker:the Who are you really helping with this? Like, what, at what stage of
Speaker:business are they in? Maybe some certain things going on? And
Speaker:then and then and then how are you helping them? Okay. That's a
Speaker:great question because, see, Chuck, I started out with friends, family, and people in
Speaker:my church. And then I belonged to a savings club, and they started referring
Speaker:me to their friends. Well, I kinda got off into this church and farming community
Speaker:helping farmers, helping churches so we can still help all of those. In fact, you
Speaker:know, we've got programs just for churches to giving multiplier program is
Speaker:one of them. We got programs for vets. But what happened to me was after
Speaker:those 22 months of helping 1500 clients, I zoomed
Speaker:in this chair so much My right leg swell up 1 third
Speaker:larger than my left leg. From zooming 6 days a week,
Speaker:13, 14 hours a day trying to help everyone. So I sat back
Speaker:after all those sales and said, okay. Well, I need to get a targeted audience
Speaker:to start with because I can't eat this pizza from all edges at one
Speaker:time. I realized how big of a disruptive strategy this
Speaker:is. So I became the director of life insurance when my name
Speaker:hit the top 100 in finance magazine for a
Speaker:financial distribution platform. It was a shop called concierge for
Speaker:advisors in Phoenix, Arizona that served advisors all across the
Speaker:country. They wanted me to come in on a contract and teach this
Speaker:strategy to advisors. That was a pretty good connection, but
Speaker:John ended up dying of COVID in 2021.
Speaker:So I thought business owners seem to to seem to
Speaker:benefit the most from this. So I started traveling to,
Speaker:like, Real estate, excuse me, real estate investor conventions
Speaker:and family office clubs for the high net worth and
Speaker:kinda have started developing our advanced strategy department
Speaker:more using be able to design buy sell agreements.
Speaker:Maybe you've got a business. Maybe you're listening in today and you've got this business.
Speaker:You've poured your heart into it. You're growing it right now, and you're
Speaker:looking okay. I need a succession plan. I need to be able to get out
Speaker:of this, but you don't wanna give 1 third or half the tax money to
Speaker:the IRS in capital gains when you sell it. We can show
Speaker:you how to avoid that. We can show you how to reward
Speaker:yourself and create a pension plan that's practically
Speaker:self funded. It's absolutely amazing. So a lot of the
Speaker:ways we help businesses are when they're designing how
Speaker:to reward key executives in their company. or
Speaker:create a pension plan or protections for their self or
Speaker:create buy sell agreements, creating cash flow, and
Speaker:helping them with financing.
Speaker:Amazing. Well, you know, and I think, you know, at one
Speaker:time or another, a business owner is gonna need, help
Speaker:with, you know, 1 or all of those things.
Speaker:And, and, you know, it's it's one of those
Speaker:things where, yeah, again, we you you go to
Speaker:the bank. You try to play the game their way. You try
Speaker:to you know, go through their system. And it's one roadblock after
Speaker:another, and it sounds like what you're doing is you've got another way of doing
Speaker:that, which get you what you need, and and,
Speaker:you're not hearing no all the time. Right? And so Yeah. I mean, let's
Speaker:face it. Let's go back to where I was at after the or during the
Speaker:fires or before the fires. I would receive a check for
Speaker:15, 20, 25,000 from a client Who wanted to set
Speaker:a cabinets? Maybe you're a business out there that's receiving that check on office
Speaker:supplies or coaching or some widget or some service that you
Speaker:sell. When you stick that money into your checking and check,
Speaker:you can role play this with me. What does the bank pay you for that
Speaker:deposit? Oh, well, nothing.
Speaker:A big 0. So -- Yeah. -- let's just say a business is putting in
Speaker:$2300,000 a year. I can show
Speaker:you with math at just at a 100,000 a year. Every 10
Speaker:years, your business is giving up a $1,000,000 worth of capital.
Speaker:I can show you how to not leave the million on the table and how
Speaker:to make it tax free. It's absolutely phenomenal.
Speaker:If someone has debt, where they're trying to grow. This is
Speaker:a way to really double down and pay that debt down up to
Speaker:70% faster, build well faster to help with scale.
Speaker:If you're wanting to buy other real estate, we have a program that'll
Speaker:help you acquire real estate so fast without killing your cash flow.
Speaker:It's amazing. See, that's a problem where a lot of businesses are. If they
Speaker:scale up, they get afraid because of the cost and the risk. So they stay
Speaker:where they're at. So oftentimes, the dreams of entrepreneurs when they wanna
Speaker:expand is stifled by the fear of what it might do to
Speaker:them monetarily. That doesn't have to be the case with accelerated
Speaker:banking. That's amazing. And, you know, I I
Speaker:gotta say, like, the the whole idea of accelerated banking
Speaker:not one that I've, I would say is very common. I'm
Speaker:I'm not sitting around with my other entrepreneur friends talking about accelerated
Speaker:banking. And so So is that a term, like, is that what you
Speaker:guys are calling it, or is that an industry term? like, what
Speaker:Where does that? That's a fantastic and loaded question. So
Speaker:-- I I I figured it might be. I'll answer
Speaker:it in 2 minutes or less. So we teach a strategy where checking and
Speaker:savings are dead. I mean, I just proved to you. Let's face it. They're not
Speaker:paying us for them. you know, a preacher into a little old lady's house. She
Speaker:cut the shank. I'm sorry. I'm having the throat problem today. She cut the shank
Speaker:off the ham and threw it away. He asked her why'd you do that? She
Speaker:said, I don't know. My mom taught me that. So when he went and asked
Speaker:her mom about it, she said that silly girl, I grew up in the depression
Speaker:of my oven. It was real small. So I don't know why we use checking
Speaker:and savings. It doesn't make any sense. No more sense. than cutting the shank off
Speaker:the ham. They don't pay. So we teach a method where you use
Speaker:velocity banking, which came from Australia in 2004 by a a
Speaker:guy named Harsh Guild. To pay down debt up to 70%
Speaker:faster, and we teach a savings account replacement using
Speaker:infinite banking, which has been around since the 1800s, but given a
Speaker:name in the eighties by R Nelson Nash. If I was to
Speaker:ask you for if you were to ask me for a recommended read, you mentioned
Speaker:I would say read your read bank on yourself by Pamela Yellen.
Speaker:If you wanna learn about infinite banking, you can read how to pay a mortgage
Speaker:off in 5 years by Clayton Morris. I'm writing a book that's
Speaker:called what your banker doesn't want you to know, and I'm including both
Speaker:strategies and showing you with it when you leverage them inside of an
Speaker:algorithms based software that we have. You'll have a forecasting tool that will tell you
Speaker:all of the ways and
Speaker:the the consequences and the re rewards of making financial decisions
Speaker:without having to make them. For example, you can put in that
Speaker:expansion of your office or the bringing on of the new
Speaker:wages it's gonna cost to bring on the new executive and then hit the
Speaker:button and see with your cash flow grilled out, it'll show you
Speaker:exactly where you'll be. Whether that's negative,
Speaker:positive, or unbelievably ahead. It's amazing. So it
Speaker:shows you where expensive dollars are and where your growth dollars are.
Speaker:And by making your deposits that your clients are giving you, into
Speaker:checking and savings, you are killing the opportunity for
Speaker:growth because you're paying your bills with your own money. Banks don't do
Speaker:that. They float other people's money through their accounts
Speaker:to help them pay down their debts, and they loan your money out nine
Speaker:times. They call that fractional reserve banking. It's scary
Speaker:if you wanna get into it. During COVID, this kid was considered
Speaker:no reserve banking. We teach you the banking
Speaker:concepts. So accelerated banking in a nutshell is teaching you how to
Speaker:exercise float Offset and redraw, which we
Speaker:can fully explain. We've done all the reading. We've done all the research,
Speaker:and we have now have an automatic transmission model so you
Speaker:don't have to be the expert. You just get the software, enroll in the
Speaker:program, and put these wheels to the ground, and watch your business
Speaker:accelerate. It's so it's so exceptionally works exceptionally
Speaker:well. Well, we all want our businesses to accelerate. We all want our
Speaker:businesses to grow. And, you know, be again,
Speaker:the awareness of what's going on and that there is a better
Speaker:way one of the things we need to start thinking
Speaker:about is, okay. Well, how do we start planning for this? So, like, you know,
Speaker:so so what are what are some of the things that we need to be
Speaker:thinking about in our business plans that sets us up for,
Speaker:you know, more success and to really be able to do what you're talking
Speaker:about versus, you know, the struggle that, we're
Speaker:currently going through. Okay. So that and that's a good question. So it really
Speaker:doesn't matter where you're at in business. maybe you're listening today and you're a
Speaker:brand new entrepreneur. All you you don't even have even so much as a
Speaker:URL yet. You just got a concept in your mind of what you want.
Speaker:maybe you're a seasoned veteran and you're you're looking at an exit planning
Speaker:strategy or a succession plan and you're and you're thinking him, maybe I can get
Speaker:out of some taxes. It doesn't matter anywhere in between you are. The first
Speaker:thing to do is to go to this link that's over my shoulder and
Speaker:just book yourself, discovery call. Let me show you
Speaker:our presentation in general and show you 3 or 4 examples of
Speaker:different people we've helped. So maybe you can identify with one of those and
Speaker:say, yeah, I think maybe this would be I wanna look into further. What's the
Speaker:next step? Then we just basically tell you to provide us a little bit of
Speaker:information. We get back together. Still no obligation at this point.
Speaker:We'll put some ideas out on the table for you, your
Speaker:business corporation, whatever, and get your feedback.
Speaker:Simple as that. Then it should you decide to go forward. We'll
Speaker:show you what that looks like. The fees we charge come from
Speaker:the savings we create. So it's always a
Speaker:net 0, proposition for almost
Speaker:every person we've ever served, and it doesn't take
Speaker:long to cover, the services. And like I said, we
Speaker:do have a plug and play model so that you don't have to see a
Speaker:reading books and studying and going through some big master class, which we
Speaker:do have those available for those that are, you know, really wanna take it advance
Speaker:further, but you don't have to do that to plug in to plug into this.
Speaker:So you met one of the key words that you mentioned in there is exit
Speaker:strategy. And from, you know, when when we are at that
Speaker:point, we're ready to sell the business. I mean, how does what you're talking
Speaker:about affect what we need to be thinking about in terms of
Speaker:executing on that exit strategy course? Well, let me give you an
Speaker:example. I have a sixty seven year old client in Pennsylvania
Speaker:right now that is selling his,
Speaker:company. And He is wanting to protect
Speaker:his children. He's wanting to protect himself naturally from taxes.
Speaker:And, he is selling the company to a financial company that
Speaker:that has purchases, businesses, upgrades them a little bit, and sells
Speaker:them as investments. And we have a a
Speaker:planning team that has put together a program for him that Nala can
Speaker:give his children the guaranteed income that he wants, but we can put everything
Speaker:inside of a trust and we can set up
Speaker:a buy sell agreement using cash value life insurance that keeps them
Speaker:from paying the capital gains tax that's normally associated
Speaker:with the transaction of that magnitude. It would cost him
Speaker:millions if he just used traditional models. we can make you
Speaker:look better to the bank, look better to the seller,
Speaker:or to the buyer, whichever side of this equation you're on, and of
Speaker:course, be able to make each other feel more,
Speaker:feel better about the transaction because there is an insurance base
Speaker:in it. That's called a cross purchase agreement. So what
Speaker:someone needs to do in their thinking, if they're wanting to
Speaker:move toward an exit strategy, is when we have
Speaker:our when we have our one on 1, we would probably recommend,
Speaker:getting with business power tools.com or someone like that, I don't
Speaker:know if you know Kirk Franklin, but getting a true business plan
Speaker:put together and start looking at what the exit strategy
Speaker:might look like. We have clients come to us. They say, man, I've only got
Speaker:a 100,000 safe for retirement. I've only got 10 or 15 years
Speaker:left. what do I do? And we show them how to create
Speaker:tax free income streams for their self using the products that
Speaker:we have available. So I think the first thing you have to start thinking
Speaker:about is the openness of mind to explore
Speaker:the options because you said it earlier. You don't know what you don't know,
Speaker:and everybody is different. I can't put a one size fits all
Speaker:on this. All I can say is let's get together for a free discovery
Speaker:session, do an assessment, see what it looks like for you,
Speaker:and we have ways that we can help you to be able to keep the
Speaker:federal government from reaching in and taking a lot of the money and
Speaker:taxes and put a plan and protections in place that helps
Speaker:everyone involved. The buyer, the seller, the beneficiaries,
Speaker:you being the retiree, getting out of it, and makes
Speaker:a makes a plan that's good for everyone. And and that is that is one
Speaker:of our specialties. We have an entire advanced planning depart department to do
Speaker:just that. They have MBA, CPAs, attorneys, all
Speaker:the people they need on their team. to fit your business model
Speaker:because you might be an LLC. You might be a C corp, an s corp.
Speaker:They know they know how to deal with that stuff in all 50 states. Now
Speaker:I wanna ask you a little bit about insurance as well because that that is
Speaker:something you mentioned it briefly earlier. And, I know that
Speaker:that's something that business owners struggle with. I know, like, we don't
Speaker:always know, like, what what we should have, what we shouldn't
Speaker:have. is it worth spending the money on? Is it just a cash
Speaker:grab? Like, there's all the things, and everyone's got their own opinion about what types
Speaker:of policies you should get and what kind you should avoid.
Speaker:You know, what's your take on that and how does that sort of fit
Speaker:into this planning that you're talking about? You know, that's a that's
Speaker:a very good question. And my time served as a director of life
Speaker:insurance at that financial distribution platform that had somewhere between
Speaker:10,012,000 advisors. I got to work with 75
Speaker:different insurance carriers, and I got to ask them key
Speaker:questions. And I some of the answers I got astounded me as
Speaker:the the the number one problem in the industry is so
Speaker:many commission centric agents out there that are not with
Speaker:a career more than 2 or 3 years that don't really understand the full
Speaker:scope, anything more than their captive agency and the few
Speaker:little square peg products that they have trying to shove all these
Speaker:trying to shove all the square pegs into the round holes. You know? They they
Speaker:only understand a few products and they they sell their client
Speaker:something and they explain maybe on the surface what it does, they
Speaker:get their commission and they're gone. Clients don't even know what they got.
Speaker:It's a lot like religion and politics insurances, and there's so much
Speaker:misinformation out there. That's why if you have a holistic practice
Speaker:like what we are, We look at what you got and we look at first
Speaker:what you're trying to accomplish. We put you through the 4 pillars of
Speaker:finance. We look at your protection. We look at your assets. We look
Speaker:at your liabilities, and we look at your cash flow. And we draw it
Speaker:like a house. Right? And then we say, okay. What's
Speaker:lacking? it do you need protection if you get sick, then we need to
Speaker:look at health insurance. Do we need protection if we get hurt? Then we need
Speaker:to look at disability insurance. Do we need protection if you were to die?
Speaker:Life insurance, right, and all the different protections. But with accelerated
Speaker:banking, what's so cool about that being our flagship strategy
Speaker:is that often makes it a self funded program.
Speaker:We free up the cash flow to provide you the money for the
Speaker:protection without changing your budget. And most
Speaker:people agree that they need the protection if money was
Speaker:not a problem. So that's where we start there
Speaker:because it's such a great foundational piece. Increase the cash flow.
Speaker:You can get the protection you need. So
Speaker:anything else that you think that business owners should be aware of or
Speaker:thinking about in terms of their planning that we didn't already
Speaker:cover? Well, I think the main thing is, you know,
Speaker:if you are in the system, yeah, when I say in the system,
Speaker:using a checking and savings account, You're already giving up money,
Speaker:and I'll bet 90 plus percent of the people listening to this
Speaker:podcast or watching it on YouTube or wherever it ends up, Chuck,
Speaker:are are sitting there using checking and savings accounts for their
Speaker:deposits, and they're sacrificing 1000 and 1000 of
Speaker:dollars. and, you know, you don't know what you don't know. If you are
Speaker:taking a a a vacation to the Everglades and all of a sudden you find
Speaker:out there's alligators, It's a little late to go to the store now and get
Speaker:some kind of protection against alligators. Right? But if you know they're there before you
Speaker:go, you might dress or differently or make your itinerary differently.
Speaker:Right? So the main thing is financial literacy and education.
Speaker:be happy to do a free discovery call. We have a free report
Speaker:available. You can either go to your safe money solution dot
Speaker:com. Take the s off the end of our our business name, your safe
Speaker:money solution dot com. There's a free report. You can you can get
Speaker:on there, or you can reach out to me directly, Jason at your safe money
Speaker:solution dot com. And I would be happy to provide some resources We
Speaker:do have some programs for vets, churches, nonprofits,
Speaker:businesses. so wherever you seem to fit, in there,
Speaker:we probably have some way that we can help you. The the the maintain that
Speaker:keeps our industry so disruptive if what we do
Speaker:is because we teach people a better way to banks. Small
Speaker:bankers love us. Big banks hate us. And
Speaker:that's and that's because we cost them a lot of money. I bet they
Speaker:do. So, well, just so let to let
Speaker:everyone know if you're watching this on media, 2 things. 1
Speaker:is you see a QR code, right, behind Jason's head or beside his head
Speaker:there, you can take a picture of that. That's gonna take you where you wanna
Speaker:go. we also have a link to that right beneath this
Speaker:video. And if you're listening on a podcast and audio,
Speaker:just click into the show notes and the player that you're listening
Speaker:on and all of Jason's links are right there.
Speaker:So, know, and one of the reasons why, Jason, we
Speaker:had you on this show, why we have a lot of a guest on our
Speaker:show is is, you know, with the theme of our show being creative
Speaker:collaboration. A, this is very creative. b,
Speaker:we look at you as being someone to collaborate with because of
Speaker:the unique solutions that you provide. And, you know, we
Speaker:have a we have a saying here, in our business is that
Speaker:nobody really accomplishes this accomplishes
Speaker:anything significant on their own. So this whole idea of solar
Speaker:printer or self made and all of that I I think
Speaker:is not only nonsense, but it's, no none of us really do
Speaker:anything alone. We and there's all we always need somebody that we need to
Speaker:partner with and collaborate with in our business. So, you know, just to tie
Speaker:in a little bit of that team in your show while you're here, I wanna
Speaker:get you, you know, weigh in on this whole bit, is how has
Speaker:collaborating and partnering with others played a role
Speaker:in the growth of your business. Oh, oh, huge,
Speaker:huge. I told you earlier I live thirty eight miles from a
Speaker:stoplight. I'm sixty eight miles from a well mark and 3 hours
Speaker:from an airport with a jet, and that is the truth. I live in a
Speaker:little town called Kami I, Idaho. If you look at a picture of the US
Speaker:at night, it says dark in Northland, Gilletteo with the lights
Speaker:on, in a US picture as it is in North Korea.
Speaker:I mean, it's pretty remote here. It's mostly gravel roads. And
Speaker:in after COVID, people really started
Speaker:networking and doing Zooms. A lot of businesses shut down. People
Speaker:got creative, and I have a list of a 150 networking
Speaker:zooms And, Chuck, I'll be honest, if I met you. I met you
Speaker:in a networking event. I don't know if it was JV directory or c suite
Speaker:or where it was. but I started attending those last February.
Speaker:And, now I have a lot of collaboration partners. I don't have to
Speaker:buy leads. I mean, I just get referrals from people that know me And so
Speaker:if I was a business and I was fledgling business young
Speaker:and trying to get some wings and really not spend so much on marketing, I
Speaker:definitely would network and and shows just like
Speaker:this. And, you know, podcasts, getting on podcasts, listening to
Speaker:podcasts, and going to networking events is huge, huge value.
Speaker:You know, that's a great example. That is how we met. We we we have
Speaker:some mutual friends that that's not we could have been connected that way. That's
Speaker:not how we were connected. We even didn't find out till afterwards. We had,
Speaker:mutual friends But, but it was through,
Speaker:connecting in the JV directories and the and and all of
Speaker:these various online groups. And I think it just really speaks to the
Speaker:power of getting out there, networking. I
Speaker:love collaborating. It's one of the reasons why I have 3 podcasts
Speaker:and, you know, this being one of them, and it's a great
Speaker:way for us to get to know people when I get to know
Speaker:your business, you get to know a little bit more about mine. And who
Speaker:knows the, what else we can come up with and the way we
Speaker:can, you know, help each other out,
Speaker:in the future. And, you know, I love how you kinda lean into,
Speaker:like, anyone who's young or new in their business,
Speaker:you know, don't waste your money on advertising. It's too soon.
Speaker:you need to get out there and network. You need to get out there and
Speaker:talk to people. And this is the one one of the best ways to do
Speaker:that. In fact, just to help you all out, I'm gonna put a link to
Speaker:some of those, to some of those
Speaker:resources, in this, in this,
Speaker:show. We you mentioned Jamie Directory. That's a good one. we'll put a link to
Speaker:their, to JV directory there as well. Go check that one
Speaker:out. that's a great place to start. So,
Speaker:so when you're look when you identify a piece in your in your
Speaker:business that, oh, maybe I could use a little help with this. is
Speaker:that your is that your go to place? What's the first place you would
Speaker:look for someone to either answer that question or
Speaker:collaborate with. Well, the you you mean,
Speaker:we've already kinda hit that nail right on the head. When you collaborate and you
Speaker:meet other people in those breakout sessions and when they let you do your pitch
Speaker:party, like, who is Eric Zulu on easy way or C suite
Speaker:where they give you a minute to talk or 30 seconds, you know, people are
Speaker:gonna reach out to you in the chat. Right? Well, as you're looking at what's
Speaker:in the chat and you're hearing other pitches, you're thinking, oh, that person
Speaker:does, it helps me with publish my book. I need to
Speaker:publish my book. I found a lady. Right? That person right
Speaker:there, they helped me with copywriting or that person there, they helped me with
Speaker:learn chat t p t or ai. I'd hooked up with a guy that could
Speaker:learn me a little bit on AI because I'm not very techie. Right? I met
Speaker:another lady who does virtual. assistant. I needed a
Speaker:virtual assistant. So my business has grown just by reaching
Speaker:out to some of these people, and we end up helping each other. I helped
Speaker:them with their banking. They helped me with the with the need I had.
Speaker:So that's that's right where it's at is
Speaker:getting out there. Like you said, you know, cold calling That's dead. You get on
Speaker:these networking zooms. Everybody wants to talk to everybody, and it's almost
Speaker:like a camaraderie of rapport like a like a a group or a
Speaker:club. and everybody just kinda comes with a little bit of a warmness
Speaker:and, just seems like a very neat culture. And I think every
Speaker:entrepreneur should do it that's trying to grow. Amazing.
Speaker:I love so much of that, Jason. Thank you so much for answering that question
Speaker:because, you know, one of our goals here, obviously, we wanna provide
Speaker:some great tactics and great information, but we also wanna
Speaker:inspire people to stop calling yourself a solo, solar
Speaker:printer, and stop trying to do everything
Speaker:yourself. And as a re reform, do
Speaker:it yourself, or that's that's, you know, that's really where this all comes
Speaker:from because together, we all achieve more for sure.
Speaker:Jason, this has been amazing. I have great information, great content,
Speaker:I highly recommend to our guests. if, any
Speaker:of this has resonated with you, and it probably has because you're still here
Speaker:listening, go ahead and scan that QR code or
Speaker:click the link beneath this video. Or if you're listening on podcast, the link is
Speaker:right there in the show notes. connect with Jason. And, all
Speaker:of his links are right there and, you know, take the next
Speaker:steps. And I always tell people you know, don't let an opportunity
Speaker:like this be for nothing. I want you to take one thing
Speaker:at least one thing that you heard in this episode
Speaker:today and I want you to take action towards
Speaker:it today. Maybe that reminded you of a goal that you set that
Speaker:you needed to take a step on. go and do that today.
Speaker:and or maybe it is you just learned something new
Speaker:today. Go connect with Jason. That would be a great If you don't
Speaker:know what your next step is, that maybe that's it, right, and have the
Speaker:conversation. Because like we both said today, you don't
Speaker:know what you don't know, and, and we really
Speaker:want you to know. So, Jason, thank you so much. This
Speaker:has been amazing. if you were to, leave our
Speaker:audience here today with just one final piece of advice or
Speaker:words of wisdom, what would you leave them with? Financial
Speaker:literacy. Read books about money because, let's say,
Speaker:face it, you're in business for one reason, and that's to make money probably so
Speaker:you can do more of what you love and spend more time with those you
Speaker:care. Get financial literacy. We have all
Speaker:kinds of free stuff available, And I think that
Speaker:that is probably what's fallen in the streets is, people are
Speaker:just following the system. We're fixing to go to a digital currency. Most people
Speaker:don't even know that. because of all the stuff that's in the news, and a
Speaker:lot of people are gonna be caught flat footed, and that's what safe money solutions
Speaker:is all about, is helping people to not get caught flat footed by that. So
Speaker:financial literacy, that would be my advice. Get financial
Speaker:literacy. Great words to end this episode by And
Speaker:so to our audience, thank you to Jason, thank you.
Speaker:and, again, go out there. Take that action step
Speaker:today. and, keep moving forward. you
Speaker:there's always a solution. You're maybe one collaboration away,
Speaker:or one helpful partner away from solving the
Speaker:financial issues or whatever other problems you have in your
Speaker:business and, just keep moving board. Keep
Speaker:looking for people to partner and collaborate with. And, in
Speaker:the meantime, go keep go out there. Keep being
Speaker:awesome. this has been the creative collaboration show with Chuck Anderson. My
Speaker:guest has been Jason Nightingale, and we'll see you on the next one. Thank you.