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On Making Money: How You Should Spend and Save It with Justin Krane

When we were young, we were often told that making money and saving it is important. However, you might have developed frustrations and disappointments about the reality of your financial capacities as you grow older.

In this episode, Justin Krane discusses what first-time investors and seasoned business owners need to understand about making money and investments. He talks about the common mistakes people make with their money and how to deal with them.

Many business owners have difficulty figuring out the best marketing strategy for their business model. Seeking a financial advisor, according to Justin, helps you to navigate your expenses, savings, and other assets better.

Whether you are a business owner or you just want tips on making money and dealing with it, this podcast episode is for you. 

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

1. Discover how Justin changed his perspective on financial investments.
2. Explore the world of investment to gain insights into making money growing your business.
3. Learn more about effective financial planning, automation, and other tips to avoid making investment mistakes.

Resources

• Money, You Got This by Justin Krane
• Money. You Got This. The Podcast with Justin Krane
• Check out previous interviews on the Best Business Podcast
• • The 6 Laws of Business Success - With Brad Martineau  
  • The Truth About Marketing Automation & Building a 7 Figure Business - With Brad Martineau
  • A Billion Dollars Worth of Business Success Tips- With Max Carey
• Internships
• Connect with Justin: Email | Krane Financial Solutions

Episode Highlights

Justin’s Background

• Justin discussed how he started as a financial advisor for the brokerage firm Paine Webber & Co.
• At that time, he felt as if he was just helping the rich get richer. He didn’t feel like he was helping people. 
• After 9-11, Justin realized that he needed to make the best of himself.
• Justin became a Certified Financial Planner. He went on to evolve into financial life planning. 
• For ten years, Justin was unhappy about his career. Listen to the full episode to find out how he turned his life around and decided to help other people financially.

Justin’s Experience in the Business World

• Justin’s primary obstacle when he started was thinking that he wasn’t good enough.
• Over time, Justin began to develop his confidence and competence. 
• He realized that there’s a benefit to the niche he’s in. 
• Justin provides financial advice and planning to business owners. 
•  He looks at his client’s sources of revenue, profitability, and tax planning, among others. 

Common Mistakes Business Owners Make

• Many people are poverty thinkers, not prosperity thinkers. 
• Poverty thinkers perceive the glass as half-empty.
• In contrast, prosperity thinkers would see the glass as half-full. Prosperity thinkers know that they should be investing.
• The biggest mistake business owners can make is that they’re not investing enough in their marketing. 
• You should consider investing 5-15% of your sales in marketing. 

Advice on Marketing

• Justin shares that business owners should try to make a three-to-one rate of return on their marketing.
• If you are new to investments, you need your money to come back quickly. If you are a seasoned business owner, you can try exploring higher ROIs.
• Justin emphasizes the value of knowing how your business model works, especially for seasoned owners.
• Additionally, you have to know your marketing dynamics—what you are selling and their prices.
• Lastly, figure out your numbers and find out if marketing a specific way is worth it or not.

Lessons from Justin’s Experiences

• If you’re not a numbers person, look for someone who can help you make sense of your numbers. You need to track them so you can grow them. 
• Once you know what your goals are, it’s easier to make financial decisions. 
• It’s okay to take small and medium-sized risks consistently.
• Justin also learned that people buy what they want and not what they need.
• He learned that he could make a difference in people’s lives by educating them about their finances. By doing so, Justin was also making money. 

On Making Money Work for You

• Justin learned prosperity thinking. That is, he can create the kind of life he wants for himself. 
• You have to believe that down the road; you will succeed. 
• In money and in running a business, you have to believe that things will work out. 
• It’s okay to fail. What you need to do is be conscious of what you’re thinking and doing. 
• You need to continue working on yourself. Find out what you don’t know and do the work to learn it. 

How Can Business Owners Get Started?

• Focus on how your financial advisor leads you and what they ask about you. 
• They need to ask questions to get to know you. It’s only through knowing you and what you value that financial advisors can give the right advice.  
• The financial advisor needs to make you feel safe and comfortable enough to discuss your financial issues.  

What Business Owners Should Prioritize

• Firstly, you should observe if your business is generating enough money.
• A lot of times, people are not aware of the opportunities to create more profit.
• Secondly, Justin explains the importance of automation.
• Automating your money can save you from inconveniences, such as forgetting to pay bills or saving cash.
• For example, have separate accounts for taxes and for retirement. If you’re saving up for a house, have another account for that as well.

Justin’s Goals and Plans for the Future

• Justin shares that he wants to move to a bigger house with his wife and three kids. 
• Justin’s goal is to continue work and grow his business.
• He will also focus on creating more scalable and leveraged things to help more business owners.
• He also wants to carry on with his routine of exercising and meditating.

Justin’s Final Words

• Justin believes that many people are too focused on saving to live a life they want at 85. 
• Justin believes that you have to save and spend. 
• For him, the word ‘budget’ is too restrictive.
• People should be able to do the things they enjoy to be happy.
• Along the way, you just need to create a plan to save your money and automate your savings and spending.

5 Powerful Quotes

“I think that you got to get out of your own way. And you have to be really—you have to own who you are and take action.” 

“So the biggest mistake that I think that business owners make is they're not investing enough in marketing in their business because they think that investment is really an expense.”

“We begin to spend money, and invest money, and just do stuff with our money. [However,] we need to know what the money is for, and we need to know what our values are.  And if we know those two things, we’ll be congruent. And it will be so much easier to make financial decisions.”

“You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So, you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.”

“I believe that the word ‘budget’ is too restrictive. And I want people to go out and buy the cup of coffee, get the latte, get the shoes, take a vacation, do that stuff because you're going to be happy, just create a plan to save along the way.”

About Justin

Justin Krane is the founder of Krane Financial Solutions. His company is dedicated to creating and designing financial plans to help entrepreneurs and small business owners. Justin uses a unique system developed from financial psychology to help his clients identify, clarify, and reach their goals.

Justin is a Certified Financial Planner and a Certified Investment Management AnalystSM. He is a well-known expert in helping people plan their business money and their personal money. Because of this, he has been invited as a speaker and panellist at different events. He has also been mentioned in CNN Money, CBS, The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur Money, Fox Business News, Yahoo Finance, and bankrate.com.

In 2016, Justin published Money, You Got This: Easy to Implement Money Strategies So You Can Take Control of Your Business Finances and Create Your Dream Life. Justin also hosts a podcast about being financially happy called Money. You Got This.

To know more about Justin, check out Krane Financial Solutions or email him at  justin@kranefinancialsolutions.com. 

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The Millionaire Mentor Plus Two Urbanski’s For The Price Of 1 - With Adam Urbanski

Have you ever felt stuck on what to do next for your business? You have a myriad of excellent ideas, but you're not quite sure how to execute them. Among these ideas, your marketing strategy is a key ingredient to your success. Thus, you need to make sure that you’re aware of the fast-paced business environment, adapt to changes, and learn how to do things that will help you execute effective marketing solutions.

At the end of this podcast, business owners and entrepreneurs will learn the valuable business marketing methods. Our guest, Adam Urbanski, also known as The Millionaire Marketing Mentor®, shares the best ways to foster prospects. We also talk about how he got ahead in the fast-changing business world and how to solve business problems effectively.

If you're looking to take your business marketing to the next level, this episode will be of great value to you!

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

1. Discover the importance of having situational awareness.
2. Learn the concept of the theory of constraints and how you can leverage it in your business.
3. Find out how you can go platinum in marketing your business.

Resources

• Learn how to generate million dollars of revenue with The Marketing Mentors!
• Connect with Adam: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | YouTube
• InfusionSoft
• Psycho-Cybernetics by Dr. Maxwell Maltz
• Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
• The Secret of Selling Anything by Harry Browne
• List of books by Dan S. Kennedy
• The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
• Know how you can boost your prospects with the Attract Clients Like Crazy System!

The Millionaire Marketing Mentor's Million-Dollar Blueprint

Moving to the U.S. from Poland

• Adam says that he was "young and stupid" when he came to the U.S.
• He moved to the U.S. in 1989, around the time the Polish communist government ended and democratic elections began.
• His motivation was to escape the no-opportunity mentality and make his way elsewhere. Another thing was Poland's three-year mandatory military service.
• Adam came to the U.S. with only 194 bucks with limited English speaking skills.

Figuring Things Out

• "Survival of the fittest" defined Adam's journey: he was a high school graduate with no skills. It took him around three to four months to find his bearings. 
• Listen to the episode to know how Adam turned 50 cents into $5 multiple times a day by installing peepholes!
• Most people become entrepreneurs because of their academic and educational background. They always wait for someone else to permit them.
• One of the things that got Adam ahead is claiming to be something and proving it.
• Not learning quickly enough was not an option. If he waited to get training or get certifications, he would have starved.

Adapting to the Fast-Changing World

• The top-paying jobs and marketing innovations today didn't exist years ago.
• It would be best if you had situational awareness of what's going on in your marketplace.
• You can always get ahead and do well for yourself with this awareness.
• Adam takes quotes that people take for granted and find what they mean for him. He asks about business, “Are you where the puck is, or are you heading where the puck is going?”
• Listen to the full podcast to learn how Adam relates the quote to business adaptation!

The Biggest Challenges Adam Faced

• The minor things are not speaking English and not having money, connections, and education. The major challenge was being lazy and wanting to be rich.
• The best entrepreneurs are lazy. They're always looking for a better way to accomplish something, driving them to create new solutions.
• Adam thinks that he hasn't come across his biggest challenge yet. He calls himself the optimistic realist. 
• Another greatest challenge is himself and his way of thinking. 
• The skills you've got may also be what's hindering you from going to a million-dollar level.

Solving a Problem

• You cannot solve a problem with the same level of thinking awareness that created the problem in the first place.
• From your vantage point, you may only be seeing limited solutions to your problems.
• The key is to engage in activities driven by where you want to be, not from where you are.
• When you feel stuck in a problem, think about it as if you were in a different place.
• Moving away from the problem and gaining a new perspective can show you the opportunity behind the problem.

Gaining Wisdom from Books

• For Adam, our way of thinking is 95% of the foundation that decides whether we succeed or fail.
• Some of the first skills an entrepreneur must master in marketing is selling and persuasion.
• He has his team read the book The Secret of Selling Anything by Harry Browne. It says that everything is about the exchange that gives us more happiness.
• The book teaches you present offers that make prospects see them as a pathway to happiness rather than spending money.
• Tune in to the full podcast to discover Adam's favourite books!

Adam's Biggest Mistakes and Lessons

• One of the biggest mistakes is not reaching out for help fast enough. Being a fast learner created an illusion of not needing support for Adam.
• He can only reverse engineer what he sees in other people's programs, not what he doesn't. Tune in to the podcast to hear Adam's Ferrari analogy!
• His biggest mistakes: not generating a process and not looking at someone who was doing it better and reaching out.
• Our perception of investment is the higher the amount, the greater the risk. However, the risk is the same, whatever the amount, and as a result, it trips us up.
• The price you charge has less to do with your methodology and more with the client's potential for gains.

Theory of Constraints

• Put together a triangle. You have three constraints if you want to be at any one of the corners.
• These three constraints are cheapness, speed, and quality. You can never have all three.
• Customers who want to get things done faster with the least amount of energy understand that it requires increased investment.

Going Platinum in Marketing 

• Creativity often leads to distraction. Some entrepreneurs are more excited about the idea of what isn't than what is.
• Adam shares the concept of going platinum in marketing the business with his clients. It roots in the music industry, in which Adam gives an in-depth example in the podcast.
• One of Adam's most popular programs is Attract Clients Like Crazy. He promoted it for a decade and held a webinar every week with different promotional partners.
• The mistake of most creatives is creating something new instead of finding a better marketing strategy to promote what they have.
• Tune in to the podcast to hear how Adam's clients found success in going platinum!

What's Next for Adam

• He's working on putting together better promotional materials for his existing marketing programs.
• Adam focuses on teaching marketing to people through three things: consistency, redesigning the delivery method, and prospect persuasion.
• His commitment to his coaching business is only two hours a week. The value is measured by the results, not the time they spend working.
• Unveil the path for a prospect to decide to invest in themselves and get access to your solutions.
• What will make prospects happier is either gain something that will improve their ways or eliminate a problem. 

5 Powerful Quotes from the Episode

“I had no skills, I had no title, I had no education. So I couldn't rely on this. I basically had to go and claim to be something or someone and just prove that I am it.”

“The skill he was teaching them was situational awareness. Like you can’t just be a solo player in the pool amongst other players, you have to be there and you realize you’re part of the entire pool. So even though you’re swimming with a ball, and whatever you are, whatever you're doing at the moment, you've got to be aware where the rest of your teammates are, where the opponent is. So you've got to be aware of the entire pool. Because if you don't, you're gonna get crushed, you're gonna get you know, your balls gonna be taken away from you, you're gonna be blocked, you've got to be aware of the whole thing.”

“I really believe that whatever we undertake, 95% of the foundation that decides whether or not we will succeed or fail is really our thinking.

“When I want to get something done, I'm looking at who is already doing it successfully, that I know that I can get proof that it's done, that they're doing it ten times better than I am, and reaching out and say look, you know, how you're doing this or here's what I'm doing, how can I infuse some of what you've learned into what I'm doing to expedite the results.

“And one thing that people don't realize, (is) that the price that you get to charge for what you do has less to do with you, your methodology, the quality of what you do, and nearly everything to do with the prospective clients, potential for gains.”

About Adam

Adam Urbanski, also known as The Millionaire Marketing Mentor®, is a marketing strategist who has coached 30,000 business owners. He's a small business change agent, marketing wiz, entrepreneur, trainer, facilitator, and speaker. Adam teaches effective and affordable business development strategies. 

Through The Marketing Mentors, he provides marketing training programs and popular distance learning, from short teleseminars to year-long coaching engagements. By following his advice, Adam's students and clients can generate millions of dollars each year.

You may connect with Adam through The Marketing Mentors. You may also reach him out through Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

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How to Sell Your Business: 17 Types of Billion and Million Dollar Exits with Steph Sharp

Have you ever thought to sell your business and start anew? It’s challenging to know how to sell your business at a good price and deal. Studies have shown that business owners have a success rate of 5% in selling their businesses! It’s not just about the exit; you need to have a good strategy.  

In this episode, Steph Sharp joins us to talk about how exits start with knowing how your business works. An attractive business can operate and thrive without its owner. Steph also shares exit strategies and common pitfalls you might encounter while you try to sell your business. 

If you want to learn how to exit your business, then this episode is for you! 

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

1. Understand the ways you can make your business transferable and scalable.
2. Learn how to make your business attractive through the right pricing, business model, terms, and documentation.  
3. Discover the different ways you can exit and sell your business. 

Resources

• Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant by Robert T. Kiyosaki
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
• Built To Last by Jim Collins
• Follow Steph’s work on Millionaire Exits and Facebook.
• You can also reach Steph through her email Steph@MillionaireExits.com.  

Episode Highlights

Knowing Your Business Inside and Out

• Steph shares her story of starting with small businesses, investment banking and capital markets, and eventually negotiations. 
• There are five types of businesses: charity, hobby, job, basic business, and transferable business. 
• Understanding your type of business makes it easier to know what exit strategies to employ. 
• For example, most basic businesses are profitable. However, people cannot come in and do your work. 
• Scalability and transferability are important aspects of exiting a business. Hear Steph’s in-depth discussion in the full episode!   

There Is Always A Way Out 

• We don’t need to be trapped in a business for life. There is always an opportunity to create a way out. 
• Step back and ask yourself: why do people buy a business? 
• Most people don’t buy a business because it can make money. People buy a business because they believe it can make money. 
• Knowing this, you need to show how your business drives profits.
• Make sure that your effective systems can be repeated and transferred to another. 

What Are You Transferring? 

• Legal documents and paperwork are not the end-all and be-all to sell a business. 
• Transferring a business is about making sure it does not fall apart after getting sold.
• The research shows that business owners finance as much as 80% of their businesses.  

Financing, Earnout, and Capital Markets

• Earnouts occur when owners get paid for their exit over time. This deal can create the problem of a buyer backing out a year into the contract. 
• When you sell your business to people who don’t know how to run it, you may eventually have to come back to take over again. 
• Seller financing is also a popular option for selling businesses. 
• Capital markets are often in the hunt for good business deals. 
• Listen to the full episode to get a clearer understanding of how to market your business. 

Common Pitfalls of Business Exits

• Steph shares that one of the biggest mistakes when you sell your business is not having an adequate financial record. 
• Proper business documentation is also necessary. This document should be the operating manual which details costs, clients, and the like. 
• When owners think of selling their business, they're often at a point where the business is deteriorating. 
• You need to make sure your business is attractive to potential buyers. 
• Typically, a business is worth about a third to half of what the owner thinks. 

Profit Is Not Cash Flow

• Remember that profit is affected by depreciation and other non-cash variables. 
• On the other hand, cash flow is how the buyer will pay off the loan for buying the business. 
• You need to be able to answer how many years they will be paying for the loan before they start earning money. 

Disconnect Between Owner and Business

• A lot of owners think they have employees, coaches, or contractors who will buy their business. This is not the case. 
• People will often choose to start their business rather than buying one. 
• This is also applicable to employees: how do you make sure your employees stay and don’t start their own thing? 
• Rather than just sell your business, you also need to think about how you want your lifestyle to change after the exit. 

Exit Strategies

• Business owners often don’t have exit plans for their business. 
• Exit strategies are crucial for emergencies. If you are the focal point, what happens when something happens to you? 
• Ultimately, you need to craft a business that can continue to work and thrive without you. 
• One exit strategy is going public. This causes a significant boost to your business value. 
• Tune in to the full episode to hear more about exit strategies! 

Expected Timeline of An Exit

• Steph shares that you can expect 3-4 months to pinpoint what you’re selling exactly. 
• Spend some time structuring your selling process. 
• Get attention and attract buyers quickly.
• Steph’s 100% sell rate is due to the attention to correct pricing, terms and expectations, and good business documentation.    

What the Data Shows

• Financial statements often break down costs for labour, fuel, operation, and others. 
• You need to make sure your statements can show how the business operates clearly. 
• Too much information and detail can clutter your documentation and financial statements. 
• When selling, you need to be able to pinpoint patterns and trends. 

It’s Not the End, It’s A Transformation

• People often put off selling due to the fear of letting go of something integral to their identity. 
• Look at exits as an opportunity for new growth, business, and life instead! 

5 Powerful Quotes

“We have no condemned people. There’s always a way out — we just have to create it. . . It used to be that we could get trapped. But with the internet, with technology today, there are so many ways out now.”

“If you’re not ready for that exit, if you don’t have a business that’s- if you don’t know how you’re going to transfer that out. . . You’ll wake up in three and a half years and you’ll look around and you go, ‘Oh my gosh, look at all these businesses for sale. How am I gonna sell mine?’”

“Sometimes it’s simply a matter of sitting down with them and clarifying what their business model really is. What drives the profitability, how do they actually do the pricing? Just because it’s in someone’s head, doesn’t mean it’s going to take you months to get it out of their head.”

“People, when they start thinking about selling, it’s often they’ve thought about it, and they leave it too long.”

“People get told they should go down a certain pathway — like franchising, like an IPO, whatever. And it doesn’t suit them personally; it’s not aligned with who they are and how they want to spend their business life.”

About Steph

Steph Sharp has been involved in $20 billion deals and worked with over 400 clients in every industry. Her experience spans professional and health services, utilities, ferry operations, technology, retail food processing, and finance. 

Steph’s finance career specialized, particularly in exit transactions. She has worked with Goldman Sachs Bank of America, CNBC, corporations, individuals, private equity funds, and venture capitalists. Over the last 20 years, she has trained hundreds of entrepreneurs, business owners, and professionals worldwide to successfully exit their businesses.  

Interested in Steph’s work? You can follow her on Millionaire Exits and Facebook.

You can reach Steph through her email Steph@MillionaireExits.com.

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Five Pillars of Good Health with Maria Whalen

Do you ensure that you are in good health? You may be eating healthy foods, exercising, taking supplements, but do you genuinely know what’s going on with your body? 

Our bodies are made up of complex and interconnected systems. The things we think can help our body may not be the case. As entrepreneurs, being in good health is important because an illness can break any business and life apart.  

In this episode, Maria Whalen joins us to talk about dangerous misconceptions we have around health. She shares the five pillars of good health that we need to focus on instead. We need to be careful with what we ingest and put on our bodies; these can change our body’s foundational systems. 

Maria also shares her journey as an entrepreneur and her experience with illnesses that led her to advocate for the good health of entrepreneurs all around the world.

If you want to learn how to take more care of your health, this episode is for you! 

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

1. Discover the different misconceptions we have surrounding health. 
2. Understand the foundational pillars of good health. 
3. Learn what makes an entrepreneur successful and why we need to keep moving forward. 

Resources

• Check out EWG to learn how to buy healthier personal care products and food! 
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• Killing the Victim Before the Victim Kills You by Derek M. Watson, Larry Pinci, and Daniel L. Tocchini
• Reality for a Change by Ennio Salucci
• Contact Maria through the email support@intentionalnetwork.com. 
• You can also follow her work on Intentional Network.

Episode Highlights

The Problem with Health Perceptions

• Maria shares her hardships with illnesses and her experience with Western medicine. 
• The more she studied to cure herself, the more she saw problems with the perception of health and medicine.
• There is a lot of marketing hype around green smoothies and the likes. 
• It's dangerous to think that you're already healthy just because you eat and drink certain things. 

Five Pillars of Good Health

• Maria hopes to share ways of never becoming sick. 
• No one is teaching how our body works. It is why there are a lot of misconceptions about health. 
• We need to know the foundations of good health first. 
• The five foundational pillars are the immune system, hormonal system, DNA, physical structure, and mental-emotional component.

Imbalance Is the Source of Sickness

• Ask yourself these questions every time you are not in good health: What am I doing that’s in my body’s way? What is it I’m not giving my body that it’s asking for?
• Once you identify the culprit, you can fix the source and damage. 
• How can we cause an imbalance in our DNA? Tune in to Maria’s answers in the full episode. 

Is Detox Helpful? 

• Maria shares cleansing and detox should be done in the right context. 
• Everything needs to be in proper order, just like in business. 
• Don’t take shortcuts towards good health.
• The skin is the largest organ in your body, and anything you put on it goes straight to the bloodstream. 
• How can we be more conscious about our food and products? Listen to the full episode to hear more.  

Learn the Way Your Body Works 

• All of us experience some form of inflammation. We need to learn why this happens. 
• When we want to nourish our bones, it’s not about taking more calcium. Taking calcium can actually cause more harm. 
• We need to understand the physiology of our body as a system. 

The Illusion of Feeling Good 

• People often disregard the foundational pillars because they already feel 'good.' 
• Don’t wait until your body breaks down before you start working on your foundation.
• Don’t claim to be in good health when you don’t know what’s happening beneath the surface.
• When influencing your hormones, you should understand that prescriptions work differently for people. 
• Tune in to the episode to hear about influencing your hormones! 

Interconnection of Systems

• Your body is made up of different systems. 
• You cannot isolate a single system; you will need to address the whole system. 
• For example, losing weight needs to be strategic: suddenly losing weight will cause toxins typically stored in fat tissue to be released into your body.

How to Become Successful

• Becoming successful takes a lot of blood, sweat, and tears. 
• You also need to have a vision that’s big enough to push you through the pain of transformation. 
• A lot of successful people came to be due to a sense of urgency and need. 

Common Attitude of Entrepreneurs

• One important skill to master is smart networking. 
• Become invested in other people’s products and events. 
• Build strong relationships no matter what you get out of it. 
• Make sure to provide people value before asking for anything in return. 
• Get out there and do the work. Meet people outside of your usual circles. 

Balancing Work and Life

• When balancing work and life, you need to look at the counterbalance. 
• Make sure to recover in between the times of hard work. 
• Keep yourself in check, so you don't burn out. 

Moving Forward

• Keep moving and failing forward. 
• Don’t dwell on yesterday’s mistakes because you need to keep moving. 
• When you focus on mistakes, you’ll tend to stop and get left behind. 

About Maria

Maria Whalen is the pioneer of Invincible Wellness™, a system that gives people the power to handle almost anything when it comes to health. She is a fierce advocate for personal health freedom, sustainability, and independence in all things. Maria has helped entrepreneurs, leaders, lawyers, doctors, and all kinds of people around the world.   

Growing up, Maria suffered from several illnesses, including three autoimmune diseases, lupus among them. Western doctors and alternative health practitioners could not help her. It got to a point where Maria went in and out of comas every few weeks. Due to these painful experiences, she went on a quest to find true health and vitality. 

Maria's experience led her to become the resident expert on WAKEUPTV.COM on the Pop Network. Also, she has shared stages or worked with several big names in personal development, business, finance, and health. This list includes people like Deepak Chopra, Jack Canfield, Loral Langemeier, Les Brown, and even Queen Elizabeth’s doctor, Dr. Peter Fisher, to name a few. 

Interested in Maria’s work? Follow her on Intentional Network. You can also email her through support@intentionalnetwork.com. 

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