How personal responsibility helped this man go from taking orders to the Order of Man
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- Personal responsibility is the key to success in life
- People allow excuses to slow them down
- People allow themselves to become victims
- He grew up without a father and floundered
- He and his wife "called it quits" four years into their marriage...but they fought for their marriage and are now celebrating 13 years
- Was in Ramadi, Iraq, from 2005-2006 and got into financial planning for about 9 years
- Still has that practice that he started about three years ago...but he always felt out of place in that field
- Now his wife notices that he is more present with his clients than when he started out on his own
- He walked away from six figures of golden handcuffs
- Immediately started making more money
- Started Order of Man two years ago
- He started "Wealth Anatomy" podcast as a financial advisor
- About 20 episodes in, he realized he loved the medium but wanted to expand the conversation beyond the financial industry
- He just shifted and renamed the podcast
- He went to a men's style conference
- He had "low expectations" with the new podcast. He had a successful financial planning business and just wanted to do his own thing.
- Reached out to guests with bigger tribes, and the show grew
- After 8-9 months of doing this as a hobby, his wife came to him and saw his energy, but he was spending a lot of time on it at the expense of his financial business
- Launched the "Iron Council" in Nov 2015 and made $1,000...but grew it from there
- Jan 2016, it really took off
- Started as a 12-week course with 12 men.
- He just took action.
- The lack of details and specifics didn't hold him back.
- Created a private Facebook Group
- Created weekly assignments for the members
- Has a Closed but free Facebook Group and had about 1,000 members and promoted the course to them
- Still has 7 of the first 12 in the group 18 months later
- Still experiments with his content sharing...focus on the end result, and enjoy the journey
- Starts with his private group and opens the conversation to his personal profile
- Facebook will suggest Groups, and that is helping him gain 150-200 member requests per day
- He mentioned the group on his podcast for 7-8 months, and that helped him get those first 1,000 members
- Why have a closed group on Facebook vs. allowing anyone to join, including women?
- He's not taking on new financial clients...but he's getting more and more referrals
- Stop looking for the easy button
- Why you need to plant your flag
- Six months into their marriage, he was deployed for 18 months, and it was hard
- Maybe six months after their first child was born, he lost his way
- He blamed her for their issues...
- They were separated for about three months when he realized he had to work on himself
- She responded to his positive growth and taking ownership
- You have it in you to overcome adversity