EP020 - Your Circle Tells You Who You Are

Eric is a serial entrepreneur that has founded and exited businesses in the automotive, retail, insurance, and tax industries. With 10 years in the tax world and 5 in the financial planning world, he is passionate about financial education and helping entrepreneurs scale to create a greater impact on the world. Eric is also passionate about fostering communities and connecting people. He enjoys building community in masterminds and his own monthly dinners. 

Outside of a professional context, he is a single father to a sassy teenager and enjoys camping, riding bikes, and exploring the outdoors with his son.

Thrive Community MVP, 2019

Thrive Connect Counselor, 2018

BDB Relationship Award, 2018

One great lesson he learned during the time that his business went down was:

“You have the option of taking the failures as something as personal and ends up as something that affects you for the rest of your life and subconsciously affects your decision making or take them as a learning lesson and move forward.”

For Eric, you can be good about a certain thing that can pay bills, but then there is a certain calling that comes where you realize that you want to do something else.  One of his regrets as a young person was to have fun and own good things, but as he got older he realized that he wanted to do something different and completely out of his comfort zone. Something that he wasn’t good at, unlike his first business. Failing many times gave him hope to just keep moving forward. 

Growing up, he was afraid of success and failure that was rooted in childhood. But growing up, he learned to work over that fear and continue moving forward. The real question is about how we acknowledge and work on the circumstances. 

He believes that to be something great, you have to be around people who act the same and want the same. This will also affect your desire to continue. Investing in yourself helps you to propel yourself to keep moving forward. 

During his transitions, he always asked himself, would it hurt if he tried it, and if he failed, what’s the worst that can happen? At the end of the day, there are a lot of decisions that need to be made. There are no steps on how to look for the best solution, you just have to trust yourself and believe what you are called for, and work on it. When we align ourselves with our inner self and process things, we begin to be more sensitive with ourselves and have better decisions.  

Key Notes: 

• You are influenced by the people who are constantly around you. Connections are important.
• Have someone listen to you and listen to other people too. 
• Processing your inner self makes decision making easier. 

Connect: 

IG: @thecashflowdoctor 

Thecashflowdoctor.com

Research about Regrets of the Dying