In this episode, we will talk about profit, and we will discuss how the misconception between revenue and profit can cause problems and misunderstandings. We will also talk about maximizing profits, what the 50% rule is, and the Wants and Needs Analysis. What You Will Learn In This Episode: - Why revenue or top line is NOT what we need to focus on when we want to increase profit - What is the best way to increase a company's profit - What is the 50% rule, and how to apply it properly - How ...
May 13, 2021•29 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Today, we will talk about money stories, and why I believe that the money stories that keep us stuck are not taught, but caught. We will go through Brad and Ted Klontz’ four money scripts to understand how these stories affect us, and what we can do to prevent them from running our money life. What You Will Learn In This Episode: - Where our money stories are coming from - Why we need to be able to identify our money stories - The main traits of money avoidance and money worship stories - What i...
May 10, 2021•37 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Today, we will talk about wealth-building entrepreneurship and why businesses fail. We will discover the mind frames that affluent entrepreneurs need to understand and adopt, and that will set them apart from treadmill entrepreneurs. What You Will Learn In This Episode: - What is the main difference between treadmill and affluent entrepreneurs - The three mind frames on an affluent entrepreneur, and why mind frames are different from mindsets - The idea behind creating several business plans for...
May 07, 2021•31 min•Season 2Ep. 5
This episode is about the simple ways to create wealth. We will talk about money issues and how to deal with them. We will go through the three basic laws of wealth creation, and I'll share with you the six steps you can implement right away to change your wealth-building game. What You Will Learn In This Episode: - Why you are experiencing money problems - The three fundamental laws of wealth creation - Why it is important to know the destiny of every dollar that we generate - What is the ...
May 06, 2021•19 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Today we will talk about the money taboo. We will discuss how the way we think about money affects our relationship with it and our lives in general. We will go through the six reasons why we should start talking about money with the people around us. What You Will Learn In This Episode: - Why the taboo of talking about money is keeping you broke - How the ignorance around money can affect our families - Why talking about money is the pathway to growth - Why we must have positive conversations a...
May 05, 2021•16 min•Season 2Ep. 3
In this episode, we will talk about how to get financial liberation. We’ll discuss what it means to be a treadmill entrepreneur and the long-term results that they get. We will also go through a small portion of the Affluent Blueprint Framework, and the outcomes of living an affluent entrepreneur life. What You Will Learn In This Episode: - The difference between financial freedom and financial liberation - What it means to be a treadmill entrepreneur - The three critical outcomes of an affluent...
May 03, 2021•18 min•Season 2Ep. 2
In this episode, we will talk about the affluence life paradigm, and how to live an affluent life. We will go through each of the four paradigm elements, and learn how to put together an affluence plan. Finally, we will talk about what it means to generate a perpetual income machine. What You Will Learn In This Episode: - What we mean when we say affluence, and how that impacts our lives - What is an affluence life paradigm - Why we need to have a meaningful and impactful vision - What it means ...
May 03, 2021•21 min•Season 2Ep. 1
This show is all about your business, your finances, and your life. This podcast is for you if you want to play a bigger game in life, in your business, with money, and generating a massive impact in the world in the process. I'm Mel Abraham, a best-selling author, speaker and founder, CPA by education, and entrepreneur by exhilaration. I'm the founder of the Thoughtpreneur Academy and Business Breakthrough Academy. In my journey as an entrepreneur, I've built, bought, and sold se...
May 03, 2021•17 min
In this episode, #1 Bestselling Author and Highly Acclaimed business & Entrepreneur Expert, Mel Abraham, talks about how to take your concepts and communicate them in a way that gets action as well as results from the people that you are serving. As visual learners, we learn with pictures and frameworks. They are the key to inspire understanding and results. If we don’t get it right, your marketplace will be lost in complexity and confusion, there’s no understanding and what really happens i...
Mar 30, 2017•29 min•Season 1Ep. 94
In this episode, #1 Bestselling Author and Highly Acclaimed business & Entrepreneur Expert, Mel Abraham, answers a question about whether it is time to quit your job and go from job to entrepreneur. As risk mitigators, entrepreneurs must weigh the risks before moving forward. If you do not get it right, you are living a dual life, there is no joy in earning, and you find yourself in no or low cash flow. If you get it right, you feel like you are in flow, you are monetizing your passion, and ...
Feb 28, 2017•40 min•Season 1Ep. 93
In this episode, #1 Bestselling Author and Highly Acclaimed business & Entrepreneur Expert, Mel Abraham, teaches you how you can get your market to message right by building a bridge between the two. If you want to build an audience or a following, you need to be able to spread the right message to the right ears at the right time in the right way. This episode will teach you how you can get your market to message right by building a bridge between the two. If you do not get it right, your m...
Feb 21, 2017•27 min•Season 1Ep. 92
In this episode, #1 Bestselling Author and Highly Acclaimed business & Entrepreneur Expert, Mel Abraham, discusses about how you can create a training that builds in transformational results for the people that buy, use, attend and learn from you. We need a killer program for it because if we do not do it right, there is no one that has attention on us, there is no demand and it results in the fact that we can't improve other people's lives. When we get it right, there is an intens...
Feb 14, 2017•20 min•Season 1Ep. 91
In this episode, #1 Bestselling Author and Highly Acclaimed business & Entrepreneur Expert, Mel Abraham, shares with us the framework and the tools so that you can build a lead magnet that converts. If you do not get it right, we're going to end up with a bunch of lookie-loos, we are in a situation where there's literally no traffic and we don't even get that first date with our audience. But if we get it right, qualified people will be attracted to our content, they even shar...
Feb 01, 2017•24 min•Season 1Ep. 90
In this episode, #1 Bestselling Author and Highly Acclaimed business & Entrepreneur Expert, Mel Abraham, about how you can engage your audience or market so that you excel in your presence out there and build a following that is going to champion you. If we don’t get this right we are going to feel deserted, it leads to feeling ignored and there is no growth. But if you get it right, there is a crowd and it is populated, you will enter into conversations and ultimately it becomes a stampede ...
Jan 25, 2017•27 min•Season 1Ep. 89
In this episode, #1 Bestselling Author and Highly Acclaimed business & Entrepreneur Expert, Mel Abraham, talks about moving from goal-setting to goal-getting using something called The Achievement Ladder. If we are not focused on achievement and goal-getting, we end up with spotty success, we have a complete lack of drive and we start to stew pessimism. When we get it right, we will walk through the success gateway, we are hyper-driven and we approach things with a knowing. Here are the 3 th...
Jan 17, 2017•29 min•Season 1Ep. 88
In this episode, #1 Bestselling Author and Highly Acclaimed business & Entrepreneur Expert, Mel Abraham, continues the journey on productivity and talks about how you can maximize your success in such a way that accelerates you toward your destination. If we don't understand how to do it, we end up with no process, we don't recognize successes along the way and we're just not successful. On the flip side of this if we get it right, we become process driven, we celebrate our su...
Jan 09, 2017•29 min•Season 1Ep. 87
In this episode, #1 Bestselling Author and Highly Acclaimed business & Entrepreneur Expert, Mel Abraham, talks about how you can be more productive with the help of successful rituals or habits in your life. If we don't get such rituals right, we find ourselves in a confused state, we are totally unfocused and we ultimately end up with no results. When we get it right, we have clarity, everything we do is intentional and we start to complete tasks. So here are the 3 principles that you ...
Dec 15, 2016•32 min•Season 1Ep. 86
In this episode, #1 Bestselling Author and Highly Acclaimed business & Entrepreneur Expert, Mel Abraham, talks about your value because if you don't get value right no one sees you, people don't have interest in you and there is no sale. However, if you get it right, you're seen by your marketplace and the potential folks trying to hire you, people are curious and want to know more, and ultimately they buy. Here are the 3 things that you need to know: Transformation drives val...
Dec 07, 2016•21 min•Season 1Ep. 85
In this episode, #1 Bestselling Author and Highly Acclaimed business & Entrepreneur Expert, Mel Abraham, talks about negotiation, helps you understand the concept of conflict and shows you how you can go from contention to solution. In any type of negotiation, if you don't get it right, it's going to be an energy drain, the conversation will stall and you find yourself in a constant battle. If you get it right, you start to make progress, get some understanding and finally, produce...
Nov 29, 2016•27 min•Season 1Ep. 84
In this episode, #1 Bestselling Author and Highly Acclaimed business & Entrepreneur Expert, Mel Abraham, reflects on being grateful and the concept of gratitude in life. If you don’t get gratitude right, you are going to be limited with energy because it sucks us dry, you will find yourselves full of angst and if you are not gracious, you will find yourself alone. But if you get it right, you will have unlimited energy, you are going to be happier and ultimately it makes you magnetic. So, he...
Nov 23, 2016•34 min•Season 1Ep. 83
In this episode, #1 Bestselling Author and Highly Acclaimed business & Entrepreneur Expert, Mel Abraham, talks about how you can create valuable content. We discuss on what it takes to create content that is perceived as valuable so that you are much more in demand as an influencer. If we don’t get it right, people are going to perceive your content as trivial, it will feel complex and what happens is that your content gets forgotten. But if you get it right, people will realize that it is u...
Nov 15, 2016•23 min•Season 1Ep. 82
In this episode, #1 Bestselling Author and Highly Acclaimed business & Entrepreneur Expert, Mel Abraham, talks about how you can brand yourself and create a personal brand so that you become that premium provider who is sought after because what you know makes a big difference in people’s lives. If you don’t get this right, there is going to be tons of friction, you will start to feel isolated and ultimately you will be invisible. If you get it right, you will be in this natural state of flo...
Nov 09, 2016•31 min•Season 1Ep. 81
In this episode, #1 Bestselling Author and Highly Acclaimed business & Entrepreneur Expert, Mel Abraham, talks with John Lee Dumas, the founder and host of one of the best podcast in the entrepreneur space, EOFire about three simple keys to his success. About John Lee Dumas John Lee Dumas is the founder and host of EOFire, a top ranked business podcast where he interviews inspiring entrepreneurs daily. Before getting into the podcast space, he served eight years in the army. After he came ba...
Nov 01, 2016•28 min•Season 1Ep. 73
In this episode, #1 Bestselling Author and Highly Acclaimed business & Entrepreneur Expert, Mel Abraham, talks about how you can create a compelling customer promise so that you not only end up with customers for life but with evangelists who are ready to do anything for your business. If you don’t get this right, you will have no distinction in the marketplace, the perception of your value is low and you end up with customers who are runaways. They will buy from you but there is no loyalty ...
Oct 25, 2016•30 min•Season 1Ep. 80
In this episode, #1 Bestselling Author and Highly Acclaimed business & Entrepreneur Expert, Mel Abraham, talks about defining your business persona and creating a business identity. It is how your customers, employees, team and the people around you identify with your company and brand. We need to be really particular about creating an identity for our business. If we do not get it right, we have no direction as an organization which leads to hiring people that don’t fit our identity needs. ...
Oct 19, 2016•21 min•Season 1Ep. 79
In this episode, #1 Bestselling Author and Highly Acclaimed business & Entrepreneur Expert, Mel Abraham, talks about defining yourself to create your identity because it is one of the most important choices you can make as a person. If you get it wrong, you are lost because you don’t really know who you are and what you stand for, you get inconsistent results and others lose trust in you because they can’t trust the response. If we get it right we get clarity, become directed in a particular...
Oct 12, 2016•24 min•Season 1Ep. 78
In this episode, #1 Bestselling Author and Highly Acclaimed business & Entrepreneur Expert, Mel Abraham, shares his six lessons from 55 years of living and how you can have a fulfilled life. If we don’t get this right, we’re going to live a life of disappointment, it feels like a constant struggle and there will be no meaning to it. But if we get it right, it builds our confidence, we find our resilience and we have a meaningful life. To make it happen, what you need to know is that comparis...
Oct 05, 2016•26 min•Season 1Ep. 77
In this episode, #1 Bestselling Author and Highly Acclaimed business & Entrepreneur Expert, Mel Abraham, teaches us how we can learn from our mistakes before we even make them. It is about getting it wrong to getting it right. If we don’t get this right we have no clarity, no action and we get no results. But if we do it right then we will have clarity and purpose, our actions will be intentional and what ends up happening is we get great results. So, what you need to know is: You need to be...
Sep 27, 2016•28 min•Season 1Ep. 76
In this episode, #1 Bestselling Author and Highly Acclaimed business & Entrepreneur Expert, Mel Abraham, discusses how we can communicate effectively and shift people’s thinking. To get your point across to someone else’s mind you have to communicate in a way that is consistent and its effectiveness is measured by the results you get. The challenges that we face if we don’t get this right is that we’re not heard, we have no impact and ultimately we end up not being fulfilled. On the other ha...
Sep 20, 2016•22 min•Season 1Ep. 75
In this episode, #1 Bestselling Author and Highly Acclaimed business & Entrepreneur Expert, Mel Abraham, talks about the steps you can follow so that you are seen as a leader. All of us are leading someone and if we don't get it right, we have no real knowledge, no real results, and we are seen as an imposter. But if we do it right and get a command of this, you are seen with a distinct and unique set of talents and knowledge, it is highly valuable and you ultimately become the "go...
Aug 11, 2016•23 min•Season 1Ep. 74
