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It's the exact resource I'm using and it'll show you how to take your first steps toward financial freedom. Welcome to the Successfully Unemployed show, the place where ordinary people become extraordinary. This is your community of entrepreneurs, business owners and side hustle experts who will show you how to retire early, become financial, independent, and live the dream life. And now, here's your host, Roger Wesley.
Hey there, My name is Roger Wesley, your host of the Successfully Unemployed Podcast. And I am fired up for you today because today we're going to be doing an introduction. I thought it would be a good idea to introduce myself to you so that way we can get to know each other better. As you all know, Dustin's been a phenomenal host. He started this podcast years ago and I'm excited to be the one taking it over.
But I would love for you to get to get to know a little bit more about who I am, my background, and what we're going to be covering together. So let's dive right in. Do you want to hear the story of how I went from being homeless to a homeowner? Do you want to understand and learn some of the principles that you can apply in your own life so that you too can become successfully unemployed?
See, when I was chatting with Dustin not too long ago, what we learned was that Dustin has created a wild amount of success. He was able to cut his teeth in real estate, was able to pick up a lot of single family homes about 30 while he was still working, and he was able to become successfully unemployed. Well, out of his passion, out of his hunger, out of his drive to help other people to achieve a similar result, he created this podcast once he was already successfully unemployed.
Well, we were thinking and we were brainstorming together and we were like, hey, wouldn't it be great if we could have someone host a show, interview people from a perspective of someone that still has a job, Someone that's still going through that process of becoming successfully unemployed? And that's how we got to having me being the host of this show. And I am thrilled and very excited to be taking over this podcast.
It's an amazing responsibility and amazing opportunity, and I'm so glad that I have you to go through this journey with. Now, again, a little bit about myself. I do have a job currently, at this very moment in time, but I am also an entrepreneur. I am the CEO of Inspire to Excel. And we help businesses change their culture from me to we by increasing their performance. And on this journey of me becoming successfully unemployed, I realized that I can't do it alone.
I need to include other people in my life. So I'd like to take you back a little bit further back in my journey and kind of share that fact that I'm probably not so dissimilar from you or people that, you know, I was raised in a two parent household, had phenomenal parents. They were awesome, knocked it out of the park. I will admit that when I was a kid, I was picked on a little bit because my father was a preacher. And as a result of that, they required that we studied a lot.
So, you know, we were picked on in school. And, you know, people called me a nerd. But, you know, the main reason why I bring that up is because my mother went to college and I wanted to pursue her college dream. I wanted to go study the same field of study. And what ended up happening was I went to school, I ended up changing my major, but I got this biology degree. And as soon as I got this biology degree, I started looking for a big boy job.
I was waiting tables at Applebee's when I graduated, and I said, you know what? It's time for me to go find a career. Something that I can really do for the next 30 to 40 to 50 years. And I got this amazing job working as a project manager at a radioactive laboratory. But guess what? The wages that they paid me were significantly less than what I was making as a waiter at Applebee's. And at that moment in time, years ago, I decided that I was going to have to do something different.
I had worked so hard to get that college degree, and here I was, fresh out of college with a very prestigious job making $32,000 a year. From then on, I decided to make some changes. Now, fast forward several years. Some circumstances happened in my life, and I actually did end up becoming homeless several years ago. And when I became homeless, I decided that I needed to do something different with my life. I needed to make some significant changes.
So what I decided to do was I decided to see how I could connect with others. And through the process of connecting with other people, I got introduced to some amazing people. And one of those people recommended a book to me. They recommended me, the book created To Win by Kevin Barrack. And what this book taught me how to do was to create a set of values for myself. And as a result of those values, to create a mission statement.
So I would like to share a few of those values with you today so that way you can really understand who I am as a person. My first value is my faith. I am a follower of Jesus Christ. And that's been the absolutely best relationship that I've ever had. Back in 2019, a little bit after, I was homeless, and once I wasn't homeless anymore, I got the opportunity to come to know Jesus Christ. And it changed everything for me.
And it wasn't always like that, but when I had, When I finally made that relationship possible, when that relationship happened, it was amazing. It was thrilling. It changed everything. Now, mind you, back in 2019, I was single and I was not married. But I decided back then that my number two value was going to be my marriage. And what I learned was that even though I wasn't married yet, I needed to behave and act as if I was planning on being married. What did that mean?
That meant that I decided not to go sleep around a bunch of people. In fact, I decided to take a vow of celibacy. That was back in 2019, until I ended up meeting and marrying my wife. My number three value was my family. And when I say family, I'm talking about my wife, my kids, and my immediate children. Now, at the time, back in 2019, I was a single father, and there were some turbulent circumstances that led up to that.
But as a single parent, I highly, highly valued giving my daughter, at the time, the best possible scenario in life. How can I help her? And I decided back then that that was going to be a top value and top priority for me. My number four value is loving my neighbor. And to tell you the truth, that's why I'm on this podcast right now. Because when you love someone, you want to give them the best possible thing.
If you have a spouse, if you Have a girlfriend, if you have children, you want to give them the absolute best that you can. And when I made the decision to make loving my neighbor my value, I decided that if I knew something great, if I came in contact with some good information that I was going to share with as many people as I could come in contact with.
And through chatting with Dustin, I learned that I could share this wonderful information from other people that have become successfully unemployed. The principles, the values, the things that they have acquired over the years. And I could share them right here with you on this podcast. And that's one of the main reasons why I'm here now. Number five for me, debt free. And you know, there's a lot of thoughts around debt. And I'll share this. When I say debt free, I mean consumer debt free.
Now, there are some debts that you can use and leverage to be able to help you to gain more income. I'm not talking about those debts. I'm talking specifically about consumer debt. Number six for me, ongoing income. Ongoing. Now, I have to tell you, I did study biology in college, but spelling wasn't my best subject.
If you're picking up what I'm laying down, so please bear with me for those of you that can see me on camera, but ongoing income, this was extremely important because I had this thought process that if I could create enough income that was coming in without me actively earning it, then that way I could take time and spend them with the ones that I love and I could take more time to impact many, many lives and many, many people. Number seven, generosity.
Now, these are the values that I chose back in 2019. And when I chose those values back in 2019, I decided that every decision that I made was going to be as a result of the values that I had before I went into some business opportunity, before I considered a job opportunity, before I considered anything, I was going to ask if it lined up with my values. And if you're listening to this today, I would encourage you to take a moment and consider doing the same thing for yourself.
It makes life so much easier, so much simpler. And through these values, I created a mission statement back in 2019.
And that mission statement is endeavoring to lead as I am, led by God, while loving my neighbor as myself, exponentially enhancing those around me to reach and achieve excellence by earning their financial independence, blessing and touching millions of lives through life of servitude, humility, and the greatest of these, love, as you can see, loving my neighbor, generosity, ongoing income. These are things that I not only want for myself. But these are things that I want for you.
And by listening to this podcast, by tuning in, you're going to have the opportunity to learn how you too yourself, if you so choose to, can become successfully unemployed. There's nothing wrong with the job. There's nothing wrong with trading your time for money. Like I said, I still do it right now, but I'm thrilled for the opportunity when I get to walk away from that. W2 for the last time, I just. Want to take a quick break and share something really important with you.
I have a mission statement to help millions of people to create financial independence. One of the best ways to do that is by investing in real estate. I'm working on doing that right now and I know for a fact that you can too. If you're getting anything from this episode, two things I would ask please share it with someone else. Other people need to know how they too can become successfully unemployed through real estate and by building businesses.
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Let's get back to the show. Now I want to go into a little bit how I met Destin and it's amazing how life works because you never know. I was told through the process of time, sometime between 2019 and today that you are one or two powerful relationships away from changing your entire life. And what ended up happening was I was going to this gym and the job that I had at the time gave me flexibility to where I didn't have to work strict nine to five hours.
So I would find myself in the gym around 9 9:30am and I kept seeing this gentleman over and over again and his shirts were always exciting and intriguing. Said things like money lion and you know, successfully unemployed and things of that nature. So finally I asked him, I said, hey, man, what are you doing in here? It's 9:30 on a Tuesday. What in the world gives you the opportunity to be in here so frequently at this time?
And he said, well, I built several businesses and now I'm successfully unemployed. I get to do whatever I want with my time. And it was amazing because although that was several years ago when he shared that concept with me, it opened up my brain to see that while I wanted to achieve some of these things, sometimes they felt like they were so far away, they were so far out of reach.
But here, there was a gentleman right in front of me that had created the results, or it sounded like he did, at least that I wanted to participate in myself. So, you know, we sat down, I asked him if I could buy him a cup of coffee. We met at a Panera Bread, and I was trying to learn from him. And, you know, I was working on, you know, a couple of, you know, projects myself, and I asked him if he wanted to participate, and he wasn't really interested. Well, you know, a couple of years ago by.
And I bump into this gentleman again, and we reconnected and we formed this wonderful relationship, and that is what led me to where I am today. That gentleman that I'm talking about, Dustin Heiner, was the man that was at that gym. And he is the reason why this podcast exists. He's the reason why I have this wonderful opportunity to host this podcast, to connect with you. And like I shared earlier, you are one or two powerful relationships away from changing your entire life.
And Destin was certainly that for me. Now, what's next? Where do we go from here? Well, I'm really thrilled for you. I'm really excited for you because we have some absolutely phenomenal guests lined up to interview on the show.
People from all different businesses, all different walks of life, people that have just started their journey of becoming successfully unemployed, or much rather, people that have just recently become successfully unemployed, people that have been successfully unemployed for years, people that help many other people to become successfully unemployed. We're going to have the opportunity to listen to those people firsthand. And I'm super thrilled and I'm excited for you.
I want to share with you something that I heard here not too long ago. And what was shared with me was that, you know, the day you die, there's going to be a tombstone. And what's going to be there is the day you were born and the day that you die. But in the middle, there's going to be a dash.
And what was shared with me was that while it's important the day you were born and it's important the day you were die, the day that you die, the most important thing is, what are you going to do with that dash in the middle? And when I heard that, it really impacted me in an amazing way, and it caused me to reevaluate what I was doing on a daily basis. What I also learned from a gentleman by the name of John C. Maxwell was that what you do daily determines who you become permanently.
And Mr. John C. Maxwell shared another concept with this gravestone. And I'm not trying to be morbid, but I just want to bring to the front why we're here right now, why we're listening to this podcast. Why is it that we want to become successfully unemployed? Because here, this dash that we have in the middle right here, this is really the realization of the impact on the lives that we will have the opportunity to impact. And the question is, what will you do with that dash?
Now, aside from that dash, there's going to be some other things here on this gravestone. And on this gravestone, presumably, there's going to be a sentence. And that sentence again, please forgive me if you can see this video. And my spelling is incorrect. This sentence right here is going to be the culmination of your entire life.
Here lies you, a wonderful individual, a person that was built on purpose and character and integrity, and they decided to help everyone they could, whenever they could. That could be the sentence that you have on your. On your gravestone, on your tombstone. But the question I have for you is why can't you write that sentence right now and decide right now, today that you're going to live that sentence out in its entirety? And when I heard that statement, it changed everything for me.
Because what it shared with me was that I get to choose how I'm going to be remembered. If I want to be remembered as someone who cared for people, as someone who wanted to impact lives, as someone who was willing to love their neighbor, someone that was willing to be generous, then I have to live that out on a daily basis. And I would encourage each person that can hear the sound of my voice right now, you sitting in your home, you sitting in your car.
I would encourage you to take a moment and write out your life sentence and make a decision today to live that out. Now, I want you to know that what you see is what you get. I am as laid back as you can imagine. I am not uptight. I'm a really, really interesting individual. I'm recording this in my home. Like I shared with you at the beginning of this introduction. You're going to hear about how you can go from being homeless to being a homeowner. And that was my story.
You can hear about how you can go from being homeless to a real estate investor. You can hear how you can become go from being homeless to being a business owner and having multiple business interests. And praise the Lord, I am that person. I am a person who is a real estate investor who has multiple business interests. Yes, I still have a job. But I am here to share with you that you can make a choice to become successfully unemployed.
You can make a choice to listen to and hear things from other people that can help and add value, that can change your life forever. You know, there's another really fantastic book that I had the opportunity to read recently. And the name of the book is called U Squared, and it's by Dr. Price Pritchett. And what this book talks about is the concept of a quantum leap.
And when we're looking at physics, when we're talking about quantum physics, we're talking about a relatively new or a relatively developing concept that we're still learning today. But the premise behind the book is that where you are right now to the person that you can become is a quantum leap away. And I want to share with you a story from the book, and maybe it's a story that you're familiar with. Right at your window, imagine there's a fly that's beating up against the window pane.
It's flying incessantly, and all it's trying to do is to try harder with grit and determination to reach the outside world. Unfortunately, that idea will kill the fly. Because no matter what that fly does, that fly will never be able to fly through that window pane. However, 180 degrees behind that fly, there is a wide open door. And that wide open door is that fly's opportunity to be able to see freedom.
If that fly would take a quantum leap away from the window seal instead of trying harder with determination and grit doing more of the same, minute after minute, second after second, then that fly can make 180 degree turn and turn towards what could be success. Getting out of the room, getting out of the house. And what that story reminds me of is where I was back when I was homeless. I had made some decisions, and some circumstances that were way beyond my control caused me to be homeless.
And I had to make a decision Was I going to do more of the same? Or was I going to make an abrupt change, a quantum leap forward in the other direction? As a result of me making that quantum leap forward, it resulted in something that I could not have even imagined. I was able to meet and marry an amazing wife. I am now married with four children. I now live in a beautiful house. I now have wonderful relationships. Some of my best friends now have success that would blow you away.
But it was all because I decided to make a quantum leap in a different direction. And right now, where you sit, where you hear the sound of my voice, right now, you have a choice. Do you want to make a quantum leap forward in your life? Do you want to make a change, something that's going to help you so far beyond what you can even comprehend right now? Then I would challenge you. I would encourage you to listen to this podcast. I would encourage you to listen to the book recommendations.
I would encourage you to overwhelm yourself with your dream, with your vision, and then on a daily basis, live that vision out through the culture that you have around you. Why? Because culture eats vision alive. If you have a vision to lose £50, but your culture is one of junk food, your culture is one of ice cream and eating late and making poor decisions in your diet, then guess what? Your culture will eat your vision alive.
So I challenge you to dive in, to find good material, find good books, find good relationships. You are the sum total of the five people that you hang around. So I would challenge you to find and create some amazing, phenomenal relationships in the direction of your dreams, in the direction of your vision. This is your time. I am so thrilled and I am so excited for you because you have made the choice to become successfully unemployed.
And you have made the choice to allow me to be your host, to lead you through this wonderful and exciting experience. I cannot wait to take you through, step by step, how these successful entrepreneurs and business owners became successfully unemployed. And I am so excited to take this journey with you. So that way you can see from someone that still has a job, that's still employed in corporate America how you too can walk away if you so choose. And you, too can be successfully unemployed.
My name is Roger Wesley. I am so thrilled to take this journey with you. Don't you ever forget that. The time is now. You can do this. You're not doing it alone. I'm right here with you. I'm excited for the journey. Let's go. Time isn't money. Time is your most valuable resource. Thank you for investing, some of it with me today on the Successfully Unemployed Podcast. Want to take the next step? Get your free real estate investing course now by texting the word rental to 33777.
That's R E N T A L to 33777. I'm your host, Roger Wesley, and I'll see you in the next episode. Free audio post production by alphonic.com.