One of the things that I really learned from many different mentors is having recurring revenue streams. So I have, over the last few years, set up my business to have multiple reoccurring revenue streams. I think you gotta have a dream.

The school of greatness. Yeah. Please welcome, Melissa Pout.

For those that don't know my story about 12 years ago I didn't have any money. I had no clue how to make money. I had some odd jobs here and there. I was a truck driver for a few months. I was a bouncer at a night club on the weekends. And I really wasn't making much money. Maybe $1,000 a month, in between one career playing arena football and then transitioning into the rest of my life. And I didn't know how to make money.

I was afraid of money. I wasn't an entrepreneur. I didn't think people would give me money. I was scared to talk about it. And I'm letting you know that if that feels like any of that feels like you that there is room for growth and improvement and I'm gonna talk about some of these habits that can support you in your life. And I want you to get a a piece of paper and a pen, take some notes or at least take some mental notes and let me know your thoughts on the things you're learning as well over on social media. And one of the first questions that I wanna talk about is what shift in your life that helped you go from broke to actually having money? And the biggest thing for me was overcoming the fear of money. And I didn't understand how money worked.

I just was like okay my parents paid for things. You know there was food on the table. The the house was paid for. The rent every month. I just showed up into the world and I had no understanding of how to make money, the language around money, accounting, saving, investing. I just didn't know. And so I was afraid of it. I was afraid of it and the things we fear we usually wanna run away from.

So if you don't understand it, if you don't have a sense of peace when you hear about money and we talk about money when money is in your hands. If you feel afraid, then why would more money come to you? So some of the things that that I did and I recommend doing is number 1, is to surround yourself with people that have more money than you. Usually when you're around people that have it, you can start to learn okay what are they doing differently that allows them to get money? You can ask those questions. And number 2 would be to talk about it consistently. And I just remember I didn't talk about it much because I was afraid about it. So if you start having conversations it doesn't become as scary anymore. You can have more peace of mind, more ease the more you talk about it. When you resist something, when you don't wanna talk about something you're saying I don't want this in my life.

I'm afraid of this so I'm not gonna talk about it. Or we don't talk about these things because it's private conversations. It's private to me personally. So if you're hoarding something that's private to you as opposed to being open and flowing and talking about it consistently then it's gonna be harder for money to come and go into your life. So you want to be willing to have conversations consistently and talk about it. Number 3 would be to read about it. Learn about it. Money is a language.

The terminology, the way people communicate about it is a language just like the English language, just like playing a sport, just like working at a company. There's languages and terminologies that people use in different areas of their life. And money is no different. So you wanna learn about as much as you can. Read books about it. At the end of this I'll talk about some of my favorite books that I have right here that I'll go into about money and how to earn more and how to attract more money in your life. But I started to consume a lot of books. I started to listen to podcasts, watch videos and just try to learn from people who were already making money and hear the language.

And even today, there are still terms that I don't fully understand around money. They're still part of the language that I don't get that I don't fully understand so I'm constantly learning at different levels and different seasons of my life. Number 4. A mentor of mine early on said his name is Chris Hawker. I said, I was doing like an internship for him for a number of months. And after a while I was sick and tired of being broke and I wasn't making any money. And I said, man I could really use some money right now. And he said money comes to you when you're ready for it.