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Joining us this time is Paul Finck, The Maverick Millionaire, a name synonymous with unconventional strategies in business and life that lead to extraordinary results. Paul’s philosophy breaks the mold, encouraging entrepreneurs worldwide to think differently and act boldly. Today we’re going to dive into the insights and strategies that have made him a sought after mentor for those aiming to achieve well beyond their dreams. Paul, welcome. It’s a pleasure to meet you.
Paul Finck:
Pleasure is all mine. Thank you for having me.
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Well, if we can, can we rewind just for a moment so I can ask what ignited your passion for helping others achieve unconventional success?
Paul Finck:
Oh my gosh, yes. My passion, I’ve been a caretaker, if you will, of the world for most of my life. I went from 3 to 30 overnight, and it’s always been part of my matrix. I studied psychology in high school and college, I planned to be a clinical psychiatrist. Then I shifted gears when I was in college and realized that I had more passion for the business side of things than for the counseling side, although it’s always stayed with me over time. Kind of full circle, I now combine both in counseling entrepreneurs and small business owners all over the world.
My core though, when we start getting clear with my passions, I ignited and really stepped up my game when, about 25 years ago, 28 years ago, I started having children. Now I’ve got six children. I got to tell you, you want to step up your game, have a whole bunch of people looking at you to make sure that they survive.
That now has extended, so I kind of play dad to the world, if you will. That’s how I approach everything, is care taking dad, how do I guide people to have the best world, the best life that they can have?
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So take us a bit further into your universe now. You have untold success in this area, in this industry. Just maybe tell us, Paul, about some of the books, the strategies, the courses, the world according to Paul Finck.
Paul Finck:
I engage with entrepreneurs, small business owners, all around the world in live events, in one-on-one coaching and group coaching. I’ve done somewhere in excess of $50 million in informational products, done somewhere in excess of 250, 300 live boot camps. Have about 18, now it’s exactly 18, bestsellers out there on the marketplace in books. So gone through the test of time, and I’ve been coaching people at this level for 17 years. Gosh, it feels like I’ve only just begun. So on a day-to-day basis, I spent a tonne of my time coaching entrepreneurs and building up exactly how to create their first million and their next millions, if you will, in multiple different industries.
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How do you blend those strategies together to create the success that you’ve had as well?
Paul Finck:
There’s some core… I would consider myself a strategic coach. In that way, you’ve got to look at the bigger picture. I think that’s one of the two major components, if you will, big rocks that people miss. Either they don’t look at the big picture, they don’t look at the 10,000, 20,000 foot view on how everything that is happening in their business and their life integrates. In the Maverick community, we believe that there’s one life. It’s not about compartmentalizing your personal life and your business life. You want to create just congruency with everything that you’re doing, make sure that it flows as one rather than separating it all out.
So taking that big picture on, how does my business relate to my personal life? How do I design my business so that it integrates with my personal life so that my personal life doesn’t suffer, nor does my business life suffer? So those are really key. Then the other big rock is, then you also have to go granular. You’ve got to have a strategic plan. So many people, they might have the bold vision, the great plan for the 5, 10-year, 20-year plan, only they have no idea what they’re doing tomorrow. They have no idea what the next step is to create that bridge between today and tomorrow, and you’ve got to have both.
So one of the things that we help our clients with is getting clear with, what is your strategic plan? What is your bold vision for your future? Then what’s the today plan? How does what you do right now impact where you’re going to be in five years?
I got to tell you, if what you’re doing today is not directly connected to your big vision, your big plan, or building your dream life, it’s actually detracting from it.
You’re either moving towards your great life or you’re moving away, there’s no neutral.
Paul Finck:
So many people get in that complacency, that neutral space where, “Eh, whatever happens, happens.” They’re guaranteed to go backwards. This isn’t me talking. I accumulate knowledge from all over the world.
From throughout the millennium, I’ve been studying this and reading this for over 40 years. This is philosophy going all the way back to Plato and Aristotle, and this is core. You’re either growing or you’re dying.
Editor:
How easy do you find it to help guide people in this way? Obviously, there must be a lot of resistance in some ways.
Paul Finck:
It’s a little bit counter to how most of us… Even me. I was in the medical field. I was in the dental field. I set up dental clinics. One of the things that I remember back then is my clientele, my dental clients, had nothing to do with my family.
They didn’t know it, they maybe met them once a year at the big annual conventions. But other than that, they had no connection whatsoever.
What I found is that I didn’t enjoy my life as much. So when you’re not passionate, when you’re not enjoying what you’re doing, do you tend to do more of it or less of it? Do you tend to fight to create more of that in your life, or do you resist it?
So what I found is that when we embrace this concept, when we actually flow and create congruency with everything that we’re doing, our world exponentially grows. It’s the concept of unconscious competence where we don’t have to be thinking about it. We don’t have to be actively pursuing it, it automatically flows into our life without that resistance, without that heavy lifting.
So what I find is, at the beginning, people resist it because it’s foreign to how they’re normally taught and what they normally think. Then there’s a shift. They fall over the edge, if you will, and then game on because they end up learning that they had wings all along, that they were able to fly, and that this really does work.
Editor:
That’s where the name The Maverick Millionaire comes in to play, I guess?
Paul Finck:
Yeah, I’ve been building up business now. I’ve never worked for anybody. I’ve been an entrepreneur for 40 years now, always building my own destiny. Because of that, I looked back at my history and realized that so many of my businesses came out of thin air. Bootstrapping is absolutely so much the part of the entrepreneur…
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