The $100M Entrepreneur Podcast

How $100M Entrepreneurs Build Wealth Beyond the Business

12 min
Dec 3, 20255 months ago
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Summary

The episode outlines a three-bucket wealth-building framework for entrepreneurs: active wealth (businesses), passive wealth (real estate and stock market investments), and lifestyle wealth (health, family, travel). The host emphasizes that true wealth requires building assets beyond the business itself and planning lifestyle investments intentionally.

Insights
  • Revenue is not wealth—entrepreneurs must shift focus from cash flow to asset value and buildable equity
  • Business valuation depends on three factors: operational independence from the founder, profitability level, and buyer type (strategic vs. financial)
  • Systematic profit extraction through dedicated accounts enables wealth building outside the business without depleting working capital
  • Real estate leverage through mortgages paid by tenants delivers 400%+ ROI over 20 years with minimal upfront capital
  • Lifestyle wealth must be actively planned and scheduled; passive hope-based approaches fail to materialize
Trends
Shift from single-business dependency to multi-asset portfolio strategies among high-growth entrepreneursIncreasing emphasis on business sellability and exit planning earlier in growth cycle (2-3 year preparation window)Real estate as systematic wealth-building tool integrated into business cash flow managementProfitability thresholds ($1M vs $5M+ EBITDA) creating distinct valuation multiples and investor interest bracketsIntentional lifestyle design and family time scheduling as wealth-building priority alongside financial metricsStrategic buyer acquisition models based on geographic expansion and product distribution synergiesSeparation of business operating accounts from profit and tax accounts as scaling best practice
Topics
Business Valuation Multiples and Exit PricingReal Estate Investment and Mortgage LeverageProfit Extraction and Account StructuringBusiness Sellability and Operational IndependenceStrategic vs. Financial Buyer AcquisitionEBITDA Profitability ThresholdsMulti-Company Ownership ModelsLifestyle Wealth Planning and SchedulingStock Market and Passive Investment StrategyBusiness-to-Business Acquisition SynergiesFounder Dependency Risk in ValuationCapital Gains vs. Cash Flow Investment CriteriaWealth Diversification Beyond Single AssetThree-Year Business Sale Preparation TimelineLeverage and Return on Investment Calculation
Companies
Action Coach
Referenced as a resource for business valuation assessment and profit account setup guidance
People
Host
Entrepreneur with commercial cleaning business experience; built 30x business and wealth programs; father of five
Quotes
"Building true freedom, true wealth means building wealth beyond the business. Not just money in the business and that being your only asset."
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"Revenue isn't wealth. In this episode I'm gonna show you how to use your business to fund your future, your lifestyle investments, your real investments, real estate stock market, freedom that lasts forever."
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"There's no use being rich and dead. You gotta have that lifestyle as well."
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"If it's dependent upon you or a single person, then the value of the business is going to be lower."
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"It's stupid that people don't do real estate if you ask me. You put in 20%, you know, 100% over 20 years you got 400% ROI."
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Full Transcript
You're putting 20% you know, 100% over 20 years you got 400% ROI. It's stupid that people don't do real estate it does me. Building true freedom, true wealth means building wealth beyond the business. If you don't plan lifestyle wealth it will not happen. Because you know there's no use being rich and dead. You gotta have that lifestyle as well. You wanna know the key to real estate? I'll give you the simplest understanding of real estate possible. Wealth beyond business. Building true freedom, you know, revenue isn't wealth. In this episode I'm gonna show you how to use your business to fund your future, your lifestyle investments, your real investments, real estate stock market, freedom that lasts forever. Building true freedom, true wealth means building wealth beyond the business. Not just money in the business and that being your only asset. It's about building wealth outside of that asset. And so that's what we're gonna focus in on a fair bit today. Making sure that well, I don't want you to ever just be income rich and asset poor, like most entrepreneurs and all of your asset is in the business and unless you sell it, which is obviously one of the other tenants of what we're doing here, building something you can sell. So the 100 million can be assets, it can be business, it can be wealth. In fact, the 100 million could be multiple companies that add up to 100 million. It doesn't just have to be one true entrepreneurs generally own multiple companies, right? So there's three buckets we want to look at here today. Number one is the active wealth bucket. That's your businesses. Number two, the passive wealth bucket, your investments. And number three, the lifestyle wealth bucket. So there's three wealth aspects that we need to look at. Because there's no use being rich and dead. You gotta have that lifestyle as well. You gotta have the great health, wealth, friendships, all of those things. So let's get into the active wealth, the businesses. Instead of chasing income with building assets, at some point on your scale to the 100 million, the business will shift from you focusing on just, how do I make sure that I'm making more cash flow and more profit to watch the value of my asset? What is the asset worth? Now, a seller business usually takes three years, right? Why does it take three years? Because to seller business, you've got to have two years of real solid performance before you even start going to the market. It takes time to start building relationships, building a team to sell the business. But at some point, you've got to shift from. Now, if you don't know what your current business is worth, reach out, go to one of my action coaches, contact my team, whatever it is you need to do. Let's start working out what is your business worth currently. Now, if it's an operation that's 100% valued on you, you show them up, then it's not really a business yet. It's a job and you work for a crazy person, all right? I've said that to you a few times, but this is what it is. So active wealth is business. Now, what we want to learn gradually, and as you stay with me on the podcast, what we're going to learn is how you can build wealth through buying companies, building companies, and selling companies. How to buy? I'm going to do a bunch of podcasts on that. In fact, a few of my interviews cover off stuff on that. How you actually then build, which is a lot of what we talk about here every week on the podcast, and then how you sell a company, we'll do a bunch more on that. So make sure you are subscribed so that you do get all of this information as we build the podcast and as you get more things. So active wealth business, your main business that you run now, plus others that you will buy, or the expansion of your current business builds you that level of wealth, okay? How much is your business worth? Well, that depends on three things. Number one, does it run without you? If it's dependent upon you or a single person, then the value of the business is going to be lower, okay? Number two is its profitability. So what level of profit, if you're at a million a year in profit, there's a lot of those, okay? If you're at five million a year in EBITDA, then there's a lot less of them and venture capital companies come looking and hey, Presto, all of a sudden, now you're in a different bracket. So you're going to be getting a higher multiple. You know, at that one million, you're probably going to get somewhere between two and five multiple. Once you get above five million, you're generally going to fives to nine multiple. And then once you get above like 10 million, you can start, you know, it's a different thing. The third thing that determines the price is the buyer. Meaning is it a strategic buyer, or a financial buyer, or an individual buyer? An individual buyer is just buying themselves a job or another investment type thing. A financial buyer is looking basically at the numbers type thing, or a strategic buyer. Someone that is buying your business because maybe you've got a territory that they want to move into geographically, or you've got a product that they want to sell to their customers or sell their product to your customers type thing. My commercial cleaning business, we had a coffee company come and approach us to buy us because they sat down and said, you know, it's easier for us to buy cleaning companies and sell coffee into them, then it is for us to just sell the coffee type thing. So you look at strategic buyers, I'll do a whole podcast on that at some point. So that's your active wealth, businesses, okay? You build an asset, cash flow, profitability, and capital value at some point. The second is your passive wealth. So your real estate, your stock markets, I know there's plenty of other investment categories, everything from NFTs and crypto, right through to art and race horses and so on, okay? Get that. I'm dealing with the main categories, right? And for me, an investment has two main criteria. Number one, it's got capital gain and number two, it's got cash flow. So cash flow and capital gain are really the two things. And that's what defines most things out of being in an investment and it keeps us in the stock market and the real estate market. You know, real estate, I love stock market, I love different reasons for both of them. But as you start to build your business, one of the things you gotta eventually put in is a profit account, meaning an account where you take profit out of the business on a monthly or weekly basis. So that, because if you leave it in the main trading account, it's gonna get spent. If you have a profit account, they get pulled out, then boom, it's gonna start moving into a different realm for you, okay? So if you haven't got a profit account, check with your action coach, set one up, understand how to do that. As you get bigger, you're gonna wanna have a tax account as well and those sorts of things and a percentage of revenue goes into those accounts as your business gets bigger. Final level of wealth and yes, I will do podcasts where I'll interview people about real estate, I'll interview people about doing share market and all that stuff so that you get all of that knowledge as we stick with it together. Lifestyle wealth. So, health, friendships, family, travel, time off, hobbies, all of that lifestyle wealth has to be something that you plan. If you don't plan lifestyle wealth, it will not happen. If you don't plan time with your family, like you schedule it sort of thing. If you don't schedule going to events, if you don't plan that sort of stuff and look at, once a month we wanna do something crazy fun, we wanna go to a concert or a sports game or something, travel to it then, do a weekend away. I know having five kids, it's a challenge, but not trying, planning date night with each of my kids once a month so that we have one on one time, we gotta dinner together and we do something else together with each kid once a month every time, except my eldest who lives in Australia, so that's not quite a easy thing to do. But understand this, if you plan your lifestyle wealth, it will happen, that's why I'd burn. See, if you look at this, I've built 30x business, if you haven't watched my program, please jump on my website, do that whole program, 30x wealth and 30x life, those three programs are the foundation of my one million scale program. And of course you get them if you do the 10 million scale or the 100 million scale or the billion scale, but those three programs is you and me haven't launched together for 30 days, each 90 days in a row, add in my podcast, you got me and me having lunch together for a year, that way you are shifting from, let me put it really blunt to you, you're shifting from going through life to planning life, the 30x wealth you build your business plan, 30x, sorry, 30x business, you build your business plan, 30x wealth, your wealth plan, 30x life, you build your life plan, you want all three levels of assets, okay? That's the way it should be. I know that as a business person, I've made mistakes along the way where I've left money in companies and thought, oh, get it when I sell it type thing. Gotta keep pulling it out along the way, plus when you go to sell it. And if you're pulling it out along the way, then the business is gonna be worth more because you can show the profitability of the organization. So building wealth beyond the business. Let me tell you a couple of quick stories and examples of this because it's not just the business, we're not looking for that one great whale payoff. We're also pulling money out and doing things. See, people say, why do I, and you go back to the definition of leverage, do the work once get paid forever. So I build a business that works so I get paid forever. I invest in real estate so that I get rent forever and capital gain forever, but that's not the key to real estate. In fact, you wanna know the key to real estate? I'll give you the simplest understanding of real estate possible. Let's say I buy a house worth a million bucks, right? I put in 200 grand, the 20%. And that's the usual around the world. I know in some markets it's gotta be 30 or 40 and others you can get away with five to 10, but usually it's around 20% deposit, right? Or base level. Well, the other 80% of that house gets paid for by a tenant. Okay, the mortgage is paid for by my tenant. Yeah, in the beginning, I might have to put in a few dollars for the first few years until rents climb enough to pay for the mortgage for me. But if I buy that million dollar property, right? Let's imagine you did this for your grandkids or your kids. You bought a property for them on their first birthday. You didn't tell them about it or you could because they were one, they won't remember. But by the time they're 20, you put on a 20 year mortgage, it pays off over 20 years. By the time they're 20, that house is fully paid off, right? So the minimum ROI, you put in 200, it's now a million dollars. Let's pretend it didn't go up, pretend rent just paid the mortgage. There wasn't excessive rent to give you extra cashflow. All of that sort of stuff. You got a 400% ROI, you put in 20%, you know, I own 100% over 20 years, you got 400% ROI. It's stupid that people don't do real estate if you ask me. I think if you look at your business, what's your business's job to build deposits for houses? Your business's job is to get a deposit for a house every experience. Now, sometimes that's every year, sometimes it's every two and a half years. When I first started, I said, I want to buy a house every two and a half years. I want to pull the wealth out of my business and every two and a half years buy a house. But my business went really well. I was buying a house every year and then every six months. You know, hey, Presto, I venture out to move into bigger assets and that sort of thing. But again, that's why I do a two day course called landlord so you can understand that. So make sure you learn all of these things. You want to build a $100 million empire, $100 million business, $100 million net worth or whatever it is you're aiming for, you got to grow into it. You got to learn it, study it, understand it. The more you know money, the more money can work for you. The beginning of it, business is time traded for money. Then your people's time traded for money. That's the profitability aspect of it. Wealth is your money working for money, okay? And your lifestyle wealth is where your money gives you the freedom to go and do the things that you want to do. Anyway, keep coming back and we'll build you into a $100 million entrepreneur. Thanks for joining me on the $100 million podcast. If you've got value from today's episode, make sure you've subscribed and share this with all of your friends. Never miss a strategy that could change your business and your life. And remember, the fastest way to scale is to learn from those who've done it. That's what this show is all about. 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