Ep. 101 - Get Into the Owner’s Box
Most business owners I know start their business so they can have other people run the business while they take frequent vacations, go on missions trips, and be home with the family. But something interesting happens along the way. Instead of the owner running the business, the business runs them.
Ten years later, the owner is still heavily involved with the day to day with barely time to catch their breath. Meet Brett Snodgrass. Owner and managing broker of Simple Wholesaling. A real estate company he left his school teaching job for and built from the ground up. He built a great company with a great team but found himself involved with the day to day more than he liked.
So he took a big risk and became intentional about moving from the dugout, managing the day to day of the business, to the owner’s box overseeing it. Within two years of his decision, he did it.
Listen to this interview and find out how he did it and what that has freed him up to do in this next inning of his life.
Simple Wholesaling: https://simplewholesaling.com/
Brett Snodgrass - Live Your Purpose: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBPidx70rstadlrS2piMt5g
Questions:
What did you do and what did you build it up to?
What did your work-life balance look like?
What created the aha moment to say to yourself, there has to be more?
How instrumental was your wife and kids in this decision for the next stage in life and business?
How were you able to step back?
What is your mission now?
How is your business still part of your life?
Key Takeaways:
Was doing 200-250 home transactions a year
Found himself consumed with work
Did not want to regret lost time with family 5 years later
Started to lose the passion for the business
Mad a strategic hire
Had to manage the 4 C’s - Commit, Courage, Capability, and Confidence
Simplified parenting
Got rid of the TV
Developing a community of businessmen
Starting with a retreat
Two takeaways
Be honest with yourself
Live an unhurried life
Successful real estate entrepreneur
Biography:
The Brett Snodgrass Channel:
youtube.com/channel/UCBPidx70rstadlrS2piMt5g
I am a successful real estate entrepreneur. I built a high-functioning business from the ground-up. I have hit the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. I accomplished all the goals I set for myself. But as I’ve reached the “top of the mountain,” I realize that all of those accomplishments don’t truly fulfill me. I’m on a journey searching for deeper significance and fulfillment in business and in life. I know the struggles of being an entrepreneur, but also the satisfactions. I am now on a journey with other entrepreneurs to seek out what is truly meaningful, so that we can live our purpose. I hope you join me on this journey as I and other risk-takers and entrepreneurs share our failures, successes, struggles, hopes and much more to see what we can learn along the way. I’m not looking merely for success, but for significance. And I hope to build a community of entrepreneurs and businessmen who truly desire the same. I hope that in some way, I can help equip you to live your purpose.
