In this episode of “Y.E.L. 2.0”, your host Peter Voogd, serial Entrepreneur, Mentor, Speaker, Best-selling Author, Husband and Father talks to Justin Donald, author of book “The Lifestyle Investor”, where he shares the secrets that empowered him to multiply his net worth to over eight figures in less than two years. He focuses on showing entrepreneurs how to think and invest to limit risk and maximize returns through his proven passive income cash flow strategies. 

Episode Highlights: 

• Peter says if you only execute with no thinking that's going to be a rough life and he also says that he doesn’t think people understand the importance of staying harmonised in life.
• Justin states that he just can't emphasise enough the importance of building in that time, where you can really plan and think for yourself.
• Peter asks Justin that how much time he took to write the book.
• According to Justin, his book is full of life stories one of which includes when he lost a lot of money.
• Peter asks Justin about the top most common myths that people hear that are out in the marketplace.
• “I found out that I had lost money, how is that possible? How did I lose money?” asks Justin.
• Justin advises to put your money in an index fund, which is the lowest cost way to invest.

Key Points:

1. As per Justin, his experience with the conventional way of investing made him question the way that everyone does things and what he learnt was that whatever the majority of people do, you don't want to do that because the majority of people haven’t yet figured it out as they're like sheep.
2. Justin suggests that you don't have to like accounting to be good at investing; also you don't have to even be good at accounting, because you can just hire really good people.
3. An average rate of return is not an actual rate of return and so an average rate of return of 10% could mean that you have lost money. It depends on what the actual rate of return is.

Tweetable Quotes:

• “A lot of my best ideas come when I'm in the shower.” - Justin Donald
• “That's why, and so it was about 15 years ago that I really got into alternative investments, and that was a game changer for me.” – Justin Donald
• “One of the first outside conversations we had was just how to structure your business tax wise and I remember half our conversation” - Peter Voogd
• “I probably should study these numbers a little bit more and not just trust it and I was like let me see how much I've invested since the beginning and let me see what I've earned, and that was the wake-up call.” - Justin Donald
• “Only 5% of the time, does an actively managed fund or manager outperform that simple index, which is an eye opening.” - Justin Donald

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In this episode of “Y.E.L. 2.0”, your host Peter Voogd, serial Entrepreneur, Mentor, Speaker, Best-selling Author, Husband and Father gives his insight on the importance of having the right perspective towards money while understanding how money works.

Episode Highlights: 

• Peter says if you want to make more money, you have to become more valuable by turning your free time into valuable time.
• He stresses that it’s good to make money but along with that it is equally important to educate yourself to learn how to protect, invest and multiply it.
• Peter states that money is not emotional and you can make money if you realise how it works.
• As per him he hasn’t met someone in his entire life who hates money, that hasn’t.

Key Points:

1. Peter points out that money is a reflection of value exchanged in the marketplace. It doesn't care where you're from, how old you are or how much is your experience, it simply cares about one thing and that is your value to the marketplace.
2. It's very wise to work on educating yourself, sharpening your skills and becoming relevant to what's working now, not 10 years ago while understanding the supply and demand.
3. You need have the right perspective towards money as it is not going to make you happy but it’s definitely going to provide you the freedom of choices to do what you want on your own terms.

Tweetable Quotes:

• “I've never in the history of me being alive, seen this much opportunity in the world right now, but you only take advantage of it.” - Peter Voogd
• “If you give money to someone without financial intelligence that's money soon gone.” - Peter Voogd
• “Money is an excellent servant but a terrible master your bank accounts, not who you are, it's who you were before you made the decision to change it.” - Peter Voogd

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In this episode of “Y.E.L. 2.0”, your host Peter Voogd, serial Entrepreneur, Mentor, Speaker, Best-selling Author, Husband, and Father talks about the importance of setting-up routines and schedules. As per him, we need to figure out the most important routines and rituals and based on that our goals.

Episode Highlights: 

• Peter gives an example of Design over Willpower stating that how we design our schedule is more important than what is on it.
• We want to place toughest tasks in our business where we have the most willpower.
• He states that the higher we get up in leadership the more people let us down.
• Peter suggests teaching people how they should communicate with us and that we must control our agendas and no other person.
• He talks about 80/20 rule.
• Peter says, as we escape reality, regret increases and hence it’s important to focus on network.
• “What 20% of marketing efforts have yielded 80% of your results for your current business?” questions Peter.
• Peter advises to do some strategic thinking and asks a set of questions to ponder over.
• Peter recommends simplifying schedule to the core values and it will be lot easier.

3 Key Points:

• Peter stresses on designing our schedule for max productivity; we should not waste our willpower as we only have a certain amount of willpower throughout the day.
• He points out that we got to pick and get rid of all the toxic things in our life right away.
• As per Peter, it’s important to figure out what activities yield the highest results/profits and focus on that.

Tweetable Quotes:

• “So, for example I don’t need junk food anymore, there is just no point having….” Peter Voogd
• “You have to figure out as an entrepreneur what are the most important result focussed tasks in your business.” - Peter Voogd
• “So, you don’t want to make too many decisions that are irrelevant before you do real business, that actually matters” - Peter Voogd
• “When you’re a leader and you’re running a sales, you are let down every day” - Peter Voogd
• “Becoming more valuable should be in your schedule at all times” - Peter Voogd
• “I lose sleep sometimes thinking about how many people don’t invest in themselves and would rather invest in Netflix or material items or sporting events….” - Peter Voogd
• “You don’t’ have to give everyone your time but teach people how to deserve your time.” - Peter Voogd
• “If you have 3 tasks, doing them at the same time makes no sense.” - Peter Voogd

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In this episode of Y.E.L. 2.0, your host Peter Voogd, serial Entrepreneur, Mentor, Speaker, Best-selling Author, Husband, and Father talks about the feeling of fulfilment while lowering massive regrets in life and shifting your perspective. He gives out great tips on how to be content, happy and fulfilled in business and life.

Episode Highlights: 

• As per Peter, it's not always about money instead it’s about having passion and doing something we love.
• Peter talks about the real and massive fulfilment in life.
• According to him, we should strive to figure out our strengths, try to resolve people’s problems and attain progress/ growth.
• Advises Peter to not to get twisted and not let society and social media stuff affect us.
• He recommends having something that challenges us; don’t do everything for money.

3 Key Points:

• We need money for freedom, but it's not the end of all; we have to enjoy what we do.
• It is more important to protect our mental state of mind; our life needs to be exciting but not super stressful.
• It's all about fulfilment, because the ultimate failure is massive success with no fulfilment and happiness.

Tweetable Quotes:

• “So when's the last time you couldn't sleep because you were so excited?” - Peter Voogd
• “There has to be upside and potential of scalability in your business, because that's the ultimate progress and motivation is growth.” - Peter Voogd
• “Make sure it's something to do with people, if it involves helping people, educating people, training people, it's fulfilling” - Peter Voogd
• “If you're not growing, you're dying” - Peter Voogd

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In this episode of Y.E.L. 2.0, your host Peter Voogd, serial entrepreneur, mentor, speaker, best-selling author, husband and father interviews Shaun Clark about the power of consistently innovating and keeping up with the times while talking about his business journey and vision.

Episode Highlights: 

• Shaun states that he previously owned a really successful software company that helped small businesses collect money and avoid bankruptcy.
• He elaborates on how he helped a lot of small businesses collect money.
• He had this big customer list of around 1000 small businesses.
• It's not just customer count but also the skills that matter.
• Peter asks Shaun a series of questions including - how would he recommend continuing to adapt and innovate? What are they, as a company doing to continue to stay cutting edge and innovate? Do they have an internal team?
• Peter asks Shaun that what he would suggest an entrepreneur looking to capture leads in 2021.
• As per Shaun, Lead Capture is really important – try Facebook ads, Google ads, etc.
• A lot of small businesses miss out and don't convert a tonne of business that they could.
• Shaun states that leads and ads cost money, so what is needed is to ensure that next step in the process is on point.

3 Key Points:

1. Most businesses don't go bankrupt because they have a bad idea or service; they get hit with all the bills from the vendors and then they go bankrupt.
2. Magic is created when we work together as a team, as a partnership.
3. Ads are the best way to get out in front of somebody for a local business.

Tweetable Quotes:

• “I think that in the long term, it's by enabling other people's success, you're the multiplier effect and it’s huge, right?” – Shaun Clark
• “So by being good at what we were good at, which is in our case, we think of as Software Engineering, we're able to connect with people really good at the other stuff, which is marketing, sales, storytelling and service, that are as important as engineering.” - Shaun Clark
• “But you're not; it sounds like you guys are never ending trying to improve. You're not, you don't” - Peter Voogd
• “if I can help somebody else of what a stupid decision, I would love to do.” - Shaun Clark
• “Absolutely. That's huge. In terms of high level, obviously you do a lot but is there a single way a lot of people are looking to capture leads right now they're looking for lead generators, lead magnets.” - Peter Voogd
• “The biggest message I would send is not about leads, believe it or not, I would say there's not a local business on the planet, and especially not in North America, who you couldn't drench with leads with some very simple ads overnight.” - Shaun Clark

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