How Can 47 Years of Financial Expertise Change Your Life?

Podcast Episode

Feb 28

Dan Conlin, Entrepreneur and Financial Advisor

There is no better way of learning than from experience. Dan Conlin is an expert entrepreneur who started his own financial company early in his career. He is now starting a new business in his early 70’s. Dan shares his inspiring journey in today’s episode, and there are as many lessons to take from a lifetime of entrepreneurship as one might expect. Listen to the episode to uncover the incredible wisdom Dan Conlin has to offer.

Here are three lessons from Dan’s life that you might find insightful:

Lesson #1: Finding The Right People Gives You The Right Prospects

You can have a good product and a good sales presentation, but if you don’t have the right people to show it to, then it will not make a difference. Dan is a true believer of this. It may be difficult to find your hot list of prospects but resources are always around us. It could be your phone book or people you just met. When we go to the right people, they can lead us to more prospects.

Lesson #2: Hard Lessons Are Where We Learn The Most

You can always take advantage of the challenging circumstance you are in. David and Dan talked about the lessons they learned from their hardest times. Turning things to your advantage is not always easy but it is the best time to observe and learn while you are in it. After all, there is no such thing as failure when a lesson is extracted from the experience.

Lesson #3: Stand On The Shoulders of Giants

The benefit of reading books as a business owner is that you’re not only reading to understand but also to learn from the author's expertise. This was the case for Dan. This helped him to strengthen his knowledge and strategy in his business. Whenever we learn from someone's experience, we get a good feeling of what to do next in a wider range of circumstances. This can have the power to inspire us and elevate what we do. If you ever run into trouble, it’s almost a guarantee that someone else has already been through a similar situation and resolved it.

The right balance in life brings happiness. In order for us to achieve this we must focus on the four quadrants that Dan taught in this episode. The Equilibrium to Happiness.

The 4 Quadrants to maintain: