Mastermind Your Way to Success
Brandon Straza, The Success Finder ABOUT BRANDON: My sales career started at a young age, hocking sugar mixed with Kool aid packets to my neighborhood friends & classmates… I spent my high school years cleaning golf clubs, listening to business owners talk about their work. Deep down, I always knew that school wasn’t built for me but, my mom pushed me to have a piece of paper to fall back on. So – just in case – I worked three jobs, pushed through college, and graduated with a BS in Finance. I continued learning sales directly through Norwest Financial. There, I learned two major lessons: 1.) Accountability and direct sales was something that came naturally. 2.) problem solving was better than offering a customer what I thought they needed. We built our first company in 2011, partnered with a mortgage bank where I was one of 12 owners. I leveraged my previous relationships to not only grow the insurance company but be apart of the C suite team and Board of Directors. I eventually sold my ownership where the bank was doing over 2 billion a year in lending. In order to create additional value, I created a platform called The Naked Agent. It allowed me to interview and highlight our referral sources to put them in front of a wider audience. Through this, I learned about the world of podcasting and masterminds. The power of an evergreen platform would allow me to learn more about self education and increase my appreciation of learning other people’s experiences. The Mastermind Effect is a gateway into what the future can hold for anybody willing to experience and lead with the give mentality. Earlier this year, my team and I have also launched The Success Finder app. The Success Finder is the #1 platform aiming to help knowledge seekers discover the right Coaches, Masterminds, and events that match their desires and level-up their lives. Best part? It's FREE and anyone who's interested can download it from Apple's App Store or Google's Play Store today. The Success Finder app download link: https://linktr.ee/thesuccessfinder Brandon's Websites: The Success Finder - https://thesuccessfinder.com The Mastermind Effect podcast - https://podcast.thesuccessfinder.com Connect with Brandon on Social Media: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/bstraza LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonstraza/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonstraza/) Download The Success Finder app on the Apple Store or Google Play Store. It's FREE and you can download the app today. Link here: https://linktr.ee/thesuccessfinder (https://linktr.ee/thesuccessfinder) Coaching a lot of the time…is one on one. Amazing. A Mastermind…equally amazing if it’s the right mastermind…is a group of people and they can be from all different industries and, in fact, I prefer it to be from all different industries…coming together, sharing what’s working for them and using the collective brain power to help move the needle forward. I prefer a little more of an intimate type of a mastermind….10, 20 people….whoever’s hosting the mastermind has curated the right group, the right mentality of the people there. You can have two day masterminds which you can say ‘this is an event’ ‘this is a mastermind’ Cole Hatter holds one that’s called Thrive. I would consider it an event because we’ve got over 1000 people, 15-20 speakers, items going on during the day, in the evening…to me an event is whatever happens there, happens there. There’s no continuation of it. But you can have a 2 day mastermind. I think there are some brilliant ones. Steve Sims holds the Speakeasies and to me, that is mastermindish. I think it really depends on the person that is curating it and the material that you’re leaning. There are events..masterminds…that you can go to and they get you all jazzed up, they get you all energized, they motivate you. The problem is...