John talks with Garrett Maroon — real estate entrepreneur, coach, founder of the 210 Collective (a community for Christian real estate agents), host of The Faithful Agent Podcast, author of The Balanced Breakthrough: Winning at Work Without Losing at Life, and devoted husband and dad of five.

Listen to this episode to learn more:

[00:00] - Intro

[01:21] - Garrett's bio

[03:41] - Garrett's journey from $40K job to real estate

[08:02] - Transition from employee to entrepreneur

[09:55] - Hiring a coach when you're broke

[13:40] - Support from his wife during tough times

[15:27] - Setting a big goal and making it possible

[18:48] - Survival mode in business and life pressure

[22:23] - What is the 210 Collective?

[25:35] - Choosing relationships over cold calling, door knocking, etc

[28:08] - The special intuition women have

[31:05] - The Balanced Breakthrough book

NOTABLE QUOTES:

"The person who doesn't give up is the person who wins."

"The only thing worse than not knowing how much you're going to make is knowing exactly how much you're going to make, and not having any say over that."

"Business is like walking into a pitch-black room, trying to find a light switch."

"As business owners, we don't give ourselves enough grace. Business is not a place where the coach can just say, 'Here's a light switch. I'll switch it on for you.' That's not how business works. Business works by failing enough times to finally figure out where that switch is. You figure it out by failing, learning, and trying again. A coach can guide you faster, but you'll still hit walls along the way."

"When we give ourselves an infinite runway, the plane will eventually take off. It's when we shut the runway too quickly that the plane never gets there."

"We've got to restore the right definition of what winning is, and then achieve it in a way that allows us to still show up and be present with family. Because that's what matters at the end of the day."

"Are you willing to struggle for six months to potentially have a completely new life after that?"

"In five years from now, who would you be most proud of: the person who figured out how to double their profit but had to work 60 hours a week and miss their family, or the person who figured out how to work less and still earn the same income?"

USEFUL RESOURCES:

https://www.garrettmaroon.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/garrett-maroon-50b06135/

https://www.instagram.com/garrettmaroon/

https://www.facebook.com/gmaroon/

https://x.com/MaroonGarrett

https://www.youtube.com/@faithfulagent

The Faithful Agent Podcast - https://tinyurl.com/FaithfulRealEstateAgentPodcast

The Balanced Breakthrough: Winning at Work Without Losing at Life (https://a.co/d/03rzNUkF)

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