Then Scott Schutz walked away to build things with his hands. 35 years, 43 companies, and not one bankruptcy. Today, Scott uses all of that experience to stand on the other side of the table. Through Focal Point Business Coaching, he acts as an owner’s representative and coach, helping owners protect their equity and avoid the costly mistakes he watched happen for decades. He’s built churches for 38 years, and he knows exactly where growing congregations and building committe

We asked Ericson E. Brickers, founder and president of The Brickers Foundation, for his blueprint for creating generational financial freedom. His answer had nothing to do with markets. Find the thing you love doing. Do it with persistence and consistency. Look up and twelve hours have passed. That repetition, he says, is what brings the money in the end. At Asset Acquisition Partners we would add one thought. Passion is how wealth gets earned. What you do with it when it arr

Ronald Stein started PTS Advance from a spare bedroom in 1995, supporting multi-billion dollar refineries with highly paid specialists who expected to be paid on time. His clients paid net 30. Sometimes net 60. Most founders would have borrowed to bridge the gap. Ronald went back to his clients and made them an offer instead: we will support you at low billing rates, but we need to be paid in net seven. They said yes. He was saving them money. They were saving his business. T

We asked Lucas Young what his biggest challenge has been. He answered by telling us exactly where he got it wrong: -These tools are so adaptive, and you can solve so many problems using AI. When everything looks solvable, everything starts to look easy. -We started bringing on jobs where we thought the problem was going to be, say, a six out of 10, and it turned out to be an eight out of 10. The reason? We didn't have enough industry knowledge in that lane to really fully u