Money is a Result NOT a Purpose with Mel Abraham

What is your relationship with money? If you treated someone you cared about the same way you treat money, what would that relationship look like? In this episode, we’re prompted more amazing questions like this around money and fulfillment by our guest, Mel Abraham. Mel is a CPA by trade, turned author, speaker and entrepreneur. Having built and sold multimillion-dollar businesses for himself personally and his clients as well, Mel is dedicated to sharing his knowledge with entrepreneurs at all different levels of building their businesses so they can create a life of abundance and freedom. Tune in to hear turning points in Mel’s life, like receiving a cancer diagnosis, and how he has learned to change how he does business so his life revolves around his priorities.   03:00 What has drawn you to entrepreneurship? 07:40 What lesson did you learn from your 6-year-old son that created a turning point in your life? 10:00 Being diagnosed with Cancer. 13:15 What is your personal definition of success?  18:30 How we must stop allowing money to be our master. 20:15 How do you treat your relationship with money? 22:00 What did you do within your business to create the freedom of removing yourself from it? 25:00 The power of being clear on your boundaries and priorities. 28:00 How do you decide if a client is qualified to work with you? 29:40 Who has had the biggest impact on you around money? 31:15 What is something that you and your wife do to keep your relationship alive? 38:20 How can we work with you and find out about what you have coming up next? website: www.MelAbraham.com  blog: www.MelAbraham.com/blog  podcast: www.MelAbraham.com/podcast  youtube show: www.youtube.com/user/MelHAbraham    For more resources visit www.MelAbraham.com or go to www.joinmel.com to access free training.   About Mel: Mel is a CPA by education but an entrepreneur by exhilaration, and Author of the #1 Bestseller, The Entrepreneur's Solution: The Modern Millionaire's Path to More Profit, Fans & Freedom. He’s the founder of ThoughtpreneurTM Academy & Business Breakthrough Academy where he helps entrepreneurs bring their businesses to the world and build the lifestyle that they want.  After finding a cancerous tumor in his bladder larger than a baseball in June 2019 and successfully conquering it within 18 months, Mel began to openly teach his The Affluence BlueprintTM because his cancer journey spotlighted the immediate and urgent need for entrepreneurs to find “financial liberation” and peace of mind. This is the very process and system he’s used to build his business and more importantly his wealth through business that allowed him to completely shut things down to focus on what’s important. Most entrepreneurs are building a financial house of cards and don’t even realize it…and traditional financial advice will not work for them.  As a frequent guest on some of the top shows and podcasts and through his popular programs, blog and show he shares his thought leadership around financial liberation, affluence, building businesses of impact, and freedom. He’s been called an Affluence Mentor™ and the “thought leader to thought leaders” and advised some of the top thought leaders of our time in their business, money matters, content creation, positioning and market influence.  Mel is a committed advocate for the entrepreneurial way and provides real education to real entrepreneurs for creating a real life! After all, we are placed here to create a legacy beyond acquiring, achieving and accomplishing but by connecting at a meaningful level and impacting lives through our businesses, services and ideals each and every day.  Mel has built, bought and sold numerous multimillion-dollar businesses for himself as well as his clients. He’s a globally recognized thought leader, business advisor, CPA and financial expert sharing stages with a long list of Fortune 500 Companies as well as beacons in the business and personal development industry, from Arianna Huffington and Chalene Johnson to Brendon Burchard and Tony Robbins.  Mel is a Certified Public Accountant with over three decades of experience as a financial expert, valuation expert and business and success strategist. Mel is regularly sought after for consulting and valuation engagements around the country such as family limited partnerships, co-tenant interest valuations, operating businesses as well as various entities. These projects have ranged from small family owned businesses to large $1.7 billion companies.  When not speaking, training, mentoring or just being a little nutty you can find him working out or training in the martial arts. If not, he'll be creating experiences and memories with his beautiful wife, Stefanie by traveling to exotic places or hanging at the beach where they live.  ………………………………….   Connect with Kara on Instagram | @kara_ayala   Check out how you can work with Kara | karaayala.com   Join Kara’s FREE Facebook group: https://kara-ayala.mykajabi.com/offers/aubrLymR/checkout