Ash ExantusChief Financial Educator, Ash Cash Enterprises · Financial Empowerment Leader | Public Affairs Strategist | Media Executive | Advocate for Economic Equity & Financial Literacy | Champion for Formerly Incarcerated Communities

I made my first million by helping other people make theirs. 💰

6 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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In this solo motivational business talk, the speaker—formerly a six‑figure banker—explains how he broke past the income ceiling of traditional banking by repurposing his marketing expertise. He began coaching, consulting, and marketing for other brands, offering either high consulting fees or taking equity stakes in the businesses he helped grow. By repeatedly applying this model—leveraging his marketing skill to add value, then being compensated through fees or ownership—he accumulated his first million dollars in cash.

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All right, so listen, listen, listen. A lot of people are always trying to figure out how to get to the bag, and you got people online telling you, look, you can get to the bag this and that way, but they never tell you how they actually did it. So me, I made my first million dollars working with the people, coaching, consulting, marketing, helping other people make money. I started my career as a banker, and I made 6 figures as a banker, but I didn't have an unlimited income potential. And so for me, what I started to do is I took that marketing skill and I was connecting with other brands, with other people who needed my skills, and I was teaching them how to market and maximize their full potential. And for that, they— I got either a piece of the business or I was able to charge a high fee. And as I started doing that over and over and over again, I was able to accumulate my first million dollars cash money that I