Episode 208

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Published on:

29th Apr 2026

Cut to the Highest Margin: AI, Focus, and a 300% Profit Jump

A California marketing agency cut staff from seven to two, kept top-line revenue flat, and raised profit 300% — the result of narrowing to the highest-margin offer and layering in tax strategy. Pam Jordan says AI fear is a distraction; the move is to use it to automate, monetize, and buy back time. She walks through how her firm uses AI to transcribe client calls, review tax returns for strategy gaps, build dashboards, and draft emails in her own voice. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley close with a lightning round where Pam names lack of cash and profitability as the core reason businesses fail, calls the belief "I have to pay taxes" dangerous, and says a W2 side hustle is the most underrated first move anyone can make.

Timestamps:

  • (00:00) AI or fall behind – automate, monetize, stop letting fear waste time
  • (04:35) 300% profit jump – California agency cuts staff from seven to two
  • (06:41) Rewrite the contract – what the new American work deal actually requires
  • (11:54) Lightning round – dangerous beliefs, the key P&L line, the first move
  • (13:12) Final frame – daily income focus, legal tax cuts, the side hustle unlock

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Transcript
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Jerremy pivots to the AI disruption RESHAPING what every

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business owner thought they'd

built—and Pam doesn't flinch.

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What starts as a fear conversation turns

into the clearest blueprint yet for

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turning chaos into a permanent edge.

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Jerremy Newsome: switching

gears for a hot second.

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Your clients, small business

owners or maybe even W2 workers are

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gonna be, are being told that AI

is gonna be changing everything.

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When that fear shows up potentially

in a financial planning conversation,

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does it change the actual decisions

people make and or what are you kind

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of telling some of these, just some of

your clients, like how to handle this?

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Pam Jordan: Used correctly, AI will

make all of our lives easier, and

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so it's just having conversations

with the clients to understand

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based on your product or service.

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What's available to you?

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like we've got a lot of hairstylists.

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AI can't cut your hair, AI is

not gonna cut client's hair,

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so they're not going anywhere.

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However, they can definitely utilize

AI for their marketing, for their

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scheduling, client communication,

getting testimonials and referrals.

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So there's still benefits, but.

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You know, there's other

industries where they're like,

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oh, well, AI's gonna take over.

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Okay, well how about instead of being

afraid of it, why don't you utilize it

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and capitalize it as long as you can?

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We've got some clients that are in

the education space, like gurus, they

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sell courses and they're definitely

afraid, that AI's gonna take over.

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And I'm like, okay, well how about

you leverage AI and make your product

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easier to fulfill on, automate as much

as you can, bring more value So that.

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There's a distinct difference between

you and just a bot telling 'em what,

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how they should, one client's like

in the short term rental space.

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So like, yeah, you can go on Claude

and ask how to set up an, an Airbnb,

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but you as the guru who has 200 doors,

bring something different to the table.

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So I think fearing AI doesn't help anyone.

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It's a matter of how to

use it and monetize it and

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automate and save time because.

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Dave's point, our greatest

asset is our time.

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So how can you use AI to use

more of your time with what only

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you can do and that a bot can't

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Jerremy Newsome: How are you doing that

in your business personally, because

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Pam Jordan: day?

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Jerremy Newsome: Give,

give me more, tell me more.

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Pam Jordan: Yeah, so all of our calls,

are on Zoom, and so we have an AI bot

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that's in all of our calls that does

both the transcript, the summary action

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items, and creates a follow-up email.

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so it's very easy for clients and

our team to stay focused on with this

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particular client we collect about

the Augusta rule and the accountable

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plan and setting a retirement plan.

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And then the bot sends the follow up

email that says, here's our action

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items and assigns them to people.

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Huge time saver for my team, also

for our analysis, on the front end.

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So we use AI to review past year's

tax returns and figure out where

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potential gaps we're using the

strategies that we typically use.

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So it saves us analysis time, our CFOs.

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Use ai.

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we use lovable right now, but the fun

thing with AI is like next week there'll

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be another one that we use, right?

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So this week we're using lovable, to

make our client dashboards and, but it's

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all prompted using our CFO prompts and

our benchmarks that we're looking for.

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And then what we're doing

is then translating that.

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To our clients.

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'cause showing a client a dashboard

makes them feel good about themselves

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as long as the lines are going

up and everything's green, right?

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But then helping them tie that metric to

their goals is where the person comes in.

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We also use AI for our correspondence.

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a lot of our content, and,

marketing strategy, lead funnels.

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we use it for our internal dashboards, to

make sure that each department is meeting

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their metrics and profitability for all of

our departments is where it needs to be.

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convert, tracking, conversion rate,

cac, like we use AI all the time.

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And then I also use, AI to

make my emails sound nice.

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Dave: ha ha ha!

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Jerremy Newsome: Make me sound nice.

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Dave: Ha ha ha ha!

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Pam Jordan: Yeah, I have a GPT that's

like in Pam's voice that I built, and so

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I'll be like, this is what I wanna say.

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Make it sound nice and it'll spit out.

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So

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Jerremy Newsome: That's

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Pam Jordan: my

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Jerremy Newsome: awesome.

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Pam Jordan: as aggressive as my head.

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Jerremy Newsome: That's awesome.

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I love that.

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Pam, tell us the story, right?

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Tell us about one client

who played the game.

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Right.

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They understood the numbers, they

used the tax opportunities, they

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built the habits and actually turned.

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Chaos into stability.

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What did it look like on

the, on their ground level?

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Pam Jordan: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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So I've got one client,

out West California.

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In the marketing space, agency,

and what we did is basically really

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honed in on what his goals were

and his goals were quality of life.

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He wanted money, for his quality of life.

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California is not cheap.

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he wanted money for generosity.

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he had some very, big generosity goals to

support some nonprofits that he was into

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and he wanted time with his wife and kids.

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and at that, when we first started hanging

out, he had a big team and a lot of

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different offerings, and so we got his

numbers in order, figured out where he was

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making the highest profit margin and got

rid of all the other service offerings.

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And so we just dialed in his

offer to what was most profitable

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and what he enjoyed doing.

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We drastically.

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decreased his team.

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so I think he had seven at the

time, and now he's got two.

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and so we drastically decreased

his team 'cause he wasn't doing all

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the, the branding and all the stuff

that he didn't enjoy doing and his

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profitability wasn't as high on.

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And so now he's just honed in on a product

offer that has a high profit margin.

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He has key members that are making

good money fulfilling on it.

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And he's not grinding day after day long

days, and he's got more money in the bank.

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We implemented tax strategy.

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He's keeping way more of his money.

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We only pay taxes if we want to pay taxes,

and he's also living a very generous

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life, giving a lot of money away to the

nonprofits that he really cares about,

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Jerremy Newsome: I like it.

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Nice.

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Well, congrats to that.

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Klin.

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Pam Jordan: hasn't gone down.

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Jerremy Newsome: Hey, that's cool.

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That's always good to hear.

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Pam Jordan: went up 300%, but his

top line revenue stayed the same.

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Jerremy Newsome: Holy smokes.

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Wow.

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Dang.

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Yeah, that's a big deal.

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That's incredible.

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Pam Jordan, with all of your

knowledge, skills, and expertise,

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just for fun, before we get into

a lightning round, if you were to

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rewrite a New American work contract.

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One that works for the W2 worker,

maybe even the business owner,

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potentially the mom who needs

flexibility, possibly even a person

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who pivoted after a company collapse.

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What are the financial commitments

that have to be in that new American

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contract for it to actually work or semi?

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How would you design it and

what would that look like?

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That would solve a lot of the problems

that we currently face as a workforce.

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Pam Jordan: I think the core truth is

we all want freedom of time and money.

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Everyone gets out of bed because

we want freedom of time and money

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and what that looks like for

different people is different.

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Like for some it might be I wanna be

home with my kids more than I'm away.

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For others it might be

I wanna be on a plane.

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For others it, know, I wanna

play golf twice a week.

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But the core of what everyone that

I talk to, all the business owners,

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all the networking events, it's I've

been to six events so far this year.

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Everybody wants freedom

of time and money and so.

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needs to be the core truth of

what we're all trying to achieve.

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What, whether you're a W2 or business

owner, the next piece is understand what

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can you bring to the, the marketplace,

like a marketplace that brings value

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that someone will exchange you money for?

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And if it's your time,

then you're gonna be a W2.

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And that's perfectly fine.

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If it's you wanna create something,

then you're a business owner.

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And you just need to decide which bucket

you're in and then go do that thing.

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And if you hate it, there's

resources to go learn something else.

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Some of my wealthiest clients are

tradespeople, like and plumbers.

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You wanna make some money, go

learn how to run an A-H-V-A-C unit.

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Electric, be an electrician, be a plumber.

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Does that cost money?

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Yeah.

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Community college is a lot

cheaper in trade schools.

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We have, High schoolers graduating

with welding certificates.

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Like wanna make money trades.

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That's, that's a concern that we have.

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Like we are gonna run outta trades

people like, 'cause everyone's gonna

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college and getting all this debt

and then sitting in an office and

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have terrible work life integration

have divorces and miserable kids.

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We want freedom of time and money.

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There's other skills out there.

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So, do I have a kitschy phrase for it?

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No.

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I think we all want

freedom of time and money.

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I think we all need to realize what

we can bring to the marketplace

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that someone will give us money for,

and then we need to do that thing.

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And if we hate that thing, then

you need to go do a new thing.

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Dave: hm hm hm hm.

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Ha ha!

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So what's, what's the first move?

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So there's plenty of people that

are listening to this that also

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feel like that deal that they've

been sold, right, is falling apart.

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The job's unstable, the savings isn't

there, their path isn't super clear,

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and if they're the ones that are

responsible for it, if the individual

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is like on the hook for it, Great.

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What's their first move?

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Not the whole plan,

what's their first move?

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Pam Jordan: What do they enjoy doing

and what do people ask them Advice on?

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And it might be you are the best at

throwing your kids' birthday parties.

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The party favors are amazing.

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The table decorations are fire.

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The wall hanging is so

Instagramable freaking tastic.

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You now have a party planning business,

or you go to Canva and create a checklist

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on how to be as good as you at partying at

scheduling a party and sell it for 2 99.

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Like the thing that people.

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to do is look in the mirror

and be like, what am I good at?

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What do I enjoy doing?

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And what do people ask me about?

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What do people ask

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Jerremy Newsome: Hmm.

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Pam Jordan: on?

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That's what you bring to the marketplace,

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Jerremy Newsome: Mm-hmm.

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Pam Jordan: and if you hate

that thing, then don't do it.

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But if you've got bills and debt,

sometimes it's time to suck it up and

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do that thing because you might not

love party planning, but everybody

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always asks your advice on it.

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So then.

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Charge double so that you can go and, I

don't know, become a real estate agent or

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whatever it is that you wanna do for real.

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But the first thing is,

what do you enjoy doing?

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What are you good at?

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What do people ask your advice on?

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And what do pay someone pay you for?

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Because everyone has something.

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And if they're like, I don't,

okay, then start driving your

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car for Uber or cutting grass.

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Jerremy Newsome: You are telling me that

there's a thousand choices out there.

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Pam Jordan: There's a

million choices out there.

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Jerremy Newsome: That's right.

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Dave: hm hm hm.

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Hm.

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Jerremy Newsome: That's right.

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I love it.

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I mean, yeah, I think you and I share

this similar mindset where it's.

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You know, if there's some government

assistance at some stage, great.

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But the challenge generally, I, I

think, I think the government could,

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should, should slash could step in

for like scholarships for college.

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but generally when the government gets

involved, at least from the private

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sector, it's not gonna be extremely

fortuitous as we've seen in all the.

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Somali daycares in Minnesota

and California and everything.

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That's just getting extremely,

extremely fraudulent over there

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in that, in that situation.

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but from a lightning round perspective,

I'm gonna ask you a few questions.

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You just hit me with your quick answer

'cause you're doing a great job at

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that, by the way, which is awesome.

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All right.

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True or false, most small businesses

fail because of bad sales.

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Pam Jordan: False

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Jerremy Newsome: Why do they fail?

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' Pam Jordan: cause they don't have

cash, they don't have profitability.

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Jerremy Newsome: Oh, snap.

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All right, the finish this sentence.

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The most dangerous financial lie

Americans tell themselves is,

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Pam Jordan: I have to pay taxes.

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Jerremy Newsome: oh yeah, Pam,

shoot, coming out the gate.

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That's good.

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All right.

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W2 or 10 99.

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If you're starting over today,

which do you take and why?

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Pam Jordan: 10 99 because

then you're your own.

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You can be your own boss.

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Jerremy Newsome: Easy enough.

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What's the one line item on a p and

L that tells you everything about

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whether a business is actually healthy?

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Pam Jordan: Net operating

income, also known as profit

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Jerremy Newsome: Finish this sentence.

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Flexibility at work isn't a perk.

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It is a.

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Pam Jordan: requirement.

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Jerremy Newsome: Yeah,

that was my answer too.

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All right, in one sentence, what does

the New American deal need to guarantee

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that the old one never delivered.

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Pam Jordan: Freedom of time and money.

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Jerremy Newsome: Last one, Pam.

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Most underrated tax move a

W2 worker can make right now.

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Okay.

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Pam Jordan: Start a side hustle.

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Jerremy Newsome: Boom.

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Pam, I really like this.

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This was super fun.

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I think extremely tangible too

for people who are listening.

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Like there are legitimate action

items that you can all take right now.

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Pam, what's the easiest way for

any of our listeners, if they

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want to, to get ahold of you?

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Pam Jordan: Absolutely,

just go to pam jordan.com.

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That's my website.

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And on social, I'm Pam Jordan,

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Jerremy Newsome: Thank you so much, Pam.

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You're a rockstar.

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Appreciate your time today.

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Pam Jordan: Jerremy.

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Jerremy Newsome: Yep.

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You got it.

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Dave: Right.

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Wow.

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I love, I thank you for introducing

me to such magical people.

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Pam, Pam is fan.

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Jerremy Newsome: She's a fireball dude,

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Dave: love that energy.

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there's, it, it just, I can, I hope I, I

can just imagine that she just wakes up,

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wakes up every morning and goes, boom.

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Jerremy Newsome: bro.

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She's like that too.

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We've hung out a few different

times, and that's just her at 9:00

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PM or 9:00 AM It's kind of cool.

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Dave: love it.

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Jerremy Newsome: She's a hoot.

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Yeah, she is.

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Very, very smart.

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Very smart.

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Yeah.

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What did you, what did you learn my homie.

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Dave: Hmm.

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I think I'm frustrated.

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and it came out a little bit,

a little bit harsh, but that's,

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that's kind of my day to day.

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I'm a little tired of, of, people,

and I'm not just saying Pam or

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you, or I'm, I'm saying this sort

of like the general people, the

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zeitgeist of letting politicians

and business owners and institutions

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and academics let 'em off the hook.

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We're like, eh.

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Like, we don't want you in our, we

don't want you all up in our grill.

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And I, I think that's bullshit.

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I healthcare has doubled and the

outcomes are not noticeably better.

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The fuel prices here have

gone through the roof.

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The fact that there's not a tax

holiday for the next two years,

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and the state of Florida is.

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Criminal, companies are just

nuking jobs left and right.

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They'll be called capitalists as

long as, they're making profits.

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But they will socialize

the losses in a minute.

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You know, like as soon as

they're, they're making money,

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it's all capitalism, we got it.

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But as soon as they have

some losses, forget it.

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They're, they're turning

it over to the state.

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So I, I.

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We have to stop letting these people,

these institutions, these politicians,

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these corporate titans, we have

to stop letting them off the hook.

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It's got to stop.

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We are giving them a free

ride, and that is bonkers,

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Jerremy Newsome: Yeah.

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Yeah, I agree.

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I, I don't know how we hold 'em

accountable other than not voting 'em in.

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But yeah, pitch pitchforks can work.

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Yeah, that can, that can definitely work.

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Dave: I, but on the other side,

you know what Pam was actually

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talking about, I, I love that.

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Certainly the mindset of, you

know, the, the fear, uncertainty,

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and doubt that comes around money.

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I know I experience that.

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That's, that's, you know, an ongoing

conversation between you and I

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and, you know, like when you fear

this money, it's going to fear you.

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Jerremy Newsome: I.

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Dave: are so many opportunities

when you, when you actually

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focus on, on making money.

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It's the one thing I was talking to my

sister about is like, you know, if I,

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if in a given day, if I'm not focusing

on what it takes in order to make

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money, and, and with that, you know,

it's through this podcast, it's through

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the, the different vehicles around

the, the, the Jerremy Newsom Empire.

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And you know, like if I'm not focusing on

that, then what am I actually focusing on?

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Because that is what.

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You know, that's what's going to

actually move the, the needle.

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It's gonna provide the freedom, it's

gonna provide the, the, the ease

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in order for me to actually live my

life and to live it, beautifully.

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And so I, I like hearing that and,

and seeing it, and hearing it from the

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point of view of like taxes, which,

which seems so, you know, crazy.

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It's like the, your, your

deep dark feelings on taxes.

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I think that that's great.

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And I, and I love hearing that from Pam.

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Jerremy Newsome: Yeah, same, same man.

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I wouldn't, I wouldn't say specifically I

learned anything brand new, although what

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I will say is it reaffirmed from a person

who is literally a professional in that

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sphere saying, Hey, taxes is paperwork.

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If you have a job.

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And you don't want to pay taxes.

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You don't have to.

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Dave: Right.

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Jerremy Newsome: kind of the lie, right?

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That's the, the lightning round.

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Like if you pay a whole bunch of

taxes, you're doing something wrong.

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You're doing something wrong.

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You, you really don't

have to pay that much.

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Like there are ways legally,

very legally, to it least.

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Decrease it, you know, and

even if you're kicking the can

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down the road a little bit.

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She mentioned some of the college plans

or IRA plans that people can open up where

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they can throw in post-tax, pre-tax money.

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You can, there's, there's

a lot of ways, right?

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Opening up an LLC costing $300 or less

in most states and getting a side hustle

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and running your side hustle through this

LLC and the side hustle is essentially

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things that you're gonna be paying for.

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Anyway, and you're gonna try to generate

revenue through that LLC or through

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that company, but the generation

of that revenue is also potentially

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gonna decrease your taxable income

'cause you're spending money on things

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you're gonna spend money on anyway.

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Call it Dave's Donuts or

Conley's Coffee, right?

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And figure out a way to sell

that particular product to other

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people who may or may not want it.

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But if they do want it and they buy it

from you, you have a revenue increase.

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AKA more cash flow in your life and

you have a taxable decrease because

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all the expenses from that company are

gonna decrease your taxable income.

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That is a math formula and you are right.

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I personally believe that anyone

who fears and, and has the financial

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stress and struggles, which we all

have from time to time, but if we

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want to dissipate that the focus

should be for at least an hour a day.

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Minimum every an hour, a day, every

day for the rest of your life.

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If you wake up and go for this hour, what

can I do to generate specifically more

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income using skills, services, tools,

networks, people, value creation, time

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talents, like she mentioned, Hey, if you,

someone keeps asking you to plan a party.

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Plan a flipping party dude.

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Like if people keep asking to do

something and you have the skills to do

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it, focus on it for a period of time,

at minimum an hour a day, which is seven

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hours a week, which everyone has that

amount of time to making more money.

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'cause you are my brother.

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Exactly correct.

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If you do make more money, everyone wants

more time freedom and more money freedom.

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And when you have both of those

things, you will feel more free.

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You'll feel more happy.

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And it's available for

anyone who wants it.

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Dave: Fantastic.

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Wrap us

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Jerremy Newsome: for our, for our

listeners out there, if you liked

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this episode as much as I did,

share it with some other peeps.

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Give it a circulation on your social

medias, and before you do that, or while

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you do that, or during the doing of

that, hit that five star review because

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it tells people that we are continuing

every week to post content information.

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About money, about markets, about

psychology, about people, businesses, ai,

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politics, the combination of all of those,

the interchange and the inner connection

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of some of the most powerful forces on

earth and how we can all take advantage of

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it, and most importantly, how we can all

get together and solve America's problems.

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About the Podcast

Solving America's Problems
Solving America’s Problems isn’t just a podcast—it’s a journey. Co-host Jerremy Newsome, a successful entrepreneur and educator, is pursuing his lifelong dream of running for president. Along the way, he and co-host Dave Conley bring together experts, advocates, and everyday Americans to explore the real, actionable solutions our country needs.

With dynamic formats—one-on-one interviews, panel discussions, and more—we cut through the noise of divisive rhetoric to uncover practical ideas that unite instead of divide. If you’re ready to think differently, act boldly, and join a movement for meaningful change, subscribe now.