Accelerate Your Retirement by NOT Investing in Your 401k - Billy Keels

How does it feel to know that you may be doing 100% of the work yet earning back 50% of what you should? Perhaps that won’t sink in well knowing how many folks do their best to make ends meet. That is what Billy Keels is advocating for - making your money work hard for you to achieve freedom. Billy Keels is on a mission to share his 25+ years of experience and more importantly his passion for the sales profession and helping high-paid professionals to truly own their lives! In his current role, working for the world's leader in enterprise application software, SAP, he is responsible for leading the day-to-day teams that manage these relationships with a select number of Spain's largest IBEX 35 Hospitality and Media Companies to achieve their corporate goals faster. In 2013, he was inspired to start his own company which focuses on aggregating capital for the purpose of investing it in real assets such as smaller multifamily units, apartment complexes, mobile home park communities, ATM machines, and equipment used in the energy sector in various locations across the USA. In this episode, Billy discusses what it is like to be a recovering perfectionist and the value of being open to new perspectives. Despite what is being told and having those work well for us at the time, not being welcome to ideas hinders us from opportunities that may even change our lives. Join us and listen in!   [00:01 - 06:04] How an A-Student Got Turned Down Not Once, But Twice Showing up with transparency and vulnerability Going through financial struggles growing up Attaining two degrees and getting turned down a job twice [06:05 - 22:03] Reframing Priorities as a Recovering Perfectionist Grabbing the opportunity of a lifetime living overseas Learning to feel comfortable in being uncomfortable From being a happy employee to being a happier retiree [22:04 - 40:15] Making Decisions on Imperfect Information Gaining more control and being intentional to accelerate Realizing the heavy tax burden and alleviating the frustration Choosing the path to freedom with the right tools - 40/70 rule [40:16 - 46:49] Closing Segment Connect with Billy! Closing words Tweetable Quotes: “There's more to life than just continuing to get the dopamine hits and the recognition.” - Billy Keels “At the end of the day, you're working harder, you're doing 100% of the work. And you're bringing home 50% of the reward… Many people are doing that every day, and they don't even realize [it]…There can be a faster way for you to be free to choose what it is that you want to do… You just have to be able to connect with the information, have access to the information, and be able to ask the question.” - Billy Keels Connect with Billy: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billykeels/  Website: https://www.firstgencp.com/    LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who wants to explode their business growth by sharing this episode or click here to listen to our previous episodes.   Dreamcatchers is an inclusive organization that targets people’s interest in being more instead of a certain demographic. We have people from all walks of life at many different ages. Find out more at www.dreamsshouldbereal.com. Find out more about Jerome at www.d3v3loping.com or www.myersmethods.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices