hey guys this is Brady Nash CEO of BNG
team and we're gonna be talking about
our journey and where we started and how
we got to where we're at and where we're
going
hey this is Brady - welcome to the
accidental entrepreneur series I've got
my chief marketing officer Andy sitting
behind the camera so I feel like I've
got someone to talk to you I want to
tell you why we're doing this I've been
an entrepreneur now for 15 years and I'm
the accidental entrepreneur and I did a
vlog or a blog for three years and it
had really good success people seemed to
really like it and ultimately I feel my
passion is helping entrepreneurs be
successful it's helping them live that
dream better my fulfillment comes from
helping to inspire people and being
really relatable and authentic and we
thought hey if there's a way I can
connect with more people share our story
very unfiltered being very transparent
not trying to make it look like this
perfect beautiful thing and I'm so smart
and I'm so successful because the
reality is I'm not you're gonna see that
through this video but I have learned a
lot when you spend fifteen years meeting
with entrepreneurs of all different
kinds from doctors lawyers to the small
bakery coffee shop to fortune 500
companies that I've been fortunate
enough to sit in the rooms mergers
acquisitions you just learn a lot you
can't you can't do that every single day
for 15 years and not learn a lot besides
making our own mistakes our own
successes and so I wanted to take in
this first episode kind of this origin
story of why we're doing it kind of our
path hopefully you guys can relate that
it wasn't like I said this gifted person
that it was so smart it's it's quite the
opposite I feel like I said very
fortunate and blessed but take you guys
on a journey that will also provide you
guys value of the stuff you're going
through that you can relate to how to
overcome them how to make your business
better hopefully help inspire you guys
yeah that's kind of the point of it so I
want to jump into the journey about
about me a little bit but how it's
probably relating to you because I feel
like most people are accidental
entrepreneurs you know I was that small
Class B North Dakota kid there was 86 in
the high school when I graduated we had
the big class at 28 and you know small
school where I got to play five sports
not because I was just great amazing
athlete I was a good athlete but because
they needed bodies right my parents were
collegiate athletes I always looked up
to them
and so in my mind I wanted to be a pro
athlete I had this vision of being a pro
athlete then you realize well I'm good
but I'm not that good what do you want
to do the realities I didn't know
probably like a lot of people you get to
college what do you want to do with your
life and they have no clue that was me
and so my parents recommended going to
the medical field
not because they thought I was that
smart or anything they just figured hey
Brady there's always gonna be good jobs
they seem to be good paying jobs and and
so I was going in to be a nurse my wife
who actually is a nurse informs me that
I would have made a terrible nurse so
thankfully thankfully God had a
different plan and I stumbled into
entrepreneurship long story short I got
recruited in a network marketing company
when I was 18 to market for a technology
company and I you know reading the book
cashflow quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki
and he explained you know employees
self-employed business owners and
investors explained how ninety-five
percent of the money you know is
controlled by business owners and
investors five percent is employees and
self-employed and it was also inverted
meaning there's ninety five percent of
people our employees are self employees
what they're working for five percent of
the money while business owners and our
investors are five percent of the people
controlling ninety five percent of the
wealth so I grew up we didn't have a lot
of money a good part of my life I lived
in a trailer home both my parents were
teachers and coaches so they loved what
they were doing but we just didn't have
a lot of extra funds and so being that I
didn't grow up with money I always
thought that would be amazing right
that's the idea being a professional
athlete is oh my gosh what if I could
make a lot of money I could do a lot of
really cool things I could help my my
parents and the family so like a lot of
you a lot of people making money was the
biggest compelling vision for why I got
into business I saw a way that I could
help my family and friends I could do
all these crazy things that never
thought would be possible so that was
the the original driver behind why I
became an entrepreneur the thing that I
liked about network marketing was is you
were inspiring other people to have this
big crazy dream that we could do this
together the thing that I quickly
realized was not everyone's cut out to
be an entrepreneur
and thank God that God made us all
differently that not everyone is meant
to be an entrepreneur not everyone's
meant to be a doctor a lawyer a dentist
or a stay-at-home mom or stay at home
dad not everyone's meant to be some
people are and so I've realized through
the years that I like trying to find you
know that 5% of people that are you know
meant to be entrepreneurs that want to
be an entrepreneur and how do you help
them go after that big crazy dream
better how do you help them be more
successful at that
and so we got out of network marketing I
found a way to get into payment
processing I saw a way to build a
recurring revenue without having to try
to recruit every friend and family
member and dog and cat to resell my
business like they do a network
marketing I love network marketing
because it gave me the tools in the
mindset and I've got a lot of friends
that do very good in network marketing
so I loved the experience that it gave
me I wouldn't be able to do what I do
today without that experience rejection
everyone telling you know people not
returning your phone calls so it was a
very good learning lesson highly
recommend it for a young entrepreneur to
experience that but yea we got
into payments I saw a way that how
businesses move money I realized there's
a cos to it and I didn't realize at the
time and what we figured out was a lot
of businesses were overpaying on it to
these big corporations and being a young
kid I saw a way that we could help a
business save money and we can make
money doing it so that was kind of the
beginning path and that led into getting
to know entrepreneurs and then you start
realizing all their other problems and
issues and we were someone that built
deep relationships with their clients
have the same recurring issues they were
having payments they were overpaying for
credit card terminals they were
overpaying on rewards they weren't
getting good support people were would
run in through a town signed a bunch of
people up they'd never see him again
and they would get stuck in all these
crazy contracts paying thousands of
dollars for a piece of equipment that
maybe cost two or three hundred bucks
and they were getting gonna pay 50 to
100 bucks a month for four years like
stuff like that so these are the things
when we started out we got a lot of
referrals and relationships because we
were providing them for costs or even
providing some credit card equipment for
free for the relationship and so again
our model was different because we
weren't a turn-and-burn company is we
really built partnerships with
people and that led us into getting into
the point-of-sale space how do you
create value around payments bars and
restaurants weren't gonna have a little
credit card terminal they wanted a whole
blown system that would run their
inventory would run you know what people
are ordering you could run loyalty on
there and so instead of just offering a
commodity like payments we were going to
offer a whole business management system
and so again it's just solving problems
and in the process of wanting to solve
these problems we ran into our own
issues which was getting paid so all of
a sudden understand that I had no
formal education I dropped out of
college my second semester to be an
entrepreneur and so I learned all this
the hard way life lessons there wasn't a
class there wasn't just these books I
was reading I've really I feel like a
lot of you guys figured out made it up
as you went and so that's that's kind of
the the story you know that evolved into
solving cashflow problems that we had it
evolved into marketing how do you market
when you're in your basement you have no
money how do you compete against
billion-dollar companies its technology
problems we couldn't afford to pay
employees so we had pay people at as
independent contractors we had to hire
friends that were willing to work for
free or work for Commission only how do
you get to the point when you finally
start hiring employees and then you got
a track accounting and you need a
website and we should have an office not
work out of our basement so people take
us seriously and business cards and all
these things that you didn't realize you
were gonna have to do that you need to
do into growing into having a manager
and a marketing team and now just
recently you know an HR person you know
the scary HR person and so it's been a
heck of a journey from being
18 to now i'm 33 at the time of doing
this this is what january february 2020
at that posting of this video along the
ways of going from being focused on
money to understanding it wasn't just
about money it's about people it's not
about the destination it's about that
journey and where I had wins and
successes and failures
learning from other people their
mistakes their successes in their
journey of various different types of
businesses - you know getting married
having five kids my my wife and I we had
four miscarriages my wife was on bed
rest along this journey you know
trusting people being taken advantage of
from big corporations where they have
more money than you and they can stomp
you out we've gone through that journey
so I really want to go through this
whole series about different experiences
along the way that hopefully you guys
can relate to you'll find funny you'll
find ironic you'll say like I did that
or how did you get through it to dealing
with hey I'm really good at business I'm
growing my business but my health is
suffering I mean I put on 70 pounds from
when I got married and then I add high
cholesterol and you know I'm in the
journey of getting that and check you
know I've lost 25 pounds and still want
to lose another 40 being real authentic
with you guys to challenges of being a
parent being a good husband I'm a
Christian how faith fits into our
successes and wins and the challenges
you know that are there I've always
trying to be a good person a good
Christian and help other people I'm just
excited to share all these relationships
and stories we plan on bringing in other
speakers and entrepreneurs so it's not
just me it's that they can share to
create some more color and have some
more fun with it and I'm just really
excited to walk this journey with you
guys and hopefully you guys will find it
valuable
so I look forward to 2020 what this will
bring and you know thanks for watching
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