Ep27 Jose Escobar - From Zero to 7 Figures in 15 Months: The Power of Organic Growth

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Jose Escobar
in 15 months, I was able to go from literally no business at all to two companies with eight income streams and now seven figures. And we're just getting started. And it was that one conversation that

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Jose Escobar
changed everything.

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Suzanne Taylor-King
Hey, hey. Welcome to a podcast where dreams meet. Determination and success is just around the corner. I'm your host, Suzanne Taylor King. And I'm here to help you unlock the full potential of your business and your life. Welcome to Unlock Your Way with STK. Let's unlock your path to success together.

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Suzanne Taylor-King
Good morning. Good morning everyone Susanna Taylor King here

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Suzanne Taylor-King
I'm here with my coffee this morning to welcome Jose Escobar of Connected Leaders Academy. As you can tell by his background, he's a voracious reader just like me. So before we went live, we're comparing notes on what we're currently reading, and Jose's the amazing award winning, nationally recognized author, speaker, recognized personal development expert, eight time published author, which is just amazing.

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Suzanne Taylor-King
I'm only a one time publish author, sales professional, father of five children who just watched his children solo for an extended period of time. Which means we need to talk about that productivity hack. And he is also a fellow community founder, and I admire, and I'm a member of his community. The Connected Leaders Academy consists of entrepreneurs much like the Idea Lab and Advanced leaders, and he takes them through six figure business models that have now per per surpass, per pass, surpassed seven figures.

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Suzanne Taylor-King
And he also has the entrepreneur's bookshelf, which is you're going to have to tell us a little bit more about the entrepreneurs bookshelf. So welcome, Jose.

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Jose Escobar
honored to be here. Thank you for having me.

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Suzanne Taylor-King
You're so welcome. I'm really looking forward to hear about how you masterfully invite people to your community. Like, I thought I was good at enrolling people, attracting people. You take it to a whole nother level, and I would love to hear about how you got started with this community.

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Jose Escobar
Sure. So, I was the guy for many, many years. And when I say many, I mean many where I was investing in myself, spending tens of thousands of dollars, easily, well over at this point, under $50,000. just personal development, right. and I'm preaching to the choir, so. And I know many of you viewers can relate because I'm sure this is a like minded audience.

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Jose Escobar
And I have spent so much money on books, programs, courses, mentors, coaches, summits, events, bootcamps, masterminds, you name it. every single day. For many years, Amazon is coming to my doorstep with something right on personal development still. Yeah. Cool. And my wife is like another book. Another course, another book. another coach like, you know, she was always supportive, but eventually got to the point where she said she she pulled me aside and she said, Jose, and this is January 15th of 2022 now.

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Jose Escobar
So about 16 or so months ago. And she said I was like, listen, I love you. you're amazing. You're a go getter. You're a dreamer. You're a visionary. you're inspiring us all and you're making an impact in the world. She said all these nice things and sandwich method. Right. and then she said, but. And I was like, oh, dear.

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Jose Escobar
Well, it's coming. Right? So I myself, thank God I was sitting down and she's, at some point you have to start making money. And I was just like, oh yeah. Oh, right. Because, yeah, it was, gut punch and a bitter pill to swallow. But I understood her motive. I understood where she was coming from, who was very graceful about the delivery.

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Jose Escobar
And at the end of the day, I had to swallow my pride of my ego. I took a walk. I had a cigar. I took a day to myself to contemplate what she said. I'm a man of God. So I was in prayer. I was in meditation, I journaled, and I essentially came to the realization that enough is enough.

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Jose Escobar
It's it's time to stop, you know, not being able to go to an event. It's time to stop accruing debt, to take no action. And it's time to stop being on that, you know, wheel like a hamster blower and put in all these things out. So I decided and I, I decided to start and to take action that just action, the massive action in terms of launching a business.

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Jose Escobar
Right? I had an LLC for three years and I was like, ooh, I'm this business man with no money. Oh yeah. Right. Well, that doesn't mean anything. That just means you're established in the identity of the of the government. But you really I'm not money. So I was just like, I'm really not doing anything. So, fast forwarding, I decided to launch my business.

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Jose Escobar
And in that period from last year, I launched The Entrepreneur's Bookshelf, which is my coaching author, speaker, League of of Income streams. And then, it's a lot of the Connected Leaders Academy, which is a growing tribe, a community of entrepreneurs globally. And, and then there I have my membership, I have my merchandise, I have my live events and now a mastermind all under that umbrella.

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Jose Escobar
And in 15 months, I was able to go from literally no business at all to two companies with eight income streams and now seven figures. And we're just getting started. And it was that one conversation that changed everything.

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Suzanne Taylor-King
I love it one well, there's so many points that I love about this. I have a very similar story, and there was a seminar I went to and I believe it was Tony Robbins and Dean Grassi of.

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Jose Escobar
Yep.

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Suzanne Taylor-King
And they they said something about being a knowledge broker. And I said to myself, all right, I've been a health coach for five years. I've been a business owner of some sort or another for 35 years. Well, and that seminar just five, six years ago made me realize that all this knowledge that I have been it calculating, marinating, taking notes on studying, it was selfish of me to keep it inside any longer.

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Suzanne Taylor-King
And that's when I launched my community. That's when and it was a different community. I have something different now, but very, very similar. And it was, what am I doing holding all of this in here, thinking I need more thinking. I there's something I'm missing and I, I find this with so many entrepreneurs, and I'm so happy that you're willing to share about it because it really is that failure to launch thinking that there's something you're missing, thinking that there's something else you need.

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Suzanne Taylor-King
Oh, there's just this one more certification I need to do before I can help anyone else. And it's simply not true.

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Jose Escobar
You you hit it nail on the head, right? Yeah. Straight up. Yeah. Really? It is just that the people that the gap between those who win in business and those who flirt with the idea of being a business owner and poke it with a stick and end up wasting many years and time, money and time and energy on something that doesn't transpire.

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Jose Escobar
And and then going back to the corporate world and you just kind of say it is what it is. And that meant to be an entrepreneur. The biggest gap between that is the ability to take massive action, to make good decisions and to have the discipline to be committed with consistency, to follow something through, to have that toughness, that tenacity.

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Jose Escobar
And and that's what it is. I've developed rhino skin over the years because I've been 28 years in sales. Right. So you can't last that long in sales without having thick skin.

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Suzanne Taylor-King
Oh.

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Jose Escobar
You know.

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Suzanne Taylor-King
That's 100%.

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Jose Escobar
Yeah, it's part of the deal, right?

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Suzanne Taylor-King
Yeah, it really is. I remember a, a client I worked with a long time ago who was a six time cancer survivor and a health coach and a philosopher, and he came to me and said, well, I need a website and I need this, and I need that, and I need to do this podcast, and I need to do it.

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Suzanne Taylor-King
And I'm overwhelmed with all the things. And I said, you don't need any of those things. You need to walk into your nearest oncologist, office or holistic practitioner's office and say, I'm a six time cancer survivor and I've been in remission for ten years now because of my own holistic methods. I'd love to share them with any clients you want to refer to me?

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Jose Escobar
Yeah.

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Suzanne Taylor-King
That's it. All you have to do is tell your story. You don't need a website to do that for you. And it was probably the most profound advice I had ever given someone who wasn't even a paying client. He was just a member of my tribe. And I said, get out of your own way and just start helping one person, and then two people, and then four people, and then word will travel and trust that.

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Suzanne Taylor-King
And I find it's a stumbling block for so many entrepreneurs. So love that you feel the same way.

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Jose Escobar
Absolutely. It's interesting you say that because I'm on the same weight. You and I are very similar in a lot of ways right now to you, I felt this connection immediately when we connected and, think through Daniel Andrews shout out to Daniel Andrews for great Daniel. so, yeah, you don't need all those things. It's amazing that you said that, because one of the things that I find as common when I tell people my story, which is more recent, is a recent story.

00:10:22:22 - 00:10:43:20
Jose Escobar
I haven't been around long in business. and I'm still pinching myself, realizing how my life has changed. Right? Because I still haven't really cemented myself. Or like I said, okay, let me take a minute to like, pause and take it all. And I still haven't done it right because I'm go, go go go right. now, I do believe in self-care morning evening routine, which is something I guess we'll talk about at some point, but that's kind of a different conversation.

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Jose Escobar
So in terms of people always say, wow, you, you made $1 million in 15 months or you made it that fast. It's not so much the amount or the speed. It's how the method. Right. So my method is I built what I built with no website. No, paid ads at all, zero paid ads, zero marketing dollars. I didn't I wasn't spending all this, you know, money on ads or or marketing methods or strategies.

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Jose Escobar
Right? no, funnels of any kind. No fancy automation of any kind. Zero email marketing campaigns or email lists. It was 100%, not 99. It was 100% organic word of mouth growth. Yeah. On 0 to 7 figures. And I had all kinds of experts, Suzanne telling me, oh, Josie, you can't do it without you can't do it without followers.

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Jose Escobar
I need this, you need that, you need this. And I said, for a while I was I doubted myself, like, maybe I do need these things right then. Nobody has these. That's right. But I realized, you know what? I've made it halfway there to seven figures without this, I might as well just go all the way, and then I can look at that and say, hey, I'm the guy who went from 0 to 15 to 8 to 7 figures in 15 months with all organic.

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Jose Escobar
Right. Let me tell you about. And that's kind of what I'm leveraging now because I decided to see it through. And I'm telling you right now, I agree with you. You don't need those things to get started and certainly be to scale.

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Suzanne Taylor-King
Yeah. And and I think that I think what to what did I say a couple days ago I said all of those things, you know, the funnels, the marketing, all of those things are out there in the marketplace because that's someone's zone of genius and that's what they want to sell you. And I would argue that I purchased all of those, you know, magic pill things.

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Suzanne Taylor-King
Oh, you just need a webinar. Oh, you just need an email campaign. Oh, you just need this. Did all of those things and then looked at my numbers. Let's look at the ROI, the actual numbers and what is bringing me paying clients. And it was personal connection conversations and invitations to work with me. Period. No funnel and I've had many has ever brought me a high ticket or high or value client.

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Suzanne Taylor-King
Maybe a $97 item or workshop. Yes, but never a one on one high value clay. They've always been created through conversation and interaction, and the fact that you are growing through one on one, building rapport, making an invitation to join your community. Let's talk a little bit about that. I see at least three new people joining a day in your community, so let's talk about that.

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Jose Escobar
Yes, I enjoy coffee. So thank you for having me today. in terms of the Connected Leaders Academy, my vision for that, I said to myself, well, you know what? I know thousands of people on a first name basis. I'm a connector, networker. I pride myself in building bridges and connections. All right. So I said, I know all these people.

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Jose Escobar
They all know me. They're all high performers, but they don't know each other. So there has to be a way to monetize this, right? So I said, let me create. And this was like a good idea, right? Because for the record, back in 2019, I used to have a social media marketing agency called up that was called back Last Marketing.

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Jose Escobar
Okay. I learned from Tai Lopez how to launch social media about A and B, and, and I just went with it. I started servicing restaurants and bars on how to fill up their locations, and we started taking off. I was getting the restaurant, the restaurant, the restaurant. I started going well, and I was charging about 3 to 5 K for a restaurant.

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Jose Escobar
And all of a sudden Covid hit destroyed everything. And everything shut down in my area for 6 to 8 months, restaurants and bars. So I was like, do I want to pivot to like, the delivery stuff and figure that out? Or do I just want to go on a whole different direction? So, you know, for Covid, it was bad for many people, right?

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Jose Escobar
and all of us to some degree. But for me, I capitalized. And that time when I was at home, I was in the lab. I was finding ways and getting creative on how to launch something new and different and fresh. So I said, you know what? Everybody's not working in the same ways. They're going to chambers of commerce.

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Jose Escobar
They're going to be and eyes are going to local networking events are going on LinkedIn and Harpooning people and saying, hey, you know, we have some common interest. Let's jump on a call and, and let's, explore what opportunities are between us. And they realize this person is trying to sell them and you're trying to sell them. And nobody sells each other and you end up losing our your life.

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Jose Escobar
Yeah. And you go on Facebook and you go on these, groups and you and you're told to add value to these groups for free so you can get into DMs when the DMs get into the coffee chats, and then you end up in square one again. Right?

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Suzanne Taylor-King
So the costing to me.

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Jose Escobar
Was and it burns people out. Right. But I said there has to be a better way with more intentionality where where you're intentionally networking with people who want to meet you, people who want to serve you, people who understand are not going to sell you. They want to understand how they can serve you. Servant leadership right? Yeah. Well, and then from there you're going to get ROI, you're going to get value.

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Jose Escobar
So that's kind of why I created the Connect Leaders Academy. I said all entrepreneurs want five things. Generally from what I understand, they want to grow personal and professional, and they want to scale their influence. They want to be more of the authority in their industry, in their space. They want to be. They want to move the needle in their business.

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Jose Escobar
More leads, referrals, collaborations, endorsements, more money. The bottom line more clients before they want to develop their skill sets. Right? Because none of us have arrived. We're all working on something. So a community where iron sharpens iron. And number five, they want to develop their skill sets. I'm sorry. They want to, grow their network in their circle.

00:16:47:05 - 00:17:05:21
Jose Escobar
Right? So they want to expand exponentially with more intentionality. So those are the founders. Why? I lied? Because I knew I wanted that, and I know other people want that. And then I said, okay, well, let's just start talking about it. So in two weeks time with no website, no fancy nothing, in two weeks time, I created ten benefits.

00:17:06:01 - 00:17:21:22
Jose Escobar
what am I going to offer? Love it. Price points. What is the name of the group? let me let me, trademark copyright. This thing, and put the process in play. Let me, get a logo and go and fiber for 20 bucks and get the logo. Let me make sure the outcomes available before I move forward.

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Jose Escobar
All that stuff. I secured the.com. I did the whole thing. And in two weeks I launched Suzanne and I started talking about I'm just opening my mouth to people who know, like and trust me. And I was in in the vision. Just imagine an answer. I tribe of entrepreneurs that are that are going to all visionaries and leaders and servant leaders, hard center entrepreneurs, business owners that understand the law of reciprocity.

00:17:43:10 - 00:18:00:00
Jose Escobar
The more you give, the more you get. They all understand this as matter how big they are. Business was always next level. We're all going to come together to help each other thrive, together ultimately. Right. And we're we're all becoming better serving each other. We serve our clients better, and we serve our clients better. The world is a better place.

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Jose Escobar
And just imagine a million people in this community in 100 countries, changing the world. Don't you want to be a part of that right? Is the painting The Vision? And I started with the founding members. Right? That was a no brainer. And people were like, sign me up. Yep. I'm in, I'm in, I'm in. And in 30 days, Suzanne, I had 100 paid members.

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Suzanne Taylor-King
Beautiful.

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Jose Escobar
And, now, as we speak, currently, the Connected Leaders Academy is just getting started with 325 paid members. We're in 40 states across the US. By September, we'll be in all 50 states. We're also in 17 international countries, places like Hong Kong, Pakistan, India, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Cambodia, Italy, Malta, Ireland. I mean, the list goes on.

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Jose Escobar
And and it's just amazing. People like yourself, like Daniel Andrews, I mean heavy hitters, right? I'm looking for the best of the best and I'm just excited. We're doing.

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Suzanne Taylor-King
Well. I want to just I want to say two things. very, very similar. almost identical reason for me forming my community before Covid, entrepreneurship for me was lonely and boring. And I thought, well, if I'm lonely and bored in this sea of social media, so are other people. And I started an in-person group here in South Jersey where I live, and there's still much interest.

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Suzanne Taylor-King
And I was like, well, if there's interest here, then, you know, I had this health coaching group, I had this business group on Facebook. Let's make it an official community. And much like you, same values,

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Suzanne Taylor-King
here's what I've noticed. When you bring great people together and you're not afraid of collaborating, talking to, interacting with one people farther along the road than you and two people who do what you do. There's a lot of people in the entrepreneurial space who would never to have someone who does what they do on their live stream series and sit here and talk to you about how much I love your community.

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Suzanne Taylor-King
When I have my own, there would be a black mindset thing happening like, oh, I can't, I can't lift Jose up and share what he does because it's going to bring me less. And that limits so many people from interacting with other great people. And I just had to put that out there, that I've never met anyone more similar to me than you.

00:20:56:01 - 00:21:11:12
Suzanne Taylor-King
From the warning routine offer that you have to your experience in business to what you're offering your community. Yeah, and I still want to be a part of it. And it's really beautiful.

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Jose Escobar
I've got to say, you struck a chord because, thank you for saying that. And I completely concur. Like you're spot on. I agree wholeheartedly. So, I used to work for I was a sales director for a global martial arts company for many years. based out of here in Chevy Chase, Maryland. EFC, the acronym stands for Educational Funding Company.

00:21:30:04 - 00:21:52:12
Jose Escobar
They were founded in 1967. They were the pioneers in the martial arts space and who's who. That put tons of martial arts school owners on the map and help them succeed and scale and grow. They started as a building company, you know, processing payments and doing that kind of thing for martial arts school owners. And, and that eventually grew and grew and grew to where they said, just because you're a black belt martial arts doesn't mean you're a black man running a business.

00:21:52:14 - 00:22:12:03
Jose Escobar
So let's do the consulting piece. Right. So now they're like the Swiss army knife of the martial arts industry. they're legends. The company where anybody who's anybody in martial arts space right now, who's on a really high level at some point came through FC or their mentor coach came through UFC, if it wasn't them directly. Right. But there's some that tie all the way back to it.

00:22:12:05 - 00:22:31:08
Jose Escobar
So this guy's name is Nicholas Aquino's, senior. Right. So my best friend is the third generation of that family. He's my, he's the grandson of the founder. Right. So I got my foot in the door there. So not long story short, is the martial arts industry. Back then when they started, it used to be like, hold your cards like this.

00:22:31:09 - 00:22:50:19
Jose Escobar
Dogs. Anybody? Or secrets on how you're running your academy? We're all competitors to each other. it's not. You know, we're not going to tell you what we're doing. We're not going to collaborate on any level because you're my competitor. You're essentially my enemy, right? You're taking food off of my plate. And that has changed because Nicholas Aquino's, saw a vision.

00:22:50:21 - 00:23:09:02
Jose Escobar
He was an Arthur Murray dance video guy. He had multiple locations. And, and then, you know, exploit, systems that he learned and incorporate into the martial arts industry to, to scale. Right. So that's kind of how he did. There's a guy named jewelry who brought taekwondo to America, who was the first client, and he blew up.

00:23:09:02 - 00:23:24:07
Jose Escobar
And that's kind of how everything started. So back then, that was the way martial arts was run. And Aquino said, no, no, that's not how we should do it. We should all partner together. We're all in this together. We got support each other. We got to share our secrets with each other and and the industry. Excuse me?

00:23:24:07 - 00:23:45:19
Jose Escobar
The industry changed because of him, right? We're people now. We're having conventions sharing their secrets. And everybody. A rising tide raises all what ships, right? Oh, yeah. so that's what happened. And now it's just like, okay, so everybody's helping everybody. You're competitors, not martial arts bloggers. Your competitors are soccer, baseball, wrestling. You know, it's not other martial arts school.

00:23:45:19 - 00:24:04:05
Jose Escobar
Other. So here I have people in my community right now that have communities like you, like Jerry spear, like doctor O Bombo into law, blood. And I mean tons of them. Rob Lance, Jonathan Ellis. I can go on and on and on. And then all these people have communities. And guess what? I support them and they support me.

00:24:04:05 - 00:24:18:22
Jose Escobar
And we give each other best practices. And we're all here to serve because at the end of the day, there's enough people in the world to to be a part of everybody's community, and there's a community for everyone and everyone. So that resonated with me. Not everybody's gonna resonate with you that we're speaking well of each other, for each other.

00:24:18:22 - 00:24:24:03
Jose Escobar
Guess what? We're gonna all rise to the top, and we're gonna make our dent in the world. And that's going to be what it is.

00:24:24:05 - 00:24:54:19
Suzanne Taylor-King
Well, that's that's the mic drop moment right there for me, because if more people understood getting out of the mindset of, oh, I can't talk, I can't be in that community because, you know, that person's a coach. I, I've invited so many coaches, business coaches, business strategists, people who do something very similar to what I do.

00:24:54:20 - 00:25:21:03
Suzanne Taylor-King
We have very similar ideal clients. And I've invited them to my community. And I remember one of them saying to me, I don't I feel funny joining your community because our ideal clients are the same. And I said, I work one on one with people. You work one on one with people. I have 800 people in my community and 6000 people on my email list.

00:25:21:06 - 00:26:02:10
Suzanne Taylor-King
Do you really think there's not enough there for both of us? And he looked at me and he said, so what you're saying is you're willing to share your people? I said, no, I'm willing to share value with anyone who's following me. Yeah. What elevates me. So what you're doing elevates you. What I'm doing elevates me, and I, I'd love more people to grasp that concept, that hanging out with people who do what you do is one of the best things you can do for your business.

00:26:02:12 - 00:26:05:02
Jose Escobar
All I can say to that is Amen. I agree.

00:26:05:03 - 00:26:16:15
Suzanne Taylor-King
Love it, love it. All right, so Connected Leaders Academy, what's the future vision? What's the prosperity vision down the road for you?

00:26:16:17 - 00:26:26:01
Jose Escobar
So by the end of this year the goal is to be at 1000 members. Right. So we're going to be at a thousand members. the bigger vision is a million members in 100 countries.

00:26:26:06 - 00:26:26:22
Suzanne Taylor-King
Love it.

00:26:27:00 - 00:26:44:07
Jose Escobar
I'm aligning with some of the best of the best right now. some really phenomenal people that are coming in. Like, for example, what a recent one is, doctor Rob, he is the guy behind, John Maxwell, you know, who help the John Maxwell's every country in the world.

00:26:44:09 - 00:26:44:21
Suzanne Taylor-King
Yeah.

00:26:45:00 - 00:27:02:23
Jose Escobar
And, and he is aligning with, with me right now and a couple of things and many other high performers and amazing people like yourself. You and I are doing things here, and, Daniel Andrews and myself, and the list goes on. I'm finding the right people that are major impact players. And that's how you scale and grow.

00:27:02:23 - 00:27:19:06
Jose Escobar
First, I'm all about serving, so the more I serve, the more people want and support me. It's just a lot of reciprocity. Right. And you got a sunburst, and, And I'm a giver, so I give everywhere I can. And as I'm doing these things, I'm finding the right people. We're growing organically. I am now putting systems into place.

00:27:19:06 - 00:27:38:06
Jose Escobar
So now that I'm at seven figures now, we're going to start doing some fancy things to really, scale. That's next level. And that's kind of where we're at. So we're going to be at a million members. We're going to be at, what is this called, 100 countries. And eventually I'm going to get in a position where I'm not, you know, taking the whole thing.

00:27:38:07 - 00:27:53:07
Jose Escobar
I'm in a position people almost like brand ambassadors that are covering certain countries and certain states. And I just get a cut and it'll be like, almost like a franchise kind of model without being size and, and then just build and there's going to be new things coming out. I'm always, looking to see what's next. Right.

00:27:53:07 - 00:27:59:13
Jose Escobar
And, how else can I add value? It's only going to get better. And again, we're just getting started. So that's the bigger vision.

00:27:59:15 - 00:28:01:17
Suzanne Taylor-King
I love the vision.

00:28:01:17 - 00:28:13:06
Suzanne Taylor-King
I worked with a coach 5 or 6 years ago who built his entire fortune on a $10 a month membership, and it was years and years and years of growth.

00:28:13:08 - 00:28:40:20
Suzanne Taylor-King
But it it was massive value for the $10. And people don't leave when they're getting massive value. And, I'm getting massive value from your community. And I haven't even participated in all the things that you offer. So thank you for doing what you do. Thanks for joining me here today on the Productive and Prosperous Entrepreneur Coffee Chat.

00:28:40:21 - 00:28:51:07
Suzanne Taylor-King
Thanks for enjoying coffee with me. I appreciate you and everything that you're doing. How can our listeners get in touch with you?

00:28:51:09 - 00:29:07:02
Jose Escobar
So I live on Facebook. That's my second home. And if you want to find me, I have a late teen account. I have an Instagram account, to be completely transparent, which I always am. the LinkedIn is actually outdated and I barely use it. So I got an updated.

00:29:07:04 - 00:29:22:11
Suzanne Taylor-King
Stay tuned to work on you on that, that I can provide massive value to you because I peeked at your LinkedIn profile and I said, boy, you are missing this huge pool of people.

00:29:22:12 - 00:29:34:14
Jose Escobar
I mean, I've read your ear. It has nothing to do. You don't find Connected Leaders Academy content on there. Or, you know what I do currently, it says I still work at the rate mutual, I think. Right, as an insurance, it's,

00:29:34:19 - 00:29:36:23
Suzanne Taylor-King
Well, I'm going to get on you on the go.

00:29:36:23 - 00:29:55:13
Jose Escobar
But anyway, so, so you can find your LinkedIn. You can connect me there. I do check it once a day, and you can be me there. also Instagram, you send me a VM there, and then Facebook is where I live primarily. That's where I'm at uploading happens and you can find me at the the at symbol jasco SC 025.

00:29:55:13 - 00:30:18:01
Jose Escobar
So JSC 025 and just hit search. Click on people. You'll I'll be the first one you see and and Jose Escobar so you can find me on Facebook and then you can also, shoot me an email J Esco 25 at gmail.com. and then also the website, the Entrepreneurs bookshop.com, which, also needs a facelift, but you can find me there too.

00:30:18:03 - 00:30:36:02
Jose Escobar
And then also my book. I have an amazing book out. It's a best selling book called Winning Today and Entrepreneurs Guide to Morning and Evening Routine Mastery. I also created my own planner. That kind of goes with that. It's on the 90 day battle plan, right? the journey to self-mastery. So these kind of speak to each other?

00:30:36:04 - 00:30:49:11
Jose Escobar
this is 90 news am I run in 90 day sprints. Right. So if you want a copy of this book personalized and signed and cheaper than you would find it on Amazon, check out that Winning the Day book ecom.

00:30:49:13 - 00:31:16:03
Suzanne Taylor-King
I love it, I love, I love that my morning routine is built the night before, and by having a nighttime routine, it deals in your morning, so I can probably spend a whole hour talking about that. So, thank you. Thank you for for everything that you do. And thank you for being such a stellar community founder example.

00:31:16:05 - 00:31:38:16
Suzanne Taylor-King
And everyone connect with Jose. Follow him. Whatever you need to do to check out the Connected Leaders Academy. It's one of the communities I hang out with besides my own. The ideal lab for entrepreneurs and I welcome any questions, any insights and have a great day everyone and thanks again, Jose for joining us.

00:31:38:18 - 00:31:39:16
Jose Escobar
Thank you so much.

00:31:39:16 - 00:32:07:10
Suzanne Taylor-King
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