Creator School With Sean Jantz: Recent Episodes
Sean Jantz
Join Sean Jantz and other successful creators as they share their secrets, their tactics, and their strategies on how to help you grow your online business. Learn about marketing, branding, sales, self-development, and personal finance. Our promise to you is each episode will be no bull shit, no fluff, entertaining, funny, relatable, and packed of value.
I was a guest on the "Hey Arnel" podcast show and this was one of the first times I've shared my entire online business journey from the beginning dating back to 2012.
Learn how I got started, tips on how to grow your own online business, and how to effectively use social media like TikTok and YouTube to attract your ideal customers & clients.
How amazing would it be if you started a new TikTok account today and in 5 months' time you grew it to 160,000 followers, millions of views, millions of likes, Kevin Bacon is showing up in your comments, major publications are reposting your videos and you’ve set yourself up to now start charging anywhere from $500-$1000 per sponsored post.
That would be awesome, right??
Well..that actually happened to my next TikTalk guests, Angie & Shane Lee. Angie & Shane is a husband and wife team that creates funny, relatable, marriage and teenage parent skits. We’re going to dig deeper into their growth strategies.
Follow Angie & Shane: @angieandshane
Follow Sean: @sean.jantz
As an elementary school teacher, Bri started TikTok in early 2020 to connect with her students.
Eventually, she found a community of other like-minded moms and began making videos nearly every day.
Bri is just about to cross over 250,000 followers and had sealed several brand deals including a contract with Life 360 where she gets paid to make TikTok style videos for Life 360's page.
Follow Bri: @settingthebahr
Meet Zack "The Girl Dad" Burris who recently crossed 100k followers on Tiktok and has signed several brand deals.
Zack shares how important it is to pick a niche for your channel, support your community, and how creating a series keeps your followers coming back.
There are now 50 million people who call themselves “creators”. But get this, only 4% are making enough profit to sustain a living.
My name is Sean Jantz and I’ve been a multiple six-figure course creator, coach, and freelancer since 2014.
With this podcast, it’s my goal to give back to everyone coming up behind me and those who are hustling every day to serve their audience.
Each week, I and other successful creators will share our secrets, our tactics, and our strategies on how to help you grow your online business.
We’ll discuss marketing, branding, sales, social media, self-development, and personal finance.
My promise to you is each episode will be no fluff and no bull shit. I will keep it entertaining, funny, relatable, and packed with value.
I’m excited you’ve chosen me as your teacher and I won’t let you down. School is in session….
Think about it.
You've been high-fiving everyone around you your entire life. You cheer on your favorite team and celebrate with your friends and family.
Yet, imagine if you started to finally cheer for yourself?
You'd be unstoppable.
Or, that's what Mel Robbins tells us in her new book, "The High Five Habit".
Megan and I both are big fans of Mel Robbins and in this live episode, we both explore Mel's ideas and studies around why this crazy simple habit of simply high-fiving yourself in the mirror every day can change your attitude, boost your mindset and improve your behaviors.
Join me and my wife, Megan, as we discuss the life-changing principles from one of our favorite books, "Atomic Habits" by James Clear.
Hear our personal stories about how we have applied the concepts of habit stacking in our own lives.
In this episode, I'm talking about wealth and the importance of speed.
Myron Golden, a well-known speaker, said once, "If you want to create wealth in your business and for you and your family, you have to increase the rate at which you generate revenue. You have to increase the SPEED at which you generate profits."
That sounds great. But how do we actually add speed?
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We have now opened up a $1 14-day trial to Creator School Online!
Go to creatorschoolonline.com to learn more!
I know, I know. This is quite the click bate-y title, but I promise I won't disappoint because this is, in my subjective opinion, the most significant way to grow your business in 2021 and beyond. And this tip is for ANY business. Whether your business is brick & mortar, click & order, sales professional, realtor, literally anything... this strategy I'm about to share with you will skyrocket your brand.
So, what's the strategy?
Listen in to find out and reach out to me on Instagram or sean@seanjantz.com if you have any questions about implementing this strategy in your business!
One of my favorite parts of Facebook is the “Memories” feature.
This past week, Facebook just showed my memories from August 7th, 2014.
That was the day me and my two business partners launched our first business together, Binary Trade Group. It was a monthly membership product where we provided a community, training and analysis to help day traders on a trading website called Nadex.
I was super scared that day. My stomach was in knots. Yes, I was scared but also crazy excited. There’s nothing like the thrill of launching a new business or products.
In 2014, I had ZERO online business experience or marketing knowledge. All I knew to do was put out the highest value content on YouTube/Facebook every day and hope it got seen.
Our first full year in 2015, we crossed $100,000 in sales and in 2019, we hit $1,000,000 in total sales in less than 5 years. In the online business world we call that the “Two Comma Club”. This should be your short-term goal.
Today, I’m sharing with you one of the greatest tips I can give a creator and the reason why we succeeded.
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In this brand new, LIVE, podcast episode of The BREAKTHROUGH Project...I share with you my journey to hitting my first $1,000,000 as a digital creator and how you can model the same thing me and my business partner, Ryan Smith, did.
You'll learn exactly how we got started, the fear of quitting our jobs, and the top marketing & sales strategies we executed.
Gain key insights to what worked for us and what didn't and learn what we would had done differently if we had the chance to go back and start over.
No matter what stage of a digital creator business you're in, you'll come away with key tactics that you implement immediately in your business.
In 2013, Austin was working an IT job for the state of Kansas and he had a lightbulb moment. He realized he could do this job for other small businesses as an independent contractor. So on the side, Austin started Abbott Unlimited and was quickly gaining several clients where he would build websites and manage their backend IT security. Eventually, he got so busy he quit his state job, cashed out his 401(k), ended up hiring 30 employees, and never looked back.
And now just recently, with the success of Abbott Unlimited, he went out and bought the number one marketing agency in the city of Topeka, Bajillion, where he is now the CEO, he also bought a video production company called Motovike Films AND started a private lending business with one of his best friends. O, and he's been with his wife for 15 years and he's raising a 3-year-old and 1-year-old and in his spare time runs a sprawling ranch in the countryside of Kansas.
My hope for you is that Austin's story inspires you to think about how you can turn your job and the skills you have into a business and how you can grow your existing business through acquisitions.
In this episode I have a chat with entrepreneur and digital creator, Jace Young, the founder of Legacy Farmer.
In 24 months, Jace built one of the largest online membership communities for farmers in the U.S.
Jace is the prime example of how fast your business can take off when you develop a specific solution to a major problem for a specific group of customers.
In this interview, you'll learn specific strategies Jace has used to grow his online business and get insights into how he runs his flourishing membership community.
Hey you! Welcome back to the BREAKTHROUGh Project show where each episode I try to add one small breakthrough to help you either in your business, in your career, with your money or in your personal life.
Last year I did a podcast episode about instead of following a passion of yours, instead I said to follow a purpose.
And in this episode, I want to update my thoughts on passion vs purpose and I talk about the new Disney movie “Soul”.
It’s here. Last month of the year. It’s time to get serious about what’s next for you in 2021 and beyond.
As I’ve been sitting down and writing out my thoughts for next year’s plans and goals, I wanted to give you a goal planning lesson that I learned the hard way.
If you're ready for a BREAKTHROUGH year in 2021, this tip will help you immensely!
If you weren’t a fan of Kobe on the court or don’t follow basketball, I want you to know that Kobe, the man off the court, was an incredibly gifted individual.
If you didn’t know much about him, Kobe after retiring from the NBA moved on to start Granity Studios, a multimedia company which focused on creating fiction stories centered on sports.
Kobe wrote many best-selling books before he passed and even won an Oscar for a short story he created.
The life lesson I want you to learn from Kobe is....
I hope you enjoyed this and if you did, I always appreciate your comments either on my Instagram or email at sean@seanjantz.com!
There’s a quote I saw on Instagram a while back that I really liked. It was, “There is no such thing as business problems. There are only personal problems that are showing up in your business.”
This statement has resonated with me more and more this year. Being an entrepreneur, a creator, the driver of your own business is hands down the greatest personal development program on the planet.
In this episode, I share why it's so important to continually self-develop yourself and two activities I do nearly every day to keep personally growing as an entrepreneur.
I wish this was something I would have learned earlier on, like high school or college. All of my academic years were spent trying to increase my IQ. Reading and memorizing facts in textbooks. I got nearly straight A’s all through school and was naïve thinking because of this I was destined for success. And I couldn’t have been more wrong.
If you’re around my age or younger than I’m sure you can relate. Going from college into the real world is a wake up call. I wish I would have learned more about communication and persuasion. I wished I knew how to control self-doubt. I wish I would have learned how to have more confidence. I wish I would have been offered a class on Insecurity 101 or Procrastination 101 or better yet, Stress & Overwhelm 101.
And I can’t blame the colleges, it’s not their fault. You know, there really isn’t anyone to blame. I’m just taking this wisdom and passing it on to my two daughters and you if you’re a parent with young children, and I am going to focus heavily on teaching them EQ skills in junior high and high school.
I use the mindfulness app Calm and I will make them use daily as well. Just like brushing their teeth. I also use an app called Intellect, which provides learning sessions on habits and behaviors. Very cool app and free. Check it out.
I definitely won’t be so obsessed with my kids’ academics. I will be more focused on their communication skills and how well do they handle pressure. Because now I know, EQ training will set them up for genuine success, not memorizing facts in a book.
I wish this was something I would have learned earlier on, like high school or college. All of my academic years were spent trying to increase my IQ. Reading and memorizing facts in textbooks. I got nearly straight A’s all through school and was naïve thinking because of this I was destined for success. And I couldn’t have been more wrong.
If you’re around my age or younger than I’m sure you can relate. Going from college into the real world is a wake up call. I wish I would have learned more about communication and persuasion. I wished I knew how to control self-doubt. I wish I would have learned how to have more confidence. I wish I would have been offered a class on Insecurity 101 or Procrastination 101 or better yet, Stress & Overwhelm 101.
And I can’t blame the colleges, it’s not their fault. You know, there really isn’t anyone to blame. I’m just taking this wisdom and passing it on to my two daughters and you if you’re a parent with young children, and I am going to focus heavily on teaching them EQ skills in junior high and high school.
I use the mindfulness app Calm and I will make them use daily as well. Just like brushing their teeth. I also use an app called Intellect, which provides learning sessions on habits and behaviors. Very cool app and free. Check it out.
I definitely won’t be so obsessed with my kids’ academics. I will be more focused on their communication skills and how well do they handle pressure. Because now I know, EQ training will set them up for genuine success, not memorizing facts in a book.
I was recently listening to a top business coach, and he said something about failure that I really loved. He said he tries to get his coaching clients to look at failure as “cycles”.
Basically, how he said it is every time an entrepreneur has a business that failed, it was just a typical “cycle” of the entrepreneur journey.
And what resonated with me is he said he doesn’t take any coaching clients until they have “cycled” at least twice.
I’ve never heard it been said like that.
I absolutely loved how he put it.
He didn’t say, “A prospective coaching client has to have 2 failed businesses and then I’ll work with them,”.
Instead, he said, “a prospective coaching client must have gone through at least two cycles before I consider working with them.”
He explained that he wants his clients to have already experienced some failure. He knows that if they’ve had two businesses fail and they are still at it, positive, upbeat, good attitude….then they have the X-Factor to achieve success.
So a good takeaway is understand that having a business that failed or is failing, It’s just a normal “cycle” of entrepreneurship. Get up. Dust off. Take the experience and skills with you to the next venture and keep “cycling” until it finally hits!
If you’ve been following me for any amount of time, you know that I’m a big proponent of the concept of the Law of Attraction, manifesting, and energy.
But, let’s assume you’ve watched The Secret, and for some time now, you’ve been thinking, visualizing, and dreaming of your goals, but nothing seems to happen or progress on your goals is slower than you want.
What most people get wrong about the law of attraction is this…
If you enjoyed this episode I'd love to hear your feedback!
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With this title, you may be thinking this might be some weird new workout plan. Haha. Not quite. Pushing your own car is a metaphor. This is a super important message that everyone needs to hear if you're trying to achieve anything great or if you are a coach and you help clients achieve their desired goals.
If you enjoyed this please be sure to share this episode with someone you know that needs this.
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I was recently reading a blog post from Todd Herman, he is a sports performance and business coach. To become a client of Todd's you must first submit a 42 Inner Game Skills Diagnostic, what he calls it.
He mentioned that yes, it's 42 questions but there is only ONE question that will determine the success of his client more than any other:
The question is......
Tweet me @seanjantz3 or on Instagram, I would love to hear your feedback!
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This episode will likely go down as one of my favorites of all time. Wealth and legacy is a topic that I'm extremely passionate about and I love sharing all my strategies with others. If you have a family and you're hungry for more and want to build a dream life for you and your kids this is a must-listen. What I share with you today isn't just theory. This is proven applications to help you grow your wealth and the strategies I share are ones my wife and I personally do.
I would love to hear your feedback!
You can message me at Jantz.co website or at sean@seanjantz.com
This year, 2020, marks 8 years of full-time entrepreneurship for me. The last 8 years have been a whirlwind and I’ve definitely learned a ton and it’s not a secret that I love giving back to the next ones line behind me.
A question I get asked often when I’m speaking or coaching a new entrepreneur is, “So since I’m brand new at this what’s your best advice you can give me?”
And here’s what I say….
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I know you will enjoy this if you're 5 years or less into building your business. I would love to hear your feedback!
I do a ton of research on peak performance and how the great ones become great. There are a lot of amazing people in this world that we could safely say they reached their maximum human potential. When you start to learn about their stories and how these people became who they are there was one underlying theme from all of them. In this episode, learn what that is and I share with you a story about a precious stone and how it relates to helping you reach your desired pinnacle of success.
I would love to hear your comments or feedback!
I want to quickly share with you how to start getting further ahead in any area of your life by doing this one simple tweak. I also explain the most important accounting principle that you may be overlooking.
Oftentimes I get asked, "Jantz, what's your biggest motivation? What's driving you?" And really, there are dozens of motivations I have. My kids, my wife, my legacy, achieve a dream life, etc.
But, if I were to be honest, it all just boils down into one single motivation that I have and quite frankly I believe everyone should adopt this mindset.
It goes without saying that this is a difficult time for all of us. Whether it be financially, physically, spiritually, or in my case, emotionally.
Whenever I go through hard times I sit back and ask, "Ok, what is this trying to teach me? What's the lesson I need to learn so that when something like this happens again I'm prepared?"
Here's my takeaway.
In this short BREAKTHROUGH Minute, I want to share with you an often overlooked strategy to help you exponentially increase the odds of you achieving your biggest goals.
One of my favorite stories I like to share when coaching a new entrepreneur or anybody starting off on a personal journey is the story of the 20-Mile March. If your goal is to achieve incredible success in your endeavor you must focus on the moral of this great parable.
I’m sure you’ve likely seen the picture of “3 Feet From Gold” circulating on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter. Most people think the 3 feet from gold story is about persistence and not quitting and just keep going and keep going. In a way, yes, this is very true but there is a deeper moral to the 3 feet from gold story that most people don’t know.
Here’s the real “3 Feet From Gold” parable. Enjoy!
A while back I was sitting down with a financial client of ours and he asked how did Megan and I pay off so much debt in such a little amount of time. In this BREAKTHROUGH Minute, I share how we paid off all of our debt and the decision of why we did it.
For the past couple of years, I’ve been devouring any and all goal setting, high performance, and productivity content. The reason being is I hit a wall in my goal setting and I need better direction and how to effectively design and achieve my ambitious goals.
You think about it, we’re not taught this stuff in school nor college. If you want to live a high-achieving life you pretty much have to figure out this goal-setting stuff Hard Knocks style. (Which even though I do have a degree I consider all my knowledge to be from the School of Hard Knox.)
From all this research I have done I found two big reasons why most people fail at their goals. And by no means is this the ONLY two...there’s dozens of reasons...but, I thought these two were good to share as you may not be aware of them and now you will be going into 2020 and beyond.
Here's to a BREAKTHROUGH Year!
This story I'm about to share I still remember vividly the day I heard it. It was roughly 5 years ago at a Las Vegas business convention. The speaker, his name is Jeff Levitan, uber-successful entrepreneur shared this with the MGM Arena crowd I was in and I was floored by this incredible short parable about life and what it takes to become great.
If you feel like you're stuck or in a rut, this story is for you.
Now, before I begin reading this story, PLEASE shut off all distractions and really take this in.
In this "BreakThrough Minute", I share with you how important it is to be listening, watching and taking advice from other entrepreneurs who are in the same life stage as you and going through the same battles.
With the new year getting closer and closer your mind soon will be thinking about goals and New Years Resolutions. I wanted to give you one of my best tips for New Year goal setting.
I would love to hear your feedback on this! Tweet me @seanjantz3.
In this episode, I share with you the "movement" that I see is happening in our society and why NOW is the time to start getting involved with this "movement". I also describe where I'm taking my personal brand in the next 6-12 months and who I want to help and serve going forward. If you have creativity, ambition, desire, and grit...this episode is for you.
I've built my businesses by one simple truth and that is,
"You are paid in direct proportion to the amount of value you bring to the marketplace".
This has served me well in growing my income and will continue to serve me well.
If you are in a spot where you're motivated to begin increasing your income you first need to understand the "Four Levels of Value". Once you understand them and aware of which Level you are in you can begin the process of moving up the Value Ladder.
Find out the Four Levels here and let us know in the comments on how we can help you!
As I enter my 30's, I wanted to reflect back on everything I have learned in the past decade. I wanted to imagine writing a letter to my 20-year-old self and share with him my "Success Principles". Ray Dalio, the biggest hedge fund manager in the world recently released a book called, "Principles" where he shares his success secrets with the world. I decided after reading his book that each decade I too will release my own version of my success Principles.
Enjoy!
As I enter my 30's, I wanted to reflect back on everything I have learned in the past decade. I wanted to imagine writing a letter to my 20-year-old self and share with him my "Success Principles". Ray Dalio, the biggest hedge fund manager in the world recently released a book called, "Principles" where he shares his success secrets with the world. I decided after reading his book that each decade I too will release my own version of my success Principles.
Enjoy!
Typically, when you think of great entrepreneur movies "The Greatest Showman", a story about P.T. Barnum and his circus doesn't come to mind.
But, when you really dig into the storyline of the movie there are some fantastic takeaways that all aspiring or active entrepreneurs can learn from.
In this weeks episode of "The BreakThrough Project" podcast, we share the great lessons from P.T. Barnum's journey and give our unique insight as well.
In this weeks episode of "The BreakThrough Project" show we are sharing an introduction to our flagship course, "The Financial BreakThrough".
This course is 7+ years in the making and is a proven process to begin winning with money internally and externally.
Winning with money has very little to do with math and almost everything to do with your behaviors and mindset.
The biggest problem we face is that as humans our brains are hard-wired to survive and not THRIVE. We're going to begin first helping you start thinking differently about money. Specifically, creating an abundant mindset.
Check out "The Financial BreakThrough" course HERE:
https://seanjantz.com/p/financialbreakthrough
In this weeks episode of "The BreakThrough Project" podcast Megan and I are sharing our best tips and advice for brand new or struggling entrepreneurs.
We are now officially entering our 8th year in business and have learned countless lessons during our current journey and provide what we wish we would have done differently if we could go back and start all over.
If you have been in business for several years we would love to hear from you what advice you would give yourself your first year!
For 7 years now, Megan has been helping couples across the kitchen table with their finances. Typically when a married couple is struggling with money it's a communication issue.
For you and your partner to start thriving with money you first need to understand each other's "Money Personality".
The 4 Personalities include:
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The Controller
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The Promoter
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The Supporter
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The Analyst
By zero means do Megan and I consider ourselves perfect with our communication. We have our fair share of money arguments.
BUT, by understanding each other's personality we are getting better every year and we both understand HOW we should speak to each other.
In today's episode, we'll give our tips on how to communicate more effectively based on your partner's personality.
In this episode, we're taking you back to 2011 where our entrepreneur journey begins.
Our first 4 years of business and marriage were very PAINFUL! Lots of tears, lots of false starts, and plenty of arguments.
But, we never lost sight of our dreams and goals and we were willing to make a handful of sacrifices to make them happen.
In this weeks episode, Megan and I discuss the elusive, all coveted B word..."Balance".
Is it possible to achieve balance while running a business, raising a family AND trying to keep the spark in your marriage?
The short answer is...yes. Just not in the way that you might believe.
Megan and I are constantly trying to balance what we call the "Five F'S".
Faith, Family, Finance, Fitness, and Freedom.
We provide our insight into how were are trying to achieve balance and give six actionable tips that you can implement right away. Be sure to hashtag #breakthrough on Twitter with your favorite balance strategies!
Enjoy!
Each week, we're going to be dishing out tactical tips and strategies to help you have BreakThroughs in your marriage, in your business and with your money.