80 | Worst Case Scenario W/ Paden Squires

Oct 12

[00:00:54] Chaz Wolfe: What's up everybody? I'm Chaz Wolf, gathering the Kings. I've got paid and squires here on the king stage today. How are you, brother?

[00:01:00] Paden Squires: Doing well. How are you?

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[00:01:01] Chaz Wolfe: it's another day and we're both at it. We were just giving our little history there for old Columbia, Missouri. Love what your what your, our history represents the basketball days, all that fun stuff.

But we can maybe get into some of that. Tell us what kind of business that you got.

Yeah, so I'm a CPA here in town here in Columbia, Missouri. A lot of what my business revolves around is just tax and business consulting. I do a lot of stuff with real estate investors and different things going on here in town.

Yeah. Ling growing little town. Yeah.

It really is. And we were talking about it being a little town, especially in comparison to kc, compared to when I was there, many moons. Yeah,

[00:01:36] Paden Squires: you'd surprising big. You come back here, you'll see there's a lot of things. Skyline looks a lot different than 10 years ago here.

[00:01:41] Chaz Wolfe: Yeah. Yeah. It's very true. And I wanna get into some of your story. Obviously, tax and business strategy. Some guys of go, Oh no, but it's important. And I'll tell you what, I eat it. I'll eat it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I love it. Because once you, when you understand the benefit of what you're going through You start paying close attention to stuff like that.

So before we do all that though, I wanna know at this level in the game, you've obviously had some immense success. Why are you still pushing? What's the big picture for you?

[00:02:09] Paden Squires: That's a great question. And years ago, I don't know if I could have had any answer to that. It was just underlining driving thing of me.

I think, we can get more into it, but I think my childhood background, single mom dad in and outta the life a little bit. And while we weren't like destitute or anything like that, we certainly faced challenges and I think I used to operate a whole lot more out of lack, or trying to seek security and pushing myself.

Of course that only motivates you so far. And I finally, my life has pushed past to looking to grow out of just seeing what I can become, man. Just trying to get everything I can get out of my potential, to be honest with you.

[00:02:43] Chaz Wolfe: Yeah, I love that., I think the same way.

I think we're all motivated. By a certain level of fear, right? Or lack as you say. But there's a whole nother deep crevice in there that really can go as deep as you want it to in the potential. So was there a moment in time that made that switch for you?

[00:03:00] Paden Squires: It, it's hard to pinpoint an exact moment.

I, I would say, I had a certain level of success. I started my business in 2014 and consistently growed had a certain level of success, but it really wasn. Until probably the last few years of really doing just self-reflection and educating myself, I'm a huge continuous learner.

Yeah. Where I started operating more out of, Man, I don't wanna leave anything on the table. What can I get done? Instead of that lack when you're operating outta that lack and wanting to just seek security, that's good. But soon as you hit a certain point, It becomes a whole lot less motivating.

They talk about diminishing returns of money and once you hit a certain income level, the next dollar certainly doesn't mean as much as the previous dollar. That's right. So it, it's really been in the last few, I say in the last five years. I bet I've read three, 400 books.

And listen to a whole lot of, and, and all those are all, non-fiction, self-development, autobiographies, all those kind of things. And just trying to pick up nuggets everywhere I can.

[00:03:57] Chaz Wolfe: What I'm hearing you say is not only your income, but also your perspective from fear to potential is almost directly correlated to you pressing in personal development, reading, listening, like really seeking the next level of.

[00:04:14] Paden Squires: Oh, yeah, I've seen huge benefits out of it. It, it started with the reading of the podcast or, reading podcast, just soaking in information. But yeah, then I added in the gym in the last two years, and that's even that's even taken it to a whole nother level which is, it's

[00:04:27] Chaz Wolfe: pretty cool to see.

It's interesting that you're piecing these things together. I think that. We all imagine that they all come together, and like all this, like this perfect moment. And I'm like the fittest ever that I've been and a business is cranking and I got a good marriage and all the things right, but.

The reality of it is that they don't really all come together, or at least not all the time. And sometimes there's one's off and one's on and this, that and the other. And so I just want some insight there. Like I, I know that it's not perfect on your side. We don't have to quite get into your business struggles yet, but.

Just what does that make you think of?

[00:04:58] Paden Squires: When

I say no I think, when it, for example, coming to the gym, it's something that everybody starts and stops and struggles with and, I'm gonna do this for, they may even make it a month in and they just fall off, I think.

That mindset shift for me was, falling in love with the process. Not the goals. It's as long as you got something to chase it's very motivating. And you can see those little wins and those little progresses you make making that shift to focus on that instead of the goal itself.

Set the goal, chase the goal, but you gotta focus on the day to day and love that piece and then everything else

takes care of itself.

Yeah. And we hear this, right? We hear. You gotta love the journey and all these, what maybe we consider cliche things. How did that piece become real to you?

So I've struggled with that. Struggled, people. People have asked me that question and it's a struggle. I don't know that I had the answer to that yet. Or what, why this time it worked? . Yeah. Cause there's many times when my past where it didn't, and I think it's just the, of course me maturing and filling myself with good advice and good, people around me that certainly helps I think.

Through this process of falling in love with the process, you see some success and then you surround yourself with other people and then all of a sudden your self confidence, your self-worth goes up and you're able to just take on more than you ever possibly thought

[00:06:18] Chaz Wolfe: you could before, yeah. You you gave one of the secret ingredients of the recipe there, the confidence. Because for me, A lot like you in that way. It's like you can press in, you can read the stuff. I remember reading, Thinking Grow Rich when I was 19 and it just Over my head No, It's the only book that I read other than the Bible, but it's the only book that I read every year.

Yeah, Every year I will not, not read that book. And so how does it, how do you have this moment where you read it and it just, and literally it just, I don't understand it. It goes over my head. I'm not ready for it. Whatever it was to it, it is, behind, behind my daily devotion at prayer and Bible time.

It's the next thing that I'm reading the most often. And how do you, how does that happen? Like you just said, maturity over time, your understanding, But what it does is it gives you confidence.

[00:07:06] Paden Squires: Yeah. And it's Oh, sorry. No, you're winning. It's you know the saying where they say you never step in the same river twice, right?

You go back to that same material and you are. So you're going to consume that, soak that in different than you ever did the

time before.

[00:07:19] Chaz Wolfe: I love where this is headed. Personal development is I think a lot of times just overlooked as far as the dramatic play that . It can have an impact in.

Let's get into kind of like how you got started originally. Like how did you get into business? Why, how did the entrepreneurship bug bite you? That type of thing.

, I graduated from college got, your normal graduated college with accounting finance degrees in an MBA and got in your normal banking jobs, quickly found out I don't fit well in the employment box

[00:07:45] Paden Squires: Now that was bad. But that's just not me. I'm very independent when it comes to that kind of stuff. Decided to study for my CPA and pass it while I was working another job, Amazing. Last job I had. I say LA I tell people my last real job I had Man, I was bored outta my mind. , quite honest with you, , I was expected to set in a cubicle for 40 hours a week and I bet they gave me seven to eight hours of work a week to do.

Yeah. So just taking advantage of that to, I used that to study from CPA exam and pass that within seven months. That's awesome. And so using that with the support of my wife finally. got The confidence and brave enough to actually break out on my own.

Which that's a kind of a, something that runs through my whole life, is always just making sure my confidence is up.

So

we started start And has she been a filler of that, that

tank for you? Yeah. And sometimes, you don't even like it at the time, , where she's pushing or whatever. And it's little ego there, huh? . Yep. Yep. And you. All right. You're right.

I'm, You're right, . That's right. But, so 2014 started my own CPA practice had zero public accounting experience before I started that, most CPAs would tell you that it's a really stupid thing to do. But I did started outta my house and it's been an eight year run since then. Constantly growing and just making connections with different entrepreneurs and different

[00:09:05] Chaz Wolfe: things like. I love it, man. I think that I mean everything you just described, it's not like you're the only one that's like searching for confidence. , there's guys listening to right now that are like, Oh man, if I just had a little bit more confidence in the tank and

[00:09:18] Paden Squires: that's something I struggle with, every single day.

And it's not, it's not. I've progressed a lot in that area, of course, of that. It's something that I'm always focused on every single day. Just making sure that confidence is there.

[00:09:28] Chaz Wolfe: What do you, what does that look like practically? Cause I we're just getting into some super good stuff here.

Yeah. What does that look like for you when you wake up and you're like, Okay, I gotta be confident today. I gotta a meeting, or I got, you said you were just, you were on a photo shoot. Today you're gonna be on the cover of a magazine. Bro, it doesn't sound like you need confidence. What are you doing on the inside to do

[00:09:45] Paden Squires: this?

Yeah, you gotta be very careful what on the outside, right? That's not always not a reality. My biggest thing in the last two years is, like I said, like I mentioned earlier, it's the gym. I hit that gym every morning early before my day starts. There's times where my schedule gets busy and it's pushed later in the day, but I really try to do it first thing in the morning every day and that mind body connection where it's.

Your body's very tangible, right? You work out long enough, you're gonna see those changes and then all of a sudden you realize I have control over my body. I can shape it, I can do this or do that. And then you start looking around everything else in your life, it's Wow, this doesn't have to be this way.

I can do something about this. I can do something about that. And it's just like a general awareness. Yeah. Is huge. And just operating at. Higher consciousness level of being able to almost view your life as a third person, where you're looking out on it and seeing, you get out of the box so you can actually see what's happening a little bit.

[00:10:39] Chaz Wolfe: Yeah. I love , how you've depicted confidence being the, initiator to then the awareness that you're talking about the Yeah. This next level thinking is if I can have the confidence to take the, To go to the gym or take the action, go to the networking event, take the action, call the, person I need to call, or whatever it is that the task is that we to need to do in personal or in our business life.

The confidence to go do it. And then what that happens is if you can dis build some discipline around it, which is what you described, then you can realize that you actually control most

things.

[00:11:14] Paden Squires: Oh yeah. Yeah. And obviously there's all kinds of things that are also outta your control, but a hundred percent you just gotta focus on what you can do.

Cuz that's literally all you can

do, .

[00:11:21] Chaz Wolfe: Yeah. I think that the. The things that you can control, like what you're talking about, and when you realize it and you realize that you put in ABC and that gave you specifically X, Y, Z. Yeah. And then that it just returns the confidence back to the initial place of Oh, yeah.

Whoa, I did that. Another level of confidence again.

Yeah. It's amazing. You can get in that virtuous kind of cycle, right? Where it'll feed itself and go up and up the same thing, but down, you get a negative thing and then that reinforces, and it's almost like a self-fulfilling bracy.

So many people get stuck in that downward motion, but you can start pushing that thing upward and just do it for long enough. You'll keep

climbing. Yeah. You're, I hope the listener right now, I hope they hit the pause button, bro. What you're giving right now is life changing information and what, here's what most people will do.

Even the people who are listening to this podcast, I know that they wanna change and grow, but the majority of them will go yeah, I've heard that before.

[00:12:16] Paden Squires: Yeah. And it's so easy. And I did that for a lot of years, the first years I started reading books and learning these concepts and they don't quite hit.

Cuz you're, not Ready for it. You haven't developed to the point to where you can really soak in that information. You just gotta take the first step. . Yeah. And once you do that, you, like I said, you get a little bit of motivation, you get a little bit of confidence and everything after that just starts creeping.

But you gotta do it. That's, there's no way around.

[00:12:43] Chaz Wolfe: Gotta keep showing up. Okay. So give us a little understanding here. You got rolling. You started from your home. You're networking, you're growing this thing organically. Everybody's telling you this is the craziest idea ever. No CPA ever does this.

What decision did you make along the way? That was just an incredible choice. You look back on it, it was a pivotable. Share that detail with us.

[00:13:03] Paden Squires: Yeah. , that's a great question. Everything, every, I, there's several points, but every time I'm doing something that super scares me or my wife's pushing into is something that turned out to be an amazing decision.

By nature, maybe this is my personality that maybe lead me into counting and different things. And especially in my background, coming out of that black a little bit, you try to be a little conservative, right? You wanna risk so much. And every time, that's always been my biggest downfall is not going far enough.

And plane too small. And so every time I have found a way to push the envelope. Man it seems huge at the time, but then you look back three years from that and it. The best decision you ever made in your life, right? Even just for example, opening up my first office, right?

Not operating outta my home. Let's take on this overhead or opening up an office space, all these different things. Hiring my first employee, there's hundreds of those kinds of decisions that stretch you a little bit, and they always feel massive at the time. You think, How am I ever gonna do this, man, it's amazing when you look.

Even a year later, two years later, how that set you up for all your

[00:14:07] Chaz Wolfe: success? You've done something really special here. And I just wanna point it out to the listener. The overall arching principle that is teaching you is to press into what's scary press into what's uncomfortable. We know this, but then he is given you a couple of examples here.

Hiring the first person, taking the chance in the office, all these things that in business. It's oh, like I know this is probably the right thing, but I it's the unknown, It's fear. It's what if this happens? It's now my name's on the line with the lease. Or now if someone else is counting on me for their, food to eat dinner.

It's a lot of fear. And what I'm hearing you say, Peyton is, You just gotta run into it, and it's almost like now an indicator I'm hearing you say. , I'm a little nervous, if I'm a little fearful, I now know that this is probably exactly what I need

[00:14:50] Paden Squires: to do. Yeah. No, you, Yeah, you nailed it.

It's you almost always need to attack the thing you're afraid of. That's almost always what is holding you back from whatever you're trying to do.

[00:15:00] Chaz Wolfe: Yeah. Yeah. There was a a time, I don't share a whole lot of personal experiences here on the show, but just to continue this vein here for a half second, there was a time Not too many years ago, a handful of years ago, probably five years or so ago, six years or so ago I already had multiple businesses doing millions of dollars.

In fact, I was working a sales job outside of that probably making $400,000 $500,000 in my sales job. Outside of my businesses, I was doing extremely well. I'm 30 ish years old, 28, 29, 30 years old, and. and I start connecting with Grant Cardone and this thing that he is reading some books, this, that and the other.

And I see online, he posts, he's looking for sales. people And I'm like, I don't need a sales job. I have one. I'm crushing it. I'm the top guy. I have businesses. I don't wanna move to Miami. I don't actually wanna do this. But I sent in a video just to see, let's just see what happens. Yeah, I know. And so I ended up going down there to interview.

I just was thinking I was gonna network with some people, see what happened. Who knows. Let's just see. And there was a specific position there was a sales position that they really wanted to give me, but then there was this other position that I probably really wasn't qualified for regarding marketing and stuff like that.

I was, my business experience probably qualified me, but from a technical marketing perspective I wasn't qualified. And I told 'em that in the interview. I'm like, This, if you gave me this position, I would be nervous. And that's exactly why I'm here Wow. And I'll tell you what, it was like two years later, it was a different position almost like a net partnership opportunity that came up.

I ended up moving my whole family across the country, worked at the 10 x headquarters. . It was an incredible experience. Some negative along with the positive, but the reality of it is that there's so many things that have happened in my life since then. Not necessarily because of working for him, but because of the experience of moving my family, going across the country, living in a different area.

All the things of coming back, like all of those things would've never happened if I had. Played small, like you said. Yeah.

[00:16:46] Paden Squires: Yeah. It's, you're one relationship, you're one connection, You're one email phone call away from something that could change your life at any point. To be honest with you, it's you just gotta open yourself up to that.

Be willing to take that chance. That's right. That's right. I All they would've told you is just no, , we didn't want you, so come on.

[00:17:02] Chaz Wolfe: Yeah. When you understand that. Really what you just did is you actually took your superpower. You mentioned your superpower in a negative way a second ago of like playing small and counting the cost and Oh, I don't know.

Cause that's what CPAs do. Like you Oh yeah. You get to tell me as the entrepreneur, Hey bud, slow down. You ain't got enough money for that.

[00:17:18] Paden Squires: Yeah, that's what we do. .

[00:17:20] Chaz Wolfe: That's literally. But in that the skillset or the superpower that you have, brother, what's the worst case scenario?

Cause we can analyze that just the same. Yeah. And it's not like anybody's gonna die most likely. Yeah. If you put in extreme circumstances.

[00:17:33] Paden Squires: Yeah. I mean it's, Yes. I love that. I love that. Analyzing the worst case scenario. Cuz if you can look at that and say I'll be all right, that will give you the confidence to take that.

Hundred. It's what? You just gotta get your ego outta the way and just take a chance and, and if somebody says, laughs you off, awesome. Move on. You know what I

[00:17:53] Chaz Wolfe: mean? Yeah. The idea that you've given here today actually puts ego in a different light. For me it's this quiet, maybe not as like arrogant ego.

It's this thing inside of us. Even though you described maybe a low confidence, a low perspective of Oh, can I do it? There's. It's still ego holding you back because of what you are determining for yourself as opposed to being able to kinda submit yourself to the process or to the decision or to someone else's help or, whatever.

Yeah, no,

[00:18:19] Paden Squires: yeah, I agree. It's that fear is you just protecting your ego. That's all you do.

[00:18:24] Chaz Wolfe: That's so good. We got, we're quoting that one right there. Good. Okay. What about a bad decision, bro? You've, I know you've made plenty of them. Give us the juiciest one you can think of.

[00:18:32] Paden Squires: Fall of course I'm a money guy, but fall in love with an investment.

I've made some, made a couple bad decisions where, man, it's almost like I wanted. I wanted it to be good. So I just said . I wanted it so bad, even though knowing I even knew going in, it was stupid. That's so good. So I, there, there's, and not necessarily my CPA firm, but some of the other different things I got going on in real estate and in business development.

Yep. Putting , doing investments out there where. Man, trust your gut on some of that stuff. If there's some feeling that's off a little bit say your body's telling you something, right? Your emotions are there for a reason, and trying to figure out what that emotion or that feeling means.

You need to investigate that before you jump off. Because if you have a, your body doesn't feel right going into something, there's a reason for that, and you're picking up on some cues almost subconsciously that you're not thinking about.

[00:19:26] Chaz Wolfe: That's right. I agree with you. Now I want you to reach into , that purse of stories.

Tell us one where you did this exact thing.

[00:19:33] Paden Squires: I invested in a Of failing bars slash restaurant that I knew was way overextended and no way they were gonna cover their overhead, to be quite honest with you. And it was something that I just wanted I wanted, and I thought, Man, if this thing was a success, how awesome would that be?

But in, in inside me I knew, and as from a number of perspective, It would take a miracle for that to be successful. And the emotions got the best of me.

[00:20:00] Chaz Wolfe: Yeah. Yep. That's so good. Practical, but you're so right. We can get lost in and I guess whether that's ego again, maybe a little pride, maybe a little.

I just shuffle the truth to the side. Don't look at that. . . I, So knowing this that you've made this type of bad decision, we all have, whether it was 20 bucks or 20 million bucks. What processes and disciplines do you have now around making decisions, especially as a, with a CPA mind?

[00:20:22] Paden Squires: I'm curious. Yeah, obviously I'm pretty good at running the numbers, even though I ignored them at, on that one specific. That's right. Chance. I have good advisors around me. I have amazing clients that come in here I get to work with every day, amazing entrepreneurs that running stuff past them and getting their ideas and perspective.

I tell you, just gathering perspectives of people that are around you that you trust and know that are successful. That's my process is checking with my closest advisors and friends that I know this industry or know this opportunity and yeah, that can tell me what I don't know. .

[00:20:56] Chaz Wolfe: That's right.

A hundred percent. Do you think, cuz we both come from single mom family, right? And so it's not like we had the dad or that sounding board from a male perspective at least. Do you think that you've strategically done that maybe because of that? Or was that just something you learned along the way in the books?

Like how did you come to that conclusion?

[00:21:14] Paden Squires: Man, that's a, Yeah. That's a good thought. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, my background, just my father in and out struggled with alcohol and drugs and different things like that. Great guy. Awesome potential. Just couldn't get out of his own way. Yeah. It, yeah, just through my education and not.

Having necessarily that perfect, , biological place to turn. It was really my only option. And of course surrounding myself with successful people. That's everything in your life, your relationships, your network, that's everything.

[00:21:42] Chaz Wolfe: Yeah. Yeah, a hundred percent.

Okay. Peyton, we're gonna switch over to the speed round here. I I got some fast and furious questions for you. The first one is, if you could dwindle, especially you being a numbers guy I'm jacked to hear what you have to say about this, but if you dwindle your entire business down into one trackable metric, and you can only track that one thing forever and ever.

[00:21:58] Paden Squires: What is it? It'd be like customer satisfaction or like I, there's a measurements like customer promoter score and not that I, Yeah. Even track that myself, but Okay. Some of the businesses I've worked for have done that, but Sure. But if you can track a measurement of how likely a customer of yours is a promoter.

A promoter of your business, Yeah. You take care of that one measure. Everything else you'll figure out along the way, right? Yeah. Taking care of your people and they become your advocates. Your job's halfway.

[00:22:29] Chaz Wolfe: Yeah I agree with you. It was interesting. I wanted to I thought maybe you would go the CPA route, the net profit, cash flow which obviously is important.

But I love how you delineated it down, not to just customer satisfaction, but customer promoter. , score. Because there's a_ big difference between a customer promoter and a, just a satisfied. Absolutely. Yeah. Big difference for you, what does that look like in the CPA world? _

[00:22:53] Paden Squires: I don't advertise at all.

All my business comes from word of mouth. It I don't advertise at all. And I've gotten so many great customers and clients over the years that are constantly promoting me. I. I have to really start getting strategic about what I can do and who I can work with and different things like that.

So that's big in my industry is just everything's word of mouth, yeah. Give people a great experience. They'll take care of you.

[00:23:16] Chaz Wolfe: Yeah, a hundred percent. Yeah. I even love part of our conversation as we got started you brought up some tax benefits that I might be able to take advantage of, and I we went back and forth on some of my knowledge or maybe lack thereof.

And I just your perspective on, look, I wanna be able to provide a good experience, even just in our brief conversation about one little potential product. It just, it comes from a place of care which stems all the way. Like you can't have a promoter, high promoter score if the caring piece

Yeah. Is there,

[00:23:44] Paden Squires: Yeah. It can't be some like, manipulation thing cuz people will sniff that, they'll find that out real quick. Yep. It has to come from a genuine, caring piece because people can read that Absolutely. See

[00:23:55] Chaz Wolfe: right through you if it didn't, Yeah.

Now the next question I've got for you is a book recommendation. But you've read hundreds. So specifically thinking of the listener, he's six figures. She's six figures. They're trying to scale, they're trying to, they're wearing too many hats, right? They're overwhelmed. You know this entrepreneur because some of them are your clients,

Oh, yeah. What book do you.

[00:24:15] Paden Squires: I, it's really hard for me to pick books, but I did pick two. I trimmed it down to two . That's good. That added uh, Mindset by Carol Dweck. Massive, one of the most profound books Wow. I've ever read. Okay.

[00:24:27] Chaz Wolfe: It's really just

[00:24:28] Paden Squires: That fixed mindset

[00:24:29] Chaz Wolfe: where,

[00:24:30] Paden Squires: versus growth mindset, realizing you, you may not have that ability now.

You can certainly develop that ability. Somebody else has developed that ability skill, and you can certainly do that too. Yeah. The other one's Turning Pro by Steven Presfield. It's a book about, most people are operating in their businesses and they don't see them as a profession.

They don't see themselves as a professional. It's Oh, I'm this kind of, this imposter amateur out here. Just Yeah. People think I know what I'm doing, whatever. But this is about, let's turn our process. Let's be a professional here. Let's be a professional in everything we do.

Yeah. Fantastic.

[00:25:05] Chaz Wolfe: But we'll definitely put both of those in the show notes. I have not heard of either of those, and I'm a pretty well read individual. I'm excited to add them to my list. Yeah, good man. Yeah, no, they're both fantastic. Love the perspective. Next question is, do you intentionally network or mastermind with other entrepreneurs?

[00:25:21] Paden Squires: I do. I've done different networking events and different networking groups over the years. Sure. I've gotten to the point in the last few years where I'm wearing too many hats and some of that stuff is slipped by the great thing about my business is that a lot of the networking comes into me, I get these clients and then I get to meet people and Columbia is a town of, a hundred some thousand people. So it's not necessarily a massive town, but it allows me to make connections constantly. But as I've reshaped processes in my business and as I'm working on that being able to get a whole lot more intentional around that's what I'm looking to do.

Yeah. And trying to connect with people. Obviously they're steps down the road in front of.

[00:25:55] Chaz Wolfe: Oh yeah, a hundred percent. And like you said earlier in the show, relationships are everything. So if you can if you keep that in the forefront, then business flows from relationships. Sometimes it looks a little different than we anticipate, but business flows from that perspective, for sure.

I got a question for you around operations. My, my question is this, in a week's time, if you were only given one hour to work on your. What would you do, or how would you use that one hour to successfully run your business like you do now?

[00:26:24] Paden Squires: Wow, that's a great question. Oh. Didn't have a prepared answer

[00:26:27] Chaz Wolfe: for that one.

I that's my curve ball .

[00:26:29] Paden Squires: If I had one hour, it's a great, a great book around that. It's a four hour work week from Tim Ferriss. I'm sure you're aware of where that, where it's like focus, if you land four hours, what are you gonna focus on? And just do that. Man I guess it would it is just being with people, I'm trying to restructure my business to get to the point to where, I'm doing a whole lot less of the work and, work and being the face right, and being with the people, making people feel good and making people feel about good about the process and strategizing and different things like that.

It would just be shaking hands and being with people in my office.

[00:26:59] Chaz Wolfe: Yeah. Yeah. You're so right. What you're trying to do, what you just said is really the heart of every entrepreneur and what I found, we call it, the warrior stage versus the king stage. And in the warrior stage you've gotta, It's you.

It's you maybe a guy to your left, maybe a guy to your right, but you're in the battle. You get the blood on the sword, you're doing the. thing Yeah. And there's, there comes a transition and that's the transition that you just identified. It's this transition to kingship where you've obviously got the revenue and so you've got the pieces to be, or the resources to be able to start putting these things in place.

It makes perfect sense that you're saying that you want this transition because we've seen this time and time again and businesses. And and the next steps are gonna be beautiful for you because you're gonna step into that kingship, that play of being on as opposed to in all the time. And it's not a matter of you not doing the work, like you said, it's just a different type of work.

Yeah. It's definitely a know, a different perspective. So I'm excited for you, man. I know exactly what that feeling feels like to make that transition and There you are in for a phenomenal ride. So I'm excited for you_. Last question, my brother, if you lost it all. Yeah. _

[00:28:01] Paden Squires: Do you know I lost everything?

In, in some ways I think it'd be an advantage because you would break out of all these structures or reasons why you think you can't do certain things, right? That's right. That's right. In a ways. In, in some ways the way I structure my business, as you're growing and just trying to get paychecks and get revenues, you pay for that down the road, right?

Where you're maybe caught into processes or doing stuff that is no longer the best use of your time or the highest use of your time. That's right. I just rebuild it as long as I got my network and in relationships, friends and family I'd be back at it doing it all over again till they stop.

[00:28:36] Chaz Wolfe: I like the added little piece there at the end until they stop me. I think. I think there's a breed, right? There's a breed of guys. And I think there's a resounding similarity between most of my guests. And so this is for the listener. You guys have listened hopefully to, to more than just this one show, but if you haven't, go back and listen to a few others or listen to the next one that comes out tomorrow or the next day.

And the reality is that. There's something unique about these guests. They've not only reached the seven figure mark, but they think a little different. And that Just do it again. Seems to be a pretty resounding similarity. And then the until they would make me stop.

As Peyton would say I love it, man. I think you're right. It hits on a little bit of the kind of craziness that we have, .

[00:29:12] Paden Squires: Yeah. And that's good, bad, sometimes, you might rub people the wrong way, but it's not a negative thing. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:29:17] Chaz Wolfe: Good stuff, man.

How can someone connect with you? Maybe you got somebody who's Dude, this guy's gotta be my cpa. How do I find him? How can I start working with him? That type.

[00:29:25] Paden Squires: Yeah. My website inspire cpa.com. That's related to the business stuff. My personal Facebook page, to be honest with you, I try to share good content on there, just talking about what's going on in the economy and different things, or just try to share some of the cool positive things I hear through books and podcasts like this man,

That, that's where I'm fairly active. Just my personal Facebook page, or if you want to find my email or whatever, go to squire cpa.com. You can reach out.

[00:29:48] Chaz Wolfe: Perfect. We'll put those links and stuff in the show notes as well. But dude, it's been incredible to have you here. I look forward to continuing the conversation with you personally on a few things that you might be able to help me out with.

And so if you're listening today and you pulled out a couple of things give paid a shout. But even more than that, if you're looking for a well qualified CPA to help you go to the next level in your business take a look at what he's putting together and see if he can be a benefit to you.

We appreciate you being here, dude. Thank you so much and we wish you nothing but success.

[00:30:12] Paden Squires: Yeah, thanks Jazz.

Host Chaz Wolfe brings Paden Squires to the king’s table. Paden is a 7+ figure king in the tax, business consulting, and real estate industries. He’s been in the tax and business strategy industry for over eight years. Paden saw an opportunity to bring his knowledge and passion for personal service into the CPA space. In this episode, Chaz and Paden discuss facing your fears, thinking big, and the importance of self-development. Tune in today to learn more about overcoming your own ego to grow your business!

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