Turn a Penny into $10k

0:00 All right, y 'all, we tune in for another episode of Bankedoutt Radio Show and I have another guest being brought via PodMatch and also Zoom. We have George Ishee who has a fantastic story of turning a penny that he found laying on the ground into 10 ,000 and then revised the program so anyone can keep doing it and to put it into a system to generate over a million dollars. So there's a lot of people out there saying that, you know, they can teach you how to make the money. What George has done is. So George, thank you for coming on. Thank you. So George, tell us a little bit more about, you know, your background is in the financial industry. I've been 36 years in sales and marketing. I've done the gambit from startup companies to work for a Fortune 50 company. And for my first 20 years, I was in sales, direct sales, carrying the bag, as everybody says, and got promoted all the way up to VP of marketing and sales. So I trained salespeople successfully for years. And then I got kind of bored of sales and decided to open up my own marketing company. And I did that for eight years. and then got recruited back into the corporate world. But I've always had this dream as I went through that. And I always just struggled. I said, well, why do people buy things that I'm selling? That was my underground kind of reason. And I studied it. And I came up with

1:33 this one question. Do people not have enough money because there's not enough money in the world? And I was like, well, no, of course there's plenty of money. There's abundance of money. And what's keeping people from doing it? And I figured out the answer and created a system that's kind of now my give back. I'm semi -retired and it's kind of my give back to society to thank them for everything I've done so we can help others get past the money issue of life. It's pretty cool. It's all common sense. It's simple and really, really innovative, we think. So walk us through our process of, you know, Taking a penny turn into you know $10 ,000 and then taking that and multiplying it Well, let me share the concept with you and I'll okay, you know use you as my guinea pig and ask questions so Have you personally ever found a penny laying on the ground and picked it up? You ever done that?

2:33 Yes, plenty of times Okay, second question. Do you ever turn that penny into million dollars? No, I have not turned it to a billion dollars. Oh You were so close, man You're just this far away. But now, so here's the deal. If you take that penny, and if you're really trying to change your wealth, how hard would it be for you to figure out how to double that penny from a penny to two cents? Hard or easy? Pretty easy, right? Yeah. Okay. Then if you go two to four, four to eight, eight to 16, and you just double that penny 20 times, it equals $1 ,342 ,177 .28. Math is common sense, right? Yeah. So here's the real key question. If you had personally done that and double the penny 20 times and had 1 .3 million in the bank, would it be hard or easy for you to do it again? It'd be easy because you already know what you did. Bingo. It's common sense.

3:31 You have the knowledge what to do, right? So if you had that knowledge to do it again, the only thing keeping you would be the action to do it, right? So I created a system that does exactly that. And with my system, let's say you had doubled a penny 10 times, you got to $5 .12. And then you went to yard sale and you found something you knew you could sell for 10. And you offered a five and they said, sure. And you bought it and turned around and sold it for 10. You could do that, right? Then you would take that information, log into your account, into my system. and type in exactly how you did it, went to yard sale, had five, off did it, sold it, enter. You can do that, right? As soon as you do that, here's the secret magic that will change everybody's financial future. That when you do that at every step or goal, my software opens up and then shows you all the answers from everybody else ahead of you one step, how they completed the step you're about to start. So you get to see the knowledge from everybody else that worked, and just pick one you like, copy it, and do it, and then log it in, enter, and then go to the next step, the next step, the next step, all the way through 28 steps. It's kind of like if I gave you a 28 -question quiz, but I gave you the answer to each question before you had answered, could you pass? Yeah, because you already got the answer. It was like an overbook test. Bingo. So we are giving them the answer

5:01 before they have to do it. It's just common sense. And so I've done that personally. I'm personally on step 20 of 28. So I can help people along that lines, but we've already got people just starting with this product to get going and anybody can do it. We're targeting the Gen Zs and millennials first of trying to get them to become financially free for age 30, but it'll work for at any age. You know middle age you're getting close to retirement and have enough money. It doesn't matter. You just gotta you just gotta take take the action and do it It's simple So anything like that before you say what? Have you ever heard anything like that offered before? Not that offer I have heard the double the penny of the day though because I read a book that was talking about that concept and you know What would you they present in the form of what would you rather take? A penny doubled every day for 30 days straight or would you take ten thousand dollars? And then when you break down the math, you know, you miss out if you take the ten thousand dollars Yeah, if you take it 30 times, it'll be like two point five million dollars. Yeah, so it really It goes to show all you do is just put in the work. Um, it's actually, I think I got that concept out of a guerrilla marketing book that I was reading. There's another guy that did you ever hear about the Little Red Paperclip? Okay. So tell me about the Little Red Paperclip. Well, Little Red Paperclip, a

6:32 guy in England had a challenge to see if he could take a Little Red Paperclip and if he could barter it more and more and higher and higher all the way up to where he could barter a house for free. and he did it. And he's actually has a TED talk now and he's got a website that shows exactly all the different things that he bartered, but it works. So nobody's just ever opened up and said, well, let me give you the answer on how to do it. And it's like, if you had a personal mentor who told you what to do before you had to do it because it worked, you could succeed. And that's what my new program is doing for people.

7:14 who want to take the action and do it. We've got the answer. They just got to put the effort in. It's like I say now my marketing is about to that I'm about to launch a campaign and it says why do you need an MBA when you can get an MBG for way less? I love it. So how are people responding? Because you know sometimes there are those skeptics out there and you know because there is always something presented in a way to where people like to group everything together. My favorite answer when I tell people, they go, are you a millionaire yet? I go, not yet. I'm working there myself. And they say, when you get there, I'm in. Those are the skeptics, but those aren't the people that initially will be millionaires. But I also know that when we make the first millionaire in the program, everybody will be in. It was just like Roger Bannister was the first guy to break the four minute mile.

8:12 1954 and he broke it by one second. He did three minutes at 59 seconds. Then the next year, 17 people broke it. Everybody just needs to see the proof and then they're like, okay, I'll follow it. But for the early adopters and those that are the entrepreneurs and the trailblazers, we're just now launching this and we've started bringing people on board and we've made it so ridiculous, affordable that If you think about it, if you get an MBA, what do you do? You spend two hard years full -time going to class seven days a week. You then have homework, you have tests. If you don't pass tests, you don't get it. You go in debt about $100 ,000. Then when you come out, what do you get? You get a piece of paper that says, good luck, go earn your first penny, right? Exactly. Now, there's a lot of value to an MBA. I'm not putting it down, but it may take you five to 15 years. to pay back that $100 ,000.

9:12 My program, if you invested two years full -time like that, then you would invest over two years $840 to make $1 .3 million. Would you do that? Because we charge a ridiculous fee of $35 a month. We're financing it for however long you want to take to get to your million. So if you took four years, you'd spend $1 ,700 to make 1 .3. Is that a decent ROI? That's a fantastic ROI. More than decent. For those that are waiting to see it done, wait to see it done, those that want that ROI, then all they gotta do is sign up, get going. We offer a 30 -day free trial to see if they can qualify, if they'll put the time and energy in where they find a penny and double it 10 times in 30 days to get to $5 .12.

10:05 Yeah. That's easy to obtain, so. What has been some of the, I guess, the feedback from, you know, people joining the program? The feedback is they love it. They're like, I can't believe nobody's ever offered this to us. They're like, it's so simple, so common sense, and it gives them total control of their financial future. So why do you think no one ever offered it? I don't know. Sometimes I think that sometimes it seems like information isn't as abundant as it should be. Well, the guys that made all the money, they want you to buy their product, but they're not going to tell you the secrets because they're afraid that you'll clone them and become competition. And so that's not their... their target but with my system everybody gets rewarded for completing and it's sharing and it's only helping people behind them not ahead of them.

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12:08 You can change your life in a week Forward method forward in a man advanced method That's never addressed. So where did you get the idea for the system? I just over years, I studied why why people didn't have money. And I looked at all the people in my sales, why they bought. And it was it was solving problems that they couldn't solve. You know, if you think about the fundamental, we all buy something in advance because we've tried to fix. We've tried to solve the problem ourselves. But we couldn't solve it. So now we got to go out and find somebody that has better knowledge. See, that was the key. And then you get three beds and they all present their knowledge of how to solve the solution.

12:57 And then you make a decision who has the best knowledge. And then you buy because they created more value and solve the problem or give you an answer. And that's the fundamental to life and capitalism. And I just said, well, how do we give that to people in advance where they're not threatened? And so I created the system. So is this your first time like creating something and presenting it to the market? Or have you had previous experience in doing other things? I've had previous experience. I had a company called Small Steps to Big Results where we were helping people deliver training in small chunks and then holding them accountable. And I've been involved in, you know, multi -level marketing programs. And I've been on the corporate side, the entrepreneurial side, had my own marketing company for eight years. but I've always been creative to figure out problems. And this was one that always stuck in the back of my mind was, how come people don't have enough money?

13:53 And would people, if they knew how to do it, would they decide and put the commitment in? If you decide to get an MBA, you got to commit, right? You get two years to do all the work or you lose all that money and you don't get it. So that's the biggest challenge of people to get into my program. Will they commit to themselves? Will they hire themselves to be financially free? And that's strictly a personal decision. When we all had the God given belief to make a decision, they decide I'm going for it. They can go get it. It's common sense. Do you have more people who stay within the program than I guess exit the program prematurely? Well, through my trials, originally people would start and then they would stop working. They just get distracted and wouldn't do it. So now what we do, we say, we've got to qualify you and see if you are willing to do the work. And now we also are putting together bi -weekly conference calls where we can brainstorm.

14:57 We're starting a Facebook group where everybody can help everybody. And we encourage people to create teams around your own neighborhood, whether it's your family with your kids. So now you can teach your kids. See, because once we get all these answers built in, it'll last for generations. Your grandkids could play it. They could be financially free by the time they get out of high school. So there's no limitations to it. It's a different way of thinking. And when you innovate something, you got to break through. And that's by having me on this podcast, you're helping break through a new concept that could change the financial poverty rule in the world. So thank you for having me on. You're welcome. I love disruptors and stuff. So you're disrupting something. A massive disruptor in a positive way. Absolutely. Exactly.

15:51 So what has been the feedback in that and people that are media outlets and radio stations and stuff like that, are they receiving what you're putting out there or they're being a little hesitant? We haven't reached out to them yet. We've talked to them. We're now reaching out to Gen Z influencers on social media, because they can get it out faster. Because the Gen Zs are social driven, they're computer driven. They want money quicker. They're worried about debt. They're like, how do I get the quick money? So that's my target audience. And we're working now to get those involved people. Because this is something they can offer their people to make it work. So they've been very receptive to the information so far.

16:42 Yes, they're there. Well, how would they not be? I mean, it's it's common sense. No, I see where it's practical in your approaching your strategy. I love it, you know, because like you said, they're always on social media. They're they're more informed than, you know, previous generations were about the situation of, you know, I'm saying life, right, because the information is out there. And the other side to that is with the Gen Z's. if you look at what's really important to them, one, it's community, right? It's helping the world get better. These are the things that align. We're a community of mentors that are helping everybody help everybody. It just aligns with where that next generation is going. And as soon as we start getting them involved, and we'll be launching that out very shortly, I believe there's going to be a very warm welcome to them once they see it and start spreading the word.

17:39 So ultimately what's the goal for the system and for the business? My exit strategy on this whole thing is to get it going, turn it over, and then I want to go and travel around the country and the world doing seminars to invite people in, you know, to get it going. And once we get critical mass going with it, it'll last for generations. And then Here's the bigger image that I have for it. Imagine if you made $1 .3 million. What we encourage you to do then is first take the first million dollars and donate it back into society. And then take that $350 ,000 you have left, cut it in half, live on $170 ,000, which most people live on. Take that $170 ,000 and do it again the last four steps and do it again make another million three and then give away another million and that becomes your new job for the rest of your life number one to give back to society but then number two what you could do is then create a pod and then what you would just think about this everybody that's got a 401k money set aside for the future what if i came to you and as an example let's say you had a hundred thousand dollars in a retirement plan What kind of interest are you making today on that, would you think? What's society paying for 401k? What's an interest rate return? It's

19:12 been a while since I've had one. I actually cashed mine out years ago to start everything that I'm doing. It's four or five percent, right? Four or five percent, yeah. What if I came to you and said, I've got an option where you can get 50 % return. Would you be interested? Yes. Well, here's what we'd do. We'd say, You have $100 ,000. We'd like the first year to start and invest $5 ,000 in the self -directed IRA. We can tell you how to do that. Then once you put it into there, you can invest it in a pod that you've developed and we'll take $5 ,000 and cut it in half with $2 ,500, $2 ,500. We would take the first $2 ,500. We would then go hire disadvantaged people that have more month than money. And we put them in for two or three hours a week and teach them how to take your $2 ,500 and double it to $5 ,000 and $10 ,000 in a year. And then we say split the profit with us so you now have $7 ,500 on your $5 ,000, which is 50 % return.

20:18 And it will keep $2 ,500 and reinvest it in more people to help them learn how to do it so they can go home and do it themselves. And at the end of the year, we'd say, what do you want to do? Here's your 7 ,500 back. Do you want to take it, put it in again, or put more in at a 50 % return? And imagine if we started building pods like that in different regions of everybody that was successful, how that would change the world and end financial poverty. I love the way that you're thinking. What can we do to like motivate people to do things like that? Just point them to the website, get on one of our webinars or jump in and take the quiz. I mean, you know, it's called take action, right? That's the only piece that people are that are living out of this. And, you know, they misspelled action wrong in the dictionary. I can't believe they did that, you know, because they spell it A -C -T -I -O -N, right? In my world, we want to change the definition and take the I, pick it up and move it to the front of the word. So now it spells I act on. If they act on their dream, it's now available to go get it. I love it. When you started this process, how did your network of people

21:48 respond to you putting that information out there when you tell them you're going to do this? Well, I'm just now at that point, I've been developing it and getting the software built and we have gamification built into it. So it's fun. And every time you complete a step, it's got the yahoo and everything. So we're literally to the point of just grabbing that profit faucet and turning it on to let the world know that it's there. So we're in that beginning stages to start to shift it from an idea to marketing. And now getting a podcast and getting involved with influencers and putting it out on social media. But the general feedback on testing has been just simply, wow.

22:35 Wow. It's been nobody's ever done that. And we're excited. Yeah. I'm definitely excited to see how this goes. I'm going to go to the website and, you know, see what I can do as well. And we're still dressing up the website too. So it's not perfect. We don't want it to be perfect, but all the backend is working. And we have a 30 -day challenge up at the top. We call it the 30 -day money mindset challenge because here's the way it works. We've researched this in depth. The problem is, and part of the reason that nobody has a ton of money and everybody didn't have it to us, We were scripted at a very early age about money. Have you ever heard anything growing up like Money's the root of all evil. We can't afford that. We'll get that later, you know Words like that and when you have no belief at a young age Your brain is absorbing information to get a belief and once it forms a belief it locks it in to that belief Your belief will never ever change you'll have it the rest of your life until you replace the data, right? You can't get to the data because it's in your subconscious. Unless you're hypnotized, they can get to it. So what we did, we created a different process to kind of bypass that. And what it is, if I get you to do my quiz and you double a penny 10 times

24:07 in 30 days to $5 .12, what will happen is your subconscious is there to protect you And if you try to do something wrong or it doesn't have any knowledge to back it up, it'll self -sabotage you, right? So if I said, take a penny and turn it into a million dollars, your brain instantly goes, nah, you can't do that because nobody's ever done it. Don't even try. And it will self -sabotage you, no matter how hard you try. And that's how the brain works. But if you say, I'm going to take a penny and double it to two cents, and here's how everybody else did it. your brain goes, I don't care, go ahead. That ain't going to hurt you. And it will ignore it. And same thing from two cents to four, four to eight, and eight to 10, and up to $2 .56 to $5 .12.

24:58 It will ignore it because it's too small. It won't hurt you, right? But when you double a penny 10 times in 30 days, at that point, your brain will never ever question, can I double? because they just did it 10 times in a row and it now has that new data. Now it'll shift from that left protective side to the right creative side and says, well, how do you do it? And then if you don't have the how, it'll self -sabotage you again, right? Now my software gives you the how at every step. And you say, how do I go from five to 10? Oh, there's a yard sale, there's eBay, isn't it? And the brain goes, oh, okay, go try it. and now you bypass all that mental crap in your brain and now you can actually do it by taking I act on and all that's built in our system from a subconscious level. So the first phase is you get through 30 days to $5 .12. That's phase one. Phase two, now you're getting in the practice of going from $5 .12 and you double it 10 more times to get to $5 ,243. That's what practices go over and over and over again. And maybe when you get into some of the bigger dollars, you know, like, like 1000 to 2000, you might have to buy and sell two, three or four or five items in that range, but you're getting, you'll probably do 10, 50, 20,

26:29 maybe 30 transactions. And you're owning that skill to learn what the market value will pay for something. then go offer it for lower, buy it, and then sell it for higher, because everybody will sell you for something less than market value, right? And when you get to step 10 of $5 ,200, now you've got the skill and the expertise of what to do and how to do it. Now you just do the last eight steps and go from $5 ,200 to $1 ,003 ,000 with just bigger dollar increments following our pattern. Yeah. So it's a very mapped out process. This I'm like things like this would have been great to like teaching school You know it might be taught in school or might be taught in home The younger students and you play a game at home and teach your kids while you go You know when they start and start the freshman year if it takes them four years They could be wealthy in the same time to take some to graduate from high school. Yeah I believe, you know what I'm saying, like you said, people figure out, you know what I'm saying, the money situation. And then because when I became a high -inner in money, it eliminated those stress points that I had.

27:53 So then the new thing became, well, what am I doing with my life now? How am I going to be more impactful? And I feel that when you strip that need of financial security away because it's been settled, then you get to dive deeper into the meaning of life and what you're going to do with yours because we have a finite amount of time to be here on this earth. You've nailed it right there, sir. It was funny, I had a comment recently with somebody that I was talking to and I explained to him, I said, you know, when you get to 1 .3 million, I want you to donate a million. and do exactly that, become a philanthropic person to give back. And she goes, I don't know if I could do that. And I started laughing. And I said, oh, you still got the mental virus. She goes, what's that? I said, if you're worried about giving away a million and only having 300 ,000 left, I said, do it one more year and double it again and make it 2 .6 million. And if you still got the willies, double it one more time to 5 .4 million. I said, could you donate a million then? She started laughing and said, yeah, I could. I said, see, you got the mental virus.

29:04 We got to get rid of that. She broke down and started laughing. I said, it's just about relieving that pressure finance and that scarcity of money that you were taught from your parents and the people that were heroes, your teachers and everything, or just your friends. So we can't afford that. Oh, my mom wouldn't let me buy that or, you know, that's too expensive. And those locked into your brain and they're there. So we figured out a way to bypass that and it can do it. What I love about this, it'll work for anybody. I don't care if you're black, white, Asian, Chinese, you know, whatever it'll work. Everybody that makes the decision, it allows it to untapped that power of decision and do it. Yeah, like you said I act on I love it From a marketing standpoint, I'm gonna love it and it's sealed into my brain now It's just the dictionary spelled it wrong in my turn Excited about it. I'm I you know, and I'm driving now to start to expose it to people I hope the people on your podcast here didn't start engaging in it because again It's not about the money. And let me just throw a caveat. We're charging a whopping $35 a month.

30:31 But I understand there's even people, they're so strapped, they have more money than money. And I'm going to throw a grenade out there that if you have people on your audience that can't afford that, just go onto our website, contact our support, and tell us, I can't afford it. And I'll give them a free year. of doing it and see if they'll take action and act on it. If they do, we'll give them another free year. It's not about the money. It's about them changing their lives. We're not, we're just charging a mild amount to cover the cost of, you know, making a fortune off of $35, but we want those people that can't even afford that. We want to change their life better than anybody else because they'll appreciate it the most. You know, they got people that got four or five kids and the husband ran away and they're like, just struggling. That's the people we wanted to raise a hand and go, yeah, I'll take it free, but I'll take the action.

31:32 Exchange for free. You got to take the work, but we'll do that for people. It's not about the money. Yeah. Well, George, I definitely appreciate that. And I'm going to definitely put that in and do like a promo video for that. That way, like you said, you take away the barrier for entry and everyone gets to come into that. And then all they got to do is put in the work because you put in work to do everything else in life. You can put in work to improve your life. Well, then then you're you're one of the best speakers for me. And I'd like to quote you about a thousand times saying, oh, big man, you you've nailed it and got it. That's that's awesome. I appreciate that, but George, let everybody know the website where they can be directed to and how they can participate. My name is George and it's millionairesbygeorge .com because I want to build millionaires. So remember millionaires by George .com websites up. It's not the prettiest you've seen, but it works. Exactly. That's how you need it at work.

32:38 So everybody out there, make sure y 'all want to change your financial future. You want to change your life and do work. And like George said, he's offering, if you cannot afford $35 a month, just hit contact support and just put in the work and change your life. Go to millionairesbygeorge .com. Thank you, George. I'll conclude with what is two thumbs that wants you to become wealthy? You said what has two thumbs and wants you to become wealthy? What has two thumbs and wants to make you wealthy? Me. I knew it. I appreciate it, George. Thank you for your time. Thanks for interviewing me. I appreciate the jewels and everybody out there, y 'all make sure y 'all go to the website.