May 11, 2019
What does it really take to have financial freedom. To be financially free to have what you need and what you want without fear that you will be broke?
There are many books out there touting the latest gimmick to have the monetary life you want but many are just that, gimmicks. My guest today is the co-author of The Latte Factor with David Bach and I recommend this book become required reading.
If you are not so much into reading, then take a listen to this interview as John David Mann lays out the decade long quest to get this book written, how any one can achieve their financial dreams and yes, how a latte really can lead to financial freedom without giving up the latte.
JOHN DAVID MANN has been creating careers since he was a
teenager. At age 17, he and a few friends started their own
high school in Orange, New Jersey, called Changes, Inc. where
he went on to teach. Before turning to business and
journalism, he forged a career as a concert cellist and
prize-winning composer. At 15 he was recipient of the BMI
Awards to Student Composers (at the time, their youngest award
recipient ever). His musical compositions
were performed throughout the U.S. and his musical score for the
play Prometheus Bound (written at age 13) was performed at the
amphitheater in northern Greece where the play was originally
premiered over 2,000 years ago.
John’s diverse career has made him a thought leader in several
different industries. In 1986 he founded and wrote for
Solstice, a journal on health, nutrition and environmental issues.
His
series on the climate crisis (yes, he was writing about this back
in the eighties) was selected for national reprint in the Utne
Reader. In 1992 John produced the underground bestseller The
Greatest Networker in the World, by John Milton Fogg, which became
the defining book in its industry and sold over 1 million
copies in eight languages. During the 1990s, John built a
multimillion-dollar sales organization of over 100,000 people, and
cofounded and served as
editor in chief of three business journals.
John is an award-winning author whose writings have earned the
Nautilus Book Award, the Axiom Business Book Award Gold Medal,
Taiwan’s Golden Book Award for Innovation, and the 2017 Living
Now Book Awards “Evergreen Medal,” awarded to his beloved parable
The Go-Giver for its “contributions to positive global
change.” John’s books are published in three dozen languages
and have sold more than 3 million copies. In addition to
coauthoring The Go-Giver with Bob Burg, he is also coauthor of
three New York Times bestsellers and five
national bestsellers, including The Red Circle and Mastering
Fear with former Navy SEAL Brandon Webb,
The Slight Edge with entrepreneur Jeff Olson, Real Leadership with
financial CEO John Addison, and I Should Be Dead with
political commentator Bob Beckel. His Take the Lead, with
former White House adviser Betsy Myers, was named Best
Leadership Book of 2011 by Tom Peters and the Washington
Post.
John is married to Ana Gabriel Mann and considers himself the luckiest mann in the world.