How To Build A Financial Freedom Blueprint With Edwin Carrion

In this episode, I’m thrilled to sit down with Edwin Carrion, a successful entrepreneur and self-described “God-made millionaire.” Edwin’s story, from humble beginnings to building multimillion-dollar companies, uncovers the blueprint behind true financial freedom. He dives into the early struggles he faced, from learning to lead at a young age to finding his faith and purpose through challenges. Edwin candidly opens up about the trials of maintaining work-life balance, a lesson learned the hard way after working nonstop led him to personal and financial bankruptcy. He emphasizes that financial freedom isn’t about chasing wealth but about building stability and security through smart investments and intentional living.

Edwin also highlights how crucial mentorship has been in his journey, describing it as the backbone of his growth and the driving force behind breaking through income ceilings that limit so many entrepreneurs. He shares practical advice on creating strong business foundations, reworking mindset for abundance, and setting boundaries to ensure work and personal life coexist in harmony. Throughout, Edwin’s commitment to faith and purpose shines as he encourages listeners to be intentional in every step they take. Tune in to hear Edwin’s powerful insights and discover how you can start building your own financial freedom blueprint today.

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As someone who’s walked the path to success with resilience and intentionality, Edwin Carrion is a must-follow. Connect with him on social media at EdwinCarion78, or visit his website at edwincarion.com for insights that will drive your growth to new heights.

Books Mentioned:

• Business Secrets from the Bible by Rabbi Daniel Lapin 

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Chapters

• 0:02 From Humble Beginnings
• 4:29 Faith at the Core
• 6:05 Struggles with Balance
• 16:12 Path to Financial Freedom
• 20:02 Mentorship and Growth
• 22:21 Scaling Past the Ceiling
• 29:58 Legacy and Intentional Living

Transcript

Dr. William Attaway: 0:00

I'm so excited today to have Edwin Carrion on the podcast. Edwin, the self-described God-made millionaire, was born in Quito, ecuador, raised by a single mother in a humble home, he migrated to the United States at the young age of 12 and currently lives in Miami, florida. He's a loyal husband, a proud father of two beautiful girls, a US Marine, an entrepreneur, an investor and a mentor. He's the owner and co-founder of several multi-million dollar companies that specialize in the acquisition and real estate development, transportation and logistics, investment, business education, consulting I could keep going. His specialty and passion is teaching motivated individuals his secrets, techniques and proven strategies that will create wealth in any business you choose and, as a result of that, achieving financial freedom and living life to the fullest. Edwin, I'm so glad you're here. Thanks for being on the show.

Edwin Carrion: 1:01

Hey, dr Williams, thank you for having me here and to everybody listening. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, whatever part of the world you're in, get ready for an exciting show.

Dr. William Attaway: 1:11

It's going to be fantastic.

Intro/Outro: 1:16

Welcome to Catalytic Leadership, the podcast designed to help leaders intentionally grow and thrive. Here is your host author and leadership and executive coach, dr William Attaway.

Dr. William Attaway: 1:34

Edwin, I want to start with your story. I'd love for you to share just a little bit of your story with our listeners, particularly around your journey and your development as a leader. How did you get started?

Edwin Carrion: 1:47

Born in Quito, ecuador, raised by a single mother, came to the United States when I was 12 years old, from a very humble beginnings and one of the things that I always wanted to be a successful person, you know, especially when you come from humble beginnings.

Edwin Carrion: 2:05

So how did my leadership skills turn out to be? I think, since I was very young, I was a leader. I was not a follower. I was always trying to be a leader, telling people what to do, especially because I am the oldest of three right now, growing up with my little brother, I was always telling him what to do. So, yeah, that's when you start developing those leadership skills, right? That's right, me too. So from there, I was very fortunate enough that, at 19 years old, I went into the Marine Corps and that really developed my leadership skills into what turns out to be today a successful entrepreneur leading multiple companies, having a lot of employees and being able to be not only a leader but an actual good leader that people do because they want to do things for you, not because you ask them to do things for you.

Dr. William Attaway: 2:59

That's so good. So you know, you have gone through a number of different iterations of you right in your journey, like so many different elements of your story, and I firmly believe there's no such thing as a wasted experience. What are some of the mistakes that you made in your leadership journey as you were growing and going?

Edwin Carrion: 3:23

Yeah, I think mistakes. I continue making mistakes every single day. I think we all make mistakes in our lives and that's one of the things that I always say we have to be proud of those mistakes, especially if we're learning from those mistakes. If we continue making the same mistakes over and over again, then there's no benefit to us. But I think to me, on my side, my mistakes has always been a blessing and a learning experience for me.

Edwin Carrion: 3:47

So my first biggest mistake was when I got arrested when I was 19 years old. I was hanging around with the wrong crowd, trying to be the cool kid and, sure enough, trying to steal some rims, got arrested, came back home. So the blessing that came out from that, that's the moment that I came home. I got on my knees and I said God, please forgive me. I'm never going to do this again. I'm going to change my life, be the best person that I am. That day is when I felt God standing right next to me and had that divine intervention, and from that day forward, I could tell you that my life has been a complete blessing. Yes, it's been a roller coaster with ups and downs, but pretty much I have gotten everything that I wanted in my life, because of that Having that relationship with God and being close to God.

Dr. William Attaway: 4:39

One of the things in our previous conversation that we share is that we are both people of faith and you are not shy about that. You lead with that as part of who you are. I'm curious as an entrepreneur, as a business owner in so many different spheres, how does faith intersect? What you do?

Edwin Carrion: 5:00

Oh, it's a huge part and one of the things I like what you just talked about right now, that I'm not afraid of that.

Edwin Carrion: 5:06

And one of the things that I realize, because when I didn't have that strong relationship with God, I wouldn't talk about it.

Edwin Carrion: 5:13

Even though I had a relationship with, I wouldn't talk about God or my beliefs and everything else, because I was afraid of what other people are going to say, going to say, but when we really start owning up and standing up for the things that we believe and being the person that we want to be like in business and in our personal lives, because we cannot be two different people I cannot be like this one person here in business and then be totally opposite in my personal life right, because that's been a hypocrite.

Edwin Carrion: 5:39

So I had to learn that I need to be the same person in all areas of my life and then, on top of that, really understanding that because God is an abundant God, god gives us abundance. If I talk about my religion, if I talk about my beliefs, and the people on the business world don't like that, then it's okay because I don't want to do business with them because there's bad consequences that are going to happen. So by me being open to what I really believe in, I'm going to attract like-minded individuals, faith-based individuals, and I'm going to create awesome, great businesses, good relationships and things are going to work out for the benefit of all of us because of that.

Dr. William Attaway: 6:18

So good. You know, one of the challenges I find with entrepreneurs, in my conversations with them, is that they have difficulty balancing the different parts of their life. You know, there's this idea that you know you need to have a work-life balance, and I think that's such a misnomer. How do you navigate this? I mean, like me, you're a husband. Like me, you're a father of two daughters. Like that's not a small commitment, right? How do you find and navigate that challenge?

Edwin Carrion: 6:50

Yeah. So let's go back a little bit to my history, right? So one of the things that when I left the Marine Corps, I started real estate development and my goal was always to be rich, to be successful, to have a lot of money. And I had no balance. All I would do was work, work, work, work, work 60, 70 hours per week, sometimes 80 hours per week, nonstop, because I wanted to be that rich, successful guy. And I got to that point where I became rich and successful, but after four years of working hard nonstop, no balance, no good relationships, no friends, just focus into making money I went bankrupt and I lost everything.

Edwin Carrion: 7:28

And at that moment I realized it's like, hey, like I need to have a balance in my life. I just lost my best years of my life, from 22 to 26. When I could have traveled the world, I could have done a lot of things, because when we're young we have all this energy to take over the world. But to me, my focus was money and it was the wrong thing to focus on. But at the same time, I realized that I wasted my time because I was so consumed into that, not having the balance. So I had to, like, rewire my brain. I had to retrain myself and I had to figure out. You know, if I want to have a healthy relationship, if I want to be the father that I never had for my kids, I need to have the balance in my life, and my wife taught me that I needed to set those boundaries. And we need to start setting boundaries in a lot of areas in our lives, but in this case we're talking about boundaries for how to have a balanced life, and a lot of people are going to tell you you can't be successful if you don't. You know, if you have boundaries, if you have a balanced life, you can't. There is no balance if you want to be successful, and that is true, but it depends how fast you want your success.

Edwin Carrion: 8:35

So one of the things that I learned is that you know we have so many years on earth we have over 60 years on earth, that from 20 to 80, that we could become successful. You know you have 60 years right there that if you have a balance in life and enjoy every period of your life, you will become and you continue. You have, you keep that consistency going, you can be successful and you will be successful. But it's the same thing. If you look at it, you know if you want to, if you want to have a good physique, if you want to have a good body and be healthy. If you go to the gym every day, are you going to have a six pack? If you go every single day for 10 years? Yes, because now you're taking care of your body, you're working out, you're eating healthy. But can you get the results faster if you work out two, three times a day? Yes, you're going to see the difference, but now you're not having a balance because all your focus is working out two, three times a day.

Edwin Carrion: 9:24

So to me, the hardest part has been learning to have that balance and understanding that setting those boundaries into my work life has been a huge game changer. And not only that. Let's not only talk about work life, right, let's talk about when you mentioned, we're married. So we need to understand that as husbands, as fathers, we also need to have that balance between our kids and our relationship, because the moment that our kids grow up and they leave their house, the only two people that are left is going to be your wife and you, and you never had that relationship with your wife when the kids were home, your wife. That's when 90% of the marriages go their own way because they have nothing in common. So one of the things that I did is I also started setting a boundary where every Friday, my wife and I we have date nights every single Friday, and it's been on the book for the past three years now that every Friday, it doesn't matter what happens, 5 pm, we're out that door and it's our time.

Dr. William Attaway: 10:25

Love. That that's so good. What a great rhythm to build into your marriage and into your life and to be intentional about it. I think that's something every listener can take and adopt and say, hey, I'm going to make sure this if I'm married, this relationship is so important. Yeah, and to neglect it? Well, there's fruit that comes from that decision, yes. So let's talk about what you do in your business. Tell me a little about what you do when you're working with clients, what you do when you're speaking.

Edwin Carrion: 10:59

Okay. So one of the things that I do and this started because, again, after reaching a certain level of of success, one of our main goals, I think, in every human, is let's give back, let's, let's help other people out and one of the things that I realized that helping out doesn't necessarily mean to be financially every time, because when I gave this huge check to my church uh, after I sold one of my businesses, I really wasn't fulfilled. So when I spoke to God, I'm like God. Why am I feeling this way? He's like you know.

Edwin Carrion: 11:31

I gave you this gift of being successful, of starting a company, growing a business and scaling it and being able to exit them. That what I want you to do is I want you to teach others how to become successful, because that's how you keep a legacy going. The moment you give money, the money is going to be spent and it's going to be gone, but the moment that you teach somebody else to fish, they're going to be able to fish and feed the whole family and they're going to teach others how to do the same, and that's how you create the legacy. So that's when I started really digging down into mentoring and business consulting and helping entrepreneurs scale their business to eight figures. And one of the things we work based on mindset, because you cannot reach the millions if you don't have a millionaire mindset. You cannot have a multimillion-dollar company if you don't have the right systems, processes and the right people in place. So these are all things that I work.

Dr. William Attaway: 12:24

When I work with all my students, the people that I mentor, it's okay, let's see what do we need to get, what do you want to get, and let's figure out how we're going to get there faster and very, very happy to tell you that a lot of my students have become very successful because, to me, I put so much passion into it that I make them take action and I push them to the limit because I want them to achieve all the dreams that they had. I love that. I love the open handedness that is inherent there, edwin, I think that is so good that you're not just going to take what you've learned and use it just for you, but you're going to share that for the benefit of the people around you.

Edwin Carrion: 13:05

Yes, definitely, and it goes back into what I was saying a minute ago. You know, god gave us abundance in this world, so it doesn't matter if I give you 100%. I can tell you the exact blueprint of how I do things, from A to Z. It's okay because you're not taking anything away from me. God gave us abundance and there's going to be a lot more for me, and by me being able to teach you all these things and to help you scale and to help you grow, now I'm going to be able to invest with you and together now we're continue growing and helping more people out.

Dr. William Attaway: 13:37

You know, a lot of the people listening are in the entrepreneurial space, whether they're agency owners, whether they're entrepreneurs of a different stripe, and one of the questions that I hear from people who look kind of from the outside in at that world is well, if I had the money, I would start a business. If I had the money, then I would get into that. If I had the money, I would be an entrepreneur. So let me ask you is that valid? Do you really need money to start a business?

Edwin Carrion: 14:09

I always say 90% of the time you do need money to start a business. But the question people don't ask themselves is do I need to have money to start the business?

Dr. William Attaway: 14:21

What a great question.

Edwin Carrion: 14:23

So instead of asking, do I need money to start a business, do we need money to start the business? They have to ask themselves do I need money to start a business? Do we need money to start the business? They have to ask themselves do I need money to start the business? And I could tell you from personal experience that my major companies that I started I had no money. I was bankrupt. I was in debt. Because there is again abundance in the world. There's a lot of people out there that have money and if you're able to pitch them the right business idea, you're able to raise the money that you need to start the business, as long as you're able to fulfill your promise, pay your investors back and grow a business.

Dr. William Attaway: 15:06

I think that's healthy, and I think that's healthy, and I think it's healthy to remember, and it goes back to that abundance mindset you described. Too many people are operating from a place of scarcity and the pie is only so big and if I give some to you, then there's not enough for me, maybe.

Edwin Carrion: 15:21

Yes, and everybody thinks their idea is the best idea, and one of the things that I learned with Tom is that nobody cares about your idea more than you do, you know. So go ahead and tell the world, and how we're able to continue growing, how we're able to do something, if we're holding back our idea and we don't want to tell anybody else what we're doing, how we're able to sell a product if we don't tell anybody else what we have. So one of the things is again be right, open, be upfront. Tell everybody hey, this is what I'm doing. You know, if I start a car wash, this is what I'm doing. I'm washing cars. Because now, if you start putting that out there in the world, people that might need a car wash, they're going to say, hey, this guy just started doing that. Or maybe your friends, they might not need your services. But the moment they eat, somebody tells them, hey, I need to watch my car. Be like, oh, my god, my friend just started a car wash company. Go to edwin, he's doing this.

Dr. William Attaway: 16:11

Yep, love that. One of the things that that you've talked about is achieving financial freedom, and one of the methods that you talk about to do that, to achieve that goal, is to what you call smart investments. Yes, would you describe that a little bit?

Edwin Carrion: 16:28

Yeah, At the beginning, when I was younger, my main thing was again coming from a humble beginnings, coming from a poor family was make money. I want to be rich, I want to have money. And, yes, I got to the point where I had money but I had to leverage that money. I was leveraging that money so much because I wanted more, meaning that my car wasn't paid for, my houses weren't paid for, everything else wasn't paid for that. The moment that the market crashed or the economy had a downturn, I lost everything and I went bankrupt. And that's when I lost over $20 million. So then I realized, okay, making money is not hard, Keeping the money is the hard part. So how?

Edwin Carrion: 17:08

do we keep the money. What do we need to do? And I think it's not about making money, but it's achieving that financial freedom. And when we get to the point where we achieve the financial freedom and that means not having to worry about if you get laid off or if your business doesn't work you're okay for maybe a year until you figure out what the next big play is going to be. Your house is paid for, Maybe you have your cars paid for, maybe you have your college funds, kids paid for. So we start thinking about those things. Ok, how do I achieve financial freedom? And the first step to doing that is to start living below your means.

Edwin Carrion: 17:47

So one of the things that I had to do when I went bankrupt, the first thing that I did was, okay, I'm not going to spend. I was living at one of the houses that I built on a low-income community and I was living there and I started working again, working hard with a new business. We raised $300,000 for a new business. That business started doing very well and the moment that I was able to buy a car, I'm like okay, this is the car that I want to buy. I saved enough money and I bought the car cash and I knew that it doesn't matter what happened, that car was going to be cash. And that car now became an asset versus a liability. Why did it become an asset? Number one it became an asset because, instead of having $30,000 sitting in the bank, I had $30,000 on the car with me that I was driving, I was going places, to places, I was networking with people and I was happy because that was my office at that moment. But I had $30,000 sitting there and I was enjoying that money. The money wasn't sitting there where I wasn't looking at it. I was enjoying that money and I was enjoying that money. The money wasn't sitting there where I wasn't looking. I was enjoying that money and I was enjoying that car. And when I sold it, yeah, maybe I lost three, four thousand dollars, but it was an asset to me.

Edwin Carrion: 18:54

Then I continue saving, still living below my means, not outspending myself, saving money until I bought my dream house, and I bought that one for cash as well. So that's the moment that we realized okay, now I achieve financial freedom because now I have my house, my car, paid for, but also I have investment properties. So I have other investments that give me passive income that are paying for my lifestyle. So now my earned income, I could go out and spend it. I could go out and spend it. And now I could overspend and do all the things that I want and buy the nice cars, the nice watches, the nice shoes, all these things that are depreciating assets right, some of the things that are depreciating assets.

Edwin Carrion: 19:38

But then that's when you realize, okay, I achieve financial freedom. But then now you're not worried about when you go to a restaurant. Are we looking on the right-hand side of the menu? Can I just go and order anything that I want? And you start looking at life that way in financial freedom. So financial freedom doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have millions of dollars. It means what is it that you want in your life and figure out, how can you achieve and get to that point now, now when you're 60, now when you're 70, but how can you get to that point now if you're still young, so that you could enjoy your future?

Dr. William Attaway: 20:06

That type of thinking requires healthy systems. That's not just going to happen. You're not going to wake up one day and that's in place. You have to be intentional in crafting systems for growth, right?

Edwin Carrion: 20:19

Yes, you have to do that, but also one of the things that have helped me a lot is having the right mentors in my life, and I think a lot of us tend to forget that the most important investment we could ever make in our life is investing in ourselves.

Edwin Carrion: 20:34

You know, as entrepreneurs, we invest in software, we invest in equipment for our businesses, we invest in office space, in staff and employees, but we always tend to forget the most important one, which is ourselves, and the moment that we really start valuing ourselves and investing in ourselves and hiring the right mentors so we could continue growing and we don't make the huge mistakes that I made. That's the moment that things start to change in our life, and that's pretty much where I learned okay, I need to have financial freedom versus money. I need to make sure that I need to level up, and the way that I'm going to level up is this way I need to figure out how to raise capital. Okay, this mentor is going to teach me how to raise capital the right way. Okay, I need to learn.

Edwin Carrion: 21:18

Why am I staying? Why can't I go past the ceiling where my business gets to a million dollars and I cannot get to the five million dollars? Why? Because I need somebody that has been there and has done that, that is going to tell me that one thing, not the whole process, but he's going to come up with that one thing that is going to change my life, and it could be relationship. It could be something that has been holding me back from my past. It could be something that I'm not doing right in the business, or maybe it could have been the employee that I didn't have the right employee in my office and he came to tell me he's like that's not the right person for you, but it's the one thing that has always changed my life with the mentors that I had in my life.

Dr. William Attaway: 21:59

So important, the people that you invite to speak into your life.

Intro/Outro: 22:03

It really is.

Dr. William Attaway: 22:04

A lot of people who are listening might find themselves entrepreneurs that have found a measure of success and, like you said, they're kind of hitting the ceiling. They're stuck in the six-figure business range. Yes, what's the first step? Okay, to start moving and breaking through that ceiling.

Edwin Carrion: 22:23

From your experience, From my experience, the first step is always go back to the basics. Right, the basics are going to be detrimental to anything that we do. And it goes back into think about construction, because I'm a real estate developer as well. So when I build a house, if I don't have a strong foundation, that house is going to crumble when I finish building it, right? So in business, it's the same thing. For us to continue growing is we need to have that strong foundation, and that strong foundation starts with the basics.

Edwin Carrion: 22:52

And 90% of entrepreneurs that I talk to they started their business and they got to the six figures. They got to the low seven figures by hustling, because they have that hustler mentality. They don't have the business mentality. They have the hustler mentality and everything started as a hobby or maybe of an idea that they wanted to do something, or maybe they had expertise in something and they said, okay, let me do this.

Edwin Carrion: 23:20

But the one thing they didn't do is goes back into what a business person will do, which is let's create a business plan to see where do we want to take this business in three years, in five years, in 10 years, and let's really work on the business versus working in the business and when we create that basic business plan now, it's going to give us clarity into what we need to do. When we create that basic cash flow sheet, it's going to give us the clarity into what we need to do. When we create that basic sales guide of how we're going to attract the right customers into our business, that's going to change the trajectory of our business and get us to pass those ceilings that we have.

Dr. William Attaway: 24:01

So practical and so useful. I love that.

Edwin Carrion: 24:05

And people don't believe it, but it's so practical, like you said.

Dr. William Attaway: 24:08

So your business, your team needs you to lead at a higher level today than you did three, four or five years ago.

Edwin Carrion: 25:50

Yes.

Dr. William Attaway: 25:51

And the same thing is going to be true three, four or five years from now. They're going to need you to lead at a higher level, yet what are you doing to level up with the skills that your team and your business are going to need you to have? How do you stay on top of your game?

Edwin Carrion: 26:07

I'm doing the same thing that I preach. Everything that I preach, I'm doing it. I'm having the mentors. I'm doing it. I'm having the mentors. I'm constantly learning. I'm walking away from my business, putting people that are smarter than me so I could learn from them, so I could be a better leader, because I know how to lead. But I just need. I cannot be a high-level leader if I don't have a high-level team. So my team has to be high-level, so my team has to always continue learning, continue improving, continue growing, and if they get stuck below me, then I need to replace that with somebody better, somebody that comes in 10 times better, but then, at the same time, my mentors have to be at a level where I want to get to. So if I'm right now, for example and I'll give you a quick example to say, if I'm right now, for example, and I'll give you a quick example right now, my mentor, their, their whole network, their whole. His revenues are like 500 million plus getting close to a billion. The network that I'm hanging around with is billionaires right now with a B.

Edwin Carrion: 27:09

Before I was hanging around with people that were millionaires, that were making a hundred to 300,000 a year. Now I'm hanging around with people that are making billions. Why? Because that's the level that I'm getting to. That's the projects that I'm doing, so I need to be at that level for me to be able to teach others. How can you get past the ceiling? Times are changing, you know. Things are changing. Technology is adapting, evolving so fast that I need to stay on top of that, and if you just stay back of how I used to do things and how things were before, I'm going to get left behind like a dinosaur.

Dr. William Attaway: 27:41

That's so good and so true, and we have watched plenty of examples of that.

Edwin Carrion: 27:46

Yes.

Dr. William Attaway: 27:47

Change is not optional and growth only happens on the other side of change.

Edwin Carrion: 27:53

Exactly.

Dr. William Attaway: 27:53

You're a continual learner. You are always in learning mode, whatever environment that you're in. Growth only happens on the other side of change. You're a continual learner. You know you are always in learning mode, whatever environment that you're in. Is there a book that has made a really big difference in your journey that you would recommend to the leaders? Listening man, if you haven't read this, check it out.

Edwin Carrion: 28:09

Yeah, I think, as we start growing, as we continue growing, and you're going to notice, if you guys go on social media right now and look at the top gurus out there right now, you're going to notice that they all talk about faith, because at the end of the day, we all go back and realize and understand that there is a higher power out there. There is. To me, my higher power is God. There is a God out there and we all talk about God. We all talk about how the faith has gotten us to where we are and, to me, one of the most important books that I read and I love reading and I love to continue going back and looking at it is this one right here and it's called Business Secrets from the Bible and it was written by a rabbi.

Edwin Carrion: 28:52

And it's called Business Secrets from the Bible and it was written by a rabbi. And the reason I love this book is because it teaches and it talks about how, if we are faith-based entrepreneurs, that it's okay for us to be successful, that it's okay for us to have money, because a lot of us that are faith-based, that believe in God maybe Catholic, christians, jewish, whatever you want sometimes we have this limiting beliefs, that it's not okay to be successful, that it's not okay to be wealthy, that we're going to become greedy, we're going to become this, we're going to become that. But this book really opens up your mind to tell you that God wants you to be successful, god wants you to be ultra successful, because the more successful that you are, the more impact you're going to create on this world.

Dr. William Attaway: 29:38

Love that. We'll have a link to that in the show notes. Edwin, if people walk away from this episode with one big idea and you got to decide what that one big idea is, what would you want that to be?

Edwin Carrion: 29:54

The one big idea. Let me think about one big idea. I don't know if it's a one big idea, but to me it's like. The one big action thing that I always like to tell people is that we all have ideas and we all have things to do, and the thing that you have to think about today especially if you stayed until the end of the show is that think about if you were laying in your deathbed today and you look back at your life. What are you going to say? And there's only two choices that you can say. The first one to you is going to be I should have done that, I could have done that, I would have done that. Or are you going to say what an amazing life that I had. I did everything that I wanted to do. There's nothing that I regret, so pretty much to me, it's always thinking about that. Now, to me, my life is going to be I did everything I wanted to do. I had a freaking life. I'm ready to go to my next chapter in life. So that's what I can leave you with today, but also the only thing that I'm going to leave you for all of you that stayed until the end.

Edwin Carrion: 30:58

I'm going to give you this awesome gift. And this gift especially because you told me you have a lot of entrepreneurs here in your show is I'm going to give you something that I only give to my paid clients and it's called my business super stack. And the business super stack. It has what I was telling you about. It has the basics the business plan template. It has the I was telling you about. It has the basics the business plan template. It has the cash flow sheet, it has the win-win negotiation tactics and so much other things that I put in there that only my paid clients get. So what I want you to do is go to my social media channels, if you want that, and send me the word podcast 24. So, once you go to my social media channels, dm me podcast 24, and I'll send you my business super stack kit and it's going to help you accelerate your business right away by you getting that gift.

Dr. William Attaway: 31:43

That is so generous, on top of the generosity you've already displayed today. You have been so open and transparent with what you have learned so far in your journey, edwin, and I know the best is yet to come, and I can't wait to see what's next for you.

Edwin Carrion: 32:00

Thank, you very much. I appreciate that and thank you for having me here and to everybody listening. Have an awesome day. If you don't know where you're going, you will eventually get there, so figure out where exactly you want to get?

Dr. William Attaway: 32:11

I know folks are going to want to stay connected to you and continue to learn from you. What is the best way for them to find out more about what you do and to connect?

Edwin Carrion: 32:20

Best way is go to my social media channels EdwinCarrion78, instagram, facebook, linkedin, tiktok, youtube. In YouTube I have a lot of good videos, a lot of training videos that you could look at. You could go to my website, edwincarioncom. But the most important thing is I always tell is that if you have any questions, go ahead and reach out to me. One of the things that one of my mentors taught me and I love this one dearly is become an ask whole, because if you stay with a question counting you down, you're never going to know the answer. So go ahead and ask, and people like me, they're always going to answer back, because we're here to give back, not to hold back.

Dr. William Attaway: 32:58

So good, edwin, thank you.

Edwin Carrion: 33:00

My pleasure.

Dr. William Attaway: 33:04

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Dr. William Attaway: 33:40

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