Dan Harrison

Date: January 25, 2016

Name: Growing the wealth you want

Presenters: Jason Butcher, Chris Biasutti, and Dan Harrison

Many entrepreneurs tend to believe wealth is direct related to money. However, they tend to not realize the true wealth will also focus on relationship, experience and freedom. Mantalks invites Jason Butcher, the Founder of Kickstart Business Catalyst, Chris Biasutti, the Managing Partner of Bluewater Investments, and Dan Harrison, the coach and Financial Strategist in FS Financial, to share their personal experience with their true wealth relationship. In this presentation, entrepreneurs will understand how true wealth can influence people’s perspective. Moreover, they will discover how to attract their wealth to achieve their financial freedom. The purpose of this event is to help entrepreneurs to discover ways to generate abundance in their journey.

“Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure”

Journey of Jason Butcher

It was not easy for Jason Butcher to discover his true wealth in his life journey. Butcher was living in fear when he was young. In the age of 5, the memory of his sister screaming terrified his childhood of not trusting anyone. He moved in with his mother after his parents got divorced. His life was in a bad shape.

Butcher explains in the age of 12, he needed to protect his sister. He stole a bike for food, but got beat up by his mother. He sought attention from violence because he did not want to be alone. Butcher shares he would sleep by a neighbor tree just to feel a bit closer like a family. During his teenager’s age, he did what he needs to survive. He filled his life with work because he felt work was the only way to connect until he lost his immune system from overwork. The employment insurance supported him to attend design course for further education. He asked his uncle to be his business partner, but failed again.

Butcher was unable to face himself anymore. He started to avoid everything in his life. He tried to work in car sales, but end up unfulfilled and dissatisfied. The car sales leaded to another business opportunity, but failed miserable. Later he found out he got his girlfriend pregnant. However, they relationship started to go apart, which lead him to depression once again. He started another company, but he tied in with too many bad people. He was selling his soul thinking they are his friends.

Pressure had pushed Butcher to a point where he could not handle anymore. Butcher says during that moment, he was not true to himself and he needed help. He attended a course that frees his mind without the distraction of technology. He was not love the one who he was and money was not the answer. When he discovered he has no attachment with money, he spent everything he had and started a new business called “Kickstart Business Catalyst”, a place for startups to support and make their ideas to dream.

Butcher believes everything he did before was fear, such as the fear of being alone, the fear of having friendship, fear of love, fear of commitment, and fear of supportive. By opening himself to being love can help him fully committed to what he do. Butcher discovers his true wealth to love himself again.

Journey of Chris Biasutti

When Chris Biasutti was a kid, his idea of freedom was to become a fighter pilot. In school, Biasutti had hard time making friends. When his mother told everyone that Biasutti would buy her a Porsche after Biasutti made his first million, his mind was wired with money pressure. Every decision he made was tied in with his mother’s statement.

During Biasutti’s college years, he was trying to figure out what he wanted to do. He studied history and pursued his post-secondary education in University of British Columbia. Nevertheless, the dream of fighter pilot was gone.

In the university, he discovered all his friends were doing well in Finance. His mother’s statement triggered and he wanted to pursue money as well. He believed his purpose of life was making money. After attending wealth workshop, he created his first vision board with 10 million dollars as his goal. After 5 years, he applied his knowledge and started to make his wealth in real estate. He was achieving his goals in his vision board.

There was only one problem. He felt miserable. He sabotaged everything but making money. He kept going because money to him was the direction of happiness. He felt insecure and depressed. He would pay other people money to make him happy. Later, he was invited to be a speaker at a conference called “One Last Talk”. When he was put on the spot, he could not able to say anything. He felt so ashamed to pretend to live the life he was in. He was literally killing himself slowly and He knew he was not fine. He began to cry.

“Never go to your mind unsupervised”

Biasutti began to realize he was pretending to be someone else. He needed to be honest to himself. Biasutti explains he needed to listen to his intuition. He clarified his why with his girlfriend. He was miserable because he was craving love and connection, but in order to have love, he needed to let go.

Biasutti believes wealth is to measure how much people can give to the world. The true wealth is to follow the true intuition. Biasutti emphasizes his life contains the purpose of helping other to discover their why. Moreover, the real question Biasutti wants to ask entrepreneurs is what is controlling them. By having real conversations with friends, entrepreneurs will be able to inspire others with their true wealth.

Journey of Dan Harrison

Being the person today from all life experience and the learning from different perspective in life, Dan Harrison is grateful to people who come in to his life. He would like to share his three moments of true wealth.

The first moment was when he discovered he exists. Exist is the perspective and foundation of wealth. In 2008, Harrison was in debt. He did not know how money works. After attending many seminars and reading different business books, he learned how conscious mind can influence people in the mind of wealth. He also discovered how the past has formed his paradigm. Relationship was his greatest growth and money was his greatest master. While working as financial consultant, his bank account was in deficit. Every time when he hit a plateau, he would repeat his decoration of wealth over and over again to regain his control in his thinking.

Until one day he lost everything, his life was falling apart. Everything he hoped for was not aligned with his mind. Harrison explains a new ways of thinking had released his mind. He moved to different city and started to work in FS Financial. He found a pattern from entrepreneurs. The pattern of “If I have money, I will be happy”. As these entrepreneurs moved forward, they were still trapped in the same position. They were not changing even if they wanted to

The second moment was when he was addicted to drugs, alcohol, and gambling. Harrison emphasizes guilt, shame and pretending were overwhelming his life. Later, he found 2 empowerment habits.

1. Reading
2. Meditation

Harrison fell in love with reading. He even started a book club to help accountable to a group of remarkable human beings that has different perspective. When he was meditating, his value shifted from hiding and escaping to learning and engaging. There was not time for him to continue his addiction.

The shift changed Harrison’s life. He got rid of everything and started to recognize in life to live align with values and integrity to be simple and organize.

“I value purpose, purpose to help people”

Harrison recommends a mobile application called Mint. It helps entrepreneurs to display their dashboard of their value system. It can discover their true self and it can start to shift their finance based on different values.

The last moment was a discovery to change the world. There is a muscle every entrepreneurs need to develop. It needs commitment because it provides creativity and empathy to the world. The muscle is called the charity of give.

Harrison is thankful to have this model in his life. His mentor believes in him and resonates his values. When culture puts in charitable spirit, it grows. For the last 4 years, Harrison is happy to be in this culture.

Questions and Answers

The definition of wealth will change as technology advances. Connor Beaton, the Founder of Mantalks, believes companies will focus more on triple bottom line. Butcher believes youth will incorporate more health, mind and conscious in their lives. Biasutti believes the purpose of their identity will shift and there will be a wave of entrepreneurs looking for change. Harrison believes the responsibility and awareness will change on companies.

Harrison suggests entrepreneurs to re-read the book “Think and Grow Rich”. Butcher recommends entrepreneurs to attend the Business Mastery’s Power in You seminar. Biasutti suggests entrepreneurs not to read, but go out and do something.