This podcaster went from selling insurance to building a No.1 show generating $7 million a year

But it is not just big names that benefit from their celebrities, a new wave of influencers and businessmen finds success in doing something they love, while making millions at the same time.

Mick Hunt is one of them.

The 47 -year -old has topped the plans on Apple Podcast over the past six months with the offer of self -improvement, Make is not connected. On Friday, he sat in No. 1 – a Podcast giant like Joe Rogan and Alex Cooper.

Although Hunt has sometimes followed the PlayBook book of offers that brought great names, including businessman Gary Vee and CEO of Matthew Nols (Father to Beyonce), his guests are people who are largely every day who have achieved their own copies of success and separated from “because” or the strength of the basic leadership.

“Everyone overcomes something in their lives, everyone had an obstacle. I do not care how successful of anyone, and everyone’s version of success is their own copy of success, but everyone is going through something to reach this version,” luck.

From the Master of Business Administration in Grad to millions of millionaire

Hunt’s profession started in the media, but in insurance. After graduating with the Master of Business Administration in 2001, he joined the local insurance branch worldwide as a sales manager and quickly helped to grow to become the country’s best performance agency. However, he did not calm down.

“I realized that I was helping to build the dreams of another person, I felt that I had dreams and visions as well, and I wanted to risk and do this myself,” he says. “Therefore, my private agency started from the zero point, no merger operations, and no acquisitions, only to build the operations that I felt suitable for me.”

By the time he was 40 years old, the gambling fruit: He sold two companies worth about $ 100 million and a consulting axis, helping others to do the same.

Podcast was the next step experience-but it was implemented with the same rigor: “I didn’t want to get a hobby podcast, because the time is our most valuable origins, and I have no time to play with podcasts,” he says. “I wanted to make sure that I was placed in the same principles, well, what are our standards? How do we win?”

Wayne Hunt Hunt. While climbing Apple schemes at one time, Make is not connected I have been profit and now brought more than $ 7 million a year. This is in addition to the annual rate of $ 20 million for its insurance consultations. Hunt also collected nearly one million followers on Instagram.

Anyone can become podcaster

It can significantly be credited with the rise in the content creation market to the Gen Z. Not only that they are the largest consumers of online content, 57 % have big dreams to become influential one day, according to the morning consultation survey of 2023.

Growth may not be doubled only given the Trump administration plans to allow the creators of digital content to demand a tax deduction next year on a part of their income that comes from advice Business Insider.

Therefore, for those looking to jump on the cart – and may simulate the success of Hunt – there is good news: “This is the great thing in podcast, everyone can do,” says Hunt.

“You can start podcast with your phone, literally you just need a registration device. It should not be fully replaced. You can just take out your message there.”

But this does not mean that you can expect an audience immediately, he says. Even with a large professional network, it took months of hunting to get out of the ground.

“Don’t try to shoot the moon on the first day,” says Hunt. “Make sure you have a clearly specific message, then get only 10 followers. These ten will be 100 and then, before you know that, you have built a community.”

While Hunt for a long time was a man of analyzes, he was attributed until he had discrimination to be authentic. At the end of each episode, Make is not connected The reminder is pushed to the house whose slogan has become:

“Your” because “it is your great strength.”

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