The Dream Exit™ Playbook: Post-Business Success: Building a Powerful Legacy with Mike Malatesta 🌟🔑

Show Notes

Mike Malatesta is a passionate supporter of entrepreneurs, dedicated to helping them realize their dreams and overcome barriers to achieve remarkable success. Having personally experienced the highs and lows of the entrepreneurial journey since the age of 26, he understands the challenges and sacrifices entailed in this roller coaster ride.

As an accomplished entrepreneur, Mike has successfully started, grown, and sold two highly profitable waste management companies, with one company selling for a mid-8 figure amount and the other for a low-9 figure sum. Through these experiences, he has gained invaluable knowledge on the complexities of entrepreneurship and the determination required to achieve the desired success and freedom.

With a servant leadership approach, Mike excels at developing visionary initiatives, fostering teamwork, and executing strategies to deliver exceptional results. His unwavering commitment to supporting entrepreneurs empowers them to navigate their own entrepreneurial journeys and strive for extraordinary accomplishments.

Recently Mike has rolled out his Dream Exit™ program where he is helping successful and intentional forward thinking entrepreneurs design a customized, actionable Playbook that massively increases the value of their business and gets them ready right now to achieve their Dream Exit™

Quote: “Entrepreneurs should be asking themselves what do you see yourself being or doing after you sell your business” - Mike Malatesta 

Knowledge Nuggets and Take-Aways:

• To many, retirement has a negative connotation
• Up to 75% of entrepreneurs do zero exit strategy planning 
• 80% of business owners that have sold their business, wish they had prepared longer ago. 
• Business owners should ask themselves, ‘Am I running my business like it’s for sale? Will it currently entice a buyer now?
• Mike has a passion for being beneficial and making the biggest impact to his clients. 
• Many entrepreneurs do not like admitting they do not know how to do something.
• The Dream Exit™ is preparing your business to sell for maximum value and preparing yourself for maximum meaning and purpose after you sell your business
• Make sure as an entrepreneur or business owner you communicate with your team about your exit strategy, so you are not keeping them in the dark and realize how it will be good for them.
• The Dream Exit™ playbook is 10 in depth modules to get you set up for your exit and living a Leveled UP life after ‘business’
• Mike will give you the thinking tools to be ready when you inevitably come up against a sophisticated buyer for your business. 

Here is a link to this episode on our website: https://timetoshinetoday.com/podcast/dreamexit/  

Recommended Resources:  

Visit Dream Exit™ Info Page

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Pick Up Mike’s Book: Ownershift: How Getting Selfish Got Me Unstuck

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