Beyond The Story is an insightful podcast hosted by Sebastian Rusk who invites a wide range of guests to share their stories. In this episode, Rusk is joined by Antonio Vaglica and Landon Archangelo who met in boarding school, bonded over sports, and remained friends despite dealing with career-ending experiences. Rusk discusses how they joined forces and started a podcast, making it one of the most successful in the industry. They reveal how they built relationships with influential people and pivoted to a consulting model for growth-oriented entrepreneurs. The guest Antonio discusses the importance of optimizing your balance sheet and reducing tax liability, while the speakers emphasize building skill sets, multiple sources of income, and avoiding shiny objects to weather economic uncertainty. With a focus on personal growth and building networks, including via podcasts, this episode convinces the reader to subscribe and leave a review for Beyond The Story.
Timestamps
[00:00:05] Friends' journey from boarding school to college sports
[00:03:30] Starting a business after sports industry disappointments.
[00:06:11] Leveraging Podcasts for Business Growth
[00:09:06] Tax Strategy for Growth-Oriented Entrepreneurs
[00:12:20] Thriving in the New Economy
[00:15:26] Efficient Business Management, Crypto and Future Finance
[00:18:31] Following Incentives and Networking for Success
[00:21:22] Encouragement for Tuning into Next Episode
Best Quotes
[00:01:10] I didn't care about school at all. I got good grades, but really sports and specifically baseball was it for me.
[00:02:57] Both of our career's kind of ended abruptly. Mine ended with a knee injury, like your cliche loom my knee out type of situation.
[00:05:03] When baseball ended, that was the first true point of like falling flat on my face.
[00:11:07] We're taking this different approach that the traditional financial adviser world just isn't taking. We're not asking people just, hey, come invest money with us and all this stuff. We're simply just giving unbiased advice and helping them implement that advice.
All Quotes
[00:08:05] If you're only making 5, 6, 07:10 percent of your business, especially in the early years, it's probably not great growth rate and you're probably not going to stay in too long.
[00:01:48] Turns out that just because Lan and I had such a great off the field connection, I became his number 1 receiver.
[00:01:10] I didn't care about school at all. I got good grades, but really sports and specifically baseball was it for me.
[00:12:57] If you don't have a way or a skill set to start crafting your own sources of income, you are fucked. That is the truth.
[00:04:38] These professional opportunities that are outside of the path to the major leagues are just It's all a dead end.
[00:08:48] The 4-pillar approach that we're taking with our clients is 1 asset protection... 2 is tax strategy... Then we focus on optimizing your balance sheet... And then lastly is how we're gonna exit this thing?
[00:03:30] We knew that we were in a good industry, but on the wrong teams.
[00:05:43] who the fuck wants to listen to anything that we have to say? In terms of success because we have 50 dollars to our name. Right?
[00:05:03] When baseball ended, that was the first true point of like falling flat on my face.
[00:08:23] So instead of just being able to sell products and get paid, we were able to provide unbiased strategic advice for the sake of the advice only for a flat fee model.
[00:02:13] For me personally, I was meant to go play in the MLB, went to go play in the rise the ranks through the minor leagues and was told by teams that I was going to g
