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SaaS Dads S2/E11: She Nearly Had a Heart Attack… Then Built a Diamond SaaS Business in 12 Months

In 2024 Jay-cee Tan nearly died. Not dramatically. Not suddenly. Just quietly burning out trying to hold everything together while her VA business was falling apart around her. 100 VAs. Down to 50. Down to 20. Then gone. Her doctor looked her in the eye and said if you don't stop you will drop dead. She had two little girls at home. A husband who believed in her. And absolutely nothing left in the tank. Most people would've stopped. Jay-cee got back up. She opened her laptop, started teaching Filipinos automation for free just to keep herself busy, and woke up the next morning to 4,000 people in her community. Twelve months later she was on stage at a HighLevel event collecting her Diamond SaaSpreneur award.   In this episode Jay-cee gets beautifully honest about: 👉 1,800 applications over six months just to land her very first client as a VA 👉 Growing a real estate VA agency to 100 people in under a year then watching it fall apart 👉 Nearly having a heart attack and what her doctor told her that changed everything 👉 Building a Diamond SaaS business in 12 months while raising two girls aged four and six 👉 How she pulled 1,600 people to an event in the Philippines with government ministers in the room 👉 From mopping floors to mapping workflows — the janitor she trained who became an automation specialist 👉 Why she says being a mom didn't slow her down it made her better at business 👉 The mission to show the world that Filipinos are not just Filipino lang 👉 What she would whisper to herself during the darkest moment of her journey   This one is something special. Jay-cee isn't just building a business. She's changing how an entire country sees itself on the global stage. And she's doing it with two little girls at home who already know that mum helps Filipinos learn automation. 🙏 🎧 You will feel this one.   👉 This is where it starts. Join our community:   🔗 Facebook group [https://www.facebook.com/groups/mycrmsim] 🔗 myCRMSIM Community [https://portal.mycrmsim.com/communities/groups/mycrmsim/home?invite=68a352f7317a226d854f0196]   🔗 Explore more: Get myCRMSIM — unlimited text messaging without the need for A2P. 👉 https://mycrmsim.com/ [https://mycrmsim.com/] Get Your Free Trial of HighLevel and see why the top marketers swear by it: 👉 https://mycrmsim.com/get-high-level [https://mycrmsim.com/get-high-level]   Connect with Jay-cee: 🔗 Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/highlevelpilipinas [https://www.facebook.com/groups/highlevelpilipinas] 🔗 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@official.cecetan [https://www.youtube.com/@official.cecetan] 🔗 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/official.cecetan [https://www.facebook.com/official.cecetan] 🔗 Website: https://ghl4beginners.com/ [https://ghl4beginners.com/begin?fbclid=IwY2xjawR7ZD9leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFmNXp4bG5vbm1yMlYzc1M1c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHtU2W9ekCSMBpTaaStUJdfpq6ogH-Qo2XlGe1BXGzNbkQjWTsegm1iKCMInH_aem_REzSeqlnu0ZuZxWMWZubDQ]   Connect with more female SaaSPRENEURs 🔗 https://www.facebook.com/groups/ghlwomen [https://www.facebook.com/groups/ghlwomen]

SaaS Dads S2/E10: He Built a $100M Business… Then Lost It All to a Bad Partnership

Most people build a business to make money. Leon built one to never be trapped again. 12 and a half years in the military working on F-18 fighter jets and explosive ordnance. Then 17 years growing a paintball business to nearly $100 million in revenue across 57 locations worldwide. Then COVID hit. A business partnership fell apart. And a payout he was owed never came. Everything he'd built with people he considered brothers.. gone. Most people would've taken a job. Played it safe. Licked their wounds and moved on quietly. Leon did something different. He took every system, every lesson, every scar and started helping other business owners avoid the same pain. And somewhere along the way, he realised that everything he'd learned about building businesses was exactly the same as raising kids. In this episode Leon gets deeply honest about: 👉 Growing a paintball business to nearly $100M across 57 locations worldwide 👉 How working with bombs and bullets at 19 years old taught him everything about systems 👉 Losing his mum at eight years old and how that shaped the man and father he became 👉 Getting screwed out of a major payout by people he trusted like brothers 👉 The five lessons from parenting that completely transformed how he runs his business 👉 Why being the sage not the hero is the most powerful thing you can do for your kids and your clients 👉 How he engineers his entire business around his life and not the other way around 👉 Why presence is greater than productivity in business and at home 👉 The social media catfishing story that every parent with a teenager needs to hear 👉 What he'd tell 19-year-old Leon starting out in the military This one is different. Leon has lived more lives than most people could fit into three careers. Military. Global business. Entrepreneurship. And through all of it he has kept one thing constant. The business fits around the life. Not the other way around. 🎧 This conversation is packed. Watch it twice. 👉 This is where it starts. Join our community: 🔗 ⁠Facebook group⁠ [https://www.facebook.com/groups/mycrmsim] 🔗 ⁠myCRMSIM Community [https://portal.mycrmsim.com/communities/groups/mycrmsim/home?invite=68a352f7317a226d854f0196] ⁠ [https://portal.mycrmsim.com/communities/groups/mycrmsim/home?invite=68a352f7317a226d854f0196] 🔗 Explore more: Get myCRMSIM — unlimited text messaging without the need for A2P. 👉⁠ https://mycrmsim.com/⁠ [https://mycrmsim.com/] Get Your Free Trial of HighLevel and see why the top marketers swear by it: 👉⁠ https://mycrmsim.com/get-high-level⁠ [https://mycrmsim.com/get-high-level] Connect with Leon: 🔗 ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonbubenicek/⁠ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonbubenicek/] 🔗 ⁠https://connectwithleon.com⁠ [https://connectwithleon.com] 🔗 ⁠https://www.facebook.com/leon.bubenicek⁠ [https://www.facebook.com/leon.bubenicek] 🔗 ⁠https://www.tacticaldynamics.com.au/ [https://www.tacticaldynamics.com.au/] 🔗 https://www.instagram.com/leonbubenicek/ [https://www.instagram.com/leonbubenicek/]

SaaS Dads S2/E09: He Got Scammed, Hit by COVID & Built a VA Business From an RV… With Two Kids Inside

Most people wouldn't start a business in a 26-foot RV. Joel did. Two young kids. A homeschooling wife. A dinette table for a desk. And a brand new VA business launching in the middle of it all. But here's the thing nobody talks about when they romanticize the laptop lifestyle. It's not always a beach or a cafe. Sometimes it's your wife hiding in the bedroom six feet away so she doesn't interrupt your Zoom call. Sometimes it's your kids tugging on your shoulder mid-pitch. Sometimes it's getting scammed by a VA company, paying twice, and still doing the right thing anyway. That's how VA Hub Pro was born. Not from a business plan. Not from a big launch. From getting burned enough times to say "we can do this better" and actually doing it.   In this episode Joel gets refreshingly honest about: 👉 How getting scammed by a VA company became the spark that started VA Hub Pro 👉 What it's really like running a business from a 26-foot RV with two homeschooled kids 👉 Why he and his wife chose to fight in front of their kids and make up in front of them too 👉 The unschooling approach that has his kids blowing him away with how smart they are 👉 Why he believes impact is a bigger driving force than revenue 👉 The book that made him feel like someone was writing about his exact business 👉 What he'd tell the Joel who walked away from his job in 2019 full of hope This one goes deep. Not just on business but on parenting, leadership, emotional regulation and what it actually means to build something that matters. Joel is proof that integrity in business isn't just a nice thing to have. It's your actual competitive advantage.   🎧 This conversation will stay with you.   ⏱ Timestamps 03:30 – How VA Hub Pro Was Born From Getting Scammed 08:15 – Living and Working in a 26-Foot RV With Two Young Kids 13:40 – Homeschooling on the Road: The Unschooling Approach 19:20 – Stop Motion Animation, Foxes and Raising Creative Kids 24:45 – Screen Time, YouTube and Teaching Kids to Create Not Consume 30:10 – Self Regulation: What Parents and Kids Are Learning Together 35:50 – Apologizing to Your Kids and Why It Changes Everything 40:20 – Fighting In Front of Your Kids and Making Up In Front of Them Too 45:00 – How Parenting Made Him a Better Business Leader 49:30 – The Ripple Effect: Why Impact Beats Revenue Every Time 54:15 – Traction by Gino Wickman and What It Changed for the Business 58:40 – What's Next for VA Hub Pro and the Family 01:02:00 – What He'd Tell Himself When He Left His Job in 2019   👉 This is where it starts. Join our community: 🔗 Facebook group [https://www.facebook.com/groups/mycrmsim] 🔗 myCRMSIM Community [https://portal.mycrmsim.com/communities/groups/mycrmsim/home?invite=68a352f7317a226d854f0196] 🔗 Explore more: Get myCRMSIM — unlimited text messaging without the need for A2P. 👉 https://mycrmsim.com/ [https://mycrmsim.com/] Get Your Free Trial of HighLevel and see why the top marketers swear by it: 👉 https://mycrmsim.com/get-high-level [https://mycrmsim.com/get-high-level]   Connect with Joel:  🔗 https://vahubpro.com [https://vahubpro.com]  🔗 https://dream.vahubpro.com [https://dream.vahubpro.com]

SaaS Dads S2/E08: He Worked 20 Hours a Day for 6 Months… Now He Works 10 Hours a Week From Europe

Most people want the laptop lifestyle. Balint actually built it. Right now he's traveling across Europe with his wife and two and a half year old daughter. Vienna one week. Budapest the next. Working 4 hours a night while his family sleeps. Making $30K a month. With one VA. In 10 hours a week. But here's what nobody talks about. To get there he locked himself in a room for six months. Working 20 hours a day. His wife handled everything, the baby, the house, the nights, all of it. He missed the first six months of his daughter's life. Not the normal dad miss. Not the "I got home late for dinner" miss. He missed everything, first smiles, first sounds, everything, seen through photos and videos while sitting at a desk three feet away. And that was the moment he decided he'd never let it happen again.   In this episode Balint gets brutally honest about: 👉 How he went from zero to $30K a month in under two years with just a phone and a laptop 👉 Why he stopped doing follow ups completely and started closing more deals 👉 The no Zoom, no appointment, no nurture sequence sales method that most people think is crazy 👉 What it's really like becoming a grandfather at 39 while your wife is pregnant at the same time 👉 Why he walked away from scaling at $30K to spend two years traveling Europe with his daughter 👉 The brutal six months that built everything and nearly cost him his relationship 👉 Why he says zero to ten grand is hell and everything after that is just momentum This one is for anyone who is grinding right now and wondering if it's worth it. Balint has been on both sides. The grind that costs you everything. And the freedom that makes it all make sense. And the crazy part? He built it all from cold calls. No ads. No funnels. No fancy systems. Just a phone.   🎧 This one will change how you think about sales, time and what success actually looks like.   👉 This is where it starts. Join our community: 🔗 Facebook group [https://www.facebook.com/groups/mycrmsim] 🔗 myCRMSIM Community [https://portal.mycrmsim.com/communities/groups/mycrmsim/home?invite=68a352f7317a226d854f0196]   🔗 Explore more: Get myCRMSIM — unlimited text messaging without the need for A2P. 👉 https://mycrmsim.com/ [https://mycrmsim.com/] Get Your Free Trial of HighLevel and see why the top marketers swear by it: 👉 https://mycrmsim.com/get-high-level [https://mycrmsim.com/get-high-level]   Connect with Balint:  🔗 https://vortexlocal.com/ [https://vortexlocal.com/] 🔗 info@vortexlocal.com [info@vortexlocal.com] 🔗 https://theclosercoach.com/ [https://theclosercoach.com/]  🔗 https://www.skool.com/onecall/about [https://www.skool.com/onecall/about]

SaaS Dads S2/E07: She Landed in Australia With $45, Two Kids & No Plan… Then Built a SaaS Business Nobody Saw Coming

Imagine leaving everything you know.   Your career. Your family. Your comfort.   Priya packed up her life, with her husband and two little boys, and landed in Australia with $45 in her pocket and a one way ticket.   No safety net. No family around. No plan B.   She had a PhD. Three degrees. Nine years as a university lecturer back in India. And her first job in Australia was at a betting call center getting sworn at by Aussie punters all day. 😅   Most people would've gone back home.   Priya kept going.   Six years later she had a six figure salary, a stable university job, a mortgage, and a life most immigrants dream about.   And she walked away from all of it.   Because her parents got COVID during lockdown, she couldn't travel, and she realized in that moment that no salary in the world was worth missing the people she loved most.   So she started over. Again.   And this time she built something that couldn't be taken away from her.   In this episode Priya gets refreshingly real about:   👉 Landing in Australia with $45 and building a six figure career from scratch   👉 Why she quit a comfortable university job when her business was making just $18K a year   👉 The webinar she launched where zero people showed up… and what her kids said that kept her going   👉 How she built a training model helping Indian women work from home that completely changed her business   👉 Why she says your gender has nothing to do with what you can achieve   👉 The moment she realized she was the biggest bottleneck in her own business   👉 What it's really like building a team across multiple time zones while raising two boys alone in a country far from home   This one is different.   Priya isn't your typical SaaS story. She's an immigrant, a mum, a PhD, a speaker, a community leader and someone who has rebuilt her life from scratch more times than most people would ever dare.   And she did it all while her kids cheered her on from the sidelines. 🙏   If you've ever felt like an outsider trying to build something in a world that wasn't designed for you, this episode will hit home.   🎧 Don't skip this one.   👉 This is where it starts. Join our community:   🔗 Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/mycrmsim [https://www.facebook.com/groups/mycrmsim]   🔗 myCRMSIM Community: https://portal.mycrmsim.com/communities/groups/mycrmsim/home?invite=68a352f7317a226d854f0196 [https://portal.mycrmsim.com/communities/groups/mycrmsim/home?invite=68a352f7317a226d854f0196]   🔗 Explore more: Get myCRMSIM — unlimited text messaging without the need for A2P. 👉 https://mycrmsim.com/ [https://mycrmsim.com/]   Get Your Free Trial of HighLevel and see why the top marketers swear by it: 👉 https://mycrmsim.com/get-high-level [https://mycrmsim.com/get-high-level]   Connect with Priya:  🔗 https://www.youtube.com/@HLGrowthPartner [https://www.youtube.com/@HLGrowthPartner]  🔗 https://hlgrowthpartner.com/ [https://hlgrowthpartner.com/] 🔗 https://vaagency.in/ [https://vaagency.in/] 🔗 https://drpriya.com.au/ [https://drpriya.com.au/] 🔗 https://pivot2thrive.com.au/ [https://pivot2thrive.com.au/]   Connect with more female SaaSprenuers 🔗 https://www.facebook.com/groups/ghlwomen [https://www.facebook.com/groups/ghlwomen]