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Tim says, “I don’t do anything I’m Alternative ways of generating “If we set out to serve the
not good at. Instead, I leverage cash flow are important to share community,” Tim says, “we
my referral relationships.” He not only with single moms but also accomplish much more. It doesn’t
has conversations every day with young entrepreneurs. If you’re have to be that hard.”
with business owners. He asks a successful business owner, look
questions to find out how he around for those around you who
can serve them. Then, he makes are unemployable. Offer to mentor Lori Lynn is the co-founder of
referrals. them. You never know whose life DragonflyWings.Ink and the
you’re going to impact—and how ghostwriter and editor behind more
But he doesn’t make referrals for many more lives will be impacted than a dozen bestselling books.
free—he gets a percentage of each as a result. Timothy R. Johnson is the co-author
closed contract. He calls this his
“mailbox money” because all he When Tim was running the streets of S.O.L.D. and the founder of Global
has to do is make a phone call and selling drugs, his mentor said, Renegade.
and then a check shows up in his “If you can sling drugs, you can
mailbox. “Easy money,” he says. sling business. You’ll make a lot Tim, whose biological father was
Ah, spoken like a true operator. more money, and you won’t go to executed on death row, grew up
jail.” being referred to as “the serial killer’s
It’s not hard to make thousands kid.” It took years for him to realize
of dollars in mailbox money. It Today, Tim checks in with hundreds that he didn’t have to own the labels
just takes a little effort to find out of connections on a daily to weekly he had been given. He began to see
what your network needs and basis. He also mentors a young his story as a gift instead of a curse.
start making connections. Instead group of entrepreneurs who call
of spending time on things you themselves “The Leftovers.” Lori met Tim shortly after her divorce.
could outsource, you could profit “Kids would quit selling drugs if
far more by making phone calls. they were selling something where As a full-time homeschooling mom
of three child actors, she didn’t need
they could make more money and
That’s how you get back your not risk going to jail,” says Tim. a job—she needed a business. As
most important nonrenewable Tim helped Lori scale her business,
resource—your time. Tim helps the unemployable Lori helped Tim capture in words the
outcasts become renegade lessons he’s learned from 33 sisters
When you leverage your referral entrepreneurs by taking what among 14 foster homes.
partners, you not only free up time they’ve learned on the streets and
for yourself but you also create applying it to business. “You’ve got Lori and Tim are co-writing the book
business opportunities for other to build relationship capital on the Unemployable for the people who
entrepreneurs, and everyone streets or you don’t survive. It’s all feel like outcasts—the risk-takers
profits. about your connections and who’s and the rule-breakers—to help them
got your back.” become problem-solving, business-
Once she understood his
referral system, Lori immediately Through Global Renegade, Tim building, world-changers. Join the
implemented Tim’s framework. trains entrepreneurs how to lose family at www.facebook.com/
She now receives the equivalent the labels that aren’t serving them, groups/happilyunemployable
of part-time job income from her how to dream big, and how to
referral partners but without the create the kind of life they want.
time commitment. No commute.
No wear and tear on her car. No There’s more power in
need for a new wardrobe. No relationships than we realize, and
boss. For a single mom of three when we leverage our referral
young performers, this is an ideal partners by recommending them
situation. and receiving a referral fee, making

money becomes as easy as making
a phone call.

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