The Mindset Mentor - Never Work for Someone Again
Episode Date: December 26, 2025What if making money online is simpler than you think? In this episode, I open your mind to the many ways people build income online, share a powerful listener story, and walk through real examples to... help you start asking the right questions and find a path that fits you. If you want 2026 to be your best year yet then this video is for you. In just 30 minutes, I’ll help you build a clear, simple goal system so you stop guessing and start moving forward with confidence. 👉 Build your 2026 goal system here: https://www.goalmastery2026.com/lp1 High performers don’t wait for clarity, they create it. This Mindset University call will help you see your blind spots and your next level. Grab your spot here 👉 https://www.coachwithrob.com/mindset-university-call-rob Feeling stuck? It's time to take back control. If you're ready to master your mind and create real, lasting change, click the link below and start transforming your life today. 👉 http://coachwithrob.com The Mindset Mentor™ podcast is designed for anyone desiring motivation, direction, and focus in life. Past guests of The Mindset Mentor include Tony Robbins, Matthew McConaughey, Jay Shetty, Andrew Huberman, Lewis Howes, Gregg Braden, Rich Roll, and Dr. Steven Gundry. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Welcome to today's episode of the mindset mentor podcast.
I'm your host, Rob Dial.
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Today, I'm going to be talking about how to make money.
online and I have nothing to sell you throughout this. So I'm not trying to promote and say,
hey, buy something from me. I have my course that you should buy at the end of this.
What I really want to do is I want to open up your mind to what is possible. And the reason why
is because most people don't know what I know as far as how to make money online and how like
all of the different ways that I've seen. And I know people that make money in all kinds of
crazy different ways online. I want to open up your mind because we have this beautiful thing that's
called the internet. I don't think most people are using it to the capacity that they could. And I got a
message. And this is what the message said. I'll read it to you. It's from my Instagram. It says,
Hi, Rob. I'm unsure if you'll see this, but it's one year since I listened to that one episode
about making money online and choosing to put in my notice. Since then, I've grown a seven-figure
business, written a best-selling book, hosted sold-out shows in London, L.A., New York, Toronto,
and New Zealand, got a two-page feature in Vogue, featured in Business, featured in Business,
Oxford Women in Business, got a slot on a national radio and weekly column in my country,
New Zealand, and been paid five figures to speak at events and helped over 4,000 students
worldwide through our course. I have had children and adults stop me on the street and thank
us for the work that we do. None of this would have happened if your episode didn't push me to
believe in myself and create change and I knew that I had inside of me. A million times over. Thank you.
I'm telling you that not to toot my own hurt at all. It's because I actually really
didn't do shit. I just made an episode that said, hey, there's many ways to make money online.
You should go for it. And this is a great example of somebody who listened to it and then made
over a million dollars the next 12 months and had all of these accomplishments. I get this message
all the time from people where they're like, how do I make money online? How do I go to an
business? What exactly should I do? And I'm not going to give you a direct answer, but I'm just
going to try to give you a ton of suggestions. Because one thing that I realize is that now that
I've been in the business of online businesses and marketing and I've met tons of people
that do tons of different things is that no matter what you're interested in, I've seen people
make money online in the craziest of ways. There's this guy on YouTube that makes so much money
on YouTube and he has a like 100,000 gallon vivarium, which is not a terrarium. I guess it's
something different. I can't give you the definition of the difference, to be honest with you.
but he makes these epic videos of this giant vivarium, which is basically an aquarium, that he puts
non-aquatic animals in. And he has like, it's this beautiful, somatic shooting. And he makes it
dramatic. And he puts in spiders into it. And he puts in a mini alligator into it. And then
he puts in crickets. And he basically creates this giant, I guess it's kind of tiny compared to
the world, a tiny ecosystem, but it takes up his entire living room.
and he has millions of subscribers.
It's like, I think it's called like Ants of Canada or something like that.
And when I did the math, as far as how much money this guy's making off of his YouTube
based off of how many millions and millions and millions of views,
he's making, according to my math, at least $500,000 a year off of his YouTube views.
Which shows you, he literally has an obsession with his Vavarium.
And because he's so good at film and he's so good at dramatizing it,
millions upon millions of people are being entertained and watching it.
And so it's not about what I think you should do or what some other person thinks you should do.
It's what are you interested in?
Because if you're interested in it, there's a really good chance there's other people interested in this world.
The one thing I want you to know about me is I want, if somebody doesn't like what they do,
if someone likes what they do, I don't want them to break out of the rat race.
But if someone doesn't like what they do, which according to statistics is about 85% of people,
I want them to break out of the rat race.
I want them to find something that they love to do
because the majority of your waking hours
is spent doing something in some sort of job.
If you don't enjoy what you're doing,
then you should be doing something different.
And I always say there's a million ways
to make a million dollars online.
The biggest problem, though, is that most of us are raised
before the internet and making money on the internet
was a thing.
We were raised by parents
who weren't able to make money online
because it didn't exist.
And so the paradigm is starting to shift
When I was raised, we didn't have the internet. The internet came in when I was a kid.
My mom didn't have the internet. And so I was always raised to go to school, go to college, get a degree, get a job, all of that.
The paradigm has completely started to shift where it's like, you don't really need to go to school anymore.
You can if you like, but you really don't need to.
And the school system, what it does, though, is it's been created to make you a worker, not a business owner.
You know, you get told what to do. You have to sit in a chair.
want to pee, you have to raise your hand and ask for permission. You have to wait for the bell
before you can leave. You know, you have to walk into school a certain time. You have to leave
at a certain time, exactly like a 9 to 5 job. And when you look at college, what's the point
of college? The point of college is to get a job. And if you think about it, why don't you
just go out there and figure out how to make money on your own if you don't enjoy what you're doing?
The whole paradigm is starting to shift where it's not just time to work equals money earned.
it's like, hey, how can I actually start to figure out other ways of making money? And maybe you do enjoy
what you do, but you want to make more money. And so you're just like, I'm going to create a side hustle on
the internet. And so I'm going to give you a ton of different ideas. What I really want to do,
and all I really want to do is open up your minds to there might be something different. That's
really what it is. If you work in accounting and you're not really enjoying being an accountant
anymore, there's options. I'm not saying you have to quit your accounting job today and then go
to like an internet marketing conference, what I want you to do is I want you to be like,
hey, what else is there that I could do? And then just start going on a journey. For me,
my journey started in 2012. I had worked, you know, traditional jobs. And then in 2012,
I quit my job. I went in backpacked Europe for three months. And I started meeting people who
had kind of like alternative lifestyles. Some people would work for six months, save up, quit their
job, travel for a year, come back, find a random job, save for six months, quit their job,
go for a year, three months, whatever it was. And that's just kind of how they lived their life.
And I never wanted to like quit, get a new job, quit, get a new job. So I was like, I need to
figure out some sort of way to make money. What is the way? And I started thinking about and
thinking about it. And I started researching it over and over again. I was watching different things
would pop up on like business insider.com and seeing how that works. And then the very first time I
made any money online was I had this podcast and there was no way to make money in podcast back in
2015 when I started it. And I want you to know this. Once you make your first dollar online,
it's over because you're like, holy shit, this is crazy. And back in 2015, Amazon and Audible
had this thing. And Audible would give you a free trial. And basically I would say, hey, if you
on a free trial, go to this website and sign up for a free trial. And Amazon would pay $15 for
every single person that you got to sign up for a free trial. It cost them nothing. They got paid
and I got paid $15. And I remember one morning I woke up and while I was a seat, I made $15.
Now is it. It was only $15. It wasn't like I could retire. But I made $15 and I was like,
oh, holy shit, this is real money. And I just made it while I was asleep.
I was like, this is crazy. That means that there's other ways of doing this. And so, you know,
I started going to, and I've told this story before, but the way I kind of really started to
break out of it was I was like, I wonder if there's any meetups or networking groups that are
in Austin that are other people that make money online. So I googled, I think like Google like
internet marketing or online marketing Austin. And this event popped up. It was a monthly event.
It's called internet marketing party. I've become good friends now with the guy who owns
at Marketing Party. He's been running it for like 15, 16 years, something like that. And it was just a
monthly event, get together, and they would have one speaker come in. And I remember the very
first time that I went, the speaker was a guy who was one year younger than me and had been making
over a million dollars online for the past 10 years. And I was like, what the fuck? I was like,
that's a thing. And we will be right back. And now, back to the show. I didn't even realize that
was a thing. And so I met him and I talked to him and he was like a normal guy. And I was like,
he's so normal. Like if he could do it, I could do it. I should have to figure out what he's doing.
And then I met this other guy, this really shy guy. And he was incredibly, incredibly shy.
And I remember that I was sitting there and talking to him. And I was like, so what do you do?
And he's like, oh, I run Facebook ads for companies. I was like, that's cool.
I was like, how's that going for you? And he started talking. And he started opening up a little
bit. And I found out that he was making every month. And he's like one of the shyest people I've
ever met anywhere between two to $300,000 a month. And I was like, what the fuck is going on?
Like how is how is this real? And I just got open. And then I met another guy that was his name was
Ian. And Ian was a copywriter. And he taught people how to write copy, how to send emails,
how to do blogs, all of that. And he was making a bunch. I was like, this is, this is nuts.
Like I just went to an event. I met three people that just blew my mind. And that's really what I
want to do is just to give you guys options for what could possibly be something you
could do. And then you can go out and research and see what it is that you want. Because I would
love to get another message a year from today from two, three, or five people that have been
listening this episode. And they're like, I just open up my business a year ago. And I'm making six
figures. I'm making seven figures, whatever it might be. And so I'll give you some examples of
people that I know personally and how they make money online. Okay. I know people. I know quite a few
people that are Facebook ads masters. They run other people's Facebook ads. Now, that's an
acquired skill set. All of these basically are acquired skill set. So you'd have to come in fresh and
then you have to learn the skill set. And then you just get really good at it and you can make money
doing it. So I know people that run other people's Facebook ads. I know people that are copyrighters,
like I just said. So they write articles. They send emails. They write copy for Instagram reels,
for landing page videos.
I know people that make YouTube videos
and make a bunch of money
making YouTube videos as well.
I know people who make money doing coaching.
That's what I do.
I teach people how to grow on coaching businesses.
I know people who have Shopify stores.
One of my good friends has a business on Shopify
and they do about $5 million a year
and they've been doing that for quite a while now.
I have a friend who started an insurance company online.
I have people that I know that have Etsy stores
and they sell jewelry online on Etsy stores.
They sell crystals online on Etsy stores.
I know people who make videos on Facebook and make Facebook ad revenue.
I have a friend who makes about $37,000 a month on Facebook ad revenue,
which means that they just make videos that are so entertaining.
People watch them.
Facebook puts ads in them, and then they pay them for their ads.
I know people that do sponsorships, and they do them on Instagram and Facebook and YouTube.
I know somebody who runs a clothing brand.
I know someone who runs a clothing brand and he makes all of these different clothing for other
influencers. And I know one influencer, I won't name the name, one of the biggest influence in
the world. And he only does drops. And so about every two months, he'll do a clothing drop,
which is just, hey, we've got a limited amount. And he'll make about a million dollars every time
he does a drop. And it's sold out over 24 hours. I know people that sell courses online for
photography, for, you know, how to be a coach, how to grow your business, how to run Facebook
ads, how to do affiliate marketing, all kinds of different courses. I know people that do
affiliate marketing. I know a lot of people that do podcasting, obviously. Like I said,
writing emails for other people. I know three friends specifically who had supplement companies
and sold their supplement companies. Every one of those three friends. And I hope I don't sound like
it's not my intention to be like, oh my God, look at me. I know people. This is, that's stupid.
that's not what I'm trying to do. I want to open your mind to it and try, I'm trying to blow your
mind to be like, oh my God, there's way more than I thought. I know three separate guys who own
supplement companies and all sold their supplement companies and when they cashed out of it
brought in over $100 million each, which is insane. So selling supplements. I know quite a people
do people who do jump row courses. I know people that do harmonica courses. I know people that
teach, I have a friend that teaches people how to dunk and sells courses on how to grow your
abs and your hamstrings so that you can dunk. I have a few people that I know that sell on
Amazon. I have one friend that I know that teaches people how to sell on Amazon. I know people that
do freelancing on Upwork and Fiverr. I know somebody that does interior design in 3D that does
it on Upwork and Fiverr. I know people that do social media management where they manage other people
social medias. I know people that do YouTube. I know people that do use AI to write books for Kindle and
they just write tons of books a year and they make money doing it that way. I know people that do
consulting. So they are really good at one thing. They have applied knowledge on something. And then they
teach other people who want to get good at that. So you're consulting with it. I know people that are
freelance writers. I know people that are ghost writers. And so really what it comes down to is what are you
interested in. And I don't think that I want to give you any answers. I just want to give you
questions. And the questions are like, what are you interested in? What do you want to do? Is it,
if you love what you do, fine, you can definitely keep doing that. But there are a million ways to make
a little bit of money online, just some extra cash, to make a lot of money online. And, you know,
the way that I've met all of these people is by putting myself out there. I am a introvert.
I prefer not to go to networking events
but when I was getting into this industry
I was like I need to meet new people I need to put myself out there
I need to meet new people I need to find other people
and so like I said I started going to internet marketing party
one of my biggest mentors I ever met was at an event in Orlando
like six years ago which is put on by click funnels
which is a landing page company and funnels company
and it was called traffic or not there's was actually called funnel
hackers live and I met him he sat next to me he was
wearing a watch that I thought was cool. I love watches. We started talking about watches. I was
like, what do you do? He told me what he did? He said, what do you do? I was like, oh my God, I do
almost the exact same thing. We became good friends. His company was way more successful than mine at
the time. So I just learned from him and I grew from being around him and we became good friends.
So there's, you know, if you want to go to events, I recommend going to events. There's a couple
events that are really big that, you know, teach how to make money online and you can meet tons of
people that make all of different ways to make money online. There's there's trafficking conversion
summit, which usually happens in San Diego. There's funnel hackers live. They go all over the
place. There's social media examiner. I think they still do a summit. There's other people's
webinars where they teach you what they do. They might try to sell you something at the end,
but they do at least teach you what they do. I would say more than anything else, I just recommend that
you just open your mind to it. Because with your reticular activating system, once your mind
open to it, you're going to start noticing opportunities and people in places and you'll start
meeting people and going, oh, man, I should have a conversation with this person. They do something
online. Maybe I should go grab them, grab coffee with them. I will say this. Sometimes you've got
to spend money to make money. Sometimes you do have to spend money in a course. Sometimes you do
have to spend money to go to get a ticket to a conference and you've got to fly to the conference and
you've got to do a hotel. You know, what I would recommend is that you go and start searching
for, you know, the city that you live in, for the country that you live in, and just put online marketing.
And, you know, there's websites like digitalmarketer.com, who's run by one of the best digital markers in the world.
It got named Ryan Dice. There's social media examiner.com. There's click funnels that does it.
I just want to open your mind to it where it might not be, you might not make your first dollar today.
It might not be for two years. It might not be for three years. You know, I started getting into it in 2012.
I didn't make my first dollar online until like January of 2016.
So you're talking about three and a half, four years, whatever it was.
I started meeting people in 2015 that were doing it.
And so what I really want to do is open up your mind and have you start thinking differently.
Have you started thinking, you know, maybe you don't like being an accountant anymore.
Maybe you don't want to be an engineer anymore.
Maybe you don't want to be a nurse or a teacher anymore.
There's options.
There's things that you can do.
And I just really want to open up your minds to it to try to make some sort of change.
You know, what I do is I teach people how to grow coaching businesses online.
And there's that.
an option. There's just many ways to do it. I want to open up your mind to it. And I want
you realize that where you are doesn't always have to be the way that you, the place that you
stay forever. So I hope that in 12 months, I will get more messages on Instagram from you
guys listening to this episode right now about how you listen to this, open up your mind and start
a successful online business. If it happens, message me on Instagram, Rob Dial Jr., R-B-D-I-A-L-L-J-R.
So that's what I got for you for today's lesson. If you're out there and you want to master your
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And with that, I'm going to leave the same way I leave you every single episode.
Make it your mission to make somebody else's day better.
I appreciate you, and I hope that you have an amazing day.
