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Unlocking Success: The Entrepreneurial Mindset with Austin Zaback

📅 July 14, 2025 ⏱️ 1:01:58 🎤 Austin Zaback, Tommy Mello

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  • 0:00
    Meet Austin Zaback
  • 4:21
    Every business built with a 3-5 year exit plan
  • 8:41
    Sticking to what you know deeply
  • 17:19
    Every agent needs a backup plan
  • 21:41
    Pay to play: hiring consultants
  • 25:59
    Networking is the best investment
  • 30:18
    What actually builds culture
  • 34:32
    Coaching a fast-developing team member
  • 38:48
    Parenting, respect and raising good kids
  • 43:06
    Why he started the podcast
  • 47:23
    Partnerships are never truly 50/50
  • 1:00:19
    Don't be afraid to fail — execute

Speakers

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Austin Zaback
Founder, Zaback Group & One Roof Investments; President, Space Real Estate
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Tommy Mello
Host / Founder, A1 Garage Door Service

Key Takeaways

Austin Zaback is a real estate entrepreneur — founder of Zaback Group and One Roof Investments and president of Space, a fast-growing team with hundreds of agents across multiple states.

He builds every business with a 3-to-5-year plan to sell, and prefers three years — the exit strategy is baked in from day one.

He advises every agent to have a backup plan: spend less than you make and buy rental properties so you're covered when the market inevitably turns.

He 'pays to play' — for roughly every 40 podcasts he does he hires a consultant, and those relationships often turn into genuine friendships.

Networking is one of the single best uses of your time; never pass up the chance to go out and meet the right people.

He believes no partnership in life is truly 50/50 — even marriage works better around 49/51 — because someone always has to carry a bit more.

The people who don't succeed are stuck in analysis paralysis; you have to get out there, execute, and not be afraid to fail.

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