Financial anxiety is a common phenomenon that faces many entrepreneurs. Knowing how to manage these anxieties and risks and simultaneously build wealth is essential.
Dan Nicholson is an innate serial entrepreneur who lives in Seattle. He is the founder of multiple finance, accounting, and software engineering companies.
He has worked at Deloitte and various Fortune 500 companies and has been named CPA Practice Advisor’s 40 Under 40 list of global accountants four times. Dan graduated from Seattle University, earning degrees in accounting and information systems before completing a fellowship at the Governmental Accounting Standards Board.
Through his companies, Nth Degree CPAs, CertaintyU, and CertainityApp, Dan helps people fund their solvable problems with less effort, less risk, and more options. To thrive in business, you need clarity about your goals and whether they are attainable. Dan’s companies help entrepreneurs clarify what they want out of their businesses and life. They then estimate how long it will take to achieve their goals using a tool in the CertaintyApp and finally close the gap of where they want to be by applying the tools and principles.
Most entrepreneurs admit that the most challenging aspect of business, life, and finances is figuring out what would work for you while making money and serving everyone else. Through his solvable problem principle, Dan has helped many people come to terms with unlocking their potential. His companies meet people at their points of need. Rather than telling everyone to conform and teach “the only strategy you need,” they show people how to figure out what they actually want and how they can play on their terms and, more importantly, critical aspects that border around risk, effort, and optionality. In short, Play your game and get closer to the things you want instead of simply seeking more.
Aside from owning many companies that help entrepreneurs get steady and closer to what they want rather than getting into the trap of more sales that most entrepreneurs get into, Dan has authored his first book ‘Rigging the Game.’ The book helps you create and follow a path to the things you genuinely value, whatever they may be, and eliminate the risk and financial uncertainty that commonly plague business owners daily.
Rigging The Game teaches entrepreneurs how unconventional thinking can transform their lives and finances for the better. In his book, Dan delves into tips and strategies that can help entrepreneurs get what they want. This includes identifying biases and evolving beyond them, turning big goals into actionable steps and checklists, replacing financial anxiety with financial certainty, and helping entrepreneurs to beat the odds by playing their own game.
Dan’s passion is helping purpose-driven entrepreneurs and small business owners achieve financial certainty through his 20-week online course, Certified Certainty Advisor. His CPA firm has been ranked as number one of the ten best-run mid sized firms in the United States. Also, Dan has helped to scale so many businesses to great heights. He takes pride in several 6 and 7 multiple-figure businesses.
However, Dan’s journey has not been a walk in the park. Growing up, he struggled with self-esteem issues, as he had speech problems and a bad dental situation that his peers often made a mockery of. This weighed on his confidence with time, and he constantly felt he wasn’t enough. However, he overcame this and became the first graduate in his family.
Dan hopes to inspire more people through his book ‘Rigging the Game’ to discover their entrepreneurial potential. He hopes the book will help solve anxiety related to financial issues and help entrepreneurs to approach wealth creation more calmly and the right way without blowing themselves up.