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Words that Sell From an International 
Engagement  Specialist. Grow Sell 
Retire Podcast.
Business and Life Success tips for LAZY over-achiever. This podcast gives you the 
tips it took  me 20 years to get right! Your business can be a lonely place, but 
hugely rewarding! In Grow,  Sell and Retire, my goal is for you to have the tools 
available to make things happen in your  business to create real change. Your 
business has two rockets and this is the ROCKET FUEL  to bring you one step 
closer to feeling wealthy.
The Who brought us Tommy the Pinball Wizard and now the GSR Podcast brings 
you Richard  Blank who is the Word Wizard who loves Pinball from the heart of 
central America in Costa  Rica. Richard brings his secrets and tips and tricks around 
engaging clients, building teams  and making things happen to move your 
business to the next level.
Escucha bien y vas a ver Pura Vida the love of life and business Richard has for 
the people  that surround him.
The best selling book, Grow, Sell and Retire, is brought to life in this podcast. B.D. 
is joined by  Thought Leaders, Influencers and prolific Authors from around the 
globe, offering their  invaluable, implementable nuggets of wisdom that will 
enhance your life and business, today.
Hello! My name is B.D.
Actually, my full name is Barton Dyke Dalton II, a gift handed down from my 
father, hence the  regal suffix.
I come from a long line of liberating people:
Clara Barton, who we get our name from, founded the American Red Cross 
and liberated  people from famine and catastrophe.
The Dalton Gang liberated people from their money by robbing people in the 
Wild West.  Bart Simpson, no relation but same name, became a part of 
households everywhere in 1990  when I was living in Spain and learning about 
working with people, culture and language.
But I am a lazy Over-Achiever.
Immediately after high school I spent a year in Southern Spain on a Rotary 
International  student exchange programme, spending as little time as possible in 
class but truly integrating  myself into the Spanish life and culture. It was amazing 
and I didn’t want to leave!
When I went back to my home town of Tacoma, Washington, my goal was to find a 
career  path that would support me and take me back to Europe. I majored in 
International Studies at  Pacific Lutheran University during which time I was not 
lazy, working a full time job with a  global logistics company so they would 
subsidize my university fees.I moved up through the  company ranks, selling ice 
to Eskimos in Alaska – not literally, it was actually groceries to  convenience 
stores, but we did sell ice. Through these business trips I met my wife, Michelle,  
so there’s proof even good can come from working in management of the evil 
empire
W͞almart.
An opportunity became available for me to join my father in his financial services 
business,  and in September 1997 I joined Edward Jones Investments. In Tacoma, I 
built a highly  successful financial advisory business, which did not go unnoticed by 
the partners at Edward  Jones. When they expanded into Europe I was offered the 
chance to come over and be a part  of the expansion, that was in 2002 and 
Michelle and I haven’t looked back.
Edward Jones decided not to continue expansion into Europe and sold its UK 
business in  2009, but as I had built up yet another amazing business from 
scratch, through the very hard  tactic of door-knocking, we decided to stay. Now I 
have the freedom to build my financial  services firm AND work with business 
owners in the UK and the USA to build and sell their  businesses for more than 
they thought possible.
So….let me tell you about the mistake… the huge…£1.2 million 
mistake:
In 2011, one of my top clients was planning on selling the family business. They 
were going to  gain 5 million pounds. This was the Lottery ticket they had worked 
for their whole lives.
Choosing the winning numbers each decade of toil. Guess what? With one 
year worth of  tweaking it would have sold for 7.2 million.
Now it was time to sell and I had given them suggestions of who to use for their 
tax, and legal,  and financing. They ignored almost all of my recommendations 
BECAUSE my advice was  given for free and not valued. The tax bill was going to 
be £1.2 million. Working with my known  tax advisers we had built a plan where 
redistribution of a few shares to a cousin would have  mitigated all tax.
As a wealth manager, that £1.2 million pound ERROR made the difference of 
£50,000 in  annual income for the family and, this will make you cry, a sizable 
amount of fees for Taurus  Wealth, my Wealth Management Practice.
These mistakes by my clients, and the numerous mistakes other clients have 
made, has given  me valuable insight on what not to do and also many fantastic 
successes along the way. Let  me tell you a little more about me:
Immediately after High School I spent a year in Spain on an International Exchange
Programme, then went back home to complete my degree in International 
Business. I followed  in my father’s footsteps and joined global financial services 
firm, Edward Jones, in 1997.After  building my office in Tacoma, Washington, I was 
asked by the senior partners to come to  Birmingham UK to build another. In 2010, I 
launched my own wealth management firm, Taurus  Wealth, with my friend and 
business partner, Robert North. I firmly believe families with wealth  deserve a 
team of professionals that design, implement and guide a strategy to protect 
wealth  for generations to come. From this basis I launched Bart Dalton Consulting 
(BDC) to bring  together entrepreneurs and business owners/directors with the right 
kind of advice, mentoring  and support to articulate their version of success, and 
achieve it.
Will you allow me to help you with some success tips from my life as a Lazy Over-
Achiever?  Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. When he 
was 27 years old, he  relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the 
larger call centers in San Jose. With  a mix of motivational public speaking style 
backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard
shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers. Richard 
Blank has the  largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and 
antique Rockola Jukeboxes in  Central America making gamification a strong part 
of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief  Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call 
Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from 
the  University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the 
University of Sevilla,  Spain. A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High 
School 68th National Honors  Society induction ceremony. In addition, inducted 
into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business.  Giving back to Abington Senior High 
School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he  endows a scholarship each year 
for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the  university level.
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