Episode 62

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7th Jan 2025

Ep 62: Dan Nicholson's Interview on the Sharkpreneur Podcast

A serial entrepreneur since birth, Dan Nicholson is the author of Rigging the Game: How to Achieve Financial Certainty, Navigate Risk, and Make Money on Your Own Terms, a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller. Dan is the founder of the award-winning accounting and financial consulting firm Nth Degree CPAs and has been named a top 40 under 40 accountant globally four times. Beyond accounting, he’s launched multiple small businesses, including Certainty U and Certainty News, which reaches over 1 billion monthly users.

In this special replay from the Sharkpreneur podcast, Dan dives into what it means to achieve financial security as an entrepreneur. With valuable insights from his experience as a consulting producer for PBS’ Opportunity Knocks and the host of Rigging the Game, Dan shares actionable advice for business owners.


Key Topics Discussed:


  • How Nth Degree CPAs specializes in proactive tax planning and strategy for small businesses.
  • Why it’s critical for entrepreneurs to focus on the future rather than dwelling on the past.
  • The importance of understanding risk and leveraging asymmetric opportunities for more upside than downside.
  • How Nth Degree CPAs helps clients develop real, actionable plans instead of just crunching numbers for tax time.
  • Why entrepreneurs should stop trying to prove themselves and instead pursue their goals because they genuinely want them.


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About the Podcast

(UN)Conventional Wealth
(UN)Conventional Wealth is the top resource for entrepreneurs who want unconventional strategies and tips to win at business and life on their terms.

Entrepreneurs who are breaking through barriers while setting new standards in their industry recognize that the cliché, cookie cutter, and conventional recommendations about finance and business don’t apply to them.

This podcast will release you from the “WHAT YOU SHOULD BE DOING” chains so you can massively win at business and life by playing your game.

Painful shyness intersecting with an insatiable desire to compete (and WIN) birthed a relentless curiosity to understand how to massively win at business and confront fears without conforming to a set blueprint.

This show is for the purpose-driven entrepreneur who recognizes that the cliché, cookie cutter, and conventional recommendations about finance and business don’t work because they’re playing a different game.

As a painfully shy kid, I often found myself on the sidelines quietly observing the game of sports, life and business until the flames of competitiveness grew to a bonfire and took over. From the ashes, birthed a relentless curiosity and drive to understand how to massively win at business and confront my fears without conforming to a set blueprint.

I share the unconventional strategies and tips I learned to make sure you win (get what you want) under your rules. Hear all the “a-ha” moments as a business owner, dad, exercise enthusiast and serial idea generator while interviewing other thought leaders who have developed their own strategies to rig the game to win.