Digital Technopreneur Podcast: Recent Episodes
Patrick Ollawa, Andi Ohh
Learn from our guest entrepreneurs as they move from idea to a profitable business while building resilience along their journey.
Our guest today has generated about half a million dollars in online courses over the past 2 years and shares his insights, processes and tactics for building a successful online course. George Pitts is a business and wealth coach who turned his passion for helping people into several online courses to help entrepreneurs achieve a better financial lifestyle. Our conversation breaks down how he identifies a profitable course topic, the research involved, pricing your course and how to effectively deliver your course for profits.
Our guest today is the Co-Founder of Enye and the CTO of PayHippo, Uche Nnadi. We discussed the gradual progression of how the self taught engineer is working with his co-founders to create financial growth opportunities for engineers, founders and small to mid-size enterprises. This was a very transparent conversation where we tackled the growing pains of building a business and the importance of having the right team, keeping an open communication with the team and leveraging the team.
Our guest today are “Twin Souls” coaches in the business of love and their story of how they found each other is one you have to listen to. Our love coaches Ingrid & Hamilton discussed the importance of finding yourself and understanding the relationship we have with our spouses, our work and our journey as entrepreneurs. This is the open conversation that you wish you had with yourself.
Today we address our community questions with the focus on some of the steps we use to validate a new business idea. We reviewed different testing processes to gauge market interest and communicating with your target audience when you have no market yet. We also reviewed the values and steps to have before you build your special offer. Andy dives into how to use information capital as an asset to help you build your special offer.
Our guest today is a former naval officer now entrepreneur and CEO of Trident Coffee, a San Diego California based coffee company connecting people and ideas through a healthier coffee experience. Our conversation taps into the emotional connection they create with their brand, building systems and how to start your business even when you are not ready.
Our guest, Priscilla McKinney is the CEO and "Momma Bird" of Little Bird Marketing. Our conversation breaks down her trademark SOAR system that her and her team use today to help clients build a powerhouse brand. She personifies creativity, entrepreneurship and authentic leadership – inspiring others to truly carve out their own path of success.
Our guest today, Keona Moy is an apparel designer and innovative entrepreneur allowing womxn be shamelessly comfortable in their own being with her braless apparel. In this episode she shares her lessons learned as a new startup designer balancing work, family, life and her business.
Our guest, Daniel Mangena is an international speaker that has built multiple 7 figure businesses and describes “relationship capital” as one of the key assets that helped him build a successful business career. He describes the goal in growing your relationship capital is about finding those relationship in which you can add value to them, just as much as they can add value to you. In this episode we uncover how to build those relationships and uncovering the dreamers manifesto.
Our guest Jamal Johnson is a successful serial entrepreneur in entertainment and business. He breaks down people resources as one of the most important skill that helped him build six successful companies. Our conversation navigates building multiple business identifies and how to leverage your strengths as an entrepreneur and recruiting your weaknesses.
Our guest Nick Prouten is the VP of product design at LODE, a blockchain powered payment ecosystem. We breakdown the block chain technology, its applications and crypto-currency. Our discussion introduces a new and first of its kind a crypto currency backed by gold and silver. This conversation was very easy to digest the understanding or speculations of the some financial risk involved with investing and decentralized finance.
In celebration of Black History Month, we celebrate the creativity, innovation and gifts of an amazing writer who consistently pushes her boundaries. Our conversation today walks through how our guest balanced between chasing her creative passions and a conventional career. Tai French is the founder of Vintage City Entertainment, redefining live theatre and implementing technology to digitize the way we experience her plays.
Our discussion today stems from a conversation from the community on how people describe success and what it means to them. We reviewed this idea of success from several different global perspective - young, old, married, single, family, career and business oriented. However, most of the responses independently came out similar and both our guests presented several new thoughts on the idea of social success.
LinkedIn was not initially built as a job recruitment platform but rather built for entrepreneurs with the smaller financial budget that needs a platform to network. Our guest, is a LinkedIn brand strategist that breaks down the three steps to effectively building your network and brand on LinkedIn.
Most people start out the year with resolutions that tends to be abandoned after the first two weeks. As an entrepreneur, setting goals is a very import part of the journey but rather than creating resolutions we shift our focus on just five things that will create a fulfilled year. Today, we get to discuss our top 5 things we are focusing more on for 2021.
Our guest started the entrepreneurial path at 17 to provide for his family and without any higher education. Today at age 30, he has successfully built several six figure businesses and a seven figure net worth. He writes his first book breaking down his unconventional path to the American dream. We discuss some of the steps towards publishing your first book, the mindset, planning and execution stages to becoming a successful published author.
Our guest today proves that being an innovative entrepreneur doesn't necessarily mean that you have to develop a disruptive tech but it can also be introducing an old product to a new industry. Uzo is disrupting the food scene in Nigeria and several countries in Africa with inspirations from here job experiences from the United States. She combines her passion for food, community and service to create a brand mission known as the "El Padrino Way"
Building a business brand as a new entrepreneur can seem like a daunting topic. Our guest today is considered a branding alchemist helping entrepreneurs and businesses understand how to build an honest business brand using some simple and cost effective ideas to create engagement and generate income.
Our guest today is my co-host Andi Ohh, who helps entrepreneurs generate funding for their business and he shares why he walked away from a $40 million deal and the importance of entrepreneurs to be facilitators in their business journey.
Our guest today is considered the chief kelper and the Founder of Carbon Kapture a company that created a product to beat the production of CO2 with a network of kelp farms. We walk through the journey of his company still in the first year and currently at a series C investment funding round.
Sometimes as an entrepreneur you have to go against the grain and think outside of the box to create your business. In this episode, our guest pushed his creativity from a physical world to creating a live digital experience of a fantasy escape game. This is a great example of a true digital technopreneur starting from scratch and launching his business.
We walk through the journey of how our guest re-built herself after years of abusing alcohol as a successful global model to finding her path in the kitchen as a chef.
In this episode, we walk through the journey of how this divorced mom of four kids eliminated over $600k of debt and built a business based on her passion. She shares her core values and the importance of how evaluating life decisions based on her core values created a balanced personal life.
How this entrepreneur taps into his full creativity to engage his goals, build a business and staying motivated. This episode shares the journey of a new entrepreneur as he embraces his passion in fitness.
Entrepreneurs often have an internal personality that is quite different from the public personas they project. Our guest opens the discussion on the avatar personas we create to separate our different personalities and how to be intent with true self at all times.
Growth in business does not have to be an increase in cost. It could be expanding your reach, finding the right partners, pivoting business into a new market space. We discuss more on how to simplify your expansion vision.
The fitness industry is a saturated space as a trainer and our guest talks about how to build a successful fitness business and carving out your ideal target market.
Starting your entrepreneurial journey can feel stressful and lonely but that fear is very normal. In this episode, our guest talks about the silent contracts we have with the ones we love and how to push through those contracts in our journey of building a business.
In this episode we discuss why we created the podcast, some of our philosophies on business and entrepreneurship.
We created this podcast as a way to share the voices of entrepreneurs in their early stages of their journey while providing inspiration to those that are currently considering their business path.