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Neil Ball
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Are you an Entrepreneur, Wantrepreneur, or Small Business Owner? Would you like new ideas, insight inspiration that you can apply from successful entrepreneurs? Be our guest and listen to our podcast to discover how other entrepreneurs are getting all of this as they commute, and as they workout in the gym, and as they jog etc. 7 days a week we interview successful entrepreneurs and talk about their journey to discover their struggle before finding success, the big ideas that made their businesses grow, and their aspirations and ideas for the future. In each episode of The Entrepreneur Way Neil chats with successful entrepreneurs as they reveal golden nuggets of information and advice.
Rick Elmore is an entrepreneur, sales and marketing expert. As the Founder and CEO of Simply Noted, Rick developed a proprietary technology that puts real pen and ink to paper to scale handwritten communication, helping businesses of all industries scale this unique marketing platform to stand out from their competition and build meaningful relationships with clients, customers, and employees. Founded in 2018 and based in Tempe, Arizona, Simply Noted has grown into a thriving company with clients of various sizes across the country including in hospitality, real estate, insurance, nonprofit, franchise, B2B, and others. Rick has served as the company’s CEO since its founding, for more than three years, and has over a decade of sales and marketing industry experience. “I help businesses of all industries to stand out from their competition & build meaningful relationships by using unique marketing platform”
“every person kind of has that analysis paralysis in that they don’t get started. If you don’t get started today most likely are never going to get started. And it is just getting started and taking that first step… That’s what it is to build a business, it’s just one step at a time… And you have got to be patient… It may take a long time”…[Listen for More]
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Stephen Dean first built his career in information technology, working as a developer for Hewlett-Packard and several start-ups. He received his MBA from Duke before co-founding Keona Health, where manages all facets of finance, marketing, and operations.
“I really do feel that figuring out how to get through… Life is tough… And being able to get through the hardships and being able to be comfortable with situations that are uncomfortable and that are hard and you don’t know what success is going to look like. But creating a plan and taking that next step anyway is kind of key to all of life whether you’re an entrepreneur or not”…[Listen for More]
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Josh Bremmerer, co-founder and CEO of Komodo Covers, is an innate navigator, an experienced leader in the boating industry with over a decade of experience in management and company development and a lifelong passion for boating.
“Hang in there man… It will all be okay in the end. If it’s not okay it’s not the end”…[Listen for More]
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Yong-Soo Chung left a successful career in cryptocurrency software engineering to found his first 8-figure e-commerce business Urban EDC, a venture with an impressive social media following. He then went on to launch GrowthJet, a Climate Neutral Certified third-party logistics company. Yong-Soo is passionate about sharing the lessons he's learned with other entrepreneurs so they too can start a bootstrapped company that is both profitable and sustainable.
“Start first of all. Starting can be very difficult for a lot of people. So, start and then whatever you decide on just be consistent. I think consistency is really, really important… The most important factor for survival is consistency… Really focus on something that you can control… Just having something that you can control and doing that consistently, that compounds over time. So, consistency is a really important aspect of all of this”…[Listen for More]
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Valerie Hayes is on a mission to help small businesses beat the odds and push through the roadblocks to become an industry leader. She helps overburdened entrepreneurs, small business owners, and CEOs run their companies like a high-performance sports car. Fast and effective.
“Growing your business is all about personal development. That is it in a nutshell. Yes, it is about growing your market share, maintaining profitability, protecting your profit margin, hiring the right people. But all of those decisions are made by you. If you are hunger in some negative thought process or not willing to hire people who are better than yourself… And unfortunately, it happens all of the time, entrepreneurs and small business owners are often tempted to hire B and C players because then they won’t threaten them in their position of leadership or direction for the company. So, the ability to grow your business is more about personal development than anything else ”…[Listen for More]
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Matt Ostanik is an entrepreneur who has founded four startups. In 2019 he started working on Grateful, a platform where socially good businesses do “grateful giving” by donating to their customers’ favorite nonprofits. In today’s world, social good has never been important and is a powerful tool for customer retention.
“Entrepreneurship takes incredibly hard work. It’s really a combination of three things… Entrepreneurial success… It’s having a right vision or strategy; it’s executing, executing, executing and delivering on it; but it is also having a bit of the right timing and the right product or service at the right time and place as well. But you are never going to get there without really hustling as hard as you possibly can to throw all of those things at it as well… It’s a long journey but it’s absolutely worth it… Keep going, its persistence… Persistence pays off on the entrepreneur side as well. So keep fighting, keep pushing, keep running that next race and it’s always a journey and it’s absolutely worth it”…[Listen for More]
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Kurt Wilkin is a trusted advisor for high-growth, middle-market companies as founder and managing partner of Bee Cave Capital and Co-Founder of HireBetter. With a passion for growth and a hard-earned, proven set of tools in his toolbox, Wilkin works with other entrepreneurs and CEOs to help them escape the start-up mindset and achieve next-level success.
“Keep grinding. It’s hard work, it’s glorified when you see Mark Zuckerberg and Steve jobs of the world… But it’s a grind and it’s worth it if you can continue the journey”…[Listen for More]
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Wei Deng is the founder and CEO of Clipboard Health, an app-based marketplace that matches healthcare facilities with nurses nearby, and operates in dozens of U.S. cities. It is backed by Sequoia Capital and Y Combinator. Wei was previously with Sendwave, and started her career as a lawyer.
“my best advice is to talk to customers and put one foot in front of the other. It’s like exercise. If you want to lose 50 pounds tomorrow don’t try to lose it all tomorrow. Like I mentioned progress is non-linear. I think if you lose the first couple of pounds you will see that compounding effect of wow I can do this and I just need to do more of this and it seems suddenly very doable. I think that unblocking your own psychology there is probably the most powerful thing you can do as an entrepreneur ”…[Listen for More]
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Dr. Christopher Croner is a Principal with SalesDrive, LLC, a firm that specializes in the selection and deployment of high performing salespeople. Dr. Croner is co-author of the book, Never Hire a Bad Salesperson Again. Dr. Croner developed the proprietary DriveTest® assessment and the Drive Interview for salesperson selection.
“Monitoring what you think about, and keeping in mind that you become what you think about. But also, after setting a goal rather than focusing too much on the goal… Think about the consistent process that you will use to reach that goal. So coming up with a consistent process, a consistent system… A consistent system that you can use to reach a goal… A consistent process that you can use. And focusing on the process”…[Listen for More]
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Jordan Schindler is on a mission to simplify health and wellness. As the Founder/CEO of Nufabrx, he built the #1 fastest growing company in the region as named by Charlotte Business Journal, and has developed and launched a new category of products to 8-figure revenue and nationwide retail
“This back to this idea of perseverance… It’s trying to figure out what you do and what you know better than other people. What insights do you have that you can build a business around? The other one that we have adopted is get to ‘no’. How do you try to get to an answer as fast as possible… Sometimes that no teachers us a lot”…[Listen for More]
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Best known as the founder of Beast Gear, Ben Leonard is the classic millennial entrepreneur. He built a business on a laptop, in a cupboard, in his spare time. The difference? Ben grew an international 7-figure business and successfully exited after 3 years; the business holy grail.
“Just start. Give yourself permission to start. Too many people feel oh I am not qualified to do that, I can’t do that I don’t have the right background, my degree is nothing to do with that, I have never done this before. But actually, you should just get started. Some of the best entrepreneurs of all time did that. Richard Branson sold tickets for a flight before he even had a plane. You should just get going. ”…[Listen for More]
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Rabi Gupta is a serial entrepreneur. Working alongside his current founding team for 10+ years, they have used AI to build recommendation engines, social platforms and enterprise software. His first startup iDubba/iCouchapp was a “TV show recommendations + social engagement” app that had 2M+ monthly active users at the time it got acquired. Rabi then made a bold move to Silicon Valley to start a new company. While there, Rabi became frustrated that the ability to build relationships lacked technological innovation and intelligence. And so, EvaBot was born. EvaBot is an emotionally intelligent gifting relationship solution that enables thoughtful companies to accelerate the key relationships that increase both growth and competitive advantage. With a platform built to generate emotional engagement and to collect actionable intelligence, they are the standard in amplifying the customer and employee experience, creating an unforgettable journey for the recipient and truly valuable insight for the company. Their vision is to set the standard for business relationships by using AI to personalize the physical and digital experience.
“Perseverance and determination is very important. And also, always keep learning and build a very good team. If you have your team with you, you can solve any problem ”…[Listen for More]
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Timber Barker is the CEO/Founder of Boom Interactive, a software development company that specializes in AI solutions. An advocate for making the design process easier, the technology Timber and his team have created reads, recognizes and learns from complex line drawing, floor plans, and sketches which are then used to generate real time 3D environments in the Construction (Design & Build) Industry, Education, Film and TV, Public Safety and eCommerce markets. Prior to co-founding Boom Interactive, Timber was the CEO/Owner of Studio 11k, which provided technical marketing solutions, mainly focusing on software development, web, and mobile tech. Before dabbling in the entrepreneurial space, Timber worked for notable companies such as Ernst & Young, AT&T and Citigroup. An advocate for education, Timber simultaneously serves as the Chief Technology Officer for a nonprofit called Sneak On The Lot, a filmmaking school for the younger generation that provides them with a safe and effective way to express themselves through film and the arts. During a time when many arts programs have been cut due to budgetary constraints, Timber is fighting for Sneak On The Lot to be placed in underserved schools across the country.
“You want to validate, you want to create a prototype, build a team, sacrifice and then protect. And not necessarily in that order . But you need to show those five things before you are worthy enough to ask for anyone else to give you money. and then you only have a chance. So, if you can do those five things and do them in your way and however you want to interpret those you will find more success. I truly believe if you omit any one of those it will be harder for you… I am not saying impossible but it will be harder”…[Listen for More]
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Michael Brooks is a strong believer in harmony, teamwork, loyalty and partnership. He has spent years building successful businesses with remote freelance talent and implementing strategic solutions through digital marketing and electronic payments.
“Get committed. Figure out what you are committed to”…[Listen for More]
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Jotham S Stein is the principal of the Law Offices of Jotham S. Stein P.C. He has over 20 years experience representing both high level executives and lower level employees. Stein is a graduate of Stanford Law, Princeton and is admitted to practice law in many states.
“if you have any leverage at all protect yourself on day one before you go into a relationship with anyone you are doing business with. If you are starting a small company with your family, you are better off you each protect yourself against each other in a very friendly way on day one. If you are going into a relationship starting a new company protect yourself from day one so that you don’t wind up being forced out when you take in investors and grow your company…”…[Listen for More]
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Bill Nussey is a career tech CEO with several exits, including a billion-dollar IPO. He is now launching several clean energy ventures, starting with Freeing Energy. This project started with a TED talk that grew into a top podcast, and is now a book, which hit Amazon’s #1 new release.
“show up early. You could think about that for minutes and hours and realise what it really means… But show up early. And the second thing is… And it’s kind of building on it which is be prepared. There is opportunities in your life where you don’t see it coming in something amazing is going to knock on your door. Have your ducks in a row and be ready to seize it. Plans are great but plans rarely come together. The successful people that I’ve met and worked with Cs the opportunities that they didn’t see coming and they are ready for them”…[Listen for More]
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Liam Martin is a serial entrepreneur who runs Time Doctor and Staff.com — one of the most popular time tracking and productivity software platforms in use by top brands today. He is also a co-organizer of the world's largest remote work conference — Running Remote. He just wrote a book by the same name about why everyone got remote work wrong during the pandemic and he's here today to help us figure out how to run a successful remote company
“Identify whether you are an entrepreneur or not… We talked about that before. What that means is you are someone who can’t work someone else because you don’t want to get dominated by someone else’s rules – you want to make your own. If you are in that state you are an entrepreneur. And then make failure as quick and as easy as humanly possible. That’s what I would do, whatever the idea is. The ideas may be bad, you are actually probably going to have to go through three or four ideas before you come up with one that actually gets you some traction but that is the journey. And to get very tactical actually ,I would do this for about three years. If you can’t make any money within three years, stop, something is either wrong with your ideas, your execution or yourself. You may not be an entrepreneur ”…[Listen for More]
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Jane Hanson grew up in rural Minnesota, coming to New York three decades ago to join NBC as an anchor and correspondent in NY. She co-anchored “Today in New York,” and hosted “Jane’s New York”; She covered events ranging from the tragedy of 9/11 to the joy of Yankees victory parades to Wall Street and Washington; has interviewed presidents, business leaders, prisoners, and celebrities; traveled as far as the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and the great depths miles below New York City for her special reports. Most recently, she hosted a daily entertainment and lifestyle program, New York Live, for NBC4. Jane has won 9 Emmys; was named Correspondent of the Year by New York’s Police Detectives and Firefighters, among many other awards. Jane has served as the March of Dimes Walk-America Chairman, honorary chair for the Susan B. Komen Foundation’s Race for the Cure, and as a board member of Graham Windham, Phipps Houses, the Randall’s Island Sports Foundation, the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, and Telecare. She has taught at Long Island University, Stern College, and the 92nd Street Y. and was President of the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She is currently a much sought-after communications coach working with top-tier leaders in every field, while continuing to emcee, speak and host broadcasts.
“You have literally got to believe that you will succeed and you cannot let the obstacles get in your way. You must always put one foot in front of the other. It is a journey; it is not a sprint. And to be able to succeed takes a lot of what is going on in your head and your attitude… The way you keep on with life is change your attitude. So consistently keep your attitude in a good place. Don’t give up.”…[Listen for More]
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Ralf Specht is the author of “Building Corporate Soul”. He developed the Soul System™, a framework that powers culture and success for any business. After two decades with McCann Erickson in various executive roles, he was a founding partner of Spark44, an innovative, industry-first joint venture with Jaguar Land Rover. Under his leadership as CEO, Spark44 grew to a 1,200 people business in 18 countries. His second book “Beyond The Startup” shares the operational innovations that drove Spark44´s growth before it joined forces with Accenture. His driving vision is to make soulless companies a thing of the past.
“don’t take yourself too serious. Entrepreneurs need to have a huge commitment to what they are about to be doing. And every now and then you can think that there is nothing else in the world but definitely there is… There is lots outside that. So don’t take yourself too serious, and find a good balance in your private life because you will need that to manage the difficult days and nights that are up there and there will be some ”…[Listen for More]
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Joel Sandoval, CPA is a successful entrepreneur and tax mastermind, having helped business owners save $37 million in taxes. The story of his start in the tax industry goes back to the peak of the real estate market crash in 2007. He was new to the job force with one foot in the real estate industry. However, with so many people losing their homes, he was afraid he had hit a brick wall in real estate. Fortunately, the CPA at the escrow company he was employed with, shared her experience as an accountant during such a volatile time. This ignited a spark in Joel, he began talking with other CPAs which only further increased his interest in the accounting industry. Four years later, Joel officially graduated from California State University, Bakersfield with a business degree and a concentration in accounting. Starting his tax and accounting firm was step one to the massive success he has achieved today. Like many small business owners, Joel was juggling all aspects of the business alone. He was cold calling, meeting with clients, preparing and filing tax returns. Today, he owns Sandoval Tax CPAs and serves as the leader for his growing team. He has a passion for helping business owners maximize their profits by reducing their taxes. His firm has clients all over the United States which he meets with virtually on a regular basis to ensure he is doing everything he can by being proactive. Sandoval Tax CPAs on average saves business owners anywhere from $15k to $30k in taxes EVERY year. Ultimately, Joel’s wishes for the firm consist of being the top CPA firm in the country for both English and Spanish speaking business owners. Although he and his firm have already achieved great success, this is only the beginning for him and his business endeavors.
“Really have a strong mindset because if you have the right mindset, you can achieve your dreams, you can achieve your desires. But you are going to have to be able to overcome any obstacles so you might as well be prepared and train your brain to overcome those challenges”…[Listen for More]
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Joel Sandoval, CPA is a successful entrepreneur and tax mastermind, having helped business owners save $37 million in taxes. The story of his start in the tax industry goes back to the peak of the real estate market crash in 2007. He was new to the job force with one foot in the real estate industry. However, with so many people losing their homes, he was afraid he had hit a brick wall in real estate. Fortunately, the CPA at the escrow company he was employed with, shared her experience as an accountant during such a volatile time. This ignited a spark in Joel, he began talking with other CPAs which only further increased his interest in the accounting industry. Four years later, Joel officially graduated from California State University, Bakersfield with a business degree and a concentration in accounting. Starting his tax and accounting firm was step one to the massive success he has achieved today. Like many small business owners, Joel was juggling all aspects of the business alone. He was cold calling, meeting with clients, preparing and filing tax returns. Today, he owns Sandoval Tax CPAs and serves as the leader for his growing team. He has a passion for helping business owners maximize their profits by reducing their taxes. His firm has clients all over the United States which he meets with virtually on a regular basis to ensure he is doing everything he can by being proactive. Sandoval Tax CPAs on average saves business owners anywhere from $15k to $30k in taxes EVERY year. Ultimately, Joel’s wishes for the firm consist of being the top CPA firm in the country for both English and Spanish speaking business owners. Although he and his firm have already achieved great success, this is only the beginning for him and his business endeavors.
“Really have a strong mindset because if you have the right mindset, you can achieve your dreams, you can achieve your desires. But you are going to have to be able to overcome any obstacles so you might as well be prepared and train your brain to overcome those challenges”…[Listen for More]
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Fred Joyal is #1 Amazon Bestselling author, speaker, entrepreneur, and business advisor. He co-founded the most successful dentist referral service in the country:1-800-DENTIST, which, over 30 years, generated over $1 billion in revenue. Along with this achievement, he has also been awarded the Conrad Hilton Distinguished Entrepreneur Award by Loyola Marymount University, and had a successful career at one of the top advertising firms in Los Angeles; for which, as the company’s CEO, he has written over 200 television and radio commercials, written two books on marketing, dabbled in stand-up and improv comedy, acted in bad movies and excellent TV commercials.
“Start. Get up every day and start something and focus on what you need to do that day – it will aggregate. Don’t get too involved about your five or 10 year plan because nobody can predict five years from now anymore. Listen to the marketplace, listen to what your customers are telling you. A lot of people don’t do that and they don’t adjust to that. And don’t complain about the fact that your business is hard because if it were easy then everybody would be doing it. Be happy that it is hard, be excited that it is really hard and be really good at it”…[Listen for More]
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Mike Malatesta is an entrepreneur who has helped start, grow, and sell two amazingly successful waste management companies. One sold for mid-8 figures and the other sold for low-9 figures. Mike also created and host the "How'd it Happen Podcast" [200+ Episodes] where I explore stories, lessons, and wins with some of the most fascinating and successful people in the world. His new book, "Owner Shift - How Getting Selfish Got Me Unstuck" is a philosophical memoir that reveals the secret to why so many entrepreneurs get stuck and how they can SHIFT to get free once again. Following the success of his book, Mike founced Owner Shift Coaching, an exclusive and customized one-on-one coaching program for high-performing entrepreneurs and CEOs.
“Get ready for a wild ride. And I mean a wild ride in an exceptionally positive way and a wild ride in a challenging way that you can’t even anticipate. And I don’t say that to scare people but to get people prepared and ready because this is not an easy game to play but it can be very rewarding game particularly if you know… Just like a professional sports team knows they are going to get beat on a play, they are going to get hurt and things are not going to go right. Lots of things are not going to go right and you are not going to win every game but if you stick to the basics of business, you have resilience, you know that you can’t expect perfection but you also know that every single day you can get better - I think that’s what you need”…[Listen for More]
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Macy Troyer is the founder and CEO of Blossm Social Media, a social media marketing agency. She is a business owner and entrepreneur. Macy is an expert in personal branding, social media marketing, and scaling brands in both the public and private sectors and for professional athletes. Receiving her first award for entrepreneurship and innovation at 17, Macy’s most significant assets are providing solutions, growing brands online, and bringing ideas to life.
“Choose your pain because no matter what route you choose you are going to be challenged and it is going to be hard”…[Listen for More]
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Macy Troyer is the founder and CEO of Blossm Social Media, a social media marketing agency. She is a business owner and entrepreneur. Macy is an expert in personal branding, social media marketing, and scaling brands in both the public and private sectors and for professional athletes. Receiving her first award for entrepreneurship and innovation at 17, Macy’s most significant assets are providing solutions, growing brands online, and bringing ideas to life.
“Choose your pain because no matter what route you choose you are going to be challenged and it is going to be hard”…[Listen for More]
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Farzad Rashidi is the lead innovator at Respona, the all-in-one digital PR and link-building software that combines personalization with productivity. He also runs the marketing efforts at Visme, where he helped the company gain over 12 million active users and pass 2M monthly organic traffic.
“it’s going to be okay… Sometimes it’s easy to get freaked out about things… Knowing that mistakes happen and things don’t always go the way you want them to is part of the journey. And when you look back at it, things will always make sense and it’s not always as bad as it is in your head”…[Listen for More]
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John Connors is the co-founder and CEO of Boathouse Group, a Boston based full-service marketing and technology agency focused on how marketing can drive company performance. He has built the business over 18 years purely on referrals and a great reputation, as well as a simple idea that if you make a promise, you keep a promise. This mindset has rewarded John and his company with large success along with a high retention rate among clients. After starting his career at the largest agency in New England (Hill, Holliday) and the largest agency in the world (McCann), he launched his own firm in 2001. John has a strong belief that agencies and marketing departments have lost the respect of C-Suites and boards over the past few decades, while possessing an equally strong conviction that now is the best time in a generation to rebuild that respect based on the ability to connect strategy, data, creativity and technology.
“Get started… Stop thinking about it and get started”…[Listen for More]
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Beginning his entrepreneurial journey at age 19, Jeremy D Brown used his free time to interview hundreds of successful people across the country, learning from their expertise and acting on their advice. As Jeremy's business development and sales expertise grew, he decided to write his first book in order to establish authority, generate leads, and increase his credibility. The result? His business exploded and Jeremy knew he had found his calling - empowering leaders to share their stories.
“Stop listening to this podcast and any podcast and any webinar and anything that you are doing right now and go and start working at it, get it done. I wouldn’t listen to any more of Neil’s 2000 plus podcasts unless it’s in the background while I actually doing what I say I’m going to do so that you become the person that Neil then calls to be on the podcast instead of just listening to it”…[Listen for More]
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Prior to founding UXReactor, Satyam Kantamneni led various in-house design organizations such as Citrix and PayPal. He is also an alumnus of Harvard Business School. While at Harvard, Satyam realized that most businesses aren’t leveraging the full power of User Experience (UX) Design as an engine for strategic growth. So, he resolved to change that. Through UXReactor, Satyam demonstrated that UX can and should drive enterprise-wide innovation and business outcomes. UXReactor has enabled its clients-partners to generate hundreds of millions in additional revenue from user-cen-tered innovation. Satyam is passionate about user-centered innovation and he is authoring a book titled which will be released in May 2022.
“Take it one quarter at a time. Don’t worry about trying to figure out where and how you will end up 10 years from now … Don’t let the destination mess with the journey and enjoy every phase of the journey and plan for every sub phase of the journey. But don’t plan for the big part because you don’t know where you will end up and what will happen, what resources, what the market … Don’t try to control them, don’t try to predict them just work in the first quarter or two ”…[Listen for More]
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Tracy Benson is the CEO and co-founder of Obsesh, the sports marketplace platform connecting consumers to top athletes, and empowering athlete entrepreneurs to manage, merchandise, market, and monetize their fans online. Previously she was Global Chief Marketing Officer at Seek Thermal, Global Chief Marketing & Product Officer at Monster Inc. (maker of Beats by Dre and Monster headphones), Head of Marketing at Best Buy, Hyper-Growth Market leader at The Home Depot (where she developed the first athlete-work program for Olympians) and Sales & Marketing Manager at AT&T. Tracy was an All-Conference NCAA volleyball athlete at Western Illinois University before becoming a professional beach volleyball player. She earned an MBA in Marketing & Finance from the University of Notre Dame.
“Fear can kill growth. You can’t be afraid, stay focused, understand your why, put your story out there, don’t let fear get in the way. Your job is to solve a problem as an entrepreneur. Don’t give up to early. Rarely is it a honeymoon other ride rarely but if you have got your purpose and you understand your story keep telling that story keep focused on that story. The journey of how you will solve your problem is going to change because we are in this changing environment”…[Listen for More]
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Sherrie Clark is the founder and CEO of Storehouse Media Group as well as a best-selling and award-winning author, ghostwriter, author coach, editor, publisher, and book marketer. She uses her 17 years of acquired skills, accomplishments, and experiences to raise up best-selling and award-winning authors, many of whom are entrepreneurs and leaders. To date, she has worked on over 160 books, noting the common struggles many authors share, especially new ones. Her online courses were created to show them how to address those challenges before they arise so they can achieve success with writing a book. So whether she’s coaching authors one-on-one, in groups, or through her online courses, she’s passionate about ensuring they create a book they’re proud to have their name on. Over the years, Sherrie has been dubbed the “Page-Turner Queen” because of her ability to communicate through storytelling and skillfully pull stories and messages out of people. She then masterfully crafts them in a way that not only breathes life into them but also gives her clients credibility and value so that they can become the go-to expert in their profession. As a national speaker, she enjoys sharing her love for storytelling and how it can change lives, even cultures. She learned how to tell a good story as a police officer with the NYPD and has honed this skill ever since through content writing, copywriting, and books. Sherrie has enjoyed every role and phase of her life. She feels each one has contributed to where she’s at now, doing what she’s most passionate about, and fulfilling the adage, “Do what you love to do, and you’ll never work a day in your life.”
“be methodical in starting and building your business. There is a saying that says don’t quit your day job and to me that means that if you are wanting to build a business do it on the side, keep working your job - the job that is providing for you and your family. Because in reality building a business and realising that kind of income it can sometimes take some time and if you replace it with your job you may find yourself and your family in a bad place without that financial support - and it could become really hard on the family as well. And to make matters worse you will become desperate ”…[Listen for More]
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Amanda Hamilton believes most business owners are getting it wrong. It’s not about just delegating. It’s about delegating with intention. She is the founder of Hamilton Raye “Your Outsourced Admin”, which brings professional remote administrative support to startup organizations and businesses so that you can claim your most valuable nonrenewable resources.
“Even when the times are tough and you get extremely discouraged don’t lose that momentum. Find the one little glimpse of light that you could see out of a challenging circumstance to keep yourself going. Because it can be really tough and it can feel really dark at times but there is definitely light at the end of the tunnel. And while it takes a long time to get there will get their and everyone goes through it.”…[Listen for More]
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Trevor Blake is a physicist by background who grew up extremely poor. Eventually, he tapped into the workings of energy, consciousness, and transformation and began creating through intentionality. Over the last ten years, Trevor has created and successfully exited three separate companies for over $600 million and never hired a single employee.
"So, I have all the same doubts that everyone else has but what I learned through all of the biographies and all of the testing I have done through life is the tools and techniques that I can use for myself to help me get through that”…[Listen for More]
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Dr. Gordon Jones is a former healthcare executive turned entrepreneur. With more than 30 years of digital innovation, entrepreneurship, and business development experience, Dr. Jones has founded and invested in a variety of projects and startups. Alongside his role leading the emergence of Validide, he is the Adjunct Professor of Blockchain, Data Privacy and Self Sovereign Identity at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Jones earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from The Citadel. Following two tours as a member of the United States Army, Dr. Jones completed his master’s and doctorate degrees in health administration from the Medical University of South Carolina.
“Really think about all you are going to have to endure in order to do this because it is going to be very difficult and I don’t want you giving up two quickly. So, once you commit to your idea… And there is different ways to bring it to market, you don’t have to do it by yourself. You can patent it and licence it. But at the end of the day really think about how you want to bring this thing to life, decide on what path you want to do that in, and then once you commit then you have got to stick with it”…[Listen for More]
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Shawn Khorrami has made a career of identifying and artfully handling the issues most business owners don’t even look at or lose sleep over. He has been a serial entrepreneur since the age of 16, having started and managed more than a dozen businesses involving products and services across a wide range of verticals.
“Take the steps forward… Don’t be so hard-headed about the product, have flexibility… You have to have that flexibility to keep on developing to bring what you envision as product you are bringing to the world and the problem you are solving…to understand that the world may have different ideas of what that problem is and you may not fully understand it and that may mean changing. So that is a very important thing that I do not see a lot of times”…[Listen for More]
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Ed Vincent is an Entrepreneur with over 25 years business, technology and management experience including 6 years banking and valuation experience. Founded an e-commerce business in 1999 which was sold to a competitor in 2001. Repeat Founder including SimplyEngage, myProducer, & Predict Ventures. Currently Founder & CEO of festivalPass. Specialties: Subscription Business Models, Marketplaces, NFTs, Corporate Development, Marketing and Branding, Company Structuring, Technology Marketing Solutions, Entertainment Consulting, Complex Deal Structuring
“Patience… I think every entrepreneur expects things to go faster than they do… I think the patients to realise that value is built over time and things don’t always happen as fast as you expect them to. Persistence and patience is what usually creates value”…[Listen for More]
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Tiffani Higgins is the founder of the Stay at Home Bookkeeper Academy and a mother of five amazing children. She started her career out as a CPA working 60 hours a week during tax season, feeling guilty for “choosing” her career over her family. She realized 80% of what she was doing in bookkeeping data entry and could be done from anywhere, so why was she working for a corporation away from her family? Now, she works for herself for 10 hours a week, makes nearly the same pay with no more long days, no stress, and, most importantly, she gets to spend valuable time with her sweet family. She started the Stay at Home Bookkeeper Academy to teach thousands how to make money while pursuing the freedom in life they desire, whether working from home or on the road in an RV.
“if you feel stuck in any way in your business there is a solution, you just have to find the right person that can help you with that. So, whether that’s a coach or a business partner or a vendor or a team member somebody out there has the solution so don’t focus on the problem focus on how you can attract that solution”…[Listen for More]
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Renee Fry is the Co-Founder and CEO of Gentreo, an on-line software provider with a mission to provide affordable, accessible and easy-to-use estate planning tools for everyone. Renee has led and helped start multiple companies, served in the Massachusetts government cabinet as head of Business and Technology and is a graduate of Harvard Business School.
“Do it, try it, get going. Those are the things that to many people spend too much time asking questions, planning… Put something out there, try it out see what’s working, see what’s not working… When I say do it it’s more get product, get going and make sure that people have something to try out, and that you get your name out there as well”…[Listen for More]
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Jordan Ostroff is a visionary entrepreneur, President of LegalEase Marketing, Managing Partner of Jordan Law Fl, Host of multiple facebook live show and the Chair of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Florida.
“You have to know your ideal client. The more that you know your ideal client, the one you truly want to work with, the best kind of client as specifically as possible the easier every other decision becomes because you can think about where they are now and that’s where you can market to. You can think about where they are going to go when they need you and that’s where you market to. You can think about what they are really concerned about and you can write about that or talk about that in what you are putting out there. You can think about what they want to see out of the company when they hire it and you start doing those things. You start thinking about what they want to see after they have done hiring you and start doing those things to get referrals and more business”…[Listen for More]
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Cody Bjugan has been a key player in 30 development projects, developing 2,300 lots/units from raw dirt to create $920M in revenue from residential real estate development. He started VestRight in 2019, to teach others the system that got him into the game, a simple way to create 5 to 7-figure paydays from off-market land deals, without owning or developing the land, without debt, and with very little cash at risk.
“Just don’t stop. Keep going, keep pushing, don’t give up on yourself, you are worthy and you are capable… A lot of entrepreneurs are their own worst critic… Get out of your own head and just don’t stop, don’t give up, keep pushing forward… Really be aware of have you put limitations on yourself and are those fair limitations or are they limitations that you need to figure out how to overcome and remove from your thinking”…[Listen for More]
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Bryan Rhode is the founder of ACUMEN Apparel, a new men’s clothing brand keeping dress shirts tucked and tight all day. He served in the Marine corps infantry and practiced corporate law before becoming a prosecutor. Rhode served as Secretary of Public Safety for the Commonwealth of Virginia.
“My best advice is just to stay at it. It’s a lengthy process… There are going to be million reasons to turn your back along the way and just stop particularly when you see how long process is. But if you are really committed to it my advice to you, is you have just got to stay with it, stay with it, stay with it, stay with it, keep going. It seems long, it seems hard but you will look back and it will have gone by in a blink and you will be amazed at what you can achieve”…[Listen for More]
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We live in a post-trust world, but Jeremy Miner understands what it takes to not push, but persuade customers in the world of selling. As the founder of 7th Level Communications, Jeremy educates how to close more sales in less time, learning how to communicate to today’s cautious, skeptical buyers.
“learn how to position your brand the right way where people don’t view you as some needy company but you are viewed as more of a trusted authority, viewed more as an expert who is going to get them the results that they want. It’s all about how you position your brand”…[Listen for More]
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Robert Overweg is the founder of the Adaptable Mindset program. He and his team empower people to develop their own Adaptable Mindset, to develop mental flexibility. Learn how to create mental space and to find new possibilities.
“Follow your own path, take care of this mental space that we have been talking about, take care of your inspiration and build a structure that supports you. Like structure of how many times you exercise, where you take your inspiration and a few things which helped me a lot which is how to find your USP, your unique selling point. It could be by thinking what is your spiky point of view? What is the one thing that you believe is true but other people still have difficulty accepting but you can have beautiful discourse about and you can talk for hours or days about that specific subject. I think those are wonderful tips. ”…[Listen for More]
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Bew White began his entrepreneurial journey at age 28, and despite many ups and downs, started his own company called Summer Classics - he designs, creates, and builds beautiful furniture. Bew was inspired to write his biography outlining his successes and failures and what it means to live a truly substantial life. The book, "A Summer Classic, The Bew White Story", helps readers jump into the wealth of experience of Bew White. He offers crucial lessons in both business and life to those who have ambition but perhaps not the road map to success.
“Have those six characteristics or stop… The grit… Push through. Don’t let anything get you down. Push through. And you will think that you can’t push through but you can. You have got to have that grit to be able to push through”…[Listen for More]
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Guy Remond - Non Executive Director, Investor & Entrepreneur An experienced individual with over 20 years in the tech, software & consulting/advisory industries, as a founder, director, investor and advisor. Brief Profile: Guy’s working career began in retail where he enjoyed an eleven-year stint in various managerial positions. Following this, he followed his passion for anything technical and branched out on his own into the technical world. In 2001 he was a founding member and CEO of Cake Solutions Limited and over the next 16 years, he directly oversaw the development of the business from a small start-up to that of an international, multi-million-pound company respected as being at the cutting edge of engineering and process in the open-source software development world. After being recognised in the Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 and being viewed as one of the most unique, forward-thinking and fast-growth companies in the industry Cake Solutions Limited was acquired by a multinational corporation and the business was subsequently rebranded as Disney Streaming Services, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of a company owned by The Walt Disney Corporation. As a creative and widely experienced individual with a keen focus on personal development, company culture and process improvement, Guy has invested in a number of companies and is actively working with these companies in a non-executive director or chairman role, helping them to fulfil the leadership's drive to a successful outcome. Guy is building two new organisations with his business partners Gary Fletcher and Dave Zumpano. EHE Capital Limited is a highly efficient tech-led Private Equity organisation with a genuine focus on supporting entrepreneurs through their companies high growth stage through to a successful conclusion. We also provide qualified, high-quality deal flow for investors, private equity and venture capital organisations. Guidr LLC is a legal document platform whose moonshot is to be the largest legal entity in the world that does not employ any lawyers. We are digitising, democratising and demonetising legal services, helping smaller law firms compete in the digital era. In addition to his working commitments, Guy dedicates time to charitable activities. For well over a decade he has worked with Variety - the Children's Charity in a number of voluntary roles, currently acting as the Chairman for the North West region in the UK and more recently as a Trustee for the organisation.
“There is going to be more change in the next 10 years than there has been in the last 50. Any businesses that are not tech led or tech driven in the next 10 years that don’t adopt AI won’t be around, they will just disappear. All future businesses have to be tech led and they have to understand how artificial intelligence is going to affect that business and they then have to be on top of that and ahead of the curve and that will give them a fighting chance ”…[Listen for More]
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With us today is Kenny Gray, founder of Grayt Media. Kenny and his team help businesses find their unique message. He is here today to provide insights on creating unique, creative strategies that produce effective results to help scale revenues, boost brand awareness, and enhance the user experience.
“Come up with your plan and work it. And believe in yourself because nobody else is going to show up for you, no one is going to do it for you and no one is going to tell you that you are going to be great at it and you can do it. You just need to have goal and a vision and go for it. Even if your business or whatever your idea doesn’t pan out you are going to learn so much and it’s going to bring so much tremendous value to your life win or lose. Just keep swimming”…[Listen for More]
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Vikrant Shaurya is the CEO & Founder of BestsellingBook.com, #1 Bestselling Author, sought-after Book Launch Manager, and an internationally recognized Digital Publishing Expert. He has helped thousands of entrepreneurs and first-time authors actualize their dreams by joining them in their self-publishing journeys through his courses, coaching, and done-for-you services.
“Your business is kind of a reflection of your personality. The way you are, the way you are systemised, the way you deal with people, the way you prioritise. It is going to be reflected in your business. So, this really important to also work on yourself along with business. So, if you are constantly working, if you are constantly improving your business, I highly recommend people to improve yourself as well. And of course, improving yourself on all of the areas of your life not only with finance and business but also with productivity, with health, with relationships and all the other areas of your life which is going to drastically improve your business and also it’s going to make your entrepreneurial journey very easy”…[Listen for More]
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Edwin Rojas was born for the entertainment industry. From stumbling into a magic shop at ten, entertaining “at sea”, to climbing his way up to corporate office as a talent booker, Edwin founded Rojas Talent Group and has now produced shows for numerous casinos, theatres, resorts, cruises and top corporations while also managing entertainers and consulting to major venues.
“Follow your gut and just be the best you can be at whatever you are doing and don’t do everything for money. The money will come. If you are the best at whatever you are doing the word will spread like wildfire … People talk to people and you are going to have… There is nothing like word-of-mouth”…[Listen for More]
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Evan Nierman is a crisis management expert who serves as the Founder and CEO of Red Banyan, a globally renowned public relations firm that guides clients through complex high stakes situations. He is also the bestselling author of CRISIS AVERTED: PR Strategies to Protect Your Reputation and the Bottom Line.
“If you will it it is not a dream. If you believe in yourself and you believe in your team and you every day, take incremental steps to make yourself a little bit better each day. It’s like this Japanese concept of kaizen which is incremental improvement. If you get a little bit better as a person or as a business every single day in short order the gains are massive”…[Listen for More]
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Dom Einhorn is the founder and CEO of CXSports, a technology platform that helps amateur and semi-professional sports teams develop and monetize their brand and media assets. Dom also serves as the president of Sarlat Rugby, a semi- professional rugby team founded in 1903.
“Never give up. I’ve seen so many ventures that should have succeeded and did not ultimately succeed simply because the entrepreneur threw in the towel to early… If you truly are on the wrong track then yes you need to cut your losses but it doesn’t mean you have to give up being an entrepreneur. Try to pivot and try to find something that works. When you are doing gambles make calculated gambles that don’t cost you a fortune. Be able to quickly cut your losses and iterate. If you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur try and stay in entrepreneur and not get a job just because you had a failure. Don’t be afraid to fail. Fail as quickly as possible. The quicker you fail the cheaper it is. ”…[Listen for More]
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20 years ago, Joseph Wilkins founded ProCreative marketing agency and has produced ad campaigns for clients including Google, Linkedin and McDonalds. With two decades experience, hundreds of millions of views and over $50 MILLION in tracked sales, Joseph shares his 8 step process to help other businesses drive online sales.
“Get off your rear end and do it… You have got to outcomes… You can get off and go and do it and it will be outrageously successful or it can fail. And in both cases, you are going to learn… If you genuinely have a great business idea or even a good business idea with great marketing and great confidence you can take a good idea and you can make it great but you will never know if you don’t just go for it.”…[Listen for More]
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Jared Mitchell is the co-founder of SkinCarebyAlana - which is one of the largest online retailers of organic and all natural skin care products. He started the company with his wife and is responsible for over 30 million dollars in product sales. Jared is also the eCommerce consultant for NPDigital and founder of BeefySites, which is focused on helping e-commerce founders scale up their businesses.
“In the US the stat that I heard is 75 percent of all new businesses that are attempted fail. I think there is a good reason for that. I think number one people give up way too early. It’s about blood sweat and tears. There is going to be times when you are going out of business. You not only feel that you are, your numbers not only say it but you are. And you are in charge of your own destiny… If you are actually going to do it right starts from day one, make sure that your product is amazing. Do the right research… I rather see somebody wait and keep it as a side hustle for three or six months before rushing into something that is going to fail”…[Listen for More]
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Ambrose Blowfield is one of Australasia’s leading trainers and specializes in mastering the sales conversation, business-to-business selling, mindset development and long-term business growth. He has delivered training in person in 10 different countries across 3 continents, his online training has helped over 15,000 businesses in 20 countries, across 6 continents.
“aside from building a great and open support team around you it has to be persistence and perseverance. I think it was Thomas Edison said that genius or success becomes from one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. I think that is absolutely true in entrepreneurship. Having a great idea or a great product or a great service isn’t enough. You have got to be able to persevere and to see yourself through the ups and downs of life and business and the economies of the world and even the local economy. You are going to have to work hard hence pick something you are passionate about and then you will put in the perseverance”…[Listen for More]
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Joey Mure, Founder and Partner at Wealth Without Wall Street, brings impact, integrity, and generosity to the company every day. He hopes to be remembered as a lover of Jesus, devoted husband, and faithful father. Despite dreaming, around age 10, of becoming an orthopedic surgeon, Joey was in the mortgage business for 11 year before moving to finance in 2014. His personal mentor, Nelson Nash — another man of integrity and impact — is someone Joey deeply admires. Joey’s strengths in building relationships, asking great questions, and influencing and empowering people with the Wealth Without Wall Street message make him invaluable to the company’s mission. He is relational, impactful, and a true leader. His colleagues would add that he’s thoughtful, funny, and a family man. Many people don’t know that Joey ate a 72-ounce steak dinner once. If he could be anywhere other than work, you’d find him at the beach with his family. And every Sunday morning, they’re worshipping the Lord. A lifetime goal of Joey’s is to impact the world for Christ; and a more near-term goal is to purchase a beach house for my family. Aside from Wealth Without Wall Street, Joey listens to Sharran Srivatsaa’s Business School podcast and Donald Miller’s Building A StoryBrand podcast. He’s happiest when he’s traveling with his wife or golfing with his girls. He cares deeply about Campus Outreach, Cru, Navigators, Sav a Life, Lifeline Adoption, and Young Business Leaders. His aims to live by the words “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your path (Prov 3:5-6).” Wealth Without Wall Street’s Founder and Partner, Russ Morgan, is known as “The Idea Guy.” Russ began his professional career as an investment advisor in 2004 after graduating from Auburn University — a slight foray from 10-year-old Russ’ dream of becoming a professional baseball pitcher. Russ started IBC in 2009, and eventually went on to found Wealth Without Wall Street in 2015. Russ' mother was an enormous inspiration for him growing up. As a single mother with two young children, she took a rigorous, accelerated track through college while working multiple jobs, all with the goal of bettering her children’s lives. When he’s not working, you can wave to Russ on a boat at the lake pulling his kids around on a tube. And on Sunday mornings, he’s probably rushing to church with his family … only 10 minutes late. Russ’ creativity, fresh ideas, and knack for problem solving are indispensable assets to his role at Wealth Without Wall Street. Russ would describe himself as competitive, creative, and passionate; his colleagues would likely add that he is helpful and abundant. Russ hopes to be remembered as an innovator who loved to teach others, and he has a goal to one day serve in the mission field. Finishing the book is another more near-term goal. Aside from Wealth Without Wall Street, Russ learns from the Business School podcast with Sharran Srivatsaa and Donald Miller’s Building A StoryBrand book and podcast. Aspire Movement, Campus Outreach, and Young Business Leaders are three causes near to Russ’ heart. Russ in one motto? “Just try!”
“I would say doing what you’re doing right now, educating yourself and even taking it one step further, networking… The more you can force yourself to be in a position to network and to grow that to me is number one… Find people who are successful, way more successful than you and spend time with them ”…[Listen for More]
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Lynne Silber Eichenbaum is the inventor of GardenSleeves by NOMPI Gloves. A self-taught seamstress and a huge gardener who suffered multiple bouts of Poison Ivy, short wrist length glove was not helpful, so she invented GardenSleeves with a blouson sleeve that secured over the bicep with an elastic band.
“Do your research, make sure you have a product that fills a need. Not just necessarily something that whimsical or that cute. What’s really going to sell is when you solve a problem that people have… Then take baby steps. Don’t spend your life savings and say okay I am just going to throw all of my eggs in one basket… I would say have faith, grow the business at a comfortable pace and just do it and you never know. You don’t know unless you try”…[Listen for More]
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Samson Jagoras is an entrepreneur, RE/MAX commercial real estate broker. President, and founder of Growth Vue Properties. Over his 12+ year career in business, executive leadership & entrepreneurship, he has served as a professional Futures & Commodities broker, actively invested in real estate, and acted as the Chief Strategy Officer for Madwire, an INC 500 marketing, and technology company located in Fort Collins, Colorado. Samson currently puts together large commercial apartment investments throughout the United States, opportunistic land development, fix n flip and buy/hold deals in Northern Colorado; and sits on the executive leadership team at Madwire, where he helped grow revenue from 7 million to over 100 million & grown the employed base from 35 employees to 600 employees in ten years. Having built 5 departments, consulted thousands of businesses on marketing and business operations, hiring north of 400 employees, and coaching countless business/marketing professionals, Samson now uses those skill sets to structure, negotiate and manage multifamily projects for active and passive investors, business consulting and commercial real estate. Samson graduated from the University of Colorado and holds a master’s degree from Logan University.
“Make sure that you are building a business that accommodates your lifestyle design. I see a lot of people build businesses that don’t actually support their ultimate life goals and they find themselves years later not entirely happy in their business or maybe not able to maximise the business to the greatest level because they aren’t ultimately not loving what they are doing”…[Listen for More]
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Christopher Kovalik is the CEO and Creative Director of Rushdown Revolt. A former Wall Street Banker turned game developer, Chris risked reputation, success and salary to go all in on “the worst video game in history”, a platform fighting game that shut down after only a year of operation and was ranked in the bottom 5% of all Steam-reviewed games at the time. With no coding or game development experience, Chris relied on his analyzing skills, savviness and Wall-Street swagger to flip this game that flopped. By opening communication lines wide open between business leaders, developers, designers and gamers, encouraging a vibrant, active community and listening to customer feedback, Chris catapulted what was a thriving social environment for fighting games back to life. Rushdown Revolt has flipped the industry upside down ever since, ranking in the top 5% of all Steam-reviewed games in only two years since its acquisition and growing at a rapid rate, with game users up 20% month-over-month by word of mouth only.
“Never give up and then you wont fail. You only fail once you give up”…[Listen for More]
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Chad Sakonchick is a serial entrepreneur and automation expert. He believes strongly that humans should do things humans are good at and robots should do things robots are good at. His most recent business is BetterLegal, where he is automating the professional services arena.
“a formula for building your business… If you are starting a business, you should develop and then market, and then develop and then market. And do equal parts of both because… Too many people think that their service is better, their product is better, and that might be true. I know ours is but it is not out there enough. And so, if you are starting from scratch, it should be… And develop doesn’t have to be software it can be developing processes, developing what your services look like or your culture. But develop in equal amounts as you market. And make sure that you do as much marketing as you do development because if you don’t tell anybody, if you don’t get that out there then it doesn’t matter how much time you spend on the development part”…[Listen for More]
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Joseph Ladin is the CEO of SFLMaven Corporation, an online provider of premium, high-end luxury jewelry and goods, which he founded in 2003. He is a highly-accomplished entrepreneur with more than 18 years of e-commerce experience. Ladin graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in sociology and business.
“Just go for it, do it while you are young… Even if you fail there’s still you went out and you did it you try your hardest and you learned lessons and you are just ready for the next adventure after that. There is no failing ”…[Listen for More]
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Jack Aspenson is the CEO and President of S3 Surface Solutions, a disruptive, client driven organization that focuses on providing environmentally friendly, simple surface systems that are long lasting and cost-effective. With more than 25 years of experience in entrepreneurial business development, consulting, and sales management, Jack knows how to develop a competitive advantage.
“accept risk. It’s going to happen… Accept change, be ready for it… Manage your personal cash flow as well as you do your business cash flow and don’t overspend. I don’t care if you are worth three or 4,000,000 dollars in the bank you can overspend and cause yourself to go down quickly… Plan… If you don’t have a plan you are planning to fail ”…[Listen for More]
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As an Engineering Technician in the oil industry, Christy Keeton’s expertise was to analyze multi-million dollar acquisitions and build annual budgets. She opened Keeton Realty Investments in 2012 to flip houses. In 2019, focus transferred from single-family to multi-family. She chose real estate for freedom, to rescue children from trafficking, teach single parents be financially free and build a legacy.
“don’t think you have to do it alone. Most businesses are a team effort. Somebody is going to know something more than you. Find somebody who has been in your shoes, see how they can help you. Education is great, knowledge is money, it really is. But experience, that is even greater. So if you can find somebody that can help you where you need help because they’ve already been there and they can bring your experience to you that is the best thing I can say. Just don’t do it alone, it will kill you”…[Listen for More]
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Kevin Hillman is obsessed with redefining the sleep market. He has won multiple awards and was recently named a 40 under 40 award winner by the Business Observer. Hillman served as the president of Powr, a OTT platform, before launching Restlix.
“My best advice would be if you have a vision, it is up to you to make it a reality. Create a plan to begin, execute it. Some things won’t go your way but stay the course and most importantly never get distracted or discouraged. I think you will have success if you can persevere”…[Listen for More]
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Augie Johnston is a 35 year old ex-YouTuber, former professional basketball player, and founder of VidChops. VidChops allows YouTubers to add an expert video editor to their team in just a few clicks so they never have to edit again.
“Just get started. Get started with an idea and soon you can hire people to help you. I would say your main goal is not to be profitable in the first few months. I would say invest some money so you can get it up launched and then start hiring people as soon as possible to help take the busywork off your hands. So that would be my best advice to build a team”…[Listen for More]
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Blake Hutchison is an accomplished entrepreneur and the CEO of Flippa.com. Prior to Flippa, Blake was the general manager and chief revenue officer of Luxury Escapes and head of strategic partnerships at Xero. Blake was also the founder of GOOD44, a venture capital-backed specialty food marketplace helping small business owners target a new customer base.
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David Nour is a senior leadership advisor, educator, executive coach, and bestselling author. Nour is internationally recognized as the leading expert on applications of strategic relationships in profitable growth, sustained innovation, and lasting change. He is the author of eleven books, including bestsellers Relationship Economics®, Co-Create, and Curve Benders.
“beyond your educational foundation, beyond your professional pedigree your most valuable asset and you are only strategic and sustainable differentiator is your portfolio of relationships. So become more intentional, become more strategic, become more quantifiable in the relationship you choose to invest in. And that advice is as relevant inside your organisation as it is external to it”…[Listen for More]
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Sabrina Horn is an award-winning CEO, C-suite advisor, communications expert, and author. With only $500 and five years of work experience, she founded Horn Group, a public relations firm that for a quarter century, advised thousands of executives and their companies—from the hottest startups to the Fortune 500. She was one of few female CEOs in Silicon Valley in the early 1990s and has always aimed to exemplify authenticity and advise her clients on its merits. She’s written for publications including The Wall Street Journal, Inc., Entrepreneur, Forbes, and CMO.com.
Chr(34)Chr(34)Chr(34)Chr(34)it depends on what they need to hear at the time. Sometimes it's just take action, sometimes it's... This is not what you want to hear though... What's the worst that can happen. Probably the big one in our business is done is better than perfect... Maybe not in heart surgery but in business is that whole imperfect action, it's the whole minimal viable product, it's getting your thing out there and getting the feedback so that you can make the tweaks. But the more you just sit on it then who are you helping? You are not helping anybody. You are not helping anybody if nobody knows that this thing exists. And maybe that thing is just an idea, maybe it's a product or maybe it's a service but if you don't get it out there then no one gets helped. So done is better than perfectChr(34)Chr(34)Chr(34)Chr(34)...[Listen for More]
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Laurence Olivier is the CEO of LifeQ, a leading health informatics company. Laurence brings over three decades of global technology and business leadership, and has served on the boards of more than 50 startup, private and public companies around the world. He is also partner with two VC firms, 4Di Capital (South Africa) and Veritas Venture Partners (Israel). Laurence’s academic qualifications include Electronics Engineering, Commerce, and Data Sciences.
“don’t be shy to be a bit naïve. Because if you are not, you will just be a me to. I think entrepreneurship is not a fashion show where one rises and falls on the ratings from people in armchairs. One has to do things outside of the conventional box. Focus on things in front of you and don’t be affected by the views of so many others on the side which is not experiencing where you are at that point in time”…[Listen for More]
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Anne Gannon is a CPA with 15+ years experience in all areas of tax and accounting for individuals and businesses. Anne’s specialty is simplifying the accounting process for business owners so that they have the information they need to make the best path forward for their business. During the Covid 19 pandemic Anne volunteered her time to the hospitality industry to assist the many businesses in the US struggling to survive. Anne continues to provide education and guidance to entrepreneurs and business owners who are making their way back and building a new path forward for their businesses. While Anne loves her role as the owner of The Largo Group, she is most proud of her role as Mom to her sons James and Fraser, and wife to her husband and best friend Steve. When not working her favorite hobby is hiking through the woods with her family!
“Believe in yourself. There is no reason that your dream can’t become a reality but you just have to believe in it and work hard at it. Anyone who will tell you that things happen overnight or Jeff Bezos is lucky. No, I think that people that you see succeeding whether it’s at a massive scale or just a small business it’s hard work. That’s really what it is I think if you work hard and continue to be persistent in how hard you work it will work out”…[Listen for More]
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Joe Valley has built, bought and sold over a 1/2 dozen of his own companies, and sold nearly 1/2 billion in online businesses through his firm Quiet Light Brokerage. He is the bestselling author of The EXITPreneur's Playbook - a book designed to help you achieve your own incredible exit.
“Keep your overhead low and don’t be afraid of making mistakes”…[Listen for More]
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In defying the odds and always looking to challenge the status quo, Dan T Rogers helped to grow a quick-serve restaurant chain, tripled annual sales for an existing book of business, and pivoted his own company to navigate tremendous growth; the 2008 recession; and being listed for seven consecutive years of the Inc 5000 listings.
“there are no special snowflakes”…[Listen for More]
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Anthony Minessale II is the Founder and CEO of SignalWire, an enterprise CPaaS that delivers advanced FreeSWITCH as a Service through an elastic-cloud framework and developer-friendly APIs. He has 25+ years of experience in software engineering, telecommunications and open source. In founding SignalWire, Tony’s mission to bring the complex technology behind real-time communication to the mainstream came to light.
“Make sure what you are doing is something that you want to be doing. It will make it a lot easier. Be sure it’s really what you want to be doing because it’s a key ingredient that breeds the ability to move on when it is not the best days – if you really want… Really wanting it is most of the battle”…[Listen for More]
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Meredith Kallaher’s marketing agency helps business owners expand their reach and explode their sales with updated copy that converts, social media ad strategy and management and/or build out of Kajabi products. She is a wife and mom to 3 teenagers with a new puppy who balances out the teenage hormones!
“Take time to interview potential clients. People skip that all the time. And you will be surprised at what your customers actually want instead of you just guessing what they want”…[Listen for More]
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A specialist in professional relationships and networking for over 20 years, Andy Lopata was called ‘one of Europe’s leading business networking strategists’ by the Financial Times and ‘a true master of networking’ by the Independent and Forbes.com. A very experienced international speaker and podcast host, Andy is the author of five books, has been quoted in a number of other business books and regularly quoted in the international press. Andy is President of the Fellows Community and a two-time Board Member of the Professional Speaking Association UK & Ireland (PSA) and a Fellow of the Learning and Performance Institute as well as a Master of the Institute for Sales Management. He is also one of just 26 recipients of the PSA’s top honour, the ‘Award of Excellence’.
“Start with the end in mind. Know what your business is going to look like in five, 10 years’ time and build from that point. The other piece of advice is there is nothing that you must do. We are surrounded by experts who tell us we must do this, we must do that, we must do the other. There is nothing you must do. There is advice. It’s your business you determine which advice you want to take, which advice is relevant to you and your business. Which advice is going to work in your circumstances in the context in which you’re operating and then you decide what to do. Just because something has been successful the one person it doesn’t mean it’s going to be successful for you ”…[Listen for More]
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Tim Luscombe is a strategic thinker who helps business leaders and owners become more successful. He is an executive coach, chairman and non-exec director focused on improving business performance. Tim also helps business owners and leaders buy and sell businesses successfully and is the author of Deal Finance which is available on Amazon He is the past National President and past Chairman of the Professional Speaking Association He's an accredited coach with The Core Asset helping smaller businesses with their marketing and business growth His background is in financial management and career highlights include Madge Networks which grew from 50 to more than 2000 employees and went public on NASDAQ with a 76% compound annual growth rate. Tim was responsible for Madge's business across Asia Pacific opening 11 sales offices across the region. Tim was later the UK MD of Black Box, an IT distribution & networking business.
“The best advice I could give to any entrepreneur would be to work with the right people. Find the right customer, find the right partner, find right supplier and do something you love to do. Do it with the right people”…[Listen for More]
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Nathan Littleton is a marketer, professional speaker and author who helps businesses to grow by attracting and winning more customers. Having started his first business, building websites from his bedroom at the age of just 12, he now sends more than a million emails each year for his clients.
“Get help where you need it. And that comes into parts… It comes in the fact that you should find a mentor or a business coach even if it is simply to bounce ideas off them. It might be that it is a friend. It might be a friend that you can use as an accountability partner to genuinely hold you accountable to do the things that you know you need to do. Or a mentor or a business coach who works within that space that can give you advice that goes along with that and that can tell you exactly what things are that you need to do and hold you accountable to doing”…[Listen for More]
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Christopher Burns dedicates his life to coaching men to activate their purpose, power, and prosperity. He has been coaching men, entrepreneurs, leaders, and professionals for almost a decade and works with clients 1-on-1, in group coaching, home study courses and hosts live events, retreats and masterminds. Christopher’s company coaches and teaches men through the “Mastered Man Curriculum™” where men create their Purpose Manifesto
“Go to the meeting, show up, do the thing that you think you should do or know that you should do whatever it might be. Don’t let excuses or limiting self-belief, self-taught get you out of that. Don’t let lives pickup and emergencies and stuff like that derail you from showing up the things that matter most because I believe it’s the person who consistently rigorously shows up for what he or she said she would. That you build your integrity, you show up for the opportunities and I think that are really important key of entrepreneurship”…[Listen for More]
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Known as The Book Angel for “cause publishing,” Susie Schaefer believes that books are the gateway to creating a movement. Her love of books goes far beyond the feel of a fabric cover or the smell of a library. Whether writing a book helps an author heal past trauma or raises awareness for social change, Susie empowers storytellers to be part of the global conversation and create a ripple effect for humanity. Working with business owners brings her tremendous joy, particularly when an author shares their own personal story and creates “Business Ascension” by melding their mission and message. Susie comes to the table with an array of superpowers; her unique combination of business acumen, street smarts, and mystic intuitive gifts to help people see what’s truly possible with no limitations. Her corporate experience working with non-profits, teaching and training in human resources and as a marketing expert, and a stint in radio broadcasting and commercial acting allows Susie to skillfully guide authors through the independent publishing process to finish that dream book, launch a speaking career, or build a business with a book that gets results and gives back. In addition to publishing inspirational books, Susie writes and edits screenplay adaptations of books through her passion project, Movie Muse Productions. Susie’s understanding of social impact, or “cause” publishing, enables her to offer a unique foundation for publishing by building community, creating connections, and serving as a catalyst for change. When not reading, publishing books or writing award-winning screenplays, Susie can be found practicing her downward dog (yoga), meditating on the beach, or planning her next travel adventure.
“Get out of your own way, don’t overthink it, create the plan, creates what it is, how you want to serve people, whether it’s a product or service, and then do the work put it into place and then just get out of your own way”…[Listen for More]
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Driven by his desire to expose the talent of quieter businesspeople, Jon Baker has become known for activating introverts. With his quietly confident attitude to challenges and vision of balanced teams Jon inspires business leaders to take action to improve productivity and creativity in their firms.
“stop blaming people around you and recognise that it’s your choice that makes things happen… The most powerful two words in the English language, ‘ I choose’”…[Listen for More]
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Hany Fam is CEO and founder of Markaaz, which is the world’s first global platform to verify and connect small businesses. Prior to founding Markaaz, he served as CEO of AXA Global Enterprise & Partnerships, Founder & President of Mastercard Enterprise Partnerships and President of Mastercard UK & Ireland Markets.
“Pick two things that need to be solved. Ask yourself the question can you do it better than anyone else? Do you have the resources? Or can you find your way to the resources to do that? And last but not least and the most important question is can you do it quicker than anyone else? So I guess in summary, focus, plan, count the cost, double it and go for it”…[Listen for More]
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Marty Parker is founder and CEO of Waterstone Human Capital, a leading cultural talent management firm that offers retained executive search specializing in recruiting for fit, culture change and transformation services, leadership development, succession planning, cultural and engagement measurement, and advisory consulting for entrepreneurial-minded, high growth organizations across North America.
“Have great mentors and advisers. You can’t have enough people… Most people whether you know them or you don’t know them want to help, it’s not about advisory fees or money. People want to give back what they’ve learned and so many more people than not are good in giving and helpful… And I think…’ you are the company you keep’… And having the best team members, the best people that you can on your team and just the best clients. If you don’t like working for a particular group of people you really have a choice.”…[Listen for More]
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Ges Ray delivers ‘Speak Performance’ skills based on four decades of performing, from public speaking competitions to MC’ing, keynotes to radio broadcasting, on a solid foundation of commercial roles (including Bank Manager!) and choral singing. Only ask him about singing in Carnegie Hall, NYC if you have time for the answer…
“I will give you three. One, a top one for me, go for a long walk. Mull around what you are thinking… Go and ask your head, your heart and your gut what is really going on. What are they saying to you? Give yourself a chance to actually think things through. Secondly get out and talk to the others, mastermind group or networking. Get among people where you can open up to what you are doing and just get other people’s views ”…[Listen for More]
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Jerome Myers left corporate America because he realized that although he had many accomplishments, he had not gained significance because he was not leading a centered life. Now, as a leadership coach, he uses his personal journey and unique training method to guide other apex performers in leadership positions to face their toughest personal and professional challenges head on.
“Your dreams should be real. Now you just have to go out and make the sacrifice, pay the price of admission for them to be”…[Listen for More]
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Elizabeth Cunningham is a Love Coach who helps people create deep and connected relationships of all styles. In the past year, she has become a full time entrepreneur, scaled her coaching business to have its first 6 figure year by 2022 and has started a love apparel company called Cosacuore.
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Stephen Somers is the co-founder of Marketplace SuperHeroes, an online education and services company that helps people all over the world learn how to sell their own products globally on Amazon from complete scratch. Together with his business partner, Robert, Stephen has won 5 two-comma club awards for Marketplace SuperHeroes, which is now an 8 figure business, and the guys have also helped over 8,000 people to create multiple income streams online.
“Be a student number one, stop believing in yourself number two, it sounds strange but find a proven process. Always look for the proven process no matter what you are doing. If you are starting, if you are growing, whatever, find people who have already done it and then learn from them, model them, do whatever it takes. Because the answers are truly out there. Then as time goes on you can innovate”…[Listen for More]
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Claire Bahn is a personal brand strategist and the CEO and Founder of Claire Bahn Group. She helps high-achieving entrepreneurs, investors, founders, and executives create magnetic personal brands to increase their visibility, deal flow, and opportunities.
“Being an entrepreneur is not for everybody and I think a lot of people think that it’s cool, it’s easy, it has sex appeal or whatever… It’s not… It’s really hard and there is not a safety net. I think that can be really, really scary for people. One of the best pieces of advice is to know what you are getting into and if you are really terrified about doing it maybe it’s not the best thing for you. Maybe there are other things that you can do and that’s fine… The first thing you need to do is do something because most people won’t actually execute”…[Listen for More]
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As a Chemist, Educator, and Naturalista, Rhonda Marshall brings a truly unique perspective to the beauty industry. Rhonda saw a clear consumer need and personal passion to take better care of her naturally curly hair. Her curls were something she was proud of and she felt distinguished her personality. After years of using relaxers and other chemical laden products, and high heat styling methods that damaged her hair to modify her natural curl pattern, she felt there had to be a better way. While at Helene Curtis (now Unilever) Rhonda worked on projects developing Suave Shampoos and Conditioners as well as the first Clear Stick for (Degree) Antiperspirant/Deodorant. After earning a Masters Degree in Education, she has also worked as a Certified Educator teaching Chemistry and Science at the Secondary level. Finally, after transitioning away from chemically processed hair in 2001, Rhonda eventually developed her own hair products incorporating natural ingredients that were especially effective for naturally curly hair textures. With this experience not only as a Chemist but also as a customer, Rhonda developed what would eventually become the Inahsi Naturals product line. Inahsi Naturals products have been used by award winning celebrity stylists behind the scenes for a number of shows including ABC’s ‘Black●ish, The CW’s Riverdale, and the film starring Eddie Murphy, Coming 2 America.
“I would say the number one thing is don’t quit your day job, that’s the number one. And I know people say just go out there and just fly. No, no, no, no. Your job can help to fund your business. So it is nothing wrong, no shame in your game if you have a job and you are side hustling your business… To help fund your side hustle. Because you don’t want to get out there and your business can’t sustain or your family can’t sustain you. So, you definitely want to make sure if you have a job, you make sure you are saving… The demand is there”…[Listen for More]
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Jeff Wald is the Founder of Work Market, an enterprise software platform that enables companies to manage freelancers (acquired by ADP). Jeff has founded several other technology companies, including Spinback, a social sharing platform (eventually purchased by salesforce.com). Jeff began his career in finance, serving as Managing Director at activist hedge fund Barington Capital Group, a Vice President at venture capital firm GlenRock and various roles in the M&A Group at JP Morgan. Jeff is an active angel investor and startup advisor, as well as serving on numerous public and private Boards of Directors. He also formerly served as an officer in the Auxiliary Unit of the New York Police Department. Jeff is the author of The Birthday Rules and The End of Jobs: The Rise of On-Demand Workers and Agile Corporations. Jeff frequently speaks at conferences and in media on startups and labor issues.
“You have got to get started. Whatever it is that you are thinking about someone’s thought about it, it is just going to be a riff on our ideas… The only thing stopping your ideas coming to life is the fact that you haven’t done anything. And if you don’t do anything it will not come to light, somebody else will do it. And so just start, put that first foot in front of the other and start that journey”…[Listen for More]
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Veronica Woodruff is sharing her passion with the world. As a parent herself, she knows how stressful planning family vacations and traveling with children can be. Millions of other parents face the same challenges. This realization created a need for Travelsist, the official travel support company that uses proprietary technology in the travel marketplace to assist families en route to their destination with age-appropriate baby travel gear. Travelsist is shaping the future of travel in relieving packing stress while focusing on who in the family matters most. The Travelsist value proposition is to treat your family like our own. Easy access to travelers at the world’s busiest airport - Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport - as the starting point has boosted brand awareness. Travelsist is committed to providing hand-selected safety-first, eco-friendly travel products with core values of expectation and trust upon which the company was founded. Customer satisfaction is paramount to help facilitate travel experiences for families and develop new use cases to further global business growth. Veronica is considered alumnae in the ecosystem of Atlanta’s business accelerators, including Launchpad 2X, Invest Atlanta’s Women Entrepreneurship Initiative, Microsoft for Startups, Switchyards Club and a recipient of the Growth Grant from the Start:ME Program of the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. As an experienced traveler and subject matter expert, Veronica envisions giving insight on traveling trends and habits, pivoting where necessary in demonstrating endurance to generate revenue and help the company thrive. With a marketing and technology background, Veronica is the strategic leader of the business poised to demonstrate and deliver a return on investment providing baby and toddler essentials with Travelsist.
“Definitely keep going. You know entrepreneurship is hard, it’s not easy, it’s definitely a rollercoaster and you have to fill your mind with positive energy. And you have to wake up every day motivated and you have to keep going. Because when you start you fail. And every day, every second and every time you believe in what you are doing is a new opportunity to get things done. So, you have to keep going no matter what… It’s literally a marathon, you can’t stop for breaks. If you stop them, it’s very, very hard to return”…[Listen for More]
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Sean Manning is Founder and CEO of Payroll Vault, an outsourced payroll and HR service for small-businesses. Founded in 2007, Payroll Vault began franchising in 2012 and now spans the U.S. Sean previously owned Insperience Business Services and the co-author of the book 'Six Steps to Small Business Success.'
“Let your mind be free a little bit. Look at the business opportunities, study it… Obviously we talked about some good books. Leverage those. And then kind of roll the dice and be excited about the opportunity. After you study the model make sure it’s financially stable then you can make that investment and hopefully be successful with the business”…[Listen for More]
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Russell Potterfield is an entrepreneur who leads 511 Capital, a "startup foundry" that researches opportunities and launches businesses into those opportunities, using a proprietary product development model. He concurrently serves as Executive Chair of Endevica Bio and CEO of Scarlet Begonias Industrial Development Enterprises, Global Sporting Intentions & Print Ninja.
“if you are going to commit your time, treasure, talent, all of those resources, you should really get behind something you can be proud of. And that is going to be different for every person… At the end of the day when I am at a cocktail party and I am talking to somebody about what I do I want to be able to be proud of that. If you take your activities through that lens, they all get to be a little bit easier and a little bit more meaningful”…[Listen for More]
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Luca Rossettini is CEO and co-founder of D-Orbit, Expert at the Space Advisory Group of the European Commission, Board member of AIPAS, and corresponding member of IAA. He’s an aerospace engineer with a Ph.D. in advanced space propulsion, masters in strategic leadership towards sustainability and a Certificate in Technology Entrepreneurship.
“it’s definitely having a vision, making a plan and be ready to change the plan but make sure that whatever you do follow a very simple algorithm that we use basically every day for every decision. So, when you have to take a decision ask yourself is this decision going in the right direction? Yes or no? If it is no, you just discard it. Is it an open platform? So even if you are not really getting to your final destination is it helping you to move forward later on or is it a dead-end? And the third is the most important… Can I get a benefit in the short-term? That could be an economic benefit or any other sort of benefit but show be a benefit in the short-term otherwise it means that it’s not the right moment to take that action. And the last aspect I already mentioned before… Do not give up.”…[Listen for More]
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Dr. Dravon James is an Everyday Peacemaker, inspirational speaker, life coach, and author of Freedom is Your Birthright. She is the founder of Everyday Peace, a platform for her to help and inspire others to build the life of their dreams, and the host of “Everyday Peace” on Unity Radio.
“Do not limit yourself. Practice your craft with a sky is the limit mentality. Meaning that you are willing to invest in yourself for your learning a coach. If you are serious about servicing your customers, your clientele the next level gets serious about investing in yourself”…[Listen for More]
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Claire Ross-Brown is an English actress, musician, business consultant, and fashion expert. After moving to Copenhagen, Denmark 22 years ago - Claire starred in the Danish hit TV sitcom “Klovn / (pronounced ) = "Clown" “ before achieving a life long dream of launching her own fashion company in December 2019, called CJ London - a concept designed for the future of fashion.
“If you have a passion for what you are doing or thinking about doing something it’s really to just believe in it and try it and not be afraid of whether it succeeds or doesn’t succeed. Because I think personally just the fact that you go for something and you do it is succeeding in itself. We tend to look at success especially as an entrepreneur as to whether you IPO’d. But I don’t see it that way, I see success in many different ways “…[Listen for More]
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Tim Phizackerley is a UK hypnotist, hypnotherapy teacher and mind coach. He advertises as being Britain's fastest hypnotist and helps real people with serious problems. He has a diploma with distinction in clinical hypnotherapy, has worked with the occasional celebrity, has an international client list and has also been featured in the national press and on radio and TV. MORE INFO BELOW JUST IN CASE YOU NRED IT... His interest in hypnosis happened pretty much by accident and out of desperation when his wife was struggling with a terminal illness. Twenty years on Tim is a hypnotist and his wife is now a multiple transplantee and a rare survivor of three terminal illnesses. As a hypnotist and therapist Tim likes to specialise in mindset and problems that other therapists either don't want to work on or have otherwise failed with. This means that he mostly works on alcohol and other addictions, also serious eating disorders. But he also likes to work on things like performance, post traumatic stress, and anxiety. His method for treating PTSD was recently independently endorsed by proffessionap neuroscientists in a published independent clinical study which reported positive outcomes for every participant. (Note. Reference for this is available if desired) He designed a fear of flying system which is offered through some of the UKs biggest airports. And he has also created tools and methods which are being used in a number of UK schools to help children with mental health issues. He says that hypnosis absolutely isn't what you think it is and that everyone should understand it. Although he is now a professional hypnotist and therapist he also says there are some serious problems in the world of hypnotherapy.
“don’t let anybody else tell you that you can’t do it. Decide that you are going to do it better than anyone else and don’t listen to anyone who tells you that you can’t. And again, I think this comes back to what Henry Ford said and Dave Ellman, what the mind expects to happen is generally realised. So, decide you are going to do it really, really well. If you set your sights all low it’s hardly going to be a surprise if you don’t achieve very much ”…[Listen for More]
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Lee Lazarus and Janine Kurnoff are sister-preneurs and co-founders of The Presentation Company. TPC trains the world’s top brands—including Facebook, Nestle, and Marriott—on innovative visual storytelling techniques. They’ve bottled up their award-winning training into a new book called Everyday Business Storytelling, which was an Amazon #1 New Release.
“I think being an entrepreneur is a balancing act that changes over time. In the beginning is about saying yes to everything because your wheelhouse is just forming, you are trying to figure it out, you are seeing what sticks. And that is going to push you and keep you up at night… Like literally there were many late nights because we said yes. But I think keeping that early door open to anything helps you figure out what works and what doesn’t. And then there is a shift and we have to learn the power of no and stay in your lane which Lee spoke about and realising that you can’t be all things to all people and that being busy only works if you are trying to get to where you want to go but it’s not going to work if you are burnt out in the process. And so, it’s finding that balance of when to say no yes and when to say no. And then as you get more established and as you move on into the maturity of your business don’t be afraid to challenge your own status quo. When something comes along and it’s uncomfortable and scary but it fits within your wheelhouse sometimes saying yes can transform what you are doing “ [Listen for More]
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Known for her mastery of content and connection, Angie Chaplin is a speaker, facilitator, coach, author, and educator with over 20 years in human resources and leadership development. During recovery from alcohol addiction, Angie returned to her values as a catalyst for launching her business Mindful Leadership in October 2020.
“My best advice to other entrepreneurs is again another quote. This one is by Aristotle and it is that ‘Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom’ . And for the most wise and successful entrepreneurs as well as leaders I believe it begins with knowing thyself”…[Listen for More]
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Laura Treonze is an executive coach who specializes in behavioral understanding to enhance company culture, maximize executive talent and boost employee engagement. She combines psychology with experiential coaching methods to help individuals and teams break through limiting beliefs to increase productivity and profit. Laura has the equivalency of a Master Certified Coach having worked as a coach for Tony Robbins and in her own consultancy practice.
“don’t listen to the naysayers. I think that entrepreneurs are a rare breed and being an entrepreneur isn’t for everyone. And so often times we go to family and friends for advice and it’s important to keep in mind that they are giving advice based on who they are and not who you are. And so have confidence in who you are and if you stay resourceful you will be able to get through the challenges of being an entrepreneur. But be careful who you go to for advice. And even for me I will go to people who will build me up if I am having a bad week or if I’ve got something big, I have to do…[Listen for More]
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Chris Pistorius is the Founder of KickStart Dental Marketing which has consistently been listed as one of the top dental marketing companies in the country by UpCity. Having over 15 years of experience in dental marketing, he has worked with countless dentists across multiple facets of marketing, consulting, and coaching.
“Just do it. It’s the old Nike slogan. If you are passionate about and if it makes you happy… And certainly, there is financial stuff to it and you’ve got to be able to make money in most cases. Just go and do what makes you happy, take care of your customers and the money will come. Don’t just sit around and think oh should I, could I? Get off the sideline and actually do it because in my opinion it will be too painful for you later in life to go back and think what if I would have started that business then? What could it have done? So I say just do it ”…[Listen for More]
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Delia Passi is the founder and CEO of WomenCertified Inc., the home of the Women’s Choice Award®. The award allows consumers to identify brands and health care facilities that meet the needs and expectations of female customers. It was named by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing companies for three consecutive years.
“have your vision, be very clear with your vision. Back it into how you are going to get there. Make sure that you have enough financing to get to where you need to go… You have got to be prepared for the unseen”…[Listen for More]
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Shad Helmstetter, Ph.D., best-selling author of 25+ books on mental health and personal growth, is founder of The Self-Talk Institute. The SelfTalkPlus app helps all age groups learn positive self-talk. Topics include stress & anxiety, weight loss, self-esteem, organization, relationships, finances and career goals.
“Write your goals down, even the small ones. Start the goal with my goal is… And then finish the sentence… Spend some time doing that, invest the time, take time with yourself and talk about your goals. Talk about your goals with someone you believe in and someone you trust. So, talk about it and listen to what you say when you are talking about your goals. Listen to the things you hear yourself saying that feel good and feel yes, I like that. Also listen to the things that are no that’s not for me”…[Listen for More]
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His new book "Unlock The Sales Game" has become an instant best-seller among business owners and entrepreneurs across the globe. Ari Galper is the world's number one authority on trust-based selling and has been featured in CEO Magazine, Forbes, INC Magazine, SkyNews and the Australian Financial Review. As trust becomes the most important currency in the new economy, the act of selling as a de-humanizing process with endless “chasing”, has been completely re-invented and anchored in the timeless values of integrity and trust - through Trust-Based Selling. In his best-selling book, "Unlock The Sales Game", Ari describes his revolutionary sales approach based on getting to the truth and why having a mindset of focusing on deep trust, instead of “the sale” - is ironically, 10 times more profitable. Ari Galper has been on a mission for the last decade to change the world through trust, starting with the sales and business world.
“always know that there is someone out there who can give you the answer who’s been there before you. If you feel in despair, you feel like you’re stuck and you’re not sure what to do don’t be afraid to reach out and ask for help”…[Listen for More]
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Matt Blumberg has spent his entire career creating startups, scaling them, and sharing best practices of what works and what doesn't work for other CEOs and team members in the entrepreneurial community. He is the author of Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business (Wiley, 2020), a highly influential book embraced by entrepreneurs, CEOs, founders, and board of directors in the entrepreneurial ecosystem that was an outgrowth of his blog, StartupCEO
“Work less… I think entrepreneurs who learn how to work less, exercise more, sleep more, take more personal time to sharpen the saw, as Stephen Covey would say, are entrepreneurs who get more done, who are happier people and who make everyone around them happier”…[Listen for More]
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Chris Nicholson is the founder of Pathmind, an AI startup that applies deep reinforcement learning to supply chain and industrial operations. Pathmind was founded to help businesses handle deep economic change and increase the resilience of their operations with AI. Chris oversees the company’s strategic vision and day-to-day execution.
“Spend 90 percent of your time thinking about the problem and the humans who have the problem and 10 percent thinking about the solution. That’s my best advice, sink into the problem, sink into the users, the customers. Hopefully you can identify with them viscerally… Make sure that problem really matters not just in the world but to you for whatever deeply personal reasons you have”…[Listen for More]
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An entrepreneur since fifth grade, Paul Chambers is the Co-Founder and CEO of the Subscription Trade Association. From launching a SaaS company at SXSW to building one of the biggest brands in the subscription box economy, Paul has a handle on every aspect of a subscription-focused business and exactly how they succeed.
“it’s okay to fail. As long as you learn from those challenges and those mistakes and work hard to not make them again. If you haven’t failed, if you haven’t made any mistakes then you are really, really lucky, you don’t recognise it or maybe you are just really lucky. I don’t know what other reason there would be… And just consistently keeping your head up and moving forward and always, always just keeping an ion the future is extremely beneficial”…[Listen for More]
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Mark Firth is the founder of Linkedpreneurs, a 7-figure business that helps business owners and solopreneurs to make more money, have more time and freedom using LinkedIn. He believes it is possible to change your life with LinkedIn relationships, just like he did. Mark Firth spent a large portion of his life working a corporate job in London, but he was left feeling unfulfilled and in need of creating an impact. He decided to take an extended break and visit Colombia, not knowing it would be one of the best decisions of his life. Mark met, fell in love and quickly started a family in Columbia, but he didn't have a job. To support his new family, he wanted to start an online business and remembered that when he worked for corporate companies, like IBM and Siemens, he used LinkedIn to prospect and book qualified sales calls through a personalized approach based on human-to-human connection. In 2017, he founded Linkedpreneurs where he combined traditional B2B sales and online marketing to generate leads. He has helped thousands of business owners and solopreneurs to consistently book qualified calls that become clients through LinkedIn using their personal connection system called Emotional Brand Intelligence. In return, his clients have more time, money and freedom to make an impact and change their life.
“We cannot become what we want by remaining who we are. We have got to become familiar with the unknown, we’ve got to get mentors and coaches. But overall, I think the biggest lesson I’ve taken is by changing your internal state we can exchange our external results. Too many people focus on tactics without focusing on their external state. Focus on your mind, focus on your control of emotions, focus on your beliefs. Start expecting success instead of believing that it might fail, start believing in what you do and charging what you are worth. And that all comes from the internal game influencing the external game. That’s the best advice I can give from my personal experience ”…[Listen for More]
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With two decades of HR leadership, consulting, facilitation & coaching experience Tilman Rieger founded 8C Consulting to help his clients reach more effective communication. Today, Tilman works as an executive coach and trainer in Shanghai where he moved in 2015 after having left his corporate career at General Motors Europe.
“Prepare, invest, invest into yourself, transition slowly maybe like what I did with part-time. Don’t take too big steps at the beginning and attend Toastmasters, become a good networker, share openly and take risks that can be calculable. And create positive self-filling prophecies by trusting people you believe you can trust”…[Listen for More]
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Surinder Kumar is currently Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at TruEats Modern Baking Company. Surinder has more than forty years of experience in senior management positions in Fortune 100 companies. He has been a global R&D and innovation leader at some of the finest consumer product and pharmaceutical companies in the world, including Quaker Oats, Mead Johnson, PepsiCo, Frito-Lay, Warner Lambert, and Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company. He is an honored and distinguished member of Who's Who worldwide. He has been awarded 17 patents, published many scientific papers, and has served on several advisory boards. These include a Board of Trustees member, International Life Sciences Institute; Scientific Advisory Board Member at Penn State University, DePaul University, Rutgers University, and The Ohio State University. He has also worked as an adviser to the CEOs of many non-profit associations including IEEE and ISACA. Surinder received the Distinguished Alumni award from Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, where he received his Ph.D. He has an MBA in Marketing and Finance from the University of Chicago. He has taught innovation and leadership courses at the Kellogg School of Business, Northwestern University; University of Chicago, DePaul University, and the University of North Texas. He has authored several papers on innovation and leadership and a book on leadership, Riding the Blue Train: A Leadership Plan for Explosive Growth, which has been published in the USA, India, Turkey, and South Korea. His third book, "Everything You Need is Within You," is scheduled for release on April 6, 2021. He and his family reside in Flower Mound, Texas.
“Unless you are really passionate about an idea don’t even start a business. Starting a business to make money is not the best way to start. Passion alone is not sufficient either. So, you need to ask yourself what gives you the right to succeed in the marketplace? Does your product or service have a sustainable product or competitive advantage? Many entrepreneurs dream of success, they may even have a clear vision, they may be really passionate about their business, they may even have a plan in mind. Now however when you look at businesses and when you look at products the path to successful business is littered with good ideas and good intentions. I would say without hard disciplined work and executing that plan, and without resilience and persistence success is very tough to come by”…[Listen for More]
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DeAndrea Byrd, is the owner of a super girly niche store for girls in Atlanta GA. Tutu Maniacs is a specialty girl-focused party and pampering shop. “Tutu Maniacs creates an environment that demonstrates that luxury is within. Tutu Maniacs is located in Greenbrair Mall in SW Atlanta, GA.
“turn off the background noise. Everybody is going to think you are crazy or not be down with your dream until they see successful. But your success is for you it’s not for anybody else. Make sure that you turn off the background noise, don’t give up. Get started because if you don’t get started somebody else will and you will be 10 years from now living a life of regrets because somebody just got started before you”…[Listen for More]
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Debbie Lynn Grace is a Transformational Leader, Author, 30+ year marketing and business growth expert. Besides being an energy worker and intuitive. Debbie’s online business and transformational programs on removing energy blocks to create massive success have impacted hundreds of thousands of people worldwide over the last 27 years.
“stay true to your values. Don’t work with anybody, don’t align with anybody, don’t develop a relationship with anybody, don’t hire anybody that’s not in alignment with your personal values because it just won’t work out. Ultimately it won’t work out. Don’t ever ever, ever override your gut instinct. If you got a good instinct about something about a direction to go that’s completely different than what you were doing but it’s definitely gut instinct, follow it. If you have a gut instinct not to work with somebody or take somebody’s money even though you have to pay your bills don’t do it because it will cost you more”…[Listen for More]
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Sean Hopwood is the CEO of Day Translations, a thriving translation and localization company operating in over 100+ languages worldwide. He built it from scratch by going door to door asking people if they required translations, and today he has a fully remote team from all over the world & is helping individuals and companies expand their operations abroad. He has worked with Fox News, TED, Bayer, Facebook, HBO, AT&T, and more.
“do something you love and have compassion. Always be willing to adapt and adjust. Be willing to admit that you are wrong. But bring on a team of people who complement you. If you are very disorganised person, bring on more organised people. If you are a very quiet person, bring on some very verbose and loquacious people who are willing to speak to customers. If you are a very financial oriented person, bring on a more creative person. Bring on people who complement you because obviously as an entrepreneur you probably don’t have skills in every single thing. So bring on people who are better than you at things you are not good at”…[Listen for More]
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John Williams is founder of The Ideas Lab, the company that has helped thousands of people to find something they love, get it started, and make a living out of it. John started his career in creative technology as a developer on pioneering special effects software (including on-site work at Disney Feature Animation, LA) and became Digital Media CTO at a startup before moving to head up a media technology consultancy team at Deloitte. John quit, declaring he never wanted another job for the rest of his life. John consulted independently to the BBC and other broadcasters around the world before finally founding The Ideas Lab, running a popular London event called Scanners Night, and writing his first bestselling book. His latest book 'F**k Work Let's Play: Do what you love & get paid for it' is WHSmith business book of the month and has now been translated into 10 languages.
“make sure that you create a business you enjoy so that when it actually pays off and it makes money you don’t discover that you’ve sacrificed what you actually want out of life just to make the money ”…[Listen for More]
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Sean Folkson is the founder and CEO of Nightfood, a line of sleep-friendly ice cream formulated by leading sleep and nutrition experts to satisfy nighttime cravings in a better, healthier, sleep-focused way. Sean is an industry outsider challenging the status quo in the food and beverage industry.
“just do it. Get out there, get started, recalibrate. But get out there with a vision and an end in mind. If and when you really believe then you will be able to persevere… I think that finding that conviction, finding something inspires that conviction and then just getting out there and getting started I think that’s the combination for most people. At least is the advice I would give anybody one-on-one”…[Listen for More]
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Bill Bloom is a simplifier by nature. Family Man, sailor, strategic coach, money enthusiast and author
“never stop learning. We are all going to reach certain milestones in our lives and you are going to get comfortable. One way out of that in my mind is to join groups like Strategic Coach or Abundance 360 or Go Abundance… There is a ton of them. But joint groups, join organisations, join different people that help expand your mind. Because when I jumped up into the 10X program at strategic my mind grew instantly ”…[Listen for More]
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Paul Ace is popularizing the concept ‘C-Com’ through the science of conversion conversation, and automation. He founded Amplify C-Com which helps grow businesses past seven figures through 80% human-like and 20% human experience. Amplify combines human psychology and automation to create more profits in their customer's pockets.
“keep going because you are going to have some hard times. You are going to have sometimes where you are just like you know I want to give up and not do this ever again. And then other times you are going to be absolutely on top of the world. But here is the thing it’s better than the alternative. It’s about the alternative that looking back in 50 years’ time and you are in a 9 to 5 job that you didn’t like all of the way through and you get to the end of it and you go okay was that worth it. So, live for today and also grow for tomorrow”…[Listen for More]
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Greg Ballard has held many unique titles in his professional career and has seen many ups and downs in his life. During these transitions he discovered his passion for mentoring and leadership development. As the CEO and founder of Five C Consulting, Greg works with CEOs to small business owners to improve their mindset, business habits and overall approach in order to improve productivity, communication, strategic decision making and many other challenges leaders face. With Greg’s help, clients are more prepared and better equipped to deliver difficult feedback, navigate politics and influence their peers. Greg helps to pave the way for personal development with his clients as well. He serves and supports his clients by offering the right tools and insight to set them on a clear path and helps them understand how to maintain their progress.
“take the value you bring into the market very seriously but don’t take yourself too seriously. Have fun with this process, really be open to understanding what people need on the ground and be weary of the solution that you have created in your mind. Make sure that you test them and make sure that you can validate them with your market”…[Listen for More]
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Amanda Rabideau built her career growing businesses using effective marketing, strategy, and sales practices. She has worked with enterprises like Dell & Microsoft. Her passion for helping entrepreneurs led Amanda to start Arch Collective. She now devotes her career to empowering entrepreneurs and business leaders to grow their companies.
“Be patient and hustle. Things might not have been overnight and so that’s where the patience comes in but you’ve got to hustle, you have got to keep pushing forward. It’s a balance of the two were you have to keep the hustle going but be patient to and one day it will happen”…[Listen for More]
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Bryan Clayton is CEO and cofounder of GreenPal an online marketplace that connects homeowners with Local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been called the “Uber for lawn care” by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 200,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day. Before starting GreenPal Bryan Clayton founded Peachtree Inc. one of the largest landscaping companies in the state of Tennessee growing it to over $10 million a year in annual revenue before it was acquired by Lusa holdings in 2013. Bryan‘s interest and expertise are related to entrepreneurialism, small business growth, marketing and bootstrapping businesses from zero revenue to profitability and exit.
“Act small but be ambitious. Entrepreneurship is full of these dichotomies and it’s like you have to have this grand vision but you have to be willing to humbly act small… If you are willing to really get in there and do things that don’t scale and hand crank and hustle your way through every level of the game but have this grand ambitious goal and be able to hold those two things in your awareness at the same time. I think it’s a talent that most successful entrepreneurs and business owners have”…[Listen for More]
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Christina Lenkowski is a forward-thinking publicity strategist and educator for entrepreneurs, speakers and authors looking to expand their credibility and go from “best-kept secret” to “go-to expert” in their industries through being a guest on other people’s podcasts.
“keep going and build a business that you enjoy. That I think is the thing that I see happening is that people get really caught up in the cycle of well this is what makes me money or XYZ. And that’s great we all want money, I understand that. But if you want to be doing this business long-term that needs to be something that works for you, works for your family, and just makes you want to get up and do it – maybe not every day but the majority of days ”…[Listen for More]
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Daniel McQuade has successfully founded three companies, the latest being a DTC platform. Described as a 'Thought Leader, Visionary, Innovator and a Misfit,' he has traveled globally lecturing and teaching innovation/entrepreneurship in emerging economies for the Columbia Business School. Recently asked why at his age, why another start-up…'I'm not finished yet!'
“Understand that this is a journey that passion alone is not going to get you through. There is peaks and valleys is why did I do this. But you are going to go through those and they are learning. You want to minimise the downside risk absolutely. But just understand this is a journey. There is going to be days you are just going to shake your head and say why did I do this. But there is going to be days when you are going to be so happy. The second thing I would do is seek out expertise. Smart people find smart people. That is the difference between successful people and people who aren’t… Three don’t be in a silo, stick your head out there, ask questions. If you don’t know ask, even if you know or you think you know ask. The fourth thing, don’t risk all of your own money. A lot of entrepreneurs do that… You have got an 85 percent chance of failure here. You can have some of your risk, you have got to have skin in the game, a lot of it but it shouldn’t be all you. The last thing I would say is build something that people want. That’s the key thing you’ve got to do. If you are not doing that you don’t have a business. And don’t fear failure, it should push you forward”…[Listen for More]
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Vadim Rogovskiy is a co-founder and CEO of 3DLOOK, serial tech entrepreneur and investor with deep roots in mobile tech and enterprise software. Partner at pre-seed fund WannaBiz, angel investor, advisor and mentor at 500 Startups. Named one of the ‘Forbes 30 Under 30’ in Ukraine.
“Just don’t be afraid to try and test your ideas… Always test your ideas on people around you”…[Listen for More]
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Elliott Holland has 10+ years of experience executing middle market deals as an entrepreneur. He fully understands the challenges in executing good deals and avoiding lemons. He is a Harvard Business School (HBS) trained, seasoned buy-side deal advisor who spent almost a decade as an independent sponsor & business buyer
“Create a future you actually want to live in. I think a lot of people follow previous models of success or put absolute dollar creation as the success metric because the world uses it as that. And they end up creating a future that they hate. But had they looked at the people who are living in that future when they started, they would have known those people hated it. And so why would they think they would like it when most of the people who are in it hate it. So, the advice I would give is think about what is the future you want to be living in? And part of it will be business and part of it will be personal and part of it will be other things that are important to you. And if you are going to build something why not build that?”…[Listen for More]
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Alex Williams is the founder and CEO of Holistic Hyperbarics. Having spent her professional life focused on health and wellness, Alex brings a unique combination of medical skills, equity activism, philanthropic values, and exceptional customer service to Holistic Hyperbarics. A Bay Area native, her career began when she launched her first business as a certified at-home healthcare aid, using her specialized training in surgical recovery and Kinesio taping to serve and support a diverse range of clients. Inspired to heighten her expertise and abilities to provide effective patient outcomes, Alex pursued concurrent work as an EMT. Treating under-served patients ignited Alex’s passion and commitment to providing exemplary care in an industry that lacks personalized attention to a patient’s well-being, highlighting Black and Brown bodies at rest. Understanding that time, care, and curated space for people to relax can expedite rehabilitation, Alex prides herself in turning a once-exclusive procedure into an affordable, accessible treatment option for the general public. Paying equal attention to the power of emotional and physical support that facilitates and accelerates healing, Alex offers clients the proven medical benefits of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in a relaxing spa-like setting.
“you need to believe in what you are doing and have that belief be beyond anything that you want. You have to be so hungry for what you want that you are willing to not eat for days to focus on this thing. If you are so hellbent on making this business happen and this is what you dream about, this is what you talk about, this is what you make lists about in your phone, do it. Go with your gut and do it and don’t let anyone tell you that it’s not going to work. You need to find that for yourself … So go after it”…[Listen for More]
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Jeremy Pollack is a leader in the field of workplace conflict resolution and peacebuilding. He is the Founder of Pollack Peacebuilding Systems, an international conflict resolution consulting firm. Jeremy is a master coach, master trainer, mediator, and author. He coaches and trains executives and employees at a variety of levels and industries, from Fortune 500 companies to major non-profits. Jeremy has mediated conflicts between business partners, co-executives, and coworkers at all levels of organizations, aiming as often as possible to transform relationships and create Win-Win resolutions for all parties involved. Jeremy is a regular contributor on the topics of leadership and organizational conflict management to publications such as Forbes.com, Fast Company, Industry Week, and many more. He is also the author of the recently released book The Conflict Resolution Playbook: Practical Communication Skills for Preventing, Managing, and Resolving, Conflict by Rockridge Press. Jeremy holds a Master's degree in Evolutionary Anthropology from California State University, Fullerton and a Masters degree in Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, and Peacebuilding (NCRP) from California State University, Dominguez Hills. Currently, he is completing dissertation work for his PhD in Psychology at Grand Canyon University. Jeremy is also a research fellow at Stanford University, where he leads research projects in social psychology and conflict resolution.
“put care first. I believe that business is all about relationships and if you put care first both with your employees as well as your customers, put care before money, that’s really important… And I don’t mean I need to care for these individuals so I need to keep them in the wrong position but I mean care for all of your employees. If one person is in the wrong position it’s going to affect everyone. So, caring for your workforce as well as for your customer base first and then money comes second”…[Listen for More]
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Michael McAlhany serves as Founder and President of UNITS® Franchise Group, Inc., a National Moving and Portable Storage Corporation servicing over 650 cities throughout North America. ranked INC.500 in 2020. A self-made entrepreneur has granted accomplishments and success with launching and operating multiple businesses over the past 30 years.
“number one is when you going put it in stone and draw the line. They say draw a line in the sand. There is no backdoor... Number two is be as involved as you can… Exercise humility, lean on others… And then hungry, being hungry for always there is no room for complacency… Then I would indulge in books… In self-help books, motivational books… The question is why. And so, for every new entrepreneur out there that’s the biggest point, the why. And you are not going to get the why without being humble to know how to get there ”…[Listen for More]
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Salena Knight is a Retail Strategist and founder of The Retail Academy - a marketing agency that specialises in helping independent retail and ecommerce store owners to scale their stores into profitable, thriving brands. She’s passionate about delivering highly effective strategies that improve the five core pillars of a retail business!
“it depends on what they need to hear at the time. Sometimes it’s just take action, sometimes it’s… This is not what you want to hear though… What’s the worst that can happen. Probably the big one in our business is done is better than perfect… Maybe not in heart surgery but in business is that whole imperfect action, it’s the whole minimal viable product, it’s getting your thing out there and getting the feedback so that you can make the tweaks. But the more you just sit on it then who are you helping? You are not helping anybody. You are not helping anybody if nobody knows that this thing exists. And maybe that thing is just an idea, maybe it’s a product or maybe it’s a service but if you don’t get it out there then no one gets helped. So done is better than perfect”…[Listen for More]
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Kelsey Moreira, founder & fearless leader over at Doughp Cookie Dough. After getting sober in 2015, she came alive again. With her newfound clarity in life she rediscovered her love of baking and took life by the horns! She ditched a 10 year career in product marketing at Intel to follow her cookie dough dream - launching Doughp in 2017. Four years later, they've served more than 250,000 spoonlickers and continue shipping thousands of boxes every month!
“my best advice to other entrepreneurs is to just go do it, stop thinking about it. I think this hesitance or over planning that can happen sometimes where you are spending years and years thinking about what if your what it might be like. And just getting out there and starting something and seeing how it sticks. You can continue to learn and evolve and pull back or push forward with whatever information you start to get but if you don’t start you are working off a very limited set of info to keep working on it so I just encourage entrepreneurs to give it a go”…[Listen for More]
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Joel Trammell is a pioneer in the field of CEO education as the CEO and Founder of Khorus Systems, a business management system that empowers CEOs to lead high-performance organizations. He's also the owner of Texas CEO Magazine and currently serves as the CEO and Chairman at iGrafx.
“understand it’s a difficult journey, be prepared just like if you are going to run a marathon you know it’s going to be hard, you know mile 21 or 22 it’s going to be very difficult so you mentally prepare for that. I think assuming that an entrepreneurial journey is going to be easy and everything is going to go right will leave you set up for failure. So, understand it is a journey, it’s a marathon, it’s a long run, it’s not easy, there are going to be many times when you feel like you are facing a brick wall and you’ve got to figure out a way around, up, over, under that brick wall. And I think going in with that idea of persistence and understanding that if you don’t enjoy that journey, that part of it maybe you shouldn’t be an entrepreneur is critical to success”…[Listen for More]
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Howie Zales is an Emmy Award winning Camera Operator who turned his passion for television broadcasting in to several entrepreneurial endeavors. Howie created HJZ Productions, Inc in 2000 to address the need for professional level sports crewing/staffing in the New York market. Under his leadership, HJZ Productions grew to a multi-million nationwide provider of top talent in the broadcasting field. In 2019, Howie and his team founded Viridity Entertainment Services, Inc. (VES) which initially focused on staffing in non-union markets. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, they quickly pivoted to offering best in class, broadcast quality livestreams of professional sports shows and interviews, corporate interviews and meetings, and religious services. In addition, Howie took his love of the television production business and created The TV Sports Course, a hands-on training boot camp for the next generation of television crew professionals. Howie is a graduate of the State University of New York at Plattsburgh’s Mass Communication program. Howie is a big believer in that overall wellness, including healthy eating and exercising, are key to both personal and professional success. He lives in New York with his family
“be grateful, operate from a place of how you know your business can help other people. Obviously, money is important to you and your business. The money will come if you have a good product and service. Don’t do anything at 50 percent, give 110 percent and everything that you do… Be smart and simply know that failure is a big possibility and let not wanting to fail motivate you ”…[Listen for More]
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Patrick Colletti is a leadership and organizational culture expert, champion for “refounders” and author of the upcoming leadership book Refounder. He draws on his experience as a technology executive, his business-growth expertise and a passion for company culture to share growth-oriented guidance that challenges social and cultural norms, both in the workplace and in the community. Patrick is passionate about creating flourishing businesses and empowering the next generation of Refounders — business leaders and entrepreneurs who revitalize the places where they live, work and play. Patrick is the founder, president emeritus and a current advisor of the healthcare software company Net Health. When he began his tenure as company president in 2001, Net Health was experiencing significant financial turmoil resulting in laying off all but 2 employees. Collaborating with a growing team, he grew the company that now helps heal millions of people each year. In concert with a team which included 4 private equity partners, he completed a corporate turnaround — Refounding and reinvigorating the already established organization. By utilizing a Refounder mindset as a framework for success, Patrick was able to spur rapid business growth and cultivate a flourishing corporate culture. In his debut book, Refounder (slated for publication in early 2021), he shares the experience, insights and moments of enlightenment he gained over two decades serving in multiple leader positions at Net Health, including president, chief revenue officer and chief operating officer. Through stories about well-known leaders, cities and organizations, he explores how society often reinvents for the better and reveals how individuals can assess what needs to be Refounded in their own life. Patrick infuses the Refounding spirit into everything he does, helping to Refound companies such as Think Native and Grayscale through redemptive investing, guidance and counsel. In addition, he exerts his Refounding expertise for community initiatives, recently partnering with the Pittsburgh International Airport and the organization Free the Music to display pianos designed by local artists. An innovative leader and advocate in the healthcare industry, Patrick is a frequent speaker and in-demand consultant. He has served on many boards, including Net Health, Careform (ConnectiveRx), National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), Near Health, Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation and the Pittsburgh Technology Council. Patrick also received the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2010, and has been featured as an expert in a variety of healthcare and business outlets, including Pittsburgh Business Times, Smart Business Network and Healthcare IT. The company’s culture has won local, national, and industry awards for culture from Beckers, PBT,and Modern Healthcare. Patrick began his career as a strategy and sales leader for Dorland Data Networks, a healthcare data company, as well as American Lawyer Media (ALM), a business-to-business information and intelligence media company. As Director of Sales at ALM, he worked alongside the team that launched an online marketplace and content portal, known now as LAW.com. Patrick graduated from Muskingum University in New Concord, Ohio, with a bachelor of arts double major in business and philosophy. He currently resides with his family in Pittsburgh, Penn.
“determine the just purpose of your organisation. Whether that’s a not-for-profit or for-profit organisation. Get to the heart of what the just purpose of your organisation is and why it exists. What brokenness in the world are you healing? What problem in the world you actually focusing on and making better? And then drill into that and make sure everybody in your organisation understands the part they play in solving that problem”…[Listen for More]
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Stacy Kirk has championed for software quality and process innovation for over 20 years. In 2010, Stacy founded QualityWorks Consulting Group, a quality-driven app development firm recognized for accelerating software delivery, social impact, and building diverse future-ready teams. In 2020, she launched Posture, a platform for Small and MidSize Enterprises to affordably and quickly establish and mature Compliance and Cybersecurity programs.
“you may have heard that entrepreneurship is a journey, it’s not a destination. I add to that its who you are, it’s not your company. And just remember that if you are an entrepreneur that’s your profession, you are an entrepreneur. And your company will undoubtedly have its ups and downs but if you can say as an entrepreneur, I am successful at that, I am successful at learning how to be a successful entrepreneur then you can find a happy place that’s not necessarily tied to an income statement. And I think that’s a good place to be because you are developing yourself for this company or maybe your next one ”…[Listen for More]
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As CEO of BOAZ Enterprises, LaTonya J Pegues, known as The Unconscious Bias Trainer, brings a wealth of experience and non-traditional solutions to BOAZ Enterprises clientele. After working in the aerospace and telecommunications industries in a variety of positions; including satellite and mission systems engineer, low temperature physics researcher, & communications/ PR expert. She founded & started BOAZ Enterprises a training, consulting, and communications firm in the year 2000. Under her leadership, BOAZ Enterprises has provided services for clients in Africa, Asia, Europe, and throughout North America.
“think like a star. Not rockstar but think like a star. Get off of this planet and go up past the moon and just think like a star. Your thoughts and your ideas, just get not out of the box, get off the planet… As far as your ability to just soar and to think different. Think differently, be in a place where you can change your perspective. And sometimes Neil just being in different locations… when we can or even just online”…[Listen for More]
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Jonathan Goldhill is a masterful business coach and personal strategist specializing in guiding next-generation leaders of family businesses to scale up their business as they take control over the leadership and ownership of the family business. Jonathan left New York for California at age 20 after his family’s large, privately-held men’s apparel manufacturing company—started by his great-grandfather—sold to a conglomerate in its third generation of family ownership. Within ten years, Jonathan had established himself as the go-to expert for entrepreneurs looking to find their version of freedom. Today, Jonathan brings thirty years of experience to his clients advising, coaching, consulting, training, and guiding entrepreneurial and family businesses.
“reach out, find the kind of support that you might need and enter an accountability group, a peer group so you are learning from others and don’t try to go it alone. Entrepreneurs need to mitigate their risk and you do that by getting the input and feedback and advice of others. You may have a coach in addition to that but listening to other people. My business School Professor when I was there at school 30 years ago had an eleventh commandment which he said ‘thou shall not bullshit thyself’. So, my best advice is so yourself with other people so they call you on your bullshit”…[Listen for More]
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After emigrating from Morocco at a young age, Mokhtar Jabli (MJ) made his way to the top of the real estate industry, founding The Nightfall Group- a multi-million-dollar and world-wide luxury hospitality company specializing in dream, curated getaways and rentals whether it be homes, cars yachts or private jets.
“set a goal. If you don’t have a goal finds something that you like. If you don’t know what you like keep trying different things. So, once you find that put a goal and write it somewhere and track the progress and don’t quit”…[Listen for More]
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Oguz Konar is a passionate entrepreneur and multiple seven figure business owner whose mission is to help people design and build their dream businesses. His training program, Business Lending Blueprint, has been the most comprehensive success guide focusing on leverage, low risk, high reward, and speed!
“take imperfect action. That’s definitely the case, a lot of people are waiting for something. There is nothing to wait for. No one is out there to save you from your current situation. We are living in a virtual economy. If you are not going to take action right now… Whatever it is that you want to do if you are not going to test it right now you are not going to want to test it in 10 years and 20 years and 30 years. There is no guarantee that things will be better than it is right now. If you truly want to do something first dig inside yourself, find your why”…[Listen for More]
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Adam Zach is the Co-Founder of Set Your Rent whose company buys homes for people who can’t obtain a traditional bank loan. He created and grew Set Your Rent into a million dollar business while working as a full time engineer, being an active husband, and becoming a father.
“Get around other successful people that you aspire to be. You know the famous Jim Rohn quote of ‘you become the average of the five people that you spend the most time with’ if you hear that and you shrug it off it’s probably because you are not surrounded by the right five people. And until you actually experience that and you realise that you are in the room with four other incredible people and you are learning from them and you are trying to help them in creating something really cool. To me that is what has significantly elevated and changed my life personally for the better”…[Listen for More]
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Rich Quarles is a marketing strategist focused primarily on startups, technology, and marketing . Rich founded glassCanopy in 2001, a specialized B2B marketing agency based in San Francisco. Rich and his team help market hard-to-describe products to hard-to-find audiences through content marketing and digital campaigns. He has advised startups that have collectively returned over $2.5 billion to founders and investors.
“find other people in your industry, other business owners, even competitors. It’s better if they are not a direct competitor. But find them, talk to them, be open about your business because I think it’s very easy to feel like your problems are unique and it’s very hard as a business owner to get support around what you need. Because when people… When strangers ask you or friends or family how is business there is only one acceptable answer which is great. And maybe that’s true in the greater sense or maybe it’s not but for sure there is going to be a lot of footnotes to that great. And so, find a network, build a network of other folks doing similar things to what you are doing and don’t hold your issues and operations as a secret and think of that as a weakness. Talking about them I think is a real strength because everyone else has those problems to and unless you are in a business where there is only two or three competitors talking to a dozen folks is not going to sink your business but it might save it”…[Listen for More]
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Robert Clinkenbeard is the CEO of The Radix Group. He is an entrepreneur, an author, senior leader in EO and a four time Ironman. He is a serial entrepreneur having sold his $20M company and now has several franchises, multiple real estate investments, the largest Peer Group facilitation company in the US.
“making sure that blocking off time. I call it QTBs (Quality Time Blocks). Block of times within your week to make sure you are either working on an important project that will take your business to another level. Or it might be a case of looking at your business from a different perspective and learning and finding out how can I take my business to the next level. It’s really easy to get caught up in other people’s agendas and their schedules and their demands on hot topics. But unless you have that time blocks and you get away from things and be able to think on and work on your business then you are going to struggle onto the next level ”…[Listen for More]
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Mike Seidle leads a team of seven as Chief Operating Officer and Co-founder at WorkHere. WorkHere reduces time-to-hire from weeks to days. They screen unqualified and unengaged candidates with chat and SMS, so you don’t have to.
“don’t be afraid to fail. And the first rule of being an entrepreneur is to do something. You can worry about doing it better next time”…[Listen for More]
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Kirsty Verity is CEO and co-founder of REAL Coaching. She has sold over $17M in physical products on Amazon since 2013 and has coached over 1000 Amazon sellers to build their businesses with real results since 2015. Kirsty radically changed her life from corporate marketing director to multi-million dollar entrepreneur. After a 20-year corporate career, Kirsty now runs her own successful multi-million dollar Amazon business and co-founded REAL with Isaac Kuhlman. REAL is dedicated to coaching Amazon sellers to develop their businesses with the right strategies to achieve their freedom goals. They specialize in taking sellers who are stuck or plateaued in their business and break through to reach the real success they desire. She is a Strategic Branding Expert with 20 years of branding expertise and marketing strategies for many household brands. She has hosted and spoken at many eCommerce events, including the ECommerce Launch Summit and SellerCon 2019. Kirsty is a serial traveller and adventurer and loves to fuel her life with her business. She has moved from the UK to live in Australia and now to Canada. After she became successful, she quit her job and moved to Bali to experience the lifestyle she wanted to create, have pure focus and get stuff done!
“when I first started, I think it was more about… It was like a mindset difficulty. I spent three years trying to figure something out. But also, it’s that fear of not feeling like you are able to do it. The reason it took me so long to find something is that I didn’t feel like I could actually do it. And so over time I obviously overcame that but I think really that was kind of a court difficulty for me… Is just feeling like this thing could be real and giving me the confidence to be able to leave my job and go alone”…[Listen for More]
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Kusal Ariyawansa is an adviser and mentor to business owners and families. He specialises in accelerating the development and attainment of their financial goals and aspirations. 20+ years in the profession he is the current chairman for the Manchester region of the Personal Finance Society and is the Chartered Champion
“don’t become an entrepreneur to just make money. Instead, if you focus on your customer and their entire experience money will naturally follow. Remember my three pillars for a purposeful life… Make sure that you find that purpose in whatever you do because you see a life of purpose will reveal the purpose of life”…[Listen for More]
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Gayle Martz is the creator of the SHERPA Bag and founder of the multi-million dollar Sherpa Pet Trading Company. She is a tireless pet advocate who made pet travel commonplace. Gayle is the author of IT's IN THE BAG, which debuted this year, and NO PET LEFT BEHIND.
“do what you love, make a commitment, stay totally committed and do not lose your way. Because people will keep coming and saying oh, I had a great idea, all I think you should do this, oh maybe you should do that. But you really have to stay very focused and lay that very strong foundation… I think you always have your professional and your team in order so that you can move forward. And when you don’t have any money … Do the very best that you can do”…[Listen for More]
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Making decisions under uncertainty is what attracted Steven Cardinale to entrepreneurship. Being involved with startups, leading Fortune 500 teams at Eli Lily, Janus Funds, & IBM, earning an MBA from Wharton, and founding, operating and existing his own SaaS company has given Steven a unique perspective to create successful ideas
“a better question is more important than the right answer. Because the right answer to the wrong question. So constantly, constantly, constantly ask questions of yourself. Once you think I’ve got an idea, an entrepreneurial idea then the question you need to ask is look outside of yourself and go will my customers care? And then I have to look outside that and go if my customers do care, great, how do I get to them? It’s always asking better questions; it’s never having an answer… So, forcing yourself to have a better question… I do this when I get people who are interested in having me invest. I listen for them asking me better questions rather than telling me they’ve got the answer. So, ask a better question is the vital component of becoming a successful entrepreneur”…[Listen for More]
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Shark Tank alumni, Founder & CEO of Tower Paddle Boards, and author of the Five Hour Workday, Stephan Aarstol has been in the internet space for over 20 years.
“success in business is really about your burn rate especially in these environments where things move so fast. So you have got to figure out how to operate very legally and that will allow you to survive and thrive over the long term”…[Listen for More]
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Dian Griesel is founder and president of Silver Disobedience® Inc., one of the largest, real-time focus groups of the 48+ age demographic. She owns DGIcomm, a PR firm, is an author and model, appearing in over 50 campaigns for top luxury national brands via her representation with Wilhelmina New York.
“really learn as much as you can and from other entrepreneurs. Which is why a podcast like yours is valuable. You are speaking with people… Find as many resources and ask as many questions”…[Listen for More]
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Jared Curry is a 19-year-old, 7 figure business owner and CEO at Scope Marketing. He’s helping new companies double their ROAs within weeks. At 16, he read Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki, changing his life forever and now the face of eComm marketing.
“Just keep moving, keep moving the needle forward, do not give up. The road is going to be tough, it is not going to be easy but I promise you the end result is going to be beautiful and you read to be so happy that you decided to continue moving forward with your business”…[Listen for More]
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Mike Rhodes is the CEO and founder AgencySavvy and WebSavvy, and co-author of the world’s best-selling book on Google Ads ‘The Ultimate Guide to Google Ads’. Since 2006, Mike and his team have been running campaigns for brands around the globe, and it’s now one of Australia’s largest independent Google agencies.
“it ain’t going to work out the way you think it will but do it anyway. There is nothing better than…I guess I am a control freak… But being in control of your own destiny of being able to take a holiday when you want to, when you want to go to the school sports day… I can’t imagine anything worse than saying hey boss can I have the afternoon off to go and watch my kids in school sports and being told no you can’t with got this really important thing that needs to get done and you can’t take leave. That would suck more than anything I can think of. So do it, just do it, take the leap. Yes, surround yourself with smart people, keep perspective, keep getting curious, and learning more things – that never stops. know that you are going to fall on your arse a number of times and make a ton of mistakes – that’s just part of the fun. But don’t let that stop you from doing it, please.”…[Listen for More]
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After years in the web hosting industry, Sharon Koifman started DistantJob as the first remote recruitment agency aimed at disrupting the way companies hire. He’s the author of #1 Amazon bestseller in its category Surviving Remote Work, an in-depth guide for both managers and employees on how to navigate remote work.
“if you have the capacity to fail, to fall on your ground, wipe yourself off and stand up and try again there is no question about it that you will succeed”…[Listen for More]
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Christian Espinosa is a best-selling author, entrepreneur, coach, and lover of metal music and spicy food. He’s an Air Force veteran and Ironman triathlete. He used to value being the “smartest person in the room,” only to realize his greatest contribution is bringing awareness to the issue through effective communication.
“There is a couple of things. One is to make sure you have a crystal-clear idea of how you are going to serve your target clients. And that implies you know your target client… Another one is to take a step back and understand the role of an entrepreneur. An entrepreneur the real purpose is to create something of value, to fulfil a need but do it in a way where you create the business or the organisation that serves that value that other people can run it for you. And that will allow you to get out of the operator mode and more into the owner mode and on to your next endeavour quicker you create it with that mindset”…[Listen for More]
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Lauren Daugherty is the founder and CEO of Evergreen Wrapping, an eco-friendly reusable gift wrap company that provides a zero-waste alternative to traditional wrapping paper. When not leading at Evergreen, she serves as publisher and CEO at Texas CEO Magazine, a regional publication focusing on Texas businesses, CEOs and insight for executives. Through her own small business experience and her work at Texas CEO Magazine, Lauren is passionate about celebrating entrepreneurs, especially those who may be working mothers or come from a nontraditional education or background. She celebrates the “everyday entrepreneurs” - those who run the small businesses that make a difference in today’s world, but are rarely celebrated.
“spend more time with other entrepreneurs… It’s a unique thing in life to do, you are going to be around a lot of the people who don’t have those same experiences or interests and you really do as an entrepreneur need to have some other entrepreneurs in your life to help you. Not just give you advice on specific topics or challenges that you are facing but also just to help you stay grounded with your journey as an entrepreneur and know that what you are going through is very similar to what so many other entrepreneurs through all time have gone through… I would encourage every entrepreneur to seek out their other community of entrepreneurs”…[Listen for More]
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Dr. Jeffrey Hull is an executive coach, psychologist and author of the best-selling book, FLEX: The Art and Science of Leadership in A Changing World, from Penguin-Random House. He is a Clinical Instructor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School and Director of Education at the Institute of Coaching at Harvard.
“I think the key to success is creating, as I said earlier, Creating the tribe. And when you go to create the tribe, and the tribe can be one, two, three, four… Soon as it gets to be more than two it’s a tribe. To make sure that you know yourself and you choose people that fill in your gaps that compliments you. They know something that you don’t know. So, you have got to be humble… To recognise you need other people in your tribe who know more than you do”…[Listen for More]
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Benny Ausmus is the founder of the BIG Change Agency, and for the last 10 years, he’s brought transformation to yogurt factories, IT consultancies, flying trapeze schools (seriously!), manufacturers, accounting firms, recruitment companies, web developers, real estate agencies… just about every sort of business and industry you can imagine. In his new book The Transformational Leadership Compass (2/16), Benny synthesizes 14 areas of leadership research and practice into real-world, actionable advice for CEOs and business leaders.
“Treat learning as if it was an asset. Treat your own learning edge as if it was an asset of your business. So, the time that you invest and invest wisely in the right learning interventions to develop your skill set, to develop your ability… Treat that is something that can sit on your balance sheet as an investment for the future and find the right sources for it. The more you learn the more you earn provided it is real-world content. So, I’m not saying duck off and get an MBA, the truth is you are not going to learn how to manage people through an MBA. You are going to learn some cool models and probably develop a network if you go to the right one. But you learn to swim by being in the pool. So have a great coach, learn using practical applied interventions as you go through and invest heavily in that and you will see growth happen far faster for you”…[Listen for More]
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Isaac Kuhlman has been an Amazon Brand Developer since 2013, responsible for more than $12 Million in revenue. He is the co-founder of REAL Coaching with Kirsty Verity where they have helped over 1,000 Amazon Sellers grow their businesses with the right strategies to achieve their freedom goals. They specialize in taking sellers who are stuck or plateaued in their business and break through to reach the real success they desire.
“don’t quit because that’s when you know that you failed. Because everybody is afraid of failure, right? It’s kind of one of those things where if you accept that you are going to have mistakes that you can fix then you can grow your business and you can be an entrepreneur. If you accept that any time you make a mistake you failed then you will pretty much lose and you will quit. So, it is really about growing what I call a growth mindset… It’s not my term it’s been out there. A growth mindset means that any time there’s a setback in your business use that as a learning opportunity to come back and grow stronger”…[Listen for More]
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Coach Jennie Mustafa-Julock is the sought after coach and speaker changemakers turn to when they can't seem to get out of their own way. She helps these impatiently ambitious humans figure out how to stop squandering their potential so they can finally get on with the business of changing the world.
“just start. Even though you don’t feel ready, even though you don’t feel prepared, even though you don’t have it all figured out, even though you think selling is sleazy, even though every fibre of your being is terrified, even though your parents want you to just keep a nice cushy job and even though nobody in your world has ever thought about being an entrepreneur you can do it… It’s your turn. If you are waiting for somebody to say it’s your turn and here is your permission slip then here it is. It is your turn to start right now”…[Listen for More]
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Aaron Welch is a Marine Corps Veteran, entrepreneur, and marketer with more than 20 years of digital marketing experience. He is the founder of Lift Digital Marketing, a full-service digital marketing agency specializing in generating new leads for businesses focused on growth. He has been featured in Yahoo Finance, NBC, Digital Journal, Thrive Global, Medium and Vocal. Looking for help with your digital marketing efforts?
“find something that you are good at, find something that you enjoy doing and do that the best you can. Deliver as much value as you can to people. Find a problem and either fixed it or try your damnedest to get it fixed”…[Listen for More]
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TEDx Speaker, #1 Bestselling author of The Six Habits and Life Mastery Coach, Laura DiBenedetto teaches how to create the life of our dreams without sacrificing what we love. As Founder and CEO of Vision Advertising, a company that she built aged 19, she has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs build and grow profitable enterprises entirely on their terms.
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Peter Rabey is the Co-founder & CEO of the X4 Group, an award-winning global multi-brand recruitment business specialising in the technology, life sciences, construction and communications sectors with offices in the UK, USA and New Zealand.
“have learning at the centre of what you do and what your team do. If you got anyone that doesn’t want to learn at any point, I feel that that’s a really dangerous individual potentially. So having learning at the centre of everything would be the biggest piece of advice I would suggest”…[Listen for More]
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Vidya Ravi is an internationally-acclaimed Facebook ads strategist and marketer. Since 2014, her company, Storybird Ads has managed ad accounts and campaigns for clients around the globe, often with results of 42X ROI. A former funnel builder, Ravi is noted for her holistic approach to analyzing every aspect of the ad campaign, from artwork to every touchpoint in the client’s journey to purchase.
“dream bigger if you are actually going to dream… Everything that you imagine if you are going to go behind this it is going to happen. So just go and dream bigger and bigger and bigger because everything is definitely going to happen”…[Listen for More]
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Since co-founding Escape Fitness, taking it to a $33 million-dollar global business chosen by big brands and independent fitness professionals, such as the UFC, Equinox, 1Rebel, Sanctuary Fitness and more, Matthew Januszek has continued to be a powerful advocate for functional training. Their goal is to motivate and inspire people to get started and create exercise habits that last. Matthew travels the world, helping studios and gyms to turn their visions into world-class fitness destinations and awesome training experiences. During the pandemic, Matthew has become an advocate for at-home training and maintaining physical and mental health to persevere in the face of life's challenges. In addition to being a father, he has started five companies and sits on the board of three companies across three continents.
“Put your health first. Get super clear about where you want to go. And that doesn’t just mean doing a goalsetting workshop. That means trying to spend half an hour a day for 30 days every single day doing it. And if you get to the end of that apart from enjoying the process you will have a lot more clarity. Then just being aware that all of those mistakes that you make on the way… And you will make them if you are progressing at any level you are going to make a lot of those mistakes… But seeing those as part of the fun and the enjoyment because it’s not just about destination either”…[Listen for More]
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Luke Shankula is a mortgage marketing expert and the CEO of Paragon Digital Marketing Group. With his result-focused services, he aims to help people systemize their work and go beyond lead generation. Besides running a successful 7-figure mortgage marketing agency, Luke has spoken at several Legion of Loan Officer events.
“continue to do the things that scare you because ultimately those are the things that are going to cause the growth… The one thing that you need for success is to never give up, to never stop and to never get complacent with your growth because every single day if you are continuing to work on yourself the only thing you can do is grow. So, taking one step forward every single day and doing one or two or three actions every single day that is going to move your business forward or your personal development forward. That I’ll have a massive impact on your success”…[Listen for More]
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Seth Pearson is a Self-Love Warrior based in Seattle, WA. He is the host of the Love Amped podcast, and facilitates events and life coaching sessions in the area. He helps people understand that anything is possible. He is an expert in compassionate communication and effective boundary setting.
“live from your heart, it’s going to be the best way moving forward in your business and your life that there is really no separation from your business and your life. You are creating a more expressed version of yourself by having your own business karma. So make it heart centred ”…[Listen for More]
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Elias Zepeda is founder and CEO of Need Clients Now, a national marketing agency specializing in customer acquisition. Elias and his team have been helping businesses scale their revenue by building high-converting sales funnels for their business.
“Have a mentor. I think that’s so important… For those that are looking to start, launch or grow their own business I think having a mentor or multiple mentors and people they can rely on for advice I think that’s extremely important and I think that’s going to make a very big difference. ”…[Listen for More]
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James Jacobson has founded several companies and is a serial entrepreneur whose career has primarily been focused in the media arena since graduating from the University of Virginia in 1988. Currently James is building Dog Podcast Network. In the past several years, James has been putting his attention on a promising cancer therapeutic company he co-founded with Dr. Demian Dressler in 2008 called Functional Nutriments. James Jacobson has been described as both “a serial entrepreneur” and as a “monk in the marketplace.” He has authored best-selling books, been a broadcaster and built businesses that leveraged new trends that were sometimes considered “just a little ahead of their time.” The overarching theme of his career has been building ventures that make a meaningful difference in the lives of as many people as possible. For over 20 years, that took the form of creating projects and companies that leveraged the power of media including teleproduction, radio, publishing and, the Internet. Since 2008, James Jacobson’s focus has been on Functional Nutriments, a biotech company that has developed and brought to market first-in-class nutraceuticals that induce and support apoptosis. Apoptosis is a critical biological life process that is encoded in the DNA; and the absence of normal levels of apoptosis is linked to serious diseases including cancer. Businesses that he developed, founded or helped co-found include a video yearbook company, a teleproduction and video marketing company, a talk radio station, a cable TV network, an e-commerce company, a magazine publisher, a book publisher, and a biotech nutraceutical firm. His author credits include "How to Meditate with Your Dog" and the best-selling series "Top Maui Restaurants" which he co-authored with his wife, Molly Jacobson.
“do what you love, be passionate about what you love and don’t do it for the money. If you love money don’t be an entrepreneur be a salesperson… If you are going to dedicate your life and your blood and your sweat and your tears and your shower time and endanger relationships should be for something that you really, really love. And I think that’s so critical and I think sometimes especially at the beginning of someone’s entrepreneurial journey they are just looking to make the quick buck that usually… I won’t say never… That usually doesn’t work out in the long-term and it certainly doesn’t pay the psychic dividends that will feed you when you come across adverse”…[Listen for More]
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I’m Chad Burmeister - Believer, Husband, and Author. I empower sales professionals to become the best version of themselves by focusing on their mindset, skillset, and toolkit.
“burn the bridges… When you know the time is right… I am not saying burn the bridges if you are one year out of college, that might be a high risk. But once you know the skills you know that the value that you provide in the marketplace is there have trust and confidence in yourself and in the process. Trust the process, burn the bridges”…[Listen for More]
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Lamine Zarrad is the SVP, Head of Product at ZenBusiness. He began his entrepreneurial journey shortly after immigrating to the U.S. and serving in the U.S. Marines. His expertise lies in banking regulations and financial services, and he co-founded fintech Joust in 2017, which was acquired by ZenBusiness in 2020.
“really learn yourself, understand your limitations and understand your strengths… I’m hesitant to tell people to trust your gut. The gut is so important and it’s very important to know when to trust it. And so, the only now you would know when to trust it and when not to trust it is by truly, truly understanding who you are. And there are many different ways you can get there… Now what your limitations are. And sometimes they are very difficult to accept but nonetheless are there. And if you are operating within that framework then you will operate with some degree of comfort and consistency and this will help you succeed”…[Listen for More]
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Peter Ticktin is the Senior Partner at the South Florida-based firm, The Ticktin Law Group. In the years that followed, Mr. Ticktin was on the cutting edge of law, appearing in Court TV, Inside Edition and many others for his perspective. For this work, the Daily Business Review in South Florida honored Mr. Ticktin with an award of being a “Distinguished Leader” in his profession.
“you have got to know where you are going in order to get there… Goals are everything. If you don’t have your goals well established you are not going anywhere. And they have to be real goals and they have to be written down. Business plan is important because the business plan is your way of documenting and making solid those goals. So, my advice is to stop dreaming, stop changing your dreams”…[Listen for More]
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Matt Johnson is a marketing agency founder, podcaster, and musician. Matt runs a podcast launch & production agency based in San Diego, an international team that helps business coaches, consultants and thought leaders use done-for-you podcasting to attract an audience, build influence & become MicroFamous.
“decide as quickly as possible who the right person is that you want to have in your life especially if you are doing client work. One of the best questions I have asked myself was if a client landed in San Diego, got off a plane and texted me and said hey man I just dropped in let me buy you a drink, come out. Who is the person I would want to get that text from that I would want to say yes to?… The faster you figure out who that right person is the faster you can make all those other decisions that I mentioned. Like what’s the one thing I am going to sell to them? How do I become micro in that space to them? You can’t make any of those decisions or take any action there until you make that very first decision. Who is that person that I want to serve and impact, person that I want to teach, train and lead? Who is that person that I want to hang out with? Make that decision as quickly as possible and then you can get busy doing the other stuff”…[Listen for More]
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After spending significant time as both a driver and a passenger of ride-share companies like Uber and Lyft while in the military, Ryan Green saw a problem: drivers didn’t have enough data. A strong drive toward entrepreneurship prompted Green to launch Gridwise in 2016 and address that problem with a crowdsource-powered app that empowers rideshare and delivery drivers to earn up to 39% more per hour.
“one, is don’t try to build your vision from day one. I think a lot of people who come into starting a company have the vision and have the passion associated with how they want to grow the company. But everyone wants to jump in and try to build this sleek, perfect mobile app or web app from day one. And what you end up doing is you end up building something from day one that most likely people don’t want”…[Listen for More]
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Sahin Boydas is a serial entrepreneur living in Silicon Valley. Sahin has built and managed 100% remote teams for over a decade now. In the past, he co-founded 3 Startups, he is alumni of 5 accelerators such as Stanford StartX, 500 Startups, FI, Betaworks Vision, Quake Accelerator. He sold his first company to Gfycat in silicon valley. Sahin is currently working on RemoteTeam.com to bring his vision to the future of work. With his 10 years of experience managing remote teams successfully, he is now on the media about the future of work-life and Silicon Valley, sharing his experiences on building a company culture and a successful team.
“you have to be good at something first and then you have to learn to learn a lot of things and then you have to see what is missing in what you want to build because you need to have some experience… You need to know the market a little bit. And so now in the market, knowing the need of the people and then trying to build something… And learn how to convince people”…[Listen for More]
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For almost a decade, Annie Passanisi Ruggles has harnessed her Hulk-like disdain for hard-sales, tacky self-promotion, and overly competitive sleazeballs as inspiration to help people find better ways to grow their small businesses. She's guided hundreds of people toward making deeper connections, lasting impressions, and friendlier, more lucrative conversations and transactions.
“you are not a non-profit unless you are a non-profit. If you overly sacrifice yourself through ask avoidance, through loocey goocey the boundaries… through over delivering as a negative. I don’t mean over delivering in a way that we all aspire to with customer service. I mean really over delivering and not demanding what you earn, what you deserve, what you are entitled to, what you are worth then you are going to allow other people to slow the rate of your business for their own gain and you will keep yourself small. Do not do that. If you are an entrepreneur you are a business, show up like a business, treat yourself like a business, respect yourself like a business”…[Listen for More]
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After a 35-year career in the IT industry, Pat Alva-Kraker was faced with a series of challenges that altered her professional life forever. Pat stepped onto her own journey to elation and along the way inspired other women to own their feminine power, create a successful business and lifestyle.
“be clear with what it is that you want out of your business. Have the courage to step in and realise that that business dream of yours and in that will come the confidence that you need to make it all happen”…[Listen for More]
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Bimal Shah is on a mission to deliver breakthroughs to entrepreneurs by reaching their three-year goal in one year through customized systems of coaching, planning, & accountability that provide Security from Enemies of Prosperity. The CEO of Rajparth Achievers, LLC., is founded on three platforms: Thrive, Transform, and Transcend.
“the best advice I can give to entrepreneurs and it depends where they are in their stage of their business. But the one thing that every entrepreneur should be focused on is you have to be different; you can’t be doing the same thing that your competitors do, you have to be unique and you have to become the only one. Every day you should strive how can I be the only one in the business that I’m doing? How can I become the only one? Whichever way it is you should be striving for that; you should be asking that question to yourself every single day”…[Listen for More]
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Carolyn Colleen is the founder of the FIERCE Network, an online program that helps women create life strategies that enables them to have the life they dream of—without sacrificing their families, careers, or lifestyles. Author of F.I.E.R.C.E.: Transform Your Life in the Face of Adversity, 5 Minutes at a Time!
“try it and test the concept and see what lands”…[Listen for More]
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Gene Guarino owns, operates & invests in Residential Assisted Living Homes throughout the US. Gene speaks in over 50 cities & 5 countries on Residential Assisted Living & the opportunities for business owners, operators, investors & entrepreneurs. He has trained over 300,000 people over the past 30 years on topics ranging from real estate investing, starting your own business, entrepreneurship & he has focused exclusively on RAL for the past 7 years.
“don’t let your entrepreneurship overtake what’s really important. What I mean by that is family, loved ones, people that you are with. You know Neil I work with seniors and people who have housing and security issues all the time and nobody especially as they get older ever sits there and says I wish I’d worked harder or I wish I’d put in more hours or I wish I’d started that the business. They all without exception are talking about their family, the events, the time they spent or unfortunately time they wish they had spent”…[Listen for More]
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Geeta Sidhu-Robb is a 5-time winner of the Entrepreneur & Businesswoman of the Year. She set up Nosh Detox after her son got severe food allergies & anaphylaxis, retraining from lawyer to wellness coach for professional women - helping them get promotions, double revenue, launch IPO’s & massive company growth.
“what do you want? What do you want to create? Then what inside of you is scared of creating that? So if you can get rid of the fears that we all naturally have about going to big or being able to do it or can it work or not. Then work on yourself to make yourself as fearless as you possibly can because that really helps and it shows up in your business”…[Listen for More]
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Liam Naden is a speaker, teacher, writer and coach to entrepreneurs in how to overcome problems and achieve true success, in their business and their life. He is the creator of Neuro-State Rebalancing (NSR), a process which helps a person to take control of their life by using their brain in a different way.
“spend at least as much of your time on learning about who you are… who you really are… as you do on your business. And I’m not really referring to developing yourself and finding out what you need to fix about yourself because that’s all superficial stuff. I’m talking about learning who you really are. What drives your life? What creates the results that you get in your life really? And it’s not about setting goals and struggling and motivation”…[Listen for More]
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Michael Lines brings 25 years’ experience in the natural and traditional consumer-packaged-goods industries. Currently as Founder, President & CEO of Wellness Natural Inc. (SimplyProtein), Michael and his team lead all aspects of the SimplyProtein business in North America and 2 international markets.
“No matter what stay true to yourself and take care of yourself... a great example if you are flying and the oxygen masks drop they are very specific about make you are taking care of your own oxygen first quickly before your family member. And I think to be the best version of myself for the team, for the brand, for investors, I have to take care of myself - exercise, sleep, nutrition, meditaion. Those are really important and I think as entrepreneurs you lose sight of that very quickly because there is always 100 things to do. Better finding that balance”…[Listen for More]
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Dario Gristina is the Chief Executive Officer for PleXus Health Science that developed the high-tech PleXus UVC-650 device that uses UV light to kill bacteria and viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Commonly used for health care facilities and labs, ultraviolet germicidal irradiation is now available to the general public for restaurants, offices, residential use and more.
“believe in yourself and just go for it and believing yourself and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise”…[Listen for More]
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Chris Stapleton and Landon Stewart have been building client-getting Facebook groups together for 4 years. They got their start by consulting with 7 and 8-figure brands - helping them build thriving communities around their programs and generate millions in additional revenue. Since then, they’ve branched out to focus on growing their own community and coaching programs. In the past 7 months, they’ve taken their brand new Facebook group from zero to a $4 million/year run rate. After building one of the most active & engaged Facebook groups in the coaching space, their group growth and monetization methodology is now gaining attention from industry leaders
“Hire help. Don’t try to figure out everything on your own. Obviously, it be patient, learn to rest and not quit. But if you are going to try to figure out everything on your own it’s going to be a painful ride. And just get help, hire people to help solve your problems and don’t put all of the weight on your own shoulders in the beginning stages and you will notice that your just exponentially grows from there”…[Listen for More]
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Todd Kaufman developed a lifelong passion for software, eventually leading him to co-founding Test Double in 2011, a consultancy focused on improving the broken industry of software development. Test Double has grown to over $14.7M in revenue in 2020, expanding its impact on the industry for 10 years.
“Jimmy Iovine… had a quote ‘Make fear a tailwind not your headwind’ and I think that’s accurate… Turn that fear into drive and motivation and energy to make your business successful”…[Listen for More]
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Samael Tejada is the Founder of Liquivida Lounge, wellness center with 12 locations across four states, offers an assortment of nine IV drip therapies in addition to a large range of services from aesthetics to weight loss to name a few lab testing to hormone optimization.
“always keep your head up. You are going to fall on your butt multiple times. You can’t let that discourage you as long as you keep on pressing forward you are going to get to where you see yourself”…[Listen for More]
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Michael Begg co-founded AMZ Advisers with his two partners in 2015, and has grown the business to managing over $10M per year in ad spend and $100M per year in Amazon sales. Mike and the AMZ team also operate AMZ Courses, educating Amazon sellers on how to maximize sales on the platform. Mike loves sharing advice and help on anything related to Amazon and building efficient businesses.
“I think my best advice would be just not worrying about failing. If you are doing something that you love, if you are doing something that motivates you that’s self-fulfilling don’t be afraid to fail, go out there and try new things, go out there and try new sales channels, try new ways to help your clients, provide that value. As long as you are helping other people and providing a ton of value to them you will always have clients. That’s not something you will have to worry about”…[Listen for More]
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Claudia Miller is a Career Coach, and she helps serious professionals secure dream jobs, with dream salaries, at their dream companies -- including fast-growing startups, midsize companies, Fortune 500 and Tech Giants like Amazon, Google & Facebook. Some even received salary increases of up to $50,000.
“if you are not good at something or something keeps becoming your bottleneck just hire someone and do it. You will be surprised how much talent you can find out there whether it’s on Up Work, fiverr and even interns… just hire people out. You are just going to accelerate all of that learning and the progress in your business once you decide to do that ”…[Listen for More]
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Tara L Paige’s authentic personality grew her from teacher and mother, to national business consultant to her own brand. After seeing a lack of diversity in the outdoor décor space, Tara started a viral Facebook group reaching 210K Black women which grew into her inclusive lifestyle brand: The Patio Chic.
“When you decide that you want something, go for it. If there is a naysayer that’s not your supporter it’s a naysayer, keep that in mind. Do not stop until you reach your pinnacle of success. You cannot compare yourself to anyone else. This is not a race, you are not in a fight with anyone else, this is all about you. Go, run, do whatever you’ve got to do to get to the top of the mountain. Set your goals, write it down, make it plain, create plan and execute. You’ve got this”…[Listen for More]
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Global entrepreneur Ruble Chandy is the author of the international bestselling book on conscious business strategies, 90 Days to Life: A Journey from Turmoil to Triumph, and the creator of Online Business Accelerator™ workshops. Marrying eastern wisdom with western know-how, Chandy built three tremendously successful, seven-figure businesses before retiring at the age of 38 to pursue his passion for helping businesses accelerate growth using the same principles and strategies that propelled his own success. Fluent in three languages, Chandy has consulted with entrepreneurs and small businesses worldwide. Currently, he and his team at Accelerator™ are helping businesses in 14 countries, including the US, Canada, India, Saudi Arabia, UAE (Dubai), and the UK to double their revenue, profit, and income and scale up to seven, eight, and nine figures. Chandy began his business career in India at the age of 19. By the time he was 24, he had failed in two businesses and was $60,000 in debt. However, when pivotal circumstances caused him to realize the intrinsic connection between business success and spiritual self-actualization, Chandy began to rapidly grow his wealth. He has since built several businesses from scratch to seven figures in 12 months or less, culminating in a US Air Force contracting company that he grew to a multi-million-dollar enterprise. In 2008, Chandy sold his company to his partners and moved to the US, where he became the Technical Manager of a major healthcare brand before retiring at the age of 38 to create Online Business Accelerator™ workshops to help businesses scale to seven, eight, and nine figures. Chandy is known for his practical wisdom, impactful strategies, innate sense of humor, and ability to simplify complex ideas into fun and simple, step by step strategies that anyone can implement to accelerate their business. His vast array of clients includes startups, Silicon Valley CEOS, Emmy Award-winning performers, and billionaires.
“have faith. When the going gets tough have faith that it’s going to work out. And while you have faith be intelligent enough to see changes coming and there are new opportunities created all of the time. So, with that faith have some strategy, have some belief, belief about who you are, what you stand for and have some strategy to adapt to this new world order and implement it fast”…[Listen for More]
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Vicky Schettini is known as the Empress of Real Estate for the empire she has built with her own two hands and endlessly giving heart to serve others. She has saved her knowledge to share it on her webinars to help people find how to succeed in the real estate industry. She is the founder of WIT Academy that teaches people how to start their own financial freedom with a course that is going to take them step by step to success.
“never, ever, ever give up… If you really have a passion for what you are doing you are going to have some downs. Trust and believe. And downs are good because that’s how you learn. You are going to have a down; you learn from it and you move up a little bit more. So, it is good to have downs. Most people that’s when they take off because that’s not their passion. Do never do anything just for the money. If you are going to do it just for the money you will give up”…[Listen for More]
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Thomas Michael Hogg is a Consultant and Mentor with more than 20 years of market and work experience in Germany, Switzerland, the US, and Mexico. Thomas has been an advisor to global companies such as PepsiCo, adidas, Campbell’s Soup, Johnson Controls, Bulkmatic, among other multinational companies, SMEs and nonprofit organizations. He is author of "Profitable Growth Strategy - 7 proven best practices from German companies" and has been featured in Bloomberg TV, CNN, Cluster Industrial and El Financiero.
“it’s about the commercial strategy. Take time to plan and design your commercial strategy. Think about who’s going to be your target market – really, really important. Who’s going to be your future clients then look for your future projects or prospects. 80/20 leads- who are your 80/20 customers. So the commercial strategy really starts with addressing defining your target market then investing time and money in sales and marketing practices or certain marketing channels … Really, really take time to design perfectly your commercial strategy”…[Listen for More]
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Dr Yael Joffe RD PhD FACN In the rapidly-evolving discipline of nutrigenomics, Yael is globally acknowledged as a leading expert in the field. She is a highly sought-after speaker, has co-authored two books, ‘It’s Not Just Your Genes’ and ‘Genes To Plate’, and has been published in multiple peer-reviewed scientific journals. Yael is at the forefront of nutrigenomic education and has helped develop and supervise nutrigenomics courses around the world, including her own Manuka and 3X4 Ed. courses, which have trained hundreds of healthcare practitioners globally. She is currently an Adjunct Professor, teaching Nutrigenomics at Rutgers University and MUIH. She is co-founder and Chief Science Officer of 3X4 Genetics.
“just get going, just try, just start, take that first step, don’t worry what comes after that, just try, just step in”…[Listen for More]
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Scott Lee was inspired by various tutors and mentors in his life, but realized it was inaccessible to most of his peers. Scott created Gooroo to bring accessibility and excitement to education outside the classroom. Through tutoring and expert-led video content, Gooroo aims to make learning enjoyable and accessible for all.
“now you guys are under a lot of pressure and you guys are very ambitious enough to think that you can change the world but people are everything so be kind and caring about them and be transparent. They will be with you when you are having a difficult time”…[Listen for More]
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Kelley Higney is the founder and CEO of Bug Bite Thing, a product that uses suction to remove the insect saliva/venom from under the skin and is chemical-free, reusable and suitable for all ages. It is also Amazon’s #1 selling product for insect bite relief with over 30,000 positive reviews.
“don’t be afraid to reach out for help. When you are first getting started there is a lot of resources within your own community. There is funding, there’s networking groups. Don’t take everyone’s word for verbatim. There is always ways to do what somebody says a different way. So, if somebody tells you to go down one path just be mindful that that might not be the only path but listen to them. And don’t be afraid to be a risk taker but don’t do it in a not smart way”…[Listen for More]
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Chris Naugle has dedicated his life to being America’s #1 Money Mentor. As an innovator and visionary in wealth-building and real estate, he empowers entrepreneurs, business owners, and investors with the knowledge of how money works. Chris is driven to deliver the financial knowledge that fuels lasting freedom.
“don’t assume you know everything. You know the arrival syndrome… The second you think you know everything, the second you think you have arrived at that place we stop learning, we stop having the ability to believe that there is more. And I think that’s the biggest thing. A lot of people have different levels of success and then they assume that they’ve reached their people and their plateau. At that point just remember once you are at the top there is only one way to go and that’s down. So, the easiest solution to that is don’t ever hit the top”…[Listen for More]
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Jeff J Hunter who is the CEO of Savage Marketing, and VA Staffer. He is an expert Digital Marketing Strategist, with a background in Information Technology and Project Management, recognized as one of the Top 5 for Phillips nationwide two years running. Hunter is also a sought-after travel hacker and the first gamer to go viral on TikTok.
“start, start now, don’t delay. If you are listening to this right now whatever you think you are doing just do it. And time rewards those who do things. I really think it takes about 6 to 7 years to really get something to a state where it is really successful and it’s really doing well. And the sooner you can start the better, you still have time, you can make it, you can do this. Do it, stop thinking about it, do it”…[Listen for More]
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Lars Schmidt is the Founder of Amplify, an HR executive search and consulting firm. He's spent over 20 years in the industry working in and alongside a range of leading global companies. He's a writer for Fast Company, author of Redefining HR book and Employer Branding for Dummies, and Host of the Redefining HR podcast.
“really focus your early days on building your emergency fund because with that you have freedom. And when you have freedom you can really take your business to new places but you can’t do that if you are in need constant position of how am I going to make ends meet? How am I going to cover bills? I think once you get over that point and you have a sufficient emergency fund that freedom really allows you to take your business to new places”…[Listen for More]
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Nicholas Hinrichsen co-founded a company called Carlypso after graduating from Stanford Business School in 2013. They went through YCombinator (same startup accelerator as AirBnb, DoorDash, Stripe, Reddit etc) in 2014, raised a total of $10M in venture funding by 2015 and sold the business to Carvana.com in 2017. They joined Carvana pre-IPO, went public at a $2.5bn valuation and are now worth $40bn. Carvana is the most valuable used car retailer in the U.S. Nicholas and other the co-founder stayed with Carvana for 3 years and left in June 2020 to start a digital auto loan refinancing platform. Their new business is all around helping Americans save money on their auto expenses and insurance and is a great angle to realize savings.
“the most important thing in entrepreneurship is get started. It’s so easy to think about the business and an idea and how to provide value and find reasons not to do it. It’s so easy to talk yourself out of doing something versus into doing something. So, my advice would be to just get started, do something. The most important thing is to get to a no quickly. You need to find out quickly why the idea that you have in your mind doesn’t work. And when you do that you will experience surprises by talking to customers from which you can learn and develop new hypotheses until you find a business that works”…[Listen for More]
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Ken D Foster is a keynote speaker, business strategist, best-selling author, and the host of “Voices of Courage,” a radio show syndicated in more than 162 countries. His new book is called “The Courage to Change Everything: Daily Strategies & Essential Wisdom to Awaken Your Inner Genius” (Official Launch January 5, 2020). Ken is a changemaker who pushes the envelope and challenges you to think differently: to see the unseeable, know the unknowable, and do the impossible.
“have fun along the way. Look for the gifts every day and find the courage to get outside of your comfort zone. Creativity is the joy that entrepreneurship brings and as we as entrepreneurs we look for things that nobody else can see. We see the un-seeable, we know the unknowable and we do the impossible because we open our creativity up as entrepreneurs. And if you are stuck just open the creativity, start looking for the beauty in life and you will find it. And as soon you do the doors will start to open again ”…[Listen for More]
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A 7-time author and national speaker, Lisa Rehurek’s 25 years of business knowledge shines right alongside her down to earth, “get it done” manner. Obsessed with strategies, systems, and simplicity, Lisa transforms the most overwhelming tasks into simple, attainable steps that your audience is eager to get out there and do.
“don’t avoid planning. But also, don’t get mired in planning, take action, have conversations with your ideal clients, get out there and move the needle forward. The more conversations you have the more you are going to learn and the better positioned you are going to be. So just keep moving forward”…[Listen for More]
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As a single parent, Justine Sinclair and her daughter have a unique bond. They rely on each other for motivation and support. From a young age, Justine’s daughter had dreams for the future. Justine told her “tomorrow’s dream can only happen if you start today!” That’s why Justine started dreamOway.
“believe in yourself and don’t listen to what people say”…[Listen for More]
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Edward Mermelstein is the Founder & CEO of One and Only Holdings, a New York City based luxury real estate investment consulting firm that works with high-net-worth families to build, manage and preserve their wealth. Edward has also been named one of the 10 most influential figures in New York City real estate.
“Work hard, always do the right thing. It’s a very simple way to live. You work hard and you enjoy what you are doing the right thing in your life whether it’s at work or at home. Those are things that will make your life just better”…[Listen for More]
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Herb Karlitz is the CEO and founder of Karlitz & Company, an industry leader in designing and marketing globally recognized events. Celebrating their 30th anniversary this year, Karlitz & Company has produced globally recognized events, including Flavor! Napa Valley, the New York City Wine & Food Festival, and Harlem EatUp!
“have a clear vision, have a clear path… Really be clear about where you are trying to get from point A to point B. Be really clear about what service you want to provide. The clearer you are the clearer your message will be to your potential customers, whoever is going to buy. If it gets fuzzy and you can’t describe your business in a couple of sentences you will have a hard time selling it to somebody else”…[Listen for More]
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Joseph Fung is the CEO of Uvaro, a tech sales career accelerator, and of Kiite, a sales enablement platform purpose-built to provide sales teams with the information they need when they need it. A graduate of the University of Waterloo’s Computer Engineering program, Joseph’s a repeat Founder & CEO, and with multiple successful exits, and speaks frequently on the topics of sales leadership, diversity, and corporate social responsibility. He is an active early-stage investor who ensures that the majority of his investments are into women-led companies. Joseph also sits on the boards of Communitech, the Golden Triangle Angel Network, and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony
“be deliberate and intentional about culture want to create because if you aren’t it’s going to happen despite you. And it’s way better to be in control as you are guiding that so that you can build the company you want to work in and you want to grow”…[Listen for More]
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Lloyd Yip is the founder & CEO of Attract & Scale. He helps coaches, consultants, agencies owners, and other online entrepreneurs grow their businesses organically. He's helped countless entrepreneurs leverage the power of organic marketing to hit multi-six figure and seven-figure revenues in a highly scalable and predictable way.
“overall, my best advice is to go and seek help. Don’t assume that you can do it all yourself. Don’t assume that there is someone else who has already solved that problem. Be hungrily seeking out other people who have potentially solved that problem already and get their advice. And model your approach to solving that problem after there’s. Not necessarily rip it off entirely because it might not work but be willing to seek it out, be humble and even be willing to invest. A lot of the times the people who are the best at solving specific problems they aren’t just going to give you you because you sent them a text message or hit them up for a coffee. Sometimes it will but a lot of the times you have to pay for that help…”…[Listen for More]
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Darin Dawson is the Co-Founder and President of BombBomb, a Human-Centered Communication Platform that enables users to use simple, personal video messages to leverage their best asset... themselves. Darin leads all sales, marketing, customer success and product development at BombBomb, a fast-growing, Colorado-based software company. He’s on a mission to re-humanize the planet and he wants to start with your business communication. He believes that human beings have intrinsic value and that every person deserves to be seen, heard and understood. That’s why he co-founded BombBomb.
“Don’t stop. I think people stop to soon, I think they get closer than they think they are but most of the time the reason they stop is because they do not have their financial house in order… Your personal finances are just as important as business finances and are you able to continue. Usually, your personal finances is what stop you from continuing. And so, if you are beginning get your financial house in order but don’t stop. And if you are advanced, I would say don’t stop innovating, don’t rest on your laurels, don’t think nothing is going to ever change ”…[Listen for More]
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Homeless, addicted and incarceration over the past decade. Sterling Shrout has transformed his life in less than 1 year during a global pandemic from a renter/handyman to landlord, home owner and business owner after finding a love for education and entrepreneurship.
“get educated especially financially… Paying down to your house, leveraging business lines of credit, getting an SBA loan or getting your credit score up. These things are so important”…[Listen for More]
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Hari Vasudevan is the founder and CEO of Think Power Solutions. Think Power Solutions is a construction oversight, PMO and information technology company focusing on the power, energy and critical infrastructure industries. In his role of CEO, Hari advances and maintains key Utility client relationships and ensures client satisfaction.
“find something that you are passionate about, something that energises you on the worst of days and something that you can energise others with your vision and mission. On the worst of days, you have got to find that. The essence of a start-up is about decision-making under ambiguity. So, hire people who make decisions under ambiguous circumstances. That’s important. The third thing I would say is don’t chase money. Chase opportunities to learn and grow. Chase the opportunities to network with people…”…[Listen for More]
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Jennifer Goldman has 30+ years helping $10mil or less revenue businesses boost growth, team, operations, and profitability. She identifies the hurdles, solutions, and guides your leaders through implementation to achieve the great impact with least amount of effort, energy, and cost. She offers consulting, group coaching, and online micro classes.
“when you start in business you should start by writing out a plan knowing every part of that plan is going to change. I do think some people jump into being an entrepreneur before they are ready or they put some concrete ideas together. So, I don’t want to stop them from doing it but it’s really important… If I can give you a structure to write out ideas around profitability, around growth, around the people that you someday might want to have and around how to stay productive. I think that’s really important. And then what I had said earlier, you have got to talk to similar businesses, similar business models and learn from their mistakes”…[Listen for More]
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Tracy Goodwin has taught thousands how to free their voice so they transform their lives with her unique approach, Psychology of the Voice. Tracy teaches professionals and entrepreneurs how to effortlessly reveal the best version of themselves as they captivate and compel their listener with their every word.
“trust your gut. Believe that you know because you do. Don’t immediately go to surely, I don’t know. Don’t look at the exterior, don’t compare. Don’t compare your first year to my fifteenth. And that’s what we do because we get on social media and oh wow, he’s really doing great. But what we are doing is we are comparing where we are to where they are and those are very, very different places. Trust your gut. Don’t watch what other people are doing to decide what you are going to do”…[Listen for More]
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Founder, visionary and overall goofball is a talented 11 year old named Carter “Critt” Waugh. He is a very active leader with an active imagination. He loves sports and is a talented lacrosse attackman. He loves his friends, his family and basically he loves anything that gets him dirty and sweaty. He has been the perfect test subject for his creation.
“keep going, perseverance, put family first, write things down and blow your business up, make it the biggest business that you can ”…[Listen for More]
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Professional Olive Oil taster, executive and consultant. David Neuman built branded businesses in the USA food industry working with the highest quality of product but selling it to buyers and consumers who have little to no understanding of what olive oil they use or valuing it more than a cup of coffee.
“if you have a full-time career and you are a closet entrepreneur keep your day job and start now fleshing out your dream. Create a vision board, construct a business plan, prepare a pro forma budget, decide if you indeed have an idea that can parlay into both financial and professional awards, don’t change away from a career until you know you are ready. If you have a support system that allows you to take a chance then make sure that is solid. The last thing anyone needs is a failure after they have had a long career. The adjustment is not going to a full-time workplace takes getting used to, be ready for change and when the juice is worth the squeeze make some juice”…[Listen for More]
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Devonée Thaxton’s passion is setting small businesses up. She's deeply involved with growth process and takes pride in her fine-tuned ability to catapult a brand towards its goals. She's the founder of ProSavvy-a strategic performance agency that provides businesses with tailored structures to bring out the absolute best in their brands.
“stop and plan. If you have any big ideas, if you want to implement something new, maybe you have found a new system that you want to add in… Stop and sit and plan out what this would look like. That includes due dates, that includes time, money, resources, people, really putting that down into paper before making the steps to make it happen. It will save you so much time and money in the future to sit down and plan your big ideas or different systems or things you want to implement into your business”…[Listen for More]
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Robert Slattery’s signature process helps people create long term wealth & cash flow. He is on a mission to help 3 million people break free of the rat race by the end of 2030.
“the best advice to an aspiring entrepreneur would be to build your entrepreneurial venture before you rely on it to be your sole income… You need to build the boat before you step off the dock onto it. The folks who are already in their entrepreneurial venture never be willing to rest upon your success. There is always a way to do it better. Figure out how to do it better, invest in yourself, invest in your company, invest in the time and the resources to level up and improve yourself so you can take yourself and your business to the next level ”…[Listen for More]
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Matthew Yahes helps entrepreneurs grow their business by getting out of the grind. He built his past two companies with a 100% remote workforce and now helps others do the same. In his spare time he snowboards well, kiteboards poorly, and enjoys life with his incredibly patient wife.
“Failure is okay. Pick yourself back up and stick with it. You don’t know everything, it’s impossible. You are going to fail, that’s okay. But if you stick with it learn and don’t get your ego bruised and just realise that everyone has to pay tuition and this is just your time period to pay tuition. You will eventually figure it out and be successful”…[Listen for More]
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David Wood quit his career as a Consulting Actuary to Fortune 100 companies, to create the world’s largest coaching business. He now coaches rock star entrepreneurs to double their revenue faster, overcome Shiny Object Syndrome, and be a more extraordinary entrepreneur and human.
“you need to work out when to keep on pushing because you will be that success story a few years from now and you will say look that was really hard but look how persistent I was. And when to stop because nobody wants what you have. And I can’t tell you when that is… But sometimes you have just got to stop because you are going to waste years of your life and other times you keep doing it. One clue will be if you love it. If you love it then you really aren’t going to lose by spending a few years on it. If you don’t love it well danger Will Robinson danger, danger, danger”…[Listen for More]
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Trevor Oldham is a 23-year-old entrepreneur and found of Podcasting You, a podcast booking agency that works with six and seven-figure individuals to get them in front of their target audience.
“self-education, that is the number one thing. Continually read books. If you don’t like reading books and get audible, you can listen to audiobooks while you are driving and, in the gym,… That’s the biggest thing that helped me in my business is just learning from people who have become successful. Learning their habits, learning the way they think, learning how they build their business. So anyone who wants to become a successful entrepreneur and start a business definitely start reading books”…[Listen for More]
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Darlene Corbett is a Speaker, Author, Therapist/Hypnotherapist, and Podcaster. Her expertise is “getting unstuck.” Darlene’s book, Stop Depriving the World of You, was published by Sound Wisdom in November 2018. She has been quoted in KnoxNews and MSN.com and writes for BizCatalyst 360 and Sixty and Me.
“Keep out the noise, the naysayers. Many people are afraid of taking a new risk, developing a new idea or product because they are worried about what people think. They are going to get naysayers, they are going to get people close and not so close wondering why they are doing it, challenging them, perhaps being negative. If they really believed in what they are doing they have to block out that noise because that probably is the greatest detriment that can bring them down”…[Listen for More]
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As the Founder of Get Speaking Gigs Now and The OC Speakers Network, Leisa Reid coaches professionals who want to monetize their speaking efforts. As a speaker herself, Leisa has booked and delivered over 500 speaking engagements.
“This comes down to understanding your mission and why you think you are here… You’ve got to dream. You’ve got a skill, a gift, expertise, something that you have been called to offer and I think that’s amazing”…[Listen for More]
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Terry Sidford is a sought-after TEDx speaker, author, and Certified Professional Life coach. She has spent over half her life acquiring the knowledge and experience that qualify her to guide others. The acquisition of those experiences is the basis for her book One Hundred Hearts: Inspiring Stories from the Women Who Lived Them, a collection of stories of female courage in the face of adversity. You can find Terry working on her next signature talk and sharing her insight with audiences across the nation.
“believe in the impossible and go for your dreams… The only thing that is stopping you is you… You really can do things you never do things you never dreams possible… Find the people that will help you- there’s a lot of people that want to help you to succeed. And surround yourself with those type of people. And you will get there, just don’t ever give up, just be persistent that’s the key. And always be courageous and know that you have been courageous and that the impossible is possible”…[Listen for More]
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Garry M Gilliam Jr is the founder and CEO of The Bridge. He hails from Harrisburg, PA., having attended the Milton Hershey School and Penn State University. Garry prides himself in his hunger for knowledge and love for giving back to his community. Having graduated from Penn State with multiple degrees (Business Development, Advertising and Psychology) he has always shared a love for bettering our society as a whole. After five seasons in the NFL with the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers, Garry Gilliam has founded The Bridge, a new project of developing sustainable 'eco-villages' designed to revitalize inner-city communities, The Bridge is a completely sustainable mixed-use 'eco-village' with housing, retail, co-working, urban agriculture, education center and entertainment. The Bridge develops sustainable communities that revitalize inner cities and in turn eradicate systematic oppression, starting in Harrisburg (Garry's hometown) with an aggressive national expansion to cities such as Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Houston, Detroit and Seattle. The Bridge Harrisburg broke ground last week on November 19th, 2020.
“believe in yourself, definitely believe in yourself. There’s going to be a lot who don’t and just let that up to them. No one else is going to believe in you more than you. And the more you believe in yourself and let that radiate I’m telling you the more and more people will believe in you. So believe in yourself, definitely believe in yourself. Have confidence in who you are and what you are doing most definitely”…[Listen for More]
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As the managing partner of Sun Acquisitions, Domenic Rinaldi helps entrepreneurs buy and sell businesses. Since 2005, he’s been personally involved in over 300 transactions and is passionate about helping entrepreneurs maximize value and minimize risks of their transactions. He is also the host of the M&A Unplugged podcast.
“if you own a business my strong advice is from day one work hard to not be the business. What I mean by that is to not have any functional role in the business at all. To really be able to sit back and work on your business from a much higher level. And I say it for a couple of reasons: 1) I think it will be a lot more gratifying when you don’t have to be involved in any particular functions unless you decide you want dip your toes in the water. 2) You will create the highest value for your business when you are not involved in it. And the third one because this is my business. There is a date on the calendar that most people look to sell their businesses. That date may be of your choosing but it may not be of your choosing. And when it’s not of your choosing it’s usually not under good circumstances like you’ve got a partnership breakup, a divorce, you’ve been diagnosed with an illness. But if you have been running your business so that it is self-managed that date won’t matter because your business can continue to operate and function because it hasn’t been reliant on you and it will maintain value, your people will be okay, your legacy will be okay. So, I think all entrepreneurs who own businesses should work very hard at creating a self-managing business”…[Listen for More]
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Eric Partaker is a CEO Coach & Mentor, Author, and Peak Performance Expert. He has been named 'CEO of the Year' at the 2019 Business Excellence Awards, one of the 'Top 30 Entrepreneurs in the UK', 35 and under, by Startups Magazine, and among 'Britain's Most Disruptive Entrepreneurs' by The Telegraph. Eric has advised Fortune 50 CEOs while at McKinsey, helped build Skype's multi-billion dollar success story, and has founded several businesses. His work has been featured on over 7 major TV stations, in the Wall Street Journal, and The Economist. He has also appeared as a guest judge on The Apprentice with Lord Alan Sugar. Eric is certified as a Peak Performance Coach and has also completed a coaching certification and apprenticeship with Professor BJ Fogg, who leads Stanford University’s Behavior Design Lab. He continues to research evidence-based studies in psychology, neuroscience, habit change, leadership, and peak performance. In 2020 Eric released his new book The 3 Alarms: A simple system to transform your health, wealth, and relationships forever.
“’leap and the net will appear’ and that’s by John Burrows… So many times, when I wasn’t sure whether or not I should do something or I had a little bit of fear or I was uncertain if the time was right or if I was prepared enough that quote has helped me… And the net doesn’t just suddenly appear out of nowhere, you are the one weaving it together. But when you leap you will be surprised how quickly you start weaving in the form of money, resources or people that you might meet in your mission”…[Listen for More]
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Neel Parekh is the CEO of MaidThis® Franchise, which helps homeowners and Airbnb® hosts with their turnover cleanings. Neel has scaled MaidThis to generate over $10 million in aggregate revenue, all while traveling the world and living the "nomad" lifestyle. He is now franchising this remote concept to select entrepreneurs.
“as you are starting a business really understand that this is an extension of you and you can do whatever you want with it… Building a business and being an entrepreneur is more of an art as opposed to a science… So being very true to yourself and understanding what type of business you want I think is going to be huge to help guide you in a lot of the decisions that you make. As opposed to just following as opposed to just following a step formula online. This is your business you can do whatever you want with it”…[Listen for More]
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Claire Dale is the co-author of “Physical Intelligence”, the award-winning book that reveals the Physical Intelligence techniques and life hacks used by the world’s highest-performing athletes, artistic performers, and leaders. Claire is also the Founding Director of Companies in Motion. They offer Physical Intelligence coaching and training to industry leaders.
“This is about finding the through line. The through line what I mean by that is this line through, it might be an endurance tunnel or you might open up into a fantastic meadow of delight and pleasure and success and celebration. And then the next project might have its own endurance tunnels. Finding the through line has to be why are you doing this? Why? What is it that makes you personally value this product or this approach that you are bringing to market? What does it give people? How does it enrich the lives of your customers clients? And I think that makes for businesses that are really driven by the good things in life”…[Listen for More]
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Adriana Kyser is an extensively qualified International Wellness Expert, Co-author of the best selling book Overcoming Adversity in Entrepreneurship and Founder of Enlightened Alchemy. She has expertise in modalities including Yoga, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Reiki, Ayurveda and Coaching and has helped thousands of people worldwide achieve everything from reduced pain and stress to increased confidence and productivity.
“my best advice is twofold. Number one remember why you are doing what you are doing so that when you are burnt out and you want to quit and when you are finding or seeing obstacles in life you are connected to your why that will give you the fuel you need to move forward. And number two is take care of yourself. Rest is as important as you showing up to the world. Without your health there is no wealth… Mind, body, emotions and spirit they are interconnected. When one is affected it will affect the others. So as an entrepreneur you are your business, you are your brand so make sure you take care of yourself, your wealth, your mindset, your spiritual connection”…[Listen for More]
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Marty McDonald is the Co-Founder and CEO at Bad Rhino Inc., a full-service social media marketing agency based in West Chester, Pa. Since 2002, Marty has consulted with small businesses and startups to help them succeed online. Bad Rhino is a full-service social media marketing and digital agency that was founded in 2011. Today, services clients locally, nationally, and globally. One of the reasons that Bad Rhino has grown to be so successful so quickly is due to their ability to develop truly unique and highly customized strategies that create incredible exposure for their clients’ businesses. Their full-service approach means they not only create these amazing strategies and plans, but they also implement them and manage them day to day, including delivering messages to their customers. Bad Rhino won top Social Media agency award in 2016, 2017 and 2018 by the research firm Clutch. Bad Rhino has clients in specialty food, craft beer, restaurants, golf, Real Estate, staffing, Technology, fitness, nonprofit, Fortune 500, and major league baseball players as well as several other small businesses categories.
“Make sure you have the right capital upfront, make sure you have the right people. But the best advice that I would absolutely give is make sure that you know your market so when you launch something you know there is going to be people there to actually purchase your product or service. And make sure that you get the answers and get the information beforehand. Before you start running through and think I had the best idea in the world. Get that information, now the market and then sell that market based on what they are telling you and what they need”…[Listen for More]
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Blair Bryant Nichols is the Director of Stages for Advance Your Reach. He oversees the Stage Agency, connecting entrepreneurs and business owners with stages that will grow their business, and manages its community of meeting planners. After beginning his career representing hundreds of authors from Top 6 publishers, he moved into the management of founders, entrepreneurs, executives, authors, and celebrities, with various work streams, projects, and personal interests, acting as a Chief of Staff, manager, or agent. He has a deep expertise in developing speakers for corporate events, conferences, and other thought leadership opportunities, including internal and external communications. As a manager, coach and consultant he enjoys helping diverse individuals and/or socially-driven companies foster new strategies for operations, communications, business development and partnerships across all appropriate areas to further develop and enhance their bottom line and brand. He earned his M.B.A from UCLA-Anderson with a specialization in Entertainment Management and a B.A. in Literature from American University.
“Figuring out what’s your why like Simon Sinek. What’s your purpose? What’s your mission? Established that idea, that culture because that’s what’s going to drive you to keep going, to get through the obstacles of launching the business, the growing pains associated with it, the red tape and the bureaucracy and everything else. You have that clarity of mind of really who you want to serve and start to figure out how you are going to do that”…[Listen for More]
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Mandy Barbee Lanier, MA Economics & CCHT is a transformation and healing expert who has helped hundreds of clients across the globe to overcome anxiousness and thrive in business, health, and life. By combining the power of imagery with their innate capabilities, she empowers men and women to regain a positive sense of control, transcend struggle, and enjoy everything more. Mandy’s signature method is the natural result of certifications in clinical hypnotherapy, neurolinguistics, and mind-body connection intersecting with 15 years of leadership experience in three commercial industries and the US military. She is obsessed with co-creating massive, lasting & positive changes with others using practical actions and fun, natural techniques.
“I feel like when we push we push and we push for it to happen that one way not only are we missing all of the ways that satisfaction was really writing front of us but any type of thing can lead to a misaligned outcome that has side-effects that we did not foresee”…[Listen for More]
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Suneel Gupta teaches innovation at Harvard University and is the author of the upcoming book, BACKABLE (Little Brown, 2021) - exploring how to get people to believe in your ideas. The book is rooted in Suneel’s journey from first-time entrepreneur to being named “The New Face of Innovation” by the New York Stock Exchange. Suneel’s ideas have been backed by firms like Greylock and Google Ventures, and he served as an Entrepreneur in Residence inside Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He has personally backed startups including Impossible Foods, AirBnB, 23&Me, Calm, and SpaceX. In 2019, Suneel established the Gross National Happiness Center of America in partnership with the Kingdom of Bhutan.
“surround yourself with a really good circle of people…”…[Listen for More]
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Carol-Ann Carrington is an immigrant from the beautiful island of Barbados. She pursued a Bachelor of Science with concentration in Accounting from Jersey City State College. As an accountant, she worked in several industries including investment, entertainment, and health care. During a transitional period in her corporate life, she pursued her M.S. at John Jay College of Criminal Justice to supplement her accountant degree and expand her knowledge of fraud. In 2018, she came up with her food product and decided to go to culinary school. Colorful Eats became Carol-Ann’s passion in 2018 when a sale of her corporate employer provided an opportunity to pursue entrepreneurship. She was juicing carrots when her son asked for pancakes; Carol-Ann suggested that he should drink some of the carrot juice which he politely declined. Simultaneously a light bulb went off! She blended some of the carrot juice into the pancake mix. Her son ate the carrot pancakes and politely asked for more. That became her pursuit to bring colorful, vegetable and fruit-based pancake mixes to market. Approximately two years later, she launched Kickerfeast. Kickerfeast mix offers a healthier, delicious alternative to plain pancakes. This premium mix is made with simple, wholesome ingredients, giving you natural color and uncompromising flavor. Whether you want pancakes or waffles, the Kickerfeast mix is simple to use: Just add water! Enjoy the flavors and colors of Blueberry, Beet, Carrot, and Pumpkin.
“Maintain a reserve. And it may be difficult at times but just keep a reserve because there will be unforeseeable financial expenses that you have never calculated. So it is really great to try to maintain a reserve”…[Listen for More]
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Darren Gallop is a business leader and security professional with over twenty years of experience as a CEO and CISO of companies that handle sensitive data. Having founded a non-profit organization, three service companies, and two tech startups in his career, he understands how to assess and manage risk in alignment with organizational goals. Currently the CEO and co-founder of Securicy, Darren’s unique perspective enables him to lead organizations through the process of baking security into their business practices while improving productivity.
“I think that you should spend a lot of time understanding what it is that you want. Why are you being an entrepreneur? Why are you building this thing? Give that a lot of thought… Being the next Amazon is not the only way to build an amazing company, create a great lifestyle and generate yourself a lot of net wealth. So, you really want to understand and be true to yourself because every decision you make as you start building out your team from your cofounders to your investors are going to basically set the stage for the direction but that company has to go. You can’t go and raise 5,000,000 dollars of venture capital money and then decide after-the-fact that you changed your business model…”…[Listen for More]
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Jason Davis has spent his entire two decade career in the music industry and worked with many worldwide stars, including Boyz ll Men, Sugar Ray, P. Diddy, Alabama, Lonestar, Dolly Parton, among many others. Davis is an entertainment industry executive with a broad range of titles.
“having wisdom is the biggest key in business”…[Listen for More]
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Brian Gregory is the Founder and CEO of Admanity and creator of its breakthrough online algorithm for small businesses. In about 5 minutes, the Admanity Protocol can analyze YOUR business and determine the advertising strategies, advertising formulas - even copywriting tactics that will be ideal for you - no matter what niche you're in!
“allow twice as much time as you think it will take for the business to get off the ground. Don’t be overly optimistic about that. Guess that there will be three times the amount of money that you are going to need. You’ve got to spreadsheet, triple it right now. You can always give the money back. Get more money. Plan to need 10 times the endurance and the persistence that you think it will take because entrepreneurship is not easy. If it was everybody would be successful at it. So, you are going to need a lot more personal perseverance than you think”…[Listen for More]
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Hayley Hobson is a Certified Health and Life Coach, Wellness Advocate and holistic health practitioner. After suffering from daily stomach aches for nearly 40 years and never feeling “well” in her body, she decided to take matters into her own hands. Working closely with several Naturopathic, Ayurvedic and Intergrative doctors, she quickly learned the importance of nutrition and nourishment in caring for her own well being. She completed a Health Coaching certification, two Raw Food certifications, a Life Coach Certification and has since become an essential oils educator. She now passionately shares her health journey, teachings and wisdom with global audiences, empowering women to take back their health and lives—to become free in body, mind and spirit.
“I see a lot of entrepreneurs who are stuck and can’t figure out how to move forward and they envision where they want to be but they don’t know how to get there or they say they don’t know how to get there…. You want to change your results then you need to change the way that you think. So, my best pieces of advice … do a brain reload… Reboot”…[Listen for More]
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Ablorde Ashigbi is the CEO of 4Degrees, a Chicago-based technology company, applying machine intelligence to help teams in relationship-driven industries manage their most important source of opportunity - their professional networks. When he's not doing that, you can usually find him lifting weights, reading books or eating BBQ.
“find your tribe of other entrepreneurs to spend time with and to commiserate with and listen to. Building a company or an organisation can be an incredibly lonely journey, you are going to go through a lot of peaks and a lot of valleys, you are going to have probably multiple new death moments where you don’t think that this is going to survive and you are going to feel an immense about pressure. And in those moments having other people who have gone through that journey or are going through it alongside you who you can commiserate with and learn from and ultimately feel like they understand this something I think every entrepreneur should pursue”…[Listen for More]
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Bryan Adams is the CEO and founder of Ph.Creative, recognized as one of the leading employer brand agencies in the world with clients such as Apple, American Airlines, GVC, and Blizzard Entertainment. Bryan is also a bestselling author, podcaster, creative strategist, and specialist speaker.
“be deliberate about thinking bigger and taking your time, slowing down in order to go faster… Thinking bigger and then seeking the advice of people that aren’t in your immediate industry to help you think bigger. Because sometimes brilliant solutions and answers come from the most unusual places”…[Listen for More]
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Rory F Stern just might be the only digital marketing and advertising expert you’ve ever met who also has a doctorate in Clinical Psychology. His initial goals were to use that training and become a behavioral profiler with the FBI. However, that all changed when he found himself in the position of being a stay-at-home Dad to his then 6-month old daughter. Despite his best efforts, being a stay-at-home Dad wasn’t enough and he still felt a calling to serve others and impact the world. That led to his discovery of digital marketing. For 8-years, Dr. Stern was a very sophisticated jack of all trades who worked for the paycheck. The underlying passion was missing until he discovered media buying. His freelance work led him to a position within a fast-growing Facebook ad agency as a copywriter. This was before Facebook ad agencies “were on every corner.” Here he was tasked with learning how to write ad copy that ultimately beat the existing controls. Not being a classically trained copywriter, and really just a high-performer, he never realized just what it meant to his skill set when he was able to beat the control 90% of the time. After a few different roles, Dr. Stern started RFS Digital Media, LLC in 2016. What started out as a one-man show grew to a point where the business had 8 campaign managers and a team that was managing roughly $8.25 million dollars in ad spend on Facebook by 2018. RFS Digital Media’s clients have included one of the largest direct response financial publishers in the world, many well-known (and not so well-known) supplement companies, e-commerce brands, experts and more.
“never give up believing something no matter what it is”…[Listen for More]
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Dr. Valerie Rein has discovered Patriarchy Stress Disorder and created the only science-backed system for helping women achieve their ultimate success, happiness, and fulfillment by healing this collective, inherited trauma of oppression. Her bestselling book and groundbreaking programs have helped thousands of women find freedom and reclaim their authentic selves.
“trust yourself even if the culture has not been trusting you, like in the case with women. We have an uphill battle here so we have some healing to do. But trust yourself every step of the way a little bit of trust and that’s all it takes. And then have more evidence, ‘oh yeah I trusted myself and I did something that propelled me forward’. And that gives you more trust for that next step”…[Listen for More]
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Dr. Jackie Noelke, MA, EdD has a doctorate in leadership, owns 3 businesses, including an agency where she helps entrepreneurs have 6 figure launches. After overcoming agoraphobia the guiding value of her business is gratitude, a state she contributes to her success. You can connect with Jackie at her new store The SheEO Store for resources and tips related to business, marketing, and paid traffic that converts.
“work on your fear of judgement… You are not going to be able to please everyone, not everyone is going to be your biggest fan and you are really not making it until you have haters… When you put yourself out there a lot sometimes you are going to get people who aren’t jamming with it and that’s fine. Just like you don’t jam with everybody’s message either. So, I just really encourage you to step out of that because your vision is bigger than that, your vision is important and you are not serving anyone by holding back. So, don’t hold back, go for it, get your message out there, get visible and just know that your people will find you through that. And the people that don’t need to work with you don’t matter in that instance. Don’t let them dictate what you may or may not say and where you are going to go and how your business will succeed”…[Listen for More]
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Known as a Snow Globe Shaker, Jeff Nischwitz’s on a mission to help people shift how they lead. An international speaker, transformation coach and author of four books, Jeff’s the Founder of The Nischwitz Group and Co-Founder of Cardivera. He's the co-host of Impact Leadership Podcast and well-known for his disruptive perspectives.
“you already have everything that you need just be bold and trust that it and you will be okay. That’s a simple thing but so many of us are worried about not being okay in some world because we are going to succeed, we are going to fail whatever it is. Trust that it, whatever you are trying to create, and you will be okay. So just be bold”…[Listen for More]
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Brent Kesler was a Chiropractor and Chiropractic coach for over 14 years. After implementing The Money Multiplier (TMM) Method, Brent paid off $984,711 in 3rd party debt in 39 months. In fact, Brent became so passionate about how powerful this concept was, he began sharing it with others. It was when his previous mentor told him that he had successfully referred over forty-one new clients into the system, that Brent took his advice and started the journey to becoming a teacher of the TMM Method. Brent’s main goal in making this move was simply to help more people understand how to manage and grow their wealth. For the last 7 plus years, Brent has been lecturing to thousands of people around the country on the dynamics of the TMM Method and helping individuals break the bonds of financial slavery they don’t even realize they are in. He teaches how to take back control of your financial life. Brent has a passionate belief that whether you make $10/hour or $10,000/hour you should know TMM Method and have this powerful information to keep control of your own money.
“find something that you are passionate about… Any career somebody gets in for any business that somebody builds it can’t just be about I am just going to do this because it seems like a good business to make money and make a living. You have to be passionate about it… It has to be something that’s inside of you that you eat, live and breathe in that when you wake up in the morning you are excited to do it, and you have a hard time going to sleep because you can’t wait until the next day to do it again. So, it’s not like a job it’s more like a hobby or an enjoyment”…[Listen for More]
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Casanova Brooks is an award-winning entrepreneur, author, high-energy keynote speaker, and real estate professional. Through his battles with adversity in many stages of his life including stage four lymphoma cancer, to losing his mother, job, and home in a matter of a couple of weeks, even with having very limited resources Casanova learned to develop a bulletproof mindset to thrive and succeed in life and business. From producing 46 deals and $8 million in his first year in real estate to now owning multiple businesses, he has been an action-taker in every sense of the word. Casanova now focuses on empowering others to focus on developing their mindset to become the best version of themselves to thrive in their own lives.
“understand that again life always has that third door… A lot of people don’t take the leap of faith because they can’t see what is it the end of the tunnel… So, all you have got to do is just keep taking one step at a time and what you will notice is that things will start to uncover and unfold for you in ways that you would have never imagined because all you in the beginning you did was keep taking action and you did it with the right integrity and the right substance behind your message that’s how the universe will conspire to give you anything that you want and then it will just be mind-blowing ”…[Listen for More]
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For over 20 years, Albert Ahdoot has been a successful entrepreneur focused on building IT businesses through meaningful relationships. At Colocation America, his flagship company, Albert drives scalability and efficiency with his thorough understanding of data center technology and efficiency.
“take risks, don’t let things scare you. People that take risks are to me the ones that are successful. You have to take risks, calculated risks of course. And make mistakes to climb up to get to your goal. You are just going to sit there and think what if I would have done this you are never going to get anywhere ”…[Listen for More]
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A Microsoft engineer alum, sought-after public speaker and author of the #1-selling Power BI book, Rob Collie and his team are relentlessly committed to “the new way forward,” making P3 a leading consulting firm in the industry, pioneering an agile, results-first methodology that bucks the traditional BI company model.
“’one of the first things you need to do in order to succeed at anything new is to get over the advice everyone gives you that it can’t be done’ I’m butchering it in terms of the letter of the quote but the spirit of the quote is exactly that… You have to believe in what you are doing. If you don’t believe in it probably didn’t even start. But if you are not a believer you properly don’t want to be in this business, you properly don’t want to be in the business of starting things. And you do have to even after you have sort of planted your foot and said okay, I am doing this then you have to whether all of the criticism that is going to be levelled at you because now you have put your hat in the ring, you have made your bet, you are now a target for criticism in a way that you are not when you are just considering doing something or talking about it… The criticisms don’t end. The doubts don’t end when you start. In fact, they really once you are in, once you start building this thing that’s when you are really going to be tested. Your faith is really going to be tested… You are going to have to be okay with looking foolish sometimes”…[Listen for More]
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Dane Reis is the creator & host of the podcast, “You Booked It” the #1 podcast where you learn how to create a successful entertainment career from the entertainment professionals who are doing it right now! For the past 16 years Dane has entertained audiences around the World.
“I would say it is for things. 1) get clear on what it is that you want. 2) be good at what you do which is a little bit more nuanced than simply being good. It means that includes yes being good at whatever the thing is that you do. But also, that includes having integrity, being where you say you are going to be, doing what you say you are going to do. Then you have to be 3) be nice to everybody because you never know how relationships are going develop over time. And really that so much of what create success and my experience is that relationships that you have with different people or organisations. And then say yes until saying yes becomes a problem. Then you can maybe say no every once in a while”…[Listen for More]
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Andrew Royer is a Canadian CPA, CGA and a certified Profit First Professional. Andrew is the CEO of Royer Accounting Ltd., a Profit First bookkeeping firm, that helps entrepreneurs have clarity around their numbers and to become more profitable.
“not getting caught up in trying to hire somebody that will bring in money. You I think are the most as an entrepreneur going to bring in the most amount of money. You started business because it is something that you are passionate about, it’s something that you know well. And I think that’s true for most entrepreneurs. I think the money would be much better spent trying to get rid of the things that are getting in your way of being able to really grow the business and provide excellent service”…[Listen for More]
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Aviv Shalgi is a serial entrepreneur, and is the CEO of an energy tech startup, Solar Simplified.
“there are anomalies in the world where nobody knows that they have a problem because they haven’t seen the solution yet… Go and ask questions. Don’t try to ask about the problem you are trying to solve. Maybe the problem is not there, maybe the problem is elsewhere. Go and talk to people who you think might be potential customers, ordinary people, business people, small corporations, large corporations et cetera et cetera. Try to ask questions about the field that you think about starting and keep doing that even after you’ve started this innovation of his business that you are working on”…[Listen for More]
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Mari Ryan is a workplace well-being expert, international speaker and award-winning author. She is the CEO and founder of AdvancingWellness. For the past 15 years, Ms. Ryan has been creating thriving workplaces, through her consulting work and speaking on worksite well-being. Mari is the author of award-winning book The Thriving Hive: How People-Centric Workplaces Ignite Engagement and Fuel Results.
“be thoughtful about what you do. Understand why you are making the decisions that you are making and really take the time to be prepared for the decisions you are making. And no that the work that you do has to be meaningful for your customers, you have to solve a customer problem. So, make sure that you are thoughtfully approaching how you are solving that problem for your customer in a way that going to be unique and that will differentiate you”…[Listen for More]
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Antoine Martel is a 25 year old real estate investor from Toronto, Canada. While still in college Antoine learnt about real estate investing and knew it was his calling. From his dorm room he completed his first BRRRR project out of state with his father's $40,000. Since then Antoine and his family have completed over 200 real estate projects and currently have a $14M real estate portfolio. They have also helped create $50,000/mo of cash flow for their clients
“match your resources with the best business or strategy for you and start small, test things out, create an MVP and do things very low budget and low-cost. And last but not least find something that you love that you enjoy doing or you think you’re actually helping your end customer and client and not where you need to go and sell them something you really need to go and help change their lives or change their outlook or change their view. ”…[Listen for More]
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Growing up, Eric Dunavant’s family faced an unexpected tragedy and lost the family business. This loss fueled Eric’s passion for empowering families to live a better story through intentionality. Dunavant’s leadership of Paradiem has guided numerous families to create Intentional Transformation by discovering their Greatness, Growth, Governance and Generosity.
“being an entrepreneur is a bumpy journey and even when it looks like things are down things are probably much higher than you realise they are. What I’ve experienced in my entrepreneurial journey is that most entrepreneurs go through waves of success. Meaning that they start out they have success and they go up and then there is a temporary setback before they enter the next wave of success. And its often times in that setback where you feel like things are not working and you are not going that well and begin to really doubt yourself or you really begin to have uncertainty. In that uncertainty and in that doubt, I would almost say I’ve talked to entrepreneurs who said I’m just going to stop, I’m just going to quit. And what they don’t realise is how far they’ve come. And then they make the next level up and they get some relief and then they go through that again. It cycles over and over and over again. But every single setback setting the journey for the next wave higher. And each time you reach another setback I have also found that most entrepreneurs are much more successful than they were the last setback. And so they don’t realise the setback what it is which is why the setback is your setup for your next opportunity”…[Listen for More]
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Christine Kane is the founder of Uplevel You™, a multimillion-dollar business coaching company based in Asheville, NC, which was a natural evolution from her 15-year career as a touring singer-songwriter with her own record label. Both businesses were built from scratch without a single investor. Learning as she went, Kane did it all step-by-step and now shares this wisdom with her clients, so they finally get it, apply it, and succeed on their own terms. Her company’s masterminds, trainings, and events draw entrepreneurs from around the world.
“at its core your business is the territory of your own personal growth or your soul’s growth if you want to put it that way… I would say to keep that in mind. What that means is that your business is always speaking to you. Your business is always calling you out of your stuck spots, your conditioning and waking you up if you let it and if you can trust that”…[Listen for More]
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Shawn Rhodes leveraged his life as a war correspondent to become an expert in how systems affect sales success. His work from the most dangerous places on the planet has been published in TIME, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal. He’s a nationally syndicated columnist and author of Bulletproof Selling.
“figure out what you would do for free and then ask how do you get paid for it”…[Listen for More]
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Steven Lefkoff is the founder of Small Claims Academy, a business established in 2020 to empower litigants to perform as well as they can in their small claims case. Small Claims Academy's first product, Gavel, is an online course to teach litigants the tips, tricks, and procedures of small claims courts.
“push the button… If you have a great idea in your mind or you have an exciting thing that you want to do then take it step-by-step. Write out the steps, say the first five. What do you have to do at the beginning? Register the business, come up with a name, ask a bunch of people what they think about it. Whatever it is right out your steps and just start tackling them one by one”…[Listen for More]
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Titus Nichols possess over a decade of experience as an attorney handling complex litigation and representing entities facing government investigations. As data breaches became more commonplace, Titus recognized the need to work with businesses to mitigate and prevent legal risk before it got to the courtroom. Titus is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US). He is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) as well as Vice Chair of the Privacy and Cybercrimes Commitee of the American Bar Association’s Science and Technoogy Section. Titus received his Bachelor of Arts from Morehouse College and his Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia School of Law, where he has served as an Adjunct Professor in various legal topics.
“When you get started you are going to fall. That is just a natural aspect of it. But if you are going to fall, fall forward. What I mean by that is you are going to make a mistake but move forward, keep on moving forward, keep on making forward progress. Because yeah you might fall but at least you are going to fall closer to your goal than if you stood in one spot. I hear from a lot of people who have great skills and they could be great entrepreneurs but they are so busy just… It’s paralysis through over analysis. They keep on thinking well I need to get this in place and that in place and what about this that and the third? Just start moving. Move forward and you will figure it out as you go along”…[Listen for More]
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Curt Mercadante is founder of Merc Enterprises and he is a branding expert, speaker and business strategist who helps businesses increase authority brand exposure to the right clients so they can make more money. For more than 25 years, Curt has counseled small business, entrepreneurs, as well as some of the largest corporations and associations in the country. He’s built three profitable businesses, including a 7-figure Public Relations and Advertising agency. Curt is also a Gallup-Certified Strengths Trainer, host of the Freedom Mindset Radio podcast, and author of the bestselling book, “Five Pillars of the Freedom Lifestyle.” Curt has spoken, trained, and coached around the world, and his wife, Julie, and four children reside in Charleston, SC.
“create, create, create, create, create… Some people sit there and they are paralysed and say I want to speak, I want to get more speaking gigs, I want to get more speaking gigs, what do I do, what do I do, what do I do? Speak. Go speak anywhere and everywhere that you can, videotape it and then speak some more… Start doing, start creating. And you get into that flow and you create… Do what you can. You sit in the corner sucking your thumb it’s on you. But if you decide to get up and start creating something new, creating something that people want, that way you become more in control of your destiny than just becoming a victim of society or external expectations or politics or pandemic or terrorist attack or whatever the hells going on in the world”…[Listen for More]
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Joel Primus is the founder Naked Underwear. He helped raise over $17 million, establishing distribution at Nordstrom and Bloomingdales. Naked completed a merger with Bendon Lingerie, exiting in 2018. Joel also launched one of the most successful Kickstarter apparel products of all time—reaching nearly $1 million in sales.
“you are not entitled to the result. What you are entitled to in your process as an entrepreneur is your attitude and your work, your work ethic, your effort. When you focus on your attitude are you going to bring that whole, that positivity, that presence to what you are doing and just always be the person that brings that glass half full energy and the work ethic that needs to come behind that. You can feel good about as good as you can I guess it’s fair to say about anything that happens with your business and twists and turns that it takes. You know you brought that work ethic, that effort, that attitude always. And that is what you are relentless with and it’s also freeing in the sense that this is what I control. I control my effort and I control my attitude and the rest will figure itself out ”…[Listen for More]
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Howard M Shore, founder and CEO of Activate Group Inc., is a bestselling author and serial entrepreneur specializing in liberating teams from the personal and professional barriers holding them back from advancement. After owning and selling several of his own companies, working with numerous top Fortune 500 companies, and training with performance-enhancing organizations like Scaling Up, 3HAG, and Gazelles, Howard has become a sought-after business mentor, executive coach, and keynote speaker. His clients vary from private, family-owned businesses with $5 million in gross annual revenue to publicly traded, international corporations with over $1 billion in yearly gross revenue. With a 30-year track record of success, he guarantees any organization that his methods and systems can help them become more profitable, stable, and scalable.
“don’t allow external circumstances or your experience to cause you to lose your ambition”…[Listen for More]
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Brian Rollo is a consultant, speaker, entrepreneur, and the founder of Brian Rollo Consulting Group, a coaching and training company focused on helping organizations and executives harness the power of influential leadership. Brian has used his practical frameworks and processes to help hundreds of managers become influential leaders.
“somewhere out there, there is that perfect match between something you do well and something that other people need. Find out what that is, get really good at it, start telling people about it”…[Listen for More]
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Jon S Rennie is the Co-Founder, President & CEO of Peak Demand Inc., a premier manufacturer of distribution components for electrical utilities. He is a former U.S. Navy Nuclear Submarine Officer who made seven deployments during the end of the Cold War. Prior to starting Peak Demand, he led eight manufacturing businesses for three global companies with more 600 employees and $250M in sales. He is the author of the best-selling leadership book, “I Have the Watch: Becoming a Leader Worth Following” and is the host of the Deep Leadership podcast. He lives in Wake Forest, NC with his wife, two sons, and two golden retrievers.
“plan for the long haul. It’s going to take twice as much cash you think you need, is going to take twice as much time and it’s going to be two times more difficult… Get out there so your product. Make sure you have a viable product idea and make sure you can sell something. Plan for the long haul. Make sure you have enough runway – plenty of runway – you are going to need twice as much as you really think. Be frugal, became forward your resources. Don’t go crazy with the cash that you just got through funding or however you raised your cash. Take your time, be wise with your money. By the way it’s going to take Grit, is going to take long-term passion and perseverance to get to your goals”…[Listen for More]
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Chris Yoko - Founder and CEO of Yoko Co: Chris focuses on helping people, and the organizations they belong to, pave the road to a more Utopian world. He empowers heroic organizations to build and champion themselves using their most powerful asset, their web presence. Chris is an expert in web design and accessibility, digital marketing, company culture, and social responsibility. His goal for himself and those he aids is to be driven by a purpose beyond profit.
“don’t shy away from hard work… It’s not about glory and social media and all of the things that you can get around it. And none of those things are going to fill the hole you have in yourself anyway. I know a lot of people who have got to the point where they have a lot of those things and then begin to wonder okay well why do I still feel the same way I did when I started on this journey. Do the work for the works sake and find a mission that feels fulfilling to you and lean into it. Don’t shy away from it”…[Listen for More]
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Having spoken in over 30 countries on six continents, Rock and Roll Roadie turned entrepreneur Richard Mulholland knows first-hand the impact that memorable presentations can make. That's why he works with executives and speakers around the world, helping them deliver unforgettable presentations that activate audiences and generate income.
“you should be a thought leader in your industry. And if you can’t be a thought leader in your industry dig deeper until you can find the industry within your industry where you can lead. This is way should live now, that’s where you should rule, is find a corner of the world as I mentioned earlier that you can own. I say it about Stockport’s law. Any area that lacks an expert, whoever puts up their hand first becomes it. You’ve got to go and find an area where there isn’t an expert where someone isn’t owning the opinion within your industry in this and then on that”…[Listen for More]
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Petia Kolibova is a women’s transformation coach who helps women who have been pushed down and been playing it small due to toxic relationships or unhealed childhood trauma to create a life that is true to them and their soul purpose. Her mission is to help women who are on the path to healing from past wounds move through their limiting beliefs and internal blocks so they can finally do what they want to do, what feels good to them, serve other women in a powerful way online. Petia pairs feminine flow with strategic planning to give entrepreneurs immense clarity + exact steps to transition from side-hustler to CEO. If she is not interviewing on her podcast Unapologetically Abundant, working out, or reading, you will find her in nature disconnecting from the world, connecting to herself.
“be yourself, really letting go of the shoulds and could’s in your life and really looking at what is really writing you up because I truly believe that the world really needs more people Who Are lit up and are creating businesses”…[Listen for More]
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Michelle Seiler Tucker is the Founder and CEO of Seiler Tucker Incorporated. As a 20-year veteran in mergers & acquisitions, Michelle and her team have sold over 1,000 businesses. She owns and operates several successful companies and holds the following designations and certifications: M&AMI, CSBA, CM&AP, CBB, Panelist for M&A Source, Keynote Speaker.
“plan your exit from day one of starting or buying a business because the biggest mistake that business owners make is that they don’t plan their exit. They don’t think about selling until a catastrophic event has occurred, internal or external and then they think about selling. Or they get burned out and they are like 65 years old and I am tired I don’t want to do this anymore”…[Listen for More]
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Founder of the Catalyst Group, and Creator of the Inside Out Success Method, Stacy Bahrenfuss started her real estate company Catalyst Group at the early age of 19. She sustained her company through the housing crisis of 2007-2010, and continued to scale her business beyond the 7-figure mark, to become one of the top performing real estate teams in the state of Idaho. Stacy’s experience is vast; she has been a single agent, has run a team, and has even operated as the Broker for Catalyst Group. Now, Stacy guides female change makers all over the globe, to discover inner freedom and fulfillment using the Inside Out Success Method in her premier consulting program.
“the bigger difficulties were when starting my business getting everything set up structure wise from the beginning. Simple organisational structures is what I mean. I didn’t have someone that was like go and set up this tax entity and all of that stuff that’s very important. So, it was just one of those things that I wish I would have known to set that up that way. Other than that, the difficulty with balance and keeping that in mind. Being so focused on the business I lost just that focus of spending time with relationships that mattered. So that balance is important in all things.”…[Listen for More]
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Equally analytical and creative, Emily Mishler is the Founder and Managing Director of the Cultivated Group. She specializes in business development, creative & brand strategy, strategic planning, and fundraising. Emily launched her first company at the age of 22 and has since raised and distributed over $20M of private investment for private clients, for-profit entities and NGO's. Born and raised in the rural Midwest of the United States, Emily Mishler is an intrepid optimist with a keen sense of adventure, eye for design, hand in fundraising, and heart for philanthropy. She received degrees from Purdue University (B.A. & B.S.) and the University of Notre Dame (M. B. A., specialising in Philanthropy (M.N.A.)). She is on a mission to ignite and empower individuals and organizations to: "be the change you wish to see in the world".
“To not ask for opinions of those who have not done things that you are attempting to do. The quickest way to get terrible feedback but also the quickest way to have someone crush your dreams and prematurely halt your forward movement is by asking those who have never attempted anything remotely close to what you are attempting to do especially if it is going to make the world better. When you open the door to those things you also open the door to other people’s fears and insecurities to drive which is not what you want. They might be in the passenger seat but you do not want them at the steering wheel ”…[Listen for More]
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Tony Guarnaccia has grown over 10,000 small businesses and a dozen Fortune 500 companies, including ADP, Ford, and AutoNation and became the Google Partner of the Year. Later, Tony returned to his entrepreneurship roots to bring the strategy, tactics and resources normally reserved for large enterprises to small businesses.
“I noticed there is just six factors that drive growth in business and so that’s why I created a framework called the results loop. In so it looks at the six factors that drive success regardless of the industry, the size of the company, whether they want scale or to grow and just hit the next level. And those six factors are number one looking at your markets that you are serving; number two looking at the products or services or offerings you are serving them; number three looking at the value- so many times businesses skip over their value and their value proposition; followed by growing the number of buyers to size those buyers and then driving loyalty which means getting them to buy again and again and again. And getting them to refer you to others.”…[Listen for More]
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Pamela Wagner heads Ajala Digital, a global boutique marketing agency focused on Google and Facebook advertising. Before founding the company in early 2016, she worked at Google and in several other industries. Ajala Digital is a Google Partner, and she has helped 2000+ advertisers grow their businesses through custom paid ads strategies.
“really practice self awareness and reflection. So if you are not happy with where you are right now then examine what is right now in your life that you could do better?... Your happiness has to come first, you have to prioritise that because if you are not happy yourself you cannot make your employees or customers or clients happy”…[Listen for More]
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Bart Rupert has founded nearly 30 companies, negotiated over $500M in contracts & business deals, and has sold companies worth over $100M. He has made a career buying & selling companies for a living having purchased companies across three different countries using none of his own money. Today, he's helping entrepreneurs become millionaires and showing ordinary people how to buy & sell companies for a living.
“get out of your own way, drop the fear. Whatever your excuses you’ve been telling yourself it’s just a narrative it’s not real. There is literally millions of people that have taken your exact situation and probably worse within excuse that’s far more justified than the one you are giving yourself and they’ve figured it out. So, if you continue to sit there, if you continue to do nothing, if you continue to be idly standing by waiting for someone else to do something for you, you are never going to achieve what you are meant to achieve”…[Listen for More]
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Cory Nemoto is the co-owner & founder of KÉCŌ CAPITAL. He began his real estate investing career in 2011 in Southern California in the Riverside County market while finishing up his bachelor’s degree at California Baptist University. After graduating, Cory moved back home to Hawaii and became involved in real estate investing on the island of O’ahu. Cory has been involved in multiple investment deals ranging from relocation, renovation, and new home development projects. He has been featured on multiple nationally renowned real estate investing podcasts as well as an influential guest speaker at local real estate meetings. On a daily basis Cory helps run the day-to-day operations of KÉCŌ CAPITAL. He specializes in deal sourcing & valuations, acquisitions, financing, investor relations, and project management.
“make sure that the venture that you are going into is something that you are passionate about, something you believe in because if you are not passionate about it and you are just doing it for the dollars or the potential quick cash you are not playing the long game I feel because you will never last. In any business that you going to you need the stamina and in order to have the stamina you need to have something driving you behind you that is more important than money, the cars, the travelling. So I feel you have to be passionate about it and if you are then I feel that entrepreneurs who chase their passion they are the most dangerous, nothing will stop them”…[Listen for More]
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Tim Ash is an acknowledged authority on evolutionary psychology and digital marketing. He is an international keynote speaker, and bestselling author of Unleash Your Primal Brain. Tim has been mentioned by Forbes as a Top-10 Online Marketing Expert, and by Entrepreneur Magazine as an Online Marketing Influencer To Watch. For nineteen years he was the co-founder and CEO of SiteTuners - a digital optimization agency. Tim helped to create over 1.2 billion dollars in value for companies like Google, Expedia, eHarmony, Facebook, American Express, Canon, Nestle, Symantec, Intuit, Humana, Siemens, and Cisco.
“if you want hard worn experience it’s start with what makes you happy, not your vision for the world, not your passion, although you hear that a lot. But understand yourself and align whatever you are doing with a really clear understanding of your personality. Because ultimately it’s pushing a rock uphill if you are doing something that you weren’t kind of at the character level optimised to do ”…[Listen for More]
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Jonathan DeYoe is the best-selling author of Mindful Money and the founder of a financial planning company of the same name. He started the firm in 2001 and his team focuses on comprehensive wealth management for clients and financial education for retirement plan sponsors and their community.
“I think all of my success, my personal success has come from one very basic thing and I would share that. Seventeen years ago, I made a decision to have a morning routine that included a glass of water, working out, meditation, reading and writing. And when you start your day physical activity, fresh clean water, contemplation and then analysing the stories of the day reading and then writing down how those effect you ought to write out your thoughts on those kinds of things. I think you set a foundation that you can’t but be successful. It may take a long time… I am a creature of habit so I think habits are really really powerful. And if you have the right habits you have best outcomes”…[Listen for More]
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Leader, speaker, content creator and advocate for children of parents with a brain tumor, Darcy Castro’s diverse interests and life experience give her programs a unique flavor appreciated by audiences across the spectrum. She is the creative force behind Cultivating Respect with Darcy Castro and the Empowerment Academy.
“you are worth it. We are never too old to start something new and give ourselves latitude two step out on a new path towards success… We are absolutely worth it”…[Listen for More]
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Chris Widener has been named one of the fifty top speakers in the world and is a member of the Motivational Speakers Hall of Fame. His 22 books have sold millions of copies in 14 languages. His latest book is Lasting Impact: Creating a Life and Business that Live Beyond You.
“You only live once… Take the shot and take it earlier rather than later. Life is too short ”…[Listen for More]
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After two decades in the watch industry, Sholom Chazanow realized a need for a new type of quality, precision watch; he set out to design handcrafted, unique, limited, Swiss timepieces. Together with his wife, Esti, he established LIV Swiss Watches as a bold new boutique, direct-to-consumer brand, built on real people-to-people connections.
“talk to the people that where our use your products. It’s very important to talk to them to understand who they are. So, from on a personal level not just about your product understand who they are, what makes them tick, what keeps them going, why they enjoy wearing your products? And the greatest thing you can ever get from somebody who wears your product or is using your services to tell you what you are doing wrong”…[Listen for More]
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Carrie Sechel is on a mission to help female breadwinners have fulfilling, authentic careers AND thriving lives and families.
“Remember why you started your business in the first place. And to also stay true to who you are and who you are authentically. Do not be afraid to change when you need to change. To step back when you need to step back, to build a new skill, to pivot your business. Flow with it and above all else make sure it really truly does continue to be a reflection of who you are and what you are meant to bring to the world”…[Listen for More]
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Founder and owner of Smooth Sailing Business Growth and Real Estate Investor’s Marketing, Lyndsay Phillips is the go to Content Marketing Expert who helps clients attract and convert customers faster! Lyndsay is featured on MSN, NBC, Fox and published in Home Service Max Magazine and has guested on a TON of podcasts including John Lee Dumas’s Entrepreneurs On Fire and Joe Fairless’ Best Podcast Ever. She’s a serial podcaster with shows like Smooth Sailing Podcast, Smooth Business Growth Podcast and now Co-Hosts the REI Marketing Show. Speaking at events such as Dream Business Academy, Podfest, and Service Business Edge she has shared the stage with Mike Michalowicz and Jay Abraham. Working with successful Real Estate Investors, she’s increased their podcast audience, extended their reach and built their authority status through content marketing.
“believe in your abilities and don’t think you are any less than the entrepreneurs that are already light years ahead of you and successful. Everyone starts somewhere. And just lay into your strengths and who you are”…[Listen for More]
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JJ Caffey is an entrepreneur specializing in the future of work. As Founder & CEO of Order In, a private membership club for the leaders of remote work, JJ is building a better workday by researching, studying and developing the future of the office and work trends.
“be very thoughtful about who you want to work with rather than just what you want to work on. I mentioned I started this as a solo founder. I honestly wouldn’t recommend that to anyone. Of course, there are exceptions but I think those exceptions are so rare I’m going to tell people just don’t be a solo founder. And if you are one of the rare exceptions you will figure out who you are. But really look for the people who are going to share your passion and your vision. Make sure that you are not doing it alone. Similarly, really be thoughtful about who you want to work with in terms of partnering, in terms of investors because the people who have any kind of early access to your business are going to have such a huge impact on your success or failure and on your experience along the way”…[Listen for More]
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Mike Simmons has shared the stage with Gary Vaynerchuk, Ryan Serhant, Jocko Willink, Russell Brunsson, Walter Bond, Andy Frisella, and Tom Ferry among others. As the owner of a successful real estate investing company, and also partner in one of the country's largest real estate mentorship/mastermind companies, Mike specializes in helping entrepreneurs create systems, processes and automations that allow them to work on their business and not be a slave to it. Mike has personally worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs to help them optimize and grow their business. Mike is also the producer and host of his own online show and has conducted over 350 interviews with entrepreneurs who run 6, 7, and 8 figure businesses. Mike is also a husband and father of 2 girls and 1 boy. Residing in Michigan, Mike is always looking for reason to escape the cold weather and get to a beach!
“the thing that I think stops most people from getting ahead or succeeding at anything… It’s the hesitancy, it’s the fear that something is going to go wrong and what are people going to think… Don’t overthink it, don’t try to over educate yourself, don’t spend too much time in the learning phase and get more invested in the action and the execution of doing it… I think if people took more ownership of everything that goes on in their life for the better or for the worse whatever it is. If they took ownership and didn’t try to blame the government, their boss, the wife, their husband, their parents and just took ownership and accepted the blame and the credit for everything that goes right and wrong in their life I think we would be better off”…[Listen for More]
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Liz Goddard inherited her first business at the age of 19 and losing it in the 2008 recession and Nicole worked along side her family business from the age of 10 until the successful sell and transition of their company. They then worked in corporate America along side one another until they started their remote fractional staffing company and took it to $1M with two years. Their mission is to give the small business owner a nimble & profitable business in ANY economy.
“just do it… The reality is there are a million reasons not to do things if you look for them. So trust your gut and take the leap of faith. Which is something coming from me by the way. Fact if I can say that then you should definitely do it because again, I don’t like risk”…[Listen for More]
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Melina Nacos is a coach. Not the kind who helps people find their unique life purpose or be the best possible version of themselves. No, her shtick is helping leaders knock it out of the ballpark. She prepares leaders to win and own the toughest of crowds at significant public speaking events - keynotes, internal & external presentations, shareholder meetings, commencement speeches, award shows and more. If you’re a leader, you may already know how vital it is to have a discreet wingman (or woman, in this case) who understands your strengths and weaknesses, who prepares you - top to bottom and inside-out - for major milestones. To own a room, to truly kill an audience, is a tough solo act, but Melina will be there to support you the whole way.
“Get out of your own way. Because if your idea is good and your work ethic is strong and you are willing to keep learning sky is the limit”…[Listen for More]
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Michael Canic is president and Chief Flag-bearer of Making Strategy Happen, a consulting firm that helps committed leaders turn ambition into strategy, and strategy into reality. He is the author of Ruthless Consistency: How Committed Leaders Execute Strategy, Implement Change, and Build Organizations That Win.
“as entrepreneurs all of us face challenges. There are going to be struggles there are going to be obstacles, there is difficulties, there is competition. We are faced with all of these things… You have to learn to suffer, learn to be able to deal with that… At the end of the day, it is not you versus those challenges, it is not you versus the competition, it is not you versus the obstacles. At the end of the day, it is you versus you. It’s what you decide to do, it’s the commitment you have, it’s your resolve, it’s your focus, it’s your discipline. It’s you versus you that is where the battle is one. So, what’s going to define success is not all those external things. It’s you. So, take heart, focus, develop yourself because in the end it is you versus you”…[Listen for More]
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Michael Greenberg is the founder of Gentleman Of Technology LLC, a B2B venture creation and growth consulting firm specializing in technology-enabled operations. GOT grows B2B SaaS and professional service businesses, as well as providing personal advisory services for serial entrepreneurs. He launched his first independent venture, Call For Content, in January of 2017. Call For Content utilizes automation technology within podcast production to produce multimedia campaigns for B2B content marketing campaigns at a fraction of the cost compared to the traditional creative process. This empowers business leaders to build authority, trust and a following which proves key to any marketing strategy in today’s competitive content climate.
“jump. I learned to swim because I got thrown in the pool with my backpack on. And you have got to swim you are going to drown in that scenario. The same thing applies for entrepreneurship but you don’t need to leave your job. Be a lazy entrepreneur, hire somebody to do most of the work on your new business. And just self-fund it out of the little budget every year until it’s where you want it to be in then take it over and grow it”…[Listen for More]
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Jeroen Corthout is Co-Founder and CEO of Salesflare, an intelligent CRM built for SMBs selling B2B, mostly popular with agencies and fast growing startup companies. It's a CRM that fills out itself and it's top rated on platforms like G2 for its ease of use and automation features.
“sometimes take it a bit slower. And I don’t mean go really slow or something. I mean take the right amount of time to do things. Don’t over run yourself… Don’t run faster than you can. Don’t hire someone before you know how the job is done. Don’t raise money before you know how you are going to use it. There is a bunch of things like that where you should slow things down sometimes for yourself. It’s just going to make your life so much better; you will make less mistakes. And in the end, you will actually move faster… If you don’t take your time to properly hire the right people then it is not going to be time saved it’s going to be a huge amount of time lost”…[Listen for More]
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Ross Kimbarovsky founded and is CEO at crowdspring, where 220,000+ experienced freelancers help startups, small businesses, and agencies with high-quality custom logo design, web design, graphic design, product design, and company naming services. There’s a rumor that Ross quit his law practice to wear shorts daily. The rumor is true.
“not to seek a single mentor before you get moving. I think a lot of people make the mistake of reading and researching and searching for that one person that they think they need to latch onto to help them get started. And of course, the most important thing that nearly all successful entrepreneurs will say if you asked them after a few years in business is what actually started their learning at a much more significant pace was starting… I don’t think anyone person knows all the answers, I don’t think anyone person can help us understand what we need to do. I think many people can… My biggest advice is don’t assume that somebody has been successful is the person who could teach you how to be successful. Take a small lesson from every single person that you meet along the way. Because success is at the end of the day a combination of luck which you can’t control but obviously you can put yourself in a position to take advantage of. And a combination of making incremental decisions that ultimately put you in a position to succeed those decisions are much better informed when you can learn from each of the people you interact with…[Listen for More]
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Michael Counts is artist, director, designer, tech pioneer and serial entrepreneur who has been called a "mad genius" by the New York Times. On the entertainment side of his career he was worked with brands like Disney, Blue Man Group, Michael Kors, and the Walking Dead among many others. He created and launched The Ride New York and a wide range other other entertainment concepts before shifting his focus to coaching and supporting other top brands, businesses and entrepreneurs with his app based coaching platform - a)plan coaching - which he founded with his longtime coach Sara Ellis Conant.
“if you are going to pursue something as an entrepreneur, you are going to start a business it needs to be something that you really love because if it’s not something that you love and you are looking to kind of do it and then get away from it there will always be others who love it more and they will be putting in the extra time and they will be doing it just that much better. Not that it’s a zero-sum game or race to the finish but I think if they really want to excel you need to love what you do because that’s when you will put in the extra time and be really passionate about every detail”…[Listen for More]
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Alaina Schwartz is an international business paradigm shifter and speaker, highly effective at mentoring and coaching high-achieving, heart-centered 6-7+ Figure entrepreneurs and leaders to scale their impact and create financial and lifestyle/time freedom. She knows that what got people to where they are now isn’t going to get them where they want to go. She’s solves business problems with a combination of neuroscience, business strategy, peak performance, quantum physics, psychology, communication and metaphysics.
“hire a mentor that can really help you be aligned with what you are wanting to create in the world and has had the experience to help you get in level. Don’t try to figure it out on your own… It’s not to say that you can’t but it will take you so much longer and be so much harder than working with somebody who can really help you level up… Find somebody who feels like they are the right fit for you who have been there before, who can understand how to help you move to the next level and then work with them for as long as necessary until you get there”…[Listen for More]
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Master Mingtong Gu is the man who brought a profound 5,000 year old form of Chinese healing to the West in the form of Wisdom Healing Qigong, and is bringing it forward as an vital practice in the time of COVID-19. In 1997, Master Mingtong returned to China for Qigong training under Grandmaster Dr. Pang Ming, a Qigong grandmaster trained in Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, and the founder of the world’s largest Qigong hospital. During his training, Master Mingtong observed thousands of cases of chronic and “incurable” diseases being healed at this “medicine-less” Qigong hospital, which treated 200,000+ patients with more than 185 different illnesses, with a 95% effective improvement rate. But today, he is here to tell us how Wisdom Healing Qigong can help you resist the COVID-19 virus, decrease your stress, feel more connected in a time of isolation, and even heal faster if you’ve been stricken by the virus.
“be yourself, be true to yourself, you will never fail”…[Listen for More]
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Dr. Stephen Long is the founder & president of Motere Consulting, a performance enhancement firm providing management assessment and management development services specializing in human performance, leadership effectiveness, talent optimization and strategic execution. Dr. Long has unlocked the potential of exceptional leaders, champion athletes, fighter pilots, military special operations personnel, elite producers and corporate executives through his statistically based predictive model of Human Performance & Leadership. His model has been successfully applied to thousands of people and dozens of organizations in business, military, academics, athletics and the arts. His clients average 115% improvement in financial performance on average with a zero failure rate. Dr. Long began his career as a college football coach at the University of Virginia and the University of Delaware. He earned his PhD from the University of Kansas where he was honored as the Most Outstanding Doctoral Student while serving as the Director of the KU Peak Performance Clinic. Dr. Long then served as the Head of Performance Psychology in the Human Performance Lab at the US Air Force Academy studying strategic execution, high performance, performance plateaus and choking under pressure though field research. A University of Utah independent study identified Dr. Long as one of North America’s top applied performance psychologists. Author of several books including GOLD! Mastering the Psychology of Execution, The Incumbent: Stories of Leadership Transformation/Vol.1 and Long on Leadership: How Human Nature Determines Character, Change, Creativity Culture and Crisis Management. And What You Can Do About It. His books may be found at moterepublishing.com Dr. Long competes as a master’s swimmer in his free time and is an accomplished marathoner. He played one season in a 50+ baseball league where he hit his first dinger since Little League.
“learn how you work best. What are your tendencies? But it’s hard work for entrepreneurs because they are so action oriented most of the time. Because learning how you work best is a fairly introspective process so that’s a challenge for most entrepreneurs. But I can guarantee it will pay off for them”…[Listen for More]
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Tod Barrett, CEO of OneBlade, Inc., has created a tool to allow men to enjoy a ‘barbershop’ quality shave at home. An expert in Product Development, Marketing, Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management, he was former CEO of CD3 Holdings and its subsidiary, Ronco.
“I think question I asked friends talk to me about business opportunities or becoming an entrepreneur leaving a long-time career to do something new. My question to them is: Are you willing to be unreasonable? And the reason I asked that question is because I feel like entrepreneurial undertakings really require, not in a negative sense that I think most people jump to when they hear the word unreasonable, but really if you step back and you are honest about it everything about starting something new is unreasonable. The amount of time it takes, the money takes, the risk that you are going to ultimately take in that process. So that’s really, really critical… The other one is… Get outside mentors, get outside coaches that are willing to be honest with you. Not your spouse or your best friend you need somebody who is willing to tell you the truth when you are talking about something that is going on in your business ”…[Listen for More]
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Meredith Viguers was born and raised in St Petersburg, FL and relocated to Central Texas when her husband Jonathan received orders from the Army to Fort Hood. After years in the Insurance, Banking and Real Estate world, she was ready to take a huge risk, and start her own business. She is the Owner of the Award Winning Central Texas catering company Let Us Do The Cooking and a Certified John Maxwell Speaker, Trainer and Coach. Meredith’s years of experience in the Corporate and Customer Service world have led her to become passionate about empowering others to discover, believe in and act on their full potential. That passion had led to her most recent endeavor with the start of Mpowered You. Here, she equips Entrepreneurs to smash through the ceiling of their limiting beliefs, and develop the right team to put systems and processes in place that allow them to grow more profitably with less of their own time.
“if you are not where you want to be and if you are truly an entrepreneur, I don’t know that you are ever where you want to be. But if you are not where you want to be, get someone to help you along the way. Get a coach, get a consultant who specialises in the area that you need help. And if that is with growth or it is with staffing, it’s with technical aspects of it, whatever area of your business is not where it needs to be, get help in that area. And you are not alone other people are dealing with the same challenges and there is someone who can help you through those challenges I can promise”…[Listen for More]
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Michael Nemeroff is the CEO and co-founder of RushOrderTees, a technology-driven eCommerce custom apparel company. Founded in 2002 when Michael was only 17 with his brother and sister, RushOrderTees specializes in industry-leading turnaround times for everyone from teams to small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. Over the past 18 years, the company has focused on the customer experience by streamlining the entire process with its innovative design studio, incredible service, and the quickest deliveries in the industry.
“I wouldn’t overthink anything when you are getting started except the one thing, I would think a lot about is one or two things but mostly selling the product. So, either marketing or how my going to market or how I going to sell this product. Because that is really where you can be the business… Without just getting started on the sales side you could spend months just preparing the logo and the design of the website and just never doing anything. So, sales and marketing should drive your business not your logo design”…[Listen for More]
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Nicole Mixdorf is the Chief Wellness Officer of Balance by Nature and was recently awarded as a Top 100 Healthcare Leader in the World 2020 by the International Forum on Advancements in Healthcare. She was also awarded Most Influential Woman in Corporate Wellness Services USA 2020 by Acquisition INTL Magazine.
“just get out of your own way. To recognise that if there is something that you want to do what is that? It’s maybe to ask yourself the question what would make me happy? What would make me feel fulfilled? If I could have anything at all especially in regards to my business what is it that I really want? So, a big piece is about getting that clarity so that you can have a direction to really point yourself in. Because when you are very clear about what you want now all of a sudden you can start creating a path and as opportunities start to come your way you will know immediately if it is aligned with that vision or if it’s not”…[Listen for More]
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Rebecca Kirstein Resch is the co-founder of 7 businesses, and 2 non-profits. She’s raised millions in sponsorship dollars, managed a portfolio of real estate investments and negotiated collaborations across sectors and across borders. She’s most proud of her work as the founder of Inqli - an organization dedicated to supporting youth to become who they believe they can be.
“stand for something. Really understand what it is the change that you want to make and what you wish existed and really put that out there. Stand for something because you will draw in the others, you will find people that can help you and support you and believe what you believe. So, I think getting really clear on what you stand for and how that manifests in your life and in your business is really the best advice I’ve got”…[Listen for More]
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Vern Howard jr is the CEO and founder of Hallo, a diversity recruiting platform that helps connect college students across the country with leading companies like Apple and Google.
“go with your gut… Especially in the early days go with your gut and make a lot of decisions to move quickly. Just because I think we all can raise the money and get the big names on the cap table and you kind of get lost in the sauce of listening to too many people and to many cooks in the kitchen. So, go with your gut ”…[Listen for More]
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Like many people Brian Johnson has had his ups, downs and struggles! Blessedly, he has a couple fancy titles and 34 years of education, experience and earned wisdom that he uses to help people make better choices to balance their life and get back up to thriving! We are human, and none of us are perfect all the time. This is Brian’s approach, it’s simple. People need to be armed with the right knowledge and accountability that helps you gain the right focus. It’s not about ‘Transformation’, while this is nice it can be really daunting. Brian prefers ‘Simple 1 Degree Shifts’ that anyone, or any business can use immediately to shift focus. He provides the tools, daily accountability and support required to help people transition into behaviors that will get them where they desire to be.
“start where you are at. Don’t judge yourself or compare yourself to other people. Instead just compare yourself to who you were yesterday. Be compassionate with yourself, be gentle with yourself. As high performers I think one of the biggest things is probably one of the biggest challenges is being loving with our self. Because as high performers a lot of times we can hold ourselves to higher standards and sometimes those standards are automatically set for failure. So, if your standards are set so you constantly fail you need to adjust them and just find someone to model. Find someone who has values that you admire, find someone that you look up to, see what they are doing, if it resonates with you do it and if it doesn’t don’t. Follow your gut. If it’s not a heavens yes it’s a no”…[Listen for More]
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Karen R Jenkins is the president and CEO of KRJ Consulting, a full-service consulting firm providing companies and their employees with the skills and resources to become more committed to their performance, empowered to effect change and be prepared for the journey ahead. With over 30 years of experience, Karen is a recognized speaker, author and leadership consultant, equipping executives with the necessary tools to create results-driven organizational change.
“my best advice is having the right mindset and not letting fear getting your way. We are all in that situation where we don’t know what we don’t know. But go to your local resources and find out what they offer. There is so many diamonds out there, there are so many things out there that are available to entrepreneurs in almost every community. Your local municipalities, sometimes your government all of them have some form of support for small business. Seek them out, find out what they are providing. And when you are doing or setting up your business always know it’s not about who you know it’s about who knows you. So, you want to put yourself and your business in a position where whatever solution you are providing when you open up your doors a lot of people say I have a gift and I put it out there and I’m going to offer it. Make sure there is a market for it, make sure you identify what solution are you actually solving so that when you speak to your potential client base you are talking to them from the solution perspective not from your perspective ”…[Listen for More]
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Simone Sauter is a PR + Publicity Coach and bestselling author. She helps coaches to get more clients by being featured in the media so that they can rise above the noise online, become a go-to expert, skyrocket their income and make a bigger impact.
“just be yourself, don’t look at your competitors. If you look, look for inspiration, don’t copy someone. Don’t compare yourself basically. You can look at what other people do but if that does not feel aligned with what you do find your own groove, find your own way of doing business. And also, be brave enough to sell something that no one else is selling yet. Because obviously you have to do your marketing but don’t be one of the others be yourself and if you are yourself you are unique, your brand is unique because no one is you”…[Listen for More]
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Jacob Glenn is a dynamic technical leader with a career defined by more than 20 years of operational excellence and technical leadership. As the Founder and Managing Director of M Genio Inc. Jacob has responsibility for overall execution of company strategy including organizational structure, business model development, team leadership, and technology delivery. M Genio is a boutique software development firm delivering high quality solutions for clients ranging from Startups to Fortune 500 and everything in between.
“I will give three things. One is focus. Many entrepreneurs suffer from shiny object syndrome. I have found most success in focusing on the core business and the adjacent possibilities versus every shiny thing that comes along. Two: create the culture you want and hire to it. Don’t sacrifice on people or principles just to solve a business challenge. It is way harder to correct course then it is to set it and stay on it. And three, specifically for the entrepreneur, strive to find balance… Your business will absolutely consume you if you let it. You have to find a way to find balance and if you do you will be more successful and productive versus just piling every ounce of you into the business”…[Listen for More]
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Jimmy Hays Nelson, aka Coach Jimmy, has been a high-performance business coach for over a decade. Jimmy's unique skill is helping his clients to seamlessly connect their personal stories to their product or service, creating a strong "know, like, and trust factor." Using his 20+ years of experience as a stage and film performer, he crafted his own personal story to create a 7-figure business and now dedicates his life to helping professionals craft their own stories to attract and impact the lives of their ideal audiences. Coach Jimmy truly believes everyone has a 7-figure story if it’s WellCrafted! “Tell A Story, Change the World”
“Keep showing up. You are worth fighting for. Whatever that dream life is the reason you started this; you’ve got to remind yourself of that every day. And you are going to have people… Sometimes it’s the people closest to you are going to be the naysayers. The people closest to you are going to be not your encouragers not because they don’t believe in you because they think down deep, they are trying to protect you from getting hurt or having failure and they just don’t understand… Every day, you are worth fighting for, that dream, that thing in your gut. And go find people to surround yourself with that will be your champions”…[Listen for More]
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Dr. Kimberly Hambrick is a leadership development and growth coach and trainer. She DESIGNS empowered leaders to achieve the significance they desire. Knowns as the BS Buster—she works to bust through their BS—belief systems—or bullshit swirl of negative thought and excuses. She owns Kimberly Hambrick Consulting.
“if you have this burning inside of you that you know you are supposed to be doing something and it’s not going away you need to sit and lean into that for a while and put some words into what it is you are feeling and what you want to do. Because if you are feeling it internally it’s meant to come out. And give yourself the gift of doing what your heart’s desiring”…[Listen for More]
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Chris Thomas grew up in the mountains of Georgia and started this career in Atlanta working for Fortune 100 companies. Chris spent 20 years helping big businesses change the way they think about marketing their products and services. Along the way, he saw too many businesses who were stuck trying to make outdated marketing strategies work. He wanted to provide that down home feel with a small but mighty team that offers a full service marketing solution in order to help businesses maximize their impact. Chris can help your listeners understand how to be a designer, leader and entrepreneur in the marketing industry. With his unique background and passion for telling stories, Chris can help your audience understand how he was able to build his 7 figure marketing business.
“there is not many people that can build something from nothing and you did it’ and the way he said it was like I am really proud of you…’ Just keep going’… I think people need to be reminded of hey just keep going because if we stop now and we just hang it all up I think that’s the easy thing to do… Just keep going because your greatest potential is on the other side of I quit. Don’t throw the things that you’ve worked hard and you know you’re doing the right thing. Just keep going”…[Listen for More]
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Amanda Ross is the owner of SparkLab - a creative agency with a focus on product development, planning and branding. She works with female entrepreneurs and small biz owners to strategically design their product and online brand to connect with their audience and grow their piggy bank.
“have a big goal. I think having big goals forces you to get really really clear on what you do, how you do it and who you do it for. It targets your energy and messaging… And big scary goals are good … So I think having big goals that really scare you is really good”…[Listen for More]
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Sarah Braud is a writer, brand & marketing consultant, and keynote speaker who loves talking about how entrepreneurs and leaders can use storytelling devices to connect with audiences, spark interaction, and ignite their businesses. Her writing has been published in a variety of online publications. She is a regular contributor to Reality Bites, a digest for leaders published by Leadership Reality. Sarah also coaches creative entrepreneurs through her mentorship program The Sapling Society.
“Wake up every morning and just do that day. Once you have your strategy then just go for it”…[Listen for More]
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Angela Cusack is referred to as an organization’s secret weapon. She is understated, patient, and moves with ease as she partners with executive leaders in shaping cultures that produce deeper connections, higher engagement, overall well-being and prosperity. Organizational and C-suite success is ignited when she illuminates the “space between”.
“you don’t need to do it alone. Just ask. So many of us start off like we have to do it by ourselves. It’s a very independence, we’ve got something to prove, something to do, and idea that we don’t want to share. The reality is being a really strong entrepreneur means you have a lot of strong people around you in whatever support that they can offer. So do the work, investing yourself before you start asking other people to invest in you. Which means you are willing to ask for the support that you need at any point along the journey. So just know you don’t have to do it alone”…[Listen for More]
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Mike Koenigs, founder of The Superpower Accelerator, is known for being a media master who helps his international clients get attention, create premium brands and elevated status in days. Serial Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, 13-Time Bestselling Author, co-host of the "Capability Amplifier" podcast and “The Big Leap” with Gay Hendricks.
“you got to be a triple threat. Here is what that means. First of all, you have got to be able to sell on the phone. You have got to learn how to sell and how to overcome objections and not take anything personally… The next one is salesmanship in print. Copywriting, copywriting, copywriting. That means what you do is you go to the Gary Halbert letter, you get Dan Kennedy’s sales letter, there’s another couple of great sales letters like the collier letter collection. You get those books; you get a yellow pad and a pen and you write and rewrite those sales letters by hand 25 times. And you are going to learn a voice and you are going to be able to adapt your voice and you are going to know why you are going to think about it and meditate on it. And yeah it is going to suck and it is hard work that’s what determines your discipline. The third, video. Learn how to speak on video. So, I would say speaking, learn how to speak. When you have got to get used to getting over however you look and however you sound and whatever other kind of BS little bitch excuses you for not blah blah blah. Whatever your reason why is. And get over yourself and your ego and say if you want to attract amazing things in your life you have got to learn how to present and perform and educate and entertain. And all of these three role into the big picture which is what makes you amazing as being a great storyteller. And that’s been able to project your perfect audience into a movie starring them with you and your product and service as a guide”…[Listen for More]
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Gina Yarrish is a heart-centered serial-entrepreneur and philanthropist. From an orphan to deca-millionaire, Gina is changing lives at scale through her focus forward technique. She’s not your everyday “business coach”. Her approach uses her life experience and an innovative methodology known as Equine Assisted Learning to change lives.
“you don’t have to do it alone; you shouldn’t do it alone. And that I would highly encourage you to connect with people that you can share your inner thoughts with and feel trusted and supported and then get that encouragement and motivation that you need”…[Listen for More]
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For 35 years, Leslie Levy August held progressively more senior roles in insurance punctuated with co-founding an entertainment start-up in NYC and an international trade company in the UK. She is an affiliate of the Workplace Bullying Institute and her new venture addresses the cost of toxic workplaces due to bullying.
“before committing to an entrepreneurial path be strategic and creative about what you sell. Can you do what you want to do but put a twist on it so it’s different to what else is on the marketplace. Can you apply technology to offer a better solution? Think about what you can design that’s your secret sauce… To be able to clearly answer the questions. What is the problem you solve? And who do you serve? Who is your human? And if you align all of your marketing to those two questions you will just shortcut a lot of fluff that that you really don’t need. Customers don’t care anything about us they care about themselves. And we really need to think about who is that customer we serve and what problem are we solving for them? And align all of our marketing with that”…[Listen for More]
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Michelle Prince is a best-selling author, sought-after motivational speaker, self-publishing expert, life coach and CEO/Founder of Performance Publishing Group, a “partner” publishing company dedicated to making a difference... one story at a time. She is known as America’s Productivity Coach, is a certified Human Behavior Consultant and dedicates herself to helping leaders impact the world, using the strengths and talents already within them, to create an extraordinary life and exponentially grow their business. She’s helped thousands become published authors through her consulting, courses, seminars, and publishing services, and founded the “Book Bound Workshop”. She has also published many successful books, including her best-selling Winning In Life Now. She has co-hosted The Ziglar Show podcast, with 40 million downloads and is currently the host of her own podcast, The Power of Authority. She has been a featured speaker for numerous professional associations, conferences and events to inspire, transform and support leaders. Michelle helps people ignite their passion, identify their purpose, achieve balance, overcome procrastination, unlock potential, be more productive, succeed in personal & professional goals and lead an abundant life.
“don’t let fear or anxiety or doubt hold you back. Life is short and we all have something. We all have a talent or a gift that we can cultivate and make better and then provide other people. But don’t wait. In life we don’t know where it’s going to go”…[Listen for More]
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Kirk Mote is the founder of Rescue Site which specializes in developing AED programs for homes, businesses, and community groups across the nation. Kirk uses the only AED with Real CPR Help® and the world’s #1 AED program management solution. Kirk’s mission is Target Zero .
“get big because 64 percent of all businesses in the US breakeven or lose money… And another statistic is 68 percent of them have no employees. These numbers are almost identical. So, you need to start building your team. You need to get big”…[Listen for More]
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Financial Educator, Amazon #1 Bestselling author and Virtual CFO, Amanda Fisher has gained the nickname of The Cash Flow Queen. She teaches business owners to take control of their numbers to grow their business. She does this by focusing on the correct financial elements to increase cash flow and profitability.
“find a mentor, find a business buddy or maybe even a group of business owners who you can meet regularly and get some support and help when you’ve got difficult questions. Just someone to talk to. Whether it’s about your numbers are not doesn’t matter. But just to have someone that you kind of bounce questions off”…[Listen for More]
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Justin Breen is the Founder/CEO of the global PR firm BrEpic Communications LLC and author of the No. 1 International Best Selling Book, Epic Business. He is a connector of geniuses throughout the planet and is an active member of Entrepreneurs' Organization, Strategic Coach and Secret Knock.
“if you work with people who view partnerships as investments not costs your whole life will change in every possible great way”…[Listen for More]
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Ivan Anz is an Inc. 500 international serial entrepreneur doing business in more than 10 countries. He is founder of the holding company Organization i, Inc., and creator of the Philanthroinvestor Phenomenon. Ivan loves creating businesses and projects that generate high-impact improvement in society. His entrpereneal spirit emerged at the age of seven, when he leased his Go-Kart to his friends and sold candies in the neighborhood. He continued his quest to gain experience in many different industries which all enhanced his business training and capabilities.
“don’t confuse the role of the entrepreneur to the role of a manager. To actually get from day number one in your company ideally on day number one your CEO on board with you. Don’t go just alone, don’t be a solopreneur hire your most important first employee from day number one and that is your CEO. And go with him, grow with him, protect him, give him resources, help him and work as a team together with him to take the company and the team to the next level always”…[Listen for More]
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Modelpreneur, Daisi Jo Pollard Sepúlveda is a model, beauty queen, businesswoman, author, influencer and actress. She founded Daisi Media Corp, a talent- first media company that promotes creative autonomy which includes publishing, licensing, and advertising. DMC's properties include Brazen Influencers, Brazen Studios L.A., Daisi Jo Reviews, and My Product Model.
“entrepreneurship is messy, it is competitive… It is not a perfectly curated Instagram feed or a YouTube channel. You can make a business out of using YouTube and using Instagram but that is not a business within itself that is just one spoke on a wheel. The wheel itself is the business and you have to decide what that is. And if you are going to be an entrepreneur and if you are going to be successful you have to do that wheel all of the way… It is a ground and pound lifestyle for the most part until you can get to a place where it’s not. But there is always going to be the next level”…[Listen for More]
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Rochel Marie Lawson is a Registered Nurse, Ayurvedic Health Practitioner, HolisticHealth and Wellness Consultant, International Best Selling Author, Speaker and Radio Show Hostess. She is the President of Blissful Living 4 U, which was founded to improve wellness, wisdom and wealth by utilizing ancient holistic principles that only lead to success. Rochel Marie is also the owner of the Blissful Living Network, which aims to provide a platform for new and aspiring podcast show hosts. Rochele has spent over 25 years assisting people to achieve optimal health and wellbeing, as well as to have a success mindset that allows them to build their wealth as they live the life of their dreams with more energy, vitality, clarity, alertness, focus, determination, happiness, joy and peace
“never give up. If it is something that you are passionate about, if you feel like it’s your purpose and your mission to do it never give up. Never ever give up on fulfilling what you are passionate about. Even when things get hard, even when things get challenging never ever give up just keep pushing and inching forward and eventually whatever that challenge is your breakthrough that challenge. And on the other side of that challenge is a nugget of gold. There is a New World awaiting you. But in order to get to that New World you cannot let any challenges or anything have you stop in your tracks. If it’s something you really, really meant to do this you will put through that challenge and you will have a phenomenal experience on the other side and you will be thinking why did I ever think I should give up on this. So never, never, ever, give up”…[Listen for More]
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Krister Ungerböck is a leadership communication expert, keynote speaker, and former CEO of a global tech company. His work has appeared in NPR, Forbes, Inc., HR.com, Chief Executive, Recruiter.com and Entrepreneur. Prior to exiting corporate life at age 42, Krister was CEO of one of the largest family-owned software companies in the world. While leading the company to over 3,000% growth, his team won five consecutive Top Workplace Awards, achieved remarkable employee engagement levels of 99.3%, and became a dominant player in its market niche — event management software.
“keep your identity and your business separate… The more we wrap up our identity into our financial success as a business or the success of our business that is from personal experience a very, very dangerous thing”…[Listen for More]
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Mike Smerklo is an experienced entrepreneur, investor and business leader driven by the desire to turn ideas into reality. Having bought and scaled a small business into a publicly traded company worth nearly a billion dollars in value, he has a deep understanding of the hard work, dedication and grit that truly powers successful entrepreneurship. Today, as the co-founder and managing director of Next Coast Ventures, Smerklo is a champion for a new generation of entrepreneurs building disruptive companies in big markets. His new book, Mr. Monkey and Me (Scribe Media, Oct. 6 2020), is a “real talk” guide for entrepreneurs who want to cut through the noise to cultivate a mindset that supports greatness.
“first and foremost, understand that it is going to be hard and you are going to be met with a rollercoaster of experiences… The world desperately needs you now more than ever. I think we are in a fascinating place in the world where we need innovation, we need entrepreneurs to come up with ideas to the toughest problems that are facing the world. And we need as broad and diverse a set of entrepreneurs as possible… If you have something you are passionate about and you are thinking about it stress test it with some folks that you trust but please take the risk. Know what you are getting into but we as a world and as a planet I think need entrepreneurship now more than ever”…[Listen for More]
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Mike Goldman is an award-winning leadership team coach and the #1 Amazon bestselling author of Breakthrough Leadership Team and Performance Breakthrough. Mike is on a mission to help CEO’s grow their business and have more impact while using his Breakthrough Leadership Team approach.
“if you are not learning and growing you are dying. And I have talked to many entrepreneurs who are so busy working in their business that they have no time to work on their business, they have no time to learn and grow, they are not reading books, they are not going to conferences, they are not listening to podcasts. As an entrepreneur your business will never grow any faster than you are growing. So if you are not consistently learning and growing you had better find a way to get more excited about doing that or you’ve got some real challenges coming to you”…[Listen for More]
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Daniel Ramsey is the founder & CEO of MyOutDesk, the highest-rated Virtual Assistant company in the marketplace with over 500 5-star reviews, and over 13 years of experience serving more than 6000 clients across industries.
“just do it. That’s my favourite. I’ve got a rock in my office and the Rock says if you are not dropping the ball then you are probably moving too slowly. So, if you are not creating that momentum and that positive energy of moving forward as an entrepreneur then you are stuck ”…[Listen for More]
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Jodi Daniels founded Red Clover Advisors and it is currently one of the few certified Women’s Business Enterprises focused solely focused on privacy. She and her company have helped hundreds of companies create privacy programs, achieve GDPR, CCPA, and US privacy law compliance, and establish a secure online data strategy their customers can count on.
“I think it was what did I want to do. I knew I wanted to do something and it was what’s the right fit? What’s the right place for me? And I was in the way of my own self. So, most people in my life and not surprised that I am an entrepreneur today it was just a matter of when. So, I would say the difficulty was myself and being confident that I would figure out what it is that made sense for me and have the belief that I could do it”…[Listen for More]
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Carlos Valdes-Dapena is a keynote speaker, author, and consultant with decades of experience supporting global corporations, including Mars and IBM. He has written two books on teamwork, both based on original research conducted during his 17 years at Mars. He is currently the Managing Principal of Corporate Collaboration Resources, LLC.
“believe in what it is you are doing whether it is starting a business for the sake of growing a business and enjoying that process or product or service you are bringing to the market, believe in that. Find that thing and put your confidence in that and I think your success will be unlimited”…[Listen for More]
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Raffi Jamgotchian has been interested in computers from a young age. He has been involved in IT since 1995. He helped build the first firewalls for a firm and connected them up to the internet; he thrived so well here that he started working in information security for the firm. After getting his MBA in 2006, he launched Triada Networks in 2008 to help small companies during the financial crisis. He works with industry-leading companies such as Cisco, Datto, Microsoft, and others to help smaller independent investment firms with their cybersecurity& IT. Raffi is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and a member of both InfraGard and the US Secret Service’s Joint Electronic Crimes Task Force.
“never stop learning, take in all you can, make your own decisions though at the end of the day. And one more pick different passwords for all of your websites so people will stop breaking in”…[Listen for More]
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Brad Giles is one of Australia’s most sought-after coaches. An experienced business speaker, adviser and entrepreneur, Brad helps some of Australia’s leading mid-sized firms, CEOs and leadership teams to thrive. He is also the author of Made to Thrive: The Five Roles to Evolve Beyond Your Leadership Comfort Zone
“stop doing other people’s jobs. So, you’ve got to understand if you are a leader and you are doing the sales managers job you are doing a disservice to him and plus you are not doing your job. So, stop doing other people’s jobs, whatever it is. Give people the space around you to thrive. Number two, build cash. Ideally, we want to have a cash reserve for small to medium businesses of two months of fixed expenses cash at bank. If you don’t have cash in the bank and you are worried about paying bills you are never going to be able to think strategically. Then number three is to always have 3 to 5 priorities for yourself, for the whole business, for each of the teams, for everybody in the business to always have 3 to 5 priorities ”…[Listen for More]
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Kathryn Redman and Michael K. Redman are sweethearts, best friends, and the husband-and-wife team behind Half a Bubble Out (HaBO), a marketing and business consulting firm. They’re also founders of HaBO Village, a membership website which helps leaders build Passion & Provision companies, full of profit, purpose, and legacy. For more than 17 years, they have helped business leaders across the world grow their companies through marketing, business coaching, and leadership development. Kathryn and Michael have both taught at the university level and are frequent guest speakers. They currently reside in their hometown of Chico, California, where they love going to work every day.
“finding a community of other leaders. And part of that is the old adage is leadership is lonely. Sometimes when our wrestling through things having other people who understand who are actually doing similar things is really powerful because it’s a little safer. If you have employees you can’t always tell you’re employees you are struggling, that’s not always a good idea… So, having other business leaders that you can go to be like I don’t know how I am going to make payroll and the other person goes you know what dude I’ve been there. Just that kind of power and community is really, really helpful. Just don’t go it alone”…[Listen for More]
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Jay Baker is an inventor holding over 40 US and international patents, including the ‘Clamtainer,’ the world’s first Certified Child Resistant clamshell container. He is very involved in his community, including serving on the local Board of Education for 25 years. Jay holds a BS in Business from Clarkson University.
“you have to do what I would call a self-gut check once in a while. Take it for granted that you have perseverance, that you have drive, that you have work ethic and so on and so forth. But if you are confronted with something where there are factors whether they are external or internal that make you question if you could be 100 percent in, all in then you need to step back a little bit and analyse it and ask yourself why that is… Am I being realistic or not realistic and decide to take a different direction”…[Listen for More]
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Dan Miller is author of the New York Times best-selling 48 Days To The Work You Love. Over 140,000 people have subscribed to his weekly newsletter, his 48 Days Podcast consistently ranks in the top 3 under Careers on iTunes, helping those seeking to find - or create - work they love.
“it’s never too late to have a new beginning”…[Listen for More]
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Kate LaBrosse is a Natural Products Industry expert, leader in the CBD space, motivational speaker and best-selling author. Kate's mission is two-fold; to bring holistic healing to the masses through motivating, educating & inspiring individuals who struggle with mental health issues and trauma AND to further the reach of the Natural Products Industry.
“get really clear on what it is you are doing, what you are building, why you are building it and then to trust yourself, to trust the process and to take the steps that you are being called to take way before it feels like you are ready to take them. You wouldn’t be having that intuitive hit, you wouldn’t be having that curiosity, you wouldn’t be having that drive come up for you if there wasn’t truth and a path forward for you to follow”…[Listen for More]
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In 2003, Nick Prefontaine was in a snowboarding accident that left him in a coma for over 3 weeks. The doctors told his family that he probably wouldn’t walk, talk or eat on his own again. Less than 3 months later, he was running out of Franciscan Children’s hospital. Now a Certified Infinite Possibilities Trainer, Nick speaks to groups that benefit from his message of overcoming adversity. He grew up in the real estate industry and got started on his own at an early age. Most notably, he was knocking on Pre-Foreclosure doors at 16 and 17, doing up to 50 doors a day. This experience helped shape Nick’s real estate career. Now, Nick specializes in working with lease purchasers to get them into a home and on the path to homeownership. Regardless of a buyer’s credit situation, he looks at their complete financial picture and comes up with a plan to get them into a home.
“Ready, fire, aim. I think you are never going to have all of the information that you need to make a decision. I think once you have the limited information that you need to take action, you need to take action because after you take action you have as I’ve said previously you have something that you can improve on”…[Listen for More]
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Charlie Hartwell is the Managing Partner of Bridge Builders Collaborative, a group of highly successful investors who have been investing in start-up companies in the space of mental wellness, consciousness, and spirituality. A Harvard Business School graduate, Charlie has served and led organizations in 14 different industries, including starting a non-profit in the slums of Kenya in 1986 that has now served health care to several million patients.
“find ways to connect to yourself… Then find a community of other entrepreneurs where you can trust, where you can go to share what’s happening with you, to go deep into what you are experiencing as an entrepreneur, where you can feel seen and heard and supported. I think community is really important because being an entrepreneur can be a very lonely place”…[Listen for More]
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Ruth King is well known as “The Profitability Master.” She is passionate about helping small business owners get profitable and stay profitable. Ruth is a serial entrepreneur having owned 8 businesses in the past 37+ years. One of her businesses, Business Ventures Corporation, began operations in 1981. Through Business Ventures, she coaches, trains, and helps contractors and others achieve the business growth and goals they want to achieve. She’s the author of the new book, Profit or Wealth? Simple Rules for Sustainable Business Growth
“the entrepreneurial journey is not straight line it is up and downs. If you are passionate about where you want to go, if you understand your reasoning and you know why you want to get there when the tough times happen which they inevitably do you pick yourself up, you will dust yourself off and you will keep going”…[Listen for More]
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Neal Bawa is a technologist who is universally known in the real estate circles as the Mad Scientist of Multifamily. Besides being one of the most in-demand speakers in commercial real estate, Neal is a data guru, a process freak, and an outsourcing expert. Neal treats his $265+ million-dollar multifamily portfolio as an ongoing experiment in effciency and optimization. The Mad Scientist lives by two mantras. His frst mantra is that We can only manage what we can measure. His second mantra is that Data beats gut feel by a million miles. These mantras and a dozen other disruptive beliefs drive proft for his 300+ investors.
“be data driven. I really believe that if you cannot measure you cannot manage. So many businesses fail because they spend a huge amount of time in managing and no time measuring”…[Listen for More]
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Two years after graduating from Boston College Business School, Linying Zou bought her first multifamily investment. With her goal in mind of having the freedom to travel and the drive to make a change from her unfulfilling job she started Akras Capital. Akras Capital’s mission is to produce freedom in the lives of their investors and partners so they can live a life focused on what matters most to them, without the constraints of time, money or employers. Linying went from a life stuck in the corporate career track to one of world travel, family and freedom fueled by passive income from multifamily real estate investments. She wants to share what she’s discovered with others!
“it being an entrepreneur is what’s important to someone, that they want to start their own company, make a difference in the world or they just want to go out on their own. I think it’s important to just be fearless, just make the jump. Entrepreneurship is hard, there are a lot of risks but honestly it definitely opens a lot of doors as well. So, if you are still hesitating over whether or not to do it, I say definitely just be fearless, just embrace the possibility and jump”…[Listen for More]
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Tyler McCune is a freelance copywriter and owner of Copy By McCune. He’s written and consulted for A-List Copywriters, Top Launch Strategists, and Corporate Sales Trainers. He has fans on six continents that read his emails each day.
“give up the fantasy. We are all driven by this… there is no mythical realm where you are going to be totally happy and satisfied and you are going to feel confident… Just give up the fantasy that one day your life will be perfect, that your business will be perfect because it’s not and that’s totally okay… Everyone wants to have made it and everyone has already made it. You are looking at what you need to find… Everything is perfect it’s just not perfect in the way that you may want it to be ”…[Listen for More]
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Travis Bliffen is the founder of Stellar SEO, a top-rated U.S. link building agency. As an Army veteran, Travis took a leap of faith after reading a magazine article about the future of SEO. He dove deep and spent a year perfecting his craft. When he opened his firm in 2012, they quickly gained a reputation for being a cost-effective, honest and leading SEO agency. He has written many published works on SEO and link building, as well as being a featured speaker at SEMPO Cities among other industry events.
“you have to go for it. Everybody says you have to go for it and then people say okay I am going to go for it. But going for it means different things for different people. So when I say go for it I mean that if you decide you are going to start a business, you are going to be your own boss, you are going to build a brand, whatever it is that you are going to do to kind of take charge of life. You have to be willing to push back obstacles, you have to overcome hardships potentially but you have to be all in. Don’t have one foot out of the door the whole time, don’t say I am going to do this but… Insert the laundry list of excuses everybody might have about why they won’t do anything. You can’t do that”…[Listen for More]
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Judy Weintraub is an accomplished entrepreneur, business executive, attorney and bestselling author. She runs SkillBites, providing book writing and publishing services designed to help authors get their books written and published easily and quickly. Judy also runs Weintraub Legal Services, providing dispute resolution services and corporate law services.
“if you are just thinking about becoming an entrepreneur then talked to a lot of people, both entrepreneurs outside of your field as well as entrepreneurs in your field. Find out what they went through, what their recommendations are and determine whether it’s true it the right journey for you. Not everybody has the personality or the desire for taking risks that is required to be an entrepreneur. So if you listen to what people went through and you realise that you are not the type of person who wants to take those risks who wants the rollercoaster ride then you are going to save yourself a lot of anxiety and frustration and probably money by going in a different direction”…[Listen for More]
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Angela Henderson is an international award winning business coach for women, international keynote speaker and podcaster who helps women in business get all the pieces in place to have consistent 5 figure months and then onto 6/7 figure years without burning out in the process.
“Pay to play. You pay to play, the transaction happens equals the transformation and growth is inevitable”…[Listen for More]
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5 TIME #1 BESTSELLER & SPEAKER ERIK “MR. AWESOME” SWANSON As an award winning International Keynote Speaker, #1 National Best- Selling Author in 5 different categories of success & a Habits & Behavioral Coach, Erik Swanson is in great demand around the world! Speaking on average to more than one million people per year, and honored to be invited to speak to Business and Entrepreneurial school of Harvard University as well as joining the Ted Talk Family with his latest Tedx speech called “A Dose of Awesome,” Erik is both versatile in his approach and effective in a wide array of training topics. You can easily find Erik sharing stages with some of the most talented and famous speakers of the world, such as Brian Tracy, Nasa’s Performance Coach Dr. Denis Waitley, from the book & movie ‘The Secret,’ Bob Proctor, Jack Canfield, John Assaraf, Millionaire Maker Loral Langemeier, Co-Author of ‘Rich Dad Poor Dad’ Sharon Lechter, Legendary Motivator Les Brown, among many others! Erik has created and developed the super popular Habitude Warrior Conference which has a 2-year waiting list and includes 33 top named speakers, all in a ‘Ted Talk’ style event which has quickly climbed as one of the top 10 events not to miss in the United States! Erik’s motto is clear: “NDSO!” No Drama - Serve Others!
Get off your ass and into your assets. Seriously all of us have assets and aren’t harnessing it. So, get out there and start doing it”…[Listen for More]
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For over 25 years, Greg has inspired hundreds of thousands of people to take personal responsibility to step into the potential of their greatness and, as such, his life of contribution has been recognized by government leaders, a foreign Princess as well as luminaries in education, business, and industry. Mr. Reid has been published in over 100 books including 28 best-sellers in 45 languages. Titles such as - Stickability: The Power of Perseverance; The Millionaire Mentor and Three Feet from Gold: Turn Your Obstacles into Opportunities, have inspired countless readers to understand that the most valuable lessons we learn, are also the easiest ones to apply. Greg Reid is known best for being Founder and CEO of the - Secret Knock, an exclusive event and professional collaboration community focused on partnership, networking, and business development. He is also the producer of the Oscar qualified film, Wish Man, based on the creator of the Make A Wish Foundation. For his work in mentoring youth in his hometown of San Diego, Mr. Reid was honored by the White House Where President Bill Clinton commended Greg for his work to positively working with youth through a mentorship program. And if that is not enough, recently Greg was honored with the star of the infamous Las Vegas walk of fame.
“seek council not opinion. That’s the biggest one. And then the second one is this it’s called CPC from one of my bestselling books, it’s called wealth made easy… Surround yourself with people that work. Play at something that you would work at and amazing things happen. CPC stands for this: Clues, Patterns, Choices this is the single greatest aha nugget you could ever have… It’s accountability, responsibility for everything that happens. Stop blaming other people it is your fault”…[Listen for More]
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Brian Bogert is a human behavior and performance coach, speaker, business strategist and philanthropic leader who helps people make their best even better. His revolutionary strategy—embrace pain to avoid suffering—has helped individuals and companies break beyond their normal to achieve the success in life and business that they’ve always wanted.
“when we feel that moment of pain, when we feel that moment of discomfort, when our gut tells us that we need to turn into something or even turn away from something I want them to literally just turn into it. Turn into those moments of discomfort because that’s where growth happens, that is where we discover who we are, that is where we discover what we are capable of. I think the world has told us to reduce, eliminate or avoid pain. And I’m telling you definitively the world is wrong. We must learn to use pain, discomfort to our advantage so that we cannot only avoid suffering but gain freedom”…[Listen for More]
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Two-time best-selling author Jeanie Cisco-Meth shares her proven system for improving communication and decreasing conflict. She has written magazine articles, been quoted in Forbes, and contributed to the TheBlaze. She has been a guest on radio stations across the country and appeared on ABC4, Free Speech TV, and others.
“keep moving forward. I what it is sometimes it’s discouraging because you are not sure if what you are doing is working… Know that whatever you are feeding your mind is where you are going. So if you are feeding it junk stop, pick up a good book, listen to things… Make things that help stretch you and try again. So often we think that I should be able to just do it right the first time because I am an adult. No, no you can’t. Just like when you were a little kid learning to walk you fell down… Encourage yourself, praise yourself… I am going to try again, here I go again, I got this. Absolutely celebrate”…[Listen for More]
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Joel Milne is the CEO of RepairSmith, which provides mobile car repair and maintenance services. Joel is a serial entrepreneur who previously co/founded four venture-backed technology startups where he served as CEO, COO, and CTO and raised over $100M in venture financing. He is also an advisor to many California-based startups.
“remember that start-ups are just a bunch of people doing things, doing something hard together. And you may think you got the best idea or you are the best at something but it’s really just a handful of people working together to solve the problem. And so, thinking hard about who those people are and how you motivate them will be a major driver in your success or failure much more than your individual skills”…[Listen for More]
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Sean Ammirati co-founded mSpoke, which was the first acquisition of LinkedIn. His next startup was Peak Strategy, which was acquired by Morgan Stanley. Today, he focuses on being a partner at Birchmere Ventures, where they invest into seed-stage SaaS and marketplace startups. Since their start in 1996, they’ve invested in 135 companies with 51 exits. Sean also teaches entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business.
“the easy advice is just do it. But we want to be more thoughtful than that. So, the way to unpack that a little bit… I think that entrepreneurs before they start the journey, they tend to think too much about the downside. And so, I would encourage you to have a rational conversation with yourself about what really are the different outcomes here. And then once you’ve done that… Once you’ve kind of thought through that and you’ve taken the leap and jumped into it you can never overemphasise spending time with your customers. The more time you spend with the customers and listening to them and understanding the problems they have the better off you will be”…[Listen for More]
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Our next guest is Craig Handley. He is hard to describe but let me try. He is an author of a best selling book called “Hired To Quit”, he is musician writing music for artists all over the world, he is a bit of a comedian who has done Stand Up on broadway in NYC he also moonlights as CEO of his company ListenTrust which was named #1 in Business Products and Service (#27 overall) on Inc. Magazine’s 500/5000 list where they do about 150M in sales for their clients, and answer 100’s of thousands of CS calls and Lead generation calls and employs close to 1000 awesome people. He has cage dived with great white sharks and rappelled down Table Mountain in South Africa, driven the Baja 500 trail in Mexico, hiked through the jungles of Malaysia, and in Iceland he snowmobiled across a live volcano, swam in the Blue Lagoon, and dove in the famed Silfra Fissure which is the only dive site in the world where your dive is in the crack between two continental plates. He is also the 85th civilian in the world ever to jump out of a plane from over 32,000 feet (HALO Dive)... He's hung out on Necker Island with Richard Branson. He's met Ringo Starr and bumped into Paul McCartney before security escorted him back to his table while trying to get a selfie, and,in Calgary, he had a scarf blessed while meeting the Dalai Lama (which he has since misplaced). He has partied with Akon, and Snoop Dogg and many other celebrities who asked him for his autograph (because they thought he starred in Vikings or Game Of Thrones and he did not correct their thinking) He served five years in the U.S. Army infantry during the first Iraqi war, leaving with an honorable discharge. Handley studied voice and piano in college. He has written and produced hundreds of songs, from rap to pop to ballads to humorous parodies, and even opened for Coolio and hosted the Adult Entertainment Awards. He once turned down a record deal because it would have been “a pay cut” from his profitable businesses - and the required tour schedule didn’t leave him enough time for his business or family...
“don’t get down, focus on the positive, seek out mentors… But really understand that being an entrepreneur means you are in for a rollercoaster ride and to try and enjoy the downs as much as you enjoy the highs. Try to understand what you can learn from the worst day of your life, don’t just learn from the best days of your life. And that’s the only way an entrepreneur is going to survive the emotional rollercoaster that you have from being an entrepreneur”…[Listen for More]
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As Chairman of American manufacturer Wendell August Forge, Will Knecht weaves together the fascinating story about the devastating fire that could have destroyed his business, but instead became a catalyst for new thinking and opportunities. Earnest and plainspoken, Will compels his listeners to look differently at trials, seeing them as the gateways to breakthrough success. He keynotes events across the country and encourages leaders to live lives worthy of their potential.
“believe in what your passion is and what you feel that you are called to do. Believe in it, don’t let the naysayers shoot you down. Believe in what you believe you have been called to do, trust it, go after it. Don’t risk the world on it may be but test it and roll with it. But believe in yourself, believe that you have been uniquely created potentially for such a time as this to start your business, to buy a business and go after it with all you have got. Persevere through the tough times, keep learning and keep growing… Believe in your calling”…[Listen for More]
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Stephen Warley has been a serial solopreneur for the past 20 years. He’s the founder of LifeSkillsThatMatter.com. He’s a solopreneur business coach on a mission to help you create work that works for you in alignment with your values, needs and abilities. He believes work is fundamentally changing as you know it and we’re all going to have to manage ourselves whether you work for yourself or someone else.
“take this deeply think of this as a thought exercise and really ask yourself this question. I really want you to be you. I really want you to be you. I really want you to be able to build a business in alignment with your values, your needs, your abilities. Why? If you can do that that will sustain your motivation unlike anything else you can do for much longer. Money is only going to get you so far… Really define, constantly ask yourself throughout the day, is this what I would want to do or am I doing it to make somebody else happy, to please somebody else? Be you ”…[Listen for More]
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Tim Fitzpatrick is an entrepreneur/business owner with expertise in marketing and business growth. He has 20+ years of entrepreneurial experience with a passion for developing and growing businesses. His first company grew an average of 60% a year before being acquired in 2005.
“I would say a for the long-term. I think a lot of people are trying to get rich quick which to me is a trap that just doesn’t exist. When we see other people’s story and learn about their success, we are really only getting the tip of the iceberg. What we are not seeing is the rest of that iceberg that’s below the surface that is all of the work, the time and the effort that they put in to get above the surface. Being an entrepreneur is a marathon it’s not a sprint. I we are far better off if we can make our business decisions based on the long-term benefit of our company rather than the short-term”…[Listen for More]
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Robinson Smith was raised in Canada, studied, lived and worked in China for almost a decade and subsequently built up a successful investment advisory. He sold his business two years ago to train other financial professionals in The Smith Manoeuvre financial strategy so many more Canadians would be able to prosper.
“number one, budget. You are properly going to spend more than you think you will. I certainly found that out when I started this up two years ago or so… I had an idea, this general roadmap of where I wanted to go and how I would do it and then the deeper you get into something in a new venture the more you realise you don’t know. So, you have got to bring more and more people on to help you do it and do it right. And so, number two is pay for it if you have to”…[Listen for More]
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With over a decade of business development experience, it’s safe to say Will William Christensen has an elevated passion for fulfilling what the end user desires and efficiently working towards faster iterations. He is the co-founder of DataAutomation, which customizes both automation and integration processes for e-commerce sellers.
“fail faster. Do not be afraid to put your baby out in front of the world and get it called ugly. The moment you start to shield your baby, your business, from the feedback of the world you have begun to make yourself obsolete… So do not shield your product from the feedback of the world, put it out there. But you can’t know that it’s ugly… You are inherently blind to the fact that what you are building is not going to do what you needed to do”…[Listen for More]
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Madeline Pratt is the Founder/CEO of Fearless in Training, a creative consulting agency specializing in helping ambitious fintech entrepreneurs with marketing, branding and business development. Madeline Pratt has spent her career serving as business development leader for technologies companies ranging from small start-ups to large publicity traded entities. In addition, she is the founder of Womxn Talk Money and the host of the Finding Fearless Podcast.
“believe in your ideas but work on your abilities. So what I mean by that is I believe ideas are a dime a dozen and the difference between somebody who is successful is somebody who puts action behind those ideas. But we also have to recognise that we don’t know what we don’t know and so I think that a lot of entrepreneurs fail because they are overly confident about their abilities and they are not willing to admit the areas where they have gaps. And I think to be a great entrepreneur you really need to be constantly investing in your own education and your personal development and building skills that you need to take your company forward further. So always believing in your ideas because you are the one who is going to have to bring that passion and bring that fire and get other people to believe in it. But also be aware of where you need to grow and invest in those areas”…[Listen for More]
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Rachael Robertson spent 12 months in the Antarctic, where she led the 58th Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition to Davis Station. She was the second female, (and one of the youngest) to ever lead a team at the Station. She managed a team of 18 people through the long, dark, Antarctic winter and built a resilient and highly successful team based on the foundation that ‘respect trumps harmony’. Since returning to Australia, Rachael has completed her MBA, is an international keynote speaker and has written 2 best-selling books: Leading on the Edge, based on Antarctica; and her latest book, Respect trumps Harmony, was released in April 2020.
“get a partner who is different to you. Whether it’s an equity partner in the business whether it’s a life partner… I think my best advice to any entrepreneur is get someone who is completely different to and get them to advise you, offer ideas and suggestions and frank and fearless feedback because you often can’t see it yourself. So, having someone completely different give you a broader range and a broader spectrum of ideas”…[Listen for More]
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Joe DeMaria started his career at 9 years old, running an illicit, back alley soda and candy cartel at his elementary school in Willow Glen, California. Within 2 weeks, he had employed 3 other hard-nosed, dirty-faced 9 year old lieutenants -- paying them 25 cents per unit sold. The Sugar Rush Syndicate was brought to an abrupt end when DeMaria's childhood best friend and wartime consigliere was caught selling an A&W Rootbeer on tape by one of the school's CCTV cameras. He was brought to justice just 5 weeks into the school year, netting an impressive $937.75. He refused to return the money. Today, he teaches coaches, consultants, and peak performers how to scale their businesses and their impact on their audiences using online courses and coaching programs -- through his company Teach To Scale
Chr(34)Chr(34)realise that you've got a gauge on your dashboard that says fun and start to pay attention to that one to. The more fun we are having in what we are do... And it does not have to be frivolous, it doesn't have to be goof... It's just that when we are having fun, we do a lot better. We are designed as mammals to play. We are at our best when we play. It's where we are strongest where we are able to take chances and experiment and learn things. So, I think those who know how to play and know how to have fun are the ones that are the toughest and the most resilient Chr(34)Chr(34)...[Listen for More]
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Syed Gilani is the CEO and President of Safr, a rideshare startup focused on women’s empowerment through safe transportation. A seasoned business leader with 25 years of experience in North American, Asian, Middle Eastern and European markets, Syed leads Safr’s global growth, investment and overall company vision to build a better, safer and more empowering future for women around the world. Syed holds a Masters in International Relations from Harvard University; an MBA in Marketing from University of the Virgin Islands; and a Master of Science degree from Lahore School of Economics. Syed writes for Forbes and other publications and has spoken at conferences around the world.
“take a chance… If you have a business idea or any kind of a service idea or a product idea take your firstly of faith. Do not sit on it for the rest of your life and think next year, oh shear, I can do it next year. There is just never going to be that next year. I would strongly urge all of your listeners that if they have a great business idea they should vet it and they should get it out. If they fail to not feel dismayed”…[Listen for More]
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Amy Posey is a Silicon Valley-based leadership consultant focused on neuroscience and high performance. As both an adventurer and leadership development facilitator, she is co author of: Wild Success: 7 Key Lessons Business Leaders Can Learn from Extreme Adventures.
“I think the biggest thing is manage your cash flow well. I think that’s where people get really stopped up, I’ve seen it. When I talk to people about managing their cash flow they are like ‘wow that’s boring’I am like yeah it’s boring but it’s the truth of trying to run a sustainable business. And that’s always been my focus is running sustainable businesses. And that to me is a measure of success. So I think really focusing… And if you’re not good at it having someone to help you do that well is critical”…[Listen for More]
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Mia Hewett helps purpose-driven entrepreneurs who know they were meant for more, stop secretly struggling, live in alignment with their dreams so that they can scale to 6 and 7-figures the fast way. Mia is the founder of Aligned Intelligence™, a methodology that removes all blind spots, fear, anxiety, and self-doubt. This is for those who have tried everything to change, who realize their past is holding them back but they can't seem to figure out how to move past it. Mia has co-owned and operated seven-figure businesses, is an international speaker, and a world-class business coach.
“the way that you speed up is actually to slowdown. If you will slow down and take the time to unravel your behaviours, why you do what you do, he’ll the trauma that is in the way, what has you reacting and having those unconscious habits you will speed up and what you will create will astound you. Here’s the truth. We can be anything in this world we desire to be if we will clearly define it and then being constantly willing to occupy our intention and our mind with it it must become habitual. It cannot be a concept to be put on or taken off like a pair of clothes”…[Listen for More]
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M. Shannon Hernandez is not your average entrepreneur. After a 15 year public teaching career, she jumped feet first into her journey as a business owner, and within just a few years, she had built a multi-six figure business. A sought after expert in the world of content marketing and strategy, Shannon is known globally as the creator of the Content Personality™ Wheel. In 2016 Shannon founded The Confident Expert™ Program, where she champions and rallies coaches and consultants, teaching them how to market their businesses from a place of intuition, integrity, and JOY-and make a shit-ton of money in the process.
“go with your gut…. And it seems simple, and it is on one level but on the other level you have got to go with your gut. And when you don’t know what you don’t know yet a mentor, get an adviser. Higher coach or a consultant, get some help from somebody that’s done it before you. And still go with your gut, so use your intuition and the help of someone and you truly become unstoppable and you can accomplish anything that you put your mind to”…[Listen for More]
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A practising accountant since 1991, Steven Englander has taken his firm Accounts Direct from being a one-man band serving local clients into a national brand serving business owners all over the UK. Steven empowers business owners by taking a 360 degree view, in order to understand what they need to prosper.
“I always assume with an open-ended question that there is a focus, there is a target. And I think if you are starting up in business, starting up a new project you need purpose in it. You need to know why you are doing it and then you need to know where you are going with it. Just make sure that you spend a little time even if it’s only a cash flow projection just so you know where you are going and what resources you will need otherwise you are just going to get swept in the wind. So that’s it just make sure that you know what you want to achieve”…[Listen for More]
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Rishon Blumberg and Michael Solomon are co-authors of GAME CHANGER and co-founders of 10x Management, a talent agency for tech professionals that has rocketed to the forefront of the tech industry, carving out its place as a trusted and exclusive resource for companies seeking the best and most coveted freelance tech experts. Rishon is, first and foremost, an entrepreneur. It’s what he studied — graduating from the Wharton School of Business with a degree in entrepreneurial management in 1994. It’s what he’s lived and it’s what he loves. For more than 25 years, he’s harnessed that spirit to create and lead successful organizations based in tech, entertainment, and the nonprofit sphere— finding new solutions to long-standing and emerging challenges. Rishon has presented at TEDx, been published in the Harvard Business Review, and was featured on the cover of the Wharton Alumni of New York Magazine. Michael Solomon is the co-author of GAME CHANGER and the cofounder of 10x Management, the world’s first tech talent agency. 10x matches top contract technology experts, designers, and brand innovators with companies ranging from startups to the Fortune 500. Customers include American Express, HSBC, Google, Verizon, Yelp, and more. He is a recognized expert on the freelance economy and its growing impact on business and has appeared on numerous media outlets and at conferences, including CNBC, BBC, Bloomberg TV, NYU, and SXSW. Solomon also leads, with his longtime business partner Rishon Blumberg, the first-of-its-kind compensation negotiation service catering to senior tech talent, called 10x Ascend. Ascend’s mission is to help senior tech talent obtain the best compensation packages possible. The two also oversee the respected talent management and entertainment consulting company Brick Wall Management, whose clients include multiplatinum and Grammy award-winning recording artists, songwriters, top record producers, and filmmakers. Michael also co-founded Musicians On Call, a nonprofit that brings live music to over 700,000 people in health care facilities across the U.S. and remains an active member of its Board of Directors.
“definitely grit and fortitude. Make sure that you stay the course, don’t give up. Sometimes you learn new things and that changes your trajectory but if you truly believe in something and you believe in yourself and you believe that you can be the solution for changing that something or creating that something then you have got to have grit to stay with it and stick with it. Fake it until you make it. That’s the number one piece of advice I would give”…[Listen for More]
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Marin Laukka is the business owner of Yes&, LLC - wherein she coaches hard-working creatives to align with life-giving, authentic success. Marin holds a Master’s degree in Positive Developmental Psychology and certifications in life coaching & yoga. Outside of work, you can find Marin at the dog park with her pup Aatto, rock climbing with her partner Tyler, or dancing with a bowl of chocolate peanut butter ice cream.
“hire a coach… I so, so believe in the power of coaching. It does not need to be me it can be any coach and in fact make it someone that you really feel aligned with yourself that you really enjoy speaking to that you trust, that you admire, that aligns with the skill sets that you feel like you are needing and desiring at the time… Hire a coach, give yourself the time and the space to hear and value what you know and what’s already inside of you. And you deserve it. You absolutely deserve it”…[Listen for More]
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Christopher Doyle is an entrepreneur and business leader with extensive hands-on construction industry experience and a proven record of launching successful startups. He is the founder, president and CEO of Billd, a disruptive payment solution for the construction industry that helps contractors and suppliers grow their businesses with less hassle and risk. Recognizing cash flow hurdles contractors face when purchasing materials, Doyle launched Billd to make traditional Wall Street working capital accessible to these small business owners. Doyle cut his teeth in the construction industry, framing houses in high school at age 16 and working his way through college at Texas A&M before beginning his career in residential and commercial construction. During this time, he not only developed into a project manager supervising sales and operations, he also developed a passion for launching new business operations, opening and leading new divisions of construction companies in Dallas, Austin and Houston, Texas. He went on to serve as director of solar operations for the Institute for Building Technology and Safety (IBTS), delving into energy efficiency and renewable energy program management and authoring numerous publications on renewable energy financing, including launching National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) residential and commercial best practices. Recognizing Doyle as a renewable energy thought leader, the founders of lending company Dividend Solar (now Dividend Finance) tapped him to oversee their contractor operations and sales. Doyle’s leadership and tireless work ethic helped the startup thrive and secure series A funding. He was a pivotal leader in Dividend’s first three (3) loan securitization offerings totaling over $500M. While working with Dividend Finance, Doyle recognized how a lack of access to capital impacts contractors’ ability to operate and grow their businesses. He was inspired to launch Billd, along with co-founder Jesse Weissburg, to bring traditional Wall Street access to capital to the construction jobsite, allowing contractors to bypass project hurdles with access to upfront funds while enabling suppliers to sell more materials and get paid up-front. For contractors who usually aren’t paid until more than 90 days from purchasing materials, Billd provides 120-day terms so they can scale their business and stabilize cash flow. Doyle’s technical certifications include Certified Energy Manager, Business Energy Professional, LEED AP O+M Certified, Solar PV Advanced 40 Hour (North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners), Certified Building Envelope Analyst, Infrared Level 1 Thermography Certification, Green Advantage Certified for Commercial Buildings, and a Certified Auditor, Level 3 Installer, QAP - Air Barrier Association of America. He was a founding member of the Solar Access to Public Capital working group of the Solar Energy Industries Association, the Energy Services Coalition, the U.S. Green Building Council, and he is a board member of the Building Enclosure Council of the National Institute of Building Sciences. Doyle holds a bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University and an MBA from Rice University. He resides in Austin, Texas, with his two children.
“it’s a simple exercise, open up Excel and say: how are you going to find this customer? Well first start with what does it cost? What are you going to sell it at? How are you going to find them? And breaking it down into a very simple exercise to see if the economics even work. Because so many times I talk to people that are looking to start a business and we go through that very easy exercise and you are going to know… look you are going to have to do X volume to get there even close. Like this doesn’t make a lot of sense. I think a very simple Excel exercise starting from scratch or you are just starting your business and you are looking at a new product I see so many times people just miss a very simple 15 minute exercise to breakdown the economics to realise that hey that this isn’t going to work”…[Listen for More]
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Kate Lanz is the founder and CEO of Mindbridge, a UK-based global leadership company specializing in the power of modern neuroscience and releasing latent brain potential. She is the lead author of All the Brains in the Business: The Engendered Brain in the 21st Century Organisation.
“get yourself a good personal board of directors. And those people can obviously change over time and over circumstance. Let other people help you make that something that you constantly have around you”…[Listen for More]
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Jeff Kofman, CEO and founder of Trint, is a tech entrepreneur with an unusual backstory. As an Emmy award-winning network television news foreign correspondent and war correspondent with ABC, CBS and CBC News he spent more than three decades reporting from around the world. Jeff has covered many of the biggest stories of our time including the Iraq War, the Arab Spring, Hurricane Katrina, the Gulf Oil Spill and the Chile Mine Rescue. He’s won an Edward R. Murrow Award, a duPont Award and two Emmys, including one for his coverage of the fall of Muammar Gadhafi in Libya in 2011.
“make sure that your idea really is a sustainable business. I think it’s the most simple advice and it’s really important to say yeah but who is going to pay for it? And why would they pay? …I think first of all does the world need it? I think that’s a question you need to ask. Is this a nice to have or a need to have?... I think the does the world need this question is a really important one. You could argue with a gamer for example does the world need a game? No but the next question is, does the world won’t this and want it enough to pay for it in a monetizable sustainable scalable way? And I think that’s the second question you have got to answer… You really need to answer the first and you absolutely must answer the second ”…[Listen for More]
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Tripp Lanier is a professional coach, author of This Book Will Make You Dangerous, and host of The New Man Podcast: Beyond the Macho Jerk and the New Age Wimp which — for over a decade — has been downloaded millions of times. Since 2005, he has spent thousands of hours coaching people all around the world to get out of the rat race, become an authority in their field, and make a great living doing the work they were put on this earth to do. Over the years he’s designed several businesses to support a simple lifestyle focused on freedom, ease, meaning, and fun.
“realise that you’ve got a gauge on your dashboard that says fun and start to pay attention to that one to. The more fun we are having in what we are do… And it does not have to be frivolous, it doesn’t have to be goof… It’s just that when we are having fun, we do a lot better. We are designed as mammals to play. We are at our best when we play. It’s where we are strongest where we are able to take chances and experiment and learn things. So, I think those who know how to play and know how to have fun are the ones that are the toughest and the most resilient ”…[Listen for More]
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Peter Thomas Roth is CEO, founder and formulator of his eponymously named 25-year old brand of world-renowned line of skincare products that regularly breaks sales records on QVC, and at Sephora and ULTA.
“you have just really got to have a passion for it, you have got to really live it. You also have to be able to do it, want to do it at 11 o’clock at night and still have a passion for it at three in the morning and Sunday. And not just five o’clock on Friday I am done until Monday if you want to be an entrepreneur and not just a pay check. You just have to live it 24/7 and you have to know when you want to risk and when you need to stop”…[Listen for More]
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Matthew Hunt was an ashamed introverted dyslexic but has turned himself into a successful extroverted dyslexic entrepreneur. He built 3 B2B profitable companies in the last 13 years all built on the back of smart marketing & sales. I'm honoured that 100s of companies (large & small) have hired me to help them implement my marketing & sales strategies. To name a few, I've worked with RE/MAX, Valvoline, FedEx, Chef's Plate, League & TouchBistro. His expertise is SEM, SEO, CRO, PPC, Funnel Optimization, LinkedIn Marketing, Email Automation & Sales.
“figure out and manage your stress… If you are not at your best it’s really hard for you to serve your team and to serve your customers and your clients and to serve your family and all of those other things… So, you need to take care… It usually stems from your mental health first. And of course, if your mental health is clear then you will take care of your physical health and so forth. But you must address that, you must find time, downtime from your business so that you can see the trees from the forest and that you can do these things. It’s imperative. You can’t outwork everything… So that you can think clearly and be stress free”…[Listen for More]
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Lynette M Smith authored the award-winning reference book, 'How to Write Heartfelt Letters to Treasure: For Special Occasions and Occasions Made Special.' Its role is to help millions of people worldwide to write gratitude letters so they can establish, enhance, and even rebuild their relationships and thus change their world.
“think like your customers and clients, be where they go, understand their needs and always do your best to meet those needs”…[Listen for More]
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Bird Blitch is the co-founder and CEO of Patientco, where he is striving to make the patient financial experience more intuitive, transparent and affordable while delivering more payments to health systems. He came up with the idea for Patientco after he and his wife had their first child and were subsequently flooded with bills from several different providers. Bird found this process to be overwhelming and created Patientco to make healthcare payments easier and more convenient.
“the three most important things that I can give advice to entrepreneurs is revenue, revenue, revenue. You can have a growth mindset if you have growth if you are moving up and to the right then grow cure is a lot of ills. Focus on good revenue”…[Listen for More]
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Danny Hadas is a # 1 bestselling author, entrepreneur, and advisor to the world’s most iconic brands. His work has impacted millions of people across 500+ companies worldwide, including Disney, BMW, and AT&T. With The Emovation Project, Danny teaches business leaders how to power their profits by empowering their people.
“every single day ask yourself; how do you want to feel each and every day you operate your business? And what are you going to do to have yourself feel that way? Asked that question every day and you will be on the right track”…[Listen for More]
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Cindy is the CEO of Cindy Miller, Inc. She is a certified Behavior Analyst who uses the game of Golf as a tool to improve your quality of life. She is a former LPGA Tour player and veteran of five U.S. Women’s Opens. She lost her LPGA Tour card after three seasons. Cindy says, “Of the best players in the world on the LPGA Tour, I was one of the worst.” She hung up her clubs and became a celebrated LPGA . That’s why, 25 years after losing her card, Cindy picked up her golf clubs and started playing again. She became a contestant on The Golf Channel’s Big Break III: Ladies Only show where she finished third. That same year, she earned second place on the Legends Tour Money List, proving to herself the dream she had as a seventeen- year- old was not a nightmare. Her message has reached employees such as Pepsico, Microsoft, The Hartford, LPGA, Church Mutual Insurance, Independent Health and more.
“keep doing what you are doing. Be willing to get off the nail, be willing to look in the mirror and plant a C and do something about it. No whining allowed”…[Listen for More]
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Jen Mansfield is a fulfilment coach who works with mentally exhausted women to get them feeling inspired, energised and loving life again. Having overcome her own battles with chronic anxiety and depression, Jen discovered the inner magic within us all and now teaches others how to go from mind mania to mind mastery.
“just do it. It’s easy when you just do it. When you think about it you will totally talk yourself out of it. So that’s where my launch before you are ready comes in. And just be you as well… So just be you and you will find your people”…[Listen for More]
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Mary Kelly, PhD, CSP, CDR, US Navy (ret) Leadership Expert, Economist, Best-selling Author, Keynote speaker Mary Kelly improves profit growth. As an economist, corporate strategist, and leadership development expert, Mary translates economic data that leaders can use to make the right decisions for their business. Cited in Money Magazine, Entrepreneur, Success, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, and by over 500 TV and radio stations, Mary translates theory into action. Author of 13 business and leadership books.
“surround yourself with a mastermind of other entrepreneurs who are doing either what you want to do or successful in their lanes… I am a huge fan of creating a mastermind or a board of advisers or joining something where you get other people’s perspectives”…[Listen for More]
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Leisse Wilcox is a transformational mindset + success coach who helps high-potential women courageously become the vision of themselves they can’t stop dreaming about. A passionate (and TEDX) speaker, dynamic thought leader, author, NLP practitioner, top podcast host, cancer survivor, mom of three, and taco enthusiast, her entire experience has been about coming home to her truest self and to call herself “beloved,” knowing intimately that changing the world starts by making the changes we want to see within ourselves, first. An expert featured on Simple Habit, and an entrepreneurial advisor with StartUp Canada, Leisse’s intention is to guide people to come home to themselves, giving them permission to live, authentically. Leisse’s first book To Call Myself Beloved is available now, and you can watch her on Season 2 of Amazon Prime's "The Social Movement.”
“be very intentional and be very clear on your why. It’s something I don’t think we spend enough time on really embodying. You very much need the clarity of why the hell you are doing this to act as your anchor. And when you are very clear, when you understand implicitly your purpose and your why that is the touchstone so you can detach from needing a particular outcome, you can just stay focused on why you are doing what you are doing. And as I say invite all kinds of unforeseen opportunities into your life in that way”…[Listen for More]
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Megan Hudson is a passionate connector who helps people find their natural communication and networking styles. She does this by helping people grow their networks organically, teaching them how to be present in conversations, finding ways to connect to others, and looking for opportunities to collaborate.
“build your tribe and be very, very specific and purposeful. Surround yourself with like-minded individuals but again if you are the smartest most experienced person in the room. Find people that challenge you, that expand your knowledge, that teach you, that are generous with you, and that just educate you in every way, that are also positive, that are motivated and driven… That think differently to you, that may have the same purposes and goals and values as you but think differently”…[Listen for More]
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Layne Booth CEO and Business Growth Strategist of The Project Booth, a business consulting company that uses proven metrics and data to bring business owners to the next level in their business. By strategically planning operations and creating a visual roadmap map, business owners can reclaim their time to focus on their business, make data-driven decisions, and capitalize on sales & profits. With her passion—and over a decade of “in the trenches” experience—as a guiding light, Layne ensures successful growth-minded business owners eliminate overwhelm by bringing clarity to help with teams, capacity and profits… and get back to running a business they love.
“don’t be afraid to try something that is hard. That’s when it’s worth it because you are here to provide something unique that no one else can do. And if no one else has forged that path for you then it’s going to be a little tough but it’s absolutely worth it”…[Listen for More]
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A successful entrepreneur, author, speaker, business coach, and mentor, Aurora Winter has trained emerging and established leaders both nationally and internationally. She is the author of six books, including her newest release, Thought Leader Launch. ABC, CBS, KTLA, FOX, Hallmark Channel, The Huffington Post, Oprah radio, Success magazine, and other media have featured Aurora’s uplifting and useful advice.
“what is your massively transformative purpose? So, I think defining your massively transformative purpose is really a way to add fuel to the fire that’s authentic to you so that will help you build your dream life and your dream business and not end up building a trap… Your massively transformative purpose will be you just brain dump a dozen, two dozen things that you are curious about or interested in that you naturally want to know more about. That’s your fuel. And then brain dump a dozen or so problems that you see that could be solved”…[Listen for More]
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Sarah Petty is the New York times Best-Selling Author of Worth Every Penny: Build a Business that Thrills Your Customers and Still Charge What You're Worth, a two-time Two Comma Award winner and mom of 3 teenagers. After beginning her corporate career at Coca-Cola Enterprises and a top regional advertising agency, she used her marketing chops to start one of one of America’s most profitable photography studios. Now her passion lies with coaching professional portrait photographers on how to get top-dollar clients so they never have to get a 9-5 job and leave their families again. Sarah built her multi-million dollar empire around the value of putting #familyfirst as she balanced two businesses, speaking gigs and an active crew of very-involved kids. She’s been featured in Entrepreneur, Fox Business, USA Today and the Wall Street Journal and is an internationally-known speaker.
“do hard things it expands your capacity… That’s how we get better by doing something hard and after you’ve done it a few times it’s not so hard and then you can go and do the next thing. And so I’m always trying to do hard things and of course I pushing my students to do hard things and I pushing my teenagers to do hard things as well”…[Listen for More]
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Michael Bernoff is the President and Founder of the Human Communications Institute, a leader in the personal and professional development industry. His programs, audios and seminars have impacted individuals and corporations from over 35 countries. Michael has an unmatched natural-born talent to understand the psychology of individuals, which he will pass on to you. This innate and highly-tuned awareness allows him to quickly perceive what makes people make the decisions they make and what makes them do what they do. Rather than breaking down walls, Michael is skilled at getting people to rapidly lowering resistance in themselves and others, allowing room for progress. Michael is the developer of Human Interaction Technology™(HIT), a powerful technology that allows people to understand unknown psychological triggers and powerful communication strategies so they can increase their charisma, influence, persuasion and connections with others. This leads to greater financial wealth, physical health and confidence throughout their day to day life. And with this technology, results last…permanently.
“go for it, you will figure it out. You have to understand that business, stop listening to people, do your own thing, pick who you are going to listen to and only listen to people who have what you want. Really have what you want, not have things, have what you want. And just go for it and give yourself enough time to make it work because three years is a very short period of time and that’s about what it’s going to take to make your business start to be what you want it to be”…[Listen for More]
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Corina Enache is a Language Learning Strategist & Mindset Coach to high-achieving language learners. She left her corporate job in 2018 and she is now the founder & owner of the Language Learning Accelerator Mentorship, a 12-month bespoke programme dedicated for any high-achiever who wants to get to language mastery with ease
“to find something that they are really passionate about and that they enjoy doing and find a way to help other people by doing that… Anyone can find something that they are good at and make a business out of it. My advice would be find a passion and follow your passion”…[Listen for More]
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Kathy Robinson is a former corporate executive turned entrepreneur. She is a certified wellness coach and the founder of Athena Wellness Enterprises, where she helps busy professionals optimize their vitality and well-being. Kathy is also the author of The Athena Principles, Simple Wellness Practices for Overworked Professionals.
“I’ve come to realise that the same principles that I follow for wellness. About setting intentions that I feel emotionally connected to, showing up consistently, applying a growth mindset, staying positive, having good habits, all of those good things, having compassion for myself. I would advise other entrepreneurs to think about how they are taking care of themselves and how to apply those same types of principles to what they do on a daily basis”…[Listen for More]
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Siddharth Rajsekar, AKA Sidz, is a musician turned digital geek. For the last seven years, Sidz has been running a digital agency that has represented clients like Robert Kiyosaki, Jack Canfield, Tony Robbins and many more. He’s the creator of the Freedom Business Model and is on a mission to create a million digital leaders. He currently nurtures one of India’s largest tribe of coaches and experts who are building their own digital ecosystems.
“work hard on your mindset and aim for mastery in your skill sets. Because when the mindset and the skill set are strong the tools enhance it to such a larger extent. So strong mindset is being really focused on the goal, having a clear vision, knowing what is your mission. The skill set is being hands-on in every aspect of your game… So, when the mindsets and the skill sets are strong then when you are given the tools you will be able to accelerate the growth to an unimaginable level because you’ll have that independence and self-reliance to grow your business”…[Listen for More]
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Brant Cooper is the author of the New York Times bestseller "The Lean Entrepreneur” and CEO of Moves the Needle. With over two decades of expertise helping companies bring innovative products to market, he blends design thinking and lean methodology to ignite entrepreneurial action within large organizations. He has experienced monumental milestones such as IPO, acquisition, rapid growth, and crushing failure. He serves as a keynote speaker, advisor to entrepreneurs, accelerators, and corporate leaders, and in his current venture, Moves The Needle, empowers organizations to be closer to customers, move faster, and act bolder.
“you have got to get out of the building, you have got to go and talk to your customers. Don’t go and pitch them your solution. The first time you meet with a customer don’t even talk about your idea, talk about them. I use a technique of flipping the conversation, it’s actually an old sales technique. So I briefly introduce myself then I will post some assumptions and then asked them if that’s what they face . I might say hi I’m Brant Cooper the CEO of Moves the Needle we bring an entrepreneurial spirit to large enterprises. When I talked to CEOs like yourself, I often hear that your company is moving too slowly and even though you say you are customer centric you really don’t understand your customers. And you are not able to change your plans based upon changes in the economy. Do you face any of those problems? So very quickly I’m trying to expose what I believe to be true among this market segment and then I asked them if it’s true”…[Listen for More]
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Sriranjini Latha is a multifamily investor in the San Francisco Bay Area who has been investing in multifamily since 2014. She brings her experience as a data scientist and researcher to the finding, analyzing and acquisition of commercial multifamily.
“my best business advice is really to ask questions. Ask questions everywhere you go. I think there’s even saying that says the person who asks the questions is may be a fool for five minutes but becomes a wise person for the next five years. That’s really how I see and grow my business is ask questions even if it might sound dumb, even if I piss someone off, even if it sounds stupid, whatever it might be just ask the question. And going back to the first principles keep digging deeper and deeper and deeper into the answers you are getting until you are convinced of the answer that you’ve got and it makes sense to you. And through that process there is so much learning to be had”…[Listen for More]
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Jeff Chastain is an entrepreneur and coach. While working with business leaders over the years, the underlying principles of a solid business remain the same. As a Professional EOS Implementer, Jeff has a passion for helping entrepreneurial business leaders get more of what they want from their business.
“I didn’t have the business background, I didn’t have the accounting background, things like that. So, to me that was a real struggle especially in the early phase. Early day you don’t necessarily have the money to go and hire an accounting firm or hire something like that. So, it’s that constant struggle of okay I’ve unfortunately got to spend the time in these areas that I don’t enjoy just to get off the ground. And can you do just enough there to get the ball rolling and the company rolling at that point”…[Listen for More]
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Over a decade ago Damon Burton beat a billion dollar company by outranking their website on Google. Since then, he knew he was onto something and has gone on to build an international search engine marketing company that’s worked with NBA teams, and Inc 5000 & Shark Tank featured businesses. Having started his business right before the 2008 recession, Damon is familiar navigating and growing a business through times like today. Never before has there been so many people needing something to focus their attention on… AND the time to do it. Since founding his company SEO National in 2007, he writes for Forbes, has been featured in publications including Entrepreneur Magazine, BuzzFeed and USA Weekly, and has helped high-profile clients make more in a month than they used to in a year.
“don’t prematurely commit to a path, be okay with failure for the benefit of the greater future success and be willing to experiment with what options you have in a career path or your entrepreneurial journey so that you better find tune what you can commit to happily longer”…[Listen for More]
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Dan Crum is a former CIA Polygraph Examiner and has created the CIA Method Top Secret Sales System. In over twenty years of sales, Dan has sold over 100 million dollars. Dan's new book will be available in November 2020 titled, "CIA Method."
“I will find a way; I will make away or I will figure it out. I see no value in could of, would of, should of. Like living in the past. There is a prayer called the serenity prayer which is the ability to accept the things you cannot change and the wisdom to know you can and can’t change and then doing something about it. So, I constantly into timeframes, one is the present. So, in the present I don’t look back to see how I got here unless it would give me value so I really just focus on now I am dealing with this how do I make the most of this present situation. So, then I am focused on the future which is how do I find a way, make a way or figure out a way to make the future situation better than even the present to make the most of what I have in front of me”…[Listen for More]
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For close to two decades, Carter Wilcoxson has helped the top advisors in the country break their own production records. Plus, he works directly with consumers to gain the frontline perspective faced by advisors. As a visionary leader, Carter Wilcoxson founded CSI Financial Group to bring together advisors and consumers by providing mutually beneficial solutions. The result of this was the creation of CSI’s Advisor Partner Platform. This revolutionary approach features a comprehensive collection of field-tested strategies designed to have an incredible impact on customers and their client-centric experience, as well as for their Advisor Partner Network.
“don’t be afraid to mess up, don’t be afraid to fail, don’t procrastinate any longer… You’ve got to just go for it. This acronym YOLO. You do really only live once so if there is something that is in your gut and there’s something that she earning and you have a passion for it… I am a huge fan of start with your why. If you embody something, if something is just in your inner psyche and you wake up every single day but you have to go to a job and in you are miserable, I am saying fail fast forward.”…[Listen for More]
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Jason Morgese is the founder and CEO of Leavemark The first ad-free, data storage and social media hybrid, designed to allow its users to archive life’s most important memories and documents with the ability to share today or in the future. Before creating Leavemark, Jason spent 9 years as the founder and President of eHealthScreenings, a technology centric biometric screening company that became one of the nation’s leading providers. eHealthScreenings provided health screenings to companies as small as 25 employees, to those with more than 150,000 employees. In 2017, his company was acquired by Premise Health and Water Street. At the time of sale, eHealthScreenings retained a national network of over 3,000 Wellness Technicians, 1,700 lab locations and had processed over 10 million tests. With his latest venture, Jason hopes that Leavemark will become the world's most loved company to preserve and share life's most important memories through.
“you need to be ready to hustle. I think you need to get out there and be willing to take a chance. Everybody will regret not trying more than failing. I think you need to face your fears. Everyone is afraid beginning but don’t listen to the naysayers. If you hang around four broke people my mom told me that you will probably be the fifth. So, get out there and try to better your life. And I think the last one is make a good plan and then take action. You can be that it’s going to happen one day person or you can finally make a move on start down a path which could lead to something exciting in life”…[Listen for More]
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Entrepreneur Annette Crone is the inventive mind behind X-Static - the world’s first anti-static hairbrush - and the founder of parent company ForBabs. With more than 30 years of experience in business development, sales, marketing, and leadership, Crone has helped successfully launch a variety of products including founding her own medical spa in 2004, and now creating her own line of problem solving brushes for both pets and people! During periods of extended business travel, Crone continuously battled hair static and fly-aways. This led her to try every available solution, including an old-school hair “hack”: smoothing a dryer sheet over frazzled strands. “I just wasn’t satisfied with any option out there,” she explains. “Dryer sheets felt sterile and awkward, hair static sheets felt far too wet - I knew there had to be a simpler, more effective alternative.” Unable to find the solution she needed, Crone set out to create it for herself. Today, Crone has developed a more accessible, easy-to-use, and hygienic solution: the X-Static hairbrush designed to banish frizz and fight fly-aways on all hair types, including color-treated styles. Made in the USA by her parent company ForBabs - lovingly named after Crone’s mother, Barbara - the X-Static’s refillable brush heads feature 12 tear-and-toss anti-static sheets that give an instant beauty boost to wet or dry hair. Having raised three daughters in San Diego, California, Crone brings a lifetime of experience to the task of developing effective hairstyling tools. Firmly believing that life is about taking risks and pushing beyond your comfort zone, she established ForBabs to bring creative ideas to life and help support women-owned businesses like hers.
“there is never a perfect time to move forward. You just have to take one step in front of the other and keep yourself going. So, if you are waiting for that perfect time to do something, I don’t know that there is ever perfect time. So just one step at a time gets you there”…[Listen for More]
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Pam Hopman is the Founder of The Hopman Group, LLC. Pam has over 20 years of experience working as a financial advisor. She is devoted to helping her clients and focuses on making sure that they get the advice that works for them in their particular situation. Pam has comprehensive knowledge of strategies for retirement income planning, wealth preservation, and estate planning. She holds the designation of Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor from the College of Financial Planning. Pam teaches her client and audiences how they can see their wealth amplified through personalized, comprehensive financial solutions.
“if you have a dream and you have a market for that dream my best advice is to pursue it. You can figure out a lot on the way but you can’t ignore a dream. So, you don’t want your tombstone to say that you did not follow your dream, that you lived an ordinary life. There is nothing wrong with an ordinary life if that’s what you want. If you have a dream you want to pursue the dream”…[Listen for More]
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A graduate of MIT and Stanford, Rizwan Virk is an entrepreneur and investor, and is the founder of Play Labs @ MIT, and is the author of Startup Myths & Models: What You Won’t Learn in Business School, Zen Entrepreneurship, and the Simulation Hypothesis.
“it is an adventure and whether it succeeds financially or not like any adventure there is always treasure and you will never come out the same because the challenges that you face in the way that you learn to face those challenges and the way that you can learn to rise to those challenges. So have faith in yourself even when you are going through hard times. Every single big public company out there has gone through very similar challenges when they were small just like your start-up might be at one time. And they made it and you too can find the treasure, whatever that happens to be”…[Listen for More]
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Peter B Stark, is a nationally recognized executive advisor, coach, speaker, and author with over 25 years of experience. Peter holds the Accredited Speaker from Toastmaster’s and Certified Speaking Professional from the NSA. Peter’s mission is to build organizations where employees love to work and customers love to do business.
“have a compelling positive vision of what you want to create and of your future and every morning wake-up excited about your vision and turning your vision into a reality and taking the steps to make that vision happen”…[Listen for More]
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Allow me to introduce you to Riggs Eckelberry, Riggs is the founder and CEO of the innovative water technology company, OriginClear, which is delivering water solutions for industrial customers worldwide. OriginClear has developed and licensed an invention that treats industrial and agricultural waste water with very little energy, and no chemicals. And now, industrial users can treat their water right where they use it, using prepackaged “point of use” water treatment systems that have an amazing life cycle of up to 100 years or more.
“you have got to just do it. We see that with writers, people who want to write the next big book and then there is people who actually do the writing. They may not be better characters but they do get it done… So really really invest in knowledge but first just start getting things. Just get your to-do list done and just go. Go through it and focus on your tasks without getting distracted by Facebook and so forth then try”…[Listen for More]
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Taylor Draper is the CEO and co-founder of Inherent Clothier, an online custom menswear shop that is both a personal stylist and a mental health awareness movement. Built on Draper’s own struggles with depression, Inherent Clothier designs modern-day “suits of armor” that awaken the inner confidence to battle anxiety, overwhelm, and self-doubt. Following a troubled childhood in Anchorage, Alaska, Draper reached the age of 15 weighing over 300 pounds and diagnosed with clinical depression. At 16, he and his mother relocated to Colorado Springs, where Draper found the courage to make a fresh start and get healthy - both physically and mentally. A natural entrepreneur, he left home at the earliest opportunity to establish a website and graphic design company at age 18, where he learned the basics of business-building, marketing, and brand development. In 2017, after years of demanding 60-hour work weeks, Draper found himself battling crippling self-doubt, struggling with weight gain, and facing divorce. In order to save himself and his marriage, Draper sought healing and support through extensive counseling and found confidence in the most surprising of places: his wardrobe. “I realized that caring for myself and my appearance gave me the confidence to fight, helping me build strength to pick up the pieces of a broken marriage and begin to repair.” Along with suit designer Dace Miller and logistics expert Ian Lee, Draper established an online custom suit store where men could shop affordable luxury styles in the comfort of their own home. Today, the company actualizes the idea that when you look good, you really do feel good. But the larger goal for Draper is normalizing feelings of anxiety, depression, or self-doubt while sparking honest conversation around mental health, ultimately giving men the confidence and courage to speak out. “My mission will not be complete until phrases like ‘walk it off’ or ‘man up’ are extinct from our vocabulary and every man’s first instinct is to open up about feelings of overwhelm or depression without shame, guilt, or fear.” Through Inherent Clothier, Draper helps men build fully functional, versatile wardrobes that awaken confidence and authentic self-expression. The company also partners with local and national organizations working to empower individuals and communities to speak openly about mental health. A fan of MMA, Jiu Jitsu, and Formula 1, Draper recharges by adding to his collection of nearly 100 fine whiskeys and spending time with his family. Learn more at InherentClothier.com. Get a first look at upcoming events, collaborations, and new collections on Instagram @InherentClothier. Suited for wellness.
“be okay with your business taking a while to be successful. And when you make plans make them in six months to a year timeline instead of on the weeks. It’s just going to help look at your business success and the runtime of your business in an infinite mindset versus a finite one that’s very short”…[Listen for More]
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She is referred to as the jewel in the crown of the Pheiff Group and Founder of Talent Concierge® a modern-day media and branding artist label associated with the management of today’s most daring minds - representing Talent who Mean Business. A Philanthropist and #BeyondMeToo Activist. From the C-Suite to an award-winning speaker, High-Performance Coach, 5-time author, and host of the Connie Pheiff Show. She is a trailblazer who is provocative, edgy, and brings a genuine humor to the platform.
“make a commitment and stick to it. And I call it stickability”…[Listen for More]
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Dr Steve Taubman is a bestselling author and world class speaker who has dedicated his life to showing people how to thrive through their challenges. He's written extensively on the application of contemplative practices in stressful situations and has spoken worldwide on mindset mastery for goal-oriented and helping professionals.
“study your craft… There are two driving forces that drive entrepreneurs and they look the same from the outside but they are very different from the inside. And one of them is passion and one of them is obsession… Passion is an energy that will take an entrepreneur and put him or her into a highly resourceful state for long periods of time. And so early in our progress as entrepreneurs we are working with great passion. Sometimes what happens is we hit a wall, we may become upon something that we don’t how to do but we feel such dogged determination that we start applying all of our energy on that one thing and we do it with what looks like passion from the outside so we are still working day and night. But what it is flipped from passion into obsession now we feel this sense of doom and I’ve got to get this done and just this horrible feeling of obligation. And most entrepreneurs cross that line without realising it. Highly successful entrepreneurs will again be mindful, they recognise the moment that they cross the line from passion into obsession. If they find themselves becoming obsessive and there is a negative energy associated they notice it and spot it early and typically what that means to the entrepreneur is that there is something that he or she doesn’t know how to do or isn’t as skilful or masterful at as he or she thinks he or she is and rather than go out and ask for help, rather than take a … Rather than go online and learn something new they just keep beating their heads against the wall. This is the death of entrepreneurship and of having heart attacks and ulcers or end up running from their businesses as if it’s a burning building. You’ve got to be willing to recognise when the passion is starting to change into a negative obsessive energy. And if it is you need to realise that that’s assigned that you need help, that you need more information and you probably need some kind of mentoring or coaching. And if you would only take that as a signal and a sign and do the right thing rather than beat your head against the wall trying to do it all yourself your life would be infinitely easier and you’d properly get much more successful much more quickly”…[Listen for More]
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Anne Jirsch is a professional futurist with a worldwide following. She is the best-selling author of five books including her new release ‘Future Vision.’ She has appeared on numerous radio and TV shows. Dubbed ‘The Queen of FLP’ Anne travels extensively with her sell-out workshops, seminars and public speaking engagements
“get grounded, stop, absolutely stop, streamline and really focus on how you want your future to be. Don’t have 10 different things going on, that’s a mistake I made and most people make. Just stop think and sometimes is a good exercise to actually imagine that you have stepped out of yourself. If you know Michael Neill he has this amazing …it’s really worth looking it up…it’s called business robot. What would business robot do? It’s one of my favourite things. Our version is we step out of you… Step out so you’ve let go of the emotion and just look from a position of detachment, what is the best way forward for you? What is the best way? And then visualise. Spend a few a few minutes every day visualising your perfect business ”…[Listen for More]
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Brooke Lively is the Founder of Cathedral Capital, a team of CFO’s and Profitability Strategists who help entrepreneurs turn their businesses into profitable companies. With expertise in growth management, creative problem solving and profitability strategy, Brooke has been featured in international media including Forbes and CNBC.
“it’s really to know your value. That was probably the biggest problem that I had and it’s probably the biggest problem that most of our clients have when they come to us. In fact, virtually every sales call that I have we end up talking about the persons value of what they provide and most people leave having upped their hourly rates whether they hire us not. And it’s hard because what’s easy for you, you don’t place any value on. You don’t place a lot of value on your passion. The fact of the matter is other people need that skill set and it has an immense amount of value. And once you can reconcile that it makes all the difference in the world”…[Listen for More]
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Tim Ringgold is a board certified music therapist in Orange County, CA, as well as an author, columnist, and international speaker. He has provided music therapy to thousands of teens and adults in residential treatment. Tim was the first person to give a TEDx talk on music therapy in 2012.
“launch. And then launch again. And then launch again. And launch again. And what I mean by launch is whatever you are thinking about doing do it because you will learn more in the doing the new ever will in the planning or thinking… So as the entrepreneur whatever you are thinking about doing set shorter deadlines, do it more often, launch more often, be willing to get punched by reality more often. Because every time you do you learn from it and that’s the only way 95 percent of us ever get better”…[Listen for More]
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Richard N. Seaman - Chairman of Seaman Corporation A committed believer in the vitality of entrepreneurship, Richard’s career has been focused on the creative development of the business enterprise. His vast experience in a wide range of creative business initiatives across multi-functional disciplines serves as a valuable resource to many business and community involvements. • A successful career in growing his small family-owned business from $2 million in annual sales to greater than $200 million in the challenging industrial fabrics industry.
“benchmark other entrepreneurs, both successful and unsuccessful ones. And then develop your long-term strategy. When you are going to start I think you want to decide are you going to create a business that you want to harvest and have an exit strategy for down the road, you want to create a business to be a lifestyle business that funds your lifestyle or do you want to create a business that will leave a legacy. And there is no question in my mind that depending on which of those directions you want to go it will impact the kind of strategic decisions you make about your business all of which will have both short-term and long-term impact on the success of your business”…[Listen for More]
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Anthony Oyogoa, MD is the CEO and Co-Founder of UrSafe, the first and only hands-free, voice-activated personal safety app fully integrated with 911 to empower everyone to stay safe anytime, anywhere. Born and raised in Nigeria and then the United Kingdom, Anthony is a medical professional and business entrepreneur based out of Las Vegas, Nevada. Before working on UrSafe, Anthony founded i-Rotation, an app designed to streamline the entire healthcare education workflow from A to Z using innovative technology to manage clinical rotations, transform accreditation review, and validate clinical training.
“dream big, dream wild, have wild thoughts. Why not? Whatever idea you think of… What if it can do this? What if it can do that? Why not? You know nobody’s done it, sometimes technology hasn’t got there yet but why can’t it be you? Why can’t you?... Why not?... Just don’t let anybody limit you. Your ideas are your ideas, they are meant for you to try to dream them out and make them happen”…[Listen for More]
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Joel Salomon is a Prosperity Coach helping individuals identify and overcome the roadblocks standing in their way of financial freedom. He recently published Best-Seller, The 9 Money Rules Millionaires Use. Joel previously managed his own hedge fund which he shut down to pursue his dream of helping at least 100,000 people become financially free. Joel was also a portfolio manager at Citi where he managed a long/short equity portfolio. He generated positive returns, including in 2008, when the market collapsed 40%. Joel is an FSA, CFA and Certified IP trainer
“you are going to have doubt, there is going to be some days of fear, being scared. And if you can #doubt the doubt , have faith that if you really have a dream and you have a strong desire for it and you have a strong belief in it you can achieve it ”…[Listen for More]
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A serial entrepreneur, David Wachs's latest venture, Handwrytten, is bringing back the lost art of letter writing. Handwrytten lets you send notes from your CRM system, the web site, apps, or through custom integration. All notes are written in pen by robots. Used eCommerce giants, nonprofits and professionals, Handwrytten is changing the way brands and people connect. Prior to Handwrytten, David built and sold Cellit, a mobile marketing platform.
“analysis paralysis stops a lot of would-be entrepreneurs. Deciding oh is now the time? Is this product good enough? Should I wait? Should I do something else? Should I? Should I? Should I? And before they know it the time has gone or they have too many life commitments or they are earning such a big salary it’s impossible to leave because their cost of living has grown with their salary. So, I think the best time to start a business is now. Don’t overanalyse, don’t wait, wait, wait. Sure, get your affairs in order and find how you are going to put food on your plate for the next 3 to 6 to 12 months but don’t keep putting it off because as you get older it just gets harder”…[Listen for More]
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Jesse Krieger sits squarely at the intersection of publishing and promotion - having signed two publishing deals on two different continents and navigated the world of becoming a best-selling author twice. In addition to being featured on over 50 media outlets for his best-selling book Lifestyle Entrepreneur, Jesse has been an entrepreneur his entire adult life and holds degrees from University of California, Berkeley, as well as National Taiwan University and Beijing Normal University. It has been his honor to publish 100+ books during his 6-year tenure as founder & publisher of Lifestyle Entrepreneurs Press - The Publisher for The Passionate.
“you’ve got to go for it. Entrepreneurship is not a spectator sport. It is taking action, it’s getting results for yourself and for your clients and seeing the through line from an idea to something that exists in the world and just honouring and honing that process week after week and month after month”…[Listen for More]
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Stephen Halasnik is currently the Cofounder of Financing Solutions which provides lines of credit to small businesses. He is a successful serial entrepreneur having built 7 companies over 25 years in the $5 to $20 million revenue per year range including an Inc 500 fastest growing company. Stephen is also an Amazon bestselling coauthor for the book, Crash and Learn: Lessons in Business and also hosts The Entrepreneur MBA Podcast. Stephen has been married for 25 years and has 2 teenage boys that he is actively engaged in helping to develop into confident young men who know what they want in life and are always striving for what makes them happy.
“let’s go back to the original saying that my mentor said, that is ‘create a runway for yourself’. And what that means is… If you can eliminate the ‘where am I going to get my money from?’ or if you are not dipping into your savings to pay for your life or if you can reduce the amount of expenses that you have, hypothetically if you are very young live at home or wherever, whatever, you are going to give yourself a longer runway to make it happen, to make success happen. In general, it takes three years for a business to become it’s going to make it. And I’m talking about business to business I am not talking about retail. So, giving yourself the longer runway that’s going to be very helpful to you being successful in business ”…[Listen for More]
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David Carmell is the CEO and Founder of the management consulting firm CSuite Advantage and DealRockit, the breakthrough new digital platform and business development technology that revolutionizes how firms and enterprises invest in their ecosystem. Carmell has over two decades of experience in business ownership, senior executive management, M&A, start-ups, SaaS, and consulting. During his career, Carmell acquired, owned, integrated and managed turnaround companies in distribution, remanufacturing, logistics, automotive and transportation. He is a recognized global top 50 thought leader on customer experience and has a unique understanding of the challenges and complexities faced by business owners and stakeholders today.
“this will be the greatest time to be an entrepreneur. Innovation, creation will be off the charts. Fact that people are at home with the digital world you had time to look at a new playing field. The playing fields are only going to become more levelled for you. The places where you have been spending time in the past you are not going to have to worry about, there’s going to be ecosystems on these platforms that are going to make it happen for you, you are going to bring in more people than you ever before and you are not going to be wasting time. You are going to be able to save time and rocket growth”…[Listen for More]
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Jennifer Locke is a ghostwriter and author coach who has helped her clients land book deals with business and Big Five presses. Jennifer also helps her clients get publication in high-profile publications such as Forbes and Harvard Business Review.
“build a business that looks like you, not one that you think you should have. There are so many different ways to build a successful business, there are so many other people who are doing it differently, and everybody’s business is individual and the temptation is to look over your shoulder all the time and to see what others are doing. And of course that’s natural as you are figuring out what works for you but we get caught in a trap when we get stuck in should and thinking that our businesses should look a certain way because that’s what the other person is doing and they are having success in that field”…[Listen for More]
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Kellsie Moore is an Actress and On-Camera Expert for purpose-driven entrepreneurs; helping you look, sound and FEEL great on camera. She helps them craft their unique message in a way that creates a powerful and authentic connection to their audience through video, so they can stand out from the crowd and become a magnetic brand. Everything she coaches stems from a personal development perspective to help her clients become more natural, comfortable, charismatic, and confident in front of the lens to make the impact they desire and finally enjoy doing video!
“know why you are doing this because if you don’t have some in your bones deep level soulful meaning of something that drives you and pushes you every day then you are quite possibly maybe not going to make it. Because it’s challenging and it’s a long road and take lots of commitment. I’m just really know your why and lock that in and believe it and hold onto that because that will fuel you for that decade-long journey. Like buckle in and go and do it it will help keep that motivation up”…[Listen for More]
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Steve Judge’s uplifting yet poignant journey will inspire you to achieve your own journey of excellence. Sharing his unique story with takeaways he’ll explain the many times he picked himself up after being knocked down. Going from wheelchair to world champion and onwards to successful professional speaker, author and coach.
“the best advice I could give if you want to achieve your goal, your gold as I would call it is VBA. That’s three words vision, benchmark, action. Make sure you know what your vision is, find out what it is, get a vision board or draw a picture. Tell people what your vision is, where are you going on this journey. After that get benchmarks. For goodness sake start recording where you are now. You want more money in your bank account? What does your bank account say no? Do you want to lose weight? How much do you weigh now? Do you want to run faster? Then how fast do you run now? Benchmark it then you can see your progress and that will be motivating as you see you getting better. And stronger when you are demotivated look at how far you’ve come”…[Listen for More]
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Aaron McHugh is an executive transformation coach, enterprise agility consultant, writer, podcaster, adventurer, author of Fire Your Boss: Discover Work You Love Without Quitting Your Job and career liberator who is learning to master a sustainable work-life play rhythms woven into his every day routine.
“believe in yourself and no one else will believe in your idea as much as you do. And that isn’t your goal to try and get other people to be as passionate about it or as fervently believing about what it is you see in the world. That’s what you are entrusted to do, that’s what you are entrusted to steward. And it’s great to get other people to come along but they don’t actually have to match your passion or your belief or your conviction metre. You can still move forward and just know that’s what your role is to play is you are the one to carry the torch and the flag”…[Listen for More]
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Melissa Beasley is a natural skin care formulator, the founder of Love-Essential Skin Care, and the mother of two amazing boys. After a toxic marriage led to a devastating divorce she and her boys moved in with her parents and she started the process of rebuilding. She started making skincare in her parents’ kitchen as a way to support herself and her boys, and Love-Essential Skin Care was born. She still manufactures products for Love-Essential Skin Care, and creates custom product lines for spas and salons, but now she has a bigger mission. She uses the skills she learned while rebuilding her own life to help other women rebuild after abuse and divorce have torn them down. It is her dream to see women become completely free from the burdens of their trauma and create a life of vitality and joy.
“do your inner work because you can know the perfect strategy and never do it. And we are really, really good at talking ourselves out of doing the things we need to do to grow our business like calling a contact or calling someone to ask them if they would like to carry our products. And so clearing those inner fears of doing that work… Are you doing the things that you do out of love for yourself or out of some sort of should that you have from the world? Because it’s out of obligation to somebody else building a business is hard and it takes a lot of work and if you are not doing it out of some sense of love and joy for yourself it’s hard to show up to that work every single day. And so keeping in mind why you want to do this is something that is really important”…[Listen for More]
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Mark Thompson is the co-founder of PayKickstart.com - a SaaS that is reinventing the modern-day shopping cart and affiliate management, helping thousands of businesses and Entrepreneurs sell more, maximize customer lifetime value and automate subscription commerce. Mark has spent over a decade in the world of marketing and software, selling over $20+ million dollars of his flagship training programs and software.
“it may sound simple but just do, just implement and don’t be afraid to make mistakes… I find that so many people for whatever reason are afraid to implement and just start doing. And I think part of it is they are afraid to fail and so they don’t actually go and do. So that’s one thing that I think that if you want to be successful in being an online business you need to just go and do and implement and if you make mistakes just learn from them. And if you have given it your best shot and even if you don’t succeed that okay. But hopefully it’s a learning experience so the next venture that you create you can do better at”…[Listen for More]
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Robert Berry is a leading New York City-based art gallerist, consultant, and advisor. Having represented many of Manhattan's top art galleries, and with over 15 years’ experience selling and collecting fine art, Robert launched his own gallery, Robert Berry Gallery in New York City this year. Robert Berry Gallery’s newest show, Impressionable, featuring nine breathtaking works of rock icons by Chicago-based artist John Ruby. With millions quarantined as a result of the global coronavirus pandemic, a new emphasis has been placed on mental health and wellness. Art provides both questions and answers during an uncertain time. Robert can share how he opened his own online art gallery after 15+ years of working in New York City’s vibrant art world. He can also share tips for those looking to invest in art, and how to find affordable art that will gain long-term value. Robert can also discuss the meaning of today’s health and economic crisis on art, and what the new show - Impressionable - has to say about the current global health crisis, as well as the business of art and the future of art as an investment. Robert earned his B.A. in Art History from Stony Brook University, and his M.A. in Art History and Criticism from Brooklyn College where he focused on post-war American painters.
“it’s never a good time to start and the best thing you can do is try something out now. Can you sell your offerings without any special equipment and expensively designed websites or a marketing plan. You should be able to sell now in some capacity and if not it’s likely something is wrong with what you are selling and changes and adjustments may be needed. Does your customer need it and want it at prices you are offering? You should be able to not only sell and deliver on it but offer it to a market that truly needs it”…[Listen for More]
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A former corporate girl, Chala Dincoy is the CEO of The Repositioning Expert. She’s a Marketing Strategist who helps B2B service providers reposition their message to successfully sell to corporations. She's also obsessed with all things fitness and stealing hugs from her 11-year old Logan.
“niche down (and get an elevator pitch)”…[Listen for More]
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Patrick Frazier brings clients more than 35 years “in the trenches” operating experience as a business executive in the technology, banking and transportation industries. He has served vice president of operations, director systems development, executive coach and business process improvement on high growth company leadership teams. These experiences create tremendous “connection” with client executive teams, along with the ability to empathize with the daily challenges and opportunities. Pat understands how to create award-winning results and cultures. He guides company executives in finding and keeping A-players, getting the right people in the right seats, developing and putting an actionable strategic plan in place and having the discipline to execute and hit milestones. By applying the 7 Attributes of Agile Growth methodology, Pat assists businesses and executive teams to understand their options, and to achieve the maximum value from their business.
“you have got to love it all. If you are making widgets for the man and you want to go and start your own widget company you have got to understand what that widget company is. You have got to understand it and you have got to love it all. You have got to love the marketing piece and the sales piece on the buy / build peace and the delivery piece and the customer service piece and then the accounting piece. You have got to love the whole business”…[Listen for More]
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Peter Winick is the founder and CEO of Thought Leadership Leverage. For the past two decades he has helped individuals and organizations build and grow revenue streams through designing and growing their thought leadership platforms as well as acting as a guide and advisor for increasing business to business sales of thought leadership products. His clients come from a diverse set of backgrounds and specialties. They include New York Times bestselling business book authors, members of the Speakers’ Hall of Fame, recipients of the Thinkers50 award, CEOs of public and privately held companies, and academics at prestigious institutions such as Yale, Wharton, Dartmouth, and London School of Business. Peter has built his career and Thought Leadership Leverage to serve the needs of these individuals and others like them. Specifically he uses his entrepreneurial experience and spirit along with a passion for using relationships to leverage growth to help: CEOs, business owners, and internal practice leaders looking to grow revenue, revitalize marketing, and improve customer experience through applying the principles of thought leadership; Other business leaders and experts seeking to build out their ideas into a platform so they can launch content and products to create a lasting impact in various companies around the globe; and, “Traditional” thought leaders who want to build or grow their practice, increase their effectiveness in content creation and marketing as well as extend their reach into existing and new clients. Peter uses a combination of art, science, logic, focus, passion, and creativity to transform a thought leader’s great ideas into a platform and practice so they can effectively reach business leaders and executives to serve them the tools they and their organizations need.
“if it’s your first time in the game you will totally underestimate what it will take. And by what it will take I mean time, energy, effort, resources and dollars. I think business plans the way they traditionally have been done where you’ve got cash flow projections and all of that stuff for most businesses are a total waste of time and energy. I think you need to realise it will take you longer, it will cost more money, it’s going to take more energy. And listen to the market and get over yourself. The market will tell you the truth. Individuals don’t have the power to do that as cleanly as the market does”…[Listen for More]
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John Vuong is the owner and founder of Local SEO Search. He helps small and medium-sized businesses rank on Google and dominate their local market. John puts a strong emphasis on relationships and treats his client’s like family, wanting to not only help them rank but to help their business grow and succeed.
“don’t give up. I know there is a very high failure rate in terms of people that give it X amount of time - six months, three months, one year, two years… There’s things that you have to in terms of the benchmark look back at how do people survive if they didn’t have what you have in terms of the ability to make it successful. So benchmark yourself. Because if you understand what differences you have in terms of an entrepreneur skill set you are way more valuable than someone that’s an employee because your mindset is completely different. So don’t give up because there are resources, there are people, there is free tools out there, there is great people that that even can provide great valuable insight that is willing to help you because the most successful people out there in the world are the most helpful and the friendliest people out there if you reach out and you ask questions ”…[Listen for More]
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Hayden Crabtree is a commercial value add real estate investor, self storage expert, and author of best selling 'Skip The Flip: Secrets the 1% Know About Real Estate Investing'
“separate yourself from the pack. When other people are listening to music you should be listening to podcasts or audiobooks… Go above and beyond don’t just become a passive networker in terms of listening to content and meeting people. It’s called net work and it requires work to do so if you want to become a successful entrepreneur… you need to start building out that network of other people. And I would tell you go and meet as many people, local business owners, by then coffee, take them to lunch and start building relationships with other entrepreneurs”…[Listen for More]
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Robert Angel is a speaker, author, and entrepreneur. His forthcoming book is Game Changer: The Story of Pictionary and How I Turned a Simple Idea into the Bestselling Board Game in the World (June 2020). In 1985, using a few simple tools, a Webster's paperback dictionary, a No.2 pencil, and a yellow legal pad, he created the phenomenally successful and iconic board game Pictionary®. Putting together the first 1000 games by hand in his tiny apartment, Angel mastered all the needed business skills including sales, marketing and distribution before selling the game to Mattel in 2001. Today, he makes his home in Seattle where he is involved in philanthropy and mentors young entrepreneurs.
“you kind of act like a spider because what he does is… You’ve got this web and you look at it you see it go oh my gosh it’s amazing, it’s beautiful and he doesn’t plan that spiderweb, he doesn’t know where is going to put it, he just kind of stands there, jumps, total intuition somewhere else. And he goes okay here I am now I go back and start making my web and get the points down… Just jump, wherever you land then you go different direction and you just keep going until you get that web built”…[Listen for More]
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Professor John Rizvi is a Board Certified Patent Attorney, Adjunct Professor of law, and recognized speaker in the field of intellectual property. He has over 25 years of experience in patent and trademark law and is one of the first group of attorneys ever to be Board Certified as an expert in this field. He is a recognized TED Talker with 2 of his talks featured last year in Inventor’s Digest in a listing of the “top 10 TED Talks for Inventors” and is the best-selling author of "Escaping the Gray" and "Think and Grow Rich for Inventors".
“become comfortable with being uncomfortable. I would have a slight spin on that because I don’t think it’s really good to be uncomfortable but what I would say is become comfortable with uncertainty. And that’s been something that held me back for years. Like if you have uncertainty you feel as if something is wrong but I think as an entrepreneur just reaching a level in your thinking where you have uncertainty about steps or actions but that is just par for the course, that’s just how things are going to be.”…[Listen for More]
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Rayne Guest is founder and CEO of R-Water, whose patented computerized device is helping fight COVID-19. Installed in facilities like hospitals and nursing homes, R-Water uses only pure salt, softened water, electricity to produce a nontoxic healthcare-grade disinfectant that kills pathogens lightning fast, and a nontoxic all-purpose cleaner and degreaser.
“unless you are starting a business that keeps you up at night thinking about it don’t do it. Wait until you really have a passionate cause that you can go after that you can use your entrepreneurialism for. And as you go into business really keep your karma in check. There is going to be multiple times throughout a business where you have a choice to make and the most cost-effective choice may not be the most karmically correct choice. I say even if it costs your bank account little bit more go with the proper choice”…[Listen for More]
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Robert Wright is the founder of Wright Law Office, PLLC - a boutique virtual law practice that helps e-commerce sellers across the globe protect and scale their online businesses. Since launching his practice, Robert has advised thousands of e-commerce sellers on how to protect their personal assets, bulletproof their brands, weaponize their works and safeguard their sales online.
“Figure out your why. Really ask yourself why do you want to start this journey? What are you looking to accomplish? If it’s to make money there might be easier ways to do it. You are going to inevitably find yourself in a spot where the journey is difficult. And understanding that why in that moment is going to help you get past that spot”…[Listen for More]
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Dr Dennis Jaffe, a member of Wise Counsel Research, is a San Francisco-based advisor to families about family business, governance, wealth and philanthropy. He is author of Borrowed from Your Grandchildren: The Evolution of 100-Year Family Enterprises; Cross Cultures: How Global Families Negotiate Change Across Generations; Stewardship in your Family Enterprise: Developing Responsible Family Leadership Across Generations, and Working With the Ones You Love. His global insights have led to teaching or consulting engagements in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. The Family Firm Institute awarded him the 2017 International Award for service, and in 2005 he received the Beckhard Award for service to the field. In 2020 he was awarded a special commendation as an individual thought leader in the field of wealth management by the Family Wealth Report. He has a BA degree in Philosophy, MA in Management, and Ph.D. in sociology, all from Yale University, and professor emeritus of organizational systems and psychology at Saybrook University in San Francisco.
“be thoughtful, to seek out other people. We have not talked about how entrepreneurship is not an individual behaviour it’s a way of building a culture and building a community. And I think that entrepreneurs have to build a community of people rather than think it’s my idea and I am going to do it on my own and that the other people are just going to come in and help me do my idea. Those that are community builders, those that build a team, those that bring in other people those are the people that are successful”…[Listen for More]
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Dr. Allen Lycka has been acknowledged as one of the leading cosmetic dermatologists in the world for three decades. A pioneer in cosmetic surgery, he helped to develop laser assisted tumescent liposuction - an advanced body sculpture technique, and Moh’s Micrographic Surgery, an advanced means of removing skin cancer with 99% success. He has lived and practiced in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada since 1989. He’s written 17 books, 30+ academic papers and hosted the number one internet radio show in the world - Inside Cosmetic Surgery Today. He is a co-founder of Doctors for the Practice of Safe and Ethical Aesthetic Medicine and founder of The Canadian Skin Cancer Association. He has won the prestigious Consumers Choice Award For Cosmetic Surgery for 16 consecutive years.
“it’s not what happens to you it’s what you do with what happens. That is a very fundamental thing that I think everybody must realise. It’s a very fundamental tenant that people really must take to heart. Remember that over and over again. If something goes wrong remember maybe it’s teaching you a lesson, maybe you could learn from that lesson and be better off. I would not want to go through my diagnosis of ALS again but look where it’s taken me, look at the journey it’s taken me on. You know it taught me a lot of lessons and I think that’s the important thing. It’s not what happens to you it’s what you do with what happens”…[Listen for More]
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Beth Armknecht Miller is an accomplished author, speaker, and solution provider; her insight and expertise make her a sought-after leadership influencer. A serial entrepreneur and executive coach as well as a former Vistage Chair of 13 years, Beth is featured in numerous industry blogs and publications including Entrepreneur, Leadercast, and TalentCulture.com. Her book, “Are You Talent Obsessed?,” compiles her best practices for business leaders.
“quickly learn from your failures, adjust and move on”…[Listen for More]
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Nick Wolny is a writer and messaging strategist helping entrepreneurs write content faster than ever before. He’s given over 40 live TV interviews commenting on marketing and technology, writes articles for Entrepreneur, Business Insider, and Social Media Examiner, and has been featured with Reader’s Digest, Mens’ Health, VICE, the Houston Chronicle, and USA Today.
“launch often then keep tuning into your core audience… Get on the phone with people in your audience. If you have got a new subscriber ask them if they will get on the phone with you for 10 or 15 minutes and you could just ask them some questions about what they are working on and you will discover that that market research process goes so much faster. And you are also going to discover that there are always cool new products, programs and services to create using your existing expertise and your existing knowledge that are going to help you grow your business in the long run”…[Listen for More]
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Sean Castrina is a bestselling author of 8 Unbreakable Rules for Business Startup Success and the fictional tale The Greatest Entrepreneur in the World. Sean is an active entrepreneur and CEO having started more than 20 companies in the last 25 years. He has guest lectured on entrepreneurship at some of America's finest colleges. He hosts The Ten Minute Entrepreneur, a top 10 business podcast on iTunes.
“become a great entrepreneur and you will eventually start a great business. Work on you. The common denominator of great companies is a great founder so become a great entrepreneur. Develop the skills, develop the qualities great entrepreneurs have which I shared in this podcast little earlier”…[Listen for More]
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Carla Johnson is a world-renowned storyteller, entertaining speaker, and a prolific author. Over the last two decades, she’s helped people leverage the art of storytelling to inspire action through amazing experiences. Today, she travels the world teaching anyone (and everyone) how to cultivate idea-driven teams that breed unstoppable creativity and game-changing innovation.
“put aside other people’s expectations of what your entrepreneurial journey would look like. And I think one of those expectations is that when you start and have an entrepreneurial life that you are working 24/7. And I think especially as an entrepreneur you need to make sure that you take time away from your business because it’s with that time away that you come back with a fresh perspective. Both energy but also ideas and a lot of blind spots go away. So, it’s that ability to make sure that your journey as an entrepreneur is true to what you believe and not falling into that trap of all this is what entrepreneurs do”…[Listen for More]
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Innovation expert Chuck Swoboda is a pioneer in the LED lighting industry, and has over 30 years of experience in the technology business. He is an author and speaker. His new book is The Innovator’s Spirit: Discover the Mindset to Pursue the Impossible.
“there are many ways to make money and still have a life than being an entrepreneur. So don’t do it unless you are so passionate about an idea that it keeps you up at night and you are prepared to fail along the way. Being an entrepreneur is about the journey not the destination so you have got to love the journey”…[Listen for More]
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Devin Miller is an entrepreneur who is also a patent and trademark attorney. He just loves startups! He established his own first startup while earning Law & MBA degrees. Since then, Devin has set up several more startups. He enjoys every minute of creating and helping startups.
“be ready to endure and embrace the insurance. And so, I think the biggest thing is just to realise there’s ups and downs of being an entrepreneur. Running a business, you are going to have a rollercoaster. And so, acknowledging that on the front end and bracing yourself for it and also embracing it is the best advice I can give is just be ready for the ups and downs and be ready to endure and be excited about it”…[Listen for More]
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Andri Benson has always loved to draw and knows it has helped her in dreaming up fresh and innovative designs for her wedding couples. Having worked as a creative wedding planner for the last decade, she is now bringing her artistic skills to the fore, by helping couples see for themselves that anything is possible. They really can go from dream concept to reality for their special days. Not only does she provide them with incredibly detailed and bespoke concept illustrations of how their weddings will look; but with a background in theatre design, she’s able to turn them into reality, using her skills. She finds drawing is her favourite past-time too and will often spend her evenings, curled up on the sofa sketching. Her husband of 19 years is hugely supportive and embraces her creativity. At six feet three inches, he towers above Andri’s petite four feet 11 frame. She even drives in heels so she can reach the pedals, because they had to buy a car big enough for him too! It’s the strength of her own marriage that also helps Andri understand the expectations that couples have as they embark on planning their special days. Those couples turn to her because of her creative background. She spent seven years in her previous career curating costumes at the BBC Costume and Wigs store, having completed a degree in Theatre Design at Nottingham Trent University and a foundation course at the prestigious Central St Martin’s College, London. But it’s her artistry and show-stopping designs that are really getting Andri talked about. And fellow wedding planners are now approaching her, so she can provide sketches for their happy couples too. There’s something quite magical in being able to turn dreams on paper into a reality.
“everyone always says it’s about knowing how to do your job and the experience you have but I think it’s more than that. I think you really need to believe in yourself, I think being a business owner is as much about your mindset is your experience. It’s all very well being the best person to do something but if you don’t actually believe in yourself you can do it or believe in yourself enough to put yourself out there I think that can really hamper you as a business owner. Believing yourself you can do it you got to really work on that mindset as well as your experience and gaining that knowledge and that will really help you in business”…[Listen for More]
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Henry Daas is a 30-year entrepreneur turned business and finance coach. He is also the author of FQ: Financial Intelligence.
“your twenties is for experimentation. Go out, don’t worry about failing. I have a saying, it’s only a failure if you didn’t learn something from it… Use that time, use it wisely. Corporate America is a great training ground for free knowledge… So, do that and build up all of that knowledge base and learn that experience about what the corporate world is like and then start your entrepreneurial journey… It’s one of a thousand different ways you can become an entrepreneur. The most important thing is become an entrepreneur because we need you, the world needs you, you are doing a public service by becoming an entrepreneur”…[Listen for More]
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Stacey Hanke is author of the book; Influence Redefined…Be the Leader You Were Meant to Be, Monday to Monday®. She is also co-author of the book; Yes You Can! Everything You Need From A To Z To Influence Others To Take Action. Stacey is founder of Stacey Hanke Inc. She has trained and presented to thousands to rid business leaders of bad body language habits and to choose words wisely in the financial industry to the healthcare industry to government and everyone in between. Her client list is vast from Coca-Cola, FedEx, McDonald’s, Publicis Media, Nationwide, Boeing, US Cellular, Discover, Oracle and Abbvie. Her team works with Directors up to the C-Suite. In addition to her client list, she has been the Emcee for Tedx. She has inspired thousands as a featured guest on media outlets including; The New York Times, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Thrive, SmartMoney magazine, The Economist and Business Week. She is a Certified Speaking Professional—a valuable accreditation earned by less than 10% of speakers worldwide.
“because your name is on your company and you are the face of the company… I really think you need to get feedback on how people experience you, how you treat your team, how you interact with your clients whether that’s in person or virtual. I really do believe you need to start recording yourself and watch the playbacks. Give yourself a real close look at how people experience you because you can have the best product, if you can’t communicate it in a way that people can’t understand it, if you can’t communicate in a way that people trust you and you make them feel like they are connected and engaged with you through your delivery does it really matter how great your products are? It still comes down to the experience people have with you. Don’t rely on how you feel that experience is like for others around you, take a look through their eyes, through their ears and get feedback from people that you know I going to tell you the truth ”…[Listen for More]
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The quickest way to innovate is to take lessons from one world and apply them in another. Jenny Davis was the fastest woman in Scottish sprint cycling. As a Commonwealth Games Medalist, Jenny understands what it takes to plan, train, compete, and thrive on and off the track. Using timeless principles she has successfully created and led change management and continuous improvement programs for teams as small as 5 up to business units of 1500+. Jenny takes what she learned in excelling in sports to help entrepreneurs and business leaders lead their teams through crisis and change. To stop the constant fire fighting, high stress and high emotion, ‘running around like headless chickens’ feeling in their teams, businesses and personal lives. Instead, she helps them gain calm and control for their teams, businesses and personal lives, by taking those core sporting principles and applying them to business.
“no one does it alone and especially for entrepreneurs no one does this gig by themselves. Every single person who’s had success, business, personal life, sports, music, art, science they’ve all had support through coaches and mentors, mastermind groups, bosses from a previous life, fellow entrepreneurs. Either one-on-one or through resources like this podcast. And my advice would be to lean on them for support and guidance and help. They will challenge you where they think you need challenge, encourage you to keep going and make sure that you’re on the right path ”…[Listen for More]
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In 2016, David Jenyns successfully systemised himself out of the business, hired a CEO and stepped back from the daily operations. Through this process he become a systems devotee - founding systemHUB & SYSTEMology. Today, his mission is to free all business owners worldwide from the daily operations of running their business. Recognised as a high achieving entrepreneur, you will find many of David’s keynote presentations on YouTube including: TEDx, WordCamp and Problogger.
“realise that systems set you free and that there are a lot of misconceptions around systems and processes and systemising businesses. People think that you are going to need hundreds of systems to systemised the business. You don’t. People are going to think systems remove creativity in your business but they don’t. People think that they need to be the ones that build the systems but they don’t. People think that they need to systemised like McDonald’s but they don’t. There is a lot of misconceptions around systemisation. So, my best advice is to re-look into the idea of systems and processes because they do set you free and they unlock the ability for you to grow a business that works without you. It is a critical skill that you want to master ”…[Listen for More]
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Trust Orlu-Orlu is a Budget Coach to female professionals wanting to keep hold of more of their money. She believes budgeting should be Simple, Empowering and Fun and teaches women how to create that. She helps women find clarity on their money goals and transform from Budget novice to Budget Wiz.
“having a strong why for why it is you want to have your own business. What is the reason that you are looking to have that? And I actually think a lot of the time it should be more than the money or more than yourself. A lot of the time it’s better when it’s something bigger than you. Yes you may have your initial needs to start with but it’s important to connect with a strong why because there are going to be tough times, there are going to be struggles”…[Listen for More]
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Bestselling author and speaker Kwame Christian is the Director of the American Negotiation Institute and a subject matter expert in the field of negotiation and conflict resolution. Kwame has conducted workshops throughout North America and abroad, and is a highly sought after national keynote speaker. Host of the world’s most popular negotiation podcast, Negotiate Anything, Kwame is dedicated to empowering others through the art and science of negotiation and persuasion. The show features leading experts in the field to deliver the best-in-class content. Now downloaded more than 1,000,000 times, Negotiate Anything has a dedicated and growing following with listeners in more than 180 countries around the world. Kwame’s TEDx Dayton talk, Finding Confidence in Conflict, was the most popular TEDx Talk on the topic of conflict in 2017, and has been viewed over 120,000 times. His book, Nobody With Play With Me, is an Amazon Best-Seller and has helped countless individuals overcome the fear, anxiety and emotion often associated with difficult conversations through a branded framework called Compassionate Curiosity. As an attorney and mediator with a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology, a Master of Public Policy, and a Juris Doctorate (Law Degree), Kwame brings a unique multidisciplinary approach to making difficult conversations easier. He also serves as an adjunct professor for Otterbein University’s MBA program, as well as The Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law in the top-ranked dispute resolution program in the country.
“don’t stop, that’s really it. Persistency is key. And so, a lot of times people quit before the time is right… When it gets hard keep on pushing, just don’t stop moving. And as long as you are moving in the right direction the business is going to be built beneath your feet as you continue to walk. And so I think having that journey type of framework where you say okay I am not just trying to get this quick win there is a process behind it and I need to keep on working the process. It helps you to keep on moving when things get difficult”…[Listen for More]
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Josh Tapp is the founder of The Lucky Titan, and has helped over 500 entrepreneurs to monetize and scale their audiences to over 100 Raving fans.
“focus 100 percent on the audience… If you will focus 100 percent on building an army of people rallying around the right cause, around the right thing everything else will follow, the success, the happiness, the fulfilment, all of that comes from fulfilling that audience”…[Listen for More]
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Jules De Vitto works as a Transpersonal coach and therapist to support people through challenging life transitions or times of crisis. This might include navigating experiences of stress, anxiety, burnout, grief or loss. She focusses not only on how to cultivate greater resilience through times of difficulty but helps people to connect with a deeper meaning and purpose behind their experiences which can lead to their positive growth and transformation. Jules lived in Asia for 11 years and integrates mindfulness practices as well as spiritual concepts that are shared by many eastern spiritual traditions such as in Buddhism.
“think it’s really about staying connected to your reason or purpose for setting up your business in the first place. So, asking yourself why it’s so important to be doing what you are doing and reminding yourself what your message is. What the message is that you want to get out into the world. And by staying connected this energy I think it really helps to drive you forward especially when you are feeling defeated or you are having those doubts or you feel like giving up”…[Listen for More]
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Before becoming a coach Yvonne van Dalen was working 60+ hours a week in her photography business, hardly earning any money. After having the kids and nearly going into a full burn-out she realized it was time to change. She invested in a few business coaches to turn her business and life around. She 10x'ed her turnover and switch to a high-end business model. She now works 20 hours a week, has all her afternoons and weekends off, and enjoys the school holidays with her family. She wants to inspire other female photographers by teaching them how they can streamline their business systems, increase their service level and attract their dream clients, while staying balanced and true to their authentic self, so they can enjoy their dream life.
“be 100 percent unapologetically you. So always be yourself and don’t try to do things the way you think they are supposed to be done. I always say look in the mirror and see if it fits if you want to do something new in your business. And just don’t play small, be yourself always ”…[Listen for More]
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Jeremy Gutsche is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning innovation expert, and CEO of Trend Hunter -- the world's largest trend-spotting platform and innovation consultancy. His new double-sided book, Create the Future, was released on March 10th.
“I think the important thing is to solve a meaningful challenge and recognise that innovation isn’t actually about a big idea. That’s the misnomer. It’s usually just about finding a little idea that you can make big.”…[Listen for More]
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Damion Lupo’s mission is simple: to free a million people from financial bondage. His unique tool is a fusion of financial literacy and a little-known strategy called the eQRP that allows investors to control their financial future and get off the wall street roller coaster. He’s the Best-Selling Author of 12 books on personal finance, investment, and retirement planning. He hosts the Financial Underdogs podcast, has owned more than 50 companies, and is the founder of his own martial art, Yokido®. Damion is the CCO of the eQRP Co. and the lead architect of the eQRP® -- the Ferrari of 401(k)s®. The eQRP® is a unique and powerful system to put individuals in command of their own investments, tapping into the $25 trillion locked away in Wall Street-controlled retirement programs! Damion is also a professional investor with decades of real-world experience that started with the purchase of his first rental using a VISA card advance -- a move that snowballed into 150 rental houses in less than 5 years. In 2008 he lost the whole $20 million business only to bounce back and recreate his wealth in 5 years.
“failing or making a mistake does not identify you. And in fact, one of the things that we are taught it’s a primary principle or a message that we get as children that if you make 50 percent of anything wrong that you are a failure and you are criticised. And in fact, if you have made 50 percent wrong you have made 50 percent right in the real world, that means you are a billionaire that you have had tremendous impact. to be able to think about our thinking. To think about how we think about things is incredibly important, it makes us an observer. Usually we end up being very reptilian or just very primal, we just react and we were emotional. Using a different part of our brain to think about how we are thinking about things puts us into a different plane where we are actually able to have more impact and have more calm and just a better life if we are willing to think about those things. So like the mistake piece if we think about how we process that over the years it may put is in a place where we are able to be more free from the mistakes and grow faster”…[Listen for More]
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Eileen Hahn is a leadership consultant who works with firms like Anheuser-Busch, Ericson Worldwide, General Motors, San Diego Padres and smaller entrepreneurial firms. She teaches leaders how to hire and lead exceptional employees to achieve high levels of performance. Eileen’s work has improved productivity, profitability, employee work passion
“go with the gut feeling, go with that inner knowing, let that direct you, to trust it… You can actually learn to trust and cultivate the inner knowing. To take the time if you are uncertain about something, a decision, a strategic action, a commitment, take some time to sit be still and ask the question and see what it feels like in your body. This feels right or this does not feel right. And the more you take time to trust and cultivate that inner knowing the clearer and easier it becomes and that makes life and business so much easier because it’s like this is a clear yes I am going in that direction, this is a no I’m feeling the uncomfortableness of it”…[Listen for More]
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From leaving school at the age of 17 until starting her own business at the age of 30, Moira Doherty had a total of 27 jobs. From being an air stewardess to a sales rep, nothing seemed to hold her attention for long enough. When she reached her forties, Moira realised she had become disillusioned with life. A new chapter in southern Spain beckoned, and for ten years, she lived her dream, having built a stunning home on a hillside, overlooking Grenada. Whilst there, she was approached by the parents of a groom to be, who asked if she could help plan their son’s wedding. Moira immediately fell in love with wedding planning, and at the age of 50 began Perfect Spanish Weddings, which is now a six-figure business, which she still runs successfully today. But far from her story ending there, Moira knew there was something else missing; a purpose that needed her attention. As a 62-year-old serial entrepreneur, she’s now shining the light on women aged 45 and over, who feel they have nothing left to offer. She wants them to know anything is possible, and her success later in life, shows what can be achieved.
“be brave and believe in yourself. Don’t fear the journey, really enjoy the journey but be brave, believe in yourself, establish what your brand is, establish your niche and your ideal client and trust in yourself and your instincts and you will succeed”…[Listen for More]
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Ryan Coon is a co-founder and the CEO of Avail, an all-in-one software solution designed for do-it-yourself (DIY) landlords that is used by more than 600,000 landlords and tenants across the United States. Prior to Avail, Coon was an investment banking associate at BMO Capital Markets. Ryan has a hardworking spirit and together with his co-founder, Laurence Jankelow, they developed the idea for their company on a napkin that now solves the needs of thousands of landlords. His goal is to help the real estate market to become as transparent and as efficient as the stock market.
“never stop learning and never stop growing. Never be overly confident and think that you know everything. So, I think it’s really all about that consistent endless pursuit of knowledge and information that I think a lot of entrepreneurs whether you look at some of the top entrepreneurs in the world these days they have got multiple interests. Whether it’s Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos and obviously running their day-to-day companies but also been interested in space travel. I think a lot of entrepreneurs have multiple things they are interested in and I think that’s a really, really good thing for entrepreneurs to do.”…[Listen for More]
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Billie Groom is the founder of three successful businesses, the author of an award winning book and the creator of UPWARD Dogology. Billie has been a leader in her industry for three decades, earning her numerous awards and accolades. Her unconventional learning journey and her ability to remain true to her straight-forward approach and business model has made her a success in an unregulated industry with a high failure rate.
“prepare yourself emotionally and be realistic. So you might have this vision of how people should take what you do and who’s going to gravitate to your product or your whatever it is… your business that your projecting. But you need to be realistic about who’s going to jump on board. And you might be surprised on whose reading your book or buying your product or coming into your store. And you might be surprised on who’s going to support you… You need to know what you really want to do and be realistic about what your strengths are and whether you want to be an entrepreneur or not. And be careful on turning a hobby or a favourite activity into a business”…[Listen for More]
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Claire Giovino spent years optimizing inboxes for 7-figure clients who are leaders in their industries. Her background in higher education and counseling allowed her to represent clients with a superior level of communication and empathy. In 2017, she launched InboxDone and grew the business to multiple six-figures in 11 months with zero start-up capital. She currently manages a growing team of remote inbox managers and upwards of 3000+ emails a day — all while traveling the world!
“I would say treating it like an experiment and keeping it fun and leading with curiosity if you are thinking of getting into it or just starting to get into it… The process of running and owning a business is a whole other thing. It’s exciting and challenging and hard every day. So treating it like an experiment and keeping that child’s mindset of almost treating it like a game… Making it a gradual transition if possible so you don’t put all this financial pressure on your business to support you immediately and that way you don’t lose joy that comes from running a business”…[Listen for More]
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Carolyn Strauss, CSP is an internationally recognized Keynote Speaker and Corporate Trusted Advisor who's expertise lies in Sales, Persuasion and Execution. She spent 18 year on-camera on HSN with her own Clothing line CSC Studio. She is a member of the Screen Actors Guild and believes a good day contains chocolate. And she is co-host of Another Day Above Ground podcast.
“follow your path, watch what other people are doing, look at what they are doing, watch what they are doing that’s successful, that working, read everything you can about your industry and other industries, get in a mastermind group and then do only what’s right for you and your business”…[Listen for More]
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William Childs earned his doctorate in chemistry, then attended law school to become a patent attorney. But he didn’t stop there. William founded and runs a virtual IP law firm in Houston, TX, where he helps entrepreneurs turn their innovations and creativity into valuable property their business can own.
“Keep learning. One of the things I feel that a lot of entrepreneurs do is they get stagnant. They don’t keep up with technology, they don’t keep up with changes in their field, they don’t keep up with social media and they just get into the grind, they kind of get lost in it. And my experience is you should be constantly challenging everything around you including your own business and constantly learning”…[Listen for More]
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Eric M Twiggs is the author of The Discipline Of Now: 12 Practical Principles To Overcome Procrastination. He is also the host of a weekly inspirational podcast titled 'The 30 Minute Hour.' As a Certified Life & Business Coach, Eric has conducted over 28,000 coaching sessions, helping executive leaders and entrepreneurs who have moved from feeling frustrated, to finding fulfillment. He has also led organizations of 500 or more people in corporate America, and shared his message with corporations, associations, and congregations across the country. By reading The Discipline of Now, you will receive a proven blueprint to beat procrastination, so that you make more money, get more done, and become aligned with your Divine purpose.
“don’t allow perfect to become the enemy of progress. That’s the key advice. Don’t allow perfect to become the enemy of progress. What I mean by that is I talk to people and they say oh I am going to write a book. And I am like how are you coming with your book? Oh I am doing research. And they have been doing research for so long that they never get to the book. At some point you have to start. I think there’s a time and a season to do research and a plan and to analyse but you can’t get to this analysis by paralysis thing to move”…[Listen for More]
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Brenda Batista-Mollohan is an accomplished entrepreneur, leader, executive consultant, and the President of Inspiring Company Culture. She has been at the helm of many high performing, performance improvement teams. Brenda has managed complex, multi-million dollar clients, created simulations to predict business performance, and established scalable methodology that helps companies grow.
“allow yourself to dream and when you are doing that answer to questions. So the dream is to give yourself the vision. What do I want? In the perfect scenario what will happen with my business? And then ask yourself these two questions. What do you ultimately want? So the more detail that you have the better because you want to clarify that. Say I will make 10,000,000 dollars or whatever. Okay that’s not necessarily compelling. A vision of I want to have an office building with four floors and the bottom is dedicated to the innovation lab… That level of detail and you start get to get into the story and kind of feel it”…[Listen for More]
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Jeff Hoffman is a serial entrepreneur, innovator, and mentor to entrepreneurs all over the world. After being part of such well known startups as Priceline.com and uBid.com, he now serves as the Chairman of the Global Entrepreneurship Network, working with entrepreneurs in 180 countries.
“While everybody is talking just take that first step. You have got to jump. there is a saying that says being an entrepreneur is like jumping off a cliff and trying to build an aeroplane on the way down. So my advice is if that frightens you and you are scared to death maybe you should consider a different career. But if they’re unknown thrills you because it’s a possibility of trying new things in new ways and learning things may be that no one else has ever discovered then you should just jump. We know you don’t have all the answers. Just jump.”…[Listen for More]
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Allison Pelissier is an entrepreneur and healing artist dedicated to the evolution of humanity. With a background in International Education and Development (MA), Political Economics and Psychology (BA), Vortex Healing and Yoga/Mediation, Allison believes in empowering others to recalibrate their nervous systems and become creators of their own reality.
“be true to yourself, listen to your heart and really don’t be afraid to try things. And again, even if they don’t work out how you expected there will be some kind of learning there. And really keep your awareness open to the people and things that show up in your life because if we are just so busy following our mind and all of the things that we’ve already planned out sometimes we miss the most beautiful surprises”…[Listen for More]
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Michal Magdziarz is the CEO of DeepCrawl, a cloud-based technical search engine optimization (SEO) platform helping brands accelerate growth and mitigate losses in organic search performance. With more than 15 years of experience in the SEO and web business sectors, Michal leads business strategy and growth at DeepCrawl. Since co-founding the company in 2011, DeepCrawl has expanded markets into the U.S. and signed on new customers including Intuit, Newsweek and Instacart. Michal holds a master’s in management from the University of Warsaw.
“find the people you like working with, find problem that is interesting to you and enjoy the journey and enjoyed resolving the problem you have found”…[Listen for More]
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Grant Aldrich founded OnlineDegree.com with a purpose-driven mission: make college more accessible and affordable for everyone. After graduating college with an overwhelming amount of debt, he was determined to change how students embark on their college education. Grant has spent his entire career working in startups with nearly 15 years of experience and 2 prior exits to a publicly traded company. He's been a board member and donor to a number of non-profits, an advisor to many publicly traded companies and a guest speaker at seminars and graduate school courses. He graduated with honors from University of California Irvine in Economics.
“know thyself because I think that you are going to even if you come up with the best business idea you are going to make the fatal mistake of not potentially making one that’s best fit for you. I think that’s the first step because again getting your personal philosophies and house in order before you embrace what you are going to do for the next five, seven, eight, maybe a lifetime when creating a business… It’s a big commitment. In the second thing I would recommend is to start exercising. Entrepreneurship is like a muscle in that sense where it’s fun to come up with business ideas, and then shoot them down, and come up with more business ideas and keep playing those exercises and sharing it with friends and mentor is that you trust. Those are all excellent because ultimately the first idea that you come up with is unlikely to be the idea that you eventually run with. Just by sheer chance and odds most likely that will have some fatal flaws but you will learn from the exercise of identifying those fatal flaws before you embrace on this long journey to go and pursue it…”…[Listen for More]
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By day, he’s an oft-quoted top ranked stock-picker, but his evening job offers the greatest excitement. A parallel entrepreneur and award-winning writer, Christopher Carosa grew up in his family’s carnival stand. He used that experience in raw capitalism to start a series of businesses before he was even a teenager.
“look for the voids. There are always voids in life, those voids represent gaps between where people want to be and where people are today. And if you could be the first one to offer a solution to fill that gap you are probably going to have a winning business at least in the short-term. If you are very successful others will follow. So there are things that you need to do to go beyond that and believe it or not those marketing books that I talk to you about, those old, century-old marketing books talk about this”…[Listen for More]
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Van Carlson has an extensive background in Risk Management with more than 24 years in the industry. Prior to founding Strategic Risk Alternatives, Van ran his own property and casualty firm for 15 years. With many commercial business owners as his clients, he saw the Great Recession of 2008 hit hard, and just like them, he was also affected by the sharp downturn in our economy. During this time, he realized there must be a better way to manage risk overall. From that desire to improve business operations for both himself and his clients, along with his extensive background in insurance, risk management, and finance, Strategic Risk Alternatives was formed. Since its start in 2008, several changes in US Government regulations have allowed the business to thrive - substantiating what Van already believed in: businesses needed a better solution to mitigate risk and create a war chest for the future. In 2013, increases in domiciles allowed the company’s success to skyrocket - with double digit growth year over year - and it’s only just begun. As CEO, Van is an innovator, developing SRA products for a variety of industries that can take advantage of adding additional revenues while mitigating risk at the same time. By delivering institutional-type ideas to small-and-mid sized business owners, SRA positions it’s clients at the forefront of their industry, offering robust marketing motivators and customer retention program.
“you will be successful first and foremost. That’s the mindset you have to have. But when you do become successful, I think what happens inevitably people stop doing what made them successful… If you are going to get into this have got to spend money to make money. And sometimes entrepreneurs will all get caught up in a lifestyle… As success comes revenues come up with it but you have got to be constantly adjusting that dollar what made you successful and what made you get there in the first place. And I think a lot of time business owners lose that or they don’t see it”…[Listen for More]
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Liz Ward is a passionate advocate for innovation. She breaks barriers to create new platforms that assist the tourism industry and establish travel destinations. Digital Transformation could be her middle name. Liz co-owns an award winning business called Tourism Tribe helping thousands of people to achieve their life dreams.
“Find your passion point. So, do what you love then it’s not work… This is the time to really self-assess and don’t even think about work think about your life. What do you get the most joy from? Think about what you like doing, how you entertain yourself as an 11-year-old child. What did you like playing?... And then go what does that tell me about my professional life so far or the businesses that I’ve owned so far? Where can I see the parallels in there so that I can make sure that I customise my work life as an entrepreneur to be able to find that joy”…[Listen for More]
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Karen Gwartzman and Neil Gwartzman are world renowned Private Label strategists co-founders of Private Label University & Best Selling Authors. Karen and Neil scaled their business by creating over 800 private label branded products that have been sold in over 600 stores globally, using their secret Private Label Blue Print. For the past 35 years we have been privately labeling products for the largest Chain Stores in the world: Michael's, Walmart, Martha Stewart and Hobby Lobby to name a few. We have trained thousands of entrepreneurs and small businesses with whom we shared our proprietary process using our Private Label Blue Print and helped them implement their strategy in their business to scale. We have conducted businesses in over 23 countries and have trained all over the world.
“it’s passion. You really have to do follow your passion and most important is stay focused… If it comes down to creating a product you want to make sure that you have all of your passion in it, really something you are in love with… I think it’s important when you create a product you really have to be 100 percent involved with that product to make it work. And ask for help. I think it’s really important to ask for help, there is nothing wrong with asking for help … It’s nice to surround yourself with people who know more than you so that you can ask for help”…[Listen for More]
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Pam Thomas is a mindset coach and founder of What's Within U an international coaching practice that offers a variety of coaching services and programs to leaders, entrepreneurs and other coaches who want to make cool things happen by creating a mindset that supports them in believing in what's possible.
“the only thing that ever stands between you and what you really want are the things you tell yourself. So as mentioned earlier watch yourself talk because your mind believes everything that you tell it”…[Listen for More]
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Jeremy Ryan Slate is the founder of the Create Your Own Life Podcast, which studies the highest performers in the world. He studied literature at Oxford University, Specializes in using podcasting and new media to create celebrity and was ranked #1 in iTunes New and #78 in the iTunes top 100. He was named the #1 Podcast to Listen to by INC Magazine in 2019, as well as being named a Top Influencer by Forbes. After his success in podcasting, Jeremy Slate and his wife, Brielle Slate, founded Command Your Brand to help entrepreneurs get their message out by appearing as guests on podcasts.
“don’t think you have to have everything figured out out of the gate. Just get started and start figuring things out as you go… Don’t give yourself reasons to not get started. Get started and start figuring out as you go. You don’t have to have everything figured out out of the gate”…[Listen for More]
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Jared James is licensed CPA with international business experience who honed his skills with a Big 4 public accounting firm and top financial banking institution doing mergers & acquisitions. More recently he has turned his sights on helping the millions of Americans that play the lottery each year.
“you really have to plan. Plan for how you are going to bring the traffic to your site… and really having a sustainable plan… Plan out what your full strategy looks like… As you are waiting for those customers really plan on a runway. I think a lot of people underestimate how quickly customers come in the door… Some businesses are lucky and they come right out of the gate, other ones it may take a month, two, three, six, whatever it is. If you are not prepared for that that’s when a lot of companies may fail”…[Listen for More]
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Jackie Lee is a knowledgeable and experienced entrepreneur. She is a Wedding Celebrant living on the island of Lanzarote with her husband for the last 15 years.She writes and takes personalised Wedding Blessing services and Renewal of Vows services on the island for groups of just two people or any size groups. She also works as a relocation specialist for people looking to buy property on the beautiful island of Lanzarote and is just about to launch a new online business helping age 50+ women turn retirement into their greatest adventure.
“definitely make a plan… Decide where you want to be”…[Listen for More]
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Robbie Kellman Baxter is the author of The Forever Transaction and The Membership Economy. She is a speaker, and consultant with more than twenty years of experience providing strategic business advice to major organizations including Netflix, Consumer Reports and LinkedIn. Her company Peninsula Strategies has advised over 100 organizations on subscription and growth strategy.
“do it. If you have an idea… Actually, I would even say if you don’t have an idea… If you want to build something from the ground up I think there are a lot of entrepreneurial people or people who wish that they were entrepreneurial but say I don’t have that great idea to start the business, there are plenty of ideas out and that aren’t always great entrepreneurs to help build those businesses. So I would say if you have the bug go and give it a try and I would say, don’t put it off“…[Listen for More]
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Victoria Lioznyansky teaches introverted entrepreneurs and business professionals how to overcome their fear of public speaking and become confident, compelling, captivating speakers. Taking her own experiences going from scared to sought-after speaker, Victoria founded Brilliant Speakers Academy®, an online public speaking coaching program for introverts. She also owns Nutty Scientists of Houston, a passion project about inspiring kids to fall in love with science.
“Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” George Addair “we have to take risks; we have to get up in the morning and go and make those steps. Those steps that you are going to make they may be in the wrong direction; they may be completely wrong steps and it doesn’t matter. Because my personal belief is that we have to act. We cannot sit and wait to see what happens, we have to take action and every action will lead to another action and another action. And even if you make mistakes. Even if you have this massive detour you will end up where you are supposed to go and you are going to look back and you are going to say what I thought was a mistake was a gigantic learning opportunity and if I didn’t learn that back then I wouldn’t have been where I am now ”…[Listen for More]
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Katherine Skelly is the English language Mentor. She has been teaching in English for 12 years all over the world, but now mentors career passionate women who need to advance their English for international success with 1 to 1 mentoring online and her exclusive online group programme 'The English Language Mentorship'.
“don’t be afraid to screw up or make mistakes because we are not perfect and you are never going to do a perfect first time. So just get started and choose progress over perfection… So just do it imperfectly and then fix it later… If you just do it imperfectly at least you will get it out there and your clients will see the real you so they can connect to you better”…[Listen for More]
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Ceo, Growth Strategist and Speaker Ken Mosesian frees CEOs to focus on the future vision, growth, and profitability of their business by inspiring and motivating their teams to become leaders. By letting go of day-to-day operations, CEOs can navigate company transitions with clarity and purpose. With Ken’s guidance, your will discover what is keeping you stuck in an “operations mindset” and help you leverage and trust the teams you’ve built, so you can turn toward what you do best: CREATE.
“I think it’s a mistake to take a quality and declare that to be the cause of someone’s success. It could be a contributing factor; it could just be luck. And I would just encourage people to spend less time focused on what other people have done and more time learning about yourself, what makes you unique and what you’ve got to offer and where that best fits”…[Listen for More]
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Armando Cruz III is a connoisseur of experiences, husband, father, adventurer, bestselling author, ultra-marathoner, lifestyle physical therapist, and legacy coach. He's climbed mountains, run over 100 miles in a day in swamps filled with snakes and alligators, has lived out of his car, and has rollerbladed and surfed in hurricanes but his biggest adventure has been fatherhood.
“make sure you are in alignment with your values in the actions that you take and the way you operate your business. It’s very easy to chase the next shiny thing. It’s very easy when things seem like they are going to make you more money to skimp out and maybe let go of some of the values. But if you use your values as a compass you will never lose your way”…[Listen for More]
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Makayla Ervin is a Brand Activation Strategist, dedicated to helping service based females establish brand authority in their niche. After years of studying the psychology of marketing and branding online, Makayla has built her dream business teaching other women how to build theirs.
“decide what you want to be known for and start making decisions from that place. Not only will that give you consistent presence to outsiders looking in but it will also feel most authentic to you. And you can never go wrong if you are acting out of movements towards becoming your highest self and becoming that next level person that you want to be. So, decide what you want to be known for and start doing things that way”…[Listen for More]
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Rahul Narvekar founder CEO of The India Network and Founder Director of Scale Ventures - an early stage investment fund, Rahul is an entrepreneur who started his career at an early age, as a door to door salesman to support his education. After being expelled from his entrepreneurship programme for asking “too many questions” and “being a trouble maker” his maiden venture in cable advertising was in 1994. In 1999, he setup Asia’s first interactive music channel - Channel Oxygen in Bombay. It was love for C. Pallavi Rao that made him move to Delhi where he started from scratch in a completely new field of work: Mall Management. He rose from the level of a Senior Manager to becoming the VP of Ansal Plaza, the first mall of India. Moving with and ahead of times being his forte, in 2009 he set up Fashion and You which was one of the earliest e-commerce fashion portals and raised more than $ 58 million for the same. In 2013 he partnered with NDTV to set up Indian Roots for selling Designer and Ethnic wear to the Global Indian diaspora. Exiting this in 2016 he set up Scale Ventures group - an early stage angel fund as also The India Network, an on-ground community for start-ups focused on Tier 2, 3, 4 and beyond cities of India and students. His passion and intent to create value for start-ups and entrepreneurs from the smaller towns of India, led him to take a cohort of 15 promising start-up founders and some young student entrepreneurs to the United States for an intensive boot camp and pitch their ideas to investors from Silicon Valley in September 2017, helping 5 start-ups raise funds and with others getting mentored.
“be shameless. The day you stop giving an F about what anybody else thinks about you you will start doing more stuff, you will start taking more chances. And a lot of times it’s just that if you do it more number of times will get good at it and you will get better at it and you will have a better shot… Just keep doing, doing, doing. So, keep hustling ”…[Listen for More]
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Nathan Jamail has spent the last two decades coaching top executives and teaching thousands of leaders around the world on Leadership, employee coaching, selling skills and cultural development. Nathan's clients span across the globe and in all industries from financial services, technology, healthcare, military, manufacturing, hospitality, and many more. Nathan has written and published 4 best selling books- which are sold all over the world, and have become guiding principals for many organizations. Prior to becoming an author and working with organizations in a coaching capacity, Nathan spent over 20 years as an Executive Director in Corporate America, as well as, a small business over of over 4 companies himself. Nathan does not just teach leadership and selling skills - he lives it every day as a Sales professional and Leader himself. Nathan has a true passion for personal development and a genuine intent to serve those he has the privilege to coach and teach.
“you have got to be committed to it more than you are than the job or the money… Don’t stop short… If you are going to work to build someone’s business stay working to build yours and be willing to sacrifice everything… You have got to study now so you can reap the rewards later… As an entrepreneur we have got to continue to sacrifice maybe what we want or maybe what makes is uncomfortable, we have got to be willing to sacrifice that and get uncomfortable, not need the things we think we need but versus we want and stay committed to it and don’t stop”…[Listen for More]
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Zachary Beach is an Amazon Best Selling Author of The New Rules of Real Estate Investing and co-host of The Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast. He is a partner, COO at Smart Real Estate Coach. In September 2020, they'll be releasing the revised edition of Real Estate On Your Terms which Zach will be co-authoring.
“Just get real clear about what you want and then take action. I don’t think it’s more complicated than that. Just get extremely clear on what you want, take action and then don’t be afraid to fail”…[Listen for More]
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Bryan Kramer is a renowned business strategist, global keynote speaker, executive trainer and coach, two-time bestselling author and Forbes contributor.
“create the life you deserve. If you are not living the life you think you deserve and you know that you deserve better and you are not living in your joy if you can seriously put your hand over your heart… And say ‘am I living the most joy now?’… In your role and your job and your life are you really honouring your true joy? And if you are not then lean into that, listen to that, write down what those things are and then zeroing on the one thing that give you joy if you could do that one thing every day. How would you move towards that? What are the things that are going to hold you back from that? And really spend some time with that and think about that”…[Listen for More]
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Karen is a Master Financial Coach, Public Speaker, Entrepreneur, and Author who has coached people with a variety of money issues: from just $500 in debt to $800,000 in debt. She has coached folks with up to 86 credit cards and taught them how to pay down and pay off those credit cards in record time. Karen’s mission is to inspire others to rid themselves of debt and build wealth. She encourages others to break the shackles of debt and gives valuable insight into building wealth so they can experience financial freedom! Karen Ford’s #1 Amazon Best Selling Book “Money Matters” is a discovery for many. This book is not only motivational, but practical. She is an avid real estate investor, who enjoys buying, selling, and flipping properties. She has even bought properties for as little as $10 and turned a few dollars into thousands! In “Money Matters” she provides keys to demolishing debt, shares how to budget correctly, and gives principles in wealth building.
“step out and find out and do it afraid”…[Listen for More]
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Jason Richmond is President, CEO and Chief Culture Officer at Ideal Outcomes, Inc. He is also an in-demand keynote speaker and widely recognized as a noted authority on helping companies build strong, sustained revenue growth by empowering their employees and developing energizing office cultures. During his career of more than twenty years, Jason has assisted companies of all sizes in a wide variety of industries. He has not only worked closely with established Fortune 100 companies to create Leadership Development Journeys, but also provided thought leadership and innovative consulting services to a range of mid-size firms. And he has guided numerous start-ups to build solid foundations that have enabled them to become industry leaders. Jason is the author of the book, Culture Spark: 5 Steps to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth.
“I have three things that I would like to share. I think the first one is the hardest. It is my belief that every entrepreneur has to check their ego at the door. We all have egos, we are all driven, we are all motivated, we are already to run through a brick wall but at times in your career and in your business, you really have to check that ego at the door. Number two you have to be authentic. You can’t be somebody else. You have to go and run your business as authentic as possible and be authentic not only to yourself but to your team members, to your colleagues, to your clients, to your suppliers. And then the third thing, it has to do with communication”…[Listen for More]
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Jeffrey Hayzlett is the primetime television host of C-Suite with Jeffrey Hayzlett and Executive Perspectives LIVE on C-Suite TV and is the host of the award-winning All Business with Jeffrey Hayzlett on C-Suite Radio. Hayzlett is a global business celebrity, Hall of Fame speaker, Chairman and CEO of C-Suite Network, home of the world’s most trusted network of C-Suite leaders and best-selling author. His most recent book is The Hero Factor: How Great Leaders Transform Organizations and Create Winning Cultures.
“Just do it. Quit waiting, go. If you want to get to the dreams and hopes and aspirations and the things that you want to go. No one is stopping you. God”…[Listen for More]
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Melanie Parish is a public speaker, consultant, workshop leader, author, and Master Certified Coach through the International Coach Federation, from whom she received the Prism Award. An expert in problem solving, constraints management, operations, strategic hiring, and brand development, Melanie has consulted and coached organizations ranging from a Fortune 50 company to IT start-ups. Her individual clients include those in FAANG and other top global IT companies. Melanie is a Certified Professional Coactive Coach and Organization and Relationship Systems Certified Coach, and a Theory of Constraints Certified Jonah. As an author, educator, and creator of the Experimental Leader program, Melanie shows people new ways of thinking about their leadership, informed by her understanding of the fast-paced ride of technology innovation. She is based in Dundas, Ontario and Las Cruces, New Mexico.
“Run the numbers. Just because you want to do something doesn’t make it a business. Make sure you’ve got a business that makes sense before you quit your job and start being an entrepreneur. But if it makes business sense then run, run with joy to the new life”…[Listen for More]
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Kale Abrahamson co-founded Nine University, an online e-commerce training program that teaches other aspiring entrepreneurs how to start and grow profitable online businesses through Amazon FBA program. Since launching in April 2017, Nine University has generated tens of millions in revenue and has grown to 130 employees globally.
“get started now. Everyone is telling you play it safe, to see how it turns out, to sit back and relax, to kick back and to stop working so hard, stop stressing out, stop wasting your 20s, wasting your 30s, wasting your 40s. Quit listening to those people. Start now. The best time to start a business was yesterday. And I think in the long-term even if you failed, even if everything went to hell, you lost money, your family said you were an idiot, the experiences that you would get from trying to become an entrepreneur will make you into such a better person than if it pays off. So imagine if it actually works”…[Listen for More]
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Carlos Hidalgo is a 25-year business veteran. Hidalgo has held corporate roles, started his own entrepreneurial ventures and served in non-profits. Hidalgo co-founded his first company in 2005 leading it to two consecutive Inc. 5000 Awards before departing and launching two other companies.
“work hard at your business, give everything you’ve got in the timeframe you are going to a lot but don’t tie your identity and worth to success or failure of your business. Because it’s a rollercoaster that you don’t want to get on, it’s not a reflection of your true self”…[Listen for More]
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Dr. Benjamin Hardy is an organizational psychologist and bestselling author of Willpower Doesn't Work. His blog is read by millions of people monthly and featured on Forbes, Fortune, CNBC, Cheddar, Big Think, and many others. He is a regular contributor to Inc. and Psychology Today and one of the most popular writers on Medium. He speaks and trains at a wide range of events. He is also currently training for his first Ironman. He and his wife Lauren adopted three children through the foster system in February 2018 and, one month later, Lauren became pregnant with twins, who were born in December of 2018. They live in Orlando.
“really take the time to clarify your future self, who you genuinely plan to Be… People on their deathbed say they lacked the courage to be who they really wanted to be and instead they lived up to the expectations they thought other people had of them. Even if you are a successful entrepreneur it can be easy to get caught up into the persona or to the status that you’ve lived.. It takes giving yourself space and reflection to genuinely say is this what I really want? Even though this is great or this has been successful, is this what I truly want? I think giving yourself the honesty to clarify who you plan to be that allows you to clarify who you currently are. Because if you don’t know who you plan to be you can’t have any sense of who you are today. And then begin to tell everyone about that self, about the pivot that you’re making just the future you are striving to create, the person you are striving to become ”…[Listen for More]
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As Co-Founder and Chief Legal Officer of My Green Network (MyGN), James Shih plays a key role in developing the company’s direction and ensuring that every aspect of the business serves the needs of creative cannabis entrepreneurs. An experienced attorney specializing in investment, compliance, and business law, Shih has advised high-net-worth individuals, private equity firms, developers, and executives in investments valuing over $1 Billion. He has also served as a trusted legal expert for Fortune 500 and global companies, including OLAM, One World Properties, and Extell Capital Group. As a cannabis specialist, Shih has proudly helped countless start-ups understand how to run the business successfully from start to finish, assisting with licensing, acquisition, operations, and more. Sharing in the frustration of entrepreneurial clients and friends enduring the tedious, months-long process of taking a cannabis start-up from idea to successful enterprise, Shih co-founded MyGN as a visionary solution to make the process easier and open to everyone - not just the elite 1% who could afford it.
“to create your own luck. Every successful person that I have spoken to a tribute a lot of their success to luck. But luck is such an intangible concept and it really isn’t explained well I think in many ways… You can create your own luck by creating the environment that allows that luck to come forth. So you create that environment by talking to people, by changing the people that you want around you, by going to events, by building relationships, surrounding yourselves, being in the environments that you can actually have the opportunity for these lucky things to come by“…[Listen for More]
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Samuel Gong is Ceo and Founder of Real Graphene USA Ever since Samuel Gong was born in Torrance, LA, engineering has always been a passion. His first patent in wireless energy transmission was filed on 2010 and later founded a successful business. Samuel then began researching graphene during his studies in UC Berkeley and later used his knowledge to optimize the applications and production of graphene. After several years of success, he founded Real Graphene bringing future battery technology to the present. Company Bio Real Graphene USA was founded by two UC Berkeley graduates who realized the amazing potentials of graphene during lab research. Our goal is to integrate graphene into affordable every day technology. Real Graphene guarantees that all our products use high quality real graphene in its true 2D form in film or nano-platelets. Most knock offs that claim to use "graphene" in fact use graphite (the 3D cousin of graphene) in their products which do NOT have the same capabilities as graphene. Our method of producing graphene has gone through several years of research and real application. Real Graphene has refined the process to be able to consistently create high-quality graphene nano-platelets and films with reasonable costs.
“making a plan, having a plan, being ready to throw away the plan and create a new one, to fill in other plans into your current plan and just being able to adjust… Just been able to learn and adapt to the current situation… So gut feeling, adaptability and been able to perceive and internalise what you are perceiving around you”…[Listen for More]
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Audie Penn is the principal/owner of Audie Penn CONSULTING. Audie has been working and consulting for over 30 years providing different services to several Fortune 50 companies in diverse industries and organizations. His approach is a lean transformation by applying training, coaching and project facilitation with local teams securing a solid foundation. Audie has been most notable as a Global Consultant where he combines tactical leadership skills with process focus improvements. Some of his clients are Caterpillar, John Deere, Martin Marietta and HON.
“build great relationships with your customers. I think relationship is the foundation of trust and influence can only show up if there is trust between you as an organisation and your customers. I don’t care what size your organisation is this is true everywhere you go. And even more importantly build better relationships with your team… So build great relationships with your customers and even better relationships with your team members”…[Listen for More]
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Bill Flynn is a multi-certified growth coach, author, speaker, has a Certificate with Distinction in the Foundations of NeuroLeadership and is a Certified Predictive Index Partner. When he is not off cheering on his collegiate-champion daughter, Bill lives in Sudbury, Massachusetts, with his wife, dog, cat, and four chickens.
“you need to fall in love. And what I mean by that is you need to fall in love with the problem and the customer. You need to fall in love with at least something you do in your job 20% of the time, 40% of the time. And you have to do something that you love because I can guarantee you… there are days that are just going to suck or weeks that are going to be just horrible. You have to be in love it because if you are not you will give up. So fall in love.”…[Listen for More]
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Francesca Baker is a writer, marketer and communications consultant. As Virginia Woolf said ‘my head is a hive of words that won’t settle.’ So she puts them to use, exploring the world and then writing about it. Everything she does is about creativity, connection, and communciation.
“think about your skills and also what makes your heart sing and ideally I suppose the things that you like and things that you are good at will be the same or at least there is some kind of crossover. So that sweet spot is a perfect place to set up your business… So, what you love and what you are good at is probably the best mix”…[Listen for More]
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The creative mind behind xSuit, Maximilien Perez innovated a solution to the limitations of classic suits, which are constricting, easily wrinkled, and susceptible to stain and odor. The xSuit is a modern suit that can withstand stains, smells, wrinkles and is entirely constructed from stretch material for unparalleled freedom of movement.
“be prepared to make a lot of mistakes, to sacrifice a lot, to fail many times and to enjoy it all. It’s a journey, it’s a baby that you need to nurture, that you need to smile at even when all it gives you is negative things. But in the end it will all be worth it and if it’s not it will teach you a huge lesson. Most entrepreneurs need to start over many times before actually succeeding. And it’s that 1% that keeps at it and doesn’t quit that will strive through”…[Listen for More]
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Mike Robbins is the author of five books, including his latest, WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER: Creating a Team Culture of High Performance, Trust, and Belonging, which comes out May 5th. He's a sought-after speaker and consultant whose clients include Google, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, Gap, eBay, the NBA, the Oakland A's, and many others.
“trust yourself. There is a reason why you decided to do what you do. And whether you are just starting out or you have been doing it for a long time there is that why that you have. Simon Sinek says start with why. Why did you do it? And then trust yourself and simultaneously have people around you whether they are on your team or in your circle of influence who you trust, who you can go to and really be real to get support and to get guidance when you need it”…[Listen for More]
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Many real estate or business owners struggle with capital gains tax when they sell their assets. Brett Swarts is the CEO of Capital Gains Tax Solutions and every year equips hundreds of business professionals with the Deferred Sales Trust tool to help their high net worth clients solve capital gains tax deferral limitations. His company uses a deferred sales trust to help them gain tax deferral, liquidity, diversification (invest in stocks, bonds, and mutual funds) and freedom to buy investment real estate at their own timing, so they can create and preserve more wealth.
“higher the who, don’t be the how…. You have really got to focus on what your vision is and who is going to help you to achieve that vision and get there the fastest way and the most profitable way and what’s best for the customer. And that often means you got to hire that person, you’ve got to write the cheque, you’ve got to bring the team member on, you’ve got to do the coaching and you’ve got to do the delegation. But you’ve really got to hire that who instead of trying to be the how yourself and getting stuck in the procrastination mode”…[Listen for More]
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Kerrian Bard Fournier is the CEO & Founder of Vybrante Ventures, a professional services company dedicated to unlocking the highest level of performance for innovative companies, teams and professionals by igniting their vibrancy and innovation. Kerrian has 25+ years of experience in corporate strategy and is certified in coaching through iPEC.
“know what you are good at, really know… What are you looking to create? Not just what are you looking to sell, what does your business functionally do? But what are you looking to create?”…[Listen for More]
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Jen Grace Baron is an organization development leader with a track record of success leading large-scale initiatives in companies such as eBay, Hewlett Packard, and Johnson & Johnson. From both academic and applied perspectives, Jen enjoys asking new questions and connecting ideas in novel ways to innovate on how teams and organizations can grow faster and be stronger through inspiration. Jen lives for the experience where she partners with an organization to scale the next level of meaning, performance, and fulfillment then stands with them to catch the waves of positive impact that result. As the cofounder of InspireCorps, she creates and executes on inspiring partnerships that produce the greatest impact.
“my best advice to other entrepreneurs is to not be afraid to reach out to anyone… So, I would say get over it, just jump in at the deep end of the pool, reach out to people who you think you can serve and there could be some mutual benefit from the connection and amazing magical things can unfold”…[Listen for More]
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Natasha Wallace is founder and chief coach of Conscious Works, an organizational well being company. As a former HR Director, Natasha left her job having reached burnout. It led her to recognize that there are two fundamental things getting in the way of people staying well at work — self knowledge and self care. She set up her company and wrote her book, The Conscious Effect: 50 Lessons for Better Organizational Wellbeing, to help fix that problem. She now 'inspires a well world of work, coaching and advising leaders and their teams to create healthier and happier workplaces through a greater focus on wellbeing and its connection to high performance.
“take time out to take care of yourself and realise that working all of the hours that God sends isn’t going to produce the best results… Through consciously being aware of your habits and how you operate each day and through asking yourself the question of what do I actually do to take care of myself? It’s amazing how many people, especially parents do very little. So, I would say that is probably the single most important thing”…[Listen for More]
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Luke Buesnel started his media career as a commercial radio broadcaster and journalist - were he learnt how a powerful story can impact an audience. His company, Story League, is on a mission to create copywriting, podcasts and videos that are unique but driven by purpose and meaning for their clients.
“Be humble. No one knows the answer yet, no one knows whether you are going to succeed or you are going to fall away like so many of them. Being humbling what you do is very important in life… To me it’s just about being humble and realising that what you do is interesting, it’s unique and you are on an amazing journey. But if you start getting carried away with how brilliant and how awesome you are you will be heading for a fall pretty quickly”…[Listen for More]
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Dr. Roger Hall has had the good fortune to work with entrepreneurs, tech companies, big Fortune 20 companies, and professionals like lawyers, financial planners, and other high relationship sales people. He wants to influence our culture, so he enjoys working with companies that distribute information, create technology, and create entertainment
“keep your day job until your entrepreneurial job meets certain metrics that you have laid out in advance. I think it’s easy for other people to be cavalier with your life but they are not paying your bills, they are not raising your children. People over coffee or over drinks will tell you go for it you can do it but if you look at many of the successful entrepreneurs, they all started in garages working nights and weekends. Or their spouse had the day job with the healthcare until it got off the ground. So, I would encourage you to not quit your day job until your entrepreneurial venture meets certain metrics ”…[Listen for More]
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Lana Sackwild is a lucid dream coach & scientific researcher getting her Masters of Science in consciousness, spirituality, & transpersonal psychology. She is interested in analyzing what it is about the conscious states of mind individuals access during lucid dreams that have such transformational, empowering, and transpersonal properties. Her current research is focused on lucid dreaming for mitigating depression and its uses as a follow-up treatment in the mental health field. If you are somebody feeling lost, stuck, or without meaning & control over your life, Lana will guide you to lucidity, action, & achievement!
“remember that you are doing this for you. That it’s not people who are going to criticise you who count or it’s not about what other people think of what you are doing”…[Listen for More]
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David Meerman Scott is a marketing & business growth strategist, entrepreneur, advisor to emerging companies and author of 11 books, including the new Wall Street Journal best selling book FANOCRACY.
“it’s really important if you want to be an entrepreneur to start early… The longer you wait the harder it is. So consider if you are thinking about that journey to do it sooner rather than later”…[Listen for More]
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Dr. Nima Rahmany is best described as an “Edutainer,” and known by his fans as the “Rapping Stress Doctor,” Nima captivates and educates audiences of all ages with his unique ability to share his message of love, wisdom and life mastery through words, music and humor. “Instead of “learning to let go” - it’s wiser to learn to let love in.” ---Nima. “The final frontier of your healing journey is to make your mess your message.” ---Nima Dr. Nima has helped countless people in his 20+ years of practice as a Chiropractor and helps people who are stuck in toxic relationships who, career limbo, and emotional trauma overcome their anxiety and create powerfully aligned relationships by deepening their intimate relationship with the most important person of all: themselves. He studied at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College and he's the CEO and President of Westgate Wellness Centre.
“make it a priority to heal all of those wounds that stop you from feeling connected to that voice inside of you. That’s that voice inside of you that you are going to require on this path of becoming an entrepreneur. It is manned to for your success. So learn how to get connected with it otherwise it’s going to be a struggle”…[Listen for More]
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Frank Agin is president of AmSpirit Business Connections, which empowers entrepreneurs, sales representatives and professionals to become successful through networking. He also hosts the Networking Rx podcast, which has insights and interviews related to better business relationships. Finally, Frank is the author of several books, including Foundational Networking.
“One: get your debt under control. Don’t have a lot of debt because that will impair the types of things you do. Along the same lines have some money saved up. Give yourself lots of runway so this thing can take off. Don’t go into business with a bunch of credit card debt, a bunch of these obligations, don’t feel like you need to start with a fully decked out office with all the best equipment, start small. Don’t have a lot of financial commitments. What that does is that allows you to make smarter decisions ”…[Listen for More]
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Ed Krow works with executives and business owners who are struggling with people problems, such as adapting to changing business conditions and customer, investor, or community expectations. He turns irrelevant and ineffective HR functions into strategic contributors by aligning HR with the business objectives. As a result, Human Resources actually drives business results. To date, Ed has completed over 700 projects for more than 250 clients across nearly all industries. Ed is an advocate for using Organizational Development strategies to drive business results. He speaks to senior leaders across the United States and Canada about how to turn their people into strategic contributors. He is the author of, “Strategic HR: Driving Bottom-Line Results Through Your People”. Ed's clients and audiences include organizations as diverse as Johnson & Johnson, Goodwill Industries, Penn State University, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Utz Snack Foods. When he’s not working with clients, Ed can be found teaching at Millersville University. In his free time, Ed enjoys family time, travel, golf, the outdoors and Notre Dame and Baltimore Ravens football.
“be confident enough to go out to the marketplace with your goods and services but be willing to adapt on-the-fly if you see that the market needs something a little different. And above all else stay in your joy and your genius zone. Don’t sell out your soul to make a dollar. To me that’s just like working for the man. If you don’t love what you’re doing as an entrepreneur then don’t do it. Find something you love and then put your heart into that. And to me that’s what being an entrepreneur is all about. It doesn’t mean there’s no work, it doesn’t mean it’s not going to be hard; it just means that during those hard times you can still enjoy the journey”…[Listen for More]
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A British Industrial designer Matt Barnett moved to Australia and founded Bonjoro after a couple of startup failures, growing to a team across 7 countries in 3 years. Matt’s love of building great products is only surpassed by his total commitment to building great business culture, and his goal is to be the next Zappos, to be most loved brand in the world.
“don’t give up. It takes years… If at first you don’t succeed keep trying, keep trying, keep trying. The ones of us that tend to make it tend to be the people who keep trying and don’t give up. There is a high failure rate but failure is not the end of the road it’s just another point on the learning curve. So do not give up whatever you do”…[Listen for More]
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Matt LaClear is an SEO expert and Founder of the marketing agency Your Ad Squad, LLC. Matt and his team work with small and large companies in any given industry with one main purpose in mind - to double the size of a client's business. He teaches how to utilize the biggest referral targets to result in huge dividends. Matt's got a great story, offers tons of marketing experience, and loves to deliver valuable SEO tips and advice to listeners.
“if you are a person who is not easily offended you are going to do a lot better in your business and you are going to be able to be a lot more stable with your partners and with your vendors with your employees and with yourself… Your emotions have to be in check. And if you do not have a good internal dialogue with yourself it is going to be hard. And that is why I recommend that you get that under control. If you are not easily offended right now then you are in good shape. Just go for it. Get that under control first it doesn’t take long, just a few weeks even. Get a different mindset and get a positive mindset and then start the business, then you are going to do great ”…[Listen for More]
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Gaston Martinez is the Founder and CEO of IZO, which sustainably produces a collection of premium, handcrafted agave spirits according to centuries of tradition in the heart of Durango, Mexico. A native of Durango, Martinez created the IZO brand to carry out his lifelong vision of preserving the legacy of pure, all-natural Mezcal for which his hometown is known. “In my family and culture, Mezcal was a symbol of celebration and the pure enjoyment of life,” explains Martinez. Now, alongside a team of hand-picked local talent, he proudly shares the experience of an award-winning Mezcal - the first of many IZO fine, handcrafted agave spirits - with the world beyond Durango. Made sustainably from slow-roasted, wild agave hearts harvested on local ranches, every sip of IZO Mezcal speaks to generations of Mezcaleros bringing people together around shared values of community, celebration, and savoring the reward of a job well done. Every aspect of IZO pays respect to its point of origin, from the locally-sourced Onyx stopper featured atop the bottle, to the elegant, minimalist design that allows the flavorful spirit within to shine. The smooth, sophisticated taste of IZO Mezcal tells the story of centuries’ old Mexican tradition and of one man’s vision to share it with the world.
“never give up. If you think that it’s going to get easy, it won’t, time will pass. But if you don’t give up you will be happy after the results after you just keep doing it”…[Listen for More]
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Kenny Harper works with businesses to increase leads, sales and profits through strategy, systems and value journey optimization. He is the senior marketing advisor and partner at attraction marketing agency, Rock My Image. He is an international speaker and the author of several books on marketing, including Amplify Your Business.
“being open to receive coaching. Being vulnerable and saying hey look I could use help with this. Maybe I’m doing good but I could always be doing better. Admitting you can always be doing better, having a growth mindset. Champions have coaches, winning teams have coaches. This is not necessarily a self plug because I am a coach this is coaches for anything whether it’s a business coach or a life coach, a coach who can help someone with leadership, with speaking, with doing podcasts, with their finances, their sales. Coaches work with people to pull the best out of what they do ”…[Listen for More]
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Only 27 years old, Rachel Richards quit her job and retired, with over $10,000 per month in passive income! She is the bestselling author of “Money Honey” and “Passive Income, Aggressive Retirement.” Rachel is also a real estate investor, professional speaker, and former financial advisor. She has successfully done what no one has done before: made the topic of money management fun, entertaining, and simple!
“when you are an entrepreneur you have to be proactive about your calendar. Do not let your calendar rule your life. Everything you say yes to means you are saying no to something else. So you have to be proactive with your big goals and priorities and put those on your calendar first otherwise your calendar will fill it with everyone else’s big goals and priorities. So just make sure that you are protecting your time”…[Listen for More]
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Kelly Mortimer has 20 years of experience in hotels and resorts across the UK, internationally and in the 5* luxury London hotel market. Personally selling and delivering weddings and events for some of the worlds leading hotel names such as Claridge’s, Rosewood and Mandarin Oriental. Before running her hugely successful consultancy business she led the wedding re-branding, sales strategy and ultimately increased wedding sales year on year for a portfolio of 45 hotels across the UK. This included managing and training a team of 50 wedding coordinators ensuring they maximised sales. Which they did very successfully!
“question if there is a genuine need for your service or your product. Yes, you can create need but is it just a nice idea or something you just want to do or is this something that people will actually pay for that’s going to make their lives better or that’s going to give them more money in their business. Question is this something that there is a genuine need for?”…[Listen for More]
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Leslie Strong is the CEO of The Sandboxx. The Sandboxx is a sponsorship technology that accelerates leadership, inclusion and engagement in organizations. As an empowerment coach Leslie wrote ‘The YOU Factor, walking women through regaining their personal power in all areas of life.
“Know that that’s who you are, to know that you are an entrepreneur. And if that is who you are then to just go for it, trust yourself, take those leaps of faith. I think there is a crazy stat that for 80 companies or 80 projects that entrepreneurs starts only one will be successful. So I think failure is really just knowing that failure isn’t failure it’s just leading us to the next place and it’s just a way of being. Being an entrepreneur is just a way of being and we just have to accept that and keep going and not letting anyone tells different”…[Listen for More]
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Peter Mare has been working has been working in a corporate career for the last 18 years. Two years ago his life changed when he read a little book called 'Rich dad Poor dad'. With a complete mindset change from corporate to entrepreneurship, started investing and trading in property on the side. Now about to leave corporate…
“read loads of self-development books, eat healthy, go for walks and believe in yourself”…[Listen for More]
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Brett Trembly is the founder of Trembly Law Firm, a franchise and business law firm in Miami. The firm has grown from one attorney in 2011, to ten attorneys and twenty employees, representing some of the largest businesses in the eastern United States, as well as many local, small businesses. All clients are equally important, as the firm’s mission is to protect the economy one business at a time. Brett grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and moved to Miami in 2005 to attend the University of Miami School of Law.
“have got to do what you love. What I mean by that is people say ‘I don’t want to work my whole life.’ Well it’s only work if you are not enjoying what you are doing. I think humans get fulfilment out of being productive and out of working when it’s something that they really want to do. And whether that’s changing other people’s lives or whether it’s inventing something or whether it’s creating a product or whether it’s writing books if you can figure out… Being able to analyse what you really want in life and finding how you can merge that with your day-to-day activities of being productive and providing value to your fellowmen and making a good living out of it is really the sweet spot… You have got to be happy so you have got to find out what you want to do with your 24 hours in a day that is going to make you happy and be productive”…[Listen for More]
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Manuj Aggarwal is an entrepreneur, investor, and CTO of TetraNoodle, a software consulting company that helps startup founders with tech projects. Manuj started his career at the age of 15, working in a factory for twelve hours a day, six days a week, earning a cool $2 per day. While Manuj had no contacts or resources, he was determined to improve his life and realized education and the right training was the only way for him to achieve his goals.
“focus on revenue, build a solid team and work on your mind as much as you work on your business because your personal life, your mind, your mindset, your belief systems, they contribute much much, more into your business than you realise. So if you don’t pay attention to these things now please start paying attention to these because the more you work on yourself the better results you will see in your business as well”…[Listen for More]
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Serial entrepreneur Christoph Bertsch founded Vejo in 2015 after going through a personal journey to improve his own health. In his search for nutritional truth and driven by his entrepreneurial curiosity, he discovered that often recommendations from governments, scientific papers, and even doctors had conflicting information about how to be healthy. Through the process of building Vejo, Christoph uncovered many facts about the food industry, ultimately realizing that Vejo would have to build its entire ecosystem in order to provide accessible, personalized, and convenient nutrition. Prior to Vejo, Bertsch has founded six successful companies in Germany primarily in the technology and fashion sectors.
“you need in your company two or three builders. And a builder for me is somebody you can throw on a topic and there is nothing established, there is no structure, the person starts and just starts to build it for you. And stay away from managers when you build a business. It’s like you start something and you have one or two builders around you and you hire somebody who wants to manage a process that is not in place and they fail with it. That’s horrible. Find people early-stage who’ve built business by themselves even if they failed. But they know where you are right now and they understand you in the beginning when you build your business”…[Listen for More]
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Robert Kennedy III wants to live in a world where people are no longer afraid to confidently tell their stories...and they can also eat Reese's Peanut Butter cups for every meal without any repercussions. His work as a keynote speaker and trainer in the area of leadership communication has led him to work with organizations such as the AARP, Barnes & Noble, Panda Restaurant Group, Comscore as well as TV appearances on Fox and CW.
“be grateful every single day. Waking up and being grateful for the journey and being grateful for way you are… Giving thanks for something and operating with an attitude of gratitude every day”…[Listen for More]
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Braydan Young is the Head of Growth and co-founder at Sendoso. Braydan is an experienced sales leader with years of expertise in building and creating strong brands. He possesses impressive sales skills to adapt quickly when hunting for new leads and converting inbound opportunities. He has a natural ability to understand client pain points and needs, often before the client is even able to articulate them. Braydan has always championed the entrepreneurial spirit, and before Sendoso, he also co-founded CoffeeSender.
“if you haven’t already started working on your idea, like going for it then go for it. I think no time is better than now and then to constantly ask for feedback. There is so many people that are willing to help… I think there is tons and tons of people that are willing to help. So ask for help, you are not alone in doing anything you are trying to accomplish”…[Listen for More]
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Paul Hargreaves is the founder and CEO of Cotswold Fayre, a speciality food and drink wholesaler in the UK. As an ambassador for the rapidly growing B Corp movement in the UK, he is is one of the leading voices in the UK encouraging and inspiring businesses to make the world a better place. Since the publication of his book, Forces for Good, in 2019, he is increasingly being asked to speak to other business leaders about business and personal change to this end.
“Rather than surrounding yourself with people who will agree with what you are doing try and put some people in your life who will always challenge what you are doing… Knowing what you are weak at, getting people who are the opposite of you in your life and in your business is always going to help you be a better business person”…[Listen for More]
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Jake Carlson is a business coach, host of the Modern Leadership Podcast and founder of LifePlan Legal, a values-based estate planning firm. An avid traveler, Jake took his three kids out of school for the adventure of a lifetime, spending a year living in 12 countries from Bagan, Myanmar to Paris, France, overcoming robbery, redeye flights and Haggis while learning to love the rich cultures of the world.
“you have got to get in the game, you have got to go after it, you have got to passionate about it. And if you are not passionate about it you have got to find a different goal, you have got to find a different game to play. You have got to be willing to get up early, you have got to be willing to stay up late, you have got to be willing to get off that couch and turn off the Netflix. You have got to be willing to go that distance and if you’re not my advice is find something else you are passionate about. We live in a world where you can accomplish so many amazing things aligning with your passion don’t keep beating your head against the wall trying to accomplish something that is not your passion”…[Listen for More]
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As Chief Executive Officer for Easy Bids, Brian Lebeck is responsible for developing and implementing operational policies and strategies to facilitate company growth. Lebeck is well-versed in corporate leadership roles, serving as a leader in the commercial contracting insurances and personal lines industries for more than 16 years. In addition to overseeing Easy Bids, Lebeck is currently president of Confie Seguros (Family of Insurance), where he is responsible for all West Coast operations and manages more than 650 employees, in over 200 locations. As Chief Operating Officer for Easy Bids, an e-commerce platform offering consumers and contractors a convenient way to connect for home and business improvement projects, Thomas Gonzales oversees the company’s business operations and ensures the company has effective operational and financial procedures in place. A seasoned business professional, Gonzales brings more than 15 years of experience in real estate finance to Easy Bids. In addition to his role at Easy Bids, Gonzales is currently the vice president of investments with Park Brokerage Investment Services, where he is responsible for managing a team in the negotiation and purchasing of new properties that benefit the organization. Prior to his current positions, Gonzales served in the armed forces. A decorated military veteran, his combat service awards include the Presidential Accommodation medal, Good Conduct medal and Superior Achievement medal, which he earned through joint task forces with the British.
“don’t be afraid to take the leap. If you plan properly you will limit your chances of failure and therefore you will lift your confidence level to execute. I think a lot of the time our fears as entrepreneurs or as business leaders comes from improper planning. We are not equipped to handle those struggles to make those decisions and ultimately it puts us in a fearful position. So, I think doing that would make you confident and ready to excel as an entrepreneur”…[Listen for More]
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Jane Bishop is a self-proclaimed "unplanned entrepreneur." She founded Take The Next Step out of her passion of investing in others to develop their inner core and grow4ward. Her expertise gleaned from academic/athletic, corporate, and business owner equip her to help entrepreneurs navigate the interpersonal leadership essentials of “entrepreneur land.”
“be aligned with your inner core. Bring your it factor to whatever you are doing, not somebody else’s… You are born an original don’t be a copy. Learn from others but don’t try to be others… Stand on your story… When everybody’s bringing their it factor then we are better off for it”…[Listen for More]
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Dale Irvin is the world's only "Professional Summarizer." As a speaker, he attends conventions, listens to everything observes everything, and reports a summary to the audience at the end of the day in the form of a comedy monologue he just wrote. Dale has also written 7 books, has a weekly video cast called The Friday Funnies; and a weekly podcast, Another Day Above Ground.
“if you are going to be an entrepreneur it’s probably because you are following a dream. Keep following that dream, keep going forward but live your dream”…[Listen for More]
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Aimée-Louise Carton is the co-founder and CEO of KeepAppy, the app and social enterprise that acts as a gym for your mental health. Her company was born out of her suicide attempt and subsequent recovery. She is described as a having "started a mental health revolution".
“just keep talking. The idea that an entrepreneur hides what they are developing even when they are in stealth mode… Well maybe if they are in stealth mode and it is a really niche industry with highly invasive competitors… But really just keep talking, keep asking people what they think, how they would do it, what they would recommend. Because the more you talk about it the better you will get at pitching, the better you will understand your own business, the better you will understand the sales process, the better you will understand your users. There is no harm in constantly communicating your idea, your goals, what you think it will be”…[Listen for More]
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Adam Robinson launched Robly Email Marketing in 2014. The business grew to $5 million in revenue in two years. While working to scale the business, Adam came up with the concept of GetEmails. GetEmails launched in 2019 along with the new revenue channel Email-Based Retargeting, and it’s growing incredibly quickly.
“whatever you think is a potential low-end outcome shrink that by 90% and make sure you have enough of a war chest to make it through that”…[Listen for More]
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Dolores Hirschmann is an internationally recognized strategist, coach, speaker, and founder of Masters in Clarity, a coaching practice that helps clients clarify their idea worth sharing and implement business growth systems. As a speaker coach, Dolores leverages the TED speaking platform to turn successful professionals into thought leaders in their field.
“trust your gut first and fall in love with the work that you are doing”…[Listen for More]
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Susannah Cole is a highly respected Property Investor and Educator. She started The Good Property Company in 2011, as a kitchen table startup. After years of Sourcing, Buying, Selling and Letting, Susannah built a substantial property portfolio and now delivers advice and lessons on how to succeed in property.
“I want them to think about the industry they intend to move into. I think planning, not forever, but planning for a period of time is a very sensible approach… think about your industry very carefully. Do you want to be selling 3.95 lattes, because I would get bored of that… So think about your price point , think about the structure of the industry. That’s why I’m not so keen on service-based industries because I almost see them as replacement rat race industries whereas an asset based industry you put the money into it, you buy the assets, it then cycles round itself with people pushing the cycle. And then I would definitely say get a coach ”…[Listen for More]
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Waldon Fenster is the creator of over 50 startups. Experienced CEO with a demonstrated history of working with corporations & startups to launch or turn around companies. Skilled in Sales, Entrepreneurship, Development along with Marketing & Tech process creation. Strong business development professional with a Bachelor of Science (BS) from the University of Wyoming.
“surround yourself with people that are smarter and better than you. If you are the smartest person in the room you are a big fish in a small pond. But overall if you are filling a room full of those hundred millionaires and those billionaires and the people that have what you want you are going to become the average of those five people. The term out there is birds of a feather flock together”…[Listen for More]
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Victor Green was born in London, England, and from a very young age, he always wanted to know how business worked and how to do everything himself. He was able to assess things quickly and knew what needed to be done in business situations. Because of this, he could spot opportunities and move faster than others. Victor had business smarts and the ability to make quick decisions. His energy, and inquisitive nature, made him look at many business opportunities, some of which he tried before he eventually became his own boss. Ideas such as: opening a deli, importing cuff links from the USA, silk ties from Italy, importing Sangria from Spain. His first full-time business venture was starting a publishing company. From this he went on to start many other businesses, such as organizing conventions, printing, advertising, direct mail, PR, photography, import and export, manufacturing, soccer clubs, website design, creating portal websites, real estate, finance company, business consulting, mentoring and lecturing on business matters. His business experience also covers selling and acquiring businesses, helping company start-ups and revitalizing failing businesses.
“take your time. Don’t be in a hurry to be a failure. Slow down and be a success. Don’t run, run, run, run, run and think oh this is great I have got to do it tomorrow; I have got to do it tomorrow. It’s worth taking the extra time, if it’s a month, six months or a year to get it right. What you have to realise is that if you make a mistake then that factor could cripple you for the rest of your life. You could end up with debts which you have to pay off so your life is virtually ruined because of this. So please, please, please take your time, do your research and when you’ve done it in, do it again and if needy do it again to make sure that you are not being biased in your mind wanting… What is your USP, what is your unique selling point, what will make you better and different to what’s on the market? That’s what it’s all about. Then people say if I buy from them, I get ABC but I also get E and F because that’s a little bit more, that’s what it’s about”…[Listen for More]
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Stephanie Scheller has worked with more than 2500 companies, is a TEDx speaker, a Forbes 30 under 30 nominee, a two-time best-selling author and founded Grow Disrupt for one purpose: to create business owners out of job owners.
“recognise that the doubts and the voice in your head they are legit ,they are a real thing, there is nothing here that I’m going to try make you think that they are liars, they are cheaters, they are nothing… The voice in your head is a real thing and the doubts that it brings up are legitimate and they can be an asset if you will actually look at them and learn from them”…[Listen for More]
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Robert Beadles, successful serial entrepreneur, seasoned business builder; prominent Blockchain & Cryptocurrency educator on TV, YouTube, TradingView Sessions, and throughout the world. He has built several multi-million dollar companies, owns numerous patents, trademarks, helps develop business concepts, ideas, and projects. He is a husband, Christian, father, and philanthropist.
“just get out there and start doing something. If you have got this fire in your belly to be more, to do more, start today, just do something rather than just waiting for everything to just line up and wait for that not on the door, that’s never going to come. The people that just sit back and wait for somebody to just have something drop in their lap or for the old door knocking where they just hand them the keys to the fortune and wealth it just doesn’t happen. You have to just get out there and do something”…[Listen for More]
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(please note, the company name is own-your-voice, many who read my bio are inclined to say Own-Your-Own-Voice, which is incorrect. I sincerely appreciate if you would take a moment to practice simply saying own-your-voice. Many thanks!) Sahar Paz didn't grow up playing house, she played office. At the age of 13, she launched a baby and pet sitting company generating more cash flow than all the lemonade stands in the neighborhood! A natural leader with an active left-and-right brain, Sahar was 25 years old in New York City with a lucrative career in Finance and bored out of her mind. Inspired to share what she learned in business, she pivoted and dedicated herself to feeding the entrepreneurial voice of teenagers by founding Free Your Star Foundation. The nonprofit partnered with low-income high schools in Brooklyn with credit-earning programs written by Sahar herself. Championing the voice of others to help them understand their emotional intelligence and their personal drivers has always been Sahar’s mission. Her book, Find Your Voice part-memoir, part cognitive behaviour guide, epitomizes that pursuit. Published in 2014, her message gained attention within forward-thinking organizations such as HBO, Facebook, Whole Foods, and the Texas Medical Center, where Sahar was invited to deliver keynote presentations. After five years on the road, Sahar became the CEO of Own-Your-Voice Strategy Firm, a personal branding agency that focuses on placing professional on stages to speak. Today, she resides in Houston and has given up pet sitting to play with her dog Rico instead. Please help me welcome today's speaker, Sahar Paz*!
“start that personal brand even if it is a founder page on your organisations website. Have your personal mission up there, tell the why behind your story even if it’s a one sentence sort short story. Stop hiding behind your organisation, be proud of what you have created and get that personal brand out there”…[Listen for More]
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Troy R Underwood is an industry disruptor. Part technologist, part economist, and all innovator, he revolutionized the motor vehicle industry with the nation’s first electronic title system for financial institutions, which was later sold for $106 million. His healthcare venture, benefitsCONNECT, innovated healthcare benefits administration and resulted in a highly successful acquisition. His new book is How to Launch Your Side Hustle: Start and Scale a Business with Minimal Capital.
“be persistent, persevere, don’t give up when you hit your first obstacle. And don’t blame everybody else for your failure, take responsibility for your own actions”…[Listen for More]
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Our guest today is Bill Humbert who began his business in 1990 and has grown it to 4 separate businesses - 1. RecruiterGuy Consulting where he Helps Organizations Recruit, Onboard, Actuate, and Retain Top Talent 2. RecruiterGuy Speaking - with 102 television interviews, speeches around the US. 3. Author 4. Career Transition Coach
“do something you are passionate about. Find a space where you can make an impact and have fun. And if you are passionate about it then you will be successful”…[Listen for More]
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Russell Stuart is Founder and Managing Director of Force Protection Agency, an elite celebrity protective services firm that is known as the Secret Service of Hollywood.
“definitely have a plan. That is the number one thing that I believe so many people have a downfall of… I’m not saying you need to have a 4000 page plan that’s made by some super expensive business adviser but you need to go into your idea and your journey with some kind of understanding of what the next 20, 30, 40, 50 steps are going to be or you can see your fantastic idea crumble into oblivion very quickly”…[Listen for More]
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Based in Boston, Ivan Linn is the CEO and Founder of Folkspaper. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Hanover University of Music, Drama, and Media in Germany and received an A.D. from Yale University. Ivan grew up in Taiwan and has always loved classical music. He moved to Germany to attend university and then to Boston in 2011 to experience life on the other side of the Atlantic. Ivan’s goal was always to share his love of classical music with others, which has since expanded to sharing creative content for the world through Folkspaper’s social journalism platform.
“when you plant a seed for apple trees don’t expect you will be able to eat apples tomorrow because it’s not going to happen. And be patient but be thoughtful about what you do and believe in your dream and your goals”…[Listen for More]
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A philanthropist, motivational speaker, brand strategist and entrepreneur, Amanda McIntyre Chavis has an unquenchable passion for music, art and technology. She is the CXO and Founder of LegendFactory, a interactive brand management company and two new tech initiatives: Muzaik, a social media aggregator app and Myndfull, a wearable tech venture.
“believe in yourself, believe in what you are doing and be passionate about it… Unrelentingly, unapologetically passionate about it because it’s going to be tough in the beginning… Not everybody understands the journey you’re about to take, not everybody is going to believe in the journey you are about to take. So, it’s going to take you truly believing in yourself and trusting yourself to move you forward. You may not have a family member or a friend that’s going to believe in what you do or even understand what you are doing”…[Listen for More]
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Jason Pero was born and raised in Erie, PA. After college Jason began a career medical sales and started investing in real estate in 2001 when he and his wife purchased their first duplex. He was able to leave his day jon in 2012 and now owns a portfolio of 900 multifamily apartments.
“find mentors. Be a mentor and find a mentor… You have one hand to have someone pulling you up, someone who can pull you up and they are mentoring you and helping you along on your entrepreneurial journey. But mentor others, bring others up and be a coach, a friend and a mentor to them… The sooner you surround yourself with mentors and you become a mentor your business will accelerate faster than you could have ever dreams”…[Listen for More]
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Jordan Gross is a Northwestern and Kellogg School of Management graduate, a startup founder, a 2x TEDx speaker, and a #1 best-selling author. His upcoming book, The Journey to Cloud Nine, provides a new approach to the personal development world by using fictional storytelling to reveal some of life's most meaningful principles. Jordan has been blazing new trails for people around the world, and he cannot wait to share this with all of you!
“record your wins. It’s going to be a very difficult journey and recording moments of pure happiness, these cloud nine moments that I’ve mentioned will continue you down the right path. Because it’s going to be difficult, days are going to feel like you didn’t accomplish anything, there are going to be days when you truly get rejected and you fail. But if you continue to every single day reflect and evaluate on the high points of your days then you will go into each situation with that positive mindset that is going to allow you to be relentless and resilient as an entrepreneur moving forward”…[Listen for More]
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John Stoj is likely the only Advisor you've ever met who has managed both $3.5 billion and a sushi kitchen. John’s career in finance began on a Wall Street trading floor over twenty-five years ago, and this has uniquely prepared him to see financial services for what it is: flush with companies and professionals far more focused on their own best interests than their customers'.
“constantly talk to other entrepreneurs. And not just successful entrepreneurs because you can learn fantastic things from the successful entrepreneurs but also other people. Talk to entrepreneurs who might have in their mind failed and see what you can learn from them. And lots of times that is a lot more valuable than talking to the guys that have started and sold 30 businesses and all that”…[Listen for More]
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Phil O'Brien is an entrepreneur and founder of W42ST, a hyperlocal lifestyle print magazine and media brand that connects readers to the New York City experience. As others migrate toward a more digital presence, W42ST Magazine is a successful print magazine for and about Hell’s Kitchen. Under Phil’s leadership, W42ST Magazine has a circulation of over 30,000 and features stories about real people. As an entrepreneur who also successfully founded and sold the world’s largest independent photography agency in 2004, Phil is an expert on entrepreneurship, marketing, and sales, as well as how to come up with a great business idea.
“you have got to have a passion for what you are doing. It can’t just be a clever idea and something you think might make a lot of money; it’s got to be something that’s a passion because it won’t happen overnight. You are going to have to persist in it, you are going to have to find a joy in it consistently for a good period of time. So, my advice would be fine something that you will get joy out of”…[Listen for More]
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Chad Parks is the Founder and CEO of Ubiquity Retirement + Savings, a financial technology company that pioneered online, flat-fee retirement plans for the historically under-served small business market. Headquartered in San Francisco, the firm has helped more than 7,000 businesses contribute over $2.25 billion toward retirement savings since 1999.
“don’t forget to make and take time for yourself. As entrepreneurs, as business owners, as leaders we will generally tend to work ourselves too hard. The quote that he said (Tom Peters) zombies make lousy leaders. My advice is absolutely get a hold of your schedule, get a handle on your schedule, make it very systematised… Getting a hold of your schedule and create blocks of time where you don’t have interruptions. Create blocks of times where you will take meetings, create blocks of time where it’s a free day for yourself. And set the expectations… ”…[Listen for More]
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Dr. Laura Gallaher is an Organizational Psychologist, Speaker, and Leadership Coach. She began her career at NASA Kennedy Space Center, after the Space Shuttle Columbia exploded upon re-entry in 2003. She worked for 8 years with NASA to positively influence culture, develop leadership capacity, and improve organizational performance at Kennedy Space Center. Laura’s company, Gallaher Edge, applies the science of human behavior to organizations so they can get their edge, achieve together, and enjoy the journey.
“enjoy the journey, the journey is all you have… So, I would say let go of the pursuit of happiness and instead choose happiness in your pursuit”…[Listen for More]
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Our next guest is a serial entrepreneur, who has founded and nurtured thirteen businesses over three decades. He has also been a ‘leader of leaders’, having served as International President of the elite Entrepreneurs’ Organization. Troy Hazard now shares his experiences through his speaking engagements, his media appearances, and his books.
“be vulnerable I suppose is the simplest way to look at it. And by that I mean be open and honest and real with your true position as a business leader with the true position of the businesses you lead and the true position of people you lead. And if you can be vulnerable and open what you tend to do is ask more questions. And the more questions you ask the more interesting answers your receive and the more knowledge you will gain because of those answers”…[Listen for More]
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As the founders of GiftCast, Tim Campbell and Joel Deitz each bring over 20 years of experience, expertise, strategy and entrepreneurial skills and have developed the first ever mobile gifting app, which they created in 2017. The app allows users to send a video and money gift through your phone.
“always believe in yourself and your vision. There is going to be challenges, there is going to be people who second-guess you, they will second-guess you and your idea, there is going to be times when you actually second-guess yourself, you are going to get down. You are going to wonder should I keep doing this, is it ever going to make it, should I just stop now? But don’t. There is no better feeling when someone buys your product for the first time and it has a positive impact on whatever they are doing”…[Listen for More]
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Scott Dubois is the Co-Founder of Pidalia, a digital consultancy of senior-level strategists, creatives, and technologists that wrestle with their clients’ messy business problems. Scott is also a Partner at Gingham Ventures an early stage investment firm that also advises businesses on strategy and execution. Scott’s superpower is creatively combining technology with communications, and integrating them into how a company grows their business. Scott is an internationally recognized speaker on the topics of technology, marketing strategy, user engagement, and cross-media communications as well as a mentor for the MassChallenge and EforAll startup accelerators.
“just always be willing to adapt. We know the market is going to change, the business might look different in three, five years and that’s okay as long as it aligns with your vision for what it is that you want to be to do for those that you are serving”…[Listen for More]
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After teaching English in Japan, she forged a successful PR career in London working on local, regional, UK, EMEA and global levels, managing Pan European teams, mentoring staff and exceeding board level expectations time and again. Today Natalie Trice lives in Devon and works with female business owners and experts and has extensive experience in the B2B, broadcast, charity, consumer, corporate and lifestyle sectors. She is the author of two books, PR School and Cast Life and is the founder of DDH UK, a global charitable trust that supports thousands of people around the world who are dealing the hip issues, like her second son.
“don’t give up… I think if you have got that end goal and you just think I am not going to give up… You have got to keep going and then when you get the good things and you get the wins you write those down. And I do that myself and I keep a jar and I fold things up and if something good has happened whether that’s a piece of media coverage or it’s some good feedback or it’s a great trip to London I put those in. And at the end of the year you have got this great pile of paper to tell you actually won’t really well and why you do carrying on doing what you do”…[Listen for More]
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Payman Taei is the founder of Visme, bootstrapped on 10K budget and is one of the leading Visual Communication tools used by over 3.5 million users from over 100 countries including leading Non-profits and Fortune 500 companies that includes IBM, WorldBank, Capital One and General Dynamics. He’s also the Founder of Respona (Just launched) The all-in-one PR/Blogger outreach tool that empowers marketers to promote their brands at a fraction of the cost and effort of traditional methods.
“you have to have this relentless pursuit of improvement. You are going to fail a lot and there is going to be… It’s like climbing a ladder or giant staircase, you take two steps back and you are going to fall down. As long as the steps forward exceed the steps that you take back then you are moving ahead… If you are at the very beginning of entrepreneurship take the first leap of faith… You have got to start somewhere and continue moving, baby steps”…[Listen for More]
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Paul Barmes, designer and founder of Barmes, created the lifestyle brand in 2012 to redefine the way people live, work, and move. An eclectic artist and entrepreneur, Paul brings extensive business leadership to his position, where he oversees the brand’s design and vision. Prior to spearheading Barmes, Paul led successful furniture companies where he designed, developed, and marketed corporate products nationally and globally. During his entrepreneurship, he has received notable design accolades for his products, including furniture and computer monitor arms. When he’s not busy optimizing travel experience, Paul enjoys engaging in local charities and connecting with people from many walks of life.
“trust your instincts, embrace change, resilience is a key factor if you want to be an entrepreneur, act with integrity. and continue to evolve personally is a key ingredient personally as it will add value to yourself, to the people around you and to the audience that you are wanting to appeal to ”…[Listen for More]
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Sharon Cully is the founder of Simply Processes, where she helps entrepreneurs find the time to grow their business, make more money and create more freedom. With 15+ years’ experience working with leading global brands, Sharon has helped companies around the world increase performance, minimize costs and meet customer's needs. She now helps entrepreneurs scale up by gaining control of their business processes.
“what I found was the skills and experience that I have seem quite ordinary to me but that others find those skills to be very helpful. And so things that come naturally to me and I think will surely if I can do it everyone can do it, actually that’s not the case. So I have learned that it’s a great idea to figure out what your strengths are, what you find easy, what people thank you for and to go after those as a basis for your business if you are interested in going into business for yourself. And that way you will not only enjoy the work that you do but you will be able to help others who really don’t find it as easy as you do to do the things that you do ”…[Listen for More]
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Fred Hubler (Mr. Retainer) is an accomplished financial advisor with more than 18 years of success in financial services and technology. He founded Creative Capital Wealth Management Group and grew the firm to 11 states. The practice focuses on retainer-based wealth management. As Chief Wealth Strategist, Fred works with individuals and families to serve their financial needs and achieve their goals. Fred is an inspiring speaker with a deep knowledge of market leadership, business development, goal execution and wealth management. He is an innovative leader with a keen eye for unique solutions and vast knowledge in alternative wealth creation strategies. He built a framework to allow third-party experts to collaborate with and assist his clients, a practice now spreading throughout the industry. He is also a certified Behavioral Financial AdvisorTM (BFATM).
“start as soon as you can whether you think you are ready. The business owners that I know failed but failed forward, learn from their mistakes. I think you can start on starting a way that if you take a misstep it is not catastrophic so be smart. So, I would say start now but be smart now to.”…[Listen for More]
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Juan Carlos Abello saw the need for a hospitality-focused solution such as Nuvola after working in the hotel industry for more than a decade. His first-hand experience sparked the notion that there has to be a better and easier way for staff to communicate with each other and with their guests. Abello began his career in the hotel industry shortly after moving back to the U.S. at the age of 17. He has worked in nearly every aspect of hotel operations, but always found himself focused on one thing - elevating the guest service experience. It’s his passion for the guest experience that led him to managerial and director of operations roles with leading hotel brands such as Morgans Hotel Group and DoubleTree. It’s also what made him take an interesting career move into technology that later resulted in the development of Nuvola. Following his tenure in the hotel industry, Abello was director of operations at a bourgeoning technology company in Italy called ZeitGroup. Discovering the ways in which technology can be used to successfully manage business operations, he was encouraged to take his passion for the hotel industry and his insight into technology to create a new career for himself. Abello foresaw the ways in which a cloud-based software would be able to connect hoteliers and their guests. His unique blend of experience bred the concept for Nuvola and feeds Abello’s passion for its mission to bridge the gap between the hospitality industry and those it serves. Abello graduated Magna Cum Laude from Florida International University with a Bachelor’s Degree in International Business. He also earned a Masters of Business Administration in General Management from Emory University.
“you need to make sure that you have a culture that is well-defined. Even if it changes overall the core values of it you have to make sure that they are there and you don’t change them. And make sure that the first five co-workers that you hire are committed with you for the long run and that they have the flexibility, they can adapt to what could potentially, and it always always happens, to vast changes that are going to happen in your business. So, don’t be quick to hire, follow your intuition but make sure that you get that by in”…[Listen for More]
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Ryan Dohrn is an Emmy winner and was recognized by Forbes.com with the “Best of the Best” award for his business strategies. Ryan’s focus is sales, leadership and team performance. His passion for sales and marketing has given him the unique opportunity to touch half a billion dollars in revenue for companies in 7 countries.
“if you are going to start a business that is going to be successful and you start it just to make money you are starting it for the wrong reason. If you start a business surrounded around something you are passionate about because you are going to have to put a lot of hours into it. If you are passionate about it it’s okay that you are going to have to spend a lot of hours around it because you are so unbelievably passionate about it the time will fly because you are having so much fun really doing what you are passionate about”…[Listen for More]
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Jason Shepherd is an investor, entrepreneur, and community builder. For the past several years, his focus has been on optimizing real estate investing and the transactional process as well as galvanizing property ownership's role as host to connect community. Jason is co-founder of an investment fund (DP Assets), a real estate brokerage firm (Atlas Real Estate Group), a wellness based social club (Archipelago) and marketplace technology (REACTIV). It is Jason's goal to lead efforts in reimagining how the world interacts with real estate and the role it plays in how we gather.
“have the right intentions. If you are building a business understand why you are building the business, understanding what your problem solving, not really just looking at it as a pathway to get paid. And if you can do that if you can be intentional it will motivate you beyond when you start making money. Otherwise is going to be a short-term fix. As you start getting paid for your entrepreneurial dreams you are going to realise that there is much, much more so solve that problem now by knowing that really you are solving a big problem and you are really connected to it ”…[Listen for More]
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Oleg Yavorovskiy is founder and CEO of Guardian Debt Relief, a New York City-based debt settlement company founded in 2012 that has helped thousands of consumers nationally reduce and eliminate unsecured debt. Mr. Yavorovskiy is an expert in personal finance as well as debt relief and debt settlement issues. As founder of Guardian Debt Relief, and having worked in finance earlier in his career at companies including Goldman Sachs, he holds an undergraduate degree in political science and economics from St. John's University. Oleg has also founded successful businesses in the adult day care and food industries.
“don’t be afraid to fail , don’t be afraid to start something that might not possibly work out. But also if you start something new especially if you have a full-time job and you try to start a new business because you have a great idea or you have a great product do your research, make sure you speak to everyone in that field, spend as much time as you can researching it. And also if you are not ready to start full-time try doing it part-time first, try not to concentrate all of your time in the new venture but try to do it part-time outside of your work and then little by little if the opportunity is right it will evolve into a full-time opportunity”…[Listen for More]
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Award-winning Author and Public Speaker Jo Howarth launched The Happiness Club four years ago to critical acclaim. She has so far helped more than 5,000 professionals and school children find their own sense of happy through her programs. Trained as an Advanced Hypnotherapist and Qualified Mindfulness Practitioner, her aim is to spread a global happiness revolution.
“believe that you can even if everybody around you is telling you that you can’t. As long as you believe that you can and absolutely know and trust that you can you will”…[Listen for More]
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Danny Goldberg is a well-known speaker on internal auditing, People-Centric Skills and other related topics. Danny co-authored People-Centric© Skills: Communication and Interpersonal Skills for Internal Auditors, via Wiley Publications. This is the first book published specifically to address the wide-ranging topic of communication skills for internal auditors. A follow-up to this book will be out in 2020, again through Wiley Publications.
“if you are self-motivated you can be successful. If you are not, if you need someone else to motivate you, if you need distress to motivate you then this is probably not for you…I have never been happier with what I do on a day-to-day basis. I love what I do, I love my business, I love the people I work with and I think it comes across and it shows. When people see you, they are invigorated by you, they are invigorated by your energy and your smile, your demeanour. I think to me if you are looking for that may be this is the route to go for you”…[Listen for More]
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After 20 years of unsuccessful cold-call selling, John W. Voris decided to throw out everything and take a fresh approach. Drawing on his degree in Philosophy, he invented a ground-breaking approach to personal inquiry that revealed a person’s life motivation and authentic design far beyond sales. Now, as CEO of Authentic Systems, John educates using practical and teachable methods and techniques based on European Psychology that guides others in their life choices regarding success or failure in their career, relationships, and personal well-being. Often compared to Jordan Peterson by his colleagues, John is an international best-selling author and passionate about leading people to attain their life goals by helping them find their true motivation.
“really look at what you’re obsessed with… Look at your life and say what has really been present with me. Sometimes you can’t see yourself so ask a wife or a husband or friend what is it that has been present with me that I seem obsessed with? And that can really open a lot of doors for you. And then once you have that then you know what direction you really should be going, not can but should be going into”…[Listen for More]
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David Nielson is a life-long learner. He spent 18 years in the corporate world and another 33 years consulting to organizations and coaching executives. His book, The 9 Dimensions of Conscious Success: It's All About You, is a reflection of all that David learned on his life journey.
“spend the time upfront, not an inordinate amount of time, spend the time upfront, get clear about your purpose and then attack it with all the passion that you can muster”…[Listen for More]
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CJ McClanahan is a sought-after speaker, author and executive coach. For more than 16 years, he has helped hundreds of overachieving professionals achieve record sales and profits. More importantly - he’s taught them how to find more joy and satisfaction in all their hard work.
“live in the moment as clichéd as that might sound. What’s so interesting about our success as entrepreneurs is, we are constantly obsessed with what we are going to do next. And our obsession with what it is we are going to do next keeps us from doing what we are supposed to be doing right now as effectively as possible. When an entrepreneur can reduce their stress, they make really great decisions. Really great decisions lead to growth in your business. Really great decisions are impossible if you are obsessed with stress and anxiety. So, for entrepreneurs I say obsess with the present moment, just be today and focus on what it is you are supposed to do now. The more you do that the more precise the more excellent you are going to be at what it is that you do and the more effective you are going to be at delivering value to your clients, growing your market share and growing your business”…[Listen for More]
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Howard Farran, DDS, MBA, is a practicing dentist with more than 25 years of clinical experience, Founder and CEO of Dentaltown Magazine which is celebrating 20 years in publication, #1 Best Selling Author of his book Uncomplicate Business, host of the popular Podcast “Dentistry Uncensored” as well as a noted international speaker on faster, easier, more efficient dentistry. He has captivated audiences around the world with his innovative, informational, off-the-cuff and entertaining lectures for more than two decades. His area of expertise covers many aspects of dentistry, including the business of dentistry and clinical topics. Howard was voted by his peers in the top 3 on the list of The 32 Most Influential People in Dentistry from 2017-2019.
“People time and money. Manage yourself, learn how to manage other people. Your time is so limited… Manage yourself, manage your time… You have only got your one person and you only got so much time, you’ve only got so much resources just make them all go faster”…[Listen for More]
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After losing his first fortune, Marx Acosta-Rubio was sharing a bottle of wine with his wife when he asked her, What did she really want out of life? They talked for hours about what truly mattered to them. That’s when he decided to make sure his next fortune was for his family to get everything they really wanted. Marx dropped out of law school to become an entrepreneur and started one of the fastest growing companies in the United States. He’s gone from rags to riches to rags to riches again and learned along the way what real success looks like. Now he shares his wisdom with other entrepreneurs so they don’t fall into the traps and paralysis that keeps them from the life they actually want to be living.
“relax, be ambitious but be relaxed, think, get out of the busy trap, reach out to mentors who have not only just done it but you believe can teach you pearls of wisdom to help you. And don’t take it so seriously it’s just money… Put your health first… The minute you stop enjoying something take a break and go what is going on and then ask yourself the question and then figure out how you can change that. It’s not that difficult”…[Listen for More]
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Lisa Fabrega is a personal transformation advisor who supports ambitious women as they strive to create a deep and lasting influence on the world. For more than ten years, she has helped entrepreneurs, corporate executives, Academy Award nominees and Nobel Prize organization candidates in breaking through boundaries that have been holding them back. Her signature approach involves the proven concept of capacity expansion to enable clients to reach their highest levels of success and impact. Lisa has addressed thousands of people both on stage as a keynote speaker as well as appearing on podcasts including The Unmistakable Creative, Her Rules Radio and Tell Me A Story with Debra Silverman. She’s also been featured on CNN, Yahoo! News and The Huffington Post. She splits her time between Florida and California with her two rescue dogs, Luna and Sadie.
“please do not move forward into your big plans for this year without including working on your capacity in there. Don’t just jump into a strategy that you don’t have capacity to handle. Make sure you are prioritising your capacity alongside your strategy”…[Listen for More]
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Alex Sanfilippo is the host of the top 20 entrepreneurship podcast, Creating a Brand, and the founder of the Creating a Brand Community, an online mastermind/tribe for entrepreneurs. Alex is passionate about helping others excel in life and business.
“gain clarity on your purpose. What is so important for us to do is to figure out the why behind the what we are doing. We are driven by the what right. Many of us say we are all driven people. We are working hard, we are disciplined but if we can remember the why which is the purpose, the anchor behind what we are doing it’s going to help us to go so much further. I find the best way to get that clarity is to visualise the end result. Where do you want to be? Where do you want to end up ultimately? What mark do you want to leave on the world when you are gone? When we can gain that clarity and figure out where we are, we can visualise ourselves the end of that path the journey in the middle become so much easier to be able to navigate. If you are at the beginning of it or even the middle of it being able to see that end destination helps you. And also, just remembering hey I am going to get there. When things get tough it’s like no I am still striding on, I know what I am going for ”…[Listen for More]
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Marc Azoulay is a psychotherapist in private practice in Boulder, CO and the current President of the Four Corners Group Psychotherapy Society. He helps clients that have a harmful relationship to their inherent aggression or who are stuck in the pain of their repetition compulsions. Many of his clients struggle with addiction, trauma, and self-harm. Marc helps people uncover and destroy the unconscious barriers that cripple them by using a blend of Modern Psychoanalytic and Contemplative Psychotherapy. His therapeutic style can best be described as irreverent with surprising moments of profound depth.
“connecting with other people that get it: I think that’s a key one. But I think another one that I would add is trying to understand your past, understand your stories. There is a lot of power in the unconscious part of our mind, there is a lot of power in this idea of a heroes journey. In a lot of mythology there is this idea that a hero has an early wound. And for a lot of us that happens in our childhood, maybe it’s trauma, maybe it’s where you are born. And in order to be a hero they go through this whole process where the wound becomes the strength and one is able to incorporate it. And I think if entrepreneurs can really take the time either through psychotherapy or coaching or just through reading books or doing self inquiry they can start to understand their life story and draw power from the things they are ashamed of because everybody has those things. But there is a way to reframe it, a way to fail through it and process it and those become our biggest strengths and those become what eventually contributes to bring our genius out into the world”…[Listen for More]
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Katherine Elizabeth learnt her craft working alongside well-known milliner Catherine Delaney, in costume. It wasn’t long before she was also working with the internationally renowned hat-maker to the stars, Stephen Jones in London. Seeing what was possible for herself, meant the appeal of running her own business was never far away. After receiving a grant from The Princes Trust, Katherine took the plunge and began her own company; Katherine Elizabeth Millinery. It wasn’t long before her designs were being featured in top tier media titles including The Daily Telegraph, Tatler and Marie Claire and she was working in partnership with cosmetics giant Benefit. She then went on to attract celebrity clients of her own. Now with her own established store at London’s OXO Tower, Katherine is helping the next generation of wannabe milliners understand and hone their craft through her supportive online Millinery and Business Academy.
“work out how your business is helping other people. And who are you helping? So in your business you have to work out your goals and where you want be in the future and what you are going to do and what it’s all about and also how is your business helping other people. So is it helping other people, how you serve in them? Because every business is about serving someone. So if you can work that out and you work out how you are serve them then you can work out who they are”…[Listen for More]
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Tammy Lynn Guns has corporate industry experience in auditing, business valuations, business development and healthcare operations. Tammy has served on two Board of Directors and has two award winning books. Her education entails earning four college degrees. Tammy is international speaker including a TEDx talk in Dallas, TX and the honorary chair at a conference in Rome.
“get rid of the negative self-talk. I would say that we can be our own worst enemy. We can be the ones that stop ourselves from living the life of our dreams… The voice that is inside of our head… If instead that voice were not inside of our head but it was a person sitting next to us on the couch … We would look at that person the way that they talk to us and we would say you need to leave. You need to get up, you need to go right out of the front door and never talk to me ever again because this is rude this is not acceptable the way that you are talking to me. But yet that same voice that is not a person sitting on the couch but is instead taking up valuable real estate in our head and talking to us all of the time and somehow, we accept that. And so, getting rid of that negative self-talk is absolutely important”…[Listen for More]
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Shari Hammond is the inventor of Store It! Cabinet Caddy! and Go Hang It! A single Mom from Austin, Texas, Shari loves to create helpful inventions for the home.
“find people along the way that you work well with and you trust. In business who you know is just as important as what you know. And so being able to get sound advice from people in your circle and in your industry is so valuable”…[Listen for More]
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Liz Sara is Chair of the National Women's Business Council (NWBC). She was appointed in July 2018 by President Trump to serve a three-year term. Ms. Sara will bring with her 30 years of achievement as an entrepreneur, business owner, and small business champion. Ms. Sara is also the Founder and President of Best Marketing, LLC, where she consults for more than 90 small businesses in the high-tech sector, and serves as a chief business advisor to entrepreneurs in creating and executing go-to market strategies. Previously, she played a principal role as Co-founder of SpaceWorks, an eCommerce software company, where she facilitated its startup and growth to nearly $25 million in revenue.
“think big but start small. You can’t boil the ocean overnight. Get the small idea off the ground but have in mind the vision for how big it can become and the impact that it can have on a wider audience whether it’s consumers, whether it’s business, whether it’s government, whether it’s industry. So think big but start small”…[Listen for More]
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Lee Lam had an impressive career in Financial Services Technology, experience that gives her unique insight into the most effective team designs for startups. She now works with entrepreneurs and startups to help them avoid operational and strategic blindspots that can impact their potential and impede further growth.
“find people who understand you. There are so many entrepreneurs in the world you will find that they congregate around each other and I realised the reason for that is because it is such a unique mindset. The people you are used to dealing with may or may not understand the drive that’s within you to do your business and to work so hard at something that may or may not actually work. But other entrepreneurs will get it and you have to give yourself regular access to that kind of support”…[Listen for More]
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Ian Kane is the Founder and COO of Ternio. Ternio provides products to enterprise customers that give blockchain and cryptocurrency real world application. Ternio is best known for their BlockCard, which is a crypto VISA card that allows users to spend Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies anywhere that VISA is accepted. Ian has worked in technology & digital media for over 10 years with a heavy focus on business development, sales, and strategy. His career started as the 1st employee in a media startup which grew into a $50mm a year business during his tenure.
“just keep going. It sounds easy but it’s much harder to execute… Persistence is the one factor that determines success. And so, you could fail nine times but if you get up and keep going then the 10th time may be what gets you across the finish line. And so, to have that level of assistance you need to have a lot of conviction in what you are doing… If you see a spark with your business then you need to keep fanning that flame at whatever cost is necessary to get across the finish line ”…[Listen for More]
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Sebastian Hovv is the CEO of Self SEO, a simple do-it-yourself SEO platform for startups + small business. He is also a blogger, speaker and author of the book, The Little White Book of SEO.
“it’s going to take longer than you think. And start now because it’s only going to get harder with time if you have kids and you are married it’s going to be exponentially harder. I was lucky that I started when I was young and single. Even though I am not where I want to be, I’m a lot closer to where I would be had I not done those kind of… made those like decisions early on. So, I think delaying that as much as you can and just building your business, taking the risks now when you are younger is going to help you along further down the line”…[Listen for More]
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Dennis Lewis is a seasoned digital storyteller and blockchain marketing specialist with a proven track record in both Europe and the United States. He has successfully lead to market and exited multiple startup companies, and prides himself on his ability to make complex projects easy to understand and relatable. In a marketing landscape increasingly obsessed with shiny objects and overly complicated sales funnels, Dennis still believes that the key to any successful marketing campaign are the words on the page.
“learn to listen; listen to your customers, listen to your team members, listen to pretty much everybody but take into account who you are listening to… Listen to the right people for the right questions”…[Listen for More]
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Boaz David is a performance coach for fashion brands and their creators. He is the founder of Human B, a fashion business consultancy. With nearly 25 years of experience, Boaz was instrumental in launching some of the most highly acclaimed NY fashion brands.
“to make better decisions one of the things that can help make better decisions is to get more information. When you look at people no one really wants to make bad decisions, no one willingly gets up in the morning and says today I’m going to make a bad decision. That second we make a decision we make the best decisions that we can make at that given moment. The only challenge is sometimes we don’t have enough information, we didn’t ask enough questions, we didn’t gather more information, tools whatever it is to help us make better decisions ”…[Listen for More]
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Dr. Cali Estes is a highly sought after Addiction Professional (MCAP, MAC ICADAC), Life Coach, Recovery Coach and Wellness Guru that blends talk therapy with forward and positive change to assist her clients in unlocking their true potential. She has been featured in books, magazines, radio and television for her work in the addictions and therapy fields. She works with individuals, drug and alcohol treatment teams and addiction professionals looking to advance their knowledge base. Dr. Estes is a seasoned addictions coach and addictions professional. She has over 23 years’ experience working with drug, alcohol and food addictions. Her deep understanding of drug and alcohol addiction, including the behaviors and ramifications that are associated with it, place her top in her field of addiction therapy and addiction coaching. Her unique no nonsense approach of cognitive behavioral therapy, positive psychology, addiction coaching, and life coaching combine to provide the perfect support for an addicted person. Cali’s background in food addictions and the emotional and physical tolls it takes on one’s psyche and physical wellbeing is unique. Simply Put: She gets RESULTS.n addition to being a prominent Addiction Specialist and well known Recovery Coach, Cali Estes has presented at National and International Conferences and she is Founder of The Addictions Academy, the largest online virtual classroom for addiction professionals to learn and get credentialed She has presented to individuals and drug and alcohol treatment facilities both national and international, and is a sought-after Sober Coach, Addiction Coach, Recovery Coach, and Life Coach to Actors, Musicians, CEO’s, Doctors, Sports Figures and Attorneys that need 100% Confidentiality when dealing with sensitive life issues. She specializes in issues concerning both the family and the client and can assist them in making the changes necessary to be happy and healthy.
“if you haven’t started someday is not a day of the week. Start it today. Even if you just go and print business cards, it’s the simplest thing to do, get it done, hand it out, tell people what you do. If you are already doing it don’t ever tell yourself you can’t. A lot of people say okay I’m going to do this, they put it out on social, this is what I’m going to do, they tell everybody and then they sit back and wait for the phone to ring. And I say you haven’t done anything. You haven’t sent out ships to come into the harbour. You have sat around and told everybody what you are going to do but you haven’t done it. As an entrepreneur you have to set the intention then you have to do the work to get the people in the front door”…[Listen for More]
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Brian Weaver serves as CEO of Torch.AI and has more than 20 years of experience leading mission driven, high growth, technology-focused companies. Torch.AI helps leading organizations leverage artificial intelligence in a unique way via a proprietary enterprise data management software solution. Today, Torch.AI supports clients like H&R Block with fraud detection and mitigation, and the U.S. Department of Defense with machine learning-enabled background investigations for all federal employees, supporting the determination of an individual’s trustworthiness and security credentialing. Prior to Torch.AI, Brian launched or acquired several companies all focused on technology enabled services and data connectivity. His companies serve nearly 1,300 clients and have been recognized as Small Business of the Year by the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce.
“the first rule is don’t be afraid and the second rule is just do right by other people and in the end you will be fine. Put others ahead of you and ahead of money and everything”…[Listen for More]
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Today's guests are Shane Sams and Jocelyn Sams, the dynamic duo behind Flipped Lifestyle. Shane and Jocelyn are former school teachers. After years of job losses, bad bosses, and frustration at work, they started an online business. That business made it possible for them to quit their jobs, spend more time with family, and earn millions in passive income! Now, they help other families do the same through the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast and their online community.
“do the thing… Every person I coach, every person I do a Q&A for, everything always boils down to okay you know what to do go do it. Like you have to physically do the thing. Everything else is a dream, everything else is a wish… Until you are doing the thing, action, action, action is the only way you are ever going to make it to the next level. And I would just say five someone who has the opposite strengths to what you do … You need to find the person who compliments you. If you overthink things finds somebody who will push you out of the aeroplane. If you are jumping out of the aeroplane without a parachute find somebody to make you a parachute”…[Listen for More]
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Rachael Welford is the founder of Welford Wellbeing and host of Things I Wish I’d Known Podcast. Her infectious energy drives her mission to release the stigma around mental health after her diagnosis of clinical depression and anxiety. She shares tools and knowledge which empowers those suffering to take back control & build lasting positive change. In the short time she has been running Welford Wellbeing, Rachael has worked with with a variety of companies including Reuters, UN Women, lululemon, TFL and Barbican as well as being voted one of London’s best therapists by Timeout.
“just keep going, like you have totally got this. If it’s your soul calling and you will know whether it is a not… If you wake up every day and you think oh God, I really wish I was in a job maybe you need to go get a job again. And that’s actually okay as well. Because I think that’s the other thing a lot of the time being an entrepreneur isn’t necessarily for everyone. It can be scary, it can be you don’t know when your next paycheck is coming from, it can be pretty hairy stuff”…[Listen for More]
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Ilana Zivkovich is the founder and CEO of Werq, an executive and team performance coaching firm headquartered in Austin, TX, serving clients around the country and abroad. An experienced executive leader and Certified Executive Coach, Zivkovich helps leadership teams align their people, processes and strategy so that businesses can achieve exceptional results. Zivkovich currently resides in Austin with her husband and daughter. She enjoys raising her young family in such a vibrant and growing city.
“just keep going. The difference between making it and not making it often times comes down to actually getting out there and doing it. Just keep going… You have to do the work. You can’t think about it and talk about it and just imagine it into being you have to do it. So get out there do it and keep going”…[Listen for More]
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Maria Pesin is a senior apparel industry executive with an outstanding history of achievement and over 25 years of field experience. She has developed brands from the ground up and taken well-known names to new heights of excellence. Her proven leadership ability has led her to spearhead marketing operations. She has constructed and implemented business plans for New York apparel giants like Fleet Street and GIII Apparel Group, building multi-million dollar brands. Maria has established herself as an expert in everything from merchandising and sales to product development and budgeting.
“one of the things that is really important for an entrepreneur is to persevere. Now I’m not saying that sometimes people won’t come up with the business that is not going to work but usually you just need to course correct because what you startup starts out with isn’t what you end up with because you evolve based on the market. So, a lot of times it’s just the perseverance that makes the difference. If you think you going to have a successful business in six months is just not going to happen so you have to allow for the process”…[Listen for More]
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Jim Delkousis is the CEO and founder of PERSUIT, which helps corporations automate legal workflows and inefficiencies while significantly reducing costs. Prior to the launch of PERSUIT, Jim was a BigLaw partner for 17 years. Jim earned his J.D. at the University of Melbourne and a Masters of Law in Commercial Law at the University of London.
“you cannot control how smart you are… But the one thing you can control is how hard you work. You have got to do the grind and hopefully your passionate about what you’re doing. And the reason I mention passion is that it’s likely that you are going to be eating dirt along the journey and sometimes you are eating a lot of it. So, unless you are actually passionate about what you are doing it’s going to be tough going to stick it out. So grind and passion are certainly the two qualities that I look for”…[Listen for More]
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Jono Bacon is a leading community strategist, speaker, author, and podcaster. He is the founder of Jono Bacon Consulting which provides community strategy/execution, workflow, and other services. He previously served as director of community at GitHub, Canonical, XPRIZE, and OpenAdvantage. His clients include Huawei, GitLab, Microsoft, Intel, Google, Sony Mobile, Deutsche Bank, Santander, HackerOne, Mattermost, SAP, FINOS Foundation, The Executive Center, data.world, Creative Commons, and others. He is the author of the critically-acclaimed The Art of Community, a columnist for Forbes and opensource.com, founder of the Community Leadership Summit and Open Collaboration Conferences, and co-founder of Bad Voltage. He is an advisor to AlienVault, Moltin, data.world, Mycroft, Open Networking Foundation, and Open Cloud Consortium.
“’have a go’ it sounds simplistic but don’t let your gut hold you back, go and have a go. And it’s amazing what you can do when you say ‘wouldn’t it be cool if we tried this’. Let’s see what happens… The companion piece to that is actually a quote from Winston Churchill where he said ‘keep buggering on’. And what that basically means is even when it’s tough, even when you’re struggling keep going… Even when you are tired, even when you’re exhausted keep going on and just have a go”…[Listen for More]
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Martin Morrison is a writer, ghostwriter, editor, speaker and radio presenter based in West Yorkshire. Following a 20-year career in sales, which included 15 years in advertising, Martin set a new course for himself, determined to live a more fulfilling and authentic life rather than making do with just another job. Since 2014, he has completely reinvented himself, delivering mindfulness-based courses within schools and other organisations, launching his own interview show on an Asian radio station, and ghostwriting and editing for entrepreneurs and professional speakers such as Richard McCann. Where next for Martin? Wherever his heart takes him as long as he is expressing his truth with clarity!
“have faith, believing yourself, believe in your ideas and be prepared to let those ideas evolve. If an idea is not working you have got to let it go or you have got to let it change into something that is more workable. More than anything have faith because having faith will allow you to learn from mistakes. Having faith will allow you to keep on moving forward even when you have got setbacks. And having faith will take you to the promised land wherever that is because you will have the tenacity, the open-mindedness and the explorative mindset if you like to find where the opportunities are”…[Listen for More]
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As a young girl growing up in Norway, Annicken R Day fell in love with old Hollywood movies, especially the musical South Pacific from 1958. When she visited the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i thirty years later, she learned by coincidence that South Pacific had been filmed there and that the mystical island of Bali Ha’i indeed existed. That was when the idea for the story about Maya Williams first came to her, a story inspired by Annicken’s own life and experiences, and by people—and butterflies—she has met on her journey. After fifteen years as a leader and executive in the IT industry, Annicken jumped off the corporate treadmill in 2012 to start her own company, Corporate Spring, with a mission to make the corporate world a happier place. Since then she and her team have helped and trained thousands of leaders around the world on how to build thriving corporate cultures, high performing teams, and successful businesses. Annicken is the founder and CEO of Corporate Spring, co-author of the book Creative Superpowers, a public speaker, executive advisor, and a passionate maverick for new ways of thinking, working, and leading in the new world of work. Annicken spends the majority of her time between Oslo, London, and Los Angeles, where also her singer-songwriter daughter Matilde Redbridge lives.
“enjoyed the ride, don’t take things too seriously, have a laugh, things always work out in the end”…[Listen for More]
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After a successful IPO of a medical imaging company, Rick Smith quit his job to bring advanced technology to the beverage industry, co-founded HyVIDA Brands, invented a method of infusing hydrogen gas (a power antioxidant) into beverages and launched the World's first Hydrogen infused carbonated beverage.
“do you believe in yourself? …the opportunities are coming and going all the time, you recognise them, some aren’t so good, some are really good. Question is, do you believe in yourself to do something about it? Are you willing to take that leap? You have got to believe in yourself. And if you do then put a plan together… Don’t be a pig and try to own everything. Find partners with complimentary skills, share a little bit of the wealth with them, give them a little bit of skin in the game because it’s amazing how adding partners can help”…[Listen for More]
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Ken Kerry is Co-Founder and Executive Director of leading digital marketing company Script to Screen and the author of a new book that documents the secrets behind his campaigns for well-known brands. This Works Marketing, from Amazon Digital Services and co-authored by Michael Ashley, is based on experience with and feedback from clients who have enjoyed massive results. The book is a foundational blueprint for marketing strategy that has proven extremely successful for over three decades. Script to Scree is a performance-driven marketing agency with 30 years of experience transforming companies, such as Bare Minerals, Shark/Ninja, Gwynnie Bee, and NutriSystem, into bestselling brands. Kerry developed This Works Marketing based on consistent feedback from clients who have benefited from successful branding and sales generating campaigns conducted by Kerry and his team.
“love what you want to do. If you want to do something and you really have a passion for it and you believe you can add value that’s more important than anything… if you love what you do you never go to work… So, it’s really important to understand what it is that you want to bring to the world… That may be the simplest product, that may be a Sass business or that may be that little yoga studio. But if you are passionate about it and you can bring value to people you are going to be successful”…[Listen for More]
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Paul J Daly is the Founder and CEO Congruent Automotive, a full service creative marketing agency and the author of “The Automotive Manifesto: How Brand Connection Can Save Retail Automotive'. With almost two decades of business leadership experience and a deep understanding of the retail buying psyche, Paul’s approach to the challenges and opportunities facing the modern dealer is clear and human.
“understand your motivations. We can get into so many situations because our motivations are driven by ego driven by fear, driven by needing to prove something to somebody else. Even if that’s the case if you can at least acknowledge that’s what it is you will make better decisions and you will cause less destruction and more construction. So understand your motivation is the very best advice I could give”…[Listen for More]
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Ron Tite is a best-selling author, entrepreneur, and investor. He has always blurred the lines between art and commerce. He has been an award-winning advertising writer and Creative Director for some of the world’s most respected brands including Air France, Evian, Fidelity, Hershey, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft, Intel, Microsoft, Volvo and many others. He is Founder of Church+State, an agency that unifies content and advertising for global brands and media companies. He’s also an investor in Wavy, Unison, and AirFoil Media. He has written for television. Penned a children’s book. Wrote, produced and performed a hit play. Published an award winning comedy book. Created a branded art gallery. And was Executive Producer & Host of the award-winning comedy show, Monkey Toast. In demand as a speaker all over the world, Ron speaks to leading organizations about creativity, disruption, branding, and leadership. Ron’s first book was, Everyone’s An Artist - Or At Least They Should Be (Co-written by Scott Kavanagh and Christopher Novais), was published by HarperCollins in 2016. His most recent book, Think • Do • Say: How to Seize Attention and Build Trust in a Busy Busy World, has just hit store shelves.
“Pan for silver work for gold. And here is what I mean by that. A good idea might present itself but it is not going to present itself as a gold idea there just has to be something there that is intriguing. Either that could be a business model, that could be a person that you maybe want to bring onto your team, that might be a new idea for a new product, that might be an idea for a piece of content that you want to share. I think that too many people think that the great ideas, the great people, the great talent just presents itself, and that’s wrong. My experience in stand-up comedy knows this, that you go on stage with a bullet point and you go I think there is something here and you start it and it’s called the bit. And there is something to a bit. And a bit start with an insight, with an idea and then you just what we call in comedy you work the bit. You work it, you do it over and over again, you talk about it, you do it in a small room, you do it in a big room, you just perfect the bit over time. You pan for silver but you work for gold. And nothing is going to present itself to you, you need to do the work”…[Listen for More]
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Jonathan Denwood is a leading influencer in the WordPress space (with his own leading podcast in the eLearning entrepreneurship WordPress area) and a champion of the eLearning Entrepreneur who wants to build a substantial online business. Many people who have great experience and a lot of knowledge to share in their field get caught up with choosing and implementing the technology to publish their first course. Jonathan can really help in getting people to get over this hurdle so that they can really concentrate on marketing their course to its targeted audience. Jonathan also helps those who have found themselves trapped on a SaaS platform, which they have outgrown and want to move to the flexibility and power of WordPress and don’t know where to begin.
“don’t give up but be realistic. It’s a strange duality. If something is not working and it’s obviously not working you are going to have to change the business model… Most people give up too early because they don’t realise that this is going to take longer than they thought ”…[Listen for More]
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Author, coach, and principal of You Got This Public Speaking, Lisa Kleiman brings over 20 years’ experience helping people develop their communication skills. She’s held management and consulting positions at Fortune 500 companies and served as a faculty instructor teaching undergraduate and graduate university courses.
“don’t give up. If it’s truly something that you want to do then give it your all. If it’s a passion just know that you are going to have some hurdles but keep going forward. Learn as much as you can, do your homework, have a good business plan before you start, know what you are getting yourself into, know and expect that there will be changes and there will be forks in the road and you will have to learn which one to go down. Network as much as possible, have those mentors they can be really crucial in helping you go forward and then ultimately just have fun”…[Listen for More]
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Karen Mathis Designer, Stylist and Author Mathis enjoys creating and building at the start-up phase. Her fashion merchandising and marketing career exposed her to large scale, as well as private corporate operations, including owning her own retail businesses. Mathis is a lifelong learner, completing a Master’s of Science in Executive Leadership, at University San Diego in May 2016. She took a sabbatical and spent time in England writing a new book, Power of Appearance. She continues to style an exclusive clientele. Her latest project has drawn her to more research and writing. The book will be launched in 2019 with a book tour planned in Southern California and a few stops in the Midwest. She is married with three daughters and lives in San Diego, CA. Her personal mission is to use her knowledge to empower women. She consults, teaches, and writes. You can find her eBooks at Amazon.com: Fashion Buyer, Darling Where’s Your Wrap, and 8 Easy Pieces.
“please, please, please build your team of stakeholders from advisers to employees. Get the team, explore what you are good at, what are your strengths, admit what your weaknesses are and hire your team accordingly. Plug those holes in what you are not good at. I would say use the DISC model to help build that team so that they can work together with greater understanding… And I don’t think there is a leader out there that should not know situational leadership is a tool in training and leading their team. Learn about your leadership style it will help you keep good employees and help keep good employees feeling better about their job’s that’s the key”…[Listen for More]
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Omar Soliman is a published author, entrepreneur and TV personality. He is the Co-Founder & CEO of COLLEGE HUNKS HAULING JUNK, a national junk removal and moving franchise with over 120 franchises across the country. CHHJ was named one of the fastest growing franchises in the nation by Entrepreneur Magazine and currently employs over 2,000 people nationwide. Omar was named 'Top 30 Entrepreneurs in America Under 30' by INC magazine and is an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year winner. Omar has appeared as a frequent guest on FOX Business News, MSNBC and ABC's hit TV show Shark Tank. Omar co-authored his first book along with his business partner Nick Friedman titled EFFORTLESS ENTREPRENEUR. The book has become a national best seller and is a must read for anyone looking to start a business. Omar is a guest speaker at universities, high schools and corporate events.
“focus on a vision, focus on how that vision helps people, focus on how your company builds relationships and creates unique experiences for your clients and for your employees. And if you can do those things you’ve got something successful. You don’t need to invent the next Facebook or come up with some high-tech thing that nobody’s thought of. You can take simple businesses like moving like hauling like painting or plumbing and you can put a new-age spin on them and try to address and marketplace by solving the pain points that clients have. And you can do well at that so don’t always look for the next Google. Sometimes the business is right in front of you”…[Listen for More]
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Ben Gioia (“joya”) is a two-time best-selling author, speaker, & creator of the Influence With A Heart™ Method. If you’re a speaker, coach, consultant, or leader with a big idea, Ben will help you bring your book to the world, make it #1, and create a media explosion in just 99 days.
“really respect, love, honour and heed the call of being an entrepreneur. And trust yourself in that process. And… don’ t hold too tightly to exactly how success has to look. Let yourself be surprised all that you can imagine and even everything beyond that”…[Listen for More]
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Sean O'Meara is the founder and MD of Essential Content a specialist content and PR agency. He's worked with leading organisations including The Co-Op Bank and the BBC.
“take everything one day at a time… Know when to jack it in for the day”…[Listen for More]
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Jeremy Streten is a successful entrepreneur and lawyer applying his passion and experience to help entrepreneurs and small to medium sized business owners to succeed in their business so that they can live the life that they want to live.
“Get advice and to learn from others. You don’t know it all. No matter what you are a specialist in you will have blind spots and all the great business leaders have got advice. You don’t hear about it often but even the Steve Jobs ??? founders had a coach. All the great people in business know that they have their blind spots and so do you, so does everyone… so get advice, get help because if you don’t you will struggle in business ”…[Listen for More]
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At age 28, Prady Tewarie has started and sold over 28 businesses and is the current Founder and CEO of AZOTH LLC, a nootropic supplement company that has sold over 50K units worldwide. Prady holds a JD and is a professional bodybuilder.
“to not be focused on consistently having to raise more money… I don’t think you have a money problem I think you have a creativity problem… You have to find something that you can scale on and only then can you don’t more resourcing and money will cover that up a lot of times. So my biggest thing is you need to gain and understand consumer insight”…[Listen for More]
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Larry Ludwig has had a long, successful business and entrepreneurial career. He is always at the forefront of technology, digital marketing, and online business. It all started when he went to work for the ad agency Poppe Tyson in 1994. He helped create some of the first websites for the likes of JPMorgan Chase, LensCrafters, Minolta, T. Rowe Price, IBM, and ING Bank. In 1998, he went on to work for the successful startup Commerce One, where he helped integrate a B2B solution for companies, including Eastman Chemical and Schlumberger. Later in 2001, he ventured off on his own and created Empowering Media, a successful design, development, and web-hosting service. He helped build the technology infrastructure to host highly trafficked websites such as Comedy Central, GM, Thought Catalog, and Nielsen. In December 2009, Larry created the website Investor Junkie to help satisfy his own needs and the needs of others to find unbiased investment content. From scratch, he created the leading investing review and comparison site, generating revenue only from affiliate marketing. In July 2018, Larry successfully sold Investor Junkie for $6 million. When not joyriding in his Porsche 911 Turbo S, his current passion is helping other business owners leverage technology and digital marketing.
“ultimately being persistent and consistently doing something. Maybe changing your approach but ultimately having a vision and dreaming that goal that you want to achieve and go for it. Don’t be afraid, don’t be hesitant of what others say, the naysayers. Ultimately you have to do something. Just don’t sit there, take action”…[Listen for More]
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Marty Puranik is the founder, president, and CEO of Atlantic.Net, a profitable and growing hosting solutions provider in Orlando. Marty’s strengths as a leader and visionary have helped him lead a successful business for over two decades. Atlantic.Net thrives thanks to Marty’s strategic acumen, technical prowess, and his valuable, old-fashioned habits of thrift, modesty, and discipline.
“just get going because it will never be perfect. And if it is something you want to do answer the question for yourself if you can do it by doing it… Keep going, it’s not always easy, it’s difficult… In a traditional life everybody tells you to be a specialist, become really, really good at one thing. And if you are an entrepreneur you actually need to do the opposite you need to become at least competent… If you become C+ or B at a bunch of things that’s way, way more valuable. So, if you are a C+ or B person that can-do marketing and accounting, sales that’s way more important than if you are on A+ technical person and you can’t do any of the other things. Because you have got to keep all the plates spinning and you have to at least be confident that even if you are not strong in accounting when you meet somebody who is you will be able to evaluate them. So I would say work on being a broad person ”…[Listen for More]
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Julie Crockett is a property investing expert and buyers agent helping Australians to create their own financial independence through investing in quality residential property, Australia wide. Her team use Artificial Intelligence technology to source properties, giving her clients, many of whom are women, the edge when it comes to achieving outstanding investment results.
“do your homework and make sure that your idea is a viable idea… Get a good business coach or mentor who has already done what it is that you are wanting to do and to get that assistance along the way… Maintain a sense of humour at all times because you definitely need it. There will be great times in business and there will be probably some terrible times along the way. And if you think that’s not going to happen you need a reality check, it will happen at some point and it may happen at several points along your business journey”…[Listen for More]
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Lucas Rubix is a coach and mentor to over 10,000 online coaches, Founder of the Coaches University, and the host of the popular podcast, The Coaches Corner.
“develop, hone in, create it so you feel not just logically but… If you feel your why, if you know why you are doing this in the first place when everyone else is quitting. When I feel like quitting, I just think about the three other guys who are thinking the exact same thing, I remember my reason why am doing this and it pushes me through and it pulls me through. ”…[Listen for More]
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Kim Barrett is a world renowned Social Media Marketer, focusing on Facebook. He Is an International Best Selling Author,Speaker and Trainer, having taught marketing around the world and helping businesses grow to 6 and 7 figures. Your Social Voice helps businesses be heard on social media, and most importantly, build engagement, generate more leads and more sales.
“focus on systems first. So, lead systems, sales systems, recruiting systems, delivery systems, customer experience systems. I think if you can do that and you think about each area of your business as a system and you build around it long-term it’s much slower, much harder but long-term you set yourself up for tremendous success if you do that”…[Listen for More]
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Andrew Clark noticed something wrong with his industry. The expertise to do logistics really well was tied up in the heads of the staff and solution providers who only work for big business. This left smaller businesses unable to get the help they really needed to scale up their business.
“keep going and as Churchill says ‘when you are going through hell keep going’. So sometimes the journey really is really, really difficult and it can feel like hell and like nothing is working and you just need to keep going you can’t stop there is no Plan B you have just got to keep going”…[Listen for More]
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Mani Vaya is a former Computer Engineer who left a very lucrative hi-tech career to start 2000 Books in 2015. At 2000 Books, Mani and his team compress the knowledge from the world's best business and self-help books into 15 minute Videos and Audios. Mani is an insane book lover who has read over 1,500 business and self-help books.
“commit all the way if you want to become mighty successful”…[Listen for More]
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Jo Trizila is founder & chief executive officer of Dallas-based TrizCom Public Relations and Pitch PR. Founded in 2008, TrizCom PR is a full-service national public relations firm. Established in 2015, Pitch PR is a division of TrizCom PR and created to enhance the press release distribution. TrizCom PR has been included in the 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 Dallas Business Journal’s largest PR firms, awarded the Pegasus Award in 2015 by the Public Relations Society of America, awarded several Public Relations Society of America Award of Honors for 2015 and 2016, named as one of the Top PR Firms in 2015 - 2019. TrizCom PR is a certified woman-owned business by the National Women Business Owners Corporation.
“keep it in perspective, this is just the job. I always like to tell myself what is the worst-case scenario? Absolute worst-case is we close this business and I go and work for another business. Nobody is dying, it’s not the end of the world, it’s keeping perspective. And if that’s absolutely the worst-case scenario let’s take that risk. Let’s do what we are scared to do, let’s go out there and see what happens”…[Listen for More]
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Saar Yoskovitz is the co-founder and CEO of Augury, the industrial internet of things technology company bringing predictive maintenance to new markets. He is an avid entrepreneur that has extensive experience in machine learning, signal processing algorithms and system architecture.
“just do it. Really there is so many reasons why you shouldn’t start your own company and it all boils down to do you believe that you are going to learn even if you fail in two years. What are you going to gain from the experience? And if you asked that question you will find out that wherever you are in life you will probably be better off in two years if you started your own company than if you were to just to stay on your current route and path”…[Listen for More]
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Michael Becker is a Principal at SPI Advisory LLC and heads SPI’s Dallas, Texas office. SPI Advisory specializes in repositioning multi-family assets. Through professional asset management and a high level of integrity, SPI Advisory increases the value of properties while improving quality of life for its residents. SPI Advisory derives stakeholder value through hands on asset management and construction oversight. Our exclusive multi-family focus enables better pricing of value and risk to identify projects with superior risk-adjusted returns. Prior to forming SPI Advisory, Michael was a 15 year veteran Commercial Real Estate Banker and has originated and managed numerous portfolios of permanent and bridge loans in all major asset classes. Over the last 5 years of his banking tenure, Michael focused exclusively on multi-family properties, where he was the number one loan producer for his division at a Top 3 National lender for his last 3 consecutive years. Michael is a lifelong resident of North Texas and a graduate of The University of North Texas with a BBA in Finance. Under Michael's leadership, over the past 6 years SPI Advisory has acquired approximately 8,000 units in the DFW & Austin markets.
“I think it’s important to know that it is great to be prepared and to be prepared is good but you are never going to know everything you need to know. At some point you are just going to have to take the leap and go out and do it. So, a lot of people have that mentality where they have just one more question, one more question, one more question and they are not quite sure about this risk or that risk. Life is not risk free you never even get out of it alive. At some point you need to be prudent and set up your infrastructure but at some point, you are just going to have to go out and take a risk and do something. And I think that separates a lot of people that actually go out and do it versus a lot of people who think about it and never actually take action”…[Listen for More]
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Jason Lotoski is the CEO and Founder of Tonit, the leading motorcycle social media app built by riders for riders. Tonit connects riders on their journeys with a community that strengthens mile-after-mile.
“mentors are great. If you have an idea then just go for it. Find someone who is another entrepreneur and just talk to them about your idea and they are going to motivate you to keep going. Every other entrepreneur I have ever taught to almost always says what’s the worst that can happen, just go for it. And so my best advice would be get a mentor, talk that entrepreneur and give your idea shot and learn from your mistakes and your failures and then go again”…[Listen for More]
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Adiel Gorel is the CEO of ICG, a prominent real estate investment firm located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 1983 he has successfully been assisting thousands of investors with purchasing U.S. properties. Through ICG he has personally invested in hundreds of properties for his own portfolio and was involved in the purchase of over 5,500 properties for ICG’s investors in Phoenix, Las Vegas,Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Oklahoma City, Salt Lake City, to name just a few. Mr. Gorel holds a master’s degree from Stanford University. His professional experience includes Management and Director Positions in firms including Hewlett- Packard, Excel Telecommunications, and biotechnology firms.
“move forward, just do it. You have an idea; you can act on it. And it doesn’t mean you have to jump into the pool, you can put your toe in. But do act on those ideas. If you do that and it doesn’t work that’s okay at least later on in life you don’t have regrets that you never tried. So try, go for it, don’t risk everything but do go for it”…[Listen for More]
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Sue Salvemini is an author and founder of Focal Pointe Consulting Group, Inc. a company dedicated to developing exceptional leadership at every level in the workplace. With over 25 years of corporate and military experience developing leaders, building teams, launching medical device products and businesses, Sue founded her company to empower others to embrace their vision and live their legacy through meaningful work they love.
“embrace that the sooner you make a mistake or fail, whatever you want to call it the sooner you can learn what you don’t know and get better and better. So race into it especially if you are tentative, race forward, get it out of the way so that you can move on to being the successful entrepreneur that you know you are”…[Listen for More]
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Eriks Celmins is an Australasian award-winning radio programmer. He uses insights for a deeper understanding of the audience, and a winning market share. His creative content flair, combined with his analytical side, form a unique research perspective. Which he now presents to general business as The Engagement Method for innovation.
“firstly and it might seem very basic but understand your market and particularly getting beyond your social circle which is where you naturally go. And Of course you can take some sale dings early on with where you are heading. But one of the big reasons for getting beyond that is I believe you have to have a clear point of difference that’s meaningful to you or potential customers because the world is so crowded now with a lot of me to offerings. As I said earlier you can come up with a very good basic offering but if you don’t have a point of difference it’s going to be very hard to market”…[Listen for More]
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Bill Bice has always been an entrepreneur. At age 18 he founded ProLaw Software, which became tremendously successful and sold to Thomson Reuters. Now having built or invested in over 25 companies, Bill is passionate about enabling smaller businesses to more effectively compete with their larger competitors through good marketing.
“really appreciate how lucky you are that you get to do what you do. It’s so hard being an entrepreneur and I think it’s really easy to get wrapped up in all of the challenges that come with that. It’s one of the reasons that I’m a big fan of having a peer support network because it’s really tough to go through that you don’t have others doing the same thing particularly if you are the CEO of the company because nobody really appreciates the challenges you have”…[Listen for More]
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After over 20 years in the healthcare industry, Shane Foss decided to use his passion for technology to improve healthcare operations and products. In 2018, he launched Hooray Health, an unconventional health insurance company that works hard to make healthcare coverage simple, accessible, and affordable. Shane educates others on what they deserve and should expect from a health insurance company, as well as what employers in the current job market need to reward and retain employees.
“patient, understand that it’s going to take twice as long as long as you think it’s going to take to be successful and stay determined. I think if you believe in yourself and believe in your product you are going to be successful and you just need to be patient”…[Listen for More]
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Thomas Kutzman is Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Prevu, a customer-focused digital home buying platform delivering industry-leading efficiency and savings. Frustrated over the lack of control and transparency he experienced throughout the homebuying process, he launched Prevu in 2017 with his good friend, Chase Marsh, to establish a smarter way to transact. Before Prevu, Thomas spent 12 years working at highly established asset management firms in both the US and Europe, where he gained valuable experience investing in technology companies. He has been an active real estate investor for over a decade. Thomas holds a BS in Finance & Accounting from the Stern School of Business at NYU.
“experimentation and innovation: we are big believers that the data will guide you and just be responsive to that data. Don’t be afraid to make some changes that could lead to unlocking the real secret sauce of what’s going to drive the next wave of the growth of your business. So, don’t be stubborn and just continually experiment and iterate. Every great company does it and I think you will be really much better off by having that data”…[Listen for More]
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Teneshia Jackson Warner is an award-winning multicultural marketing expert, purpose-driven entrepreneur and author of the new book "The Big Stretch: 90 Days to Expand Your Dreams, Crush Your Goals, and Create Your Own Success" (McGraw-Hill Education, November 22, 2019), is a soul-searching, life-transforming, 12-week boot camp based on concepts from that reveals how to get from where you are to where you dream to be - in life and in business.
“lead with purpose in everything that you do. And so, making sure that you are extremely clear. What is the purpose of your business? What are you offering? How does it serve others? What becomes possible in the lives of others because your product or service exists? Those are key questions that are all grounded and rooted in purpose and if you can solve those questions you remain valuable in the minds of your customers… So, staying true to that purpose is very important. It’s not to say that it can’t evolve over time in how you deliver on that purpose but knowing the why is very important”…[Listen for More]
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Jeff Rose is an entrepreneur disguised as a certified financial planner, author and blogger. Jeff is an Iraqi combat veteran having served in the Army National Guard for nine years, including a 17-month deployment to Iraq in 2005. He's best known for his award-winning blog GoodFinancialCents.com and book, "Soldier of Finance: Take Charge of Your Money and Invest in Your Future." He's also the founder of Wealth Hacker Labs, a movement to teach accelerated wealth-building strategies to future generations. He currently writes for Business Insider, US News & World Report, Forbes, Entrepreneur and has been featured in major sites such as The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Reuters, and Fox Business.
“focus on who are you trying to help. You always hear of defining your avatar, figuring out niche… And remember that in anything and everything that you do. And what is the next step that you can help that person accomplish. Because any time you can help somebody achieve something even as small as buying a domain or opening an online investment account. They are such small things but they can lead to such tremendous impact and those people always remember you for helping them take action”…[Listen for More]
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Emmy award-winner and best-selling author David McCourt is one of the world’s most successful, award-winning business people. Over the past thirty years he has founded or bought over twenty companies in nine countries, becoming a leader in the technology, media and telecommunications industries. The Economist describes him as possessing “incredible credentials as a telecom revolutionary”.
“always forward just like my mother said, always forward”…[Listen for More]
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Kelly McCausey start in business in 2002. At the time she was a single mom with one young son, she made graphics and websites for other home based business owners. She worked hard and charged too little for her time. Thankfully, Kelly learned quickly there are smarter ways to build an income online. For many years now, she no longer trade hours for dollars. Kelly blogs, has a podcast, she designs, she partners, she creates information products, runs membership programs, hold live retreats and coaches others to get where they want to be in their online business.
“elevate relationships over money. Go into networking opportunities looking to make friends not gather leads. Seek to be of service. I really really value a mutual experience in networking”…[Listen for More]
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Katherine Liola is the Founder & CEO of Concentric Private Wealth, where she and her team stick firmly to the belief that financial management isn't just about markets and algorithms. It's about people - their values, their goals, their life. Katherine started a movement to change the way others think about money, mindset, and health, providing the tools they need to live a more transformational life. Through her own life experience and professional expertise, she is taking the lead in experiencing the power of investing in YOU.
“really focus on who you are as a person, to make the space to hear yourself, for you to see yourself, for others to see you, to be honest with yourself. If you are not working on yourself you might still have wild financial success but for that success to mean something to you have to be connected with it. And for you to be able to create the true impact that you are seeking to create again a connection to you is so key and that’s what’s also going to be able to support you in your leadership because there will be a lot of distractions. So, if you can be centred on your values, if you can have that care of making sure that you are getting what you need but also giving yourself the attention in terms of learning opportunities so that you can grow that’s going to be incredibly huge. So I would say focus on you as a person”…[Listen for More]
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Kristen Denzer is the CEO and Founder of Tierra Encantada, a chain of Spanish immersion daycare and preschool centers that feature organic, fresh-cooked meals. Tierra has four corporate locations with a fifth opening in Spring of 2020. They just launched franchising nationally in May - and already awarded a multi-unit deal.
“think about when you are older, think about when you are 80, 90 years old and what you would feel proud about saying and what you think you would regret. Because a lot of people they think about things and they don’t really look at the bigger picture. When you are that age in your older you are going to look back and you are going to regret the chances that you didn’t take, you will regret the time that you didn’t spend with your family, you will regret not going for it and doing something that you really loved and the time you spent working at a job that you hated. And so, the biggest advice I can give is don’t let yourself be someone who just wonders what if. Take action, even if it’s every day, whether it’s just one thing that takes you closer. Because most people underestimate the resources that are out there and how helpful people are”…[Listen for More]
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As a teenager, Hao Lam escaped political persecution and made his way to Canada where he realized his dream of graduating from high school at the age of 23. Hao is now the CEO & chairman of Best in Class Education Center, a supplemental education franchise having 65 locations in 13 states.
“follow your passion. I think passion is very important… If you find your why and then you are driven by the purpose the mission is the why and you are passionate about it you will be successful. Do not try to chase a million dollars, try to chase helping a million people”…[Listen for More]
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Megan Yelaney is a business coach who helps online coaches get booked out with clients and scale to six figures. She specializes in client attraction, social media, and launch strategy. She's a travel junkie, and never seems to stay home for more than three weeks!
“stick with it, this business can be really hard because there is going to be again high highs and low lows but if you know that this is what you are meant to do and when it is on a high high you are just so on purpose, you know this is what you were put on this earth to do… Stick with it especially during those hard times, double down and push harder because you are going to get through it it’s just a matter of time, it’s just doing that compound effect over and over again. And the more and more you realise that you almost welcome those lows because you know you are going to get through it and you have the tools and the resilience to get through it. So just stick with it, it takes a little longer than we think but it’s always worth it in the end”…[Listen for More]
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Michael Zipursky has advised organizations like Financial Times, Dow Jones, RBC, Omron, Sumitomo and helped Panasonic launch new products into global markets, but more importantly, he's helped over 300 consultants from around the world in over 50 industries add six and seven figures to their annual revenues.
“I am a very big fan of imperfect action so my number one recommendation to anyone even if I don’t know much about the situation is just take more action… Look at what you want to achieve… And rather than thinking what else do you need to add or what else you need to do in addition to what you are currently doing try and apply subtraction meaning remove the things that aren’t working. Strip away everything that isn’t necessary because what we’ve observed in our own business and with many clients is that even to get to a seven-figure business you typically only need to product or service offerings, you don’t need to have five, ten or more different things. So the more focused you become the more manageable it is and the easier it is to scale. And you will typically be because you’re more focused you will be able to accelerate a lot quicker”…[Listen for More]
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Dr Brian P Simon, a West Virginia native turned Hampton Roads, Virginia resident, is an entrepreneur who credits his accomplishments to being surrounded by like-minded, driven people. Dr. Simon’s companies, Fit Realty, Custom Homes of Virginia, and Simon Studios, have accumulated an abundance of success in their relatively short lifetime. The Brian Simon real estate team, with their growing boutique brokerage Fit Realty and their growing real estate and home builder Sales and Marketing System, has sold over one billion dollars in real estate in the last twelve years. Dr. Simon’s home building and home renovating company, Custom Homes of Virginia, has built or renovated and re-sold over 200 homes in the last 10 years. Besides being an expert for the many businesses he owns, Dr. Simon possesses many other strengths. He has greater than 17 years’ experience in internet marketing strategies.
“balancing your dreams with reality. It’s important that you start with a dream and that you dream truly with no unfettered, unhindered dreams. But then when it’s time to take the dream and turn it into a goal and then to turn your goal into a smart goal it’s so important that you balance the dream with the reality of where are you now, where are your financial resources, where are your time allocations and make decisions with a little bit of a methodical approach so that you do the timing correctly. Because the right thing at the wrong time a lot of times will hinder the immediate success of that project. There will be times of chaos because walking into entrepreneurship and walking the journey many times is chaos but you don’t want to freezing fear when the crazy happens you want to press forward and do it afraid and not let the chaos because you to freeze. That’s so huge and it’s just one foot in front of the other. Once you feel like the goals are worthwhile goal then one foot in front of the other and keep pressing and small steps lead to big accomplishments”…[Listen for More]
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Daryl Hatton, CEO of award winning crowdfunding company FundRazr, has founded multiple start-ups and helped bring one to a successful NASDAQ IPO in 1999. He serves as advisor to a handful of other hot companies in Canada. As a social media guy, his tagline is “#KingOfGastown, entrepreneur, cardiac survivor, foodie, whisky nut, philosopher, mentor, father and friend.”
“know yourself. I think one of the biggest things that we hurt ourselves with its unconscious behaviour in decision-making. In an entrepreneurial world it’s really important who you are and why things are important to you and how you decide things because you make such better-quality decisions when you know yourself. And I think related to other things that we talked about that you also enjoy more. You can find out and turn it into experience as opposed to a task and that really enriches the whole process”…[Listen for More]
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Simone Di Somma is Founder and CEO at Askdata, a startup specialized in the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve how enterprises consume Analytics. Before founding Askdata, Simone worked at Philip Morris and Hewlett-Packard across Europe, Middle-East and the US with a primary focus on Advanced Analytics. Simone has been a passionate speaker at various events about the benefits of AI and how this technology will transform the way enterprises do their business.
“believe in yourself and at the same time being able to assess yourself. So you have to believe but at the same time always try to understand if you are positioning in the right way and you are proceeding in the right direction. So believe but at the same time believe with some criticism. So being able to every week, every day to evaluate. Am I doing good, am I available to all the elements to succeed – you have to say something. So don’t be a slave… And let down by your own ego”…[Listen for More]
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Wayne Herring has been a growth coach and consultant to business owners for over 5 years. Wayne has helped a wide variety of business owners. Family business and Sales, marketing, and leadership team growth are focus areas. Wayne works with his clients on living their best life as well as growing their business. He and his clients dig in and get focused on what matters most. He and his wife of 17 years Katherine live on a beautiful 20-acre farm in Pennsylvania where they have a retreat/conversation space and walking paths for their clients. They have 4 children. Wayne has been a Civil Engineer, a VP of Sales and marketing, he's grown a sales team, sold a company to a publicly traded firm, been a farmer and he's been sober for over 12 years. Grow your business and live your Best Life!
“take a step, see what happens, solve from there, don’t wait ”…[Listen for More]
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Matt Moody is the CEO and founder of Bellwethr, a startup using machine learning to solve customer retention. Matt is a machine learning engineer, specializing in reinforcement learning, as well as a software developer with two successfully exited startups. Matt and his team are passionate about putting action based machine learning in the hands of domain experts to move the needle for enterprise businesses.
“my best advice is not to overbuild and to spend more time listening and talking to customers”…[Listen for More]
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Pete Barrow We are a family owned business, based here in Indianapolis, with a focus on providing the reliability and responsiveness that you need in order to make your real estate investment a success. We have 5 team members with approximately 80 years of combined experience in construction and real estate investing.
“no magic trick, there is no easy way, there is no golden path. There’s just… you get an idea, you work, you think, you struggle, you put in a lot of hours… There is certainly a lot of knowledge you need to have but there’s not just some trick that will make it easy. It really is a skill game. It really is a skill business, you have to have skills… You have to be able to build decent relationships with people… That would be my advice. There is not magic trick, there is not a secret that will make it all happen for you, it’s just about learning a lot of little skills and putting things together and working hard and getting better”…[Listen for More]
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Joseph A Michelli, Ph.D., C.S.P., is an internationally sought-after speaker, author, and organizational consultant. His insights encourage leaders and frontline workers to grow and invest passionately in all aspects of their lives. Dr. Michelli is the author of numerous national bestsellers, including The Starbucks Experience, The New Gold Standard, and the New York Times #1 bestseller Prescription for Excellence. He was named as one of the Top 10 thought leaders in Customer Service by Global Gurus. His new book is The Airbnb Way: 5 Leadership Lessons for Igniting Growth through Loyalty, Community, and Belonging (October 2019, McGraw Hill).
“craft your legacy now. You are going to leave a legacy it’s either going to be big or small, it’s either going to be designed or it is going to happen by default so claim it now and broadcast it to people you love. And put it up somewhere and look at it every morning because it’s hard to do the work unless you know the wire”…[Listen for More]
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Hyungsoo Kim is a firm believer in the importance of universal design with the goal to co-design innovative products that are accessible and useful to everyone. His team has created an innovative fashion timepiece, The Bradley, that everyone, including the blind, can touch to tell time.
“I offer the advice not to go all in. The reason is if you really go all in it will push you to work harder for sure but often times you will not be able to think rationally, you won’t be able to relax and step back to solve unexpected problems you face. And you would often find yourself going for very short-term profits and results. You will lose patience when you need to wait for the right timing to catch something”…[Listen for More]
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Jenn Nicken launched The Chef and The Dish, a globally unique company, which provides private, one-to-one cooking classes live over Skype with chefs around the world. Her unique mission is to connect kitchens, pass down recipes, and bring the world closer, one meal at a time.
“if you are going to go for it, go for it. That said be flexible. I’ve seen a lot of business owners spend an enormous amount of money on things at the beginning of their business and they haven’t yet proven their concept yet. And that’s one area where I have seen businesses go out of business before they really get a chance to start. Because they have invested so much money in for example things like building websites… So my advice would be to invest and do the things that you believe you need to do to get up and running but don’t invest so much that it doesn’t allow you to be flexible ”…[Listen for More]
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Reid Blackman was gripped by ethical problems the first semester of his first year in college over 20 years ago. Countless hours later, after reading, arguing, and teaching about ethics, he’s still hungry for more. While his early research concerned issues largely contained within the ivory tower, his research has become increasingly action-orientated, particularly as it concerns the ethics of emerging technologies and institutions like governments and corporations. Reid is a Senior Advisor to Ernst & Young and is a Founding Member of EY’s AI Advisory Board. He also sits on the committee for “Methods to Guide Ethical Research and Design” for the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems and is a member of the European Union Artificial Intelligence Alliance. He has taught at Northwestern University, the University of Texas in Austin, the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and Colgate University. When he isn’t doing ethics you can find him with his wife and children, unless there’s rock climbing to be done.
“I really think it’s important to talk to lots of people and just network your head off. There’s a way of networking that is gross where you just go around asking people what they could do for you. But I think there’s a kind of networking that is on the ethical up and up where you are motivated just as much by curiosity as you are self-interest. And so, you go around meeting people because you are curious to hear what they do and maybe they are in your field or maybe they are in and adjacent field or maybe they can’t help you but you can help them. I just think that stuff is extremely gratifying when you make connections, when you connect people to other people. And then also it could lead to your own welfare because then those people are grateful and then the introduce you to these other people that actually do benefit you. So do not underestimate the power of networking”…[Listen for More]
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Venkates Swaminathan (Swami) is the founder and CEO of LifeLaunchr, the world's first virtual college admissions coaching platform, and a member of the National Association for College Admission Counseling. Swami has been an executive in the education and technology industries for over 25 years. He has a M.S. from the University of Illinois, and a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.
“really think hard and spend time understanding what it is you really want to do and why you want to do this business. There will be lots… No matter what business you start and who the entrepreneur is there will always be times when it just feels difficult. And the thing that keeps you going is not that you want to make money, the thing that keeps you going in all those difficult times is knowing why you started the business. Did you start it because you want to make a difference in the world? Did you start it because you have a particular problem that you are really passionate about solving? So, understanding what problem you are passionate about solving I think that will keep you going through the difficult times… Know what that is and no it deep in your gut. And once you know it the solutions will show up.”…[Listen for More]
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Kristen David, a former trial lawyer who went from working 85 hours a week and being a slave to her law firm to a successful million-dollar-plus owner who then sold and pivoted into a business coach guru. She empowers business owners to build thriving, profitable businesses that are self-managed.
“take the time to get clear on what you want to build. Then build a roadmap quarter by quarter to get you from where you are right now to that point… Build a plan every quarter to make more money until you hit that goal. But at least then you know what you need to do. So, when you have a plan it makes it so much easier to stay at it when you have those rough days, because rough days will come. So my best advice to entrepreneurs is build a plan you believe in and then even on the rough days keep doing the things the plan tells you to do”…[Listen for More]
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Johanna Zlenko is the founder of The Closet Trading Co., an upscale consignment boutique based. Johanna founded this brand while a freshman at University of California Santa Barbara, grew the brand to 4 successful locations, and is now looking to expand nationally.
“we are our own worst enemy. We tell ourselves we are not enough, capable enough, knowledgeable enough, outgoing enough, strong enough, smart enough. But the truth is that everyone feels that way at one point or another. And to succeed as entrepreneurs we have to push through those doubts. We have to get up, get dressed, put on a brave face even when we don’t feel like it because at the end of the day like I said the people who make it, the people that succeed are the ones who actually execute on their dreams, on their ideas”…[Listen for More]
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Arti Bedi Pullins is a strategic, data-driven entrepreneur with deep experience in business strategy, product innovation and digital marketing. As the founder and CEO of Pundit Consultantz, Arti helps clients in the healthcare, medtech and emerging technologies industries to drive innovation and rapidly expand into new markets and channels.
“as an entrepreneur it tends to be a very emotional journey. You are doing something you are very passionate about; you are very close to; you are obviously taking a big risk. So, you have to be bold, strong, obviously a risk-taking but try not to be illogical more importantly arrogant especially early on when you start to see success… Always remember to sit next to your customer not across from them. And I don’t mean that in a physical sense when you are in a conference room I truly mean if you visualise that any time you are in a setting and you have two people sitting next to each other and conversing and talking in ideated and working together versus two people sitting across the table from each other and working – there is a clear difference there in partnership, collaboration and what the person across the table is trying to do”…[Listen for More]
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Michelle Barr is a Business Coach, Mindset Mentor, and Author of From Calling to Cash, helping Spiritual Entrepreneurs turn their life’s calling into a profitable business they love. She turned her own expensive hobby into a full-time profitable business, took it online, and built a thriving global business.
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David Thomas Tao is an entrepreneur, editor, and voice actor based in New York City. David is the Co-Founder and Editor of BarBend.com, an media brand that provides multi-platform coverage of news, analysis, training, and opinion in strength training and sports. One of the largest and fastest-growing fitness sites on the web, BarBend is the Official Media Partner of USA Weightlifting and is also a partner broadcaster for the 2019 Reebok CrossFit Games. David is a 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 list maker for Media. A veteran of the health & fitness industry, he has nearly a decade of experience building and running editorial teams in the space.
“start it and don’t be afraid to fail… Just begin. If you don’t make it no one is going to buy it. You are not going to get it right the first time. You may not ever get it 100% right but few businesses do and they still become massive runaway successes. So just start something. Start something small, don’t be afraid to start it small. Don’t be afraid to have one customer and to have one customer for a year that’s still a customer and you can still learn a lot from them. The best time to start it was 20 years ago, the second best time is now. Get started on something because the best way to learn is by doing”…[Listen for More]
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Rytis Lauris is the co-founder and CEO of Omnisend, the powerful marketing automation platform that’s focused on the omnichannel approach. He believes that rich customer data empowers eCommerce businesses to generate more sales by sending highly personalized messages via channels like email, SMS, Facebook, Google retargeting, etc. Omnisend has become a top-rated app in the Shopify App Store.
“start doing now. Whatever that means. Either starting your business, either some new ideas, how to improve your product, how to improve your service. If sometimes you think okay now I need to nail this, and I have to do that, and blah blah, and get ready for that, so you had better start now and then you are going to improve”…[Listen for More]
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Angela Ward empowers people to be who they are with compassion, free from fear and judgement of themselves and others. About 4 years ago Angela became spiritually awakened and went through a healing process of her own. Shes since incorporated holistic therapies into her range of services. Angela provides tools to help individuals bring balance and harmony into their life. Whether that’s through the use of aromatherapy oils, guided meditation, crystal therapy, chakra balancing, massage and mentoring programme.
“I think that what you need to do is be very real about your journey and believe in what you are doing because it can be really, really tough but it’s also really rewarding… You need a solid foundation to make the business sustainable. So definitely get a strategy together and then a plan of how you are going to implement it. Timeframes is really important – set yourself timeframes but don’t be scared to make changes if you need to because sometimes something might not work and you have to be brave to stop if something isn’t working and try a new approach”…[Listen for More]
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Stephanie Parker and Brett Parker are the co-founders of Sleeping Baby, the successful baby apparel brand that started with the Zipadee-Zip, a swaddle transition product Stephanie created when her daughter wouldn’t sleep through the night. They were on ABC’s hit reality show, Shark Tank, where they received offers from three of the investors. They initially accepted Daymond John’s offer of $200,000 for a 20% stake in the company, but they ended up not taking the investment during the negotiations after filming. Despite turning down John’s deal, Sleeping Baby still flourished. Five years later, Parker continues to grow their ethically-made, high quality products now sold online across the U.S. and in Europe, Japan, Canada and Mexico.
“quit talking about it and jump, go and do it, take steps forward every day”…[Listen for More]
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Jim Murray is a millennial real estate investor which allowed him to become a corporate dropout by 28. He runs a 7-figure property management business based out of Rhode Island and is Co-host on the Cashflow Kings podcast.
“wake up and work hard every single day, wake up and deliver on the person you say you are. So live it, eat it, breathe it. Wake up and be the person you say you are going to be”…[Listen for More]
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Jeff Fromm is the author of three books focused on creating Brand Love® with modern consumers. Jeff works as a partner at Barkley and speaks all over the world.
“make sure that you are solving the needs that your customers have and doing it in a way that is so exceptional they are going to talk about it to their friend networks”…[Listen for More]
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Robby D'Angelo is a human optimization expert that helps people take the limiter off of their lives by using a holistic mind, body and soul approach. He uses the hero's journey to teach people how to be the hero of their own lives!
“find a pain solve a pain. That’s one piece of advice I give to a lot of entrepreneurs. And we have this message and we have this passion inside of us to help people and really become an entrepreneur and make money. But I think what we often forget is a lot of the statements I just made have the word I and me in them but in that passion. In that message we will want to get out there who are you speaking to? What pain do they have? And how can you use your passion, your message to solve that pain? And on the flipside of that serve don’t sell. Find a bunch of people have that pain, serve them away to solve that pain. If you do that enough and if you can create enough value for people business will take care of itself”…[Listen for More]
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Following a dynamic career honed at at the likes of NBCUniversal and social media agency Big Fuel, Nick Buzzell's passion to create innovative media experiences across multiple platforms led him and his partners to create the next generation media company: NBTV Studios. Since 2008, NBTV has fostered and maintained relationships with major clients, earning millions of views and consistently delivering outstanding results on any screen; the team's latest endeavor, Spirits Network, is changing the media landscape of the premium spirits world, bringing a first-of-its-kind interactive viewing and shopping experience to viewers across the country. Nick's personal expertise lies in content development, media production, distribution, technology, advertising and creative strategy. Outside of NBTV, Nick enjoys spending time with his family, either at home or on the sparkling shores of Greece
“to be unapologetically yourself, to focus, to stay determined, to stay patient, to persevere and to be flexible. And to look at ways to improve at all times and to take opportunity by the horns and leverage good timing and leverage good ideas and good timing and never looked back”…[Listen for More]
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Kevin Stone has an impressive list of credentials and is listed in the prestigious Who’s Who of Entrepreneurs! Kevin is a Master Hypnotist and a Board-Certified Hypnotherapist, and a recognized and sought after Comedy Entertainer around the world. He is also a leader and pioneer, as well as a historian in the field of hypnosis and hypnotherapy. He is a “Senior Clinical Instructor,” at the Craniofacial Pain/TMJ Clinic of the Otolaryngology Foundation at the White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. In addition to those accomplishments he is a motivational and key note speaker holding workshops and corporate training programs for major Fortune 500 companies and others all across the globe, is a television personality, an author, a radio host, a retired Firefighter and an animal rights activist.
“one of the most powerful abilities that we have Neil is to give love, and everyone is looking for their purpose. Many people ask me the how. How was I able to find my purpose? How did you become successful Kevin? Why are you successful? And my success formula is really simple, love God, family, church, country and work. In that order. And my purpose and my mission Neil in life at any given time is to make the lives of everyone around me better. And if you are doing that you will find your purpose, and happiness and we can show love at any time. Love conquers all”…[Listen for More]
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Mitesh Shah is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Omnia Markets, Inc., a cryptocurrency analytics platform. Mitesh is a graduate of St. John’s University - Tobin College of Business, in which he earned his M.B.A. in Finance as part of an accelerated 5-year program. During his time at St. John’s, Mitesh was an integral leading member of the school’s prestigious and significant Investment Fund, where he led his group to research, analyze, and recommend changes to the Fund’s investment portfolio. Over the past four years, Mitesh extensively researched and studied the cryptocurrency industry and blockchain technology, participated in leading industry meetings, conferences, and summits, and networks with dozens of industry leaders. Mitesh also provides regular podcasts on the trends and developments in the industry and communicates with U.S. Congressional staff members on developing future regulatory framework for the industry.
“actually take your time to truly understand the gravity of what you are doing. Understand the industry that you are looking to enter. If there is anything special or unique about the industry such as underlying technology or a system… To truly understand and learn how it works, where it came from, things like that. Think about the problem that your company is attempting to solve and from different angles as well try and get a well-rounded view about what you are doing and what you are trying to create. This understanding will set you up to build your company and as long as you are always on top of the industry movement, the news and the changes you can always adjust accordingly to take full advantage of the industry to make your solution just that much more robust and stronger”…[Listen for More]
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Like all of us, Alena Chapman wears many hats: mother, author, entrepreneur, mentor etc. She’s on a quest to help people everywhere connect to their soul’s purpose, and experience abundance while on the journey. She works with clients around the world to help them identify what they are really here to achieve in life, from a space of compassion, non-judgment, and love.
“believe in yourself and believe in your capabilities. So often we doubt. And have faith, have faith in every move you make, have faith that if you believe totally in what you are doing it will happen. That doesn’t mean you don’t work but it means you will have less stress and you will act with more confidence in it. So it’s believing in yourself and in your ideas. And when you do that you can’t fail, you really can’t fail”…[Listen for More]
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Gil Gibori has co-founded the newest disruption in tutoring, The House Tutoring Lounge®. His team of experts is firmly convinced that their new concept for on-demand academic help, a curated teenager only ecosystem, and their application of new discoveries in neuroscience will completely disrupt and evolve extracurricular teenage support.
“live the adage of have enough capital. We all know that most businesses die simply because they don’t have enough cash but it’s also a psychological terror to always be chasing the next dollar, to always be wondering how you are going to pay the next payroll. So I would say bring on the partner who may not have your expertise but who has the faith to put their money into your business. And don’t be greedy early… In the end a good idea can never happen if you don’t have expertise and finances… So if you are going to start a business look for a way to capitalise it that doesn’t stress your life too much”…[Listen for More]
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With over 30 years of entrepreneurial experience, Steven Page has led his Canadian-based logistics and fulfillment company, Stalco, to become a top 3rdparty logistics provider by Multichannel Merchant in 2019. Recently, Page launched a Duty Drawback program which is a Canada Customs (CBSA) Trade Incentive program that provides refunds on customs duty paid on applicable imported goods. This Trade Incentive program is combined with a U.S. Customs Clearance method (Section 321) for low-value consumer orders (under USD $800) where no duty is paid on entry into the United States. U.S. companies can have their goods shipped from China to Canada then be fulfilled by Stalco directly to individual U.S. consumers to eliminate all duty cost. Under Page’s leadership, Stalco has foreign goods imported to its fulfilment center in Toronto. The team then picks and packs the applicable goods and ships them to consumers in the U.S.at the same cost and delivery time as if it were shipped directly from the U.S. His team ships in excess of over 60,000 direct-to-consumer orders per week throughout North America concentrated mostly on the U.S.
“really identifying obviously at an early stage path you are going down, doing the research and validating your business model and then surrounding yourself with the people that can either mentor you within your business depending upon the size of your company or ultimately from outside to be able to be resources that you can leverage to get outside opinions… Ultimately drive and persistency, stick-to-it-iveness and not letting anyone get in the way for what you believe you want to do. To be willing to just push forward...Begin with the end in mind. See yourself getting to where you want to get. It’s almost like a dream environment. Just see yourself being able to achieve whatever it is you are trying to get to ”…[Listen for More]
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Frank Fiume II is the founder of i9 Sports—the nation’s leading franchisor of youth sports leagues nationwide and author of the new book, Running With My Head Down: An Entrepreneur’s Story of Passion, Perseverance, and Purpose, which is a no-holds barred, rags-to-riches story about finding your purpose and living a life of no regrets.
“remember that a decision that they make out of fear is almost always the wrong decision. Sometimes that means… not making a decision to do something is in itself a decision because you decide you are going to play it safe. And that’s no decision at all. So, I would say make a decision for your business that you know is the right thing to do. Again it means you want to live your life with no regrets and do what’s right even if it’s scary but definitely don’t make a decision out of fear”…[Listen for More]
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Armand Peri is an American executive, entrepreneur, real estate investor, artist and former NPC and IFBB bodybuilding champion. He is the CEO of New Age Productions, Inc., a New Jersey/New York-based nightclub production and entertainment company. He is also the founder of Hunk-O-Mania Entertainment, a live choreographed male revue show for women, which operates in one of the largest nightclubs in New York City. Hunk-O-Mania nightclubs continue to receive acclaim as the largest and most successful male revue nightclubs in the world from various news and media outlets. Armand founded the first Hunk-O-Mania nightclub show in 1998 in New York City and the show has now expanded to over 18 cities including Chicago, Las Vegas, Houston, Miami, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlantic City, Orlando, Tampa, Philadelphia, San Francisco, San Diego, Atlanta and New Orleans.
“find something that you know well, that you are good at and that you are passionate about. Don’t going to a business you don’t know anything about. And I think that’s the problem with a lot of people that they choose something that somebody else is telling them is a good business rather than just really choosing something that they know a lot about. So, it doesn’t matter what it is, whether you work construction today. Whatever you are doing today if you like what you do get into a business that does what you do but find a way to do it better”…[Listen for More]
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Victoria Bennett ran her first successful crowdfund campaign over six years ago, a long time in crowdfunding years. A strategic marketer by training, she has worked on many major brands including Tide, Pampers, ENMAX and TD. Her skills as a marketer are all skills vital to crowdfunding. She has run successful campaigns in Canada and in Europe and her team is currently consulting for a number of equity and rewards crowdfund campaigns, and has spoken at the Global Crowdfunding Conference on women in crowdfunding.
“follow your passion… You have got to keep yourself motivated and following your passion really helps that”…[Listen for More]
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Jenna Edwards is an Actor (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Malcolm in the Middle), an Award-Winning Film Producer (iTunes, Netflix, Hulu) and a #1 Best- Selling Author who is passionate about spreading the idea of Aggressive Optimism as far and wide as she is able to. She believes the skill of Aggressive Optimism is crucial to living an entrepreneurial lifestyle. Growing up in a small town in Minnesota, Jenna was (what she calls) a “walking statistic." According to the experts, she should have been pregnant at 16, living in poverty with an abusive husband, addicted to some form of drug. Instead, she made the choice to break the cycle and since then she has traveled the world (beginning as an exchange student in Thailand her senior year of high school), been on TV, and in movies, co- authored a #1 best-selling book and currently lives (not in poverty) in Los Angeles with her loving and supportive husband and she has just recently traveled the country for a year. She attributes her incredible life to being aware that she has a choice, that our circumstances do not have to define us and that if we practice aggressive optimism when the going gets tough, we truly can create the life we dream of living.
“find your people. But more importantly than that even the first step is figure out what your dream looks like ultimately and understand how that manifests on a daily basis. Like what that looks like on a daily basis. And then you have to believe in it, aggressively optimistically, like 100 percent. You can’t let anyone poke holes in it because the world freakin need you to be the entrepreneur that you are going to be. It’s just a requirement”…[Listen for More]
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Entrepreneurs Ethan Nyholm and Adina Jacobs launched STM in 1998, becoming an industry leader in the creation of laptop bags, packs, fitted cases and other accessories designed to safeguard tech devices, stylishly. Today, STM Brands is the parent company of two global brands designing lifestyle accessories for tech devices—STM Goods and Element Case.
“my best advice for someone who is just starting out its cash is king. Is that at the beginning if you can pay your suppliers, if you can pay the people that you are working for or if you can pay yourself you will stay in business… Upstage that changes a little bit but at the beginning, the first 3 to 5 years that cash is king. How much money, how many zeros how much money you have in that bank account is the most important thing so you can continue to operate”…[Listen for More]
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In 27 years of nursing Yvonne Heath witnessed our reluctance to prepare for grief BEFORE it arrives, causing excessive suffering. With heart and humour, she now shares her message of how to live, grieve and die well, through speaking, her book, television and radio, and the I Just Showed Up movement.
“find what you love to do and how you can create a career out of it. Let passion and purpose be your compass and remember that you are capable of doing so much more than you could possibly imagine. Go for it”…[Listen for More]
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Melanie Colling is the Founder of Purpose Driven Projects, Co- founder of Experts On Air Podcast Booking Agency, an Amazon International Best - selling Author, Podcast Host, Business Accelerator Facilitator and Public Speaker. Melanie is a collaboration expert, passionate about helping business leaders and experts succeed and accelerate their businesses by developing valued connections to become in-demand industry leaders. She believes entrepreneurs, not governments, will make the change we want and need to see in the world, and is committed to supporting and connecting entrepreneurs to empower change! Melanie provides entrepreneurs and business leaders with a proven framework and strategies to accelerate their businesses through connection and collaboration.
“just do it. Like Nike says. Just get out there and do it and have a go and have a try. Yeah you might fail or you might look stupid sometimes. But actually, it’s not as bad as you think. You always think it’s going to be worse. But just go out and do it and try. And if you don’t try you will never know.”…[Listen for More]
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Yasmine Mustafa is a social entrepreneur and community leader fueled by a passion to leverage technology for good. She's the CEO of ROAR for Good, a certified B-corp with the mission of utilizing technology and education to create safer workplaces. Before that, she founded and sold her first company to a prominent content marketing firm in Silicon Valley. Yasmine brought Girl Develop It to Philadelphia, a non-profit providing affordable opportunities for women interested in learning software development. In addition, she sits on the board of Coded by Kids, a non-profit organization committed to providing free tech education to inner-city youth. She is a 2x TEDx speaker, discussing challenges she experienced migrating to the United States as a refugee and discovering she was undocumented. Her "Birth Lottery" talk highlights the challenges (and opportunities) inherent in each life. BBC selected Yasmine as one of its 100 Women of 2016 due to her work in empowering women. She was also recognized as Upstart 100's most dynamic people shaping business, Philadelphia Magazine’s Top 20 Best Philadelphian's, Philadelphia Business Journal's 2016 Tech Disruptors, Technologist of the Year by the Philly Geek Awards, and Innovator of the Year by Rad Girls. She is the recipient of the "Women of Courage" award from Lutheran Settlement House and "Visionary Leader" by the City of Philadelphia. Yasmine graduated summa cum laude from Temple University with a Business Management Degree.
“I think the learning that I had in terms of ‘treat others the way they want to be treated’ versus the way you want to be treated, its helped me so much. I would say this has been the number one most critical leadership skill that I have learned that I would pass on to other people”…[Listen for More]
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Marko Mandaric founded Bmmpr in 2017, bringing over 20 years of leadership experience and meticulous design to the company. Spearheading the company's strategy and vision, Marko was quickly awarded a U.S. and International product patent for the company's revolutionary smart security technology and looks to make Bmmpr a factory must have in the years to come. When Marko is not busy transforming the world of security technology, he obsesses over all things car related and is dreaming up his next great innovation.
“stay the course. Focus on details and be mindful that there is no such thing as luck. There is only hard work, giving enough duration of time and the likelihood of an opportunity presenting itself at the end of it”…[Listen for More]
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Eric Kapitulik was born and raised in Thompson, CT and attended the United States Naval Academy. While there, he was a 4-year Varsity Letter winner. He graduated in 1995 served as a Marine Infantry Officer and Special Operations Officer. Eric left active duty after eight years of service and graduated from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He is also an ultra-endurance athlete and an avid high-altitude mountaineer. Eric is now the Founder and CEO of The Program, a leadership development and team building company that works with corporate teams and leading collegiate and professional athletic organizations around the United States.
“everyone is going to tell you that right now is a bad time to start your business, don’t believe them. Number one in a recession or in a tough market it’s a great time to start a business because in a recession or in a tough market you will very quickly find out what your core business is because you won’t be able to sell anything else other than what you are the best in the world at because there is just not money out there being put towards it. Second on that same point though… And that it’s not the right time to start a business that is like is there a right time to get married, is there a right time to start a family? If you are waiting for the right time chances are you will wait forever. Instead if you think you want to do it then go and do it, just go and do it and then be prepared to work really hard in making that decision the right decision. Number one. Number two he told me don’t ever talk yourself into believing that you are worth less than what you are. Most people do… Things aren’t cheap or expensive it’s a question of value. Okay it cost a lot of money but I’m giving you that value that is signified by that price. Believe in it because what you are saying is you are believing in yourself. You are providing that value. Too many people talk their own personal value down. Don’t, don’t do it ”…[Listen for More]
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Norm Laviolette is the co-founder and CEO of Improv Asylum, IA Innovation and Asylum Gaming and Esports (AGE). He has performed, directed or produced more than 10,000 improvisational comedy shows on three continents. He brings the experience of building companies from the ground up into multi-million dollar businesses. His new book, The Art of Making Sh!t Up: How to Work Together to Become an Unstoppable Powerhouse (Wiley, May 7, 2019), describes how the techniques of improv can transform teams into more powerful, creative and healthy organizations.
“stop giving a shit about what other people think about you. That’s my best advice. It’s irrelevant what they think about you. It’s nothing, it’s air, it’s ether. You need to stop that and you need to say this is what I believe and this is what I’m trying to do. You may succeed, you may fail. Either way though what others think about you is irrelevant to either of those outcomes ”…[Listen for More]
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Barbara Khozam is an award-winning international motivational speaker and trainer specializing in customer service and the patient experience. In 2019, Barbara was awarded the CSP® (Certified Speaking Professional™) from the National Speaker’s Association. Barbara is one of only two women in the world to have achieved this destination as well as the Toastmaster Accredited Speaker designation.
“it’s really those baby steps. Every freaking day just take those little baby steps. Is it okay I’m going to make a list of my top 10 clients, okay that’s what am going to do today. Okay so tomorrow I’m going to email three of my top 10 clients. Okay good. And then the next day I’m going to send a follow-up email. So just little baby steps every freaking day and you can’t help but be successful”…[Listen for More]
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Neal Pecchenino is the founder of Boxi, an innovative out-of-home company that puts advertisements on delivery box trucks that are already on the road. Boxi helps businesses of all sizes reach their audience by leveraging its network of truck drivers who drive high-exposure routes in a variety of key markets.
“do the research, be relentless, answer the hard questions, just keep going. Don’t start a start-up start a company. Put your head down and make something happen… It’s not easy out there and typically people aren’t going to care about what you’re doing unless you can make them care meaning you can really get through and cut through the BS not sell something but tell a story. That’s really critical as well can’t just assume you’re going to show up and sell something and anyone is going to care. You have got to be able to tell a good story, telling a story is critical in entrepreneurship”…[Listen for More]
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Contessa Louise Cooper is an author, advocate, entrepreneur and healer. She is also the president of the New Jersey chapter of the Holistic Chamber of Commerce and the founder of Modern & Alternative Health magazine. She provides safe spaces for individuals can be their authentic selves so they can begin a holistic and spiritual healing process.
“trust yourself, you are an expert in your own right at this moment. And don’t let anyone, especially yourself tell you otherwise”…[Listen for More]
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An entrepreneur, keynote speaker and author, Laurie Guest is a “go-to-resource” for customer service excellence. For more than two decades, she has shared her practical point of view on customer service and staff development with audiences and companies across the country, blending real-life examples and proven action steps for improvement. Her latest book is The 10¢ Decision: How Small Change Pays of Big, presenting her most sought-after and impactful strategies to find and retain the best staff and highest-quality customers while delivering exceptional guest experiences.
“make sure your thinking the long game even if you don’t know you’re going to make it not. So for example knowing how you are going to capture your lead generation. So, if somebody kicks your tyre for whatever it is that you are selling and they show interest in any way… have you captured their name? Have you captured their email? Their phone number? Do you have a mechanism, a system in place to try and stay in touch with them? There is an old wise saying in sales, contact every 90 days until they buy or die. And I don’t know that’s necessarily true I think we can become menaces with that but the mentality behind it is don’t lose track of the people who are interested in you”…[Listen for More]
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Chris Prefontaine is the best-selling author of 2017’s Real Estate On Your Terms and this year’s The New Rules of Real Estate Investing. A real estate investor with over 27 years experience in the field, Chris is the founder of Smart Real Estate Coach and host of the Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast. He lives in Newport, Rhode Island with his wife, Kim, and their family. Chris operates the family business with his son, Nick, his daughter, Kayla, his son-in-law, Zach, and an amazing team.
“find that person in your niche or your industry, put the blinders on for 36 months because it works in any business”…[Listen for More]
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Jerry Brazie is a poor kid from Portland, Oregon with eight brothers and sisters. He has owned and operated more than a dozen companies over the last 20 years with combined sales of more than $450 million. Jerry has had more than 10,000 employees and has owned and operated many types of business including: Transportation, gas stations, car washes, convenience stores, reclaimed wood, a management company, and a driver services company. He has also been active as an industrial and commercial real estate investor and own more than 100,000 square feet in the Portland area, a residential land developer and homebuilder, and has bought, sold, remodeled and flipped more houses than he can count.
“don’t be scared of change and that’s change to get the business started, that’s change once you start the business, that’s change once you been successful or that’s change when you are not being successful. Don’t be scared of change. Because change can freeze you so that you make no decisions and that ultimately, I think is the ruination of more companies are less. So, ones that are failing to act even though they may know they need to act but they are scared of the change. Or you want to become an entrepreneur but you are scared of the change in your life… I embrace that and I would encourage others to embrace it the same way. Understanding that you are capable of so much more. So in personal life constantly don’t be afraid of change and then in business once you get there always be looking at it and changing it as required” …[Listen for More]
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As a coach Eric Reid is currently working with individuals and teams to uncover their potential and help them learn to live a life of success. But what is a life of success? A life of success is more about the process of living life successfully then arriving at a 'success point' in the furture. How does he do that? Through one-on-one and group coaching, seminars, workshops, and speaking I help dream builders identify where they are stuck, remove the obstacles, design a strategic plan to active their goals, motivate them into action to allow them to grow beyond the current situation. Success Life is about personal and professional development designed to help clients shift from… * Functional to SIGNIFICANT! * Ordinary to OUTSTANDING! * Average to EXCELLENT! Everything I do - coaching, mentoring, speaking - is tailored to ensure that those I work with become… * INSPIRED to live with passion and purpose * ENERGIZED to focus on what is truly important * EMPOWERED to create lasting results When you work with me I will make sure that you have * An AWARENESS of who you are, your true purpose and gifts; * The FUEL to forge ahead and take your life and business to the next level * The TOOLS needed to strategically and successfully navigate through your life and business * SUCCESS on your terms
“now that you are worthy, really worthy to pursue that dream, that ambition, that desire that in you, that you are worthy of it, that it was given to you at some level because it’s yours to have so go after it. And don’t let somebody else tell you that you can’t”…[Listen for More]
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John Knotts is a business coach and consultant with over 30 years of experience in military, non-profit, and commercial leadership and consulting. He has an extensive background in strategy, change, process, leadership, management, human capital, training and education, innovation, design, and communication.
“look before you leap. Too many people start out in business without a good plan and they don’t even know that they need one. And I said it 9/10 business fail because they didn’t have a plan or the plan was poor, they didn’t use it. So my most important piece of advice is get a really good business plan that you use every day to drive your business”…[Listen for More]
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Brad Sugars started the ActionCOACH brand in 1994 in Brisbane, Australia. Today the company is ranked as the leading business coaching franchise by Entrepreneur magazine. ActionCOACH operates in over 70 countries and has more than 1,000 coaches around the world, coaching 15,000 business every week. The franchise has received numerous awards including Fastest Growing Franchise, Franchisee Satisfaction, Best Overall Company and has been named the number one business coaching franchise in the world every year since 2004. Using the coaching strategies that have helped thousands of companies around the world, Brad Sugars and his executive team helped lead ActionCOACH and its coaches to some of its most profitable and best years ever… in the face of challenging economic conditions. Brad Sugars and his team continue to build “business re-education” to new, more innovative and exciting levels.
“very simple, keep learning… Your business can only grow to your level of incompetence. The day you run out of ideas is the date your business stops growing. So if you keep learning your business keeps growing. I guess I will give one other piece of advice. My dad gave it to me when I was 20 think. I turned to him and I said you know what dad I just can’t get good people and my dad looked me dead in the eye and said ‘Brad you get the people you deserve.’ If you are an average manager running an average business, I don’t see how you are going to get amazing people who want to work for you. He said the highest calibre employee going to get is average. So, when I became a better leader, when I became a better manager, when I started building a better company great people wanted to work for me. Great people want to work in great companies that are doing great things led by other great people… If you keep growing the business will keep growing and you will start attracting better and better customers, better and better employees, better and better suppliers. Just remember that the more you grow the more the business grows.”…[Listen for More]
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Ron Carucci is co-founder and managing partner at Navalent, working with CEOs and executives pursuing transformational change for their organizations, leaders, and industries. He has a thirty year track record helping executives tackle challenges of strategy, organization and leadership. From start-ups to Fortune 10’s, non-profits to heads-of-state, turn-arounds to new markets and strategies, overhauling leadership and culture to re-designing for growth. He has helped organizations articulate strategies that lead to accelerated growth, and design organizations that can execute those strategies. He has worked in more than 25 countries on 4 continents. He is the author of 8 books, including the recent Amazon #1 Rising to Power. He is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, where Navalent’s work on leadership was named one of 2016’s management ideas that mattered most. He is also a regular contributor to Forbes, and a two-time TEDx speaker. His work’s been featured in Fortune, CEO Magazine, Inc., BusinessInsider, MSNBC, Business Week, Smart Business, and thoughtleaders. The Whole Me He lives in the Seattle area with his wife and two children. On weekends, you’ll find him on his bike, on the lake, on his skis, at the movies, or cheering for the Seahawks. His greatest joy is seeing leader’s thrive by having the impact on the lives of those they lead. Helping leaders find their voice, and use it to serve their organization’s greater good is what gets him up every morning. In his office, Ron has a collection of antique door knobs, door knockers and skeleton keys. Every day, they remind him that life is about finding and pursuing the open doors in front of you, and making sure those doors open for others. In the morning, one of his favorite routines is picking the coffee mug in the conference room from among his collection. Each mug hails from a difference experience and person in his life, and helps him begin his day remembering to be grateful for all those in his life who’ve been part of his story.
“know who you are and know why you are doing it, really really know. Don’t just assume you have a great idea and the world needs it. Really know who you are and why you believe your idea matters to other people”…[Listen for More]
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Josh Levine is an educator, designer, and author, but above all, he's on a mission to help organizations design a culture advantage. Josh leads both Culture LabX, an international non-profit and Great Mondays, a culture design agency. His new book, also called Great Mondays, teaches organizations how to design a company culture employees love. Josh’s writing has been seen in Forbes, Huffington Post, Fast Company, and the Design Management Journal.
“you have to be passionate about what you do you won’t succeed. You have got to love it, you have got to be able to be convinced that this is what you were born to do. If there’s other options and you can see yourself taking them that might be the way to go and I can appreciate that. If you are going to be a successful entrepreneur you have to commit 110% because there are going to be harrowing days, weeks, months, years where you doubt yourself. And if you have a deep belief in your passion, and what you are working on and a love for actually running your own business that is the one and only way that you are going to be able to make it because it’s a hard hard job. It is really difficult it’s not for the faint of heart… But as you know the highest highs is always about landing that next gig or launching that new product. It’s an incredible feeling that success. ”…[Listen for More]
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Deana Karim is the owner/founder of Good Dee's. The journey to this mix has been long, she embraced going low-carb and sugar free and looked up alternative sweeteners. Through months of trial and error, Deana made a cookie that after numerous taste tests with non-LCHF people, got a giant thumbs up.
“research. I think it’s just great to go in and start something – I am that person. But also knowing what to research. So researching like I said… I think doing everything that won’t cause problems for you later on is super important and such a major component and foundation of a company that’s the least fun part but it’s vital. It’s not fun at all, it’s actually a headache and it gives me anxiety but it is so vital ”…[Listen for More]
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Based in the San Diego area, Reena B. Patel (LEP, BCBA) is a renowned parenting expert, guidance counselor, licensed educational psychologist, and board-certified behavior analyst. For more than 20 years, Patel has had the privilege of working with families and children, supporting all aspects of education and positive wellness. She works extensively with developing children as well as children with exceptional needs, supporting their academic, behavioral and social development. She was recently nominated for San Diego Magazine’s “Woman of the Year.”
“Hang in there, every day is a different day. Make sure you practice self-care, take time for yourself, it’s a 24-hour job being an entrepreneur and you need to make sure that you take time for yourself. So make sure you practice self-care”…[Listen for More]
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Sally Marshall worked for many years in the House of Commons as a Business Manager. She now uses those transferable skills to work with businesses on their strategy and planning as well as publishing a business magazine with a complementary app called Steer Your Business
“talk to each other because you don’t need to be competitive but you can learn from each other. And When you look at businesses of all different shapes and sizes, they all have the same issues at different times in different ways but they basically all have the same challenges. So just by talking to someone you probably find that they’ve been there done that or know somebody who has who can help you. So don’t sit in the silo and worry about it just going find somebody that you can trust and talk to them, talk to each other”…[Listen for More]
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Dr. Steven Hymovitch, also known as “Dr. H”, is a certified executive coach and the co-founder of The Scottsdale Leadership and Coaching Center. Additionally, Dr. H is also and endodontist and the founder and CEO of Valley Endodontics and Oral Surgery. He has 10 successful endodontic and oral surgery practices throughout Arizona since 1996. Valley Endodontics and Oral Surgery is the largest Endodontic/Oral Surgery practice in the Southwestern United States
“just because you do it by yourself that doesn’t mean you are all alone. Entrepreneurs usually we are lonely at the top but that does not mean you are all alone in… Take advantage of people. There is resources out there. We all feel like we don’t want to take the plunge but there is other people out there to support you and help you ”…[Listen for More]
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Cait Scudder is a business coach and success catalyst for driven, bold-hearted women who want it all - global impact, bursting income, and the legacy that comes from building a movement bigger than themselves. As CEO of a multi-six figure online business coaching empire, Scudder serves as the fearless front-woman of the boss babe revolution. A true trailblazer, she leads other inspired femme-preneurs in the fight to courageously make their dreams a reality, all while truly enjoying life and traveling the world with her husband. Scudder’s story began in 2012 while earning her Education MA from Smith College. She was awarded a Project Coach fellowship training at-risk inner-city youth to be leaders in their communities. With a newfound passion and gift for teaching, Scudder entered the world of academia only to discover that the 9-to-5 grind left her burned out, frustrated, and unfulfilled. In 2015, Scudder left her treaching career behind and sojourned to Bali to plan her next move. There she took an internal deep-dive to rediscover her own passions and, just two years later, after creating a plan and executing it, Scudder established a multi-faceted business coaching enterprise run entirely from her laptop - one which she scaled to six figures in her first 12 months. Having learned how to trust in her deepest passions, identify her unique zone of genius, and leverage that genius to serve the world, Scudder now teaches other women to do the same and earn the money they deserve while bringing their unique gifts to the world in a big way. Featured in Forbes, Fast Company, and many more - Scudder and her team now lead a tribe of more than 25,000 ambitious women across six continents in their quest to “nail their niche,” leverage their “zone of genius,” to finally build the profitable business and radiant life of their dreams. Her wildly popular Born to Rise podcast is pure mental fuel for go-getters thirsty for the inspiration and actionable tools to help master their mindset, explode their business, and achieve everything that becomes possible “when you decide that now is your time to rise.”
“start when you are afraid, start when you are scared, start when you don’t know the answers but just start and don’t feel like you need to do this thing alone… There are so many incredible people out there further along on this path who would be so happy to support you. So reach out and ask for help, believe in yourself and just keep putting 1 foot in front of the other ”…[Listen for More]
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Autumn Shelton is a partner and CFO of Autumn Brands, a 50 percent woman-owned cannabis business located in Santa Barbara County, California. Autumn oversees the company’s financials and is in charge of legal compliance on the local and state levels, this includes, but is not limited to, ordinances, regulations, packaging, permits, and licensing.
“I think in order to succeed as an entrepreneur you really have to be prepared financially and mentally for the challenges ahead. Don’t just jump into the business and hope for the best. Definitely talk to others in your industry that you are going into. Find out what their challenges and successes were. Be frugal in the beginning don’t try to go make some fancy office or systems, really live within the means or the finances that you have available to you. And if possible, have a secondary income source so that you are not just depending on this because you get one good sale you think that you are going to be on your way but it doesn’t always work out that way. So really just been in mind frame that when you start a business a slow and steady journey and not necessarily just straight up”…[Listen for More]
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Ora Nadrich is founder and president of the Institute for Transformational Thinking and author of Live True: A Mindfulness Guide to Authenticity. A certified life coach and mindfulness teacher, she specializes in transformational thinking, self-discovery, and mentoring new coaches as they develop their careers.
“really stay committed to what it is you feel passionate about. What is your vision? Why do you feel that your product, your vision, your business idea or your business can really affect change or make a difference in the world? And stick to it and also make room for improvement and know that it is a constantly changing organism. Do you know that whatever it is you have created or you are in the midst of creating there is always room for change, there is always room for improvement, there is always room for open-mindedness approach to your business. So I would say stay open, stay open minded”…[Listen for More]
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Jenna Suru established her company Belle Époque Films in January 2015. She directed and produced her debut feature film "L'Âge d'Or" with an international cast, 35 exceptional locations and an outstanding soundtrack, featuring songs from Chuck Berry and Jimmy Reed. She organizes shoots for multiple foreign productions filming across Europe.
“have a plan and manage your risks. Of course you can try and fail three times as an entrepreneur before actually doing it right. And there are many entrepreneurs who will explain also how important it is to fail and how you must be ready to fail. But really it’s going to be so much less painful and it’s going to also avoid you losing time if you just come in prepared. You may think all the time you put into this preparing phase is going to add maybe delay at the start of your business but is going to be difficult but really you’re going to be so thankful that you did it later because it’s actually going to make you save time and be more competitive. So I would say preparing, learning about all the dimensions that will make you become a good entrepreneur, learn from other people and then manage your risks”…[Listen for More]
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Born and raised on a farm in northern Indiana, Bert Miller raised himself up through the brands of E. & J. Gallo and Revlon, to then start Protis Global and recently acquired Management Recruiters International Inc. An athlete all his life, from baseball to football, and now mind-numbing, soul-building marathons, Bert takes the competition, the drive, the sweat and the brutal determination of a sportsman and plows it all into his work. From farm to founder, he knows better than anyone else that the underdog can take on the mighty. It’s one of the reasons he owns three companies; the absolute, all-consuming belief that anyone can choose a path less traveled and fulfill their dreams. His ethos is why we all hustle every day, to build companies and put talented individuals in their dream roles. If you ask Bert anything, his answer will always be bourbon.
“take the road less travelled, out work the others (you have got to outwork folks), be present with people, and you have got to show up. And when you show up and you have those other attributes, you give yourself a chance to win… If you just make all of the ordinary plays… Make the ordinary plays and not try to be extraordinary you will always give yourself a chance to win”…[Listen for More]
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Recently named one of Vegas, Inc.’s 40 under 40, this Las Vegas native brings her vast knowledge of communications as founder and CEO of Vegas Girls Night Out, a boutique concierge service offering exclusive, inside access for women to the Las Vegas party scene. Please help me in welcoming Bri Steck!
“work hard, treat people how you want to be treated. Just because you are the boss doesn’t mean you are the drill sergeant. Create a great team, listen to your customers, listen to the market; they can dictate what is needed. Try something different and outside the box whether it’s something that you’re offering or it’s a marketing technique don’t be too afraid to try something new because maybe you are on the cutting-edge of something and you are going to start a new trend yourself. So don’t be afraid to try something new”…[Listen for More]
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Neil Gordon helps public speakers and authors to craft their message. He is a former member of the editorial staff of Penguin, has ghostwritten or collaborated on books published by Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, and Hay House, and has been featured in Inc as well as The Irish Times.
“become an absolute expert in your target audience’s problems. Just know the ins and out their problems. The better you speak to their problems in your marketing as well as engaging with them in any aspect of their experience with you the more successful you are going to be”…[Listen for More]
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Charmaine Hammond is an expert in collaboration, partnership and sponsorship. She helps entrepreneurs raise their dreams, launch their projects and make a bigger impact through the power of this untapped revenue source...collaboration and sponsorship.
“stick with it when times get tough. I see so many people who have big dreams and their business can help so many people and make a big impact. And when times get hard, they give up easily or too soon. And there is an opportunity there for us to ask for help, to get a coach, to find somebody to collaborate with. But when it is important to you don’t give up because I think sometimes the regret is bigger than the pain you go through in that moment to keep things going. So, don’t give up too soon. Sometimes good ideas don’t pan out so we have to let go of things but just really doublecheck with yourself about giving up too easily”…[Listen for More]
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Dr. Steve G. Jones is a board certified Clinical Hypnotherapist who has been practicing hypnotherapy since the 1980s. Dr. Steve has authored 25 books, created over 9,000 hypnosis audio recordings and 22 different online certification programs, which are sold in over 140 countries.
“follow your passion. It sounds trite, it sounds cliché, I know but it’s not. It’s popular because it’s the truth. Follow your passion.”…[Listen for More]
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Kenny Kline is a serial entrepreneur and founder/managing partner at JAKK Media. JAKK Media is a niche content company that runs some of the most popular sites on the web targeting passionate audiences.
“I think it goes back to survival. So figure out how to survive another day and just be ready to seize opportunity when it is there. And with that make just sure that you are doing something that you plan on doing a long time. The things you read about in the newspapers or the blogs where they raise millions of dollars and then the raise tens then the raise hundreds and they sell four years later that is one out of 50 million businesses. The rest feel a little more like a slog. And there is nothing wrong with that but just be prepared for and it doesn’t mean it is not going to be a great journey as well for you”…[Listen for More]
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A graduate of the Fashion Institute of Design Merchandising, Hasmig “Jasmine” Penna received a degree in business and product development and studied everything from textile and product development to personal shopping and styling. Upon graduation, she took a trend forecasting position in footwear with ACI, which ignited her passion for footwear construction. As a Footwear Line Builder at Report/Topline Footwear, Hasmig traveled overseas, where she pocketed influence from the landscapes, cultures, and people. A survivor of meningitis and a diabetic since the age of fifteen, Hasmig worked for various companies until given equal opportunity through Obama Care to start her own business. Congés transpired while Hasmig was in Bora Bora on her honeymoon. The fine jewelry collection embodies the confluence of all forces and experiences of Hasmig’s life and helps enhance courage, self-awareness, discovery, and healing.
“expect the unexpected, good and bad, just roll with it… You have to always remind yourself and remember that there is room for everyone so don’t hold back. My success will not stunt your success, your success will not stunt mine, there is room for all of us”…[Listen for More]
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Louis Stack, “Leading the World to Better Balance” since 1985. His brand Fitterfirst is recognized worldwide for supplying premium professional and personal products that help people recover from and prevent injury, maintain balance and fitness and keep moving at work. He has built a foundation of integrity and quality in everything he does. Along his journey, Stack has been an advocate and industry expert, often leading the way in the physical rehabilitation world and setting precedence in the way we approach of office environment. Nothing makes him happier than improving someone’s life with one of his products - a “win-win-win” as he likes to call it. Canadian National Speed Skiing Team, 1990 - 1995 Calgary's Small Business of the Year Award, 2002 Winner of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2016
“you have got to be passionate and believing what you are doing. Anything less than 100% commitment and passion, it doesn’t guarantee failure. But it’s not a ticket to success. There is going to be hardships, there is going to be challenges, you are going to have adversity. That’s called life, that’s what happens while you’re busy making other plans, you are living your life, crap happens and you have got to get through it. I always look for the light at the end of the tunnel, I look for the opportunity, I look for the diamond in the rough. And for me I tend to find them very very early in the game which makes it a little bit harder. It would be nice to hit a home run all of the time. ”…[Listen for More]
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Ryan served our country in Ramadi and Fallujah with the U.S. Marine Corps in some of the most intense fighting of the Iraq war. Ryan reached platoon sergeant status and received combat promotions and awards as an infantryman as well as being recognized as Marine of the year in 2005 and Non-Commissioned Officer of the year in 2006. He also trained Iraqi Police and Navy Corpsmen in infantry tactics. He earned a Naval Achievement Medal for his Combat Valor. Ryan has been with the Department of State for four years. He served on the Ambassador Susan Rice’s Protective Detail for three years and currently serves as a General Services Specialist. In addition to his service Ryan Tate has always been an animal lover. After returning from one of his tours in Iraq he was deeply affected by a program he watched on TV that showed an African rhino still alive and suffering greatly with half its face hacked off solely for its horn. Tate, realizing that criminal poaching networks operate very much like the intricate terrorist networks in the Middle East, set out to repurpose his skills into an effort to stop the slaughter of these magnificent endangered animals. Many Post 9-11 U.S. veterans often have difficulty leveraging their combat skills in a conventional civilian vocation. Ryan realized these vets could benefit profoundly from the opportunity to utilize their valuable military skills in combat-related areas protecting endangered wildlife in Africa and saving lives. With Tate’s military experience and savvy navigating the tumultuous world of “boots on the ground” conservation, he’s able to speak directly to the unique skills that veterans can bring to anti-poaching efforts making a vital difference for endangered species and veterans that now have a renewed sense of purpose.
“take negative criticism as just criticism or as just help. Don’t look over all look past negativity it’s happening for a reason and so it should be focused on but it shouldn’t be taken to heart. You have got to grow a thick-skinned, you have got to be able to take a punch, you have got to be able to take several punches to the mouth over and over and over again. But if you don’t get up you are not an entrepreneur – you are not. So be prepared to take a hit, grow thick skin, don’t let it alter your direction, let it improve your direction and the efficiency and the speed that you are headed in. And just take everything as a learning lesson. It’s all part of the journey. The Quicker that you can take criticism as a learning lesson instead of negativity the quicker that you are going to get your mission done and certainly the less years are going to be taken off of your life from the stress that comes with that negativity. So as negative as it is try to just take it in stride and build off of it.”…[Listen for More]
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Randy McKee is the Owner of Tax and Income Management Enterprises. . He helps them with many aspects of the financial sides of their businesses including managing their bank accounts, income and expenses, bookkeeping and setting up LLCs.
“just go for it. It is life changing to have your own business… People say you are your own boss, I don’t really look at it that way, I look at it as I am in control of my destiny, I can choose how much I work, I can choose how much money I make, I can choose when I work, I can choose what clients I work with, and if I don’t want to work with the client I don’t have to work with that client. I am able to do the things that I want to do so I am really in control of my future. And if I want to build this business a really hard and partner up with someone and start franchising or whatever I might go into I can do that if I want to. I have that potential to become a millionaire, a billionaire. But I wouldn’t have that potential if I was a paid employee. So for all of those entrepreneurs out there go for it”…[Listen for More]
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Scott York escaped from his corporate job 20 years ago and has been helping athletes become bigger, faster, and stronger out of his garage gym ever since. His goal is to educate and motivate high school and college athletes to maximize their playing years by becoming stronger physically and mentally.
“follow your passion… Find a mentor or mentors. I think a really good one also public speaking… If you want to live the fullest life you are going to have to step outside of yourself and put yourself in those types of situations… Toastmasters helped me… Learning public speaking because you are going to have to do it just like I am doing right now, just like you are doing. And there is going to be opportunities in your life as you get better at your craft, at your job that people are going to want you to speak. And it’s going to help you if you can really polish that, polish your public speaking”…[Listen for More]
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I am Alison Standish, a professional colour consultant who is passionate about colour and how it's can positively affect our lives. They say 'our eyes are the windows to our soul' so colour is a very important part of how we see the world and also how the world see us. Colour is the first tool of communication and is widely used in branding and marketing affecting our emotional responses to what we purchase, we just don't think about it. Colour affects us not just psychologically, but physically and emotionally. When we combine the ancient art of colour therapy along with today's science, we can harness a powerful tool to support our businesses, employees and our own personal health and wellbeing.
“’face the fear and do it anyway’ Susan Jeffers talks about that. But it’s instead of across the mating and thinking about it all the time is actually to get it down, get it written and then slowly but surely it will start to actually appear. So as long as you have your ideas in writing and you are able to see them then that will actually focus your mind about where you need to be. And life is a bit of a gamble, change happens be prepared that it will always change and it will never be what you think it is ”…[Listen for More]
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Raju Mirchandani is the owner and founder CEO of Bar & Books, a chain of upscale cocktail lounges in New York City, established in 1990. He is also the proprietor of Le Bateau Ivre, New York City’s first authentic “Bistro a Vins.” Mirchandani has worked in several internationally acclaimed/renowned hotels including the Dorchester Hotel, London, U.K. and The Taj Mahal Hotel, Bom-bay, India. He was with the elegant Westbury Hotel in New York for a decade as its Director of Catering. Subsequently, he spent two years as a partner with the Park Bistro Group, which owned and operated Les Halles and Park Gourmandises.
“always look for loyalty. If you have loyalty, whether it’s within your team of employees, co-workers partners, vendor’s, government agencies (if they are loyal to your cause), politicians (there are some that are remarkable and actually help entrepreneurs)… Go for loyalty at every level whether it’s employees or anything related to your business, look at the word loyalty, take that word and apply it to each of people around you and use that as a yardstick to continue and develop relationships with that group of people. I think that’s your key to success”…[Listen for More]
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Christopher Burres is a Mechanical Engineer turned scientist turned entrepreneur. Using a Nobel Prize Winning molecule tested and used by NASA that has been shown to almost double the lifespan in test subjects, Chris is on a mission to make ESS60 a household name to help people live longer, healthier and pain-free lives one dose at a time.
“business your business so that it runs without you. Like even if you’re on day one having your mind what are the processes, what are the systems, how is the company ultimately going to define its culture, how is the company ultimately going to hire people and get new business and on-board new customers? Be thinking in terms of how all of that’s going to happen without you. Because ultimately that’s going to be a more valuable business both to you and your customer”…[Listen for More]
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As mother-daughter co-founders of the newly announced executive coaching startup, LeaderEQ, Chessa Eskandanian-Yee and Katherine Eskandanian-Yee are reimagining the way today’s executives grow into great leaders. The two have built and just launched the first ever AI-powered executive coaching platform, giving executives unlimited access to a perfectly matched coach. As Katherine and Chessa grow the company together, they are working to not only advance their business, but also the opportunities for women to succeed in the mainly male-dominated tech hubs around the world, including Silicon Valley.
“listen to your customer and don’t think for your customer”…[Listen for More]
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Bestselling author Steve Farber is the founder and CEO of The Extreme Leadership Institute—a learning and development firm devoted to helping its clients develop award-winning cultures and achieve radical results. His much-anticipated new book, Love is Just Damn Good Business, is published by McGraw-Hill.
“be really clear on why you love whatever endeavour you are in, pursuing or about to pursue. I think we skip over that question. So specifically it would be why do I love this business? Or why do I love this project? Or why do I love this product? Or why do I love this service? You pick the context. Why do I love this? And how can I show it in my actions. I think a lot of time we start businesses because we get excited about an idea but we don’t take the time to really reflect and personalise it. And I think if you do that, if you start that and then asked that question of yourself frequently it’s going to keep your fire burning, is going to keep you energised. Because there is going to become a time, there are going to become many times where you wake up in the morning and it’s not why do I love this work that I’m doing? It’s not going to come out that way is going to be more like why the hell did I sign up for this or what was I thinking. So what I’m going to suggest to you is the more difficult it is to answer this why do I love this work question the more important it is to answer that question because that’s what’s going to keep your own fire burning especially at the times when you need it most”…[Listen for More]
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Lisa Johnson is a multi 6-figure business coach specialising in helping entrepreneurs scale their businesses using passive income from memberships and courses. After a tough childhood spent in social housing, Lisa went on to have successful careers in law, banking and the entertainment industry. Her background and overcoming obstacles has helped mould her into a bold, straight talking coach, who is never afraid to be an authentic and outspoken truth teller. Lisa lives in Hertfordshire, UK with her Husband and 7 year old twin sons but coaches entrepreneurs around the globe.
“stay in your own lane, keep really focused on what you are doing and don’t get shiny object syndrome where you look at somebody else and what they are doing and decide to do what they are doing instead because maybe what you are doing hasn’t had an immediate result. I think that the whole of business rests on consistency. So you have to do something over and over again for a long period of time before it can work”…[Listen for More]
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Jason Resnick helps developers and designers discover their niche, plan out and market themselves to build predictable revenue. He has run his own web development business since 2010 helping online businesses increase sales and decrease the time to first purchase through conversion and behavioral strategy, with personalization, email, and marketing campaigns.
“really understand your why and put it front and centre. And when I say put it front and centre… if you need a sticky note to put it on your monitor go ahead and do so. Because if you understand your why then every decision that you make will be towards that why. You won’t deviate from it… Understand where your why is on why you started the business in the first place because ultimately it wasn’t because you wanted to work more ”…[Listen for More]
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Iron Tamer Dave Whitley is a motivational speaker and strongman based in Nashville TN. As a kid, Dave was overweight and had a terrible stutter. Retreating into a world of fantasy and comic books, he dreamed of becoming SuperHuman. Now, as a motivational speaker, he uses SuperHuman feats of strength to share his message with his audience.
“persist in whatever the next small step is. We all have the big vision, we all come up with a plan but it’s very easy to see that is something that can be way far down the road and gets caught up in the day-to-day busy-ness of our business. And a long period of time can pass and you been very busy but you haven’t really accomplished anything. So persisting in whatever that end vision is and making it as real as possible in your mind so much so that if you wake up in the morning and think okay if I’ve already complex this goal what’s my day going to look like today versus what can I do today to take me closer to the goal. And that’s not just semantics there’s very important mental shift in their of what I call ‘living from the end’. So if I can really imagine and put myself in the place of the person whose accomplished whatever it is that I’ve decided I want to do it’s almost like from that point of view I can look back to where I am in the present moment and see the path that it took to get there much more clearly than trying to create a path from here to there out of information I don’t know yet ”…[Listen for More]
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Kris Østergaard is a sought after speaker, facilitator, researcher and expert on innovation in legacy organizations, corporate cultures and exponential organizations. He is co-founder and Chief Learning and Innovation Officer of SingularityU Nordic, a collaborative venture with Singularity University in Silicon Valley. His new book is Transforming Legacy Organizations: Turn Your Established Business into an Innovation Champion to Win the Future (Wiley, June 10, 2019).
“the best advice is persistence. Regardless of how difficult it is persistence is the key differentiator it’s not about ideas, ideas are a dime a dozen as the saying goes. It’s really about the people who have persistence and just don’t give up and continue to find new ways to achieve what it is they are trying to achieve. Those are the ones who will ultimately succeed”…[Listen for More]
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Scott Painter is Fair’s Founder and CEO, and a serial entrepreneur in the automotive and technology industries who has founded dozens of disruptive companies over the past 25 years. Prior to Fair, Scott founded TrueCar with the aim of eliminating negotiation from the car-buying process by providing data-driven pricing research to both dealers and consumers. Painter also founded Cars Direct, which took the pioneering step of introducing upfront pricing to auto retail. Painter regularly attends TED, All Things D, and is a member of the World Economic Forum, regularly attending and speaking at its annual meeting in Davos since 2011.
“reputation is everything”…[Listen for More]
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Adam Coleman Founder of HRLocker.com, which is a cloud software platform that makes people management and recruitment easy for Companies. Before HRLocker Adam was part of the initial start-up team at Esat Digifone which after 3 years was sold to BT for over €1 Billion, which was technically Ireland's first Unicorn.
“is don’t call themselves entrepreneurs. I think it’s a term that is been massively over abused”…[Listen for More]
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Susan Fowler is the bestselling author of Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work… and What Does and newly released, Master Your Motivation. She is co-author of Self Leadership and The One Minute Manager with Ken Blanchard. A thought leader on applying motivation science, Susan is a globally sought-after speaker and consultant.
“remember why you are doing what you are doing, that if you are doing what you are doing for reasons what we call optimally motivating, if they are based on your values, if you have a deep sense of purpose, if it’s because it brings you joy, because you are making a deep contribution to others, because you are making the world a better place, if you can stay grounded in those things then you are going to be successful. But if you get into a business because you think it is going to make more money or because you want power or status you are going to be short lived”…[Listen for More]
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Chris Parker is the founder of WhatIsMyIPAddress.com. In January 2000, WhatIsMyIPAddress.com was launched as a solution to a simple problem, finding his office IP address. Rather than panicking when laid off in 2014, Chris seized the opportunity and devoted himself full-time to his website, which now attracts over 6,000,000 visitors monthly.
“doing things that challenge you, that make you uncomfortable… Building a network of friends and people you know that our entrepreneurs. Some that are further along the new and some that are just starting out but most importantly people that have a very different perspective than you that are fundamentally different people than you. The geeks like to hangout with the geeks and the jocks like to hangout with the jocks. I think it is important as entrepreneurs is to have people that will challenge the way we look at things, challenge the way that we think and that helps us to think about things from more perspectives and see holes that we wouldn’t normally see in our business ”…[Listen for More]
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Rob Braiman is CEO and founder of Cogent Analytics, a business consulting firm. Since 2005, he has personally engaged with over 1800 small to medium size businesses. An entrepreneur himself, he knows the challenges of the journey, and his passion is to help others achieve success and profitability that also enhances quality of life. He has grown Cogent Analytics from 6 people to over 120 inside of 5 years; and has ranked on the Inc 5000 fastest growing companies 3 years in a row.
“manage profit. Profit is not about greed, it’s about solvency, it’s about building equity, it’s about retiring debt, it’s about taking care of your family, it’s about the benefits you offer to your employees. And if you don’t manage profit first bad things happen. So, I am a profit for sky and I don’t want to again communicate that that somehow supposed to be about greed because it’s not. The responsibility of every small business owner every mid-sized business owner, every large business is to produce a minimum mandatory profit that is engineered within a company because that impacts so many areas of the business. Don’t do that haphazardly do it purposefully”…[Listen for More]
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Joseph Bikart is a founding member is a founding partner and director of the international consulting firm Templar Advisors. For the past 20 years, following a first career in investment banking, he has advised leaders in corporate and public life on their communication and negotiations. Through his work with thousands of decision-makers, he has created Decisiology, an innovative approach to executive coaching, drawing from his studies at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and at the Tavistock in London. He is also a keynote speaker, and a lecturer at the London Business School.
“know who you are. It is too easy to be in business for the wrong reasons. It’s too easy to be in a job because we think it’s going to be more lucrative or prestigious all sorts of things which have nothing to do with us, who we are truly inside ourselves… Understand who you are, understand what drives you, understand what your passions are, understand what gives you joy and fulfilment. And this is the greatest roadmap to your business. And at moments when we all feel lost, we all feel we’ve lost our ways it’s really good to reconnect with that and redraw the map based on that”…[Listen for More]
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JoAnne Funch is the Founder of Linked In For Business. She's an expert at transforming professionals from making random connections on LinkedIn, to strategic/high-value contacts that result in more profitable and long-term opportunities. In a world of digital marketing, JoAnne inspires business professionals to think differently about how they develop their connections, engage their contacts, and grow their business.
“ask really hard questions of yourself. And so what I mean by that might be questions like: Why am I making this business harder than it has to be? I see that all the time with entrepreneurs. Another one might be: Am I hiding or playing to small and why am I doing that? What am I afraid of? Why am I holding myself back? Another one might be. Am I doing busy work because I am afraid to be seen? Busywork just keeps us busy and it keeps us safe from showing up. Another one might be: Where do you think you will be a year from now if you keep that up? I mean those are hard questions that I think require a lot of self-examination. So my best advice is ask yourself the hard questions, the things you might be avoiding” …[Listen for More]
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Dr Annika Sörensen, MD from Sweden, Stress strategist and Calm Catalyst, Author, International TEDx Speaker, Mentor, Seminar Leader. Has changed focus from disease to business related health promotion and stress-to-calm management. She is today helping busy Business Leaders find calm, feel less stress, get more done and create bigger success!
“don’t forget to take care of yourself and your own health first. If you don’t feel well your business won’t feel well and that shows. So, like on the aeroplane tell you in the unlikely event of whatever then put the oxygen mask on yourself first and then help others. So it’s not selfish to help yourself first it’s the only way to survive in the long run”…[Listen for More]
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Croz Crossley has a wealth of experience to share after having been in business for over 50 years. Although there were many successes,he says that most of his wisdom and knowledge comes from the things that went wrong during that time. After one very bad situation about 25 years ago he lost everything and after that he really struggled trying to get back in 5 minutes what had taken many years to accumulate. He also at this time learnt that you never make good decisions when you are stressed. That is when he set about studying how powerful our mind is and how much control we have over what happens in our life. Using these teachings he climbed back up the ladder and put himself in a better position than he had been before and then set about telling as many people as he could about these amazing teachings.
“be you, be honest, be courageous… if you chase money it will run away. So you have always got to be relaxed retract money… Least desperate you make your business for money the more you will attract. Don’t chase money, allow it to come because if you position properly in your business money becomes the result not the reason”…[Listen for More]
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Bruce Turkel has worked for some of the world’s most compelling brands, including Hasbro, Amex, Nike, Schwab, Citicorp, Discovery, Bacardi, HBO, Miami, and many more. Bruce is a keynote speaker, author, musician, artist, and runner who tours extensively.
“figure out why you matter. Figure out why you are different, unique, special. Figure out what you bring to the table… And take that and sell that. Give that to your customers and potential customers. Take who you are, why you matter and give those skill sets to them and let them incorporate them. When you do you will create real value. More importantly you will create value that only you can provide and that’s how you can build a sustainable business”…[Listen for More]
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Deb Currier Smith is the visionary, Founder & CEO of Rewardify, a mobile game company. Deb, a serial entrepreneur and lifetime gamer had a vision for rewarding game play with real world rewards, recruited senior game developers and raised $2M to fund development. Their first game, Match to Win, a Candy Crush style puzzle game with cash rewards is crushing it.
“you are going to have the dark mind of the soul there is no doubt about it. You are not going to love every minute but you should love it most of the time and it should really make your heart sing. And it doesn’t it’s probably not the right thing”…[Listen for More]
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Neville Joffe is world renowned for educating and mentoring business operators and entrepreneurs to understand the financial implications of their decisions. He is a passionate educator and mentor that will help you understand what is needed to achieve your financial freedom.
“get financially literate and understand the financial score of your business activities. It doesn’t matter if you are a large business or a small business you have got to know what’s going on.”…[Listen for More]
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Kyle Weckerly is a certified ghostwriter and producer of The Career Challenges Podcast located in San Antonio, TX. Business coaches and consultants seek out his services to write, edit, and publish their books. Kyle’s authors write primarily platform books to promote their expertise, services, and secure speaking gigs.
“Shakespeare wrote in Macbeth ‘screw your courage to the sticking-place’. And you know that’s very eloquent. I would just say you know go and do it which is a very pat answer... Do what you need to do to get the courage to do what you need to do. That is going to be hard and that the only way you are going to make it through is if you resolve that you are going to make it through” …[Listen for More]
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Former BBCTV Dragons’ Den ‘Dragon’, Rachel Elnaugh is the British entrepreneur who created the £multi-million market leading ‘Red Letter Days’ experience brand. She is now a business speaker, published author and award winning business mentor and is CEO of the digital publishing and marketing platform for evolutionaries Source TV
“let go and go with the flow… It’s very easy to get attached to the way you think things should happen and to get stuck and in resistance. So I think when you just let go and have fun with it and just go with the flow and just enjoy it and allow that current to take you it can take you to places that you couldn’t even have envisaged if you had sat down and thought about. So there is a lot to be said for the absolute art of allowing and trusting and surrendering just having faith in the process”…[Listen for More]
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Dr. Joe Vitale, a star in the movie The Secret, a bestselling author, coach, and one of the top 50 inspirational speakers in the world, an internationally famous expert on the law of attraction and clearing beliefs. His latest book is "Anything Is Possible."
“read biographies of successful entrepreneurs. Because you can learn from their failures and you can learn from their successes. I think a big mistake is people try to do everything themselves and they end up having bumps in the road or bumps on their noggin because they didn’t pay attention to what other people have already gone through. If you can learn from other people’s mistakes you don’t have to make those mistakes, they did it for you”…[Listen for More]
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British author, piano player, international racing driver and business coach Jonny Cooper is the founder of Jonny Hates Marketing Jonny supports coaches and therapists with his Client Attraction Blueprint programme, filled with eager students every month, and runs the legendary Jonny Hates Marketing Facebook Group. Also, he really, really does hate marketing.
“treat others as you would like them to treat you. And that spins off into a bunch of other stuff about being kind, being generous but being firm”…[Listen for More]
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Dr.Robyn Odegaard is a former competitive beach volleyball player and spent her career using goal-achievement psychology to motive, inspire and focus clients on achieving success. She holds a certificate from the Center for Nutrition Studies at Cornell University. She is the co-founder of Whole Food Muscle Club and co-author of 'How to Feed a Human: The Whole Food Muscle Way' (April 2019). She highlights her journey of a plant-based diet with no 'fake food' coupled with exercise for a healthy lifestyle.
“do the hard thing first… I think a lot of times entrepreneurs try to put off things they don’t want to do until they are emotionally, psychologically and physically exhausted and then it gets even harder”…[Listen for More]
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Our guest today led some of the biggest global mergers in the finance, tech, and oil industries, and went on to become one of Silicon Valley’s top business advisors. Tom Eddington is founder of Eddington Advisory Services and an expert in the field of conscious leadership. Welcome, Tom. What is conscious leadership and how can it help leaders of America’s top companies and organizations?
“constantly be reminded or remember that at the end of their life, whenever that’s going to be, that they look back and be proud of the life that they’ve led. Not just the job they did all the company they created or how many employees that they had or how many hundreds of thousands or millions or billions of dollars that they’ve earned but to truly look at their legacy. Not that you want to linger on that or allow it to drive your life to a large extent but never lose sight of your legacy, never lose sight of having fun, never lose sight of recognising that we are all human beings and we make conscious and unconscious choices each morning about how we are going to show up in the world. Being really intentional about what you are doing and why you are doing it”…[Listen for More]
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Tom Rubens is a business coach and expert in corporate culture and strategy. In his 40 years of diverse experience in business, Tom founded a commodity trading company, a real estate brokerage and assembled investment groups that raised millions of dollars to buy minor league baseball and basketball franchises. In his coaching practice, The Accountability Factor, Tom helps businesses increase revenue and productivity, and manage relationships and collaborations while living harmonious lives. Tom’s first book, Lifeness: Harmonize an Entrepreneurial Life was released in April 2017
“Seek honest feedback, really ask for and then embrace the feedback you get. Whether that’s determining whether a new product should go to market, whether it’s deciding whether to hire, fire, promote someone within your organisation. Get feedback and listen to it. And I guess the trump card to that is ask people around you what you are missing, what your blind spots are, because you have got them and as long as you ignore them, they will be there to torture you. So, ask for feedback about yourself. What I missing is one of my favourite questions because you can see it I can’t”…[Listen for More]
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As the founder of Lunya, Ashley Merrill and her team are reinventing sleepwear for the modern woman through innovation, design, and quality; resulting in a carefully edited collection of must-have pieces. Lunya’s core mission is simple - to make women’s lives better through product, experience and example. Ashley is utilizing Lunya, her background in tech and investing, to build her personal mission of helping create opportunity for women and girls. Beyond building Lunya, Ashley is an active supporter and board member for Girls Inc., a supporter of both Upstream and Planned Parenthood, and invests in many female entrepreneurs and funds. She is a Southern California native and resides there with her two young children and her husband.
“it kind of comes back to that hedgehog principle. I like to advise people to really challenge themselves on their ideas long before they try to start anything. And I think you should be your harshest critic so that by the time you go to other people you are very confident in asking the tough questions and in answering the tough questions. And I do find that that trio of questions, that hedgehog principle about whether it’s defensible, about whether your idea can make money and about whether you have the passion and drive to go with distance are very useful”…[Listen for More]
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Silent Beacon founder and CEO Kenny Kelley started his entrepreneurial career as a thrill-seeking Hollywood motorcycle stuntman and founder of Adrenaline Crew LLC, producing wildly popular videos and leading teams of daredevil riders in risky on-road hijinx that captured an enthusiastic worldwide audience both online and at high-profile events. When Kelley made a mistake on his motorcycle — while popping a wheelie, with his feet out over the windshield, going 70 mph on a public interstate — the resulting crash sent both his body and his life careening in a new direction. The idea for a wearable emergency-button device came to him as he was lying incapacitated on the side of the road. Kelley’s near-death-inspired appreciation of safety’s importance led him to form Silent Beacon LLC and create the namesake Bluetooth® wearable device that can contact any number, including 911, with a single button push. Kelley’s entrepreneurial life has gone from wowing crowds to protecting them, and he now lives for creating products that help people lead safer lives.
“you really just need to put your head down and dive into it and make it an obsession. If you have an idea and it’s not an obsession and you just think of it as oh geez, I don’t have time to look that up, oh geez I don’t have time to make this, oh geez that… Then that’s the wrong idea for you. You need to wait until you have an idea that sparks this fire that Neil and I were talking about, this obsession that just makes you want to fight through everything to see it succeed. So you just need to find what works for you that you can spit as you speak and it just comes out as poetry”…[Listen for More]
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Sandra Biskind is a global thought leader, international speaker, spiritual mentor and #1 bestselling author. She has a unique gift to identify and eradicate the unconscious programs that undermine success—instantly amplifying her client’s ability to live freely and thrive. Sandra Biskind offers a rare combination of business savvy, transformational leadership and soul enrichment. With her down-to-earth wisdom coupled with her multi-dimensional gifts, she creates profound sustainable shifts. Sandra is committed to working with leaders who are passionate about attaining the next level of success and making a global impact.
“diligently become a mind trainer and the best version of who you are. Really learn how to work with your emotions, to acknowledge them, to accept them and change them instantly so that you can change the way you step up, become aware, mindful. You are a spiritual being, you are a perfect divine being, use your spirituality to bring into your business something that will give you a heads up way beyond the normal business person”…[Listen for More]
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Hal Simeroth, Ph.D. is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer for Stemology®, and is the current lead formulator for the Stemology product line. Dr. Simeroth has been performing research and product development in skin science over the past twelve years. During this time, he has consulted for, as well as worked for, six skin care companies, and designed a number of skin care product lines, including the latest Stemology product line.
“the sure you have enough cash to do what you want to do. Sometimes there is no way to predict that. Try to with the best that you can, try to predict it. Also be sure you are willing to take the risks to go out there on your own. And be sure you are willing to commit the time and effort because it will be a heavy duty demand on you”…[Listen for More]
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Marcus Taylor is the Founder & CEO of Venture Harbour, a digital innovation studio in Oxfordshire that has built a multi-million dollar portfolio of highly-automated online businesses with zero funding inc. SaaS tools, comparison sites, and more recently, MacOS apps. Marcus also developed the World's first scientifically-valid method of measuring human comfort zones and has been featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30.
“this may be a little bit controversial but my view is don’t take funding. My thinking behind that is it frustrates me as an entrepreneur to see many of our entrepreneurs in the early stages spending so much time faffing around with cap tables and creating these beautiful slide decks when my view is that in the early stages of creating a new business the focus should be on the product and the customers, you should be building something that people want and developing that empathy with the end users”…[Listen for More]
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Chris Chancey: He is the founder of Amplio Recruiting, an agency that helps great companies hire dependable employees from the refugee workforce. They have generated over $7M in revenue and placed over 4000 refugees living in the US into full time employment over the past 4 years.
“having that vector point in just making some progress every day doing something to move you in that direction. So all that kind of bought combined with a vectory is victory”…[Listen for More]
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David Meltzer, CEO of Sports 1 Marketing, is Variety Magazine’s Sports Humanitarian of the Year, a Forbes Top 10 Keynote to Hire, a Top 100 Business Coach, 2x best-selling author, host of Entrepreneur's #1 podcast The Playbook, and star of #1 digital show, Elevator Pitch.
“be kind to your future self and do good deeds. If You just do that… The other piece of advice would simply be ask to questions every day: How could I be of service? As well as: Do you know anyone who can help me?”…[Listen for More]
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A performance coach in the world's most successful business training company, John McCarthy’s committed to growing his client’s businesses. 35 years’ experience business planning and sales in corporates, and Coaching/ Physical Training in the military have given John unique skills to support business owners. His approach is energetic, empowering and fun.
“I was in the commercial world earning good money doing a lot of business development a lot of sales so I kind of thought, genuinely believed that I was very commercial minded. But I think starting up running your own business is very very different. You have got this thing called cash flow and this thing called nobody is going to pay me if I don’t go and work and all this kind of stuff. The commercial mindset was a bit of a shift for me whilst I was very good at some elements. I found that just tough having to be far more commercially focused on doing things that bring profit in”…[Listen for More]
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Gadhadar Reddy is working towards a dream of making space accessible to everyone by creating the cocoon that will protect us from the harsh ravages of space. He has started by creating the ideal material for space structures; Carbon Nanotubes. He is a Chevening Fellow, an INK Fellow, an Alumnus of Singularity University, IISC 35 under 35 in space 2018.
“to be bold, to go out and do things and to be very focused and disciplined about what they are creating not to waver from their goals”…[Listen for More]
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Asian American entrepreneur Maesa Koeber is the founder of a unique cosmetics line Gorjue and expo of all things cute The Cutie Con. This business pioneer graduated from Arizona State University with a doctorate degree in nursing and worked in the field of oncology for over 13 years. She cared for and treated many patients with cancer, lead clinical trials at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and published two papers as first and third author. She eventually transformed her love for art, beauty, and fashion into her businesses and utilized her learned humility, leadership, research, and business knowledge as leverage to strategically build growth within her companies. Although her educational background is unassociated with her current entrepreneurial journey, she remains living proof that unconventional methods to success are possible.
1297: Makeup Inspired by Food and Travel with Maesa Koeber Founder and Owner of Gorge International Inc
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Alison Edgar is the Managing Director of Sales Coaching Solutions but better known as The Entrepreneur's Godmother. She has been twice voted one of the UK's top 10 business advisers, working with No 10 Downing to advise on small business matters and has been invited to tea with the Queen with the work she does for UK Enterprise. Her clients include Thomas Cook, Discovery Channel and The Apprentice and Dragon's Den winners. Regularly featured on BBC TV, Radio and national press, she is the go to person for sales advice.
“if you are never going to do it. So again what’s the worst that can happen as long as you follow the tips that I have discussed. When you are on your deathbed hopefully that’s not for a long time but are you going to look back and think I wish I had. And I think that the top tip. If anything happened to me tomorrow I would never look back and go I wish I had because I have done everything I wanted to do”…[Listen for More]
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Peter Bronstein is an Ivy League graduate and was a practicing attorney for over 28 years before founding Bizness Growth, which he created to protect small businesses and provide an all-in-one service to maximize their profit and success.
“you are going to go through struggles, is not going to be a clear straight arrow that you’re going to make it. So, one, don’t give up, two, make sure you have the resources to pursue it because that’s part of giving up. Many times, people give up because they don’t have the financial resources. Make sure you have got in place what you need, the people surrounding you are a good resource, good network of people, money, time and a position to do it. But at the end of the day just do it. It’s not Nike who say just do it you have just got to take chance no matter what your circumstances, you might not have any money, you may not have any time, you may not have anything but if you have got the will and you just pursue it sometimes it just takes off and you are very surprised, and that’s part of being an entrepreneur. An entrepreneur is taking risks”…[Listen for More]
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David Avrin, CSP has become one of the most popular speakers on customer experience in the world today. In recent years, David has presented for enthusiastic organizations and audiences in 22 countries on 6 continents. A former CEO group leader and an in-demand speaker for Vistage International, the world’s leading CEO member organization, David Avrin has had over 4,000 one-on-one conversations with company leaders regarding their value proposition and competitive advantages. David is the author of the newly released book, Why Customers Leave (And How to Win Them Back).
“be careful who you listen to. People are very free with advice. But it is easy to give advice if you don’t have a stake in the outcome. It’s astonishing to me how many people tell somebody who has a story where they have overcome something, ‘oh my god you should be a motivational speaker’and of course this is coming from somebody who isn’t a motivational speaker, has no idea what it takes, all the people who say ‘follow your passion and you will never work a day in your life’ that is such complete crap. I think passion is probably one of the leading sources of business failure because people think if you really are passionate, if you really love what you do the rest will fall into place, it is so not true, and passion is fine but nobody cares if you have passion that may be what drives you. I think the best advice recognise that the business is a business, if you like what you are doing all the better. We heard advice for years there was this old adage that said ‘if you build a better mousetrap the world will beat a path to your door’ and it’s ridiculous, just by being good that’s enough, right at the end of the day it’s about quality, no at the end of the dates about hard work, at the beginning of the dates about quality, it better be good. The best advice is you will never work harder in your life and ‘there is no elevator to success you have got to take the stairs’and success is reserved for those… My colleague Rory Vedan talks about this that, you want to show up after success be willing to do the things that other people aren’t”…[Listen for More]
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Francisco Castro is Founder and Managing Partner of AnalytIQ.io, a financial planning and business analytics firm. He is a business strategist and fractional CFO who likes to work with small businesses specializing in SaaS and professional services. He founded AnalytIQ to support businesses that need analytics, payroll, bookkeeping or CFO services. He enjoys helping guide clients through coaching calls in order to improve their business.
“this is a marathon, this isn’t a sprint. And so success early could be one of your worst things that could happen to. I think because it’s such a long haul a lot of times I see people starting and like oh we’ve got our clients and we are making this much money, whatever. And then all of a sudden the bottom drops because they’ve gotten too much success too early and they didn’t understand how to really manage their business very well. And so the thing to think about is that this is a long haul, you are going to have ups you are going to have downs and you have got to try and stay in the middle. And if you feel like you can’t stay balanced enough then come back to the middle and it’s going to be a very difficult grind for you”…[Listen for More]
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Alon Muroch is an Israeli entrepreneur, that has been developing code from an early age. He began working for many different startups over the past decade, taking many different roles. In 2014, he read the Satoshi white-paper which inspired him to explore and get deeply involved in the world of blockchain and crypto technology. He was a code contributor to Bitcoin, Ethereum, developed his own multi-sig P2P wallet, and later on co-founded Blox.io 2017, where he serves as the company’s chief executive officer. Alon continues to be passionate about the ways decentralized finance is transforming and opening up the traditional financial industry in a way never before imagined.
“just start. There is nothing like getting real feedback from people about what you are doing. So just starting out, trying to build something you are passionate about and hopefully that will coincide with other people’s passion and needs”…[Listen for More]
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John Ruhlin is the world’s leading authority in maximizing customer loyalty through radical generosity. He is the founder and author of Giftology and has been featured in Fox News, Forbes, Fast Company, Inc and New York Times. While becoming the #1 performer out of 1.5 million sales reps for one of the world’s most recognizable brands, John developed a system of using generosity to gain access to elite clients and generate thousands of referrals. He and his firm now help automate this process for individuals and organizations like UBS, Raymond James, DR Horton, Keller Williams, the Chicago Cubs, and Caesar’s Palace. John and the Giftology team can help any individual turn their clients into their own personal sales force to drive exponential growth.
“get in other groups. If there is a cost to it it’s often times worth it if it’s the right group, if the core values are there. But go dive in and be around other people. It’s the old quote of “Charlie tremendous Jones you become the books you read and the people you spend time with and I really believe that to be true for all groups but specifically entrepreneurs”…[Listen for More]
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As the founder and CEO of Nectar Consulting, Inc., Michele Molitor works with executives and entrepreneurs bringing over 25 years of experience, intuitive insights and strategic business savvy to your success. Her unique Rapid Rewiring TM approach is a culmination of years of study in the realms of emotional intelligence, neuroscience, organizational psychology and Rapid Transformational Therapy, to help catalyze shifts in your thinking, and eliminate mental/emotional blocks and rapidly rewire your brain for greater confidence and success. Enhancing your capacity as a leader, to build high performing teams and exponentially increase bottom line results.
“get clear on what you want to create. Create your plan based on your values and then stay focused on the goal and keep moving forward even when it gets difficult, even when it gets uncomfortable key going because the world needs your brilliance, your genius, your talents that you have to offer”…[Listen for More]
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RC Peck, CFP sits at the intersection of money and human behavior. For over 20 years he’s helped people hear what their money is trying to tell them. His struggle with dyslexia, watching his parents’ life savings get embezzled, and his background in Neuro- Linguistic Programing (NLP), taught him to question the obvious. He now uses his ability to see what others can’t see which brings clarity and insight to a world that is often described as confusing and overwhelming. His message is clear. Listen to your money. It’s trying to tell you how to get the life you want.
“put 90% of your attention on selling… Sell, sell, sell. Get into selling conversations, call your friends… Figure out that sales conversation and that voice to voice sales conversation which then can help with your marketing”…[Listen for More]
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Monte Wyatt, award winning Business Coach As one of the top coaches in ActionCOACH Business Coaching, Monte Wyatt brings over twenty years of remarkable leadership, business and personal development experience to executives and business owners.
“we have to be congruent. What I mean by congruent is we have to say what say we are going to do. So, if you are going to build something you are going to follow through, you are going to do an activity that you promised someone else, you have to be congruent. You want others to do what they say; you have to do what you say. So that do say ratio has to be high.”…[Listen for More]
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Clint Arthur is a Celebrity Entrepreneur and the # 1 Bestselling Author of “What They Teach You at The Wharton Business School,” as well as “Speaking Game: 7-Figure Speaker Secrets Revealed,” and Celebrity Entrepreneurship. He and his work inspired the feature documentary “Celebrity Entrepreneur,” an Official Selection in 10+ film festivals and competitions. Clint transforms Experts into Celebrities in the eyes of Customers & Prospects using his “Mathematical Formula for Impact, Influence, Income, and Celebrity Expert Authority Personal Brand”
“if I could go back in time and tell my 20 year old self anything I would say the most important thing you can do for your career… And let’s face it everybody… You are in the business of selling you. And your number one job, your number one smartest most important thing you can be doing with your time is becoming somebody super special in the eyes of your customers and prospects which is the world. These days the whole world is your customers and prospects”…[Listen for More]
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Joyce Dales is the founder of Buzzagogo and the maker of Cold Bee Gone, a homeopathic, Manuka Honey based remedy that you swab in your nose to fight cold, flu, allergies and to protect the nasal biome. Joyce is a mom to two beautiful girls through the gift of international adoption. She and her husband Jeffrey run their company while homeschooling, as they travel the country in their 1972 Airstream. Cold Bee Gone is now sold nationwide.
“To just do it don’t second guess yourself just do it. I guess I sound like Nike but it’s exactly how I feel… I think if you’ve got a great product now is the time to do that because it seems as though that is coming back into fashion that the little companies who have great little ideas… You know someone who makes a chowder or something… You stand just as good a chance as anybody if you get it out there and believe in your product. You could wind up on the shelves of every grocery store in the United States”…[Listen for More]
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Brian Sloan attended law school but after graduating he chose a different path: he built an online and offline sex toy empire from the comfort of his favorite cafe. His strategy of creating viral online contests and crowdfunding campaigns lead to his products appearing on tv and on thousands of news websites in dozens of languages, including an 8 page profile in Playboy magazine. After raising almost a million dollars through crowdfunding, his invention, the Autoblow, sits on the shelves of thousands of adult retail stores worldwide.
“my best advice is never give advice. I never give advice to anyone. I only share experiences because advice is pretty worthless if it’s not exactly on the topic of the experience that I’ve actually had that’s related to the experience that another entrepreneur is looking for this kind of advice on. I would say to everyone else don’t give advice, get the word advice out of your mind and only share experiences with other people where you yourself had an experience”…[Listen for More]
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Cassie Hicks helps savvy entrepreneurs build a powerful online presence, so they become a magnet for their dream clients. Working with Cassie is like having an Energetic Marketing Coach, Business Strategist and Digital Marketing Mentor all rolled into one. Cassie's NUMBER ONE GOAL is to have people walk away from her talks with a realisation of the potential they have to grow their business, personal brand and bank account, using Social Media.
“work on yourself so that you can confidently market yourself. Because it doesn’t matter whether you work for a big company, whether you are your own brand, whether you work for a team, at the end of the day people work with people and how you project yourself in the world is what matters”…[Listen for More]
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Dan Abbate is one of the co-founders of 81-c, a company that's pioneering entrepreneurship as an asset class enabling anyone in the world to invest in businesses that would typically never be available to the public. Dan is an entrepreneur, thought leader, and investor with a career-long focus in business process automation through the use of advanced technology and organizational development and improvement.
“make sure that you want to be an entrepreneur. A lot of time I think that word today is being kind of thrown around kind of willy-nilly, and entrepreneur in my mind is a little bit may be more detailed than the way it’s used a lot of times. A lot of times I think people use entrepreneur for people who are wanting to provide a service like a solopreneur as they say like a giger essentially, someone who wants to freelance or whatever because that’s what they want to do, which is totally cool. In my mind there’s a very hard line between that activity and entrepreneurship where you are building a structure and you are building processes and you are building a team and you are taking on risk and all the sorts of things. I would say for people to be clear on which one of those they really want to be, not that one is better than the other. But be very clear on it”…[Listen for More]
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Ike Kavas is the founder and CEO, with 20 years of document capture, document management, workflow and systems engineer experience. His focus is to guide, innovate and expand the company’s mission of making meaning out of unstructured content. Ike holds a patent on supervised machine learning for document classification and extraction.
“The idea is to affect people more and more, that’s the bottom line for entrepreneurs having a company that grows. On a growing company be prepared to give up the control of everything that you do today. As the company grows you will have the specialists that can do the job better than you can just need to give way to them. When it comes to financing there is a million ways to be successful. I did it with bootstrapping for seven years. And some entrepreneurs think that raising money is the only thing and then they give up. Don’t give up there is millions of ways to do it, it is your job to find those.”
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Robert Farrington is a millennial money expert and founder of The College Investor. He started this website in college and has grown it to over 3 million visitors per month.
“get out there and network. Collaboration is always going to win over competition. And you might not want to collaborate somebody you think is in your industry or a competitor but other people in your industry, the other competitors might already be collaborating and you could be the odd man out. So don’t view people in your industry, in your niche, in your topic as competition”…[Listen for More]
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Eefke Bodt is owner of Tummo coaching. Tummo Coaching is an online Trainings and Coaching Academy to reach your full potential. Eefke help you with your Personal, Spiritual and Business growth. To become the best version of yourself in Business and Personal live.
“dig in to your role models. How did they do it. Take a business coach, don’t do things alone, if you struggle don’t do things alone. If you don’t have the money you will make the money. But if you struggle alone don’t do it, ask the right people and you will grow”…[Listen for More]
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After 27 years in government marketing, Lou Anne Brossman founded Virtual Marketing in 2008 and Government Marketing University in 2015. She is a sought-out speaker on Government Marketing Best Practices. Lou Anne has been recipient of numerous government awards and was named a “2017 Trending 40 Federal Entrepreneurs and Innovators.
“if you have an idea with what you know is a pain point or a need in the market that you’re targeting then go for it. But you can’t go in blindly if you don’t have the answers to those two things. Are you answering a pain point and are you a need in the market that you are targeting? Those are very important… Listen to your prospects, listen to your potential customers. Also, as you are growing in your career and as you are thinking starting a new business never burn a bridge and always treat everybody with the same respect, the same is courtesy which I have talked about already… Because let me tell you when you have your own business you are going to have to work with them and call back some favours and have everybody on board with really helping to publicise and be your cheer leaders. So that is my best advice, know your audience, know their pain points and never burn bridges ”…[Listen for More]
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Connie Chi is a serial entrepreneur, author, and Ted X speaker. She is the founder of The Chi Group an award-winning marketing and branding agency humanizing lifestyle brands and also the co-founder of Cutie Con, an expo featuring all things cute fashion, tech, media, books, film, beauty and more.
“have the courage to live outside of the box because it is outside the box that magic happens. If you are so worried about as an entrepreneur oh I have to say the right things, I have to wear the right clothes, I have to do the right things you are going to be for ever defined by someone else’s rules. As an entrepreneur you want to define the rules and live life on your terms. So get out of the box, get out of the box, have the courage to do that”…[Listen for More]
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Patrick McKenna is the Founder and CEO of Strike Social, a global technology-enabled digital advertising company. Mr. McKenna has more than 30 years of experience in business development and technology consulting for major corporations. He co-founded and sold telecommunications company WCI in 1996. He was recruited by Microsoft as part of a 50 person team to develop the internet audio and video industry. Patrick has spent his career mentoring and investing in startup companies and in 2013 founded Strike Social, which was named the No. 17 fastest-growing private company in the U.S. for 2017 by Inc. Magazine. Strike Social develops AI-powered software and services for digital advertisers across industry verticals with over half of the Fortune 500 benefiting from its solutions including brands like Beat, Xbox, Honda, Mattel, Lionsgate, and large financial institutions.
“you are going to work. Nothing is easy you are going to be working and it’s going to be 18 to 20 hours a day and that’s not going to start. The good news is, is that once you are trained to work that hard when you work an 8 to 12-hour day you kind of feel like you had half day. So there is an upshot you will get used to it but you are going to work, so be prepared for that one”…[Listen for More]
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As one of the founders of Acorn Finance Paul Thompson has been dedicated to providing the smaller businesses of the UK access to the very best funding options, normally only accessible by larger businesses. Paul has spent 5 years as a board member of the NACFB, has featured on BBC Inside Out and Acorn Finance have been awarded 6 best UK broker awards since 2013.
“look after the finances, don’t leave things to chance, allow time to do things but accept that it’s not always an option. So ideally you are always looking as far forward as possible with your expansion plans, with recruitment, anything like that so that you can work it into your cash flow. And if you know that you are not going to be able to work it into cash flow make a plan early on and speak to somebody independent so that you can get the very best deal. If that is not an option because of either an opportunity that pops up that you need to take advantage of or an emergency that pops up and you have got to look after… you have got to deal with an unexpected tax bill or machinery breaking down… then have your ducks in order. So have your accounts up-to-date, make sure there is somebody tasked with keeping monthly figures available so that if you go to a finance provider you have got all the information that they are going to ask for ready at the outset ”…[Listen for More]
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Mary Tindall is an award-winning conversion copywriter, content strategist, leadership visibility consultant and PR professional. She works with clients across the U.S., from startups to Fortune 500 companies, creating strategic and compelling messaging to grow their brands.
“be confident in your value. And not only to be confident in your value but to make sure that you are delivering real value. I think that when you figure out what problem your customers are trying to solve, and this sounds so basic but I think this is where a lot of people get tripped up, find out what problem you’re solving for them which may not even be what you think it is, talk to them, talk to the people you are trying to serve and figure out what is on their minds and figure out what you can offer that no one else’s offering that you can offer better. And then deliver that to them and then understand the value that you are delivering an communicate that to them in the most effective way”…[Listen for More]
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Ed Crain is president and CEO of Kingstar Direct, a performance-driven video production company, and Kingstar Media, a digital brand advertising/marketing agency. He has specialized for more than 30 years in entrepreneurial product launches and brand building, as well as in strategic media campaigns that drive ROI across multiple platforms.
“Don’t give up, you are going to fail, you are not going to get an account or there’s going to be scary weeks maybe months, you might lose everything. What is everything? If you start and you do fail you can go and get a job. So for me it is contained the fear when you are starting a business. You have to be so committed, it’s not a hobby, it’s your life. Don’t go into business unless you are prepared to give hundred and ten percent and you are prepared to make sacrifices and you are prepared to have those around you that love you all work with you make sacrifices to because they understand or they get to understand enough of what you need to do to be successful ”…[Listen for More]
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Rick Snyder, a business coach, writer, speaker, and consultant, has launched several businesses and is an expert in mentoring, training, and teaching others how to utilize the process of bringing intuition into an effective business plan and company culture. He is CEO of Invisible Edge™ and author of “Decisive Intuition.”
“keep listening to that deeper voice inside you and to also make sure you have some mentors and trusted advisers that are in your life that you can really go to as a sounding board especially when times get tough or you doubt yourself. It’s so important to have those influences in your life that you can go to that you trust that keep you on track to what’s most important”…[Listen for More]
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Kris Boesch is the CEO of Choose People, a company that transforms company cultures, increases employee happiness and boosts the bottom-line. She is also the author of Culture Works: How to Create Happiness in the Workplace. Kris has been featured as a workplace culture expert in Inc., Entrepreneur and Forbes.
“to not hide in creativity… being on the skinny branches actually sharing what is already there… Really check yourself. If you have an opportunity in your business that you know you are not leveraging because you know it makes you a little nervous or a little uncomfortable like that’s actually where there is to go to work”…[Listen for More]
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Ron Coury is a well-known name to longtime members of the Southern Nevada business community. A former U.S. Marine, Coury has worked as a casino dealer, real estate agent, founder of a limousine service and partner in bars, restaurants, major graphics and glass companies, and automobile dealerships.
“remember to words: mental fortitude. Possessed the determination to persevere in the face of adversity. Believe in the project you have undertaken, don’t let failure be an option. So that mental fortitude that empowers you to not take defeat in stride but rather to resist it, find a way through it or around it. And demonstrate some tenacity to achieve the ultimate goal you drained of”…[Listen for More]
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Bill Wooditch is the author of "Fail More, Embrace, Learn, and Adapt to Failure As a Way to Success" and the founder and CEO of Wooditch Enterprises (a subsidiary of The Wooditch Group, a risk-management and corporate insurance firm with annual sales of $100 million). He works with Fortune 500 companies like AIG, Old Republic, Zurich, and Bank of America to improve their sales and leadership. Wooditch’s keynotes include the National Sales Conference for MetaBank and the National Annual Meeting for Boy Scouts of America. He appeared regularly on Steve Harvey’s “Act like a Success” show and has also appeared on CNBC, Fox, and CBS. He has written for Inc., New York Daily News, and the American Management Association.
“believe in yourself, never ever waver in yourself. Grow your confidence, people will perceive and feel your confidence before they ever wait around to learn of your competence. Confidence confidence confidence. And it comes from being prepared and knowing yourself ”…[Listen for More]
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Dr Jacqui Taylor is an international web scientist, one of the 100 most powerful UK entrepreneurs, one of the Top Ten global Internet of Things innovators and an independent IoT industry analyst. I’m sharing my proven success plan with 1 million entrepreneurs to create the Empathy Economy for the IoT.
“find your why. Because all the things that we do as an entrepreneur we have just got to know why we would do them. The journey itself is the point… obviously we are pushing to get to a destination. But finding your why is the key. And the reason for that is the how, how am I going to get there, how I going to do it you will discover that because we have already talked about what problem are you solving. You know what problem you’re solving, find out why you would do the entrepreneur journey to solve that problem. Because as you share your passion the how you achieve that that will unfold as we all grow into ourselves as entrepreneurs, into ourselves as solving those problems” …[Listen for More]
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Warren Cass is best-selling author and an international speaker on the topics of influence, communication, leadership and soft skills. He is particularly fascinated about how the world has changed, and how this change impacts the way we interact with each other.
“focus on where your passion lies and really then think about how partnerships might be the thing that help you grow your… so who are the potential people to collaborate with? Who are the people who already have the attention of your audience whether that industry associations, publications, existing influences speaking? Who are the people that you are to going collaborate with to fast track engagement with your audience”…[Listen for More]
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Matthew Ruddle has worked with some huge brand over the years, creating a name for himself as one of the go to people for all things digital. Using his experiences he helps his clients build their customer journey, helping them win more business but more importantly, do more business with existing clients.
“My best advice to other entrepreneurs is just to keep going and keep moving forward. Because of the fact that you will have your ups and downs, you will have your moments where you think what the hell am I doing this for and maybe I should just pack it all in but you have got to remember what you are doing, what your end goal is and you have just got to keep that perseverance… You are not going to fail if you put everything into it. And if your passion, your drive aligned with your end goal then you are always going to be a success. So just keep moving forward”…[Listen for More]
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Sarah Bramall is a qualified coach and speaker working with mums returning to work or making a career change on confidence, resilience and work/life balance. She works with clients 1:1; runs a group programme: Your Best Life and runs training and workshops. Sarah is passionate about helping other women improve take care of themselves and their dreams so that they can take better care of others.
“if you have a mission or if you sense that you have any kind of calling don’t be afraid to pursue it, listen to your intuition… If you don’t know what you want start taking action anyway because often we don’t get a big lightbulb moment but actually when we start doing things and trying new things the path becomes clear to us”…[Listen for More]
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Loretta Breuning is an entrepreneur and author of Habits of a Happy Brain. Her work has been featured on Forbes, NPR, Fox, the Wall Street Journal, NBC, Psychology Today, Cosmopolitan, Inc, Men’s Health, Fast Company, Dr. Oz and many others.
“focus on short run goals, break your goals into small chunks and don’t be a follower”…[Listen for More]
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Rachael Taplin is a well-known businesswoman and entrepreneur; and dedicates her time as The Media Matchmaker, training and helping entrepreneurs to be inspired to use PR and secure publicity for themselves whilst also connecting them direct to the UK media and journalists.
“just follow your heart, just be true to yourself. I’ve made mistakes in business that I wish I hadn’t of done things. And sometimes we do it because we are chasing the penny or the pound and it never works out. I think always do things with a good heart. Under the quote that I’ve got ‘nothing happens to me it happens because of me’ I have got build something you are proud of. And I think if you are working hard every day and you are proud of what you’ve done and how you are helping people that’s the best place to be”…[Listen for More]
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Josh Cohen is the CEO and founder of Junkluggers. He founded Junkluggers out of his mom's Dodge Durango 14 years ago and has grown the company into one of the largest junk removal franchises in the country. For Josh, it's about much more than just hauling junk away. He has a greater mission guiding everything they do. Their B.H.A.G. is to ensure no junk collected by Junkluggers enters a landfill by 2025. They are completing the process now to convert their corporation into a b-corp meaning that while they do strive for profits, they're also driven by and held accountable to bettering the world.
“my best advice to other entrepreneurs is to believe in yourself and to invest in yourself… Ultimately you want to grow a successful and larger business you can’t stay in your comfort zone, you constantly need to be changing and evolving and trying new things or otherwise you are just going to continue to get what you have always got”…[Listen for More]
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Tim Borys inspires people and organizations to honour themselves and contribute their best to the world. As a former elite athlete, New York Yankees draft pick, national-level coach, author, professional speaker, CEO of FRESH! Wellness Group, and proud father, Tim practices his 4 Pillars of Performance Philosophy every day!
“business is much harder than most people initially think but the challenges you are going to face as a business owner are much more simple to solve than they are going to feel like the are in the moment. So I would say you are stronger, more capable, more resilient than you think just get out there and do what you love, do it well and get paid to do it”…[Listen for More]
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Christy Wilson Delk is a business professor at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, as well as a contributing franchise industry writer. With over 15 years of successful franchise ownership, Christy uses her cumulative business and franchise experience, as well as her new book, Adventures in Franchise Ownership, to consult, lead workshops and speaking engagements to teach others how to implement their own 4 Pillars approach to motivate and lead them to higher performance and success.
“the most important thing is don’t be afraid of change… but embrace it and even go after it. Freshen up your storefront, freshen up your logo, your mission. I say freshen up, not everything is a refresh but continually look at your business and say okay what can I do different – your clients will notice, your customers will notice. Maybe it’s an additional service, maybe you are going to combine services. But pay attention to the trends that are the socio-trends that are out there”…[Listen for More]
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Ed Eichhorn is an experienced and successful senior executive in the development of medical products and services. He earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering and an MBA in Industrial Management. He began his career more than 40 years ago as a medical device product development engineer. During his long career He has been the Director of Research and Development for a kidney dialysis company; He helped to found and sell an innovative successful mobile medical testing business; Has been a senior executive for a large chain of medical imaging centers with responsibility for sales, marketing and strategic planning. In 2008 he established the Medilink Consulting Group LLC where he has advised medical societies and commercial clients on marketing and strategic planning projects. In 2019 he formEd Eichhorn & Hutchinson LLP a partnership with Dr. Michael Hutchinson to promote the book they co-authored, entitled Healing American Healthcare a Plan to Provide Quality Care for All While Saving $! Trillion a Year Ed has a long standing interest in serving his community. He served on his local school board for 12 years and as a member of the board of trustees at his alma mater, Stevens Institute of Technology for 3 years.
“if you are not passionate about what you would like to do as an entrepreneur you shouldn’t do it. But if you are passionate about it you need to move forward and take the risk to be an entrepreneur because it’s something that will help you to drive to success if success is possible in the idea that you are passionate about”…[Listen for More]
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Ted Baker is a Husband, Father, and the CEO/Cofounder of QALO Inc. Qalo is a lifestyle company based in Southern California that he and his business partner KC Holiday launched in 2013, after his wife asked if he was "ever going to wear a wedding ring?!” QALO was recently awarded the 151 spot on the Inc 500 list. Education includes a BS in economics from George Mason University, followed by an MBA in Financial Systems Analysis, and International Business from Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles. A former Actor and restauranteur- Ted loves anything Gluten free! Ted is proud to be affiliated with and sits on the board of a number of philanthropies and considers himself a consciencepreneur.
“check your ego, be patient, revel in the anarchy, be ready to, you can’t be comfortable, don’t allow complacency”… It’s always going to change. The advice I will give you today would be different advice tomorrow because the circumstances and the parameters are going to change [Listen for More]
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Marcus Damas is an American Entrepreneur, retired professional basketball player, and devoted husband and father based in New York City. Before playing in Sweden’s professional basketball league for the Solna Vikings, Marcus played Small Forward for the Towson Tigers, Towson University’s NCAA Division 1 team in the state of Maryland, where he is on the top 20 all time scoring list. Following his basketball career, Marcus returned to New York City to pursue a career in creative leadership as the Founder and CEO of Fueled by Culture. Fueled by Culture is a burgeoning creative marketing agency that specializes in connecting and empowering brands with influencers through innovative content and experiential event programming. FBC clients and partners include Avion, Lyft, Hooch, and Postmates to name a few. Marcus Damas is also a key note speaker at marketing conferences around the world.
“you are the source of everything that you want… If you want something you are the source to it”…[Listen for More]
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Sarah Foster is an experienced Leadership coach specialising in Banishing Burnout for High Achievers in Midlife. Long ago a librarian her background is over 20 years in the fast-paced adrenaline fueled world of IT. Her super power is listening for the missing. She is animal mad and musically inclined.
“pay attention to how you feel. It’s so easy to get caught up in logic and rationality and numbers and formal data. But how you feel is how you are living your life so pay attention to how you feel emotionally and physically and be prepared to respond to what you notice”…[Listen for More]
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Alex Bates is an angel investor and a Member of Peter Diamandis’s Abundance 360 Network. He’s experienced in anything from leading DARPA funded research in neural networks, to applying analytics for the world’s largest data warehouses at Teradata, to creating Mtell, a machine learning company acquired by Aspentech (NASDAQ: AZPN)
“one would be just to not give up on your vision to early. You hear a lot about fail fast, fail forward but one other perspective to keep in mind is that most start-ups go through low points, and if when you hit the first low point you fail fast, fail forward you are actually going to miss the success. Some of the really successful people like Steve jobs went through various low points and then came back and ultimately got to major outcomes. So one will be not to give up two quickly and to have that perseverance to push through”…[Listen for More]
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Whitney Vosburgh is co-founder of WORK THE FUTURE! TODAY, a social venture offering vision, leadership and solutions for maximizing personal, organizational, and societal potential, and co-founder of Brand New Purpose, a brand transformation consultancy that creates purpose-built, values-driven opportunities. His expertise has been featured in four books, including a bestseller by Dan Pink.
“look inside, all the answers are there”…[Listen for More]
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Anna Parker-Naples is a Success Coach, Speaker and host of Inspiring Success Podcast. Anna helps people gain the confidence to be more visible and go after the recognition and financial success, after her experiences with mindset led her from being disabled and depressed to the red carpets in Hollywood.
“Just do it. Don’t sit on those big dreams, go after them. If you recognise that you are pulling yourself back for some reason work with someone like myself who can help you absolutely skyrocket your success. Because you are the only person who is in charge of how successful you can be as an entrepreneur. So knowing that why wouldn’t you deal with the stuff that hold you back?”…[Listen for More]
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Sophie Bennett is an author, former national equestrian champion, grand prix dressage rider, ski instructor and now a professional speaker. She has founded, grown and sold 2 companies and how helps leaders and teams embrace winning thinking, lift their game and perform beyond their wildest expectations.
“Get good at selling because nothing happens without it… Whatever you choose to do be so good they can’t ignore you”…[Listen for More]
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Michael Diettrich-Chastain is the founder and CEO of Arc Integrated, an Organizational Consulting and Professional Coaching firm. Michael is an author, coach, trainer and speaker. His writing has been featured on Time, Money, Entreprenuer and The Washington Post. His upcoming book, CHANGES
“clearly identify the intersection that exists or crossroads – what are you really good at? What do you have experience in? What are you passionate about? As well as, what keeps you driven? What keeps you motivated? Find that intersection and then either develop a business model around it or if you don’t know what a business model could be getting help to help you develop that model. Because one of the things that I have seen is that people might think that they have this intersection between passion and purpose and experience and strength but they don’t understand how to make a business around it. The reality is there are plenty of very savvy business strategists out there that giving them an idea could result in a really great business model. I encourage people to be looking for that mentorship and resource.”…[Listen for More]
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Peter Lowe draws on his experience of Premier League football to help businesses to create and sustain a culture of success. He proves that there are startling similarities between the pitch and the boardroom. Pete’s track record includes more than 13 years in a senior role at Manchester City Football Club, where he was responsible for helping to develop an unrivalled talent pipeline that created 39 first team footballers and 25 full international players. His strategy for success is simple: “just be better than the rest” Pete believes that the high-performance world of professional sport brings significant parallels with life that can provide real lessons that we can all benefit from. As a professional speaker and thought leader on the global circuit, Pete draws on his experience of the high performance environment of Premier League football to help businesses to create and sustain a culture of success. He proves that there are startling similarities between the pitch and the boardroom. Pete’s track record includes more than 13 years in a senior role at Manchester City Football Club, where he was responsible for helping to develop an unrivalled talent pipeline that created 39 first team footballers and 25 full international players. The academies s trophy cabinet was testament to this success, with 13 European tournament wins, an U15 Championship World Cup, six Divisional Premier League Championships and the FA Youth Cup. Understanding how people tick and how to help them realise their potential was instrumental to his career at MCFC. He claims that knowing each character in the training room lies at the heart of extraordinary team performance. Pete is adamant that there are no shortcuts to sustained success. His powerful insights delivered in a ‘say it as it is’ manner captivate audiences and prove that ‘tales from the touchline’ translate to other arenas, with compelling results. He maintains that ‘excellence’ is a nebulous destination and continuous improvement is the Holy Grail of sustained high performance. A man who speaks from the heart using real life insights, Pete believes that culture must support strategy and leaders create leaders, not followers.
“it is unbelievably hard, it’s incredibly challenging, there will be moments of the most profound self-doubts, never, never, never give up because it’s too easy. Accept the challenge and just keep working so hard that degree of hard work absolutely engrains a belief that you can get there. You can get there, you can get there… You have to believe in yourself that it’s going to come right and it’s going to happen, that you get a breakthrough moment, an elevation moment. An opportunity to elevate yourself off your seat. Only a foot by the way but that’s a 1% marginal gain. Accept the marginal gain, seek the marginal gain, the 1% that makes you better on a Tuesday than you were on a Monday ”…[Listen for More]
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Todays guest worked around the world as a club DJ for 12 years before returning to the UK as a wedding DJ. The next 15 years he raised his fee 15 times what it had been. He will give tips to do the same for your clients. Please welcome Tony Winyard.
“never stop learning… you need to apply the learning. Because too often we go to seminars, to workshops and so on and are taking this great information and then we don’t do anything with it. There is a quote by Epictetus ’learning that doesn’t lead to action is useless’. So it’s really about when you hear a great speaker or you attend a great workshop you have got to apply that knowledge”…[Listen for More]
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Kirsten Bunch is the creator of The Women's Changemaker Mentorship, a one of a kind program that propels successful women to create next acts that have both passion and purpose. Her work has been featured in Forbes, O, The Oprah Magazine and Entrepreneur Magazine. Kirsten would love to share with your audience her ideas to create an army of mid-career changemakers who are using their experience, ideas, and networks to address some of today's most pressing social, economic and environmental challenges.
“you are never going to have the right answer, you are never going to have all the answers and there’s never going to be a right time, it’s like having kids. Just go. If you have an idea or even if you don’t have an idea but if something is pulling you to go and try to make a business happen or a new career happen or anything like that just go for it”…[Listen for More]
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In 2008, Alicia Grande started Grande Cosmetics with a single product, GrandeLASH-MD, and a vision that every woman should feel glamourous every day. Today, she's expanded the product line and we now carry over 40 products that not only help you to have longer, more luscious and youthful looking lashes - but also plumper looking lips, bolder brows, & fuller looking hair! Providing dual functioning ‘cosmetics with benefits’ is what Grande is all about. My humble beginnings started at the kitchen table and our shipping department was in my garage! Today, I’m proud to say that we have grown into a complete beauty brand, with a corporate headquarters and separate shipping facility, guaranteeing our customers only the finest products available. I have dedicated myself to providing women with products that empower them, helping them to enhance their own natural beauty!
“do something that is in your lane that makes sense to you and where it’s authentic and you are really passionate about it. Because if you are selling something or making something is completely out of the realm of what you represent as a person it’s not going to really make sense to the world. And I think that’s why I have also been successful because I make products that I am really passionate about, that I want for myself as well. And I put 110% in, all in”…[Listen for More]
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Fares khalidi has worked in corporate finance for over 15 years in FP&A, sourcing, and Six Sigma. He has built analyses systems and tools to give senior management greater insight to relevant KPIs. Over the years, small costs saved can equal big dollars for a corporation and Fares has saved companies millions by making them visible and controllable. Fares founded nXus after observing the arbitrary method that a meeting destination was chosen. He realized, once again, there was an opportunity where money could be saved by increasing transparency and creating a platform that allowed companies to research and see their costs to make data driven decisions.
“when you are ready to start presenting to people, your product and your idea, your vision, your business plan, make sure that you know it inside and out because you don’t have that confidence in what you are doing nobody else will guaranteed”…[Listen for More]
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-CEO & Founder of the Public Speakers Association & High Achieving Women’s Club -Globally Sought-After Speaker -Host of Tonya Hofmann’s Share Your Message TV Show & the Giggle, Weep and Wham Show -Best Selling Author of 7 International Books -Winner of multiple national and international Industry, Organization and Association awards -Cover of 5 Magazines with supporting article
“reach out and connect with the people that may scare you a little bit… I invite people that I was like oh my gosh I get to have this person there. Do that to yourself and oh my gosh you will so appreciate it”…[Listen for More]
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For 25 years, Susi Hately has been combining her B.Sc Kinesiology and yoga to help burnt out executives and entrepreneurs get back to their game, regain clarity of mind, get better rest, and to finally feel like themselves again. You’ll enjoy her down to earth, candid approach to getting well again
“the process is one that can move quickly, that it can move slowly, that it can be chaotic, that it can be really calm. And to not get attached to any one of those states. Things can be going really well and it doesn’t mean it will go really well for ever. I remember a concept that I learned from Dan Sullivan who is an executive coach from Toronto, he called something when you get into overwhelm as a ‘ceiling of complexity’. And so, things can be going along really, really well and then you just get overloaded, lots of clients and maybe there is things that go wrong and things just start going a little bit chaotic. And a lot of people when they are starting out may say well this is just not worth it or businesses hard or they make it mean also saw things. And really what needs to happen at that point is to simplify and just to re-clarify and then move through the ceiling of complexity as opposed to avoiding it, gets you down or having to fight it. So, to not get attached to anyone state that you are in and to recognise that it is all part of the journey, it’s all part of the process. And when you are clear on where you are going it makes the sometimes rocky road or sometimes rollercoasters experience a lot smoother and perhaps a bit more fun”…[Listen for More]
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Indra Cidambi, M.D., Medical Director, Center for Network Therapy, is recognized as a leading expert and pioneer in the field of Addiction Medicine. Under her leadership, the Center for Network Therapy started New Jersey’s first state licensed Ambulatory (Outpatient) Detoxification program for all substances nearly three years ago. Dr. Cidambi is Board Certified in General Psychiatry and double Board Certified in Addiction Medicine (ABAM, ABPN). Dr. Cidambi is the Vice President of the New Jersey Society of Addiction Medicine. She is fluent in five languages, including Russian.
“entrepreneurship is not easy. If you are following your heart you will find a way. Perseverance is probably the most important attribute to possess.”…[Listen for More]
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Scott Cramton: He is the founder of The Murder Mystery Company - the largest theatrical company in the country with employing over 1,800 of people. In 2018, they performed at 6,316 shows, which we estimate to have reached over 600,000 guests with our immersive theatrical murder mystery style.
“if you are not doing it yet you should be. And I don’t care hold you are, if you’re 15 years old and you want to be doing something you need to start now. Time is your worst enemy. That’s I think the thing to think about, time is your worst enemy… You don’t have all of the time in the world, nobody has all the time in world so start now and assume you are massively behind”…[Listen for More]
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Rosemarie Barnes is a Professional Speaker and Presentation Trainer, founder of Confident Stages Executive Development, and international best-selling author. Whether from stage or page, Rosemarie champions others to strive for excellence in personal, professional, and leadership roles through respectful and clear communication, through team leadership strategies, and by cultivating increasing confidence in all areas of our lives.
“learn to speak, learn to market, learn to represent yourself and your business in accordance with your values. And if you don’t know what your values our find out, there are a million ways to do that… And then re-examine those values, they change over time. Every five years reassess your values and make sure that your company and your personal values match. Otherwise there is a dichotomy, it will ring as false and the very important element of trust will die before it’s even born”…[Listen for More]
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Laura Sandefer is an author and the co-founder of Acton Academy, a school whose learner-driven model is spreading across the globe with over 130 locations in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Guatemala, Canada, Malaysia and more, and in 2019 is celebrating 10 years of letting children take learning into their owns hands. Acton Academy bases their model of learning on the Hero's Journey: a story pattern common in ancient myths and modern day adventures in which a hero goes on an adventure, wins a victory and comes home transformed. Children at Acton Academy know why they are being challenged to learn -- they are on their own Hero’s Journey to find their passion in life. Sandefer went on her own Hero’s Journey in starting Acton Academy, which she chronicles in her book Courage to Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down (Acton Press, 2017). She became a reluctant entrepreneur, growing Acton Academy so other parents can start their own learner-driven communities. Sandefer has a bachelor of arts and masters of education degrees from Vanderbilt University. She currently lives in Austin, Texas with her husband, children and three dogs.
“have a morning routine that feeds your mind and your body and soul. It took me years to figure out that I need to get up an hour before everybody else in my family. I need to have a solid hour in the dark before the sunrises to get centred, to get less stressed, to become fuelled… It transformed everything about my work life”…[Listen for More]
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Ann Robbins is a solo-preneur who has dedicated her second career to helping her clients with love and relationships. After 20 years in the corporate world, Ann has reinvented herself several times - always with a focus on learning, growing, exploring new avenues to help others lead whole fulfilling lives. Most recently she added an essential oils business to her coaching practice and now offers health, wellness and lifestyle coaching to her clients.
“I think there is a lot that should be done prior to launch. And to me and is the most important thing, you have to listen to the entrepreneurial voice in your head but you have to do it in a planfull way. So if you haven’t started your business yet don’t just quit your job and then begin planning. Do all of that stuff ahead of time to try to avoid the anxiety and overwhelm. Once you have launched or you are already in business my biggest piece of advice is never forget why you started in the first place. You open your business for a reason. So when the going gets tough and it will, there will be times when it gets tuff ask yourself not just why did you start your business but what is the why behind the why ”…[Listen for More]
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As a self-proclaimed “professional eater,” cookie and ice cream enthusiast, Gus Shamieh embodies CREAM’s motto of “Cookies Rule Everything Around Me.” Inspired by memories of his mother's warm homemade chocolate chip cookies with ice cream, Shamieh and his father founded CREAM in 2010 to share their fond experiences with others.
“if you are hesitant to jump into something make sure it’s something you are passionate about, because passion drives everything. If you are passionate about it then it can lead to success. It doesn’t have to be your idea, your business, your entrepreneurial spirit doesn’t have to be based in based on something to related, it doesn’t have to be the next space X of the next Tesla it can be something incredibly simple. And I encourage you to think simple because simple things often lead to greatest outcomes”…[Listen for More]
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Kenda Macdonald is a behavioural marketing automation specialist. Founder of Automation Ninjas, with a background in forensic psychology, she combines buyer psychology and marketing for spectacular results for her clients. She helps businesses plan and automate customer journeys. Everything that she does is about customer lifetime value.
“making sure that you have a support network, making sure that you have a group of people that you surround yourself with that are on the same journey as you. I know that there is a lot of advice about surrounding yourself with people who are better than you are because you are the average of all the people that you are surrounded with but there is something very lonely about that and there is something about that that if you aren’t a confident person keeps you from doing the things that you want to do. So if you can surround yourself with a good community of people and are on the same journey is you are you will be able to support one another through that journey”…[Listen for More]
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Judy Robinett is the author of “Crack the Funding Code: How Investors Think and What They Need to Hear to Fund Your Startup” to be released by HarperCollins in February, 2019. Her first book“How to Be a Power Connector was #1 of The Top Ten Business Books of 2014 by Time.com.
“don’t give up… I often see it’s not the smartest all the people that have the best degrees from Harvard or Oxford that are a success it’s the people who just put 1 foot in front of the other and keep going. But they learn. So investors, particularly angels want to work with people that are coachable, not arrogant, not know it all is but people who want to learn”…[Listen for More]
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“Money Goddess” Morgana Rae is a ten-time international #1 best selling author with over 23 years as a pioneer in personal development. She is widely regarded to be the world’s leading expert on Relationship with Money. Morgana guides entrepreneurs to make more money while putting Love, Lifestyle and Legacy first.
“my advice to entrepreneurs is my advice to human beings. If you are doing everything that you are supposed to be doing and you are applying yourself and you are doing all of those things people told you if you do this you will get this result and you are not getting your desired result and you have been trying and you have been giving it your best effort and your results don’t make sense to you. Like you are doing everything right and you aren’t getting the results you are supposed to be getting I would look inside and find where the result you desire is not safe. Find the unconscious reason why you are protecting yourself from what you desire because my experience you are”…[Listen for More]
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King’s Seafood Company Founder and CEO Sam King leads Southern California’s seafood industry through an impressive portfolio of over 20 restaurants in addition to a direct dock-to-dish distribution center supporting small fisheries and sustainability efforts.
“be prepared to work hard, be prepared to get knocked down, be prepared to get back up, and be prepared to be worthy of your followership. Be prepared people aren’t going to just do things because you told them so… Anybody who is going to start their own business”…[Listen for More]
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Kevin Kruse is the Founder and CEO of LEADx, offering the world’s first leadership trainer and coach powered by IBM Watson. Kevin is also a New York Times bestselling author of nine books including Great Leaders Have No Rules: Contrarian Leadership Principles to Transform Your Team and Business
“I used to always tell entrepreneurs the first thing you should do when you start company is write a book. I always started all my previous companies by writing a book. These days I say start a podcast first and then like a year later turn into a book”…[Listen for More]
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Rob Mathews is the Director of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise at Ball State University, USA. and co-author of the book: Entrepreneurship the Disney Way.
“number one know who you are, know what you’re good at and like to do, know what you are passionate about, follow what you are passionate about and do it using your talents and your skills, and do it in a way that you enjoy it. And fill your blind spots around you with people who can do things that you can’t do, you can’t do very well, that they do really well”…[Listen for More]
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Howard Ross is a lifelong social justice advocate and the founding partner of Cook Ross. He’s considered one of the world’s seminal thought leaders on identifying and addressing Unconscious Bias. Howard has delivered programs in 47 states and over 40 other countries to audiences including Fortune 500 companies and major institutions within healthcare, government and non-profit sectors. He authored the Washington Post best seller, Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives and ReInventing Diversity: Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose and Performance. His new book, Our Search for Belonging: How the Need for Connection Is Tearing Our Culture Apart (Berrett-Koehler, May 8, 2018) describes how to bridge the divide in our increasingly polarized society.
“don’t fall into the trap of having your success and particularly monetary success being the ultimate decider of your actions… When we stay mission focused, when we stay focused on the core of what we are trying to accomplish with our work and the passion that had as want to do that work to begin with and ultimately how well we do financially is a good measure how successful or effective we are doing that. That is very different than starting with the money because when you start with the money invariably make some mistakes based on decisions”…[Listen for More]
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Susan Young is an award-winning publicity strategist and founder of Get in Front Communications. Susan has online coaching for entrepreneurs who feel invisible on social media and want to increase their confidence, content, credibility and community. Susan is also one of the “Top 75 Badass Women on Twitter.”
“the tenacious even when you are tired”…[Listen for More]
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U.S. Memory Champion, Chester Santos - “The International Man of Memory” is the world’s leading memory skills expert. Chester has given presentations on memory skills in over 30 countries around the world. He’s confident that any can develop a powerful memory to help them become more successful in business.
“really to just not give. If you do encounter failures try to find a different solution to whatever it is you are trying to solve, whatever problem you are trying to solve, just keep trying new things until you do find something that works and no matter what just don’t give up just really keep pushing through the hard times. And as that quote from Michael Jordan illustrates to us really that is how you will succeed failing over and over again actually is going to help you to eventually succeed.” …[Listen for More]
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Craig Dowden, Ph.D., a certified positive psychology coach, is on a mission to share evidence-based leadership principles. An inspiring and thought-provoking executive coach and an award-winning keynote speaker, Dowden partners with clients from diverse industries and sectors, who benefit from his drive, passion and insight. Dowden combines the key learnings from these interviews, along with evidence-based principles from the fields of psychology, leadership and organizational excellence in his new book, Do Good to Lead Well: The Science and Practice of Positive Leadership (ForbesBooks, Feb. 8, 2019). The book outlines the return on investment of the six pillars of positive leadership - self-awareness, civility, humility, focus on the positive, meaning/purpose and empathy - and provides a practical and engaging roadmap showing how executives can effectively demonstrate these behaviors within their day to-day leadership practice, for their benefit, as well as for the benefit of the teams and organizations they lead. Dowden received his Doctorate in Psychology with a concentration in Business from Carleton University and completed his Bachelor of Science in psychology at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. He currently lives in Toronto.
“really think about your space. Like what makes you different? What differentiates you? And that isn’t qualifications or rarely is it from a qualifications experiential side, it’s what makes you different… What’s your culture? What’s your why? What is it about working with you that’s going to make people feel differently? And that is a challenging question and takes a lot of time… Recognising bad business for you as well as good business”…[Listen for More]
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Tom Hubler is President of Hubler for Business Families and the author of THE SOUL OF THE FAMILY BUSINESS: A Practical Guide to Family Business Success and a Loving Family. He is a founding member of the Family Firm Institute (FFI), a professional organization serving the needs of family-owned businesses.
“you can’t get a hit sitting in the dugout you have got to go to the plate. You have got to do something… You can’t sell a jug of juice sitting in the truck you have got to get out of the truck… You have got to get out, you got to go to the plate you have got to take your shot and if you don’t you are not going to be successful”…[Listen for More]
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Tristan White is the founder & CEO of The Physio Co, a unique healthcare business that ranked #1 on BRW’s list of Australia’s 50 Best Places to Work in 2014. The Physio Co has ranked as one of Australia’s 50 Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years (2009-2018), along with being named one of the Best Workplaces in Asia from 2015-2018. Tristan believes we spend such a huge part of our lives working that we have to find a way to enjoy it. In his book Culture is Everything: The Story and System of a Start-Up that Became Australia’s Best Place to Work, Tristan shares his 19-step system for building a great place to work. His approach is simple, centered around 4 basic pillars: Discover the Core, Document the Future, Execute Relentlessly, and Show More Love. Tristan loves to share what he’s learned along his entrepreneurial journey, and he does just that through his podcast, Thing Big, Act Small, as well as from the stage. A captivating keynote speaker, Tristan shares his insight with audiences at conferences and corporate events around the globe.
“Keep going. And why I say that is whether you have got an idea, whether you have started a business and you are a solo entrepreneur, whether you got a team, whether you are scaling up your business, wherever you are it’s hard, it’s tough, there are great days and there are really tough days. But my advice my suggestion is whatever you are doing key going because if you are in a tough spot slowing down and getting stuck in it is not going to be the answer, keep moving through it making progress in the world. The world needs more entrepreneurs, the world needs more businesses to do something great in the world and unless we keep going and we are not going to achieve that”…[Listen for More]
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Mike Perry, founder and roastmaster at Klatch Coffee, has been brewing up award-winning coffee for over 25 years. He started the small roastery out of pure passion for coffee and with a background in chemical engineering, he balances science and artistry in a roasting style he calls "Peak of Flavor."
“kick ass and have fun”…[Listen for More]
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Dr. Carolyn Coker Ross is an author, speaker, expert in using Integrative Medicine for the treatment of food and body image issues and addictions. She is board certified in Preventive Medicine and Addiction Medicine and is a graduate of Andrew Weil’s fellowship in Integrative Medicine. She consults with treatment centers around the US who want to include her unique integrative medicine approach to treat eating disorders and addictions. She is the author of three books; the latest is The Food Addiction Recovery Workbook. Dr. Ross is the CEO of The Anchor Program™, an online coaching program for food and body image issues.
“listen to your gut, listen to your gut, listen to your gut. That’s my number one best advice, follow your feeling, continue to follow your feeling even when it seems unlikely that it’s going to work… I think for many of us there is a lot of doubt and questioning that can go on especially when the circumstances around you don’t support that you are going to be successful.”…[Listen for More]
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Originally from Nashville, Josh Anderson graduated from Louisiana State University in International Trade and Finance. Josh served 8 years in the U.S. Army, including a 10-month stint in Bagram, Afghanistan, during Operation Enduring Freedom. These experiences, coupled with the education he received from Louisiana State, have molded him into a focused, disciplined, and strong willed individual. Josh Anderson can best be described as a man of high energy with a passion for Nashville real estate. He is a business savvy professional with a strong desire to cater to his clients' particular needs. Client satisfaction is paramount! Josh's market expertise coupled with his superior negotiating skills set him apart from the rest.
“just show up, that’s half the battle, just show up. You can’t get intimidated by people that are more successful. It’s just show up. The other piece that goes along with showing up is… A lot of what I do is basic things, I just do basic very consistently. So, it’s kind of consistent persistence. So, I just do the same thing every day and it’s worked for me for the last going on 13 years now. So, show up, stick your hand out shake hands with people, introduce yourself. Everybody puts their pants on the same way regardless of how successful or how much money they have. You put your pants on one leg it is time… Find a mentor, find and industry expert and pick their brain as much as possible. Don’t worry and invent the wheel… There is no reason to reinvent the wheel. You can put your own spin on things but don’t reinvent the entire wheel.”…[Listen for More]
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Ken Blackman is a former Apple software engineer turned full-time relationship coach who’s worked with hundreds of couples from San Francisco to Paris to Sydney and trained thousands of students in his workshops on intimacy and connection. His work has garnered mentions from Best Self Magazine to Business Insider to Cosmopolitan to Playboy. With nearly two decades of experience, Ken's powerful, unapologetic break from conventional relationship advice is shifting the global conversation around love and committed coupledom.
“believe in yourself and trust what it is that you want to bring to the world”…[Listen for More]
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Aidan Vuocolo is the founder of Stories Behind the Grind and works with small business owners to scale up the impact they are making in this world. Aidan has previously worked with some of the biggest firms in the world and draws upon this expertise and own personal experiences to deliver clarity and confidence.
“do an audit of the networks and communities you are part of and start surrounding yourself with people you would like to learn more from or be more like. Start a daily meditation practice, it doesn’t have to be long, five or 10 minutes is enough. And make it your mission to work on yourself because the more you work on yourself the better your business will be and the potential to become”…[Listen for More]
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Carrie Brummer is an artist and professional educator who taught for years around the world before creating Artist Strong, an online artists’ community and school. She now runs courses and an artists’ mastermind, as well as a thriving online Facebook community.
“embrace failure”…[Listen for More]
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Tori Thomas AND Laura Deleot built Circa Design on a set of principles: intentional design, focused processes, collaborative teamwork and creative curiosity. Within two years, they scaled to 90 clients with offices in two cities. They experienced growing pains, but they know how make good ideas grow. They are doing it themselves with Circa.
“know your audience, know yourself and be decisive in the decisions that you are making currently… What’s the worst thing that can happen…What is failing? The worst thing that could happen if we take that risk… Sometimes it helps I think to know if it’s a risk worth taking. Because if the worst thing could happen is something that we are not really willing to let happen then maybe it’s not. But most of the time it’s like the worst thing that could happen is you fail, we have to shut something down and then we go back to doing it the way were doing before, which helps me assess if it’s worth it. And I feel like most times I like oh worst thing that can happen is really kind of fine. It’s a good reality check and puts things into perspective”…[Listen for More]
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Anna Lundberg is the founder of One Step Outside, where she helps people around the world build businesses and create a lifestyle that allows them an unimagined sense of freedom, flexibility and fulfilment. Since leaving her corporate job in 2013, she’s now reimagining what success looks like and she’s passionate about inspiring and supporting others to do the same. She is the host of the Reimagining Success podcast and author of ‘Leaving the Corporate 9 to 5: Stories from people who’ve done it (and how you can too!)’.
“take a step back and ask what is success for you… It is easy to fall into other definitions… It’s easy to fall into the entrepreneurial hustle, oh I have got to get funding, I have got to make seven figures, I have got to do this that and the other. So I think take a step back, ask yourself why did you start or why do you want to start your own business, what is it going to bring you, what are your core values and priorities. And then once you’ve taken that one step back want you to take one step forward. So dreaming really big those incredible things you’ve always wanted to do that seem out of reach but would be incredible and then start small by taking that that one little step”…[Listen for More]
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Sofia Fenichell is a self-confessed lover of words. She is a former technology analyst turned serial entrepreneur. As a senior account manager at DDB Needham, she has worked on General Mills and PepsiCo. Sofia was a highly regarded technology analyst working for Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and UBS, and voted the number one buyside analyst across all sectors by Institutional Investor. After retiring from her career in finance to raise her children, she became a serial technology entrepreneur launching video apps Rockpack and WonderPL that were heavily featured by Apple. Sofia is currently CEO and founder of Mrs Wordsmith, a UK startup transforming how children learn new words. ‘The Storyteller’s Illustrated Dictionary’ is an Amazon bestseller and the company recently raised $11m (€9.7m) from investors to expand into the US and China, with plans to create a digital component and cover different languages.
“think hard about what you are going to do and why and to make sure you love it even if it fails because there is no guarantee of success. It is always a longer journey than you think it is going to be so you have to love it. If you love what you do that passion will carry you through. It doesn’t mean you are going to be right but it will keep you in the game”…[Listen for More]
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Jeanie Cockell & Joan McArthur-Blair, co-presidents of Cockell McArthur-Blair Consulting, specialize in collaboratively designing strategies with clients to surface their wisdom as individuals, groups and organizations in order for them to build positive futures and to respond effectively to change. They co-authored the book Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry.
“Do what you love because people noticed that you love it and as a consequence they will buy from you… Don’t be afraid… Be afraid and do it anyway… Step across that line even if it’s partially part-time… just to start stepping across the line to see if this is something that works for them because not everybody is an entrepreneur not everybody wants to run everything… I think to step across that boundary to see how it feels because you have to tell the world what you know, and that is not always easy for everybody. And tell the world why they should work with you, and that’s not always easy”…[Listen for More]
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Ken Rutsky is a renowned specialist in achieving and growing market leadership, and has advised a range of B2B companies. His new book is Launching to Leading: How B2B Market Leaders Create Flashmobs, Marshal Parades, and Ignite Movements.
“know that you are on a journey, whether the ups and downs, don’t get too high on the ups, don’t get me down on the Downs, and keep the faith”…[Listen for More]
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Lee Blue has spent the last 16 years running his web design agency and the last 10 deeply involved in the WordPress community. He developed the DoubleStack program to equip WordPress developers to rise above the saturated WordPress marketplace and succeed in today's economy.
“focus on the problem that you are solving and the outcome that you deliver and not the persona that you are trying to attract… Don’t just focus on the person, what is the problem that you are solving, what is the outcome that you are delivering, why is it going to be a fantastic thing for that person to connect with you. And focus on that I would say that is the critical thing”…[Listen for More]
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Claudette Rowley is the CEO of Cultural Brilliance, a cultural design and change management consultancy and the author of Cultural Brilliance: The DNA of Organizational Excellence (2019). Over the past twenty years, Claudette Rowley has consulted at Fortune 1000 companies, small businesses, academic institutions, and start-ups, helping them create proactive and innovative workplace cultures that deliver outstanding results.
“trust yourself, trust your gut. do your due diligence on everything and make sure that you have dotted your i’s and crossed your t’s so you are not kicking yourself later. And really look at ways to take strategic calculated risks that will drive the business forward”…[Listen for More]
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Russell Saks (CEO): Russell graduated from Indiana University with a major in Management and a minor in Entrepreneurship. Russell is the CEO and founder of Campus Protein and handles investor relations as well as our overall growth strategy. A big focal point for Russell is ensuring the company is aligned in both our long and short term strategy. Russell has always had an entrepreneurial spirit and started his first business in middle school.
“just have focus. I think that it is so easy to get caught up in the day-to-day, I think you need to think of your end goal, the big picture and constantly ask yourself if the things you are doing will positively affect that end goal and if they don’t think that those are things that need to be cut out. So I think focus is really the key”…[Listen for More]
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Mr. Robert E. Chisholm, FAIA, NCARB, graduated in 1973 from the University of Florida with a Bachelors in Architecture and in 1977 from the University of Miami with a Masters in Urban Design. His interest in architecture was founded during his childhood in Havana, Cuba amongst the colonial, baroque, neo-classical and art deco architecture. At the University of Florida, under the guidance of Harry Merritt, architecture became his passion in life. His actual career in architecture and urban planning began as a member at the Metro-Dade County Manager's Office in the Office of Community and Economic Development (OCED) during the 1970's. Mr. Chisholm was lead principal planner in charge of planning and implementation of capital improvement projects in several urban neighborhoods such as Edison Little River, Downtown Miami and South Beach. While at the OCED he developed and strengthened relationships with members of the Federal, State, County and City governments in planning, funding and implementation of projects; which would later prove invaluable in the growth of his career and future firm. In 1983, Mr. Chisholm was a finalist for the post of Assistant Secretary of Transportation for the United States Department of Transportation under President Ronald Reagan.
“I believe that any human being if they set their mind to something without selling out their value system or their integrity or their beliefs, they can just about achieve anything they want. But anything and everything that you undertake will require an incredible amount of effort and time and perseverance. You have to earn it, there is no easy road but you have to enjoy the trip and you have to balance everything and you have to think as I mentioned earlier that your wake does not overturn any of the adjacent boats because you have to think of others as you go up the ladder or down the ladder. And you have to be able to look everyone you encounter later on make sure that you look at them and they look you with both a smile on your faces because you have to set a good example all the way – going in and coming down… Enjoy life because you only get one shot. This is not a dress rehearsal”…[Listen for More]
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Psychologist Dr. Diana Kirschner appeared regularly on the Today Show and stars in an Amazon Prime TV show, Love in 90 Days: Finding Your Own True Love. Her smash bestseller, Love in 90 Days is just out in its 10th Anniversary edition. Dr. Diana’s work has been featured in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Through her books and acclaimed Love Mentor® Coaching team, Dr. Diana has helped tens of thousands all over the world to create greater self-love, empowerment and lasting passionate soulmate relationships.
“Figure out where you are going to find your bliss… Lead with that and figure out how to make the business work in such a way that you are going to optimise that”…[Listen for More]
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Patrick Bardsley is in charge of strategy and management in the running of Spectrum Designs Foundation. He holds a Masters in Special Education, with a concentration in Behavior Analysis through Long Island University. A natural leader and innovator, he spends most of his time securing future growth and relationships for the betterment and expansion of all of our social enterprises. Patrick brings an enormous skillset that spans many disciplines, as well as over 12 years of experience working with teens and young adults with autism. Outside of his work at Spectrum Designs, Patrick is a member of both the internationally renowned NationSwell Council and the invite-only Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC). Patrick also oversees the running of all Spectrum’s enterprises; Spectrum Bakes, Spectrum Suds and Spectrum Grows and serves on the board of the Nicholas Center and New York State Industries for the Disabled.
“The biggest obstacle is often yourself and the stories you tell yourself about why you can’t do something. So, I really, really believe that if you can figure out the story you are telling yourself and really question its validity you will do well…Wherever you can have your company and its actions leave the world in a better place than when it started… I believe the good you put out into the world comes back to you 10 times over”…[Listen for More]
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Ryan Boykin has over 15 years of experience as an entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and partner of Atlas Real Estate Group, which is a full-service realty group specializing in real estate investments, brokerage and property management. Ryan was also a Denver Business Journal 40 Under 40 honoree in 2017 and is a graduate of the University of Denver.
“somebody told me when I was getting going two pieces of advice which I have treasured always and I have repeated so many times. This gentleman said Ryan starting a new business that’s fantastic, I’m proud of you, is going to be a long journey but he said you have got three things. You have work, you have family and you have friends. Choose two, you are only going to have time for two. What is it going to be? Obviously, you choose work and family. That’s how I have had to choose where my time goes. And that was really illuminating for me in terms of how little time will be available and how big of a lift it is to start a business. Second piece of advice that put out there is same person told me in my commute home after a long day at work, let’s say I get 15 minutes in the car on the way home. He said you have got to treasure that 15 minutes, you have got to take that 15 minutes relieve your stress, get home to whatever home is for you and find your inner peace. Because that 15 minutes is your 15 minutes to recharge for your day really begins. And you walk in that door at your house because your wife and your family are all waiting there for dad to be present. And a lot of times of you don’t have that recharge and 15 minutes on that commute home you are not going to do what you need to do when your day really begins which is being that father and that husband ”…[Listen for More]
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Guy Dawson is the Managing Member of Classy Communications, a full service public relations and advertising. He is also the host of PR Connections: The Business Edition Radio Show and The Guy Dawson Show, a video streaming show.
“find someone who has been there and follow their advice… Find someone who’s maybe not necessarily in your industry but who has achieved success and listen to what they have to say be extremely teachable”…[Listen for More]
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With us today is Dan Zurcher. Dan is the owner of The American Striping Company and the author of "How I Stripe a Parking Lot, 24 Years, By Myself". He's here to tell us why he believes that parking lot striping is the all-time best, small business startup, ever.
“look around you, just keep your eyes and ears open… I know, I bet there is a skill that you have that might be related to what you do now that you could start small business in and who knows where that might go… You need some ideas seeing if there’s a maker’s space around you… If money is tight look for an industry that has a low start-up cost, no workshop is needed, no real inventory is needed, you can start part-time and it works in almost any economy” …[Listen for More]
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Brian Rowe began coding at age 13, developing Internet-based applications programming. He took that love for data to a position at Cummins that won him an award from CIO Magazine for “50 Best Intranets.” Later, he founded a software company that was purchased by iGoDigital, which eventually sold to Salesforce for $21M. Today, Rowe is using his life-long love for data and analytics to change the way students experience college with Perceivant, an education technology company that replaces traditional textbooks with cost-effective and interactive digital courseware.
“Try to go out and sell your solution before you start… You don’t have to lie about it, you don’t have to say it’s done. I think you can go out and find who you think your target customer is and say here’s my solution, here’s what I think it should look like, I want it to be like this. If I can offer it to you just like this with this much money would you be a customer for me? Would you sign up if I had it six months from now? Okay can you sign and LOI now. It’s just practice closing the deal even though there’s nothing that exists that you are talking about. And find out what’s it’s like to try to sell it, what feedback you get, can it be sold you are going to find nuggets of features or twists on how it should look and how it should work before you ever really hire anybody up to team together or raise money. You can get a lot sort of done in almost have hopefully with any luck a couple of beta customers that are going to be proponents of yours when you actually do get live”…[Listen for More]
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Gabriel Safar is CEO and co-founder of LeasePilot, the only company creating a scalable, digital future for commercial real estate leasing. LeasePilot accelerates the timeframe to close leases by pairing innovative technology with rigorous legal industry standards. Gabriel received a BA in Economics from Tufts University and a JD from Boston College Law School.
“always be willing to bet on yourself. I found there are lots of circumstances where people give you advice, lots of it makes sense, a lot of it doesn’t make sense, but at the end of the day you need to be able to figure out what are risks that are not in your control and what are risks that relate to your ability to perform for your ability to achieve results. And if you bet on yourself and then effectively make whatever it is happen that you want to have happen other people will be willing to follow and will be willing to bet on you as well”…[Listen for More]
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Marty Schultz is a mentor-speaker, angel fund investor, award-winning innovator and creator of some of the US’s fastest-growing software companies over his expansive career. A firm believer in sharing his knowledge with others, Marty mentors entrepreneurs and presents at startup and venture capital conferences on how to bootstrap and grow software startups He has founded several businesses including Blindfold Games, McGruff SafeGuard, co-founded eSped , founded Omtool, and also founded and ran a company that enabled hundreds of computer resellers to prosper by selling the new generation of microcomputers.
“constantly ask for feedback and never take it personally. Get used to being rejected and learn from being rejected. When you are doing some activity that is going to have a lot of rejection like cold calling set a goal of how many you want to do each day and stick with that… If you don’t like confrontation you need to do that over and over again until you basically don’t mind it. You will have confrontation, you will have rejection, get over it. And finally do what I did and take an improv class and start enjoy speaking in front of audiences”…[Listen for More]
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An award-winning writer and former journalist, Caroline Lambert is a writing collaborator, ghostwriter and book coach. Endlessly curious about life journeys, she helps people write their stories so they can create and share their legacy.
“keep taking imperfect action. Don’t wait until the right moment, don’t wait until things are perfect just keep taking imperfect action… Live with the discomfort. Yet it is going to feel a little bit uncomfortable knowing that you know you are not ready or that things are not completely lined up”…[Listen for More]
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Josh Segal is the founder and CEO of AdLoop, an ad-tech platform which allows brands to wield the power of programmatic digital advertising through the same technology employed by Fortune 500 companies. Using location behavior to create, target, and analyze audiences and provide deep customer insights.
“just stay persistent, nothing is going to be handed to you, and you kind of learn that the hard way. Money doesn’t grow on trees and nothing is going to be handed to you. So just be persistent and stay strong in your mind that what you are doing is something you believe in, and then work hard at it and it will lead to good things ”…[Listen for More]
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Brian Marcel is a pioneer of barcodes and the first to start joint ventures in the former Eastern Bloc after the fall of Communism. His book Raise the Bar Change the Game acts a primer to help budding entrepreneurs change the game as he did.
“Well all these things I have mentioned really. Self belief, being positive, eliminate naysayers, not to get stuck with finding original ideas, perseverance, all of those good things. And just start the business, try not to look for excuses not to do it because you will love it. Because if you are looking to start a business you obviously hate being managed by anybody or reporting to anybody. You are if free spirit, a loner so go and spread your wings, fulfil your dreams. And what difference does it make if you fail. You know the number of times I have failed… Just pick yourself up, start again. You are so young - go for it.” (4 Lines minimum – if less then need more quotes) …[Listen for More]
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Dan Hill, Ph.D., is the president of Sensory Logic, Inc. and an internationally recognized expert on the role of emotions in business, politics, and sports. His innovative market research firm pioneered the use of facial coding and has done work for over half of the world's top 100 B2C companies.
“work hard and be humble… The work hard is you have got to have some vision about the offer. And the humble thing goes back to your question earlier about changes going to come, how are you going to deal with it? Getting smug isn’t going to work, nobody buys smugness, they buy that you can help solve their problems. As my father said early on first of all never perjur yourself always be honest, the second thing is that your customers are going to tell you what business you are in – and they will, so listen. The more you talk in a business meeting the less well the business meeting is going”…[Listen for More]
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Brian Rhea is an entrepreneur who grew up watching his mom and dad grow their business from a desk in the kitchen, to the garage, to a new office building in his hometown. Brian has been building websites since 1994. He has used Photoshop 3.0 on a Macintosh Quadra 650 and wrote code in BBEdit for Netscape Navigator.The point is: He has been doing this for a while. He has had enough successes (executive member of an eight-figure acquisition) and made plenty of mistakes to have learned a thing or two about building successful businesses online. Knowing how to build something is easy compared to knowing what to build. The customer-centric (Jobs to Be Done) approach Brian uses will ensure you won’t waste time chasing bad ideas. With years of experience navigating the competing priorities of engineering, product, sales and customer support, he likes to help companies ship profitable software.
“build up savings to give you a margin for failure because you will fail along the way. Things are going to come up that you can’t control. Just go for it is really terrible advice and just increases the likelihood that you will have to give up on your dreams. So yeah be bold. Going into business yourself is already very very bold, you are already being brave. But be thoughtful and patient about it beforehand so that when you do make this leap you have actually more room to to be even more daring, more crazy, more risky”…[Listen for More]
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Leigh Ashton is the author of “iSell” a speaker, trainer and coach. She has been working with business owners and sales professionals for over 20 years to change the way they think about sales. Once people change their thinking on the inside, they develop unshakeable self-belief and confidence to achieve consist sales success.
“just do it, just decide what you want and then go for it and don’t let anything get in your way”…[Listen for More]
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Willie Degel is a serial entrepreneur, motivational speaker, founder & CEO of Uncle Jack’s and Jack’s Shack restaurants, and host of Restaurant Stakeout on The Food Network. Born on September 1, 1967 in Queens, NY, William Jack Degel demonstrated his entrepreneurial skills early on when he helped with family finances by operating multiple newspaper routes and other service ventures
“you have got to make everyone around you better, you have got surround yourself with good passionate people - hungry, eager, trustworthy. You have got to build a bond with them, you have got to create a family. They need to know that you are real, that you will go to war for them when they are on your team. You have got to get the most out of them, you have got to inspire them, you have got to pay them well, you have got to make them happy. So building your winning team is everything. Then as an entrepreneur being willing to take risk , willing to be different, willing to fail, having patience to let the brand grow and to get the customers to come in ”…[Listen for More]
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P. Brendon Lundberg, a previous chronic pain suffer, co-founded Radiant Pain Relief Centres, along with David Farley, MD, a Harvard-MIT trained physician, with a vision to build the safest, most consistently effective and appealing solution to the epidemic of chronic pain. Their story and vision for the future of pain management can be understood by reading their Amazon Bestselling book, Radiant Relief - A Case For A Better Solution To Chronic Pain. Inc. Magazine called the book, “A Manifesto” and “an epic example of how to create a movement”.
“get in action. There is never a perfect time, there is never a perfect amount of money or circumstance and there is never going to be anybody that believes in the way that you believe in it. So if you have in your heart or in your minds some idea do it, start it, put it in action. You might not have total clarity as to how it’s going to unfold or what is going to do what it can become but that’s okay. That clarity comes through the activity. I say just getting action, make it happen and you will be glad you did”…[Listen for More]
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Passionate philanthropist, speaker and entrepreneur, Deborah Harris is co-founder of the Grow CFO Co. - a company specialising in growing the financial capabilities of purpose driven businesses. A dedicated number nerd and mother of 5 with an enormous capacity to uplift others through her strategic thinking and quirky sense of humour…
“invest some time in thinking bigger, thinking what you could do that is going to push boundaries, that’s going to 10x your business and gives you the opportunity to look down from above on what your business is doing so that you can actually work out is this something that I’m proud to be part of? Is this something has a great product, a great culture, a great compensation package for my employees. Have I got a great commitment to do better in the world? And just invest that time for your own inspiration to see if that’s actually still ticking the box to work towards your vision ”…[Listen for More]
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Omar Khan is a CFA charterholder with 10 years of investing across real estate and commodities. He has arranged $3.7 billion in capital financing and M&A transactions, as well as syndicated large multi-million dollar deals across the US. He has also advised high net-worth individuals and entrepreneurs on real estate portfolio allocations. Omar is a Global citizen - lived in Dubai,Toronto, Calgary and Dallas
“take your income and divide it by the number of hours – that’s what you get. Anything that is below that finder where to either partner with somebody who can do it or find a way to give it to somebody else who can then do it. And nobody is ever going to do it 100% like you would but as long as you get to about 80, 85% that’s okay. You have got to let things go because now you can channel your energies and focus your attention on bigger items”…[Listen for More]
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Stacey Brown Randall is a three-time entrepreneur, author of Generating Business Referrals…Without Asking, and host of the Roadmap To Grow Your Business podcast. She received her Master’s in Organizational Communication and is married with three kids, 10-year-old son, 8-year-old daughter and she and her husband are raising their 11-year-old nephew.
“to understand fundamentally that if you think you can you can and if you think you can’t you can’t… And so I think that that mindset gets talked about so much from an entrepreneurs perspective because we think truly comes out into our actions. What we think becomes what we believe, and what we believe factors into how we act and how we behave and our attitude to things. And so if you want to do it you have got to have some belief. You can be scared, you can have some concerns, but if you want to do it you had better think that you can or you had at least better know that you are capable of figuring it out because there is no easy button in being an entrepreneur, and it is going to be hard, and it’s going to give you lots of joy and lots of freedom and lots of fun but it is going to come with his own mixed bag of a lot of stress and strain and you have to be willing to overcome the mindset that will hold you back, and the people that will hold you back when they don’t understand what you are doing. Because I would say there is nothing better in this world and being an entrepreneur”…[Listen for More]
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Andrei Mincov is the founder of Trademark Factory a company that helps file trademarks for client. They now have a team of 19 people. He is also a bestselling author of 5 books, an international speaker, and a visionary, Andrei is passionate about helping entrepreneurs Protect their ideas and cover their assets. Andrei has shared the stage with Robert Kiyosaki, Lisa Sasevich, Raymond Aaron, Jack Canfield and Kevin Harrington.
“Be legendary. It’s worth it. Really it boils down to if you call yourself an entrepreneur and you spend any amount of time, energy and money working in your business do it toward something that is actually going to matter. I think what you are doing with this interview is a great thing because it shows that unless you have a big idea, a big aspiration, a big vision it’s not really entrepreneurship its survival. There is nothing wrong with the survival stage but you have to understand what’s the overall goal. Because I know that when people start their businesses, they have this big dream and then the day-to-day operations very often forget the big overarching reason why and I think that’s probably the biggest mistake. Because at some point if you are staying small you should just quit and get a job because that that the end of the day is going to help you to avoid the frustrations of running a business that’s not producing. And the only way to overcome that is to know why you are doing it, that your struggles is the price you are paying for something bigger. Be legendary, it’s worth it.”…[Listen for More]
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Sophia Sunwoo is the founder of Ascent Strategy, a consulting firm that helps entrepreneurs move beyond DIY startup building and create a more grown-up, polished version of their startup that’s poised for success. Ascent helps entrepreneurs build startups that see 6-figure launch years, a 50% growth in sales within 3 months, and a business that feels easy and simple to build. Sophia is a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and has been recognized for her entrepreneurial endeavors in Forbes, ELLE Magazine, and on the TEDx stage. She co-founded and built her first company (a clothing company) at 19 years old and sold the company before her 23rd birthday. In 2011, Sophia co-founded Water Collective, a non-profit that has helped over 80,000 people in Cameroon and India fix and prevent broken water projects in their communities.
“stop DIY start-up building, stop wasting your time doing these small administrative tasks that basically just treading water for your business. Really be honest with yourself and think about how your time is being spent and if it’s being spent in the most optimal way. When you are seeing gaps such as all I spend this time to do social media, I spend this time to do emails et cetera et cetera, all these tasks that someone else can do figure out a way to give them to someone else. There is so many resources like I mentioned before where you can hire people internationally, remote workers, there is so many AI solutions, robot solutions that can help you really consolidate the time you spend on these little little tiny tasks ”…[Listen for More]
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Alex Keyan has been an ecommerce entrepreneur since 2001 and has started and grown several ecommerce brands to over seven figured per year in revenue. He specializes in launching and growing direct to consumer brands with a focus on always providing maximum value to the customer.
“I know it’s difficult but try as much as you can to actually have a work and life balance. I know there’s a lot of talk out there about we all have to hustle 24/7 but I’ve found that when I don’t take care of my body by exercising and resting it really reflects on my work eventually, maybe not right away”…[Listen for More]
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Marcel Perkins is an entrepreneur who grew up between 2 cultures, East Coast USA and Ecuador. He founded Latin Trails 15 years ago with the dream of sharing the beauty of Ecuador with his fellow americans. Since its inception Latin Trails has fulfilled a mission of creating jobs and engagin rural communities where authentic cultural expression is a treasure to be preserved.
“have a goal in mind because if you’re going to drive you have to know where you want to get or else you are going to end up nowhere”…[Listen for More]
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Dr Stephen Lewis practiced as a chiropractor with a heavy emphasis on nutrition. He's always believed health is multi-faceted, and he also believes it is easier to achieve business success when your physical and mental health is optimal. Stephen saw an opportunity to help people achieve their goals by restoring health to the highest levels possible. Stephen says 'It has certainly been a journey to mature into a functional nutrition practice exclusively but it is rewarding to have the clients that have created ongoing health through consistency and to hear of how that has positively impacted their business success.'
“sooner or later you have to live with the consequences of your doubt or the potential of your faith… Fill your mind with the good stuff and it seems like the world provides that. So go with the potential of your faith. If you want it just go and do it. You kind of have to have a statement of purpose and I think that purpose should be to uplift others. Whatever your businesses it can certainly be successful if you are uplifting others”…[Listen for More]
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Lisa Winston is a gifted vocalist, #1 international bestselling author, TV host and speaker. A life of extreme challenges, including losing her home to wildfire and breast cancer, were gifts that led to her message that life is always happening for you and that challenges show up to refine you.
“if your heart… And you can feel that. If your heart is really calling you to some kind of service in the world or a lot of people say I know I’m supposed to be on stages, whatever that is that tug then you need to listen to that and you need to say yes. My whole thing is about saying yes. Yes equals success. Saying yes to mistakes and failures and lull hitting and challenges and change and growth and taking responsibility for what you are creating - that’s a huge one. Taking responsibility for yourself, your behaviour, what you are creating, working on your inner growth because I believe we create from within to without and then taking action on it”…[Listen for More]
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Bo Burlingham is a contributor at Forbes magazine. Previously he worked at Inc. magazine for 33 years, first as executive editor, later as editor-at -large. His most recent book is Finish Big. He also wrote Small Giants and co-authored, with Jack Stack, The Great Game of Business and A Stake in the Outcome and with Norm Brodsky, Street Smarts.
“really strive to learn about and then implement the mechanisms that other companies have used to get the most and the best out of the people that work for them. Basically the best companies other ones that have everybody in that company thinking and trying to do the same thing and working toward the same goal. And then if you really want to build a successful company, no one build a successful company alone or a good company alone, it’s always done with other people. And the better those people are in the more that all of the members of the team are in fact working towards the same goal the more successful that company is going to be. And that’s an important thing to understand and always keep in mind”…[Listen for More]
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Chris Schultz CEO of Launch Pad - Chris Schultz is a seasoned expert in high growth startups and expansion. He’s an active angel investor, and has spent 15+ years bringing together the “doers” of the world -- startups that have raised hundreds of millions in capital and created 5,000+ jobs. He founded Launch Pad, a startup workspace and community for entrepreneurs, creatives and professionals in New Orleans in 2009, and over the past year he has guided the expansion to new markets in Newark, Memphis, and Nashville. Anne Driscoll, Co-founder, President & COO of Launch Pad - Anne Driscoll is a long-time Silicon Valley Exec and former Googler turned passionate startup advocate. Post Google, Anne took her expertise to the Valley’s high-growth startup scene focussing on championing emerging ecosystems and creating platforms to support small businesses like Ning, Dwolla and GoDaddy. In 2017 Anne took on the role of President and COO of Launch Pad to support the expansion and increase programming and services for Launch Pad members.
“as entrepreneurs I think it’s really important for you to be honest with yourself and identify what your strengths are and what your weaknesses are. And it’s okay to know that you aren’t going to be great at everything, that’s just not a possibility. So it’s really important I think for you to be successful, to know what areas of expertise you need to draw from other places. You need to be confident in the decisions that you make but you can find partners or mentors or resources or employees to help you fill in those blind spots that you may have in your business or in your own skill set”…[Listen for More]
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Laura Gisborne is a highly successful business expert. She’s structured and sold multiple businesses ranging from small boutique businesses to a multi-million dollar wine and real estate empire, The innovative business model of her company exemplifies that companies can be both profitable and purposeful. Through her community thousands of women and children are receiving regular contributions across 5 continents.
“learn very quickly how to get out of their own way because I find that making money is really the easy part of business once you are clear about your business model and who your ideal target is. What I find slows entrepreneurship down is the leadership component where leaders fail like they have to do things that are not really their jobs. They stay into much of a small mindset. So if you can learn to get out of your own way and surround yourself with an amazing team it accelerates success so much faster”…[Listen for More]
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Angela Carlson, ND has been a naturopathic doctor for 6 years. She uses natural medicine to help you get your health on track. She helps people with chronic stress, fatigue, women's health, men's health, Type 1 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, abdominal pain or discomfort and other disorders.
“Just knowing that any income that was going to be coming was going to be immediately due to some sort of result that I was responsible for creating. Not having a paycheck for the first time just kind of coming in that was really new to me and that took a little getting used to for sure. I think most entrepreneurs especially they are just starting out just like me have to really learn how to budget your time, there’s so many different things… I am learning how do I wear these different hats and how do I structure my time out during the week in a way where I am wearing all the hats in my business right now”…[Listen for More]
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Ben Walker is the founder and CEO of Transcription Outsourcing, LLC in Denver, Colorado, which provides transcription services to the legal, law enforcement, medical, financial, academic, and business industries. Ben has become known worldwide as an expert in helping companies grow by utilizing the services of freelancers and contracted employees. He makes regular podcast appearances and has been featured in major publications like Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Inc. Magazine.
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Harry Campbell is is the founder of TheRideshareGuy.com, a blog and podcast for rideshare drivers. Despite the ‘unique’ niche, he is getting ver 1 million page views a month across our websites and Youtube channel and has 75,000 e-mail subscribers.
“be open to lots of opportunities because I think especially when you are first getting started out if everything that you are doing has a calculated reason then you may not find kind of what you are looking for. The path to entrepreneurship, there aren’t many people who wake up and say oh I’m going to go and start a blog about Uber and Lift Driver because five years ago the industry didn’t even exist. So I think the ultimate goal for a lot of entrepreneurs is unknown and in order to get there you just have to try a lot of stuff and be open to a lot of opportunities…” …[Listen for More]
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Maxwell Cohen is the founder, CEO and president of Peel Away Labs, the innovative start-up company that developed Peelaways, the bedding industry’s first multilayered, disposable, waterproof fitted sheet designed for the home, industrial and healthcare markets. While attending the University of Arizona, Cohen observed students were not changing their bed sheets because stripping the bed, doing the laundry and remaking the bed were such a hassle. He also noticed his grandparents were struggling to change their own fitted sheet. Realizing this was a challenge for multiple life stages, including parents of toddlers, Cohen knew there had to be a better way. As a result, he created the patented solution, Peelaways, enabling consumers or health professionals to simply peel away the top layer to reveal a clean sheet below in seconds. Cohen’s entrepreneurial spirit and sheer determination led him to raise $1.3 million dollars in funding after three years of research and development resulting in a superior product. Cohen has appeared on ABC’s Shark Tank. Cohen studied Environmental and Water Resource Economics at the University of Arizona, where he graduated in 2013.
“keep on keeping on. And back to having a great equilibrium. Be able to focus your time and effort on four, five, six things… Nothing is going to go according to plan - that is my biggest piece of advice. When you become an expert in your industry you are going to learn more and more that might allow you to pivot into a better direction than your original plan and there is nothing wrong with going off of your original plan. A plan is a living thing, your budget is a living thing, your pitch deck is a living thing. Nothing is static in a business you have to make sure to be fast smart as quick as possible, get wise, learn from as many people as you can and surround yourself with the smartest intellectual people that you trust. But it doesn’t mean they are always right”…[Listen for More]
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Thom King always struggled with his weight before adopting a ketogenic lifestyle. In Guy Gone Keto he details how perseverance and a high-fat, low-carb diet enabled him to drop five waist sizes in a single year. His essential wellness program includes tips for reading and understanding food labels, supportive techniques to make you feel capable and empowered, as well as tasty recipes and easy-to-follow meal plans that will keep you fit and healthy for life. Thom King is the founder and CEO of Steviva Brands Inc., one of the largest importers, manufacturers, and distributors of natural sweeteners. A self-described “bio hacker,” he has made it his life’s work to study food science and use his knowledge to help people eat healthier, avoid harmful sugars, and maintain diet and exercise habits that defeat metabolic disease. His company, based in Portland, Oregon, derives its name from stevia, the South American plant extract that is calorie-free yet three hundred times sweeter than sugar, and does not contribute to the combination of metabolic diseases that Thom calls “diabesity.”
“create your vision, understand your outcome and never ever give up on it”…[Listen for More]
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Andrea Pass is the owner of Andrea Pass Public Relations. A 30+ year PR veteran, she has an expertise in national, regional and local media relations outreach for clients in such categories as consumer products, lifestyle, business, education, authors, food, non-profits and more. Her strength in relationships coupled with her knowledge of the ever-growing media landscape results in securing top tier, targeted media placements to increase brand awareness, reputation management and sales for established businesses and growing entrepreneurs alike.
“understand what you are good at and what you are not good at. Focus on what you excel at. Use your resources, stay in touch with people, build relationships and use those relationships to help grow your entrepreneurial venture”…[Listen for More]
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Josh Levent is a thinker, speaker, doer, and maker who solves problems to make the world better. He is a pitch coach to entrepreneurs, and a business designer to businesses looking to innovate. He is the host of the podcast Humans with Josh Levent and lives in Bern, Switzerland.
“don’t be afraid to think differently. There is plenty of competition to be like everybody else and there is basically no competition for people to be their unique self… Being yourself is not about staying the same it’s about evolving into who you are becoming. And it just means not imitating other people because that’s a tendency that we have to imitate successful people. There is no space for the next Richard Branson or the next Gary Vaynerchuk those spots have been taken and it’s better to do something out and to do something new”…[Listen for More]
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Pete Sena is the founder and CEO of Digital Surgeons; a global innovation and experience design company that accelerates business growth through experience design, creative marketing, and digital business model innovation. Pete has a sixth sense for predicting (and, in turn, preparing for) abrupt shifts in the digital climate. Pete’s been known to remix tried and true strategies with unconventional thinking, splicing together ideas from different worlds, cultures, and sectors to create a mashup that connects people on a human level. In fact, that’s how he created Digital Surgeons.
“find your one thing that others valuing you that you also value in yourself and strive to do that one thing as much as possible and you will be successful and happy and fulfilled in all of the things that you do”…[Listen for More]
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Christine Powers "amplifies the amplifiers." She is committed to supporting transformational leaders who are "on the front lines of humanity's consciousness," pulling us all forward into a transcendent world. Founder of the Philosophers Camp in New York’s Adirondack Mountains, she is also building a retreat and refuge center for leaders to come rejuvenate, create, and gather in micro-momentary community.
“team up be in a community don’t go it alone you can learn from each other, you can build each other. Don’t be afraid to find those other entrepreneurs who have an expansive mindset and aren’t afraid of you as competition and really work together. Work together as a consortium, work together and collaborate. We are all better together you can short-circuit a lot of mistakes. And when the times are tough you won’t be isolated and you will have people to reach out to. I think being part of a business community specifically geared towards entrepreneurial mindset is very important”…[Listen for More]
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Chezza Badaracco is a speaker and author of the 1 Element- Conversations with visionary entrepreneurs and thought leaders that share their secret for living an extraordinary life. She is the owner of Aesthetics By Chezza in Auburn, California offering full service skincare and permanent makeup services. Additionally, Chezza is licensed for paramedical tattooing helping those who have undergone a mastectomy for breast cancer. She is a cancer survivor and educates on the importance of not only caring for your skin, but being aware of the toxic chemicals that are in our personal care products we use daily.
“keep your head up, keep your confidence level up and just keep walking forward and don’t look back”…[Listen for More]
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David Levich is co-founder of Sun-Staches, a novelty eyewear company that creates fun glasses for all ages. David and his partners appeared on Season 6, episode 5 of Shark Tank where they landed a deal with Daymond John. Since then, the partnership has been flourishing and with the help of Daymond, Sun-Staches has secured major licensing deals with companies like Disney, Warner Brothers, and Marvel, Universal, Nintendo and many more, and their products can be found in tens of thousands of retail stores around the world.
1145: The Importance of Protecting Your Intellectual Property with David Levich Co-Founder and Partner of Sun Staches
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Howard Mann is a player-coach who helps entrepreneurs attract and win better clients. Author of Your Business Brickyard. Helping make business more fun to run.
“business is supposed to be fun to run. So stop take a breath ask yourself how you are really feeling about owning your business? How do you feel about the experience? Is the business everything you hoped it would be? And if it’s not don’t just shrug your shoulders and say I guess this is just what business is, it isn’t. Business can be rewarding , it can be fun, the path to getting there can be difficult but don’t give up on the fact that your business should be what you always hoped it should be. And be determined to fight through to get it there because once you get it there I think owning the business having provide kind of life that you want is just about as good as it gets”…[Listen for More]
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Born and raised in New York and French Culinary Institute-educated, Chef Peter Sherman is the creative force behind the restaurant BarBacon as the owner and the head chef. In BarBacon, Peter has capitalized on his intimate knowledge and his considerable talent with menu’s focused on the single craving of bacon that has proven both underserviced and underappreciated. Throughout his career Peter has worked for and under some of the best chefs in the world including Joel Robuchon L’Atelier, David Bouley’s Danube, April Bloomfield’s Breslin, Veritas and the Four Season’s Hotel.
“one surround yourself with smarter people than you and make sure that they are giving you constructive criticism not just being a yes-man. And secondly you need the support in your house, whoever that significant other is needs to be your constant cheerleader, needs to be partner in the truest sense of the word. And don’t be afraid to fail. And change is a competitive opportunity, it’s an opportunity like everything else on the planet. You want to challenge yourself to make sure you understand what you are capable of doing. In the toughest moments are always the moments that separate you from the rest of the pack. And you are going to face as dire moments as you can possibly think to overcome. The minute you overcome them you realise that you know separate yourself from other people who haven’t been able to do that. And don’t be afraid of the really really hard moments almost look for one… you are going to know exactly the character of the person that you hold, the amount of work ethic you think you actually have. All of it will be challenged and all of it will test you. You have got to be welcome to the idea that that’s going to happen and you have got to be ready for the challenge of overcoming”…[Listen for More]
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John Hawkins works with companies to develop high performance leadership teams that deliver extraordinary results. He helps companies attract, develop and retain incredible people increasing execution, effectiveness, and excellence! John, is known for his uncanny ability to stir up lasting change in a group, and for his casual yet powerful questions.
“focus focus focus. To many entrepreneurs spend too much time working in the business instead of on the business. They spend too much time doing all this nonsense that doesn’t really add value to the customer or to their business… I am really a big fan of doing one thing, ordinary thing and do it extraordinarily well… If every entrepreneur out there can learn to focus focus focus, tightly, intently, very purposely, very intentionally, and do one ordinary thing extraordinarily well they will be highly highly successful ”…[Listen for More]
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Marissa Costonis is the health change guru and Amazon best-selling author of Change Bites, 5 Change Management Strategies to Transform Your Health. Marissa is a Certified Health Coach by Institute for Integrative Nutrition and previously spent over a decade in change management consulting leading a variety of transformation initiatives around the world. When she developed severe neuropathy and several health problems began to pile up, Costonis was forced to completely change her diet. Overwhelmed and confused, she began to apply all the leading change models and frameworks to simplify her own health transformation with great success. The “5 Bites to Health” process was born. Today Costonis conducts individual and group coaching programs, workshops and enjoys guest-speaking engagements to share her unique approach and support others in their journey to health.
“When you help other people you are actually helping yourself…. The more I tried to help other people it just comes back to me tenfold… So no matter how busy you are and how crazy you are trying to get your own business off the ground sync up with other people that are in a similar state, it doesn’t even have to be in the same industry and doing the same thing, it could just be in a similar stages you or maybe stage a little behind or a stage ahead, and try to help them and you will be amazed how much comes back to you”…[Listen for More]
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Mario Nawfal started business at age 23, with no money and became a millionaire in 1 year, 10 figures in 2. Launched more businesses and expanded to Fintech consulting, reached 7 figures again in 6 months, also bootstrapped.
“the first one is learn from others. Learn from other people’s mistakes whether it’s a competitor or an incredibly successful business like Amazon and Mr Bezos. You could learn more from a competitor or another industry that is done really well than you can learn from a book. So learn from everything around you, whether it’s another entrepreneur in a coworking space that you work out of, or a competitor, or a business that is done well in other industries, podcast - they have got incredible value, listen to the right podcast. Because some of the interviews, some of those success stories you can hear in a podcast they still bring me a lot of value and I get a lot of ideas from them… getting knowledge and taking action would be my recommendation ”…[Listen for More]
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Sarah Taylor is 16 x World Bodybuilding Champion, a recognised nutrition expert, transformational weight loss coach and international speaker. A formerly obese 40 year old, Sarah lost 25kg without dieting, used the same techniques to keep the weight off as she beat depression, before getting into bodybuilding and becoming the best in the world at age 48. Sarah lives by her motto 'It's never too late, start today' and is now dedicated to inspiring people of all ages to take back control of their health
“Just do it. Just start. I think the number one regret people on their deathbed is that they didn’t try something that they wanted to. So just do it. My other advice is get a mentor, somebody who could guide you and support you through the journey, somebody who is been where you want to go and can help you along the way. You do need that support and like I say consistency, you have got to do something every single day.”
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Peter Frumenti is the CEO and Founder of Sales Team 6 and the creator of AuthenticEnrollment™️ a proven process to increase your sales authentically. He helps transformational leaders scale their high ticket programs by helping them sell more by building a proven sales system and growing a team to take their sales calls for them.
“Just do it. Take action, believing yourself and your own integrity. I think one of the biggest things that holds back is what if we fail, what if we make a mistake, what if I can’t get those results for the clients?... do it just take the action and have the integrity that no matter what you will make it right…. As long as you have that level of integrity that I will make it right, go out there, ship, get your service, get your expertise, get your product out into the marketplace, make the adjustments along the way, but don’t hesitate any more, it’s just take action.”…[Listen for More]
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Douglas Vermeeren’s search for success strategies took him into the offices of the founders and CEOS of such companies as Nike, Reebok, Fruit of the Loom, FedEx, American Airlines, UGG boots, Uber, KFC, McDonalds, Disney, United Airlines and Microsoft. As a result, ABC Television and FOX Business are referring to him as the modern-day Napoleon Hill. He is also the producer and director of three out of the top ten personal development movies ever filmed, the author of three books in the Guerrilla Marketing series and a regular featured expert on FOX, CNN, ABC, NBC, CTV and CBC and others. Currently, his program Personal Power Mastery is rated as number three in the world for the most powerful personal development seminars. And now his new book Personal Power Mastery will take its place on the list if international bestsellers.
“the biggest one was probably all internal in terms of mindset and scarcity thinking, lack of belief and lack confidence in myself. But you know the strangest thing, there’s two thoughts, one is a samurai saying that I came across early in my martial arts career that really made a difference. It says when we can defeat the enemy within the enemy without cannot harm us. And so once I started getting my interior thinking a little bit better other things started to come into place for me ”…[Listen for More]
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Chad Barr is an Internet marketing strategist with over 25 years of experience transforming businesses through technology innovation. Born and raised in Israel, Chad arrived in the United States at age 22, determined to capture the American dream. He founded his own technology company, CB Software Systems, in 1987, and quickly became a globally sought-after software developer, mentor, and strategist. Today, Chad’s work as president of the Chad Barr Group spans multiple continents, with clients in the UK, Italy, Germany, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and across the United States. Chad helps his clients leverage the web to dramatically transform their businesses and establish a powerful web presence. His firm, the Chad Barr Group, is recognized as one of the leading strategic Internet development organizations in the world. Chad devotes his time to writing, coaching, consulting, speaking, and leading the Chad Barr Group. A prolific writer about web, marketing, and business strategy, he has published hundreds of articles and several books, which teach how to leverage the web to build your brand and transform your business. When he is not working with his clients, Chad revels in his latest role as grandfather to three wonderful (and, of course, brilliant) grandchildren. A former professional guitarist, Chad especially enjoys playing guitar for his grandchildren, who think he is the coolest guitarist in the world.
“number one have complete confidence in your ability to bring something of value to your target audience. Whether it’s a product or it’s a service, whether it’s a combination of both. But number one advice would be got to be confident and you have got to have something to market. So it has to be something valuable. Number two, and I cannot rehash it enough become a great marketeer. And if not make sure that that you bring a great marketing company or a great marketing individual that can help you effectively market yourself. And then don’t just be silent. And the best way not to be silent is to publish your work, to write articles, to create pass like the one you are creating right now”…[Listen for More]
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Katia Pryce is the founder of DanceBody, a dance-inspired fitness experience with locations in New York City, Miami and The Hamptons and on their unique online streaming platform DanceBody@Home. A hybrid of dance cardio and toning, the classes draw everyone from A-listers to fitness newbies.
“find someone, who has done it better than you have, or in a place that you wish you could be, and connect with them. That’s a great piece of advice. Find someone else who has done it better, bigger and bolder than you have and see what you can gain from that person. It’s all about the experience.”…[Listen for More]
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Tony Banta is the brain behind Venture Greatly's newest transformational service, The Client Success System. Tony's mission is to help as many service providers as possible get truly life changing results for the clients...creating super fans...all in less time than they were spending before.
“never stop looking for the opportunity. I know that a lot of people say just do it or just take action and certainly that’s true, we all need to remind ourselves of that. Nothing good comes about taking action but I think that if we let go of ego and the things that we want to be true and we zoom out to look at the opportunity or even zoom in to look at the opportunity. Zoom out to look at the broader opportunity in the market that we may be missing… but also just zooming in, zooming into our clients, zooming into what is still frustrating for them, zooming into how are they struggling in their journey of working with us. We can find a lot of opportunity so that we can go deeper, we can create more value. And when we create more value we can either charge more or more money naturally flows to us… never stop hunting for value”…[Listen for More]
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Designer, home goods guru, and author Jennifer Adams went from making other people's beds as a housekeeping to making millions annually off her bedding and furnishings line thanks to partnerships with major retailers like Costco and One Kings Lane. Her new book Love Coming Home is one part home improvement and one part self improvement, exploring the limiting beliefs that keep people from making improvements to their home.
“Ask yourself the question you asked me, ‘if I knew I couldn’t fail what would I do.’ And then start the basis for your business with that in mind. And then breakdown what it is you need to accomplish to make that happen and put it into small chunks like steppingstones. And then use your data, there is a lot of data at our fingertips, to first and foremost say: Am I in the right industry? Am I in an industry that has potential for growth? And then, what can be your point of difference? And then hold onto that point of difference. And then just now that entrepreneurship is an up and down rollercoaster. And because you have the ups and downs that doesn’t mean you are in the wrong business, it just means you are in business. And everybody has lows that come with the highs. And just really when you are at your high that’s when your business is the most at risk because we tend to think everything is great and we are not really sharpening our pencil and looking underneath the covers. And when we are at a low sometimes, we don’t have the resources to grow but that’s where we are at a sharpest because we are looking at all the inefficiencies and we are fired up to grow the sales and things. So just now is a normal part of business, don’t get complacent at the highs when you are at the lows know that the upside will happen”…[Listen for More]
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Austin Netzley is an investor, entrepreneur and bestselling author. He is the Founder and CEO of 2X, a company specializing in helping 6 and 7-figure entrepreneurs more than double their business in just 90 days by focusing on creating a systematic, scalable business.
“Simplify. Set yourself up for success and figure out where the biggest results are going to come from and get really good at cutting out everything else. Be comfortable saying no and just get really focused on what matters. Your key to success as entrepreneurs is be able to cut everything out, focus, simplify, you are going to make your life way easier and your business way more successful”…[Listen for More]
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Mira Rutter, Co-founder of Rutter Coaching, is a Work-Life Balance Coach & Strategist, and Motivational Speaker committed to helping entrepreneurs create time for what matters to them most. She brings her 13-year experience of serving clients in Investment Banking and Wealth Management and couples it with her passion for leading a balanced, healthy and fulfilling life.
“it is threefold. One is, you’re in business for the long run, well I hope… so look after your health and well-being because this way you will be at your best for your business, for those that you love, and avoiding burnout which is something that many entrepreneurs tend to suffer from. Second is, spend quality time with the people that matter to you because you never know what’s around the corner. And the third part to my advice is create a strong supportive network around you right from the start…”…[Listen for More]
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Dean Lord has the restaurant biz in his blood. He started scooping ice cream when he was 16 years old before going on to a successful career in the IT and engineering field. When he retired, he went back to the restaurant business-- this time as an owner of one of the fastest growing bakery-cafes in the country...the Kolache Factory.
“love your customers and be involved because they respond to that” …[Listen for More]
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Mitchell Levy (pronounced Lee Vee) is The AHA Guy at AHAthat who empowers experts, thought leaders, and businesses to share their genius. His superpower is extracting the genius from your head in a two-hour interview so that his team can ghostwrite your book and make you an Amazon bestselling author. He is an accomplished Entrepreneur who has created twenty businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 800 books. Mitchell is a TEDx speaker and international bestselling author with sixty business books. He's provided strategic consulting to over one hundred companies, has advised over five hundred CEOs on critical business issues, and has been chairman of the board of a NASDAQ-listed company. In addition to these accomplishments, he’s been happily married for twenty-nine years and regularly spends four weeks annually in a European country with his family and friends.
“a) got to love what you do. b) make sure you could solve a problem that is repeatable over time. c) document that problem and figure out how to get other people to do it whether it’s a service firm or it’s a product that you need to create. Test drive, experiment, listen to the audience, listen to the market, leverage where you possibly can, make sure you grab at least one mentor and two mentees and have fun ”…[Listen for More]
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Kevin MacCauley is the CEO and founder of Upper Hand, the leader in cloud-based sports management software that help sports professionals escape the administrative vortex and focus more on training athletes. As a former Little League coach, Kevin’s impeccable leadership stems from his undeniable love for sports, coaching and technology, which he has leveraged to transform Upper Hand into an industry trailblazer. Its award-winning software has undergone tremendous growth as it continues to reinvent the sports business industry and grow athlete participation worldwide.
“doubt whom you will but never yourself when it gets tough because you have got to remind yourself why you started it to begin with. And always go back to that when times are challenging and when times are successful. Don’t forget that sometimes people have a hard time figuring out how to handle success and that can steer you wrong as well”…[Listen for More]
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Josh Long is a consultant who helps companies in the $1M to $10M range find and fix their biggest challenge to unlock growth that lasts. He's also the author of Bottleneck Breakthrough, which outlines his proven approach he does with clients.
“Simplify. A common pattern for most business owners is to complicated things, they are usually very intelligent and very interested in being stimulated by challenges and robust solutions and it ends up being super complicated. So I find more often than not number one thing I my clients is no to whatever they are asking… If you are under six figures you need to do two things and two things only. You need to figure out what your offer is and find where a lot of people are that you can make that offer to. You don’t need funnels, you don’t need and it pages, you don’t need CRM, you don’t need and also responder, you don’t need any of that stuff” …[Listen for More]
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Rob Grupe is the founder and owner of Twice Bitten CrossFit in Oklahoma City. Before owning a gym, Rob served a jail sentence of 7 years in prison. Nearly a decade of time spent in a jail cell would typically break a man, but for Rob, it was a wake up call to create a life built around service, and helping others.
“embrace failure that’s how you learn and grow. Seek out the people who have already done what you are trying to do successfully and then ask them how they did it. Learn from the best and model what they did”…[Listen for More]
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Stephen King graduated from the University of Denver with a dual degree in real estate and international business, going on to a career in real estate finance, brokerage, and mixed-use property development. Prior to launching imbrex, Stephen was Principal at King Interests, a full-service real estate firm based in Princeton, New Jersey. Stephen has launched several technology-related startups in the real estate space in his career and began participating in the blockchain community in 2013.
“Don’t wait and start today. So if you are an entrepreneur and you want to build something, you have an idea then stop today building somebody else’s dream and start building your own dream. And the only way to do that is to start to do something today and not put it off until tomorrow”…[Listen for More]
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Amy Coats is an Entrepreneur, Corporate Exit Strategist, CFO, and founder of Virtual COO Solutions & Two Week Notice Society. After 20 years in the corporate 9 to 5 world, she realized she was destined for something far more satisfying. But it wasn't enough for her to find her happy place in the world. She created Two Week Notice Society to empower women who feel the same way she did when she left the 9 to 5 grind and started her entrepreneurial journey. She is passionate about helping corporate women get their online businesses up and running, so they can leave their 9-5 and be the woman they dream of becoming! Her strategies contain the exact steps she followed to make it to the other side and love life all over again.
“Really create a business based around what you are passionate about. Passionate is something this loose word that we use but it’s really defining what is important to you and how you can create a business around that. Because otherwise I see people get frustrated because they just create another job for themselves. And so I think if you can really create a business around what is important to you, what you are passionate about it will really help you to show up and create that joy in your life”…[Listen for More]
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Matthew Luhn is a writer, story branding consultant, and keynote speaker with over 25 years’ experience at Pixar Animation Studios, with story credits including the Toy Story and Monsters, Inc. franchises, Finding Nemo, UP, Cars, and Ratatouille. Alongside his work in Hollywood, Luhn trains CEOs, marketing teams, directors, and professionals on how to craft stories for Fortune 500 companies, Academy Award-winning movies, and corporate brands grossing billions of dollars worldwide, advice he’s packed into his new book, The Best Story Wins: How to Leverage Hollywood Storytelling in Business and Beyond.
“don’t be clever but be honest, the vulnerable. This applies for you if you are a writer being that… Write what you know, write things that you are passionate about… and the same thing goes with any kind of business, for any entrepreneur, don’t be clever but create things, work on things, build things that you are sincerely passionate about. It’s going to be more honest and truthful. But it does mean that there is an element of vulnerability in there, it means really thinking about what you are passionate about in life, pursuing it even if you do not know you will be able to make a living from it yet. But I really think that the best creators, the best innovators that have lived are ones that have taken chances, that have pursued their passion and it’s worked for them”…[Listen for More]
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York, PA musician, Shane Speal is responsible for the modern resurgence of the cigar box guitar, a once forgotten instrument of American blues and roots music. Few artists are as committed to expanding the boundaries of such a primitive instrument as Speal does. "A Cigar Box Guitar is quirky and appears ‘broken’ from the start," says Speal. "They just don’t look like they should play any music. I love to see jaws hit the floor when I shove a socket on my finger and wail away." In addition to performing and composing on cigar box guitar, Speal has also opened the first permanent Cigar Box Guitar Museum within the walls of Speal's Tavern in New Alexandria, PA. He also has an ever-expanding lesson series on how to play cigar box guitar, found on Youtube, CigarBoxNation.com, CigarBoxGuitar.com and ShaneSpeal.com. His column, The DIY Musician has been read by thousands at GuitarWorld.com and showcases homemade instruments, players and techniques. Shane Speal & the Snakes latest album, Stay Primal features cigar box guitars, washtub bass, washboard, tin can microphones, and many other DIY instruments.
“Love people and hustle every morning. You know this isn’t about you is about your customer, this is about people around you so love the people around you and then hustle every damn morning, every morning you get up. Just get ready and go”…[Listen for More]
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Vin Clancy who just launched his book, Ace The Game: The 100 best growth hacks in the world right now” which is going to be the most important marketing and business book of 2018. Known for his cutting-edge growth hacks and genius business ideas he will provide actionable insight and honest feedback in honor of National Social Media Day. Vin was on social welfare in the U.K., living off less than $100 a week when he learned how to use the internet to make things go viral. His growth hacking book raised over $100,000 in pre-orders, which he supported with a 100-date speaking tour in ten countries around the world. Vin launched two websites that received over 20 million visitors, two rounds of funding, and got into the TechStars accelerator. He has spoken in over 40 different cities in ten different countries and has been featured in publications like Fortune, Buzzfeed, The Daily Telegraph, The New Statesman, Wired, Vice, Inc., and many more. Vin Clancy, internationally known Social Media Expert just launched a book called Ace The Game
“Do look into Nootropics. I have tried and done many many things with personal improvement and self-development and Aniracetam has really been really good for me in terms of focus and concentration and lifting my mood”…[Listen for More]
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Sean Lake is a former professional snowboarder turned Action Sports Marketing professional turned accidental entrepreneur. He’s turned tragedy into celebration following the loss of best friend and Navy SEAL Glen 'BUB' Doherty in the terror attacks of Benghazi by launching BUBS Naturals, a wellness brand that gives 10% of all proceeds directly to his namesake charity.
“Practice an endurance sport before launching your business. It’s a long long road, it is arduous, it is thankless, it is tough, and the only way that you are going to get through it is by kind of having that mental fortitude which is really helped out by having a healthy dose of inspiration. So if you really feel that what you are doing is going to make a difference, if you really feel inspired by your idea, combine that the willpower and endurance to see through because it’s going to be a grind and you are going to get punched in the face over and over and over again and it’s what you do in those moments that is going to define the success of your business. And if you truly believe in it and you have the endurance inside of you, you will be able to pivot, learn, adapt and climb those mountings”…[Listen for More]
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Since the mid-90s, WRIXON founder Aaron Wrixon has been paid for writing well over 5 million words. That’s the equivalent of 33 days of the New York Times. He has written copy for more than 100 different industries in the US, Canada, England, and Australia.
“it’s a challenge, it can be a challenge. It’s not without its hardships but they are the best kind of hardships. It can be as difficult as climbing a mountain but you know that not only when you hit that summit you will get that rush but if you have got your brain wired right just the act of climbing up that mountain is fulfilling in itself. This is how I know this is what I am meant to be doing. It’s difficult, sometimes it’s infuriating, it’s disappointing sometimes, sometimes it’s exhilarating but I would not trade it for anything else. And if you feel that for that.”…[Listen for More]
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Tim Piccirillo built an entertainment talent agency, a career as a comedy magician and as a sought-after education market speaker--all while living in a very rural area of Pennsylvania in the US. He currently works with small and medium-sized businesses as a marketing consultant, copywriter and trainer.
“if you have a business or a passion or a cause or whatever it is that you are trying to build, even if it is a non-profit, and you really believe in it don’t give up until you get there… Until you get where you want to be. Because I am thoroughly convinced that failure does not have to be an option. You are going to fail along the way but ultimate failure and building whatever you want is doable, I don’t care what it is. I say now anything is possible. I used to say virtually anything is possible, no pun intended because I am an online guy, but I know anything anything is possible if you have the passion and the drive. In the second piece of advice is this whole game of technology people my age, and 59, you are never too old to learn…” (4 Lines minimum – if less then need more quotes) …[Listen for More]
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Jay’s curiosity about why some people get extraordinary outcomes and others do not helped fuel his work with Gary Keller to write The ONE Thing, which has sold over 1.3 million copies worldwide, has garnered more than 400 appearances on national bestseller lists (including #1 on The Wall Street Journal’s hardcover business list), and has been translated into 30 different languages. Whether working with his wife Wendy to raise funds for Heroes for Children, inspiring others to take action toward their goals, or aiming to be the best husband and father he can be, Jay strives to remain awake and aware - with clarity and focus on his values and goals. Jay Papasan is a bestselling author and Vice President and Executive Editor at Keller Williams Realty, Inc., the world’s largest real estate company. He is also co-owner, alongside his wife Wendy, of Papasan Properties Group. They live in Austin, Texas with their two kids, Gus and Veronica, and their dog, Taco.
“It’s the idea that no one succeeds alone. I think that we have a myth of the solo entrepreneur and that’s a very harmful myth. And as early as you can get your head around it, sooner you can afford it you doing go you can you need to hire talent and start succeeding through them. Because entrepreneurs people think that they are great at everything. They are actually just willing to do everything because they are invested in the mission… That doesn’t mean that they are passionate about those things they are just willing to do them at the best level they can because they are committed to the mission. And as soon the business can afford to you should be hiring people strategically that our specialists in those areas so that you can shed those duties and focus on your gifts”…[Listen for More]
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Amish Shah, President, ALTR Created Diamonds, the vertically integrated created diamond division of R.A. Riam Group, is committed to establishing ALTR’s leadership position in the emerging created diamonds space. ALTR Created Diamonds are of the highest quality, TYPE IIa diamonds , the purest form of diamonds known to man, with less than 2% of world’s diamonds of this type, and are authentic and guaranteed certification by GCAL.
“don’t give up. If you believe in something then do not give up, follow your instinct, take advice from the ones that you trust and surround yourself with people you can trust and the ones that will help you hold your integrity, morals and ethics”…[Listen for More]
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Adam Markel is a speaker, author and entrepreneur, who inspires, empowers and guides people to achieve massive and lasting personal and professional growth. A recognized expert in the integration of business and personal development, Adam speaks and mentors around the globe in the areas of business, entrepreneurship, leadership, and transformation. His latest book is the best selling PIVOT: The Art and Science of Reinventing Your Career and Life . Adam also hosts The Conscious PIVOT podcast, where he shares his insights on pivoting in today's fast paced market and interviews experts, innovators and influencers to share their stories and wisdom in the areas of business and life. Adam is CEO of More Love Media, a company dedicated to empowering individuals and businesses to re-imagine, refocus, and capitalize on change in order to thrive in a world where constant disruption is the "new normal”. He has diverse and extensive experience in business, leadership, law, mentoring, and facilitation. As a result, Adam knows what it takes to thrive as an entrepreneur, business owner, and corporate leader.
“to learn how to follow your heart is not something we are necessarily born knowing how to do, it’s not necessarily something we’ve been trained to do but it is a choice. So to trust in your heart, to trust your instincts, to trust your gut I think is something that never leads us astray doesn’t leaders far astray. And I have come to regard that as the most important advice I can give is to follow your heart”…[Listen for More]
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Brad Compere has been a Texas attorney since 2000, specializing in real estate transactions. In January 2014, he founded Capstone Title and Compere Law PLLC. With both Capstone Title and Compere Law, Brad and his team provide an exceptional level of expertise and a unique perspective to residential and commercial real estate transactions in Austin, Central Texas, and other markets throughout the state.
“Be authentic, don’t put up walls, set your ego aside and be a real person, be vulnerable be open be transparent, be honest with people and I think it goes such a long way to showing people that you’re a real human being being”…[Listen for More]
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In 2010, Anthony Davenport founded a credit management firm that now represents professional athletes, celebrities, and top financial professionals. He has more than 15 years of experience in the mortgage banking and consumer credit industries.
“if you are not willing to sacrifice a lot for your business, friendships, relationships, you should do something else because you may not cut it, you may not make it when times get rough, you may start to doubt yourself. I was willing to go all in and I put my money where my mouth is and I slept at my office and I said to my friends I’m sorry I can’t hang out for a long time because I’m working and it was worth it”…[Listen for More]
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The founder and CEO of Deutser, an award-winning management consulting firm, and Deutser Clarity Institute, Brad Deutser transforms how leaders build great, highly sustainable companies inside and out — especially in times of transition, using his innovative clarity process. He is the author of Leading Clarity: The Breakthrough Strategy to Unleash People, Profit and Performance.
“Be open to what the future has in store for you and when you trust yourself and your trust your abilities and your ability to achieve something great setting those expectations, using positivity as the glue that we talk about, positivity is something that is so so important, we have bad days and its not meaning to gloss over them. Bad things are going to happen on your journey as an entrepreneur but positivity as a way of leading your organisation to wherever it’s going is fundamental to your ability to enjoy the success”…[Listen for More]
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Parmees Yazdanyar is a high-performance speaker, author and trainer. She's developed a three part framework (what she calls the Peak Performance Model) that she now uses with individuals and organizations to help them improve their energy, focus, drive, mindset and productivity. Her background being in integrative medicine and positive psychology, she use evidence-based strategies to increase overall wellbeing, output and quality of life.
“Consistency, there will be days where you perhaps feel like giving up and there will be days where you don’t feel like doing the thing that you need to do but keeping in mind that success doesn’t happen overnight type of break through that you experience, success happens over a long period of time of sustainable and persistent efforts”…[Listen for More]
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Tanner Chidester is a 7 figure fitness and fit pro coach who scaled from 0-7 figures in just 12 months.
“the number one thing you can focus on is learning how to sell, learning how to be a good salesman, learning how people think. Not manipulating people but getting people to do what you want if they are a good fit, if you can really help them. It’s a skill, it’s definitely a skill, is not something that some people can be more prone to be good at it than others but it’s definitely a skill you build. Most entrepreneurs that I meet that are very successful a very good salesman. They know how to talk, they are very good with their words, they know how to get people to take action based off what they said, they know how to find their pains and what they want… learning paid traffic is by far the biggest thing that I’ve learned”…[Listen for More]
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James Woeber is an international trainer, consultant and best-selling author, who for 20 years has helped thought leaders and socially-minded entrepreneurs to manifest their dreams and serve as powerful change agents in the world. He’s the Co-Founder and CEO of Art of Heartful Living, an leadership training and energy mastery program.
“the magic combination of what you are good at… find your own way of doing it. Whatever field you are in there is a path that is there and there is some value in the past that others have gone on, you can learn a lot from that, but your secret sauce, you are bringing out what is really a value to the people that you work with, to your customers, is going to come from you, it is going to come from your unique way of doing the work. And so even if you have heard of someone else doing it in another way or even if you yourself have done a certain training or a product or service that you are bringing out in a certain way, allow yourself to put that aside and really allow your mind to be fresh and open to okay what is the best way of doing this if I didn’t know the right way, if I didn’t know that this is the way most people do it? And often times we will come up with different solutions, better solutions, solutions that fit as and fit our audience better. And it’s just a much more creative way of working. And being an entrepreneur that is especially important” (4 Lines minimum – if less then need more quotes) …[Listen for More]
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Today we are speaking with Chris Westfall, a sought-after business consultant, communication coach, keynote speaker, and the author, co-author, or publisher of eight books. Advising hundreds of thousands of leaders from high-growth entrepreneurial enterprises, Shark Tank startups, and Fortune 100 companies, he has helped create multi-million-dollar revenue streams for businesses on four continents. He is the U.S. National Elevator Pitch Champion and the author of the new book Leadership Language: Using Authentic Communication to Drive Results (Wiley, 2018).
“don’t believe everything you think. It’s easy to get lost in thought and trapped by what seems impossible. But when you realise that you can’t believe everything that you think because what you think about a problem so often is what makes it a problem. Think about it how big is a problem when you are not thinking about it? The answer is it’s not a problem at all. The advice is not stop thinking about things but simply recognise that you are thinking and it’s because of your thinking that you see things the way that you do. When you’re thinking changes, when your perspective changes that’s when the impossible becomes possible and it is that shift in perspective that is the first step to real results”…[Listen for More]
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Jacki Smith; entrepreneur, teacher, podcaster, volunteer, and witch is also a best-selling author of Coventry Magic (Weiser Books 2011) and co-author of DIY Akashic Wisdom, Access the Library of Your Soul (Weiser Books 2013). Her calling in life is to promote empowered belief and does so in her classes that teach self-healing and ways to take authority over your own life, as well as the philosophy of supporting her wholesale clients; "Your Success is My Success" Since 1992 Jacki has created and sold over 2 million magical candles through her company Coventry Creations. Being first on the national market with her Blessed Herbal Candles, her creative candle line gave birth to the spiritual candle industry. Currently, you can find Coventry Creations candles in over 700 stores around the world.
“it’s messy, go ahead get messy, make mistakes, think big and then clean up the mess when you are done”…[Listen for More]
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Jack Huang is founder of TrulyExperiences.com. He likes to spend his time at work geeking-out on algorithms, mining for insights or brainstorming ideas that make things easier for Truly’s customers. He holds an MS/BS from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from London Business School.
“I would say not all growth is good growth and not all revenue is good revenue. So always understand where your growth and revenue are coming from, see if it’s actually of quality, if it’s sustainable and whether not you can actually improve upon it. I think that’s quite relevant advice especially in an environment or ecosystem where it’s just about go go go or your topline”…[Listen for More]
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Heidi Brumbaugh is a linguist and a professional game developer. She launched her own startup in 2015 to develop word learning games for second language learners. Her app, Vocab Victor, is available for Android and Apple smartphones and tablets and is designed to help non-native speakers improve their vocabulary.
“Join a mastermind group, I have a group there’s 3 of us and we meet once a week. Every week we talk about what are our goals for next week and then we come back next week did you complete your goal. If you were going to do a video and you didn’t why didn’t you. We just drill down and hold each other accountable for our goals”…[Listen for More]
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Reshma Jobanputra's first entrepreneurial experience left her on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Her confidence and spirit were shattered, she thought she had failed. She developed an aversion, a fear of entrepreneurship. Yet now she 3 years later is a qualified Career Transition coach/ speaker and has started her second enterprise, one that is doing well. Her biggest lesson; entrepreneurship is not a one size fits all. As Eistein said 'Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will believe its whole life that it is stupid'. Her core message to all is; do work that you find meaningful, fulfilling and above all fun! The success will come almost automatically.
“Be a dreamer. When you start to work be practical about it as well. Just be realistic, be practical and build up to that amazing vision that you have and if you’re scared that you can’t be an entrepreneur, don’t be because anybody can be, anybody can be an entrepreneur. So, don’t worry that you can’t be or you can’t do this amazing thing that you want to because you’re not an entrepreneur. You can be”…[Listen for More]
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Tim Forrest is the world's leading USA Food Marketing and Distribution Strategist having worked with a third of the Fortune 50 and helped clients achieve over half a billion in new revenue and increased equity value.
“have a group of mentors or an advisory board… have a trusted group of friends and advisers for your business that you can go to and talk and discuss different options… they bring additional opportunities to you and it can be very productive”…[Listen for More]
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Rocky Lalvani helps business owners find balance with their health, wealth, time, relationships, spirituality and overcoming the voices in our head that prevent us from success. His focus is on profit first in business because that’s the purpose of business is to provide a profit for it’s owners.
“be clear, be focused on what you want and what you do and who you serve and write it down… when you can be clear, be focused and have that written plan, and I’m not talking about this hundred page plan, a couple of pages to say this what I want, this is what I am going to do, I am crystal clear on who I served and how I serve. I think that really helps because in order to write that down you actually have to think about it. And when you think about what you want to do and get clarity it tends to open up so many doors and it makes it easy for the universe to provide for you everything that you need because you have been clear to the universe , this is what I want and this is what I need and this is where I am going”…[Listen for More]
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Isaac Oates is the Founder and CEO of Justworks, a cloud-based platform that helps entrepreneurs and businesses grow with confidence by giving them access to big-company benefits, automated payroll, HR tools, and compliance support — all in one easy-to-use technology platform. Isaac comes from a unique tech background, having worked at Amazon, Etsy, and Yahoo! while serving as an intelligence officer in the National Guard and Army Reserve for 12 years. Isaac founded his first startup Adtuitive back in 2008, which Etsy later acquired, and experienced the frustration of endless paperwork, exorbitant costs, and hours spent on the administrative side of running a business, which led him to the idea behind Justworks in 2012.
“believe in yourself. Keep taking steps one at a time and believe in yourself”…[Listen for More]
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Nick Seneca Jankel is an author, philosopher, and professional speaker who develops tools for organizations, leaders and everyday people to transform themselves. He is the creator of The Switch On Way a process that has been used by over 50,000 people and 50+ Fortune 500 companies across the globe and has been featured on the BBC and MTV. He is the author of two books, Switch On, and new book, The Spiritual Atheist available on Amazon.
“make sure that you build your business based upon what your heart feels as much is what your mind knows”…[Listen for More]
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Jenn Edden is a sugar addiction expert, author and empowerment coach. Jenn healed herself of gastritis at 22 years old and survived a near death gas explosion at 28 yrs old. It became very clear at that point in her life that she had a calling to teach others the same techniques she used to heal her body naturally and break free from sugar addiction. Jenn is a certified health coach and for the past 14+ years she has run a business teaching others how to take back control of what they eat and drink without dieting, deprivation or denial. She delivers real, long lasting results in a simple and manageable way.
“you need to be yourself. Don’t try to be somebody else especially if you are new in business… you are going to attract your customers in your store if you have an online business because of your vibe. They say your vibe attract your tribe. Be yourself, be really comfortable being yourself. Be you and just trust that that brings the clients customers in the business you want for sure”…[Listen for More]
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Mark Perna is the CEO of TFS Results and a genuine, warm and engaging speaker. He has over 20 years experience in coaching educational organizations and businesses on today’s unique intergenerational workforce and the hiring, training and retention of the newest generations. Perna makes companies more profitable, competitive, and productive by coaching businesses and educators on how to communicate with the Why Generation and unleash their tremendous abilities.
“you have to be decisive, you have to determine what your purpose is, what you are trying to accomplish, and you have to be decisive in the execution of your game plan. You have to get all of it done you can’t let anything get in your way. And not be afraid to make mistake or multiple mistakes, learn from the mistakes. In my life I focus, I plan, I take action. I have always surrounded those times in my life where I have made tremendous mistakes and errors… but if you think about it whenever you make that mistake and you focus you plan you take action that’s where you calibrate, that’s where you take corrective action. So be decisive, understand where you are going and how you are going to get there”…[Listen for More]
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A teacher himself for twelve years, John Cochener started Academy Tutors in 2012. He created the company to support student’s entire college admission experience. His goal is to help them improve their grades and to counsel them on the basics of becoming a good college student.
“Have a plan… the plan is how are you going to create value instead of just working harder. And how are you going to get other people to create value for you and what are you going to offer to those people. Because it is very short-sighted to say I can make more money doing this for myself because there is a lot of things you are losing out on when you do that – the sick days, the health insurance, all those things. And you shouldn’t sacrifice those things unless you have a really good idea of how you’re going to make it more than just about you”…[Listen for More]
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Dominic Joseph is CEO and Co-founder of Captify, global leaders in Search Intelligence. Captify fuse together the two largest segments of online advertising, Search and Display. Their unique Semantic technology derives meaning from 14+ billion searches a month to power display, video and mobile advertising. Over 450 of the globe’s biggest advertisers and 120+ agencies leverage Captify’s crucial market and brand insights to inform strategies that drive conversion, engagement and creative advertising. As one of the industry’s growing adtech companies, Captify now operate across Europe and US with a growing team of 130 people. Earlier this year, Dom was one of only 6 CEO’s to make it onto the BIMA 100 2016 list.
“research the topic, make sure you really look into it and that will give you so much confidence. It will also develop your differentiator. And surround yourself with people that can really help you, whether it’s your business partner, whether it’s advisers or mentors and of course your early staff that set the culture for the company. Yes research and people”…[Listen for More]
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Martin Melgoza is the founder and creator of the Casper Boards. Throughout his career he has always been the one who was labeled as the “Idea Guy.” About two years ago, his journey of building and launching a brand new product commenced with the creation of the Casper Board, the only two-in-one active working platform in the market. Since then, he has built and launched the product product and managed a very successful crowdfunding campaign that reached over 325% of its original goal. Martin has over 10 years of marketing experience under his belt, with a focus on TV advertising and marketing analytics, and now holds the position of VP of Operations at a TV advertising agency. Over the years he has led launch campaigns for dozens of products and brands, and with his vast experience overseeing products from conception and development to final design, he has the knowledge and experience to know what it takes to successfully design and launch a top quality product.
“an idea and you really believe in it don’t be scared to talk to people. I think talking to people is so underrated. I think you have go out there and just make sure and tell as many people as you can your idea. If it’s resonating for people you are just going to get a lot of confidence behind that. So talking about your concept and idea is going to give you so much strength to go back and refine it and make it better and eventually launch it and make it a real thing. So one of the biggest things I think is just having real communication with potential customers, just people in general and getting that feedback ”…[Listen for More]
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Fran Boorman is a bestselling author and successful entrepreneur having built a £9m turnover business around her two young children, which became the fastest growing in its sector. She has gone on to support over 1000 individuas start their own enterprises and become a key spokespersn for Social Enterprises and SMEs in the UK; representing their interests in government, as a TEDx speaker and as a regular contributor on BBC Radio. Fran is currently the CEO and Co-Founder of a ground-breaking new Social Enterprise called Goal 17. The company aims to assist in ending youth homelessness through the power of football. Having formed partnershps with many Premier League Football clubs and some of the largest and most respected UK companies, Goal 17 is expected to become the blue print for how business can profitably engage in making positive social impact. Fran is also a big advocate of supporting other women into enterprise and senior corporate roles. Fran speaks frequently on this topic n school and for clients such as Barclays and the Federation of Small Business. Alongside being entrepreneurial, she believes in leading by example in the corporate world and hold a Non-Executive Directorship in a large private hospitality company.
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With his background in music production, Rob Sayles fell into 'the internet' in 1996, and has seen pretty much every trend and technological change since then. Working alongside global brands like Sony, FujiFilm, Clickfunnels, and Facebook, he's combined strategy, creativity, and technology to enable massive growth for thousands of businesses worldwide.
“Don’t be scared of failing. You will fail and I don’t mean that in any bad harbinger of doom type way but get used to failing. There is nothing wrong with it, you can learn from it, you might make the same mistake twice, three times, four times, five times. Believe in yourself, get yourself back up on your feet, keep going, just keep following your Northern star and don’t be too scared of failure because it happens to everyone”…[Listen for More]
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Pat Duckworth is the Founder of Smarter Menopause. After over 30 years working in the public sector as a senior manager, Pat discovered her entrepreneurial mojo and retrained as a therapist. She has published four books including #1 International Bestseller ‘Hot Women Rock; How to discover your midlife entrepreneurial mojo’.
“Network, network, network. I think when you are starting out go to as many different networking events as you can. There is a lot of them that you don’t need to join up or subscribe to until you have been to them to 3 times so you can get a taste of whether this is the right group for you, whether it’s likely to work for you. Networking is not just about making contacts, you get a chance to stand up and talk about your business so you can really hone your elevator pitch to see what works and what doesn’t. Often in networking you get sessions of advice, people talking about how they develop their businesses. So get a round their do some networking and see what you can learn from it”…[Listen for More]
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Mehram Sumray-Roots is the co-founder of YADA Events and the CMO of the Freshers Festival Group. Mehram won two 30 Under 30 Awards within the events sector last year and was recognised by Exhibition News as the 'Rising Star' at the Elite Awards. Mehram is also a speaker, and will be talking at the Thriving Entrepreneur Conference, International Confex and PA Show in February.
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The most interesting man in franchising......Waymond Bogans Jr
“be passionate about what you are doing otherwise you will find an excuse always to quit. Persevere through tough times, they will come. And third build a support group both inside and outside of your business. And don’t wait for them to come to you. Look for different business owners in your community that you can partner with and maybe meet once a month. I am lucky to have that support group outside of work and also inside of work. And outside of work is my family”…[Listen for More]
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Fran Pastore is a devoted catalyst of women’s economic equity and the Founder and CEO of the Women's Business Development Council, a leading organization for championing female entrepreneurship and women’s economic equity. Ms. Pastore served a three year term as an appointed member to the President’s National Women's Business Council (NWBC), an independent source of advice and counsel to the President, Congress, and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). She serves on the Board of Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP). In conjunction with the U.S. State Department and University of Connecticut’s Office of Global Affairs, Ms. Pastore taught women entrepreneurs in rural Costa Rica financial management and business strategies. In Turkey she served as a US Delegate to 2015 Istanbul Women’s Summit. Most recently she worked with The Center for Creative Leadership in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia teaching young women networking skills, financial management and business development. She serves on the Advisory Council for The Akilah Institute for Women, a college in in Kigali, Rwanda, Africa. Over the past two decades, Ms. Pastore has testified before the U.S. Congress on multiple occasions and was instrumental in the passage of legislation benefiting women entrepreneurs.
“recognise that your passion is not always enough to launch or sustain a business…. Recognise your shortcomings, recognise your greatest assets and then seek to find the equilibrium, the place, the happy place where you can operate from a position of strength by empowering those around you to get their work done for you, and allowing them to empower you to do what you are most passionate about ”…[Listen for More]
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Tania Diggory is the founder of Calmer, a platform that empowers entrepreneurs and organisations to nurture good mental wellbeing. Author of This Is Calmer: Inspiration, support and encouragement for the entrepreneurial mind, Tania delivers digital training, workshops, events and workplace training on how to balance mental wellbeing with business success.
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Eric Termuende is the co-founder of NoW Innovations, a bestselling author, and an international speaker. Termuende was recognized as a Top 100 Emerging Innovators under 35 globally by American Express, is a TEDx speaker, and represented Canada at the G20 Summit. He speaks and writes around the world about the future of work and human-centricity in the workplace.
“Stop comparing yourself to any of the others. At the end of the day entrepreneurs are trying to make their change in the world to ultimately live a life that they find is worth living, and I don’t want to downplay the importance of that is essentially what we are all doing. We are all running different races, we all have different finish lines and well I think there is a lot of relatability and understanding between entrepreneurs, to compare and to compete against each other is a waste of time knowing that that we are playing different games.”…[Listen for More]
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Elliot Kay is the vision behind Thriving Entrepreneur Conference. Elliot is an entrepreneur who currently runs two business and is building another, his main focus over the last 5 years has been strategy. He is the founder of Strategic Brilliance Services – educating entrepreneurs all about the importance of strategy in the business. Elliot is an international speaker, trainer and author of the Amazon best seller Power To Succeed.
Too many end up broke, simply because they didn’t have the business know-how. Having built a successful strategy business, coaching practice and public speaking training company himself, he knows what it takes to not only build business but also make them sustainable. Elliot is the commercial director of Speaker Express LTD, one of the UK’s leading public speaking training companies.
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Michael Choi is the CEO of Coding Dojo, a leading Coding Bootcamp with campuses in Silicon Valley, Berkeley, Seattle, LA, Dallas, Chicago, Tyson’s Corner, and Tulsa, and an online program. Coding Dojo is unique in that it teaches students the skills to quickly learn any new coding language, in addition to rigorous training in 3 full stacks in 14 weeks. As a result, their highly sought-after graduates hit the ground running in any company they join and are immediately impactful.
“decide whether you want to be an entrepreneur or decide whether you are going to be one and then act upon it. It starts with the mind. If you decided to be an entrepreneur then walk that path. Want to be an entrepreneur then you will never be an entrepreneur. You kind of have to decide I am going to be one and I am one”…[Listen for More]
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Jonah Phillips started Crossword Hobbyist in 2013 because someone told him not to start a website for teachers, and he doesn’t like being told what to do. He gave Crossword Hobbyist its sister site, My Word Search, in 2015. Jonah graduated from the University of Chicago in 2008. He currently lives in New York.
“decide what makes you happy before going for it. And I don’t say that lightly . Some people say go for it regardless but the answer might not be go for it… If you are a person who wants to do a task that’s fun and make money doing it that’s good to know ahead of time. To say if I can’t make a good business doing this thing that I really enjoy I’m not going to do it at all and that’s actually maybe the right decision to not go for that business because you realise maybe that business to make it work is maybe not that fun thing you want to do. And just to know whether you would rather have a business or whether you would rather be doing that activity will help you set your priorities and determine should you start and should you quit”…[Listen for More]
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Monica Zimmerman is an Agility & Leadership Coach. Monica has a MFA from Kent State University She is an Artist, Athlete, Equine Specialist, and former Midwife and Lactation Consultant. She has experienced life in mid level management where the lack of inclusion, diversity, promotion and positive leadership mentors for women were missing. As a result of working with Monica her clients gain tools for self empowerment, navigating the world as a HSP (Highly Sensitive Person), create healthy sustainable boundaries in business & relationships, while stepping into their greatness.
“…five months ago I decided times up, I couldn’t walk through the door any more, I had an internal voice saying you are no longer going to walk in this facility, you are done, you did your time, and I left. So I have been doing coaching full-time for the last five months 100%. Super scary. At the beginning I didn’t have a lot of things lined up. At some point I had to take the leap. The leap wasn’t going to leap for me if you will, I had to take that leap, and move the needle and keep in action. And I did and it’s the best decision I ever made”…[Listen for More]
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Brooke O. Erol is the Founder/President of two local San Diego businesses, YourBestLife and Purposeful Business. She works with leaders, founders, C-level executives to create human-centered work environments like her co-authors in From Hierarchy to High Performance. She has international experience working with Fortune 500 companies as her clients. She is also an author of Create a Life You Love. She speaks internationally about Future of Workplaces and Purpose Driven Leadership.
“Take some time and planning especially if you are jumping from a job that gives you stability to being an entrepreneur. Take the time plan it especially the ones that I already mentioned. Why are you starting this business in the first place besides making a profit; who is your target market - define it as clearly as possible; how are you going to reach them and what kind of money do you need to do that? … find a really good mentor who you admire and who has been successful in your definition of success” …[Listen for More]
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Michael Graham is a serial entrepreneur turned Ironman triathlete. An ironman is considered to be the worlds toughest one day endurance event. It consists of 3 discipline sport, it starts with a 3.8km ocean swim, followed by a 180km bike ride wrapped up with a full marathon at the end. A triathlon on steroids. On the 24th of June 2018 Michael completed his first ever full Ironman race in the beautiful city of Nice. He know talks about his journey to Ironman with the aim of inspiring other to pursue their dreams!
“Just do it. You can spend so much time trying to figure things out. Best way to figure things out is by doing it. Yes the needs to be a level of planning, yes the needs to be a level of meticulous due diligence, yes the needs to be all of that. But at the end of the day the way that things get done is by doing it… if you have got something and you thought about it. If you have got some kind of plan, figure it out and go for it, give it a go. The worst that can happen is you are back to where you are, the best that can happen you are on the way to the moon”…[Listen for More]
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Erin Pheil is a speaker, writer, consultant and founder of The MindFix Group. She's either helping transform lives, or she's mountain biking, snowboarding, or playing escape rooms.
“if you find yourself stuck for an extended period of time, for many weeks, many months start looking outside of yourself to figure out what the cause is because I can almost guarantee there is something internally that’s happening that’s causing you to stay stuck. That would be my best advice.”…[Listen for More]
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Malcolm Saunders' mission is to deeply connect people to their food, and is the author of the book Elixir Life: Modern Nutrition Meets Ancient Herbal Wisdom. He has worked in the field of food and nutrition for close to 20 years and is the Owner & Creative Visionary of The Light Cellar in Calgary, AB.
“Just do it, just start. We are often told that you have got to have a vision, you have got to have a plan, and it’s all detailed out, well I have what I call the three C’s conceive, commit, create… commitment is the catalyst, you are not going to create without that commitment. Make that commitment be it in time, money, energy to make it happen.” (4 Lines minimum – if less then need more quotes) …[Listen for More]
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As a fear strategist, Robin Joy Meyers empowers women to use fear as an advantage through courageous presence. You have the power to activate bold choices and live the life you want and deserve. Today, Robin is an international speaker and Amazon best selling author of “Alone but Not Lonely.”
“Absolutely trust yourself, your instinct and your gut. Sometimes it gets really difficult where maybe you are not bringing in the income you were hoping you are going to bring in or you have made a bad judgement call and some people want to shut you down… you have to believe in what you are doing and move forward and just be able to say I know I have abundance in what I am doing and I want to share that with everybody. And really trust that if you believe in what you are doing it will be successful and you will make it successful because you are passionate about it. So trust is a big thing.”…[Listen for More]
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Nataly Tormey is a true trailblazer in business. She is raw, real and honest and is taking business leadership to the next level. As a self-confessed bogan leader (and proud of it!), Nataly invites like-minded women to join her in her campaign to encourage and empower others to build their very own bogan empire…moccasins and all!
“Surround yourself with people that will support you. I think it is also important to understand how you accept and receive support because we all do it really differently. So whether that means you need to be around people that will give you healthy criticism or does it mean you need to be around people who will give you a million compliments or does it mean you need to be around people that will always ask you how you are and how your business is going. You need to decide where your healthy place is to be, and go to that place and take that first step. You don’t need to be in every single network. I don’t still to this day. You don’t need to be doing everything what everyone else is doing. You don’t need to attend every single event. You have to find what is right for you and surround yourself with the right people.”…[Listen for More]
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Elise Keith is the co-founder of Lucid Meetings and Second Rise LLC and the author of Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization.
“I think it’s really important to learn the rules of the game and then be very sure that you actually want to play it. Entrepreneurship is not the same as craftsmanship. That was a mistake I made when I started I thought that craftsmanship was going to get me there. It’s not the same thing. It’s not the same thing as leadership and it’s not mainly about innovation. All of those things matter but your success will depend more on either developing or buying or being given systems that make the 90% of what is the same for everyone go” …[Listen for More]
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Violeta Potter is a vision coach & conversion strategist who has a vision that having women of color in highest levels of leadership and economic power will lead to racial and gender equality. She serves this vision by pairing high-level mindset and business consulting with conversion strategy & copywriting to women of color and the allies who support this cause.
“Get very clear on your vision. Your ideas, what you want, what you dream about creating is all very valid. Of course, it’s important to validate an idea but I also think it is important to allow yourself to dream and push the needle a little bit because sometimes some of the best inventions have been the thing that people didn’t know someone needed… so allow yourself to dream and vision things and then testing things out I think is the best thing you can do for your business. And definitely work on your mindset, your confidence, your things of yourself you feel you have to hide and shave off. Sanitise and learn to call those back so that you can be more of yourself and show up in a more unique way. It’s so much more memorable than just being professional and doing what everyone else is doing. So let yourself be you and shine through your business.” (4 Lines minimum – if less then need more quotes) …[Listen for More]
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Jay Kali, AKA The Strength Architect, doesn’t just build better bodies; he helps build strong, motivated and empowered women. As a coach and fitness specialist for over six years, he’s finally found a way to put power back in his client's’ hands, as well as discovering a way to work outside the confines of time and space.
“Having the faith of a mustard seed can move mountains. And I think when we go through our trials and our tribulations you know the first thing that we do the first person that we beat up on is ourselves. Look at all the phases that most entrepreneurs go through from am I good enough, is this ever going to work, what if, what if, oh oh it’s working, what if people find out I’m an impostor, oh how long is this really going to last. You go through all of these phases and stages and I think if you can just eliminate that and you had the faith and you know that belief in yourself, that you are going to achieve when you set that goal you will achieve it. And I want every entrepreneur to know that.”…[Listen for More]
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Les Cowie is the CEO of Les Cowie Consulting, LLC. He has been an entrepreneur since the age of 30. He emigrated to the USA in 1984 and has consulted for venture capital companies buying medium sized businesses and building them up to sell them. He is an author and a speaker on the National Speaker Association circuit.
“make sure that you have a really good friend as an accountant, a really good friend as an attorney, and a really good friend who is a mentor for social media. The most critical thing is cash flow. You can be passionate about what you do but you must make sure that you marketing at a pace, selling at a pace and you have the cash to achieve the things you want to do. So cash flow is important and an accountant will make sure that you remain mindful of that, an attorney will make sure that you don’t have someone dipping into your pockets and losing it for you” (4 Lines minimum – if less then need more quotes) …[Listen for More]
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Brian Clark has been with STOP Restoration since 1990. After self-employment through college and receiving his degree in marketing, he joined his father to help bring the company’s systems to more people via the franchise format. As the new CEO of STOP he is focused on expanding the brand’s footprint nationwide.
“stay the high road… seek fit in everybody you deal with, your customers, your employees, referral sources. Seek fit, do it right, take the high road. The long run is reached by the high Road. It is a flash in a pan you are going for you can take the low road and cheat and scam and be lazy. But I believe the high road leads to long-term” (4 Lines minimum – if less then need more quotes) …[Listen for More]
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Emma Combes works with ambitious female entrepreneurs to help them transform their lives and businesses from the inside out, clear limiting beliefs and patterns and allow greater levels of success and impact. She is a mindset and manifestation coach with 21 years experience. She has qualifications in Hypnotherapy, NLP, Past Life Regression Therapy, a Reiki Mastership, Robbins Madanes Coaching plus mainly others. She’s worked with Tony Robbins and also privately with Jack Canfield.
“work on yourself and work on your mindset. I really do believe it is all about that with success. Yes you can have the strategies, and in fact a lot of the strategies can be out there for free, you can find a lot of the basic stuff for free. But it is the difference between the people that find it and do nothing with it or actually go out there and take action. And that all comes down to who you are being as a person and it’s your beliefs, your doubt, your fears, who you see yourself as in your mind, and your attitude as well. So I think that is the most important thing that you could be continually doing – self growth, self-development, mindset work and just really visualising what you want to have as if it has already happened” …[Listen for More]
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Dr. Paul S Inselman, CEO of The Creative Marketing Institute, Academy of Creative Marketing, and Creative Coaching, LLC understands that the only thing that matters in business is PROFIT. As the creator of the Inselman Profit Formula®, Paul teaches his clients fifteen innovative ways to generate more profit that will either make your business profitable in 60-90 days or take your profits to the next level. As a market and financial strategist, his clients benefit from his unique use of analysis and deployment of business strategies that obtain spectacular results. In 2017 his client’s income rose on average 52%. In 2016 his client’s income rose 51%, and since 2008 his client’s income has risen 172%!
“number one now that you can create anything. Number two do not go it alone, get the proper advice, pay for the proper advice, use the proper advice. Because going it alone means that you are going to make business decisions out of emotion. And the last piece is to make sure that you are absolutely learning proper money management skills”…[Listen for More]
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Casey Chafkin is the Chief Operating Officer at Skillz, the worldwide leader in mobile eSports. As a stats geek turned marketer and the fourth employee at AisleBuyer, Casey is an expert in mobile payments and performance marketing. Casey also worked at CarMax where he re-launched the company’s consumer offering and lead loyalty research.
“do not be afraid to admit you don’t know what something means. If you are a technical founder and you are talking to business people who are using acronyms that you don’t understand, if you are a business founder and were talking to technical people who are using jargon that you have absolutely no idea what it means…. And they can be a temptation to assume that that person you are talking to is really smart because you can’t understand the things that they are saying but my advice is that you are really smart. And so if you are talking to someone they should be able to explain even the most complex things to you in terms that you can understand and you will learn the information but more importantly you will know if they are full of shit for lack of a better word. It is the ultimate test because you should be able to understand almost any concept and a smart person should be able to put it in terms that you can understand. Three of four times sometimes someone will say something and I will say ‘I am sorry it can you say that one more time I am not sure I follow’ and they will say it again, and I will say ‘gosh perhaps it’s just me here I’m sorry I’m being so dense but I am still not sure that I follow can you explain that one more time.’ And I will keep doing that until I understand something because you can’t afford to make decisions by just assuming that someone who says something that you can’t understand is just smart” …[Listen for More]
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Samuel Huber is the founder of Admix, a funded startup based between London and SF. Sam is considered a VR/AR thought leader, frequently invited to speak at industry conferences, from Virtuality, Tech Open Air, or VR World. He is a contributor at VRFocus and VRScout, and his work has been featured on websites like Venture Beat.
“just do it… the idea is don’t overthink it. And I know it may sound crazy but if you have to figure it out on the spot this is where you would make the best decision because there will always be things that prevent you from starting. You will always think that you are not ready or that the market is not right or that person or your parents don’t want to you to do it or it is not the right time. So just getting started and not really having a plan B without putting your life at risk is the best way to make things happen. Because when you are in this flow were you really have to do something, when it’s almost a question of life and death… not because it’s cool or it’s an option but this is the only option. This is where you really really really out how to do things and the quickest way to get your results. So putting yourself in this difficult situation I think is very difficult but I think also really a quick way to get something started”…[Listen for More]
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Dayne Shuda is an entrepreneur that sees the value in long-term blogging. They want to increase awareness for their brand across search, social and offline. They see the value blogging can provide for their target customers, but they don't have the time to write blog posts themselves or they don't enjoy the writing process.
“I think it’s answering the question who are you? And knowing as much as possible about yourself… knowing what your tendencies are, knowing what you value, how you make decisions, how others perceive you, what your intentions are. The more you know about yourself I think the better you can make decisions that are going to work out in your favour. I think the more you try to be something you’re not the more you are going to struggle. It might feel like you’re making the right decision now but in the long-term you are probably going to come to regret it just because if it goes against your nature it’s never going to be comfortable. So I think the more you know about yourself the better when it comes to entrepreneurship”…[Listen for More]
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Scott Royal Smith is a real estate investor and asset protection attorney in Austin, TX. Scott became an entrepreneur while still in law school, purchasing and running an auto mechanic shop, to pay his way through school. After graduating, Scott begin his law career as a high-stakes corporate litigator. He spent the last 8 years of his career analyzing real estate investment and asset protection. Today, Scott is the Founder and CEO of Royal Legal Solutions. A firm he built to offer tax, business and legal strategies to clients all over the U.S and Canada. He continues to educate the public on asset protecting strategies to help circumvent debilitating lawsuits for his clients.
“find something and start selling it right now. Don’t wait for anything else, don’t say oh I have to have XYZ is the thing first before I try to sell it but just get it and go to where people are at, and that can be potential customers, and ask them if they will buy it for $10 or whatever your price point is going to be. That is really the first step every entrepreneur has to take with any new product. And you don’t have to have anything else besides just your product and asking somebody they will give you a dollar for it to be able to find out whether you have a good idea or not”…[Listen for More]
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Dr. Tony Alessandra is Founder of Assessments24x7.com, a company offering a variety of online assessments, including the widely-used DISC profile. He is the author of 31 books and over 100 audio/video programs and films. Dr. Alessandra was inducted into the NSA Speakers Hall of Fame in 1985; inducted as one of the “Legends of the Speaking Profession in 2009;” and elected into the inaugural class of the Top Sales World Sales Hall of Fame in 2010.
“focus on the important things in your business and don’t get tempted or pulled away by other opportunities that might look good but are not a focus of your business. Put on blinders, focus on everything that you have to do in your business and don’t get sidetracked by other opportunities that are outside of your business because your business will suffer if you don’t have your full attention on it”…[Listen for More]
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To date, Kendal Netmaker has founded and invested in 5 businesses, and won over 25 business awards, including runner-up at the YBI Global Entrepreneur of the Year. Kendal speaks professionally to thousands of people every year about motivation, leadership and the power of telling your story. Kendal is the author of “Driven to Succeed: From Poverty to Podium - A First-Nation Success Story”
“Not to be afraid to ask for help, not to be afraid to be vulnerable to your followers. When I started to tell my story through my business platform, through Facebook, through Instagram, through Twitter, through LinkedIn and everything my vulnerability showed that I was a real person. And because I was a real person with a real story and mission people started to acknowledge and support me more, our sales increased. So don’t be afraid to tell your story, tell the story through your business, through your brand”…[Listen for More]
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Dr Mik Kersten is the CEO of Tasktop, creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project and inventor of the task-focused interface. Mik’s thought leadership on software delivery makes him a sought after international speaker. He has also contributed to the success of some of the world’s largest digital transformations.
“work hard and make your own luck and focus on your own growth, happiness and productivity. And do the same thing for your teams. And think about that every day when you wake up”…[Listen for More]
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Rick Miller is an unconventional turnaround specialist, a servant leader, and a go-to Chief. He is also a trusted confidant, an author, a speaker, and sustainable growth expert. Rick has served in roles including President or CEO in Fortune 10, Fortune 30, startup, and non-profit companies.
“entrepreneurs are unique. I would suggest to every entrepreneur take time to figure out where you stand and once you figure out where you stand take one, take a stand, take a stand for what you think is important, build your own voice… find a quiet time to hear your own voice and build your own compass. Kind of figure out what you’re North South East West is, work hard but figure out when you work hard you want to go in your direction not the direction that somebody else is giving you. And I think if entrepreneurs do that, they build their own compass I think there’s a lot of success they can have”…[Listen for More]
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Jonathan Bender, MS, MFA has been leading workshops and coaching for over 20 years, focusing on self-expression, public speaking, personal growth and "the performance of your life." The founder of WholeSpeak, LLC and the creator of Connection Jams, he spends his time teaching how to show up in life and on stage with authenticity, power, and dynamic presence, and has a mission to help our world heal the wounds of disconnection. Jonathan is also a professional theatre director, actor and writer.
“A lot of the time we are given so much advice. This is how you have to do it like I mentioned before or this is the strategy… be yourself and also grow into who you want to be… so it’s be yourself and be yourself fully and look at who you want to grow into and not be afraid of that.”…[Listen for More]
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Kasim Aslam is the Founder & CEO of Solutions 8 (a Digital Marketer Certified Partner, Infusionsoft Certified Partner, and Official Google Partner) and the author of “The 7 Critical Principles of Effective Digital Marketing.” Through Solutions 8, Kasim has spent more than a decade helping over 500 organizations grow and scale using a unique, proven and proprietary process: The Digital Business Builder. This experience fuels his presentations and has helped to make him a foremost authority on business growth and scale in the digital age.
“start now and don’t stop. It is like having a baby you are never going to be ready, there’s never going to be enough money, there’s never going to be enough time – I promise you that’s true. Don’t do it, don’t burn your bridges, I think that’s dumb advice. You know anybody who says oh if you don’t quit your job you are not committed that’s bullshit. Start in an intelligent way, let yourself slow role it, be gentle on yourself, but start now. And I mean right now. If you are in the car pull over, if you are on the phone hang the phone up, if you are in the office put away whatever it is you are doing, and there is something you can do right now to start your business to move just one iota forward. And then don’t stop. And I don’t mean now I mean ever, just don’t stop ever because momentum is life and stagnation is death and I think that will always be true for businesses”…[Listen for More]
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Jill Lublin is an international speaker on the topics of Radical Influence, Publicity, Networking, Kindness and Referrals. She is the author of 4 Best Selling books including Get Noticed...Get Referrals (McGraw Hill) and co-author of Guerrilla Publicity and Networking Magic. Her latest book, Profit of Kindness went #1 in four categories. Jill is a master strategist on how to position your business for more profitability and more visibility in the marketplace. She is CEO of a strategic consulting firm and has over 20 years experience working with over 100,000 people plus national and international media. Jill teaches Publicity Crash Courses as both live events and live webinars and consults and speaks all over the world.
“the biggest thing is start… if you don’t start with what drives you, what’s exciting to you, what gives you joy them what is life, right? So that is a big one. Start and then take a risk. You know it may fail it may not be good. I have outlined ideas I have, I have spent time and money on business development coaches to create maps and plans for things that maybe didn’t come to fruition at that moment or maybe their time will be three years from now. But what I know is is when I have inspiration or something is percolating in my heart and spirit that I start mapping it out because I know that seeds are planted. So I am really big and just follow the breadcrumbs and make literally your dreams come true with what’s driving you”…[Listen for More]
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Elliot Kay currently runs 2 businesses. A Strategy business and is the Commercial Director and lead trainer for Speaker Express. Elliot has worked across the globe in the UK, Africa, USA and Europe. Elliot has a combined seventeen years experience in both training and coaching, having designed and delivered training for Sky Television, Talk Talk, the NHS and many more. After almost losing everything, Elliot has turned around his businesses to form one of the leading strategy, training and coaching companies for both self-development and strategy in the UK - using his own experience to ensure others don’t make the same mistakes as him. As part of giving back, Elliot has been a mentor for the Princes’ Trust for the last 5 years. Elliot has unlimited passion for results. His passion is to help business owners to live The Elite Business Lifestyle through strategy boardrooms, workshops and mentoring. Elliot is a certified coach, cognitive behavioural hypnotherapist and accredited strategist.
“keep your eye on your dream, keep your hand on strategy, and keep your heart in service and you will succeed”…[Listen for More]
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Jessica Pettitt, M.Ed., CSP, pulls together her stand up comedy years with 15+ years of diversity training's in a wide range of organizations to serve groups to move from abstract fears to actionable habits that lead teams to want to work together. With a sense of belonging and understanding, colleagues take more risks with their ideation, conserve precious resources through collaboration, and maintain real connections with clients over time.
“you are in control of your own sense of urgency. And hearing that myself and saying it to other people it’s like releasing the pressure because you really are doing this to yourself. That is both terrifying and exhilarating”…[Listen for More]
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Roger Beaudoin is a veteran restaurant entrepreneur who founded and operated four high-profit restaurants for over two decades. Now serving restaurants on a global level, Roger created the Sales Stars Staff Training Program, authored 'Rock Your Restaurant', created The Restaurant Rockstars Academy and hosts of the Restaurant Rock Stars podcast.
“Follow your dreams and passions for all the right reasons and the money will follow… if you really are true to your vision and your passions then never quit because the day you do never know what the amazing successes that could have happened the very next day” (4 Lines minimum – if less then need more quotes) …[Listen for More]
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After raising seven figures in revenue for a non-profit organization through powerful messaging, copywriting and marketing, Kate Boyd started her own business Cobblestone Creative Co. to focus on bringing more creativity and genuine connection to the digital marketing space. In the three years since, she has built three profitable online businesses and created live and automated marketing and sales experiences that convert up to five times the normal rates. Kate developed her signature system, Conversion with Compassion, to help solopreneurs use human-driven communication and behavior-based targeting to get the right message to the right people at the right time in order to create conversion opportunities. This method focuses on high conversion rates that can effectively leverage audiences large or small.
“just get really clear on what you want and be relentless in the pursuit of it. Just don’t quit because it’s hard and just remember the people that you are here to help and focus on doing it for them versus yourself”…[Listen for More]
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Dan Murray is a serial technology entrepreneur and currently serves as CEO and founder of Vertex Software. With a background in mechanical engineering, Dan is a pioneer in manufacturing visualization, inventing the world’s most popular visualization solution and ubiquitous standard for 3D manufacturing data exchange. His successful ventures include growing two prior software companies to $100M+ revenue and executing successful IPOs in the manufacturing and finance industries. Dan specializes in B2B collaboration and enjoys sharing insights that contribute to both the software development and entrepreneurial sectors.
“Don’t give up, never give up. Failure defined you more than your success. And you are going to be the most successful if you can pick yourself up after failure quickly and get back at it and learn from that failure. I look again every day at the things that I do well but I also look at the things I mess up, the mistakes that I make, and I make them every single day and every day I am learning from myself” …[Listen for More]
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Mynul Khan founded Field Nation in 2008 when he identified a need for a contingent workforce platform. With a background in programming and data analysis, as well as an affinity for growth hacking, Mynul’s experience drives Field Nation’s growth strategy and motivates him to grow the Field Nation team.
“Make sure that whatever your passion you translate that in a product that has a product market fit. And try to do that as early as possible without getting into what I see a lot of entrepreneurs do is they focus so much on the product and building and continuing to build the product that is just too much before finding the product market fit. It is very expensive, very costly. So the first thing is going to be trying to find that product market fit as early as possible because once you get that then the rest (I don’t want to say) gets easier (because it doesn’t get easier) but at least there is hope once you find the product market fit”…[Listen for More]
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Ellen Rogin, CPA, CFP® is co-author of NY Times bestseller, Picture Your Prosperity: Smart Money Moves to Turn Your Vision into Reality. Chock full of “left-brain” credentials (CPA, CFP®) Ellen also walks on the “right” side, balancing values, big picture ideas, and a sense of humor with her professional training.
“Generosity is the new currency in business. And if you can focus on growing your business through adding value, being generous in every level of your business it will help you grow beyond your wildest dreams” (4 Lines minimum – if less then need more quotes) …[Listen for More]
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Stephanie Cleck had been a licensed hair stylist for more than 10 years when she and her husband got pregnant with their first child. In the months after giving birth to her daughter, Stephanie realized the difficulty in getting to the salon for a busy mom and the idea for Concihairge was born. Stephanie founded Concihairge on the belief that busy women shouldn't have to go to the salon to have great hair, but should be able to get that salon-quality experience right in the convenience of their own homes. Stephanie started as a one-woman show delivering salon-quality hair services to clients in the Arlington/Alexandria area outside Washington, DC. As word of mouth spread about this new and innovative salon concept, demand for Stephanie’s services grew quickly. Today, Concihairge is proud to employ nine women who serve the busy moms, working women, and their families in the Philadelphia and Northern Virginia suburbs. Stephanie continues to lead Concihairge in aggressive expansion into new markets while keeping an eye on new trends in the hair industry and positioning Concihairge to become a household name across the country. Stephanie has been a guest speaker in a variety of small business forums and regularly speaks about small business challenges for women-owned small businesses. Stephanie, her husband, and their 3 young children reside in West Chester, PA.
“surround yourself with a supportive group… if anyone else struggles with self-doubt as an entrepreneur I would say that your number one has to be is a supportive group of cheerleaders” (4 Lines minimum – if less then need more quotes) …[Listen for More]
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Amanda Luton is the founder and owner of The Magnolia Marketing Group. With a background in Social Media Marketing, Retail Management and Merchandising, she brings almost 20 years of marketing experience to the table. Amanda has worked for Von Maur, Anthropologie, AmericasMart Atlanta, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, and TalentStream, and owned her own children's boutique clothing line, Goat & Lulu, that she designed, created, and marketed. Amanda has her BA in Fashion Merchandising and Marketing from the University of Nebraska. She is married with three small children and two beagles, and lives in Metro Atlanta. Amanda began The Magnolia Marketing Group in 2016 after identifying a need for Social Media and Marketing outsourcing for small businesses. Being a small business owner herself, and married to a small business owner, she is aware of the demands on their schedules, and how marketing often-times falls by the wayside. The Magnolia Marketing Group allows for the small business owner to concentrate on the day-to day of their business and their own priorities, and works with the owner in a collaborative manner, to grow the business with creative and modern marketing ideas.
“try not to get discouraged, learn as much as you can… immerse yourself in the industry that you are in as much as you can. Read books listen to podcasts, get involved, start networking even if it’s just going out to lunch or meeting your co-workers for happy hour or something. Talk to people, get involved in industry associations, just learn as much about the industry as you possibly can before you get started, before you get into it. There’s going to be things that you can learn along the way but the more you know ahead of time and the more prepared you can be I think the better off you will be for success in your industry… Just do it scared. Everybody’s afraid, everybody scared, everybody’s doubting themselves but you do it anyway”…[Listen for More]
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Please write in the third person): Nick Morgan, author of CAN YOU HEAR ME? How to Connect with People in a Virtual World is one of America's top communication coaches and thinkers. His clients include Fortune50 companies. He has coached people to give Congressional testimony, appear on the Today Show, and take on the investment community.
“Get clear about what you are doing and focus narrowly what your business is. Don’t try to be all things to all people.” (4 Lines minimum – if less then need more quotes) …[Listen for More]
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Born and raised in Los Angeles to a family deeply immersed in the entertainment industry, Zach Suchin absorbed pop-culture and took interest in the media and technology sectors. He co-founded Brand Knew to help both start-ups and veteran brands better navigate the digital landscape.
“Believe in yourself and to surround yourself with as many people as possible who are smarter than you, who will challenge you and who will keep it real with you” (4 Lines minimum – if less then need more quotes) …[Listen for More]
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Fabrice Beillard is a globally acclaimed Business Systems & Profit Growth Strategist, he has helped businesses all over the planet add millions of dollars to their revenues and bottom line and achieve a better lifestyle in the process. He has been coined as a leading Freedom Generator helping countless individuals on a global scale to start, grow, optimise and exit their business and achieve what he calls Holistic Success. Fabrice and his businesses have been featured in a range of leading media, and he has been sharing his knowledge on all continents with other global leading business experts and thought leaders, for major and global organisations, Government States, and Universities such as Harvard. He is also an international best-selling author and the founder of Australia Business Coaching. Fabrice and his companies generously sponsor under privileged businesses in over 60 countries via the platform Kiva.
“Get help if you need it. Be consistent. That’s the number one be consistent just execute all of the time. Do the right things and check whether they are working. And if they are not be smart enough to make little tweaks” (4 Lines minimum – if less then need more quotes) …[Listen for More]
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Millennial entrepreneur, Karson Humiston, is the founder and CEO of the largest recruiting agency in the cannabis industry, Vangst. After being turned away by career services at St. Lawrence University for inquiring about careers in the cannabis industry, Karson decided to create a company that helps people secure careers in the fast emerging industry. Karson, age 25, now leads a team of over 30 people who have filled more than 5,500 positions to date. Before founding Vangst, Karson started On Track Adventures, a student travel organization which she sold in March 2015 before heading to Colorado where she currently lives. Prior to On Track Adventures, Karson started many small businesses growing up, including a resale golf ball company, where at the age of 11 Karson was employing two of her peers to help her collect, clean and resell golf balls.
“Being persistent, having patience, really believing in your idea and yourself to a point where you don’t give up after a few no’s I just think is the number one thing. It’s easier to just throw the towel in than to continue going and continue having people turn you down and continue overcoming challenges. And then being the real. I don’t think people should pretend that they are something that they are not or pretend that they are smarter than they are or that they have experience that they don’t have. I think it is important to be real with your clients, be real with your employees, to be real with your investors if you have investors. Just be real.”…[Listen for More]
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Nazim Agabekov runs a marketing agency where they help online businesses to grow to 7-figures and beyond in sales using Facebook Ads and Marketing Funnel. He's been featured on media channels such Forbes, Social Media Week and many others where people go to learn about growing their businesses with marketing and sales.
“we are living this life until our time is out. And whatever we have whatever we get to live and experience, all of the impact we get to make between those two dates when we are born and when we get to leave this world. In that time it’s all that matters so you want to make it worthwhile. Just follow your hearts calling and desires because you get to live this life once. Just do it for yourself if you want to become an entrepreneur, if you would like to embark on this beautiful entrepreneurial journey or if you would like to scale your entrepreneurial practice and you can feel that this is something you want to do but something is stopping you don’t let that stop you because again we are living this life just once”…[Listen for More]
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Chris Murdock is the Co-Founder and Senior Partner of IQTalent Partners. Chris has over 18 years of executive recruiting experience and leads search execution and client relationships along with supporting searches across the firm. Prior to Founding IQTalent Partners, Chris was a Sourcer with Yahoo!’s internal Executive Recruiting team in the corporate offices in Sunnyvale, California. Previous to Yahoo!, Chris was an Associate in the Menlo Park, California office of with Heidrick & Struggles, where he recruited for software, hardware, professional services, and semiconductor clients. Before Heidrick & Struggles, Chris worked in the Retail Practice of TMP Worldwide in Atlanta, Georgia. While with TMP Worldwide, he worked on CEO, General Merchandise Manager, and various VP and Buyer level searches. Chris earned a bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University.
“In order to start the business I had to leave Yahoo, they just happened to make the decision for me. I had to get out of my comfort zone. And ultimately realising that we could have started IQ talent sooner it bothers me from time to time. Because I did get comfortable, I didn’t listen to the people that told me that the way that I think about recruiting and sourcing was unique. I didn’t understand it at the time so maybe I could have made that transition to being an entrepreneur sooner. But ultimately Yahoo had to make that decision for me.”…[Listen for More]
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Atish Doshi is the founder and CEO of The Black Sheep - the nation’s fastest growing college media and marketing company with team at more than 150 campuses and growing. The Black Sheep’s goal is to help businesses and brands reach the 18-24-year-old demographic through local contact, and on-campus marketing campaigns. Atish built The Black Sheep (among other businesses) and is filling a unique void of helping brands and businesses connect with college students. In his experience, he’s connected two generations of students to new brands, including millennials and now GenZ. In addition to superb client services, Atish has lead the way in collegiate hiring and culture initiatives, as The Black Sheep employees hundreds of college students across the U.S., and the majority of the company’s core creative staff of 20+ employees have at one point worked for The Black Sheep while in college and have become permanent employees. Through Atish’s unique perspective and foresight of cross-generation culture building, he has developed a creative company that has more than a 90% employee retention rate and applicants beating down the door to work The Black Sheep.
“just being a very self-aware is supercritical, knowing who you are, what your business is, what type of business it is and all that stuff. It’s great to shoot for the moon but to get there you really have to know what you are amazing at, what you need help with and all that because it puts you in a better spot to succeed. And sometimes I think entrepreneurs and founders want to think that we can do everything and we try to but I think once you take a step back and you become self-aware about what areas that can do better if I had some out here with me that’s when you really start to succeed and grow a business”…[Listen for More]
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Tres Roeder is founder and president of Roeder Consulting, a Cleveland-based project and change management firm with a distinguished list of Fortune 500 clients . Roeder Consulting is a four-time winner of the Weatherhead 100 Award, marking it as one of the fastest growing small businesses in its region.
“Listen to that little voice. There are always going to be doubters even if you have been doing it for 17 years, there are always going to be people who are going to help you so you can’t have the external world tell you who you are or how to think about yourself that needs to come from within. So if you are to be successful, and by successful I mean not just having a business that is going to survive and is going to make some money, and mean being happy and that, thriving in it, enjoying it. If you are going to be successful then it’s going to come from listening to that voice”…[Listen for More]
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With over 20 years of manufacturing and operations experience with a focus on Lean Six Sigma and Team Development, Beau Groover is a wealth of information. He has his MBA and is a certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, and runs a rapidly growing consulting firm based in Atlanta Georgia.
“the best feature that you can have is the one that you create for yourselves. And so if you are entering the world of entrepreneurialism imagine the future that you want and then build it. We see cases every day of people who are successful in finding creative ways to solve problems and be innovative with product development and finding a new way to do an old thing. And so if it is what you want and your heart is in it, imagine the future that you want and then go and do the work necessary to make it happen. And then in a year or two or five years you will look back and go wow this is amazing I can’t believe we have accomplished this or I have accomplished this”…[Listen for More]
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A successful image is not created in a burst of light at 1/60th of a second. It is manufactured over time through conversation, with attention to details and a depth of photography experience. David McCammon has been a pro for over 30 years and shares his business knowledge and experiences as an entrepreneur through his book “Image Power: Balancing Passion and Profit in Business”.
“Build relationships and key one try to put yourself in your client’s shoes. We have a tendency to look at things from our own perspective. Put yourself in your client shoes, how are they going to receive this, how can you serve them, and how can you solve their pain?”…[Listen for More]
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Blair Dunkley has been called an innovator and unconventional for his way of guiding entrepreneurs to find clarity. His clients usually achieve 2 to 10 X results and sometimes even more. In a 10-year period, his clients, which were stalled or in decline, increased their topline by $757 million.
“evaluate yourself fairly and stop judging yourself. And make sure that that evaluation is externally verifiable. There are so many people out there, entrepreneurs especially who judge themselves harshly, way too harshly and they are so self-critical that they stall themselves out from developing their own brilliance and moving forward and figuring stuff out and they just getting their own way. And there is so much potential in that group of people who have already self-selected to become an entrepreneur because they have something that they want to do with their lives and that is a huge disservice that they do usually to themselves, sometimes to the teams around them but definitely to themselves more times than not. And the ones that don’t tend to move much faster when they evaluate because they look at what’s worked, what doesn’t work and what’s one thing that I can change. And when it has worked they acknowledge that strength”…[Listen for More]
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Danielle Arsenault is a passionate Raw Food Chef and Educator and founder of Pachavega Living Foods Education and the author of 5 plant-based cookbooks. Her professional career includes a stint as professor at Pacific Rim College in Victoria who created and developed several plant-based nutrition courses there, a Raw Food Chef and Nutrition Consultant at Aqua Wellness Resort in Nicaragua, a TV Show Host and Keynote Speaker. Her TEDX Talk, “The Power of Plants” has over 24,000 views on YouTube. She often hosts and caters Yoga Retreats in Canada and abroad and contributes recipes to health blogs online and print magazines. It is her dream to educate the world about the healing power of plant-based whole foods and a healthy lifestyle rooted in compassion.
“Don’t give up. Believe in yourself. Believe in the message that you are sharing will make a difference in people’s lives… if you believe it enough and you are passionate about your project it will be contagious and other people will feel your passion. So be passionate, believing yourself and don’t give up”…[Listen for More]
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Whitney Cole is a consultant, speaker, and writer on a mission to help lifesaving, life-changing technology break through the noise and achieve mass user adoption. Her 3 step process to amplifying the messages of health tech companies increases user engagement and drives customers to buy. She translates difficult technology concepts into simple, approachable, and readable content for your ideal customer.
“I think it’s all about being strategic in setting strategic goals. When I first started because I didn’t know what I was doing I would set goals and it would be maybe an income goal or the number of clients I want to connect with or something like that. And those are good goals but figuring out how they align with what I want and what I need my business to look like is so much more important than just setting a really high goal. Let’s say I wanted to make $10 million this year and I set that goal. Okay that’s a great goal but does it align with first of all what I want my lifestyle to look like and secondly does it really align with my business, is that what I need to be a successful business owner” …[Listen for More]
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Parham Parastaran is an Iranian-American entrepreneur and author with a passion for discussing mental health issues in the business community. Although he enjoyed success as an entrepreneur, he had a secret: He suffered from severe depression and addiction. A rock-bottom moment led to signing himself up for psychoanalysis, starting a journey that opened up the darkest doors within himself and found him revisiting a childhood of trauma. Over 15 years after that first psychoanalysis session, he chronicles his powerful story in new memoir, Perfect Pain.
“the deeply deeply deeply honest with yourself. Now why you are doing things. And it’s okay if the reason you are doing things is because you are pissed out of anger, but know that… Know that you are struggling and be able to talk about it and get help. If you are not honest with yourself then you are just doing things and being an entrepreneur for all these other wrong reasons and typically speaking in my opinion never reached the success and the potential that you are destined to have if you can’t be honest with yourself and your insecurities and the things that you lack. So being honest with yourself numero uno”…[Listen for More]
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Andrea Samacicia Mullan is a passionate communicator and entrepreneur who in 2009 founded Victory Public Relations as an effective PR solution for health, wellness, beauty, and lifestyle brands and the experts who power them. Her understanding of the media, attention to relationships, and ability to identify trends has powered countless exciting campaigns for her clients. She continues to oversee strategy for some of the most innovative brands and experts in New York City and beyond, as well as the growth of Victory Public Relations.
“push through the pain. Do not let painful experiences hinder you from accomplishing what it is that you have set out to accomplish. I am referring specifically to taking career risks, sharing ideas that you might fear are unwelcome but I really think that we have to do that, taking risks on setting high goals, lofty goals, and figuring out how you are going to hit them later. Get the work, get the job, be smart, and get it done”…[Listen for More]
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Seth Buechley is a serial entrepreneur and business founder, who has used his life lessons to write a book, that tackles the plaguing question of why ambitious people struggle to find satisfaction and reveals what they can do about it. His exceptional perspective, which began in a commune in the woods and led him to financial success through several multi-million dollar businesses, shines through his candid and direct insights into the advantages and disadvantages of ambition. A seasoned entrepreneur and leader of high-growth companies, Seth illustrates the fundamental nature of gratitude in making the shift to lasting leadership impact. “Make sure that you’re completely aligned with a support network, if you’re married, it starts with your wife, be very very intentional about seeking out mentors, people that have been there and done that before you. Often the process of designating someone is awkward and I say get past all of that and just find people that have been somewhere you want to go, develop genuine authentic relationships with them and then just learn from them”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to http://wp.me/p6Tf4b-2CW
Shelby Rideout Shelby Luke Rideout, is the creator of Bright Signs Learning, the award winning multi-sensory program designed to inspire children ages 0-4 to read by uniting sign language and gesturing with early reading concepts. As a mother of four and professional sign language expert with credentials in education (Vanderbilt University) and sign language (Pierce College), Shelby has first hand knowledge of the many benefits sign language has on early learning. In 2012, Shelby began making her own educational videos in her basement, teaching each of her children to communicate using sign language, identify letters, and even to read by the age of two! Today, she has parlayed her success into a thriving educational company with national distribution through the Bright Signs Learning website and Amazon, and has garnered awards from Tillywig Toy & Product Awards and Moms Best Awards, among others. “Follow your passion and not follow the dollars, it surprised me because when you do get into business it is hard to ignore the monetary part of it, once you start doing something because you think it might result in dollars, you’re going off the wrong path, I think that to really follow with a good mission and what your passion is and so I’ve had to draw myself a number of times and say wait a minute Shelby stop, what brought you here, what is your goal and my goal is to reach children, to have them feel good, to have them love learning, to have them at an early age love reading and that always draws me back in”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to http://wp.me/p6Tf4b-2CK
Jared Keen is an accomplished Entrepreneur and Executive with a proven ability to lead, everything from fast paced start-ups, to growth companies and traditional companies seeking new directions into profitability and success. Jared has been on his entrepreneurial journey since the age of 24 when he founded a marketing technology firm and digital coupon specialist, Couponstar in 2002. He was responsible for its strategic and operational direction worldwide expanding its operations across 12 countries. In Sep, 2011, Coupons.com, purchased its remaining share in Couponstar where Jared remained at the helm of the international division as the Managing Director. From May 2012 to May 2013, Jared resided in NYC working on strategic global retail initiatives for Coupons.com, Inc. In Mar 2016, Jared founded Australia's first online marketplace for property management called Rent360 where he is responsible for its overall strategy, product development, marketing and business development. “Be genuine, be authentic in what you do and who you do it with, work smart not hard and always try your best”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to http://wp.me/p6Tf4b-2BL
Nik Mirkovic and Alex Tomic are the founders of a multi-million dollar e-tailer, HiSmile, which is Australia’s leading DIY teeth whitening brand. Both straight out of school, and after only two years in the market they are selling their teeth whitening sensation around the globe. The Social media realm has been the driving force behind the success of HiSmile, with Nik & Alex always ensuring the business is one step ahead of the latest changes and advancements. “Don’t wait for perfection because it is never going to come”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to http://wp.me/p6Tf4b-2z6
Mimika Cooney "South African born Mimika Cooney is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, TV Host, Branding, Video Marketing and Visibility Strategist, Award winning Photographer, Published Author, Speaker, Mompreneur. Mimika’s passion is helping female entrepreneurs build the business of their dreams, boost their visibility online, attract their dream clients, position their brand, and build a business so they can have more time to do the things they love. Mimika began her entrepreneurial journey at age 16 , and has since run four successful businesses in South Africa, England and the USA. She has experience in digital marketing, branding, website design, public relations, photography, TV broadcasting, and Video production. She has worked as a live on-air television broadcaster hosting an unscripted breakfast magazine show "York Today" in York, England. She received television broadcaster/presenting training in South Africa from Nadia Bilchick (who is a current CNN news anchor). She is an international award winning photographer with 13 years experience and has authored two books on the subject. She is a public speaker, and loves to teach workshops, courses and lead masterminds. Her signature membership site "The Worthy Revolution" and her Facebook Group help the modern female entrepreneur build her business and boost her visibility with style! “Follow your heart and don’t water down your goals based on other people’s opinions, especially those closest to you, they mean well but sometimes they don’t see the vision. Using pen and paper really helps you to commit” …[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to http://wp.me/p6Tf4b-2uq
Bob Burg is a sought-after speaker at company leadership and sales conferences, sharing the platform with everyone from today’s business leaders and broadcast personalities, to even a former U.S. President.Bob is the author of a number of books on sales, marketing and influence, with total book sales of well over a million copies. His book, The Go-Giver, coauthored with John David Mann has sold over half a million copies and it has been translated into 21 languages. It has been released in a new, expanded edition, with a foreword by Huffington Post founder and publisher, Arianna Huffington. Bob is an advocate, supporter and defender of the Free Enterprise system, believing that the amount of money one makes is directly proportional to how many people they serve. He is also an unapologetic animal fanatic, and serves on the Board of Trustees of Furry Friends Adoption & Clinic in his town of Jupiter, Florida. “Money is simply an echo of value, it’s the thunder if you will to value’s lightning”...[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to http://wp.me/p6Tf4b-2u1