Hack The Entrepreneur: Recent Episodes
Jon Nastor
Hack The Entrepreneur reveals the fears, habits, and inner-battles behind big name entrepreneurs and those on the path to success. It is a show created for you the entrepreneur, small business owner, or startup founder.
My guest today is an impulsive writer, family man, and founder of three companies with two successful exits under his belt.
Back in 2007, and while still in college, he founded what would become Woocommerce. After six years growing the company, we exited to start something new and exciting.
The following year, he started Conversio. He grew this company and team until August 2019 when the company was acquired by Campaign Monitor.
Now, let's hack...
Adii Pienaar.
My guest today is a master of low-risk cash flow investing, structuring deals, and disciplined investment systems to consistently produce profitable results. His ethos is to create wealth without creating a job.
Justin is also the author of The Lifestyle Investor: The 10 Commandments of Cashflow Investing for Passive Income and Financial Freedom.
Now, let's hack...
Justin Donald.
My guest today has been an entrepreneur for 25 years and has no plans to stop anytime soon.
During his career, he has built multiple businesses in the UK, Germany, Poland, and the United States, and currently sits on the board as a director of three companies.
His most successful venture has been Escape Fitness, which he cofounded in 1998. Since then he has grown the company from a small start-up idea into a world-renowned fitness equipment brand.
Now, let's hack...
Matthew Januszek.
Back in the late 90s, my guest left his home in Australia to pursue his dream of working in Hollywood. He had no real plan, and up until that point, he had never left the country. But he took the leap and went after it.
But he's also an entrepreneur who has sold hundreds of thousands of dollars in products and trainings. Early on in his career he began creating video tutorial to help other people learn visual effects, and eventually began selling products and services.
Allan McKay.
Bryan Clayton is a former lawn mower turned landscaping entrepreneur.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Why you need to be willing to do things that don't scale
- Marketplace disintermediation (and what it means to Bryan as the CEO of GreenPal)
- How business is simply an extension of your day to day life
Now, let's hack...
Bryan Clayton.
My guest today is blogger, food enthusiast, and entrepreneur. Along with her husband and business partner, they have created the Pinch of Yum and Food Blogger Pro.
Now, let's hack…
Lindsay Ostrom.
In this episod,e Lindsay Ostrom and Jon Nastor discuss:
Letting go of the scarcity mentality
Accepting the tension of being an online entrepreneur
The importance of setting timelines and goals in your business
Taking actions on your ideas
One of the most popular pathways to entrepreneurship is taking a skill you possess and selling your services as a freelancer. Then if you do it right, you can sell enough work to hire other people to help you now you've got an agency!
The really interesting thing about Stephen's journey is that he has completely removed himself from the day-to-day operations of the agency. In fact, as you will hear, he only has one meeting per week with his management team.
Now, let's hack...
Stephen Christopher.
My guest today is a daily blogger, public speaker, and product strategist. Over the last twenty-five years, he has been leading teams of people, mostly through telling stories and motivating companies to bring products to market. He s been the founder, CTO, and advisor to numerous companies, and he loves to marinate in what he refers... Listen to episode
My guest today is the CEO and founder of Songfreedom, a music licensing platform where photographers and cinematographers can come to find the perfect song for their story with the click of a button. My guest is not afraid to leap down paths others fear to tread. From young manager to music licensing entrepreneur, my... Listen to episode
My guest today is a serial entrepreneur in the truest sense of the term. While in college, he started importing and selling pool tables online, when he co-founded PoolTables.com. For six years he grew the company until finally selling it. He jumped straight back into business by founding Baby.com.br, Brazil s leading e-commerce retailer of baby... Listen to episode
My guest today is a speaker, guerrilla marketer, and an entrepreneur. He founded PlanetIvy.com and ScreenRobot. These two sites combined have received nearly 20 million page views without any paid marketing. He is currently the founder of Magnific, a company that helps grow early-stage companies through a combination of rapid social media growth, guerrilla community... Listen to episode
My guest founded and built a dropshipping business on Amazon with over $7 million in sales and 60 full-time workers. He gained experience hiring and managing online workers from all over the world. Realizing that so many other businesses struggled with this exact thing, he decided to capitalize on it. Today, my guest is the... Listen to episode
My guest today is a marketer, lamp maker, and an entrepreneur. She spent the first part of her career in banking and finance, but like many of us, she wanted to do more meaningful work … and moved from Australia to New York. My guest turned a passion for making DIY lamps into a business... Listen to episode
My guest today has been writing on the Internet since 1982 and Tim Ferris calls him the Most Interesting Man in the World. He has spent the past 40+ years living project to project, accomplishing some truly impressive feats in the process without ever attending college or university. From 1984 to 1990, he was the... Listen to episode
My guest today is a craft beer enthusiast, WordPress developer, consultant, podcaster, and an entrepreneur. She developed her first website in 1997 and quickly found the WordPress ecosystem. My guest has decided to change her business focus in 2016 to education products and training. She is the host of the live weekly podcast OfficeHours.FM, and... Listen to episode
My guest today is a songwriter, former Disney artist, and a serial entrepreneur. Starting in 2006, my guest jumped head-first into the tech world when he co-founded XLR8 Media. Since then, he has also founded Dijit, Echotag, and Openboard. He is currently co-founder and CEO of Inmoji, bringing powered” clickable icons that enable users to... Listen to episode
My guest today is an organizer, leader, and an executive assistant-turned entrepreneur. She began her career as an executive assistant to keynote speakers, bestselling authors, and public figures. Through hard work, determination, and ambition, my guest began getting requests to work with more and more clients, yet there was only one of her to do... Listen to episode
My guest today is an SEO specialist, marketing consultant, connector, and digital entrepreneur. He is the founder of ResourceFull, a weekly digital publication designed for digital entrepreneurs looking to save time and money. My guest has spent years becoming the Unconventional Digital Marketing Consultant . He s grown an e-commerce site to $1.5 million in 8 months... Listen to episode
My guest today is a leader, speaker, Marxist-capitalist, and a smart entrepreneur. During the past 20 years, he has bootstrapped a printing company called Webmart, dealt with the rise of the Internet in his market, and thrived based on his principles. He firmly believes traditional business is broken and too focused on the exploitation of... Listen to episode
My guest today is a creator, user experience expert, eternal optimist, and an entrepreneur. Back in 2002, he started building businesses as the founder and head creative behind The Paper, an independent and online student newspaper. Then, due to an injury that had him bedridden, he taught himself to code. With this newfound skill, he... Listen to episode
My guest today is a logistics specialist, podcaster, and entrepreneur. From 2010 – 2014, my guest was the founder and President of Capital Freight Management, an online freight management, trucking and supply chain services company. He is currently the cofounder and CEO of Outlier, an online publication, co-working space, and conference series aimed at entrepreneurs... Listen to episode
My guest today is a musician, author, and an entrepreneur who has spent the past 21 years writing, creating, and building things to help musicians, authors, and creative entrepreneurs use their talents to make a living and make a difference. He has created The Buzz Factor, Empowered Artist, Full-time Author, and Improv St. Louis. He... Listen to episode
My guest today is an author, creator, and entrepreneur with a great personal motto: Life s too short to build something nobody wants . He has been building web-based products for more than a decade and started building his own products as the founder of WiredReach, and their flagship product BoxCloud. My guest is the founder and... Listen to episode
My guest today founded and built a window and pressure cleaning company in Michigan. With his passion for business systems, he pushed the company to over $150,000 a month in revenue. In 2015, he sold the company to a national buyer and moved to Costa Rica with his family. He now runs two online businesses... Listen to episode
My guest today is a digital marketer, dad, self-proclaimed nerd, traveler, and an entrepreneur. After 12 years in IT, my guest decided he’d had enough of punching a clock every day. He decided to try and make the move to working remotely one day per week, but his boss was having none of it. So,... Listen to episode
Nothing about today s guest is ordinary. He dropped out of high school and talked his way into college … only to drop out again. Finally, he decided to take his last $700 and start 1-800-GOT-JUNK? Having built this company into a multi-million dollar home services empire, he is now passionate about empowering other small business... Listen to episode
My guest today is slowly becoming a serial entrepreneur and is always looking for exciting projects to take on. He is the founder and president of Infographic World, what began seven years ago as a side hustle business. He built it one job at a time in the evenings and it has blossomed into a... Listen to episode
My guest today is a Foolish Adventurer, podcaster, consultant, speaker, and entrepreneur. I was introduced to him many years ago via his podcast The Foolish Adventure Show, one of the shows I listened to while getting my own online business started. He is the founder of the Fuse Community, an online meeting place for entrepreneurs.... Listen to episode
Today s guest has owned and operated American Chimney since 1981. In this time, American Chimney has successfully completed over 100,000 service calls. Along with being hands-on in the chimney business for over 35 years, my guest has also ventured into digital business and marketing. He is the creator of Ask the ChimneySweep, a blog and... Listen to episode
My guest today is a 20+ year veteran of the music industry. As a musician, he published dozens of albums and sold millions of copies. In 2006, he decided to move into the business side of the music industry as Co-founder and President of NoiseTrade, a revolutionary tribe-building platform. NoiseTrade began as a way for... Listen to episode
My guest today is one of the hardest working, smartest, and most successful entrepreneurs I have had the pleasure of speaking to. He was born in Pakistan and immigrated to the United States at the age of 12. Without a social life due to his lack of English skills, he turned to the Internet and... Listen to episode
My guest today is a life-long entrepreneur who is closing the gap between science, art, business, and technology. As an entrepreneur, my guest has started her own clothing line, worked in the real estate business, and ran a private Neuroconsulting practice for six years. She is now the founder and CEO of InteraXon, a Toronto-based... Listen to episode
My guest today is a brilliant entrepreneur who has built, grown, and sold four impressive companies. Over the past 20 years, he s been successfully leading teams and building products that have been used by tens of millions of people, and generated millions of dollars in revenue. My guest has built and sold four companies: Compete.com,... Listen to episode
My guest today is a former actress, clothing designer, and reluctant entrepreneur. She began her career as a professional actress but decided to become an entrepreneur. With a $20,000 inheritance and strong perseverance, a business was born! She is now the founder and CEO of TwirlyGirl, a clothing company with the sole purpose of empowering... Listen to episode
My guest today is a bestselling author, conversion rate expert, digital marketer, and an entrepreneur. He is co-founder and CEO of Conversion Fanatics, a full-service conversion rate optimization company. Founded nearly three years ago, they have worked with and consulted companies like Hertz car rentals, Paypal, Investors.com and many more. He is also the founder... Listen to episode
My guest today is a Master of Neuro-linguistic Programming, an executive coach, keynote speaker, and an entrepreneur. She is the founder of the I Am Woman project and the founder and editor-in-chief of I Am Woman magazine. She is passionate about inspiring individuals, leaders, and businesses to transform, build and create powerful, effecting and lasting... Listen to episode
My guest today is a salesperson, turned business owner, turned entrepreneur. He is an experienced and successful serial entrepreneur based out of the Greater Nashville Area with a total of $24 Million in annual revenue. In 1998, he started his first company, Absolute Wireless, which now owns and operates 15 wireless retail stores throughout Tennessee.... Listen to episode
My guest today is a filmmaker, writer, RVer, and an entrepreneur. After graduating college and taking a traditional office job like he thought he was supposed to do, he realized he wasn t actually happy, and neither was his fiancé. So they decided to quit their jobs take a 50 state honeymoon. My guest came up... Listen to episode
My guest today is a venture capitalist, private equity investor, author, and 10% Entrepreneur. He spent a nearly a decade on Wall Street before becoming the founder and managing partner at Dirigo Advisors. At Dirigo, he invests in, advises, and holds a diverse portfolio of companies across the U.S., Asia, and Latin America. My guest... Listen to episode
My guest today is a student of the startups, a connector, and an entrepreneur. He started out in brand management for Unilever, where he spent almost two years and became one of the most successful marketers in the history of the company. He was then picked up by Centoria, where he acted as its Entrepreneur... Listen to episode
My guest today is a writer, constant mover, not a very good manager, but a very smart entrepreneur. He spent his formative years performing website usability tests for clients like Staples, Google, Yahoo, Verizon, and many more. He was then accepted into TechStars, a mentorship-driven startup accelerator. There, he and his co-founder catalyzed the idea... Listen to episode
My guest today is a bootstrapper, software developer, and a brilliant entrepreneur. From writing his first line of code at 11 years old, my guest has spent the past 14 years building several multi-million dollar software businesses. He is the founder and CEO of Axosoft, which develops software for software development. Their flagship product, OnTime... Listen to episode
My guest today is a photographer, videographer, and a multi award-winning entrepreneur. While still in high school, He started a small TV show focused on helping kids figure out what they wanted to do with their lives. They interviewed 150 professionals, and while the interviews contained extremely powerful advice, the production value of the show... Listen to episode
My guest today is an inventor, crowdfunding specialist, and entrepreneur. As an inventor, my guest got his start early when he invented the Arctic Stick. Inventing a smart product is one thing, but my guest also used his marketing skills to grab himself national media attention and complete a successful Kickstarter campaign. Since then, he... Listen to episode
My guest today has spent most of his adult life working in a family business, starting businesses with his brothers, selling those off, and more recently, co-founding a software company. He is the co-founder of CartHook, software designed to help e-commerce stores turn their abandoned carts into paying customers. In fact, a close friend of... Listen to episode
My guest today is a retail product designer, 3D printing expert, writer, and an entrepreneur. She and her husband are the co-founders of Hazz Design Consulting, which has designed over 250 retail products that have generated more than $750 million in revenue. My guest is also a contributing writer for Inc Magazine and co-hosts the... Listen to episode
My guest today is a traveler, soon-to-be-father, and a true lifestyle entrepreneur. He is the founder of Clients on Demand, what he claims is the most reliable client attraction system in the world. My guest built this business helping experts create simple, strong and repeatable marketing and sales processes that attract the perfect clients, at... Listen to episode
My guest today is the self-proclaimed world s most handsome social media and content marketing strategist , keynote speaker, and entrepreneur. This conversation is excellent because even though my guest has accomplished many things in his business, he is still learning every single day. Like many of us, he has set enormous goals for himself and his... Listen to episode
My guest today is one of the top professional business speakers in the world. He is the author of more than 70 books many of them bestsellers. There are six of his books, with notes and highlighter marks throughout, on my office shelf. He is the chairman and CEO of Brian Tracy International, a... Listen to episode
My guest today went from unemployed, recently divorced and living with her parents, to building a half million dollar business in just two years. After hitting rock-bottom just two years ago, she decided to not use her current position to hold her back … instead, she used it as a catalyst for change. And change... Listen to episode
My guest today is a former pool salesman, professional speaker, sales lion, and entrepreneur. In 2001, my guest stumbled across his first business with two friends. They began installing swimming pools out of the back of a beat-up pickup truck. Nine years later, with the some content marketing led by my guest, their company overcame... Listen to episode
My guest today is a digital organization and productivity consultant. She is also a GTD fanatic and digital entrepreneur. She is the founder of Simplified. Started in 2009, my guest has spent the past seven years helping overwhelmed professionals, just like you, use technology to become more efficient and productive in their day. Now, let’s... Listen to episode
My guest today is a content marketing consultant, copywriter, blogger, speaker, and an entrepreneur. He is the founder of Feldman Creative. Feldman Creative was founded in the Silicon Valley in 1995, when my guest escaped alive from the advertising agency business. The company has partnered with hundreds of corporate marketing groups, small businesses, ad agencies,... Listen to episode
Today s guest has spent the past 20 years in digital marketing, consulting for more than 700 companies during that period, including 30 of the FORTUNE 500. His current company Convince & Convert is the fifth multi-million dollar company he has started from scratch. He is also the only guest to revisit this show... Listen to episode
My guest today is a blogger, podcaster, voracious reader, and an entrepreneur. My guest hasn t always been running her own business and doing her own thing. In 2003, her husband passed away at 32 years old. Being widowed with a 2-year-old and 6-year-old drove my guest to find something she could do from home. She... Listen to episode
My guest today is a mother, former school administrator, blogger, and an entrepreneur. Back in the late summer of 2008, my guest began couponing like really couponing. She loves to cook and loved the challenge of coming up with meals that cost under $5. One night as my guest was cleaning up the dishes... Listen to episode
My guest today is a former professional stand-up comedian, a copywriter, consultant, and an entrepreneur. His unique background as a nightclub comic and in-the-trenches salesperson provide a rare spectrum of experience and ability. Today, as the founder and head of Copy Chief, my guest is one of the most in-demand sales consultants online. He works... Listen to episode
My guest today got his start as an engineer, became an author, startup advisor, and entrepreneur. From 2005-2006 he was the VP of Engineering at Odeo, who built and later spun out the earliest version of Twitter. In 2011, my guest built the best goal tracking app community the world has ever seen, when he... Listen to episode
My guest today is a former marketer for American Express, an advocate for elevating the stature of trades people, and a brilliant entrepreneur. Five short years ago, my guest spent six hours a day sitting in meetings. She worked for American creating their customer loyalty programs. Today, she is the founder and CEO of Checklist... Listen to episode
My guest today is an author, former actor, professional speaker, and entrepreneur. My guest in currently the founder of Book Yourself Solid, and Heroic Public Speaking. Through these businesses, he has lectured, trained, inspired, and provided coaching and consulting services to over 20,000 business owners in the last two years alone. He has written six... Listen to episode
My guest today is a former punk rocker, one-time vegan grocer, and entrepreneur who starts companies that he wish existed. When he was 17, my guest opened a grocery store that sold vegan foodstuffs upstairs and put punk shows on in the basement. He is the founder of screen printing maverick VGKids, who s clients include... Listen to episode
My guest today is an international speaker, bestselling author, instigator of the human-to-human business movement, and an entrepreneur. He is the CEO and co-founder of PureMatter, an award-winning digital content and marketing agency. He is the author of Human to Human and Shareology. He is also a renowned speaker known for his recent TED Talk... Listen to episode
My guest today is a radio journalist, former producer for public radio and television, and an entrepreneur. From 1999 until 2014, he was the producer of the public radio show This American Life. He was also the co-creator and co-host of Planet Money, one of my favorite podcasts of all time. In 2014, my guest... Listen to episode
My guest today is an author, professional speaker, branding expert, teacher at Duke University s Fuqua School of Business, and an entrepreneur. She consults and speaks for a diverse range of clients, including Google, the World Bank, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, and many more. She is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, TIME, Entrepreneur, and... Listen to episode
He is the youngest person ever to receive venture capital funding. At the age of 18, he had already graduated from the University of British Columbia and launched his first company. Today, he is co-founder and CEO of Kiip, a mobile app platform that allows brands to offer real-life rewards for in-game achievements. To date,... Listen to episode
My guest today is a fitness buff, nerd, writer, publisher, rebel leader, and an entrepreneur. He is the founder of NerdFitness.com, a fitness community that helps desk jockeys improve their health and wellbeing. His mission is to show people that adventures are not just for superheroes and that improving your life is always a possibility.... Listen to episode
My guest today is a former Captain in the U.S. Army, podcaster extraordinaire, a self-made millionaire, and an entrepreneur on fire! After serving eight years in the Army, my guest set out to find work. After trying and quitting a couple things — law school and the real estate business — he stumbled onto podcasting.... Listen to episode
My guest today is an eCommerce expert, a new father, and a brilliant entrepreneur. After graduating from University, my guest and his cofounder decided to get jobs at Amazon.de, Amazon s German marketplace. After spending three years there learning the ins and outs of the platform as a Key Account Representative, the two of them decided... Listen to episode
My guest today is an avid organic gardener, mother, international trade consultant, and entrepreneur. From her kitchen table in Australia, my guest began sewing reusable bags. Within four years of starting Envirosax, she had scaled from her kitchen to 60 separate global markets, and became the world s number one reusable bag company. Her bags have... Listen to episode
My guest today is a biohacker, author, nutritionist, Bulletproof Executive, and entrepreneur. He had some early adventures in internet commerce going way back to 1994. But he is most known as the founder of Bulletproof Executive, the creator of Bulletproof Coffee and the Bulletproof Diet. He began blogging at BulletproofExec.com in early 2010 while holding... Listen to episode
My guest today is a blogger, podcaster, lifestyle business builder, and has been an entrepreneur for over a decade. He is currently Cofounder and CEO of Fizzle, a course and community where he and his team help indie entrepreneurs build lifestyle businesses. Ten years ago, my guest was a corporate management consultant for Fortune 500... Listen to episode
My guest today is a quarterback in the NFL, playing last season for the Minnesota Vikings and is currently a free-agent. He is enrolled at the university of Miami School of Business and is an entrepreneur to watch out for. Not one to take it easy in the off-season, my guest founded and oversees operations,... Listen to episode
My guest today is a serial entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of Headsets.com, which has over 943,722 customers. My guest started Headsets.com in 1997 when he couldn’t find a supplier with a good selection of headsets, fast shipping, or good product support. He says he is fanatic about giving customer love; so much so... Listen to episode
My guest today has built his life around the things he loves building things, music and entrepreneurship. He is a label owner, artist manager, writer, consultant, and an entrepreneur. He is the Co-founder of Heroic Recordings, a record label and full-service agency. He has also launched Villain Recordings for the release of darker and heavier... Listen to episode
My guest today is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Better Than Before,The Happiness Project and Happier at Home, as well as a podcaster, happiness expert, blogger, and an entrepreneur. She attended Yale Law School, got a job at a law firm, and then decided she wanted to go out on her own... Listen to episode
My guest today is an avid fisherman, author, consultant, and serial entrepreneur that has been building businesses online for over 16 years. In this time, he has also helped some big companies leverage social media for leads and publicity brands such as Fedex, Sherwin Williams, and Progressive Auto Insurance. He now helps 1000s of... Listen to episode
My guest today is a social media and marketing expert, speaker, a web designer who taught herself to code in junior high, and an entrepreneur. At twenty-two, she jumped straight from Junior Designer to CEO when she quit her job to start her own business. My guest is now the Founder of Edgar, a social... Listen to episode
My guest today is a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, professional blogger, podcaster, and an entrepreneur. Shockingly, he’s also an engineering director for the firm that makes the microprocessors that go into your iPhone. Yes, he has a high-demand job and a side-business that gives him more income than most people’s full-time businesses. My... Listen to episode
My guest today is a world traveling entrepreneur that has ambitions to change the world. He is the cofounder and CMO of Serengetee, an apparel company that uses unique fabrics from all over the world. They launched their company in early 2012, from their dorm rooms, with zero outside investment or funding … just their... Listen to episode
My guest today is a Starbucks addict, Sarah McLachlan fan, web designer, and digital entrepreneur. He is a partner at Rainmaker Digital. He is also the Founder of the Genesis Framework for WordPress and StudioPress. In fact, he invented the business of premium WordPress themes. As you will hear in this episode, my guest started... Listen to episode
My guest today is a speaker, a bestselling and award-winning writer, brand consultant, and an entrepreneur. She became an answer to Trivial Pursuit and Jeopardy questions after being fired from her job as a web designer for blogging stories involving her colleagues. My guest is now the Founder of, and professional blogger at, Dooce. She... Listen to episode
My guest today is an actor, filmmaker, director and producer, journalist, event organizer, and entrepreneur. As an actor, my guest has appeared in award-winning movies, T.V. shows and commercials, such as HBO s True Blood, as well as the popular British soap operas, EastEnders and Holby City. He is the co-founder of Stuck for Staff, the... Listen to episode
My guest today is an App Store Optimization specialist, hustler, entrepreneur, idea machine, and a very good friend of mine. When I met today s guest, he had a team developing over 30 apps per month but he will tell you that he is not an app developer; in fact, he couldn’t care less about... Listen to episode
My guest today is an award-winning entrepreneur, best-selling author, a certified coach, marketing and branding pro, yogi, wife, and mom of three. She founded her self-named business seven years ago, after leaving a 6-figure, high-pressure job as a conference producer. My guest launched her coaching and training business in 2008 to help and inspire women... Listen to episode
My guest today is a musician, programmer, writer, speaker, introvert, and entrepreneur. He started out as a professional musician. Then he wanted a way to sell his own CDs on the internet, but the means to do this didn’t exist at the time. So his entrepreneurial spirit took over and he decided to create a... Listen to episode
My guest today is a world traveller, seasoned hustler, fitness and food enthusiast, and tech entrepreneur. His strengths are in sales, marketing, traffic, and products. He was the youngest Cisco engineer in Australia at age 16 and later founded a marketing company with teams in the USA, Philippines and India. The company broke $1 million... Listen to episode
My guest today is the President of the Statements Brand, which includes Statements the Salon, Statements the Academy, Statements Photography and The Statements Project. She has been in the beauty industry 24 years and an “accidental” entrepreneur for 17 years after accidentally opening a salon at the age of 18. She still works behind the... Listen to episode
My guest today is the Founder, Publisher, and CEO of Momtrends.com. She left her role as an executive at Ralph Lauren to launch the Momtrends blog in 2007. Momtrends has grown massively since then and is now a boutique media brand, which provides moms with the latest news on all things trendy and cool. It... Listen to episode
My guest today is a speaker, advisor, entrepreneur, and the best-selling author of multiple books, such as Engagement from Scratch and The Audience Revolution. He is the founder of Firepole Marketing and Productive Inbox, and the host of the Business Reimagined podcast. He is also the creator of training programs, such as Audience Business Master... Listen to episode
My guest today is a marketing expert, entrepreneur, and bass player. He is the Creative Director of Kinectiv, a marketing firm that focuses on developing business identities and providing customers with a great experience via websites, graphic design, and social media. He’s been described as the “brains” behind this operation as he develops strategies and... Listen to episode
My guest today is the co-founder of the analytics companies KISSmetrics, Crazy Egg, and Quick Sprout. He is a frequent contributor to publications, such as Inc. Magazine, Fast Company, Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine. He also helps companies such as Amazon and Viacom grow their revenue. President Obama recognized my guest as one of the top... Listen to episode
My guest today is an entrepreneur and businesswoman, speaker, business adviser, and the author of the Amazon bestseller, EXIT! 12 Steps to Sell Your Business for the Price You Deserve. She is the founder and CEO of The WELL. Through her company my guest helps entrepreneurs who want to grow and eventually sell their business... Listen to episode
My guest today is a creative and somewhat reluctant entrepreneur. She is the founder of The Sherman Project and BeStrongPeaceful.com. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, she studied under healers and scholars from all around the world, and has completed her PhD at the University of Minnesota with a research focus in healing therapies for wellbeing... Listen to episode
My guest today is a nomadic entrepreneur, bestselling author, travel blogger, and adviser. He has been traveling since 2006 and has created a site that offers tested travel tips and advises visitors on how to see more of the world for less. He’s helped 16 million people realize their travel dreams and helped those dreams... Listen to episode
My guest today is a virtual CEO, serial entrepreneur, keynote speaker, host of The New Business Podcast, blogger, and four-time bestselling author. His businesses include Virtual Staff Finder, Live2Sell, and now his latest, YouPreneur. His book, Virtual Freedom, has sold more than 30,000 copies on Amazon. Virtual Freedom is the essential guide to running and... Listen to episode
My guest today started building websites for real estate companies at 22. He initially started doing this from his parents toy closet, after he was scammed out of $12,000 for a sham online business. Starting over again with almost nothing, he asked countless questions and passionately learned about his client’s problems and, as a result,... Listen to episode
My guest today is a former English teacher, lover of all things creative, blogger at Just a Girl and Her Blog, and author of three eBooks, including Building a Framework:The Ultimate Blogging Handbook. Although she founded and runs a great business, she says her favorite job is being a wife to her husband and a... Listen to episode
My guest today is the author of The Brain Audit, a cartoonist, marketing strategist, and brilliant entrepreneur. A degree in accountancy got him a job at one of the best advertising agencies in the world. This opportunity helped guide him through the world of copywriting, TV commercials, cartoons, as well as graphic and web design.... Listen to episode
My guest today is a path-finding coach, speaker, writer, non-conformist, and entrepreneur. She is co-host of the Wild Crazy Meaningful Life podcast. She offers path-finding and peaceful productivity courses and has given inspirational talks at many events, including World Domination Summit and App Camp for Girls. She has a degree in Logic and Computation and... Listen to episode
My guest today is an author, speaker, personal transition expert, educator, strategic advisor and most of all, an entrepreneur. She has authored several incredible books, including her most recent, Business Dating: Applying Relationship Rules in Business For Ultimate Success. My guest has passionately served professionals as a coach and mentor for 15 years and says... Listen to episode
My guest today is an entrepreneur who started, grew, and sold six businesses in five years … without paying for a single ad. He helps people grow their businesses and his successful exits include WorkoutBox and Synn Clothing. He is the founder of Upshare, which offers simple tools that boost sharing and make websites more... Listen to episode
My guest today is the co-founder and CEO of GroundMetrics, a unique technology startup in oil and gas exploration. He began his career in business management and was a strategic marketing consultant. He then co-founded and ran CarCode Corporation, which was acquired by a major toll road management company in 2009. In 2012, my guest... Listen to episode
My guest today is the founder and CEO of Digital Marketer, under which he blogs and coaches for the Digital Marketer Lab and other training courses. He started marketing online from his dorm room in 1999 and has worked in over 500 different markets. In the last three years, my guest and his team have... Listen to episode
My guest today is a scientist turned digital artist, animator, entrepreneur, as well as an academic escapee. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo and has over 15 years of experience in research. During this time, my guest has generated $340,000 in funding, prepared manuscripts and lectured. Today, she is the founder of... Listen to episode
My guest today is the creator, publisher, and editor of Foundr Magazine, which launched in 2013 and has become a six-figure business. Foundr is a monthly digital magazine, which has had over 100,000 downloads in its first fifteen months. My guest also hosts a weekly podcast for Foundr where he interviews the greatest minds in... Listen to episode
My guest today is an avid networker and mobile business strategist, chef, podcaster, and golfer. He is co-founder and Director of Business Development at ChamberDS.com. Chamber D.S. is a complete app and mobile business agency that turns ideas into profitable app businesses. My guest develops and grows relationships with clients, agencies and companies, as well... Listen to episode
My guest today is a serial entrepreneur, speaker, blogger, consultant and coach at Systems Scientist, podcaster, and author of Owning It: Embrace the Best and Worst Parts of You to Thrive in Life and Business. She is the Founder of Mydzik Media, the host of The Off-Road Millenial podcast, where she talks about the future... Listen to episode
My guest today is a real estate investor, one-time real estate agent, podcaster, web designer, and internet entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of the online real estate networking platform, BiggerPockets. The platform now has over 330,000 members. My guest is also the CEO of BiggerPockets’ publishing division, and has co-written and published two... Listen to episode
My guest today is a Canadian supermom of five, personal development coach, public speaker and the author of What You Focus On Grows. Between 1995 and 2005, my guest was the Founder and President of Upward Motion and created the web-based assessment tool, Real Estate Simulator. She is now the President and Founder of Frame... Listen to episode
My guest today is the President and Founder of PledgeMusic, a direct-to-fan company that offers musicians a unique way to engage with their fans during the music-making process. He is an independent musician who received the A&R Worldwide Digital Executive of the Year award in 2014 and appeared in the 2013 Billboard 40 Under 40... Listen to episode
My guest today helps startups and companies attract new clients online. He is the co-founder of HubStaff.com, which allows businesses to manage their remote staff by tracking time and activity levels, providing screenshots and calculating employee payments. HubStaff allows us to see exactly what virtual teams are working on so we can track expenses to... Listen to episode
My guest today founded Betterment in 2008 after working as an adviser to Wall Street’s biggest financial institutions. He started Betterment in an attempt to re-invent the investment industry. It wasn’t long before his vision became a reality as the company won TechCrunch’s Best Start-up in New York award in 2010. My guest is an... Listen to episode
My guest today is a successful author and screenwriter and has written a book and produced a movie about his life, called I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell. His books have sold over 3 million copies and have been translated into 30 different languages. My guest also founded (and sold) Tropaion Publishing, which pioneered... Listen to episode
My guest today has started several successful businesses, written three books, is a motivational speaker and has consulted with companies in several different industries. He coaches teams and businesses on the actions required in order to grow. As a result, he is known as the entertainer, educator, and consultant of choice for America’s leading companies.... Listen to episode
My guest today popularized secular evangelism in 1983 when he worked with the Macintosh Division of Apple. He is currently the chief evangelist of Canva, an online (and easy-to-use) graphic design platform. He is also the author of thirteen books including Art of the Start 2.0 and Enchantment. His books are used by some of... Listen to episode
My guest today is a marketing expert, consultant, author, blogger for Fast Company Magazine, and a regular contributor to The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business section. He is the author of Evergreen, which was an instant number one bestseller in the sales and marketing section of Amazon. Evergreen describes how companies can become so... Listen to episode
My guest today is a developer who understands the marketing strategies needed to grow a business, and is an expert in implementing them. He helps course authors, product creators, and self-funded businesses increase their revenue from their existing traffic. As the CEO of DelfiNet, a full-service development and marketing consultancy, my guest has helped companies... Listen to episode
My guest today has built companies in several different industries and has been successful enough to hand the companies over to someone else to manage and run. He had more or less retired when he co-founded Examine.com, an independent and unbiased evidence-based organization that investigates the science behind supplementation and nutrition. He’s trying to make... Listen to episode
My guest today is the founder of Design Pickle, a graphic design subscription service that offers unlimited requests and revisions for a monthly fee. He is also a creative consultant at Digital and Disruptive, where he hosts workshops to help companies rapidly develop marketing or brand strategies. He is a charitable guy and has been... Listen to episode
My guest today has a passion for assisting small business owners and entrepreneurs in starting and protecting their businesses. Alongside her husband, she pioneered the business filings industry with MyCorporation.com in 1997, while they were both at Law School. A Fortune 500 company acquired MyCorporation.com in 2005, which allowed her to retire at the young... Listen to episode
My guest today is a dad, husband, drummer and entrepreneur who builds awesome stuff online and helps people build their businesses. He spent his early years traveling around Canada whilst playing in punk-rock bands, which taught him the D.I.Y. work ethic of “If you want something to change you have to do it, get it... Listen to episode
My guest today is the founder and CEO of multiple successful businesses, including StickerJunkie.com and Delinquent Distribution. Most recently — and alongside Dan “Punkass” Caldwell (the founder of Tapout clothing) — she has created Lessons.biz, which offers a 6-week course on how to run a successful t-shirt business. My guest skipped college and started her... Listen to episode
My guest today is the founder and CEO of Small Business Trends, an award-winning online publication, which offers breaking news and advice for small business owners. She is a former corporate attorney that left that corporate life and founded her own company in 2003. She is considered an authoritative voice on small business issues and... Listen to episode
My guest for today wasn t always an entrepreneur. He attended Harvard and worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs, did policy work for the National Economic Council at the White House, and political organizing for the Service Employees International Union. Then he gave it all up to become an entrepreneur … He is the CEO... Listen to episode
Today s guest is an artist, musician and entrepreneur who made his first record when he was 12, began playing in clubs when he was 14, and started his own music publishing company at 18. Yeah. My guest’s passion for music and technology led him to found the music licensing firm Rumblefish in his college dorm... Listen to episode
My guest today is a brilliant technology entrepreneur with incredibly lofty goals for himself and his business. He is the founder and CEO of Freelancer.com, a global online freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace, but this is in no way his first entrepreneurial venture. To date, Freelancer.com has acquired 18 outside companies to add to it s arsenal... Listen to episode
My guest today is a speaker, consultant, and entrepreneur — as well as a self-proclaimed “deviant hippie” that is attempting to maximize his god years. He is the founder of nGen Works, a digital strategy firm that uses research, technology and creativity to help their clients stand out online. They ve recently transitioned from a traditional... Listen to episode
My guest today is a blogger, food enthusiast, and entrepreneur. Along with her husband and business partner, they have created The Pinch of Yum and Food Blogger Pro. She spent the last five years teaching elementary school by day and blogging about food by night. She always went back and forth about becoming a full-time... Listen to episode
My guest today is a serial entrepreneur, author, and well-known digital marketing expert. In 1998, my guest undertook his first entrepreneurial venture: a $900 marketing course for cosmetic surgeons.By the time he was 26, he was making $10,000 to $15,000 a month teaching physicians how to improve their sales. According to Forbes, he’s produced more... Listen to episode
My guest today is a poet turned tech junkie and entrepreneur. After receiving a graduate degree in literature in 2000, my guest headed for Europe, where he sang rhymes to crowds for 5 years before moving to Arabia to teach Shakespeare to American troops. His interest in tech was sparked while working for a VC... Listen to episode
My guest today is a self-proclaimed maker but I would call him an entrepreneur, writer, designer, developer, and master marketer. My guest has been developing and shipping products online for over 10 years now and has seen his share of successes and not-so-successful ventures. He is currently the founder of Baremetrics, software analytics and... Listen to episode
My guest for today is the founder and Client Success Officer of Dream Local Digital, a startup helping small-medium sized businesses market themselves online. She has over 15 years of experience in digital marketing, sales, and product development. She has worked with media companies focusing on internet product development and digital revenue growth. She is... Listen to episode