Thrive School with John Meese: Recent Episodes
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Thrive School is a podcast for entrepreneurs (formerly known as Survive and Thrive Interviews). Hosted by John Meese, this show is designed to equip you with the tools and training you need to build a thriving business from scratch! π
Each episode is either an author interview to teach a practical framework from an experienced entrepreneur or a behind-the-scenes breakdown of a business in progressβwhich could be a client's business, one of John's businesses, or yours:
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John Meese is the author of the #1 bestsellerΒ Survive and Thrive: How to Build a Profitable Business in Any Economy (Including This One). An entrepreneur himself, John is on a mission to eradicate generational poverty by equipping entrepreneurs with the tools and training they need to build thriving businesses from scratch. He is the founder ofΒ Cowork Columbia, co-founder ofΒ Notable, and regularly publishes interviews and insight atΒ JohnMeese.com.
Including interviews with Michael Hyatt, Pat Flynn, Mike Michalowicz, Ray Edwards, and many more incredible guests, you will love this podcast if you like How I Built This, Smart Passive Income, or Business Made Simple!
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Dr. Sharon Grossman is a psychologist, success coach, and the author of The 7E Solution to Burnout: Transforming High Achievers From Exhausted to Extraordinary. In this interview, she shares her framework for preventing burnout, identifying when you're on track to burn out, and recovering from a state of burnout if you're already there.
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Pamela Wilson is the author of Master Content Strategy: How to Maximize Your Reach and Boost Your Bottom Line Every Time You Hit Publish. She coaches people in mid-career to help them build profitable online businesses, and in this interview she shares the unique challenges (and opportunities!) that someone in mid-career faces when considering an online business.
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Devin Marks has coached hundreds of communicators to speak at TED and TEDx events and share "ideas worth spreading". In this interview, he shares the key ingredients to communicating your own compelling message and get people's attention to make a difference!
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Mitch Gray is a small business coach and author of How to Hire and Keep Great People: Your go-to guide for finding great people, designing great culture, and building your dream team. In this interview he shares how to use "Lifestyle Recruiting" to find your target employee, along with other practical insights including:
- Why you need daily check-ins and weekly meetings with every person on your team
- The smaller your team, the greater impact each new person has on your business
- Always recruit to replace your bottom performer
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Paul O'Donnell and Sylvana Caloni are the co-authors of Humble Crumbles: Savouring the crumbs of wisdom from the rise and fall of Humble Pie. In this interview they share lessons learned from a failed business, with insights on how you can learn from your own inevitable failures to make progress on your path to success.
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Michael "Buzz" Buzinski is the founder of Buzzbizz Media and author of The Rule of 26 For Service-Based Businesses: Three Steps to Doubling Website Revenue. In this interview he shares his stupendously simple formula to doubling the revenue in your business this year!
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Chris Williams is the founder of Group Coach Nation. In this interview he shares how to launch a flagship product in the form of a group coaching program, and Chris shares how he currently helps experts launch similar groups to generate $50K per month in revenue from 2-3 simultaneous groups.
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Dr. Ruth Gotian is the Chief Learning Officer at Weill Cornell Medicine and author of The Success Factor: Developing the Mindset and Skillset for Peak Business Performance. In this interview she shares the four key attributes that all high achievers have in common based on her study of astronauts, Olympic athletes, and Nobel laureates: intrinsic motivation, perseverance, strong foundation, constantly learning through informal means. With this insight, you can adopt your own success factor and become a successful entrepreneur.
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Jan Cavelle is a successful serial entrepreneur from the UK and author of Scale for Success: Expert Insights Into Growing Your Business. In this interview she shares advice on how to overcome the most common roadblocks on the path to scale a profitable company.
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David Wood is a high performance coach and the author of Get Paid for Who You Are: 5 Steps for Financial Freedom, Time Freedom, Location Freedom, and Inner Freedom. In this interview he shares specific instructions on how to double your business by focusing on less, narrowing what you work on to exciting projects that drive results in your business with a disciplined approach to entrepreneurship.
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Mike Michalowicz is the author of several bestselling business books, including Get Different: Marketing That Can't Be Ignored! In this interview he shares the problem with following "best practices" and what you should do instead to grow your business. His DAD and Who-What-Win framework will help you get your target customer's attention, and drive more sales in your business with every experiment.
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Scott Jeffrey Miller is FranklinCovey's senior advisor on thought leadership, host of the top podcast On Leadership with Scott Miller, and author of several bestselling books including Marketing Mess to Brand Success: 30 Challenges to Transform Your Organization's Brand (and Your Own). In this interview he shares how to overcome common challenges companies face when marketing their business.
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Dave Chesson is the entrepreneur behind Kindlepreneur, Publisher Rocket, and Atticus (among other projects) and in this interview he shares the data-driven way he approaches book marketing, and how to get specific metrics on what people are searching for, what books are selling, and what categories you should create content for to publish books that consistently sell on Amazon.
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Jonathan Milligan is an online business coach and author of Your Message Matters: How to Rise Above the Noise and Get Paid for What You Know. In this interview he shares how to combine your unique experience, personality, and skills to create a compelling message you can use to build a full-time profitable business as a messenger (or content creator) online.
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Alex Strathdee is the founder of Advanced Amazon Ads and bestselling author of Book Funnels & Amazon Ads: How to use your book & Amazon Ads To Attract Customers and build a 6+ figure business. In this interview he shares what makes Amazon ads unique compared to most ad platforms, and how to get started to use Amazon ads to steadily drive sales for your book (or other product).
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Julie Broad is the founder of Book Launchers and author of multiple bestselling books, including Self-Publish & Succeed: The No Boring Books Way to Writing a Non-Fiction Book that Sells. In this interview she shares how to create an engaging book your customers will read and recommend (as Julie says, #noboringbooks). She also walks through the self-publishing process from start to finish.
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Mickie Kennedy is the founder of eReleases and author of The PR Strategy Manifesto: 8 Steps to Build a PR Campaign Designed to Get Massive Media Coverage. In this interview he shares how to get major media outlets to advertise your business for (nearly) free by sending a strategic press release campaign to get a steady stream of earned media, exposure, and high quality leads.
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Timmy Bauer is the Founder of Dinosaur House and author of Lucas the Dinosaur Entrepreneur: What Does Monetize Mean??? In this interview he shares his unique strategy of publishing kids books to position clients as industry leaders and serve target customers during their most precious moments, as they read books to their children.
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Mike Capuzzi is the founder of Bite Sized Books and author of six books himself, including a #1 bestseller The 100-Page Book: The Business Ownerβs Guide to Self-Publishing a Short Customer Attraction Book. In this interview he shares the framework he uses to create short helpful books he calls "shooks" to generate a steady stream of customers for small business owners in any industry.
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Meera Kothand is the author of nine bestselling books, including The One Hour Content Plan and Uncover Your Difference. In this interview she shares the self-publishing strategy she uses to consistently launch bestsellers that sell day-after-day, making thousands of dollars from book sales every month while growing her email list and driving the success of her online business.
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Jeff Brown is host of the award-winning podcast Read to Lead and author of the new book Read to Lead: The Simple Habit That Expands Your Influence and Boosts Your Career. In this interview, he shares the long-term impact of building a consistent reading habit and how to choose which books to read when, to get the most out of your time invested in reading.
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Suzie Barbour is the COO of Cowork.Inc and Your Enneagram Coach. She's spent the last decade scaling high-growth companies with an entrepreneurial approach to operations that she is going to share in a workshop at Built to Thrive LIVE! Listen in to learn more about why a "Work Smarter, Not Harder" approach to work is what your business needs.
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When you attend this full day training workshop, you'll walk away with:
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Jaryd Krause is a plumber-turned-entrepreneur and host of the Buying Online Businesses podcast. In this interview, he shares why he recommends buying an online business to skip the levels where 90% of startups fail, and which business types you should focus on when you're just getting started.
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Brooke Lively is the founder of Cathedral Capital and the author of From Panic to Profit: How 6 Key Numbers Can Make a 6-Figure Difference in Your Business. In this interview, she shares her experience and insight on how to take control of your business finances and create a clear picture of where your business is at, and where it's going.
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In this bonus episode, listen to the first chapter of my new book, Survive and Thrive: How to Build a Profitable Business in Any Economy (Including This One). You will learn why real entrepreneurs get paidβbut they don't work for money. You'll discover the new Age of Insight (along with the death of the Age of Information) combined with the Attention Economy, and immediately see how you need to adapt your business strategy to thrive beyond 2020.
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In this bonus episode, listen to the introduction to my new book, Survive and Thrive: How to Build a Profitable Business in Any Economy (Including This One). You will learn the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on the global economy, why we will never go back to life before, and the silver lining of the brave, new world we're stepping into beyond 2020 as entrepreneurs.
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Alex Sanfilippo is host of the Creating Your Brand podcast and founder of PodMatch. In this interview, we flip the mic when Alex interviews me (John Meese) about my new book, Survive and Thrive: How to Build a Profitable Business in Any Economy (Including This One)and shares the impact I've personally had on his entrepreneurship journey.
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Mike Kim is a brand strategist, host of the Brand You Podcast, and author of You Are The Brand: The 8-Step Blueprint to Showcase Your Unique Expertise and Build a Highly Profitable, Personally Fulfilling Business. In this interview, he shares his framework for building your personal brand and turning that into a profitable business.
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Mike Kim is a brand strategist, host of the Brand You Podcast, and author of You Are The Brand: The 8-Step Blueprint to Showcase Your Unique Expertise and Build a Highly Profitable, Personally Fulfilling Business. In this interview, we flip the mic when Mike Kim interviews me (John Meese) about my new book, Survive and Thrive: How to Build a Profitable Business in Any Economy (Including This One).
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My new book hits bookstores in just a few weeks on July 27. Pre-order Survive and Thrive: How to Build a Profitable Business in Any Economy (Including This One)to get $129+ in bonuses including the ebook and audiobook along with a Built to Thrive companion course for FREE. In this solo episode, I share the backstory on why I wrote the book, what to expect in it, and some incredible endorsements from Michael Hyatt, Pat Flynn, Ray Edwards, and others.
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Michael Levitt is Chief Burnout Officer of the Breakfast Leadership Network and the author of Burnout Proof: How To Establish Boundaries To Avoid The Negativity Of Stress. In this interview, he shares his personal story of losing his job, house, and nearly his life before learning how to stop burnout forever and thrive in work and life.
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Phillip Stutts is the founder of both Win BIG Media (a corporate marketing agency) and Go BIG Media (a political marketing ad firm). He is also the author of the bestseller The Undefeated Marketing System: How to Grow Your Business and Build Your Audience Using the Secret Formula That Elects Presidents. In this interview, he shares the 5-step framework he's adapted from political marketing to a business growth strategy.
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Morgana Rae is a money mentor and the author of the #1 international best-seller Financial Alchemy: Twelve Months of Magic and Manifestation. In this interview, she shares her six-step framework for resetting your psychological relationship with money to welcome wealth into your life!
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Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge the author of It's Gonna Be Ok: Proven Ways to Improve Your Child's Mental Health. In this interview, she shares the impact mental health can have on your business (good or bad) and teaches her REPS framework for reducing stress in your daily life, so you can make better business decisions.
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Katrina Roddy is the author of Steal Your Skills from Corporate: Use Your Professional Talents to Become an Independent Contractor. In this interview, she shares how common skills in a corporate environment can give you an incredible advantage in your own business, as an entrepreneur.
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Carole Stizza is an executive coach and the author of The Ask Framework: Questions to Elevate Your Influence, Performance, and Leadership. In this interview, she shares a formula she developed to asking disarming questions that trigger a flood of positive feedback from colleagues and clients.
You can even use this framework to ask your customers for public, five-star reviews!
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Brian Winch is the author of Cleanlots: America's Simplest Business, a Parking Lot Litter Removal Business You Can Be Proud Of. In this interview, he shares how he built a six-figure business cleaning parking lots with a few hundred dollars and a few phone calls, no experience required!
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Bryan Kelly is an entrepreneur, investor, and the creator of Stroke of Genius who credits most of his success to reading the right business book at the right time, and putting it into practice.
Still, in this interview Bryan shares the problem with too many books! But he also shares how to get the most out of each book you read, and apply that to your business with his W.I.T. framework.
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David Gage is the author of The Partnership Charter: How to Start Out Right with Your New Business Partnership (or Fix the One You're In). He and Donna Gage run BMC Associates, a mediation firm that has helped business owners create and nurture healthy business partnerships for more than 30 years.
Top Takeaways from this interview:
- Business partnerships are just like rocket fuel: primed to help you blast off OR explode
- Some of the most successful business in history were built by partnerships (Apple, Microsoft, Disney, HP, Ben & Jerry's, and countless more)
- Creating a "Partnership Charter" is the best way to create a shared vision for business with co-founders and prevent (or minimize) future conflict
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Dr. Eamonn Butler is the author Entrepreneurship: A Primer (among many other titles) and is Director of the Adam Smith Institute, a leading policy think tank. In this interview, he shares an encouraging message for entrepreneurs on the crucial importance of creative, constructive entrepreneurship in the global economy.
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Curtis Morley is a five-time entrepreneur and author of The Entrepreneur's Paradox: How to Overcome the 16 Pitfalls Along the Startup Journey. In this interview, he shares why you need to stop trying to be the best in your industry, and what you should be doing instead.
Fun fact: Curtis and I are climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro together as part of a mastermind retreat in October!
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Claim your free pass to Creator Class, and learn how you can cash in on the booming βCreatorβ economy, build an online audience, and make money from the content you create onlineβwithout any gatekeepers getting in your way! Learn more and sign up for this FREE training video series at creatorclass.info
Alan Moore is the author of Do Build: How to make and lead a business the world needs. He is a designer and business innovator on a mission to help businesses discover their own unique beauty, and in this interview he shares how regenerative business practices create a sustainable path to long-term success for business owners, customers, and the world.
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David Jenyns is the author of SYSTEMology: Create time, reduce errors and scale your profits with proven business systemsand an experienced entrepreneur on a mission to free business owners worldwide from the day-to-day operations of running their business. In this interview he shares his framework for introducing systems in a business at any level, to ultimately scale your business success.
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Joe Pine is the author of The Experience Economy: Competing for Customer Time, Attention, and Money. In this interview, he shares how to turn your business into an experience for your customers. He shares the fact that an experience should be so engaging that people can't help but spend their time with you give you their attention, and then spend their money with you by buying your product. He also talks about how mass customization can really boost your business and the experience for your customers.
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Welcome to Thrive School! This podcast, hosted by John Meese, features coaching sessions with entrepreneurs, author interviews, and behind-the-scenes breakdowns of insights designed to help entrepreneurs like you build a thriving business from scratch. Listen to this trailer to learn what to expect in future episodes, and how to get yourself featured on the show!
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Jennifer Katrulya, Partner at Citrin Cooperman, helps us dig deep into the world of finances on today's episode. She shares a wealth of tips for making sure you are monitoring your cashflow correctly, as well as tips on what financial reports are most important for new entrepreneurs. Jennifer also shares the best way to get started in hiring financial partners.
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My wife and business partner, Rachel, joins me to talk about my new book, Survive and Thrive, which comes out in ebook form today. Rachel asks me some important questions about why I decided to write the book, and how I hope it will help people. Get your copy of the ebook today at surviveandthrivebook.com.
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Podcast host and real estate investor, Lane Kawaoka, talks about how he went from engineer to real estate investor. Lane lets us in on his method of creating passive cash flow through rental properties and shares some tips on how to get started.Β
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Bryan Clayton, a co-founder of GreenPal, built his business from the ground upβ choosing to not use VC or any investment money. He shares with us why that was important to him and what it meant for his business' financial security through tough times, like the Covid-19 pandemic.
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John Warrillow, podcast host and author of Built to Sell, talks about building a business in the best way to set it up to sell one day. He shares his strategies on finding buyers and why it's important to make sure your business is always able to be sold.
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Cofounders of NotablePress, Thomas McGee and John Meese dive into their offering designed specifically with content creators in mind. Today they talk through the strategy behind creating a new publication platform for creators, and share a preview of some of the Notable Pro features to come.
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An entrepreneur since 14, Dylan Ogline, founder of Ogline Digital shares with us how to balance business and lifestyle on purpose. By setting expectations for others and yourself, you can change the definition of work structure and your business to give you the life you want.
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TDT CPA Managing Partner, Courtney Deronde, shares with us the best practices to be financially successful coming out of the pandemic. She gives us tips on using your data to build a plan for scaling your business. Courtney also speaks about taking the time to focus on what is doing well and what your customers need can really boost your business.
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Serial entrepreneur, meditation instructor and CEO of MSys Technologies, Sanjay Sehgal, shares how connecting to your heart in a daily practice can help you deal with stress better in all situations, including your business. He helps us understand how balance within can help us to make better decisions on a daily basis.
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Owner of Rush Order Tee's, Michael Nemeroff, shares the highs and lows of starting a family business as a teenager when they had nothing else to lose. He walks us through what it was like to get his business off the ground and where he is today.
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Darrell is an author and speaker who helps meaningful companies grow. He shares with us how to get strategic growth using goal setting and processes to get net new business and then using that relationship to cross-sell.
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A champion for entrepreneurs, Kyle started one of the first coworking spaces and grew it to a multi-location business. Today he walks us through how the pandemic and riots in his city affected and changed his business, and how he is working through the present and looking to the future.
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Kristin is a long-time wedding photographer, turned business coach to creatives. In this episode, she walks us through how she helps creatives in her mastermind create multiple revenue streams. She also shares with us how she built her team during the pandemic.
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Nathan Hirsh has been an entrepreneur since his college days. He got his start selling on Amazon, then moved into a virtual assistant business, and now teaches people how to outsource to help their business grow. He recently launched a new SOP Builder and shared with us the struggles and triumphs of starting a new business during a pandemic.
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With over 30 years of entrepreneurship experience, Jeffrey Shaw helps businesses and the self-employed create an ecosystem that thrives. Today he shares how to evolve your business with the changing world around us.Β
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Josh Fonger coaches entrepreneurs to build systems that grow their business. Today, he shares how to identify systems and make them work for you.Β
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My wife Rachel is back on the podcast to interview me because we have a very special announcement about an acquisition I've been supporting for the last year: Michael Hyatt has sold Platform University to Pete Vargas! We also dig into some of my current projects and why I am so passionate about helping entrepreneurs.
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Kevin Whelan is a marketing advisor for coworking spaces and other industries like e-commerce. Today, he shares how you can pinpoint your customer's needs to build the right service or product for them simply by asking them the right questions.
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Scott Beebe works with business owners and their key leaders to build systems process and articulate their purpose. Today Scott shares some system-building tips to make your business work for you.Β
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Founder of The Money Guy podcast, Brian Preston shares how to make your business lean and ready for any economic downturn, including a pandemic. He also shares ways to take advantage of this time to prepare for the economic recovery.Β
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JB Glossinger, The Morning Coach, talks about keeping his businesses lean, letting go of one business, and starting a positivity group during the COVID-19 pandemic. JB runs several businesses and coaches his clients on building residual and passive income.
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Raymond Aaron is a New York Times best-selling author and professional speaker. In this episode, Raymond shares how he's shifted from teaching seminars on location to virtual seminars and exponentially expanded his reach. Raymond also shares his MTO goal-setting system and how it helps you look at your goals differently.
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Doug Morneau is a serial entrepreneur, host of the Real Marketing Real Fast podcast, and author of Three Big Lies: The Real Truth about Renting Email Lists to Generate Targeted Leads and Sales. In this interview, he shares his experience responding to COVID-19 as a digital marketer and investor.
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Bobby Klinck is a Harvard lawyer turned entrepreneur and the host of The Certified BADA$$ Online Marketing Podcast. In this interview, he shares his experience responding to COVID-19 and what he discovered was missing in client contracts that should be included to legally protect your business during good times and bad.
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Bryson Leach used to be a creative designer on Dave Ramsey's team. Now he's a small-town entrepreneur with two brick-and-mortar businesses along with a branding & sign design business. In this interview, he shares how he adapted his retail strategy in response to COVID-19 and a local lockdown in Columbia, Tennessee.
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Cathryn Lavery a traditionally-trained architect turned product designer and the CEO of BestSelf (creator of the SELF Journal). After runaway success on Kickstarter followed by building a multi-million dollar company on Shopify, Cathryn and her co-founder Allen came to a crossroad and ultimately broke up their partnership in the midst of a trade war and global pandemic (both of which directly hurt BestSelf's supply chain).
In this interview, Cathryn shares what she wishes she knew before starting her business with a co-founder, what she learned along the way, and how she ultimately became the 100% owner of her company after two years of negotiations to buy out her partner.
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Sean Harper is a serial entrepreneur and the co-founder of Kin Insurance. In this interview, Sean shares how he's leveraged technology to disrupt the home insurance industry and how that set his company up for success during the COVID-19 pandemic and related lockdowns.
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Rabbi Daniel Lapin is a traditional Jewish scholar and the author of Thou Shalt Prosper and Business Secrets from the Bible. In this interview, Rabbi Daniel explains how Jewish wisdom and history clarifies the path for anyone who desires wealth, and he illustrates how economic success is ultimately an issue of character.
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Caleb Mathis is an owner & operator of a Chick-fil-A franchise in Columbia, TN (AKA Muletown). In this interview, he shares how he responded to COVID-19 to serve his team, support his customers, and ultimately have his most financially successful month to date in the middle of the global pandemic.
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Ryan Daniel Moran is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and the author of 12 Months to $1 Million: How to Pick a Winning product, Build a Real Business, and Become a Seven-Figure Entrepreneur. In this interview, Ryan Moran shares his experience with COVID-19 and what he sees on the horizon in a changing, reshaping economy.
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Casey Graham is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO of Gravy Solutions, a payment recovery company that serves subscription-based businesses. In this interview, he shares his response to COVID-19 with a "recession-accelerated" business plan of attack that allowed him to dramatically grow his business despite a declining economy and quickly create a content marketing engine to become an authority on LinkedIn.
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Tom Schwab is an entrepreneur and Chief Evangelist Officer for Interview Valet, the company he founded to help thought leaders get featured on podcasts in front of their target customers. In this interview, he shares his business experience with the COVID-19 crisis and the benefits of joining an existing conversation (by getting featured on someone else's podcast) rather than trying to start a new conversation online (like creating a new podcast, which ironically I just did).
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Brian Kurtz is a legend in the world of direct response marketing and the author of Overdeliver. He revolutionized direct mail marketing alongside Eugene Schwartz, Jay Abraham, and many other legends, and then he rode the wave to digital marketing with a few select peers (like Perry Marshall).
In this interview, he shares his response to COVID-19 and the related economic lockdown, diving into the importance of direct response email marketing with a clear sales offer and a consistent approach to overdeliver with your customers and make more sales, all to grow your business.
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Allan Dib is a serial entrepreneur, digital marketing coach, and author of The 1-Page Marketing Plan. In this interview, he shares the difference between heaven and hell when it comes to business model design, and how to design a marketing engine and business that supports the life you want to live, while making the world a better place.
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Phillip Stutts is an entrepreneur, digital marketing strategist, and the author of Fire Them Now. In this interview, Phillip dives deep into the data that his agency has been collecting and sharing each month throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, cutting straight to the chase on how consumer motivations and behavior are changingβlikely the early signs of a long-term change in how people shop, why people shop, and what they purchase.
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Mike Michalowicz is an entrepreneur, business coach, and the author of multiple bestselling books, including Profit First and Fix This Next. In this interview, Mike shares his approach to reinvention and business strategy that supports an unshakable core in your business that will serve you by helping you identify opportunities to increase revenue despite uncertainty and protect your own income as a business owner as well.
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Ray Edwards is a serial entrepreneur, master copywriter, and the author of How to Write Copy That Sells. In this interview, Ray shares his own experience facing a government lockdown during COVID-19 that closed his coffee shop and canceled his live events, along with the approach he took to focus on serving customers at the highest level possibleβand achieve his most profitable months everβdespite the circumstances.
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Pat Flynn is an entrepreneur, serial entrepreneur, and the author of Superfans. He is also the host of five top-rated podcasts, including AskPat and the Smart Passive Income podcast. His mission is to help entrepreneurs make more money, save more time, and help more people too.
In this interview, Pat shares his experience when COVID-19 hit his community while he was at Social Media Marketing World, which led him to cancel his own event (FlynnCon) and adapt his business strategy for his own projects so he could show up and serve his audience with a servant-hearted Superfans strategy.
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Michael Hyatt is a bestselling author, business coach, and entrepreneur with an 8-figure company he built from scratch after the 2008 economic crisis known as the great recession (during which he led one of the largest publishing companies in the world through major setbacks and recovery). In this interview, Michael shares what it means to be an entrepreneur and what leading through crisis requires from each of us.
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In this first episode of the Survive and Thrive podcast, Rachel Meese interviews John Meese about why he started the podcast, his background as an economist, digital marketer, and entrepreneur, as well as what to expect in future episodes in terms of content, format, and the guest interviews to come!
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