The Entrepreneurial You

The Intersection Between the Music Beat and the Boardroom

Tue, 04 Jan 2022 12:00:15 +0000

A zac of many trades; Zachary Harding has crafted a diversified career profile that has taken him from the dancehall to the boardroom and into the Forbes Business Council…and he’s just getting started. Dubbed a marketing guru, Harding has a track record of excellence in senior management and strategic marketing roles with prominent brands such as the Jamaica Tourist Board, ATL, Red Stripe, JAMPRO, the Urban Development Corporation, Caribbean Airlines, the Port Authority of Jamaica, Jamaica Manufacturers’ Association just to name a few.

He is currently the Executive Chair of Delta Capital Partners and Group Chief Executive Officer of Stocks and Securities Limited.

He’s the CEO with a deep-rooted passion for the cultural and creative arts…on The Entrepreneurial You.

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Has video conferencing shaped the future of communication? The studies indicate a resounding yes and Zoom Video Communications, Inc has come out of the shadows to lead the technological pack. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, more and more companies were forced to rely on video conferencing tools to maintain business. An unprecedented 2020 gave rise to video conferencing systems, and Zoom was perfectly positioned to grow in demand. The accessibility and ease of deployment have made it one of the leading virtual meeting software.

Let’s put things into perspective…here are some key statistics on the rapid growth of the video conferencing company, Zoom.

In 2020, Zoom generated $2.6 billion in revenue, a 317 per cent increase year-on-year. It was also one of the fastest-growing apps of the pandemic, with meeting participants increasing by 2900 per cent.

And we’re not done…It has almost five hundred thousand business customers as of March 2021. Its valuation exceeded $100 billion during the pandemic and the number of annual meeting minutes on Zoom is now over 3.3 trillion. Not bad for a company launched in 2013, less than 10 years ago.

Zoom’s uptake in use has had one of the most rapid business growths of 2020 and research projects that the video conferencing industry will be worth US$20 billion by 2024 so there is more than enough opportunity for game-changing expansions of companies such as zoom.

A new age of communication methods is unfolding; boosting efficiency and productivity. For one, thanks to innovations like those, you don’t have to be tech-savvy to be able to operate the latest technology.

It’s safe to say this trend is here to stay, constantly being developed with added enhanced, next-generation features and this boom is sure to last beyond COVID-19.

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My 2021 Year in Review

Thu, 30 Dec 2021 02:55:28 +0000

I trust you had a Merry Christmas. I am praying that 2022 will be a year of victory for you.

2021 has been quite a year, as was its predecessor 2020. But I am here to tell you that I gave it all that I’ve got from a place of surrender, ease and grace. I was in no rush to go anywhere nor do anything. My modus operandi became one of simply being. I won’t lie though, I have had some serious challenges that I am still navigating.

Honestly, there was a time in the year where I thought I couldn’t bear anything else. While still recovering from a life-threatening burnout in 2020, my husband suffered major strokes in May, which frightened the daylight out of me.

I cried, acknowledged where I was and reached out for help. And man did my community rally around me! Oh yeah, you supported as only you could—the prayers, the retreats, the phone calls, the cooking of meals and more—you reminded me that I was not alone, and I am grateful for that.

Notwithstanding the challenges, I have had many wins (big and small).

The Entrepreneurial You podcast celebrated its 200th episode in January with 2nd-time guest, Seth Godin.
Lisa Nichols shared her brilliance on The Entrepreneurial You podcast
My forever virtual mentor, Les Brown, accepted my invitation to be on The Entrepreneurial You.
UWI Press became a Distributor for my 5th book, Podcast Power: The Quick-Start Guide to Launching & Leveling-Up Your Brand.
I partnered with Business Access TV to launch the TV edition of The Entrepreneurial You podcast. Here is a sample. They will soon be made available on the podcast and my YouTube channel.
In addition to The Entrepreneurial You, I produce two other business podcasts:

EXIM Bank’s Your Business Matters
JSE’s The Jamaica Stock Exchange & You

I coached some clients into their winning season during one-on-one sessions and from my Take-Flight Mastermind.
Interviewed some insightful people for the podcasts that I produce
Contributed to the 1st episode of the PodFest Podcast
I was an audience member in the audience of the Dr Phil Show.
Continue to treat my mental and physical health as a priority on my schedule.
Revived the Patwa Apparel brand via dipatwalifestyle.com
Became more Africa-centric (planning a women empowerment trip to Ghana).

As it relates to plans for 2022, I don’t have a lot of those. I have a few bucket list items that I intend on crossing off. The aim is to do more things that give me joy, go with the flow while I reap the benefits from seeds planted over many years.

As I go forward, The Entrepreneurial You will feature the brilliance of the African Diaspora and share content from the TV edition of the show.

I want you to know how much I value your support. I look forward to sharing more informative content in 2022.

Until we connect again, do take care of yourself.

Sincerely,
Heneka

Battling Imposter Syndrome as an Entrepreneur

Tue, 21 Dec 2021 12:00:28 +0000

Do you give time and space to that other voice in your head telling you that you are not good enough? I mean, those big audacious goals that you have written in your journal remain exactly there because you keep asking yourself, “who am I to want to be able to do this thing?” Actually who are you, NOT to want these things. Listen to this episode to learn how Arlan Hamilton has overcome imposter syndrome to be the bad ass entrepreneur she now is.

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Learn how Arlan deals with Imposter Syndrome. .
Get insight into Arlan’s latest venture dealing with Fractional Employment.
Find out Arlan’s Jamaican connection.

Episode Highlights

About Hire Runner

Runner was formed in 2021 addressing a pain point that many companies have, that is needing that extra executive support but not being able to or wanting to bring on a full-time salaried employee right away.
Hire takes on fractions employees to assist entrepreneurs on as needed.
There are multiple ways that Runners can curate their career.
The Gig work economy has changed and created many things; what was missing was the access to benefits.

Where did Arlan’s love for Startups come from?

The innovation that she tapped into as a child made her curious about people.
At around 30 she had moments of revelation that showed her the disconnect with those who were part of the tech space and she wanted to change that.
Part of her mission is to be someone who catalyses the brilliant minds from people taken from all walks of life.

How has imposter syndrome affected Arlan’s entrepreneurial journey?

Arlan has admitted that imposter syndrome affected her when she was younger.
We don’t have enough time in this world to spend our time wondering if we are in the right room or not.
Black women have so much time to make up for. We don’t have enough time to wonder if we are ready for that role.

4 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“It doesn’t get easier, it becomes more worth it.”

“Now with all the policies in place today, it is common decency to ensure that people working within your company are taken care of and we are happy to be on this side of history.”

“The startup lane is such a new frontier and could be a leveling playfield.”

“I want to be someone that catalyses the brilliant minds who take us into the future. And these brilliant minds are attached to people taken from all walks of life and not just a chosen few who get to represent who we are.”

About Arlan Hamilton

Arlan is an investor and the Founder, HireRunner and managing partner of Backstage Capital. In May 2020, Hamilton released her first book from Penguin Random House entitled It’s About Damn Time, which is based on her personal journey into entrepreneurship and venture capital.

Have specific questions? You can reach out to Arlan on Twitter.

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Business & Travel: AirBnB Style

Tue, 14 Dec 2021 12:00:24 +0000

Have you ever seen pictures of entrepreneurs with their laptop while on the glistening and enticing shores with hues of blues and turquoise with the caption, “living my best life now” and wondered how you too can do that? This episode reveals someone who is successfully doing that and provides hacks for you to do it too.

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Learn how a tech startup founder runs a successful business while travelling the world, living in dozens of cities.
Discover how to merge business and travel to have the life you want
Identify some travel hacks to do so on a budget.

Episode Highlights

Yaro’s early days get in Tech

From 16 to about 25 years old, Yaro’s goal was focused on making enough money to survive with his own source of income, not someone else’s.
He was seen as a misfit. Everyone had a job or was starting university.
Brisban wasn’t a hotbed for entrepreneurship..

How was Yaro able to travel the world and do business?

He built a business that was very leveraged, was systematized and with help from Assistants, etc..
A blog and Newsletter allowed him to create content for just 2 hours a day and that was a good day. He had an established audience. He automated much of his process.
It took him 10 years to get to that digital-nomad lifestyle.

What inspired Yaro to travel the world and do business at the same time?

The initial inspiration came from learning about entrepreneurship in general.
The Book, e-Myth by Michael Gerber played a huge role. It was instrumental to validate the idea that you could build a business that you are not the main operator.
It was about wanting to build a machine that could generate passive income.

3 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“Throughout that entire time I was sitting in Cafes with my laptop and I would coordinate either a launch campaign, write a blog post or a Newsletter and the business would run behind me.”

“I made a deliberate choice to build that type of business, to go after that business model. It took me 10 years.”

“My goal was simply not get a job, not have a boss, not have an alarm clock, that was the worst, not have a cap on my potentia to make money, like all entrepreneurs, that one was to make a lot of money that I could actually survive. That’s what my brain was focused on.”

About Yaro Starak

Yaro Starak. Yaro is the co-founder of InboxDone.com, an email management company with a team of 25+ serving clients including restaurant owners, venture capitalists, accountants, doctors, lawyers, real estate agents, car retailers, online coaches and more.Yaro has made 30+ angel investments in tech startups including Steezy, LeadIQ, Fluent Forever, FitBod and Nutrisense, has property investments in Canada and Ukraine, and in partnership built a 3.6MW solar farm.During the mid-2000s Yaro sold his first company, BetterEdit.com, then built an online education business, Blog Mastermind, selling over $2 Million of his books and online courses, as he traveled the world, living in 26 different cities. Yaro has been featured in SkyNews, Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, Huffington Post, Business Insider, Foundr and hundreds of media outlets and events.

Have specific questions? You can reach out to Yaro on Twitter and check out his FREE MINI-GUIDE on the TOP 10 TASKS TO OUTSOURCE TO AN ASSISTANT

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Navigating Your Health Goals While Building Financial Freedom

Tue, 07 Dec 2021 12:00:56 +0000

They lied to us, making us believe that as entrepreneurs we should be hustling and grinding constantly if we want to become successful. But is it success if it comes at the expense of our health? Can we have great health while pursuing wealth? Is it one or the other? This episode examines how we can navigate our health goals while still pursuing financial freedom.

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Learn to navigate your health goals while pursuing your financial goals.
Find out how to be intentional about taking care of your health.
To learn practical steps to making better nutritional decisions.

Episode Highlights

Taking care of our own health is important

Culture has contributed to the way we live our lives without rest.
Stress plays a huge role in our ability to be healthy.
We need to find a way to prioritize our bodies and our needs.

How is a lack of proper nutrition manifesting itself amongst entrepreneurs?

Eating nothing during the week and then binging on weekends.
It looks different for everyone
When we don’t have proper nutrition, we are not going to be mentally sharp as we could be.
Lot of emotional overeating.

We can cut through the informational overwhelm by focusing on the basics.

What does health have to do with financial freedom?

We are not going to be our best selves if we are unhealthy
We cannot reach our financial goals if we are unhealthy.
Having habits in place reach far beyond heath goals

3 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“We cannot give to anyone or anything from a state of depletion.”

“Taking care of our nutrition is important…for all the many relationships we are currently juggling.”

“If we can allow our nutrition to not be another stressful thing to worry about then we can find a way for our nutrition to support the busy lives we live.”

About Kate Lyman

Kate is a nutrition coach, founder of “Kate Lyman Nutrition,” wife, traveler, and lover of outdoors. Kate helps committed clients make a transformational change using a flexible nutrition approach and creating sustainable healthy habits using evidence-based methods.

Have specific questions? You can reach out to Kate Facebook and on her website and check out her FREE MEAL PREP COOKBOOK.

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How to Tip Every Meeting in Your Favour Before You Say a Word

Tue, 30 Nov 2021 12:00:17 +0000

Ever thought about what to say or do to get a meeting tipped in your favor before it even start?

Words have power but when combined with the appropriate body language and action, they have the power to move mountains.

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Learn the true meaning of communication
Explore the four types of communicators and the steps to effective communication.
To learn practical steps to tip meetings in your favour.

Episode Highlights

The True Meaning of Communication

Aurora explains that communication is when the message sent is the message that is received.
She explains that this is not always the case because there is always background noise of some kind to prevent effective communication.
As a communicator, it is important to understand neurological science and know that there is always a conversation in the listener’s head, whether it is thinking about their bills or a previous conversation.

Steps to Effective communication

Aurora lists the three vital steps to effective communication.

Hijack – Grab the attention of the listener and silence what is going on in their head so that they pay attention to you.

Connect – Try to connect with the listener. The mid-brain looks for friendliness, status, and connection. By appealing to these, listeners will feel more inclined to listen.

Details – To communicate effectively, the brain should be silenced to create a connection. It will then be able to receive and process information from the speaker.

The 4 types of Communicators

Aurora explains that the average person has a default setting when it comes to communicating but, you must pay close attention to the kind of communicator you are:

What – The ‘what’ communicator usually delivers a more analytical presentation and provides a lot of data and details. These communicators are generally scientists, engineers, and technology-oriented persons.

Why – The ‘why’ communicator usually needs to know why they are telling somebody about wherever the topic may be.

How- The ‘how’ communicator is usually the person that seeks to implement something and has a plan.

Who – The ‘who’ communicator likes to know who their audience is; this helps them to focus on questions such as, who is the ideal client? and to whom does this message matter?

Why write a book

Aurora shares that she believes strongly that everyone has a story to share and that life experiences can turn into wisdom for the younger version of ourselves.
She says that communication of this story doesn’t always have to be through a book, as a book is just a vehicle. She shares that videos and podcasts can also be used as vehicles to share your story.
She shares that she encourages people to tell their stories and found that many people didn’t know how to write books and get the help needed to finish and publish a book. Hence, she wrote her book to help potential authors figure out how to write a book and monetize it.

Practical Tips To Tip A Meeting In Your Favour

1) Frame Yourself as the Solution

Frame yourself as the solution to your potential client or partner’s problems and establish your authority. Aurora explains that the best way is to write and publish a book and take it a step further by sending each person an autographed copy of the book before meeting with them.

2) Do not Focus on You

Aurora highlights that we tend to focus on what we have to offer in meetings but, it would be beneficial to allow your authority to speak for itself. She encourages us to use more time to listen generously and generate ideas for the other person and their additional needs.

3) Practice

She encourages us to practice and know our content, that if a meeting should have a thirty-minute time stamp, you can deliver your content in a timely, efficient manner and use the bulk of the time to find out more about the client’s needs.

4) Wrap up with a next step

Aurora explains that when meetings end, there should be an action plan or follow-up activity. She says it is good to do so with an email, a follow-up call, or a plan of action for the next meeting.

3 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“You need to have a message and a purpose.”

“The root word of authority is author.”

“The author of the book is the person whose stories, wisdom, and expertise it is.”

About Aurora Winter

Aurora Winter MBA is an award winning, best-selling author. She is a successful serial entrepreneur, media trainer, creator of the Spoken Author™ method, and founder of Same Page Publishing. She left her lucrative career as a TV executive decades ago to become a full-time author, trainer, and entrepreneur. Using storytelling for business, she created a life of freedom, creativity, and contribution. Now she helps her clients turn their words into wealth, wisdom and wonder.

She has been able to help her clients win hearts and minds with their communication skills. They have been able to escape having 9 to 5, to a life of making a difference. They have written best-selling books, given TEDx talks and appeared on television and have even won awards. Auroras latest book Turn Words into Wealth has been honoured with multiple book awards including the Los Angeles Book Festival, 2021 Best Business Book, winner of the Pinnacle Award 2021, Best business Book winner of Literary Titan Silver Award and the winner of the International Impact Book Awards 2021, Business category.

Have specific questions? You can reach out to Aurora LinkedIn and on her website and check out her book via Amazon or wherever books are sold and find additional information and tips at Thought Leader Launch.com

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How to Connect, Create and Innovate Across Cultural Lines

Tue, 23 Nov 2021 12:00:40 +0000

How do you view Culture? Have you taken stock of your personal biases and your outlook on issues relating to cultural diversity recently? I’m excited to share this episode as Genein Letford breaks down, “How to Connect, Create and Innovate Across Cultural Lines.”

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Explore the definition of culture.
Learn how the culture of your everyday life can affect the culture of a work environment and the way people carry out their tasks.
Discover how to create an inclusive work environment and change unconscious biases.

Episode Highlights

The Relationship between Culture and Creativity

Genein says culture by definition is a group of people with a shared set of values, beliefs and systems. She says creative thinking is affected by culture and culture is lived through people. Therefore, the people in a business or organization guide its culture.
She explains that culture is not one set thing as there are different cultures; i.e. Ethnic culture, National culture, and that these are affected by things such as gender and other demographics. She also gives examples of how different cultural upbringings can affect reasoning ability and the way we conduct research and other work.
Genein explains the importance of having diversity in the workplace as it gives a broader spectrum of views and understanding. She explains that the way people interact with data and people, has a lot to do with their cultural influences and how it can differ based on cultural upbringing.

What Is Cultural Creativity?

Genein explains that Intercultural Creativity is her life’s work and dispels the myths that creative thinking is only the ability to choreograph a dance or be artistic in the practical sense of the word.
She explains that creativity is the process of finding a problem and solving it with relevance, value, and novelty.
She says that creativity is in all spheres of life, fields, and cultural groups.
Genein explains that Intercultural Creativity has to deal with cultural competence and the ability for people to interact with people from different lived backgrounds and lived experiences and detect the similarities, differences, and complexities, adapting as they shift varying through cultural groups.

How to Create an Inclusive Environment

Genein explains that three-hour workshops every once in a while to encourage inclusive environments is not an effective method for corporations as creating an inclusive environment is a lifelong journey.
She explains that creating an inclusive environment is a matter that deals with the mindset and psychological beliefs of a person, and it takes dismantling current beliefs and rebuilding new ones.
Genein explains that in order to see changes towards inclusivity in a work environment, leadership must demonstrate openness and support of inclusivity.

Practical Ways To Build A Culture Of Cultural Diversity

Genein says reinforcement of proper core values demonstrates self-awareness which causes persons to practice introspection and assess what they value and look for in other people.
She explains that when she meets a new person despite their cultural or ethnic background, her first move is to find out about their ‘diamond.’ She refers to this as the gifts, skill, talent, or contribution of a person.
She explains that looking for people’s diamonds stops her brain from making negative perceptions based on things she might have heard or seen in the media.
She says another tip for building cultural diversity is alleviating our unconscious biases. She explains that our mindset can affect the way we see others so we have to make an effort to change that by becoming more self-aware of the biases that we might have.
She explains that everybody has unconscious biases but we have to make an effort to manage them. She says our brain makes these biases to protect us, nevertheless, we have to make an intentional effort to push past these biases and give people a chance.
She says that we help our brain push past unconscious biases by looking at counter-stereotypical images. She explains that using images that give positive narratives of the specific demographic you have a challenge with will help with the overall mission of cultural diversity.
She says making connections will also assist in building cultural diversity. She explains that people have to learn how to make the connection between creative thinking and cultural competence.
Genein also explains that people have to learn to manage biases by stepping out of their comfort zones and interacting with people with different beliefs and experiences.
She expresses that research indicates how important it is for children to have cultural experiences that help them learn how to navigate cultural exchanges in adulthood.

Genein’s Work

Genein shares how her life experiences and career path prepared and equipped her with the tools needed to train persons in the corporate world to unlock their creativity in ways they never have before. She explains that this also changes their intercultural competence and facilitates perspective shifting.
She explains how she can help corporate entities resolve issues by working through situations from different doors and angles.
As the recipient of the 2019 L. A Lakers Business Woman of the Year award Genein explains that though she is grateful for the recognition, this is her life’s work and is not concerned with awards or the extras. She says she is passionate about her work and focused on helping people connect with their creative sources to change the world for the better.

4 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“Attitude is a reflection of Leadership.”

“The #1 indicator of a highly creative person is a person open to experience.”

“The awards come, the accolades come, not because you’re going after them but because you’re so focused and passionate about your work.”

“Be open to new connections.”

About Genein Letford

Genein Letford is an award-winning speaker, best-selling author and corporate trainer on creative thinking and Intercultural Creativity™. She is the founder of CAFFE Strategies, and has inspired and led many to reconnect to their creative abilities in order to produce innovative ideas for an inclusive workspace. Her unique training intersects creative thinking development with building a culture of inclusion and belonging. She believes creative literacy is a critical skill and she is often called ‘America’s Creativity Coach’ for her work in reigniting creativity in our workforce.

Curious about Genein Letford work? Check out her website.

Have specific questions? You can reach out and follow Genein on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram

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How to Get Paying Clients with Facebook Groups

Tue, 16 Nov 2021 12:00:46 +0000

Have you ever thought about how a Facebook Community could positively affect your business? Self-made millionaire and Confidence Coach Christina Jandali is here to share with us ‘How to Get Paying Clients with Facebook Groups.’

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Learn about the importance of Facebook Group Communities.
Learn how to transform community members into paying clients/customers.
Unlock the keys to maintaining a successful Facebook Group/Community.

Episode Highlights

Christina The Confidence Coach

Christina shares that her career as a confidence coach helps entrepreneurs who struggle with self-confidence position themselves and their businesses for success. She expresses that this helps them stand up for their brand, message, and what they believe.
Christina explains that many entrepreneurs are not confident and miss out on opportunities because of constant self-comparison and self-doubt.
She states that her responsibility is to boost her clients’ confidence and encourage them to know that making any progress is better than none at all.
She shares that she started her business while on maternity leave from her job in the Wealth and Finance Management Industry.

Facebook Groups And Their Benefits

Christina explains that a Social Media profile acts as a window dressing to your digital storefront and a Facebook group is the place where you welcome people into your space.
She says it is an informal “hangout place” for entrepreneurs to have round table discussions and form connections used to build a community.

How to Run a Successful Facebook Without Being ‘Spammy’

Christina explains that Facebook groups should not always be about making sales, as that gives the impression that things are only transactional. She explains that this approach is similar to a ‘booty call’ and can make customers or clients feel like they are being taken advantage of.
Christina encourages entrepreneurs to consider Facebook groups as a place for community and connection building. She explains that they should be more concerned about the people in the community and their feelings as sometimes people miss out on sales because of the experience they have on the receiving end as a potential client or customer.
Christina believes that selling is serving once it is aligned. Once a Facebook group is doing that for its community, the sales will eventually come at the right time.

Why Facebook?

Christina breaks down how creating communities in Facebook groups help entrepreneurs create a safe space for clients. She explains that this space is a part of why people purchase goods and services from a person because they feel a sense of connection and community.
Customers like consistency and a consistent message and will trust and buy a product when they resonate with an entrepreneur’s story and what they are trying to achieve.

How To Get Paying Clients

Christina explains that after creating and cultivating a community in a Facebook group, people become eager and interested in what you have to offer. She explains that in order to make a transition from group member to client, it’s important to make an invitation or offer to your community based on your product or service.
She explains that it is also important to post content to create a desire and demand for your paid offer or service.
She explains that Facebook groups utilize two types of content; Maintenance content and Campaign content. She explains the difference between both and gives practical ways of how these types of content can help transform group members into paying clients.
She also breaks down how offering a free experience that can solve a problem clients might be having, opens a gap for customers or clients to see the beauty of the product or service and will make them more inclined in purchasing a product or paying for a service.

Maintenance of Facebook Groups and Views on Paying Facebook groups

Christina gives a practical example of ways to map out posting maintenance content for a Facebook group.
She also encourages creating conversations on topics your community might be interested in to keep the group engaged.
On the topic of Paying Facebook groups, Christina shares the results of research carried out by Facebook on these kinds of groups and their effectiveness.
Christina shares how important it is to do goal assessment when considering using paying groups. She explains how easily these groups can become service delivery if not centered on building a community with the group members.
She highlights that more sales are generated from free Facebook groups once the focus is building a community. She highly recommends a free group as opposed to a paying one.

3 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“Done is better than perfect.”

“Your social media platforms are your store fronts and your Facebook group is your digital living room.”

“The most important thing is getting started.”

About Christina Jandali

Christina Jandali is a Success Mentor and Business Growth Strategist for entrepreneurs who want to leave behind their corporate career in favor of building their own dream businesses.

Working her way up from Administrative Assistant to managing a full financial advisory team, Christina realized that there’s a proven method for creating wealth and being successful, which she had the chance to try out in her own life after becoming a millionaire in her 20’s, losing it, and regaining it.

When she’s not showing women how to build profitable businesses around their own brilliance, you can find Christina running, cycling, adventuring outdoors, drinking froo-froo Starbucks coffee, and hanging out with her family in Vancouver or Palm Springs.

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Learning To Lead Your Team Towards Success

Tue, 09 Nov 2021 12:00:26 +0000

Have you ever thought how you could turn your trauma into triumph? Tracee Hunt did it and she is here to share her story and tell you how you can do as you “Learn to Lead Your Team Towards Success.”

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Hear Tracee’s story and how she turned trauma into stepping stones to success.
Learn about how to lead your team to success while working through individual and collective traumas.
Hear tips on how to become a better leader.

Episode Highlights

The Foundation: Tracee’s Story

Tracee shares how being the product of unwanted pregnancy and dealing with the effects of having an absent father in the early part of her life affected her.
She also shares that she was a victim of mental and physical abuse.
Tracee explains that she uses the art of reframing to support her growth from the traumas she has experienced.
Tracee explains the reality of trauma and how each person is responsible for learning how to heal from their trauma.

Motivation behind the book – Silent Overcomer

Tracee shares that as she went through life and tried to address her trauma and trauma-giver, writing down her feelings became very cathartic.
She says that a big part of the motivation to write her book was that her daughter encouraged her to share her story.
She explains that she had some reservations about sharing her story because of fear of how her mother, who was her main trauma giver, would react to what was written/ shared.
Tracee shares that her trauma would also act as a trigger for her mother but, the ultimate decision about whether or not to write the book came down to her knowing what was more important to her.
She explains that a leadership seminar taught her the art of reframing, which has helped her deal with most of her family trauma and receive clarity.
She shares how a question from the speaker at the seminar made her realize that she was wearing an invisible mask and suppressing her inner hurt and trauma.
Tracee shares that reviews from her book made her realize how much other people were hurting and working through trauma and how important writing a book is not just about trauma but how to retool.

Leadership through Tracee’s eyes – How did trama shape her?

Tracee shares that her company takes a holistic approach to leadership and believes that to grow an organization, employers must first help employees to grow personally.
Tracee shares that her trauma has made her resilient and has contributed to her leadership development.
She explains that she has used the skills she gained as a result of trauma for good rather than to her detriment.

Defining Success as a leader

Tracee shares that she defines success as reaching your individual next-level and doing something that has a positive and meaningful effect on yourself and others. She shares that she believes that a person’s mission and motive have to be about more about others than about self.

How to lead your team towards success

Tracee shares that an essential key in leading a team towards success is creating a safe space for individual and group growth.
She shares that there are three levels of leadership; Leader of self, leader of others, and leaders of leaders.
She says that leaders must lead by example and make room for candid conversations to understand and know more about their team’s needs and how they can work to make things better.
Tracee shares that she was always told that she was a leader and how personal experiences allowed her to exercise her leadership skills.

Tips to become a better leader

Tracee shares that in order to become a better leader, people should try to; connect with people who have similar stories because there is a level of comfort knowing that you are not alone.
She also says it’s important to learn how to reframe your trauma, read books and see yourself as a better version of yourself to push you towards success.

4 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“When are you going to start living life because it’s good for you and achieving because it’s good for you, versus living life to prove someone else wrong?”

“We want results, not reasons.”

“What gets your attention gets you.”

“Change is inevitable, growth is optional.”

About Tracee L. Hunt

Tracee Hunt, Owner/CEO of Total HR Solutions, LLC, a skilled HR professional, has provided key leadership in senior level roles as well as driving HR strategies through Board membership as a Committee Chair. Tracee has over 25 years of experience in the field of Human Resources. As a refined HR Executive and Business Partner, Tracee has served as a key member of executive leadership teams in varying industries, as well as currently serving as an extension of each client’s leadership teams to facilitate the achievement of organizational goals and objectives. Throughout Tracee’s HR career and in her business, she has been applauded for her astute business acumen, strategic focus, her premier executive consultation skills, her holistic focus on driving cultural competence, as well as her benefits expertise relative to its P&L impact. Tracee attributes her success to a never-ending determination to achieve in spite of any obstacle. Recently, she authored her first book “Silent Overcomer” which conveys her life’s journey and how the power of reframing was integral in turning life traumas into life triumphs. Tracee holds a master’s degree in Human Services Administration with a concentration in Human Resources Management from Rider University; a bachelor’s degree in Vocational Education with a concentration in HR Training and Development from Southern Illinois University; and an associate’s degree from Burlington County College in Accounting. Tracee is married and has two children.

Curious about Tracee’s work? Check out her website and her book.

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Turning Entrepreneurial Failures into Success

Tue, 02 Nov 2021 12:00:41 +0000

Have you experienced failure? I guarantee you are not alone but, there is always a way to make a comeback, and today’s guest Teresa Heath Wareing is going to share with us some tips on “Turning Entrepreneurial Failures into Success.”

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Listen to Teresa share her own story of triumphs and failures that lead her to success.
Hear strategies on how to manage failure and success in business.
Understand how to make the best of failures to turn them into success.

Episode Highlights

Teresa’s Journey

Teresa shares her unconventional journey to entrepreneurship as personal life experiences left her with no options but to figure out how to use her skills to make money.
Teresa shares that even though she is not exactly sure how she made her monthly targets, she hustled by networking and showing up in the appropriate places at the right time as an investment for herself and her business.
Teresa shares that the need to provide for herself and her family motivated her the most when she started her business because her main goal was making money. However, as she continued the journey, she learned more about the boundaries of business and the things that mattered the most.

Missteps along the way

Teresa explains that while she was well experienced and knowledgeable about her area of focus, one of her main missteps was incorrect pricing. She shares that she didn’t understand her value in her start-up stages and this resulted in people not believing in the quality of work as they thought that the prices were too low to be true.
Teresa shares that another major misstep for her was the mindset she had. She explains that her previous experience in the corporate world encouraged hard work and didn’t give much attention to personal and family life. However, becoming an entrepreneur made her discover the importance of confidence, drive, and determination.
Teresa shares how coming to the revelation that she was every part of her business made her realize how important having the right mindset was to its overall function and efficacy.

What defines success or failure?

Teresa explains success and failure are purely dependent on someone’s personal goals.
She shares that one of the tools she uses to help her define or measure her success is goal setting. She explains that it gives you something to measure by so you will know whether or not you succeed or fail at a particular goal.
She also explains how a personal experience taught her that changing her mindset when things don’t work in her favor can help her learn valuable lessons.
Teresa also shares that creating an action plan is also helpful for business owners to become successful. She explains that action plans help you figure out what works, what doesn’t, and what needs to change. She explains that by achieving one action, you are one step closer to achieving your goal.
She also shares that sometimes things don’t always work out as we originally intended. However, we should count the outcome as a lesson and use it as an avenue to try a different approach and trust that things will work out.

Greatest Lesson Learnt from Failure

Teresa shares that her greatest business lesson was learning to appreciate the value of small numbers.
She shares how important it is to love the people who support you and treat them well because that will affect the growth of your business.
Teresa says entrepreneurs should not let fear stop them from going after the things they want the most.

4 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“Someone else’s success could be someone else’s failure.”

“It’s either you win, or you learn.”

“Think about what’s the worst that could happen and just go ahead and do it. “

About Teresa Heath-Wareing

Teresa has her own online business and is an award-winning international speaker & TEDx speaker who has spoken on some of the world’s most amazing stages and is the host of the popular weekly podcast ‘Marketing that Converts.’

Teresa is now recognized alongside some of the world’s social media & digital marketing thought leaders and is widely regarded as one of the United Kingdom’s leading Marketing influencers.

Curious about Teresa’s work? Check out her website.

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High-Ticket Business Model Myths

Tue, 26 Oct 2021 12:00:14 +0000

Have you ever thought about offering a High- Ticket Business service? What is stopping you? This week’s guest can help you overcome whatever fears you might be having surrounding this decision as we discuss High-Ticket Business Model Myths with Shayla Boyd- Gill.

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Learn about the reasons for some of the myths surrounding High-Ticket Business Models.
Hear how Shyla Boyd-Gill practically debunked these myths to accelerate in her own High-Ticket Business.
Discover helpful tips to help you grow your own High-Ticket Model Business.

Episode Highlights

Who is Shalya Boyd-Gill

Shayla is a wife and mother of 6.
Shayla shares how her personal life experiences lead her to become an entrepreneur.
She explains that her business was birthed from her ability to have babies well and that was something she was good at doing.
She also shares that after a few failed attempts, she had to figure out how to run a business successfully.
She also shares how she had to change her business model and how a different approach helped her build her business and balance family life.

Reasons Myths Surround High Ticket Business Models

Shayla explains that sometimes people don’t believe that customers or clients are willing to pay their asking price.
She expresses that sometimes business owners downplay themselves but should not do that as long as they can deliver the results they advertise.
Shaylea encourages business owners to have an infinite mindset, thinking more about the goal rather than the steps they have to take to get there. She says that this will help them to operate as if it has already happened. This mindset removes doubts and encourages them to believe anything is possible.

High Ticket Business Model Myths

Myth #1

Shayla shares that one of the myths in the high ticket business model is that you have to have a certain level of experience to be successful in your given industry.
She expressed that while entrepreneurs might believe they need years of experience or other persons to validate them as experts in their area, it’s unnecessary. However, you can brand and speak highly of yourself and your business as long as the product you deliver matches up to what you say about it.
Shayla also shares how she branded and presented herself as the best in her industry when she began her business.

Myth #2

Another myth in high ticket business models is that it takes too much time to nurture leads.
Shayla debunks this myth by explaining that once a lead is qualified it takes less time to make a sale because this person usually already knows what they want and is already willing to invest.
She says she discourages her clients from talking to “window shoppers,” this helps them focus on more qualified leads.
Shayla shares that to find leads, entrepreneurs should not forget the power of word-of-mouth marketing.
She also states that business owners must be clear about the people they want to work with and the type of service offered. She explains that this helps people to better direct persons in need of their services.
Shayla also encourages business owners to find quality leads through speaking and using material from their existing system to fuel these speaking engagements, for example, a podcast or social media postings.
She also states that the benefits of using information from an existing system are that you can be consistent and people will already know what you do.

Myth#3

The final myth Shayla shares is that sometimes business owners don’t believe that clients won’t buy something from them at a particular price point.
She explains that when you have that thought, it is necessary to ask yourself questions about your audience, such as, are you nurturing the right one? or have you outgrown that audience?
Shayla explains how she shifted her business model and the level of transparency she had in letting her customers know about the changes that allowed them to decide whether or not they were still interested in what she was doing.
She emphasizes the importance of leads and gives examples of reevaluating when you want to change or adjust your business model.
Shayla reminds us that the high ticket business model is real, and once you can truly deliver your service in the way you promote it, success is possible.

3 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“You position yourself, you don’t come into this world and wait for someone to give you a title, you create your own title.”

“You are your authority.”

“People will buy, but you need to speak to the right audience to get them to buy.”

About Shayla Boyd-Gill

Shayla Boyd-Gill is an extraordinary and proven business coach and sales strategist. She is also a mom of six homeschooled children and a wife of 24 years.

Shayla is the creator of the Luxe Your Business™ Sales System: a program that will teach you to accelerate your high-ticket selling as a service-based business owner so that you can give back in a massive way.

Curious about Shayla’s work? Check out her website. For more information on the Lux Your Business Master Class check out the website.

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Inner Skills in the Post-Pandemic Economy

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 12:00:12 +0000

Sounds True is one of the world’s leading wisdom-based multimedia companies whose mission is to wake up the world. They publish groundbreaking authors and teachers with topics ranging from mindfulness, neuroscience, psychology, trauma therapy, and more. Today we are joined by Founder Tami Simon in a riveting discussion about “Inner Skills in the Post-Pandemic Economy.”

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Discover how to connect with your inner self
Learn about the importance of proper breathing.
Hear tips about how to be grounded.

Episode Highlights

What are inner skills?

Tami shares that our outer skills have to do with how we interact with people and take our cues from our culture and environment. She says these skills are affected by how we measure ourselves along the metrics given to us by the world and its influences.
She explains that our inner skills look at what we deem valuable and how we measure success.
She emphasizes that inner skills are best realized when we figure out how connected we are to our sense of purpose, the people we work with, and the things we do.
Tami says we have to use our inner lens to decide our own metric of success that we will look back on at the end of our lives and decide whether or not we achieved what we came to earth to do. She explains that knowing our inner metrics helps to guide us to work towards the things we actually want to achieve and focus on fulfilling them.

How do you know you’re disconnected from your inner self?

Tami explains more often than not people experience a disconnect from their inner self. She explains that it usually results in feelings of depression, unaccomplishment, lack of purpose or reason for being, and not being sure of what to create or how to contribute to others.
Tami says that a turn of attention can help one to come back from that feeling of disconnectivity.
She says that we often create a delusion of disconnection in our minds which usually is the thing that triggers but, something as simple as admiring nature can allow us to reconnect.
Tami explains that simple acts of reconnecting help to develop the inner skill of relaxing. She says relaxing teaches us to feel the connection that tells us what is unique for us to do amidst the challenges we face in life.

How To Stay Grounded in a Pandemic

Tami explains that feeling connected in your body is the first step to feeling grounded.

She encourages connection exercises within our bodies that help us move away from our internal thoughts and truly experience and live in the moment.

How To Breathe and its Importance

Tami explains the importance of breathing properly and the ways in which it impacts our lives.
She also says the more a person can enjoy each breath they take, the healthier their breathing will be because it’s no longer a quick action but an experience.
Tami explains that good breathing is essential to our health; she says it helps us have a clearer mind which benefits decision-making even in challenging experiences.

Can You Train Inner Skills? How ?

Tami shares that her past experiences along with studies have helped her to train her mind.
She also explains that by training our minds to be in the present with our bodies, our thinking becomes focused on what is needed in the moment rather than things of the past or the future.
She says we can all train our minds by intentionally engaging in daily practices to be more present.
She talks about the ‘feet and seat’ technique and the ways it can help people to come into a feeling of groundedness.
Tami explains that she values people who are grounded and how groundedness can cause a person to be more effective.
Tami explains that our heart is our greatest resource of inner wisdom.
She encourages us to get grounded and follow our hearts.

4 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“The exhale is a chance to let go of stress.”

“If you’re not grounded, you’re not in touch.”

“The greatest resource of inner wisdom is our heart.”

“Have the courage to listen to the wisdom of your heart. ”

About Tami Simon

Tami Simon is the founder of Sounds True, a multi-media publisher dedicated to disseminating spiritual wisdom. Over its 22 year history, Sounds True has produced over 600 titles, been nominated twice for the Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing companies, and is North America’s leading publisher of spoken-word spiritual teachings.

In 1985, at age 22, Tami Simon started Sounds True, now a multi-media publisher, with a dream, a tape recorder, and a $50,000 inheritance she received upon the death of her father. Though she had no business experience and only a vague idea of what she wanted the company to be, Tami had her guiding principle strongly in place: to “disseminate spiritual wisdom.”

In the early days, Tami began by recording conferences and interviews with teachers like Ram Dass and Stephen Levine. She broadcasted portions of these recordings on a radio show that she hosted on Boulder County Public Radio, and then made the cassettes of the entire recordings available for purchase. As the years passed, Sounds True established their popular direct mailing catalog and in 1990, moved away from conference recordings to audio programs recorded in a studio setting. This led to the evolution of Sound True’s signature style—unscripted recordings that capture the charisma, energetic transmission, and “living wisdom” of the teacher.In the years to follow, Sounds True expanded into bookstores, developed audio learning courses, engaged in profound donation programs including the prison library project, began distributing spiritual and healing music, produced its first videos on spiritual practice, made ownership in the company available to long-term employees, launched a book publishing division, made downloadable content available, and recently launched its first live webstream event. Over 600 titles, and 2 million catalogs per year later Tami has grown Sounds True into North America’s leading publisher of spoken-word spiritual teachings, and one of the world’s very first organizations to operate along genuinely Integral principles, with the emphasis on “multiple bottom lines” of purpose, profit, people, and the planet.

Curious about Tami’s work? Check out her website and her Inner MBA programme.

Have specific questions? You can reach out and follow Tami on LinkedIn.

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From Poverty to Prospering with Millions

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 20:00:49 +0000

In this episode, we are joined by Dave “Laundromat Millionaire” Menz sharing how his humble beginnings did not stop him from being successful as we discuss the topic from Poverty to Prospering.

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Hear how Dave Menz went from selling candy in school to a millionaire.
Discover how Dave was able to make his business stand out and grow.
Learn how sacrifice can pay off in business.

Episode Highlights

Who Is Dave Menz

Dave shares that his family had very humble beginnings, which caused him to face several struggles growing up.
He also shared that as a child in order to purchase snacks or treats, he and his siblings had to learn to be resourceful.
He also shared that from a tender age in life, he developed an entrepreneurial spirit that has led him to where he is today.

How Did Dave Begin?

Dave shares that, growing up, he learned to survive on the bare minimum. That propelled him to start little business ventures such as mowing lawns and re-selling candy in school.
He shared that as a youngster, he was stubborn and believed that he too could be successful and achieve the freedom and independence that came with entrepreneurship.
He says that he was not encouraged to pursue entrepreneurship by his family but that didn’t stop him from going after his goal.
After having a regular 9-5 job for 13 years, learning valuable skills for business, and climbing the corporate ladder, Dave had an epiphany. He realized that he still wanted to be an entrepreneur and started working towards having his own business.

The Business

- After making cutbacks in his personal and family life, Dave bought a laundromat, and through thorough research and commitment, he was able to learn the Laundromat business.
- He also shares that in his initial introduction he learned that people within the industry did not respect the laundromat business and its owners.
- Dave decided that he had to operate differently than other persons in the laundromat industry to make and be the change he wanted to see.
- Dave shared that he spent a lot of time and money reinvesting in his business and its operations. He has been able to expand and turn it into a million-dollar business.

Dave’s difference in approach to the laundromat business has opened many doors for him financially. He has since published a book and offers coaching to other persons in the industry so that they too can be successful in their business.

Valuable Advice

Dave says some of the most valuable lessons he has learned are that you should not allow other people to limit you, you should not do anything illegal or unethical and that delayed gratification will bring success.

3 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“If you want something in life you better go figure out a way to earn it.”

“There are no limitations on what I can accomplish.”

“Don’t let others tell you what you can and can’t do; don’t let others put limitations on you.”

About Dave Menz

Dave grew up in poverty and overcame superhero-like obstacles. His story, revealed in his debut book, Laundromat Millionaire – The Grit to Elevate an Industry’ is a life and a business journey that doesn’t stop at rags to riches. It begins with a stubborn and obsessive mission to be a business owner with a tenacious and genuine purpose to help others to do the same. Dave teaches the principles of relentless studying of the greats to be great and knowing that even if an industry – like laundry – isn’t sexy, you can make it so. His initial foray into business ownership was a side hustle alongside his corporate gig with Cincinnati Bell. He found his first business on Craigslist. Once he owned it, he overhauled it from struggling, losing money and outdated, to one that was a valuable proposition to serve as a vital community asset. His vision expands beyond owning multiple businesses under the auspices of Queen City Laundry. He shares his wisdom on his podcast and is a sought-after guest on podcasts and coach. Always the student, he expands his business model – and reach – to serve needs discovered.

As a picked-on kid who was told he had limited options, to his readers, employees, fans, and his children, Dave says, “If I can, you can. It simply takes grit.”

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Optimizing Your LinkedIn Profile To Increase Visibility & Boost Your Sales

Tue, 05 Oct 2021 12:00:59 +0000

What does your digital introduction say about you? In this episode, we are joined by Donna Serdula as we discuss “Optimizing Your LinkedIn Profile To Increase Visibility & Boost Your Sales.”

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Learn the importance of a LinkedIn profile
Discover how you can build a strong online presence using your LinkedIn profile.
Learn how you can engage with the right connections to benefit personally and professionally.

Episode Highlights

The Importance of a Linked in Profile

Donna shares how a personal experience ledn her to tap into the benefits of having an engaging LinkedIn profile.
Donna describes a LinkedIn profile as a digital-first impression.
She shares that a LinkedIn profile allows you to control your narrative and the way others perceive you. It allows people to get a better look and feel of who you are and your capabilities.

How to build a strong LinkedIn Presence

Donna says that one of the struggles professionals face is the lack of ability to write about themselves.
Donna lists a few key factors to consider when building a strong LinkedIn profile:

Know your goal/target audience – Figure out the intention behind creating your profile and ask questions such as, is it for a job? Is it to build a network? Etc.
Write a profile that’s strategic and targets that particular audience.
Know what people are searching for and use keywords that will help your potential audience to find you.
Ensure the imagery of your profile checks out – Do you have things like a good profile photo, background graphic, and customized headline?

How often should I post on Linkedin?

How often you post on LinkedIn depends on how large of a platform or the following a person has. Persons with a large number of following may post once or five times per day but, a person with a small following does not need to post every day as LinkedIn is more interested in quality posts rather than the number of posts.

What should I focus on?

Donna emphasizes that LinkedIn is not a space for selling. She says it should be used to add value to connections through articles and stories.
It is necessary to use hashtags when using LinkedIn so posts can be discovered by other like-minded individuals or people looking for the information you’re sharing.
Donna also highlights the importance of audience and user engagement when it comes to Linkedin. She says users should interact with their target audience and it will also help their content to be noticeable when it is shared.
Donna also shares that using scheduling tools can be helpful at times however, LinkedIn puts a cap on those posts so, it is better to post in real-time. She also states that automation tools are frowned upon by LinkedIn.

Making Sales on LinkedIn

Donna shares that sales is a numbers game but LinkedIn is a place for research and business intelligence. It helps to make sales if you first find your audience then engage with them constantly before trying to reach out to offer a product or service.

LinkedIn Content

Donna states that over time LinkedIn has become more personable. Though those posts do well, users need to set boundaries as it is a space for more professional sharings and connections versus personal ones.

Optimizing your content based on analytics

Donna shares that LinkedIn has a particular ebb and flow and seasonality about it, unlike other applications. As such there will be times when posts receive a high level of engagement and other times when it is low. However, users should ensure they evaluate their connections, use the right hashtags and ensure that they too are engaged with others in order to be engaged by other users.

3 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“People are checking you out whether you recognize it or not, and you have the ability to set forth how you want others to perceive you.”

“LinkedIn doesn’t reward quantity, it rewards quality.”

“If you’re not finding success, think “about how am I branding myself? How am I showcasing myself? Do I have everything that I need so the universe can deliver those opportunities to me?”

About Donna Serdula

Having spent over 15 years working in Business to Business sales and marketing in the technology industry, Donna Serdula experienced firsthand what it means to market your business on the Web and forge strong digital relationships with clients and prospects.

In 2009, Donna utilized her background in professional sales and marketing to launch Vision Board Media, a Social Media, Executive Branding, and Internet Marketing consulting firm dedicated to assisting individuals and small businesses in establishing a powerful presence on the Internet.

Donna now uses her experience and knowledge to teach small to medium-sized businesses how to utilize the Internet to drive revenue and promote their business. Donna Serdula is also the author of the popular business book, LinkedIn Profile Optimization For Dummies published by Wiley. Donna enjoys public speaking and often serves as a guest speaker on the “Benefits of Social Media.

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If You Can Look Up, You Can Get Up

Tue, 28 Sep 2021 12:00:25 +0000

The adversities of life are inevitable, and one person who knows about this is Les Brown. However, he has never allowed the trials to get the better of him. He has allowed them to fuel him as he became one of the world’s most renowned motivational speakers. Today he is here to share with us that,’ If You Can Look Up, You Can Get Up.’

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Hear about Les Brown’s journey to success and the things that have kept him motivated over the years.
Discover the comeback power that lives within you.
Learn how to stand out in all that you do.

Episode Highlights

How do I handle adversity?

Les explains that life is full of disruptions and surprises; recent personal experiences reminded him of how true that is.
Les references Ephesians 6 verses 11-18 to remind us that we will face difficulty but having the Armor of God coupled with characteristics such as courage and resilience will help you overcome these inevitable circumstances.

How do I activate my comeback power?

Les says to activate your comeback power you have to get to the point of saying enough is enough and realize that you have to fight for what you want in life.
It’s key to realize that in life, there will always be a fight to get what we want but, it is not personal, it’s just the way it is.
People who give up in life don’t recognize their strength. Les says that sometimes people give up on their dreams because of the mindset that makes them feel that these goals are impossible.
He encourages us to recognize that we cannot be wimps when it comes to achieving our goals. We have to move from being worriers to warriors.

How do I keep going?

Les shares that even though he faces a personal battle daily, ultimately, the way a person lives is based on what they choose to believe about themself.
He says people must be willing to work on themselves and envision what they see for their future and not buy into societal norms for attention.
He also shared that the attention economy that we live in makes it hard to be noticed or be noticeable. However, as an individual, you have to find a way to stand out. He reminds us that we have to persevere because it’s in our DNA to win.

Les Shares His Health Story

Les shared that he has been living with stage 4 Cancer for 29 years and how his faith-based approach to his diagnosis has changed his life.
Les also shared that both fear and faith are a choice however, a faith-driven life requires discipline to push past fear.

How do I stand out?

Les shares that many people are not trying to stand out in life but are merely trying to survive. He says that only a few are willing to sacrifice and fight to get to where they want.
Les states that the people who have been most influential on his journey to stand out are his biological mother, adopted mother, Mike Williams, and the literary works of Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King Jr, and Malcolm X.
He says these people helped him appreciate the value of words and have set the foundation for his career as he now teaches people how to do the same to take people through a transformational process with words.
Les also shares what he has been doing in terms of succession planning for his business and its value-added properties.
He also shares the importance of laughter and happiness.
Les states that we live in a time where information to reinvent ourselves is easily accessible. He says that if you’re not willing to learn, no one can help you; however if you are willing no one can stop you.

Words To Live By

Les shares words of inspiration from the following scriptures to encourage you.

Romans 8:28

John 1 vs1

Proverbs 18:21

Matthew 6:33

Luke 17: 20-21

6 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“A setback is a setup for a comeback, we all have come back power.”

“We’re stronger than we give ourselves credit for being.”

“You don’t know how strong you are until you have to be strong.”

“It is not over until you win.”

“Ajob is what you get paid for, your calling is what you were made for.”

“What you listen to you turn into.”

About Les Brown

As one of the world’s most renowned motivational speakers, Les Brown is a dynamic personality and highly-sought-after resource in business and professional circles for Fortune 500 CEOs, small business owners, non-profit and community leaders from all sectors of society looking to expand opportunities. For three decades, he has not only studied the science of achievement, but he’s also mastered it by interviewing hundreds of successful business leaders and collaborating with them in the boardroom, translating theory into bottom-line results for his clients.

As a premier Keynote Speaker and leading authority on achievement for audiences as large as 80,000, Les Brown energizes people to meet the challenges of the world around them. He skillfully weaves his compelling life story into the fabric of our daily lives. The thread is forever strengthened, touting why you can’t afford to be complacent and to aim high, achieve and actively make an impact on the world.

Revered as an icon by his colleagues, Brown received the National Speakers Association Coveted Council of Peers Award of Excellence (CPAE), and ultimately, its most prestigious Golden Gavel Award for achievement and leadership in communication. Toastmasters International also voted him one of the Top Five Outstanding Speakers worldwide. Legions of followers flock to stadiums and arenas to hear a man who never stops believing that with proper guidance and training you can achieve anything you desire in life.

Curious about Les’s work? Check out his website. For more information on Hungry to Speak visit his website.

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The Secret to Being Unapologetically You

Tue, 21 Sep 2021 12:00:24 +0000

Do you know exactly who you are? Could you be standing in your own way of being great? Our guest in this episode helps entrepreneurs around the world from sabotaging their results and freeing them to be themselves to make six and seven-figure leaps in their businesses. Let us learn “The Secret to Being Unapologetically You” with Mia Hewett.

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Discover how childhood trauma affects the way we align to our true selves.
Unlock the keys to healing to realize your most authentic self.
Discover how aligning yourself can impact your overall quality of life.

Episode Highlights

Know who you are!

Mia shares that as children, we are born whole and complete; however, after suffering trauma, if not taught to process our emotions, we undergo an internal paradigm shift.
When humans do not learn to process emotions as children they experience a ‘pull back. This ‘pull back’ triggers feelings of loneliness, abandonment, and separation. These feelings usually result in us losing our true self and our perception of who we are.

Who can you become?

Mia explains that the only way we can restore our authentic selves is through a step-by-step healing process.

The ‘recipe’ for healing

Heal Emotional Trauma – Mia says we have to address the emotions that we have not learned to process to come into wholeness with who we are.
Learn to free the mind – We have to remove negative talk from our minds that result from trauma.
Learn to process your emotions.
Learn to no longer fear people or their judgments.
Learn how to stay in your power – This is the process of finding your voice and using it to be your most authentic self, despite what others might say.
Heal your relationship with money.

Steps to aligning with your authentic you

Mia teaches us that our emotions are our internal GPS’s and we have to tap into them to help us navigate life and the situations we experience.
1) Always stop, pull back and observe the situation.

2) Get curious with yourself and find out what you are allowing this situation or emotion to mean. Ask yourself questions such as what is the truth and what is the lie?

3) Ask yourself what you want to accept and forgive.

4) Feel the release.

5) Choose your new emotion freely – What is your new decision now that you know who you are and are operating from a space of alignment.

Recognizing your true self

Mia explains that every human being has experienced or has a perception of trauma. Whenever we realize the difference between our trauma-self and our aligned-self is when we can finally realize our self-worth and operate from a place of true alignment.
Our internal GPS will guide us to make decisions that align with what we truly want for ourselves and our lives.

4 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“The secret to being unapologetically you is really to awaken to who you really are.”

“We are born whole, perfect and complete.”

“Wisdom is the result of you becoming aware of who you really are, and that means becoming aware of who you are not.”

“All addicts are people who are trying to use an outside solution to solve an inside problem.”

About Mia Hewett

Mia Hewett helps entrepreneurs around the world from sabotaging their results and freeing them to be themselves to make six and seven-figure leaps in their businesses with the right skill sets, strategies, tools, systems, and team. She uses her Aligned Intelligence Method® that causes a permanent paradigm shift that eliminates self longer doubt. Therefore allowing them to be consistent and predictable, coach themselves through any obstacle.

Curious about Mia’s work? Check out her website.

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Touchless Technology in a Socially Distanced World

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 12:00:49 +0000

COVID-19 with its accompanying protocols such as living socially distanced has affected businesses and life as we know it. However, there is always an opportunity to pivot with the right resources and in this episode with Paresh Patel we will learn about “Touchless Technology in a Socially Distanced World.”

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

To learn what Touchless Technology is.
Discover how Touchless Technology can fit and benefit the business models of today.
Learn how Pay Range has been impacting people’s lives and businesses.

Episode Highlights

What is Touchless Technology

Paresh describes touchless technology as being able to send payment without having touched a machine such as a laundering or vending machine.
PayRange was established in 2015 to eliminate unnecessary contacts with these kinds of machines.

Ahead of the game

- Pay Range was developed well ahead of its game and is especially useful as we maneuver this pandemic in 2021. It uses a mobile application and dongle to allow customers to make payments virtually.
- Necessity is the mother of invention and this holds true as it was a personal experience that motivated Patel to develop Pay Range.
Most, if not all people have a story of experiencing difficulty when using vending machines and Pay Range helps to limit these inconveniences.

Does Touchless Technology fit into the world of the digital divide?

Paresh highlights that his product is mainly used by members of the underserved community; however, having a smart device makes them eligible to reap the benefits of the application.

3 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“Sometimes the people who are impacted most are the people with fewer options.”

“I have everything I need.”

“We innovated and found a way to make it all happen.”

About Paresh Patel

Paresh Patel is the Founder and CEO of PayRange, patented technology with over 3 million users worldwide. Pay Range allows smartphones to make touchless, socially distanced payments on any person, place, or thing. Paresh began his technology career in solving business problems at the tender age of 17 by applying technology in a previously unused manner to fix a broken soda machine. Patel has spearheaded a company that ranked 83rd on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™ and has secured a growth rate of 1,325% during the past three years.

Have specific questions? You can reach out and follow Paresh on LinkedIn.

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The Psychology Behind Creating Urgency to Convert Customers Authentically

Tue, 07 Sep 2021 12:00:27 +0000

Have you been struggling to tap into your market and create long-lasting, authentic customer relationships? In today’s episode with Jack Born, we will learn about “The Psychology Behind Creating Urgency to Convert Customers Authentically.”

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Learn how important Psychology is to business.
Learn about the power of deadlines.
Learn about Deadline Funnel and how it has been impacting businesses globally.

Episode Highlights

Ways Psychology Affects Business

Jack shared that the fundamentals of business are a mixture of Psychology and Mathematics. However, with marketing and sales, Psychology and communication are the main pillars for a business to stand on.
Jack shares how he found out things about the human brain and the psychology behind how it reacts to buying or trying a product and the decision-making process.

The Benefits of Utilizing Deadlines

Jack shares how establishing a deadline for signing up for a product he was launching changed his life and business.

Deadlines are essential and encourage people to take action to be a part of a launch.

Deadlines will not fix fundamental flaws in your messaging. If the message or the pitch is not acceptable or substantial it will not allow you to reap the benefits of customers, subscribers, or potential clients in creating urgency to be a part of your launch.

Deadlines magnify the results of offers customers are interested in.

Things to consider when trying to effectively launch a product:

The time – Assess the trends in your market of choice to determine how long you want the product launch to last. The typical launch time ranges between 4-10 or 5-9 days.
Whatever time an entrepreneur uses to launch a product should give them enough time to:

a) educate your audience on what the product is and its uses;
b) allow potential clients to develop a sense of trust in the product;
c) establish your authority in this particular field or area of expertise;
d) communicate and interact with your potential audience and clientele.

Establish a deadline – Customers understand the impact or premise of a deadline. By adding a deadline, consumers are encouraged to make final decisions quicker to help entrepreneurs know who is interested.

3 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“Everything that you do is either adding to your trust and credibility with your audience or it’s detracting.”

“You’re going to have long-term success if you take a long-term vision and approach with your business.”

“One of the fundamental components of a powerful offer is a deadline.”

About Jack Born

Jack Born is the Founder of Deadline Funnel. Jack is also the founder of several successful software companies. He lives and breathes marketing and sales psychology, and loves sharing what he knows with entrepreneurs and improving businesses through the software he has developed. He offers training that helps entrepreneurs improve their business and has spoken at many international events spreading his knowledge and expertise.

Curious about Jack’s work? Check out his business website

Have specific questions? You can reach out and follow Jack on LinkedIn, and his personal website.

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Learn Lead Lift: How to Think, Act, and Inspire Your Way to Greatness

Tue, 31 Aug 2021 12:00:27 +0000

Leadership is never an easy task but, what truly separates a leader from a follower? What are the keys to good leadership? Hear about all this and more from this episode’s guest Wendy Ryan as we discuss the topic ‘Learn Lead Lift: Think, Act and Inspire Your Way to Greatness.’

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Unlock the keys to great Leadership
Discover how Mindset, Skillset, and Behavior distinguish the type of leader you are.
Learn how to change or affect change as a leader

Episode Highlights

Are leaders born or made?

Wendy shared that leaders are not necessarily born or made.
Wendy explains that what we do with the raw material life gives us determines if we become great leaders or not.
Wendy explains that one of the main characteristics of a leader is intentionality about their actions. Intentional leaders are not only concerned with themselves but with the members of their team and its overall mission.
Wendy reminds us that leadership does not have a specific look and despite humans creating staples of what we believe a good leader looks like or traits they should possess, we can find good leadership in environments such as our homes.

Aspire to Inspire

Wendy explains that life is our greatest teacher and that the experiences we have in life are the things that shape us and allow us to acquire the right tools needed for effective leadership.
People become intimidated when it comes to being an inspiratory leader. However, it is not always about fitting the usual extroverted model that makes someone an impactful leader, things that contribute to being an inspirational leader include, but are not limited to the way you show interest in your team and the way you interact with and value people on a personal level.

The Right Mindset of Leadership

Wendy highlights that it is vital for people to realize that we don’t all start at the same place in the race of life but, no matter where we start from, we all start with something. One of the most important things we can leverage in life is our mindset.
Our mindsets affect or determine your course of action in life. Wendy gives us a list of different mindsets and how each affects us as leaders.

Growth Mindset – A way of thinking that knows or always tries to learn and improve.
Grit Mindset – Recognizes that failure doesn’t always mean to give up but rather to revisit, readjust and try again because success isn’t always the first thing we experience.
Identity Mindset/Identity matters – Wendy highlights how important it is to recognize that everybody is different and each person’s experience is shaped by their identity. Leaders need to tap into empathy and acknowledge the differences each person experiences.

How do we change

Wendy believes that significant steps to changing or being better leaders include;

Changing your mindset – Understanding how people think and learning how to think about our reasoning ability enables us to learn more skills as we grow.
Examining your Skillset – After understanding one’s mindset, you need to figure out the skill sets required to make you a better leader. These include emotional intelligence and systems that help you to plan for contingencies.
Behaviour – Changing one’s mindset and working on one’s skill set is important as a leader. However, ultimately it is the behavior of a person that is the final demonstration of good leadership. Wendy uses the acronym FIDAH to talk about the five behaviors that are critical to leadership.

i) F- Focus
ii) I- Integrity

iii) D- Decisiveness

iv) A- Authenticity
v) H- Humility

3 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“It isn’t about volume, it’s about intention.”

“Mindsets are the lenses through which we view the world.”

“A lot of our life experience gives us the opportunity to acquire the mindsets and the skillsets and the behaviors that we need to become great leaders.”

About Wendy Ryan

Wendy Ryan is the CEO of Kadabra, an interdisciplinary team of leadership and organizational change experts based in Silicon Valley, California. With over 25 years of combined experience in human resources, organizational development, non-profit leadership, and executive coaching. Wendy has partnered with hundreds of individuals and organizations throughout the U.S. helping front-line C-suite leaders and board members achieve success as individuals and in teams.

She is an expert in organizational and individual assessments, leadership development, strategic visioning, and implementing change from start-ups through the Fortune 500. Wendy customizes research-based best practices to work with each client’s unique culture and business model. She understands the dynamics of entrepreneurship, venture capital, and private equity funding and seamlessly integrates those dynamics into her work for the benefit of her clients.

Curious about Wendy’s work? Check out her website. For more information on her book visit her website.

Have specific questions? You can reach out by email at Wendy@wearekadabra.com and follow Wendy on LinkedIn.

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The Importance Of Handwritten Notes In Business

Tue, 24 Aug 2021 12:00:34 +0000

Welcome to episode 232 of The Entrepreneurial You podcast. Today’s episode is with David Wachs. A serial entrepreneur, David’s latest venture, Handwrytten, is bringing back the lost art of letter writing through scalable, robot-based solutions that write your notes in pen. Developed as a platform, Handwrytten lets you send notes from your CRM system, such as Salesforce, website, apps, or through custom integration. Used by major meal boxes, eCommerce giants, nonprofits and professionals, Handwrytten is changing the way brands and people connect. Prior to his current initiatives, David founded Cellit, a mobile marketing platform and mobile agency. Cellit was sold to HelloWord in January of 2012. Both Handwrytten and Cellit were on Inc. Magazine’s Inc 500 list of fastest growing companies. David now also writes for Inc. Magazine with his column “Stepping Away from the Day to Day.” This is our conversation on “The Importance of Hand-Written Notes in Business.”

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Learn about the importance of having a personal touch in your business.
Learn about how customers feel about businesses that take the time to make their interactions more personal .
Learn about HandWrytten and how you can use it to improve your existing business.

Episode Highlights

Touch your customers but make it personal

Adding a personal touch to a customer’s experience can help businesses create connections that turn into returning loyal customers. Some ways businesses can add personal touches to their interactions with consumers include;

Hand-written notes
Personal Emails
Tailoring their website to the consumers likes or preferences
Video Emails
Webinars
One on one zoom fitting sessions depending on the product
Webcasts

Stop Adding to the Noise

The average consumer and office worker receives at least 150 emails every day and spends 24% of their time managing their email inbox. Therefore, it is easy for them to become bombarded however, after a personal experience with handwritten notes David noticed how impactful it was to his relationship with his employees to send personalized notes.
Handwrytten has enabled businesses to retain their customer base and grow their profit margin. Personalized notes help customers to feel seen, valued, and appreciated and eliminates the noise of receiving just another email or just another letter.

Show Some Appreciation

Handwrytten notes have allowed businesses to extend the simple courtesy of a thank you to their customers. People have unlimited options when it comes to where they purchase goods and services,by sending a note customers see their value and it acts as an investment into the relationship with the customers.

Find the Balance

Businesses should practice consistency when it comes to adding the personal touch of handwritten notes. Wachs advises businesses to ensure that their message and reach are the same on all platforms whether it is in-store or online. However, a business should not overdo it and find the right cadence that works for them.

3 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“Competing on price can only get you so far, it’s a race to the bottom.”

“One of the most expensive things in business is acquiring a new customer.”

“Everybody else is pivoting digital. I think you all could make a huge impact by pivoting analog.”

About David Wachs

David Wachs is the founder of HandWrytten, the global leading provider of handwritten notes. Before Handwrytten, he founded, built, and sold Cellit. Established in 2004, Cellit was a leading mobile messaging company that sent millions of messages a day on behalf of leading retailers. The company was also an early player in building mobile websites and apps. Before Cellit, he worked in consulting, investment banking, and briefly in venture capital. He went to the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied computer science, engineering, and economics at Wharton.

He chose this path because he always wanted to start a business. He has two young children (ages 2 and 4), so he tries to spend as much time with them on weekends. David loves escaping to the mountains for cooler weather, hikes, and days in the park with their dogs. He loves taking the kids to swim class or T-ball. His life outside of work revolves around his wife and children. Additionally, he loves long bike rides and finds it to be a great way to clear his head.

Have specific questions? You can reach out and follow David on LinkedIn and Twitter and check out his business profile on LinkedIn

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Getting Started in the Wine Business

Tue, 17 Aug 2021 12:00:39 +0000

Greetings and welcome to episode 231 of The Entrepreneurial You podcast. Today’s episode is with Anthony Zhang, co-founder of Vinovest. Vinovest is a platform that is democratizing access to fine wine investing. Anthony is a repeat entrepreneur who successfully built and sold two companies, EnvoyNow and KnowYourVC, by the age of 22. He has also held leadership positions at cryptocurrency platform, Blockfolio and is a board member at RateMyInvestor. Here is our conversation on “Getting Started in the Wine Business.”

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Learn about Wine Investing and how it can work for you
Learn about Venovest and how it could help you on your Wine Investment journey.
Get professional recommendations on some of the best players in the wine market and some tips on how you can get more into wine.

Episode Highlights

Wine Investing

Wine investing is the process of buying and storing wine and then selling it as it appreciates over time.
Venovest is one of the premier wine investing platforms. Vinovest goes as far as to help investors pick wines that are good for investment, store the wine, insure it, and help you to monitor the market prices and trends for you to get the best returns on your investment.

The Golden Keys to Wine Investing

Before you can start investing, there are a few things you NEED to pay attention to;

Ageability – Wine with long aging ability allows investors to hold on to it for longer and make more from this investment.
Supply and Demand – The less of an available product, the higher the selling price. Therefore, Wine Investors usually look for wines that are not very popular as the remaining supply is more valuable.
Brand Value – Some wines are considered more luxurious than others, as such the prices and long-term returns will reflect that.

If a Wine investor can tap into all three of these aspects, they will see greater returns on their investment.

Investment takes a little time

When Wine Investing it will take a while for investors to see returns on their investment because:

Wine takes time to age and, the older it is the greater the returns;
Wine Investment is a stable investment, the returns may sometimes be slow but, they are sure and safe.

Before a person starts Wine Investing they should;.

Do Research;
Make a Budget for the amount they want to invest and assess the risks;
LET IT GO! Have patience and give it time for the investment to start making its returns.

Is this Risky Business?

There is little regulation when it comes to Wine Investing therefore; investors have to look out for a few things such as:

Fraud – Be careful who you buy your wine from and do not trust third parties unless you know exactly who they are. It is best to order your wine straight from the winery.

Insurance – Wine needs to be properly stored however, the change in climate and day-to-day handling of the wine can cause damage or loss so investors must have insurance and proper storage for their investment.

3 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“There are a lot of things that you can invest in outside of the stock market.”

“ The key to being able to narrow the wealth gap in the world is for everybody to have access to the same wealth creation opportunities.”

“Wine investing is a long-term investment.”

About Anthony Zhang

Anthony Zhang is the co- founder and CEO of Vinovest. Zhang is a repeat entrepreneur who has previously founded and sold two companies, EnvoyNow and KnowYourVC. He has also held leadership positions at Blockfolio and is a board member at RateMyInvestor.

Have specific questions? You can reach out to Anthony via email at anthony@venovest.co and follow Anthony on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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Launching A Product In A Competitive Market With No Prior Experience

Tue, 10 Aug 2021 12:00:48 +0000

Today’s episode is with Lucas Walker, a serial entrepreneur who has started three successful businesses in the software, e-commerce, and media spaces, working on bootstrapped and venture-funded companies. He has reviewed more than 10,000 eCommerce stores as a part of his work over the past couple of years and, today we will discuss ‘Launching a Product in a Competitive Market with No Prior Experience.’

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Learn about the key things to consider when launching a new product.
Learn about some of the costs to consider when starting or launching a business.
Learn about a checklist of things needed to successfully launch a business in the ‘new normal.’

Episode Highlights

What is the difference between a product and a service launch?

When launching a service, business owners must focus on grabbing the attention of their potential clients. When launching a product, business owners must focus on making sales and tap into other markets.
It is also vital that when a business is launching a service it accounts for the cost to offer the service and ask questions such as ‘who will it cater to?’ ‘How will it make your profit?’ As for a product, it’s key to knowing how much needs to be produced and how much time it will take.

Costs to Consider when Starting up:

The Software
A Legal team for potential Lawsuits or other Law related matters
Taxes
Revenue and its turnover time
Contingencies
Customer care
Time – How much of my time will it cost me to carry out a given task.

What is the Sales Process like?

It is essential to build a relationship with potential buyers/distributors for at least 6-8 months before they begin to sell your products.
Work with your buyers and do not be afraid to ask for help so they can give you advice about the marketplace and what would ensure that you have a successful launch.

The Entrepreneurial Checklist for Launching a Product in the “New Normal”

Audience Collection – Start thinking about your potential clients or customers and reaching out via email or SMS;
Create a low-cost (not free) Landing page or website – Use this platform to build customer engagement and collect relevant data and feedback from your customers.
Find the appropriate channel for business – Find a supplier for your product that has existing dominance in that industry space.
Post Launch – Find out what your customers like or didn’t like and be very upfront about what you are working on and the changes you plan to make.

Who do you need on your team?

When launching a new product or service a few team members are vital to ensure all goes well, these include;

Strong Writer – A business requires a lot of communication. It is good to have someone with excellent communication skills both for internal and external matters.
Sales Representative
Marketing Personnel

Other positions can be filled with Freelancers from platforms such as Upwork or Fiverr

3 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“Don’t be impatient.”

“Be ready to move quickly.”

“Don’t be afraid to go out and ask for help from people who have done it.”

About Lucas Walker

Lucas Walker is a serial entrepreneur. He has started three successful businesses in the software, e-commerce, and media spaces. He has worked on bootstrapped and venture-funded companies. Some of his accomplishments include launching the first Canadian University Twitter account for the Acadia Athletics department in 2009. He Co-founded Venngage in 2012, which was recognized as the leading infographic maker, and named Top 25 Startups in Canada by LinkedIn in 2019. In 2014 he Launched TreatsHappen.com, a website selling natural dog treats sold into TJX, Amazon, independent, and Big Box retail. In 2017 he began advising on marketing and e-commerce, launching the number 1 B2B sales podcast. He Joined Gorgias, the number one helpdesk for eCommerce in 2019, and brought on the largest client before shifting to the marketing team. Lucas has been featured in The Globe and Mail, Mashable, Financial Post, Shopify Masters, Brand Creators (#1 Amazon Seller podcast), Hubspot among many others.

Have specific questions? You can reach out and follow Lucas on LinkedIn, and Twitter.

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Adrenal Fatigue: Why Aren’t More Medical Doctors Diagnosing It?

Tue, 03 Aug 2021 12:00:12 +0000

This is the final episode in our ‘Slow Down and Live’ Health and wellness Series. It has been an informative and educational journey. We are closing out the series with a presentation by Dr Joan Lamle, who is actually my Naturopath. Dr Lamle will be looking at the very prevalent but often misdiagnosed matter of Adrenal Fatigue, one of the things that I was diagnosed with. Stay tuned as Dr Lamle with us on the topic of ‘Adrenal Fatigue: Why Aren’t More Medical Doctors Diagnosing It?’ Dr. Joan Lamle is a Natural Health Consultant who specializes in lifestyle diseases with a special emphasis on women’s health.

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Learn about the Adrenal glands and the purpose they serve.
Learn about the different stages of Adrenal fatigue.
Learn about the necessary changes that need to be made to have healthy adrenal function.

Episode Highlights

Our Adrenal Glands are more important than you think.

The Adrenal Gland is located just above the Kidneys and produces hormones that regulate metabolism, the immune system, blood pressure, and stress response. When you undergo chronic stress it leads to Adrenal Fatigue. The Adrenal gland releases Cortisol which regulates blood pressure in stressful situations or conditions i.e your fight or flight response. However, if constantly stressed this Cortisol can become harmful to the body in more ways than one.
Adrenal Fatigue and its progression to Adrenal Exhaustion occurs when the adrenal in the body is unable to turn off. This can be the result of things such as underlying infections, nutrition deficiencies, leaky gut syndrome, and an overload of toxicities.

Symptoms of Adrenal Fatigue

Adrenal Fatigue is much more common than we think and you might just be experiencing it at this very moment. Here are a few tips to help you spot the signs so you too can slow down and live.

Feeling tired but wired: even though you are tired you have a constant need to get things done.

Fatigue
Irritability
Low sex drive
Trouble Sleeping
Cognitive Issues- Brain fog
Hormonal Imbalance
Depression
Increased Energy Levels in the Evenings
Craving of Salty and Sweet foods

Balance is Key

The body was made to help us survive therefore, we have to recognize how our actions can compromise our ability to do so. Adrenal exhaustion will affect us when the Adrenals can no longer meet the demands of its environment.

Whenever our systems are compromised by a lack of rest, nutrition, or otherwise, our body sends off alarms and the onus is on us to pay attention to these alarms. We must therefore strike some kind of balance in our life to ensure our Adrenal system does not overwork itself. As such we must consider several aspects of our lives and put thought into how our actions are affecting us.

Dr. Lamle explores nutrition and the things we should be having versus the ones we should avoid to repair and take care of our Adrenal System. She also solidifies the importance of rest as we have heard from several of our speakers in the ‘Slow down and live’ series.

Rest is very vital to our quality of life and can help to reduce stress hormones and improve adrenal function. Exercise is just as important as our body needs the ability to use some of the energy it stores and there are fun ways to do so, not to mention the rush of dopamine that comes at the end of a good workout.

Dr. Lamle also highlights the importance of healing your gut to restore overall balance in your body. Exposure to Sunlight is also an affirmative action for improved overall health as well as trusting in a divine power.

Research proves that persons with religious beliefs have better mental health and adapt more quickly to health challenges. Dr. Lamle’s final point on having balance was having Temperance so the body can operate at its best level.

3 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“The body was designed to protect itself.”

“Healing your adrenal is more like a marathon than a sprint.”

“Pure air, sunlight, temperance, rest, exercise, proper diet, water and faith are the best remedies for all diseases in the body.”

About Joan Lamle

Dr Joan Lamle is a Naturopath and is the Director at Health by Nature Wellness Stop. She is very passionate about using natural remedies to reverse all diseases and is fascinated by the human body. She believes that obedience to the laws of health can result in people being able to live a life free of disease.

Have specific questions? You can reach out and follow Ian on LinkedIn.

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Miracle Mineral: Magnesium As A Response To Burn Out

Tue, 27 Jul 2021 12:00:44 +0000

As we continue our health and wellness journey, I must tell you I am super excited to share today’s episode because we are going to be looking at what has become my favourite food supplement and that is Magnesium.

Ian Clark founded Activation Products out of a personal health crisis like me who created the Slow Down & Live Health Summit as a result of health challenges that I faced in 2020. Stay tuned as Ian shares with us on the topic of ‘Miracle Mineral: Magnesium As A Response To Burn Out.’

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Learn how Magnesium functions in the body.
Learn about the different forms of Magnesium and how we can take it.
Hear about Ian Clark’s personal experience with his energy’s and what his own imbalance taught him about life and how to get the best out of it.

Episode Highlights

Your Body Demands Magnesium

Low Magnesium levels can affect brain power, our Immune system, Endocrine system, Metabolism, Nervous system, Digestive system, Respiratory System, Cardiovascular system, and many other aspects of your bodily function.
Magnesium among other necessary minerals is found in some of the food we eat. However, over the years this has depleted as a result of practices such as mono farming and agricultural businesses that focus on mass-producing rather than quality production.

Magnesium Can Affect the Body’s Nervous System

The body’s control system is the Autonomic nervous system. This system has two arms which are the Sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system. Both of these systems must operate synchronized to avoid sympathetic stress lock. This kind of lock-in can result in the inability to digest and heal properly. However, with the correct levels of Magnesium, this can be avoided or corrected.
Magnesium affects your entire human operating network. Therefore, lack of this mineral can affect things such as your brain function and result in brain fog and anxiety as well as it may affect your instinct and your passions.

Magnesium a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

A lack of Magnesium has a creeping effect on one’s body and it can trigger a series of illnesses that can turn into long term underlying issues.
The body operates with three energies; Chi, Jing, and Shen. Our Chi Energy has to do with the energy we put into our body via food. People are often advised to eat as organic as possible and maintain a healthy diet to avoid the burnout that comes as a result of bad Chi.
Jing Energy is recognized as the body’s natural battery. The energy we are born with contributes to length and quality of life. Jing energy is very sensitive and is sometimes abused because people fail to find the balance between the Chi and the Jing. A lack of rest and poor eating habits force our bodies to tap into more of our Jing than we should have, which results in us taking years off our life without even realizing it.
Our Shen Energy is our character and how we treat others. Our Chi and Jing affect our Shen so it is important to find a balance and live better. All three of these energies can be affected by having the right amount of Magnesium or the lack thereof, Therefore it is important to have Magnesium in some way shape or form to increase your quality of life. It won’t be an overnight process but we are reminded that micro-adjustments can yield macro results.

3 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“Little things that we miss are extremely important because they have a gradual impact on our life on a cumulative basis.”

“There are so many wonderful things that happen in your body when you bring your magnesium levels up.”

“This is the cheapest insurance policy you can give yourself which is to make sure you are investing in yourself everyday with the proper form of Magnesium. ”

About Ian Clark

Ian Clark is the founder of Activation Products. At 46 years old Ian was faced with a number of life-threatening health issues and he was forced to start searching for solutions. He refused to accept the dire circumstances in which he found himself so he decided to pursue a natural path to healing.

Clark traveled the globe researching, uncovering potent remedies and whole foods with powerful natural health benefits. After five years of intense research and learning what it takes to support the body’s natural ability to heal itself, Clark set out to share that information with others. With his sons and the support of a team of innovators, Activation Products was born with Ian as a Trustee and quickly grew into a company that helps tens of thousands of people achieve their health goals every day.

Curious about Ian Clark’s work? Check out his website.

Have specific questions? You can reach out and follow Ian on LinkedIn.

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Food as Medicine: Why a Whole Food Plant Based Diet May Be The Answer to Your Health Problems

Tue, 20 Jul 2021 12:00:34 +0000

Have you been enjoying the sessions on health and wellness? Remember it is very important that you ‘slow down and live. I am pleased to continue to bring you another presentation from the Slow Down & Live: Health is Wealth virtual event that was held in January. I do hope that you were able to hear from Professor Jaipaul Roopnarine on Parenting And Behavioural Health In Caribbean Children. This week it is all about food and Hollan Hamid joins us to talk about Food As Medicine: Why A Whole Food Plant-Based Diet May Be The Answer To Your Health Problems. Hollan Hamid is a big advocate of whole plant based foods as a way to prevent and treat health problems.

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

You will identify how unhealthy eating habits can affect your overall health.
You will learn simple plant-based everyday recipes that can be used as an alternative to regular recipes.
Hear Hollan give practical steps and tips on how someone can change to a plant based/ whole food diet.

Episode Highlights

Eating Habits Affect Your Health

Hollan reflects on how a lack of proper boundaries as it relates to food and her eating habits as a young girl affected her health and triggered auto-immune disorders.
Hollan mentions how it impeded her life as a child as she had to stop from school at times due to illness and severe menstruation I’ll effects that later turned out to be endometriosis.
Hollan also explores how after undergoing surgery and developing Kidney stones, she decided to take charge of her health.

A Vegan Diet Improves Quality of Life

Hollan gives a breakdown of what kind of changes she experienced when she switched to a vegan diet.
She makes mention of her improved energy levels and how much healthier she was as a person and even how much happier she was, as she lost weight and began to see improvements in her life.

After the Self-Work Comes the Network

Hollan took the time to educate herself on having a vegan diet and made it her mission to teach others about it and its many benefits. She used her new found knowledge and background in foods to create recipes and mentions how she gained her love of food and love of health.
After understanding more about herself and her health, she realised that everybody is different and she set out to help others start their own health evolution.

Own Your Health

Hollan challenges us to answer the question, “Am I willing to break up with my current beliefs?” She reminds us how generational patterns affect our eating habits and many of the diseases that we are faced with or impacted by has a lot to do with family decisions as a collective and as an individual. She mentions putting a stop to certain generational habits and how that changes the outcome of her own children by making the changes in herself first.
A certain level of introspection is required to make changes in one’s diet in order for a person to own their health.
Holland teaches practical ways of owning one’s health and how humans should see themselves as evolving beings. She provides ways in which one can find alternatives to to lead a more whole food based diet and get the best of it and the importance of listening to your own body to stay in tune to what works and what doesn’t.
Hollan explains that while she is not opposed to doctors and western medicine she believes that healing can come through just having a better/ healthier diet.

Tips to Make the Switch

Understand your WHY for wanting to do this
Educate yourself
Take baby steps
Focus on Nutrient-rich whole foods
Search and learn about Vegan restaurants and recipes
Drink more water
Eat more organic
Be easy on yourself

5 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“I started thinking about food as energy and nourishment as opposed to something that just tasted yummy and made me feel not hungry.”

“Health is an evolution and every body is different.”

“Things that run in my family do not run in me.”

“Owning your own health is the ultimate freedom.”

“In disease means out of ease and your body wants to be in ease.”

About Hollan Hamid

Hollan Hamid is a mother, vegan chef, former restaurant owner, self-help junkie and a cookbook author. She has worn many hats but believes that the only one that matters is her relationship with herself and her body. She believes that when those two are aligned, everything falls into place. She lives on Kauai and believes it to be one of the most beautiful places in the world. She writes cookbooks, books, blogs, programs and articles for a living and enjoys travelling and relocating whenever she feels that something is not right in her life. Her journey of health began 12 years ago when she was diagnosed with gestational diabetes and the doctor warned her that she had a 60% chance of developing type 2 diabetes within the next decade. She also struggled with endometriosis and kidney stones and had surgery twice to try to correct it; however, it always returned. After realising that she was too young to have these issues she decided to take her life and health into her hands. The first shift she had with her health was 11 years ago when she changed her diet to vegan. She now reports that her blood work looks better at 41 than it did at 29 and no longer suffers with endometriosis or kidney stones. She now feels in charge of her health and switches her habits when she doesn’t. Her other change came 5 years ago when she started investing in workshops, books and people that supported her living her best life. She says that what she does know is that health is an evolution and there is always room for growth.

Curious about Hollan Hamid’s work? Check out her website.

Have specific questions? You can reach out and follow Hollan on LinkedIn.

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Parenting and Behavioural Health in Caribbean Children

Tue, 13 Jul 2021 12:00:17 +0000

This week we pick up with the presentation from Professor Jaipaul Roopnarine on Parenting And Behavioural Health In Caribbean Children. Professor Roopnarine is Professor of Human Development and Family Science, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Learn more about what has been happening globally with children’s mental/behavioral health since the onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Learn about Parental practices in the Caribbean and its effects as well as learn about how home environments affect children.
Learn about positive parenting and how it can benefit children’s development and mental and developmental health.

Episode Highlights

Children have been mentally affected by the Pandemic

Children just like adults have been victims of the Covid-19 Pandemic and have been facing mental and behavioural issues such as Frustration, Boredom, separation fears ,clingy behaviour, Anxiety and Depression among other things. However, they have been demonstrating resilience and use activities such fantasy play and artistic expression to cope with the lock downs that have come as a result of the Pandemic.Things that contribute to this resilience include demonstration of attitudes of gratitude,forming trusting relationship with adults and expressions of hope and love for reassurance.

Parenting Practices and Environment affects children’s behaviour.

In the Caribbean there are several different parenting styles, parental practices and environments and each of these are risk factors for childrents mental and behavioral development.Parents basic goals are for children to develop a sense of agency and communion to help them develop and cope in society however, in Caribbean society children combat issues such as crime and violence, harsh parenting, neglectful parenting, separation usually due to migration, parental instability, poverty, suicide,substance abuse , natual disasters and more recently the pandemic.

While research shows that many caribbean children’s self assessment of happiness is high there are also concerns that are alarming as some children fear abuse whether physically or sexually and a percentage of them have already experienced both forms of abuse as well as psychological aggression from those around them.

Research shows that there are two groups of parents in the Caribbean and Suriname. They can be understood as high in warmth and low in harshness which usually produces optimal behavioural development in children while the other is high in warmth and high is harshness which usually places children in a place for behavioural and academic difficulties.

Caribbean parents use 4 main parenting styles: Authoritative Democratic, Autocratic, Permissive and Neglectful/uninvolved. Research in the Caribbean revealed that over ⅓ of parents use the Authoritative democrartic style, 20% use an Authoritarian style with a smaller percentage proving to be permissive. However the neglectful category had an alarming rate of about 30% across the different countries. These different parenting styles produce different behavioural patterns in children that can range from healthy to unhealthy in terms of internal and external behaviours.
While discipline is very important to children’s behavioural development as it helps to instill their understanding of right and wrong the act of discipling ones child in the Caribbean can sometimes be harsh and Professor Roopnarine explored ways in which this happens in the Caribbean region versus other nations as well as its effects both in the homes in wider society and suitable alternatives.

Professor Roopnarine also highlighted the high exposure to violence and crime that Jamaican children face and how Intimate Partner violence has increased during the period of the pandemic and has also been severely affecting children. Children in these situations are often victims of violence themselves and experience a lot of stress and tension and demonstrate internal and external behaviors of trauma and are sometimes victims of neglect.

Recommendations to improve Behavioural Health in Children

Professor Roopnarine recommends that there be discussion around topics such as physical punishment at home and at school to seek alternative methods of discipline because of its long lasting effects on children’s behavioural and mental health.

He also recommends that relationship skills education classes need to be implemented for men that focus on things such as communication and emotional intimacy between couples as well as parenting programs for both mothers and fathers that emphasize active engagement that will foster healthy behavioural patterns in children.

3 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“Hope is at the heart of resilience.”

“Depending on your parenting style you are affecting the behavioural health of your children.”

“Physical punishment is very harmful to children and that includes psychological aggression.”

About Professor Jaipaul Roopnarine

Professor Roopnarine is the Pearl S. Falk Professor of Human Development and Family Science. He is Professor Extraordinary of Developmental Psychology, Anton de Kom University of Suriname, Paramaribo, Suriname, and research scientist at the Family Development Centre at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.

He has served as a consultant to the Roving Caregiver Program, a home-based intervention program implemented in several Caribbean countries to improve early parent-child relationships and children’s cognitive and social skills, and assisted in the revision of the national early childhood curriculum for the government of Guyana. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago and also an Indo-U.S.-Subcommission Professor of Psychology at the University of Delhi, India, the Nehru Distinguished Visiting Professor at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujrat, India, minority scholar in residence at The Pennsylvania State University, and held visiting appointments at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Cornell University, The City University of New York, and The University of the West Indies in Jamaica.

Have specific questions? You can reach out to Professor Roopnarine via email at jroopnar@syr.edu or contact him at any of the following:

Pearl S. Falk Professor of Human Development

Department of Human Development and Family Science

Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York

Professor Extraordinary of Developmental Psychology, IGSR

Anton de Kom Universiteit van Suriname, Paramaribo, Suriname

Enjoy this Podcast?

Family processes and behavioural health focuses on the well being of children and their behaviour and behavioural health focuses on the mental well- being of individuals and their ability to function in everyday settings. Therefore, Behavioural health is equal to mental health and consistent warm sensitive engagement as well as considering a child’s input tends to promote behavioural health and positive parenting can result in sensitively attuned engagement which fosters academic and social skills and insulates children from risks associated with neighbourhood violence and other environmental related issues.

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New Year, New You: Why Health Is Wealth

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 12:00:47 +0000

I am pleased to share with you that over the next 5 weeks I will be releasing the presentations from speakers at the Slow Down & Live: Health is Wealth virtual event that was held in January. I am excited to share these recordings because I learnt so much and I know you perhaps didn’t get to attend and even if you did, a replay would be good. You may remember that my motivation came from my own personal experience with my health that was challenged. I am committing to staying healthy and I want you to as well. You will be hearing topics a follows:

➡️New Year, New You: Why Health Is Wealth
➡️Parenting And Behavioural Health In Caribbean Children
➡️Food As Medicine: Why A Whole Food Plant-Based Diet May Be The Answer To Your Health Problems
➡️Miracle Mineral: Magnesium As A Response To Burn Out
➡️Adrenal Fatigue: Why Aren’t More Medical Doctors Diagnosing It?

Today, I am starting with Dr Nsombi Jaja as she talks about New Year, New You: Why Health Is Wealth.

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Identify how to take care of your body so it can function in such a way that cooperates with our mind , spirit and emotions to create the life we want.
Learn about the 4 critical dimensions of our lives that we build our dreams on.
Hear Dr Jaja’s first hand account of what it means when you neglect your health.

Episode Highlights

Dr Nsombi Jaja mentions ways the body warns us and how to pay attention and take action
She reminds us that its important to rest without guilt.
Dr Jaja reminds us that we should take nothing for granted and that self care should be a continuous thing.
We are told to appreciate life and what we have before we are forced to appreciate what we had.

4 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“If one leg of the stool is defective the whole stool is dysfunctional”

“Take care of your body so it can function in such a way that cooperates with our mind , spirit and emotions to create the life we want”

“We think we can do everything the mind tells us but often times our body cannot cooperate”

“Neglecting ourselves has a way of catching up to us”

About Dr Nsombi Jaja

Dr. Nsombi Jaja, P.M.P; SMC, SAMC, C.M.C. is the managing director of Quality Management Consultancy Co. Ltd., a consulting practice, providing advice to the business community in the areas of strategic management, quality management, leadership development and customer service management. She founded this company in 1986 and it is now a recognized Regional consulting firm with clients and associates throughout the English-speaking Caribbean. She is the President of Quality

Management Consultancy Inc. USA located in South Florida and a member of the board of the Institute of Caribbean Studies located in Washington DC.

For the past 20 years Nsombi has worked with the leadership teams of client organizations assisting them with strategic management, quality management, customer experience management and change management.

Curious about Dr Jaja’s work? Check out her website.

Have specific questions? You can reach out and follow Dr Jaja on LinkedIn, and Facebook.

Enjoy this Podcast?

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Being A Black Business Owner In America

Tue, 29 Jun 2021 12:00:31 +0000

We need to take the time to help each other, to support each other, to care for our youths, and instill wisdom in our youths. Don’t just talk about the change, be about the change. In this episode, we are joined by Eli Smith to learn from his experience as being a Black business owner in America.

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Discover how you can be a successful business owner.
Learn how you can establish your worth.
Learn how to stay positive and motivated as a Black business owner living in America

Episode Highlights

What Is It Like Being Black In America?

Eli shared that it is a struggle being Black in America.
Eli mentioned that there is the constant feeling of not being able to breathe.
He shared that being Black we hear more “no’s” than “yes”.
We are constantly fighting to just find our worth; trying to create values within our own communities.
Being Black in America, you feel as though you always have to try to match up in order to be equals.
We need to show support to those in our communities.
Eli believes we need to normalize building up our fellow Black business owners and aspiring business owners instead of tearing them down.

Divide & Conquer- What Role Does This Play In Our Society Today?

Eli shared that the ‘Divide & Conquer’ phenomenon during the time of slavery, and even to this day was how Whites were able to get members of the Black community to turn against each other.
Eli spoke on a powerful concept, “Redlining”- where banks would give certain loans to those who wished to purchase a home. In certain communities, he shared that they would make sure that Blacks would not be able to own homes; placing them all together in particular cities. In doing so, it was easier for policing, easier for them to enter communities and assault Black men or women, and to treat Black children unfavorably.
In these communities, you’ll find high rates of unemployment and schools without proper teaching systems.

How Can We Shift Our Mindset?

Eli also shared that in his role as a Black business owner, he always tries to give back to the community through his foundations and through his yearly summit known as the Dream Summit.
For this annual summit, he would get business professionals to come in and talk about How to Create Wealth and Value Within the Black Community.
He also shared that his company represents diversity- by hiring people from all over the world.

Eli Shares His Background

Eli shared that from the age of 17, he learned the value of a contract through his father’s teachings.
Eli also shared that even from a young age, he always knew that he wanted to pursue a career in business.
He shared that his father taught him to realize that with everything you are told, make sure you do your research to know if it’s true.

Knowing Your Worth

Eli shared that many times we look in our communities for praise and honor, and a lot of times there are always people trying to keep us down.
There should not have to be a policy to tell you to love your fellow men.
Eli also shared that we should not place our faith in a government that has tried to keep us down.

4 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“Don’t be quick to put people down”

“Stop looking for acceptance from those who didn’t want us here, to begin with”

“We have to realize that people deserve a second chance in life”

“Never take and trust what someone else is telling you without first understanding what the project is and understanding what the value of the job is”

About Eli Smith

Eli founded and runs successful businesses in construction and real estate development. A committed and energetic entrepreneur, he is following in the footsteps of his parents who were successful business owners for over 40 years. Eli has been recognized by Governor Cuomo for his entrepreneurial spirit and achievement in contracting, and he is passionate about giving back to his community through mentoring students and recognizing and empowering minority and women-owned businesses.

Curious about Eli’s work? Check out his website. For more information on the My Dream Summit visit his website.

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How To Host And Promote A Successful Virtual Event

Tue, 22 Jun 2021 12:00:40 +0000

In this episode, we are joined by Jeffrey Hayzlett to discuss how to host and promote a successful virtual event.
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Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Learn why you should go with virtual events.
Discover how you can plan, promote and host a virtual event.
Learn how you can increase your audience attendance on virtual events.

Episode Highlights

Who Is Jeffrey?-

Jeffrey shares that he has a passion for learning and always having fun.
He also shares that as a child he started out by selling items door to door and his first job was mowing lawns.
He then shared that his first big business was a Public Relations firm, running political campaigns, pursued marketing, then became a TV personality and finally ventured into podcasting.

Why Should I Go With Virtual Events?-

One of the crucial benefits to having virtual events is the increase in accessibility.
Another essential reason for having virtual events is the cost effectiveness.
A virtual event can be engaging for your audience, however, must be thoughtfully planned.

The Planning Stage-

Here are a few areas to consider when planning a virtual event:

Identify your goals
Establish clear objectives
Identify your audience

How Do We Host & Promote A Successful Virtual Event?

First you have to establish a community with aligned interests in the virtual events you wish to host.
Send your attendees messages & invites to platforms where they will be able to see it. Utilize popular social media as well as professional media platforms such as LinkedIn, texting and sending emails (email marketing).
Send out reminder notices that are unique to your audience.
Think about the engagement and the experience from the customer’s perspective.

3 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“The more you do something is the better you get at it”

“Adapt change or die”

“Planning without action is futile; work smarter not harder”

About Jeffrey Hayzlett

Jeffrey is a primetime television host of C-Suite with Jeffrey Hayzlett and Executive Perspectives on C-Suite TV, and business podcast host The HERO Factor Podcast on C-Suite Radio. He is a global business celebrity, speaker, best-selling author, and Chairman of C-Suite Network. Hayzlett is a well-traveled public speaker, former Fortune 100 CMO, and author of numerous best-selling business books including The Hero Factor; How Great Leaders Transform Organizations and Create Winning Cultures, Think Big, Act Bigger: The Rewards of Being Relentless, Running the Gauntlet, and The Mirror Test. Jeffrey is frequently cited in Forbes, SUCCESS, Mashable, Marketing Week, and Chief Executive, among many others. He shares his executive insight and commentary on television networks like Bloomberg, MSNBC, Fox Business, and C-Suite TV. Jeffrey is a former Bloomberg contributing editor and primetime host and has appeared as a guest celebrity judge on NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice for three seasons.

Curious about Jeffrey’s work? Check out his website.

Have specific questions? You can reach out and follow Jeffrey on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

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Planning Your Exit Strategy From Day One

Tue, 15 Jun 2021 12:00:32 +0000

Are you ready to ‘Exit Rich?’ Not sure when to plan your exit strategy? In this episode, we are joined by Michelle Seiler Tucker to discuss planning your exit strategy from day one. Always be prepared. You must determine your destination as a business owner.

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Learn the importance of planning an exit strategy from the first day of business.
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Discover why some companies go out of business.
Learn how you can plan an effect exit strategy.

Resources

Text Michelle to 888-526-5750;

Get a copy of Exit Rich at exitrichbooks.com

Episode Highlights

What Is An Exit Strategy?

Michelle shared that when starting a business, you want to begin with the end in mind.
Most businesses are not sellable because the owner did not build a sellable business.
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She also shared that you must always remember that your business is your most valuable asset.

Why Is An Exit Strategy Important?

With no planned end game, it’s very easy for business owners to get more caught up in the business they’ve given themselves as opposed to the long-term strategy behind running the business itself.
An exit strategy keeps that endgame in mind and can make day-to-day decisions more strategic in nature.
If as a business owner you have no idea where you are going, you will never know when you get there.
Having an exit strategy helps you to define success and provides a blueprint for charting your progress.

What Does An Exit Strategy Involve?

Here are a few areas to consider when trying to plan an effective exit strategy:

Clearly establish your business goals.
Set a realistic time frame.
Clearly outline your intentions for the business.
Know what’s next.

2 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“Nothing lasts forever”

“Most business owners have built a job in which they go to work everyday, rather than a business that works for them”

About Michelle Seiler Tucker

Michelle is the Founder and CEO of Seiler Tucker Incorporated. As one of only three women in the U.S. who holds a M&AMI (Mergers & Acquisitions Master Intermediary) title and as a 20-year veteran in the M&A industry, she has a wealth of experience regarding buying, selling, fixing, and growing businesses. Her and her firm have sold over a thousand businesses in almost every vertical and have a remarkable track record of success. In addition to being featured in INC, Forbes, and USA Magazine, Michelle is a Keynote Speaker and makes regular radio and TV appearances on Fox Business News and CNBC. She has spoken alongside many prominent speakers: Eric Trump, Kathy Ireland, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Donna Karen, Stedman Graham, Randi Zuckerberg, Steve Wozniak, and more. She is the Best-Selling Author of the book “Sell Your Business for more than It’s Worth” and has a new book coming out called “Exit Rich®.”

Have specific questions? You can reach out and follow Michelle on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

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How To Be Great At Sales Without Being Sleazy

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 12:00:06 +0000

Are you ready to become an expert in sales? In this episode, we are joined by Dr Nadia Brown to discuss how to be great at sales without being sleazy.

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Discover the importance of managing your time.
Learn how you can be better at sales.
Learn about building a rapport in sales.

Resources

Checklist – courageousconversationsthatconvert.com

Episode Highlights

How To Be Great At Sales Without Being Sleazy?

We need to learn how to connect with our potential clients first.
Ensure that you are listening to potential clients more than you are speaking to them.
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For instance, if you focus on asking open-ended questions and then listening to their responses, oftentimes you find that they talk themselves into why they may need or want what you’re offering. Listening more is a powerful way to not only build a rapport with clients but also help them see that you’re coming from a place of service, not a place of only wanting to make a sale.
In a case where the person is not interested, it is okay for you to move on. When you allow yourself to move on from that relationship, often the person feels more comfortable and might even end up referring other people to you in the future.

Managing Your Time-

In sales, time management is of great value.
Managing your time well increases productivity of an individual and also avoids forgetting important things.
Time management ensures the completion of tasks at a much faster rate and more effectively. Plan your day well in advance.

Building Rapport-

It is important to build rapport in sales as it helps to build mutual trust and friendship with your customer or client.
We must take the time to understand our customers’ needs.
Building rapport with your client/colleague is important as it gets their mind to accept and begin to process your suggestions.

Final Thoughts

Stop selling and start connecting. Focus on the connection- to get to know people and to not go into that call thinking about it only being a sale. Focus on building up your pipeline so that you have those consistent conversations. Celebrate the fact that you had the courage to ask and show up in the first place.

We do not need to sell to everyone in order to be successful.

3 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“We have to think about what is important to us and for us”

“Always celebrate your wins”

“You don’t need to sell to everyone in order to be successful.”

About Dr Nadia Brown

Nadia is a sales strategist, consultant, trainer, and founder of The Doyenne Agency. A sales agency who works with business owners, companies, and corporations to multiply revenue and awaken the consistent closer within your sales team using the Consistent Sales Method™. Nadia brings over fifteen years of experience in leadership, powerful conversations, achieving goals, and respect for people to develop a comprehensive sales process to increase closing rates and satisfied client retention. Nadia’s clients have seen massive results, such as raising their rates, decreasing their refund requests, and doubling or tripling their annual revenues, including helping clients increase their yearly revenue by 800%.

Have specific questions? You can reach out and follow Dr Nadia on YouTube, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

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How to Start & Grow Your Online Empire

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 12:00:19 +0000

Are you ready to start building your empire? Are you new to online marketing? In this episode, we are joined by Alicia Lyttle to discuss how to start and grow your online empire.

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Learn how you can start your online business.
Discover why it is important to learn a new skill.
Learn how you can benefit from online courses.

Resources

FREE Report to create to creating your own online product at alicialyttle.com

Episode Highlights

Learning A New Skill-

Learning a new skill allows you to gain new experiences, and trains your brain to handle a wide range of challenges.
It increases your adaptability when placed in new environments.
It provides you with the opportunity for growth both personally and professionally.

Why Should I Invest In Online Courses?

One of the main reasons you should invest in online courses speaks to time-efficiency.
It offers you flexibility to allow you to fit your classes around your work and personal life, thus giving you access to take the course at your own pace.
Online means you are able to access the course from anywhere in the world.

How To Start And Grow My Online Empire

The first thing you should do is to assess the skills you currently have. What are you passionate about that someone would pay you for?
Then you need to look at something you would like to do or that is in high demand, learn a new skill and offer it to someone who needs you.
Thirdly, you need to start marketing yourself. Utilize social media to offer your services and promote your skills.
Think about how you are going to make more sales.
80% of your day should be spent on marketing activities that will bring in sales, and 20% of your day should be spent on fulfillment: delivering that service to your client or doing a specific task.

Final Thoughts From Alicia

If you want to be your own boss and start your own business. All you need is the courage to say yes to your business.

4 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“When building your business, you have to go hard or go home”

“Invest in yourself”

“Money is not made until a sale happens”

“Have the courage to live the life you desire instead of living your life for other people”

About Alicia Lyttle

Alicia is a highly sought after speaker and coach, most known for helping people to start their online business. She has trained thousands of people across the globe and has a 20-year track record of experience as an online entrepreneur. Alicia is the founder of Pow Social, a Digital Marketing Agency based on the island of Jamaica with clients such as the National Commercial Bank and Hertz. She also produces a weekly segment on Jamaica’s public broadcasting channel, (PBCJ) called The Digital JamPrenuer that teaches everyday people how to use the internet to improve their lives. After generating millions of dollars online, Alicia believes that the internet is the great equalizer allowing people from all backgrounds to build wealth.

Curious about Alicia’s work? Check out her website.

Have specific questions? You can reach out and follow Alicia on LinkedIn.

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Why Outsourcing Is The Easiest Way To A 7 Figure Business

Tue, 25 May 2021 12:00:36 +0000

As business owners and entrepreneurs we have to first think about what is best for our businesses. Are you ready to learn how to create a 7 figure business? In this episode, we are joined by Linh Podetti to discuss why outsourcing is the easiest way to a 7 figure business.

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Learn the power of outsourcing.
Discover how you can maintain a successful business through outsourcing.
Learn how you can figure out what you are passionate about.

Resource

PDF of 100 tasks a VA can do: outsourcingangels.com

Episode Highlights

What You Need To Know About Outsourcing-

There are three types of outsourcing, namely:

Onshore which is outsourcing that is done within the borders of a country
Nearshore which refers to outsourcing to a company in a neighboring country.
Offshore outsourcing which occurs when you outsource to a country far away.

With outsourcing, companies have the opportunity to increase their efficiency, and to focus on core areas within their businesses.

Opportunities For Outsourcing-

Here are some opportunities to consider with outsourcing:

Increase in strategic focus – Outsourcing provides businesses with the necessary flexibility to contemplate on what it is good at, i.e., its core competencies.
It provides access to high-end technologies and specialized expertise.
It also provides cost reduction and risk sharing.

How To Zone Into Your Passion-

Don’t try to bypass the process of figuring out what you’re really good at.
Sometimes it’s only after developing a certain skill will you be able to know if you like it.

3 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“Take the time to figure out what you are really good at”

“Trust your own instincts”

“In the end we only regret the chances we didn’t take”

About Linh Podetti

Linh is the Director of Outsourcing Angels and lives in Australia. Linh has a decade of experience in building high-performance remote teams and it is her mission in life to create freedom for business owners and freedom for people living in developing countries. She wants YOU to have a business that can WORK WITHOUT YOU, be able to spend more time with your FAMILY or focus on doing higher value THINGS YOU LOVE in business.

Curious about Linh’s work? Check out her website.

Have specific questions? You can reach out and follow Linh on Twitter, and Linktree.

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How Learning People Management Skills Could Save Your Money And Time

Tue, 18 May 2021 12:00:50 +0000

With growth comes success. Are you ready to learn how you can save time and money by learning how to manage people? In this episode, we are joined by Mike “C-Roc” Ciorrocco to discuss how learning people management skills could save your money and time.

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Discover useful tips on how you can be a better leader.
Learn effective tools and strategies to manage your team.
Learn how you can improve on your people management skills.

Episode Highlights

Learning Patience-

Mike shares that we have to be patient and learn how to trust the process.
He also shared that it’s not easy to be patient.
We have to work on ourselves before we can manage people – learning the art of patience.
You have to work on “ME” leadership first then transition to WE leadership.

What Is People Management?

Managing people speaks to being a leader of people. Mike shared that according to John Maxwell, leadership is making others’ success easier or easy.
Mike also spoke about having a core intention for his company and ensuring that he adds personal and professional goals that align with and creating a team that shares the same vision.

Accountability-

We have to understand that we cannot control or change people.
People have to change themselves or want to change themselves.

How Do We As Leaders Get That Permission To Hold People Accountability?

Communication is the key to solving most problems.
We have to understand that managing people is a step by step process.
You should always start with expressing the clear vision of the company to the individual or team.
As a leader, you have to be a living example of the standard you are setting for your team and company.

4 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“You cannot harvest and sow seeds at the same time”

“You cannot give birth to an adult”

“Communication is the key”

“You cannot put the cart before the horse”

About Mike “C-Roc” Ciorrocco

Mike is the CEO of People Building, Inc., and the powerhouse behind the “What Are You Made Of?” movement. He is a performance coach, author, dynamic public speaker, visionary and thought leader. He has been featured by Yahoo! Finance as one of the Top Business Leaders to Follow in 2020 and is on a mission to build people. In 2020 he was named #1 on the list of Top Mortgage Professionals by Yahoo! Finance..

Curious about Mike’s work? Check out his website.

Have specific questions? You can reach out and follow Mike on YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.

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Small List, Big Income: How To Turn 100 Followers into $10,000

Tue, 11 May 2021 12:00:05 +0000

Are you wondering how to make big profits in a small business? Worried that you don’t have enough followers to reach your business goals? In this episode, we are joined by Thalia Toha to discuss how to turn 100 followers into US$10,000.

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Discover how you can make the “big bucks” as a small business owner.
Learn essential tips for email marketing.
Discover how invaluable a small list can be.

Resources

A downloadable PDF. The Small List, Big Income: Jump Start your Purpose with Grace. This can be located under www.goodgrowgreat.com/smalltobigpurpose

Episode Highlights

How To Turn Something Small Into A Major Income-

Tahlia shared that it doesn’t take having 100,000 followers to make profits.
It’s not about the quantity but more so about the quality.
Instead of just adding value, we need to think about how to become invaluable-becoming so valuable that people cannot ignore you.

How To Make Others Not Ignore You-

Focus on the professional passion of your audience.
Focus on the personal passion of your audience as well.
You need to couple the personal wants with personal needs.
People care when others care about them.

What To Do When Creating Your Email Subject Line-

Think beyond reverse engineering to find out what your audience needs.
You want to be sure that you are immediately focusing on that personal line or professional line; always keep it interesting.
The goal is to find a common ground and to solve professional needs.
Ensure that the content reflects what you are mentioning on the subject line.

Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“It is quality rather than quantity that matters”

“Do it with passion or not at all”

“Stop trying to add value. Instead, think about how you can become invaluable”

About Tahlia Toha

Tahlia is CEO and a business strategist for entrepreneurs. She is also an outdoor adventurer, former architect, and Princeton grad. Her insights have been featured on SELF Magazine, Business Insider next to Elon Musk’s, the Huffington Post, Reader’s Digest, Home Business Magazine, & iHeartRadio podcasts. Thalia is also an author with Entrepreneur Magazine (an outlet that now has over 10 Million readers worldwide). Her down-to-earth approach to making tiny businesses turn into titans had made her students sometimes call her “The Barefoot Girl”. When she’s not busy helping other business owners, you can find her trying things outside of her comfort zone, mountaineering, and outdoors in the US.

Curious about Tahlia’s work? Check out her website. You can learn more by listening to her podcast.

Have specific questions? You can reach out and follow Tahlia on Instagram, and Linked In.

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Ditch Your Comfort Zone: Growth Through Authenticity, Transparency & Vulnerability

Tue, 04 May 2021 12:00:03 +0000

Are you ready to step outside your comfort zone? Are you ready to start dealing with your daily challenges head on? In this episode, we are joined by Todd Palmer to discuss how ditching your comfort zone leads to growth through authenticity, transparency and vulnerability.

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Discover how you can ditch your comfort zone as a leader or business owner to experience success.
Learn how to shift from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset.
Learn how to have those difficult conversations at work.

Resources

30-minute consultation with Todd Palmer to get unstuck

1st chapter of Todd’s new book for free

Episode Highlights

Ditching Your Comfort Zone-

Todd speaks about ditching his comfort zone and what he had to go through, being very introverted, not participating in conversations around peers.
Todd learned that sometimes you have to go out and approach others instead of waiting for them to come to you.
Todd also shared that avoiding difficult conversations at work or in your personal life does not allow for growth and development.

Having Difficult Conversations At Work-

As a leader, being able to have difficult conversations with your employees is an integral part of the success of your team and organization.
These conversations can be difficult mainly because of fear of failure. Transparency, authenticity, and vulnerability are crucial to change and growth amongst a team.
Managing difficult conversations helps us build and maintain healthy personal as well as work relationships.

Difficult Conversation About Growth Through Authenticity, Transparency & Vulnerability-

Todd shared that when a connection is missing from a team it allows for doubt amongst the team; doubt in that their leader is not concerned with the best interest of the team.
As a leader, whether you are the Team Lead or Manager you have to engage and connect with your team, in order to build a certain level of trust.
Todd shared that communication is important across all levels within a company.
Communication shows team members that you as leader care about your team.

Fixed Mindset; Not A Growth Mindset-

Fixed and growth are the two basic mindsets that shape our lives.
We become so sheltered in our comfort zones that instead of embracing challenges, we avoid them.
One of the main issues with having a fixed mindset versus a growth mindset is that we feel threatened by the success of others instead of finding lessons and inspiration in the success of others.

3 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“Find joy in being of service to other people”

“If it doesn’t challenge you then it won’t change you”

“Great moves never come from within your comfort zone”

About Todd Palmer

Todd knows that growth happens only when we lean into the uncomfortable — and he knows from personal experience: Todd went from being a struggling entrepreneur with $600,000 in debt to make the INC 5000 (a record total of 6 times!) as one of America’s fastest-growing companies. Today, as a collaborative business advisor and CEO of Extraordinary Advisors, Todd helps his clients ditch their comfort zone, dive into their “failures,” and re-frame their mindset to be more authentic, transparent, and vulnerable to affect real change along the path to success. Todd is also the author of the popular book The Job Search Process: Find & Land a Great Job in 6 Weeks or Less.

Curious about Todd’s work? Check out his website. You can learn more by listening to his podcast

Have specific questions? You can reach out and follow Todd on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

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Why Celebrity Brands Charge More & How To Build One

Tue, 27 Apr 2021 12:00:32 +0000

The Entrepreneurial You was recently named among the “Top 30 Entrepreneurship Podcast You Must Follow” by Feedspot.

Can you come to terms with the idea of being a celebrity? Do you think only Hollywood Actors, Singers, and Musicians should have this title? Consider what being a celebrity would mean for your business and brand. This episode is for you if you are ready to take your brand to the next level. In this episode, we are joined by Jane Tabachnick to discuss why celebrity brands charge more and how to build one.

Tune in to this episode to learn the thought process behind why celebrities charge what they do and what that means for you.

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Discover what your brand is missing to achieve the success you want.
Learn how to effectively market your brand on social media.
Find out how to gain more visibility for your brand.

Resources

Online Visibility Assessment

Episode Highlights

How Can I Be An Entrepreneur and A Celebrity At The Same Time?

Become a celebrity to your audience.
Learn why it is important.
Understand where your audience spends time and who else your audience looks up to.
Focus on who you associate yourself with.
Find out what is important to your audience.
Be very intentional: put your content in the places where it will stand out to your audience.

Developing A Strategy-

In order to build an effective strategy as an entrepreneur, will at times take a mind shift.
The Hug and Influencer Process whereas an influencer is someone who is top in their field. In order to develop an effective strategy as an entrepreneur you must:

Build an association with other authorities in the field.
Be strategic in order to be more effective: give before asking.
Support similar brands as yours.

Importance of Public Relations And Content Marketing To Your Brand-

Public Relations (PR) helps promote your content to your ideal audience.
PR makes it easier to build relationships with influencers.
PR improves visibility to your target audience.
PR allows business owners to leverage new communication channels.

3 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“Don’t assume that one size fits all”

“Do not approach all situations the same”

“Be a celebrity to your audience”

About Jane Tabachnick

Jane is a content and PR strategist who works with mission-driven authors, coaches, and consultants who are frustrated they’re not better known. She helps them become highly visible and seen as the authority in their industry so they attract more pre-sold clients and can grow their business more and easily. Named one of the top 100 people online by Fast Company, Jane is often quoted in the media.

Curious about Jane’s work? Check out her website.

Have specific questions? You can reach out and follow Jane on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

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What does it mean to be a celebrity? Being a celebrity doesn’t only mean you are famous for music or art. It can also mean having a successful business where you consistently market yourself to increase brand awareness. If you enjoyed today’s episode of The Entrepreneurial You, hit subscribe and share it with your friends!

Post a review and share it! If you enjoyed tuning into this podcast, then do not hesitate to write a review. You can also share this with your family and friends, and especially so have a business or idea to promote, so they can feel empowered and encouraged to pursue their business goals.

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Heneka

Building An Epic Business And Have Freedom While Doing It

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 12:00:22 +0000

Are you a part of the minority that will change the world? You will get 99 no’s before that first yes. It is therefore necessary for you to have the right mindset that can propel you to success. This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Justin Breen to share strategies on how to build an epic business and having freedom while doing so.

Tune in to this episode to learn how being different from everyone else can make you more successful!

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Discover how to become a successful entrepreneur without sacrificing your freedom.
Learn how owning who you are will contribute to your success.
Learn how to get to the highest level as an entrepreneur.

Episode Highlights

Sharing The Same Entrepreneurial Mindset-

Your business is a reflection of your mindset.
Understanding who you are and who you aren’t removes that inner conflict. This understanding will allow you to have more clarity on who you should surround yourself with-people that share similar entrepreneurial mindsets.

Owning Who You Are-

Justin shares that he was always like this, but did not realize it at first until he just started finding persons with similar mindsets who understood his perspective.
Do not feel uncomfortable when your mindset sets you apart from everyone else.

How Does One Have Freedom While Building An Epic Business?

Weed out the noise and focus on maintaining a successful business.
Understanding when “less is more” is crucial to your success.

Four Challenges All Entrepreneurs Must Overcome

Bankruptcy or Potential Bankruptcy
Depression
The Highest Level of Anxiety
Traumatic experiences

First Step To Reaching Your Highest Level

Start by surrounding yourself with successful people.
Find someone that can be a teacher or a mentor that provides coaching on how to become a successful entrepreneur.
Here are four types of people you should surround yourself with if you want to be “Epic”:

Relentless workers that push you to want to work harder.
Positive attitudes: people perform better at what they’re doing when they are happy with their job.
People who ask questions: people who do this learn more and also provide a different outlook on situations.
Dreamers: they understand that setting goals and working hard will help them to achieve the unachievable. To keep this drive going, you should always be surrounding yourself with people who have similar goals in mind.

3 Powerful Quote from This Episode

“This is who I am, this is my game and I make the rules.”

“There are no excuses at the highest level.”

“It doesn’t matter where you are located. Doesn’t matter the vertical you’re in and it doesn’t matter how big the company you’re in. None of that matters. If you have the right mindset, it attracts the right network, creates the right opportunities.”

About Justin Breen

Justin is CEO of the PR firm BrEpic Communications and author of the No. 1 International Best-Selling Book, Epic Business. Justin is hard-wired to seek out and create viral, thought-provoking stories that the media craves. And he finds the best stories when he networks with visionary entrepreneurs and executives who understand the value of investing in themselves and their businesses. Justin believes strongly in the power of introductions and creates important relationships through those introductions. He is an extremely active member of Entrepreneurs’ Organization, Strategic Coach, and Abundance 360, and he has an incredible global network of visionaries and exceptional businesses.

Curious about Justin’s work? Check out his website.

Have specific questions? You can reach out and follow Justin on Twitter, Instagram, Linked In, and Facebook.

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Doing what you love, while earning the big bucks and still having time to spend with your friends and family is achievable! If you enjoyed today’s episode of The Entrepreneurial You, hit subscribe and share it with your friends!

Post a review and share it! If you enjoyed tuning into this podcast, then do not hesitate to write a review. You can also share this with your family and friends, and especially anyone you think deserves to have an epic life, so they can feel empowered and encouraged to pursue their business.

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Heneka

How To Build Wealth & The Life Of Your Dreams With Franchising

Tue, 13 Apr 2021 12:00:35 +0000

The Entrepreneurial You was recently named among the “Top 30 Entrepreneurship Podcast You Must Follow” by Feedspot.

Have you ever thought about becoming a Franchisee?

Are you ready to live the life of your dreams? Tune in to this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast as Kimberly Daly shares how we can build wealth and live the life of our dreams through franchising!
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Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Discover the benefits of franchising and learn how to build your wealth.
Learn effective strategies on how to select what franchise is best for you.
Learn the importance of having clear values and goals in becoming a franchisee.

Resources

Free Consultation

Episode Highlights

What Is Franchising?

It is a way for anybody who has a dream and wants a business, to own a business.

How Do You Know What’s The Right Fit?

What can you afford?
How much are you willing to invest?
Fear of making money; fear of not making enough money
What are your income expectations?

Being A Franchisor-

Consider why you wish to franchise your company?
Do the pros outweigh the cons of becoming a franchisor?

What To Look For When Trying To Identify A Franchise To Work With

Franchises are awarded, not sold.
One needs to focus on building a relationship, which includes:

Ensuring that the culture of the company matches the goals of the individual pursuing the franchise.
Ensuring that you are taking on a franchise that you will be passionate about.
Are you comfortable going out and networking your business?

Wealth That Can Be Created In A Franchise

When we talk about wealth, coming into a franchise that you have leveraged, that you are not buying yourself a job or replacing a job for this business. It’s through the leverage of technology, people, a brand, marketing systems, that allow owners to come in as CEOs working on their businesses rather than in their businesses.

Powerful Quote from This Episode

“Rich people have money. Wealthy people have time to spend their money”
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About Kim Daly

As America’s top franchise consultant, Kim Daly (“The Daly Coach”) has inspired thousands of people to realize and follow their dreams of business ownership over the past two decades. Kim coaches her candidates to take control of their future and finances by strategically investing in a franchise brand that aligns with their unique goals. She commonly works with entrepreneurs, veterans, investors, and those in career transition. An avid marketer, Kim‘s growing YouTube channel features franchising advice, FAQs, mistakes to avoid, and enlightening interviews with powerful business leaders. Please subscribe for new franchising content shared multiple times a week at http://kimdaly.tv

Have specific questions? You can reach out and follow Kim on YouTube, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

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Post a review and share it! If you enjoyed tuning into this podcast, then do not hesitate to write a review or rating on Apple Podcasts. You can also share this with your family and friends, and especially business owners and aspiring business owners, so they can feel motivated and inspired to learn how to build their wealth.

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Heneka

Winning Wealth Creation Strategies: The 4 Components of the Ideal Financial Plan

Tue, 06 Apr 2021 12:00:47 +0000

Are you ready to live your best life? Having a solid financial plan must be part of this journey.
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There are several benefits to having a solid financial plan for your business, namely, it reinforces clear goals, allows for sensible cash flow management, smart budget allocation, necessary cost reduction, risk mitigation and provides a growth roadmap.

In this episode, we are joined by Curtis May to discuss some winning wealth creation strategies and discuss four components of the ideal financial plan!

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Learn effective financial management strategies.
Learn how you can have financial freedom.
Discover a financial plan that works under all circumstances!

Resources

Free report on How To Create Wealth Using The Velocity Of Money. Text “pwealth” to 55444.

Episode Highlights

Who Is Curtis May?

Curtis shares that he has been in business for 35 years. Passionate about his clients and helping them save money and be able to live their best life. He also shares that he is a third-generation business owner. At the age of 7, his father gave him business advice- “You’ll never make any money working for someone else”.

Four Main Objectives For Financial Management

Build Maximum Wealth-

Most people believe the key to investing is finding better rates – you will need to take on more risks.
You will first need to create maximum efficiency with your money.
Grade yourself from 1-10 how you deal with cash flow, in your personal life and your business. Track your inflow and your outflow.

Wealth Transfers-

Here are some questions you need to consider:

How is your mortgage paid?
How do you find retirement plans?

Retirement plans defer taxes, more accurately they postpone the tax calculation.

Ask yourself the question, “Do I think that in the future will my taxes be higher, lower, or the same?”
How do you pay for major capital purposes(anything you can’t pay for in full with monthly cash flow)?
How will you fund college tuition?
You will need liquidity- looking for mass marketing things

Create A System That Will Transfer The Wealth That You Created

We want people to create legacies for generations to come.

Have A Plan That Works Under All Circumstances

You have to diversify your way of making money and value the market space.
You need to play defence – review your insurance, for example, life insurance.
As you’re working and saving, what is your ultimate goal?
The key is to focus on buying assets that you can control.

Five Key Areas In Financial Management

Save 15% of your gross income
Maximum Protection
Legacy
Establish Goals
The Velocity Method – buying assets that generate investment incomes

3 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“You have to be able to pivot, and learn how to serve people”

“Until you double your time off, you will not double your income”
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“Money follows value”

About Curtis May

Curtis is the host of The Practical Wealth Show Podcast and the creator and owner of Practical Wealth Advisors. Curtis has been planning for individuals for more than 35 years, and he is passionate about helping his clients save money and live the very best life they can right now. The primary focus of his financial planning firm is to help individuals and families become financially free by following the principles of wealth creation that have endured for centuries around the world.

Curious about Curtis’ work? Check out his website. You can learn more by listening to his podcast on The Practical Wealth Show.

Have specific questions? You can reach out and follow Curtis on LinkedIn.

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It is good to always have a financial plan for your business. If you enjoyed today’s episode of The Entrepreneurial You, hit subscribe and share it with your friends!

Post a review and share it! If you enjoyed tuning into this podcast, then do not hesitate to write a review or rating on Apple Podcasts. You can also share this with your family and friends, and business owners so that they too can be on a path to financial freedom.

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The Self-Employed Ecosystem For A Successful Business and Life

Tue, 30 Mar 2021 12:00:03 +0000

Are you interested in becoming a successful self-employed business owner? Are you ready to start controlling your destiny? Statistics have shown that there are 582 million entrepreneurs across the world and there is room for more.
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Welcome to The Entrepreneurial You podcast, hosted by yours truly, Heneka Watkis-Porter, the Jamaican podcast Queen, Author, international speaker, coach, and entrepreneur. Each week I feature a global, high-impact entrepreneur and leader to motivate, inspire and educate peak performers about international best practices to help their business scale and grow via this business podcast – the podcast for entrepreneurs in 2021 and beyond.

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Jeffrey Shaw to share business strategies that work for self-employed business owners and the personal development they need to increase their capacity for success.

Tune in to this episode to learn how to create a successful business and life as someone who is self-employed!

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Discover how to create a successful business and life!
Learn effective strategies that work in becoming successful as a self-employed business owner.
Learn about the Self-Employed Ecosystem and you can benefit from it.

Resources

Episode Highlights

Who is Jeffrey Shaw?

Jeffrey shares that as a child he was extremely withdrawn, that he was afraid because at that time the world seemed like “this big scary place”.
He pointed out that he was the youngest of three boys who were the classic masculine with a domineering father figure and expressed how different he was from them.
He pointed out that while he had all those emotions, fears, and feeling misplaced, some part of him knew that he was “awesome”.
He expresses that we as humans are far more complex than we give ourselves credit for, but limit ourselves because of circumstances.
He also shares that there is no division between our business experiences and life experiences; they overlap and they both make us who we are.

What Is The Self-Employed Ecosystem?

Maintaining that balance between our personal lives, our inner and outer world. When people can do something with their lives they grow further. You already have everything you need inside yourself to be great.
Largely, the self-employed ecosystem is about who we are and personal development.
There are three essential components to being successful from being self-employed:

Personal Development
Business Strategies
Daily Habits and Mindsets

What the self-employed ecosystem does is that it creates the environment to make your success almost inevitable, and puts everything in place.
The goal is to control what you can and manage what you can.

What Does A Growth Mindset Look Like?

Jeffrey shares that from a personal development standpoint a growth mindset is all about unblocking, as we are trying to increase capacity.
When looking at the growth mindset daily habits perspective, they are less about unblocking and more about moving forward.
Jeffrey points out that he teaches his clients how to properly set their intentions as most people have not been taught a system on how to set intentions in their life in a way that really works.
He shares that he teaches intentions through a system called “From-To”, where you highlight where you wish to go from, to. This allows us to reduce vague intentions to have more clear set actionable intentions for ourselves.

Jeffrey Speaks About His Upcoming Book – The Self-Employed Life

Jeffrey shares that his book is broken down into three sections on the self-employed ecosystem- Personal Development, Business Strategies, and Daily Habits. He points out that he included a personal story at the end of the book that shares how he nearly walked away from his Tedx Talk and why- the chapter is called, Don’t Give Up On Your Dream. He shares that in his research on books that catered to persons that were self-employed he could not find a single book that made sense for a self-employed business owner. He highlighted that this was why he wrote this book, as he has been self-employed his entire life- never having a traditional job. It acknowledges that you are a person, that your personal development has everything to do with business, it is all the business strategies that you need, and it’s the mindsets and habits to keep you going. The release date will be May 4th.

4 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“Who we are, shows up in our business”

“There is always more in us than what is showing up”
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“Always show up in your world at your best”

“Success breeds success”

About Jeffrey Shaw

Jeffrey is a speaker and small business consultant, who helps self-employed and small business owners gain control of their business in what seems like otherwise uncontrollable circumstances. How many people can say they’ve never worked for anyone else? Selling eggs door-to-door at 14 years old began a lifetime of self-employment. Drawing on his experience as a renowned portrait photographer, Jeffrey shows business owners how to see the business through a different lens and strategies to compose the often-chaotic pieces of life and business into sustainable success.

Jeffrey’s TEDxLincolnSquare talk is featured on TED.com and he’s the host of the top-rated podcast, The Self-Employed Life, author of The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success and LINGO: Discover Your Ideal Customers Secret Language and Make Your Business Irresistible.

Curious about Jeffrey’s program? Check out his website. You can learn more by listening to his podcast on Spotify, Google Play, iHeart Radio, and Apple Podcasts.

Have specific questions? You can reach out and follow Jeffrey on LinkedIn, Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter.

Enjoy this Podcast?

If you enjoyed today’s episode of The Entrepreneurial You, hit subscribe and share it with your friends!

Post a review and share it! If you enjoyed tuning into this podcast, then do not hesitate to write a review on the show notes page or on Apple Podcasts. You can also share this with your family and friends, and especially persons you know that are aspiring to be or currently self-employed business owners.

Have any questions? You can contact me through email (henekawatkisporter@gmail.com) or find me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Thanks for listening!

For more updates and episodes, visit my website. You may also tune in on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify.

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Heneka

How Shining Your Light Set You Apart From Others, with Lisa Nichols

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 12:00:26 +0000

Want to know how you can turn your life around? Are you in charge of your own destiny? Are you interested in becoming a successful entrepreneur? What does your next level look like? We all need to be able to touch our own next level! We all need to take that next step towards becoming a successful entrepreneur. Sometimes we overestimate that we can do everything and accomplish everything on our own- 76% of people think mentors are important, however, only 37% of people currently have one. Only 14% of mentor relationships started by asking someone to be their mentor. 61% of those relationships developed naturally. People with mentors are happier at their current jobs than those without.

The Entrepreneurial You was recently named among the “Top 30 Entrepreneurship Podcast You Must Follow” by Feedspot.

This week my guest is Lisa Nichols and this episode was taped with a live audience a few weeks ago. Want to unleash the entrepreneur within you? Keep listening! When you are through listening, head over to henekawatkisporter.com for more episodes, blogs, and other useful content.

In this episode, we are joined by Lisa Nichols, the world’s most requested transformational speaker, to discuss how shining your light sets you apart from others. From a struggling mom on government plans to a multimillionaire entrepreneur,

Lisa shares her story on how she had to give herself permission to heal so that her light could shine.
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She speaks about growing up being a part of the Black community but no feeling as though she was good enough and how she had “climbed over” the belief system that something was wrong with her after going out into the world.

Tune in to this episode to learn how to create a successful business and life as someone who is self-employed!

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Find out how you can stop limiting yourself from achieving greatness.
Learn effective strategies on how you can feel more confident about yourself.
Learn how to touch your own next level.

Episode Highlights

Lisa’s Breakthrough- Giving Herself Permission

Lisa speaks about giving herself permission to heal from being a struggling single mom and having to be on government systems.
She speaks about her journey from weighing over 200 pounds.
Lisa also speaks about her journey from not feeling comfortable in her own skin

Understanding What Your Next Level Looks Like-

Lisa shares that sometimes we won’t always have the capacity to see the version of ourselves that is yet to come so we have to accept that we won’t have the whole plan right away.
You have to take advantage of all the online resources available to you as online learning has become quite popular.
Trust yourself to implement and then find the right coach for yourself.
Touch Your Own Next Level
Even without clarity, I’m ready for it

Adjusting and Working On Your Light-

We need to recognize when it is time for us to start learning something new.
If you want to take yourself somewhere you’ve never gone, you will need someone else- sometimes we have to accept that we have taken ourselves as far as we can get on our own.
Work with someone that is 10 to 20 steps ahead of you, someone you can study and learn from.
Lisa points out that you should “Hook your caboose” to someone else’s train and learn new things.
Find someone that will teach you what is in your “Blindspot”.
As entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs, we are coaching others but we also need to be coachable.

Be Willing To Be Your Own Rescue-

Lisa shares that we have to be willing to put ourselves first.
We have to be willing to build something for ourselves so that we may have something to give back.
We have to be willing to ask ourselves the questions, “ What do I need?” “What does my dream need?” “What do my next 5 years need?” and “What do my next 10 years require of me today?”
Lisa also highlights that we have to be willing to risk it all to gain it all for ourselves.

Mantra for Taking the Next Step-

I’m ready for my next level
I’m ready for the unknown
I’m ready to grow
I’m ready to be brilliant but still willing to learn
I’m ready to touch the people I’ve never touched before
I’m ready for my next level

5 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“Borrow my faith and borrow my strength”

“You can’t get somewhere you’ve never gotten to before, by doing what you’ve done. Everything you want is on the other side of what you haven’t done yet.”

“We are built for the marathon.”

“You have to be willing to be your own rescue.”

“You are creating your future memories of yourself by what you are doing today.”

About Lisa Nichols

Lisa is one of the world’s most-requested motivational & transformational speakers, as well as a media personality and corporate CEO whose global platform has reached and served nearly 80 million people. From a struggling single mom on public assistance to a millionaire entrepreneur, Lisa’s courage and determination have inspired fans worldwide and helped countless audiences break through, to discover their own untapped talents and infinite potential.

Curious about Lisa’s work? Check out her website.

Have specific questions? You can reach out and follow Lisa on LinkedIn, and Twitter.

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Never allow anyone to let you dim your light or stop you from touching your next level. If you enjoyed today’s episode of The Entrepreneurial You, hit subscribe and share it with your friends! The Entrepreneurial You was recently named among the “Top 30 Entrepreneurship Podcast You Must Follow” by Feedspot.

Post a review and share it! If you enjoyed tuning into this podcast, then do not hesitate to write a review. You can also share this with your family and friends, and especially those looking to level-up, so they can feel empowered and encouraged to pursue their goals and dreams.

Have any questions? You can contact me through email (henekawatkisporter@gmail.com) or find me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Thanks for listening!

For more updates and episodes, visit my website. You may also tune in on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify.

Stay inspired,

Heneka

Harvard Secrets For Purchasing A Business, with Ahron Oddman

Tue, 16 Mar 2021 12:00:57 +0000

Have you ever wanted to ask a CEO and Harvard MBA all your burning business questions? What about spending an hour with the smartest person you know? April interviews Ahron Oddman, CEO of PSS, a former colleague, and client, and gets to do both! You don’t want to miss all the gems from the man who inspired April to start her company and introduced her to the term “Pouring In”.

This week I am pleased to be partnering with my very good friend April Shprintz of the Pouring Into Your Business podcast for an episode swap. April has been a guest on The Entrepreneurial You Podcast and I have also been a guest on her Pouring Into Your Business podcast. When we first spoke I fell in love with her story of generosity which is what episode199 of The Entrepreneurial You podcast was all about.

In this episode, April speaks with Ahron Oddman about Harvard Secrets for Purchasing a Business.

In this episode, you’ll discover—

The most powerful way for you to impact 2021 personally and in business
How to research and buy a successful business to grow
Why your gut sometimes trumps all the data in the world

Resources

Think Big Buy Small available on Amazon!

Pouring Into Yourself & Your Business Highlights

Ahron Shares What He Learned In Business School About Acquiring a Business-

Ahron shares that he went to business school with no real expectations in it otherwise from technology.
He pointed out that during grad school he had two professors, one of which yelled for over 20 minutes that “You guys are all supposed to be smart because you’re here in grad school but you guys are chasing the dumbest opportunities possible. What are the odds that any one of you will invent any one of these unicorn type companies.”
He shared that based on that discussion he stopped and reflected
Ahron also points out that 75% of the battle is won or lost in what company you buy along with what price you pay for it.
He also highlights that in buying a business, the closing process can take up to six months; the buyer and seller have to come to mutual terms and agreements.
Ahron shares that with COVID-19 came a massive amount of opportunities for business growth. He speaks that obstacles/challenges that come your way can present opportunities for your business to thrive in new ways.

Criteria for What Type Of Business To Look For When Buying-

Look for businesses that are profitable
Look at the financial benchmarks; learn about the businesses’ finances
Establish customer base
Take into consideration whether there is a future market for the product/service that the company provides.
Consider where and how that business impacts the world

Having The Right Mindset In Business-

Focus on self-development
Map out your goals both short and long-term
Create a mission worth spending your life on
Accept challenges
Be proactive
Be passionate about your business
You don’t need permission to be an entrepreneur

Business Advice from Ahron Oddman

Guard your mindset; Now your rather our responsibility as leaders and those who know better is to go out and inspire others to take stock of their mindset and for us to influence with really positive ideas and impact other peoples’…
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3 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“Take a stop and look back at the mountains that got you where you are, because in some ways they helped to define who you are today”

“Being a great leader isn’t something we should take for granted”

“75% of the battle is won or lost in what company you buy along with what price you pay for it.”

About Ahron Oddman

Curious about Ahron’s work and interested in learning more from him? Check out his website. You can learn more by checking out the blog section of his website.

Have specific questions? You can reach out and follow Ahron on LinkedIn.

Curious about April’s program? Check out her website. You can learn more by listening to her podcast on Apple Podcasts.

Have specific questions? You can reach out and follow April on Facebook, Instagram, Linked In, YouTube, and Twitter.

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As leaders we should always be looking to give back; give inspiration and help others . If you enjoyed today’s episode of The Entrepreneurial You, hit subscribe and share it with your friends!

Post a review and share it! If you enjoyed tuning into this podcast, then do not hesitate to write a review. You can also share this with your family and friends, and especially those who are feeling demotivated, so they can feel empowered and encouraged to lead their constituents.

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For more updates and episodes, visit my website. You may also tune in on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify.

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Using SEO To Drive Traffic & Have Massive Growth, with Matthew Woodard

Tue, 09 Mar 2021 12:00:13 +0000

Welcome to The Entrepreneurial You podcast, hosted by Heneka Watkis-Porter, the Jamaican podcast Queen, Author, international speaker, coach, and entrepreneur. Each week I feature a global, high-impact entrepreneur and leader to motivate, inspire and educate peak performers about international best practices to help their business scale and grow. Want to unleash the entrepreneur within you? Keep listening! When you are through listening, head over to henekawatkisporter.com for more episodes, blogs, and other useful content.

In this episode, we are joined by Matthew Woodard to discuss using search engine optimization to drive traffic and have massive growth.

Users trust search engines and having a presence in the top positions for the keywords the user is searching, increases the website’s trust. SEO is good for the social promotion of your website. SEO is important for the smooth running of a big website.

The majority of search engine users, more than 70% are more likely to click on one of the top 5 suggestions in the search engine results pages (SERPS).
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Tune in to this episode to learn how to increase your website traffic and your sales!

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Learn how to increase your website traffic and sales.
Discover what problems your website has and how you can fix them.
Learn about what is missing from your website.

Resources

To find out if your website has issues with low speed, check out this website at https://batchspeed.com/
If you are ready to take the next step to fix the problem you identified, check out this website at https://nitropack.io/
If you want to learn how to increase traffic to your website check out Matthew’s website at https://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/quick-win-seo/ – you’ll get a free copy of his internal SEO tool and step by step tutorial videos.
Want to learn a strategy that Matthew has been using to build links, traffic, and authority with great success across the past 18 months check out his website at https://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/seo/link-building/podcast-jacking/.
If you want to learn how to automate podcast bookings, check out this website at (provide the link that was sent in the chat during this episode)

Episode Highlights

Matthew Shares His Story-

Matthews shares that he was always that kid that was trying to sell you something that you didn’t want. He mentions that he’s always had that entrepreneurial spirit, from washing cars to selling candy at school at high prices. All throughout his school years, he was naturally interested in the internet and building websites. He mentioned that at the age of 11 years old he did not have the full vision to build Youtube. Then he moved to jobs where he did supermarket and warehouse works. He ended up in the corporate world where he mentions that he had some great successes- where he was able to utilize all of his skills he acquired growing up. He shares that he was lucky to step into the corporate world with his level of web knowledge as that had been a continuous advantage for him.

How Can I Increase My Website Traffic and Increase my Sales(Identify The Problem)-

The first thing you need to is to find out if I have a problem- what you will need to focus on is web speed- how fast your website loads.
If your website is slow, it then leads to lower conversion rates, lower average order values, and lower revenue per visitor. However if your website is fast, higher conversion values and higher values for revenue generated per visitor.
Matthew shares that for about three years Google has made site speed a ranking factor and will improve on that in May with what is called “core web vitals update”- in other words, if your website is slow then you are going to suffer but if your website is fast then you will benefit from this.
He also points out that website speed is 90%-95% of the issue that websites he reviews have.
How to find out if you have a problem? (check our resources provide for this episode and get the direct link to the website Batch Speed)
Once you’ve inserted your home page into that website, it will scan your website, then use Google to tell you how you score on page speed- if your scores are under 60 you have a serious problem and are losing money every day that you do not fix it.
He shares the score that you actually want is a minimum of 60 and above.

How Can I Fix The Problem(s) Identified?-

If you have no experience on how to build a website and you know that you have this problem and want to fix it (check our resources provided for this episode and get a direct link to the website NitroPack)
Sign up for the service provided on this website, integrate and follow their instructions.
He shares that this program majority of the time will take care of your speed issues immediately- takes a total of five minutes to complete. You will immediately see increases in conversion rates, average order values, and revenue earned per visitor.
If you integrate NitroPack it is important that you test it afterward. So if you are new to the site it is important that you place a test order and if you are an affiliate to the site make sure your affiliate link is working as well as if you have email forms on your site ensure that they are working after installing NitroPack.
He continues by adding that in about six weeks, you will then see the benefits from Google. Here’s what you should look for:

If you have Google Consort set up for your website then you are one step ahead, however, if you do not have it set up you can go ahead and do so now as it is completely free. In Google Consort, there is a report called Core Web Vitals and you want all of this report to say “Good”.

What Are Most Websites Missing?-

Matthew shares that Google now in the last 2-3 years are looking to send traffic to people that are accountable- they want to send their traffic to real businesses and real people.
He shares that it is critical for websites (eCommerce, affiliates, etc.) to publish their business information in the footer, on the contact page, and on the about page. This means your registered business address along with your phone number.
He also mentions that on your “About Page”, you should also have a photo of you the business owner, your employees, your workshops, your office (whether physical or virtual office)
You should be as a business owner communicating to Google that I am in fact a real business with real people that is accountable for my website.
Matthew shares that this valuable information is what he sees missing from many of the websites he reviews.

2 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“If you’re going to do something, then do it right”

“Never be satisfied with just doing the minimum that is required- quit doing the bare minimum”

About Matthew Woodward

Matthew started building websites before Google or YouTube existed – back then he was just a kid delivering newspapers before school to pay for the server. He had no idea that you could use the internet to make money. He just loved playing video games and writing which led him to build my first website for people to share their highlight videos.

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Bridging The Gap Between Feeling Stuck And Finding Fulfillment, with Laura Noel

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 13:27:49 +0000

Are you feeling stuck in a rut? Feeling like you don’t know which direction to take? Want to learn how your business can maximize its profits? If you’ve ever felt “stuck,” you are not alone. Many of us experience this feeling at some point in our lives and for different reasons.

A recent study has found that 69% of people feel trapped in the same old routine, and only 3 out of 10 people are happy with their lives. People are feeling stuck.
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Welcome to The Entrepreneurial You podcast, hosted by Heneka Watkis-Porter, the Jamaican podcast Queen, Author, international speaker, coach, and entrepreneur. Each week I feature a global, high-impact entrepreneur and leader to motivate, inspire and educate peak performers about international best practices to help their business scale and grow. This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Laura Noel to share about “Bridging The Gap Between Feeling Stuck And Finding Fulfillment.”

Keep listening! When you are through, head over to henekawatkisporter.com (if that’s not where you first found tis episode) for more episodes, blogs, and other useful content.

Tune in to this episode to learn how to create a successful business and life!

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Learn how you can break away from old habitual ways of thinking.
Find out how you can tune out those negative thoughts and start focusing more on the positive.
Learn effective strategies on how you can find fulfillment in what you are doing.

Resources

Laura has a special welcome page for us at www.stretchintosuccess.com/tey where she has provided on the page a few Giveaways, namely:

Free download of PDF-6 Mindset techniques for a more fulfilling life.
Free access to 5-day (1 hour each day) Breakthrough Your “Busy” B.S. (Blind Spots) Workshop.
Want to get more insights on what your paradigms might be? Get a free 15-min coaching consultation call with Laura Noel.

Episode Highlights

Laura’s Life as A Veteran-

Laura speaks about being very grateful that she had the opportunity to serve in the military.
She pointed out that from the time she started her journey in college she wanted to learn as much as possible about the military and from that she later enlisted.
What she thought was only going to be four years in college, turned into almost 28 years of service.
Laura highlighted that she retired in 2017 but the journey was incredible.

Laura Speaks About Her Purpose-

She points out that her purpose is to share what she has learned and what she now knows to be true in terms of the inner power that we all possess and are capable of unleashing.
To help people connect with the “awesomeness that is already inside of them.
Connect with the answers and also to discover their purpose; to understand that the answers are already inside of ourselves but sometimes we have to look outside of ourselves for the direction and getting them connected.

How Do We Cultivate An Environment Where We Can Slow Down and Live?-

Laura points out that we should start small; start from where we are at. Your quiet time doesn’t have to be sitting in silence, it can also be going for a walk, without music, that way you are able to listen and become more aware and present in the sounds of nature.
Find out what works best for you.
It is very important when checking in with yourself to ask yourself the following questions:

What am I thinking right now?
How do I feel right now?
How do I feel in my body right now?

How Does One Move Out of Being Stuck and Finding Fulfillment?

Shift your focus from “I’m tired of feeling tired” to “I’d rather feel joyful” or “I’d rather feel energized.”
Start thinking thoughts and catching your mind when it’s about to go to that negative space and redirect your thinking. Over time your mind will start filtering out that negative and consistently focus more on the positive- highlighting opportunities, creative ideas that are aligned with the new thoughts and notions that you would like to be connected with.
First, be aware of what you are thinking and what you are feeling and then choose the opposite of that- what you would rather and then you have to catch yourself in the act of when your mind wanders and tries to find its way back to your old habitual way of thinking & reasoning, and then you redirect it.

5 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“There is nothing in the past that has to have an influence on what you are capable of doing in the future.”

“Never dwell on any past experience whether bad or good.”

“In our subconscious mind, is our habitual way of seeing the world; Our habitual way of being, our paradigm.”

“If you are not scared and excited at the same time moving forward, then you are not growing- you are moving laterally.”

“We have to be willing to continually push ourselves; we want to work smarter not harder.”

About Laura Noel

Laura is an Executive Business and Personal Development Consultant who works with organizations and individuals to help streamline business processes while maximizing profits. She helps clients stretch their thinking in a way that opens them up to new possibilities. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur

CEO of her own company, Laura studied and taught personal growth, change management, and leadership for over 27 years while serving in the United States Air Force. She has helped solidify goals and improve the corporate culture within government agencies, the Department of Defense, and construction, technical, insurance, and sales organizations.

Curious about Laura’s work? Check out her website. You can learn more by listening to her blog at Stretch Into Success Consulting.

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The Secret To Success: Focus

Wed, 24 Feb 2021 00:00:42 +0000

Dylan Ogline is a high school dropout from a small country town in Pennsylvania. He started his first business when he was 14 selling cell phones. In 2016 he scrapped 10+ business projects and started focusing on one single thing, digital marketing. Tired from struggling getting no progress and working from his freezing basement, not to mention nearly a Million dollars in debt – it was an uphill climb. Turns out, focus was the key. 4 short years later he has built Ogline Digital into a 7-figure agency generating over a million in sales three years running. Dylan is now a leading expert in direct response advertising and business growth. He has now turned his focus to helping other people start and grow their own hyper profitable digital agency.

Show Notes

“In the world of Internet Customer Service, it’s important to remember your competitor is only one mouse click away.” – Doug Warner

It seems we are so easily distracted by bright shiny objects. We never give ourselves enough time on one project before we move to another.

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Dylan Ogline to share about his experience on “The Secret To Success: Focus.”

Here is a snippet of what Dylan shared:

“If you own a business your true number one priority should be providing your product or service to your customer, but I don’t like to mention that because that’s like telling you to breathe. I shouldn’t need to tell you to do that beyond that if you talk about growing your business, your number one focus should be on making the cash register ring bringing in customers and actually getting them to pay you. So just work backwards from there and look at like what is the most simple single thing I can do to bring on more customers all these extra things a website a logo, you know wasting your time trying to get you know, public relations or whatever are all of these things necessary or that they just help that one single thing.”

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Business Process Management: How To Do It Effectively

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:00:21 +0000

The founder of The CEO Partner®, a systems driven, profits-obsessed, Digital Implementation agency that helps smart CEOs grow their business and meet their goals. Sonaya started her Digital Implementation Agency in November of 2011 while still working full-time as a Senior Financial Systems Analyst at TD Ameritrade. Since then, she has built a multi six-figure consulting agency and learned a ton of good and bad lessons along the way.

Show Notes

“If I had one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem and only five minutes finding the solution.” – Albert Einstein

Are you crumbling under the weight of your business? It may be a lack of system that is weighing you down.

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Sonaya WIlliams to share her experience and expertise on “Business Process Management: How To Do It Effectively.”

Here is a snippet of what Sonaya shared:

“A lot of people create businesses because they don’t want to be in the corporate grind. They don’t want to have to live to that 9 to 5 or they want to create their own schedule. Some people wanted to be away and do what they enjoy and not have to come back and be like at a nine-to-five. Maybe they want to work a couple hours a day or a couple hours a week. The only way you can do that is if you have the processes in place because the business still needs to run. Things still need to happen and you don’t necessarily have to be the one to do that. If you have the system in place, they allow you the time freedom. They allow you to keep money on the table. Having processes and systems in place allows you to identify the support that you truly need because once you have the process down, you know what it’s going to take to execute it. And you know, what kind of skills that person, whether it’s a virtual assistant project manager, a launch manager, whoever, you know the skills that they need to execute.

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How to Launch a New Business When All You Have Is A Dime

Wed, 10 Feb 2021 00:00:14 +0000

Frustrated in his corporate job and struggling in his marriage, parenting and finances, Seth started with a single dime, with a dream that if he kept doubling it, he could leave his corporate job and create margin for him and his family. Today, Seth is a full time Amazon seller and is the founder of Just One Dime, a coaching company for Amazon FBA sellers. Seth has students in over 100 countries, was flown to Amazon’s headquarters to be consulted for improving Amazon’s third party platform, was asked by a company owned by a shark

from Shark Tank to run their online Amazon and ecommerce division, run a sourcing team in China, and was requested by two countries to train their top businesses.

Show Notes

“Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.” – Jeff Bezos

It is pivot season! Thanks to COVID-19. Perhaps you’ve turned to having a digital business and particularly an Amazon store. But how much do you know about how to do it really well?

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Seth Kniep to share his wealth of knowledge on “How to Launch a New Business When All You Have Is A Dime.”

Here is a snippet of what Seth shared:

“First you find a product that is solving a problem and you make sure that the top competitors for that product that are selling it at least five of them have fewer than 100 reviews, which means if someone with less than a hundred reviews is selling really well, then you can launch a new product and probably sell it very well. Also, then you make sure it’s selling at least 12 to 15 times a day. That’s a general rule profit is more important than how many times it sells but that always ways indicates if between 12 and 15 minimum indicates, very strong demand for a product you find that product you make sure there aren’t too many reviews as using the criteria I mentioned and then you start reading the critical reviews and you ask yourself a simple question when I look at all the critical reviews or I should say the top-ranking critical reviews for the top competitor What are the customer saying that they don’t like about this product?”

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Influencer Marketing: What’s In It For My Business?

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:00:34 +0000

Eric is the CEO and co-founder of Open Influence and a key authority in the influencer marketing space. Eric is a Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient and his company has been recognized as one of Inc’s 5000 list of Fastest Growing Companies in America for two years in a row (2018 & 2019). His company’s clients include Disney, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Intuit, SoFi, Unilever, P&G, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, L’Oreal, and Under Armour just to name a few.

Show Notes

“Influencers — they’re the best thing since sliced bread. But forget bread; they’re selling like hotcakes. They’re creating huge returns, and they’re only set to keep growing!” – Emily Warna

There is a line from a very popular Jamaica artiste that says, “dweet fi di love, mi nuh dweet fi di likes.” This is talking about popularity on social media. Sadly, many people are misguided into thinking that likes and followers on social media is an end-all and be all.

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Eric Dahan to share on “Influencer Marketing: What’s In It For My Business?”

Here is a snippet of what Eric shared:

“I think it’s really important to note that popularity is not influence. Having a lot of followers does not mean you have any influence it sounds a bit counterintuitive, but when you look at influence, you have to look at it in a relative lens. So, what are you influential in? What kind of topic do you know? One of my favourite examples, I would trust my hairstylist for advice on hairstyles and trends. I won’t necessarily trust my lawyer to give me that same advice but I will trust my lawyers to give me advice on legal matters. It works in a very sort of similar way. Trust is really relative and trust is what drives influence”

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Using Podcast Interview Marketing To Turn Listeners Into Customers

Wed, 27 Jan 2021 00:00:05 +0000

Tom Schwab knows how to build an online business. He’s done it successfully several times, and now helps others find online success with podcast interview marketing. As a Navy veteran who ran nuclear power plants, and an inbound marketing engineer, Tom Schwab has a refreshingly unique approach. Tom helps thought leaders (coaches, authors, speakers, consultants, emerging brands) get featured on leading podcasts their ideal prospects are already listening to. The Interview Valet system then helps them to turn listeners into customers.

Show Notes

“Human beings love to buy stuff. But we hate being sold to through the old paradigm. So consider that when you podcast because at the end of the day, you should be selling.“ – Glen Carlson

There are so many benefits that are available through podcast guesting. Yet, it is one of the most underutilized areas of marketing for thought leaders.

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Tom Schwab to share about his expertise on “Using Podcast Interview Marketing To Turn Listeners Into Customers.”

Here is a snippet of what Tom shared:

“I get pitched to be on my podcast probably two to three times a day. Everyone says the same thing: Tom I love your podcast and would love to be a guest. There’s only one problem: Heneka I don’t have a podcast. They’re just Robo pitching. That’s not being a guest, that’s being slimy. That’s being spammy. That’s everything that people hate. If you want to be introduced to somebody’s audience or somebody’s friends, and somebody’s tribe, you need to learn that. Gary Vaynerchuk always talks about jab jab jab right hook and I probably missed a couple Jabs in there. I look at it as serve, serve, serve, serve, ask right so serve.”

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My 2020 Year In Review: Top 3 Lessons Learned

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 18:47:47 +0000

Hello and welcome to episode 201 of The Entrepreneurial you podcast. I’m your host Heneka Watkis-Porter. I am still reeling from the excitement of last week when I reached the milestone of 200 episodes. To celebrate I interviewed Seth Godin live and what a time that was! If you haven’t listened to it yet, go check it out. Seth is just such a wealth of inspiration.

This week, I am doing a solo episode chronicling my 2020 experience. It is interesting because while this journey makes the COVID-19 pandemic seem like a walkinthe park, it was then that I truly leant how to live (literally and physically).

HERE ARE THREE REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE:

I elaborate on my top 3 lessons learnt in 2020.
Learn about my worst 2020 moment
Hear what my 2020 high points are

EPISODE SOUND BITE

Back to 2019…

In order to go forward, let me go back a little to 2019. If you were listening to episode 147 which was published on January 7, 2020, you will recall it was titled “The Highs and Lows of 2020.”

I shared at the end of 2019 how I was slowing down, how tired I felt because of chronic insomnia and the deep, dark depression that I fell into. I also shared how I had found a cure.

Well, after that, things went downhill from there. What happened next was something I wasn’t prepared for by any stretch of the imagination. I found myself fighting for my life on the night of January 9, 2020. Remember how I told you that I was taking sleeping pills and then I discovered marijuana tea? Well about 10 pm this night in question I drank some marijuana tea. I boiled maybe 1.5 grams for an extended time in milk to get the full THC effect. But I totally forgot that the previous night I had taken Zopiclone to help me to sleep. Apparently, it was still in my system coupled with the very potent THC from the marijuana…a deadly combination!

Somehow (I don’t know how) I made it through the night. The following morning I got 4 bags of drip + valium and injection from the doctor as they did everything to get the drug out of my system. Except being traumatized for days, all went back to normal.

This is How 2020 Started

I continued life as I knew it – finishing up my 5th book, Podcast Power: The Quick-Start Guide To Launching And Leveling-Up Your Brand; I traced to the US to do 3 major speaking engagements (ATD Tech Knowledge, Podcast Movement Evolutions and PodFest multi-Media Expo).

So let’s fast track to April 1, 2020. You see, April 1, 2020, began as an ordinary day. I got up early, said a prayer (I think) and then went on to do a myriad of interviews on both sides of the mic, i.e. being a guest on a few shows and interviewing guests for mine. It was a long day, I felt tired but I knew I would have time to rest after my last interview which was scheduled for 8:00 pm, OR SO I THOUGHT!

I am strong, resilient and determined so I should be able to get through this final live interview. BUT it was not to be. In the middle of the live recording there began the first of many health challenges. I began feeling as though I was passing out. I had to stop immediately. Since it was night and the curfew in Jamaica had begun that very evening, I consulted with a telemedical professional. Based on the symptoms I was experiencing, he promptly made a referral to Andrews Hospital, all this while every breath seems to be leaving my body (and yeah got stopped in the curfew too by the cops).

From there, all went down there from a medical standpoint. I have seen so many doctors within this time, including a Psychiatrist. Some of the symptoms included, but were not limited to the below:

…depression triggered the physical situation which then caused anxiety.

Some of the physical symptoms:

Extreme fatigue
feelings of passing out frequently
Lack of focus
Stomach issues
Insomnia
High white blood cell count
High pulse rate
Lack of energy
Severe hypersensitivity to electromagnetic fields ( so very limited time on electronic devices)

By the way, remember that depression I spoke about in 2019? Well this was 10X worse. As I connect the dots looking back, I realize that the bout of depression that I experienced at the end of 2019 was as a result of taking those sleeping pills belonging to the benzodiazepines class of drugs. Stay away from them.

Take No Thought…

During the time of my illness, I was anxious, fearful and unsure of what my future would look like or whether I would even be around for a future. Truth be told,I think God was preparing me for what was to come in 2020. Here’s why, usually at the end of a year I take 3 days away to goal-set and make plans for the year ahead. I could not find it in me to do that at the end of 2019 and I couldn’t understand why. I also felt strongly in my spirit that I should sell my car and that I did. As I saw 2020 unfold it all made sense to me. I didn’t need to make any new plans because I wouldn’t be able to execute on them anyways (everything that I did in 2020 were already set in motion from 2019(publish book, travel to speak and continued with the podcast) and 2, I didn’t really need a car since for the most part we were on lockdown.

What made me anxious though was the fact that I had no energy to do any work for months. I believe God has a very sense of humour because when I had no energy for work, none was coming in. As I contemplated how much money I had spent on medical bills, depleting my savings and had to turn to investments, panic set in. But one day I decide to hold God accountable to his word in Matthew 6:25-34 that says,

25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

I decided to surrender all my anxiety where provision is concerned. Literally the moment I began to do this, everything changed. I began to get new and higher paying clients at the point when I could muster the strength to do work. I continue to heal so I do work on my time based on how my body feels.

In my period of rest, opportunities began to flow my way even without my having to work hard for them such as media features which I hadn’t asked for. I also landed a Distributor for Podcast Power.

Experiencing a health challenge during the period of a pandemic has taught me many things. I am just going to share 3 of those with you today:

Slow download and live
Surrender to the process
I am more resilient than I thought

ABOUT HENEKA WATKIS-PORTER

Heneka Watkis-Porter is an entrepreneur, coach, 5x author, international speaker and host of The Entrepreneurial You Podcast who has interviewed Richard Branson, John Lee Dumas, Paul Carrick Brunson, Seth Godin (2X) and many other influencers. She is the founder and CEO of Patwa Apparel. Heneka is also the creator of the Caribbean’s first virtual conference and expo: The Entrepreneurial You Virtual SME Conference & Expo as well as the Online Health Summit, Slow Down And Live: Health Is Wealth.

Heneka hosts Leadercast events in Jamaica and writes for the Leadercast blog and Thrive Global.

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The Practice: Shipping Creative Work w/Seth Godin

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 13:33:52 +0000

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast celebrates 200 episodes and Seth Godin joins Host, Heneka Watkis-Porter for a second appearance to celebrate. Seth is the embodiment of ruckus, generosity and creativity. Listen to this powerful conversation surrounding how to ‘just do it.’ You don’t need the approval of anyone to create your ‘ruckus’ but you must start.

Doing the LIVE conversation was super amazing. Thanks to all who joined us live and to you who will listen after.

HERE ARE THREE REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE:

Find out what the most Jamaican thing Seth ever did.
Discover how to “pick yourself.”
Learn what it means to do the “practice.”

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Every Blog Starts With Fewer Than 100 Readers

“It’s easy for somebody to say you can do X Y or Z because you’re your Seth. But they weren’t around when I got 800 rejection letters in a row and was eating black beans and rice every day because I wasn’t Seth. And when my blog started, the first 200 posts had fewer than 100 readers. Every blog starts with fewer than 100 readers. Every PODCAST starts with fewer than 100 listeners that’s the only way it can start.

Different People Will Find Different Fuel

Every day I say what would my mom and dad be proud of if I did this and every day I say what did all the people who open the door for me, what do they need from me today that’s my fuel. Different people are going to find different fuel. But I believe there is an endless amount of enthusiasm and momentum and reserve if we just tap into the people who came before…

The Roadmap?

The number of roadmaps in the world is close to infinite. First, you have to decide where you want to go. So if I said to you, how do I get to Kingston. Well, we can look at Google Maps; we can look at Bing; we can look at Rand McNally. Finding the map is pretty straightforward. The hard part is deciding to go to Kingston, committing to go to Kingston, saying, I’m going to get from here to there. And that’s the thing we ignore because everyone’s afraid of failing. Everyone says show me the proof of all the steps. Exactly, the guarantee that I’m going to get from here to there and that’s not how it works, so, you know, Miles Davis was first, and the one and only and recorded the bestselling Jazz album of its time in four days. No guarantees right. When Bob Marley showed up and did the work he did, there was no model. There was no do it exactly like this. Chris Blackwell helped but it was Bob believe.”

ABOUT SETH GODIN

Seth is actually a repeat guest on The Entrepreneurial You podcast. He is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, and speaker.

In addition to launching one of the most popular blogs in the world, he has written 19 best-selling books, including The Dip, Linchpin, Purple Cow, Tribes, and What To Do When It’s Your Turn (And It’s Always Your Turn). One of his most recent books, This is Marketing, was an instant bestseller in countries around the world. Today we are here to talk about The Practice: Shipping Creative work.

Though renowned for his writing and speaking, Seth also founded two companies, Squidoo and Yoyodyne (acquired by Yahoo!). In 2013, Seth was one of just three professionals inducted into the Direct Marketing Hall of Fame. In May 2018, he was inducted into the Marketing Hall of Fame as well. He might be the only person in both.

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The Generosity Culture: How “Pouring Into” Others is the Best Way to be Successful

Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:00:53 +0000

April has spent two decades driving growth for companies by giving. She started her career in the Air Force and then specialized in sales, operations, and marketing, supporting Fortune 500 clients. April generated over $1 billion in combined additional revenue for clients based on the principles of The Generosity Culture.

Show Notes

“Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.” Frank Howard Clark

In this era where everyone is seemingly tuned to WIIFM (what’s in it for me), we welcome any move to foster generosity.

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites April Shprintz to share about her experience with generosity as a child and how it has impacted her life’s work.

Here is a snippet of what April shared:

“I credit One individual with the generosity culture. She was the impetus for it. Even if I didn’t understand it at the time, when I was nine years old. My mother had to go to rehab. She was given the option from her head of Human Resources where she worked. She could go to rehab for her alcoholism, or she was going to lose her job because it was causing problems at work and the woman who delivered that message to the head of Human Resources came to our home. It was just this extremely generous act on her part because not only did she give my mom that second chance, which was great. My mom did go to rehab. That was a wonderful thing for her, but she also took a significant interest in me as a young girl.”

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Make Money on Autopilot with these Must-Have Email Automations

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 00:00:18 +0000

Jessica is an eCommerce strategy expert and support for female entrepreneurs. 20+ years of retail & eCommerce experience gives Jessica the ability to support female entrepreneurs in creating the right strategy for their business. After 20+ years in retail and 3 years as the only employee of a 7-figure eCommerce business, now she is working with the top experts in eCommerce, SEO, web development, and digital marketing.

Show Notes

“Marketing is like sex: everyone thinks they’re good at it.” ― Steve Tobak

We are bombarded with marketing videos on a daily basis encouraging us to sign up to this school or that. But have we considered what goes into setting up one?

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Jessica Coster to talk about email automations best practices to make money.

Here is a snippet of what Jessica shared:

“You as a small business, your main focus should be creating a relationship with the customer. So speak to them how you would if you were in a store with them when people approach it from that space it becomes a lot easier to write how you would talk and not get so caught up in all of the rules of copywriting. Another thing to remember is that people buy with emotions and justify their purchases with logic. So as much as you can pull at those heartstrings or the emotion behind what it is that they’re purchasing, the more successful you’ll be. For the welcome series in that first email where you are delivering the discount, I usually keep it very simple: here is your discount, come to the website and make your purchase.”

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The Business of Setting Up an Online School

Wed, 23 Dec 2020 00:00:56 +0000

Grant 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 has been a board member and donor to a number of nonprofits, an advisor to many publicly traded companies and a guest speaker at seminars and graduate school courses.

Show Notes

“With guns, you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.” ― Malala Yousafzai

We are bombarded with marketing videos on a daily basis encouraging us to sign up to this school or that. But have we considered what goes into setting up one?

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Grant Aldrich to take us through the ins and out of setting up an online school.

Here is a snippet of what Grant shared:

“The way that we monetize was that the whole platform is sponsored by the University. I’ll take a step back. One of the impediments that I realized by looking at the audience – working adults- was that cost was a big factor for them. We all can appreciate this. We’re all busy adults. If we have to make a big purchase to do anything, we delay. Some have never been in an online classroom. Some are worried that they won’t be successful. Some are worried that they won’t have the time management to do it. So you’ve got all of these fears, including cost As I was moving through to chip away at each of these things I knew it had to be free.”

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Building a Business that Scales With Your Life

Wed, 16 Dec 2020 00:00:25 +0000

Lee LeFever is the co-founder of Common Craft and author of two books: The Art of Explanation and Big Enough. Since 2007, Common Craft has won numerous awards, worked with the world’s most respected brands and created original explainer videos that have earned over 50 million online video views.

Today, Common Craft produces animated videos and digital visuals that are used by educators in over 50 countries. Lee and his partner Sachi are Common Craft’s only employees and work from their home off the coast of Washington State.

Show Notes

“You are not your resume, you are your work. – Seth Godin

Balance? What is that? Whilst it may be difficult to achieve this, it is certain that we can work towards harmony with every area of our lives. As you contemplate scaling your business, the ideal is to have it do so as your own life scales.

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Lee LeFever to talk about building a business that scales with your life.

Here is a snippet of what Lee shared:

“I think that it’s time for people to think differently about success and respectability in business. For so long, the only value that has mattered to a lot of people is the size of your bank account or the size of your paycheck, or the size of your home or how nice of a car you have. That stuff matters.

I think sometimes people are prone to outsource their values to other people or to magazines or the things they see on TV and don’t understand what makes them happy and what makes them satisfied with their life. And I think that if people do have an opportunity to step back and think about what they value and where their happiness comes from that they can find ways to orient their business to support those things and that might not mean money. It might mean family, it might mean Community it might mean faith it might mean Independence. There’s a long list of things that you can be rich with and that your business can support that I think is

respectable.”

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A Global Pandemic: Cyber Threats and Remote Employees

Wed, 09 Dec 2020 00:00:27 +0000

So if there is some sort of a natural disaster or a hurricane in Jamaica you know that your data is safe in a data centre in Minnesota or something and your backups need to be encrypted and it needs to be audited once every quarter…
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Brian is a computer scientist, angel investor and entrepreneur. Brian has started or co-founded five successful companies, been a part of successful exits, has been successful in VC/angel fundraising on both sides of the table. He currently is chairman and CEO of Gillware which provides emergency IT services to clients suffering from data related disasters, and offers advice and consulting to avoid corporate data disasters.

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“Passwords are like underwear: don’t let people see it, change it very often, and you shouldn’t share it with strangers.” – Chris Pirillo

Undoubtedly this pandemic has created a myriad of opportunities to be leveraged, most of which are online. Equally available, are the increased risks that are associated with having a greater online presence.

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Brian Gill to talk about mitigating against the risks of cyber-attacks.

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“This is the most important tip to protect yourself from ransomware, which is a devastating thing for a business. It can put you all the way out of business. And that is you need to have your data backed up by a professional. If you’re a smaller business with less than 30 or 40 employees, you probably need, if you don’t already have what’s called a managed service provider or an MSP and you need to hire that MSP in a way where you know exactly how they’re going to back your data up and it needs to be off Network. It needs to be in a different geography ideally. So if there is some sort of a natural disaster or a hurricane in Jamaica you know that your data is safe in a data centre in Minnesota or something and your backups need to be encrypted and it needs to be audited once every quarter once maybe twice a year. You need to pay your MSP to download those backups and test them to make sure that they’re current that they have all of your critical data.”

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Export or Die: Trading Globally for Business Success

Wed, 02 Dec 2020 00:00:47 +0000

Robert Scott is the President of StartTradeJamaica, a firm dedicated to assisting companies achieve their market entry and market development goals. Currently represented by an expanding network of affiliates in Central America (El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica), Australia, Asia (Vietnam, United Arab Emirates) the Caribbean (Dominican Republic, Cuba, Grand Cayman), Ireland and the USA. StartTrade Jamaica represents manufacturers and provides export coaching for selected SME clients. English as a Second language is also offered by an International TEFL and TESOL certified affiliate.

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Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital – the world’s best talents and greatest ideas. –Jack Welch

You have probably heard the term, export or die. This probably gives an indication of how much of a life line it can be for businesses who dare to venture past the seemingly difficulties of international trade.

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Robert Scott to talk about the business of exporting.

Here is a snippet of what Robert shared:

…in terms of internally, they all speak to the concept of export readiness. Am I ready for export? Now many people who are new whether you’re an individual or a big company with a product, you will always have some challenges. So the export readiness is not to say that you’re not ready, go sit down one find something else to do. It’s to know exactly what you need to do to lift the bar. So one of the first questions the export readiness asks you is, do you have capacity? because I have spoken to persons who (say) oh I make this thing in my home, I can do maybe about 10 cases a month. Okay, fine. Nothing is wrong with that. Let’s find a market that will take 10 cases a month. Don’t waste your time going to China.

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Getting Uncomfortable: Your True Path to Success

Mon, 23 Nov 2020 16:10:43 +0000

Mo Elkhamissy spent twenty years training to be a professional soccer player, only to find that his dream was not possible. Graduating college right as 9/11 struck, no one would even look at his CV because his name was Mohammed. Later on, he was given the opportunity to run a company generating over $1 billion in sales while his one-year-old daughter was diagnosed with an “incurable” form of cancer. Because of his path, MK views success as a means of helping others. He regards success and winning as a moral duty that enables people to help others. He believes that being humble makes you strong and that being strong makes you happy. MK’s accomplishments came despite the fact that he is an average person–which means that by following his advice anyone can achieve success.

Show Notes

“Quitting because you don’t want to be uncomfortable will prevent you from growing.” – Amy Morin

You probably already know that what lies between your ears has the greatest capacity to impact your life. Everything begins with a thought which manifests into attitudes and actions, with longstanding impact.

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites ***** to explore the power of positive thought.

Here is a snippet of what Mo shared:

“Having the right intent in why you’re building that business is awesome. I think that this whole idea of Entrepreneurship is fake. It’s fake insurance. Building a business that services your community and understanding supply and demand, like you’re a merchant a thousand years ago is the way forward. If whatever you’re doing right now doesn’t work and if the new economy, which is not hard to figure out doesn’t serve your business, just fail now, pivot and do something new and don’t look at it as a failure. No one is going to say anything about anything that failed in 2020.”

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Amplifying Your Voice Amidst the Pandemic Noise

Wed, 18 Nov 2020 00:00:59 +0000

Beck Power is a nomadic entrepreneur from New Zealand and now based in Toronto. Her agency “Power Creative Media” creates and posts thousands of pieces of microcontent every month for clients. She also shows entrepreneurs how to be more strategic and effective using content to grow their influence, impact and income online. She’s been featured in Forbes, Yahoo, Entrepreneur and NY Mag.

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“Personally, I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms.” – Dale Carnegie

How do you stand out from the crow and allow your voice to be at one with your target audience? It definitely takes focus and intentionality.

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Beck Power to talk about how we can amplify our voice amidst the pandemic.

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“It doesn’t matter how great your content is if no one is seeing it. You have to be really consistent with how the content looks. It can’t be orange one day, blue the other and purple the next day (and different styles and things) because they won’t recognize it as still you. It has to look consistent and you have to post consistently. It used to be that we would see something seven times before we would want to buy it and now, (last year it was I think 16 or 17 times) and it’s probably more than 20 times before we make the connection that we should buy it or want to buy it. Posting consistently really helps with that.”

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Making the Leap From Traditional Employment to Entrepreneurship

Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:00:34 +0000

Tra is a nationally recognized expert in entrepreneurship and business strategy. He is horrified by the significant decline of entrepreneurship in America, and he has made it his mission to rescue 1 million entrepreneurs from traditional employment. Tra’s new book, Boss Brain, reveals a scientifically-proven system that unlocks readers’ true potential and unleashes their entrepreneurial instincts so they can leave traditional employment forever. That’s the real American Dream!

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“Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.” – Brian Chesky

The thought of venturing out from the security of a 9 to 5 can be daunting, seemingly disheartening and dismaying. BUT, it can be very rewarding and liberating once you are able to face the fear of the unknown.

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Tra Williams to inspire and motivate you to make the leap from traditional employment and start a business of your own.

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“The first of the four instincts in my book is belief. When you say ‘belief’, traditionally people think that of religion or faith, but belief happens all day every day in your lives. You believe that you should stop at a red light because if you do not, you get in a car accident. You go to work because you believe on Friday, you’ll get a paycheck. Every action that you take is a belief that it will result in some predictable result. The challenge for you to begin that process of unlearning how to be an employee and learning how to think and live like an entrepreneur requires that belief. But you can’t just wake up one morning and believe; you need evidence. What I say in the book and what I would say to everyone who’s trying to make this transition is, belief is reverse-engineered. You start by taking actions, even if deep down you’re still very apprehensive about the inevitability or the possibility of your success.”

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How to Leverage Your Book to Raise Your Profile to Raise Your Price

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 00:00:26 +0000

Cathryn is a Book Coach and Publisher based in Brisbane. She helps coaches, speakers and aspiring thought leaders write and publish beautiful self-help books, business books and memoirs.A quality book will raise your profile, and attract new opportunities such as speaking, media, podcasts and new clients, because it ultimately positions you as a thought leader, and adds credibility and income to your business. Using her no-BS, genuine and practical approach to book writing, Cathryn empowers you to tell your truth, grow your business, and make a greater impact on your industry and the world.

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“Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.” —Hunter S. Thompson

Writing a book is the dream of many people. The process can seem daunting but with the right guidance, it doesn’t have to be. There are numerous benefits in getting published.

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast speaks with Cathryn Mora to share her expertise as a book coach, highlighting how a book can actually raise your profile and subsequently, your bottom line.

Here is a snippet of what Cathryn shared:

“When people come to me and they say I’ve started a book and I’m stuck. I can almost guarantee that every single time they haven’t thought about all the other stuff including the outline. They haven’t thought about how they’re going to use the book, they haven’t thought about what topics to bring to them (audience). They haven’t thought about their audience and they haven’t written an outline. Ninety-nine out of a hundred (that’s a made-up number) but ninety-nine out of a hundred times those things aren’t in place and you know a year into the book writing journey the person is stuck.”

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The 10 Best Productivity Apps You and your VA Can Use to Get More Done

Tue, 27 Oct 2020 22:00:37 +0000

Barbara is an investor, entrepreneur, and Founder & CEO of The Virtual Hub – a business she started by accident that exploded in the space of 12 months to become one of the leading companies that recruits, trains, and manages virtual assistants for businesses who need to free up time and energy so they can go to the next level. With a strong focus on customized training and ongoing career development, Barbara has built a company that ensures their team is trained in cutting-edge programs (like Hubspot, Ontraport, etc.) to best meet their clients’ unique needs in digital marketing, social media, personal assistant services, and administrative support.

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“If you’re serious about changing your life, you’ll find a way. If you’re not, you’ll find an excuse.” – Jennifer Sincero

We are living in a fast-paced world so anything we can do to eke more time out of the day will make our lives way easier. It is not just about being busy, it is about being productive. In 2020, there are a myriad of tools designed to do exactly that but are we aware of them and how much they can put the magic touch to our daily work?

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Barbara Turley to share some productivity tools to make the most out of your day.

Here is a snippet of what Barbara shared:

“You can be the best virtual assistant in the world and still fail at this and not because you’re not great at what you do because you don’t know how to manage the client and they’ll be va’s out there nodding their head as I say this; being clear on your boundaries on your communication style versus the client style and managing their expectations is key and using something like Asana is like the number one tip. Make it non-negotiable. Trello, Asana or whatever they are, use it to keep everybody organized.”

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How Discernment Makes You a Better Leader: An Undercover Boss Perspective

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 00:00:24 +0000

Jeff is a franchise executive with 25 years of experience founding, building, operating, and ultimately exiting a national franchise brand, AdvantaClean.As a leading national restoration franchise AdvantaClean became a strategic partner with St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital to support families in need, when they need it the most. In January of 2019, AdvantaClean was acquired by Home Franchise Concepts (HFC) to create a combined network with over 1,700 franchise territories operating in 11,000 cities in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. After the successful sale and exit, Jeff set out to help others build sustainable businesses and franchise systems. Jeff is a published author, Forbes contributor, speaker, and consultant to emerging brands.

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“It’s not at all hard to understand a person; it’s only hard to listen without bias.” ― Criss Jami

Discernment is the ability to obtain sharp perceptions or to judge well (or the activity of so doing). Did you know that it has the potential to make you a better leader?

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Jeff Dudan to talk about the ways in which discernment can augment your leadership game.

Here is a snippet of what Jeff shared:

“Discernment is a principled effective experience informed process for powerful decision-making and if you’re an athlete for example, and you want to be a better basketball player, you might say I’m going to work on my left-hand dribbles. I’m going to work on my rebounding or taking charges or my for I’m going to work on my rebounding or taking charges or my for whatever it is. You break the game down into its component pieces. And if it’s true that the quality of our decisions creates the quality of our lives and the success of our business then how do we intentionally work out to become a better decision maker? What are the things that we can acquire? What are the practices that we can engage in? What are the models of thought as we go through life and we accumulate things and have experiences. That’s how do we turn these into models of thought for powerful decision making in our life because our batting average overtime on our decisions just means all makes all the difference in the lives that we lead and the impact that we make in other people’s lives.”

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Building a Successful Digital Marketing Agency

Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:00:26 +0000

Xenia is the CEO and Co-Founder of Planable, a content review and marketing collaboration platform used by over 5,000 teams behind brands such as Hyundai, Christian Louboutin, Viber, and United Nations. Prior to launching Planable, at 20 y.o., she built a digital marketing agency and led social for clients such as Coca-Cola. Xenia has been recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and spoke on the Innovation Stage at Cannes Lions in 2018. Xenia graduated from Tim Draper’s startup academy in Silicon Valley and took Planable through the Techstars London accelerator in 2017. She has also published a book – The Manifesto on Content Marketing Teams and has launched her own podcast – People of Marketing.

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“People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.” – Simon Sinek

Are you running a digital marketing agency or curious about running one?

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Xenia Muntean to talk about how to do so successfully.

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“You can get a niche based on the platforms you are going to do the digital marketing on WordPress or if you’re a social media marketing agency. Are you going to do Instagram or are you going to do Twitter? If you focus yourself on a platform, you get the chance to better understand the nuances of just that 1 platform rather than trying to figure them all out. I think that’s really great in identifying a niche beside the depth of knowledge. It also gives you a competitive edge because you can get all the clients in that specific industry; It also makes onboarding so much easier because clients are so similar between each other. It also makes targeting in terms of sales easier because you have a clear persona. So I think that’s one of the things, identifying a niche and then obviously you have to establish your own digital presence.”

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How to Make Money Selling Digital Products on Etsy

Wed, 07 Oct 2020 00:00:01 +0000

Nancy is a digital marketing specialist for women entrepreneurs and Etsy Sellers. She works with Etsy Sellers who want to build a thriving Etsy business and embrace the entrepreneurial adventure. She’s been a Digital Marketing Specialist now for 11 years and an Etsy Seller for the last 4 years. She started her Etsy Shop in late 2016 because she wanted to write a case study for her blog about making handmade items and selling them on Etsy. Now she has 6 Etsy Shops and loves making passive income with Etsy.

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“Creativity is contagious, pass it on.” Albert Einstein

Want to find a viable option to provide another stream of income in this time? Etsy may just be the answer you are searching for.

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Nancy Badillo to talk about how to make money selling digital products on Etsy.

Here is a snippet of what Nancy shared:

“So by choosing to micromanage and picking an item that you create tons of different products for that particular product and service that you’re selling. The next step is building a brand around this. So Etsy drives you building traffic, which is great, but you don’t want to just solely depend on that traffic. What you want to do is you want to build a brand around your Etsy store. Not only do you need to use Etsy as a platform to drive to organic traffic by optimizing your listings for SEO and making sure you have great photos, making sure that you have great SEO done correctly, making sure that you’re optimizing your whole entire store for SEO what I mean by that is making sure that you using tags on your title, you’re using tags on your listing description you using all 13 tabs on the bottom of your listing and also making sure that your sections are tags that you want to rank for and that your tagline on your store is another tag that you want to rank for that It is optimizing your store for SEO.”

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The Need For Self-Evolved Leadership

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:00:07 +0000

Dave McKeown helps individuals, teams, and organizations achieve excellence by doing the ordinary things extraordinarily well. He is the CEO of Outfield Leadership and author of The Self-Evolved Leader – Elevate Your Focus and Develop Your People in a World That Refuses to Slow Down.

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“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” – Jack Welch

Are leaders born or are they made? This age-old debate will yield different responses depending on which side of the fence you sit.

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Dave McKeown to talk about self-evolved leadership and what that means for your organization and team.

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“It’s that mindset of understanding that your ego is going to seek value from you being rewarded from knowing the answers organization isn’t helping your people grow and develop and see if you can make that mindset shift. It’ll get you half of the way there. Then there are a couple of practical things that you can do. The first thing is actually to recreate the vision for your team with your team involved in the process. So building the vision of where you want your team to be in three years time, but allowing them to have a much more significant input into it than they previously would have when you co-create a vision with your team a couple of great things happen. First of all, they’re much more bought into it and therefore you’re much more likely to achieve it. But secondly it really provides a Northstar for decision-making for the team or the group.”

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How Women Can Overcome Unspeakable Odds

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 00:00:43 +0000

Victoria is the Vice President of IBM’s North American Talent & Transformation practice; she is a senior executive with over two decades of progressive experience in strategy, operations, growth initiatives, and business and talent development. She is a visionary leader with a passion for innovation, creativity and Diversity & Inclusion. In fact, Victoria has won both the 2020 Mentor of the Year award from Women in Communications & Technology AND the 2019 HSBC Diversity & Inclusion in Innovation Award. Victoria serves as a board member for several organizations; she is also a published author, in-demand public speaker and appears regularly on national TV. An inspiring professional with impeccable credentials, Victoria is a trusted voice among peers and emerging executives.

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“It’s never the differences between people that surprise us. It’s the things that, against all odds, we have in common.” ― Jodi Picoult

Not many of us were born with the proverbial “gold spoon in our mouths.” Some of us have had to overcome many atrocities to be the person we are today.

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Victoria Pelletier to talk about women overcoming unspeakable odds.

Here is a snippet of what Victoria shared:

“So for me I felt I had something to prove so with each obstacle that was put in front of me or whether it was an obstacle or just quite frankly a challenge. I knew I needed to succeed so my first job was at age 11, by 14 I was like the supervisor at the shoe store that I worked at at 16. I was the office manager for a medical practice while I was in school, I was just constantly out to prove more and more and more. And again, I just think a lot of us have to do. With nature versus nurture, I think, there’s a lot of influence and that the nature and what occurred that just drove me to become Unstoppable.”

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Building and Scaling a Remote Business

Wed, 16 Sep 2020 00:00:38 +0000

Liam 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. Liam is an avid proponent of remote work and has been published in Forbes, Inc, Mashable, TechCrunch, Fast Company, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, Venturebeat and many other publications.

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“Trust is knowing that when a team member pushes you, they are doing it because they care about the team” — Patrick Lencioni

Building and scaling any business takes a lot of hard work. This is multiplied many times over when it is a remote business.

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Liam Martin to talk about how to scale successfully.

Here is a snippet of what Liam shared:

“Remote work will be the way that people work in the future. Most people in post covid-19 will be working remotely and this has massive socio-economic impacts towards the economy. If you do not know how to do this now You should absolutely learn how to do it. And even if you started working remotely you should really learn the ins-and-outs of how to be able to do it effectively because I believe within the next few years the people that know how to scale teams remotely versus the people that don’t will have a massive strategic advantage in the market.”

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How to Use Pinterest to Grow Your Email List with Ideal Customers

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 00:00:37 +0000

Jana is a marketing expert and Pinterest specialist for online coaches, course creators, and service providers. She helps her clients and students systemize list growth so they can automate a steady stream of targeted leads for their courses and programs – and set themselves up for long-term business success.

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“To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.” – Stephen Curry

We perhaps know quite a bit about Google, Yahoo, Bing and other search engines but how much do we know about this micro-search platform, Pinterest? Apparently, there is much that we are missing out on when we decide whether consciously or unconsciously, not to include it in our marketing efforts.

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Gana Osofsky to share on how to use Pinterest to grow your email list with ideal customers – with ease!

Here is a snippet of what Jana shared:

“For me there are four pillars of Pinterest success. I am on a mission in life to help people understand that there are always other things you can focus on, two there’s always shiny objects that you can try to focus on on Pinterest. You can say all I want to do is join group boards, or I want to do this or I want to make this new video pin. But most of my people are just starting with their Pinterest strategy. So I always try to bring it back to the things that we know work and the things that we know and are going to give you ROI. Keywords are one of them and then the second one is visuals. So it (Pinterest) is a visual platform. Creating pins, which is that graphic that some of you may have seen if you’re out there listening and you’ve been on Pinterest before – creating pins that do the right thing. There’s only two jobs with your pin, one of them is to stop the scroll, to get the person’s attention – to get the right person’s attention because they’re scrolling through Pinterest just like you might be scrolling through social media. You need to get them to stop and pay attention.”

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The Strategy Compass: A Framework to Propel Your Business into a Huge Growth Trajectory

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 00:00:54 +0000

Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, author, business growth mentor and host of The Business Mastermind Podcast.He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs to Double their Business in a year. His new book “Survive and Thrive: How to Secure, Scale and Succeed in Business” is a collection of practical tools and techniques that he has been successfully implementing with businesses over the last decade. Gavin has worked with a wide range of businesses and multinational corporations like Ford, Carphone Warehouse, the Royal Bank of Scotland the United Nations and even the Metropolitan Police!

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“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” Michael Porter

We all need direction – a compass of sorts to guide us in our daily lives. This becomes even more necessary when we have a business to run.

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Gavin Preston to share on a framework to propel your business into a huge growth Trajectory.

Here is a snippet of what Gavin shared:

“Systems and people create leverage in your business. So in the strategy Compass model, I list five stages, the first one being systems, the second being cash…the third one being about advancing or innovating So innovate we would have to be advancing to innovate, the fourth being leadership and culture and the fifth one being personal team Effectiveness. So what systems do you need to be able to enable you to deliver consistency of quality customer experience in quality of product or service output to that customer and enable you to replicate? Time and time again…it will come with automation whether that be technologically automation, machine automation enables you to be able to create a greater output which is important.”

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Using Science to Hire the Right Team Members

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 00:00:58 +0000

Amy Lafko founded Cairn Consulting Solutions with the knowledge that you need to grow your people to grow your business. Amy focuses her work on the employee experience that is derived from skilled leaders and aligned teams. Anchoring her work in the People 1st Paradigm, Amy facilitates workshops, team dynamics sessions and provides consulting to assist organizational growth. From hiring to engagement, she assists clients in decreasing turnover, increasing productivity and customer satisfaction. As a national speaker, consultant and facilitator, Amy leverages over 20 years of professional leadership experience in several sectors of healthcare. She is certified in DISC, Driving Forces and Emotional Intelligence as well as the 7 Stages of Growth.

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“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we think about science perhaps the idea of something quite challenging and lab-like comes to mind. But what about the idea of using science to make good business decisions such as building your ideal team?

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Amy Lafko to share about how we can use science to hire the right team members.

Here is a snippet of what Amy shared:

“I think the biggest thing to know is that science is here to help you in the hiring process. It’s here to make things objective and take away that bias. It’s simply one part of the hiring process; it’s the tool in your toolbox. there’s things we want to keep natural and there’s things that we want to get better at that’s where EQ comes in as an opportunity to improve and I think the core thing here is don’t be afraid of the results embrace them as part of a conversation with whoever you’re looking to hire it gives you Clarity on each role when you take the time to do this.”

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How to Stop Wasting Time on Social Media and Start Earning Money From It

Wed, 19 Aug 2020 00:00:57 +0000

Paul O’Mahony is a world-renowned entrepreneur, international public speaker, four-time best-selling author, and expert business trainer. Over the past ten years, Paul and his team at Re-Think Academy have helped over 10,000 individuals, start-up entrepreneurs, influencers and business owners build, grow and scale their businesses to 7 figures and beyond through cutting edge digital marketing and affiliate marketing techniques. Paul is also a columnist in the Sunday Independent and Examiner newspapers and is a Guinness World Record-holder for public speaking! Paul and his team of expert coaches are on a mission to empower ordinary people to lead extraordinary lives and gain financial certainty in an uncertain world.

Show Notes

“The more passionate and argumentative I get the more followers and friends I make online.” ― Tasha Turner

The internet is available to all who want to leverage its many opportunities. But how many people, instead of using it to make money, are simply scrolling and switching aimlessly between windows as they observe with envy the lifestyle of others?

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Paul O’Mahony to examine how we can make money from the internet instead of wasting time.

Here is a snippet of what Paul shared:

“This device – the smartphone can be a liability which it is for most people or I can be your number one asset and liability for me is anything that takes money out of your pocket or time out of your life when an asset is anything to put money into your pocket and regains time into your life. So at the moment the vast majority of the people on the planet, of which there are now more phones on the planet than people by the way, the vast majority of people use this device as their Compass to give them direction about how their day should go. So, what does that mean? It means they don’t have their own focus. It means they don’t have their own North. It means ultimately they don’t have their own goals. So they are waiting for somebody else to point them in the direction of where their time should be spent on that particular day and this no doubt of course leads to massive levels of anxiety because people lose complete Focus about why they’re here.”

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Building a Successful Speaking and Coaching Business

Wed, 12 Aug 2020 00:00:31 +0000

Cheryl is an international empowerment speaker, 11x best-selling author, leadership expert, and master speaker development coach for women. She equips women with the tools to unleash the power of their voice and share the transformational impact of their story. Dr. Wood has trained countless women leaders & influencers across the U.S. and abroad in South Africa, India, France, United Kingdom, Canada and the Bahamas. She empowers women to get out of their comfort zone, take calculated risks, and create a living legacy using their voice.

Dr. Wood has been featured on ABC, Radio One, Forbes Magazine, Huffington Post, ESSENCE, Black Enterprise, Good Morning Washington, Fox 5 News, Fox 45 News, The Washington Informer, The Baltimore Times, Afro-American Newspaper and numerous other media outlets. She has delivered keynote presentations for a host of large and small organizations including NASA, FBI, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Agriculture, The United Nations, Verizon, National Association of Legal Professionals, Federally Employed Women, Women’s Council of Realtors, Women in eDiscovery, Blacks In Government, PR News and the Congressional Black Caucus, to name just a few.

Show Notes

What the mind can conceive, it can achieve. Sometimes our biggest enemy is what lies between our ears. Our mind is very powerful so we must be very intentional about speaking positive things in our lives. This week guest on The Entrepreneurial You podcast , Dr. Cheryl Wood reminds us to have a positive mindset as she inspires us from her journey.

Here is a snippet of what Cheryl shared:

“The most negative mindset is I’m not good enough. I’m not capable. I’m not worthy just as I am. I need more. I need something more. So they keep going out trying to find the next thing and the next thing and get more and get another degree and get another certification; and believe me, ongoing education and knowledge is so critical so important right? We have to continue to add. However, someone somewhere is waiting on what you already know, that they’re waiting for right now. So you gotta get out of that mind frame that you are not good enough. Just because there are people who are already 20 steps ahead of you, everybody’s not at that level where they’re ready to invest in that coach who’s already placed ahead of you.

There are some people who are at the beginning of their journey who need what you know right now because you know more than they know. Just get that out of your mind that you’re not enough. You are enough. You are capable and you are worthy just as you are.”

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The Value of User Testing and Consumer Research to Improve Products and Website Conversion

Wed, 05 Aug 2020 00:00:43 +0000

Jordan is the founder and creative director of A Good Day, a bespoke experience studio specializing in custom stationery, events, branding and user experience. Getting his start in advertising, he’s spent the last 13 years building a foundation in digital & consumer strategy with a focus on enhancing user experiences across the physical & digital worlds. He launched A Good Day in 2014 to marry his passions for paper & user experience, working on a wide range of projects from small business branding & custom wedding invitations to website redesigns & digital transformations for large multinational brands.

Show Notes

“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. ” -Zora Neale Hurston

Testing and measuring are absolutely essential to the growth of any business. In order to test and measure, consumer research is important. In this episode of The Entrepreneurial You Podcast, Jordan Kentris shared his knowledge on the value of user testing and consumer research to improve products and website conversion.

Here is a snippet of what Jordan shared:

“So many different ways you can do research; so there is that usability testing that we just talked about; there is contact testing and product testing where you’re testing a physical item or in the case of simply putting something in front of them and seeing how it is resonating. Then there are some broader research like market research so you can look at the competitive analysis. Some broader category level research…so If you for example you design household goods, what are other household good companies looking at? Or if you are doing custom wedding stationary, what are other stationery and wedding professionals doing in the market space and what kind of products do they have out there? And what are consumers looking for and how are they being engaged with their audiences?”

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Setting Up a Shopify Store for Success

Wed, 29 Jul 2020 00:00:42 +0000

Elle McCann, owner and designer of Curious Themes web development studio, creates online classes that cover how to launch and grow Shopify stores quickly. She has been listed as a Shopify Expert for over seven years and in that time has created over 150+ Shopify stores.Elle is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs grow their online business without the overwhelm. She posts weekly videos on her YouTube channel that currently has over 27,000 subscribers and is growing fast. Elle lives in Nashville, TN.

Show Notes

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” ― Robert H. Schuller

Shopify is indisputable one of the most popular eCommerce hosting platforms. Since this option was created predominantly for product-based merchants around 10 years ago, it has only grown in popularity with vendors. This episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast looks at how to set up a Shopify store for success.

Here is a snippet of what Elle shared:

“They (Shopify) do have a lot of different sales channels. The most popular ones are definitely Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest but they also have abilities to LinkedIn and Amazon to sell your products there as well. I think it’s really nice that you can set up your products once on your Shopify store and then just connect them to these other platforms where your customers may already be hanging out. So it makes it an easier process to get them to purchase from you and you’re not having to try to introduce people to your website every single time.”

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Myths & Misconceptions of Personal Branding In The Digital Era

Wed, 22 Jul 2020 00:00:37 +0000

Edwin is the author of three books and has lectured to thousands of business professionals around the globe on the subjects of branding, social media, and digital marketing. In addition, Edwin has spent the last 35 years specializing in working with small businesses to increase their profits across the US and the globe. Edwin combines a unique ability to blend humor and pragmatic know-how into his presentations.

Show Notes

“If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young. ” ― Jeff Bezos

We are in an era where seemingly everyone is a branding expert and we have the digital age to thank for that. But, we must proceed with caution as we aim to get branding right. This episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast with Edwin Dearborn will explore some of the myths and misconceptions of branding in the digital age.

Here is a snippet of what Edwin shared:

“Personal branding really is about how do you stand out amongst the noise; and be considered and looked to as the expert in your field. How do you become the obvious choice? When somebody wants to go to a restaurant-your’s the restaurant that everybody wants to go to or, if you’re the Personal Coach or the Realtor, how do you stand out amongst all the Realtors? I live in the Las Vegas, Nevada area in the United States. There’s 13,000 real estate. That’s a lot of people. Las Vegas has got 2.5 million people just within the city in the County so, how do you stand out? How do you stand out and be amongst the top 2 or 3% of the people that are considered? How to do that? You’ve got to build a brand not around you but around what you do…how you do it.”

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Entrepreneurial “Water Muscle”, and Reflections and Takeaways From Quarantine

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:00:20 +0000

Julie is a Harvard law graduate and relationship wellness expert focusing on loneliness, millennial isolation, and how we can foster strong long-distance connections with our networks. She is also the founder and CEO of Small Packages, a curated care package company that sends love when you cannot be there in person.

Julie’s work and opinions have been featured in numerous international publications, including The Everygirl and Elite Daily. Julie was also awarded a Visionary Women Grant by Shark Tank’s Barbara Corcoran.

Show Notes

“We felt so lonely in the crowd. And now we feel so connected in isolation.”

― Hrishikesh Agnihotri

What lessons have you learnt from the quarantine? What is your biggest takeaway? All this and more are the issues we focused on for this episode of The Entrepreneurial You Podcast.

Here is a snippet of what Julie shared:

“The thing that I always keep going back to is when you’re an entrepreneur, you’re sort of inventing everything for the first time. We like to say that we go to the university of Google and YouTube; teaching ourselves how to do all of these things that we didn’t expect to have to be experts in_finding away at least this is what I do. Congratulating yourself for continuing the search I think is enormously helpful because if you wait until you have achieved competency and everything you need to in marketing and sales in all of the aspects of running a business, that’s just exhausting. So congratulating yourself on the journey I think is a really helpful move..”

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Leveraging Reviews to Grow Your Business

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 00:00:52 +0000

George is the Founder of 5 companies, 3 exits, still running two. He is the founder of onestopdevshop.io, software and design agency, and online reputation management software, Wavereview.

Show Notes

“Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.” Taylor Swift

It is no secret that reviews can either make or break your business. This is backed by statistics. In a recent survey, 83% of consumers say they either completely or somewhat trust recommendations from family, colleagues, and friends about products and services – making these recommendations the highest ranked source for trustworthiness. [Nielsen]. This week’s episode of The Entrepreneurial You Podcast focuses on this notion.

Here is a snippet of what George shared:

“The statistics that I’ve seen is that 70% of the people that read reviews trust them as much as a recommendation from a friend. If you’re looking at a business and it has no reviews that means you’re probably going to be 70% more likely to choose the business that has reviews than the one that doesn’t.”

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Tips on Starting a Successful Training Business

Wed, 01 Jul 2020 00:00:19 +0000

Jennifer, a virtual classroom and blended learning pioneer, is Founder and President of InSync Training. Her entirely virtual consulting firm specializes in the design and delivery of engaging, innovative, and effective modern blended learning. Under Jennifer’s expert leadership, Inc. 500|5000 named InSync training the 10th Fastest Growing Education Company in the U.S. in 2013, the 20th Fastest Growing Education Company in 2014, and to their Inc. 5000 list for four consecutive years. Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network, Forbes Most Powerful Women Issue, The NativeAdVantage, and Goldman Sachs 10000 Small Businesses have all recognized her entrepreneurial drive.

Show Notes

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or could not learn. — Sir Winston Churchill

With over 20 years in the online training business, Jennifer has been ahead of the game and has garnered so much experience which makes her a leader in this area. This episode of The Entrepreneurial You Podcast couldn’t be more relevant to the times we are now experiencing.

Here is a snippet of what Jennifer shared:

“I like three things, I want everybody to be able to write on the Whiteboard at the same time because there’s ways we can get introductions of 25 people done in 2 minutes. It makes it very effective, which is so important in the virtual world. We may only have 90 minutes or two hours together and everybody’s working at the same time, which can be very powerful.

I like to have a chat room where everybody can have a group chat that’s easy to use that allows everyone to have an equal voice. So you may decide to speak out loud or you may decide to type in chat. It eliminates accents. It can help people with for example English as a second language and it allows people to reflect. I also want easy to use breakout rooms. Break out rooms allow us to come together in one virtual space and with the click of a few buttons we can send learner’s into smaller groups where they can collaborate and create together. Those are the things I look for in technology.”

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The Sweet Treat of Running a Chocolate Business

Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:00:42 +0000

In 2006, Shawn Askinosie left a successful career as a criminal defense lawyer to start a bean to bar chocolate factory and never looked back. His company, Askinosie Chocolate, was recently named by Forbes “One of the 25 Best Small Companies in America.” So far the company has provided over a million school lunches to malnourished children in Tanzania and the Philippines, without any donations. Founded at the forefront of the American craft chocolate revolution and regarded by many as a vanguard in the industry. Shawn was named by O, The Oprah Magazine “One of 15 Guys Who Are Saving the World.” Shawn’s book, co-written with his daughter Lawren, published by Penguin Random House titled “Meaningful Work: The Quest To Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul” is an Amazon #1 bestseller.

Show Notes

“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have you ever thought about running a chocolate business and what that would mean for you? This episode of The Entrepreneurial You is all about this sweet business.

Here is a snippet of what Shawn shared:

“The business is a Cause. And the cause supports the business; it’s a circle. And so what I mean by that is, when I started the company I knew that I wanted to directly engage with Farmers. I wanted to meet them. I wanted to be in their homes. I wanted to get to know them and I’ve done that for 15 years. This next time I travel, whenever that’ll be (after a vaccine then) It’ll be my 45th origin trip since I started to meet with farmers, and that’s a lot of travel.

Then when I became You know engaged with them and understood what was happening in their communities, it was a very natural step for us to say. not can we fix this, this is a very important notion not can we come in as the great white Savior and solve all your problems, The question is can we be your partner? Can we be your friend? And is there a way for us to together contribute to some of these issues in your village? And so that’s the way it started in the school lunch program started about 12 years ago in the Philippines.”

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Leveraging LinkedIn for High-Value Leads

Wed, 17 Jun 2020 00:00:34 +0000

Matthew Clark is the founder of The Virtual Edge and co creator of The Rainmaker System – an online marketing system that helps entrepreneurs get 2-5 high value leads per day from Linkedin without paying for ads.

With their flagship programme Matthew and his business partner Wesley Longueira have helped over a thousand businesses in 17 countries grow exponentially. They are now on a mission to reach 10k businesses worldwide and build a vibrant community of Rainmakers! The success of The Rainmaker System has led to Matthew becoming a sought after international speaker and has shared the stage with big names like Dr. Phill, JT Foxx, Michael Douglas and many more. Matthew is also the author of The Proven Path, The Automation Playbook and The Automated Income systems and has been featured in Wake up- How to live a Healthy Vibrant Lifestyle.

Show Notes

“LinkedIn is increasingly becoming a very strong place for companies to develop their talent plans, their recruitment plans, and so there are ways in which we can track some of the momentum there.” – Jeff Weiner

If ever a time we need a strong social presence it’s now. Yet many are still struggling to identify the ideal platform to be present on and how to engage on their medium of choice. This episode of The Entrepreneurial You with Matthew Clark focuses on getting high valued leads from LinkedIn.

Here is a snippet of what Matt shared:

“There are three specific stages that we take them through. Which is positioning. So get your position right. Make sure you set up so that you are irresistible to your ideal client. Step number two is connect, so go out and connect with people and you know, that’s not just direct connections. That’s one piece of the puzzle. It’s also about writing content, also about positioning. Position yourself as an authority, connecting with the media and then the third step is scale. How do you take this manual process and you grow it so that you can actually scale your business using it? You can’t make calls all the time because you can’t scale that. I want to create a system that I can bring a team in and they can jump into that system and get calls booked. On average my team and myself, we do between 10 and 15 sales calls a week.”

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Making IT Work During a Pandemic

Wed, 10 Jun 2020 00:00:51 +0000

Chris is the CEO for the leading information technology support organization tTech Limited – Jamaica’s only pure play IT Outsourcing & Managed Services provider. Chris has thirty 33 years of experience in delivery and implementation of Information Technology solutions and is a regular speaker on Technology in the IT industry in Jamaica. For fun, Chris writes a wine column in the Jamaica Observer and hosts wine related events in Jamaica and the USA.

Show Notes

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” — Bill Gates

Never mind the dog barking in the background, we are in the midst of a pandemic so we make do the best way we can, so please forgive us.

It is hard to imagine our lives without technology but technology in a pandemic? what’s its role? That is the focus of this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast.

Christopher Reckord has a wealth of knowledge in the IT space and is therefore ideal to speak on this topic.

Here is a snippet of what Chris shared:

“When folks are working in their organizations and in their offices, they’re almost clothed by the organization’s IT security protection and so there’s a comfort in knowing that you are within our scheme of protection. However, now that you’re working remotely, we are not that comfortable anymore. So here are all these other things that have to happen with respect to ‘did the software that they’re using. So for us, one of the big recommendations that we make to all of our customers is switching on multi-factor Authentication, and of course strengthening passwords, and ensuring that the connectivity between you and the office or you and the internet is secure. So whether its VPNs, encryptions, so it’s a whole host of things. Some folks used to have it as additional Software or additional work that somebody else had to do. A lot of technology now has to build that in to ensure that their application is now chosen over another application because they can prove that it is now safe.”

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How to Pivot and Survive During Social Distancing

Wed, 03 Jun 2020 00:00:55 +0000

Vanessa is Lead Investigator at Science of People. She is the bestselling author of Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People. Her book has been translated into 15 different languages and more than 20 million people watch her on YouTube. Vanessa’s shares tangible skills to improve interpersonal communication and leadership, including her insights on how people work. She’s developed a science-based framework for understanding different personalities to improve our EQ and help us communicate with colleagues, clients and customers. She works with entrepreneurs, growing businesses, and trillion dollar companies; and has been featured on CNN, BBC, CBS, Fast Company, Inc., Entrepreneur Magazine, USA Today, the Today Show and many more.

Show Notes

“Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.” — Ellen DeGeneres

As entrepreneurs, pivoting is not a new concept to us. It is what we do all the time when our ducks don’t seem to align. BUT, who could have known that such a high level of pivoting would be necessary in 2020? No one!

On this episode of The Entrepreneurial you, Vanessa Van Edwards talks about pivoting in during the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Here is a snippet of what Vanessa shared:

“Doing anything in business without measuring is basically practice. If you’re not measuring, it doesn’t count. And what I mean by that is there’s so much to learn in business, that the only way that you’ve learned is if you track and I even think this is true with relationships, so not just revenue and sales and merchandise and distribution. For example, how many contacts did you have on LinkedIn last week, three weeks ago, three months ago? What have you done to try to increase those LinkedIn contacts? Have you converted any LinkedIn leads? Are you getting more clicks on your profile or less clicks on your profile? All of those things don’t seem important. But actually, you can discover hidden ways to revenue (if you measure them). And they’ve been the majority of our business. People do not understand how our business makes money; that is because we have found hidden ways to make revenue. When we were looking at the data, we were tracking things that were working.”

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Building a Promotional System that Guarantees More Revenue and Impact

Wed, 27 May 2020 00:00:54 +0000

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 scratch. Together with his business partner, Robert, Stephen has sold over $12m in products on Amazon and has now helped over 5,200 people learn how to start their own Amazon business.

Show Notes

“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.” – Albert Einstein

Everything rises and falls on systems when you run a business. This episode of The Entrepreneurial You explores putting a promotionational system in place to guarantee success. Stephen Somers shares his expertise, giving insight from his experience.

Here is a snippet of what Stephen shared:

“In summary, you must have a balance of value in your business where you’re providing video content or other content to your subscribers and customers. At the same time, you have to balance that with generating money because you can’t survive in your business if you’re only providing free value all the time. You’ve got to have a systemized way to promote things. So you’ve got to be looking at adding more people to your business; you have to be looking at increasing your prices and you have to be looking at additional products and services for your own customers. If you can look at those three things on your 90 day calendar where you’re consistently adding each of those areas and you’re really focused on creating new customers, you will succeed massively.”

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How to Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

Wed, 20 May 2020 00:00:11 +0000

Dr. Hardy is an organizational psychologist and bestselling author of Willpower Doesn’t Work. From 2015-2018, he was the #1 writer in the world on Medium.com. During that time, he grew his email list from 0 to 400,000 without paid advertising. Ben and his wife Lauren adopted three children from the foster system in February 2018 and one month later, Lauren got pregnant with twins who were born in December of 2018. They live in Orlando. Ben’s blogs are read by millions monthly.

Show Notes

“Your personality is not set in stone, you can always develop yourself to be a better version of yourself.” Asad Meah

Personality tests –we’ve all done them. But are they really as accurate as the developers make them out to be? This podcast episode with Dr Benjamin Hardy debunks all the myths about these tests.

Here is a snippet of what Dr Hardy shared:

“Every time you view the past, you view it from the perspective of your current self. And so your future self is going to actually view your past differently and hopefully they’re going to frame it better. Memories are always fluid; memories change and evolve as you think about them. The big problem with painful experiences is that we try not to think about them but in psychology, there’s a concept called ‘exposure therapy’ and basically it’s the idea that as you expose yourself to something more and more, you neutralize the emotions. It’s like if you’re scared for example to publish a blog post because you’re worried about what people think, if you do it 100 times, it stops being so scary. You neutralize the emotions and that’s really how you turn the past into information–you face it, you learn about it, you write about it; you recontextualize it, you could ask what’s another way of looking at this or how has this benefited me or how would my future self look at this? Or what would my future self say to my former self; what would happen if I stopped being so mad about this, or what are all the ways that this has benefited me.”

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Being Social Media Savvy as an Entrepreneur, with Andréa Jones

Wed, 13 May 2020 00:00:34 +0000

Andrea is fiercely committed to helping businesses and podcasters build profitable communities online through simple social media solutions. She’s been featured in places like Hubspot, Aweber, and WordPress. She was also named one of Social Report’s “top marketers to follow” in 2019.
As the host of the Savvy Social Podcast and the creator of SavvySocialSchool.com, Andrea is dedicated to simplifying social media through easy-to-follow courses, professional guidance, and community support. Outside of teaching and training, she spends most of her time serving her full-service clients and practising what she preaches by implementing organic social media strategies for businesses, and brands that want to grow an engaged audience online.

Show Notes

“It’s a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don’t understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.” – Amy Jo Martin

Ever wondered how you can become a master at social media, posting content that your audience values? This episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast will get you well on your way.

Here is a snippet of what Andréa shared:

“The algorithm wants attention. It’s like a small child like a two-year-old. Look at me, look at me. It wants attention. So whatever we can do to give it attention is a good thing. I think sometimes as business owners, we forget that. So if our content isn’t interesting enough, and people aren’t paying attention to it, the algorithm is going to start showing other content pieces. So it’s not like it has a personal vendetta against you personally. It’s just that it’s trying to get attention as much attention as possible from its viewers.
So some things that work really well right now.”

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The Neuroscience of Innovation and Creativity, with Dr Britt Andreatta

Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00:59 +0000

Britt is an internationally recognized thought leader who creates brain science–based solutions for today’s challenges. As CEO and President of 7th Mind, Inc.,Britt Andreatta draws on her unique background in leadership, neuroscience, psychology, and learning to unlock the best in people and organizations.

Britt has published several titles including Wired to Connect: The Brain Science of Teams and a New Model for Creating Collaboration and Inclusion, Wired to Grow: Harness the Power of Brain Science to Master Any Skill and Wired to Resist: The Brain Science of Why Change Fails and a New Model for Driving Success. Upcoming books focus on the neuroscience of purpose and the conscious evolution of organizations.

Show Notes

“The most talented, thought-provoking, game-changing people are never normal. Richard Branson

Innovation and creativity are words that we are accustomed to hearing used interchangeably especially as it relates to entrepreneurship. But, how many of us know that they are actually quite different? This episode of The Entrepreneurial You Podcast explores all this from a neuro-science perspective. The conversation with Dr. Britt Andreatta was quite enlightening.

Here is a snippet of what Britt shared:

“From a neuroscience perspective, neuroscientists have been able to study what happens in the brain when we have that aha moment. They can set people up for the ‘aha moment’ and have them on an MRI machine. We know that when we’re having that burst in our mind of like, Oh, I have this new idea, we can see in the brain about a third of a second before that aha moment, there’s a burst of gamma waves above our right ear.

There’s a certain part of the brain that’s called the anterior temporal gyrus. What we see is that there’s this gamma wave burst and also a rush of blood into that part of the brain. Then even a full second before that, scientists have found that there’s a burst of alpha waves in the right typical cortex, which is where we see; it’s part of our vision cortex. It suppresses vision for just a millisecond. Scientists call it the brain blink.”

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Coronavirus-Proof Your Business by Leveraging Online Opportunities, with Joel Young

Wed, 29 Apr 2020 00:00:46 +0000

Joel has been working as a solo entrepreneur since 2013 and has used his skills in the fields of animation and video production to start his own business, JumpStartVideo.net. In just a few short years it grew from a side job in the corner of his bedroom to a thriving business that now generates 5 figures a month, and I did all this through good ol’ fashion hustle and online gig platforms like Fiverr.com where he is a top-rated seller an award-winning SUPER SELLER. Our conversation will be even more relevant given the global pandemic that the world is experiencing right now.

Show Notes

“The internet and online communication is the window into your world – but real life, in person communication / connection is the door.” – ― Rasheed Ogunlaru

Even amidst the chaos that is happening around the world, there is never a better time to be alive than it is today. The numerous opportunities that abound far outweigh any set back we could ever face.

On this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast, Joel Young shares his online entrepreneurial journey, providing insight into some of the opportunities that we can tap into as we “coronavirus-proof” our businesses.

Here is a snippet of what Joel shared:

“Something I try to remind myself of everyday’s that I live in one of the most accessible and, and dynamic times in the history of humanity. And so I think we sometimes lose that in the middle of all this stuff because we just think about what we’ve lost or what we’re losing or, or the difficulties in front of us. And we forget about the opportunities. And to me, and I gave this advice, advice to my YouTube audience just yesterday, to me, there’s no better time than when the world world shuts down, to hit the gas, start something new or press forward hard on something you’re already doing. Because right now is a time when many people are either working less working differently and trying trying to figure it out, or maybe not working at all because either they can’t or they’re just not sure what to do. So that’s an opportunity for people who have real ambition and drive to do something, maybe new do something more. This is a time when they’re faced with probably more free time than they’ve ever had before.”

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Rise Up and Just Do the Damn Thing, with Tiffany Largie

Wed, 22 Apr 2020 00:00:37 +0000

There was no magic bullet for coast-to-coast business and sales strategist, Tiffany Largie. She went from being a single mom to building three six-figure businesses, and on to a seven-figure business by the age of 30. Tiffany began with no capital but sheer hard work and determination. Today she helps people create the income, influence, and impact they dream of. She’s the creator of Onwards to Freedom, a group that offers business training and support to idea-driven entrepreneurs. She speaks around the world on sales strategy, entrepreneurship, and profit-building. She has dedicated her life to end small thinking worldwide.

Show Notes

“Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.” — Ellen DeGeneres

Stop thinking about it. Just get up and do it. This is the essence of the message shared by Tiffany Largie on this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast.

Here is a snippet of what Tiffany shared:

“Wherever you are right now, like whoever, whether you think you have or you don’t you do at this moment, the greatest thing that you can acknowledge is that you’re enough. And for me, when I say that you’re enough, you’re enough to get to the next step. And when I say forget the future version of you, it’s not just because the future version of you doesn’t matter. But it’s like sometimes we get so overwhelmed with thinking about the 35 steps, when really and truly we just need to focus on the one that lands tomorrow, one step at a time. And if we do enough steps, it’s just one step at a time at the end, we get to the destination, but trying to leave the greatest part of the equation behind which is you your experiences, your stories, it’s not going to work, because your experience is the one thing that we can’t buy in a store.”

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Monetizing Your Podcast Without a Huge Audience, with Vadim and Sergei Revzin

Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:00:15 +0000

Sergei Revzin is a Venture Investor at the NYU Innovation Venture Fund where he leads the university’s technology investments, and Vadim Revzin is a professor at NYU and State University of New York where he teaches entrepreneurship and management. The twin brothers host a weekly podcast called The Mentors featuring stories from successful founders and creators and regularly contribute to Forbes.com and HBR.org. They have advised hundreds of startups and have been founders and leaders across several early and growth-stage companies.

Show Notes

“The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.” –Rob Kalin

It is official! History has been made on The Entrepreneurial You podcast. For the first time ever, we have twin guests, Vadim and Sergei Revzin – double the fun, double the pleasure I say.

Having met these two passionate and driven entrepreneurs at Podcast Movement – Evolutions, I knew I had to invite them to the show.

On this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast, this duo gives us a glimpse into their journey of monetizing their podcast, The Mentors, even prior to having a large audience.

Here is a snippet of what Vadim and Sergei shared:

“I think there was a lot of moments. But one that stands out the most is a business that we were working on were from the outside world, things seem to be working pretty well. We had a team. We had a couple of people working on the business, and we were hiring more contractors; we were generating revenue; we were pitching to investors, and we were getting investors interested in the business. But the reality was that we were also at the same time living in New York City, which is one of the most expensive cities in the world and trying to figure out how to pay rent and food and everything like that. And eventually, it became too much. And when the timing didn’t work out of the business, making enough money to cover all the expenses, we were starting to get into debt. And at one point in our late 20s, we had to make the difficult decision to leave the city and move back in with our parents home, which is something that most people don’t want to do, especially here in the States when you’re in your late 20s. That’s just kind of unheard of, but it’s something we absolutely We have no choice. So we were lucky that we had that Support System.”

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How Brands can Utilize the 1 Billion Dollar Podcast Market, with Jeremy Slate

Wed, 08 Apr 2020 00:00:59 +0000

Jeremy 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 Noteworthy 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.

Show Notes

“The most talented, thought-provoking, game-changing people are never normal.” Richard Branson

“What can a podcast do for me”, you ask? A billion things but let’s start with the potential for branding. I had a great conversation with Jeremy on the topic for The Entrepreneurial You podcast.

Here is a snippet of what Jeremy shared:

“In January of 2016, on Twitter, I had 406 followers, Instagram, I had 2107 and Facebook I had 854. Now after doing this podcast since 2016, I’m now verified on Twitter and I have 900,000 followers there; I have 30,700 and Instagram and 35,593 on Twitter. So that can all be done by doing a podcast. and using it as a branding platform in the right way. I literally had nothing when I started.”

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Augmented Reality: The Next Dimension of Marketing, with Betty Dannewitz

Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:00:55 +0000

Betty Dannewitz, seasoned learning and development professional, innovation injector and technology enthusiast. Her passion and mission are to help people become better humans through high-performance coaching and development experiences. She also believes very strongly that innovative technology has a huge role in that mission. Looking to move forward? Be better? Well…if you ask betty.

Show Notes

“I’m excited about augmented reality because unlike virtual reality, which closes the world out, AR allows individuals to be present in the world but hopefully allows an improvement on what’s happening presently.” —Tim Cook

Snapchat anyone? Well, that’s just a perfect example of augmented reality (AR)into action. But it isn’t just for the companies with billion-dollar balance sheets. Small operations are implementing AR technologies to edge their competitors.

On this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast, Betty takes us into the realm of augmented reality and how we can leverage it for our success in business.

Here is a snippet of what Betty shared:

“Let’s start with virtual reality, you’re completely immersed in a completely different environment. In reality, although, actually you are still standing in the same spot when you put the headset on, the only thing you see is this new reality, this new experience and so augmented reality is overlaying content on your existing reality so you’re not covering your eyes. Sometimes you can access augmented reality with glasses, but you can still see what’s happening around you. So it’s overlaying content on top of your existing reality.”

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Continuous Learning: A Necessary Tool for an Effective Team, with Brian Washburn

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 00:00:43 +0000

Brian is the co-founder and CEO of Endurance Learning, a boutique instructional design firm dedicated to ensuring every professional development experience is engaging and leads to change. Brian is also the co-creator of Soapbox, the world’s first and only rapid authoring tool for instructor-led training.

Show Notes

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin

There is no escaping it, you will have to intentionally acquire new skills and competencies if you want to keep up or better yet, stay ahead of the game. It is imperative that organizations invest in training their team so that they can maintain their company’s competitive edge.

On this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast Brian shares insight into how this can be managed effectively.

Here is a snippet of what Brian shared:

“When we think of ongoing learning for organizations, I think that the definition of learning needs to be expanded beyond the training environment. Having an opportunity to take a step away from life, take a step away from emails, and phone calls, and get into the training room, or go to a conference and meet other people and network, that’s super important. But a lot of organizations are like, well, we don’t have a budget. If you take a look at ATD, the Association for Talent Development, they have an annual State of the Industry Report, and that will tell you about, according to respondents for this study, how much organizations are spending per head on training, and I think that’s a really interesting benchmark for organizations to take a look at. You know, do we spend any money on formal learning for our staff? How are we measuring up to what the average is.”

Listen to the episode and let us know what is your biggest takeaway.

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The Fundamentals of an Epic Transformation, with Stacey Hines

Wed, 18 Mar 2020 00:00:26 +0000

Stacey is a Transformation Strategist working with a multi-million dollar investment company where she focuses on leading the Project Management Office, the Technology and Marketing centres of excellence and championing Leadership Development & Culture.

She is also the founder of Epic Transformation, an E-learning and consulting company, which specializes in serving businesses and business leaders with strategic thinking and planning services, grounded in creating radical shifts in culture and leadership to build collaboration across teams and enable lasting organizational impact. She’s consulted with schools, real estate companies, financial institutions and lots of entrepreneurs.

Show Notes

“Happiness comes from living as you need to, as you want to. As your inner voice tells you to. Happiness comes from being who you actually are instead of who you think you are supposed to be.” – Shonda Rhimes

Probably there is no one more qualified to talk about transformation than Stacey Hines. Having gone through what is an extraordinarily epic transformation, Stacey has leveraged the lemons in her life to make lemonades rather than complain about the hand that life has dealt her.

On this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast, Stacey shares her journey with us.

Here is a snippet of what Stacey shared:

“I worked with Macy’s Systems and Technology in Atlanta at the time, when I just started to feel very overwhelmed. I think if I had been diagnosed at that time, it would have been picked up that maybe there was some anxiety and depression happening in my life already. I don’t think most persons are aware of that when it initially started to take place. I was struggling in my marriage, and I wanted to create a fresh start. And so I decided, hey, let’s pack up and move the entire family to Jamaica, which we did right around the end of 2008. While my career continued to expand and grow–by then I was a VP of a software development company–everything else in my life has felt unfulfilling and very miserable.”

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Using Learning to Engage, Compete and Succeed, with David Blake

Wed, 11 Mar 2020 00:00:52 +0000

David has spent his career innovating in lifelong learning–both corporate training and higher education. He is the co-founder of Degreed & The Future of Work Studios. He is on a mission to future proof our workforce and companies, help the world speak the language of skills instead of college degrees and use learning and skills to enable everyone to fulfil their personal missions. He is the co-author of the Expertise Economy and is an expert on the future of credentials and skills.

Show Notes

“It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.” –Claude Bernard

David has made it his mission to future proof workforce and companies. During a conversation on The Entrepreneurial You, some guiding principles that organizations can use to build the skills of their team members were explored. These are:

Make learning a competitive advantage
Embrace personalized learning
Combat content overload
Succeed with the right technology
Understand the power of peers
Analyze your employee’s skills with data and insights
Make skills and expertise count

Here is a snippet of what David shared:

“Degreed was born from the question when you ask someone “tell me about your education?”, they tell you where they went to university or what degree they got, or that they didn’t go to university. And it’s a reflection of the fact that we have only one language in which to answer for education or skills, and that’s the diploma. And we believe that in this world of lifelong learning, that’s absurd. It’s crazy. And it isn’t that college is crazy. When you think about it if I were to ask you, “tell me about your health Heneka. And you said, “I ran a marathon 12 years ago”. When someone says, tell me about your education, and you say, I graduated from Colorado State, or whatever it might be. It’s not that marathons are absurd, but that would be an absurd answer to tell me about your health. And it’s not that university is absurd, but it’s an absurd answer when you ask someone “tell me about your education and they tell you where they went to university”

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Going North: Tips & Techniques to Advance Yourself, with Dominique Brightmon

Wed, 04 Mar 2020 00:00:33 +0000

Dominique is an award-winning speaker and certified member of the John Maxwell Team. He is the author of “Going North!: Tips & Techniques to Advance Yourself” & the follow-up bestseller, “Stay the Course: The Elite Performer’s 7 Secret Keys to Sustainable Success”. Dom host’s the Going North podcast, a top-rated self-help podcast that interviews authors from all over the world. His mantra is Advance others to advance yourself. Reach out to him to learn how you can unlock your inner value through book writing, coaching, and podcasting.

Show Notes

“You’ve got to have rules to live by, and one of mine always says yes. Put yourself in danger of something amazing happening to you.” —Tom Bilyeu

In the culture of grind and hustle in the world of entrepreneurship, not many people think that in advancing others, they also advance themselves. But today’s guest on The Entrepreneurial You podcast, Dominique Brightmon, seems to default to that state of being, constantly thinking of how to acknowledge others and make a difference in their lives.

Having gratitude and doing affirmations feature prominently in the life of Dominique.

Here is a snippet of what Dominique shared:

“I love affirmations. affirmations are key. Brian Tracey had one affirmation I use on the daily and one of them is that today, something special is going to happen to me. And it could be as small as you having no breath mints or chewing gums at a conference after a dinner or lunch break. And you’re asking someone else and actually gave you the last stick gum or the breath mint. And it’s like, yep, something wonderful is going to happen to me today.”

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How to start a PR Campaign on a Zero Dollar Budget, with Courtney Love

Wed, 26 Feb 2020 00:00:26 +0000

Courtney is a public relations strategist for entrepreneurs, helping creative small business owners champion PR that grows their income and influence. Courtney Love teaches her clients how to utilize PR to arrest attention, inspire action and increase their credibility, drawing from her 16 years of experience leading PR for the world’s most admired brands and business leaders.

Show Notes

“A good PR story is infinitely more effective than a front-page ad.” – Richard Branson

We all know that starting a business can be daunting. The financial outlay that is usually required doesn’t make the process any easier. It is therefore important to explore ways to economically assist in getting your audience’s perception of your business just the way you want. Yes, you can get PR on a shoe-string budget and that’s what Courtney Love shared on this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast.

Here is a snippet of what Courtney shared:

“It can be very, very frustrating when you are putting in efforts and you feel that it’s not getting your business anywhere and I know in my introduction and you talked about profitable and that is super super important to me because I am a firm believer that PR is a business driver and that it should be helping propel you get to wherever you want to go in your business and contributing to your bottom line.”

Hot Point:

PR is one of the strategies that should help support your marketing efforts.

ANNOUNCEMENT

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Using the Power of Habit to Control Your Destiny, with Lunide Louis

Tue, 18 Feb 2020 00:00:33 +0000

Lunide is the host of the Best Morning Routine Ever! Podcast. The podcast is the first of its kind devoting a whole show discussing effective morning routine tips and chatting with entrepreneurs and thought leaders in their appropriate fields on how their healthy morning habits have contributed to their success.

Show Notes

“Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.” – Jim Rohn

Success leaves clues. Did you know what you do in the morning could impact how successful (or not) you become? Some of those most-admired among us get up daily to a set of routines that govern their mornings. Win your mornings and win at life. In this podcast episode, Lunide shares her simple and practical “HIT SAVERS” routine with us. Practice these and half your life’s battle is won.

Here is a snippet of what Lunide shared:

“We’re so inclined to point the fingers outside of us, but we just have to look inward. What can I change about me to be more pleasing? What can I change about me to be more amicable to others or to have the lifestyle that I want? We have to be intrinsically motivated. We are the culprit.”

Hot Point:

When you have Automated Negative Thoughts (ANT), it is hard to think about self-actualization.

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Audio Branding: The Hidden Gem of Marketing, with Jodi Krangle

Tue, 11 Feb 2020 00:00:09 +0000

Jodi Krangle has been a voice actor since 2007 and has worked with clients from major brands all over the world in varying industries. In 1995, she created an award-winning songwriting resource website called The Muse’s Muse and began a business of her own doing SEO and Internet marketing. When she switched to voice-overs, she was well-prepared for the new world of online promotions and getting her own work. She’s also a singer. In 2015, she put out her own album of jazz, blues and traditional tunes (jodikranglemusic.com). Over the years, she’s learned a lot about sound and how it influences people. She’s launched a new podcast called Audio Branding: The hidden gem of marketing.

Show Notes

“The problem is, most companies haven’t thought about what their business sounds like.” Gary Vaynerchuck

If you are not leveraging audio to build a solid brand you may be missing out on a golden opportunity to leave a footprint on the minds of your audience. On this episode of The Entrepreneurial You, Jodi shares insight on what we need to start thinking about regarding audio branding.

Here is a snippet of what Jodi shared:

“When I think of audio branding, I think of a consistent audio logo, a consistent sound in the way that there is a consistent visual; colours and logo and the way that a company presents itself. So yes, the voice that responds to you when you speak to Alexa or Google Home is definitely useful. And I think that they have made several voices depending on what accent you prefer. There are all sorts of options that way and different languages, I’m assuming. So it does make it more accessible for a lot of people. But I don’t know that I would think of it as a part of their audio brand.”

Hot Point:

It is a mistake to be inconsistent across all your touchpoints with regards to your audio-branding. If you are inconsistent, people may turn away without knowing why they are turning away.

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Business Process Outsourcing and the Entrepreneur, with Yoni Epstein

Tue, 04 Feb 2020 00:02:29 +0000

The multi-award-winning Yoni is the Founding Chairman & CEO at itelbpo — the region’s largest homegrown BPO with 8 sites in 4 countries and a large network of at-home subject matter experts. Ranked among the 50 most influential executives for the Latin American & the Caribbean region, Yoni’s efforts have helped to enhance the region’s global positioning, while establishing itelbpo’s diversified geographic footprint.

Show Notes

“If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you’re putting yourself out of business.” Lee Kuan Yew

Overnight success is typically 10 years in the making. Yoni knows all too well what it means to start an outsourcing business from the ground up. This episode of The Entrepreneurial You looks at iTelBPO and the work Yoni and his team has put in to make it a success. Among the highs are some low lows such as losing a client after making a heavy investment to secure them.

Here is a snippet of what Yoni shared:

“In 2014 we won an account that was should have been at that time, our transition to the next stage of growth in our business, we borrowed money, went and rented new space. We sent people to the States to go and train and we came back to start hiring people. And about six weeks after that, the client literally went dark on us, stopped responding to our emails, stopped coming on calls, and I started to really get worried because we obviously took on some expense and you know, plan to be able to start meeting our commitments and they just walked away.”

Hot Point:

Outsource what is non-core to your business as someone will be able to do it cheaper and more efficient.

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Taking Stock as a Visionary Leader, with Marlene Street-Forrest

Wed, 29 Jan 2020 00:00:50 +0000

Marlene Street Forrest is the Managing Director of the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) and Director of both its subsidiaries. Under her stewardship, the JSE became demutualized and the US Denominated Market and the Junior Market were launched. She also spearheaded the Registrar Division of the Jamaica Central Depository (JCSD) when she served as General Manager for this subsidiary of the JSE.

In 2016, Mrs Street Forrest was conferred with the honour of the Order of Distinction in the Rank of Commander (CD) in recognition of her outstanding leadership in the growth of the Jamaica Stock Exchange. In that same year, she also received the Afroglobal Excellence Award for Global Impact from Canada for exhibiting great leadership, vision, integrity, and commitment to excellence.

Show Notes

“I don’t go by the rule book. I lead from the heart, not the head.” — Princess Diana

It’s nothing short of amazing how Marlene Street-Forrest has led the Jamaica Stock Exchange, making Jamaicans at home and in the Diaspora proud. She dispels the myth that the financial sector is for men only. What’s even more awe-inspiring, is that she also leads her team to catch the vision and run with it. Her rise to the top has not been without its fair share of challenges but she is determined to press forward for the advancement of her beloved country, Jamaica.

Not only is Marlene’s work and worth a win for herself, but she is inspiring women all over to excel at their chosen path.

Here is a snippet of what Marlene shared:

“Every job is available to both male and female. What is observed is that more men are in the financial sector. Well, I’m not in a man’s job, I am in MY JOB!”

Hot Point:

Inspect what to Expect. Expect a result but also Inspect that the result is what you Expected.

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Starting Your Own High Profit Business as a Busy Stay at Home Mom, with Kat McLead

Wed, 22 Jan 2020 00:00:32 +0000

Have you ever felt that you have no time to create a business? Or your business is not earning more than it should? As a stay-at-home mom, being a mother takes the priority. We need to be able to find work that is high-profit and high-purpose for a minimized time. People often make the mistake of turning to blogs and Youtube channels for this – but only 84% earn less than US$105 a month, and only 8% achieve a livable wage through these platforms.

In this episode, we are joined by Kat McLead to discuss how to create a high-profit and high-purpose business that will not interfere with your time as a mom. She shares the different steps of the process and the importance of targeting a niche. As a business coach, she is passionate about helping moms like herself share their talents and skills with the world!

Tune in to this episode to learn how to create a high-profit business and still spend time with your family!

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Find out why targeting a niche market is profitable.
Discover how Kat crafted the Profit and Purpose Framework!
What are the four steps to creating a high-profit business as a stay at home mom?

Resources

Jamaica Stock Exchange is the principal stock exchange in Jamaica. Incorporated in 1968, it continues to this day, facilitating growth of various companies!
Get a free training from Kat McLead on The 4 Keys Steps to Starting Your Own Ideal, High-Profit Business as a Stay at Home Mom!
Curious about the ugly truths of entrepreneurship? Tune in to Episode 86 with David Mullings!
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Episode Highlights

Kat’s Work With Sex Workers

Kat helped women transition out of the adult industry and into entrepreneurship 13 years ago. This is how she developed the profit and purpose framework designed specifically for busy moms.
She started her first multiple six-figure business 20 years ago and hasn’t slowed down ever since – not even after having her son.
She knew what it felt to be trapped in a high-profit industry she didn’t like.
Kat came from an abusive household, but she overcame this by becoming an exotic dancer first and then a dominatrix.

Why Should You Focus On a Niche

Kat first niched down on the part of her last job that she hated the least or enjoyed the most.
She discovered that riches are truly in the niches.
Her first business exploded because she found her niche in the industry.
People make the mistake of wanting to please and serve everyone.
This impression of targeting a niche will reduce profits – but this is where the money is.

Kat’s Career Change And The Profit-Purpose Framework

Kat went from the adult industry for five years before entering graduate school. She subsequently transitioned into a corporate job, this did not suit her.
She developed the Profit and Purpose Framework when she chose to help women transition out of the sex industry as her second-year project.
After realizing that women need help to obtain high-profit and purposeful work, she accidentally became a business coach.
You have to find purpose and enjoyment in your work.

Create A High-Profit Business

As a mom herself, Kat understands that business is second to being a mother.
People often start a business without planning it to become highly profitable.
Moms are often given the advice to start a blog or Youtube channel, but the platforms are small profits for a huge amount of time and effort.
You have to realize that your existing skills, talents, and gifts can be monetized!
Listen to the full episode to hear Kat’s Profitability Index and see how you can maximize your skills and profits!

The Importance Of Purpose

List all the skills, talents, and gifts you have and note which you want to share with the world.
Growing a business alone, without purpose, is not sustainable.
Finding purpose in your work is essential so that you will not grow resentful about it.
Create a business that you feel perfect about.

As A Mom Helping Other Moms

Kat shares how she became so bored once her son entered preschool.
During this time, she helped a friend start her own business for free.
Eventually, she realized that a lot of moms need help to create their own business.
Her program is specifically tailored for busy moms.
Kat shares her joy in seeing other moms achieve their goals and getting clients.

The 4 Key Steps

Pinpoint your perfect business idea.
Craft your offer; understand the needs of future clients.
Command your premium profit.
Land paying clients.
Listen to the full episode to get an in-depth discussion on each step! You can also refer to Kat’s free training on her website.

Growth Takes Time

Kat points out that entrepreneurship is messy. You must handle this messiness.
The journey will be imperfect, and there will be mistakes because business takes time.
Remember that determination is key to success, and you have to show up consistently.
Don’t be afraid to try something new.
You may seek help to improve your business.

5 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“The truth is, when you try to serve everyone and offer all your gifts, you wind up not serving anyone because your offers falling on deaf ears, you actually have more impact and have an easier time to gain the clientele you want to serve when you niche down.”

“What so many people tend to make the big mistake of is that they start businesses that were never going to be highly profitable from the very start.”

“A lot of us moms, especially those that identify with being stay at home moms, we have so many talents and gifts, and they get they get shelved on the table sometimes.”

“The purpose is really important to me because if you don’t feel purposeful in your work, you will not want to do it. You will grow to resent it just like I did in my first business.”

“There will be so many setbacks, and the number one key to success is truly deciding on success – deciding that you will be successful no matter what and keep moving forward.”

About Kat McLead

Kat is the creator of SAHM Entrepreneur and helps stay-at-home moms pinpoint their perfect business niche to maximize profit for minimum time spent. Her first business was in the adult industry, and during graduate school, she helped sex workers transition out of the adult industry. Her experiences led her to create the Profit-Purpose Framework and the 4 Key Steps to Launching an Ideal High-Profit Business. Also, her own experiences as a mom made her realize that business comes second to being a mom – her programs are tailored to suit busy moms.

Curious about Kat’s program? Check out her website. You can learn more by listening to her podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Have specific questions? You can reach out and follow Kat on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

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Business Beyond Business: Becoming a Radically Generous Entrepreneur, with Paul Edwards

Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:13 +0000

Paul is an international bestselling author, podcast host and mastermind leader. Husband, father and combat veteran. Paul connect young men in the worlds of software, tech and digital entrepreneurship to find their warrior tribes for personal and professional development.

Show Notes

“You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let’s face it, we constantly hear about winning at all cost and very little about being generous. On this episode of The Entrepreneurial You, Paul Edwards share with me about doing business beyond business.

Here is a snippet of what he shared:

“I went from being a pushy salesperson, you know, stereotypical American insurance salesman. You can see it in the movie Groundhog Day if you want. I went from that to creating this magnetic pole that brought people towards me because I was a value adder and a generous giver and thoughtful and engaging and interesting to be around and to learn about.”

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Hot Point:

If you put prosperity or wealth in the right order, it should come after people and integrity.

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The Highs and Lows of 2019, with Heneka Watkis-Porter

Wed, 08 Jan 2020 00:00:38 +0000

Heneka Watkis-Porter is an entrepreneur, coach, 4x author, international speaker and host of The Entrepreneurial You Podcast who has interviewed Richard Branson, John Lee Dumas, Paul Carrick Brunson, Seth Godin and many other influencers . She is founder and CEO of Patwa Apparel. Heneka is also creator of the Caribbean’s first virtual conference and expo: The Entrepreneurial You Virtual SME Conference & Expo.

Heneka hosts Leadercast events in Jamaica and writes for the Leadercast blog and Thrive Global.

Show Notes

“The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” —Melody Beattie

At the end of 2018 I dedicated my journal to 2019. I wrote that It would be the most epic year of my life. In it I said I will do things I have never done go places I’ve never gone and on income that I’ve never before, and I would go deeper in God, have more meaningful relationships and avoid people who are toxic. I also wrote that 2019 is the year of discipline, focus and accomplishment, My year of discipline, focus and accomplishment, I will give back to those in need and support those who need me, I commit to reading more, focus on growth oriented people, be more, do more, I will rise even higher with the power of Almighty God. Those are the things I wrote in 2018 for 2019.

As I reflect on those words, I can share that I have had some major wins and some really low points. I call them the highs and lows of 2019.

Here is a snippet of what I shared on this solo episode of the podcast:

Depression

“…Depression is real. We talk about a lot of things; we sweep things under the carpet. We don’t want to brush on the fact that if you are having a mental health challenge, then you need to get help for your mind; for your brain. We have heart problems and we go to the doctor; high blood pressure, whatever; these are diseases and you go to the doctor for them for physical things that you physically deal with. But when it comes to our mental health, a lot of us don’t want to talk about it. I think I was overwhelmed. I was overwhelmed by being in a very toxic environment with people who are not supposed to be toxic.”

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Hot Point:

If you are having mental health challenges, get help!

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Cultivating an Entrepreneurial Mindset in Young People, with Bill Roche

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:46 +0000

Bill is the co-founder of PowerPlay Young Entrepreneurs, a charity that is committed to empowering young people with an entrepreneurial mindset. For over 20 years, he has specialized in designing K-12 curriculum-based resources related to financial literacy, entrepreneurship and social responsibility. Bill works with education and business leaders throughout the country to create community partnerships that are scalable and have an impact.

Show Notes

“If we tried to think of a good idea, we wouldn’t have been able to think of a good idea. You just have to find the solution for a problem in your own life.” -Brian Chesky, Co-founder of Airbnb

Going to school to get a decent job is how we have been brainwashed in the Western world to think. This kind of mindset only hinders true creativity, innovation and growth. When we are placed in an environment that allows us to be ourselves, we realize that we are taken on a path of self-discovery. That what’s entrepreneurship does, allows you to be you, to fail, to be excited about learning and contributing to your world.

Bill shared very passionately about shifting mindset in young people and why they should be taught the necessary skills from early on.

Here is a snippet of what she shared on this episode of the podcast:

Entrepreneurship in schools

“…what’s interesting to me is that we’ll see students that just are not successful in school. And in traditional school, you know, kids with behavioral problems, kids that are operating below grade level, kids with learning disabilities, and all of a sudden, we provide this environment where they are free to explore they are free to make mistakes, they’re no longer restricted, they can get out and move around, they could start real businesses. And what we see is an incredibly high engagement level of these kids. So what’s powerful is now families and teachers are able to see this whole new side and also the children themselves see a whole new side they weren’t exposed to. So my advice to families is, you know, what, really allow kids to explore their passions and really help them discover that you know what, there are ways that you can earn a living and be quite successful by exploring your passions and really building on that I think that self awareness piece is so key.”

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Hot Point: Entrepreneurial thinking is crucial to success even if you are working for someone else. Make growth and development as part of your regular practice, welcome mistakes and treat them as learning opportunities and ask for help when you need it.

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Achieving Scale Without the Burnout, with Nicole Liloia

Wed, 25 Dec 2019 00:00:42 +0000

Nicole is a business strategist who helps women entrepreneurs scale their businesses and create consistent income growth. Nicole’s first business was a counseling private practice but she quickly added in multiple income streams so that she could travel more while still running her business. Nicole has contributed to Forbes, Huffington Post, Mind Body Green, and more.

Show Notes

“Ninety nine percent of the time it’s not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout.” –Arianna Huffington

If we follow the entrepreneurial hype then we will be all about the grind. But is this really healthy? Can we scale without the grind and avoid burnout? Do we have to neglect our need for self-care to move our businesses forward? Nicole is all for scale without the almost inevitable ‘pop-down/pop-dung’ (this is a Jamaican term for being burnout).

What’s your style for change?

Here is a snippet of what she shared on this episode of the podcast:

“Figure out your style for changing things you are going to have to change what you’re doing if you want a bigger business, right? Because it’s not just going to happen on its own. But find out what your style is for changing things, do you adapt to change quickly? Or do you process it more slowly and and just allow yourself to work out the change that way. So just for example, for me, I process change more slowly. So I cannot go from zero to 100% doing something different overnight. I have to gradually increase it over time. So maybe starting out 20% then 30%, then 50% right then 75%. So as you’re making these changes as you’re starting to batch don’t feel like you need to batch everything overnight. Just start with a couple of tasks. Start with one task batching it thoroughly. Start to see how it feels and start to develop the habit.”

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Hot Point: Figure out your style for changing things. You are going to have to change things if you want a bigger business, it won’t happen on its own.

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Why Leadership Matters, with Scott McCarthy

Wed, 18 Dec 2019 00:00:05 +0000

Scott’s leadership journey started when he was young and had the drive to take control of everything that needed to be planned. Transferring these skills to the Canadian Army, Scott enrolled as a Logistics Officer in 2001 when he was selected to attend the prestigious Royal Military College of Canada. At the age of 24, Scott commanded an Army transport platoon comprising of over 80 soldiers. At 33, he was selected to command a Logistics Squadron of 200 members. In 2009, Scott was deployed to Kandahar, Afghanistan where he was selected to help train, mentor, and coach members of the Afghan National Army.

Show Notes

“Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.” –James Humes

Leadership matters and in this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast, Scott McCarthy tells us why. There are so many important elements to being an effective leader; it just doesn’t happen by chance.

Communication

Here is a snippet of what she shared on this episode of the podcast:

“Communication is key. If you can’t communicate your intent, your own vision, what you want to achieve, it’s going to fall apart. The other thing is being present, being seen you got to be able to show that you can do whatever it is that you demand of your people and I went extremely far with this. So when I was that transport platoon commander, (my job isn’t to drive vehicles, it’s not the drive to get in truck and drive the truck. But I did. I got into every piece of vehicle every piece of equipment that we owned and operated. Why? So that I had an understanding of what my guys would go through on a daily basis when they were operating that equipment. How difficult is it actually to move a semi, a tractor trailer that has a tank loaded onto the back of it. How difficult is it to move a bus, a refueling truck? Up here in Canada, snowplow, right? How difficult are those tasks to actually achieve? So that gives you actually a greater fidelity when people come to me like oh, we need this piece of equipment for this reason, actually understand quicker and then that shortens those timelines.”

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Hot Point: It is important to communicate with your team and to be very present with them.

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Starting a Business From the Ground Up, with Jenna Irvin

Wed, 11 Dec 2019 00:00:11 +0000

As both a Pure Barre owner and coach, Jenna leads with intuition, uses fear as fuel to grow, and believes that failure is our greatest teacher. She feels the most alive and connected to her why when she is holding space for others to step into all that they are.

Show Notes

Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – — Chris Grosser

Stepping into your greatness requires intentional action. Pure Barre owner, Jenna Irvin, shares her journey of being intentional in starting a business from the ground up, in this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast.

Here is a snippet of what she shared on this episode of the podcast:

Space for connection

“I think that it’s really important to open the space for connection. Because when our insecurities and our limiting beliefs are speaking loudly, we’re unapproachable. And so I think when you’re entering into a new community or a new space or trying a workout for the first time or really doing anything in a space, it is not familiar. You have to open the space for that connection to happen. It’s not just going to come to you without you being approachable and giving off that energy that you’re ready for that. I think for me, I absolutely connected to local businesses in the area that had been there for a while. I made connections, but I made sure that every single connection don’t below that surface levels…Your insecurities only have power if you give it to them.

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Hot Point: Know how to market from a story-telling perspective. Connect with people first as people then as clients.

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Taxation and the Entrepreneur, with Richard Lavina

Wed, 04 Dec 2019 00:00:59 +0000

Richard is the CEO and co-founder of consumer, small business and enterprise SaaS accounting-tech company Taxfyle, founded in 2015. Prior to this, Richard worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers as an auditor, so he has much accounting experience.

Show Notes

“The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.” – Denis Healey

It is said,‘there are two things in life that are certain, death and taxation” so there is no getting around taxes. Although it sometimes appears to be a curse word, taxation is necessary and contributes in a big way to the functioning of society.

Richard Lavina is an accounting expert and shared his expertise on The Entrepreneurial You podcast.

Incorporation

“It all starts with your type of incorporation. If you want to get into business, you want to make sure you incorporate, that way you have an entity with some protection in terms of liability from yourself. You could go out into the world and start your own business as an independent contractor and have everything flow through. Personally, there’s nothing wrong with that. However, the first thing you want to do is actually incorporate and the type of incorporation that you need depends on the type of business you want to run. I have a big investor pool. So therefore, I set up a C Corp, which is kind of like those companies that you see on Wall Street where you sell stock to individuals and they buy into your company.”

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Hot Point: Understand the type of business you are going in and determine the structure that is right for you.

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How to Live the RICH Life, with Matt Aitchison

Wed, 27 Nov 2019 00:00:36 +0000

Matt is a multi 7-figure real estate investor, business coach, speaker and philanthropist. He is the Founder and CEO of The Rich Life, a personal development and accountability based e-learning company that helps high achievers create more wealth, freedom, and fulfillment in their life and business through real estate investing.

Show Notes

“It’s simple arithmetic: Your income can grow only to the extent that you do.” —T. Harv Eker

What are the pillars on which your life is built? Do you value community, health and relationships or is it all about money.

When Matt Aitchison awoke to being a millionaire and didn’t feel any differently, he decided to be intentional about creating the type of life that he can be proud of.

Here is a snippet of what Matt shared on The Entrepreneurial You podcast.

“I remember the day that I looked into my bank account and financially I was a millionaire and I didn’t feel any different. Mentally I didn’t feel any different. Emotionally I didn’t feel any different, spiritually, I didn’t feel any different. And that was ‘aha’ moment that made me realize this journey to find happiness and to find fulfilment to find purpose and to have a passion for what you do is really not going to be tied to the level of income that I am able to generate.”

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Hot Point: The people who aligned to your world will start showing up when you stay in alignment with your ethics and core values.

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Choosing the Right Investor for Your Business, with Swish Goswami

Wed, 20 Nov 2019 00:00:44 +0000

Swish Goswami, the CEO of Trufan, a social intelligence platform that helps over eighty of the world’s biggest brands and celebrities sell directly to their top fans. Trufan has raised over $1M to date (from several NBA players and venture firms) and has clientele that notably includes Visionary Music Group, Hootsuite, and Dwayne Wade. Before running Trufan, Swish consulted for Fortune 500 companies like Western Union and worked at JB Fitzgerald Venture Capital.

For his entrepreneurial and philanthropic achievements, Swish has been published in over one hundred national and international publications and has been inducted into Plan Canada’s Top 20 under 20, recognized as Startup Canada’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year and awarded the United Nation’s Outstanding Youth Leadership award.

Show Notes

“I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.”

Raising capital for your startup can be a daunting task for many who have the dream of scaling fast. It is important that you get skilled in how to attract the right investors to your business.

In this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast, Swish shares his journey of how he went about attracting the right investors to jump on board with Trufan. Here is a snippet of what she shared on this episode of the podcast:

Networking

“Typically what we did for the previous two years before starting Trufan, I was very much networking; I was getting out there in the community, I was meeting people. I actually interviewed a lot of foreign investors in a LinkedIn publication that I started. I wrote about their life story; I wrote about the advice they would give young people and started to build a relationship with them that way…new venture capital came on, but it was also a mix of them and angels and those angels weren’t just NBA players. They were friends and family members that we got in and got $20,000 from each of them. That’s the way that we went about preparing for the round. We deeply networked for the last three, four years.”

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Hot Point: More people are likely to say yes to you interviewing them than if you ask them for coffee.

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Redefining Wealth: What Does That Really Mean?, with Patrice Washington

Wed, 13 Nov 2019 00:00:35 +0000

Patrice is an award-winning author, transformational speaker, hope-restoring coach, and media personality. Patrice got her start as your favorite personal finance expert, “America’s Money Maven”, having tremendous success with her “mindset approach” to personal finance. She has since expanded her brand and mission, encouraging women to chase purpose, not money.

Show Notes

“Today, the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears” – Brian Tracey

Purpose?

We have been taught to go to school, get a good education so that you may get a good job and earn a good salary. This is a purpose inhibiting idea.

In this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast, Patrice shares a lot on what redefining wealth really means – she’s experienced having it all – and losing it, so she speaks with passion from a place of experience. Here is a snippet of what she shared on this episode of the podcast:

Sick and tired of being sick and tired

“I was just sick and tired of being sick and tired. I was tired of everything that I even attempted to do. Like I felt like doors were just being slammed shut in my face and I’m like, oh God, I’m a good person. And I’ve operated a good business. I did things in integrity. I don’t feel like I was the cause of all of this. What is going on? And bawling, snorting, crying on the bathroom floor, till I hear what I call the Holy Spirit, say, “get your” Bible. And I got my Bible. I ended up on the Scripture, Proverbs 17:6, and it said, “What good is money in the hands of a fool? If they have no desire to seek wisdom, and that was the first time it hit me, that I have been very smart. I was very book smart. I went to a great university. Dean’s list, got licensed at 21 certified at 22. All these great things. So I was great at information. But I didn’t have wisdom which is the application of the information.”

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Hot Point: When you are not working on your purpose, it is hard to set your financial priority.

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Small Minds Kill Big Dreams: Who Are You consulting With?, with Amanda Boleyn

Wed, 06 Nov 2019 00:00:55 +0000

Amanda is the founder and CEO of She Did It Her Way. Shortly after two years in Corporate America, Amanda took a leap, moved from West Des Moines, IA to Chicago, IL and became a full-time freelancer. Amanda’s podcast, She Did It Her Way launched in January 2015 has consistently been ranked as one of the top-resources for female entrepreneurs by Inc.com, Forbes, Entrepreneur.com, Huffington Post and many others.

Show Notes

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined!”– Thoreau

Who are you consulting with? What are they saying to you and are you allowing their opinions of you to matter more than what you think about yourself?

Choosing Your Tribe

It is important to associate with the right people because small minds really kill big dreams.

In this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast, Amanda shares a lot on this subject. Here is a snippet:

“Anytime we get in an uncomfortable scary situation, it really is our it’s our thoughts that will drive the outcome because our thoughts create emotions that create these feelings that then produce an action. So we take an action and then we produce a result. And one of my favourite quotes is by the late Wayne Dyer that said “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”…everything in life is neutral until we give it meaning.

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Hot Point: Our life is based upon the questions we ask ourselves. Come up with answers based on the questions you ask yourself.

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Unconventional Ways to Grow Your Podcast Audience, with Mark Asquith

Wed, 30 Oct 2019 00:00:18 +0000

Mark is CEO and co-founder of Rebel Base Media, one of the UK’s leading podcast companies and was the visionary behind its suite of products including Captivate.fm and Podcast Websites.

Show Notes

A podcast is a great way to develop relationships with hard to reach people – Tim Paige

Mark did not mince words during our conversation. He laid his card flat out on the table as he spoke about podcasting bad practices and shared best practices to follow when trying to grow your podcast. Here is a part of what Mark shared on The Entrepreneurial You podcast:

Podcast Best Practices

“Let’s get into the other stuff, you know and then I’m going to probably come back to you and said you know what, let’s do a workshop. Let’s expose Heneka watkis-Porter’s podcast to our audience via the academy because you did such a good job of interviewing me. So let’s talk about how podcasters can be better interviewers to assist chain reaction, you know, you’ve got to set a chain reaction of, and the way to do that is to not, you know, not just the kind of top level research and just, let’s be honest, you know, just get another interview in the bag. It’s better to create content that is deeper and that’s what’s going to make you stand out.”

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Hot Point: Consider and understand if you are an entrepreneur or a business person?

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Is Your Stress Level Affecting Your Productivity?

Wed, 23 Oct 2019 00:00:16 +0000

Kelsey is creative and marketing strategist who is passionate about equipping entrepreneurs to build their business, grow their platform and steward their influence.

Show Notes

“Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.” —Hermann Hesse

We live in a society that seems to value go, go, go so the word slow almost seem like a curse word. The reality is, our stress level affects our productivity. We are most productive when we get adequate rest.

Business Pivot

Kelsey Chapman shared her story of how she took the necessary step to reset even after her business crashed and led her into a pivot.

Here is a snippet of what Kelsey shared on The Entrepreneurial You podcast.

“At the beginning of the year, I was like I’m really committed to managing my stress in a healthy way. The cortisol pumping through my veins are going to kill me and I’m 29. This is not healthy and so I really wanted to get a handle on that from a health perspective by going to the gym. I also booked two massages a month because I was just in pain, my neck and shoulders hurt every day. I was on the verge of heading to a chiropractor next because I’m working out, I’m getting a massage, and I’m still in pain every day.”

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Hot Point: You can hit reset even though it may seem impossible and uncomfortable.

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How To Craft A Story The Press Will Care About, with Lindsey Walker

Wed, 16 Oct 2019 00:00:14 +0000

Survivor of Stage IV cancer, a product of Jackson State University, Lidsey is the Founder of Walker + Associates Media Group. Working with brands such as 135th Street Agency, BET and securing press in today’s top tier publications, TV Networks and more, Lindsey has established herself as an expert in the world of PR, branding and entrepreneurship.

Show Notes

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture. Allen Ginsberg

Ever wondered why some people are seemingly always present in the media? It could be safe to say there is a science to it. PR expert Lindsey gives some insight:

“I tell people all the time when it comes to getting publicity, when it comes to getting your story heard, it starts with you. It starts where we are as entrepreneurs, as women, as people. It starts with where we are on the inside. Before you begin to write anything down; before you begin to think about who you need to connect with, you first need to realize and understand that you are pitchable and that you have a story. Everyone has a story on the inside of them.

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Hot Point: Take a look at where you are right now in your life right now, think about why you are in business, who you serve and think about why you serve them.

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Running a Successful Podcast Production Company, with Darrell Darnell

Tue, 08 Oct 2019 15:00:51 +0000

Darrell started podcasting in 2008 and has been consulting and producing podcasts for other podcasters since 2012. In 2014 Darrell established Pro Podcast Solutions as a full-service company to help podcasters with production, voiceovers, custom artwork, show notes, publishing, and more.

Show Notes

“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn

Thinking of starting a podcast production company? This episode is a must listen. Here is a piece of what Darrell shares:

Communication is the bottom line

“You need to embrace the reality of firing someone and that can be someone that you are working with as a part of your team or it can be your clients. When each of these situations present themselves, I approach it the way that I did my old corporate job. I was in the corporate world for almost 20 years and supervised teams ranging from 30 to 40 people at a peak. My main core that I had was around 8 people. My approach to that was always when there was a problem, whether it was an employee or a client, sit down with that person and identify and talk about the problem. It comes back to communication.”

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Hot Point: Everything hinges on communication which ultimately helps to build trust. When you mess up, own up to your mistakes.

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Mastermind Your Way to Success, with Aaron Walker

Wed, 02 Oct 2019 00:00:32 +0000

Aaron Walker is a veteran entrepreneur. Having started over a dozen businesses during his four decade journey has been pretty awesome. Beginning at 18 years old and selling to a Fortune 500 company just nine years later set Aaron on an adventure of a lifetime.

Show Notes

“None of us is as smart as all of us.” –Ken Blanchard

It is a fact! Participants in Mastermind groups get stuff done, overcome obstacles, and gain confidence that their actions will move their business ahead.

Aaron Walker shares what made him rethink his legacy to become not only successful but has IMPACT. This episode will change your life.

Here is just a snippet of what Aaron talks about:

Turning Point

“We were very successful early on and when I turned 40 years old we had just completed our second business and I was on my way to the office. This was August 1, 2001 so it has been eighteen (18) years ago now that this happened.

On my way to the office, a pedestrian was crossing the street to catch a local bus and didn’t look my way and I ran over and killed him on my way to the office. It radically changed the paradigm of my life. It really made me think through life differently.

In my book, “View From the Top”, I talk about this being I was blind-sided. I never saw this coming. I was praying, “God, why would this happen to me; my two beautiful children, my home, my great business. I feel like I am doing the right things and out of nowhere I get this left hook. I never saw that coming.”

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Hot Point: Safety, security, camaraderie, vulnerability: the glue that holds Masterminds together.

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Building a Real Estate Photography Business From the Ground Up, with Evan Roberts

Wed, 25 Sep 2019 00:00:35 +0000

Evan Roberts is the CEO and founder of Visually Sold, a US based Real Estate Photography Company.

Show Notes

“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” – Alfred Stieglitz

Evan Roberts had his haha moment looking at the visuals for houses listed on the real estate market. He says:

“I was looking at houses online and I found that some houses have a really good photo as the front photo and I found myself clicking on those. I notice that some of them didn’t have it. As soon as I noticed that some of them did, I said there might be a market for this. I did some research and I found that there is a market for it. I was surprised at the amount of houses that didn’t have professional photography taken of them seen as it is the most expensive asset that people sell in their lifetimes so you would think that visual marketing would be a necessity for everybody.”

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Hot Point: As soon as you can drop the ego and be vulnerable you grow something greater than yourself.

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Elevating Your Personal Brand With a Podcast, with Stephen A. Hart

Wed, 18 Sep 2019 00:00:24 +0000

Stephen A. Hart is a marketer, podcaster, and brand alignment strategist. Stephen hosts Trailblazers.FM™, the #1 interview style podcast, exploring stories of today’s successful black professionals, entrepreneurs and leaders. This weekly podcast has featured more than 150 black professionals and has been heard by more than 250,000+ from 140 countries around the world.

Show Notes

I am excited to share this interview for a number of reasons:

it was recorded live from Podcast Movement 2019 in the beautiful city of Orlando.
I spoke with a friend who I actually met in person for the 1st time at Podcast Movement.
He is a fellow Jamaican podcaster based in the US.

As a Brand Alignment Strategist, Stephen has a lot to share on the topic of personal branding. During our conversation he says:

“I realize more and more that almost in 2020, what someone finds out about you when they search for you, it’s going to leave them more or less inclined to do business with you or to hire you.

It doesn’t matter whether you are an entrepreneur or business owner or even if you are a corporate professional, you have to address your personal brand. Starting there, it is very important that we give thought to our presence online, what I call our digital footprint.

Somebody is searching. Even if you work for an employer or you are looking for a new job, a recruiter is going to be looking you up. They are going to be searching (for) you on Google and LinkedIn to see what they can find out about you. If you don’t take control of the results they are going to find, you’re going to be in hot water.”

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Hot Point: when somebody Googles you, what are they finding out about you?

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Building Your Marketing Team from Scratch, with Vlad Calus

Wed, 11 Sep 2019 00:00:42 +0000

Vlad founded two non-profits at the age of 16, then dropped out of college, moved to another country with two 2 his friends, built Planable (Techstars London ’17) at 19 y.o and became an honoree Forbes 30 Under 30 at 22 y.o. Vlad has been featured as a guest writer & marketer by multiple publications including Social Media Examiner, Entrepreneur and many others.

Show Notes

“It’s not what you sell that matters as much as how you sell it!” — Brian Halligan, CEO & Co-Founder, HubSpot

Can you recall what you wanted to do at 16? I was too busy being confused to figure me out let alone start anything.

Not so with this week’s guest, Vlad Calus. While many were getting into all sorts of trouble, Vlad enrolled into the Academy of Manliness to learn how to become a better man.

At the age of 19 years, he dropped out of College and moved to Romania from the Republic of Moldova, leaving behind family, job, girlfriend and pretty much everything he had at the time.

Planable.io was the main reason for this move and since then he has not looked back.

Making the right hire was important to the success of the startup. During this conversation, Vlad takes us through what are some of the main ingredients to get the right marketing team on board.

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Hot Point: Each person on your team must take ownership of an area. Understand that no one person will have all the skills needed to optimize a business.

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Using Gratitude to Create Powerful, Practical and Achievable Goals, with May McCarthy

Wed, 04 Sep 2019 00:00:08 +0000

Since 1982, May has helped to start and grow six successful companies as large as $100 million in annual revenues. She is a best-selling author, speaker, university lecturer and angel investor. She serves on business, philanthropic, arts and university boards. She is the author of the best-selling book The Path to Wealth and her newest title, The Gratitude Formula: A 7-Step Success System to Create a Life That You Love.

Show Notes

“Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.” —Zig Ziglar

Now is a good time to sing Koffee’s “Toast”, “Gratitude is a must! “Gratitude is a tool for success”, says May in our conversation. Gratitude puts our Reticular Activating System (RAS) into gear. Ever notice that one you begin to think about something and you see it once then suddenly you begin to see it everywhere?

Being Grateful

We attract what we think about. The more grateful we are for what we have, the more we attract what we want.

May has shared the gratitude formula success system as follows:

Daily practice of gratitude
Appropriate wording
Choose goals that are right for you
Recognize that your brain loves you and will mute messages to protect you. Believe that what you want is possible and that will take them off mute
Be patient
Be disciplined with your daily practice
Discover your purpose. How to find? 3 questions: What did I love to do as a child 2. What are the things other people told me I am good at? 3. What do I think I am good at?

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The Power of Small Starts for Big Wins, with Leslie Bradford-Scott

Wed, 28 Aug 2019 00:00:28 +0000

Leslie is Award-winning #over50 entrepreneur who started a bath and body gift company in her farmhouse kitchen building it into a multimillion dollar brand.

Show Notes

“The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing.” –Walt Disney, Co-Founder, Disney

Difficult childhood seem to be the thread running through the fabric of our guests recently. And no, we didn’t specifically go chasing after them. It just goes to show that stories that started out badly can have beautiful endings.

Leslie was treated differently by her father during childhood. She had a learning disability and so did not go through the formal school system. Then to top things off, her childhood hero, her brother, was fatally hit by a drunk driver.

Later on in life, a bad marriage follows. When will this end perhaps was a question Leslie silently asked.

US Coast Guard

As a rebellion against her father she joined the US Coast Guard to rescue people from the stormy seas.

Leslie decided to start a business with the support of her new husband based on a personal need she had for natural aromatherapy products.

This business was started in her kitchen where she would drive around in her car with cases of aromatherapy products until they were all sold. Now Walton Wood Farm is a multi-million dollar company. Talk about the power of starting small to win big.

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The external is a reflection of the internal.

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Leveraging the Power of Your Network, with Jon Talarico

Wed, 21 Aug 2019 00:00:43 +0000

Jon is among the world’s foremost experts on building relationships that yield amazing results for his clients. Jon has worked directly with some of today’s most powerful and influential business and thought leaders, celebrities and more importantly people just like yourself looking for a way to connect and create a life of their dreams.

Show Notes

“The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.” — Keith Ferrazzi

You may have heard it said over and again that, “you network is your net worth.” How does one with a story such as Jon’s get to talk about leveraging the power of your network anyways?

After all, having witnessed his parents go through a messy divorce, among other things that no child should have to, Jon was no stranger to hard times. In fact, there was a point when a woman who was entrusted to take care of him did everything but. At a point, Jon was so ashamed of himself he washed his face at an angle to prevent himself from seeing his reflection in the mirror.

Eventually, Jon landed his ‘dream job’ but it was not all it seemed. Jon’s story isn’t all gloom and doom though. When he was at his lowest point, he saw a quote that says, “what stands in the way becomes the way.”

At that moment he realized he had to take stock of his life. He took an inventory of all the things he had in his life. Because at the core people really want to help others and he was able to get that help.

Take Action

Sometimes we get paralzyed because we don’t know the next action to take but once you reach out and let others know what you are doing, you will be rewarded for taking that action. That he did and that’s when his life started to change.

The most important thing to note when you are reaching out is to add value first. Find out how what is important, being of service to others and watch it comes right back to you.

Find out something that means a lot to those you want to reach out to and do that thing.

Give without expecting anything in return.

Jon has been able to travel to 36 countries on 5 continents. Jon now helps people to realize that they can live the life of their dreams.

Listen to this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast for insight on how to leverage your network for success.

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Hot Point

We think we don’t have but what we have is so much more.

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It’s Never Too Late to Launch a Business, with Teri Dreher

Wed, 14 Aug 2019 00:00:46 +0000

Teri is a former career ICU nurse turned pioneer in the emerging field of professional patient advocacy. She is the founder of Chicago’s first and largest advocacy firm founded in 2011, NShore Patient Advocates and is a public speaker and best-selling author of Patient Advocacy Matters. She has served on the board of NAHAC and helped develop national standards, practices and ethics for the profession. Teri has received multiple awards from civic and business organizations for her dedication to social causes, leadership and business success,including the national Ken Schueler Patient Advocacy Compass award.

Show Notes

“Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.” — Samuel Johnson

Teri has proven to us that it is never too late to start a business. If she can do it at age 54, so can you.

The oldest of 9 children, leadership seem to have been thrust upon her from an early age. It was embedded into her from early that she is supposed to make a difference. The fact that her father was a Missionary in India during the British Imperialist days. What an impact that has had on her?

What would trigger this 50-something former nurse to turn to entrepreneurship? Sometimes all one needs is to have a sense that some form of injustice is being done. The healthcare challenges in the US is a contributing factor.

A frightening health scare when her father-in-law fainted on board ship in Belize was enough to want to provide better healthcare for patients. Sometimes a painful moment is an indication that God is pushing you out of the nest for something better.

That, along with other incidences, let Teri to get training in the Patient Advocacy business in 2011.

Fast forward to now and she believes that it has been the best decision of her life. This discomfort with the system led Teri to start her own business at age 54. With the passion for protecting patient, she knew she failure was not an option. She made bold moves such as selling her house and downsizing into something much smaller.

Seeking mentorship from experienced and successful business men was just one of the things Teri sought after to ensure she was successful. Now Teri pays it forward by mentoring others who want to enter the same business as she does.

One the other side of every problem is an opportunity for someone to be part of the solution.

Let this episode serves as an inspiration that you can do whatever you want at any age. Be inspired!

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Being successful in any area is an inside job.

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Living Full Out Everyday, with Nancy Solari

Wed, 07 Aug 2019 00:00:11 +0000

Nancy who holds a BA in broadcasting and psychology, altered her career path throughout the years as her eyesight worsened. She worked for Oregon News, Good Day Oregon, Good Morning America, and Entertainment Tonight. Nancy was later a singer, a top-producing realtor in Southern California, and is currently a successful business owner.

Show Notes

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” C.S. Lewis

Nancy didn’t grow up in the proverbial ‘bed of rose’ as many are accustomed to. Observing domestic violence in the home, later with divorced parents and the ensuing struggles didn’t exactly provide fertile ground for greatness. Or did it?

Nancy’s Determination

She was determined to live full out regardless of the hand life has dealt her, including news at 16 years that a genetic disease would cause her to start going blind by years 40. Of course she was hoping that a cure would come. But being in her forties now, she has been declared legally blind.

Nancy began to psycho-analyze how the women in her family coped developed the coaching skills that she now has. She saw all this as an opportunity to start living full out.

But what does this really mean and how is she living full? It starts with looking at all aspects of your life carefully and diversify your time and energy. Live with passion in your heart to experience all you can.

When you have moments when things don’t go the way you plan, it becomes a little easier to self correct when you live from a place of living full out.

This episode with Nancy is for you if you are tired of just going through the motions.

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When the odds are seemingly stacked up against you, it is ok to put a cap on that day and start again tomorrow.

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The Growth Mindset and the Entrepreneur, with David Ciccarelli

Wed, 31 Jul 2019 00:00:59 +0000

David is the Co-Founder and CEO of Voices.com, the online marketplace that connects business people with professional voice over talent. The unique blending of his audio engineering background with self-taught business savvy and website development afforded David the creative freedom to pursue his passion for innovation during the first dot com boom, the result of which catapulted him onto the scene as a pioneer in his field in the early 2000s.

Show Notes

“Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.” — Samuel Johnson

David was always fascinated with sound, music and technology as a child. It was no surprise then that he studied sound engineering in school and now owns his own recording studio in his home city of London, Canada.

Setting boundaries

Part of his own growth mindset development entails being able to set the context for working with his partner who is now his wife. Having been able to set boundaries, communicating who he is when he is having a conversation. For example, he informs whether he is communicating as a husband or business partner.

Successful people think about their mental fortitude as much as their physical body and intellect. David implores us to listen to our bodies, find what we love doing and put your body in a position to feel good.

Whatever decision you need to make, think about it in 10-10-10. That is, what is the impact of your decision in 10 minutes, 10 months and 10 years from now. Good decision should be sustainable over all these time frame.

David concludes that passion and resiliency are the most necessary traits for success and growth.

Resiliency is the ability to bounce back from adverse circumstances.

David has left so much great nuggets on this episode of The Entrepreneurial You. Listen to the entire episode and share it with your tribe.

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A plan will give you the guidance to persevere and it doesn’t have to be elaborate. Goals written down are more likely to come to fruition.

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How to Build a Successful Influencer Marketing Program, with Shane Barker

Wed, 24 Jul 2019 00:00:39 +0000

Shane is a digital marketing consultant who specializes in influencer marketing, product launches, sales funnels, targeted traffic, and website conversions. He has consulted with Fortune 500 companies, influencers with digital products, and a number of A-List celebrities.

Show Notes

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication. – Libby Larsen

What is Influencer Marketing?

Influencer Marketing, what is that really and how do you build a successful program? Well, that’s what Shane will share with us on this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast.

Surely it has been around for a while. When we think of the term we sometimes think about celebrities but if you have influence over a community – well – you are an influencer.

Anyone can be one without having 100,000 followers on Instagram. Bear in mind too that some of these followers that are online are fake. Yes, that’s a thing. People can buy followers. It all comes down to engagement.

If you are putting out great content you are an influencer. As long as people are believing in what you do.

But how do you connect with influencers? Software such as influencer.co and grin.co is a great place to identify those who might be ideal to work with your brand. You have to keep testing until you land the one that is right for you.

It takes at least 3 months to start seeing the result that you need when working with influencers. It takes effort. It is about frequency.

These are just of the things we touched on during this episode. Please listen to The Entrepreneurial You in its entirety for more on how you can leverage Influencer Marketing to grow your brand.

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Top Tip

Have realistic expectations when embarking on influencer marketing.

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Leveraging Online Learning for Entrepreneurial Success, with Janet Stewart

Wed, 17 Jul 2019 00:00:56 +0000

With more than 30 years of experience in designing and delivering the highest quality classroom-based training for adult learners, Janet has made the transition to the on-line classroom and created Alliance Learning. This leading edge platform provides clients with the opportunity to provide custom-built, learner centered e-learning opportunities for their employees and members. WeLoveLearning courses are built using the best available tools and are designed to Janet’s high standards of learner interactivity.

Show Notes

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication. – Libby Larsen

10 years ago Janet travelled extensively to her clients to conduct training. Now the table has taken a drastic turn to move along with the times. Doing in person workshops now account for 1% of her business at most.

She has completely transitioned to the online worlds. “People have always wanted training when they need it (just in time training). But we didn’t have the tools available to us to do it, “ says Janet.

Learner retention is a big part of the reason online training is so good. Trainees can get the training just when they need it which increases learner retention and ultimately behavioural change.

This conversation will provide the necessary tools to get you started with your online course.

Hot Point

Think carefully about the learner experience you want your users to have when planning your online course.

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Creating the Perfect Content Plan for Your Business, with Hailey Dale

Wed, 10 Jul 2019 00:00:31 +0000

Hailey is a certified content strategist and founder of Your Content Empire, where she partners with small business owners who are over the shoulds and ready to build their content empires – their way. Through her programs, DIY content kits and award-winning, tell-all weekly blog, she’s helped thousands of entrepreneurs create smarter content on a consistent basis that delights them and their customers while growing their bottom lines.

Show Notes

“Traditional marketing talks at people. Content marketing talks with them.” – Doug Kessler

Content is King! Perhaps you were hoping otherwise but there is just no getting around this reality. But all content isn’t created equally. So how do you create the content that connects with your audience? This episode of The Entrepreneurial You has Hailey divulging all you need to know about your content plan.

Firstly, let’s debunk the myth that Content Marketing is only about creating written blogs. It is rather of way creating content and using it to build your audience.

It is a strategy of building your business by giving value to your community. As GaryVee would say, “give, give, give or jab, jab, jab” before you ask anything of your audience.

Hayley outlines her 5-step strategy that she recommends in building an effective content plan to use as part of your content marketing strategy.

Look at past data
Choose promo focus for upcoming month (theme, trajectory, etc)
Identify content pieces for the month. What is your cornerstone content
Brainstorm ideas for topics
Build a content calendar

An easy way to grow your community is to use lead magnet. What you use is of course dependent on the price point of what you are trying to sell. FOr low priced items a simple PDF is great. Always base it on a need or a question that your ideal client has.

Don’t get overwhelm and try to do everything.

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In choosing your content plan/strategy, remember to talk with your people to know exactly they want from you.

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The Ins & Outs of Running an eCommerce Business, with Nathan Hirsch

Wed, 03 Jul 2019 00:00:26 +0000

Nathan is a 29 year old long time entrepreneur and expert in remote hiring and eCommerce. He started his first eCommerce business out of his college dorm room and has sold over $30 million online. He is now the co-founder and CEO of FreeeUp.com, a marketplace that connects businesses with pre-vetted virtual assistants, freelancers and agencies in eCommerce, digital marketing, and much more. He regularly appears on leading podcasts, such as Entrepreneur on Fire, and speaks at live events about online hiring tactics.

Show Notes

“Marketing is telling the world you’re a rock star. Content marketing is showing the world you are one.” – Robert Rose

The experts make it look easy but running an e-Commerce business is anything but. Whilst success isn’t impossible, it takes an enormous effort to win at it.

Nathan starting hustling in college but a cease and desist letter from his institution led him to pivot. Starting to sell baby products on Amazon before Amazon was a thing is the direction that he took. Having posted his first vacancy for hire on Facebook, he began to think it was easy to do. It really wasn’t he learnt. The more famous Fiverr and UpWork didn’t cut it either and that is how freeeup.com was born.

Outsourcing to the Philippines

Price point, good English, honest are some of the reasons to consider outsourcing to the Philippines for your e-Commerce business attractive.

Now skill, attitude and communication is what Nathan hires for using his own platform. Customer service is one of his company’s main differentiator which came from his own dissatisfaction from previous experiences.

This episode of The Entrepreneurial You dives into the ins and outs of running an e-Commerce. To prove it is not all peaches and cream, Nathan also shares his biggest business failure. Do enjoy.

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Look at everything as lessons. Focus on the big picture. Pursue your passion, it has never been easier to start your business.

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Outsourcing Talent: Main Things to Consider, with John Jonas

Wed, 26 Jun 2019 00:00:13 +0000

John has helped thousands of entrepreneurs succeed in their business by doing outsourcing differently. He created and runs OnlineJobs.ph, the largest website for finding Filipino virtual workers, with over 500,000 Filipino resumes and over 100,000 employers from around the world using it. He works about 17 hours per week, choosing to spend his time with his family rather than working.

Show Notes

“If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you’re putting yourself out of business.” Lee Kuan Yew

No, you don’t have to do it all alone. Outsourcing has been increasingly popular. But what are the main things to consider when looking to find talent outside of your office? John enthusiastically shares his journey on The Entrepreneurial You podcast.

As a Programmer, John started a few online businesses, some of which didn’t last very long.

John discovered how working with talent from the Philippines has positively impacted his very successful business. It worked so well, persons from his mastermind group began to ask how they might get to do the same.

Hiring someone full time from the Philippines has been super liberating for John.

Outsource to the Philippines

He shares that Filipinos have the characteristics that make them good hire. They are honest; they don’t want to steal your business ideas as they are not entrepreneurial. They are very loyal, almost to a fault. They won’t jump ship the minute they get a better deal from someone else. They are hardworking and pleasing by nature. Communication issues will not exist because they speak very good English.

In outsourcing effectively, have a clear vision of what you want to offload and find someone to do that.

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Find something you can teach, hire someone to teach and get back some hours in your life.

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How to Get a Life at Sea, with Amanda Hathorn

Wed, 19 Jun 2019 00:00:25 +0000

Amanda is the CEO of getalifeatsea.com and is the author of the How the Heck to Get a Job on a Cruise Ship Guide. Amanda sailed the world onboard cruise ships for over a decade, working within a variety of roles with multiple cruise lines. She then moved into Cruise Ship Recruitment and Cruise Employment Education Provision Services. Amanda now helps adventurers successfully navigate cruise line application and interview processes so they too can travel the world.

Show Notes

“Don’t sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.” — Rumi

Many are quite happy in a comfort zone with life on land so venturing out into the vastness of the Ocean may not be appealing. Then there are those who get excited by the mere idea of a life at sea. The icing on the cake is getting paid to travel on board, connect with passengers from all over the globe.

Interestingly, anything you can imagine in a 5-star resort, is available on board. There are a myriad of opportunities that are available at sea and Amanda passionately piques our interest by highlighting a few. Since birth, she has been on board since conception, fully immersed by parents who lived a life in the deep.

Business Opportunity

Having lots of experience in the sea world, when Amanda became pregnant, she made the decision to start her own company helping others excel in the marine world. This haha moment was inspired by the fact that there was no one providing the service of guiding others to apply for jobs on board.

Certainly, this is a booming industry with cruise brands adding more fleet to their lines frequently. Amanda has a variety of products and services that will help you on your journey. This episode of The Entrepreneurial You is power packed with what you need to know to get started on a life at sea.

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Being on board requires that you are flexible and able to work with a diverse group of people.

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How to Become a Millionaire With Your Side Hustle, with Tony Whatley

Wed, 12 Jun 2019 00:00:16 +0000

Tony became known as “The Side Hustle Millionaire” after his book with the same title became a #1 best-seller on Amazon. But, this book title isn’t just fiction; it is based on his actual story. As an active entrepreneur himself, he still owns a few businesses. But, his real passion is teaching entrepreneurs how to start, scale, and sell their business, within his consulting brand 365 Driven.

Show Notes

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – — Chris Grosser

There is so much to say about the side hustle, some curse it while others swear by it. Tony has been a hustler for a while. He has always been the kid working while others were having fun, sometimes at his expense. But as they say, hard works always pay off…Tony had the skateboards, videogames and bicycles to prove it.

Tony early on had the goal of being successful the evidence of which would be 6-figure income – the American dream. An Engineer Degree would be his pursuit.

Between waiting tables, waxing cars and other jobs, Tony soon discovered it was taking too much of his time and so he started a company which became one of the busiest communities online. This company was later sold.

On the question of becoming a millionaire with your side hustle, Tony’s drive, determination and unwillingness to quit taught him in the long run that if this is only about making money you will never get to the place of true success. Your purpose has to be a lot stronger than money. What legacy do you want to leave behind. Think about how generational legacy can be impacted.

What can you do to monetize the skills you have? What skills/talents/crafts can you earn to monetize? These are just some of the questions to ask yourself in order to arrive at success.

Tony encourages us to be at the intersection of passion, skills and expertise. This will help you create a movement that others want to be part of.

Avoid the employee mindset that teaches us to trade our hours for dollars. Get away from that. There is no relationship between time and money when you are doing what you love.

Listen to this episode of The Entrepreneurial You for deep insight on how to successfully monetize your side hustle.

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Mindset is the most important thing for entrepreneurs. Pay attention to consistency. Show up every day and do the the work.

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How to Accelerate Your Entrepreneurial Success with Mentorship, with Paul Carrick Brunson

Wed, 05 Jun 2019 00:00:12 +0000

Paul is a Mentor, Entrepreneur, & Television Host whose goal is to help you live your best life. He’s the world’s most influential matchmaker, founded and exited three businesses, host two television shows, spent nearly a decade working directly for a billionaire, and shares his experiences by mentoring through Knowledge Share.

Show Notes

Paul defines mentorship as “personal development in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person guides a less experienced or less knowledgeable person.” After over one year, I finally get Paul on The Entrepreneurial You podcast. Our conversation on mentorship for entrepreneurs was over before we knew it. It was filled with insights on the benefits of mentorship and how to become mentee material.

There are lots of strategies to become a mentee but it always begin with your being ready to accept criticism. You must have a high level of self esteem and self love. Knowing you are enough is necessary.

Shared Values

Develop your north star for all areas of your life and look for people who resembles what you want to be. Whomever you are trying to identify as your mentor should share your values for the most part.

It is important too to try and figure out what your prospective mentor is trying to accomplish and find ways to and value to them. The reality is that everyone has goals. We are all tuned in to ‘what’s in it for me?” How can you help to advance their cause.

It is very easy to digitally stalk your prospects so you are armed with all the information you need to move forward.

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Mentorship doesn’t always have to look up. It is about surrounding yourself with the right people.

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Relax! Take a Deep Breath – Tips for De-Stressing as an Entrepreneur, with Dr. Tim Laskis

Tue, 28 May 2019 12:00:02 +0000

Tim Laskis. Ph.D. Clinical Psychology
-Life coach since 2003
-Mental Performance Coach with high profile professional athletes since 2014
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-University Instructor for over 10 years
-Podcast Host: 2 shows: The Tim Laskis Show and Coach Wherever: Life Coach School Podcast.

Show Notes

As an entrepreneur, stress is inevitable, in fact, as a living, breathing person, there is no getting away from this feeling of emotional or physical tension.

What goes on in our thought process about the events going on in our lives will determine how we feel about them.

As entrepreneurs, we can get wiped out easily as the only speed we know is go. Dr. Tim Laskis was the perfect guest to break down this whole matter of stress for us. Tim shared insight about what causes stress as well as how to effectively manage it.

When our brains are over-stimulated for extended periods we become stressed.

Stress is never eliminated but rather managed. The key is to find a way to manage it before it gets to record high. There will always be things coming up that we never had to deal with before.

One simple thing to help you relax is by adjusting your breathing. Tim went in details about how to effectively breathe for relaxation. Regulating your breathing works for everyone, Tim says.

TOP TIP:

No matter how bad it gets, you can always turn it around. You do not have to burn out yourself so much that you hit burn out.

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Entrepreneurial Lessons From The Army, with Sushil Bhasin

Wed, 22 May 2019 05:00:11 +0000

Sushil is a Speaker, Trainer and Author, Brig Sushil Bhasin. Sushil has training and speaking experience of 34 years in the Indian Army and 14 years in the Corporate. His forte is Leadership and Teamwork. In 14 years he has conducted over 550 corporate training workshops. Sushil is an author of 2 books: “Design Your Life.” and “Million $ Second,” published by CNBC TV 18.

Show Notes

Life has a way of doling out lessons and we would do ourselves some good if we listened. When we think about the army, we may wonder, what lessons can it actually teach us. As it turns out, lots.

This episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast examines some of the lessons being in the army can teach us.

You won’t always have all information.

You never have all the information you need to make a decision. Nevertheless, you must think on your feet quickly and make the decisions that you take. You must be able to live with the consequences of the decision that you take.

Leadership

Being a veteran requires that you are able to lead effectively. Similarly, being an entrepreneur requires that you lead a team well if you want to have success. You are 100% responsible for those who are aiding in carrying the vision forward. The focus has to be outward on the people you lead and not inward on self.

Team Player

You need to have empathy, understanding the concerns of those whom you lead. Once your team understands why, the how becomes pretty simple. They must know the mission and fall into place. Trust is also important. It is like the glue keeping the team together.

Debriefing

This is a process of doing a post-mortem is important. What was done well and lessons learned for future. The leader should give the team an opportunity to have their say.

TOP TIP:

For everything that is negative, find something positive. Find solutions from challenges.

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Get Noticed–Marketing: Do’s and Don’ts for the Entrepreneur, with Jared Shapiro

Tue, 14 May 2019 05:00:11 +0000

Jared is a brand strategist, marketing maven, and publicist with over 15 years of experience in the entertainment and media world. As the former editor in chief of the Miami headquartered Ocean Drive Magazine Jared utilized his 13 years of experience in NYC as the editorial director of In Touch Weekly and Life & Style Weekly to further broaden Ocean Drive’s international appeal and global reach. Jared is also a New York Times Best Selling Author, and principal of marketing + branding + strategy +PR agency, The Tag Experience.

Branding and Marketing

There is just so much noise in the world of marketing. So just how does one stand out as a small business owner or even just starting up? In this week episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast, Jared shares some tips on how to do just that.

Every year there is an addition to the options available for marketing. The constant change keeps us on our feet. We have to be constantly changing in order to stay relevant.

The first thing to note is that you need to distinguish between branding and marketing. Essentially, your messaging about your product or service and marketing is communicating that message to your audience. You have to create a strategy and work it. It could include any number of things including content marketing, print, online, digital, thought leadership and a host of others.

Don’t overdo it though. Have them say, “where is (insert name) as opposed to, there is (insert name).”

What are people saying about you when you are not in the room? The new room is digital!

TOP TIP:

Don’t look around at others and think that they have had overnight success or that their success is even real. Pay attention to you.

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How to Maximize Your “Press Pass” at Conferences & Events as an Entrepreneur, with Susan Young

Wed, 08 May 2019 05:00:55 +0000

Susan Young is an award-winning publicity strategist. Her online coaching programs teach entrepreneurs how to untangle their words and supercharge their content, credibility and community. Susan also manages Communication Nation on Facebook. Her favorite accomplishment: Being named one of the ’Top 75 Badass Women on Twitter.’(@sueyoungmedia).

Show Notes

Ever wondered how to get that coveted access to those high profile conference speakers? Susan Young has interviewed many – from homeless people to presidents throughout her media career. She has mastered the art of getting media attention.

How do you plan ahead to leverage your attendance at conferences? Make a strategy to reach out to speakers confidently.

“Today, every company has a press pass but many don’t know what to do with it. We have the power but we are just not using it,” says Susan.

A press pass is symbolic of having access to people and being able to talk to people. Everyone is a media company in our world today. We just need to think about ourselves that way and frame it likewise. “We now have the platform and whoever has the platform has the power.”

Mingle with global leaders

Be willing and confident to ask for what you want. Understand that you are a media company and that you have a press pass. You can connect with people when you are prepared. You are mingling on the same platform with global leaders and entrepreneurs. The playing field has been leveled and we need to leverage that.

Listen to this episode if you want to learn how to leverage social media to get your ‘press pass’.

TOP TIP:

Be willing and confident to ask for what you want. Understand that you are a media company and that you have a press pass.

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Resources Mentioned

Seth Godin

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Google Ads and What You Need to Know as an Entrepreneur, with Amy Hebdon

Tue, 30 Apr 2019 05:00:09 +0000

Amy Hebdon is the founder of Paid Search Magic, an agency that provides done-for-you paid search services and helps digital marketers and entrepreneurs become successful with Google Ads via coaching, consulting, audits, reporting and courses. She’s managed several hundred million dollars in spend, working with Fortune 50s and SMBs to grow their businesses using paid media.

Show Notes

Oh the conundrum of getting Google Ads right! When should we use it? What kind of budget do we need? Who is is for? How do we get it right? What is long tail keyword versus short tail keyword for example. So many questions and sometimes it appears, so little answers.

Well, let’s just say, the riddle has now been pieced together. Google Ads expert, Amy Hebdon, chatted with me to demystify it all.

Investing in Google Ads

The act of advertising using Google Ads is an investment. Therefore, it is critical that you understand what you are doing before you invest. It is important that you know how it works.

What is the problem that someone has that they are actually going to a search engine for?

The consideration for Google Ads isn’t ideal if you are thinking of creating awareness for your brand. It is more appropriate as a long term strategy to grow your business. If you are just starting out, you may not be ready for Google Ads. The reality is, it continues to get more expensive.

TOP TIP:

It is very important when you have been approached by an an agency or anyone trying to sell you digital marketing services to ask disconfirming questions. What are things that I need to know about why things might not work, for example.

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Leading With Creativity to Achieve Entrepreneurial Success, with James Taylor

Wed, 24 Apr 2019 05:00:19 +0000

James Taylor started his career managing high profile rock stars and is now an in-demand keynote speaker and internationally recognized leader in business creativity and innovation. For over 20 years, he has been advising CEO’s, entrepreneurs, educators, governments, leaders, writers and rockstars on how to build innovative organizations, unlock creative potential, and increase productivity.

Show Notes

Entrepreneurship and creativity go hand in hand. Not only does it take number-crunching skills and practicality important, one has to be creative in order to be successful.

James, who started out as a musician, shared great insight about creativity on this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast. This is what he travels the world to do, so what better person to look at this topic.

Creativity as a Team Sport

Creativity is a team sport which not only involve someone with a microphone in their hand or the CEO on the front cover of the magazine.

We are all born with unlimited creative potential. As we get older, it gets knock over because of societal rules.

In order to unlock creativity, see those rules as sign post but be willing to challenge them. To support his point about humans being creative vessels, James made mention of Elizabeth Gilbert’s book, Big Magic. Have a read if you can.

This episode is for you if you are struggling with too many creative ideas. James zoned in on how we can make a decision on which ones to keep and what to thrash. For example, making a decision to decipher which creative idea is valid is to examine it based on your top 5 values.

TOP TIP:

Instead of having mission statements into mission questions. What could I do today to become number 1?

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Incorporating Social Media into Your Traditional Sales Process, with Jack Kosakowski

Wed, 17 Apr 2019 05:00:01 +0000

Jack Kosakowski consults, trains, implements, and executes with some of the top b2b sales teams globally on how to integrate social media into the traditional sales process. He speaks at some of the largest sales, marketing, and leadership conferences globally and has been called the most passionate social selling evangelist in the field.

Show Notes

As an entrepreneur there is no go going around the fact that you must be involved in the sales process. You need to earn the right to other people’s time and money. Jack Kosakowski wanted to start selling a different way to have a more effective outcome.

People are all inundated with all sorts of requests. We must personalize the messages we send to them. Digital and social provides a more effective way of selling our services.

The more strategic you are with what you share online, the more ways you have to create conversation. Figure out where your audience lives and communicate with them there.

Look at your audience social media footprint to decipher where they spend the most of their time.

But how can we measure the impact of social selling? Document everything. Take your targeted accounts and identify what is happening with these accounts.

The bottom line is to get visible, valuable and connected.

Block off 10-15 minutes per day to genuinely connect on social media. Social shouldn’t just be a sales tool but part of your daily lifestyle Be intentional!

Listen to this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast for insights into how you can incorporate social media into your traditional sales process.

TOP TIP:

The bottom line is to get visible, valuable and connected.

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Implementing Big-Business Leadership in a Small Business, with Holly Green

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 00:00:21 +0000

Holly Green, an experienced business leader and behavioral scientist, she has a rare combination of extensive academic training and in-the-trenches experience working in and leading organizations. She has also worked with elite performers including the United States Navy Seals, Top Gun Fighter Pilots, Olympic athletes, senior NFL referees, the FBI Leadership Academy, and two United States Presidents. She has worked in senior leadership roles with global giants including The Coca Cola Company, Dell Computer, Deloitte, LLP, and Bass Hotels and Resorts.

Show Notes

Many small businesses fail simply because of ineffective leadership…how can we change this? I had a conversation with Holly Green to get a sense of effective strategies entrepreneurs can use to improve their leadership.

Effective leadership really start with defining, with specificity, what you and the team are working towards. This will team members to

Effective leadership requires the ability to communicate is a must. You must be able to keep people inspired to be in the race with you.

You must be able to define your goal and vision so that others can understand it. It cannot be a secret in your head, Holly says.

This episode is jam packed with good stuff on leadership and entrepreneurship.

TOP TIP:

You have to be specific on your goal so that you can minimize the misinterpretation of what is meant.

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Becoming a Master of Time: The Power of Delegating, with Greg Winteregg

Wed, 03 Apr 2019 00:00:04 +0000

Greg Winteregg, an internationally recognized lecturer, sales-trainer and management consultant who has spent the last 25 years specializing in working with small business owners across the US and Canada. Greg joins me to discuss the power of delegating and time management.

Show Notes

Can we really master time? My guest Greg Winteregg believes so. The number one factor in being effective with time is to DECIDE in minutes and then START. It is important to get moving on the decision that was made. This builds momentum.

Greg believes the number one thing to help you master time is to DELEGATE. In order to effectively delegate, you must have the requisite systems in place.

Listen to the episode if you want to avoid overwhelm and have time to do more creative activity.

TOP TIP:

Be happy when you find someone who can do something better than you. It gives you more time to scale faster.

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Crowdfunding: A Viable Alternative to Traditional Startup Funding, with Tom Ryan

Wed, 27 Mar 2019 00:00:20 +0000

Tom Ryan, General Partner at Start100. He is an experienced startup founder, investment professional, and distinguished coach and mentor to entrepreneurs worldwide. In addition to START100, Tom is currently an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Catawba Valley Community College and the founder of entrepreneurial support resource connectivity platform, supportedly.com. This episode is all about crowdfunding for your startup.

What is Crowdfunding?

Crowdfunding is raising small amounts of money from large amounts of people usually via the internet – in recent times has become a viable alternative for entrepreneurs to raise capital.

Crowdfunding has been able to provide market validation, serving as a great source of cash flow. It is quite a great opportunity to build market awareness.

Tom Ryan

My conversation with Tom Ryan on The Entrepreneurial You podcast on the topic of crowdfunding has been very enlightening. We talked about about its history, how to gather the crowd and even the types (equity based versus rewards based) of crowdfunding.

Crowdfunding Questions

What is crowdfunding and why should it be considered as a viable option for startup entrepreneurs to consider?
What is it about crowdfunding and when did start to take on a life of its own? What makes it attractive?
In order for a crowdfunding campaign to be successful, what are the things we need to consider?
Listen to this podcast episode to learn how crowdfunding can help you raise capital for your business.

TOP TIP:

Start to develop a clear and compelling story that will get people to want to support you then start with your close circle and go outwards.

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Business Research and the Entrepreneur, with Nitin Sharma

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 00:00:09 +0000

Nitin Sharma is a “big picture” oriented business strategist, with experience in market research, data analysis, statistics, project management and industry/market analysis in multiple sectors.

Show Notes

Ideas are a dime a dozen, it’s the execution that makes the difference. But where does the entrepreneur start?

In seeking to validate your idea, assessing the feasibility of its success, you must put effort and time in research.

You don’t need to hire large companies to do your research. You can start with Google. Sites such as answerthepublic.com is also another great source to find out what people asking to help guide your research.

This episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast with Nitin looks at the tactics and strategies to employ in doing research for your startup.

TOP TIP:

When doing your research for your startup, be laser-focused on what you want to find out.

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Strategies Really Successful People Use to Manage Their Time

Wed, 13 Mar 2019 00:00:58 +0000

Laura Vanderkam is an author of several time management books, including Off the Clock and 168 Hours. She blogs at lauravanderkam.com.

Show Notes

“Expectations are infinite; time is finite, you are always choosing, choose well” – Laura Vanderkam.

You are always choosing what to give your attention to. This conversation is sparked by Laura’s Ted Talk, “Proven Strategies Really Successful People Use to Manage Their Time” Can we really manage time or do we manage ourselves to manage time? It really is about taking a holistic view on time.

Do you have a grip on how you are managing your time? Effective time-management is about setting intentions about where you want to spend your time.

You need to figure out where our time is going. Once you’ve done that, evaluate to determine if it is taking you closer to where you want to be.

Laura and I covered a lot on this episode of The Entrepreneurial You. Some of the questions include:

What is effective time management?
Would you consider effective time management the foundation for success in business?
What about those who are great at what they do but can’t seem to get a handle on this time thing?
What’s the importance of effective time management?
Listen to this episode to learn how the really successful people manage their time.
I’d love to hear from you. Let me hear your time management strategies.

TOP TIP:

Try tracking your time for a week to see where your time is going. Make adjustments where necessary.

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Securing Funding for Women-Owned Startups

Wed, 06 Mar 2019 00:00:17 +0000

Dr. Roshawnna Novellus, the Founder and CEO of EnrichHER which is a financial technology platform fueling the growth of women-owned businesses. EnrichHER enables female founders to secure $30k-$70k of capital in an affordable way.

Show Notes

Women are the fastest group of entrepreneurs. The type and magnitude of funding doesn’t usually correspond to this growth.

Survey shows that less than 10% of ventured-back companies have women-owed companies. ErichHER, led by Dr. Roshwanna Novellus, was established to address this problem of securing funding for women led businesses. By supporting entrepreneurs as part of the entrepreneurial eco-system for women, this initiative provides everything that is needed for success.

Opportunity to Win

And success is what all startups want to have. Every startup must be given an equal opportunity to win from the get go.

In our conversation on The Entrepreneurial You podcast, we spoke about securing funding for women led businesses. Here are just some of the questions posed:

Is securing funding for startups any different for women and men?
What are some of the factors to consider?
Where to secure funding for women owned startups
Things to do when trying to secure funding for women owned businesses
What not to do when seeking funding

Listen to the episode to learn more about where you can go source funding as a woman-led startup.

TOP TIP:

Consider whether you have the right plan in place when seeking funding. Get money on your own terms.

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The Key to Innovative Business Ideas, with Pamela Wilson

Wed, 27 Feb 2019 00:00:38 +0000

Pamela is an award-winning designer and marketer, a keynote speaker, a three-time author, and the founder of BIG Brand System, where she helps people build online businesses they love.

Show Notes

Coming up with business ideas can be hard and executing on them is even harder. Pamela has an idea to help solve this problem. At first you may think she is referring to plants and flowers when you hear about cross-pollination. Listen more and you will realize that Pamela is actually talking about business and how to generate business ideas.

While you are in the process of trying to come up with business ideas, don’t limit yourself. Look in places that you would consider unlikely. For example if you are in the digital marketing space, think about attending an Agri Expo. Being in a new and different environment can help stimulate some innovative juices to flow.

Other tips include engaging in a mastermind which is made up practitioners from varying industries.

A few points made on how to cross-pollinate:

Look for love in all the wrong places
Keep the innovative ideas flowing
Small business, big ideas

If ever you find yourself struggling to generate winning business ideas, this episode will shed light on where to turn.

TOP TIP:

Be intentional about exposing yourself to new business ideas, as like food, variety is the spice of life.

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Pillars in Harnessing Freedom and Abundance for the Entrepreneur, with Caline Newton

Wed, 20 Feb 2019 00:00:02 +0000

Caline Newton is a teacher of financial literacy and empowerment and a personal financial analyst and strategist, delivering financial education through seminars, workshops, curricula, trainings and one-on-one coaching and mentoring since 2000. As a transformational leader, Caline’s purpose and passion is to serve by imparting the knowledge & wisdom to lead others into a wealth mindset to ultimately result in their financial freedom and financial legacy.

Show Notes:

What does it mean to live in total surrender? To live in freedom and abundance as an entrepreneur requires that we be still at times. Now the idea to hustle, hustle everyday and the phenomenon of team no sleep will eventually lead to burnout for you as an entrepreneur.

We need to tap into what is going on around without being controlled by it.

It is with this backdrop that Caline developed an initiative called “Live Life Free”. Built on the foundation of faith, she posits that family, finances, friendship and fitness. She has been delivering power packed sessions with globally recognized inspirational speaker, Lisa Nichols.

Listening to this episode will enlighten you on the things that really matter.

TOP TIP:

How you see things is how you are going to live life out. Your mindset is critical in living a life of wealth and abundance.

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Celebrating A Milestone: A Replay With Seth Godin

Wed, 13 Feb 2019 01:42:50 +0000

At the end of 2016 after completing 3 seasons of The Entrepreneurial You on Power 106 FM in Jamaica, from 2014-2016, I felt I needed more. And by more I mean I wanted to have a global impact. I wanted to serve not just people in Jamaica or even the Diaspora, but globally. For a long time this was my desire but whilst a little part of me knew it was possible – the how was another story.

So who would have thought? In March 2017 I changed from The Entrepreneurial You being a radio show to a podcast. Today we are 100 episodes in. My, how time flies.

Truth be told, I’ve seen podcasters in groups that I have been in boast about and celebrate getting to this milestone. I thought, oh well, it’s just another number. Oh boy, was I wrong! The feeling I have inside is hard to explain. Among other things, I feel joyful, accomplished and resilient.

Joyful because I have gotten the reviews from so many of you about the impact it has had on you and your life and that is enough to cause a gurl heart to tingle inside;

Accomplished because well, getting to this milestone takes hard work and dedication and I stuck with it;

Resilient because it took many a hours to get to the finished product – some of these hours no doubt could be spent doing other things but I wanted to create something of value for you.

Lessons: Don’t wait until you are perfect before you start…decide to start…start

You will agree that I have had some remarkable guests on this podcast. Based on your downloads, the top 10 episodes you listened are:

Top 10 Podcast Guests

15 – Lisa Rothstein

35 – Special edition with Richard Branson, Kirk-Anthony Hamilton, Amy Porterfield, Michael Oneal, Christmas Ducker and Malcolm MJ Harris

47 -John Vespassian

53 – Seth Godin

54 – Pamela Wagner

55 – Monique Russell

57 – Sumit Gulati

58 – Sandi Eveleth

59 – Travis Chappell

62 – Krystal Tomlinson

Seth Godin

The most listened to episode is with Seth Godin. And what better way to celebrate than to do a replay of our most listened to episode.

Top 10 Countries

The listenership spans close to 100 countries to date. The top 10 countries are USA, Jamaica, Japan, UK, India, Germany, France, Australia, Canada and the Netherlands. With the US having the most listenership.

From the depths of my heart I want to thank you. I pray that you will keep listening and sharing the episodes with your network.

As I continue to serve you, I am excited about my new website. At henekawatkisporter.com there are a myriad of ways in which I will inspire you to become the leader and entrepreneur that you are deep down. There are lots of tools and resources to help you level up.

TOP TIP:

Don’t wait until you are perfect before you start…decide to start…start

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Developing an Effective Content Marketing Strategy for Your Startup, with Joe Pulizzi

Wed, 06 Feb 2019 00:00:54 +0000

Joe Pulizzi is the founder of the Content Marketing Institute (CMI), the leading educational organization for content marketing, which hosts the largest physical content marketing event, Content Marketing World. Joe is a highly sought after public speaker and a 5x author, including Killing Marketing, Content Inc. and Epic Content Marketing, which was named a “Must-Read Business Book” by Fortune Magazine.

Show Notes:

Content Marketing

Content marketing is creating sharing relevant information online with your target market.

Engaging your audience with blog posts, videos, podcast, social media, etc is much more than just sharing content. This kind of marketing needs to be undergirded with a solid strategy for it to be effective. Only when your goals are clearly defined and initiatives taken for execution can the results be favourable.

Build a Fanbase

Let’s forget about the ‘build it and they will come’ philosophy. The first thing to consider is to build a fanbase around those who care about your messaging. Think about it from an entrepreneurial standpoint and become indispensable to that fanbase. Eventually you will be able to monetize by selling products and services because you now have persons who know, like and trust you.

You can build your entire business model off the back of an audience that cares about what you have to say.

In this episode of The Entrepreneurial You, Joe shares his expertise on developing an effective content marketing strategy.

TOP TIP:

Find the content tilt – that area on the web where there is little to no competition where you have the chance of being the leading expert and consistently deliver.

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Creating that Uber-Amazing Pitch Deck to Secure Investment for Your Startup, with Erik Vos

Wed, 30 Jan 2019 00:00:48 +0000

Erik Vos is a Pitch Deck Coach, 13x serial entrepreneur, author of 6 books translated in 21 languages and Speaker (8 languages in 91 countries).

Show Notes:

So you have a great business idea that will change the world. But there is one major problem; you are unable to finance it. You’ve been told that there are investors who will be interested in backing your business but you first need a pitch deck.

In this episode of The Entrepreneurial You, Pitch Deck Coach Erik provides great insight into what investors are looking for in order to support your idea with money and even their time.

Here are a few things to note for your success:

-Make your presentation short, sweet and to the point

-Answer the investor thinking of whether they will make money

-Answer the question of what problem is being solved.

-Delegate

TOP TIP:

Give your pitch deck for others to review and listen to the feedback.

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Financial Tips to Successfully Launching Your Startup, with Jared Latigo

Wed, 23 Jan 2019 00:00:10 +0000

Jared Latigo is a corporate change consultant. He provides in-person trainings for companies to help them build the best possible workplace. Jared teaches on soft-skill topics like The Entrepreneur Mindset, Financial Wellness and Lifestyle Alignment.

Show Notes:

Jared enrolled in the Dave Ramsey programme, downsized and did all that was necessary to get out of debt. Now he lives a debt-free life. While he may have decreased his physical, he has certainly increased his mental space. This for him is priceless.

In this episode of The Entrepreneurial You, Jared shares tips for you to successfully launch your startup and even beyond the startup phase.

Here are a few:

-Live within your means

-Make a budget and decide on your priorities

-Borrow only if you must

-Delegate

Listen to the episode to hear Jared’s complete list.

TOP TIP:

Do what matters! When you are focused on this it clarifies everything.

In our Ask Heneka segment, Joneil Alcok gets his questions answered…listen to the end to hear the response.

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Creating Your Checklist to Get the Most from Conferences & Seminars, with Dr. Will Moreland

Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:11:20 +0000

Dr. Will Moreland is a Global Leadership Expert. He is an Army Veteran turned bestselling author and award-winning Entrepreneur who travels extensively to train Fortune 500 Companies in the US, as well as International Companies. Dr. Will has committed his time to empower Leaders around the world to lead with character, integrity and compassion.

Show Notes:

With so many opportunities at our fingertips for learning these days, you might wonder whether there is a need to attend conferences and seminars. When you do, if you have to plan how you will spend your time whilst you are there lest you fall into an abyss of conference overwhelm.

Dr. will Moreland shares his checklist with us to make sure we select the ones that are aligned to our vision. Not only that, he provides some tips on maximizing our attendance even before we set foot in that conference room.

TOP TIP:

Be in the right mindset to be receptive to what opportunities are presented at the conferences of your choice.

Listen to this episode of The Entrepreneurial You to make your checklist as you contemplate your next conference.

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Strategies to help you Build the Perfect Financial Plan for Your Startup, with Jared Easley

Wed, 09 Jan 2019 14:16:28 +0000

Jared Easley, co-founder and co-organizer for Podcast Movement, the world’s largest international conference for the podcast industry is a traditionally published author. He is the host of the Starve the Doubts podcast which features conversations related to personal and professional development (interviews include great guests such as Simon Sinek, Gary Vaynerchuk and Seth Godin).

Show Notes:

In this episode of The Entrepreneurial You, Jared talks about how his crowdfunding campaign reached its goal in less than 1 day. As we discussed funding strategies for startups, he made some key points:

Not every path is the one that may be right for you
Be prudent in your spending
Set up guard rails in your business
Listen to podcasts, read books, speak to friends that have the experience you lack and get coaching
Rome wasn’t built in a day

Listen to this episode to get perspective on funding your startup.

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Pursuit of Happiness or Meaning: A New Way to Think About A Plan, with Raghava KK

Wed, 02 Jan 2019 00:00:52 +0000

Raghava has been named by CNN as one of the 10 most remarkable people in 2010, is a multidisciplinary artist and entrepreneur working at the intersection of art, science technology, and education. Raghava is a National Geographic Emerging Explorer and a multiple-time TED speaker.

Show Notes:

Happy New Year and welcome to the first episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast for 2019.

While many of us at most devise a 10 year plan, Raghava has established his 200-year plan because, rather than pursuing happiness, he is chasing meaning. A snippet from one of his Ted Talks says, “Netra (wife) and I don’t write our 200-year plan for someone else to come and execute it in 150 years…we actually write it only to set our attitudes right.”

Purpose of a Plan

Raghava describes a plan as a loose framework and attitude seeing the universe an intent. The purpose of a plan is that it forces you to articulate what success means to you. Interestingly, he believes you can only plan your attitude to what happens to you. Your attitude changes when you plan for 200 years. It becomes more about meaning than accomplishing something for yourself.

There are so many other great nuggets from this conversation with Raghava. As a listener, here a just a few:

-In the traditional way of thinking about a plan you chase happiness rather than chasing meaning

-Ideology is the opposite of pragmatism. You can use ideology as framework to live meaningfully in the moment. Intent + guide force

-Raghava belief system is based on:

Myth – something that you deeply believe in, a narrative;

Art – a symbol that you associate with the myth – design a space;

Ritual – how people behave on a daily basis with art; transformative storytelling

-We can eliminate our fear by helping others to remove their fears. Make sure your human capital is really solid

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Solo Episode Highlighting Highs, Lows and Lessons Learned in 2018, with Heneka Watkis-Porter

Wed, 26 Dec 2018 00:00:32 +0000

I am your Inspirational Leader, helping you to become a ‘Leader worth following’ via Leadercast Kingston and Leadercast Women. I am the Creator and Host of The Entrepreneurial You podcast, Author, Speaker and Entrepreneur.

Show Notes:

In this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast I go solo talking about the year I’ve had and a little of what to expect in the coming year. I have had so many wins and a few disappointments and I share some of those with you.

I spoke about my lows and highs and my lessons learned.

In 2019 you can look forward to a an improved website with improved blog focusing on topics that are important to entrepreneurs and leaders. The interviews will have more focused themes with actionable takeaways for you.

I am truly looking forward to 2019 and all its possibilities. How has 2018 been for you and what will you be doing in 2019? I’d love to hear from you.

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Blogging Basics for Beginners, with Leslie Samuel

Wed, 19 Dec 2018 00:00:32 +0000

Leslie Samuel is the creator of Become A Blogger and the host of the Blogging with Leslie podcast, where he teaches the craft of professional blogging. “Changing The World One Blog At A Time” is the mission he constantly strives towards. As the head of training for the Social Media Marketing Society, he helps to ensure that social media marketers get the training they need to stay on the leading edge of social media.

Show Notes:

In this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast my guest Leslie Samuel started a blog which landed him a job as a university Professor then subsequently left that job to do his blog full time. Leslie’s passion for teaching led him into the world of blogging and now he teaches others to create content with a global reach.

Among the things we spoke about are:
– The ways in which blogging is good for business;

– How you can generate money from a blog;

– How to optimize your blog for search engines;

Make it about providing value, making your personality shine through what you are doing is one of the tips Leslie shared when creating content.

If you’ve ever considered to start and grow a successful blog, this is for episode is you.

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Emotelligent Leadership, the Missing Link to Your Effectiveness as a Leader & Entrepreneur, with Kingsley Grant

Wed, 12 Dec 2018 00:00:31 +0000

Kingsley Grant is the founder of Kingspire Communications, a growth mindset company based in South Florida. He has taught 21st Century Leadership skills to Leaders and Business Owners and have consulted, coached and mentored high-performance professionals and executives; authored an Amazon #1 Best Selling book and is a contributing writer for platforms such as Huffington Post, Addicted 2 Success, Thrive Global and The Goodmen Project.

Show Notes:

In this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast my guest, Kingsley Grant goes in detail about Emotional Intelligence and how leaders can leverage it to be more effective.

So is Emoteligent Leadership taught or nurtured or is it an innate thing? Kingsley shared this startling statistic from a recent study, “85% of our financial success is due to skills and human engineering and the ability to communicate, negotiate and lead”. This means that majority of our success is due to nurture and not nature.

What is Emoteligent Leadership?

What is its impact on the bottom line, why should we care?

Where do leadership and management overlap?

These are just some of the questions I asked. Listen to the episode to inspire you to become a more emotionally intelligent leader.

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Entrepreneurial Success: What Does That Look Like? with Evan Carmichael

Wed, 05 Dec 2018 00:00:44 +0000

Evan Carmichael believes in entrepreneurs. At 19, he built then sold a biotech software company. At 22, he was a venture capitalist helping raise $500k to $15mil. He now runs the biggest YouTube channel for entrepreneurs with 1M+ subscribers. He’s the author of Your One Word, the powerful secret to building a life and business that matter and The Top 10 Rules for Success.

Show Notes:

“Your purpose comes from your pain; whatever you went through that was the most painful moment in your life, you want to make it easier for the people who come after you.” That’s how Evan Carmichael opens with his response to my question “What drives you?”

Evan believes true happiness comes from serving. The worst point his life drove him to serving others around the globe through entrepreneurship. Throughout the conversation, he cautions us to do what we do for the right reason.

When you can tie your purpose to the activities you enjoy doing throughout the day, that is purposeful. We need both passion and skill to succeed. That will help us to be consistent.

Among other things, we looked at the imposter syndrome and the ways in which it can limit us.
This episode is packed with nuggets, unpacking what success looks like. Tune in to learn more.

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Samuel The Stimulus: “How do you stay consistent?” – Listen to hear Evan’s response.

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Diversity & Inclusion in Entrepreneurship: Issues and Answers, with Simone Morris

Wed, 28 Nov 2018 00:00:45 +0000

Simone Morris is a Coach who has been recognized by Diversity Best Practices and Diversity MBA for her exceptional leadership skills as a Diversity Practitioner. She is the CEO of Simone Morris Enterprises LLC., a company whose focus is on inclusive leadership and women’s empowerment.

Show Notes:

“Diversity is being invited to the dance, and inclusion is being asked to dance” – Verna Myers.

Perhaps you’ve heard of the age old saying that there is unity in diversity. Well that is what my guest on this week’s episode of The Entrepreneurial You advocates for.

Are we being hypocritical when we talk about diversity?

Do we only speak of diversity when we are outside of the door?

What happens when we get on the inside, do we still advocate for the others who are not yet in?

When we talk of diversity, what are we really talking about?

How can we create a culture of inclusivity and acceptance for all?

Can diversity be measured?

Why should we care about diversity and inclusion?

What are some of the ways that inequity present itself?

Listen to this week’s episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast to hear Simone’s answers to these and other questions.

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Overcoming All Odds to Win at Life, with Jen Bricker

Wed, 21 Nov 2018 00:00:03 +0000

Jen Bricker is an extra-ordinary woman who, born without legs, her biological parents left her at the hospital. Always challenging herself, she transitioned into an accomplished acrobat and aerialist. Her incredible story has been featured on multiple shows, including HBO Real Sports, 20/20 and Good Morning America.

Show Notes:

Imagine being born without legs and left at the hospital perhaps to die but for the love of adopted parents who appreciated her and embed in her an ‘able-bodied’ mindset.

Jen was taught from an early age that she can accomplish whatever she put her mind to. She knew her birth was not a mistake, that she was born for a reason. As she got older, she understood it even more as she saw how her life was being used to help other people.

Always a social butterfly, she was never identified with ‘the girl that didn’t have legs’. It stopped her from doing nothing. In addition to her faith, family and friends, Jen had a great foundation, leading to a personality with resilience as a hallmark. A lot of Jen’s journey is documented in her book, “Everything is Possible”.

This amazing story will get you to shift your life’s perspective. You cannot listen to this episode of The Entrepreneurial You without a strong urge to develop a stronger positive mindset.

Audience Question

Marcia Brandon (Facebook): What is your WHY and from where do you draw your source of being?

Kevron Greatness Sutton Facebook: How do you maintain your happiness and joy?

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How to Overcome Challenges as a Woman Entrepreneur, with Georgina Terry, Brittany Rose, Jade Lee & Lisandra Rickards

Wed, 14 Nov 2018 00:00:25 +0000

Every November for 1 week, there are thousands of events and competitions in close to 200 countries to inspire millions to engage in entrepreneurial activity while connecting them to potential collaborators, mentors and even investors. This is to observe Global Entrepreneurship Week. I’ve reached out to 4 women entrepreneurs from 3 countries to share their challenges as women in business – Georgina Terry, Brittany Rose, Jade Lee & Lisandra Rickards.

Show Notes:

Imagine a conversation with 4 talented, successful and beautiful women on the subject of challenges that women are faced with as they set sail on the entrepreneurial vessel as it were.

With varying backgrounds and one major goal i.e. to make a positive impact in their country, they share with me through the lens of their first hand experience.

Georgina Terry: “I don’t see myself a woman entrepreneur therefore I don’t see myself through that lens”.
Jade Lee: “Being a women in business in Jamaica is a little bit unique. Jamaican men can be a little bit overpowering”.

Brittany Rose: “The same thing that is most challenging is also my biggest asset and that is my industry”.
Lisandra Rickards: “Women are taught culturally here not to be too loud or too brash. Extroverted women get bashed more than extroverted men”.

There is so much to learn from these women. Listen to this week’s edition of The Entrepreneurial You podcast for some hard facts and interesting perspective as they share their major challenges.

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Navigating the Ugly Truths About Being an Entrepreneur, with David Mullings

Wed, 07 Nov 2018 00:00:24 +0000

David Mullings is the Founder of a private investment firm, Blue Mahoe Partners and the Chief Money Officer of RunLive. He has worked in Corporate America, Corporate Jamaica, worked on a Presidential campaign, started multiple ventures, failed at a number of them, invested in companies, raised capital from investors and shared his lessons along the way.

Show Notes:

David parents had a great influence on him. His parents thought that David should understand business. He and his brother kept presenting business plans to his parents for a while before they were sold on the plan.

With his dad being a Doctor and his mom a Nurse, David wanted to venture into the medical field, eventually though he combined his love for Football and Media to create his first business.

After he created the largest platform of Caribbean music on the web, Reel Vibes – going on tour with top artistes like Sean Paul, partnering with MTV and YouTube and more – he had his first experience meeting ‘haters’ unbelievably from his home country.

Then an opportunity led to an over $10,000 automatic billing and Reel Vibes had to be shut down. @theentrepyou @davidmullings
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On this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast, David shares his high and low points. He guards against scaling too fast which can negatively impact your business.

Speaking of high point, David shares one of the most exciting news of this period in his business life. His latest venture, RunLive has been accepted into the Sports Accelerator, lead Sports.

Listen to another inspirational episode of The Entrepreneurial You about pitfalls to avoid as an entrepreneur.

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Money, Mission, Marketing: Strategies to Grow Your Business, with Shelagh Cummins

Wed, 31 Oct 2018 00:00:58 +0000

Shelagh Cummins is someone whose unique background in experiential education, combined with her corporate leadership training inspires her practical, hands-on approach to getting real results for her clients. Her ultimate mission is to show other women that it’s possible to build a profitable, sustainable business—without drowning in debt, forfeiting family time, or working in their sleep

Show Notes:

Shelagh turns theoretical material into content that will be useful and easy to implement. She is a self-described ‘recovering Teacher’ who knows the work of a teacher is never done so it is important to “turn off the light in the classroom at the end of the day” knowing that there is always ‘one more thing to do’.

In an entrepreneurial setting, your work is never done. Shelagh pointedly says, “There is always one more thing to do. How do I prioritize what actions I need to take throughout the day and how do I know when I’ve done enough and I can turn off the lights and step away and have a life?”

Focusing on Money, Mission and Marketing are keys to grow your business. What do you ned to do to secure that revenue? What is the mission of the business and how are you marketing your business to your target audience?

Listen to another informative episode of The Entrepreneurial You and learn the strategies that will grow your business without giving up the important things.

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Jo-Ann Richards on Facebook: What are your strategies for prioritizing? How do you decide what to do next? Tune in for the answer.

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What is Voice First and How to Leverage this Technology to “Crush It”, with Sigrun

Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:00:58 +0000

Sigrun Gudjonsdottir is a success strategist, storyteller, speaker and the host of the Sigrun Show podcast. She’s the creator of SOMBA, the MBA program for online entrepreneurs, and in only four years she built a multi 7 figure lifestyle business.

Show Notes:

“Fun people and a beautiful place”. That’s Sigrun’s idea of Jamaica. A very warm response to my ice-breaker I have to say.

Let’s move on.

Communication has got so much easier with the advent of improved technology. Customers love this because they want technology that will respond to their need for speed in an efficient way. As this dynamic improves, Voice will become synonymous with value. After reading Gary Vaynerchuk’s “Crushing It”, I was led to delve deeper into the.

In this week’s episode of The Entrepreneurial You Podcast, Sigrun talks a little about her entrepreneurial journey which includes 10 years as a CEO before she started her own business before delving into the topic of the day, “Voice First”.

Voice First is the future of devices. It accepts user input through voice commands. For example, if you have a mobile phone you can speak to Siri or Google and get quick results to your queries. But it goes way beyond your mobile phone. Any electrical piece of appliance may be enabled with Voice First technology in the future.

People are busy and that why as entrepreneurs we must pay attention to Voice First. @theentrepyou @sigruncom #voicefirst
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Listen to another informative episode and learn the ins and outs of Voice First including the difference between a ‘Briefing’ and a ‘Skill’. Learn about leveraging Voice First to help you to provide value add for your customers.

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That Number One Thing That New Entrepreneurs Must Focus on, with Brian Lofrumento

Wed, 17 Oct 2018 00:00:22 +0000

Brian Lofrumento is an entrepreneur, speaker and author whose businesses have reached over 3.5 million people around the world. He started his first business at the age of nineteen and since then, he has helped grow multiple six-figure businesses and teaches solo entrepreneurs how to exactly do that through his courses, programs, podcasts and retreats.

Show Notes:

“Focus on getting those sales because it is your obligation. If you have a product or service that helps people, it’s your obligation to sell it to people. To sell is to serve and that’s the only thing that’s going to grow your business”.

In this week’s episode of The Entrepreneurial You Podcast, Brian Lofrumento shares what he believes is the number one thing new entrepreneurs need to focus on in building their businesses.

Brian states that the absolute number one thing is getting customers and clients. Anything other than that is not actually growing your business. Especially when you’re just starting out, you need to be selling.
Selling is not sexy and that’s why we don’t talk about it much.

“Unless you are selling, you are literally not making money as an entrepreneur. So for particularly for newer entrepreneurs, it's all about focusing on sales.”
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Overcoming Adversities and Thriving Against All Odds, with Janice Sutherland

Wed, 10 Oct 2018 00:00:29 +0000

Janice Sutherland is the Caribbean’s top woman’s leadership development expert. Over the past twenty five years, she has held senior executive roles with prestigious multinationals and crossed continents to become the first female CEO for the Caribbean’s leading communications and entertainment provider.

Show Notes:

Adversities is something we all face whether professionally or personally. In this week’s episode of The Entrepreneurial You Podcast, Janice Sutherland shares her story of resilience and tenacity in overcoming adversity.

According to Janice, having resilience is a very underrated skill set. It is about bouncing back after facing challenges after challenges.

Janice recounts how knowing nothing could hold her down and that she had the power within herself to change her circumstances, accounts for the person she is today. According to her, “I have a choice; I can either…
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You can guess that she decided to ‘make it work.’

Janice’s experience from the corporate world to entrepreneurship has been an interesting one.

Listen to this inspiring episode and hear how Janice keeps motivated during adversities, her habits for success and path to self-discovery after seeking a life coach.

Audience Question

This week’s audience question comes from Janet Crick:
“How do you keep yourself motivated and keep going when everything around you seems to be going wrong?”
What do you think about Janice’s response?

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Start a Riot; Shift Your Mindset and Become a Person of Value, with Dr Taunya Lowe

Wed, 03 Oct 2018 00:00:56 +0000

Dr Taunya Lowe is known as the Riot Starter. She is an innovative, insightful change agent who understands the concepts of adding value to others. She is the founder and driving force behind the results-driven philosophy and the Riot Starter Movementwhich consists of programs, products, retreats and training.

Show Notes:

“Understanding it’s not all about you, actually, it’s not about you at all. You are the vehicle to deliver the service”. In order to win with others, we must be very aware of this fact, according to Dr. Taunya Lowe.

Start a Riot; Shift Your Mindset and Become a Person of Value, with Dr Taunya Lowe
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Dr. Lowe states: “whenever you want to do better, be better, grow better and change, you feel like you’re in a riot and many people feel that way because someone is telling them, ‘Don’t quit your job; don’t start a business; don’t go back to school; don’t go visit that different country; don’t join that organization”.

“These people are really not trying to stop you from growing. They feel like they’re trying to protect you and so for many, especially women, we do nothing and we die with our dreams, our hopes and our wishes inside of us”.

And so she says, “Start the riot anyway for your life, your business and your career but most importantly your legacy”.

Listen to this insightful episode and learn how to be of value to others and so much more.

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The Benefits of Hiring A Virtual Assistant For Your Startup, with Andrea Rozman

Wed, 26 Sep 2018 00:00:12 +0000

Andrea Rozman has been working in the virtual world supporting entrepreneurs, solopreneurs and small businesses for over ten years. She and her team of virtual assistants help relieve the stresses of business owners by doing all the odds and end tasks that need to get done so that owners can focus their attention on the big picture; growing their businesses.

Show Notes:

Who remembers the time when team members definitely had to be sitting in an office where their employers can see them? Now, we have drifted away from that in favour of a new paradigm.

Tasks are now being effectively executed with teams members that are remote – virtual assistants as we refer to them.

According to this week’s guest, Andrea Rozman, ‘The world changed and the way we do our work had to change with it’.

If you’ve ever considered having team members that work offsite, this week’s episode of The Entrepreneurial You Podcastwith Andrea Rozman is definitely for you.
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Andrea shares passionately about how a virtual assistant can help a business to grow, no matter the sector.

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How to Manage and Retain Your Organization’s Talent, with Mike Sipple Jr.

Wed, 19 Sep 2018 00:00:22 +0000

Mike Sipple Jr is president of Centennial which specializes in talent strategy and executive search. He’s also the founder and CEO of the Talent Magnet Institute and the host of the Talent Magnet Institute Podcast. He partners with leaders who have a strong desire to build the right team as they grow and transform their businesses.

Show Notes:

“There’s a lot of people working in environments that are toxic and [to] those listening, let’s not be one of those. Let’s lean in and really invest in our people in a way that brings out the best in them and brings out the best in the world around us”.

In this week’s episode of The Entrepreneurial You Podcast, Mike Sipple Jr talks about talent management strategy and finding the right people that augurs well for your business goals.
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Mike details the best practices to leading people, building a healthy organization and planning for the future. He believes it is important to put plans in place for your organization to reach its long term goals and the next chapter of success.

Listen to this week’s episode and hear more of Mike’s tips on managing talent as well as retaining them.

Audience Question
This week’s question comes from Kevron Greatness Sutton: “How much of a person’s talent should be considered when hiring?”

Listen to hear Mike’s response to this pointed question.

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Getting Measurable, Meaningful Results from Content & Digital Marketing, with Ian Cleary

Wed, 12 Sep 2018 00:00:32 +0000

Ian Cleary is the founder of the content marketing/ digital agency, Razor Social, which is one of the most popular marketing blogs globally. He is also the founder of the email outreach software, Outreach Plus, which helps companies drive more traffic & sales for their products and services through personalized email outreach. He is a regular keynote speaker and is a writer for Forbes.

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In this week’s episode of the Entrepreneurial You Podcast, Ian Cleary details digital and content marketing. According to Ian, content marketing is a very crucial part of digital marketing.

You must have valuable, useful content to share, to make a connection with your audience for better results.
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Tune in to hear how to leverage your business growth via content and digital marketing. Ian also shares insight on the Return on Investment possible when using these platforms as business growth strategies.

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Living from the Inside Out: the Key to a Fulfilled Life with Stephen Shedletzky

Wed, 05 Sep 2018 00:00:11 +0000

Stephen Shedletzky is head of Community and Communication at Simon Sinek. He started with Simon Sinek team in 2012 by answering fan email and now leads Community and Communications initiatives. He is committed to ensuring that team Simon Sinek and those they serve, live their why; their just cause from the inside out.

Show Notes:

Have you had any experiences of feeling unmotivated, uninspired, unfulfilled, disengaged in your career? Well, in this week’s episode of The Entrepreneurial You Podcast, Stephen Shedletzky, Head of Communications, Simon Sinek shares how discovering your why will lead to a more fulfilling life.

He describes our why as:

Our purpose, cause or belief.

Whether as an individual or an organization, the reason we exist and that each and every one of us has one.

Based on who we are. It’s our origin story so it’s those times in our lives from our earliest memory as a child up until the instances of times where we’ve been at our best and even the times where we’ve been most challenged. And in sharing those stories, those peak and valley stories, themes emerge and that is your why, that is your purpose.

Stephen also shares the two ingredients of our why, or a just cause – contribution and impact.
Contribution is the thing that we do, it’s our top strength. It’s the thing that we are world class at.

Our impact is what we care about creating. It is what we feel every human being deserves to experience and it is something we want for ourselves and everyone around us. Our impact is not something we could never achieve, it’s an aim which is why our why is infinite.

Listen to this week’s profound episode and also hear Stephen’s suggestions for the path to a fulfilled life. He also answers our audience question that came via Facebook.
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Joniel Jermaine Alcock: “What comes next after you have figured out your why, your purpose, your goals? In other words, the stages of turning that initial passion into an end result?

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Navigating Social Selling in a Socially Noisy World, with Neal Schaffer

Wed, 29 Aug 2018 00:00:37 +0000

Neal Schaffer is the leading authority on helping businesses through their digital transformation of sales and marketing. He does this through consulting, training and helping enterprises, large and small, develop and execute on social media marketing strategy, influence the marketing and social selling initiatives. He’s the author of three books on social media including Maximize your Social.

Show Notes:

“You should have a strategic approach to who you connect with, who you engage with and what sort of content you post. All that should be aligned with your social selling strategy”.

And in this week’s episode of the Entrepreneurial You Podcast, we discuss social selling with Neal Schaffer.
According to Neal, social selling is really about sales people that need to sell primarily to businesses that have larger organizations or have multiple people that decide on a purchase and how they can leverage social media, as part of their sales toolkit, throughout the sales process.

Compared to social media marketing, social selling is all about this one to one approach of using social media to directly engage, to create, to develop and to nurture relationships that lead to either new business or add on business and more loyalty with your customers over time, hence complementing one another.

Listen more to this week’s interesting episode to learn more about social selling including whether it can be measured or not, how we leverage it to reflect the evolving needs of customers and are there differences of its strategy across various cultures.

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Podcasting and Podguesting for Profit, with Millette Jones

Wed, 22 Aug 2018 00:00:01 +0000

Millette Jones is a coach, speaker and host of the Unstoppable Coach Podcast. She guides entrepreneurs on how to be recognized as experts in their fields and steadily grow their businesses by telling their unique stories on podcasts. She achieves this through her private coaching, online course, Podguesting for Profits and her new membership site, DIY Podguesting.

Show Notes:

In this week’s episode, we discuss a topic dear to us at the Entrepreneurial You Podcast, podcasting and the concept of being a guest on podcasts, otherwise known as podguesting, with podcast publicity coach Millette Jones.

The best way to start with leveraging interviews and being a guest on a podcast, according to Millette, is:

Start with a solid foundation. Have a good website that’s updated and contemporary. Also have consistent branding across all the different internet platforms and social media sites.
Go ahead and reach out to those podcasts hosts on social media and start making connections there because you never know where those connections will lead to down the road. We always want to be open to making connections in any way that we can as business people.
Go into iTunes and browse to the bottom for related podcast suggestions and reach out to the hosts of those podcasts.
Think of a peer in your industry and Google their name plus podcast interviews then approach the host of those podcasts to be a guest on their show.

Listen to this insightful episode of the Entrepreneurial You Podcast to hear more on this and Millette’s suggestions on how to effectively pitch to be a guest on a podcast.

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The New Measure of Success: Return on Relationship with Ted Rubin

Wed, 15 Aug 2018 00:00:03 +0000

Ted Rubin is a leading social marketing strategist, keynote speaker and co-founder of Prevailing Path. He is the author of Return on Relationship, How to Look People in the How to Look People in the Eye Digitally Digitally and The Age of Influence: Selling to the Digitally Connected Customer.

Show Notes:

“A network gives you reach and that’s great because you have to reach people in order to make friends, build relationships, have influence but a community gives you power. Network connects, communities care”.

Those are powerful words from this week’s guest, Ted Rubin, who was placed number 13 on Forbes’ Top Fifty Social Media Power Influencers and number two on the Leadtail List of top twenty- five people most mentioned by digital marketers.

Ted details his concept of Return on Relationship, RonR, which he describes as the value that is accrued by a person or a brand during nurturing a relationship.

Although there are some parallels with the term Return on Investment (ROI), which he describes as simple dollars and sense, very straightforward and incredibly easy to measure, RonR in comparison, is the value (both perceived and real) that will accrue over time through connection, loyalty, recommendations and sharing.

Ted’s work defines and educates companies, brands and people about the importance of creating authentic connection, interaction and engagement through the concept of RonR.

Listen to this week’s episode of the Entrepreneurial You Podcast, to hear more on the Return on Relationship and how Ted recommends effective engagement with others through social media.

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Leading with Authenticity in the Social Media Space, with Kim Garst

Wed, 08 Aug 2018 00:00:10 +0000

Kim Garst is one of the world’s most tweeted people among digital marketers. She is a renowned marketing strategist, keynote speaker and an internationally bestselling author of Will the Real You Please Stand Up: Show Up, Be Authentic and Prosper in Social Media. Forbes named her as one of the top ten social media power influencers. Her blog, kimgarst.com is one of the top social media resources in the world.

Show Notes:

A self-described accidental social media influencer and entrepreneur, Kim Garst struggled with authenticity when she focused on getting started in social media and trying to leverage the platform to attract people to her business over twenty five years ago. Like so many others, she stressed so much over what she should post and whether people would engage with.

However, one day she made the decision to step back and just focus on what she would say standing right in front of somebody she cared about and then her strategy of being authentic was created. She reminds us:
“Don’t get wrapped up in watching what everyone else is doing. Worry about what you are doing and how you can show up and what you bring to the table because that’s ultimately how you’re going to prosper at higher levels than you currently are”.

Listen to this week’s episode of the Entrepreneurial You Podcast to hear Kim Garst further detail her strategy of being authentic to prosper in social media and becoming an influencer in the space.

Related episode: The BARE Essentials of Leveraging Digital Marketing Platforms as a Business Growth Strategy

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Surviving the Sharks on NBC Shark Tank. One Caribbean Man’s Determination to Thrive, with Roberto Cabral

Wed, 01 Aug 2018 00:00:23 +0000

Roberto Cabral is the CEO and Founder of BenjiLock, the world’s first traditional, rechargeable padlock that was the CES 2017 Innovation Awards Honoree in the Smart Home product category. In 2017, he successfully pitched to the sharks on Shark Tank and successfully struck a deal with Mr. Wonderful, Kevin O’Leary.

Show Notes:

“In the end, it’s all about your gut. Whatever you’re doing in life, if your gut is telling you to do this or do that, probably go with what you feel instead of just listening to what other people are telling you what to do. If I went with what people were saying about the whole journey beyond Shark Tank, I probably would have quit already because a lot of people told me, you’re not going to make this or this is not going to work out, you’re not going anywhere or that’s a stupid idea…I kept going with my gut and my passion…in the end, your own gut and passion will tell you if it is going to work out or not”.

Those were some inspiring words from this week’s guest on the Entrepreneurial You Podcast, Roberto Cabral. He shares his inspiring entrepreneurial journey from being raised by his single mom in the Dominican Republic, forming a musical band and later moving to the United States with his band members to get a taste of the American Dream; to pursue music and get discovered.

Things did not work out and while the other band members went back home to the Dominican Republic, Roberto stayed in the United States. Find out how this jobless, married father of three was able to come up with the idea of BenjiLock while going to the gym at nights, and how trusting his gut feeling lead him to persevere and to be able to pitch his business successfully on the acclaimed Shark Tank.

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The BARE Essentials of Leveraging Digital Marketing Platforms as a Business Growth Strategy, with Rich Brooks

Wed, 25 Jul 2018 00:00:19 +0000

Rich Brooks is the Founder and President of flyte new media, a digital agency in Portland, Maine, that’s been around for over 20 years. He is a nationally recognized speaker on entrepreneurship, digital marketing, and social media. He is the “tech guru” on the evening news show, 207, which airs on the NBC affiliate in Maine.

Show Notes:

Who remembers back in the day when small business owners would just look through the Yellow Pages and cold-call other businesses in an attempt to pitch their services? That seems quite antiquated now with the advent of marketing that’s delivered either online or through a mobile device. And in this week’s episode of the Entrepreneurial You Podcast, Rich Brooks details digital marketing and its benefits compared to other means like cold-calling, printing newsletters and placing advertisements in print media. These benefits include being more cost effective, more trackable, easier to automate processes and easier to work with people remotely.

He also shares his concept of the BARE essentials of digital marketing;

Build: Building a business platform that you own, like a website, that you can send people to turn visitors and prospects into customers.

Attract: Attracting people to your business platform through search engine optimization, social media and digital advertising like Facebook ads, promoted pins on Pinterest, Google AdWords etc.

Retain: Retaining a relationship with people after they have left your business platform such as email marketing and retargeting advertising.

Evaluate: Evaluating analytical data gleaned through the use of tools, like Google Analytics, to understand how people found your website, what were the actions taken on the website and were they desired? Evaluating these analytics will give a better understanding of what parts of the marketing strategy is effective and the improvements needed.

You don’t want to miss it the response to this audience question!

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La Sra Mendez on Facebook: “With a tight economy, what can be done with the survival of a business and what are some of the factors that all businesses should always keep in mind in case of an economic collapse?”

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Purposeful, Principled & Passionate Leadership, with Alex Ihama

Wed, 18 Jul 2018 00:00:22 +0000

Alex Ihama is a certified speaking professional, management consultant, an executive coach and bestselling author. For over 2 decades, he has been instigating the transformation of people, organizations and even nations with his compelling life stories and thought-provoking experiences which he gained from critical roles in over a billion dollars’ worth of projects in 3 of Canada’s biggest banks.

Show Notes:

You’ve heard over again discussions about Entrepreneurship and Leadership. What is usually few and far in-between is the connection between the two, is a topic you rarely hear people talk about according to this week’s guest, Alex Ihama.

As a Certified Speaking Professional, Management Consultant, Executive Coach and Best-Selling Author, Alex has a wealth of knowledge and experience in both areas and has an appreciation for their interconnection.

Entrepreneurship, according to Alex, is the art of building a business interlinked with your purpose in life. Leadership, on the other hand, is the spirit ignited by your purpose, guided by your principles and sustained by your passion. Once you discover your purpose, the driving force behind entrepreneurship, you become a leader. He says, “The moment you say, I was born to do this, you are a leader of that”.

Listen to this week’s episode of the Entrepreneurial You Podcast to learn more about Alex’s views on entrepreneurship and leadership and why he believes that nothing is worth pursuing until you so much believe it’d be the best possible.

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Become An Accounting Savvy Entrepreneur, with Atiya Brown

Wed, 11 Jul 2018 00:00:13 +0000

Atiya Brown is an Accounting expert, The Savvy Accountant, CPA, CA, Certified Financial Educator Instructor and the creator of the Live Financially Savvy Podcast where she enlists the stories of experts and amazing individuals who are living their best financial lives. She is credited with increasing her own credit score by over 110 points in under 1 year and paying off approx. $32k in consumer debt.

Show Notes:

Stop robbing your future self, you deserve to live financially savvy.

One of the first steps to living financially savvy is to create your healthy money menu. On this episode of The Entrepreneurial You, Atiya Brown breaks it all down on how you can track your spending and more.
Listen to this episode of The Entrepreneurial you podcast for how you can become financially savvy and stay that way.

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Fashion, Entrepreneurship, Sustainability & Tech, with Lorraine Sanders

Wed, 04 Jul 2018 00:00:31 +0000

Lorraine Sanders is a media entrepreneur and podcast producer with a special interest in the intersection of fashion, entrepreneurship, sustainability and tech. It’s a space she coined FEST. She is the founder of the Spirit of 608 (www.spiritof608.com). In her former life as a journalist covering the business of fashion, her work appeared in Women’s Wear Daily, San Francisco Chronicle, FastCompany.com, etc.

Show Notes:

“They’re so many different ways that you can approach sustainability.” We zone in on some of these ways.
Though nothing can be considered 100% sustainability because the fashion industry hasn’t quite found out to get rid of waste, we cannot discount that attempts are being made to get as close as is humanly possible.
Listen to this episode of The Entrepreneurial you podcast for more on the business of fashion and being ethical while at it.

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Relax! Take A Break And Improve Your Performance, with Nadia Gibbs

Wed, 27 Jun 2018 00:00:22 +0000

Nadia Gibbs has worked in the hotel industry for twenty-four (24) years, gaining valuable experience and exposure to a vibrant and, ever changing industry. She believes in high standards, resourcefulness, production, resolutions, and is result oriented, executing her role with determination. She is the Operations Manager at Couples Sans Souci Resort in Ocho Rios, Jamaica.

Show Notes:

“Empower those around you so that you can allow yourself space and time to go on breaks…when you are able to relax and to get away from it all you are able to think quicker…your creative juices flow a lot better when you are not as exhausted. The rejuvenation process helps with, not just your work life but your personal life.” This is the essence of what Nadia Gibbs, Operations Manager at Couples Sans Souci, and I spoke about on this episode of The Entrepreneurial You.

But that is easier said than done. Taking breaks from our daily routines can be a challenge. At the end of this episode, you’ll be compelled to do just that. The imagery created by Nadia about the place she spends most of her waking hours is enough to do just that. The hospitality at Couples Sans Souci in Ocho Rios Jamaica awaits to welcome you – and Nadia made sure she let it known.

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Accelerate Your Business with Brand Photography, with Meredith Davis

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 00:00:16 +0000

Meredith Davis is a multi-passionate entrepreneur with a single focus on helping women grow personally and professionally. Through branding photography, business mentoring, her podcast The Merrily Show, and hosting networking events in Atlanta, her business Merrily Creative Company helps female entrepreneurs grow their business and gain confidence and clarity while doing so.

Show Notes:

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then leveraging images in growing your brand is priceless. That’s the sentiments expressed in this podcast episode of The Entrepreneurial You by Meredith Davis. Merging her love for branding and photography, Meredith is making brands stand out through the lens of the camera.

Speaking of picture, I totally loved the picturesque view that I had whilst I was at Couples San Souci in Ocho Rios, Jamaica recording podcast episodes.

Anyway, as Meredith pointed out, there is stock photography that you can pay for but know that 4,000 other people are also using those photos. That is why she encourages growing your brand via custom photography that speaks the language of your brand.

The challenge in branding is to figure out who we are speaking to and what story we are telling. “Clients who come to me are self-aware enough about their business; they are to a point where they know they need something more than what they’ve been able to do for themselves.”

When you have consistency and professional imagery, it creates credibility – and brand photography creates the opportunity for this credibility to be created.

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Developing Systems and Processes to Grow and Scale Your Business, with Kate Erickson

Wed, 13 Jun 2018 00:00:26 +0000

Kate Erickson is an engager and implementer over at Entrepreneurs On Fire, an award winning podcast where John Lee Dumas interviews inspiring Entrepreneurs every Monday and drops value bombs every Thursday. She is also the host of the podcast Kate’s Take and co-author of The Podcast Journal: Idea to Launch in 50 Days. She is passionate about helping entrepreneurs create freedom in their business and life through developing systems and processes that can help their business scale and grow.

Show Notes:

It can be overwhelming just thinking about getting all the things on our ‘to-do’ list done on a daily basis, let alone actually doing them.

In this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast that was recorded at Couples San Souci in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, I spoke with Kate Erickson about systemizing businesses to scale and grow (see below to access special discounts being offered by Couples Resorts).

Kate, the systems ‘boss lady’, quickly pointed out that “it is a beautiful thing about setting up systems in business to give you freedom.” And freedom is what we can all do with more of. Her simple 4-part strategy which you can implement right away will take the pain out of developing those well needed systems in our businesses and life in general.

Take inventory in your business by writing down everything you do in a day
Write the steps for each activity
Look at steps and find efficiencies to identify what you can automate, delegate and batch
Document what the processes are having done steps 1-3.

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Examining The Geo-Spatial Eco-System, with Valrie Grant

Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00:55 +0000

Valrie Grant is the founder and Managing Director of GeoTechVision and Executive Chairman of Marlie Technology Park Ltd. As an Entrepreneur, she has received several recognitions and awards including most recently, The Leader Worth Following Award from Leadercast Kingston, 2018 in association with Jamaica Chamber of Commerce.

Show Notes:

In this current age, geospatial technology comprises a broad range of tools including map making, Geographical Information Systems software for data analysis, remote sensing imagery Global Position Systems, and Internet mapping applications such as Google Earth and satellites for precise location and positioning.

Operating in a male dominated space within the sphere of geospatial technology, Founder and Managing Director of GeoTechVision, Valrie Grant, is a shining example for entrepreneurs within the region particularly, women entrepreneurs. As she blazes the trail in the area of what we can dub the 4^th industrial revolution, the first woman in the region to operate within this space is not comfortable with just being the ‘first’. She is hell bent on making her indelible mark.

In a podcast interview for The Entrepreneurial You, Valrie said geospatial technology is “all about location, being an element of everything that we do…most of the problems that we will ever face have a geographical component…it is a cross-cutting piece of technology or solutions affecting many areas of our lives without us knowing it”.

A Geologist by training, Valrie accidentally got involved in geospatial technologies by the advice of a friend. Since then she has been in the industry for about 18 years now.

Her latest project is the Marlie Technology Park. She describes this as that which is shaping a smarter future. The well-manicured, gated 68-acre property is well-manicured and smacked in Old Harbour surrounded by the beautiful mountain range. “An innovative new force in the Caribbean, a true tech park in every sense of the word. I have a vision to transform the park into a world class environmentally responsible tech park that will drive regional growth and innovation”, Valrie says.

With partners including Google and IBM, the Marlie Technology Park will be retrofitted to have, among other things, 3,000 Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) seats; 2,000 seat Conference Hall; light manufacturing including assembling Geo-tablets in Jamaica; a Boutique hotel, Tech Adventure Park featuring Virtual and Augmented Reality innovations; Women in Tech Centre.

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Your Business Structure, The Law and You, with Marlon Hill

Wed, 30 May 2018 00:00:43 +0000

Marlon Hill is a partner in Hamilton, Miller & Birthisel Miami office. He is an experienced corporate, intellectual property and government transactions lawyer of over 22 years in an array of areas. He has been featured in the Daily Business Review as one of the “outstanding members of the emerging generation of South Florida business and professional leaders.”

Show Notes:

Believe me when I say our interview wasn’t about stewed peas, the ubiquitous meal on every Jamaican menu. But I couldn’t help but salivate as I listened to my guest, Marlon Hill, speak so passionately about the meal, complimented with a slice of pear and fried ripe plantains to accompany such delight.
Anyhoo, let’s talk about the meat of the matter, no pun intended.

Marlon is a son of the Jamaican soil who is shining his light to the world from the platform that he has been given. Now based in the US, this Attorney is practicing law in a variety of areas. In addition to that, providing great leadership as part of the body of the Jamaican Diaspora.

In looking at the law and you as a business person, there are some poignant questions that need to be asked, Marlon says. These include:

What is the business environment that you are operating in?

Are there any legal obstacles that the government has set up?

What do you have to go through to get this business set up?

What is the structure of your business?

We also touched on the ever important matter of intellectual property and the steps to consider in ensuring its protection.

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Year of Discipline: 4 Truths To Be Guided By, with Krystal Tomlinson

Wed, 23 May 2018 00:00:53 +0000

Krystal Tomlinson is a Communications Consultant, Internationally Ranked Speaker, Digital Brand Management Coach and Social Researcher. She is one of the most requested speakers in Jamaica, host of an internationally syndicated television show – Nyammings – and is passionately in love with music, Jamaican cuisine and her spouse, Moses aka Beenie Man.

Show Notes:

“It is never a dull moment dating Beenie Man”, this Krystal revealed after I got nosy and went all up in her business. After all, she is dating the King of the Dancehall so I was naturally curious about what it is like to be with the internationally acclaimed Jamaican icon.

But certainly, that isn’t the most notably thing about this 27-year-old Brand Management Coach (among other things). Krystal is all about self-management and she shared lots of insight with me on this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast.

Krystal highlighted 4 truths to be guided by to lead yourself:

Mindset: Life must be assessed from a position of abundance, not scarcity.
Approach: Focus on the essential and you will find joy. Chase all and you will remain unfulfilled.
Success: Do not be defined by your failures or your successes. Be defined by your potential to create and grow.
Fear: Fear is a self-imposed person that keeps you far away from growth and achievement. You must kill fear before it kills you.

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Don’t Quit Your Full-time Job, Become a 10% Entrepreneur, with Patrick J McGinnis

Wed, 16 May 2018 00:00:50 +0000

Patrick J McGinnis is a venture capitalist and private equity investor who has invested in leading companies in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. He is also the author of the international bestseller The 10% Entrepreneur, a guide to becoming an entrepreneur without quitting your day job, (Penguin Portfolio 2016). He is credited by Boston Magazine with coining the term “FOMO” or “fear of missing out.”

Show Notes:

“Before you quit your job and jump in full time try it on the side first and see what you think. People who start a business on the side are going to be about statistically 50% more likely to succeed.”

As I spoke to the 10% Entrepreneur author, Patrick J McGinnis, it became translucently clear that the regular run of the mill business advise that you generally hear, to make that 100% dive into your business, was never going to hold much weight during our conversation on this recent episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast.

Patrick encourages those with ideas to become a 10% entrepreneur. He says “a 10% entrepreneur is someone who invests at least 10% of their time and if possible 10% of their money in entrepreneurial ventures while keeping their day job.”

He shares 5 reasons not to be become a full-time entrepreneur:

You never know when you are going to get paid
It can ruin your finances, it is difficult to generate cash flow in the early days
You’re abandoning status and affirmation
You may not have the right idea yet
Failure sucks, it is hard to deal with

And we couldn’t have this conversation and not address Patrick’s word FOMO: “The Fear of Mission Out” – a term associated with social media. More than half the people who use social media have FOMO.
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Why You Need To Invest In A Coach to Grow Your Business, with Royce Gomez

Wed, 09 May 2018 00:00:55 +0000

Royce Gomez is a recognized as a leading authority for coaching and training entrepreneurs and executives. She has been published in the Huffington Post, Unlimited Woman, Charity Magazine, and is co-author of The Stories and Daily Habits of Highly Successful Women and international best seller Discover Your Destiny, Live Your Dreams, Love Your Life. She effectively helps business owners develop strategies, their personal brand, and marketing initiatives to take their business to the next level of success.

Show Notes:

“Stay on the court and know that you and your business are important enough to get back up; experience the failure but don’t let it stop you”. I’m sure you’d agree with me that this is some sound advice coming from Business Coach, Royce Gomez, on this recent episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast.

Royce is a magnet for people going through struggles, she herself, is no stranger to difficult times. Having re-invented herself about 5 times, she coaches women who are in transition and want to be successful in their lives as well as start-up entrepreneurs who need business advice and strategic planning or marketing.
One of the interesting things Royce pointed out is that “there is a difference when you find value in your information and begin charging for it.”

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How to Network in Facebook Groups Without Being that ‘One’ Person, with Travis Chappell

Wed, 02 May 2018 00:00:31 +0000

Travis Chappell is a direct sales expert who has built teams for several sales organizations over a few different industries and is also active in the real estate market. More recently he decided to pursue his passion of helping others and founded Build Your Network, a podcast dedicated to helping professionals grow their inner circle.

Show Notes:

“Imagine going to your Facebook profile timeline and thinking If I were a person who has never met me before, does this look good enough for me to continue connecting with me?” This is a powerful introspective question posed by Theological student turned Direct Sales Expert and podcaster, Travis Chappell, on this recent episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast.

There are so many ways to leverage Facebook to grow your business. There is much power in free marketing. Many people are stretching their budget for Facebook ads. It makes more sense to spend more time on Facebook than more money. The way to do that is through Facebook groups. Write a list of persons you want to connect with and join about 5-10 groups where these people are.

You are encouraged to look at your own profile and come at it from a totally different angle and approach. Include one little phrase to state what you do in your business to help people. Make sure your website is there. Make it look professional as a billboard from your business.

These were just a few of the practical tips share by Travis. Listen to the episode for more.

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Website Optimization to Attract Your Ideal Clients, with Dr. Sandi Eveleth

Tue, 24 Apr 2018 00:00:13 +0000

Sandi Eveleth is a Digital Marketing Strategist, Business Development Consultant, and WordPress Consultant. Sandi founded KISS your Web, LLC in 2009 as a web design and digital marketing firm after owning successful optometric practices for 19 years. She holds a Doctor of Optometry degree and a Bachelor of Science degree and is also a WP Elevation Certified Digital Business Consultant.

Show Notes:

“The first thing you need to know is what your ideal client typically types into Google…make sure you put those words on your website.” This strong piece of advice comes from Digital Marketing Strategist, Dr. Sandi Eleveth.

“It is becoming more important to have a website that is optimized so that others can find you on the internet, and that they know what you are selling and what action to take when the go to your website”, she added further. Getting to know who your ideal customers are is necessary to optimize your website to serve them.

It is important to know that Google is the number 1 search engine and Youtube is the second, which is also owned by Google.

Dr. Sandi explained that having a WordPress website makes it a lot easier for someone who has never done website design. WordPress is being used by about 25% of the websites around the world.

It is alarming to see so many businesses listing information about themselves on their sites. Dr. Sandi insisted that the ‘About Page’ should also include information about your ideal client. You have to write your content answering the client’s question of ‘What’s in it for me?”

Knowing whether your website indexed so that bots can find it is key. It is very important to get your content out there. She stated convincingly, “Consistency is Queen if content is King.” Dr. Sandi shared many tips to help you optimize your website including:

*Start creating videos and posting to your YouTube channel
*Do live streams
*Make sure that there is an obvious call to action
*Optimize the images that you add to the website

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Leveraging Microsoft Excel for Optimal Productivity & Performance, with Sumit Gulati

Tue, 17 Apr 2018 00:00:20 +0000

Sumit Gulati has an MBA in Finance and more than 10 years’ experience in industry and academics. He is the author of the book on Financial Management published by one of the leading academic publishers, McGraw Hill Education.

Show Notes:

Who remembers Lotus 1-2-3? If you are under 35 perhaps your first reaction is ‘huh?’ Fast forward to 2018 and the only spreadsheet tool you know might be Microsoft Excel.

“If you look around, almost every company in the world will be using Excel at some point in time” says Sumit Gulati. Merging his love for finance and Excel, this extremely knowledgeable Author and business owner shares how we can leverage this Microsoft tool to generate growth.

“Data is coming from everywhere. We need to put it in structured formats so that information can be had from it. This is the age of data. When you swipe a credit card or got to any shop, data is collected…Excel helps a lot in data analysis; it is about getting the specific questions for specific situations answered. The decision making becomes interesting and truthful…Excel provides you with unique features and built in functions that allows you to do a lot of work in a very simple way. It has huge capabilities of creating charts and graphs. We can create templates according to our requirement. Everything can be changed and made dynamic.”

This is just a snippet of what Sumit shares on The Entrepreneurial You podcast. Listen to the episode to learn more of how you can leverage Miscrosoft Excel for optimal performance.

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Rising Beyond Racial Discrimination and other Challenges and Paying It Forward, with Nathaniel Peat

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 00:00:15 +0000

Nathaniel Peat is A Multi-Award-Winning Entrepreneur, International Speaker, Business Coach, Engineer, Youth Advocate, Pilot and man of many talents and achievements. He is the co-founder of Gennex a fledgling solar energy company which operates in Africa, UK and the Caribbean. He is also the founder of Multi Award winning enterprise The Safety Box. He is currently listed on the 2017 Black Power List and 2017 Financial Times 100 Ethnic Minority Power List measure across U.K., Ireland and the USA.

Show Notes:

“The greatest significance is found through service.” These are not just words but the very mantra on which Nathaniel Peat lives his life.

As a black child, Nathaniel faced racial prejudice, violence and other issues could have easily waned his need to achieve. Wanting to become a pilot – without the required grades – it was sheer determination and drive that has enabled him to be the person he is today. He has learnt that when someone says no, you have to go above, beyond and around it to get ahead.

A recent conversation with Nathaniel on The Entrepreneurial You podcast reveals a lot about this Tedx Speaker. Today Nathaniel is on a mission to rid the world of energy poverty through his socially responsible commercial business venture, Gennex. Representing a both a beginning and a break-through, he is teaching people how to build their own power, literally and figuratively speaking. Issues such as respiratory problems caused by indoor cooking has caused Nathaniel to act, to create change and to “Profit with purpose’.

Nathaniel believes “it is a great feeling to move from a position of poverty to that of plenty…but it is not about affluence but influence.” His primary motivation is to fulfil his purpose, and to leave a legacy behind. When he was young the head of the Physics department gave him an opportunity. He believes that he has the responsibility to pay it forward.

“People have the ability to connect with their destiny. It is not knife and guns that kill people but mindsets.”

In his closing remarks, Nathaniel entreats us to “don’t think about competing, think like an eagle and dominate.”

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Regaining Your Confidence, and Leading with Emotional Intelligence, with Monique Russell

Wed, 04 Apr 2018 00:00:09 +0000

Monique Russell is the managing partner of Clear Communication Solutions LLC, a communications coaching and consulting firm focused on helping women leaders go from good to great as confident communicators. As a certified DiSC trainer and Professional Coach with graduate degrees in Communications, she helps leaders strengthen their personal and professional relationships by using practical tools to harness their emotional intelligence.

Show Notes:

“No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.” -Theodore Roosevelt. Implicit in this statement is the idea that emotional intelligence is a necessary trait for anyone with leadership aspirations. Further, it is said, Intelligence Quotient gets you hired but Emotional Quotient (EQ) gets you promoted.

As someone who, over a series of events, had lost her confidence, Leadercast Host Site Leader, Monique Russell is now on a path to help others regain their self-belief through a series of experiences by practicing tools to harness emotional intelligence. In a recent episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast, Monique shares her journey of accomplishment and how to leverage emotional intelligence to lead effectively.

Moniqe shares Myles Munroe 5 questions that motivates the human heart:

1.Who am I?
2.Where am I from?
3.What can I do?
4.Who can I serve?
5.Where am I going?

“When you align with your strengths and get clear on it, doors will open”, Monique went on before touching on an important quadrant that we need to be aware of in the Emotional Intelligence conversation.

Identify what is happening 2. Self-regulation 3. Social awareness 4. Relationship management

In my quest to delve deeply into what emotional intelligence is and how to get there, I was put in the hot seat as Monique illustrated the power of reflection.

“Emotional Intelligence is being able to identify what your body is doing at the first sign of stress…Take that data and apply it to make your relationships more productive…How is your behavior affecting others around you?”

“As you aim to work up the Emotional Intelligence continuum, working with a coach who is dedicated to see you get from good to great is a great way to start…Another effective tool is the power of reflection – review, repair and release. It is important to focus on what is bringing joy instead of putting fires out.”
“Identify key points within projects and figure out when did I operate in a spirt of excellence, Monique suggests.” These are just a few of the pointers Monique gave.

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Google Ads, Visualization and More with Forbes 30 Under 30 Honouree, Pamela Wagner

Wed, 28 Mar 2018 00:00:12 +0000

Pamela Wagner heads Ajala Digital, a global boutique marketing agency focused on Google and Facebook advertising for businesses. Her travels to 70 countries have given her a better understanding of people around the world. In 2017, she was honored as one of Forbes 30 Under 30 list makers for Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. She has been featured on media outlets such as ABC News, Yahoo, Mashable, MSN, the Washington Times, and more, and now on The Entrepreneurial You podcast.

Show Notes:

One of the best ways to connect and build rapport with people of other cultures is to speak their language. Pamela Wagner, who speaks several languages including German, English, Spanish, Russian, Swahili, Mandarin and more, shares her inspiring story on this episode of The Entrepreneurial You Podcast. “It allows me to connect with others and get a better view of the world other than that which is presented on TV”, Pamela mused.

As someone who was bullied a lot in High School and never had friends until university years, Pamela also shared about carefully selecting her friends. She is intent on protecting her space. “Surround yourself with people that support you in everything you do”, is what Pamela recommends.
She highlighted that meditation and visualizing whatever you want is important. Pamela had a goal to be recognized as a Forbes 30 under 30 and it was actualized after visualizing her picture in the Forbes Magazine.

In addition to being a globe-trotter and being proficient in several languages, Pamela is a young, accomplished entrepreneur. We also talked digital marketing.

Interestingly, if nailing Google Ads were walks in the parks, marketers would have no problem increasing their return on investment. Instead, it takes a lot of work, says this Digital Marketer and Forbes 30 Under 30 Awardee Pamela Wagner.

In this episode of The Entrepreneurial You Podcast, Pamela made it clear that “Google Ads takes a lot of time to figure out”. You must be very clear on your brand message for it to work. Be sure that it is adding value to your marketing mix. “Anybody can sign up and create their own ads but it is not for everybody”, she says.

Listen to the podcast to learn more about Pamela’s journey, Google Ads and more.

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Episode 053 – Generating & Spreading Your Ideas and Leadership, with Seth Godin

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 00:00:42 +0000

Seth Godin is the author of 18 books that have been bestsellers around the world and have been translated into more than 35 languages. He’s also the founder of the altMBA and The Marketing Seminar, online workshops that have transformed thousands of people. He writes about the post-industrial revolution, the way ideas spread, marketing, quitting, leadership and most of all, changing everything. You might be familiar with his books Linchpin, Tribes, The Dip and Purple Cow.

Show Notes:

On this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast, I spoke with Seth Godin on matters of idea generation, leadership and his best-selling book, ‘Purple Cow’.

On the matter of leadership, he made it clear that “The time to start becoming a leader, is not the day you have a job or you have people reporting to you – that’s the day you become a manager.”

Manager and leaders are not one and the same. “managers have a job to get people to do things faster and cheaper than they did it yesterday. Without managers, we wouldn’t have cars, etc. Leaders point out where we might go next. Leaders inspire where we want to go.”

“The job of a leader is to be wrong on her way to being right. There are so few leaders because we’ve been taught in school to do well on the test, to do well in school, to be managed and to be and a manager.”

Main Take-Aways:

People don’t want what you want, they don’t see what you see. If you can’t accept that it is going to be very difficult to lead.
Choosing to be a leader means choosing to be wrong, often wrong because leaders are doing something that there is no guarantee will work.
Paint a picture of where you want to go and describe that picture in a way that makes others want to go there with you.

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Change the Way You See the World with Some Fur Coated Wisdom with, Gila Kurtz

Wed, 14 Mar 2018 00:00:15 +0000

Gila is a successful serial entrepreneur who found her deepest passion in working with dogs and their people. She co-founded and co-owns Dog is Good, an award-winning lifestyle brand for dog lovers. Gila has turned her love for dogs into a 7 figure a year business by growing revenues through wholesale to retailers, online e-commerce, and licensing to other manufacturers. She is the author of Fur Covered Wisdom…A Dog Can Change the Way You See the World.

Show Notes:

To break the ice, I asked Gila “If someone made a movie of your life would it be a drama, a comedy, a romantic-comedy, action film, or science fiction?”

Her response, “That’s a great question. I’m going to have to say Action Film because I’m always on the go and am an active person”. Sounds a bit like me, I must say.

We went on to talking about the Dog business, ‘Life Is Good’ and the inspiration behind it.
Some questions I asked Gila throughout the interview are:

What is ‘Dog is Good’?
When did the business begin?
What inspired you to start your dog business?
What has the journey been like since you started?
What are some of the questions that must be answered when you are thinking of collaborating with another entrepreneur?
What are some of the lessons that a dog can actually teach us?
How did you accomplish being in the top 25 women in the pet industry?
What advice can you give to those wanting to become entrepreneurs?

Main Take-Aways:

When you are chasing a dream, a vision, you go at it with a level of energy that drive yourself every day, because you expect to get there.
When a student is ready to learn, the teacher will appear. They are so many lessons dogs provide us on a regular basis.
It is important to be able to compartmentalize your life to make the right decisions as it relates to business, personal and other areas of your life.

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Grateful People are Happier, Healthier and Nicer to be Around; Gratitude Strategies for Employee Engagement with, Lisa Ryan

Wed, 07 Mar 2018 00:00:14 +0000

Lisa is an award-winning speaker who draws upon her 20-plus years of sales, marketing, and training experience to deliver business- and career-changing strategies and inspiration to her audiences. She is the best-selling author of eight books and a featured expert in two films, The Keeper of the Keys, with Jack Canfield of “Chicken Soup for the Soul” fame, and The Gratitude Experiment. She’s been featured on Wall Street Select, NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox and more…

Show Notes:

To break the ice, I asked Lisa “Would you rather be the most popular or the smartest person you know?”
Her response, “Oh man, I’d rather be the most popular.” Of course, a little vanity never hurts. We went on to talking about some of the ways we can improve employee engagement by expressing gratitude.

Some questions I asked Lisa throughout the interview are:

What is the concept of ‘Grategy’?
What role does gratitude play in our success?
Why was there the need to start Grategy?
What is the importance of having gratitude?
What are some of the simple ways we can express gratitude to our team members?

Main Take-Aways:

When you force yourself to look for the good, you can always find it. Start where you are and start focusing on the good. That’s when the magic happens.
Out of a dark situation can come a bright light. We need to be grateful in every situation.
It is scientifically proven that grateful people are healthier, happier and generally nicer to be around. It makes a difference when we show gratitude.

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Top 3 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make Even Before They Start Business with, Jack HM Wong

Wed, 28 Feb 2018 00:00:49 +0000

Jack is a serial entrepreneur, a business strategist with more than 23 years of international tax experience, a sales and marketing expert with over 20 years of under fire experience in sales, and an international speaker sharing his entrepreneurial messages in 4 out of 5 continents in the world. He is the author of Amazon bestselling book Cracking the Entrepreneur Code: 7 Tips to Build the Business You Always Wanted. He has been featured on CBS News, Fox, ABC News and NBC News.

Show Notes:

To break the ice, I asked Jack, “When you were little, who was your favorite superhero and why?”

He responded, “My superhero is a controversial figure; Mr. Donald Trump who is now the US President. Right before he became the US President, as written in my book, how I started my entrepreneurial journey has to do with him. I have been following ‘The Apprentice’ for a long time. His no-nonsense business strategies and how he picks himself up from bankruptcy, etc. I have learnt a lot from him.”

We went on to talking about some mistakes made by people before they even start creating their businesses.

Some questions I asked Jack throughout the interview are:

How did you get started in business?
What did you do when you decided to start your own business?
What is your book, ‘Cracking the Entrepreneur Code” about?
What are the top 3 mistakes made by people before they even start creating their businesses?
Share your strategy/formula for identifying passion…

Main Take-Aways:

Having no job means you have the choice of creating your future. You can control your destiny.
Commitment leads to confidence which leads to competence
The culture of going to school, study hard and get good grades so you can land a good job, then retire and enjoy the rest of your life – is a very traditional mindset.

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Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization with the Coolest Guy in SEO, Kris Reid

Wed, 21 Feb 2018 00:00:26 +0000

Kris Reid started out as a software engineer and worked for a variety of companies before he took a break from the corporate world to backpack and find his passion. Ardor SEO is the ultimate multi-national backlink building company that helps businesses achieve success in their respective niches by using the most innovative methods of marketing online, including search engine optimisation, search engine ranking and link building.

Show Notes:

To break the ice, I asked Kris, “If you were running for office what would your campaign slogan be?”
He responded, “My digital marketing name is the coolest guy in SEO so I’d go with the coolest guy in government.”

We went on to demystify the matter of Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

Some questions I asked Kris throughout the interview are:

Your journey from being an Engineer to working in SEO
What is SEO, Search Engine Marketing (SEM)?
Which is better, SEO or SEM?
The fundamentals of how Google works re algorithm, etc.?
Keywords and link building strategies
What is a backlink and the importance of it?
How do we build a strategy to add great content to our website?
Best practices to optimize our website

Main Take-Aways:

A back link is a page link from one website to another. The more you have them from good quality websites, the better.
Every website should use Google Analytics so you can see what people are doing on your website, where they are bouncing, etc. It is FREE.
Every time you put out content you need to ask, what is the point of it. You should have a strong call to action that links in to what your objective.

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Bringing a Spiritual Approach to Business, Finding the Path That’s Right For You, with Daniel Goodenough

Wed, 14 Feb 2018 00:00:59 +0000

Daniel Goodenough is the author of the recently released book, The Caravan of Remembering, A Roadmap for Experiencing the Awakening of Your Life’s Mission. He is the Co-founder of The Way of the Heart, an international program of self-development. He is also a business coach, helping successful businesses to run on spiritual principles.

Show Notes:

To break the ice, I asked Daniel, if he were a fish, what kind of fish would he be.

He responded, “I guess a dolphin isn’t a fish. The level of consciousness that whales and dolphins demonstrate is what I’m going for. Since they never really sleep; the ability to be awake would be the principle behind that choice.”

We talked about finding the authentic path that’s right for you.

Some questions I asked Daniel throughout the interview are:

What do we mean when we speak of spirituality?
What does spirituality have to do with business?
What is the typically the response to the question of “Why am I here?”
What is the best way to tap into our talents and desires to create a life of meaning and authenticity?
How can spiritual principles be used in business to create an environment of success, growth and fulfillment for not just the business owner but for the employee as well?
How can we live in a way that is fulfilling to ourselves and serve the world at the same time?
What would you say to those who are having a challenge being in touch with spirit, living a life on auto-pilot, mechanical way?
How much do the opinions of others matter in one’s quest for finding their life’s path or how much should it matter?

Main Take-Aways:

Spiritually address the issues of ultimate concerns – the source of your decisions. What are you basing your decision on about the day to day things in life on?
If you hold your attention to your intention you can become skilled at what you were called to be.
If the service you are employed in is deeply connected to why you are here, and what’s that calling you to do, then the by-product of that is you feel fulfilled and you will be happy.

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The Law of Attraction, SMART Goals and Other Business Practices Questioned, with John Vespasian

Wed, 07 Feb 2018 00:00:03 +0000

John Vespasian is the author of eight books about rational living, including “When Everything Fails, Try This” (2009), “Rationality Is the Way to Happiness” (2009) and “The Philosophy of Builders: How to Build a Great Future with the Pieces from Your Past” (2010).

Show Notes:

To break the ice, I asked John, whether he’d rather skip Christmas for a year, or skip your birthday for a year.

He responded, “Skip my birthday for a year. I love to get together with family and friends at Christmas.”
We talked about rational behavior, discussed the SMART goal way of planning, and more.
Some questions I asked John throughout the interview are:

How do you define rational behaviour?
Why are you fascinated with rational behaviour?
What do you think about the five second rule of executing an idea?
Are you debunking the law of attraction theory and setting SMART goals?
What’s your inspiration for writing on rational living?
Rationality is the Way to happiness: What do you your readers to know when they read this book?
How does the thinking of rational living apply to entrepreneurs?
What final piece of advice do you have for entrepreneurs and prospective entrepreneurs regarding rational living?

Main Take-Aways:

It is important to have a rational approach to your business and life.
Doing things without thinking them through can be very dangerous and detrimental to your finances, health and mental balance.
It is super important to consider the market you are operating in and to try to avoid wishful thinking.

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Reclaim Your Mojo, Have the Courage to Create Your Great Work and Boost Your Creativity, with Leslie Nolan

Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:51 +0000

Leslie Nolan is an entrepreneur, visionary artist & motivational speaker. She works with creative entrepreneurs who have lost their mojo and inspirational vision and helps them reclaim their power so they can find the courage to create their Great Work. She is a Contemporary Symbolist, whose visionary paintings have been showcased at The United Nations World Conference for Women Against Violence.

Show Notes:

To break the ice, I asked Leslie, whether she’d rather live under water and swim with the fish, or be able to travel through space and touch the stars.

Her response, “That’s so funny because I already feel like I’ve traveled to space and touched the stars and I live very close to the ocean and can swim with the fish. I’m deeply cosmic and as deep as the ocean so I will say both.”

We talked about the creative vision, some practices to get your mojo back and more.

Some questions I asked throughout the interview are:

What would you describe as mojo?
What are some of the things that can cause you to lose your mojo?
How would you describe mojo in relation to those persons who are not as passionate and driven by nature?
What are some of the practices that you do to encourage getting back your mojo?
What do you mean by the courage to create great work?
What are some of the tips you can offer to foster creativity?

Main Take-Aways:

Sometimes we just need to slow down a little bit, re-center, re-group and be able to have a practice where you can regularly go and touch back within yourself and think whether something is working. If not, ask, how can I shift it at this point in my life.
It is very important to take care of yourself, scheduling that time is key. Making sure you are working out, eating properly, giving yourself that time to be creative.
There is something about tapping into your creativity, going into that place deep within, that it enlightens the mind. It helps you to problem-solve and see things differently.

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Pay Attention to Your Money and More – Expertise Advice on Cash Flow Management, with Chris Miles

Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:00:09 +0000

Chris Miles is the “Cash Flow Expert” and “financial advocate for the entrepreneur”. He is a leading authority, teaching entrepreneurs and professionals how to quickly free up and create cash flow TODAY spending time doing what they love most! He’s an author and podcast host of the Chris Miles Money Show that’s been featured in US News, CNN Money, Entrepreneur on Fire.

Show Notes:

To break the ice, I asked Chris, whether he’d rather swim in a pool filled with Kool-Aid, or go ice skating on a mountain of frozen lemonade.

His response, “Lemonade. There is something gross about getting Kool Aid up in your nose. At least with lemonade, it may seem that you may have peed your pants.”

Our conversation was based on all cash flow and how to increase it.

Some questions I asked throughout the interview are:

You have a high reputation for getting your clients fast, life altering results, how did that happen?
When was that aha moment that people can’t save their way to wealth?
Tips to manage cash flow
Break down the difference between profit and cash flow
What are some of the ways to manage cash flow?
The importance of break-even point for a business?

Main Take-Aways:

You want to find out what is actually working on your business. If you are going to invest in something and have a good return on your money, you want to focus on the outcome.
Pay attention to the money you are making. Whatever you focus on, expands and grows. Whatever you ignore, will shrink and decay.
Make sure whatever you are investing in, it is something that is applicable for you and your business right now – not someday in the future.

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All You Need to Know About Augmented and Virtual Reality for Entrepreneurs, with Steven Aukstakalnis

Tue, 16 Jan 2018 00:00:02 +0000

Steven Aukstakalnis is an author, research scientist, instructor, and consultant to government and industry in the area of Augmented and Virtual Reality. For more than 20 years, his work has focused on the application of head-mounted displays, 3D sound, and tactile feedback devices in such areas as architecture, defense, oceanography, medicine, and entertainment.

Show Notes:

To break the ice, I asked Steven, whether he’d rather have a real transformer car, or have a space shuttle in his backyard.

His response, “I’d rather have the space shuttle.”

Our conversation was based on all things augmented and virtual reality.

Some questions I asked throughout the interview are:

What is augmented reality & virtual reality and the difference between the two?
How have they been used in entrepreneurship?
How expensive is this technology to implement?
Why should I use AR/VR to expand my brand?
What are some of the common mistakes that advertisers are making?
How long have both forms of technologies been around?
What are some of the side effects that are associated with virtual reality?
What are we going to be coming with next?

Main Take-Aways:

Virtual reality is a completely computer generated replacement to your true visual and audio surroundings.
There are a number of companies that are starting to incorporate these technologies either in promotion of their products or work or as part of their products.
The scientific literature shows that women of Asian descent are far more susceptible to motion sickness than for instance women in North America or the Caribbean.

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Knowing Your Cost Drivers, Balancing the Equation and Staying Profitable, with Ruth King

Tue, 09 Jan 2018 00:00:29 +0000

Ruth King is the Profitability Master, Founder and CEO of Profitability Revolution Paradigm. She is also President of Business Ventures Corporation. She has a passion for helping small businesses get and stay profitable. Her #1 Best Selling book, The Courage to be Profitable, explains how to get and stay profitable in less than 30 minutes a month – in English rather than accounting babble.

Show Notes:

To break the ice, I asked Ruth, whether she’d rather have many acquaintances and no friends, or have only one or two close friends?

Her response, “One or two close friends.”

We went on to talk about what every entrepreneur needs to have more of, profit, profit ad more profit.

Some questions I asked throughout the interview are:

How did it all start for you as the profitability master?
What are the things we need to be looking out for in balancing the equation of profit and cost?
What are some considerations business owners need to be making in order to grasp accounting?
What’s the reason businesses fail to make profit?
What’s one of the biggest cost driver in a business?
Why would a once profitable business start to experience decline in profit?

Main Take-Aways:

Understand that financials are not hard. accounting was developed around the 1300s and there were no calculators back then and it was easy.
If you are getting bored with your business, it will decline because you are not paying attention.
Get your financial statements every month; get a profit and loss statement and balance sheet. Get tutored on it, read a book, go to a class.

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How to Handle Dilemmas Without Losing Your Cool, with Rosalinda Randall

Tue, 02 Jan 2018 00:00:16 +0000

Rosalinda Randall Helps Businesses and Individuals find success through better Communication and Social Skills. She focuses on communicating and interacting more effectively and with a lot less drama. She frequently appears on television and radio programs in the United States and publications such as Forbes, Business Insider, HARDI Magazine, The Muse, and Fast Company.

Show Notes:

To break the ice, I asked Rosalinda, whether she’d rather visit the doctor or the dentist.

Her response, “The dentist. I love going to the dentist. I always make my appointment before the 6 months.”

We went on to talking about business etiquette and how to remain calm in unpleasant situations.

Some questions we discussed throughout the interview are:

Why do we need to care about handling dilemmas?
How important is cultural consideration when doing business internationally?
Are we being discourteous if we decide to ‘unfriend’ someone who make offensive posts on their timeline?
Do I have to shake hands with someone who has just wiped their nose? How can I decline that?
What are some of the most common rude behaviors?
How do we handle things that we are uncomfortable with?
What kind of strategy would you recommend to someone who doesn’t seem to be able to find the time to respond to emails?

Main Take-Aways:

As a society, we come up with what’s acceptable and what’s not. It varies across countries and cultures around the world. It is our responsibility to find out what the culture is.
If someone from another country is seeking my business, it is their duty to find out about the top 10 things that the United States frown up. Being considerate and aware of other’s feeling is important.
We don’t have to attack, defend, prove everything that comes our way. That takes away from our energy from doing good.

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Building a Culture of Innovation, Moving Ideas From the Conference Room to Execution with Tamara Kleinberg

Wed, 27 Dec 2017 00:00:19 +0000

Tamara Kleingberg is the founder of LaunchStreet, the online innovation program and community and creator of the proprietary Innovation Quotient Edge, the only assessment able to help you discover your unique Innovator Archetype so you can innovate on demand. She has been featured in INC Magazine, New York Times, TODAY Show, radio and podcasts across the globe.

Show Notes:

To break the ice, I asked Tamara, whether she’d rather be an apple or a banana?

Her response, “Oh my gosh. I would rather be an apple, I love apples. I don’t think there is anything better than biting into a crisp apple”.

Tamara told me all about innovation and how to execute on ideas succesfully.

Some questions we discussed throughout the interview are:

What is the greatest barrier to innovation?

When you say innovation what are you actually talking about?

Why do most ideas die before leaving the conference room?

What is the innovation quotient edge and how can we use it to get results?

What’s the one thing I can do right now to up my innovation quotient?

What are those innovation killers for individuals and organizations?

Main Take-Aways:

When you unleash innovation on a regular basis, it makes it easier for you on the back end. If you think about all those struggles, challenges that keep coming back – most likely it’s because you’re just churning through it with the same type of solutions.
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All You Need to Know About Writing Your First Book in 3-Days, with Kim Lambert

Wed, 20 Dec 2017 00:00:23 +0000

Kim Lambert is a multi-award winning author of more than 30 books as herself and under pen names for her fiction, (more than 20 times Amazon number one category bestseller). She is the creator of the ‘Business Book Quick Start Kit’, the ‘Product Creation Launchpad’ course and the ‘Zero to Book’ three day writing intensive workshop.

Show Notes:

I asked Kim an ice-breaker question, whether she’d rather make headlines for saving somebody’s life or winning a Nobel Prize?

Her response, “I’m not sure I care about making headlines at all. It would depend on what I was getting the Nobel prize for, maybe it is something that would save millions of lives”.

Kim and I spoke about getting published in the 21^st century and the tools to writing a book in 3 days.

Some questions we discussed throughout the interview are:

How did you get started in writing and publishing?

What did you write about in your first publication?

Why was her first piece selected for publication?

Are you more comfortable writing fiction or non-fiction more?

Why is it the best time now to write a book?

What is it about a book is written that makes the reader wants to take action?

Is it possible to write a book in 3 days or less?

Main Take-Aways:

To get published all you need to do is to make a decision to do so – all the tools available make it easy to do so.
If someone has to choose between you and two competitors who do something similar, they are going to choose the person who writes the book on it. Now is the best time to do it.
The most important thing in telling your story is that you tell it all. All the bad bits as well as the good bits. When you tell your story with all the bad bits, people can relate and they begin to connect with you.

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Having a Strong Positive Mind-Set and Investing in the Stock Market, with Anmol Singh

Wed, 13 Dec 2017 00:00:46 +0000

Anmol Singh started trading during his early college years without much luck. After a year or so he discovered a pattern that allowed him to go from 0 to a profitable trader. He is also an avid real estate investor with a large portfolio and has funded two other tech based companies. He now spends most of his day managing funds and working with students of Live Traders which he co-founded in 2014.

Show Notes:

I asked Anmol an ice-breaker question, whether he’d rather always be cold or always be hot. He responded, “I’d much rather be cold than hot…. but I would like to be in Jamaica”.

Anmol and I spoke about all things investing in stocks.

Some questions asked throughout the interview:

What are stocks and how are they valued?

What are the different types of stocks that you’re engaged with?

Why should entrepreneurs choose stocks as an option to invest?

On average, what is the rate of return vis-a-vis money in the market?

What are some of risks associated with stocks?

What piece of advice do you have for the risk averse?

Where do you gather your data from?

How does time affect trading?

How do you determine whether to go long term or day trading?

Losers and winners, what does that mean?

What piece of advice you can share as it relates to stock?

Main Take-Aways:

Stock is an investment into a company. It is mainly a reflection into how a company is doing.
History has shown if you are investing in the stock market long term and has the patience to hold on, then it gets the best return and you can compound your money many times over.
You have to be mentally strong as a person to trade in the stock market or even being in entrepreneurship in general. You need to have a strong mindset of success.

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How to Evolve into an Unstoppable Leader – A Look at Work-Life Balance, with Terry Wildemann

Wed, 06 Dec 2017 00:00:47 +0000

Terry Wildemann guides entrepreneurs and intuitive leaders to business success by helping them spring back from the brink of burnout. Her Shiftology™ business and leadership systems offer leaders solutions to tap into their “Inner Business Game” to discover and implement untapped strategies and actionable ideas.

Show Notes:

I asked Terry an ice-breaker question, whether she’s ever locked herself out of the house. Her response, “Oh yes! And I’ve climbed in through my share of Windows”.

Terry and I went on to talk about intuitive leadership and explored the myth of work-life balance.

Some questions I asked Terry:

Definition of work life balance

What to do when you feel like you’ve lost control of your life?

How should we deal with guilt about neglecting your different roles?

Intuitive leadership and the shiftology technique, what’s that?

Main Take-Aways:

Work-life-balance is a myth. The goal is to integrate both and make them parts of our lives.
When we acknowledge our emotions, and tune in to how our body feels, our intuition increase.
In a place of listening where you can go inside and tap into those intuitive places, that is what balance is about.

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Overcoming Bitterness, Healing Through Forgiveness And, Living From A Place of Gratitude, with Carolyn Jones

Wed, 29 Nov 2017 00:00:28 +0000

Carolyn is a Forgiveness Guide and Coach, Award-winning Author, and Speaker. At fifty-eight, she overcame the anger and bitterness she’d lived with her entire adult life when she discovered forgiveness and gratitude.

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Show Notes:

I always like to start things off on a light note. I asked Carolyn, “Would you rather be three inches taller or three inches shorter?”

Here response, “I wondered what the world looks like from a higher height. I’m rather short so I would like to be 3 inches taller.”

Then I jumped into the issue of forgiveness. Here are some of the questions I asked Carolyn.

How did you grow up?

How did that cause you feel when you were going through that?

How did you make the transition into who you are today?

You found a way to forgive your parents, how did that happen?

How can forgiveness help us to live our best lives as entrepreneurs?

Forgiveness becomes easier when we become grateful and come from a place of gratitude…why is it important to practice gratitude?

How often do you find that people put on a front?

How can we take small steps in forgiving ourselves and those who would have wounded us in the past?

Main Take-Aways:

Forgiveness doesn’t mean that you condone what the offender has done.
Being grateful creates more abundance.
When you decide to forgive, you make a decision to hurt and suffer less.

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Collaborating for Success, with Richard Branson, Amy Porterfield, Kirk-Anthony Hamilton, Chris Ducker, Michael O’Neal & Malcolm MJ Harris

Wed, 15 Nov 2017 00:00:17 +0000

Every November for 1 week, there are thousands of events and competitions in close to 200 countries to inspire millions to engage in entrepreneurial activity while connecting them to potential collaborators, mentors and even investors. In 2017, the week is observed during November 13-19. I’ve reached out to 6 global entrepreneurs to share their thoughts on collaborating for success. They are Richard Branson, Amy Porterfield, Kirk Anthony Hamilton, Chris Ducker, Michael O’neal and Malcolm MJ Harris.

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Show Notes:

Richard Branson, Virgin Group

-To execute an idea, you need to be a leader of people.
-Lots of people have the same idea, it is about how you execute that’s critical.
-Can you motivate, inspire and bring out the best in people?
-I’d much rather invest in someone that is good with people.
-What we need in life are people who look for the best in people.
-It is not easy to be an entrepreneur.

Chris Ducker, Youpreneur

-Nobody’s got a monopoly on good ideas, it all comes down to the people you surround yourself with.
-Be you all the time, it is the easiest thing to do. You are unique. An original is always worth more than a copy.
-People are either going to love you or hate you and that’s fine. Stay away from the messy middle.
-If there is a problem, fix it right there and then
-Relationships are something to be treasured and not to be used.
-Spend time with people, they want to know that you give a damn.

Malcolm MJ Harris, National Care Financial

-If you are not collaborating within your business then your business is probably about to die out.
-One thing no one can do better than me is to put in the work.
-I am not a passive CEO, I make sure I am the hardest working person within my company.
-Do you want all of a grape or do you want half of a watermelon?
-If you look at all the great businesses, they are the by-product of collaboration.
-You shouldn’t be talking to anyone about your business unless they sign an NDA.
-Finding a competitor who can complement what you are doing is ideal.

Michael O’Neal, Solopreneur

-If there is a universal law across the most successful people that I’ve spoken to, it’s that relationships have built their businesses.
-You must walk into a conference with a plan and a strategy to build relationship with people you meet at conferences.
-You must go into a conference with an intention; follow up after.
-A consistent meet up is one of the best things you can do for your business.
-Have a weekly happy hour to network with others to make the connections you want.

Amy Porterfield, Online Marketing Expert

-I’m looking to see if they (prospective partners) are attracting a similar type of audience.
-Collaboration has built my brand, put my name out there and grow my business.
-I’m a huge fan of collaboration.
-You would be amazed how much bigger of an audience you can attract by collaborating with people whom you wouldn’t normally get in front of their audience.
-With social media, it is getting harder to be seen and cut through the noise.
-Collaborating with the right people gets you in front the right audience.
-I’m looking to see if their (partners) style of marketing is in line with my style and for integrity.
-I’m attracted to people that will share the good with the bad, the wounds and the challenges as well as the wins; I want to hear the grittiness.

Kirk-Anthony Hamilton, Tech Beach Retreat

-It is extremely valuable to entrepreneurs to have the right connections and the right relationships to progress their goals a lot quicker.
-I set out on a path to try and connect with some of the best in the world; I’ve been fortunate to spend a lot of time in global communities.
-People run the world; it all comes down to who you know and the relationships you have; Most challenges are solved through who you know.
-The term entrepreneur is about those who want to maintain an open mind.
-I don’t call it networking. I am more into relationship building. Networking has become a transactional term.
-It is not about networking, it is about access.
-It’s way more about how you connect with people and the memorable impression that you leave than the quantity of hands that you shake and the amount of business cards that you distribute.

Main Take-Aways:

Relationships are something to be treasured and not to be used
If you are not collaborating within your business then your business is probably about to die out
You must walk into a conference with a plan, strategy to build relationship with people you meet at conferences
Collaborating with the right people gets you in front the right audience
It is extremely valuable to entrepreneurs to have the right connections and the right relationships to progress their goals a lot quicker.
To execute an idea, you need to be a leader of people.

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034 – Let Go of Baggage; Become Empowered by Developing A Strong Spiritual Belief, with Leslie Karen Hammond

Wed, 08 Nov 2017 00:00:30 +0000

Leslie is the Empowering Story Whisperer, an Internationally Known Spiritual Teacher, Guided Meditation Master, International Speaker and 3 times Author. She helps people create empowering stories to live and love by.

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Show Notes:

Here’s how I started out the conversation with Leslie, would you rather not hear or not see?
Just as I thought, she responded, “I would be fine not seeing because I see a lot with my eyes closed.”
Here are some of the things we spoke about…

What does letting go of baggage have to do with entrepreneurship?

What do we need to let go of baggage?

How do spiritually driven entrepreneur move past these fear for example the fear of failing?

What does it mean to live a spiritual life?

Why does every story matter?

Why are so many people afraid of telling their story?

For persons facing fear because of trauma, how can they open their hearts again to let it all out and be ok with being vulnerable?

Main Take-Aways:

Don’t allow the fear of being judged prevent you from sharing your story.
Whatever issues of the past we are dealing with affect how we show up to those we serve.
Having a strong spiritual belief can assist you in taking risks.

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033 – Niching Down, Systemizing Your Business And Developing A Plan To Generate Leads, with Kay Sanders

Wed, 01 Nov 2017 00:00:26 +0000

Kay Sanders is a United States of America nationally-recognized Business Coach and Consultant and Bestselling Author. Her specialty is helping coaches, consultants, and other service professionals, to Grow their businesses with the right Systems and Strategies to put their sales and lead generation on autopilot. She has been featured on CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX and other media outlets and she truly believes that everyone, not only deserves, but also has the ability, to live a fulfilling life full of success and achievements.

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Show Notes:

I love to start things on a light note, giving my guests a chance to relax a bit. This conversation started off exactly the same way.

I asked of Kay, “Would you rather go with television or fast food for the rest of your life?”
She retorted, “All that fast food is bad for you. I need my TV, that’s my relaxer.”

I then moved on to talk making money with an awesome guest. Some of the questions I asked:

How do you help your clients make money?

What are some of the questions that we need to be asking in order to land or ideal clients because that’s what we all want?

What are some of the considerations that we need to be thinking about when we’re developing content, how do we go about developing the content that is right for those that we’re targeting?

Let’s turn our attention to making sense of those tools that are necessary for systemizing our business – how are supposed to maneuver them?

Your final thoughts on systemizing your business by setting it an autopilot to make that money?

Main Take-Aways:

Running a business online is about tweaking and testing until you find a system that works for you.
Find your ideal client and build a strategy around them to generate leads and sales.
Decide how often you will release content and stick to it.

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032 – Making Great Decision In Perfect Timing Doing The Things You Enjoy, with Paul O’Brien

Wed, 25 Oct 2017 00:00:17 +0000

Paul O’Brien is a bootstrap entrepreneur who took something he loved and turned it into an online business that attracted over 10 million registered members. He sold the company in 2007 for millions of dollars and has since authored three books, including a modern version of the ancient I Ching — called, The Visionary I Ching. He is a sought-after speaker, raconteur & philanthropist.

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Show Notes:

Paul and I started off with some fun before we get into the thick of things.
I asked…Which bad habit of other people drive you crazy?
People who don’t keep their agreements. That is vital to any relationship whether business or personal. The idea that you can just say “oh sorry something came up” and think that’s good enough, drives me crazy. I want you to say, “sorry I missed your appointment, how can I make it up to you” and then I can ask for a foot massage and I’m going to feel a lot better.

Some of the questions I asked:
Your story is one of success. What is remarkable about your story?

Sometimes following your passion won’t get you the money you want, what would you say to those who are saying it’s not about the passion?

Why do you say decision-making is the highest leveraged human skill?

How do you define success?

You talked about the 3 stages of life, what are they?

Main Take-Aways:

Success is manifesting whatever your heart desires, it is personal.
Timing is everything in decision-making.
You are the CEO of your own life.

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031 – Escape From Anxiety, Stress and Fight or Flight Mode, To Supercharge Your Life, with Peggy Sealfon

Wed, 18 Oct 2017 00:00:29 +0000

Peggy Sealfon has a PhD in reinventing herself and is a serial entrepreneur. Over the last 15 years, her focus has been devoted to the field of Health and Wellness. Today she is a successful Personal Development Coach, Motivational Speaker and is an internationally-known expert on helping clients overcome chronic stress, fear and anxiety.

She is co-author of The Change: Insights Into Self-Empowerment, one of the fastest-growing personal development book series in the world with Tony Robbins’ former mentor Jim Britt and others. She has a best-selling book, Escape From Anxiety—Supercharge Your Life With Powerful Strategies From A to Z. She’s just published Embodying the Power of the Zero Stress Zone, a compilation of the teachings of world-renowned spiritual master Yogi Amrit Desai.

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To break the ice, I asked Peggy…If you could go back in time with whom would you like to spend a day with?

She responded, “I would love to spend the day with Albert Einstein. I think the combination of science and spirituality that comes out of his works is so expansive. I think he gets to so many truths that are missing in our world today that we need to look back and reflect on.”

Some of the questions I asked Peggy:

How did you go from journalism and owning a business to becoming a wellness expert?

How can someone re-invent themselves as you did?

You were loving what you were doing at one point. When that passion turns into something that cause you to feel stressed out, what’s next?

What is mindfulness and how are businesses using it to change the way how employees perform and increasing their level of health & wellness to reduce health costs?

What are some of the techniques we can use to become more mindful?

What are some of the health costs associated with stress?

How can we know if our anxiety is normal everyday anxiety or it is something more serious?

What do some of the most outrageously successful CEOs do to relieve anxiety and fear to live a normal life?

Main Take-Aways:

It is important to take regular breaks during your work schedule.
Being mindful helps you to be much more productive.
We activate our stress hormones in fight/flight mode.

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030 – Enabling Inclusion & Diversity Within the Workplace, with Maureen Berkner-Boyt

Wed, 11 Oct 2017 00:00:30 +0000

Maureen Berkner-Boyt is the Founder of The Moxie Exchange Movement, a training and mentoring organization for companies who want to develop, promote and retain women and create inclusive workplaces. She’s been an advisor and executive coach to CEOs of the United States fastest growing companies, has held leadership positions in several large corporations and is the founder of 5 successful businesses (and counting!).

She’s the author of a 5-book series, Rock Your Moxie: Power Moves for Women Leading the Way, hosts the monthly online workshop and podcast Rock Your Moxie, and has created a series of micro-learning courses for women.

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Here’s a fun question for you…If you were to be an animal for one day, what would you be and why?
Maureen and I talked about diversity and including women in more top roles within the organization.

Some of the questions I asked Maureen:

What’s stopping women from making it into leadership roles?
Why do most diversity programs fail?
What’s the big deal about unconscious bias?
How can women take control of their careers and thrive in business & life?
How can we hack our biased brains?

Main Take-Aways:

It is possible to make significant changes in diversity to benefit women.
We must take active steps to address our unconscious bias.
Women must start feeling comfortable with taking on older men as sponsors.

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The Power of Starting Small to Live Big and Achieve the Things YOU Want in Life, with Betsy Pake

Wed, 04 Oct 2017 00:00:49 +0000

Betsy Pake is an award-winning business achiever, competitive weight lifter and life strategist who hosts the popular podcast The Art of Living Big. She’s the author of the best-selling book, Become A Nutrition Ninja and just released Start Small Live Big. Her mission is to help inspire others to thrive through change by Starting Small. She loves a good tailgate, the smell of the ocean and relaxing with a good book!

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Show Notes:

Betsy and I started things off on the lighter side. I asked her, if you could visit any planet, which one would you choose and why? She retorted, “I have a travel bug. I would visit planet Earth in many more ways than I already have.”

Here are some of the things we discussed:

What’s the one thing preventing people from living their goal?
How can we be clear about our vision?
How did you discover the philosophy of start small live big that you now live by?
What is the CHASE framework?
How can someone find more joy when their life isn’t where they want to be?
What do you want readers of Start Small Live Big to walk away with?

Main Take-Aways:

It doesn’t take much motivation to start small and have big results.
True success is inward – it brings joy and hapiness.
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The Entrepreneurial You on International Podcast Day 2017

Sat, 30 Sep 2017 05:00:55 +0000

Heneka Watkis-Porter is a serial-entrepreneur, cultural ambassador, sociologist, author, speaker, fashion designer and podcaster. She wakes up every day with a grateful heart as she lives her purpose of “life transformation through inspiration”. She is the leading lady behind Patwa Culcha International, the company that owns the authentic Jamaica clothing brand, Patwa Apparel. The Entrepreneurial You is a podcast for passionate and dedicated Caribbean entrepreneurs seeking inspiration. Each week a global high impact entrepreneur is featured to motivate and inspire our community of #PeakPerformers.

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Show Notes:

International Podcast Day™ is September 30th and is an international celebration of the power of podcasts!

Here are some of the things Heneka spoke about:

Devastation caused by Hurricanes Irma & Maria
Crowdfunding effort to help victims
Observing International Podcast Day
Heneka’s podcasting journey
The Entrepreneurial You Virtual Conference & Expo
IPD Jamaican Meet Up

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Podcasting is a great way to network and build your business.
A Podcast is relatively easy to set up.
Building your brand is easier with a podcast.

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Find Your Amazing, 5 Steps to Transform Your Life, with Meiyoko Taylor

Wed, 27 Sep 2017 00:00:40 +0000

Meiyoko Taylor is a Certified Master Life Coach, NLP Practioner, Emotional Mastery Expert who works with the best and brightest in the leadership development field. The author of the best-selling book, Find Your AMAZING! 5 Steps To Transforming Your Life, his action-based focus and down to earth conversational style of coaching has drawn support from people around the globe. Over the past 15 years, he has worked with corporate professionals, CEOs, entertainers, public figures, industry leaders, students, and entrepreneurs guiding them toward self-improvement.

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Show Notes:

Here’s a fun question for you…If you could read one person’s mind, whose would it be?

That would be Richard Branson. I would like to see what comes out of his mind if I ask him a few questions

What does it mean to find your amazing?

Being born on this earth is a miracle in and of itself. I am firm believer that everybody has unique gifts, skills or capabilities that can lead them to a path of greatness. These are things only you can do the way that you do them. They are unique to each and every individual. I stress that because that is what being amazing is all about; it is what finding your amazing means. Find that gift and talent that separate you and allow your light to shine as you add value to the world.

Your book, 5 Steps to Transform Your Life, what can I do now to make that change?

Step 1: You have to know who you are and what you want, really having a level of self-awareness. When I was in a 9-5 that I hated and in a bad relationship for 7 years I had to look at myself and say, I don’t even recognize myself anymore. I was so out of alignment with my passion and purpose. I had to make a decision at that point of my life. The big thing is to become very self-aware. You have to realize what situation you are in currently in your life. From that, you can start to craft a vision of where it is you want to go, what it is you are passionate about, what particular skills do you have.

You have to have a mission. A vision and a mission are actually quite different. A vision is something you can see, touch, taste, smell without even actually having it happen yet. You want your vision to be so specifically clear to you as if it’s already happened or is happening.

The mission is the consistent action that is going to get you to your vision. Everything I do in my personal development goes toward my particular mission.

Step 2: Whatever you believe, you will receive. This is about your belief system. Most people don’t know that what you believe internally has to match your external goals. For example, if you are an entrepreneur and you want to make 6-figure income, your external goal – the 6-figure income, has to match your internal belief system. You will never make more than a 6-figure income if your internal belief is ‘I’m only worth $3,000’ or I’ll never make that type of money, or I’m not smart enough or I have these flaws’.

Our belief system is where it all starts. Success is created from the inside out. It has to come from within and then see the actions and external benefits manifest in your life once your belief system is right.

Step 3: Develop a winning attitude. Habitude is a phrase I’ve adapted which means the dynamics of a habit. You have triggers, behaviours and rewards. You need to know what your triggers are. We are always developing habits. We are creatures of habit. Sitting on your butt doing nothing is a habit. We need to develop the right habit.

Every habit starts with a trigger so you need to find what that trigger is; what is setting that behaviour off? What environment, what people, thing, food, whatever it is. That is driving you.

After the trigger comes the behaviour. The behaviour is the actual action that you are taking because of this habit that has been set off by this trigger. This leads to the reward.

When you think about what you are doing on a daily basis, think about the triggers, behaviour and the reward that you are getting. If all those things don’t serve your purpose, your passion and what you are trying to do, then you need to change that habit.

Step 4: Find your amazing – that gift, skill and talent that separate you from others and make you unique. It is those things that you are born with that make you extraordinary. How do you sharpen the gift, how do you use them? How do you get attached to the right resources and add value to other people?

Step 5: Be present, be aware. Planning for the future is good but you have to be present and be aware. You can’t really plan for the future if your current activity is not going to promote the future that you desire. You have to be aware of your habits, emotions, how focused you are. Knowing your strengths and weaknesses is important. Delegate your weakness and focus on your strengths. Worker harder at what you are best at. These are things that you really need to do.

Live every day as if it is the last and give value to the world. Don’t get caught up too much on the future. You want to enjoy every day, every moment. You are going to have ups and downs. You are going to have great successes and you are going to have failure. Being present allows you to learn from them and continue to develop.

What is one actionable thing that our community can do right now towards achieving their vision?

I’m challenging everyone right now – think about something that you should be doing this week, or a month, a year from now or whatever the time frame. If you did that thing right now it would dramatically change your life or put you on course to the level of success about. Think about that one thing that you are allowing fear to keep you from doing, that one thing if you knew there is no possibility for failure – and just do it.

Main Take-Aways:

Every habit starts with a trigger so you need to find what that trigger is.
Planning for the future is good but you have to be present and be aware.
Delegate your weakness and focus on your strengths. Worker harder at what you are best at.

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Dealing With the Voices Within, Knowing When to Pivot and Creating the Invisible Organization, with Mitch Russo

Wed, 20 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Mitch Russo Co-founded Timeslips Corp in 1985, which grew to become the largest time tracking Software Company in the world. In 1994, Timeslips Corp was sold to Sage, plc. While at Sage, he went on to run all of Sage U.S. as Chief Operating Officer, a division with 300 people with a market cap in excess of $100M.
He was nominated for Inc. Magazine’s “Entrepreneur of the Year” on two separate occasions, 1989 and 1991 and Won “Best Entrepreneur” in 1989, from a pool of 4,000 other nominees by The National Association of Legal Vendors. TODAY he helps his clients build recurring revenue streams by using “certification.

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Show Notes:

Here’s a fun question for you…If you could go back in time with whom would you like to spend a day with?

Steve Jobs. That’s my favourite person in the world. Elon Musk is one too but Steve Jobs, I think he did the impossible, I think he did it as a person who came into this world with both gifts and deficits. He overcame them and found a way to build something amazing.

What stops most entrepreneurs from breaking through and being successful?

Entrepreneurs who break through appears to be overnight successes. I think most people don’t realize how hard it is to find something of value, find a way to present it to others and also find a way to begin selling it successfully. Entrepreneurship is a journey and it’s never a single action or a single thing. It’s a process, a journey and it requires many different discipline. That’s why I love entrepreneurship so much. I believe it is one of the most creative ways to challenge yourself, to build wealth and to build community.

What is success for you?

It is different for different people. It can money, like what a lot of persons think of. But success can also be satisfaction, the joy of doing the work you love.

What do you say to those who are fearful of succeeding, fearful of criticism/ fearful of attention?

Criticism is strongest from inside. Most of what people are listening to is that voice that’s inside. For many people that voice tells them that they are not smart enough, that they are not good enough. It’s the ability to fight that back, the ability to recognize that is part of human nature protection system and overcome it and understanding that it is not protecting us at all. It is the same mechanism designed to keep us safe in the jungle. It is not the mechanism today that is valuable. The best thing to do is to try and overcome those feelings and if everybody else has comments like that, like you, you simply disregard them because they are simply not valid.

Was there ever a point you had to face your own demon of fear?

Yes. It comes up to this day. Facing one’s demo is a big category. To me what demons are is those tiny little voices that say, “oh no you can’t do that”, or ‘you’re not good enough or there are smarter people in the world that you, why do you think you can go off do that that. Those are the demons that haunt too many of us. In an entrepreneurial life when you’re mostly alone or working with a small team, that’s when the demons get to speak the loudest. I think it is our job as entrepreneurs to overcome those feelings and those voices and instead focus only on outcomes.

What was starting, running and then selling your successful company like?

I think, like many good ideas, that materialize in this world, that idea did not start as the idea that materialize. It started as a different idea. It (the software company) started as an idea to keep track of time so I could deduct my computer from my taxes. Back then, computers were thought of as toys by the IRS. My partner and I agreed that this was good idea and we built an entire to keep track of time to make sure we could deduct them from our taxes. Just about the time we quit our jobs and ready to launch, the IRS relaxed their ruling on that very thing. Without any notice, we found ourselves with a completely useless product. What we had to do, was to decide whether we wanted to abandon that project or find a different way to repurpose it if there was one. We realized that our tool, which was great at keeping track of time can be used more effectively than we had originally thought to keep track of clients’ time so they could later bill it as services. That became the basis of Time Slips Corporation. Our creation of time and billing software, it later became the number 1 product for lawyers and accountants to keep track of their time and bill it.

How would you encourage entrepreneurs at a pivotal point not to give up?

Fred Smith invented FedEx. What is interesting is that the initial concept for FedEx or previously Federal Express was to find a way to cut down on the amount of time it takes to process cheques. It used to take 7 days to process a cheque in the US. Fred thought it was too long. He had an idea to process the cheques in air and when the plane lands he would distribute them to the banks. It would take the processing time down form 7 days to 1 day. It was a brilliant idea except he didn’t take the weight of the equipment to process the cheques into account. It was too heavy to load onto planes and to power and process. He had to pivot. What ended up being the most important element of this idea was having central hubs where you can re-distribute the content of planes and get it out to destinations. That became the brilliance of FedEx. There is a brilliant story of how FedEx started with a wedding dress and how they began with their first customer who needed to get a wedding dress across the country in 24 hours. That became the beginning and they ramp up between 1 or 2 packages a day to now over 15 million packages a day.

I have a saying, you never actually fail until you give up. I think a lot of people give up too soon. I think a lot of people give up because they’ve tried hard and it didn’t work and they call it a failure. Instead of quitting, take a pivot and call it something else and if that doesn’t work think of trying something else and see what the market is telling you. That is the best way of handling the idea of not initially being successful.

How different is Tony Robins in everyday life versus his onstage persona?

Tony is one of the most genuine, most real people I have ever known. He is probably in a sense, the reason why many, many people are successful in this world. When you hear Tony on stage, he’s loud of course, he’s performing. When you meet him offstage and spend time with him, he is the ultimate person who is curious, a person who is focused on you. When I first got involved with Tony, he invited me to attend some of his events. I was thrilled to do that. I asked if I could bring my daughter and he said. It was ‘Unleash the Power Within’. He knew that I wanted to get a picture with him and my daughter before the event was over. After the first day when the event was in full force, we had gone 14 hours and Tony must have been very tired, he sent one of his people to find me saying he would like to speak to me and my daughter. We met with him behind the empty stage at 1:30 in the morning and Tony was kind and interested enough to sit down with me and my daughter and spend 40 minutes asking my daughter about her future, life and all the things she was excited about. That to me was one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen and made me feel so good.

That’s the way I remember Tony. The person who gives, not the person who takes. Leadership is not so much about getting things done, it’s about helping people realize what they truly want out of the life experience they’re having. A great leader is able to align the needs of the people and the needs of the company. Tony fits into that category well. Tony is a great leader.

You are an author?

Yes, I wrote the book, ‘The invisible Organization’, it is available on Amazon. It is about how to take a company and turn it into a virtual organization. The book came from my experience running one of Tony’s companies called Business Breakthroughs and having 300 staff outside the company. We never had an office, we never had a single piece of infrastructure. All we had was our phone lines, the internet and 300 people all over the world who work with us on a daily basis. The book is all about that process, the mindset of the CEO who is running that organization.

What do you say to those who believe they must go into a brick and mortar every morning or else they are not running a business?

You have to ask yourself, is this building really necessary. Can the people who work for me do their jobs if they were working at home? The real reason persons want to have staff show up at a building is they are afraid they are going to lose control if they don’t. They try to stay in control by having those people show up at 9:00 AM. The issue isn’t really that at all. You can learn systems that keep track of people’s activities so that in the end the only thing that counts, is their true performance. So instead of judging people based on whether you like them or not or how many sick days they had or how well they get along with others, we judge them entirely on their performance and their productivity when they work from home. This makes the employee a much happier person. They no longer have to fight with traffic and breathe in the smog of the highway every day. Instead they can get up in the morning and go the kitchen and go right to work. There are happy because they get to eat what they want. They can take care of their pets. They get to do a school visit if they have to for a kid. These are all part of life. As we pay more attention to the holistic life we live then working from home is inevitable. It is going to be where most of us end up working.

What are some of the systems that can be put in place to ensure the smooth running of our businesses?

I’ll give you some examples. On my book site, invisibleorganisations.com, I have a resources page there, when you buy the book it gives you access to the resource centre giving you dozens of systems for working remotely. Many of us already use these like CRM Sales Force, email, a virtual call centre like Skype. The goal is to utilize all our systems virtually.

The most important part, it is not the systems that enables the success of a virtual company, it’s the mindset of the CEO. This dictate how successful that company is. By understanding the difference between the mindset of a CEO of a virtual company and one of a brick and mortar company, you will quickly realize that it focuses entirely on communications. If you’re a good communicator then the transitions will be easier. If you’re not a good communicator, if you don’t like to communicate on a regular basis and work with the media, your voice and with coaching people, then this will be harder for you. Those who are best at it end up becoming great CEOs of virtual companies.

What attribute you had which contributed to you receiving numerous awards?

I think it was the fact that I had started to build a very successful business. We were one of the top 500 businesses at the time growing very quickly. I was not willing to conform to the way things were being done before.

Main Take-Aways:

Our job as entrepreneurs is to overcome negative voices and instead focus only on outcomes.
As entrepreneurs, pivot is a must at some point.
Make an assessment as to whether the person who work from you could actually work from home.

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Everything You Need to Know About The Law of Attraction, with Kelli Cooper

Wed, 13 Sep 2017 00:00:36 +0000

Kelli Cooper is a coach who specializes in the law of attraction. She believes there are many misconceptions about this teaching that stunt people’s natural manifesting abilities, and she hopes her teachings can clear them up, as well as bridge the gap between the theory and reality of manifesting.

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Here’s a fun question for you…If you could Only have one favorite food to eat for the rest of your life, what would it be?

The thing that comes to mind is something like broccoli and cheese rice. It is super cheap, super-processed. I like it, it was the first thing that comes to mind.

A lot persons have limiting beliefs about themselves…how can you overcome your limiting beliefs?

There are a couple of things I would say that is a part of the manifesting process that we can really over-complicate and get tripped up on. They say they try to change their belief and they just can’t. It turns into this almost impossible thing and people think that their beliefs create their reality and they can’t change. They think, ‘I’m screwed because I can’t change these thoughts’.

They believe that they are going to keep manifesting based on these beliefs. It really stresses these people out. I want to say it is not as hard as we make it out to be. Beliefs are just formed by our own minds from outside influences. Over time your mind starts making decision about what’s true and not true. You start manifesting things that mirror these beliefs back to you which solidify these belief, your mind takes that as evidence that, yes, this belief is true.

Realize that everything that’s happened in your life, whatever meaning you’ve assign to it, it is not any sort of objective fact. Your mind has decided that this happens and this is what it means.

Once you make a conscious choice to release these beliefs, energetically, you start to manifest evidence that it is not true. It starts with a willingness to release. As you start doing this, you will begin to manifest evidence that releases it even further. That’s not so hard. Techniques such as affirmations can help you to overcome limiting beliefs. It comes down to the choice to stop believing it. To our minds, it sounds simple, but it is really where it starts and the only thing you need to do.

What are some of the ways we can ensure we release these negative thoughts?

You do that in your life is a personal thing. Different things work for different people. You might find affirmations are really helpful for you, or writing out a list of things that are really good about you and reading it out in front the mirror while looking at yourself. This might feel stupid and uncomfortable but then after a while you begin to formulate a different image about yourself. It could be writing out a gratitude list. Find a way to consistently engage your inner world that benefits you. If you want to break up those habitual pattern, you need to feed a different energy into your being. As that becomes more dominant, what happens is the other side just naturally start to fall away without you deeply examining and dissecting all of the beliefs you have now.

Secondly, devote time to educating yourself about these sorts of topics, find teachers that resonate with you; find resources that resonate with you. It doesn’t mean you have to spend hours a day doing. To overcome that conditioning, you need repetition of the information.

Take us through, what really is the Law of Attraction

I think there is a lot of misconception that cause people to either dismiss it immediately or they kind of buy into it but the misconceptions kind of lead them astray on their journey of energetic transformation and they get super frustrated. They give up thinking the Law of Attraction doesn’t work. Or what happens is you’re in a point in your life that you are not happy but you think you can’t do anything about it, you don’t feel great but there is a kind of resignation that you’ve lived with – when you read about the teachings of the LOA and there is a part of you that think, I might be able to able to get this, or I like the sound of this and you actually start letting yourself want something, you start to hope that things can change for the better. What happens when you are not succeeding in making those changes, that often feels much more painful than it felt before when you thought you didn’t stand a chance. When you start to get excited about manifesting something, when you’re not getting it, it’s going to feel very painful and it causes people a lot of anxiety, frustration, sadness and anger.

One of the biggest misconceptions I want to clear up is that the LOA is not a tool that you can use to manipulate reality. It’s a way of explaining how reality works. You have control over your reality in the sense that you can control your energy. You can control your thoughts, feeling and perspectives. You get to choose what you believe, to choose how you feel every day. In that sense, you have a great sense of control. If you have a certain energy, you’ll have no choice but to manifest things that mirrors that energy back to you. That’s the true nature of your control. Thinking that you can use the LOA to manipulate reality into getting your wants and desires into exactly what you want, when you want, that’s not how it works. You can’t make people do things.

Want what you want but work on your energy as this is your true sense of control. Another thing to consider is that a lot of stuff our minds want is not really the best representation of what we want. Your mind is very limited in its belief. A lot times what the mind wants is actually the watered-down version of what we are capable of manifesting. Be open to want what you want but be open to the idea that maybe it’s not the best thing, maybe there’s a better representation because your mind doesn’t know infinite possibilities. It just knows what’s in front of its face and what’s already happened. It doesn’t know all the things that you are capable of and all the other possibilities that exist out there.

How to cultivate the right energy to attract the things we want?

Depending on what you want in life, you are going to have different beliefs that might vary between areas of your life. Especially with business where we have a lot of fear, the most core energy you can work on – realize that our biggest issue is that there is a force that runs through everything. The way we live now, we become separated from that. That separation causes all sorts of anxiety and fear that aren’t real. We kind of created that. You are plugged into a system that will always provide for you. You will always be taken care of. Money, clients, whatever resources you need to do your business, the people you need to meet, the opportunities, the education, will come.

Whatever your mind is envisioning for your journey, it’s going to look a lot different. When you make peace, you will save yourself form suffering. Be open to make peace with that.

It was such a huge thing for me especially in my business with money. The universe is like the best business partner ever, you couldn’t ask for a better business partner. In order to plug into that support system, you need to believe that it works that way. I always say that we have to hold up our end of the bargain energetically by believing that it works. You can’t tap into that system if you don’t believe it works. That’s more important than any practical action you take for your business. Nothing is going to serve you better than cultivating that mind-set. You’re going to have a lot harder than you have to work otherwise. With your business, work when you are inspired. Check your motivation behind your actions.

Final thoughts on using the LOA to become a better business person?

The first thing I would say is explore your money stuff. It is going to be super uncomfortable; look at your issues of worthiness and deserving. Make sure you’re on the look-out for conflicting energies. A lot of times with entrepreneurs we have this vision of what we want but there’s a part of us that don’t want any of those things; it’s afraid of the responsibility, the bigger audience, for then people might start to criticize you. You’re actually afraid of making more money because you think that will complicate your life in some way. You started your business because you wanted more freedom so there’s a part of you that’s worried about getting too busy and getting too many clients and too many request for things because all that freedom is going to go away. Be on the look-out for those conflicting energies. The sooner you can identify that, the more you can nip it in the bud and get more clarity as to how you want to run your business.

Main Take-Aways:

Your mind is unaware of the limitless possibilities that are available to you.
The universe is the best business partner available to you
You will always be given the resources you need for your success.

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An Important Lesson in the Unpredictable Nature of Individuals and Staying Focused in the Midst of a Business Breakup, with Damon Nailer

Wed, 06 Sep 2017 00:00:39 +0000

Damon Nailer is known as a “Renaissance Man” and a “Multi-talented Inspirational Communicator”, He is mentor, motivator and educator, addressing people’s mental, spiritual, and emotional needs through various means. He writes inspirational books and blogs, speaks, coaches, and produces inspirational music. As a result of his tremendous accomplishments, he’s been featured over 100 times in or on the following: various online publications including The Huffington Post, TV shows, podcasts, radio shows, newspapers, and magazines.

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Show Notes:

Here’s a fun question for you…If you could choose an imaginary friend, who would you choose and why?

I would have to choose a super hero and it would have to be Superman. We could fly, we could do all sorts of things. We would be enabled and empowered to do a lot.

What was the entrepreneurial journey like for you when you started?

I’m a former elementary educator and I taught for 7 years. About the 4th or 5th year in my teaching tenure I began to lose the passion for teaching. At that time, I began to dabble into song writing, music production and artistry. In 1999 I put out my first single and in 2000 I put out an LP. I really love the music and I was getting a favourable response to it. As a result, my desire for music began to increase and my desire for teaching decrease. I was able to hang in there a few more years.

Is there any similarity between teaching and what you’re doing now?

A lot of the concepts that I learnt as a Teacher, I apply to my speaking. I’m not just an inspirational speaker, I’m an educator. My objective is to provide direction, inspiration and education. I’m able to give content that really challenge the intellect, challenge your mind. Teaching was really relevant to me today in what I’m doing.

How much was fear, if any, a factor in the timing of your quitting teaching?

No, I felt divinely inspired. I thought God was letting me know I can do this and it’s time to do it because I’ve just gotten to that place where I couldn’t do another year of teaching. I was just frustrated. Those emotions overshadowed any fear that I had. I had faith in it.

Just imagine me not knowing what was going to happen. A lot of people had that same question, “Damon how you’re going to make it?” “What are you going to do?” “How is going to play out?” My spiritual leader at the time had a meeting with me, he wanted to know what was going on. He said he would give me 6 months to see if we had the conversation again and thank God, we never had the conversation again. I was in faith and I wasn’t having any distractions; I wasn’t losing focus. In my spirit I had settled it, that this is what I was going to do.

Ups and downs?

When we first started the janitorial business, things were booming. We made close to 6 figures in a year and a half, 13 employees, racking up contracts all over. The music opened up the door to speaking and the book sales were good. Everything was going well. All of a sudden, things shifted. I went through a period of testing. Opportunity kind of stopped. We had to break up the partnership for the janitorial business. It wasn’t an amicable breakup. He (business partner) took some of the business, I took half.
The key is sticking with it, being faithful and committed to what you’re doing.

During the moment of the business breakup what were your thoughts and what lesson have you learnt from that experience?

What I’ve learnt is that it confirmed to me how unpredictable people are but you have to remain focus, you have to be resilient, you have to bounce back and you have to adjust to things like that. It taught me to be flexible. Don’t give up although there is a break up. Stabilize yourself and focus on your journey and what you’re trying to accomplish.

How to manage expectations?

To set realistic expectations. Make sure your goal setting is reachable, measurable. Be honest about what you’re trying to do. Go after your passion. Keep yourself accountable, constantly look at our goals.

Main Take-Aways:

People by nature are unpredictable but you must always remain focus.
Trust that things will work out and they will.
Once you’ve settled an idea in your spirit, act on it in faith knowing that it will work out.

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This Dude Went From Being a Rap Artiste, to a Successful Web and App Design Specialist, with John Sandiford

Wed, 30 Aug 2017 00:00:11 +0000

John AM Sandiford is based in the Netherlands. He is a certified Web and App Designer with an extensive knowledge in User Interface and User Experience Design and Social Marketing Strategies. In 2010 he founded the company Antonio Media. He has been elected by World Trade Center Eindhoven Netherlands as the Young Professional of the year in 2016.

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Show Notes:

If you could choose your age forever, what age would you choose and why?

I wouldn’t choose and age. I love every age of life. It’s all a different part of the journey. There are so many things that happen at every stage. I would think that being stuck at one age may turn out to be more of a curse than a blessing.

Did you always know that you wanted to become an entrepreneur?

I always knew that I wanted to do something special, to do something more than average. For a while I thought that it was something in the entertainment industry and eventually that shifted into what I’m doing now. What I’m doing now is slowly taking on an additional life of its own, heading into new territories while still sticking to the core.

Was there a point that you ventured out into the music industry?

Yes, I spent quite some years there. It all started with just loving music from a very young age. That grew into loving it even more as I got into high school. I started writing my first lyrics when I was about 13 years old in Dominica when I was based in the Caribbean between Guadeloupe, Martinique, Dominica and that career moved on simultaneously with me going to school.

From high school to college I working on my music and doing things in the music industry. That brought me up to my climactic moment, in 2009 when I performed on BET’s 106 & Park in New York City performing the song called Break Your Back (Nemesis). That was the highlight of my music career.
Born on St. Maarten, I was one of the first artistes from the island to also perform original music on BET and to have made music videos back in 2005-2006 that was also on television in Europe and the Caribbean and having original music on iTunes. Actually then, I was already busy with entrepreneurship because I had a record label. It got a bit more serious from 2005 onwards. I was still in college although I was contemplating to drop out and to pursue music.

During my pursuit of music is when I came across certain things within the industry that I didn’t’ like. That made me question if the quest that I was on was the one to fulfill my life’s purpose. I’m allergic to fake people and I met a bit too many of them within the industry (I also met some real ones). As I started analzying those that I met at a younger age and started looking at their personal life, there was just different signs that led me to believe that maybe I should try my hand at something else and that I could always come back to music if I choose to. The love for music will never go. I still listen to music religiously every day. I work with music constantly so there will always be a time when I could reconnect but on different terms.

Fast track to 2010 when you decided to start Antonio Media, how did that happen?

You could say it started in 2008 maybe a bit before that. I started a study in Information Technology and then I switched after about a year to ICT media Design which is a mix of design, communication and ICT because I could then create my own album covers, websites and flyers since I was young and couldn’t pay anyone to do it but I wanted to have the most awesome stuff so I thought why not go to school and learn to do it. In 2008 when I started my first internship I realized I actually had some skills and people are willing to pay good money for them because of the types of assignment I was getting from my boss at that moment. That gave me the confidence, I could actually venture out and do more stuff for other people.

In 2010 I was completing my final internship. I graduated with my Bachelor’s Degree. I looked around my City as to what jobs were available but there was nothing appealing to me. I always wanted to be my own boss. Then I decided I would go for it and started the company in 2010.

What is your Unique Selling Proposition?

We think about the complete user experience as in customers, people that use your products. We design websites and Apps. When you’re thinking about the complete experience, it goes beyond the colours and fonts. You really have to take the business goals of your clients in mind and fully understand the journey that their customers will go through and you design around that to match what their customers are looking.

What’s the worse challenge you’ve faced as an entrepreneur?

Creating enough cash flow. When you’re doing something that you love, something that you’re passionate about, you could easily spend more time than was budgeted for working on the thing that you’re working. It doesn’t matter to you because you love doing what you’re doing. It is difficult to figure out how do you price that creative work versus what people are used to paying and also the type of clients that you’re providing those services to. Figuring out that balance of where you could continue to work on passionate projects and make enough cash flow to sustain yourself, that was one of the most difficult things of figuring out where that balance point is.

How did you figure it out?
I’ll have to give a bit more context as to how the business grew. I started at home about 8 months in the spare bed room at home. At that point, nothing was really growing. The one thing I can recommend, if there is some place that you can go out and network with other business people, there is where you’ll learn the most. It wasn’t until I moved to an area inn Eindhoven when I started to work at a Flex Desk in a space of about 25 other creative professionals when I started to learn and understand how to balance what you ask for versus what you deliver, etc. Also. I learnt in that period to collaborate more with others. I started to figure out that I needed to specialize in Web and App Design versus making logo, flyers and posters. In the beginning, I was making anything that people were willing to pay me to make.

I remember going to one of the first networking events, when they asked me what I did and I explained, the lady looked at me and said you’re doing too much, you need to specialize and I thought to myself, how dare she say that? I can do all these things. At some point, I came to accept that while you can do it partially, you’ll never be able to be great at it. You’ll never be great at everything, at some point you’ll have to figure out what you’re really great at and then you put all your chips in that section and move forward with that. You can always add additional things to your plate but you should really be focusing on things that you’re really good at. The stuff that you can do but aren’t really great at, make sure you find someone who is great at that and outsource it to them, collaborate – that’s how you make great things happen. That’s what I learnt in the early years at the co-working space I was at.

What are some of the high points in your journey?
Here in the region, one of the first big projects that I worked on was for Rockwool Benelux (the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg). That project became so successful within the company that we also did something similar within the company for Rockwool GLOBAL where we redesigned their career the career page within their website where everyone gets hired and you see all the applications passed through. It taught me a lot; it was one of the first projects where we outsourced every element that wasn’t our responsibility.

I focused on the website design; there was someone that focused on the videos; someone that focused copy writing, a bit of animation went into that and managing all that together to ensure we delivered an awesome project to the client. This was one of those first good experiences to learn how to do things on that scale for big corporate clients.

We went to do stuff for ASML – that company is kind of like the guy behind the guy. They build the machines that produce the chips that go into your phones, laptops, iPads, etc. They have about 10 or 12 clients in the world and they are the clients that you want to have like Intel and Samsung. We also did awesome stuff for Honeywell Emaya – (Europe, Middle East and Africa). That took me doing workshops in boardrooms in Paris, to launch setting up the launch in the Czech Republic.

In 2016 I was awarded the World Trade Centre Eindhoven Young Professional of the Year Award which was a special moment, it was actually towards the end of 2015 that I received the award. 2015 was a very busy year for me and my company as well. It was also the year when I hired the first additional employee outside of me. Before that point, I always collaborated with Freelancers and other companies so I built a network of over 25 Specialists that I would work on projects with but internally I didn’t have anyone else in the company doing the core and the daily activities. That grew from the first hire to we are now at about 6 of us.

Final piece of branding advice that we need to hold to?

In 2017, it’s very important for you to understand why you’re doing what you’re doing. Look for Simon Sinek’s the Golden Cirlce and make sure you apply that messaging to your own brand to understand why you do what you do. Furthermore, I would implore you to research design thinking and what exactly that means. It’s all about having empathy for your customers and knowing what they are looking for and making sure that you provide that to them. You need to have more dialogue with your customers. Social media is a good way to do that.

Content is king. Whatever you’re doing, make sure you’re creating good content to show to the world what you’re about. It can be as simple as documenting elements of the journey. You need to step out of that comfort zone if you’re in that zone and move outwards into the epic space. Really focus and do research on how to create good content because it will make all the difference in how people perceive you and link into the product/service that you’re trying to sell.

Main Take-Aways:

Whatever you’re doing, make sure you’re creating god content to show to the world what you’re about.
You’ll never be great at everything, at some point you’ll have to figure out what you’re really great at and then you put all your chips in that section and move forward with that.
It is very important for you to understand why you’re doing what you’re doing.

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Social Media Automation – Trend Towards Engagement, Support and CRM, with Gilad Salamander

Wed, 23 Aug 2017 00:00:24 +0000

Gilad Salamander is Co-founder/CEO at eClincher – the most advanced social media management tool. With a proven track record in Business, Product & Engineering Management, New Product Introduction (NPI), and Manufacturing and Support, he has the proven ability to implement strategies that support business growth. He is an active investor in several startup companies and a co-founder/partner at EpiMetrix Inc. Strengths include product vision, strategic planning for growth, full P&L management and operational excellence.

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Show Notes:

Here’s a fun question for you…If you walked in your sleep, where would you go?

Probably to the beach, but I need to wake up before going into the water.

What is eClincher all about?

We started the concept about four years ago; we wanted to build a social media management tool for the Micro, Small businesses. We developed that with a cool user interface. Customers compared us to some of the big competitors. We find that we had to build an amazing solution for end users that was transparent. There was also a lot of discussions with our customers. We sought feedback and continuously improve our platform to include features so that they don’t have to go to multiple tools to find unique solution for things. They can do it all in one platform in our system.

We also wanted to save them time because we know how businesses and entrepreneurs are. They need help. That’s our vision. We’re are about entering solution and engagement.

What problem is eClincher solving that Hootsuite isn’t?

Social media has evolved from social media marketing and publishing into engagement. Social Media is expanding into support and CRM. That’s aligning well with our vision and we have developed our tool to address those issues. The differentiation is that we take care of the publishing and the scheduling. We do it really well with features like post preview, edit links, free access to stock images, animated GIFs, integration with Canva (the publishing aspect). We added another great feature called auto-post with queues. You can use queues to queue a category of posts, fill it up with content and schedule weekly schedule. Once you turn on auto publish it will continue to recycle each post at a time until it reaches the end. There is the option for one time publishing as well as queues with end date that allows you to run campaigns. That can get as 80-90% engagement. The publishing is the tool to get more engagement. In addition, we have analytics, RSS feeds, content curation, inboxes – an amazing way to get engagement. Everything gets collected from all your social media channels into one inbox. You can respond, follow, follow from different profiles rather than going to the different platform. It saves a lot of time.

What are some your users saying about eClincher?

We get a lot of 5-star ratings from software review sites. The main thing they are saying is that they like the completeness of the product. They can get everything in one platform so they don’t have to use 3 or 4 products. The price is reasonable, we are efficient with everything on stored on the cloud. We continue to evolve into adding new features and the customers benefit from that.

Is eClincher the first product you’ve worked on?

I’ve worked on new product introduction in different companies and managed teams but this is my first startup. I’ve done some investment and other stuff so I understand what it takes to build and define a product. It has helped me a lot with eClincher but I also learnt a lot of new things with the experience. I can certainly share tips I’ve learnt along the way.

What are some of the things that are foremost on your mind when you are thinking about developing products?

In general, for entrepreneurs and startups the two most important things that an entrepreneur need to focus on is:

Connect with the end user. How are they going to use the product? Is it solving a pain point? What is the advantage? If you think you have something that they are going to benefit from go ahead. If the answer is no you probably shouldn’t do it. Try to think from the end user’s perspective and not from an engineering one. It is not easy but they are things you can do to help for example ask questions of others to get feedback.
Execution – this starts from the very basic of design and thinking about the product all the way to go to market and trying to sell it. There are lots of services out there to help you and you need to execute to sell your product. Entrepreneurs that are coming from a technical background don’t feel as comfortable to go out and sell. There is no one better to sell your product than you. When you talk to people they will give feedback that will help you to improve it.

Was there any major challenge you faced during the development stage of eClincher?

As a startup, you think you develop something that everybody is going to go wild and want. The reality is that once you develop it, you shouldn’t fall in love with it thinking this is the best thing on earth and everybody is going to run to you and pay for it. You have to be open to listen to get feedback from others. Customers can give you an idea of what they want and you can develop it into something better. Someone with a technical background to switch into that mode is a challenge.

The second thing I would say is the packaging. It is important how your product is going to look, your user interface, your website. All of this is affecting the decision of the end user whether they should buy your product or not. Be open to get feedback from them.

I had to try to be as neutral as possible saying, is this what people really want?’ Is this going to solve their pain point? Try to think ahead where the social media trend is going. What will people need 2 or 3 years down the line. We all tend to be very focused on the development of the product and we sometimes forget to separate ourselves and think from a high-level perspective. It is challenging for technical people because they love to write the code.

Main Take-Aways:

Be open to getting feedback from your customers.
Pay attention to your product packaging.
Social media has evolved from social media marketing and publishing into engagement.

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How One Cancer Survivor & Model, Became a Successful Caribbean Magazine Publisher, with Neysha Soodeen

Wed, 16 Aug 2017 00:00:26 +0000

Neysha Soodeen is the CEO of Toute Bagai Publishing, considered one of the Caribbean’s largest magazine publishing houses. Toute Bagai Publishing has received many international accolades, including international print and design awards, such as the SAPPI International Printers Award. Neysha has received numerous awards including the Marcella Martinez Award for her contribution to promoting the Caribbean internationally and was nationally recognized and awarded the Business Pioneer Award by The Association of Female Executives of Trinidad & Tobago.

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If you were to name one piece of clothing that describes you, what would you say?

Jeans & t-shirt. It’s so funny because I meet people right cross the Caribbean and I guess everyone is assuming because I am a magazine publisher and a former model that I am this little glamour puss trotting around the Caribbean. But I really am not, I love my jeans, I love my t-shirts.

You were a model?

At University, being a foreign student I couldn’t work so my parents supported me. After I finish university, I decided to go and do another degree because life was too easy. All I had to do was pass and my parents were supporting me. At that point in time my parents said, “no-way, get out and get yourself a job”! This was in the late ’80’s early ’90s. At that time, ethnic models were the hottest thing walking the planet. I’m almost 6 foot tall and Indian. I was picked up by a modelling agency that whisked me off to Italy. I told my parents that you wanted me to work so I just got a job working as a model and it’s in Italy. To that, my parents were terribly disappointed because all that money wasted on an education for me to go and trot up and down the runway was not their idea of a great profession.

However, being in Italy, a foreign country, a foreign language taught me so much. It taught that no matter where I am in the world I could figure it out and I was completely on my own in Italy and it was a great experience for me. After a couple of years, I’d come back home for a holiday – I was about 24 at the time and I have a lump in my neck. My mom took me to the doctor. Although I was 24 and thought I was a big woman, in the doctor’s office, the doctor and my mother spoke directly and they totally cut me out of the conversation. That lump turned out to be Thyroid Cancer which was at the time stage 3, after a couple of years turned into stage 4. I had to undergo years of treatment and surgery. That was the end of my modelling career.

It was the beginning of a new life. I’m in bed in tears thinking how can this be and I grabbed a bottle of wine; I figured if I’m going to die I’m going to die happy; really preventing myself from smoking at that time.

In and out of sleep I thought, ‘what would my funeral be like?’ And then I thought of the eulogy and I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m going to have the most boring eulogy ever’ I have not accomplished anything. I swam for Barbados but I never made it to the Olympics; I went to university but I never did anything with my degree and I modelled in Italy but never really did anything with that either. And I thought “Neysha Soodeen was this fun little, happy girl” and that was the beginning of a brand, new life. Once I was able to beat the Cancer, that was when I decided I need my eulogy to be an awesome eulogy and I picked up myself at 28 or 29 moved to Trinidad and started a publishing a company, started my magazine – Maco Caribbean Magazine.

Tell us about the concept behind Maco Caribbean Magazine

I was privileged to have gone away to school in Canada and then I was living in Italy. When I had come back home, two very poignant things still out:

While I was away everyone assumes that if you are from the Caribbean, you either work at a hotel, own a hotel, or live on the beach or drink banana daiquiri. They didn’t quite understand how we lived and what we did and our lifestyle in the Caribbean.
When I came back home to the Caribbean I realized that no-one in the Caribbean valued what we have right here. I would go into someone’s house and they would have beautiful roses as their mantle-piece as opposed to tropical flowers; I would go to someone’s house for dinner and they would be serving me a strawberry short cake as opposed to guava or soursop. And I thought, we as West Indians are trying to emulate everything that’s foreign as opposed embraced everything that’s us, that’s home grown.

I decided to start a magazine that will showcase both aspects – showcase to the world, the luxury side of how we live, our food, our decor, our architectures, our gardens, our artists. And then for West Indians, I wanted to show them that if I took our life style and I presented it on a platform that was first world all of a sudden (hopefully) they will start appreciating what we have. I decided to do this over-sized glossy magazine. I called it Maco.

No one wanted to back me on this project because it didn’t seem viable. Advertisers were not going to spend the kind of money advertising in a super-sized glossy magazine when that was their whole year advertising in the newspaper or on radio. I decided to do it alone, I took a big risk and it paid off. Every issue came out. My audience grew and then by year 2, I started launching other publications. The company grew and grew. I went from doing the first issue on my own to hiring 2 people by my 3rd and 2 more people by my 6th issue and then the company just kept on growing.

What were some other challenges you faced in the early stage?

Advertisers were not used to advertising in glossy magazines and therefore I had to go out and educate my advertisers on the pros of advertising in a glossy magazine opposed to a newspaper or radio or TV. At the time, besides in-flight magazine, my magazine was the only magazine that was a regional publication. By year 2, my magazine was the only Caribbean magazine that was distributed internationally at Barnes and Nobles, Borders, etc. Therefore, there were a handful of advertisers that not only wanted to reach every island in the region but those outside of the region and so my magazine then found its own niche market but I had to fight for that market.

Other real challenges that no one knows – I was young, I never did a business degree, I never studied publishing or journalism, I winged it. When you wing it, not every decision you make is going to be the right one. For example, I didn’t keep an eye on my cash flow. There came a time where, because I was paying for the publishing upfront but then I was collecting my advertising dollars after, I had a bit of a cash flow problem. If that was not managed or caught in time, just like other magazines, I would have had to bury my magazine in that big grave yard.

I was very good at was networking. I never claimed to be a bright spark, but I knew how to network and I was able to my magazine, my brand out there. Interact with advertisers, interact with people who were able to give me advice, to keep an eye on me, to mentor me and to also spread the word. Networking is so important; it’s the one thing you can do to spread your business your business and to get more business.

What are some of the other lessons you learnt?

One of the lessons is that you have to keep up with trends and technology. When I started my publishing company, the digital world was not there. We had to send CDs to printers by mail or FedEx. For my first magazine, I sat down on the floor with big sheets of paper and I drew out how I wanted every page laid out. Now its pre-historic to do things like that. The print industry is taking a real bashing from the social world. Advertisers are going from print to digital so they don’t want to advertise anymore.

Now I have to relearn a whole new world, how do I move my publishing company from a print to digital. Now it’s just going to continue until the day I die or the day I retire which will probably be until the day I die. Everyone needs to keep up with trends. You have to keep re-inventing your business model; keep hiring new human resource that understands how the world is going because you can’t do it all.

If you aren’t making mistakes you aren’t learning anything and the more you make mistakes, the more you learn, the more you learn, the better you are. Richard Branson almost hit bankruptcy many times, so does most of the most successful people in this world. You win some and you lose some. When you lose, that just makes you a stronger person and a brighter person.

The first thing that companies cut when there is a problem is advertising, my only source of income in my business is advertising. Magazines were closing down all over the world. I had to quickly decide oh my gosh am I going to tighten up my belt and hold my breath, cut corners to keep on surviving or am I going to fold and a lot of companies do that – go to bed and don’t have a good night sleep as there isn’t a salary at the end of the month when you’re an entrepreneur.

Who are some of the big clients you’ve had within the region?

The one thing I realized when I was 29 was that there wasn’t a lot of people in the Caribbean in my profession that wanted to see me succeed so when I went to them for help, they would rather stand on my head and push me down to elevate themselves than to hold my hand and say, ‘come Neysha, I’m going to help you be the best Publisher ever’.

One of my biggest mentors was a Jamaican, Ian Randle, from Ian Randle Publishing and so when other publishers across the Caribbean would not help me, Ian Randle said, ‘absolutely Nesyha’, ‘not only am I going to introduce you to my printers in China and Hong Kong but I’m actually going to extend my line of credit so that you can get a good head start’.

They aren’t too many people like Ian Randle in this world so when I grew up and thought that I had achieved something, that I can pass it forward, I did so and I started working with young entrepreneurs not necessarily in a formal way but a lot of entrepreneurs come to me from all over the Caribbean and so I work with them. I open up my networks to them because that’s something that’s very hard to them if you don’t travel a lot, and get them to a place where I know that their companies have a good chance of succeeding.

I have the largest library of Caribbean content because I have been featuring each island for the last 20 years. Some of my clients are Sandals, I publish the Sandals Style Magazine that’s awesome because Sandals is one of the largest companies in the Caribbean and by every right they should be going to one of the largest publishers in the world or in the States to publish their magazine. It’s just awesome when we decide to partner up on this magazine and to have them choose a local publisher, a small publisher compared to all the larger ones in the States. What I was able to bring to a massive company like Sandals, was my Caribbean content. Some of my other clients across the Caribbean are big names, Caribbean Export Development Agency (CEDA), some of the Ministries across the region.

Piece of advice?

Opportunity does not knock it just sit there waiting patiently to be yanked. Go out there and just do it. A lot of people are fearful, ‘what if I fail?’, well what if you fail. If you don’t try you will never know. What if you succeed? Opportunity isn’t going to come knocking at your door. If you have a good idea – if you have a bad idea that you thing you can turn into a great thing, go for it. I did it, all of the top entrepreneurs in the Caribbean or in the world didn’t do something that was already tried and tested, that’s not how you become an entrepreneur. Becoming a successful entrepreneur is going out there and doing something that no one else has done before.

Main Take-Aways:

Mentorship is essential to business growth.
Networking is so important; it’s the one thing you can do to spread your business your business and to get more business.
The first thing that companies cut when there is a problem is advertising.

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The Secret to Staying Authentic, Sharing Your Story and Leading in the Sales Conversation From a Place of Vision, with Benjamin Tyler

Wed, 09 Aug 2017 00:00:38 +0000

Benjamin Tyler is the founder of Client Enrollment Academy and host of Sales for Coaches and Consultants podcast. As a speaker and coach, he shows coaches, consultants and service based businesses how to attract high quality leads and enroll them into their services to help them build successful businesses around their gifts and talents.

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If there’s an exception to every rule, is there an exception to that rule?

I have no clue, you’ve already stomped me.

Tell us about your upbringing?

A defining moment in my life, I was 12 years old and I sat my mother down and just bawling and pleading for her to show me some sort of affection. She was obsessed with making my sister the Prom Queen by giving my sister the life that she never had and she didn’t have a lot of time to pay attention to me and when she didn’t do that after I asked for love and affection, I told myself I would never be hurt again.
That led me into a place where I became a perfectionist; I was a high achiever. I also closed myself off emotionally. The soul needs a companion, for me that was drugs and alcohol and gambling. I started taking ecstasy and cocaine by the time I was 16 years old.

How did you make the transition from where you were to where you are now?

From the point I was showering with the garden hose to where I finally said enough; I wanted to change my life and I finally took responsibility, I quickly excelled. Fast forward 2 years, I’m living in New York City, I’ve got a 6-figure job, stature, going places in my career; I’m living the Bachelor life in New York, dating 3 different women. My ego was higher than it ever was when I was on drugs.

One day I was sitting on the subway coming home after a long day and thought, ‘why am I still unhappy?” It was at that point I realized that I always wanted to share my voice to impact people with my message, speak and allow people to stand in their own greatness and feel like they are good enough to have what they wanted. When I went off to New York, starting my personal development brand, I started as a Life Coach. I would get blank stares when I said that. I tried to lead with how great my life was and that I had all my stuff together but it wasn’t working and nobody wanted it. One day out of frustration I said, I’m going to go to this networking event and share my story.

I walked in and shared my issues with addiction and how I overcame them. I’m successful in my career but more importantly, I wanted other people to feel like they are good enough to have what they wanted in their life. All of a sudden people were interested in what I was doing and I wasn’t just a life coach. I realized this is what people wanted from me and I founded the Client Enrollment Academy and I still lead with my story as I find that’s what people need these days.

You go on Facebook and everyone is tooting their own horn but people really care about not just the solution but who we are buying from. More people need to share the core of who they are not just in their struggles but in their greatness too.

How do you think we got there, thinking we have to put up a facade to get people to buy from us and why is our story so important?

I’ve gotten trapped into the ‘fake it till you make it’. A lot of the time when we take someone else’s mission, it’s not authentic to us because it is not who we are as a person. I did that when I started Client Enrollment Academy but it wasn’t working for my. My messaging is that we have a story and we want to impact the world, the money will come but that’s not the root of what I want to do. I want to share the message of my story instead of what everybody else is saying.

Our story is important because the decisions we make in this world are emotional. Our buying decision is emotional. Ninety percent of our buying decision is done emotionally. Too many people are trying to sell through their solutions and that’s rational space of ‘I don’t have money’, “I don’t have time’, ‘are you even qualified?’ ‘I’ve got to talk to my partner, etc. – the rational mind is filled with all those objections. If you’re trying to get clients from the rational place, you’re in one of the biggest battles in the world. Why not go and spend the time in the emotional space and inspire people by sharing who you are and where you came from. Look at the biggest speakers in the world, the biggest influencers in the world; the biggest movers and shakers, they are all great story tellers – they get people emotionally charged to take action in their life.

Why do people fear telling their story?

It’s challenging; I have a story that my mother doesn’t necessarily like to hear. I lead with only one way and that is sharing with authenticity. I want people to know who I am. I want to work with people that are going to become my friends. I want to work with people that are willing to become vulnerable with e and I need to lead the way so is my system of leading with my story going to work for everyone? It is not going to work for everyone, I understand that but my people are the ones that want to share their message with the world.

What does it mean to stand in your authenticity?

It being able to share who you are; having a voice, have an opinion, an idea – to speak your truth. Whatever makes you feel real when you speak. So often people in the business world can’t say that they do.

How are you helping people to live their dreams?

I’m Founder of Client Enrollment Academy and what I do is I help people create their brands, stand in front as their businesses, stand in who they are as a person and having an authentic messaging whether it’s speaking or building an online presence, I help people leverage that and emotionally charge their audiences to want to work with them.

I help people attract their ideal clients and have sales conversations where it is authentic. I speed up the enrollment process for people through something that is natural, authentic to allow people to create the impact they want in the world. I work with Coaches, Trainers, Consultants by helping them create the growth in their business by doing it in a way that is true to them.

What is the underlying reasons why some Coaches fail?

It is consistency and understanding that you have to show up for world before it shows up for you. When you start your business, you’re not going to get that client in the first week. You’re not going to send out that one Facebook post and all of a sudden people are going to run to you. It is consistently showing up each and every day and finding a system that you feel in your heart will work and consistently showing up and pushing forward. If you keep doing that 1000 the world will start bending for you and you will see results. Too often, people give up way too quickly. Entrepreneurship is not easy, especially in the beginning. We look at the people we aspire to be – Gary V, Tony Robins, Brendon Burchard – you look at that person and you forget that most of them have been doing it for 25 years and you’ve been doing 1 or 2 years. You’ve got to keep going and keep pushing. You’ve got to have some patience.

How can we enjoy the sales process?

It starts with the mindset. We walk into a conversation in our world with an objective that we want, when you lead into a sales conversation with that kind of energy, it’s going to be very hard to close, because it’s a very ‘me-centred’ conversation. Instead, if you have a conversation where you are willing to serve somebody and focusing on that other person and getting into their world and figuring out what they need and building that rapport and that relationship, it becomes an authentic conversation.

Of course, we want to lead the conversation somewhere and we want to figure out their problems and we want to lead them to a solution to make that vision they have a reality but it really starts from the conversation in the beginning. Understanding that it’s not about me selling a product it’s about me going into a conversation and serving somebody so that I can help them.

In the book, SPIN Selling by Neil Rackman – it took 7.82 conversations to close a high-end sale and we as sales people we think we are supposed to get it in the first conversation and if we don’t get it in the first conversation, it’s like we loss. It’s continuing to have that conversation and not give up on that person. very few people follow up with me when they try to have a sales conversation and I say now is not the right time. They gave up on me before I was ready for them.

Sales is about friendship.

Focus on their vision and the results that you can bring. It’s not about their problem, it’s about focusing on what they want to create. That’s where we want to position ourselves. That’s the 90% emotional place.

What do you want people to walk away with from your message?

I want people to realize that whatever is in their heart, to really do. Whatever that feeling is, that deep down that greatness inside of them that they can have it and that they deserve it.

Main Take-Aways:

Ninety percent of our buying decision is done emotionally.
We must be consistent – understand that the world doesn’t show up for you until you show up for it.
Focus on their vision and the results that you can bring.

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Top 3 Startup Mistakes to Avoid, Paying it Forward at Google Campus; Using Similar Web to engage Your Audience, with Lior Degani

Wed, 02 Aug 2017 00:00:14 +0000

Lior Degani is the Co-founder of Swayy (Acquired by Similar Web). He mentors at Google Campus in Tel Aviv to startups with Growth and Go to Market strategy as part of the Google Launchpad program. He specializes in system engineering, growth hacking and data analysis, with over 10 years experience working in Telecom and Startup companies, as well as serving in the prestigious IDF unit 8200 – an elite intelligence unit which has spawned many successful Hi-Tech entrepreneurs over the years. He lives in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Fun question for you…Would you rather be a giant rodent or a tiny elephant?

I would go with a giant rodent. I would rather be big among the people around me.

What is it like in Israel?

Israel is a tiny country in the middle east. The weather is amazing, very hot these days. Tel Aviv is a very vibrant city.

Tell us about the genesis of Swayy and what you do?

Around 5 years ago we had several ideas for startups. We’ve tried to build a start up around business networking (like a mobile App). We basically make every mistake that any start up can. There is no single mistake that you shouldn’t do in the start-up play book that we didn’t make.

It took us a long time to understand all the mistake that we made. We spent about 1 year doing nothing at all – spent a lot of money and our time. Luckily, we got to join a startup accelerator in Tel Aviv. A lot of people think our idea was stupid, so did we.

We started off our journey with no idea, just us, three entrepreneurs. Because we had no idea and we were part of an accelerator, we wanted to take advantage of it. Every day we had a different idea. Throughout those ideas, we tested them every few weeks. We tried different things, some of them were pretty useful and successful on a small scale. We believed in marketing back then until now. We took the challenge to build a tool for ourselves that would help us understand what our community of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn are engaging with and how can we serve them.

It was kind of a discovery of concept for business purposes for social media marketing. While building it we figured out it was actually a very good idea. We got great feedback for it, we decided to ditch every other idea that we have and launch Swayy.

This was to analyze your social profile, looking at interaction and engagement that your followers are doing on your post and provide more relevant content for you to engage with them accordingly. We launched it in September 2013.

Give us an example of how to use the app that you have created?

It crawls through all your posts and engagement on a semantic level. For example, if you are fashion business and you share lots of content on social media, we are able to share specific articles about shoes or Paris or Jewelry, more relevant to your specific audience and generate more engagement.

What were some of the mistakes that you made in the startup phase?

I’ll give you three:
1. We didn’t share our idea with anyone – maybe we were afraid anyone would steal our idea. We did this for a year. You should never be afraid of sharing your idea. An idea in and of itself means nothing. It’s about the execution, it’s about the people behind the idea. Even if someone thinks your idea is great and are going to do it themselves, if you believe in yourself you will do it better.

2. We were looking to raise money from VCs and Angels but we decided to spend on our own and quit our jobs. Although it seems like a great thing to do because it means that you believe in your start up, that’s wrong because you shouldn’t spend money on your start up because it really gives you no other option to live. It makes you more stressful and dependent. It makes your lifespan shorter. You cannot always spend time on your startup because you’re always worried about money. From a financial perspective, when you’re spending money from your own pocket, there is no end to it. There is no budget.

3. We wanted to build the best and most comprehensive product that the world has ever seen which is completely against any idea of lean start up. When we started, it wasn’t there yet where everyone knows about Minimum Viable Product (MVP). We just thought that if a product is not good enough, no-one would use it so we would rather build the best product we can, which is against any common sense. When you try out something simple, the basic, the core of your product, you collect feedback from your users, you see if you can even get users. Why would you spend so much time building the best future if no one would use it? We built a super complicated and probably useless product which took us more time and more money.

Similar Web acquired Swayy, tell us about that?

After starting Swayy in 2013, we got some great reaction from the media, from users and investors. Initially it was amazing for us. After many years of our work without any results, we were able to get some interest. Obviously, they were challenges and we didn’t grow to be the biggest company in the world but made small steps of improvements every couple of months, which is important.

We played in a content discovery world and within the social media analytics world. This raised interest from several companies. We had the honour to talk with huge companies around the world about collaboration or maybe finding other ways to work together. Around a year or so, we had the opportunity to learn from another company and to grow personally. It wasn’t easy to decide to stop what you’re building every day and join a different company with a different cause from what you were doing specifically.

We found an amazing partner with Similar Web. The opportunity was amazing for us. We were looking at several directions, but sometimes come an opportunity when you feel it’s a perfect fit and we really did find an amazing home to help us improve in every aspect. It has already been two years since and it has been super successful for us how we have merged into the organization the way we did.

Similar Web does market intelligence so we measure everything that is happening in the digital world – whatever visitor goes to any traffic and where the traffic is coming from and how people are reacting on a certain website and provide you with all the knowledge you need to improve your marketing strategy or generally how to increase your market share. This huge vision that the company has was appealing to us in the beginning and it is appealing to us today. We really found an interesting home to be at.

Paying it forward, mentoring at Google Campus – what is the role of campus and your involvement?

There are several campuses around the world that hosts different initiatives, different events – mostly free for the startup community as Google is super supportive (of startups). One of these initiatives is the Google Launch Pad programme where they bring in for an intensive week of training and mentorship, startups from different programmes in Tel Aviv and every day is about specific topics such as pitching, fund-raising, etc., like a speed-dating scenario.

I specifically participate in the marketing day and my co-founder from Swayy is participating in the product day. You meet amazing startups at different stages. There is nothing better than starting your company and living your dream. I’m lucky enough to participate in several start up programmes and other accelerators.

When I just joined the start-up accelerator in Tel Aviv, we had no idea what to do but we had mentors. Some of them that we met there are good friends to this day. It is impossible to succeed without learning from other people who had made those mistakes before to help you prevent those mistakes. I’m trying to pay to forward. When you are growing in the startup community, you’re interested, it’s fun, it’s exciting and you always meet startups. I had the opportunity to mentor startups for longer period along their journey like 3 or 4 months.

What is the startup landscape in Tel Aviv?

The majority of startups I meet won’t even reach any initial stage of investment where they can get to next step of building and marketing their product. The ones that pass this stage keep their startup for 2 or 3 years maximum before they fail – it sounds harsh but this is start up life, you go for a journey, only few succeed.

Luckily, we were acquired by Similar Web. We wanted to build a big company on our own which we couldn’t do. Every startup has their own journey. The numbers are not in your favour. Most entrepreneurs I know that are successful today have failed before. I’m not familiar with anyone that did it on their first try. Maybe there is but I haven’t met anyone. Failing in a start in a startup is part of the process.

What is the number one reason for failure?

Losing focus. We lost focus several times because there are different things that you hear when you meet people. That is why you need to be able to able to make the distinction between feedback and noise. Never lose focus.

Main Take-Aways:

Never be afraid of sharing your idea, it’s the execution that makes the difference.
We need others in order to succeed at starting a business.
As a startup, you must be able to make the distinction between feedback and noise.

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Tips on Reaching Your Highest Potential, Becoming a Conscious Millionaire and Growing Your Business, with JV Crum III

Wed, 26 Jul 2017 00:00:59 +0000

JV Crum III is by Inc Magazine as one of the Top Business Podcasts to listen to in 2017, is Host of Conscious Millionaire, a Podcast and Nationally-Syndicated Radio Show heard by over 10 Million listeners in 186 countries. He is a speaker, coach, best-selling author, Huffington Post Columnist and Founder of ConsciousMillionaire.com and the First Million Academy. His global company provides coaching and masterminds for both small and mid-sized businesses that want to make a big impact and big profits. He is also featured in the upcoming movie, RiseUP, and holds graduate degrees in three areas: business, law and psychology.

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If you had to eat a worm, how would you cook it?
I would saute it in butter with some garlic and rosemary.

What inspired you to write “Conscious Millionaire”?
I was looking for about 3 years going camping, etc. and asking “why am I on the planet and how can I take the talents that I have and turn to skills and put them to use and to make this a better world to help other people? I was skiing for the winter. I picked up a brochure (from the cabin), looked down and saw the word ‘conscious’ and in my forehead I saw ‘conscious millionaire’. I got a little tingling in my spine and I said ‘that’s it! That’s what I’ve been looking for. So the inspiration for the book – having an aspiration to teach people a path to make their first million that was spiritual, and socially conscious that would fulfill them.
I got there at 25 with the Mercedes and the four-story home and it was great but then I felt empty as I had not gotten the fulfillment and meaning part of it all. So I put all these together so that when you build your first million you get there and you’re fulfilled and feel like you’re doing something that matters.

What does it mean to be conscious? – outside of being alive
There are 3 different ways we can look at conscious.

Awareness, which includes, “what’s the best client for me to work with? What’s their top problems? What’s the solution that I can best provide them? How does this mechanics actually work? How do I market?
Visionary, think of Steve Jobs where he connected to a bigger vision of what we all do in terms of how we communicate with one another, and there comes the iPhones. That’s the visionary leader of connecting to a better idea about the world might be.
Being socially conscious – caring about your stakeholders, everybody that works with you, that you’re being fair in your dealings with other people. How do I uplift my client? Create a better world – create a change in my clients.

Why are you so passionate to help 6-Figure service-businesses and coaches reach their First Million?
I think it’s because I grew up in a family where there are about 200 people in a little town. Nobody had any money. My parents were very strict and conservative and they didn’t want to be embarrassed in the grocery store so I was taught not to ask for the candy bar. We actually didn’t have that kind of money. At 5 I said, I don’t think this is how I want to live and I said, ‘what’s the answer?’ Why don’t mommy and daddy don’t have any money and I said oh, I’ll grow up and be a millionaire.

At 25 I got there. I can tell you that making that first million is game changer, I can have a beautiful home, I can drive a Mercedes, I can go to Europe on vacation. I didn’t have to worry about the things my parent had to worry about and I can focus on living my life the way that I wanted; making a bigger contribution. That first million is a game changer for people; they can send their kids to college; they don’t have to worry about anything. All those things come together for them. I know how important those things are in a person’s journey and I want to help them get there.

Why do some entrepreneurs reach their First Million and continue to thrive while so many fail?
That’s a great question, that’s why I wrote a whole chapter in my book on financial freedom. The skills that it take to get to that first million are actually quite different than the skills it take to sustain it and continue growing. Often times people don’t develop those skills so they get to that place but they don’t have good spending/saving/investment habits. They’re not focused on the things that will allow them to then take it and turn it into a lifetime prosperity. That’s a different type of skill.

How can a 7-Figure business quickly double revenues and profits?
It’s all about scaling. I have a 5-step process and the 5th step is really how you’re going to double/triple/10 times your business and it all comes down to having the right systems in place and knowing where your high profit/revenue is coming from so you can focus on that and scale it quickly. Once you have your systems working, if you know how to bring a prospect in and you have a system to take them through the steps to make that first sale and you have that automated, now it’s just a matter of more of the right traffic coming through and you can double your business quickly.

What is a Big Impact Vision?
One that comes from within you. There are 3 elements. The big picture is the core of the business and it’s where a lot of entrepreneurs fail to get that aspiration so that they really move forward and do something big. At the early stages a lot of businesses focus on how do I put money in the bank. This is critical but if that’s your whole focus for building a business, it’s very difficult to build a great business that way because that’s not the core of a great business.

Every great business starts off with a core vision of something bigger that has nothing in and of itself to do with putting money in the bank. It’s about creating a particular experience and transformation for the client. When you start talking about your big impact vision you may also be impacting the world, you may be solving a worldwide problem such as providing drinking water. That’s a big impact vision.

You start off by asking what is something you are passionate about. There are 3 clues to this:

You really become one with it. When you do that activity, you lose track of time, you think an half hour passed and it was 4 hours.
You have a state change. I call that state immense joy, you may have a different name for it. You probably have people say after you’ve been doing this activity, ‘wow! you look different’ and you may look different – the blood flow throw your vein differently.
You’ll probably do this activity and help people for free. That’s the thing, you’ve got to be doing something you love so much that you’ll do it for free.

The great thing is because you’re so talented at it, this is what you can charge the highest rates for because you get the highest transformation and create the highest value.

The second part is purpose – I spend a long time figuring it out because I didn’t have a process but once I discovered it, and started working with a lot of clients, it never take me more than 2 or 3 sessions to get them to a deep purpose. Your purpose is like a gold coin, once you’ve discovered it, you want to have it in your pocket every day. It has 2 sides, on the front it says purpose but that in and of itself doesn’t tell you how to discover it but on the back, is the secret – your purpose is always about making a difference for someone or something outside of yourself. It’s never about you, it’s about what you give. It’s about giving, serving – giving value to someone/something outside of you.

You’re listening to me today and I can guarantee you that you have 1 or 2 core strengths but it’s hard for you to know them because it’s like a fish swimming in an aquarium. They are so good at it but they don’t know it because they are just doing it naturally. So, you need to ask a client/business associate ask 5 people what they think you do best. Put them together and it tells you your core strength to identify impact and what to focus on.

When you discover your core strengths, it will inform how you grow your business.

You created the three-step “Formula for Creating Wealth”. What are the steps and how can our listeners use them in their business or finances?
There are 3 steps – conscious, focus, action. The big impact vision fits in that piece. People who reach hundreds of millions they spend a lot of time at the conscious level of figuring out where they want to go and what’s the best route for getting there. Why are they focused on this number one priority over the next 30 days and why is this the number 1 priority and those are the people who are most successful.

The entrepreneurs that skip that step to focus on action, they are the ones who are least successful because if you don’t know where you’re going and if you don’t have a plan for getting there then all the action in the world is meaningless. It’s like the scare crow in the wizard of Oz. If you don’t know where you’re going any road is just as good as any other road. If you have a laser focused vision then when all these things come along that are exciting but are distractive, you know that those aren’t your opportunities and you’re able to filter through opportunities very quickly and go ‘great opportunity but not right for me or not right for me right now’. That’s what happens when you’re laser focused, you consciously take time to know where you’re headed, why it’s important and what resources you need to get there and then look at different paths to get there before you take action. That’s the best time you could spend on businesses.

There are 7 habits in your book. If you could only choose one to develop, which would it be and why?
Number 4 – the habit that defines being a conscious millionaire and that’s doing the right thing. If you always do what you believe in your heart is the right thing for your customer, employees, independent contractors that takes care of having to have a lot of rules because you’re really focused doing what’s right for everyone.

Main Take-Aways:

Being conscious means to be aware, a visionary and socially aware.
A big impact vision starts off with a core of something big, having nothing to do with putting money in the bank.
Always choosing to do the right thing is a habit that defines being a conscious millionaire.

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How to Get and Stay Motivated, be Intentional, Train Your Mind for Success and WIN, with Nicole McLaren-Campbell

Wed, 19 Jul 2017 00:00:34 +0000

Nicole McLaren-Campbell is an Educator, Motivational Speaker, Author and Entrepreneur. She operates AIM Educational Services, providing college and graduate school placement services, SAT / ACT / SSAT and GRE prep, and tutoring in high school English, Math and Science.

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Fun question…would you rather be able to see the future or change the past?
I guess maybe more I’d want to change the past because I have that compulsion but on the other hand I feel like even my failures and missteps have been very useful. I guess I would change the past because some things were just dumb. I would go back and fix the dumb stuff although you can find a lesson in everything. I wouldn’t go back to make it perfect though because there are some things that the struggles were worth in the end.

Give us a little into your background and how you developed this fire in your belly?
Some of it feels like my purpose in life, because of that I think it’s a gift to me from God and I appreciate that energy. I’ve been very blessed to be influenced and motivated by very key people at very key stages of my life. That has given me fire and energy and I’m a student of success. I’m ready about how successful people keep their energy up because energy is such an important part of winning.

Exercise, eating properly, getting up early, praying, reading books help me. I try as much as possible to stay away from things, people and activities that suck my energy.

I spend most of my time in pursuit of what I feel I was called to do, I get energy from that because I enjoy my job and the impact that I’m able to have. I enjoy most things about my life and that gives me energy to power through the things I don’t necessarily enjoy but they are part and parcel of what I’m trying to accomplish.

How important is it for us to wake up and intentional?
What could be more important? There is so much going on in the world. There is a lot of distraction, noise and so many things we could be doing. It is very easy to get busy being busy. If you’re not moving from a place of clarity about what the vision for yourself – aligning your values with that vision and making sure your goals are in alignment with your values and vision – then you can find yourself doing all sorts of things. You don’t know what to say no to, you don’t know what to say yes to, you just sort of going through the motions and you’re wondering why you feel dissatisfied and you’re not feeling a 100% of you.
You know that there is something in you but it’s not coming out because you’re not being intentional. It is very important to move from that space of intention because that’s how, over time, we move forward with what we want to be doing as opposed to some other agenda that someone has put forward or equally as bad just “tek weh yuh get out of life” where everyday just come at you and you in reaction mode constantly.

With the best of intentions, sometimes we get distracted how do we maintain that positive mindset?
We have to build our vibes sometimes. We can’t just go with the way we feel. We have to realize that we can deliberately turn that around. Repeating affirmations and practicing gratitude is important. In my book, “Make it Count”, I talk about getting and staying motivated and that you have to take a very deliberate approach.

Every day I wake up, I pray first and imagine my day as to how it is going to go, thanking the Lord for things that haven’t even happened yet and to put yourself in that positive mindset.

The brain naturally tends to go the negative stuff because back in the day you had you focus on surviving. Our brain is still in survival mode and programmed to go to the negative. You have to take back control, don’t let your brain lead you. You have to lead from your gut and heart and tell your brain what the agenda is.

We have to understand that we are not powerless in this thing of mood or staying up on energy, it is something we can be deliberate about and affect our disposition. Some of it is genetic but a lot of it is within our control and we have to seek to control what we can. We shouldn’t worry about what isn’t within our control. If you are sucking my energy, you are getting a swerve. I don’t play game with that.

Your entrepreneurial journey?
I did my under-graduate studies at Princeton University and decided that I would volunteer as part of the Admissions School Chair (ASC). I was interviewing a young lady for Princeton who was and is powerful (she is doing great things in the world now). At the time she was a student really dreaming of going to Princeton, really doing outstanding work in terms of her studies and SATs and very powerful. I thought she was a great candidate but by the time the interview was finished I realized that she hadn’t quite competed in the way that I know she needed to in order to maximize her scholarship as it was competitive. She didn’t get in and when she didn’t, I went home to tell my boyfriend at the time (now husband, Jeffrey Campbell aka Agent Sasco) that I wish I could help people get into college. I didn’t know if it’s a job or anything. He said I should totally do it. I was worried about car payments, etc., and he encouraged me not to worry about it because he knew I was going to be successful.

I didn’t quit my job immediately, I got trained even while being at the Ministry of Education which was a great experience. I worked with Andrew Holness as his Senior Policy Analyst. He is now the Prime Minister of Jamaica. It was a priceless experience because he is one of the hardest workers I know with an energy level that is unreal. He taught me a lot and pushed me hard in that job. I got trained, and started going to local events around the industry.

I met another consultant who focused on boarding school placement, I wanted to do college placement and we just struck up a friendship and an alliance that exists to this day. I’ve been blessed to meet some key people at some key points in my life.

That’s how AIM started, a dream, a faith, a step, a very supportive boyfriend (now husband), family that supported me and believed in me. Yes, they are naysayers and that’s part of the story. They were people telling me about the industry, you’re a young girl, what are you going to come and do. Here we are 7 years later and we are on fire.

It feels really good to help others to achieve their dream in the same way that others have helped me to achieve my dreams.

My business from a business point of view helps people which is exciting but from a non-business point of view there is also the responsibility to help people who cannot help themselves.

What are some of your successes?
Every year, I set my intention to exceed what I did the previous year. It is going to be my best year yet. Last year for example, we had a return on investment of 4700% and this is when we look at the average scholarship for 1 university. This year it is 5067%, that’s really exciting. Our average scholarship per year per college is US$38,000. Last year it was US$30,000.

I am a results person. I want to talk about value. I’m reading a lot of Warren Buffet and he says you don’t look at cost, you look at value. I’m very serious about where I invest my time and money. I love to return that investment to our students and their parents because this is a serious thing. Not only are the numbers telling us, but the types of universities that our students are getting into versus what the regular admissions rates look like for those schools. We are doing more online work more now than ever, we are seeing students from all over the Caribbean, all over the USA and in Canada in the same way we are working with students like we do right here in Kingston.

What inspired you to write, Make it Count: Tips on Unlocking You Vision in 2017 and Beyond?”
It was a Security Guard at Television Jamaica in Kingston. I was on the programme, “Smile Jamaica, it’s Morning Time”, talking about making the second half of 2016 count. When I was leaving the security guard said she really enjoyed my presentation and that she was really inspired. She wished I had a book so she could read to be inspired when she wanted to. It did occur to me to write a book but shoved it aside.

I was struggling to complete it although it is very short and digestible. I gave myself some external accountability by putting it on Instagram for pre-order the (it wasn’t finished). People started pre-ordering and I was forced to complete. I googled an App to self-publish. A publisher has contacted me and I have signed a publishing deal. I’ve already launched it in Paris and I’m going to launch it in New York and I’m doing an island wide tour. All of this is completely blowing my mind but you move in the direction of your calling and purpose, you don’t need to see the whole staircase as Martin Luther King said – you just need to see the first step and you will be frightened at how everything starts to come together.

The book is 37 pages dealing with anecdotes, stories from my life about different things that have been in my way. Getting really honest, different failures I’ve had and how I’ve overcome and learn powerful lessons from failures. It is overcoming fear, staying motivated and tuning in to your purpose and setting that vision for yourself which I find to be priceless. It is attacking that horrible thing called procrastination that sabotages so many of us.

Main Take-Aways:

Focus your energy on your calling.
You must be intentional in order to move forward.
We are not powerless, we have the ability to affect our mood.

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How to Break Free From Your Safety Net to Live the Life You Want, with Rob Dial

Wed, 12 Jul 2017 00:00:16 +0000

Rob Dial is a podcaster, performance coach and speaker for 10+ years now. Throughout the course of that time he has coached thousands of people – from college students to NFL superstars. He is the magic behind MWF Motivation.

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Show Notes:

If you could have 3 wishes granted, what would they be?
To change the fact that innocent being killed by older men who can’t get their politics together; secondly to not have to sleep and thirdly, I wish extreme self-awareness for everybody in the world.

Take us through the journey of growing a multi-billion-dollar business
It was Cutco Knives. We sold the best knives in the world in people’s houses. I was a 19 years old college kid. I went in for an interview and saw there 20-21 year olds who were making a $1,000 per week by selling knives in people’s houses. I didn’t know anything about knives, I didn’t know anything about cooking (I’m still a terrible cook at 31) but I was like if these people could do it, I could do it as well. I went in for the job really to make money. That originally attracted me. Starting at that company set me a completely different path in my life. It made me focus on personal growth and made me be the best i could be. By the time I was 21, I was promoted to run an office for them; grew it to one of the biggest offices in the United States, broke a bunch of records, trained a few thousand people. The rest as they say is history.

Was Sales something you thought you’d be good at or you said let me try this because I need the money?
A little bit of both. I always wanted to be in sales because when I was younger, my father was in sales and I remember being in high school and wanted to be ca car salesman because I knew that sale people make a lot of money. I knew that I loved cars but no car place wants to hire a 16-year old kid to sell cars for them.
It forced me to get out of my shell. By the time, I was 20 years old, I was interviewing people who were 40, 50, 60 years old sometimes and then running 3 day-17 hour trainings for them. It forced me to get better at my communication skills and getting in front of people and speaking. I always wanted to be in sales but didn’t think I would be a great sales person because I was really shy and not very confident.

What infrastructure that were in place to make you become so good at it?
Cutco had a really good training program. If you’ve met anyone who has ever been at Cutco for a while you’ll recognize that they are usually super sharp, on point person and the reason is they recruit a lot of people and they quit because it is really a hard job. To stick there for a while says a lot.
The best part was the culture. For people who worked there for a while, it turned into a bubble of positivity and personal growth and everyone talking about the books. You have 19, 20, 21-year old kids talking about the books they’ve read, the conferences they’ve been to; the money that they’re investing into themselves. When I was 19, a few months after I started with them I paid $500.00 per month to have a one on one coach to make me better. They talked about how they taught skills for life.

When did you recognize the importance of feeding your mind?
I ran an office for them in Florida when I was 21 years old. I started to notice that there are two different paths that I could take. When I first started at 19, I partied a lot. I started to notice that I could continue down that path and it wouldn’t take me where I wanted to go in life. I could look at the people whose books I was reading, whose conferences I was going to and realize that if I start putting the right things in place right now, it could set me up to be extremely successful in life and that is the theory.

It was hard to say no when my friends would call me up to say let’s go hang out. It was hard not to say yes. But I knew what I was working for, I had a vision of where I wanted my life to be. Ten years down the road, I’m glad I made those decisions because it set me up to be way further ahead than most people that are my age now.

I had the foresight that it would change my life.

Where are those college friends now?
They are still some of my best friends. Some are doing pretty decent for themselves. Looking at some of friends from high school, they are not really successful; they have normal day jobs and those types of things.

An example of someone I became best friends with who I met through the company when I was 19 or 20 years old, is killing it as a Realtor. Most Realtors may make $40,000 in their first year, he just switched over 3 months ago and this month alone made $45,000 and already has the team of people under him 3 months into. It shows you the type of mind-set that you develop from working in this company. I always like to think about it like this, you can go to the gym and you can work out your body, and grow your muscles by putting them under stress and making them better by training them. That’s exactly how the brain works, if you can put yourself through stress and learning discipline, and the right habits then it is just easy for you later on in life for things to be thrown at you and you can go past them and throw them off. You don’t have as many limiting beliefs or fear holding you back because you’ve already gone them 10 years ago.

When did you decide you want to be a coach?
I started doing coaching a long time ago when I was younger. What happened was I was with the company, I doing well working 100-110 hours a week because I was obsessed with becoming the number manager and I burnt myself out. I left the company and got a really good offer to work for another company. I thought maybe I go work for them and do some sales and training for them. I had a different experience where instead of going and becoming an employee and deciding that I wanted to become an entrepreneur; I was an entrepreneur who then become an employee and then deciding that I wanted to become an entrepreneur again. I went into the corporate world for 5 years and realized that it’s good for some people but for me, it’s just not what I wanted. I don’t deal well with being an employee. I like to think of ideas and execute on them and make money off them.

I went into the corporate world and did sales and training for them and was very successful doing it and made a great deal of money. In December 2014, I was making more money than I ever had in my entire life, I was great but I was completely unfulfilled with what I was doing. I decided to leave the company. In January 2015, I wrote in my journal that I want to create a job where I can help as many people as possible get what they want, bring out their true potential and be able to do all of this from my computer and be fulfilled. Ten years ago, I wanted to do something that even if I weren’t able to make as much money as I was when I was in the other company, I would be still be driven to wake up every morning and do it and be able to give something to people. I was trying to think how can I do it? What format that I can use? It took me about 4 month of planning. I thought I am going to get my message out via Podcasts. I feel like a decade of personal growth, conferences, book read, and everything that I’ve done, that I have a lot to offer people. Within the first year it got over 1 million downloads and well on way to 2 million downloads within 18 months and been able to build up a following between Instagram and Facebook of over 100,000 and growing.

The best part is when I quit my job, I was making the most money I’ve ever made at that time; now I’m 100 times more fulfilled than I ever have been and making more money than I could ever dream of when I was working for someone else. It shows you that when you decide to cut free from the salary and the safety net and really go for what you want to do and what you’re passionate about, the money will follow. I’m living proof of that.

What is the name of your podcast?
MWF Motivation – Monday, Wednesday, Friday Motivation, which are the days that it comes out. They are short to the point, no BS podcast. It is about 5-15 minutes.

Take us through severing ties with our safety net?
I used to hate that I had paid vacation because I wanted to be on vacation all the time. I didn’t want to have 10-15 days of paid vacation that I could take per year. When someone says paid vacation, I’m like, screw paid vacation. My life is going to be a vacation and I’m going to get paid while doing it. That was one of the things that made me want to leave, the second thing was, working a 9-5, Monday to Friday was just arbitrary stuff made up by someone who was no smarter than you and I.

I’m very much the person that questions everything that is done by society and the rules we follow – the way we are to act and the way we were told to be. I don’t think I was put on this planet to work somebody else and spend most of my waking hours doing something that I don’t want to do for somebody else who doesn’t really care about me. I could be replaced. Maybe I’ll make less money but I would be happy.
We’re stuck in the 9-5 of what we feel we’re supposed to do and that safety net. The money in my bank account never fulfilled me and it was the idea that if want to go and work form the park on Tuesday at noon, I can go work form the park on Tuesday at noon. I can set up a mobile hot spot from my phone on my computer and I do it all the time. That’s what I wanted to build.

What’s more important to you?
Making a bunch of money and bunch of digits in my bank account or being really happy every single day that I’m alive and feeling like I’m helping a bunch of people while doing it and that’s what made me break free.

In reality, we think we want money to buy new things and all of that but really what we want money for is to be free. When you own your own business, and got it to a point where it is at least profitable, and you’re able to pay the bills, feed your children and all of those things, you’re free. If you want to take a day off, you can take the day off.

Final piece of advice?
You’re going to die. I watched my father die at 15 years old. From that moment I realize, this is a legitimate thing, he’s not coming back. I’m going to be in the same position one day. It’s very real. I think about it all the time. I’m going to put everything that I can into making sure that I can be the happiest that I can be every single day. If somebody has the gut feeling inside of them of, “I need to do my own thing”, or I need to figure out a way to make money on the side to have more freedom with my kids or I want to travel, they need to figure a way to execute on it. You only get one life. If you feel like you shouldn’t be working for somebody else, don’t waste your life working for somebody else.

Main Take-Aways:

Invest in yourself, it will come in handy years from now.
If you feel being an entrepreneur is for you, don’t waste your time working for others.
It’s not money we desire but the freedom to do what we want when we want.

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A Conversation on Living ‘Between Dreams’ to ‘Just Go’, with Chris Ruggiero

Wed, 05 Jul 2017 00:00:36 +0000

Chris Ruggiero does fun for a living; he is a live theater performer, podcast host and author who has been featured on Entrepreneur on Fire and The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Whether he’s juggling random objects on a unicycle or executing seemingly impossible tricks and stunts, nothing is off limits in his show! Thousands of audience members have been left in a state of laughter and amazement.

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Show Notes:

What was one new experience you tried that, at the time, was completely unknown or uncomfortable to you?

To answer this question and give a background into what I do ties into the same thing. I do a live theatre show that is a one-man show, juggling, circus, variety and all kinds of crazy stuff. Just getting started with that was scary and I didn’t how to do it. I started by doing small things. I started before I knew how to do it.

Take us back to when you got started, what did figuring it out meant to you at that time?
My book fits into all of this as it is entitled, “Just Go”. For my show, it was like first starting and create your own thing and try to get people to hire me and do a performance. Just being patient and willing to take one step at a time is really valuable. I would do shows for free because I wanted to learn how to do it. I wasn’t impatient to get to it. I knew that it would be great to make a large amount of money doing shows but I wasn’t ready for it yet. I was willing to start with the small shows including birthday parties, free shows, community events, retirement homes, all these shows that didn’t look too glamourous looking back at them but they allowed me to develop those skills to be able to do the bigger shows. Now I perform in casinos and do the shows that are more ‘brag worthy’.

Share the importance of staying in your lane and developing our craft doing the things that we love…
With my show, I said, I’m here and I need to start here. You need to focus on your own thing. For example, I self-publish my book because I didn’t want to sit around for two years to hear every book publisher tell me ‘no’. I didn’t know how to write and publish a book but I knew how to start writing. I had YouTube and internet and I research and figure out how to do it.

What has been a most terrible time for you as you enter the field of entrepreneurship?
Getting inside my own head and saying am I good enough to do this? Am I qualified enough to do this? Who’s going to care about this stuff that I’m creating? For me it comes from within myself. You start to find things outside yourself to reinforce that. On the other side of that it’s what you’re focusing on is what your brain will seek out and find.

What is the message you’re sharing with your clothing brand?
I’m trying to build an umbrella for all the work that I do to fall under. Between dreams is this idea of my friend Kip and I. People dream all the time, dreaming about things, talking about things. But there are certain people who do things between dreams…live, that’s where life is. That’s where the idea of Between Dreams came. It’s an idea for people to grab a shirt and feel like they are part of a community. Things you wear tell the story of what you want to convey. It can make you feel like a different person. It can change your physical surrounding as you are behaving differently. It can change your life and change the world.

The achievement you’re most proud of?
Some people saw the Ellen Degeneres show as this major thing. It was awesome but it didn’t change my life. I’m proud of it and the work that I did to convince them to be on their show. The overall most proud moment is just going out and keep going. Life is more about the themes that you do in life rather than the smaller picture. I have a following that read my book, listen to podcast and come see my show and I’m most proud that I’ve created something around me.

Was there any moment of fear that gripped you before you decided to do this anyway?
There are days that feel off. When I was first started, I said that if I don’t do it you’re not going to do it. You’re not going to do it tomorrow. You can’t keep saying I’m going to do this today because then you’re not really talking, you’re doing.

What advice would you give to our #PeakPerfomers community to just get started?
Like my book says, “Just Go”. Just get started. Don’t keep trying how to learn how to do stuff, just do stuff and you’ll learn how to do stuff.

Main Take-Aways:

Just being patient and willing to take one step at a time is really valuable.
Just do.
Don’t forget to live when you’re between dreams

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A Look into Creating Copy that Converts to Grow Your Business & Connect with Your Clients, with Lisa Rothstein

Wed, 28 Jun 2017 00:00:14 +0000

Lisa Rothstein has extensively worked as a copywriter and in advertising on two continents. This has been invaluable in pitching her scripts to Hollywood and as a freelance copywriter & marketing consultant in the US and other parts of the world. She helps clients hone their strategy and their brand messages. She is currently co-authoring a book called DaVinchi Dilemma, addressing the challenge of distraction caused by having too many talents and ideas.

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Show Notes:

If you are at a friend or relative’s house for dinner and you find a dead insect in your salad, what would you do?
I think that I would make it go away or disappear into my napkin and pretend nothing had happened. Depending on the relative or friend I might pick the insect out of my salad and pretend to make it talk and say, “I’m really glad you’ve invited me to dinner, I hope I didn’t eat too much.” I like to be creative with what I find.

What is Copy Writing?
First of all, it has nothing to do with Copyright which you hear about in the legal profession. Copy Writing has to do with writing the kind of text and content that sells your products and services. It is a little different from content writing as all copy is content but not all content is copy. For example, a blog is content but not copy; a podcast is content but not copy. Parts of the content where we may offer or sell something is considered copy. Copy is the parts of the texts and content that you use to make an offer or that you use to invite people to sign up for something leading to a sale.

There are different types of copy writing. Most copy writing has to do with direct marketing. The kind of thing where you would put on a website, in an email, or on a landing page. This is a different to what you’d see on TV. Some persons make the mistake of thinking that you have to be witty and grab attention the same way a TV commercial does.

How important it is to nail that copy to ensure our message is received in the way it was intended?
It is essential and super important. At a networking event, you have a chance to explain yourself but your copy is sitting on the internet or in a letter that you sent. You’re not there to help them along to figure things out. They have to get it, to understand what you’re selling or what you’re trying to sell them, what you’re trying to do, why it is important without any help from you. That may make you feel there is a lot of pressure on you to get it right.

You don’t have to be a genius. Writing in a more authentic way like you would talk is way more effective in business than to come up with just do it or some form of clever tag line.

The more problems you’re solving for your customers, talk about those things that you already know how to do. But a lot of people don’t want to believe it’s that simple. Just record yourself talk your copy. Approach it as though you’re talking to a real person because you’re talking to a real person. Write as though you’re talking to one person. You should hire a Copy Writer only when you know your business and you know who your ideal client is.

The importance of story-telling in copy writing?
It’s always been a terrific tool to used. There are a few different types of stories that you can tell. It is great because people have always loved stories. They go wild for stories as they help to create connection. When you tell stories about yourself in your copy, it connects you with your client and it gives you credibility. You can also tell stories about your clients and how they’ve transformed and have success stories. If you don’t have any of that you can use parables and fables to make a point similar to in the bible. The idea is that a story has a beginning, middle and end. It’s good to look into your business for stories that demonstrate a point that you’re trying to make across Facebook, videos, etc.

What is the one thing that bugs you when you look at copies?
The thing that bugs me the most is that they talk too much about themselves and too soon before demonstrating what my issues are and what I want. Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care. Get their attention first.

Take us through writing a copy for someone who is selling clothes.
It depends on how much they’re already engaging with people. Importantly, if you’re just sending it out only when you have something to sell you’re not going to have a good result. You could start by sending out something that your client is already talking about such as fashion trends and showing them what different celebrities are wearing. In the next email, you say if you like what you saw in the previous email then we have these. Or show them how to wear a particular pair of shorts, what to wear it with, etc. It is easy to write copy when you know what these people are about. The tone of how you come across is important.
Think about who you are showing up as and speak in that voice.

Main Take-Aways:

You should hire a Copy Writer only when you know your business and you know who your ideal client is.
When you tell stories about yourself in your copy, it connects you with your client and it gives you credibility.
Always approach your copy as if you’re talking to a real person because you are.

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The Power of Using Your Story to Provide Inspiration and Have Great Success, with Greg Walker

Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Greg Walker is the only one of fifteen children to ever Graduate High School. An expert on Leadership & Success, he became a Millionaire at a young age, owning three Franchises. Known as “The Big Dreamer,” he will inspire you to achieve all your Dreams or Visions.

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Show Notes:

Where is your favourite fun spot to go?
I love the movies

What was your experience as a child growing up?
My experience was not a great one, growing up with 15 children born to alcoholic and drug addicted parents. My mother actually stabbed me. I grew up with dysfunction. I have 14 siblings and I was the only one who graduated high school. I graduated 454 out of 455. The only reason I graduated was that my teacher changed my grades a month before graduation. She saw something in me that I did not see in myself.

How did your environment affect you mentally?
People hear me speak all over the world now and can’t believe that I was very shy. I didn’t speak till I was eleven years old because of what I saw in my life. Five years ago, I decided I was going to speak. I joined Toastmasters through my friend and mentor Les Brown. In six months, I spoke at the World Championship Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. Now people are paying me up to $20,000 to peak. I speak with Les Brown.

I opened up hundreds of restaurants, I never had meeting with my employees because I was afraid to speak; I had to delegate. Now I speak to everyone.

What is the power of a story?
I did not know I why I was winning all these trophies in Toastmasters. I asked someone who believed in me why do people like me speaking and he said, “Greg, if you would just stand there, you would see that the other Toastmasters, they give speeches, you give a story and a message.” I had no idea what he meant. Les Brown taught me that speeches tell, stories sell.

How do you craft your story to impact the world?
The average speaker has between 2 and 5 speeches. You just craft it to where you want to go. My main story is “I am Possible”, the second one is called “No Excuses”, and the third one is called “I am not born to be average”. I craft it to whoever wants me to speak. It is an art form and once you learn how to do it, there are a lot of people who will pay you good money.

Les Brown taught me, there is enough to go around for a million people but you’ve got to have the story. Les always say, don’t let your speaking get in your way of the audience of what they need to hear. I don’t speak to impress, I speak to inspire.

How can we use stories to help sell products or services?
You’ve got to touch the heart. So many people sell their products instead of selling themselves. People buy into you, not your products. When you go buy a luxury car, they don’t tell you about the specifications, they tell you about the experience. When you tell your story, you have to get people to buy into you, not the product. I tell people that if you are good enough, the world will see you. If you are persistent, that will trump anything.

Do you have to go through what you’ve been through to have a story?
Everybody has a story. You don’t have to have a bad story, you can use other people’s story. I use other people’s story all the time. The idea is to think, how can I add value to that person’s life? What do they need to hear me say?

What does success means to you?
Waking up; When I wake up, I have the opportunity that somebody doesn’t have because they may be dying of Cancer. The Power of NOW…No Opportunity Wasted.

What piece of advice can you give for persons working towards success?
My roadmap for success is CPP – the choices I made got me in a different direction that my siblings did; the people I hung out with gave me a different direction; my persistence got me into a direction. Persistence trumps any college degree. I don’t have a college degree. You have find something that makes you jump out of bed in the mornings.

You’ve got to learn to use your pain. My pain made me a speaker; made me into a number 1 best seller. We all too big to dream small. Tell yourself that you are great; that you’re a millionaire, you just haven’t cashed the check yet. If you don’t take care of your daily responsibilities, you don’t have to worry about 3 months from today.

You don’t get the life you deserve, you get the life you work for. You get who you are and what you do. FEAR…You can either forget everything and run or face everything and rise.

Main Take-Aways:

Persistence trumps college degrees.
You don’t have to have a bad story, you can use other people’s story.
People buy into you, not your products

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Using Gamification Tools & Techniques to Make Learning Fun & Competitive, with Gordon Swaby

Wed, 14 Jun 2017 00:00:01 +0000

Gordon Swaby is the CEO and Founder of EduFocal Limited, an E-Learning web application for students at the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) and Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) levels. Featured on the BBC, he was a Speaker at President Obama’s Global Entrepreneurship Summit at Stanford University in 2016. He is a tech trailblazer, revolutionizing the approach to education in Jamaica.

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What crazy activities do you dream of trying someday?
I want to do sky diving and snowboarding off a mountain.

When and why did you start EduFocal?
I started in late 2011. We officially launched March 15, 2012. We just celebrated our 5th birthday. We borrow methods from video gaming and implemented it into the learning process. We use the level up system and the leader board. We offer over 15,000 test prep questions for students. They pay a subscription fee and then they start answering questions. Once they answer the question correctly, they are earning experience points and they’re leveling up and winning prizes at the same time and being ranked on the leader board. That’s fun for students, especially the younger ones. They find it interactive and captivating.

At the conceptualization, how did you know that this model would be effective?
To be honest I didn’t. We did no surveys before. It didn’t cross my mind at the time to do any testing. I kind of went out on a limb, built this application and then looked for feedback afterwards. And that’s a terrible idea, don’t do that!

Take us through the failures…
When we started out we anticipated that we would have gotten a lot of traction from the teachers as it was supposed to be teacher and student-centric. Our original plan was that teachers would come on, they would add their questions and their content. Based on the engagement of the content, they would be compensated. If you’re a teacher on the platform and students are engaging your content in a big way, that would determine how much you’re being paid at the end of the month. We saw that a lot of teachers weren’t trained to use computers or they weren’t interested. They were indifferent to the entire thing so we had to shift that model a little bit and focus more on it being student-centric. This was a big shift or a pivot into focusing on something else. We should have at least went out and spoken to the teachers first to get feedback to determine if this is something they would have been interested in.
Another one is that I hired too early and hired the wrong people. I wasted a lot of money ‘un-learning’. I think I was caught up in the hype to say that I have a team. I’m happy that I learnt those lessons early.

What are some of the elements that you look for in a team?
We look for people who are committed to change; to work on something that is not easy but is rewarding and fulfilling work. I prefer to work with younger people that are not as hardened in their ways. I look for people who are go-getters who can take initiative. I look for entrepreneurial people.

How did you get buy-in from the students?
Before we got buy-in from the students we had to get buy-in elsewhere. We needed teachers, so we changed the way we were engaging them. I worked on getting credibility in the market place. People saw the media as validation for what you’re doing; people take the media seriously and that give you credibility. The awards did that as well to validate – my first big award was the PSOJ’s 50 Under 50 Award a couple months after I started EduFocal and that set things in motion for me. That has been my strategy from day 1. We’ve been featured on BBC, the UK Guardian, Virgin, Richard Branson has mentioned me in articles he’s written, we’ve been featured in the Trinidad Guardian, Trinidad Express and so on helping to push EduFocal credibility.

What has accounted for your level of success?
Being focused, and having a plan has helped. Surrounding myself with the right people. A lot of people discount the value of good advice. Good advice has helped me in a big way. If I didn’t listen to people I would have made some really big mistakes and that probably would have been the end of EduFocal. I started the company having a Board of Directors. Corporate Governance has been a big thing for me since day 1.

You need to put things in place that will ensure sustainability in the medium and long term. Getting the right kind of support is important.

What is preventing you from being burnt out, staying alert and focused?
I have a great family, I try to balance my life well; I take breaks; I try to go at least 1 new place every month and there are some days I just rest. What I’m doing requires a lot of mental and physical work. It is important to find that balance. Sometimes I change up my routine a bit like talking to students. I learn a lot from having conversations with people.

Expansion plan?
We intend to control the pipeline. We are expanding to Africa. I just came back from Nigeria; developed some strong relations and partners. Airtel is looking to partner with us and that can have far reaching impact. We are still developing new features for EduFfocal such as the ability to use our platform without internet connection and the ability to compete with each other on the platform live. It’s like 2 students taking a test at the same time.

One piece of advice for those wanting the enter the field of entrepreneurship?
Set goals for yourself; set SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic & Time bound). Most of the things people speak about in regards to success is cliche but it is cliche for a reason because it’s the truth. It sounds so obvious and easy but it is not. To commit to being disciplined is hard, monotonous and boring. Dedicating yourself to something and a craft if extremely important – be focused and have good mentors.

Main Take-Aways:

Put things in place that will ensure sustainability in the medium and long term.
Don’t discount the value of good advice.
Dedicating yourself to something and a craft is extremely important – be focused and have good mentors

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How to Make Money Online, Engage with Your Audience and Build Your List, with Andrew McCauley

Wed, 07 Jun 2017 00:00:30 +0000

Andrew McCauley is ranked #17 ‘Most Influential Social Media Marketer“ by BuzzSumo in Nov, 2016; he is one of the top 100 Most Influential Twitter Users by Forbes, He is an Amazon best Selling Author and consults all types of Businesses on their Social Media and Online Strategy. His customized strategies have continually seen between 300-500% growth in traffic to business websites. He is also the Co trainer and founder of the Digital Traffic Institute and AutoPilot Your Business, helping businesses make money from their websites.

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Show Notes:

What is your hidden talent?
I used to be able to put a bunch of coins on my elbow and flip them off and catch them. In fact, I think I have the Australian record for it at one stage (unofficially).

How do we make money online?
There are a lot of ways to do that. The first thing you want to have something that is valuable that people want. The next part is getting people to know that you’ve got a product to sell. It seems easy but it is a lot more complex than that.

Would you say it is more challenging to operate a business online rather than from a physical space?
I would agree. If you’ve got a shop, you put it front of a certain foot traffic. You know that there is a certain traffic that goes up and down on a regular basis. Whereas online you could be in the middle of nowhere or you could be in the middle of busy main stream. It all depends on how you get your message out and how people find you.

Product versus service, which is easier to build online?
It depends on the service. As long as the service is one that people need all the time. There are a lot of products that people want all the time. A product can be a little more challenging because you’ve got to build the product in the first place whereas a service is what you know, the knowledge is in your head. If you’re a great dancer you can teach people to dance; if you’re a great plumber you can teach people to do that sort of work because it’s the knowledge in your head. Whereas in creating a product you need to get that knowledge out of your head ad create it into a tangible thing that people can touch whether it’s a video or downloadable PDF sheet, something that people can touch. You either got the knowledge in your head or out of your head.

How do you build awareness by building your list?
Make sure you’ve got somewhere to collect that list from. It should be on every page on your website to collect that email address for people that are visiting your website. Once they visit your website, they could disappear and you never see them again, you’ll never know who they are. Always be collecting an email address from somewhere. You’ve got to make sure that you are getting out to as many people as targeted as possible. You could be out there and getting on Facebook and saying there’s 1.7 billion people on Facebook and I’m out posting every day but nobody is coming or I’m going to the local Chamber and I’m speaking. But maybe you’re not speaking to the right people, maybe the people at the Chamber are not the right people; maybe the people on Facebook are not the right people.

It is very important to know exactly who your target market is and where they hang out. If they don’t hang out on Facebook don’t waste your time on Facebook. Maybe they’re on Snap Chat, maybe they’re on Instagram; maybe they’re not on any of those platforms. Maybe there on specific niche platforms that only that industry hang out on. You really got to do your homework and know everything about your own Avatar of your favourite customer.

How do we begin to narrow down our Avatar, and get detailed?
Your service is not for everybody. You’ve got to really niche down and ask specific questions about the group that you’re trying to help. Then you start to know what they like and who they are, by doing polls and questionnaire and looking at Facebook groups. When you do that go to their profile and see what they like. Once you start to understand the mindset of that customer you can start to build an avatar around that person. Something like a case study as if you were speaking to them face to face. Every time you do your marketing, you want to have an imagination of that person in front of you and you are talking to them every single time.

Some inexpensive ways to gather data?
Join groups and see who’s hanging out there. If you have a page, Facebook gives you a lot of insight into the people that are coming along. The analytics gives you demographics and other pages that people that like you, also like. Twitter is the same thing that can give you an indication of people who are coming to visit your profile and people who are following you. There are lots of free tools to use and you don’t have to spend any money to find out who is your perfect avatar.

Do we just post and leave?
There’s no free lunch any more. You can’t just post on your Facebook page and expect people to see it. It’s been a couple of years now where Facebook changed the rules. You’re likely to get about 3 or 4 people out of every 100 people that like your page to actually see your post organically. You have to boost that post or pay Facebook to put that post in front of people. It can be a little bit expensive but if you target it right it won’t be that expensive, as you would turn those people into customers.

How do you keep your audience engaged once you’ve connected with them?
Give them stuff that they are looking for. Make sure you’re giving valuable information. It doesn’t have to be all your information. In fact, it’s probably better if it’s not your information. If they’ve joined you on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, they are following you for a reason. They want to see what you’ve been learning. You can share other people’s post that are relevant to them. Make sure you’re sharing valuable information because if you’ve got a following that is all into marketing and suddenly start talking about politics or irrelevant stuff, they’re going to say I think I was following you for a reason but now you’re off on a tangent on some other topic. Make sure you stay on topic and on point, that you’re giving them what they want.

How do we manage our time on social media?
This is like a big black hole that sucks people in and next thing you know is that it is 3:00 in the afternoon and what have I done with the day? I like to make a specific time on my calendar every day to jump in a do bits and pieces of work. I usually do it twice a day. I go to Facebook in the mornings to make sure that I’ve got to answer any questions from my Facebook page, I go through Twitter and Instagram spending 5 or 10 minutes on each, connecting with followers, answering some questions, making some points, putting comments on other people’s posts so they get to know who I am. I usually target influential people on my Twitter account. Twitter has a lot of influential people. I find the ones that are influential that I want to connect with and make sure I’m adding bits and pieces to their feed on a regular basis.

I come back late in the afternoon to wrapping it up. I’ll go through and find other questions that would come in throughout the day that I can answer. I don’t spend much more than 30 minutes per day on all the platforms combined. Once you get that narrowed down it’s not that hard to continue doing it like that. It’s when you get stuck into all those videos that someone sent you something about a cat and it’s funny and you end up in a black hole. Keep away from that and do it during watching TV or something like that.

How about social media scheduling platforms?
There are plenty of those. I use Hootsuite, Buffer. I use Buffer to share other people’s content to send out at the next appropriate time. In Hootsuite, I make sure that I’ve got some posted tweets everyday going back to my content. Once per week I’ll write 10 or 15 tweets for the week and direct people back to a post that I’ve written, a podcast that I’ve done or some other post that I want to promote. I’ll schedule them into my Hootsuite account to make sure they go out every day for the next 10 days. That way I know that there is something going out about me. Most of my work during the week is just interacting with people so I’m not trying to build a case or get people to go to my site during those times, I’m just trying to interact and engage people.

Is there ever a time when we need to outsource our social media activities?
I’ve never seen a lot of successful people outsource their social because people aren’t living and breathing that brand. I’m a big believer in doing your social yourself. It’s hard to outsource your passion and that’s what social media is about. In instances where this happens, it is usually dry and boring without engagement.

What’s the future of email marketing?
The one thing they asked for across all platforms is your email address because they know it is the most important thing. People, in general, are getting a better result from their email marketing than they do from their social media still. It’s vital that you have some sort of connection with people and email is the best thing. We get several emails every day. We are getting better systems to control the emails we get. If you can deliver something that’s valuable and people want to read it then you can continue to do really well if you get a list of email addresses. Email isn’t going anywhere. There is nothing that is even close to replacing email and the service that are offered as far as these other websites go.

What were some of the hiccups you had along the way before you became successful?
Lots. We didn’t concentrate at looking at our financials. We had a lot of money coming into our business, we thought we were doing really well. We had an outsourcing company with about 40 staff. We had lots of work going on. We were busy being busy; the money came in and went straight back out to pay all these people and this busyness. We looked and said what happened here? As soon as we started looking at what was working, what was costing us money, all of a sudden, our business changed. We were lucky that we saw it in time or else we would have been in a lot of trouble.

Final piece of advice for online marketers?
Now is the right time even if you think you’re so late to the game. Just jump in and don’t be afraid of it.

Main Take-Aways:

It is very important to know exactly who your target market is and where they hang out.
Find influencers on social media to connect with and adding bits and pieces to their feed on a regular basis.
If you can deliver something that’s valuable to people, you can do well if you get a list of email addresses.

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A Conversation on Leveraging Intellectual Property as a Business Growth Strategy, with Professor James Gerard Conley

Wed, 31 May 2017 00:00:40 +0000

Professor James Conley serves on the faculty of both the Kellogg School of Management and the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University. He is a faculty contributor in the Kellogg Center for Research in Technology & Innovation and serves as a Faculty Fellow at the Segal Design Institute (NU IDEA). He is also serving as a Visiting Professor in the chair of technology and innovation management at the WHU in Germany. Beyond Northwestern, he served as an appointed member on the United States Department of Commerce Trademark Public Advisory Committee to the Patent and Trademark Office and is a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. In 2017, he became a member of the editorial board at the California Management Review.

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If given a chance, which person would you like to be for a day? Or who would you like to exchange roles with?I would like to be Mark Zuckerberg for a day because I would like the understand the nature of the social engagement that he manages uniquely on the Facebook platform. I would like to see how he is managing the uniqueness of all that to the benefit of, not just the people that work at Facebook nor the people that participate on Facebook, but for people like you and I who are relative strangers, but we seeing the world engage on this platform in a way that’s brought us all much closer together.

When we talk about intellectual property, what are we really talking about?
What we are talking about, are things that are established by a nation’s government. Laws that are established by a nation’s government that are designed to help people who innovate, people who actually come up with new concept.

There are various modes of legal protection to help entrepreneurs compete when they decide to do something different than everyone else in their field of business. That difference usually requires some investment. It may be a difference that brings about some form of technological solution; it may be a difference that brings about some new cultural narrative; it may be a difference that brings about some form of product that has unique branding and it may be a difference that that is simply taking something that the entrepreneur knows, that not too many other people know. What I’ve just described are domains of property that relate to things like patent, copyright, trademarks and trade secrets.

I’m thinking specifically of the artiste who influenced me when I was younger, Bob Marley. This man has created a great legacy of cultural expression. He is protected by a Copyright that is an intellectual property form. That allows him and his estate to capture some value from the work that he put in from those beautiful expressions of his youth that in some sense give some foundation to what Jamaica is today.

Are you saying that the laws that govern intellectual property differ from territory to territory?

The world that we live in is essentially one that follows a guideline of self- determination. Jamaica makes its own laws like Tunisia makes its own laws. They choose their own government Just like the United States, just like Cuba. That means if the government chooses to have intellectual property, that’s their choice. They generally try and do this because it is good for the entrepreneurs like you and the audience of this podcast. The governments generally try to help entrepreneurs, they want to give them advantages so they create these laws.

The World Intellectually Property Office (WIPO) – an entity in Geneva which operates in the same way for example as the World Health Organization operates, is trying to makes these intellectual property laws similar across the globe so it easy for entrepreneurs to capture their property in multiple countries. If you come up a fabulous fashion line like a wonderful brand name such as Patwa (Apparel), you have to make sure that brand name is respected in multiple counties. You can register your trademark in several countries and expect that the laws you encounter in Jamaica will also be similar in other countries that you may want to sell your fashion line and invest in the advertising that builds meaning of the word Patwa to multiple market and customers.

What is the importance of effectively managing IP for business growth?
This topic that we are addressing is one that is actually taking these ideas about intellectual property and the knowledge of it and trying to turn it into a language that is liberated from the lawyers. IP rights are typically the domain of the lawyers but management of intellectual property is typically the responsibility of the entrepreneur or the manager or the executive that is running a business.

The reason you have to think about this is because it is really a manager’s choice to invest in the legal cost of property. That means management must be able to think about the IP in terms of marketing, finance, strategy – what is the logic of doing what we are doing? In the case of Patwa, what is the logic of registering in the United States? You must be planning on selling your goods in the United States. That’s really a management decision. Where ae you going to sell? How are you going to sell? What is the difference that you will be presenting to your customers about your goods relative to competitors? These are management decisions but they, at the very core, involve property because they are trying to help you differentiate yourself relative to everyone else. Effective management of intellectual property is about taking complex issues of the law and turning them into things that management speak about on a daily basis and make good decisions about for the purpose of their own sustainability in the market place.

When are the implications for SMEs in considering registration of their intellectual property?
Small and medium sized enterprises are perennially and chronically challenged by resource constraints. What they have typically is a lot of passion and desire to be successful in the market place. They just need a selling proposition, that means they need the ability to convince others to buy their products and or invest in their business. This is what the community of venture capitalists is looking for – that sparkling SME where they can invest their money.

The choice to not pursue property may be because they just don’t have the money. That’s a perfectly fine choice. It is in fact a Manager’s choice. That may be effective given what are your resource limitations at a particular point in time. What’s important for the manager to realize is that if they don’t invest, then they are essentially contributing all that good will to the competition. They can use my Patwa brand, they can play Bob Marley’s music, they can use the invention that you may come up with, for example in your clothing line and you can’t do anything about that.

The investment in property is one to reserve your unique expression, your unique inventions. It is a cost-benefit analysis. It must be in the minds of the SME owner, in the mind of the entrepreneur so they can see consciously, what the tradeoffs are. Typically, the best time to invest in property is when you’re small.

Intellectual Property within the paradigm of the digital platform?
Let’s take Blue Mountain Coffee, that as a product has a lot of infrastructure, lots of farmers, lots of machines, devices, lots of physical capital that are required to invest and build and harvest and bring that product to market. That’s all fixed physical assets and there is a lot of money involved in building and maintaining those assets.

Let’s go to (back) to Facebook which doesn’t have those fixed physical assets. What does Facebook have? It has a platform, we all know how to find that platform – we log to find our friends pages, we find the pages of Patwa and all sorts of other companies there. It is a platform that essentially is a computer infrastructure that allows us as people who interact with Facebook to put stories, links, pictures on what is our portion of the platform – our Facebook page. Everything that we put up there, we physically own that but when we put it up there, we agree to let Facebook use it to their commercial benefit. That’s part of the legal agreement, that we as photographers, we as story tellers, we as people that create product like your company, we agree to actually let Facebook capture the value through advertising and other mechanism to try and convince folks that they have a large audience on the Facebook platform.

All of this that we are describing, you putting your content up there, the audience being convinced to come and engage with you through Facebook, the potential clients that may want to advertise to you – all of these are parties that want to collaborate. But the right to do that is completely intangible. Facebook has the brand which means they have the address, they have the computer infrastructure which has all sorts of interesting inventions that have all sorts of associated with it. When we go and place pictures up there, we are bringing the copyrighted expression to the party that is Facebook.

Facebook becomes the place we all go to have a socially engaging experience and so that’s very much a digital phenomenon. It’s not the phenomenon of growing the coffee, hauling the many pounds of coffee to the coast, getting them on the ship and sending them across world. That’s an important commercial endeavour but Facebook is completely digital. It does not require the movement of physical goods. The capturing of audiences does not require the infrastructure of the physical world.

Main Take-Aways:

IP laws that are established by a nation’s government, designed to help people who innovate, people who come up with new concept.
There are various modes of legal protection to help entrepreneurs compete when they decide to do something different than everyone else in their field of business.
Entrepreneurs typically have a lot of passion and desire to be successful in the market place.

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Using the Digital ‘Sticky Notes’, Trello, to Organize Your Daily Activities, with Michael Pryor

Wed, 24 May 2017 00:00:40 +0000

Michael Pryor is the co-founder of Trello, the collaboration tool used by millions to organize and prioritize projects using boards, lists, and cards. He’s also the co-founder of Fog Creek Software for Project Management; he currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters.

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Show Notes:

If you were stranded on a desert island, what three items would you want to have with you?
Snorkel fins as I’m not such a great swimmer, a dog to keep me company and a guitar which would take me a long time to learn.

What is the Unique Selling Proposition of Trello?
Persons were using sticky notes on their walls. Historically we had built a lot of tools for a much more structured project management and we were thinking about how easy it was for people to use these sticky notes. It helps them organize their thoughts. There is something about being able to see it in front of your face. We tried to map that. It’s not like a digital sticky note but it is taking that metaphor into the software world. You create these boards, you put your digital sticky notes, you organize them into lists so people can see where you are, where you were and where you are going. It basically gives you a map for what you’re working on.

Did you know this would have been a winner?
We spent a lot of time building software tools for other developers and this was one of the first tools we build where we wanted to build something for a much wider and broader audience. It was a big bat for us. We thought of building a software that 100 million people can use and it seemed ridiculous at the time. Now we’ve had 20 million people signed up to use Trello.

At the time, we put it out there and we launched it Tech Crunch Disrupt. We told people about it at the competition that we came in second. The huge spike in sign-ups came from that. Those who knew us at the time weren’t very technical in nature. People were writing blogs on how they use Trello to plan their wedding, run their marketing campaign and recruit people for their teams. These are examples that we hadn’t thought of before-hand but were perfect examples of all the different ways that you could use this application. Persons were writing these blog posts on their own without us asking them to. That’s when it started to click that we’re on to something here. These people are so excited about what we are doing that they are willing to market to their own channels and tell their friends and the people that follow them about this product without us even getting involved. That’s 20 million people have been word of mouth.

What were the thoughts that went through your mind during the competition, recognizing you did not come in first place?
This was about 5 or 6 years ago. We had a different story than just being at the completion. We had been making software and had a software company for 10 years before that and this was one of the products that we made. We were funding the development of Trello through the sales of some of the other products we were selling, unrelated to Trello. We weren’t in a typical scenario where we had to win the competition in order to get the funds to continue the company. This happened much later in our lifecycle of our software development career. Trello and Stack Overflow were joint ventures with Fog Creek. Those super successful and well know products came much later in our history.

We took a lot of the lessons learnt over the first decade and applied them. We made many different software products over the years. Some were the right product at the wrong time, or the right product marketed to the wrong people or the right idea but built in the wrong way. There were a lot of failures along the way. What seemed like an over-night success was actually a really long journey.

What were some of the lessons learnt?
If you’ve ever heard of Log Me In or Go To My PC, there were companies which allowed you to get onto a remote computer. They IPOed and became billion dollar companies on the Stock Market. If you rolled back the clock to about 9 years ago, that technology wasn’t widespread. It was hard to get onto a computer remotely. We developed a tool that enabled you to do that, it’s called Co-Pilot (copilot.com). We had built it for ourselves as we were trying to help our customers install our software on their computers and we struggled with them trying to tell us over the phone what they were seeing.

I thought, ‘if I could just see their computer and control it’, I would solve this problem. Nowadays this is pretty easy to do, back then it wasn’t easy to do. We built the tool that would enable you to do that and we marketed it to customer support agents. It was a great tool but the wrong marketing strategy. It grew and we made a lot of money off it but the people took that same idea and put a whole lot more investment into it and then market it to all IT groups, all companies. Those companies like Go To MY PC and Log Me In became huge successes. We had the right idea at the right time but didn’t market it to the right people.
When we started Trello, that was part of learning, knowing that we were going to build something to market to everybody and not just a specific, vertical tool. It is a general tool anyone can use to get on the same page with other people. One of the lessons learnt is that if you’re going after a bigger market, it’s a bigger risk; it’s much harder to get a lot of people to use your product as there is not really a category defined for what Trello is but if you can get enough people to love your product then they can tell other people about it and you have passionate fans, the passion of your fans will do the marketing for you.

Worst entrepreneurial moment?
One of the things on the journey for Trello was the project started in Fog Creek Software. After a couple years, we realized there were about four different things we wanted to do but we weren’t going to be able to do them all at the same time as we didn’t have the people to do them. We needed to hire more people. Because we were growing the product on the profits from the other things that we were selling, we were constraint. At that point, we realized we needed to get funding to accelerate the growth of Trello and hire more people because we know we have something which is working. We talked to some investors that we already knew.

We had to spin off Trello from Fog Creek. The trickiest part is that we had to make two companies. The identities of the employees of those companies got split in two. We shared the same office but it is a difficult process to go through emotionally. From the outside, it is the right business decision but there is a melancholy aspect, the end of an era.

Talk to us about emotional attachment?
It is a change you go through as you scale and grow. Not everyone is interested in that. Some people don’t want to do that. If your company is going to grow, there should be somebody who is doing that management, somebody who is scaling the company up. As CEO I did three: The first thing is, don’t run out of money, secondly recruit people ideally that are smarter than you and thirdly, keep the vision. When you’re small, you can mind mill to make decision, but as you scale the things you know in your head, you have to start to figure out how to spread that throughout the company. It is your job as the CEO to keep the vision. It is not so much about telling people what not to do but telling them what to focus on. As you grow you need some sort of metric to figure out what to focus on.

What kind of pay if forward initiative is your company invoked in?
At Trello, we had created internship in the form of Junior Developer positions in order to improve their resumes so we had a better pool of employees to choose from. Our parent company Atlassian tries to get employees to invest 1% of their salary in programmes to help entrepreneurs.

A piece of advice to persons interesting in the field of tech?
The hardest thing is to focus on the one thing. It’s not coming up with new ideas. The idea is not the thing, it’s the execution. The little steps along the way…there’s going to be the ups and the downs but it is going to happen. That’s part of the experience. Every time you fail you put it in the repository of your knowledge to help you.

Main Take-Aways:

In order to grow, there should be somebody who is doing that management – scaling the company up.
The right product must be marketed to the right people at the right time.
Focus on the one thing.

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Good Corporate Governance and Getting Your Business Investment Ready, with Tyrone Wilson

Wed, 17 May 2017 00:00:55 +0000

Tyrone Wilson Founder, President & CEO of eMedia Interactive – a digital media, advertising & training company powered by technology, creativity and innovation.

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If you had a time machine that would work only once, what point in the future or in history would you visit? Why?
I would say the’70s in Jamaica. I think that’s a period where music and cultural space began to take shape. It would have been quite an experience to have existed in that period.

What was childhood like for you?
Childhood was fun; I grew up in the Inner City, Kintyre, Papine (Jamaica). It was one of the most memorable moments of my life just being free, roam around. I’m at the river, camp and playing every sport that I came across. Just experiencing that side of life prepares me for everything that I face today. My childhood experience was a well-rounded one.

What was your thinking like about your own childhood then?
I always embraced it. One of the things that I learnt growing up especially being in an inner-city community is that you have to work twice as hard as the average person who didn’t grow up in such an environment. You have a lot that you’re trying to achieve. One of those is to get out of the community and into something that presents more opportunities for you. I knew that the foundation wasn’t as strong but I had to work hard just to set a foundation trying to achieve what comes after.

Were you an A-Student?
I’ve always been up and down. In primary school I was one of the top students. In my class I was at least in top 5. When I went to Jamaica College for the first 3 years I was mediocre academically. In 4th form, I decided to take it more seriously. I graduated as the top student. I always had it in me but never really embraced it, only if it is competitive that’s when I flourished.

What light bulb went off in your head when you decided to do things differently?
It was competition or a challenge. My father instituted a thing when we started travelling. He wouldn’t buy any shoes for my brother and I above the price of our average. If my average was 40, I’d get a pair of $40.00 shoes and the shoes we wanted was up to $90.00 (USD). Of course, we had to get good average to be able to get shoes like Timberland. That started pushing me. In 4th form, I had an accounting teacher (Devon Lawrence). who, like me, loved competition and he understood and figured out how to work with boys in an all boys’ school to get them to perform academically. He instituted a very competitive system. His system was a test every month along with our course work. The person who comes first is the Prime Minister so he gets a special seat at the front and he also gets an orange juice from the person who came in last in the test. The Prime Minister had his cabinet in the front which consisted of students who also got high grades. The Opposition consisted of those who got lower grades. That motivated.

It transcended beyond accounts. It motivated me to be a top student in everything else. In 6th form, I was the first student to get accepted an unconditional acceptance at the University of the West Indies.

How did starting your own business come about?
I’ve always wanted to become an entrepreneur. I think it started as early as primary school because my father always used to have business cards and letterheads. His business cards would say ‘business man’. The business name is Rolex after his name Roland. As a boy who looked up to his father, when they asked in school what wanted to be I would say, businessman. It has always been in my mind to become that. It stayed there and even though the primary objective changed early (at one point I wanted to become a Lawyer and an Accountant), the fundamental principle of it all was that I even if I’m a Lawyer I wanted to own my own Law firm, if an Accountant I wanted to own my own Accounting firm. That interest in becoming an entrepreneur continued to exist. I moved from that to getting right into it.

Take us from the genesis to where you are now…
The concept of eMedia started from in college. I was the publications chairperson at the Guild of Students at UWI. I was responsible for the entire publication of content or the student body. It was exciting, I had a decent budget; we had a voice. From wanting to have my business in media because a year before I had started an entertainment and lifestyle website (yaadmedia.com). I got the opportunity at the guild to experience what it is like running your own business with actual money. I never looked back from then. I developed my business plan, got the investment from Chris Williams, COE of Proven. I moved from a small business to getting additional investment from investor support (Sagicor Investment). We raised US$350,000.00 to expand the business in video, original content, etc. Structuring a Board of Directors Chaired by Richard Byles, CEO of Sagicor. It has been quite an experience.

How do we prepare our businesses for investment?
My degree is in banking and finance which gave me a lot of information how banks work. I’m running a creative business and a lot of times people think that I went to CARIMAC (at UWI). The most exciting part of the Banking & Finance was the Finance part. When I was approached by Donovan Perkins who at the time was the CEO of Sagicor Investments, I had no idea they wanted to invest. I went to a meeting at their request and we started having a discussion. They were asking me about the business and what were my plans to take it to the next level. Right there, I was caught off caught. One of my first tips to entrepreneurs is to always be ready. I was always working on ‘what’s next for my business so when they asked for me it was a no-brainer, I started outlining all the plans that I have for the business. They liked them and the discussion moved to financing so equity investment is always important. As a young business that is the type of investment that you need – what they call ‘patience capital’. Individuals who are willing to put some funds in your business and allow you the opportunity to explore the ideas and take some bets and deliver on what is needed.

Entrepreneurs should have their financials available; their current performance and what are the projections for the next 3 years and be able to speak to those investors without even looking at them. Know your business and what it is that what you have planned as the driver/captain. You have to be as intimate as possible with the state of your business.

I’ve dealt with quite a few investors. I’ve recently raised some more equity for my business that enabled the expansion into our Creative School. When Sagicor approached me about the investment I was 24 years old (now 31). What impressed them was that I had an Advisory Board and was having Board Meetings. I had my Minutes, Reports and that was very unique for an entrepreneur my age. I really give credit to Chris Williams (CEO Proven Investments) and Sheree Martin (VP at Energy Delivery at JPS). because they were the ones who ensured that those structures were in place. They took me on early, gave me the mentorship, support and guidance to ensure these structures were in place. I had the level of discipline to ensure that we committed to those systems. That was important. Sagicor was impressed by that. They knew right away that they were investing in someone who understood that when people are giving their money, the level of responsibility that is needed to display in the business.

In addition to the Advisory Board, I knew they would want a Board of Directors. Those were stipulations in the agreement. I moved right away to setting up the Board.

What were some considerations for the Board?
It has a lot to do with the type of business that you have and support needed at the time. I was young and needed mentorship at the time. The Board was more than a governance board but a set of people who understood the cycle of the business, the state that we were at the what was needed. For example, Sandra Glasgow who was the CEO of the PSOJ at the time and one of the best in terms of Corporate Governance locally came on the Board. She is big on corporate governance. We knew that we needed someone in Corporate Governance who understand small business and know how to work with young entrepreneurs. Sheree was a shareholder so had a seat on the board based on a number of shares she had at the time. She also understood the business.

Entrepreneurs just have to look at their business and do a gap analysis and put what is needed in place. My board members aren’t paid, they have shares in lieu of fees.

How did you approach these big names to come on board as part of your team?
Be a good Salesman. I’m into the business of selling ideas; selling a vision. That’s what I did with my Shareholders and Directors. I sold them a long-term vision for the business and they bought into it.

How did your Creative School come about and why the need?
The school was an idea developed five years ago. We realized very early that there is a big need for creative talent in Jamaica. Our creative economy is under-served. We need more people who understand entrepreneurship, who are creatives and are able to create the type of content that we need and the type of intellect property that we need in order to contribute to economic growth. It has been hugely neglected by Policy Makers because a lot of those don’t understand. When we look at the British economy in 2016, the Creative Economy contributed 5% of the GDP, the largest contributor and the fastest growing. We’re taking that for granted locally like any other economy, the first way to develop it to have trained people working there.

We created the iCreate Institute which is now an institution fully under the University of the Commonwealth Caribbean. Our need is to train the future of the creative economy and see the growth in this space.

Final Words
There is always an excuse as to why we can’t do something; our responsibility is to find ways to get it done. Jamaica needs so much in terms of development. The only way we are going to build our economy and anywhere else in the world is through entrepreneurship. People who are bold enough to create change. My circumstances would have said otherwise but I decided not to listen and push to develop the company we have today and I feel very proud of the work my team has been doing over the last few years.
Just go after what you want to achieve in life as cliché as it may sound.

Main Take-Aways:

Always see yourself as a Salesperson, selling your vision to those you need to work with.
Entrepreneurs should know their financials available; their current performance and what are the projections when seeking investment. Be very intimate with the state of your business
We have a responsibility to find ways to get things done.

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Beta-Test Your Podcast on WhatsApp as You Create Branded Podcasts to increase your revenue, with Amar Vyas

Wed, 10 May 2017 00:00:42 +0000

Amar Vyas is the Co-Founder of Kamakshi Media, creator of Baalgatha- Podcast of Classic Childrens’ stories, and author of the Amol Dixit series of books. He creates branded Podcasts for his clients to increase their revenue.

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If you could eliminate one thing from your daily schedule, what would it be and why?
Once you enter the bedroom the cell phone enters airplane mode. The goal is to have no cell phones inside the bedroom.

Branded Podcast?
The word Kamakshi has several meanings depending on who you talk to. It can mean love, the Goddess of love or it can mean wealth. We wanted to share knowledge and create wealth in the form of knowledge. I’ve been listening to podcasts from about 2005. When I was applying to business schools, I used to listen to podcasts from Harvard Business School and London Business school, etc. They would talk about the application process, courses to take, career choices, etc.

I used to head Amazon fulfillment centre in India. It wasn’t exciting me anymore. I wanted to do something to let us feel we were doing something great (my wife and me), and that we both enjoy doing. We don’t come from a technology background. My wife has been insurance for many years. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of skills.

When we started out I was using literally $100 recording set up. My biggest investment was a $70 microphone. I used a 10-year old laptop to record the first 100 episodes.
We wanted to find out what it takes to work out a frugal sort of set up.

Setting up a Podcast
A podcast is on demand audio. The number 1 question I get asked is, “What is a podcast; followed by how do you make money? That’s where branded podcast comes into the picture. It’s been a short learning curve.
It’s no different than launching a business. I like to answer the 6 questions of who, what, when, where, why, and how. Whether it should be 1 show or multiple shows. You should be very clear why you’re launching this show.

If you’re an author, are you using it to grow your audience or connect with your readers? Then comes the format; there are multiple formats for a podcast, should it be discussion base or interview based; should that be like be news and opinion based; industry trends and analysis or completely different from any of these that we talk about.

Next, should it be a single host or multiple hosts? After that comes the duration…5 minutes, 20 minutes. What about the frequency…daily, monthly. There are no right or wrong answers.

The number 1 question is your audience. Why should they be spending so much time listening to the content that you’re producing?

Then there is the technology part of it. How do I record? Do I use Skype? I have a blog post titled 7 different ways of recording podcasts online. Which method do I follow?

What are the most typical ways recording…
If it is an interview-based show, I like to make it a no-brainer for the guest…my top 3 choices are Skype, Zencastr and Clean Feed. A lot of people in India love to record their podcast using cellular phones. Clean Feed works very well on chrome browser. The advantage of using Skype is that it is easy for the majority of people. The advantage of using Zencastr is that you can record using your web browser so that you don’t have to install any software and most important it can do some of the basic audio processing on its own. the sweetest thing is that you can save your file to your dropbox account so you automatically have it backed up in the cloud.

You Beta-tested on Whatsapp…take us through the process…
The philosophy we operate on is to make the content a no-brainer for the listener.

The number 1 App for download in India is WhatsApp. I didn’t have to teach anything. I thought what if I send these contacts information about the podcast? People in India like to share content within their networks.

As we started implemented it, we recognized that WhatsApp in India is what mailing lists are everywhere else globally. It’s such a no-brainer. This is like a one-to-one- option, exactly the same way mailing lists work with MailChimp, Aweber, etc.

Why create a branded podcast?
If for example, Google sponsors The Entrepreneurial You series, Google gets the branding and gets to associate themselves with the world of entrepreneurs. As the podcast grows, they can start offering discounts for persons who want to set up their businesses. This is the advantage to a sponsor by setting up a branded show.

Determining audio or video
For the advertiser, video dominates in India. About 90% of the digital content consumed in India is in form of video. We’ve test marketed some of our shows; we created YouTube videos out of the children’s bedtimes stories. Compared to our regular audio feed, YouTube probably got the equivalent number of listeners without any promotions, it was all organic. It is important to understand your market very well. Had we focused only on India, to begin with, we should have gone with video. That’s where the most engagement is happening.

Final words
Be very clear why you want to do a podcast. Of the 6 questions, the why is most important. It’s a lot of hard work. When I just started out it used to take me 8 hours of my time for one episode of a podcast. That’s a lot of investment by the time your file is ready. Once you start getting the reviews, there is no greater feeling than seeing the 5-star or 4-star reviews on iTunes and somebody saying this is exactly what I was looking for or it solved a problem I was faced with.

Main Take-Aways:

WhatsApp in India is what mailing lists are everywhere else globally.
You must be able to answer the questions of who, what, when, where, why, and how.
Be very clear why you want to do the podcast.

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Paying Attention to What’s Going on, Being Mindful and Practicing Self-Love, with Rebecca Clio Gould

Wed, 03 May 2017 00:00:04 +0000

Rebecca Clio Gould is a Certified Holistic Health Practitioner, Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Qigong and Meditation Teacher, Sexual Awakening for Women Facilitator, and an Award-Winning Author of The Multi-Orgasmic Diet. She has been running her own business, Elemental Harmony, PLLC.

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If you could buy any island in the world, how would you describe your island?
Full of trees, quiet and beautiful.

What are some of the underlying reasons why some women are not achieving empowered lives to begin with?
I’ve just encountered in my life and with clients and students that there can often be a feeling of something missing in your life. They are unfulfilled, unsatisfied. I find helping other women and even how to get in touch with my own emotions fulfilling. How to get more in touch with my body; how to cultivate sexual energy and sensuality and self-love; how that lead to feeling more fulfilled.

Were you at some point experiencing a lack of empowered living?
Yes, it started with my own need for empowerment and growing; feeling disconnected with my own sexuality; having body image issues and other struggles. From a young age, I was always curious and open; curious about sex and sexuality. At young adult, I began to do things that helped me feel better and I knew I wanted to help other women in that way too.

How do you help women overcome struggles with body image?
In my book, I have over eighty practices. I teach ways to cultivate more self-love, energy and sensuality. It depends on the women; what her struggle is and why she is having it; what kind of practice would work best for her. I feel a good foundation is self-love and self-knowledge, just getting intimate with yourself.

Loving yourself is important?
One of my favourite practices for myself, and to teach has to do with looking in the mirror and really taking in your own beauty because so many people struggle with that. It can actually feel very uncomfortable in the beginning. Sometimes it makes them cry and feel uncomfortable. But it is such a powerful practice to be able to look in the mirror and accept and embrace who you are inside and out.

How can women ensure that they quiet their minds and to be themselves?
A lot of people talk about meditation and mindfulness. I do teach Qigong which is about cultivating energy. It’s an ancient practice based on traditional Chinese medicine. The idea that there is this vital life energy inside us and around us and in all our movements and breathing techniques, even during tension to breathe in fresh energy and send out any stagnancy.

What is mindfulness and how can it help to balance your life?
Mindfulness is being mindful; aware, conscious attention to what’s going on. Being present – not just going through things in a mechanical robotic, auto pilot way. When you do that it can actually bring a lot more clarity and power to what you’re doing. You can also feel more enjoyment and more relaxed and be present in what you are doing.

How can not paying attention to your body and what your feeling affect your outcome?
The tendency to eat foods that are not healthy or not eat enough. Some people tend to under eat when they are wrapped up in the hustle and bustle, and some people tend to over eat quick, fast food. That can affect your clarity, your mental capacity, it can affect your mood. It can create a feeling of stress and be in a survival mode rather than to relax and enjoy your life.

What piece of advice do you have for people in the category of being head cook and bottle washer?
I tend to take time in the morning to do a mindfulness practice like journaling and Qigong or journaling and meditation or yoga. One thing that can be really helpful for people who are very busy to schedule in just a few minutes several times throughout the day to take some conscious breaths or stretch a little bit or write in their journal, do something throughout the day might be easier for a busy person. But it depends that some people would rather schedule it in at one time throughout their day.

What are some of the risks associated with living with stress…what are those?
When we live with stress it can create sickness, dis-ease in the body, pain; it can affect our relationships, work. It really can affect everything in our life when we are stressed out. I believe that the purpose of having life is to enjoy it. If we are living our life in a way where we are stressed out and can’t enjoy the fruits of our labour, that’s really not a great way to live. It can manifest in physical illness or other discomforts in the body.

Any heart-related issues?
I imagine a connection there as when we are stressed out it can affect our blood pressure and heart rate so it’s good to learn how to calm down and live in a more relaxed way while still being productive.

What is a typical session with you like?
I’d get on the phone for a consultation to see what is best as some people are going to want to do coaching and talk over the phone or Skype and have some coaching that might include some guided meditation. Some people are going to want to be with me in person to learn Qigong or some kind of body work or energy work. It depends on the individual but I always like to bring mindfulness and embodiment into it and help people learn to relax and get in touch with their own inner knowing. Maybe get into a relaxed state and then asking questions that will help you arrive at an answer. If needed, I’ll provide some suggestions or guidance. I really like to help you quiet your mind and empower you to hear your own inner wisdom.

Listening to guided meditation can be good to help quiet your mind. One thing I really like about Qigong is like it is a moving meditation to help you relax.

How many sessions does one need to get into their zone?
In general I think the most recommended is 6 months of talking every other week or even every week but usually the minimum I do is a 3-month commitment.

Do you find that persons who have been through severe trauma have a more difficult time settling down as opposed to those who went through less trauma?
I can’t say conclusively. I know from my own experience, trauma affects the nervous system.

Are you suggesting that there is a diet for multiple-orgasm?
The book is actually not about that. My book, the Multi-Orgasmic Diet, I actually redefine the term, multi-orgasmic. The idea is to feel multi-orgasmic all throughout your day, to feel that exhilaration all throughout your day. If you’re not having sex at all. The diet part – instead of it being what to eat or what to eat – the idea is more about a lifestyle plan by engaging in the practices that I provide a book before a meal or when it comes on. It can help you make a healthier choice. Maybe eating a healthier food or eating less instead of overeating as you’re already feeling good, already feeling energized and more pleasure from whatever practice you engage in.

Tell us more about wholesome living.
For entrepreneurs, there is another kind of stress. The first thing I to be aware when we are feeling that way and to allow ourslves to recognize when we have a lot on our plate that it doesn’t mean that we have to push harder. It may mean that we need to take some time out to rest or to do something fun. We need to have time to do things that are not work related. This can be a big issue for entrepreneurs where our work bleeds over into our whole life. One way the multi-orgasmic diet can be helpful is that it actually goes back to the idea of doing short things throughout the day to bring mindfulness and enjoyment into your life. Maybe before each meal, to do some conscious breathes, dance to a favourite song, doing jumping jacks.

What was your journey like in writing this book?
It took a little over a year and a half but there was about a 6-month break in the middle. I went through a break-up and felt bummed out and got out of touch with my book for several months. But then I got back to it…got back to the editing…the book writing itself was fairly fast. I had worked on and off for years on other books but this book really wanted to come through and be written and be done with.

How important is it to allow ourselves to deal with the situations in our lives?
Life happens. I was in a book writing coaching programme and my time with the coaching was about to expire about 2 weeks after the break-up and I told the coach I feel like I can’t work on this and they gave me another month. I knew I needed to focus on healing my heart, to get clear on what I want and need and trusting that if this book needs to be out in the world then it will be finished and I will get back to it when I’m ready. I spent a few months not even trying to get back to it. I had about a month where I decided I’m not going to get back to it; I felt really defiant like I don’t care. What if I don’t want to be an author. What if that’s stressing me out too much. What if I just let go of that dream. For a month I let go of it and it did feel like I gave up and it felt good. And then out of the blue, I felt I’m ready I want to get back to it and I got back to it.

How to be in harmony?
In addition to all the things on your to-do list, put yourself on your list. Make you a priority. How you feel each day is so important.

Main Take-Aways:

A good foundation is self-love and self-knowledge, just getting intimate with yourself.
When we live with stress it can create sickness, dis-ease in the body, pain; it can affect our relationships, work.
Make yourself a priority.

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Writing the Vision for Your Life and be Disciplined Enough to Achieve it, with LaToya Fonville

Wed, 26 Apr 2017 00:00:49 +0000

LaToya Fonville is a dynamic Transformational Speaker and leader with over 15 years of experience in entrepreneurship and business. She has a unique ability to go into an organization and increase productivity through Goal Setting, as well as through her excellent Money and Financial Management skills.

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If you could be in the movie of your choice, what movie would you choose and what character would you play?
The Pursuit of Happiness…Will Smith.

Why would you want to play Will?
It’s a realistic depiction of the struggles, the hardship, the disappointments that you go through as an entrepreneur. Will Smith in that movie depicts the drive that you need in order to be successful. You have to be discipline, you have to be relentless, you have to persevere, you have to endure, to overcome, to overtake. There are some giants that you have to face when trying to pursue destiny. God has a plan for each of our lives but the enemy also has a plan and his plan is to steal, kill and destroy our destiny. When you want to pursue happiness, when you want to pursue that thing which you have been created to do, you’re going to have to face a lot of giants.

As an expert in Financial & Money Management & Goal Setting…why do we need to set goals?
I’m a Kingdom entrepreneur; a lot of foundations and principles I use and how I establish my business have been based on the word. In Habakkuk, it says “write the vision make it plain”. I have to have a goal, a road map, directions to get from one place to the next. When you set a goal, you have to begin with the end in mind. Along the way, I will need steps to take me to the destination. When you set goals you are threading on unfamiliar territory. You need to know that on my destination there is going to be some detours but I know that although I have some road blocks and accidents along the way, I have a GPS to tell me what my next step is. If you fail to plan you plan to fail. Not only do I goal set in business, I do that for personal life, my career, my attitude, my relationships, for my ministry. I goal set in every area of my life.

What areas of our lives do we need to set goals?
Every area of or lives. Before I got married to my husband, we sat down and created a roadmap for our household. We came together and set goals. You have to set goals if you want to be successful in every area of your life. Every area of your life where you don’t set goals or you don’t have a vision statement for that, expect confusion, expect hardship, expect frustration.

How important is a Vision Statement in the goal setting process?
The bible says without a vision people perish. Part of what I do is help people who feel stuck in their jobs, people who are aspiring entrepreneurs and visionaries, and people who have a vision, to go from stuck to unstuck. Unfortunately, 90% of society have dreams but they don’t have a vision statement. They don’t see how it can come to pass and so they prostitute their talents on a job that doesn’t fulfill them. If you don’t have a vision you’re going to die. I’m not talking about a physical death; hopelessness is death. When you’re living life just to pay the bills to run that cycle of getting up, going to work, come home to watch TV to go to sleep to get up and go to work again, it’s a cycle and you’re not fulfilling your purpose. God created every one of us with a unique assignment and calling, if you’re not fulfilling purpose or vision you die.

How do we set goals for optimum results?
I like to go with the SMART system…when you set a goal you have to be specific. If you’re setting financial goals, you have to be specific. For example, if I want to replace my monthly income to bring in $600 per month by the next 6 months, it’s measurable and attainable and within a specific time. Don’t set yourself above your belief level so that you fail. In order to achieve your goals, you have to be willing to sacrifice some things. When you set goals sometimes you have to force yourself to do things that otherwise you wouldn’t do. You have to break habits. What’s my motivation behind it because you have to have a ‘why’ – the driving force that keeps you going and motivated even when you feel like quitting. You might say I need to increase my income because I want to send my children on a vacation, or I want to take my children out of public schools into the private system…whatever that reason might be for you…your why has to be greater than you. It has to be that thing that keeps you up at night. That driving force that keeps you going when you feel like quitting. When you are pursuing destiny, when you set goals they are going to be giants along the way, mountains that you have to climb; it is going to be uncomfortable; it is going to be difficult but your why, your motivation is going to be that thing that keeps you pressing forward even when you feel like quitting.

Commitment is doing the thing you said you would do long after the feeling you’ve set it in has left you. Whether you’re a successful CEO or an average individual thriving to be successful, everyone deals with that one thing. What distinguishes the successful person from the unsuccessful person is their commitment level. Many times, we get so frustrated on the journey that feeling comes.

You must have an action plan to keep you going. That action plan is equated to the GPS. On your journey, there is a detour because of construction on the road. On the road of life, there is going to be construction in the way in many ways. There are obstacles that come in our way to hinder us from getting us to our destination. But with a why, a road map and an action plan you will be a force to be reckoned with. You will make it to that expected end but you have to be determined, diligent. The bible says a man who is diligent in his business will stand before Kings; he will not stand before mean men (meaning average). If you want to be great, successful, you have to master diligence.

What are some considerations to bear in mind when talking about money?
Money answers all things on the earth. In order to make things happen, we need money. Our education system doesn’t teach us how to manage money. But it is so essential that we learn how to effectively manage it to successfully maneuver life and live comfortably.

What happens when we deviate from our goal of proper money management?
When you set a goal and deviate from it, you get feelings of inadequacy. The bible says a righteous man falls down but he gets back up again. You’re going to mess up, you’re going to make mistakes; things are going to happen to cause you to deviate from the plan. It’s ok. Don’t make a habit of it. If you deviate from your plan, get yourself up, go back to that goal and say is this attainable for me? If you agree that you can handle this then go back to the goal that you set for yourself. Forgive yourself for that mess up and start all over.

Main Take-Aways:

You have to have a ‘why’ – the driving force that keeps you going and motivated even when you feel like quitting.
When you set a goal, you have to begin with the end in mind.
If you deviate from your plan, get yourself up, go back to that goal and say is this attainable for me?

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How to Become Disciplined, Productive and Laser-Focused, with Dr. Vernet A. Joseph

Wed, 19 Apr 2017 00:00:48 +0000

Dr. Vernet Joseph is America’s #1 Potential, Passion & Productivity Speaker, Strategist & Consultant. A bestselling author of multiple books, he is the founder and CEO of Live To Produce Enterprises and President of Gigaré Lifestyle Magazine. He is also recognized as one of the top 40 Productivity Experts to follow on twitter since 2012, Executive Professional of the Year & recently named Black Wall Street Phoenix Arizona Entrepreneur of the Year for 2016.

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What is your favourite movie of all time?
Coming to America – it’s one of the all-time greatest with Mr. Eddie Murphy. Eddie Murphy must have played about 6 different characters in the movie. One of the other reasons why I love it so much is that it speaks to productivity. Not only is it comical but it makes so much sense business wise as well.

How did you become such a Productivity Evangelist?
All my life I have had the entrepreneurial bug. I have been around some great people; I’ve had some great opportunities, great mentors in my life. I Grew up on the streets of Miami, Florida. My parents are from Haiti. All my life I’ve had the opportunity to seek after my goals. Very early on in my life I needed a MAP (mentality, attitude and focus) which is like a GPS. When you have the right mentality, you have the right attitude and the right perspective on life it is easy to navigate through life. Many people ask, “How did you do it so early?” I am one of those people, when I look around me, I’m a sponge, I’m a life-long learner. I don’t like to make mistakes. When I see people make mistakes I like to write that down in my book so I not only learn from the good that people do but I also learn from their mistakes. My life has truly been a wonderful blessing simply because I’m in tuned to my surrounding. Life is going to happen to us all but the question is what do we do with it. What is your perspective?

Where other people gave me encouragement or motivation or even when they were trying to discourage me I used that as fuel for me to actually blast off with my potential, passion, and productivity. That’s how it all started for me at a young age.

Your definition of productivity and why are you so passionate about it?
Productivity has thousands of different definitions but for me it is simply doing more with less. Getting the job done the right way in as less time as possible. It is a lifestyle, not just a mindset or a fad. It tells or shows people that you have endless possibilities. There are multiple avenues to get to a destination but what is the most productive way to get to a destination. That’s where life truly is different. I talk about it often because it is the only thing I know. Finding and helping people to live their best life, enabling them to do their place of passion. For me that’s what true life is all about.

What would you say to us to not be distracted?
Productivity is a state of mind, it must be perceived as achievable prior to it being achieved. It cannot be achieved if you’re not focus. This is what I often use with my clients – Fixed Focused and Dedicated. Without focus, it is impossible to see a destination; it’s impossible to see a route, to get from point A to B unless you’re willing to wander. Wandering means you don’t know where you’re going, you’re just walking. It’s frustrating to want to get somewhere without having the coordinates to get there. It’s called wasted space, wasted time. When you get laser focused, it helps you to cut down on that time. It teaches you to do more by doing less. Today we have the Global Positioning System (GPS) because somebody took the time to be laser focused on every destination that gave the steps, tools and strategy to get there even if you didn’t know how and as entrepreneurs, business owners, productivity people – focus is absolutely important.

How can we ensure that we are staying focused?
Start investing time, you don’t spend time…you invest time. When you spend your money do you expect to get it back? When you invest your money, you’re expecting some sort of return. We all get 24 hours in a day. What do you do from the moment you get up to the time you lay down. It is imperative to get at least 6 hours of rest. Take care of your health. Invest your time wisely. Everybody is going to be vying for your time but you are going to have to be discipline in your time. It’s all about preparation. After preparation, you need to have a plan then you have to develop it. If you take the time to be discipline to prepare the night before you won’t wake up wondering what am I going to do today? We have to be disciplined.

How can you inspire us to hang on to the plan we made?
Your plan should always bring you to some financial gain for your business and your life. When you start making a plan it should be connected to your passion. The question that will help you stay on track with your plan is, “What am I doing to make this world a better place?”. After that you can say the second the statement, “I will no longer leave money on the table. When you deviate from the plan you deviate from your profit and mission. That’s how you stay fixed focused and dedicated to your plan.

Which of the 21 Power Plays in your book stand out?
I love collaboration as it is the new currency. It helps you to go global. For me, I like to say “keep it simple”. I love Richard Branson, he said all you have to do is solve a problem. Learn what you need to learn and do what you need to do and make it simplistic.

How do ‘keep it simple’ and collaboration tie back into productivity?
The practice and principles taught are all in an effort to make you more productive. Life is very simple but we make it complete because we start competing instead of complementing one another. These are truths that will help you to complement instead of compete. We want you to be the best version of you possible.

Final words on how to a successful person?
Gain clarity, visibility and structure. Make sure you are immersed in your community. Make sure you focus on your influence. These are the things that help businesses be successful to go global. These are the five problems businesses face – A lack of clarity, lack of visibility, lack of structure, lack of community and lack of influence. If you’re going to use your life, your business to be more successful and productive then you need to gain these things. You do it in such a way that it is not only gain for yourself. You do it because of your gifting to help other people so that they can gain from what you have learnt. This is a principle that cannot be broken when you look at success and significance.

William Barclay – they are two great days in a person’s life, the day they were born and the day they find out why. Everything that we do, we are literally edifying and intensifying our gifts. What legacy do you want to create? The plan should always match the message you’re bringing to the world; what do you want to be remembered for and what legacy you’re trying to create.

Main Take-Aways:

Productivity is getting the job done the right way in as less time as possible.
Start investing time, you don’t spend time…you invest time.
The question that will help you stay on track with your plan is, “What am I doing to make this world a better place?”

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See Your Highest Self and Work Daily to Become That Person, with Kemal Brown

Wed, 12 Apr 2017 00:00:25 +0000

Kemal Brown is a passionate entrepreneur, motivational speaker and a consultant who help firms build brand equity & create wealth through his firm Digita Global Marketing Ltd.

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What is your favourite thing to do in your downtime?
My favourite thing to do is read. Reading is such a vital part of success. When I can sit alone and relax my mind I love to read and go to the beach though I don’t do the two things at the same time.

What is one of the books you have read that stood out for you?
Definitely two – Ed Catmull’s Creativity Inc, that book blew my mind; I love Pixar movies – I’m a big animated movie fan…Ratatouille is my stuff. The book is really about corporate culture and how do you really build a great company. The next book deals with personal finances, the Richest Man in Babylon. The ideas really revolutionalizes how I saw finances, how I saw work. It has translated into a level of success for me.

What accounts for your success?
I think all things flow from the mind. Our value proposition is trying to understand people and to understand that there is only one boss and that’s the client. I try to stay on the cusp on anything new in digital media. Our sole value proposition is our commitment to excellence, which is our core philosophy. Kaizen – caring about the team which is so very important. As a young company, resources are limited but we do simple things like birthdays, game nights to try to spur feelings of affinity and culture; esteem within the team so that they can deliver the best results. Our work ethic, attitude towards maintaining a growth mindset so that we keep learning and keep honing our craft, attitude towards how we treat our team members and our clients as they are important and our attitude towards communication and our core value of excellence.

How important is it to focus on customer needs?
As a young CEO, being able to temper your ego is important. Some companies treat the clients as though they have to do business with you. That’s not true. Customers have many choices and they choose to do business with you. The real delineator is how you treat the customer. At all times, we must maintain professionalism when relating to your customer. Show them that you care. Don’t see them as money. Seeing my clients’ business grow warms my heart. I started Digita with the mindset to elevate the design space using the power of digital media to augment your brand. The first cheque that I got started the company…

You don’t scale off getting big deals but by getting recurring customers. I started doing thank you cards for birthdays, etc, to show that we care beyond just getting their money. Small tokens showing appreciation made a difference. It’s about helping people.

Is digital marketing replacing traditional media?
There is a dynamic interplay happening and you have to assess digital media looking at the adoption curve and generation groupings because generations take in info differently. Digital media really represents change. The internet came along having this set of network…all these websites are kind of disconnected, you have to find your way to them. The distinction between digital media and primarily social media is you’re on one platform. You have these networks, people already live there. We have 7-second attention spans. How do you penetrate the minds of people multitasking and operating in a multi-screen environment?

Facebook, if you’re watching a video, you can see the minute or the second that that video peaked in terms of viewership. Facebook is giving you actionable data that you can draw inferences and then make informed decisions to optimize your marketing. Facebook has the most sophisticated advertising technology in terms of interest based targeting. They have a plethora of tools. For example, you can upload an email list to Facebook and target people there. Because of their connection with WhatsApp, as soon as you add somebody’s number you can use that as a node of info to target people. Digital media is really the evolution of the internet. The internet was just a space for information. Digital allows it to be contextualized and now you can focus attention where you want it. The attention is on Facebook already and that’s what marketers fight over anyways.

With all the plethora of social media, how do you know if you are using it correctly or even which platform to choose?
Every platform has its audiences and benefits. It depends on your brand and what you’re trying to sell. If your brand is heavily based on visuals, Instagram may be the place for you. If you’re looking at Millennials, Instagram is the main place for that population. The networks age up. As soon as parents get on Facebook, children get off. Snapchat currently has a lot of youth demographic. You have to be self-aware, know what the respective networks offer and you have to jump in. You can’t sit on the sideline; you have to become proficient and create engaging content. You have to be aware of your brand voice, who you are trying to reach. You have to be real and you have to pay.

How can you keep current with all the social media platform and their changes?
You have to have a growth mindset to be in this industry. Facebook just recently reduced its organic reach. If you have over 100,000 fans you’re getting a 2% reach. You have to do paid advertising. When you are trying to create content, you want consistency, you want to have your voice and the intent of your content. Look at the data to know if you are winning. Do you have Facebook Pixel on your website to track responses? Many people are using social to drive traffic to your website.

Share about your speaking business

Acume arose out of a need both internally for me and externally for what I saw in society, not just for general motivation but for an understanding of self as that’s where all things flow from. You have to be progressively focused on improving yourself daily. The world is a negative place and you have to insulate yourself from that through activities. And the people that develop daily habits of motivation are the ones that win and stay in a positive mental space at all times. I would talk to my class and they would always leave motivated. I would get testimonials from my students. I was always trying to pick people up. After a while, the resounding sentiments was, “this guy is motivational”. I said if I could do this for individuals I could take it to another level. At the time, I was listening to a lot of Les Brown, Jim Rohn, Tony Robins, a lot of different people. I like to say that I speak from one mouth but many minds. I would just be reflecting life and things come to me. To become who you are destined to be you have to divorce who you are. I listen to a lot of motivational material and from that sprung the desire to really help companies. I love speaking, love to see people’s lives changed.

Pieces of advice?
Have a mind that equips you for success. The limitless mind is one committed to daily growth; it is a mind that is positive and eradicates all perceptions of weakness and loss. You don’t see failure as failure but as lessons. It’s really a mind that understands that you have to surround yourself with motivational people, people that inspire you; motivational content; content that drives you and everything regarding preserving the veracity towards life. Next work ethic – desire and obsession have to be part of your daily pro quo. I read at least 2 hours per day; do affirmations and meditate. I’ve made work my best friend. It really is about hustle. Have a vision of yourself that is beyond where you are right now. See your highest self and work daily to become that person. It’s possible.

Main Take-Aways:

Understand that there is only one boss and that’s the client.
Know your voice and the intent of your content.
Have a vision of yourself that is beyond where you are right now.

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Get CLARITY, seek ACCOUNTABILITY and analyze the RESULTS, with Dr Will Mooreland

Wed, 05 Apr 2017 00:00:58 +0000

Dr. Mooreland is a best-Selling Author of the book Genius-Potential & Founder of Will Moreland International. He is America’s #1 Leadership Life Trainer who has been featured on ABC, NBC, Fox, CBS, Forbes magazine to name a few. Best-selling author & world re-known motivational speaker Les Brown says “he is the absolute personification of greatness”.

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What’s your story?
I’m originally from Compton, California; it was known as a pretty bad place. Back in the 80s when I grew up there it was known as the worst city in America. They literally called it a war zone. We were surrounded by gangs, drug dealers, etc. I was raised by a single mother. I met my father when I was 7 years old and he was serving time in a California State penitentiary. He got there because he was one of California’s biggest drug dealers at the time. Fortunately, your start doesn’t have to determine your finish.
I did get in trouble but I encountered what I called a disruptor. All throughout our lives, we will find people come into our lives to disrupt us if we are going the wrong way. My first disruptor was a California State Judge. He said, “young man you are going nowhere fast and I’m going to give you an opportunity to transform your life”.

When did you decide to change?
The military sent me to Germany. I began to experience a lot of firsts – the first time being away from home, the first time being in another city, the first time being in another country. Even though I was 8,000 miles away physically, mentally I was still in Compton, California. I ended getting in trouble again where I met my second disruptor. He told me, “young man you’re getting ready to mess up your life but I’m not going to kick you out, I’m going to allow you to come work for me and I’m going to mentor you”.
One of the first things he asked me was, “What are you going to do with this opportunity?” That was the very first time anyone ever posed that question to me. Where did I see myself going? Where did I want to be in life? He sat me down and made me think about my life. I grew up in an environment where I didn’t think I would make it to my 18th birthday. I didn’t think beyond my 18th birthday. I never thought about my future and this Sergeant Major, Sergeant Melvin Babbs, made me started to think about my future.

What’s your mission?
My mission is simple, it is to help as many serious entrepreneurs gain clarity and how to help them live their best lives. Our company provides strategy & solutions to help them create their best lives.

Using a CAR to get to where you want to go
When we think about Clarity, Action, Result, one of the first things we have to ask ourselves is, “What does my future look like?” We have to realize that each and every one of us lives in 3 dimensions, our past, present and future. When we look at these 3 dimensions, we have to ask, “ What is my reality for my future?” “What do I want to look like?” What happens to most of us is that we begin to look at our past which is always with us. When we begin to talk about our future we often go back to the past to look for qualifications meaning, wow, “Can I really do this?” We gave to get clear on our past. What part of our past support this new future that you want.

I learnt from my past that women are strong…this is the aspect of my past that I brought into my present. It was an advantage for me. I learnt how to make a dollar go really far. I learnt how to sacrifice and learnt how to go without for a long time.

I also recognized that I will make mistakes and so I have to bring accountability into my life. Accountability is what we called coaches and mentors and people to help us along the way. Once I decided what my future was going to be, I say, “Who do I need in my life that can mentor me, that can help me along the way. I started finding examples of individuals. Early on these mentors were books, cassette tapes back then, recordings till I could actuality find physical mentors.

Results, that tell the story. Are you progressing are you not? I check my results every 90 days. Am I accomplishing what I set out to accomplish?

When did your journey as an entrepreneur began?
I was in the military and once I finally got this clarity I had a decision to make. Was I going to continue in the military or was I going to start my company? For me it was very clear, it was time to leave the military and start my company. In January 2002, I started my company after leaving the army in September 2001.

What has been your worst moment as an entrepreneur?
I have made bad decisions. I was excited about moving into this new office space which I didn’t negotiate very well to begin with. I paid too much for this facility and it put a strain on the company for a long time. I signed an 18-month lease for an enormous amount of money without a plan on how to pay it off. I was so excited about getting into our own building, having our own office space. I didn’t learn the art of negotiation.

What is the one thing you would say to prospective entrepreneurs as a definite must before they leave their job to start a business?

It would be to create a CAR. Get clear, how are you going to replace your income. “How are you going to replace your insurance?” “How is it going to impact your family?” “What exactly are you going to be doing?” Then you want to have accountability, talk to people, ask questions, listen to shows such as this. A lot of time we move out of passion. But passion will dry up very fast if you don’t have any profits. You haven’t earned it until it crosses your checking account. Until you see cash in hand, don’t count it.

How do you bounce back from a bad decision?
One of the things I do is to take a step back…it is perspective. I look at the mistake that was made. I ask myself, “Did anyone die?” Sometimes I need to go to my mentor, get some accountability and ask some questions on how we get out of this. One of the easiest things is that I’m doing what I love. Because I’m doing what I love it’s easy for me to bounce back. A lot of people aren’t doing what the love and so when they make mistakes or fail, they use it as get-out-of-jail card. When I make mistakes, I learn from it and get back in the game.

What is your definition of success?
Success is so subjective to everybody. I narrow it down to two words and it’s “enjoying life.” But as a caveat to that, enjoying life means you really have to get clarity. So many of us have been told what success is, we’ve read the magazines and movies and we get in pursuit of things that we don’t want. If you really get clarity, there’s only a few things that you need in life to be successful. I love being around my families and friends; the ability to travel, if I want to go out to a restaurant I can do that. But above that, there’s a lot of stuff that I really want to do. I love the ability to go out and shop every day if I want to but I’m not shopping every day, I’m working every day. When you really peel back the onion and ask yourself what do you really want, and get clarity on it, that’s success!

When I move back to the US from Europe, the ability to work from the comfort of our home was fulfilling for me. We saved thousands of dollars by working from home.

Final words
Invest some time to create the life and business you love and be proud of. This is our life, this is a dress rehearsal. Let’s make the best of it.

Main Take-Aways:

You haven’t earned it until it hits your checking account.
Invest time to create the life and business you really want.
Build a CAR to take you to your goal; get CLARITY, have ACCOUNTABILITY and check your RESULTS.

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Blazing the Tech Trail in the Caribbean, with Ingrid Riley

Tue, 28 Mar 2017 00:34:55 +0000

Ingrid Riley is a trailblazer in the field of tech. An Award-winning Blogger, she is the founder of Silicon Caribe and Co-Founder and Chief Digital Strategist at getCONNECTID. She is also the leading lady behind many Meetups+ Pitch events, 3 Caribbean Tech Conferences, 3 Caribbean-wide Hackathons, a few Mobile App Competitions, Online Twitter Chats and Startup Weekends.

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If you were really hungry and really, really sleepy and you had to choose only one, which would you choose? Would it be sleep or would it food?
I’ll definitely do the food. Because the food would probably help me to sleep better because you can’t really sleep well if you’re hungry if your belly is like rumbling.

Who is Ingrid Riley?
Just somebody who is curious, love to experiment, love to get to know people, love to read, love to observe individuals, love to travel. I definitely have a thing for travelling. If I don’t travel, my skin starts to itch.

So now, let’s get a little digital. How were you able to get started in this somewhat predominantly male-oriented field?
I never thought that would—I have no other intention just to simply follow what I was curious and passionate about. I was an investigative journalist. And when I kind of reached as far as I could and having been surrounded by technology. And I just kind of fell in love and fell really hard. Coming from that thought tradition and media background, I was looking at online media. Because of all of that exposure, I started my first company, which was called Maverik Media.

What were some of the bumps in the road that you encountered?
I’ll choose one from the early days. Because I had this internet guide, it was my then business partner, I said, “Hey, I don’t know how to do this. Can you help me? Let’s put it together.” Because of that, she was also part of Maverick Media and we like doing things like email, newsletters or stuff that we are learning and sending out to people that we knew. We were recruited by this American dot-com called HomeView.com And so we put Maverick Media on ice to go and join this team in the hope of, you know, the whole thing of you joining a team. You get shares. We’re going to go IPO, you know, instant millionaire, right? The dot-com bubble popped. I led myself to be fired and went back to Maverick Media afterwards.
The thing that I learned from that is never put your own company on hold to go and work for somebody else unless you were at the centre of negotiating and really negotiate terms that are actually really good for you. I think we’re just kind of happy to be there, happy to learn, happy to be part of this thing without actually thinking about the business aspect of it carefully and recognise when a shark comes and knock on your door. Don’t put your company on the ice. Learn how to negotiate better. Don’t do things that are against your value system because it’s always going to come and bite you.

The second lesson I’ve learned recently is in this whole process of being involved in kick-starting the Jamaican tech entrepreneurship and startup ecosystem here and the Caribbean as well, I learnt to say no and always take care of myself.

How important is it for entrepreneurs and even persons who are considering entering entrepreneurship to follow their instinct?
It is the number one thing. It comes down to trusting yourself as an entrepreneur who tends to see things differently, tends to see things before others.

Well, let’s look at the flipside note, alright? When you create a product or a service or whatever it is, you become so intimately attached to it and you take it too personal to the extent that you refuse to listen to others. I know what is best for me. That’s the flipside. What do you say to that?
No. I believe that there’s always value in that—success always leaves clues. If you see somebody, you know…is like I keep telling people that I do not take financial or money advice from anybody who isn’t richer than me.

We are living in such an awesome time right now. It’s amazing, the opportunities that are available and sometimes we are looking around waiting for persons to come and present stuff on a platter.

Exactly! We are waiting for someone to hand us when it’s there right in front of us. We have the connection. Now, what do we do with it? How do we spend our time? What are we going to create? What are we going to do with others? How do we want to express ourselves in this world? You have access to this internet through your phone, through a laptop to whatever it is.

Persons may be listening in our community now and are wondering how are some of the ways in which I can monetize online, what are some options?
What are you willing to spend a lot of time on getting to be really really great at. You could say, for instance, somebody is passionate about beaches. That’s all played out. Where can you find a list of a map of top 500 beaches in the Caribbean? What do they look like? What are they? Who goes there? What happens there. You become an authority on these beaches. You have your videos, you have your text, you have your photos. There’s a way to monetize that.

So as an award-winning blogger for siliconcarib.com Is it only just tech that you blog about?
It’s a technology and digital lifestyle blog. I blog about the people, the product, the places and what we’re doing. We’re embracing technology in the Caribbean and how we are positioning ourselves to be successful in the global digital economy.

Main Take-Aways:

Don’t do things that are against your value system because it’s always going to come and bite you.
Find a way to monetize what you’re really good at.
never put your own company on hold to go and work for somebody else.

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Master Discipline, Focus & Productivity John Lee Dumas

Tue, 28 Mar 2017 00:24:17 +0000

John Lee Dumas is the host of EOFire, an award-winning Podcast where today’s most successful Entrepreneurs are interviewed 7-days a week. He is undisputedly the heavyweight champion in the ring of Podcasting, interviewing over 1400 Entrepreneurs. EOFire has over 1 million monthly listens.

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What is your favourite thing to do when you’re not working?
Lay by my pool and read a fiction novel

What problem did you want to solve when you began your podcasting journey?
I love listening to podcasts; being able to press play when I want to, have targeted On Demand free contents being piped through my ear-buds at any time of the day was just awesome for me. A lightbulb went off for me and I said well I wanted to have a daily show that goes out and interview successful entrepreneurs and tell their stories that I can learn from them. I wanted to find a daily show and that did not exist. I said wow that’s a huge void in the marketplace. Why don’t I step into that void and create that Daily Show? That was almost five years ago. We are approaching 1600 episodes to date over 45 million listens and it’s a multimillion-dollar year business net profit.

Many persons in the Caribbean are still unsure of what a Podcast is…What is a Podcast?
I’m excited to bring me a little more awareness of this great medium of podcasting to the Caribbean and other countries that may not be quite as aware of this form of audio content as other places so for me you know podcast is just in the audio format as core is a way that you can get out there and find shows that are very targeted.

What is the Freedom Journal and what gap did you identify in the market?
It’s exactly one year ago to the day we launched the Freedom Journal on Kickstarter and what the Freedom Journal is it was basically a solution to a problem that my listeners of EOFire were having. My listeners are saying John, we see that you’re interviewing a successful entrepreneur every single day what do these words have in common that makes them so successful and doing a lot of thinking, I realised it was knowing how to set and accomplish goals. Those who are struggling, are struggling with that very thing. I took the year off in 2015 to sit down and study goal setting and everything in between until I mastered it and created a step by step resource to accomplish that one goal in 100 days so we can start a chain reaction of awesome and amazing.

If you were supposed to share one point so when we to consider when you’re setting a goal, what would that be?
When it comes to setting a goal it has to be SMART i.e Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-bound. I teach you at the beginning of the journal how to set a SMART goal and for a lot of us at the first time that we’ve ever set a SMART goal and already you’re ahead of 99 percent of goal setters out there that don’t even know what it is or never really sat down at the 100-day step-by-step plan to accomplish that SMART goal.

And you followed up with the Mastery Journal for productivity, discipline and focus?
The Mastery Journal which is all about you the individual mastering productivity mastering discipline and mastering focus in 100 days and that’s what the journal is – a system, and every single day you’ll learn how to master these three skills; you’ll get more done in one day then you use to get done all week just simply by following the system because again I took an entire year, all of 2016 this time to become a master myself within these three skills now I know how to be productive, I know how to be disciplined, I know how to be focused.

What would you say to creatives who just can’t seem to stay focus for extended periods of time on any one project?
Don’t be hard on yourself, don’t think there’s something wrong with you. You are a human being you have faults and flaws like all of us. All you need to do is step up and follow the system that I’ve created to make the most out of these flaws.

Crowdfunding is still a relatively new phenomenon in the Caribbean, I launched one recently and with all the preparation I did, it wasn’t the success that I hoped for…what are some of the key considerations when going that route?
You never know until people actually take out their wallets and their purses and hand over money that’s something we’ll work. In the real world if you are willing to support me now you’re going to get this product down the road but unless you are willing to support this product and enough people are willing to join you in this then I’m not going to create it because it’s a big enough pain point that you are willing to part with your hard-earned dollars now for something that doesn’t even exist yet.
That’s why I went down this road with these journals because I know that my time is incredibly valuable and I wanted proof before I went and found a manufacturer and China to produce thousands and thousands of these hardcover journals only to find out down the road oh my God nobody wants these. I was not going to go down that road so I was able to pre-sell over 9,000 Freedom journals at over $453,000.

Main Take-Aways:

When we set and work towards that one goal, we can set a chain reaction of awesome in our lives
A lot of people fail because they set multiple goals and they don’t specific timelines to accomplish these goals.
If we are able to be productive, disciplined and focused every day we win an even higher level

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About Me: Heneka Watkis-Porter

Tue, 28 Mar 2017 00:10:02 +0000

Host of The Entrepreneurial You, Heneka Watkis-Porter talks about the show and tells her story about why she started the Podcast.

Peak Performers, Heneka shares in the ‘About Me’ episode on TheEntrepYou today!
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Show Notes:

Hey, everyone, I’m Heneka Watkis-Porter, and I want to thank you for joining me for the very first episode of The Entrepreneurial You Podcast. In 2014, I started out with a 15 minutes radio edition of this show and started building a community of entrepreneurs using traditional media. Starting this Podcast is a big deal for me. Every Wednesday, I will be interviewing the most dedicated and passionate Entrepreneurs of our time. Each interview will tell a little bit of the entrepreneur’s life with the aim of inspiring you, our wonderful community of #PeakPerformers. They will also share cutting edge tools to get you propelled to a higher level of performance.

I’m over the moon with excitement as I look forward to producing a new 30-minute episode once weekly. I know you are busy so I created this Podcast with in mind so that you will be able to download at your convenience to get inspired anytime you need that extra push. The format is pretty simple; I’ll discuss, with my guests their upbringing; how and why they started business; what challenges they experienced and how they overcame; what pitfalls to avoid; their definition of success will be shared and they will leave with you, our community; one piece of advice to motivate and inspire you. As you learn from their experience, you will feel more confident and encouraged to pursue SMART goals.

Interested so far? Keep going so you may get to learn more about the flow of the show; I’m also going to tell you more about the host…oh, that’s me, Heneka Watkis-Porter.

Each episode I will ask our featured guest one a random fun question to get to know about their fun side. I will ask them to tell us a little something about themselves. The questions that follow depends on what the featured guest would have revealed about themselves. I will delve as deeply as possible to get to their ‘why’ for starting a business. As we know there is no journey without a challenge we will explore what it is for the Entrepreneur and how they overcame this major challenge faced.

Success means different things to different people so the Entrepreneur will give their definition which gives us an insight into the philosophy they live by.

They leave us with a very insightful piece of advice to encourage and motivate us.
Some of the questions may include:
Who is your biggest motivator?
What has been your worst moment as an entrepreneur?
What lesson did you learn from that moment?

The guests are inspiring and are not afraid to share their soul. You will feel more confident and encouraged at the end of each episode.

Now that I’ve shared a little bit about the show with you, I want to let you know why I created The Entrepreneurial You Podcast. Since 2014, I started a radio feature of the same name. I started because I recognised that the Caribbean is full of talented, bright and intelligent young people with great prospects for the future. However, the economy does not and cannot afford to adequately cater to the needs of these individuals where infrastructure is concerned. The only viable alternative is for these persons to create opportunities for themselves.

In the Caribbean, our social upbringing to a large extent inhibits the development of a naturally occurring entrepreneurial mind. We have been socialised to go to school and get a good education so that we can graduate with enough qualifications to subsequently get a ‘good job’. This kind of thinking and culture in many ways hinder rather than facilitate growth. We become destabilised when we are unable to land this ‘good job’. When we eventually find one, the vicious cycle starts all over again as we are never satisfied with the salary, terms and conditions of employment and a host of other accompanying issues.

Within the Caribbean, many are turning to their own innovation and ingenuity to satisfy that gaping void. We are finding creative ways to chart a path for our future via the challenging yet rewarding route of entrepreneurship. The Entrepreneurial You was created to highlight these entrepreneurs whilst sharing tips and ideas to get ahead from experienced successful global high profile entrepreneurs.

Fast track to 2016. I attended a workshop for entrepreneurs where Ingrid Riley, a very accomplished entrepreneur in her field, was a Presenter. At the ‘Question and Answer’ segment I asked of Ingrid how it is that she has managed to garner the seemingly elusive necessity of sponsorship. She gave me some general advice about going digital and pushing it online to gain a following that may be necessary to attract sponsors who are advertising via the traditional media. She went further by sharing her contact details with me. I quickly made contact; I told her that a participant I met at the same function mentioned Podcasting as an option.

It was during that one on one that she talked passionately about two of the Podcasts that she listens to daily, Mixergy.com & EntrepreneurOnFire.com. She was totally sold on Entrepreneur On Fire. I started listening and became hooked. John Lee Dumas is on fire! I subscribed to the training videos on how to create a Podcast. I even got John Lee Dumas to do a free, yes free audio bomber. Now, this is a big deal. We are talking about the person who has the number 1 Podcast in the world of podcasting. How cool is that?
I decided Podcasting it would be. The show is created for dedicated and passionate Caribbean Entrepreneurs seeking daily inspiration. Persons within the Caribbean are now exploring their entrepreneurial potential and need that extra motivation to make the leap of faith. For existing entrepreneurs, the road can be a very lonely one, and so having that extra support I believe is priceless. Those who have no interest in becoming entrepreneurs are still encouraged to listen for the inspiration they will draw as the entrepreneurs share their life lessons which provide teachable moments.

There is a great need to connect Caribbean people; we are small with big dreams and need to be supportive of each other. One of the ways in which we can be connected is through entrepreneurship. The symbiotic relationships that are possible can take us through many a hoops and boundaries. Each island has its own natural endowment of the resource; the resilience of its people? Immeasurable? This augurs well for the region. This alone is enough motivation for me to do The Entrepreneurial You Podcast.

And so I decided to create a conduit that would allow people around the region to have access to the stories, lessons, and concepts of others. My goal is to create a platform where the persons within the Caribbean have at their fingertips, cutting edge ideas to fuel the brilliance that lies deep within them.
I’ve talked about The Entrepreneurial You and my ‘Why’ for creating it. Let me now jump into a little about my background. I’m Heneka Watkis-Porter born and raised in the rural Agriculture parish of St. Mary, Jamaica by my grandfather and adopted grandmother. I graduated the sixth form at St. Mary High School. Thereafter, I went to work with the Government for a short while as an Accounting Clerk given there were no funds available to go directly to University.

Later, when I could afford to, I attended the University of the West Indies where I studied Sociology and Management Studies, graduating with BSc. (Upper Second Class Hons.). I really wanted to do media and communications but I was never accepted when I submitted an application for that area. It’s funny how life has seemingly come full circle as in addition to this Podcast, I also host programs on radio, not just in Jamaica on Power 106 FM but at the time of recording in St. Kitts on Sugar City 90.3 FM and on Voice of the Caribbean Radio at voiceofthecaribean.net.

I’ve always had a desire to own and run my own business; On August 7, 2007, the aha moment came and so my business baby, Patwa Apparel was born. This is a clothing line which speaks a fashionable Jamaican language by putting Jamaican expressions on clothing. When you’re finished here you may run over to www.patwaapparel.com to see what I’m talking about. As an entrepreneur, I’ve had to pivot a few times and I guarantee you that you will hear some of my guests talking about times when they too have had to switch direction in their businesses. The ability to adapt, be flexible and to have an open mind is part and parcel of the business environment.

I have taken my company, now Patwa Culcha International to receiving numerous accolades. The vision for this company is to be the ‘go-to’ company to commemorate and celebrate Jamaican heritage worldwide by creating products and services inspiring Jamaican pride worldwide.

By 2013 I started a sauce line; I realise that I could now do anything that I wanted to do. I was inspired, motivated and driven to do all the things I never thought possible when I was a child of humble means. I started to have a deep desire to help others as I strongly believe that to whom much is given much is expected. I try to live my life like a river rather than a reservoir. I began sharing my story with audiences that were hungry for motivation; I wrote my first book, “15 Hints to Entrepreneurial Success: Lessons From a Caribbean Business Woman”, published in 2014; I also started the radio version of this Podcast with the same name, “The Entrepreneurial You” in that same year. I’ve since published a second book and am working on 3 and 4 simultaneously. As an entrepreneur and a serial one at that, I’m all about creating a platform for you to be inspired and motivated weekly as you unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. I know what it is like to not know what move to make next, who to turn to for help or simply just have someone to listen to when you need that extra push.

I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to you once again for joining me here at The Entrepreneurial You. It is my deepest hope that the episodes will help you find your mojo or simply help to further nourish your already burning fire. If you find value in this podcast and the message we’re trying to spread at The Entrepreneurial You, then click the subscribe button below, and give my show a review and (hopefully!) 5star rating. This level of support will allow my show to gain the recognition it needs to reach as many people as possible. In turn, we’ll be able to share this incredible free medium of knowledge and experience with the world.

You are absolutely going to love the next episode with John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneur on Fire. His journey as a world re-known Podcaster is simply amazing. I know it will inspire you as it did me. I’m super excited for you to listen, and I’m even more excited for you to begin your journey and for those already on it, to grow it beyond your wildest imagination. So let’s get the party started…

Remember in the words, of Zig Ziglar, you were born to win but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win and expect to win. Walk good!

Resources to #PeakYourPerformance:
15 Hints to Entrepreneurial Success: Lesson From A Caribbean Business Woman
Sermon Notes: A 52-Week Devotional for Quiet Meditation
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