Have you ever been shortchanged by shortcuts? Aaron Hendon shares why you need to rethink the status quo and start living an intentional life to get ahead. Topics in today's episode include: growing up in an entrepreneurial family, re-inventing yourself, the world of real estate, seeing the world from your customers point of view, rethinking the status quo, using entrepreneurship as a tool to take back your life, and much more.
Build a Business, Not an Audience | Doug Sandler
Doug Sandler has over 30 years of business experience as an entrepreneur, business owner, and leader. His book, Nice Guys Finish First is a #1 ranked Amazon Best Seller. He specializes in making connections, building relationships and strengthening bonds both inside and outside organizations.
His speaking and consulting business is geared towards improving relationships and winning business through his time tested sales, service and relationship building system. Doug is a nationally recognized speaker, trainer and podcaster. Doug has been titled by a leading social media marketing company in the top “100 of Social Media Thought Infuencers to Follow.”
Building Momentum for Change | Adam Schaeuble
Adam reached a point in his life where he weighed 327 lbs and was already having weight related health issues in his late twenties. He decided to rehabilitate his lifestyle and his fitness and ended up losing over 100lbs. Feeling inspired, he took what he learned from his own transformation journey and created a bootcamp program and a fitness business geared towards helping the people in his hometown of Blomington, IN.
How to know you found your dream | Michael Woodward
How do you know if you've found your big dream? This is a question that I often hear and can be difficult to answer. For each of us our journey to discovery and living our dream can be filled with fear. Knowing how to start well can set a foundation for success in our journey making that dream a reality.
Storytelling - Painting with Sound | Angela Ferrari
Angela Ferrari is an artist, children's book author/ illustrator based in Portland Maine. She is the creator and host of the Story Spectacular podcast.
Angela grew up in the mountains of western Maine. Living in a rural setting, she developed a talent for finding creative ways to play and captivate her imagination.
Bringing Your Vision to Life | Bri Seeley
Bri Seeley is a women’s life coach, author, and sought-after speaker with a mission to help women create a life that inspires them by turning their inner vision into their outer reality. She has been featured on the Today Show, Inc., Forbes, The Huffington Post, Influencive, and more.
Bri is motivated by a deeply-held belief that every woman deserves to live a life that inspires her, and her work reflects this deep remembering that our desires are ultimately inevitable.
Bonus | Beyond Bitcoin & Blockchain | Matthew Schutte
This is a bonus episode with Matthew Schutte. You can find part one at Beyond Bitcoin & Blockchain. You can also find our first interview with Matthew from Season One: The Evolution of Community, Economy, and the Internet.
Matthew Schutte is the Communications Director for Holo. Holo is an organization re-imagining the internet as a distributed network of users. Their approach will make pier to pier connection online possible. Holo is a community of passionate humans building a distributed cloud, owned and run by users like you and me.
Beyond Bitcoin & Blockchain | Matthew Schutte
Matthew Schutte is the Communications Director for Holo. Holo is an organization re-imagining the internet as a distributed network of users. Their approach will make pier to pier connection online possible. Holo is a community of passionate humans building a distributed cloud, owned and run by users like you and me.
Holo provides a way to unleash the enormous idle capacity in everyone’s computers. This gives us the power to build vibrant cloud hosting communities that will challenge how the Internet monopolies control our data and our interactions. Holo offers each of us the ability to participate by sharing, earning, and building the future of the web.
A New Season | Michael Woodward
E100 | A Culture to Power your Mission | Lee Caraher
Lee Caraher is a entrepreneur and business leader. Her curiosity into unseen issues has lead her to write two books about working in teams (specifically with Millennials). Lee's unexpected journey into entrepreneurship will inspire you on your own journey into the unknown. We also discuss branding, mission, technology, and the larger impact of culture in your organization
E99 | Finding Career Clarity | Alison Cardy
Alison Cardy shares her story of helping others find the right career leading them find fulfillment in life. This journey of discovery of the dream career needs the support of others. Their perspective can help you gain new perspective on things you may have been missing. Alison give us insight into how we can start this journey that will lead us to the career of our dreams. In the episode we learn how we can get unstuck, remove the obstacles, push past fear, and build momentum in our journey.
E98 | Overcoming Someday Syndrome | Alex J Moscow
Alex J Moscow have overcome many obstacles on his journey to entrepreneurial success. Today he is known for his ability to help coaches and experts overcome their obstacles by changing their mindset and leading them to get out of their own way. He is now living a life influencing influencers. By removing the limits to your beliefs, the impossible is now possible. We also discuss failing forward, having fun in what you do, living the life you want to live, having a vision that inspires you, and so much more.
E97 | Ask Great Questions | Vanessa Shaw
Vanessa Shaw is designing the business that will give her the life that she loves. In today's episode she shares how you can do the same thing with your business and how you can reconnect with your dreams and passions. Her specialty is the 'Zone of Genius'. She gives us insights into what the Zone of Genius is and how you can find your zone. Along the way you will learn how you can put the right team around you so that everyone is living to their full potential in their zone of genius too.
E96 | More is Never Enough | Damion Lupo
Damion Lupo is a disruptor changing the perceptions around money, business, and life. In today's episode Damion shares that we are not meant to play small and should start designing the life we want to live. We dive deep into the world of learning versus our traditional model of education. Other topics include: redefining success, finding fulfillment, starting with gratitude, expanding our impact, developing our confidence muscle, and much more.
E95 | Creating a Culture of Collaboration | Steve Lowisz
Steve Lowisz is a specialist in the world of Human Resources, entrepreneurial best practices, and talent management. In today's episode he give insights into identifying talent including where to find it, what to do with it, how to develop it, and how to maintain and retain it. We also discuss purpose versus motivation. Steve dives deep into the importance to culture in your organization and how a culture of diversity can set you up for success.
E94 | Systems for Success | Whitney Nicely
Whitney Nicely is an expert in Real Estate Investing. In today's episode she share about being the 4th generation entrepreneur and how it has set her on her own path of entrepreneurship. On her journey of entrepreneurship she found a passion for Real Estate Investing as her key to freedom. She finds people with a problem and she solves it. Over the last few years Whitney has been able to create systems and strategies in place to automate the daily operations of her business.
E93 | The Uncommon Entrepreneur | Jeffery Shaw
Jeffrey Shaw has been a leading portrait photographer for the last 30 years. In this episode he shares the story that set him up for success in business. It all comes back to speaking the secret language of your customers. Jeffrey also gives us some insights into how you can take the uncommon and make it into a thriving business. We also discuss why many of the 'traditional' views of business and marketing need to be changed. It all starts with taking your area of authority and turning it into the new niche. Other topics covered in this episode include: moving past audience into community, the importance of gratitude, the validation paradox, building businesses with a soul, and understanding your ideal customer's perspective.
E92 | The Health of Alternative Medicine | Dr. Rachna Patel
Dr. Rachna Patel shares in this episode how Alternative Medicine is going against the world of traditional Medicine. Her speciality is Medical Marijuana. She shares about the difference between medical marijuana versus consumer marijuana. She also shares about the responsibility around medical marijuana. The industry has also been held back from fully researching marijuana and gathering good data around this type of medicine. This lack of research has held back the potential of the medical value it offers. We also discuss the Opioid and Prescription epidemics hitting the US.
E91 | Targeting the Right Audience | Bud Torcom
Bud Torcom shares the importance of social media and digital marketing for small businesses and entrepreneurs. He gives valuable insights, tips and tricks you can use to learn how to maximize your online exposure. This starts with targeting the right audience with the right message and then using the tools available to craft a strategy to reach your goals. Beyond marketing, Bud has a passion for creating culture in the work place. A culture that enables people to reach their full potential without anxiety or being overworked. He also believes it's important to make the work place a fun place filled with adventure.
E90 | Untaught Lessons in Small Business | Tim Fulton
On today's episode Tim Fulton shares untaught lesson and realities of small business ownership. Tim has over 30 years helping small businesses achieve their vision. In the episode we discuss many important topics for small business owners and entrepreneurs including knowing your strengths and building a great team around you, seeing your blindspots as a business owner, why you need a visionary and a business integrator, the power of coaches / mentors and pier group, why business is personal, anticipating your business needs, letting go and delegating, hiring early, and finding and retaining good talent.