Synopsis
Inspired by the likes of Steve Jobs, Napoleon HIll, Simon Sinek and more; Derick Van Ness and Meghan Pope discuss business strategies, life success, and how to find happiness with some of the smartest (and quirkiest) entrepreneurs and business leaders on the planet! Whether you own a small business, are a solopreneur, work from home, or are looking to start up your own company and be self employed, you'll get inspiration, motivation, and (most importantly) nuts & bolts advice on how successful entrepreneurs think, act, make money, and grow wealthy!Whether you're into real estate, making money online, art, or a more traditional brick and mortar business - there is something on the show for YOU!
Episodes
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034 Speaking & Influence Coach Roberto Monaco
25/03/2015 Duration: 41minLearning how to be a great speaker and influencer is one of the most important skills you can learn according to Roberto Monaco. He should know because he’s helped transform small business owners and entrepreneurs all over the world, and he’s done it through helping them do more than be a great speaker - he’s helped them be more influential in business and life. Roberto shares how he’s been able to go from arriving in the US penniless and not knowing English to doing corporate trainings for over 4000 companies across the world. He also reveals the difference between being a public speaker and being a public leader - and why that distinction makes all the difference. Website: http://influenceology.com/http://influencingfromthefront.com/ Email: roberto@influenceology.com
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033 How to Break Through Invisible Barriers in Your Business
16/03/2015 Duration: 12minAs an entrepreneur we often wonder why we are doing all of the ‘right things’ but not getting the results we want in our business (or our lives). We continue to do things the best we know how, but feel stuck and frustrated. This episode is how to achieve at a higher level than ever before. Derick Van Ness will talk about why you are stuck and how to break out of a rut in your business. He will share what the Dunning-Krueger effect is, and how you can use it to see beyond your current way of operating your business. This episode is business tips and entrepreneurial advice you can take to the bank!
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032 Dental Advocate, Author, & Speaker Gary Kadi
13/03/2015 Duration: 40minGary Kadi has studied everthing from direct mail marketing to franchises to business models that work and beyond. His specialty now is helping dental and medical professionals to grow their businesses in integrity while helping their patients get healthier. He shares his deeply personal experiences and insights of how he overcame challenges with alcohol, what he learned from losing a business, and the stunning realization allowing him to unconditionally love his autistic son. All of these life lessons are universally useful to business owners, entrepreneurs, or anyone who wants to be a better human. Gary shares so many business & life tips and insight that it would be hard to cover them all here, but rest assured this is an interview you don’t want to miss!
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031 Illustrator & Artistic Entrepreneur Gayle Kabaker
11/03/2015 Duration: 37minGayle Kabaker has forged and unpredictable but exciting career path from her beginnings in fashion designing to animation and (her favorite) painting in watercolor and ink. In this show Gayle discusses how she's been able to stay true to herself as an artist (which ultimately landed her work on the cover of the New Yorker Magazine), what it takes to build a career as an artist in the modern world, and how she's taken advantage of the design and art world changing with technology. She shares how to network effectively as a creative professional and how she's been able to sustain her art career through the twists and turns in her life. Gayle's insight and authentic approach to living a creative life shines as a great example of how to turn your passion into a business. http://www.gaylekabaker.com http://www.twitter.com/gaylekabaker https://www.facebook.com/GayleKabaker?fref=ts
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030 Millennial Entreprenuer and Youth Speaker Kelly Lovell
09/03/2015 Duration: 31min22 year old entrepreneur, volunteer, and award winning speaker, Kelly Lovell, is changing the face of doing business in the new economy. She shares how Millennials and Generation Z think and what they are looking for with their careers and employment. Kelly also discussed how to get young people involved in their community, volunteerism, and becoming entrepreneurs from an early age. Her insights on how to think like the younger generation, how to inspire young people in today's world, and what she sees as the key to finding your passion in life are all extraordinary and thought provoking.
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029 Restaurant & Brand Founder of Conscious Fork - Kim Gabelmann
06/03/2015 Duration: 44minBuilding a brand that stands for something, is everything" according to Conscious Fork founder Kim Gabelmann. She shares that creating a successful business is about consciously making the right choices for your vision and integrity. On today’s show Kim discusses how to make tough business decisions in the midst of the daily grind, how to stay on track with your vision, and how she’s been able to follow her passion as an entrepreneur. Kim also shares some tips for small businesses on how she approaches building her company through creating a strong company culture, and why employees are motivated and inspired to drive from several towns away to just work for her company. She truly opens up about living a life of passion and purpose.
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028 Sales Engine Founder & Marketing Specialist Paul Rafferty
04/03/2015 Duration: 36minMarketing specialist Paul Rafferty lays bare some of his insights on what it takes to acquire customers and stand out in today’s marketplace. His story of starting Sales Engine International in his home office and how finding the right partnership is inspiring and insightful. Paul discusses nuts and bolts marketing strategies and answers some tough questions that might be asked on Shark Tank about how to tell if a business is on the road to success or failure. Don’t miss this in depth marketing and entrepreneurship conversation that will help any small business owner understand more about your own business on the road to success. http://www.salesenginemedia.com/
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027 LinkedIn & Social Media Expert Adam Houlahan
02/03/2015 Duration: 35minLinkedIn Expert and Social Media Ninja, Adam Houlihan, dives deeply into how to use social media in the same way as the most successful companies in the world. He talks about the biggest mistakes the most entrepreneurs use when promoting their business and how to maximize the different social media platforms. Adam also generously shares the 7-11 rule of how to properly engage prospects online and what one of his influential mentors taught him about starting a successful business. This episode is just dripping with nuggets of wisdom that can help any small business be more successful with their social media and online efforts. Get Adam's Free Course here: http://www.adamhoulahan.com/free-4-week-linkedin-course/ http://www.adamhoulahan.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamhoulahan https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AdamHoulahan https://www.facebook.com/adam.houlahan1 https://instagram.com/adamhoulahan/ https://twitter.com/AdamHoulahan https://www.pinterest.com/adamhoulahan
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026 Yoga & Partnered Acrobatics Entrepreneur - Mateo Daniel
27/02/2015 Duration: 37minMateo Daniel discusses how living and following his passion has been a key to his success - especially when times got tough. He explains how he’s been able to grow a community of people who have his same love, his key to building deep and powerful relationships, and why he chose yoga and partnered acrobatics as his path to following his bliss.
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025 Talented Tabla Maestro & Entrepreneur Ehren Hanson
25/02/2015 Duration: 52minEhren Hanson a disciple by the great tabla maestro Anindo Chatterjee, began learning tabla at age 15. In 2005 he received the prestigious “Senior Performing Arts Fellowship” from the American Institute of Indian Studies and is currently living in New York City where he works as a professional tabla player, founder @ Viewcy.com, and director of the Anindo Chatterjee School of Tabla (ACST). websites: Company: www.viewcy.com School: http://schooloftabla.viewcy.com Blog: blog.viewcy.com Social Media: facebook.com/viewcystudios facebook.com/ehrenhanson twitter.com/ehrenjhanson twitter.com/viewcystudios
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024 Marketing & Business Development Entrepreneur Greg Gomez
23/02/2015 Duration: 52minGreg has been involved in network marketing and direct sales 1996. He got his start in sales at the age of 20 as a telemarketer for a small financial publications company. He quickly worked his way to the top as a sales associate and outperformed an office of over 80 agents. Many times producing 2 and 3 times more than the rest of the organization COMBINED! After starting his own consulting firm, he continued to use the phone and direct marketing principles as his most relied on tools for growing multiple 6 and 7 figure businesses. And upon applying these strategies to his next venture, he built an organization that added over 247 people a WEEK in less than 6 months. With his system, he’s closed deals ranging from $295 up to $75 thousand dollars without ever needing to meet his clients face to face. In 2003 he founded www.100kmlm.com, an online training system dedicated to teaching frustrated networkers real-world marketing techniques necessary to grow average MLM marketers into sophisticated and successful r
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023 Real Estate Investor & Host of Cash Flow Diaries, J. Massey
20/02/2015 Duration: 41minWho is J. Massey? J. Massey is a husband, father, entrepreneur and full-time real estate investor/developer. A highly sought mentor who enjoys one-on-one coaching, J. earned a reputation in the world of real estate investing as someone skillful in identifying and solving problems. He has experience completing hundreds of real estate transactions in multiple states. He is also a landlord with more than 300 units in his portfolio. J. hosts the board game CASHFLOW 101 and is a master facilitator. Just being around him will improve your financial IQ. Why? He’ll ask you scenario-based questions that bring out your own critical thinking and creativity. J. has always been interested in business, investing and money. Prior to real estate investing, J. worked in the insurance and financial planning industry as a licensed representative with the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the California Department of Insurance (CDI), and he was a Registered Inves
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022 Youth Life Coach & Speaker - Shaneil Stewart
18/02/2015 Duration: 37minShaneil is a Youth development and self development extraordinaire who believes that ladies in their 20s CAN and are MEANT to have it all. She has proven this in her own life and is a Life Coach and Motivational Speaker working with young women to see that nothing is impossible and that their dreams and desires can become their reality. In this episode we discuss how to improve your confidence in a way that actually works in the "real world". Shaneil explains how she has personally overcome limiting beliefs and learned to inspire others and follow her dreams. Shaneil truly believes and stands for young women having it all, the confidence, the career, the love /romance, the finances, the travel and lifestyle and most importantly THE IMPACT! www.missinspirer.comhttps://twitter.com/MissInspirer facebook.com/missinspirer
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021 Start-up Maven, Founder and CEO of Zyncd Simon Schneider
16/02/2015 Duration: 52minSimon Schneider is the founder of 5 start-up companies: the first 1 did ok; the second 1 flamed out in glorious fashion; and the 3rd sold to a larger business. He is now working on his 4th & 5th small businesses on of which, Zyncd, is designed to bring the world's best business expertise to anyone that wants to access it. Simon says: I am passionate about connecting, sharing advice and learning from others. I believe that tapping into the power of the crowd will change the business world forever as part of the sharing-economy. In this episode he shares his business advice and start-up experience on how to use a boad of directors effectively, why his first 2 small businesses didn't go very far, and how to shift your business paradigm in a way that will position you for success. He also shares one of his success habits which he began by accident, but found to be an incredibly useful business tool. You can find him online at: https://twitter.com/simon_crowd https://twitter.com/getZYNCD Simon on Google + ht
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020 Marriage & Relationship Expert Dino Watt
13/02/2015 Duration: 32minDino and Shannon Watt cause high-level entrepreneurs and influencers how to discover more passion, fun and excitement in their marriage. Discovering that no success, celebrity or accolades outside the home will ever be as powerful as the potential failure in the home. Both Dino and Shannon were raised in Southern California. It was there, at the age of 5, where they first met. They recently celebrated their 17th wedding anniversary. They now reside in the Salt Lake Valley, UT with their 3 children ages 14, 12 and 11 years old. After experiencing his parents’ painful divorce at the age of eight, Dino had a passion for figuring out how to create a thriving marriage so that no other child would have to experience that pain.His mission really ignited in 2006 while working as a success coach. That year he was awarded Coach of the Year by the Enlightened Wealth Institute. Many of his students were married couples trying to grow a business. In his coaching sessions Dino noticed how frequently couples struggled to ef
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019 Underground Music and Serial Entrepreneur - AJ Joshi
11/02/2015 Duration: 44minI am because we are, that’s what makes TSN successful… Everyone wants to climb their way to the top but we do it together. It’s about unity, it always has been and always will be. Skeelo worked extremely hard to help make Major Fm a success and Adz worked hard to prove that we could become UK’s largest independent record store. Omar & Faisal in Six2, Uzma in Sculpt Beauty, Tom in GG, Hamoodi in Go Eating, Shen & Azam in FT, Deven & Krupa in Incipio Academy, Brandon, Pharoah, Tasmin, Christina in Sivvr - and the list goes on. Remember there is no “I” in TEAM. Together we can believe and achieve. http://www.ajjoshi.com/ http://sivvr.com/ http://www.twitter.com/tsn http://www.twitter.com/sivvr http://www.twitter.com/aj http://www.twitter.com/givemeonewish
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018 Writer and Entrepreneur Stephen Palmer
09/02/2015 Duration: 36minStephen Palmer has been through many stages since he started his first entrepreneurial enterprise at age 15. He shares how he used the cash flow from real estate to parlay himself into a passionate writing career and even further into creating businesses that align with his core values. He shares his understanding of the abundance mindset and how he's used it to start several small businesses and take them from start up to living his dream. Stephen Palmer is the author of Manifest Destiny: Choosing a Life of Greatness and Uncommon Sense: A Common Citizen’s Guide to Rebuilding America, the founder of Life Manifestos, a Strongbrook business owner, and a book ghostwriter for mission-driven leaders. Stephen Palmer co-authored, with Garrett Gunderson, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Businessweek, and Amazon bestseller Killing Sacred Cows: Overcoming the Financial Myths that are Destroying Your Prosperity. He also co-authored, with Kris Krohn, The Conscious Creator: 6 Laws for Manifesting Your
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017 Life Coach Abby Stone
06/02/2015 Duration: 34minAbby is a professionally trained life coach specializing in body-image, confidence and dreams-to-goal life planning. Abby works with the strong belief that each client brings their own unique skill-set to the coaching/client relationship. She works within that belief to build the client’s awareness in their abilities, creating empowering self-recognition that drives her clients towards their goals. She is currently working on developing a strong coaching presence in Baltimore through group coaching and discussion forums. Abby owns Action in Empowerment with her husband Jody and lives to help and inspire others with her work. Social Media Handles: Facebook -https://www.facebook.com/actioninempowerment LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=131768605&trk Twitter - https://twitter.com/abbylifecoach
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016 Chiropractor & Entrepreneur Dr. Ankur Prakash of Well Balanced Chiropractic
04/02/2015 Duration: 38minDr. Ankur Prakash shares how he's been able to expand his small business from simply being a Chiropractic clinic to a multidisciplinary, one-stop-shop for health and well being in New York City's Upper West Side. Dr. Ankur explains his holisitic business strategies to movitave employees, build trust, and transform your business from the inside out while putting more profit in the bottom line.
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015 Real Estate Investor & Serial Entrepreneur Aleko Souliotes
02/02/2015 Duration: 54minAleko Souliotes comes from an entrepreneurial background having owned and operated businesses for over 20 years in the insurance, retail, real estate investing and restaurant industries. He shares his mindset and business strategies learned from his first-hand knowledge of how to choose a business, and successfully turn that start up idea into a cash flow generating machine that will build wealth.