As a teenager, Hao Lam escaped political persecution and made his way to Canada where he realized his dream of graduating from high school at the age of 23. Hao is now the CEO & chairman of Best in Class Education Center, a supplemental education franchise having 65 locations in 13 states.
“follow your passion. I think passion is very important… If you find your why and then you are driven by the purpose the mission is the why and you are passionate about it you will be successful. Do not try to chase a million dollars, try to chase helping a million people”…[Listen for More]
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Megan Yelaney is a business coach who helps online coaches get booked out with clients and scale to six figures. She specializes in client attraction, social media, and launch strategy. She's a travel junkie, and never seems to stay home for more than three weeks!
“stick with it, this business can be really hard because there is going to be again high highs and low lows but if you know that this is what you are meant to do and when it is on a high high you are just so on purpose, you know this is what you were put on this earth to do… Stick with it especially during those hard times, double down and push harder because you are going to get through it it’s just a matter of time, it’s just doing that compound effect over and over again. And the more and more you realise that you almost welcome those lows because you know you are going to get through it and you have the tools and the resilience to get through it. So just stick with it, it takes a little longer than we think but it’s always worth it in the end”…[Listen for More]
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Michael Zipursky has advised organizations like Financial Times, Dow Jones, RBC, Omron, Sumitomo and helped Panasonic launch new products into global markets, but more importantly, he's helped over 300 consultants from around the world in over 50 industries add six and seven figures to their annual revenues.
“I am a very big fan of imperfect action so my number one recommendation to anyone even if I don’t know much about the situation is just take more action… Look at what you want to achieve… And rather than thinking what else do you need to add or what else you need to do in addition to what you are currently doing try and apply subtraction meaning remove the things that aren’t working. Strip away everything that isn’t necessary because what we’ve observed in our own business and with many clients is that even to get to a seven-figure business you typically only need to product or service offerings, you don’t need to have five, ten or more different things. So the more focused you become the more manageable it is and the easier it is to scale. And you will typically be because you’re more focused you will be able to accelerate a lot quicker”…[Listen for More]
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Dr Brian P Simon, a West Virginia native turned Hampton Roads, Virginia resident, is an entrepreneur who credits his accomplishments to being surrounded by like-minded, driven people. Dr. Simon’s companies, Fit Realty, Custom Homes of Virginia, and Simon Studios, have accumulated an abundance of success in their relatively short lifetime. The Brian Simon real estate team, with their growing boutique brokerage Fit Realty and their growing real estate and home builder Sales and Marketing System, has sold over one billion dollars in real estate in the last twelve years. Dr. Simon’s home building and home renovating company, Custom Homes of Virginia, has built or renovated and re-sold over 200 homes in the last 10 years. Besides being an expert for the many businesses he owns, Dr. Simon possesses many other strengths. He has greater than 17 years’ experience in internet marketing strategies.
“balancing your dreams with reality. It’s important that you start with a dream and that you dream truly with no unfettered, unhindered dreams. But then when it’s time to take the dream and turn it into a goal and then to turn your goal into a smart goal it’s so important that you balance the dream with the reality of where are you now, where are your financial resources, where are your time allocations and make decisions with a little bit of a methodical approach so that you do the timing correctly. Because the right thing at the wrong time a lot of times will hinder the immediate success of that project. There will be times of chaos because walking into entrepreneurship and walking the journey many times is chaos but you don’t want to freezing fear when the crazy happens you want to press forward and do it afraid and not let the chaos because you to freeze. That’s so huge and it’s just one foot in front of the other. Once you feel like the goals are worthwhile goal then one foot in front of the other and keep pressing and small steps lead to big accomplishments”…[Listen for More]
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Daryl Hatton, CEO of award winning crowdfunding company FundRazr, has founded multiple start-ups and helped bring one to a successful NASDAQ IPO in 1999. He serves as advisor to a handful of other hot companies in Canada. As a social media guy, his tagline is “#KingOfGastown, entrepreneur, cardiac survivor, foodie, whisky nut, philosopher, mentor, father and friend.”
“know yourself. I think one of the biggest things that we hurt ourselves with its unconscious behaviour in decision-making. In an entrepreneurial world it’s really important who you are and why things are important to you and how you decide things because you make such better-quality decisions when you know yourself. And I think related to other things that we talked about that you also enjoy more. You can find out and turn it into experience as opposed to a task and that really enriches the whole process”…[Listen for More]
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Simone Di Somma is Founder and CEO at Askdata, a startup specialized in the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve how enterprises consume Analytics. Before founding Askdata, Simone worked at Philip Morris and Hewlett-Packard across Europe, Middle-East and the US with a primary focus on Advanced Analytics. Simone has been a passionate speaker at various events about the benefits of AI and how this technology will transform the way enterprises do their business.
“believe in yourself and at the same time being able to assess yourself. So you have to believe but at the same time always try to understand if you are positioning in the right way and you are proceeding in the right direction. So believe but at the same time believe with some criticism. So being able to every week, every day to evaluate. Am I doing good, am I available to all the elements to succeed – you have to say something. So don’t be a slave… And let down by your own ego”…[Listen for More]
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Wayne Herring has been a growth coach and consultant to business owners for over 5 years. Wayne has helped a wide variety of business owners. Family business and Sales, marketing, and leadership team growth are focus areas. Wayne works with his clients on living their best life as well as growing their business. He and his clients dig in and get focused on what matters most. He and his wife of 17 years Katherine live on a beautiful 20-acre farm in Pennsylvania where they have a retreat/conversation space and walking paths for their clients. They have 4 children. Wayne has been a Civil Engineer, a VP of Sales and marketing, he's grown a sales team, sold a company to a publicly traded firm, been a farmer and he's been sober for over 12 years. Grow your business and live your Best Life!
“take a step, see what happens, solve from there, don’t wait ”…[Listen for More]
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Matt Moody is the CEO and founder of Bellwethr, a startup using machine learning to solve customer retention. Matt is a machine learning engineer, specializing in reinforcement learning, as well as a software developer with two successfully exited startups. Matt and his team are passionate about putting action based machine learning in the hands of domain experts to move the needle for enterprise businesses.
“my best advice is not to overbuild and to spend more time listening and talking to customers”…[Listen for More]
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Pete Barrow We are a family owned business, based here in Indianapolis, with a focus on providing the reliability and responsiveness that you need in order to make your real estate investment a success. We have 5 team members with approximately 80 years of combined experience in construction and real estate investing.
“no magic trick, there is no easy way, there is no golden path. There’s just… you get an idea, you work, you think, you struggle, you put in a lot of hours… There is certainly a lot of knowledge you need to have but there’s not just some trick that will make it easy. It really is a skill game. It really is a skill business, you have to have skills… You have to be able to build decent relationships with people… That would be my advice. There is not magic trick, there is not a secret that will make it all happen for you, it’s just about learning a lot of little skills and putting things together and working hard and getting better”…[Listen for More]
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Joseph A Michelli, Ph.D., C.S.P., is an internationally sought-after speaker, author, and organizational consultant. His insights encourage leaders and frontline workers to grow and invest passionately in all aspects of their lives. Dr. Michelli is the author of numerous national bestsellers, including The Starbucks Experience, The New Gold Standard, and the New York Times #1 bestseller Prescription for Excellence. He was named as one of the Top 10 thought leaders in Customer Service by Global Gurus. His new book is The Airbnb Way: 5 Leadership Lessons for Igniting Growth through Loyalty, Community, and Belonging (October 2019, McGraw Hill).
“craft your legacy now. You are going to leave a legacy it’s either going to be big or small, it’s either going to be designed or it is going to happen by default so claim it now and broadcast it to people you love. And put it up somewhere and look at it every morning because it’s hard to do the work unless you know the wire”…[Listen for More]
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Hyungsoo Kim is a firm believer in the importance of universal design with the goal to co-design innovative products that are accessible and useful to everyone. His team has created an innovative fashion timepiece, The Bradley, that everyone, including the blind, can touch to tell time.
“I offer the advice not to go all in. The reason is if you really go all in it will push you to work harder for sure but often times you will not be able to think rationally, you won’t be able to relax and step back to solve unexpected problems you face. And you would often find yourself going for very short-term profits and results. You will lose patience when you need to wait for the right timing to catch something”…[Listen for More]
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Jenn Nicken launched The Chef and The Dish, a globally unique company, which provides private, one-to-one cooking classes live over Skype with chefs around the world. Her unique mission is to connect kitchens, pass down recipes, and bring the world closer, one meal at a time.
“if you are going to go for it, go for it. That said be flexible. I’ve seen a lot of business owners spend an enormous amount of money on things at the beginning of their business and they haven’t yet proven their concept yet. And that’s one area where I have seen businesses go out of business before they really get a chance to start. Because they have invested so much money in for example things like building websites… So my advice would be to invest and do the things that you believe you need to do to get up and running but don’t invest so much that it doesn’t allow you to be flexible ”…[Listen for More]
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Reid Blackman was gripped by ethical problems the first semester of his first year in college over 20 years ago. Countless hours later, after reading, arguing, and teaching about ethics, he’s still hungry for more. While his early research concerned issues largely contained within the ivory tower, his research has become increasingly action-orientated, particularly as it concerns the ethics of emerging technologies and institutions like governments and corporations. Reid is a Senior Advisor to Ernst & Young and is a Founding Member of EY’s AI Advisory Board. He also sits on the committee for “Methods to Guide Ethical Research and Design” for the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems and is a member of the European Union Artificial Intelligence Alliance. He has taught at Northwestern University, the University of Texas in Austin, the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and Colgate University. When he isn’t doing ethics you can find him with his wife and children, unless there’s rock climbing to be done.
“I really think it’s important to talk to lots of people and just network your head off. There’s a way of networking that is gross where you just go around asking people what they could do for you. But I think there’s a kind of networking that is on the ethical up and up where you are motivated just as much by curiosity as you are self-interest. And so, you go around meeting people because you are curious to hear what they do and maybe they are in your field or maybe they are in and adjacent field or maybe they can’t help you but you can help them. I just think that stuff is extremely gratifying when you make connections, when you connect people to other people. And then also it could lead to your own welfare because then those people are grateful and then the introduce you to these other people that actually do benefit you. So do not underestimate the power of networking”…[Listen for More]
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Venkates Swaminathan (Swami) is the founder and CEO of LifeLaunchr, the world's first virtual college admissions coaching platform, and a member of the National Association for College Admission Counseling. Swami has been an executive in the education and technology industries for over 25 years. He has a M.S. from the University of Illinois, and a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.
“really think hard and spend time understanding what it is you really want to do and why you want to do this business. There will be lots… No matter what business you start and who the entrepreneur is there will always be times when it just feels difficult. And the thing that keeps you going is not that you want to make money, the thing that keeps you going in all those difficult times is knowing why you started the business. Did you start it because you want to make a difference in the world? Did you start it because you have a particular problem that you are really passionate about solving? So, understanding what problem you are passionate about solving I think that will keep you going through the difficult times… Know what that is and no it deep in your gut. And once you know it the solutions will show up.”…[Listen for More]
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Kristen David, a former trial lawyer who went from working 85 hours a week and being a slave to her law firm to a successful million-dollar-plus owner who then sold and pivoted into a business coach guru. She empowers business owners to build thriving, profitable businesses that are self-managed.
“take the time to get clear on what you want to build. Then build a roadmap quarter by quarter to get you from where you are right now to that point… Build a plan every quarter to make more money until you hit that goal. But at least then you know what you need to do. So, when you have a plan it makes it so much easier to stay at it when you have those rough days, because rough days will come. So my best advice to entrepreneurs is build a plan you believe in and then even on the rough days keep doing the things the plan tells you to do”…[Listen for More]
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Johanna Zlenko is the founder of The Closet Trading Co., an upscale consignment boutique based. Johanna founded this brand while a freshman at University of California Santa Barbara, grew the brand to 4 successful locations, and is now looking to expand nationally.
“we are our own worst enemy. We tell ourselves we are not enough, capable enough, knowledgeable enough, outgoing enough, strong enough, smart enough. But the truth is that everyone feels that way at one point or another. And to succeed as entrepreneurs we have to push through those doubts. We have to get up, get dressed, put on a brave face even when we don’t feel like it because at the end of the day like I said the people who make it, the people that succeed are the ones who actually execute on their dreams, on their ideas”…[Listen for More]
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Arti Bedi Pullins is a strategic, data-driven entrepreneur with deep experience in business strategy, product innovation and digital marketing. As the founder and CEO of Pundit Consultantz, Arti helps clients in the healthcare, medtech and emerging technologies industries to drive innovation and rapidly expand into new markets and channels.
“as an entrepreneur it tends to be a very emotional journey. You are doing something you are very passionate about; you are very close to; you are obviously taking a big risk. So, you have to be bold, strong, obviously a risk-taking but try not to be illogical more importantly arrogant especially early on when you start to see success… Always remember to sit next to your customer not across from them. And I don’t mean that in a physical sense when you are in a conference room I truly mean if you visualise that any time you are in a setting and you have two people sitting next to each other and conversing and talking in ideated and working together versus two people sitting across the table from each other and working – there is a clear difference there in partnership, collaboration and what the person across the table is trying to do”…[Listen for More]
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Michelle Barr is a Business Coach, Mindset Mentor, and Author of From Calling to Cash, helping Spiritual Entrepreneurs turn their life’s calling into a profitable business they love. She turned her own expensive hobby into a full-time profitable business, took it online, and built a thriving global business.
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David Thomas Tao is an entrepreneur, editor, and voice actor based in New York City. David is the Co-Founder and Editor of BarBend.com, an media brand that provides multi-platform coverage of news, analysis, training, and opinion in strength training and sports. One of the largest and fastest-growing fitness sites on the web, BarBend is the Official Media Partner of USA Weightlifting and is also a partner broadcaster for the 2019 Reebok CrossFit Games. David is a 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 list maker for Media. A veteran of the health & fitness industry, he has nearly a decade of experience building and running editorial teams in the space.
“start it and don’t be afraid to fail… Just begin. If you don’t make it no one is going to buy it. You are not going to get it right the first time. You may not ever get it 100% right but few businesses do and they still become massive runaway successes. So just start something. Start something small, don’t be afraid to start it small. Don’t be afraid to have one customer and to have one customer for a year that’s still a customer and you can still learn a lot from them. The best time to start it was 20 years ago, the second best time is now. Get started on something because the best way to learn is by doing”…[Listen for More]
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Rytis Lauris is the co-founder and CEO of Omnisend, the powerful marketing automation platform that’s focused on the omnichannel approach. He believes that rich customer data empowers eCommerce businesses to generate more sales by sending highly personalized messages via channels like email, SMS, Facebook, Google retargeting, etc. Omnisend has become a top-rated app in the Shopify App Store.
“start doing now. Whatever that means. Either starting your business, either some new ideas, how to improve your product, how to improve your service. If sometimes you think okay now I need to nail this, and I have to do that, and blah blah, and get ready for that, so you had better start now and then you are going to improve”…[Listen for More]
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Angela Ward empowers people to be who they are with compassion, free from fear and judgement of themselves and others. About 4 years ago Angela became spiritually awakened and went through a healing process of her own. Shes since incorporated holistic therapies into her range of services. Angela provides tools to help individuals bring balance and harmony into their life. Whether that’s through the use of aromatherapy oils, guided meditation, crystal therapy, chakra balancing, massage and mentoring programme.
“I think that what you need to do is be very real about your journey and believe in what you are doing because it can be really, really tough but it’s also really rewarding… You need a solid foundation to make the business sustainable. So definitely get a strategy together and then a plan of how you are going to implement it. Timeframes is really important – set yourself timeframes but don’t be scared to make changes if you need to because sometimes something might not work and you have to be brave to stop if something isn’t working and try a new approach”…[Listen for More]
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Stephanie Parker and Brett Parker are the co-founders of Sleeping Baby, the successful baby apparel brand that started with the Zipadee-Zip, a swaddle transition product Stephanie created when her daughter wouldn’t sleep through the night. They were on ABC’s hit reality show, Shark Tank, where they received offers from three of the investors. They initially accepted Daymond John’s offer of $200,000 for a 20% stake in the company, but they ended up not taking the investment during the negotiations after filming. Despite turning down John’s deal, Sleeping Baby still flourished. Five years later, Parker continues to grow their ethically-made, high quality products now sold online across the U.S. and in Europe, Japan, Canada and Mexico.
“quit talking about it and jump, go and do it, take steps forward every day”…[Listen for More]
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Jim Murray is a millennial real estate investor which allowed him to become a corporate dropout by 28. He runs a 7-figure property management business based out of Rhode Island and is Co-host on the Cashflow Kings podcast.
“wake up and work hard every single day, wake up and deliver on the person you say you are. So live it, eat it, breathe it. Wake up and be the person you say you are going to be”…[Listen for More]
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Jeff Fromm is the author of three books focused on creating Brand Love® with modern consumers. Jeff works as a partner at Barkley and speaks all over the world.
“make sure that you are solving the needs that your customers have and doing it in a way that is so exceptional they are going to talk about it to their friend networks”…[Listen for More]
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Robby D'Angelo is a human optimization expert that helps people take the limiter off of their lives by using a holistic mind, body and soul approach. He uses the hero's journey to teach people how to be the hero of their own lives!
“find a pain solve a pain. That’s one piece of advice I give to a lot of entrepreneurs. And we have this message and we have this passion inside of us to help people and really become an entrepreneur and make money. But I think what we often forget is a lot of the statements I just made have the word I and me in them but in that passion. In that message we will want to get out there who are you speaking to? What pain do they have? And how can you use your passion, your message to solve that pain? And on the flipside of that serve don’t sell. Find a bunch of people have that pain, serve them away to solve that pain. If you do that enough and if you can create enough value for people business will take care of itself”…[Listen for More]
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