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The Entrepreneur Way

Are you an Entrepreneur, Wantrepreneur, or Small Business Owner? Would you like new ideas, insight inspiration that you can apply from successful entrepreneurs? Be our guest and listen to our podcast to discover how other entrepreneurs are getting all of this as they commute, and as they workout in the gym, and as they jog etc. 7 days a week we interview successful entrepreneurs and talk about their journey to discover their struggle before finding success, the big ideas that made their businesses grow, and their aspirations and ideas for the future. In each episode of The Entrepreneur Way Neil chats with successful entrepreneurs as they reveal golden nuggets of information and advice. For more information go to http://theentrepreneurway.com/
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Nov 30, 2017

With more than 30 years of experience, Keith Alper is a serial entrepreneur and champion for free enterprise, innovation and entrepreneurial leadership. He founded several St. Louis-based businesses and organizations, including Nitrous Effect, Eventiv, UPBrand Collaborative, Vidzu.tv and the Creative Producers Group. He is also the founder of the St. Louis Young Entrepreneurs’ Organization and serves on several boards across the area. He brings extensive marketing, branding, business strategy and event production experience to Geniecast, and has produced special events, meetings, video/film, broadcast and major entertainment projects around the world. Keith has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Inc. Magazine, Fortune Magazine, and has received numerous awards, including the Inc. 500 “Top 100 Multimedia Producers” award and the St. Louis Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” award.

“Keep learning, the world is changing every day, the more we talk to other entrepreneurs the more we realise that we’re not alone, being in peer networks with other entrepreneurs who’ve gone through this, it’s like saying I’ve never played football before but if I did play professional football I could share those stories or ask other people how did you do this or what did you do so being able to be around other entrepreneurs”…[Listen for More]

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Nov 28, 2017

Berry Handcraft Provisions. Anne-Marie Faiola’s most recent book, Live Your Best Day Ever, takes the reader on a journey, through stories and insights from personal experiences, on how to choose to live your best day ever, every day. This goes along with her all-inclusive lifestyle brand, Best Day Ever, which helps women find their best life through classes, merchandise and other resources for daily inspiration.

“It doesn’t matter where you are in your entrepreneurial journey, you could just be thinking about it, you, could be doing something right now but they say that the best time to have started something was 20 years ago but the next best time is to start tomorrow and I really think that is true for every single entrepreneur no matter where you are in your life, whether you have a side hustle or a passion project…[Listen for More]

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Nov 26, 2017

Gabe Arnold is a serial entrepreneur and chief pencil sharpener and founder at Copywriter Today. Over three years ago when he heard a podcast from the founder of WP Curve he decided to create an unlimited subscription based content creation service that now services hundreds of businesses around the world.

“It’s really important to learn and use your own mindset for good instead of just reacting to the motions you have and the feedback you get , be really strategic and intentional and channelling those things into a successful output as a simple example what I mean is, today I had a team member that I really like, got a great job offer and is moving on and, I actually want that, I always want people to grow and succeed and I’m always happy for them when they move on but in the moment today I feel like man I’m really disappointed that I have to find somebody else to fill their role, in the moment it can feel like very defeating”…[Listen for More]

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Nov 26, 2017

Joe Pippins is a father of 3 and is native to Kansas, KC  USA. He invented a new way to enjoy fishing without family and friends. Joe and his product, The Fishing Caddy was featured on Steve Harvey's Fundedome on ABC.

“Stay connected with other entrepreneurs, this way of life that we have and the way our brains think is sometimes a very rare thing. If you have, your friends who you grew up with, your friends who are not entrepreneurs, they don’t really understand why we like staying up until 3 O’clock in the morning doing what we do or why we would invest so much time and energy into something without seeing immediate results, not to knock those friends who are not entrepreneurs but they’re more comfortable with the 9-5, they’re more comfortable with knowing they’re going to make X number of dollars whereas us entrepreneurs we’re quite bold, we’re very courageous but sometimes if you’re not around other entrepreneurs you’ll start to believe that what you’re doing and the process of entrepreneurship is not fruitful but if you’re around other entrepreneurs that’s the exact opposite” …[Listen for More]

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Nov 25, 2017

Peter Reitano is a marketer, entrepreneur, investor and advisor. He's passionate about helping companies accelerate growth. Over the last decade he's worked directly with some of the world's largest blue-chip / Fortune 500 brands and award winning agencies in Europe, Australia, Canada and the US. An active participant and early adopter in the digital space, he has strong insight into online behavior / tech trends, and is a regular speaker at conferences and industry panels around the world. His previous company, Spark, was recently acquired, and he's now Co-Founder and CEO at Abacus; a VC-backed specialized Facebook advertising agency. Abacus helps brands grow and acquire customers with advanced data-driven performance marketing. Peter is also an instructor at Bitmaker, where he teaches digital marketing, and co-founder of Bellwether, a not-for-profit which brings together entrepreneurs and leaders in Toronto's startup, tech, media, and advertising space for collaboration and innovation.

“Get used to rejection, especially if you’re a founder, not everyone is going to see your vision and if you’re raising money it’s a pretty gruelling process so you need to be able to eat those for breakfast like I was saying when we were first raising money we got told all the time why are you focussing why are you just doing facebook, we got a lot of pushback with things” …[Listen for More]

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Nov 24, 2017

Jen Hall is a Transformational Business Clarity Coach for online entrepreneurs who want to make EPIC IMPACT, PLAY BIG & earn the amazing income that comes with owning your greatness! She helps you feel ‘on fire’ and in pure alignment with your purpose & up-level in confidence to become the high-profile Leader in your field. Jen is on a fierce mission to remove the wall between you & the wildly successful because she believes we ALL have the ability to reach those heights! Jen Hall has been featured on Thrive Global & YFS, and won Speaker of the Year 2016 and Nominated again for 2017!

“You can create your own success, failure is not an option when you commit to your success and you can absolutely do it all you need to do is get support in the areas that you lack”…[Listen for More]

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Nov 23, 2017

Robert Thomas Bethel is the orchestrator of seventy-seven business turnarounds over the past fifty years. Early successes and troubles in his own professional career inspired his passion for taking over struggling businesses and guiding them towards the road of profitability. Bob has turned around companies in various industries—from restaurant chains to engineering firms—and has helped save over ten thousand jobs as a result of his strategic business counsel. A graduate of the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University, Bob owns several companies across the southern United States and has operated businesses both nationwide and internationally. He is an Eagle Scout and, in addition to counseling, also spends times teaching three-day seminars on best business practices throughout the United States. He currently resides in Orange Beach, Alabama with his wife, Reese.

“So many entrepreneurs come up with an idea, they bounce it off of a friend or a co-worker, they go to a bank and they talk about it with the banker and whether or not they can get the capital to start, the first step in buying or starting a business or if you’ve been in business for a year or 2 and you want to improve your business, what I would recommend Neil to everyone is to get online, take your industry trade publications, identify the top 5 successful people in your industry and go see them and I know the first time I did it I did not expect to get a return phone call when I made a call to an industry leader to an industry I had just gone into, I did get that call returned, I did go see that person and the time I spent with that person was unbelievable valuable in real world hard truth experience that have already occurred. And because I got so much information with that first one I continued it, and in 52 years, in all of the calls that I had made for advice every single one of them had been returned Neil and during that call I asked that person every single time may I come see you for a few minutes when I have time, every single time I’ve been told yes, and the value of those meetings with industry leaders over 52 years, there is no way to express the information value to the companies that I’ve been involved in” …[Listen for More]

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Nov 22, 2017

Greg Centineo ): has a creative and transforming presence that inspires and draws people to want to engage in projects. Over the last three decades of his life, he has followed the path of entrepreneurism, that has led him to a variety of industries and profound business start-ups. Through his ability to connect people, as well as to reframe goals and story of a business or idea, he can redirect a company or project struggling to meet its objectives. Greg is a subject matter expert on raising private equity and securing project capital, he has raised in excess of 125 million dollars during the worst economic years (2008-2015).

“Stay as grounded as you can, surround yourself with a really good inner team, inner core of people who are loyal, who love you, who believe in you, who are honest enough to tell you you’re false and I believe you’ll achieve what you gotta achieve whilst being balanced”…[Listen for More]

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Nov 21, 2017

Donald Grothoff is an author, speaker, EFT practitioner, podcaster and the owner of Family OCD in Charlotte, NC USA. The focus of his practice is helping families whose children are afflicted with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Anxiety via a modality called Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) or “tapping”. With over thirteen years of training and experience in EFT, Don assesses the whole child, family, and environment, providing a variety of alternative treatments that address the child's particular needs. Don has helped local schools develop their own tapping programs. He has worked with traditional and alternative practitioners such as a pediatric neurologist, integrative pediatric and naturopathic doctors, psychiatrists, chiropractors, therapist and social workers. Don is the author of the E-book “A Trip to the Non-Sensical: A Dad's Journey Through His Daughter's OCD”, in which he shares his personal experience guiding his family through a traumatic diagnosis. Don is available for private sessions, speaking and workshops worldwide via Skype and other online methods.

“Going up and putting your business on the cloud, I did that about 2 years ago, decided I got tired of having everything on my PC or on my laptop and it crashing and I’d lose everything so I started building my business on the cloud in a lot of different ways, from storage to communications, phone systems, all of that is now pretty much on the cloud because it makes it nice and become very mobile then”…[Listen for More]

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Nov 20, 2017

Linda Adams with over 40 years of experience in Human Resources working for such marquee companies as Ford Motor Company, PepsiCo and Level 3 Communications, founded the Trispective Group in 2008. With her three partners their focus is on creating capability in leaders, teams, and organization. As a coach she has worked with every type of organization at every stage of development, across multiple industry and geographical borders. They wrote their book, The Loyalist Team, to share broadly their knowledge and experience about the universal truths of what works and what does not with teams and to support everyone who works on a team in creating their best team experience ever because they believe everyone deserves a great team.

“Go for it, life is just too short to have a dream and put it in a box”…[Listen for More]

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Nov 19, 2017

Randi Brill is a Creative Director/President/Motivational Speaker/Author. She is pleased to be launching an inspirational quick-read book, 99 Creative WOWs—Words of Wisdom for Business that is ideal for those ready and eager to succeed NOW. With a background in creative design, the book offers great advice in the form of a beautiful package. Targeting recent graduates, young professionals, newly-minted entrepreneurs, business owners and creative thinkers, Randi offers succinct and memorable sound bites based on her personal, business and creative life as an entrepreneur. In addition to launching this book, she is also simultaneously running her ecommerce site, Teacher Peach and also her creative solutions firm QuaraCORE Design.

“Just start, if you are ten steps ahead of the people around you that gives you a running start, the other thing that I would also say to you is stop asking for advice, if you need the advice of so many people, check your gut, sometimes I have to really remind myself to check out, in my own business decision making I will listen to my gut”…[Listen for More]

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Nov 18, 2017

Jeremy Blake is the sales and training director of Reality Training, a business that designs and delivers sales and management models to large and ambitious businesses which has included Thomas Cook, The AA, AUDI and UBM. He studied at the Oxford School of Drama, then qualified to Teach English as a Foreign Language, and worked at St Clare's College, Oxford. Jeremy then went on to become a salesperson for a theatre programme publisher. He moved on to Yellow Pages, winning national sales awards and became one of their top salespeople in the UK. His first business was a design agency, then he devised and sold marketing plans to small businesses. 15 years ago he founded Reality Training with Bob Morrell an old actor pal from drama school days. They are have worked across Europe, The US and India.

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Nov 18, 2017

Karen D Walker is the president and principle consultant at Oneteam, Inc., where she helps senior leaders create internal strategies that support their external growth. Decades ago, Karen helped create the (then) fastest growing company in American history: Compaq Computer. She now serves as an executive advisor and consultant to the CEOs and senior organization leaders of organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 500 firms — with outcomes including IPOs, acquisitions, market share increases, and dramatic leadership development.

“Be clear about your purpose, be clear about the value of that purpose and go for it, we only get this one shot at life so to appreciate the opportunity to unfold in a way that allows you to explore your purpose and explore your value”…[Listen for More]

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Nov 17, 2017

Shirish Phatak is the Founder and CEO of Talon and has over 15 years’ experience building scalable, high performance systems that solve mission critical information technology challenges. Shirish was Chairman of the Board and Co-founder of Velocius Networks and also co-founded Tacit Networks, a pioneer in Wide Area File Services. Shirish earned an M.Tech in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology and an M.Phil in Computer Science from Rutgers University.

“Perseverance is key, you have to be able to get through the hard times the tough times the outright ugly times, if you can’t do that, those times will happen I don’t care how successful you are there are going to be some bumps, they may be smaller or larger but you have to be able to handle them. You should do what you like, it’s your vision, it’s your heart, it’s your baby if you will and that’s important, that sense of ownership for me is super important”…[Listen for More]

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Nov 16, 2017

Linda Binns Linda Binns is an accomplished energy coach and author of seven self-help books, and numerous published articles. She has appeared on television, including her multiple encore guest appearances on Portland, Oregon's AM Northwest News Show, as well as, on the radio, podcasts, and on-line summits. Being raised not to succeed, Linda discovered early on ‘you are rarely ready for what life brings.' Where most people let life's obstacles stop them, Linda seized this re-occurring ‘lesson' and transformed it into her life's work and passion including playing competitive tennis.

“Know what you really want for yourself in your life then design your business so that it will give you the life that you want and trust yourself and your instincts, don’t let others tell you what you should and shouldn’t do”…[Listen for More]

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Nov 15, 2017

What would you do if your parents were ripped off for $1.5 million by their caregiver? Barbara Wogh, registered nurse and senior advocate, started a company called Keeping Your Parents Safe to help people with their parents' aging and healthcare needs to ensure they get the best care possible.

“Close your eyes and do it, just do it, just move forward and don’t over think”…[Listen for More]

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Nov 14, 2017

Kevin Smullin helps real estate agents become top producers by teaching them a world-class marketing and lead generation system that will double their business.

“Done is better than perfect, I find too many people that want things to be perfect, they want the perfect website, the perfect business card, the perfect business plan, they want to have something to be perfect and that is their major issue and so if people can focus on done is better than perfect they’ll make further progress in their business”…[Listen for More]

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Nov 13, 2017

Nancy Friedman, is one of the country’s most well-known experts on communications and customer service. President of Telephone Doctor Inc. in St. Louis, Missouri, MO, USA, she helps companies communicate better with their customers. A popular speaker at franchise and corporate meetings, Nancy says, “More business is lost due to poor service and poor treatment than poor product.”

“Go for it, don’t let anybody talk you in or out of it, if you’ve got something that you want to do, research it to the point that you can say this is a good idea, sometimes people over think things and they talk themselves into it or out of it and it’s not that that’s a good idea or bad idea but the over thinkers personally drive me crazy”…[Listen for More]

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Nov 11, 2017

Kris Reid started out as a software engineer and worked for several big name companies before the Global Financial Crisis hit and he lost his contract. He ended up developing a game and was looking for ways to promote it, which led him to learn about SEO. He started creating tools that increase website ranking, which is now the basis of his company, Ardor SEO. Ardor SEO is the ultimate multi-national backlink building company that helps businesses achieve utmost success in their respective niches by using the most innovative methods of marketing online, including search engine optimization, reputation management, search engine ranking and link building.

“Selling is the number one thing that you need to do in making a business; if you can sell you’ll never go hungry, focus on becoming a good salesman”…[Listen for More]

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Nov 11, 2017

After spending 17 years in an international accounting firm and an international law firm, Jack Wong was determined to leave the corporate world in Singapore as his career was at a dead end. Although he was surrounded by negative people, using the power of positive thoughts and vibrations, together with some tested tools given by his mentors and coaches, Jack managed to build a successful training and consulting business. As a result, he managed to increase his annual business revenue to six figures in his third year as a serial entrepreneur. Jack now provides consulting, training, and coaching services to his clients. His background in business, accounting, and the law has given him a solid foundation to approach a variety of business topics. He is an accredited tax advisor and has more than 23 years of international tax experience. Jack is also an experienced speaker and workshop facilitator since 2000.

“Stay humble, be vulnerable, remove the ego and follow your purpose. Entrepreneurs have to learn their lessons every single day because there’s so much to learn, follow purpose not passion”…[Listen for More]

 

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Nov 10, 2017

Susan Bratton, Founder and CEO, an MBA and former Wall Street executive, conceived Savor Health when her dear friend lost his struggle to cancer five months after his diagnosis. Savor Health was born from Susan’s extensive research which indicates that up to 80% of cancer patients experience nutritional issues.

“Stick with it and persevere because you can make it but you’ve got to stick with it”…[Listen for More]

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Nov 9, 2017

Dave Arnold is the founder and President of Arnold Partners, the leading independent CFO search firm for technology companies nationwide. Since starting Arnold Partners in 2008 his placed CFO's have helped clients realize over $11Billion in increased value. Dave's first foray into self employment was mowing lawns at the age of 8!

“Be tenacious and do it with ethics and that’s really it, you cannot survive as an entrepreneur unless you’re tenacious and you have drive, don’t do it at the expense of other people, some of the recent meltdowns that we’ve seen in silicon valley with the founder of Uber and the founder of Zenefits and some of these others guys, their drive is so hard but they don’t drive necessarily the right way and so don’t build a business at any expense, build a business that you’re really proud of and you would be proud for anybody to look at and feel really good about”…[Listen for More]

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Nov 8, 2017

Darcy Luoma is a master certified coach, dynamic facilitator, and professional speaker. She has her Masters in Organization Development from Pepperdine University and is the founder and president of Darcy Luoma Coaching & Consulting, which creates high-performing people and teams. Darcy balances her thriving business with raising her two energetic daughters and competing in triathlons.

“Don’t wait until it’s perfect to start, jump in, notice what works, what doesn’t work, tweek it, make changes, learn, grow, but if you’ve got a passion, if you’ve got an idea just go for it, don’t wait”…[Listen for More]

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Nov 7, 2017

JP Van Dyke started JAC Consulting 13 years ago. JAC has seen a few twists and turns over the years but with innovation and determination the company has kept pushing the envelope to bring quality services to both the business and political world.

“Stay true to yourself, if you believe and do what’s in your heart with your business I think is the right way to go, with myself integrity is everything and I think that if you ask people that have worked with me and know me and stuff, they know that that’s the most important thing in my business, being honest about what I do and who I am and what I say, I think though that really knowing your business and what it is you’re trying to accomplish”…[Listen for More]

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Nov 5, 2017

Ken Carfagno is a high-energy former engineer, now running a cleaning company. SMART goal-setting was Ken’s catalyst for shrinking his work week by 2 days without sacrificing income. Now, he re-invests his time into coaching, helping Dads connect with their kids, and spending more time with his own family of seven.

“Most people listening to this or who’ve been on your show before, they’re much more successful financially, business wise than I am, but there’s one thing that I really want to get across to every single entrepreneur no matter where you are, if you’re the hard charger, or if you’re the brand new start-up or even the wannapreneur, is your business, it’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon and if you’re a father or a mom you’ve got these little kiddos in your house, maybe they’re 6, maybe they’re 16, maybe you’re even expecting your first child coming up here next year and what I want to share my advice is that we only have our children for a very short window of time, don’t be that guy that squanders that time because he’s so focussed on his business, business is important but get proper perspective around life” …[Listen for More]

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