Neil Gordon helps public speakers and authors to craft their message. He is a former member of the editorial staff of Penguin, has ghostwritten or collaborated on books published by Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, and Hay House, and has been featured in Inc as well as The Irish Times.
“become an absolute expert in your target audience’s problems. Just know the ins and out their problems. The better you speak to their problems in your marketing as well as engaging with them in any aspect of their experience with you the more successful you are going to be”…[Listen for More]
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Charmaine Hammond is an expert in collaboration, partnership and sponsorship. She helps entrepreneurs raise their dreams, launch their projects and make a bigger impact through the power of this untapped revenue source...collaboration and sponsorship.
“stick with it when times get tough. I see so many people who have big dreams and their business can help so many people and make a big impact. And when times get hard, they give up easily or too soon. And there is an opportunity there for us to ask for help, to get a coach, to find somebody to collaborate with. But when it is important to you don’t give up because I think sometimes the regret is bigger than the pain you go through in that moment to keep things going. So, don’t give up too soon. Sometimes good ideas don’t pan out so we have to let go of things but just really doublecheck with yourself about giving up too easily”…[Listen for More]
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Dr. Steve G. Jones is a board certified Clinical Hypnotherapist who has been practicing hypnotherapy since the 1980s. Dr. Steve has authored 25 books, created over 9,000 hypnosis audio recordings and 22 different online certification programs, which are sold in over 140 countries.
“follow your passion. It sounds trite, it sounds cliché, I know but it’s not. It’s popular because it’s the truth. Follow your passion.”…[Listen for More]
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Kenny Kline is a serial entrepreneur and founder/managing partner at JAKK Media. JAKK Media is a niche content company that runs some of the most popular sites on the web targeting passionate audiences.
“I think it goes back to survival. So figure out how to survive another day and just be ready to seize opportunity when it is there. And with that make just sure that you are doing something that you plan on doing a long time. The things you read about in the newspapers or the blogs where they raise millions of dollars and then the raise tens then the raise hundreds and they sell four years later that is one out of 50 million businesses. The rest feel a little more like a slog. And there is nothing wrong with that but just be prepared for and it doesn’t mean it is not going to be a great journey as well for you”…[Listen for More]
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A graduate of the Fashion Institute of Design Merchandising, Hasmig “Jasmine” Penna received a degree in business and product development and studied everything from textile and product development to personal shopping and styling. Upon graduation, she took a trend forecasting position in footwear with ACI, which ignited her passion for footwear construction. As a Footwear Line Builder at Report/Topline Footwear, Hasmig traveled overseas, where she pocketed influence from the landscapes, cultures, and people. A survivor of meningitis and a diabetic since the age of fifteen, Hasmig worked for various companies until given equal opportunity through Obama Care to start her own business. Congés transpired while Hasmig was in Bora Bora on her honeymoon. The fine jewelry collection embodies the confluence of all forces and experiences of Hasmig’s life and helps enhance courage, self-awareness, discovery, and healing.
“expect the unexpected, good and bad, just roll with it… You have to always remind yourself and remember that there is room for everyone so don’t hold back. My success will not stunt your success, your success will not stunt mine, there is room for all of us”…[Listen for More]
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Louis Stack, “Leading the World to Better Balance” since 1985. His brand Fitterfirst is recognized worldwide for supplying premium professional and personal products that help people recover from and prevent injury, maintain balance and fitness and keep moving at work. He has built a foundation of integrity and quality in everything he does. Along his journey, Stack has been an advocate and industry expert, often leading the way in the physical rehabilitation world and setting precedence in the way we approach of office environment. Nothing makes him happier than improving someone’s life with one of his products - a “win-win-win” as he likes to call it. Canadian National Speed Skiing Team, 1990 - 1995 Calgary's Small Business of the Year Award, 2002 Winner of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2016
“you have got to be passionate and believing what you are doing. Anything less than 100% commitment and passion, it doesn’t guarantee failure. But it’s not a ticket to success. There is going to be hardships, there is going to be challenges, you are going to have adversity. That’s called life, that’s what happens while you’re busy making other plans, you are living your life, crap happens and you have got to get through it. I always look for the light at the end of the tunnel, I look for the opportunity, I look for the diamond in the rough. And for me I tend to find them very very early in the game which makes it a little bit harder. It would be nice to hit a home run all of the time. ”…[Listen for More]
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Ryan served our country in Ramadi and Fallujah with the U.S. Marine Corps in some of the most intense fighting of the Iraq war. Ryan reached platoon sergeant status and received combat promotions and awards as an infantryman as well as being recognized as Marine of the year in 2005 and Non-Commissioned Officer of the year in 2006. He also trained Iraqi Police and Navy Corpsmen in infantry tactics. He earned a Naval Achievement Medal for his Combat Valor. Ryan has been with the Department of State for four years. He served on the Ambassador Susan Rice’s Protective Detail for three years and currently serves as a General Services Specialist. In addition to his service Ryan Tate has always been an animal lover. After returning from one of his tours in Iraq he was deeply affected by a program he watched on TV that showed an African rhino still alive and suffering greatly with half its face hacked off solely for its horn. Tate, realizing that criminal poaching networks operate very much like the intricate terrorist networks in the Middle East, set out to repurpose his skills into an effort to stop the slaughter of these magnificent endangered animals. Many Post 9-11 U.S. veterans often have difficulty leveraging their combat skills in a conventional civilian vocation. Ryan realized these vets could benefit profoundly from the opportunity to utilize their valuable military skills in combat-related areas protecting endangered wildlife in Africa and saving lives. With Tate’s military experience and savvy navigating the tumultuous world of “boots on the ground” conservation, he’s able to speak directly to the unique skills that veterans can bring to anti-poaching efforts making a vital difference for endangered species and veterans that now have a renewed sense of purpose.
“take negative criticism as just criticism or as just help. Don’t look over all look past negativity it’s happening for a reason and so it should be focused on but it shouldn’t be taken to heart. You have got to grow a thick-skinned, you have got to be able to take a punch, you have got to be able to take several punches to the mouth over and over and over again. But if you don’t get up you are not an entrepreneur – you are not. So be prepared to take a hit, grow thick skin, don’t let it alter your direction, let it improve your direction and the efficiency and the speed that you are headed in. And just take everything as a learning lesson. It’s all part of the journey. The Quicker that you can take criticism as a learning lesson instead of negativity the quicker that you are going to get your mission done and certainly the less years are going to be taken off of your life from the stress that comes with that negativity. So as negative as it is try to just take it in stride and build off of it.”…[Listen for More]
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Randy McKee is the Owner of Tax and Income Management Enterprises. . He helps them with many aspects of the financial sides of their businesses including managing their bank accounts, income and expenses, bookkeeping and setting up LLCs.
“just go for it. It is life changing to have your own business… People say you are your own boss, I don’t really look at it that way, I look at it as I am in control of my destiny, I can choose how much I work, I can choose how much money I make, I can choose when I work, I can choose what clients I work with, and if I don’t want to work with the client I don’t have to work with that client. I am able to do the things that I want to do so I am really in control of my future. And if I want to build this business a really hard and partner up with someone and start franchising or whatever I might go into I can do that if I want to. I have that potential to become a millionaire, a billionaire. But I wouldn’t have that potential if I was a paid employee. So for all of those entrepreneurs out there go for it”…[Listen for More]
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Scott York escaped from his corporate job 20 years ago and has been helping athletes become bigger, faster, and stronger out of his garage gym ever since. His goal is to educate and motivate high school and college athletes to maximize their playing years by becoming stronger physically and mentally.
“follow your passion… Find a mentor or mentors. I think a really good one also public speaking… If you want to live the fullest life you are going to have to step outside of yourself and put yourself in those types of situations… Toastmasters helped me… Learning public speaking because you are going to have to do it just like I am doing right now, just like you are doing. And there is going to be opportunities in your life as you get better at your craft, at your job that people are going to want you to speak. And it’s going to help you if you can really polish that, polish your public speaking”…[Listen for More]
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I am Alison Standish, a professional colour consultant who is passionate about colour and how it's can positively affect our lives. They say 'our eyes are the windows to our soul' so colour is a very important part of how we see the world and also how the world see us. Colour is the first tool of communication and is widely used in branding and marketing affecting our emotional responses to what we purchase, we just don't think about it. Colour affects us not just psychologically, but physically and emotionally. When we combine the ancient art of colour therapy along with today's science, we can harness a powerful tool to support our businesses, employees and our own personal health and wellbeing.
“’face the fear and do it anyway’ Susan Jeffers talks about that. But it’s instead of across the mating and thinking about it all the time is actually to get it down, get it written and then slowly but surely it will start to actually appear. So as long as you have your ideas in writing and you are able to see them then that will actually focus your mind about where you need to be. And life is a bit of a gamble, change happens be prepared that it will always change and it will never be what you think it is ”…[Listen for More]
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Raju Mirchandani is the owner and founder CEO of Bar & Books, a chain of upscale cocktail lounges in New York City, established in 1990. He is also the proprietor of Le Bateau Ivre, New York City’s first authentic “Bistro a Vins.” Mirchandani has worked in several internationally acclaimed/renowned hotels including the Dorchester Hotel, London, U.K. and The Taj Mahal Hotel, Bom-bay, India. He was with the elegant Westbury Hotel in New York for a decade as its Director of Catering. Subsequently, he spent two years as a partner with the Park Bistro Group, which owned and operated Les Halles and Park Gourmandises.
“always look for loyalty. If you have loyalty, whether it’s within your team of employees, co-workers partners, vendor’s, government agencies (if they are loyal to your cause), politicians (there are some that are remarkable and actually help entrepreneurs)… Go for loyalty at every level whether it’s employees or anything related to your business, look at the word loyalty, take that word and apply it to each of people around you and use that as a yardstick to continue and develop relationships with that group of people. I think that’s your key to success”…[Listen for More]
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Christopher Burres is a Mechanical Engineer turned scientist turned entrepreneur. Using a Nobel Prize Winning molecule tested and used by NASA that has been shown to almost double the lifespan in test subjects, Chris is on a mission to make ESS60 a household name to help people live longer, healthier and pain-free lives one dose at a time.
“business your business so that it runs without you. Like even if you’re on day one having your mind what are the processes, what are the systems, how is the company ultimately going to define its culture, how is the company ultimately going to hire people and get new business and on-board new customers? Be thinking in terms of how all of that’s going to happen without you. Because ultimately that’s going to be a more valuable business both to you and your customer”…[Listen for More]
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As mother-daughter co-founders of the newly announced executive coaching startup, LeaderEQ, Chessa Eskandanian-Yee and Katherine Eskandanian-Yee are reimagining the way today’s executives grow into great leaders. The two have built and just launched the first ever AI-powered executive coaching platform, giving executives unlimited access to a perfectly matched coach. As Katherine and Chessa grow the company together, they are working to not only advance their business, but also the opportunities for women to succeed in the mainly male-dominated tech hubs around the world, including Silicon Valley.
“listen to your customer and don’t think for your customer”…[Listen for More]
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Bestselling author Steve Farber is the founder and CEO of The Extreme Leadership Institute—a learning and development firm devoted to helping its clients develop award-winning cultures and achieve radical results. His much-anticipated new book, Love is Just Damn Good Business, is published by McGraw-Hill.
“be really clear on why you love whatever endeavour you are in, pursuing or about to pursue. I think we skip over that question. So specifically it would be why do I love this business? Or why do I love this project? Or why do I love this product? Or why do I love this service? You pick the context. Why do I love this? And how can I show it in my actions. I think a lot of time we start businesses because we get excited about an idea but we don’t take the time to really reflect and personalise it. And I think if you do that, if you start that and then asked that question of yourself frequently it’s going to keep your fire burning, is going to keep you energised. Because there is going to become a time, there are going to become many times where you wake up in the morning and it’s not why do I love this work that I’m doing? It’s not going to come out that way is going to be more like why the hell did I sign up for this or what was I thinking. So what I’m going to suggest to you is the more difficult it is to answer this why do I love this work question the more important it is to answer that question because that’s what’s going to keep your own fire burning especially at the times when you need it most”…[Listen for More]
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Lisa Johnson is a multi 6-figure business coach specialising in helping entrepreneurs scale their businesses using passive income from memberships and courses. After a tough childhood spent in social housing, Lisa went on to have successful careers in law, banking and the entertainment industry. Her background and overcoming obstacles has helped mould her into a bold, straight talking coach, who is never afraid to be an authentic and outspoken truth teller. Lisa lives in Hertfordshire, UK with her Husband and 7 year old twin sons but coaches entrepreneurs around the globe.
“stay in your own lane, keep really focused on what you are doing and don’t get shiny object syndrome where you look at somebody else and what they are doing and decide to do what they are doing instead because maybe what you are doing hasn’t had an immediate result. I think that the whole of business rests on consistency. So you have to do something over and over again for a long period of time before it can work”…[Listen for More]
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Jason Resnick helps developers and designers discover their niche, plan out and market themselves to build predictable revenue. He has run his own web development business since 2010 helping online businesses increase sales and decrease the time to first purchase through conversion and behavioral strategy, with personalization, email, and marketing campaigns.
“really understand your why and put it front and centre. And when I say put it front and centre… if you need a sticky note to put it on your monitor go ahead and do so. Because if you understand your why then every decision that you make will be towards that why. You won’t deviate from it… Understand where your why is on why you started the business in the first place because ultimately it wasn’t because you wanted to work more ”…[Listen for More]
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Iron Tamer Dave Whitley is a motivational speaker and strongman based in Nashville TN. As a kid, Dave was overweight and had a terrible stutter. Retreating into a world of fantasy and comic books, he dreamed of becoming SuperHuman. Now, as a motivational speaker, he uses SuperHuman feats of strength to share his message with his audience.
“persist in whatever the next small step is. We all have the big vision, we all come up with a plan but it’s very easy to see that is something that can be way far down the road and gets caught up in the day-to-day busy-ness of our business. And a long period of time can pass and you been very busy but you haven’t really accomplished anything. So persisting in whatever that end vision is and making it as real as possible in your mind so much so that if you wake up in the morning and think okay if I’ve already complex this goal what’s my day going to look like today versus what can I do today to take me closer to the goal. And that’s not just semantics there’s very important mental shift in their of what I call ‘living from the end’. So if I can really imagine and put myself in the place of the person whose accomplished whatever it is that I’ve decided I want to do it’s almost like from that point of view I can look back to where I am in the present moment and see the path that it took to get there much more clearly than trying to create a path from here to there out of information I don’t know yet ”…[Listen for More]
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Kris Østergaard is a sought after speaker, facilitator, researcher and expert on innovation in legacy organizations, corporate cultures and exponential organizations. He is co-founder and Chief Learning and Innovation Officer of SingularityU Nordic, a collaborative venture with Singularity University in Silicon Valley. His new book is Transforming Legacy Organizations: Turn Your Established Business into an Innovation Champion to Win the Future (Wiley, June 10, 2019).
“the best advice is persistence. Regardless of how difficult it is persistence is the key differentiator it’s not about ideas, ideas are a dime a dozen as the saying goes. It’s really about the people who have persistence and just don’t give up and continue to find new ways to achieve what it is they are trying to achieve. Those are the ones who will ultimately succeed”…[Listen for More]
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Scott Painter is Fair’s Founder and CEO, and a serial entrepreneur in the automotive and technology industries who has founded dozens of disruptive companies over the past 25 years. Prior to Fair, Scott founded TrueCar with the aim of eliminating negotiation from the car-buying process by providing data-driven pricing research to both dealers and consumers. Painter also founded Cars Direct, which took the pioneering step of introducing upfront pricing to auto retail. Painter regularly attends TED, All Things D, and is a member of the World Economic Forum, regularly attending and speaking at its annual meeting in Davos since 2011.
“reputation is everything”…[Listen for More]
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Adam Coleman Founder of HRLocker.com, which is a cloud software platform that makes people management and recruitment easy for Companies. Before HRLocker Adam was part of the initial start-up team at Esat Digifone which after 3 years was sold to BT for over €1 Billion, which was technically Ireland's first Unicorn.
“is don’t call themselves entrepreneurs. I think it’s a term that is been massively over abused”…[Listen for More]
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Susan Fowler is the bestselling author of Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work… and What Does and newly released, Master Your Motivation. She is co-author of Self Leadership and The One Minute Manager with Ken Blanchard. A thought leader on applying motivation science, Susan is a globally sought-after speaker and consultant.
“remember why you are doing what you are doing, that if you are doing what you are doing for reasons what we call optimally motivating, if they are based on your values, if you have a deep sense of purpose, if it’s because it brings you joy, because you are making a deep contribution to others, because you are making the world a better place, if you can stay grounded in those things then you are going to be successful. But if you get into a business because you think it is going to make more money or because you want power or status you are going to be short lived”…[Listen for More]
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Chris Parker is the founder of WhatIsMyIPAddress.com. In January 2000, WhatIsMyIPAddress.com was launched as a solution to a simple problem, finding his office IP address. Rather than panicking when laid off in 2014, Chris seized the opportunity and devoted himself full-time to his website, which now attracts over 6,000,000 visitors monthly.
“doing things that challenge you, that make you uncomfortable… Building a network of friends and people you know that our entrepreneurs. Some that are further along the new and some that are just starting out but most importantly people that have a very different perspective than you that are fundamentally different people than you. The geeks like to hangout with the geeks and the jocks like to hangout with the jocks. I think it is important as entrepreneurs is to have people that will challenge the way we look at things, challenge the way that we think and that helps us to think about things from more perspectives and see holes that we wouldn’t normally see in our business ”…[Listen for More]
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Rob Braiman is CEO and founder of Cogent Analytics, a business consulting firm. Since 2005, he has personally engaged with over 1800 small to medium size businesses. An entrepreneur himself, he knows the challenges of the journey, and his passion is to help others achieve success and profitability that also enhances quality of life. He has grown Cogent Analytics from 6 people to over 120 inside of 5 years; and has ranked on the Inc 5000 fastest growing companies 3 years in a row.
“manage profit. Profit is not about greed, it’s about solvency, it’s about building equity, it’s about retiring debt, it’s about taking care of your family, it’s about the benefits you offer to your employees. And if you don’t manage profit first bad things happen. So, I am a profit for sky and I don’t want to again communicate that that somehow supposed to be about greed because it’s not. The responsibility of every small business owner every mid-sized business owner, every large business is to produce a minimum mandatory profit that is engineered within a company because that impacts so many areas of the business. Don’t do that haphazardly do it purposefully”…[Listen for More]
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Joseph Bikart is a founding member is a founding partner and director of the international consulting firm Templar Advisors. For the past 20 years, following a first career in investment banking, he has advised leaders in corporate and public life on their communication and negotiations. Through his work with thousands of decision-makers, he has created Decisiology, an innovative approach to executive coaching, drawing from his studies at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and at the Tavistock in London. He is also a keynote speaker, and a lecturer at the London Business School.
“know who you are. It is too easy to be in business for the wrong reasons. It’s too easy to be in a job because we think it’s going to be more lucrative or prestigious all sorts of things which have nothing to do with us, who we are truly inside ourselves… Understand who you are, understand what drives you, understand what your passions are, understand what gives you joy and fulfilment. And this is the greatest roadmap to your business. And at moments when we all feel lost, we all feel we’ve lost our ways it’s really good to reconnect with that and redraw the map based on that”…[Listen for More]
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JoAnne Funch is the Founder of Linked In For Business. She's an expert at transforming professionals from making random connections on LinkedIn, to strategic/high-value contacts that result in more profitable and long-term opportunities. In a world of digital marketing, JoAnne inspires business professionals to think differently about how they develop their connections, engage their contacts, and grow their business.
“ask really hard questions of yourself. And so what I mean by that might be questions like: Why am I making this business harder than it has to be? I see that all the time with entrepreneurs. Another one might be: Am I hiding or playing to small and why am I doing that? What am I afraid of? Why am I holding myself back? Another one might be. Am I doing busy work because I am afraid to be seen? Busywork just keeps us busy and it keeps us safe from showing up. Another one might be: Where do you think you will be a year from now if you keep that up? I mean those are hard questions that I think require a lot of self-examination. So my best advice is ask yourself the hard questions, the things you might be avoiding” …[Listen for More]
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