Paul Barmes, designer and founder of Barmes, created the lifestyle brand in 2012 to redefine the way people live, work, and move. An eclectic artist and entrepreneur, Paul brings extensive business leadership to his position, where he oversees the brand’s design and vision. Prior to spearheading Barmes, Paul led successful furniture companies where he designed, developed, and marketed corporate products nationally and globally. During his entrepreneurship, he has received notable design accolades for his products, including furniture and computer monitor arms. When he’s not busy optimizing travel experience, Paul enjoys engaging in local charities and connecting with people from many walks of life.
“trust your instincts, embrace change, resilience is a key factor if you want to be an entrepreneur, act with integrity. and continue to evolve personally is a key ingredient personally as it will add value to yourself, to the people around you and to the audience that you are wanting to appeal to ”…[Listen for More]
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Sharon Cully is the founder of Simply Processes, where she helps entrepreneurs find the time to grow their business, make more money and create more freedom. With 15+ years’ experience working with leading global brands, Sharon has helped companies around the world increase performance, minimize costs and meet customer's needs. She now helps entrepreneurs scale up by gaining control of their business processes.
“what I found was the skills and experience that I have seem quite ordinary to me but that others find those skills to be very helpful. And so things that come naturally to me and I think will surely if I can do it everyone can do it, actually that’s not the case. So I have learned that it’s a great idea to figure out what your strengths are, what you find easy, what people thank you for and to go after those as a basis for your business if you are interested in going into business for yourself. And that way you will not only enjoy the work that you do but you will be able to help others who really don’t find it as easy as you do to do the things that you do ”…[Listen for More]
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Fred Hubler (Mr. Retainer) is an accomplished financial advisor with more than 18 years of success in financial services and technology. He founded Creative Capital Wealth Management Group and grew the firm to 11 states. The practice focuses on retainer-based wealth management. As Chief Wealth Strategist, Fred works with individuals and families to serve their financial needs and achieve their goals. Fred is an inspiring speaker with a deep knowledge of market leadership, business development, goal execution and wealth management. He is an innovative leader with a keen eye for unique solutions and vast knowledge in alternative wealth creation strategies. He built a framework to allow third-party experts to collaborate with and assist his clients, a practice now spreading throughout the industry. He is also a certified Behavioral Financial AdvisorTM (BFATM).
“start as soon as you can whether you think you are ready. The business owners that I know failed but failed forward, learn from their mistakes. I think you can start on starting a way that if you take a misstep it is not catastrophic so be smart. So, I would say start now but be smart now to.”…[Listen for More]
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Juan Carlos Abello saw the need for a hospitality-focused solution such as Nuvola after working in the hotel industry for more than a decade. His first-hand experience sparked the notion that there has to be a better and easier way for staff to communicate with each other and with their guests. Abello began his career in the hotel industry shortly after moving back to the U.S. at the age of 17. He has worked in nearly every aspect of hotel operations, but always found himself focused on one thing - elevating the guest service experience. It’s his passion for the guest experience that led him to managerial and director of operations roles with leading hotel brands such as Morgans Hotel Group and DoubleTree. It’s also what made him take an interesting career move into technology that later resulted in the development of Nuvola. Following his tenure in the hotel industry, Abello was director of operations at a bourgeoning technology company in Italy called ZeitGroup. Discovering the ways in which technology can be used to successfully manage business operations, he was encouraged to take his passion for the hotel industry and his insight into technology to create a new career for himself. Abello foresaw the ways in which a cloud-based software would be able to connect hoteliers and their guests. His unique blend of experience bred the concept for Nuvola and feeds Abello’s passion for its mission to bridge the gap between the hospitality industry and those it serves. Abello graduated Magna Cum Laude from Florida International University with a Bachelor’s Degree in International Business. He also earned a Masters of Business Administration in General Management from Emory University.
“you need to make sure that you have a culture that is well-defined. Even if it changes overall the core values of it you have to make sure that they are there and you don’t change them. And make sure that the first five co-workers that you hire are committed with you for the long run and that they have the flexibility, they can adapt to what could potentially, and it always always happens, to vast changes that are going to happen in your business. So, don’t be quick to hire, follow your intuition but make sure that you get that by in”…[Listen for More]
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Ryan Dohrn is an Emmy winner and was recognized by Forbes.com with the “Best of the Best” award for his business strategies. Ryan’s focus is sales, leadership and team performance. His passion for sales and marketing has given him the unique opportunity to touch half a billion dollars in revenue for companies in 7 countries.
“if you are going to start a business that is going to be successful and you start it just to make money you are starting it for the wrong reason. If you start a business surrounded around something you are passionate about because you are going to have to put a lot of hours into it. If you are passionate about it it’s okay that you are going to have to spend a lot of hours around it because you are so unbelievably passionate about it the time will fly because you are having so much fun really doing what you are passionate about”…[Listen for More]
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Jason Shepherd is an investor, entrepreneur, and community builder. For the past several years, his focus has been on optimizing real estate investing and the transactional process as well as galvanizing property ownership's role as host to connect community. Jason is co-founder of an investment fund (DP Assets), a real estate brokerage firm (Atlas Real Estate Group), a wellness based social club (Archipelago) and marketplace technology (REACTIV). It is Jason's goal to lead efforts in reimagining how the world interacts with real estate and the role it plays in how we gather.
“have the right intentions. If you are building a business understand why you are building the business, understanding what your problem solving, not really just looking at it as a pathway to get paid. And if you can do that if you can be intentional it will motivate you beyond when you start making money. Otherwise is going to be a short-term fix. As you start getting paid for your entrepreneurial dreams you are going to realise that there is much, much more so solve that problem now by knowing that really you are solving a big problem and you are really connected to it ”…[Listen for More]
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Oleg Yavorovskiy is founder and CEO of Guardian Debt Relief, a New York City-based debt settlement company founded in 2012 that has helped thousands of consumers nationally reduce and eliminate unsecured debt. Mr. Yavorovskiy is an expert in personal finance as well as debt relief and debt settlement issues. As founder of Guardian Debt Relief, and having worked in finance earlier in his career at companies including Goldman Sachs, he holds an undergraduate degree in political science and economics from St. John's University. Oleg has also founded successful businesses in the adult day care and food industries.
“don’t be afraid to fail , don’t be afraid to start something that might not possibly work out. But also if you start something new especially if you have a full-time job and you try to start a new business because you have a great idea or you have a great product do your research, make sure you speak to everyone in that field, spend as much time as you can researching it. And also if you are not ready to start full-time try doing it part-time first, try not to concentrate all of your time in the new venture but try to do it part-time outside of your work and then little by little if the opportunity is right it will evolve into a full-time opportunity”…[Listen for More]
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Award-winning Author and Public Speaker Jo Howarth launched The Happiness Club four years ago to critical acclaim. She has so far helped more than 5,000 professionals and school children find their own sense of happy through her programs. Trained as an Advanced Hypnotherapist and Qualified Mindfulness Practitioner, her aim is to spread a global happiness revolution.
“believe that you can even if everybody around you is telling you that you can’t. As long as you believe that you can and absolutely know and trust that you can you will”…[Listen for More]
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Danny Goldberg is a well-known speaker on internal auditing, People-Centric Skills and other related topics. Danny co-authored People-Centric© Skills: Communication and Interpersonal Skills for Internal Auditors, via Wiley Publications. This is the first book published specifically to address the wide-ranging topic of communication skills for internal auditors. A follow-up to this book will be out in 2020, again through Wiley Publications.
“if you are self-motivated you can be successful. If you are not, if you need someone else to motivate you, if you need distress to motivate you then this is probably not for you…I have never been happier with what I do on a day-to-day basis. I love what I do, I love my business, I love the people I work with and I think it comes across and it shows. When people see you, they are invigorated by you, they are invigorated by your energy and your smile, your demeanour. I think to me if you are looking for that may be this is the route to go for you”…[Listen for More]
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After 20 years of unsuccessful cold-call selling, John W. Voris decided to throw out everything and take a fresh approach. Drawing on his degree in Philosophy, he invented a ground-breaking approach to personal inquiry that revealed a person’s life motivation and authentic design far beyond sales. Now, as CEO of Authentic Systems, John educates using practical and teachable methods and techniques based on European Psychology that guides others in their life choices regarding success or failure in their career, relationships, and personal well-being. Often compared to Jordan Peterson by his colleagues, John is an international best-selling author and passionate about leading people to attain their life goals by helping them find their true motivation.
“really look at what you’re obsessed with… Look at your life and say what has really been present with me. Sometimes you can’t see yourself so ask a wife or a husband or friend what is it that has been present with me that I seem obsessed with? And that can really open a lot of doors for you. And then once you have that then you know what direction you really should be going, not can but should be going into”…[Listen for More]
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David Nielson is a life-long learner. He spent 18 years in the corporate world and another 33 years consulting to organizations and coaching executives. His book, The 9 Dimensions of Conscious Success: It's All About You, is a reflection of all that David learned on his life journey.
“spend the time upfront, not an inordinate amount of time, spend the time upfront, get clear about your purpose and then attack it with all the passion that you can muster”…[Listen for More]
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CJ McClanahan is a sought-after speaker, author and executive coach. For more than 16 years, he has helped hundreds of overachieving professionals achieve record sales and profits. More importantly - he’s taught them how to find more joy and satisfaction in all their hard work.
“live in the moment as clichéd as that might sound. What’s so interesting about our success as entrepreneurs is, we are constantly obsessed with what we are going to do next. And our obsession with what it is we are going to do next keeps us from doing what we are supposed to be doing right now as effectively as possible. When an entrepreneur can reduce their stress, they make really great decisions. Really great decisions lead to growth in your business. Really great decisions are impossible if you are obsessed with stress and anxiety. So, for entrepreneurs I say obsess with the present moment, just be today and focus on what it is you are supposed to do now. The more you do that the more precise the more excellent you are going to be at what it is that you do and the more effective you are going to be at delivering value to your clients, growing your market share and growing your business”…[Listen for More]
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Howard Farran, DDS, MBA, is a practicing dentist with more than 25 years of clinical experience, Founder and CEO of Dentaltown Magazine which is celebrating 20 years in publication, #1 Best Selling Author of his book Uncomplicate Business, host of the popular Podcast “Dentistry Uncensored” as well as a noted international speaker on faster, easier, more efficient dentistry. He has captivated audiences around the world with his innovative, informational, off-the-cuff and entertaining lectures for more than two decades. His area of expertise covers many aspects of dentistry, including the business of dentistry and clinical topics. Howard was voted by his peers in the top 3 on the list of The 32 Most Influential People in Dentistry from 2017-2019.
“People time and money. Manage yourself, learn how to manage other people. Your time is so limited… Manage yourself, manage your time… You have only got your one person and you only got so much time, you’ve only got so much resources just make them all go faster”…[Listen for More]
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After losing his first fortune, Marx Acosta-Rubio was sharing a bottle of wine with his wife when he asked her, What did she really want out of life? They talked for hours about what truly mattered to them. That’s when he decided to make sure his next fortune was for his family to get everything they really wanted. Marx dropped out of law school to become an entrepreneur and started one of the fastest growing companies in the United States. He’s gone from rags to riches to rags to riches again and learned along the way what real success looks like. Now he shares his wisdom with other entrepreneurs so they don’t fall into the traps and paralysis that keeps them from the life they actually want to be living.
“relax, be ambitious but be relaxed, think, get out of the busy trap, reach out to mentors who have not only just done it but you believe can teach you pearls of wisdom to help you. And don’t take it so seriously it’s just money… Put your health first… The minute you stop enjoying something take a break and go what is going on and then ask yourself the question and then figure out how you can change that. It’s not that difficult”…[Listen for More]
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Lisa Fabrega is a personal transformation advisor who supports ambitious women as they strive to create a deep and lasting influence on the world. For more than ten years, she has helped entrepreneurs, corporate executives, Academy Award nominees and Nobel Prize organization candidates in breaking through boundaries that have been holding them back. Her signature approach involves the proven concept of capacity expansion to enable clients to reach their highest levels of success and impact. Lisa has addressed thousands of people both on stage as a keynote speaker as well as appearing on podcasts including The Unmistakable Creative, Her Rules Radio and Tell Me A Story with Debra Silverman. She’s also been featured on CNN, Yahoo! News and The Huffington Post. She splits her time between Florida and California with her two rescue dogs, Luna and Sadie.
“please do not move forward into your big plans for this year without including working on your capacity in there. Don’t just jump into a strategy that you don’t have capacity to handle. Make sure you are prioritising your capacity alongside your strategy”…[Listen for More]
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Alex Sanfilippo is the host of the top 20 entrepreneurship podcast, Creating a Brand, and the founder of the Creating a Brand Community, an online mastermind/tribe for entrepreneurs. Alex is passionate about helping others excel in life and business.
“gain clarity on your purpose. What is so important for us to do is to figure out the why behind the what we are doing. We are driven by the what right. Many of us say we are all driven people. We are working hard, we are disciplined but if we can remember the why which is the purpose, the anchor behind what we are doing it’s going to help us to go so much further. I find the best way to get that clarity is to visualise the end result. Where do you want to be? Where do you want to end up ultimately? What mark do you want to leave on the world when you are gone? When we can gain that clarity and figure out where we are, we can visualise ourselves the end of that path the journey in the middle become so much easier to be able to navigate. If you are at the beginning of it or even the middle of it being able to see that end destination helps you. And also, just remembering hey I am going to get there. When things get tough it’s like no I am still striding on, I know what I am going for ”…[Listen for More]
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Marc Azoulay is a psychotherapist in private practice in Boulder, CO and the current President of the Four Corners Group Psychotherapy Society. He helps clients that have a harmful relationship to their inherent aggression or who are stuck in the pain of their repetition compulsions. Many of his clients struggle with addiction, trauma, and self-harm. Marc helps people uncover and destroy the unconscious barriers that cripple them by using a blend of Modern Psychoanalytic and Contemplative Psychotherapy. His therapeutic style can best be described as irreverent with surprising moments of profound depth.
“connecting with other people that get it: I think that’s a key one. But I think another one that I would add is trying to understand your past, understand your stories. There is a lot of power in the unconscious part of our mind, there is a lot of power in this idea of a heroes journey. In a lot of mythology there is this idea that a hero has an early wound. And for a lot of us that happens in our childhood, maybe it’s trauma, maybe it’s where you are born. And in order to be a hero they go through this whole process where the wound becomes the strength and one is able to incorporate it. And I think if entrepreneurs can really take the time either through psychotherapy or coaching or just through reading books or doing self inquiry they can start to understand their life story and draw power from the things they are ashamed of because everybody has those things. But there is a way to reframe it, a way to fail through it and process it and those become our biggest strengths and those become what eventually contributes to bring our genius out into the world”…[Listen for More]
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Katherine Elizabeth learnt her craft working alongside well-known milliner Catherine Delaney, in costume. It wasn’t long before she was also working with the internationally renowned hat-maker to the stars, Stephen Jones in London. Seeing what was possible for herself, meant the appeal of running her own business was never far away. After receiving a grant from The Princes Trust, Katherine took the plunge and began her own company; Katherine Elizabeth Millinery. It wasn’t long before her designs were being featured in top tier media titles including The Daily Telegraph, Tatler and Marie Claire and she was working in partnership with cosmetics giant Benefit. She then went on to attract celebrity clients of her own. Now with her own established store at London’s OXO Tower, Katherine is helping the next generation of wannabe milliners understand and hone their craft through her supportive online Millinery and Business Academy.
“work out how your business is helping other people. And who are you helping? So in your business you have to work out your goals and where you want be in the future and what you are going to do and what it’s all about and also how is your business helping other people. So is it helping other people, how you serve in them? Because every business is about serving someone. So if you can work that out and you work out how you are serve them then you can work out who they are”…[Listen for More]
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Tammy Lynn Guns has corporate industry experience in auditing, business valuations, business development and healthcare operations. Tammy has served on two Board of Directors and has two award winning books. Her education entails earning four college degrees. Tammy is international speaker including a TEDx talk in Dallas, TX and the honorary chair at a conference in Rome.
“get rid of the negative self-talk. I would say that we can be our own worst enemy. We can be the ones that stop ourselves from living the life of our dreams… The voice that is inside of our head… If instead that voice were not inside of our head but it was a person sitting next to us on the couch … We would look at that person the way that they talk to us and we would say you need to leave. You need to get up, you need to go right out of the front door and never talk to me ever again because this is rude this is not acceptable the way that you are talking to me. But yet that same voice that is not a person sitting on the couch but is instead taking up valuable real estate in our head and talking to us all of the time and somehow, we accept that. And so, getting rid of that negative self-talk is absolutely important”…[Listen for More]
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Shari Hammond is the inventor of Store It! Cabinet Caddy! and Go Hang It! A single Mom from Austin, Texas, Shari loves to create helpful inventions for the home.
“find people along the way that you work well with and you trust. In business who you know is just as important as what you know. And so being able to get sound advice from people in your circle and in your industry is so valuable”…[Listen for More]
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Liz Sara is Chair of the National Women's Business Council (NWBC). She was appointed in July 2018 by President Trump to serve a three-year term. Ms. Sara will bring with her 30 years of achievement as an entrepreneur, business owner, and small business champion. Ms. Sara is also the Founder and President of Best Marketing, LLC, where she consults for more than 90 small businesses in the high-tech sector, and serves as a chief business advisor to entrepreneurs in creating and executing go-to market strategies. Previously, she played a principal role as Co-founder of SpaceWorks, an eCommerce software company, where she facilitated its startup and growth to nearly $25 million in revenue.
“think big but start small. You can’t boil the ocean overnight. Get the small idea off the ground but have in mind the vision for how big it can become and the impact that it can have on a wider audience whether it’s consumers, whether it’s business, whether it’s government, whether it’s industry. So think big but start small”…[Listen for More]
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Lee Lam had an impressive career in Financial Services Technology, experience that gives her unique insight into the most effective team designs for startups. She now works with entrepreneurs and startups to help them avoid operational and strategic blindspots that can impact their potential and impede further growth.
“find people who understand you. There are so many entrepreneurs in the world you will find that they congregate around each other and I realised the reason for that is because it is such a unique mindset. The people you are used to dealing with may or may not understand the drive that’s within you to do your business and to work so hard at something that may or may not actually work. But other entrepreneurs will get it and you have to give yourself regular access to that kind of support”…[Listen for More]
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Ian Kane is the Founder and COO of Ternio. Ternio provides products to enterprise customers that give blockchain and cryptocurrency real world application. Ternio is best known for their BlockCard, which is a crypto VISA card that allows users to spend Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies anywhere that VISA is accepted. Ian has worked in technology & digital media for over 10 years with a heavy focus on business development, sales, and strategy. His career started as the 1st employee in a media startup which grew into a $50mm a year business during his tenure.
“just keep going. It sounds easy but it’s much harder to execute… Persistence is the one factor that determines success. And so, you could fail nine times but if you get up and keep going then the 10th time may be what gets you across the finish line. And so, to have that level of assistance you need to have a lot of conviction in what you are doing… If you see a spark with your business then you need to keep fanning that flame at whatever cost is necessary to get across the finish line ”…[Listen for More]
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Sebastian Hovv is the CEO of Self SEO, a simple do-it-yourself SEO platform for startups + small business. He is also a blogger, speaker and author of the book, The Little White Book of SEO.
“it’s going to take longer than you think. And start now because it’s only going to get harder with time if you have kids and you are married it’s going to be exponentially harder. I was lucky that I started when I was young and single. Even though I am not where I want to be, I’m a lot closer to where I would be had I not done those kind of… made those like decisions early on. So, I think delaying that as much as you can and just building your business, taking the risks now when you are younger is going to help you along further down the line”…[Listen for More]
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Dennis Lewis is a seasoned digital storyteller and blockchain marketing specialist with a proven track record in both Europe and the United States. He has successfully lead to market and exited multiple startup companies, and prides himself on his ability to make complex projects easy to understand and relatable. In a marketing landscape increasingly obsessed with shiny objects and overly complicated sales funnels, Dennis still believes that the key to any successful marketing campaign are the words on the page.
“learn to listen; listen to your customers, listen to your team members, listen to pretty much everybody but take into account who you are listening to… Listen to the right people for the right questions”…[Listen for More]
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