Business
Whether you’re a seasoned business owner or just starting out, understanding market trends, leadership strategies, and business models can give you a competitive edge. These episodes feature insights from successful entrepreneurs and business leaders, offering valuable lessons on building and scaling companies, navigating challenges, and fostering a culture of innovation.
"To be a successful long-term source of influence, you have to be ethical in every step along the way. You get the buy-in from people by building your credibility."Dr. Robert Cialdini We live in an age of influence. We are all either the persuaders or the persuaded, intentionally or unintentionally — whether it’s in the business world or the consumer world, whether it’s IRL or online especially on social media where very little can or should be taken at face value. I’m very excited to say that my guest today,…
"If you don't want to be the busy, overworked entrepreneur, work 'on' the business, not 'in' it."Michael Zipursky Does your business determine your lifestyle, or is it the other way around? My guest on today’s episode, Michael Zipursky, has learned from his decades in business that if you put your business goals at the top of the pyramid, everything will be in service to that, which he asserts (and I wholeheartedly agree) is the wrong way to live. Michael is the CEO of Consulting Success. He has helped over 450…
"Entrepreneurship is years of tweaking, adjusting, pivoting, improving, failing, learning to get the business to where it is now."John Lee Dumas You're the average of the five people you spend the most time with, according to my guest on today’s show, John Lee Dumas. Inspired by the idea of spending time with high achievers who he admired, John, an army veteran who had struggled with depression and PTSD, decided to embark on an entrepreneurial path to change his life and the lives of all his listeners. On his podcast, Entrepreneurs…
"You have access to all the resources you need to achieve what you want in life. You just have to find them and, when you do, be able to use them to your advantage."Erik Luhrs If your work isn’t for everyone, you’re probably doing something right, especially when that work uses channeling abilities in your business coaching. Which is, of course, why I think the work that Erik Luhrs is doing is so phenomenal. Erik is known as the Bruce Lee of revenue generation and is the creator of Revenue…
"I didn't have everything figured out. I had failures along the way, but I knew my only options were to figure out another way and not give up."Kara Goldin It doesn’t matter whether you feel confident; it matters what you actually do. Author Kara Goldin turned her unsweetened flavored water into Hint—one of the most successful beverage businesses of our time and has been named one of InStyle’s Badass 50 and EY Entrepreneur of the Year for Northern California. Her secret sauce is be Undaunted, which is the title of…
"You need to change your environment, mindset, and the people in your life if you want to change your life."Steve Sims We all feel like we don’t fit in, until we realize, we were not meant to. My guest on today’s show, Steve Sims, is a creative disruptor who fashioned a unique career for himself. His secret is that you have to ask for what you dream of, not simply what you think you can get. This is coming from a guy who was a bricklayer with no high school…
"The market is changing. We need to pivot and innovate, get creative, and still sell our services but on a different platform." Don Hutson Customer service miracles, adaptability skills, The One-Minute Negotiator—these are some of the most-requested presentation topics for talks given by my renowned guest in today’s podcast, Don Hutson. Don is the past President of the National Speakers Association, he is a coach and an author of 16 books, including The One Minute Entrepreneur, which sold over one million copies. His formula in coaching clients is (Vision +…
"If you’re running an online business, you need to get your hands dirty and your mind more open." Laura Roeder When your market is small businesses, there will always be customers for you if you’re solving a problem. It’s not a winner take all scenario. These are wise words from today’s guest, Laura Roeder. Laura taught herself how to build websites in junior high, then in her early 20’s, she noticed that entrepreneurs wasted a lot of time doing tasks that can be handled by good software. She went on…
"To say that there’s no money in the arts is quite crass. There’s a lot of artists who aren't starving like Bruce Springsteen, Beyonce, and Paul McCartney." B. Jeffrey Madoff Michelangelo was once asked, “How did you ever carve the statue of David?” He replied, “I chipped away everything that didn’t look like David.” My guest on today’s show, B. Jeffrey Madoff has a lot of inspirational advice to offer about how you can approach your life and your work—whatever that may be—with creativity. Jeff is the founder of Madoff…
"Entrepreneurship is the toolset of change. Entrepreneurs design the future." Jeff Hoffman When Leonard Nimoy edges William Shatner out as the new guy to be the voice of the company… It was one of my favorite spots for the incredibly successful travel site, Priceline, which my guest Jeff Hoffman helped build from the ground up. When the unknown startup managed to land Shatner, it started out as a coup for them, but after the wild success of Priceline, it turned out to be a huge coup for Shatner and it…
