Wed, Sep 2, 2020
Welcome to the Evolvepreneur Podcast Show. My very special guest today is Bea Wray, who has dazzled audiences for 20 years speaking about entrepreneurship, leadership, and women in business. She is the author of "What an MBA Taught Me..But My Kids Made Me Learn?" (Simon and Schuster distribution December 2020) and Co-Founder of the Millennial Women Network empowering and mentoring women in 24 countries. She has launched several high-tech and non-tech companies. One exit which afforded Bea 6 years off on a resort bridge-less island where she dedicated her time to raising her three children. Bea serves as a founder, mentor, investor, and board member to several companies.
Wed, Sep 2, 2020
Welcome to the Evolvepreneur Podcast Channel. My very special guest today is Brad Hart. With 20 years as an entrepreneur and 16 years managing wealth under his belt, Brad is committed to helping entrepreneurs and investors reach their full potential, so they can focus on solving the grand challenges of our time. With extensive experience in real estate, investments, trading, marketing, sales and peak performance strategy, he's built and helped build several companies, growing revenues and profits into the millions of dollars. His hedge fund, Hartwood Capital, returned 106% in profit in a single year. From co-leading a mastermind of 52 people in China and Hong Kong to holding mastermind groups in Bali, Italy, Greece and all over the US, Brad has been a part of 28 masterminds and started 10 himself, including a local weekly mastermind group with 450 members.
Wed, Sep 2, 2020
Welcome to Evolvepreneur Podcast Channel and my very special guest today is Nichola Zacher. Nichola Zacher is an inspirational author from St Thomas Ontario Canada who achieved greatness through a unique situation she faced in life. Previous to becoming an author, Nichola worked in the field of care giving as an Early Childhood Educator (ECE) after attending SheridanCollage. Nichola works very hard to help take care of her father Bob who lives with the disease dementia. When first being diagnosed it was a difficult time for Nichola. By continuing to stay positive she found virtue and therapy in a little puppy Marley. This ultimately lead to her inspiration to write her book Marley's Dream. Nichola's goal with this book was to genuinely improve the lives of people and their families in similar situations. By writing this book Nichola and her dog Marley have built stronger relationships with the characters featured in her story. When writing, Nichola was confident that her message was strong and needed to be heard. This made writing the book easier than originally expected. Her message is simple but a powerful one, always try to have patience, empathy, and most importantly, love. In the future make sure to keep an eye out for Marley. With many more books and a television show early in production, Marley's dream is coming to life and it couldn't make Nichola any happier.
Wed, Sep 30, 2020
Welcome to the Evolvepreneur Podcast Channel. My very special guest today is Leslie Zane. Leslie is a passionate leader who believes that our potential for success is limitless. Nicknamed "Miss Question" by her business school classmates, Leslie's endless intellectual curiosity fueled her search for the elusive key to changing customer behavior. She began her journey at blue chip companies, and then struck out on her own to found Triggers® --the first woman-owned brand consultancy-- with the express mission of increasing topline revenue for her clients consistently. Over the past 25 years, the company has developed a track record of accelerating growth through its unique expertise in changing brand preference at the instinctual level. CMOs often joke that the major difference between their work and those of other strategy firms a hundred times our size, is that their approach actually works.
Wed, Sep 30, 2020
Welcome to the Evolvepreneur Podcast Channel. My very special guest today is Tamar Hela. Tamar is an entrepreneur based in Shanghai and the COO of the digital agency Genius Encel. She helps Fortune 500 companies in Asia generate leads through LinkedIn. As the Co-President of LinkedIn Local Asia, Tamar has created a network of communities made up of Linkedin lovers, embracing the original idea of LinkedIn Local: getting to know "the person behind the profile." Tamar founded the LinkedIn Local Shanghai community, which has more than 3000 members, making it one of the most professional and active networks in China.
Thu, Oct 1, 2020
Welcome to the Evolvepreneur Podcast Channel. My very special guest today is Tracey Bissett. As President and Chief Financial Fitness Trainer of Bissett Financial Fitness Inc., Tracey educates and empowers entrepreneurs to take control of and live their financial lives with confidence. As a former executive at TD Bank, one of Canada's Big 5 Banks, Tracey has worked with and in support of thousands of entrepreneurs to secure the financing they needed to grow their businesses. This hands-on experience coupled with her formal financial education, Masters of Business Administration and Chartered Financial Analyst designation, position Tracey uniquely to coach entrepreneurs about all things money. Tracey leads speaking engagements and is the Executive Producer and host of the Young Money podcast all focused on increasing financial fitness. Recently named a finalist for The IFSE Institute Award for Financial Literacy Champion through the Wealth Professional Awards 2020 and a Worldwide Finance Awards 2020 winner.
Thu, Oct 1, 2020
Welcome to the Evolvepreneur Podcast Channel. My very special guest today is Julien Sicard. Julien Sicard is an entrepreneur based in Shanghai and the CEO of the digital agency Genius Encel. He helps Fortune 500 companies generate leads through LinkedIn. As the Co-President of LinkedIn Local Asia, Julien has created a network of communities made up of Linkedin lovers, embracing the original idea of LinkedIn Local: getting to know ''the person behind the profile''. His Shanghai community has more than 3000 members, making it one of the most professional and active networks in China.
Mon, Jan 4, 2021
Welcome to the Evolvepreneur Podcast Channel. My very special guest today is Adam Johnson. Adam Johnson is the co-founder of both the Facebook Group Real Estate Roundup, Wholesale Hackers YouTube channel, and the Hattiesburg-Area Real Estate Investors Group, focusing on house wholesaling, land buying, and real estate investing education. He also has spoken to numerous Real Estate Investment groups and has been featured on podcasts, such as: CarrotCast, BiggerPockets, and Wholesaling Houses Elite. Between online mentoring and live events, Real Estate Roundup and Wholesale Hackers have helped thousands of beginner, intermediate, and experienced real estate investors grow their portfolio, scale up their business, generate leads, and proactively invest in their business to be able to quit the nine to five grind. Raised in Mississippi, Adam "Big Sip" Johnson is one of the best educators in negotiating, creative financing, and wholesaling real estate. His techniques have helped many businesses across the country hit new milestones and become viable businesses for their owners. Along the way to becoming a real estate authority, he founded insurance, tax, and restaurant businesses. In insurance, his agency grew by double digits each year and received the biggest bonus check paid out in the state of Mississippi for his parent company. Owning a tax preparation business, it grew the number of clients and revenue by more than 20%. He now makes his home in Southern Mississippi with his fiancée Kathryn Grace, and is focused on growing his platforms and businesses in the wholesaling and rental housing markets.
Wed, Jan 6, 2021
Welcome to the Evolvepreneur Podcast Channel. My very special guest today is Susan Friedmann. Susan Friedmann, CSP is a well-respected niche marketing expert who's on a mission to wipe out sameness and add vitality and differentiation to your author marketing. For over 25 years, through her company, Aviva Publishing, she's coached over 400 non-fiction authors, to use their books to become the recognized trusted authority in their field. Susan's written 17 books including her bestsellers, "Meeting and Event Planning for Dummies," and "Riches in Niches: How to Make it BIG in a Small Market. She's appeared on a variety of radio and TV talk shows and hosts the award-winning podcast, Book Marketing Mentors.
Thu, Jan 7, 2021
Welcome to the Evolvepreneur Podcast Channel. My very special guest today is David Wood. A former Consulting Actuary to Fortune 100 companies - including Sony Music, Chanel, and Exxon - David left his cushy Park Avenue job 20 years ago to build the world's largest coaching business. He became #1 on Google for "life coaching", serving an audience of 150,000 coaches, and coaching thousands of hours in 12 countries around the globe. Alongside his clients' successes, David is no stranger to overcoming challenges himself, having survived a full collapse of his para glider and a fractured spine, witnessing the death of his sister at age seven, severe anxiety and depression, and a national Gong Show. He is the author of "Get Paid For Who You Are," with a foreword by Jack Canfield. He was nominated to the Transformational Leadership Council alongside such thought leaders as Don Miguel Ruiz, John Gray, and Marianne Williamson. David coaches rock star entrepreneurs to double their revenue faster, overcome Shiny Object Syndrome, and be a more extraordinary entrepreneur and human.
Wed, Feb 24, 2021
Welcome to the Evolvepreneur Podcast Channel. My very special guest today is Henry Daas. Henry started his first biz in 1991 selling, installing, servicing and financing computers to large corporations. Since then he has founded a succession in firms in the e-commerce, finance, real estate and consumer products spaces. For much of the past decade, he has taken his experience as an entrepreneur and used it as a platform to coach other business owners and founders. In addition, in 2019, he self-published a 432-page book on everything you need to know about how to grow and manage your money. He also offers a 20-week course where I teach it to you, one-on-one. I also run curated masterminds on business and finance. In my infinite leisure, He also writes screenplays (for fun), play golf, travel (when not on lockdown), play Catan with my three boys. Want help scaling your business while avoiding all the classic bullshit? Do you really need another growth hack or ad-hoc business forum? How about the latest trendy book or ultra-pricey course? You really think that will get you over the hump? If so, read no further. Some key topics covered in this episode include: Thriving in business in the post-pandemic new normal What's your main area of expertise? - business, finance what are the 'big pivots' on the horizon how will bitcoin and its brethren change commerce (or the world) what is the greatest existential crisis mankind will face in the coming decades.
Thu, Feb 25, 2021
Welcome to the Evolvepreneur podcast channel. My very special guest today is Brenden Kumarasamy. Brenden is the founder of MasterTalk, a YouTube channel he started to help the world master the art of public speaking and communication. He coaches purpose-driven entrepreneurs on how to master their message and share their ideas with the world. Some key topics covered in this episode include: Where did the idea for MasterTalk come from? What's the biggest challenge with public speaking? What should we start practicing tomorrow for public speaking? Why do we struggle so much with public speaking? How can we present better online?
Fri, Feb 26, 2021
Welcome to the Evolvepreneur Podcast Channel. My very special guest today is Mike Rhodes. Mike Rhodes is the CEO and founder AgencySavvy and WebSavvy, and co-author of the world's best-selling book on Google Ads 'The Ultimate Guide to Google Ads'. His award-winning digital marketing agency WebSavvy is based in Melbourne, Australia. Since 2006, Mike and his team have been running campaigns for brands around the globe, and it's now one of Australia's largest independent Google agencies. Mike's passion for the future of AI and Machine Learning has seen him invited to speak at over 100 events around the world, including Traffic and Conversion Summit, Baby Bathwater and Digital Summit Moscow. A teacher at heart, Mike is passionate about the AgencySavvy community and helping agency owners to 'do' Google Ads better and scale their agency. Some key topics covered in this episode include: Sweat the small stuff: how marketers can dig deeper into campaign details and do more with less. Can AI have consciousness? What Mike learned from 5th graders' questions about machine learning. Google Ads fundamentals: a crash course on Google Ads and how to make them work for your business. The mindset, strategy and tactics of a great Google Ads account How to keep an eye on the AI. Google wants to automate everything, but should you? What will work for Google Ads in 2021; AI, machine learning, data and creativity. How to get the balance right to grow profits.
Tue, Apr 20, 2021
Welcome to the Evolvepreneur Podcast Channel. My very special guest today is Davide Vigano. Davide is a former Microsoft partner level executive with over 25 years of sales, marketing and extensive product management experience. As an intern, he started the international localization group for MacWorks and MacOffice in 1987. More recently, he served as General Manager of the Health Solutions Group where he was in charge of marketing and product strategy for both HealthVault and the Amalga product line. He acted as Vice President of the Worldwide SMSP Medium Business division which he grew 18% YOY to over $14B. Davide also managed the Italian Marketing, Business and Enterprise operations for five years and brought it to number one in the world for contribution margin, 6th largest Microsoft subsidiary in the world by revenues. Sensoria designs, develops and produces bio-sensing wearable garments. The vision of the company is that the Garment itself will become the next ultra-personal, mobile computer. Davide is a former Microsoft partner level executive with over 25 years of sales, marketing and extensive product management experience. Some key topics covered in this episode include: Remote Patient Monitoring and Aging in Place Sales and Marketing, Healthcare and Entrepreneurship How did Sensoria envision the concept of embedding sensors into footwear and apparel in health care scenarios? In regards to lessons learned / fail fast concept. In regards to 3-5 year plan for Sensoria Health.
Wed, Apr 21, 2021
Welcome to the Evolvepreneur Podcast Channel. My very special guest today is Shane Sams. Shane and Jocelyn Sams, hosts of the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. They are former school teachers who had a negative experience at work, which turned into a catalyst for us starting our own business back in 2012 and becoming totally self-employed in 2013. Their business mission is to help family-focused people start and grow successful online membership (recurring revenue) websites. They want to spread this message to as many people as possible so they can spend more time with their families like we are now able to do since they have "flipped our lives." Some key topics covered in this episode include: How we were school teachers and were able to leave our jobs 13 months after starting our online business in 2012. How did you first discover online business? How did you get started with full time jobs and two small children? How did your initial business ideas evolve into what you do today? Online business and entrepreneurship - specifically the membership (recurring revenue) business model.
Wed, Apr 21, 2021
Welcome to the Evolvepreneur Podcast Channel. My very special guest today is Geoffrey Klein. Geoffrey Klein is a Tedx Speaker, Adjunct Professor, Content Producer. Passionate about helping people communicate more effectively through the power of story and visual communication. Geoffrey's career over the last 25 years has been about helping connect the right message to the right audience for the greatest impact. His experience spans from being legally trained to working for Seth Godin to working on major motion pictures at Paramount Pictures and MGM Studios. Geoffrey has presented at Tedx LehighRiver, has guest lectured at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), Drexel University, Hussian College and Temple University. As well, he has presented programs on The Science of Story at WeWork, CareersPHL, Intelligent Office, City-Coho, and the Small Business Expo. In addition to running a content marketing agency, Geoffrey is an adjunct professor at Temple University's School Of Media And Communication. Some key topics covered in this episode include: the power of story and visual communication What is the most effective way for a business to communicate their message? Do you have any tools for how to construct a compelling business story? What is the best way to tell a story? We are dealing with two other pandemics - infobesity and short attention spans.
Fri, Apr 23, 2021
Welcome to the Evolvepreneur Podcast Channel. My very special guest today is Sarah St John. Sarah St John is an entrepreneur, podcaster, online course creator, and author. She has created several startups throughout her entrepreneurial career of over a decade. She currently owns a podcast production agency called PodSeam. She is also the podcast host of "Frugalpreneur: Building a Business on a Bootstrapped Budget" which aims to show people how to launch and manage an online business on a budget. #evolvepreneur #evolvepreneurpodcast #johnnorth Some key topics covered in this episode include: Building an online business on a bootstrapped budget The power of podcasting for business Podcasting and Frugalpreneurship How do start an online business with $5 and maintain for under $100/month Why is podcasting for business important? What is the future of podcasting? Why you must have a website and not just depend on other platforms such as Facebook What have I learned in my over decade of entrepreneurial experience How to dropship Advantages of Affiliate Marketing Building a business on a bootstrapped budget and the power of podcasting for business.
Sat, Apr 24, 2021
Welcome to the Evolvepreneur Podcast Channel. My very special guest today is Jeroen Corthout. Jeroen is co-founder and CEO of Salesflare, an intelligent CRM built for SMBs selling B2B, mostly popular with agencies and fast growing startup companies. Salesflare itself was founded when Jeroen and his co-founder Lieven wanted to follow up the leads for their software company in an easier way. They didn't like to keep track of their leads manually and built Salesflare, which pulls customer data together automatically and then actively helps you to follow up. It's now the most popular CRM on Product Hunt and top rated on review platforms like G2 for its ease of use and automation features. #evolvepreneur #evolvepreneurpodcast #johnnorth Some key topics covered in this episode include: Why people don't use CRMs and how to fix that What's your main area of expertise? Why is using a CRM essential to running a company? (disappointed customers, lost revenue, lost information when people leave or are sick, difficult to collaborate with marketing, hard to do cash planning for finance, ...) Why aren't sales people using it? (too much work, too little return for them, management oversight, ...) How can you make sure your team uses the CRM? (define main use case first, involve the team in decision, create guidelines on how to use the CRM as a team, ...) How to grow a software business to over 2000 active users/companies How to automate the part of sales that makes you a robot and become more human Why you should organize your team around habits, not goals How to simplify and gamify your product's onboarding.
Mon, Apr 26, 2021
Welcome to the Evolvepreneur Podcast Channel. My very special guest today is Bruno Cignacco. Dr Bruno Roque Cignacco (PhD) is an international business consultant, international speaker and business coach. For over 20 years, he has advised and trained hundreds of companies on international trade activities and international marketing. He is a university lecturer. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA - UK). He is also the author of business and personal development books published in different languages. His new book is titled "The Art of Compassionate Business". Some key topics covered in this episode include: Compassionate business Marketing, international trade, compassionate business Why is compassion important for business activities? What prevents business people from becoming more compassionate? How can companies become more profitable and compassionate? The importance of a compassionate workplace -Compassionate leadership - How to be compassionate with customers.
Mon, Apr 26, 2021
Welcome to the Evolvepreneur Podcast Channel. My very special guest today is Jarie Bolander. Jarie is an engineering by training and an entrepreneur by nature with 25 years of bringing an entrepreneur. He has formed or been part of 6 startups in various management roles. His latest company is a PR and Marketing firm that helps IoT/Smart Home/Consumer Medical Device companies tell better stories. He is an author and his latest book is The Entrepreneur Ethos, which is also now a podcast of the same name. Some key topics covered in this episode include: Inspiring and educating the next generation of entrepreneurs Why is it important to get as many people as possible exposed to being an entrepreneur How did you go from engineer to PR Maven and storyteller? Why do you feel it's important to share your knowledge with the next-generation entrepreneurs? Why does the best story win? How come technical people are such bad storytellers.
Sun, Jun 27, 2021
Welcome to the Evolvepreneur Podcast Channel. My very special guest today is Joe DiChiara. Joe DiChiara is an entrepreneur with a CPA license. He has worked with thousands of business owners over a 35 year career providing simple bookkeeping through complex IRS tax audits.It troubled him that most new businesses fail and was determined to find out why. In 2010, after reading "The Science of Getting Rich" by Wallace Wattles and "Law of Success" by Napoleon Hill he got his answer. Success starts with Mindset, a subject they don't teach in CPA school. He learned that this was the true culprit on top of an overly complex system making it nearly impossible to succeed in business. Joe's primary purpose is to teach the fundamental principles of success combined with the practical knowledge acquired as a CPA. By providing business coaching combined with affordable accounting and tax services he is helping stem the tide of new business failures. In his own words: "I have an extensive tax background and has helped resolve thousands of tax cases including hundreds of IRS and State Tax audits, Collection Cases, Offers in Compromise and Criminal Investigations. My presentations are designed to empower small business owners that are looking to get on track quickly and stay on track. Anyone in business or thinking about starting one will find the information invaluable yet simple and pragmatic. If your audience is looking for someone to help guide them through the small business potholes and barriers to success, Joe DiChiara is your man!" Some key topics covered in this episode include: From Concept to Cash - In 90 Days or Less: One of Joe's strengths is mapping out simple, inexpensive plans to start a revenue generating business in 90 days or less. Starting a business is complicated and this entertaining, high energy blueprint for starting a small business, successfully will have your audience eager to implement Joe's highly effective strategies. Your audience will leave invigorated and highly motivated know there is a way to get their business going in the right direction. This 60-90 minute interactive Keynote/Workshop includes worksheets and directions so your audience will walk away with their own unique business blueprint. The Principles of Starting, Building and Managing a Small Business Successfully: Most new businesses (over 98%) are destined to fail and Joe provides a pragmatic solution to this monumental problem. His 13 Principles of Success has guided him through years of entrepreneurial trials and tribulations which prompted him to incorporate them into his business advisory services and help small business owners navigate the tricky road of entrepreneurship. Joe will take your audience on a journey that when followed is guaranteed to help your audience stay on course to succeed. This 60 minute Keynote is sure to enlighten and empower your audience. Most business failures can be avoided or minimized. Attendees will leave with a new sense of hope and understanding knowing that business is tough, but worth it. Other Topics and Workshops Why A Bad Plan is Better Than no Plan - How to Structure Your Business For Long -Term Success Bedrock Business Success Blueprints - Discover Your Own Principles For Success Discovering Your Own Road-Map To Success - The Bedrock Business Building MAP System In this episode, we also learn about Joe's journey in entrepreneurship and the lessons he's learned along the way: What made you choose accounting as a career? What were some of the biggest mistakes you've made as an entrepreneur? What has been your greatest achievement as an entrepreneur? What would you do differently? What's the 1st step a new business owner should take when starting a business? What's the main cause of new business failures? When does a business actually start? What's the best legal structure for a business?
Sat, Jun 19, 2021
Welcome to the Evolvepreneur Podcast Channel. My very special guest today is Jan Cavelle. Jan is an entrepreneur from the UK who has a few decades of running micro and small businesses behind her. She is very familiar with all the challenges that go with that, having started one from the kitchen table when her children were small and she was a single mother, to go on to build that into a multi-million turnover business. Jan has put her entrepreneurial experiences together with her passion for writing together a book aimed at helping entrepreneurs to grow their businesses during the big leap of 1-10m. The book is called Scale for Success and it now out in the UK from Bloomsbury in hardback and kindle, with early July publication in the US and Australia hardback versions. Some key topics covered in this episode include: Why business growth doesn't automatically make you rich : This is something I see all the time. People think by growing a business you will get rich and just throw things at the wall of growth in the hope they stick. I love to talk about all aspects of Scaling - because so much is involved, it is impossible even if I wanted to duplicate from another show. But I am most familiar with the evolution between a group of people all working together and everyone knowing everything transforming into a radically different and separate animal of the business proper. And how hard doing that is - hence writing the book. Scaling a business 1-10 The multitude of mistakes people make when scaling a business - I have made most of them and know them well. Why do people grow businesses and then find themselves losing money?
Sat, Jun 19, 2021
Welcome to the Evolvepreneur Podcast Channel. My very special guest today is Bryan Clayton. Bryan Clayton is CEO and co-founder of GreenPal an online marketplace that connects homeowners with local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been called the "Uber for lawn care" by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 200,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day. Before starting GreenPal Bryan Clayton founded Peachtree Inc. one of the largest landscaping companies in the state of Tennessee growing it to over $10 million a year in annual revenue before it was acquired by Lusa holdings in 2013. Bryan's interest and expertise are related to entrepreneurialism, small business growth, marketing and bootstrapping businesses from zero revenue to profitability and exit. Some topics covered in this episode include: Starting, Growing and Selling a Business How do you get started on your business when you have no money? What is the best way to grow a tech start up? What challenges did you face building and selling your first business and now with your tech business? What were the hardest moments building your first business from scratch to over $10 million a year in annual revenue? Now that your current business has achieved $20 million a year and run rate what are your plans for expanding GreenPal? Have you ever thought about giving up? What is it about business that you love? What books have you read that are instrumental to your philosophies on how to start, grow, and sell companies?
Sun, Jun 20, 2021
Taylor Morgan is a Marine Corps veteran, holistic lifestyle specialist, and podcast host. His journey towards optimal living led to the creation of the world's first holistic lifestyle optimization course for social entrepreneurs, The Captain's Lifestyle Program. His knowledge of mindset, sleep, communication, nutrition, exercise, and biohacks has influenced over 50,000 people to become the Captains of their own lives. Taylor has spent the past 8+ years studying holistic health, happiness, and productivity and has put together a simple and effective methodology that will help you go from average to excellent. He believes that only once you optimize your work-life balance are you able to maximize your impact and fulfill your entrepreneurial vision. Some key topics covered in this episode include: Lifestyle optimization for entrepreneurs. Requirements of peak performance. The future of business. Anything health/wellness related and how it all ties into better business. Taylor's free signature nightly ritual that has been proven to improve the quality of your sleep overnight.
Mon, Jun 21, 2021
Welcome to the Evolvepreneur Podcast Channel. My very special guest today is Nick Jonsson. Nick is the Co-Founder and MD of one of Asia's premier networking organizations called "Executives' Global Network". He built a caring community that provides hundreds of executives a safe haven to share their challenges, and receive support and learn from each other. Nick is also a #1 Best Selling Author of "Executive Loneliness". Executive loneliness is an incredibly serious condition and, in some cases, fatal, as Nick explains in this book. Some key topics covered in this episode include: In 2019 you started raising awareness on the invisible struggle faced by many executives around the globe, which is executive loneliness. What were your inspirations to propel this awareness campaign? How is executive loneliness different to everyday loneliness that any of us may experience? What unique insights and discoveries have you uncovered in the process of exploring this issue? In your opinion, where we can go from here: What are some of the things that are working? What are the things that could work better? At a personal level? At an organizational level?
Thu, Oct 7, 2021
Welcome to the Evolvepreneur Podcast Channel. My very special guest today is Scott Capelin. A qualified personal trainer and life coach with a Bachelor of Commerce, Scott Capelin comes to you having owned nine successful businesses over a 16-year period, with extensive business mentoring experience and over 20 years working with clients in the fitness industry and wellness arena. By his own admission, however, Scott has also had his fair share of disappointment - losing one business, his livelihood and his family home while his wife was pregnant with their third child. Never one to give up, he worked to gain it all back, and more, within two years. Seeing his role as helping others achieve a healthy, happy lifestyle through balancing family, fitness and finances, Scott Capelin is passionate about providing advice and encouragement as someone who has 'been there and done that!'
Thu, Oct 28, 2021
Welcome to the Evolvepreneur Podcast Show, where we talk to experienced entrepreneurs to get some great ideas about how you can grow your business. My very special guest today is Helen Wilkie. Helen has had a long, eclectic career that spanned the worlds of big business, small business, professional practices and non-profits. She has started several businesses of her own - some that did rather well and others best forgotten. The most professionally and personally fulfilling time of her life began in the early nineties when she accidentally found the world of professional speaking, where she specialized in communication at work. Since professional speakers are expected to write books, she did. In fact, she wrote several books - and that brought her into the world of books, where she happily resides today. Out of her entire experience, two areas are most interesting and intriguing to her: business and books. As The Executive's Book Coach, she has brought these two together, which is why she love what she does - and probably is why she is so good at it. She helps her clients achieve their goal of writing a book through editing, coaching and occasional ghostwriting services, entering the picture at whatever point the author needs her. In this episode, we discuss: The importance of telling your own story in order to safeguard your business legacy. The best way to do that is through your book. Helping senior executives and entrepreneurs get their books written Why should senior executives and entrepreneurs write a book? Haven't they passed the stage where they need to raise their profile? What is the main reason senior executives and entrepreneurs don't write their books, even when they want to? What's the best way to start writing their book? People tend to wait until they are almost ready to retire before they start thinking of their legacy. Helen believes they should start much earlier, and keep track of their career milestones in a way that will help them write their book when the time comes.
Thu, Oct 28, 2021
Welcome to the Evolvepreneur Podcast Show, where we talk to experienced entrepreneurs to get some great ideas about how you can grow your business. My very special guest today is Robbie Samuels. Robbie Samuels is an author, speaker, and business growth strategy coach recognized as a networking expert by Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Lifehacker, and Inc. He is also a virtual event design consultant and executive Zoom producer recognized as an industry expert in the field of digital event design by JDC Events. Robbie is the author of "Croissants vs. Bagels: Strategic, Effective, and Inclusive Networking at Conferences" and "Small List, Big Results: Launch a Successful Offer No Matter the Size of Your Email List." He is a Harvard Business Review contributor. His clients include thought leaders, entrepreneurial women, associations, national, and statewide advocacy organizations, women's leadership summits, including Feeding America, California WIC Association, and AmeriCorps. Robbie is the host of the On the Schmooze podcast and #NoMoreBadZoom Virtual Happy Hours. How did you get into the entrepreneur business? Is having a small email list the reason entrepreneurs struggle to find clients for a new offer? What is the difference between little "p" and big "P" problems? How do you build an audience before you create an offer? Why is that important?