Alan welcomes Karen Chupka - Executive Vice President of Consumer Technology Association. They talk about the Consumer Electronic Show that is coming January 5th thru the 8th in Las Vegas. Over 1900 exhibitors. Karen explains that Eureka Park is an area dedicated to start ups. Entrepreneurs from all over the world, over 34 countries will be represented. University innovations will be represented as well. International borders opened which allowed the international attendees to come together and ...
Dec 18, 2021•41 min•Ep. 239
Alan is joined by Amanda Holmes - CEO of Chet Holmes International. She is a second-generation business owner. Her father wrote a bestselling book titled, “The Ultimate Sales Machine. Immediately Alan dives into wanting to know how to increase one’s sales for the upcoming year. Amanda gracefully turns it around and offers, 3 things holding you back? First, it’s people! Because of COVID, people were able to sit and think with themselves and realized they weren’t happy where they were at in their ...
Dec 11, 2021•41 min•Ep. 238
Alan welcomes Roy Sharples - President, CEO & Founder of Unknown Origins. Alan inquires about the statement “Philosophy starts in the Bedroom”. Roy explains in the bedroom is where you as a child dealt with imagination and wonder. The more you go through life and are able to retain the childlike wonder, helps keep you creative. Power of creativity. Picasso always believed that children are artists. Alan asked, "Who is Roy?" Roy is on a mission to save the world from unoriginality and unleash...
Nov 27, 2021•41 min•Ep. 237
Alan welcomes actress, author, and producer Mariel Hemingway. Mariel discusses her doctors. Dr. Sun, Air, Water, Exercise, Nutrition, Earth, and Rest. She explains finding your balance and slowing things down so you're able to stay in the moment is the key to discovering who you are. Mariel believes everything you need to help you can be found in nature. She reminds everyone that nobody knows you better than you do. Listen to your inner voice. Up next is Allison Hartsoe, Author of The Age of Cus...
Nov 13, 2021•41 min•Ep. 235
Alan welcomes long time friend and entrepreneur, Marcus Lemonis - CEO of Camping World, Television Personality, and Philanthropist. Marcus begins with evolution. The twist and turns through the journey of life. From good to bad, we change. We change our logic to our looks. Without change and or if you don't acknowledge change, you end up on a dead end street. Alan shares that the best website he has been on is MarcusLemonis.com. A powerhouse of information, and the best part it is free. Marcus b...
Oct 30, 2021•41 min
Joining Alan on the “steppingstone of wisdom”, is Glenn Stearns, Entrepreneur, Mentor, Podcaster, Philanthropist, and star of “Undercover Billionaire”. Glenn shares his journey as to how he got to be where he is today. Growing up with humble roots, he wanted more and so he and his friend packed it up and traveled to California. It was there he started his mortgage business. From a mortgage business to a Title Company, onto becoming the Lender. Glenn shares that he failed and fell many of times b...
Oct 16, 2021•41 min•Ep. 234
Joining Alan today is his new friend, Sam Malouf - Co-Founder of Malouf Co. and The Malouf Foundation. Sam shares that the real engine of his company is the people. You can't do it all nor do you know it all. Getting the right people to work for you and with you makes a big difference in the success of your company. His mantra is, "We Invest in People". Sam and his wife then moved onto create the Malouf Foundation - a public charity that helps create awareness in Human Sex Trafficking. They focu...
Sep 25, 2021•40 min•Ep. 233
Welcome back Entrepreneurs! This show we have a special guest interviewer, Jennifer Gottlieb, who will be taking the place of Alan Taylor as he is at the Barrett-Jackson Car Show in Houston, Texas. Jennifer is at the Venture Fuel Summit in Utah, taking interviews with successful entrepreneurs asking them, "What is your advice for new upcoming entrepreneurs?" First up is Founder and CEO of GrowRev, Rohan Sheth, Facebook’s ad paid media master. GrowRev is a digital advertising and marketing agency...
Sep 18, 2021•40 min•Ep. 232
Alan welcomes James Burton, Chief Growth Officer at Personal Capital. Turning a crisis into an opportunity is the question of the hour. Alan asks James how do you define a crisis? James says it's a time of great potential change, coming out of a situation of stress or problems. James has spent about 30 years in the industry like Schwab and Fidelity. He loves working close to consumers. To help them achieve their dreams. Alan says he doesn’t want to live in fear or mistrust and wants to move forw...
Sep 11, 2021•40 min•Ep. 231
Listen up Entrepreneurs! Alan welcomes Lindsay Teague Moreno - Author of WAKE UP! The Powerful Guide to Changing Your Mind About What It Means to Really Live.” (link below) She is also the author of Boss Up! It’s about the idea that there is a replicable set of things that people can do that work across any kind of business. What do I need to do to start up a successful business? How and where do I even start? Boss Up! Will walk you through what you need to do to get your business or idea that h...
Aug 21, 2021•40 min•Ep. 230
Alan welcomes Dr. Sanjeev Khagram - Dean and director general of Thunderbird School of Global Management, ASU Foundation Professor of Global Leadership, and a member of ASU's Global Institute of Sustainability's board of directors. Khagram discuss the need for a master’s Program in Space Policy. 12 key technologies that are changing this world A.I., MACHINE LEARNING, AR VR XR, BLOCKCHAIN, QUANTUM COMPUTING, and SPACE TECHNOLOGY to name a few. He says there is a huge demand for Global leaders, ma...
Jul 31, 2021•40 min•Ep. 229
Joining Alan today is Daisy Dowling - Author of the book WORKPARENT: The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids. Daisy is also the founder and CEO of Workparent, an executive coaching and training firm dedicated to helping working parents lead more successful and satisfying lives. She shares with us about why she wrote the book and that's because she couldn't find one on how to be a working successful parent. Daisy goes on to stress how daunting...
Jul 24, 2021•40 min•Ep. 228
Joining Alan this week is David Radlo - Author and business leadership & growth expert for RB Markets-Achieve most. David talks about his book: Principles of Cartel Disruption: Accelerate and Maximize Performance. He talks about how his book is a guide for entrepreneurs on how to negotiate deals. He talks about what it was like negotiating agreements with Fidel Castro. David goes on to talk about how he started doing business with Castro and how it led to them having a friendly working relat...
Jun 26, 2021•40 min•Ep. 227
Joining Alan this week is Scott Duffy - Best Selling Author of Breakthrough. How to Harness the Aha! Moments That Spark Success. They duo discuss the confusion business owners are having with the new guidelines regarding the use of masks. At the end of the day, they just want to comply. Scott talks about the event he is having at the Sundance Resort in Utah. It's called the Breakthrough Mastermind and you can find more information about the event by going onto Scottduffy.com. Scott and Alan disc...
May 22, 2021•40 min•Ep. 226
This week Alan welcomes Will Ahmed - Founder & CEO of WHOOP. It is a high performance wearable device that measures everything about your body and acts as a 24/7 life coach. It tells you what good and bad behaviors you have. Will shares how he came about this idea and did a lot of physiological research to find out exactly how to measure and predict what amounts of exercise, sleep and recovery people need. He say's he made this technology by scratch and offers a free wristband with their sub...
May 08, 2021•40 min•Ep. 225
Mike McDerment - FreshBooks Founder, shares what sparked his business and how returning home to work from his parents basement is where the magic began. Mike goes on to say that building your team and having them share your values is really important as well as staying focus on your business so it doesn't go the wrong direction. Ryan Alard - VP of Marketing for Digistore24, talks about how he provides a turnkey online store for companies and takes all the processing and promoting off the entrepr...
May 01, 2021•40 min•Ep. 224
Keri Ford - CEO of Elevate with Keri & Holistic Life Coach joins Alan today as they discuss the journey of healing oneself. Alan talks about how he is taking care of business but no his body. They discuss his keto diet, and Alan shares how he is constantly counting carbs and is afraid of eating things now. This is a no no, says Keri, this will make you want to eat everything if you put yourself in a counting craze. Keri believes a lot of our bad food habits could have come from being told ne...
Apr 03, 2021•40 min•Ep. 223
Joann Lublin - Longtime Wall Street Journal career columnist and author of Power Moms joins Alan as they discuss the journey women have taken to become successful business women. Joann talks about her book and how she interviewed women who are in places of power and are mothers. From mothers to entrepreneurs, women are making a rise in the business world. Kristin lee - Entertainment Business Manger and Founder of KLBM, talks about how she has clients from all over the world and she helps them na...
Mar 20, 2021•40 min•Ep. 222
Brian Calle - CEO and Publisher of L.A. Weekly the Village Voice, Irvine Weekly and the Bay Area Marina Times, joins Alan as they talk about how over 200 newspaper companies have shut down in 2020 as they try to figure out how to pivot from having print only, while magazines like Entrepreneur is still one of the few still in physical print and thriving. They continue onto discuss how different media groups report different facts and opinions on the same story. Brian says, reporter are giving fee...
Feb 27, 2021•40 min•Ep. 221
In this weeks Entrepreneur, Alan is joined by Ruth King – President of Business Ventures Corp. and author of Profit or Wealth. They talk about ways to show your clients and customers a bit of gratitude and appreciation. From a little handwritten card to say hello or to ask how they are doing to a coupon for a free entrée on their next return if they come on their birthday or bring a friend. Ruth says its important to be passionate about your job for it makes a difference. Chris Guerriero chimes ...
Feb 13, 2021•40 min•Ep. 220
Once upon a time... in a land far way, the prince slayed dragon the end! If life were only that simple and straight to a successful end. Into today's chapter of Entrepreneur, Alan is visited by Kristina McCoobery, Co-Founder and COO of INVNT, and Co-Author of, Challenge Everything: The Battle Cry That Blew Sh*t Up and INVNTd Live Brand Storytelling. Kristina shares how she chose to start her business at a risky time during recession, but had faith that it could only go up from there. She goes on...
Feb 06, 2021•40 min•Ep. 219
David Meltzer - Co-Founder of Sports 1 Marketing, Author, Speaker and Entrepreneur joins Alan as they talk about how they are usually together right now in Las Vegas for CES. David says his show Elevator Pitch, which is going on it's 6th Season, can teach you the critical skill of how to properly pitch something. He says we all need to figure out what our frequency is for people who like our business or product and then to zero in on it. Consistency is one of the most important things in busines...
Jan 16, 2021•40 min•Ep. 218
Alan is visited by Cynthia Spraggs - The CEO and Founder of Virtira. Cynthia talks about how early on she knew that she didn’t want to work a regular job. She says that in order to be able to work effectively virtually you really have to be able to communicate well. Some companies are doing a hybrid of working from home and the office. There are a lot of offices recently available because of companies working remotely. She says that if you are working from home you have to figure out how to limi...
Jan 09, 2021•41 min•Ep. 217
Alan is joined by Aaron Hageman - CEO of Delivery Drivers, Inc. DDI is a third-party HR firm specializing in the last-mile and gig-economy. Everything from food and groceries, to auto parts and medical-courier products. Aaron says that they are in a great spot in the market to help support companies as they need to pivot. He goes on to talk about working remotely and how having faith in his team works. Aaron shares his thoughts about how entrepreneurs are very rare and only a small percentage re...
Jan 02, 2021•40 min•Ep. 216
Alan is accompanied by Christian Schauf - Founder and CEO of Uncharted Supply Co - and they talk about how 17% of all small businesses in America are closed for good, because of the pandemic. Alan is seeing survival prepping meals at multiple stores right now, because people want to be prepared for a worse case scenario. Christian goes onto talk about how when he moved from Wisconsin to California he noticed that whole towns would shut down for 2 inches of snow and it made him think about what w...
Dec 12, 2020•40 min•Ep. 215
Monica Lewis - Director of Product Management at LinkedIn joins Alan as they talk about the very high unemployment rates around the world right now because of coronavirus. LinkedIn did a survey and 84% of those surveyed said that they feel there is stigma around being unemployed and ⅔ of them think that stigma is impacting them getting hired to a new job. They talk about how LinkedIn is a great source for finding mentors who can help you find the job you are looking for or help you overcome some...
Dec 05, 2020•40 min•Ep. 214
Alan has a visit with Craig Greiwe - Craig says that social media is really just an advertising platform and is bad for you, so just delete it. You think you are on there to reconnect with an old friend or family member, but the site is just using them to be able to show you advertisements. They talk about how ads used to be high quality, generalized ads, but now they are using shock trooper tactics to get you to click on the ad. We could have a lot better content on these sites, if we were able...
Nov 21, 2020•41 min•Ep. 213
Alan speaks with Brian Chung and Bryan Ye-Chung - Co-founders of Alabaster Co. have taken the Bible, separated it by books and added some beautiful artwork to the pages. They talk about how they made a Kickstarter and made over $60,000.00. They say as their business grows, they are able to produce the books faster. All 3speak on how the new colorful Bible is a great way to get younger people interested in it. Brian and Bryan shared their experience on how they had to learn how best to work with ...
Nov 14, 2020•40 min•Ep. 212
Join Alan as he catches up with Joe Jackman - Founder and CEO of Jackman, author of The Reinventionist Mindset. They talk about how the world is changing faster than ever before and some companies aren’t able to make changes to keep up. Joe says companies need to be able to reinvent themselves if needed, but this doesn’t mean start from scratch. Change is hard but irrelevance is a lot harder. Joe goes on to says that you need to create the future now. Clint Padgett - CEO of Project Success Inc. ...
Oct 31, 2020•40 min•Ep. 211
Alan is joined by Ruth King- President of Business Ventures Corp, and they discuss how owners are afraid of firing employees whom work hard but have bad attitudes. Finding replacements and having the fear of the unknown take a toll on owners. To find an employee who will work as hard as a business, don't hold your breath. Alan can relate and shares a tid bit of his experience in dealing with an intimidating presence. David Corbin-President and Chief Illumination Officer for Performance Technolog...
Oct 24, 2020•40 min•Ep. 210
