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How Success Happens

Entrepreneur Media•www.entrepreneur.com
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How Success Happens tells the inspiring, entertaining, and unexpected journeys that influential leaders in business, the arts and sports traveled on their way to becoming household names. Hosted by Entrepreneur Media’s VP of Special Projects Dan Bova, these conversations are a must-listen for anyone looking to pave their own path to success.
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Martha Stewart’s Empire Was Actually Her Third Career. How Curiosity and Optimism Have Helped Her Evolve.

Martha Stewart launched her brand more than 25 years ago and it continues to serve as a model for what’s really possible for when it comes to building a personal empire. This brand -- a third career after modeling and stockbrokering -- has expanded from books and magazines to a range of collaborations including a cooking show with rapper Snoop Dogg, and partnerships with retailers like Home Depot, Staples, Macy’s and most recently, the QVC. She’ll talk to us today about what she’s learned -- and...

Feb 28, 2018•17 min•Season 1Ep. 33

One Entrepreneur Wants to Remind You: Tough Times Mean You’re Changing, Not Failing.

Daina is one of the co-founders of Health-Ade, a kombucha company, that you might have seen at Whole Foods or on the shelves of one the more than 10,000 stores it’s available at in all 50 states. But five years ago, before its first or its second plant, before the $25 million in funding, it was just a side hustle started in her apartment with some friends and $600. Today, Daina will talk about those hard early days, about quitting a corporate job and an orderly life, about getting evicted and ta...

Feb 21, 2018•52 min•Season 1Ep. 32

This Best-Selling Author and Goal Expert Says These 4 Simple Mistakes Are Holding You Back From Designing Your Future

Michael Hyatt is a bestselling author whose latest book "Your Best Year Ever: A 5 Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals" uses the latest research to help us take control of our time and our dreams to build the lives we want. He’ll talk to us about the 25,000 people who helped inspire this book as well as the simple ways we all get off track and what we need to do instead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 07, 2018•34 min•Season 1Ep. 30

Cards Against Humanity’s Founders Are Less Concerned With Balance Sheets Than Making Each Other Laugh

You might know Cards Against Humanity as profane, dark and politically tinged party game. You might also know it for its pranks, like the Super Bowl ad that featured only a potato with the word “advertisement” written on it. But you might not know the company funds a scholarship for women pursuing STEM careers and has raised millions for causes like internet privacy and government transparency. It might also surprise you that CAH for many years was run by 8 friends-turned-founders who kept their...

Jan 31, 2018•40 min•Season 1Ep. 29

This Leader Does Job Interviews Over Email and Chat -- and Maybe You Should, Too

Nathan Kontny, the CEO of Highrise, is a tech leader whose career has followed a somewhat unconventional path. He was trained as a nuclear chemist and discovered a love for software programming when a broken ankle kept him from working in the lab during a summer internship. He’d would go on to found not one, or two but three companies, including a ‘Zynga for advertisers’ and Draft, the writing software he always wished he had. Through all these experiences, he'd learn that tapping into passion, ...

Jan 24, 2018•44 min•Season 1Ep. 28

How a Near-Death Experience Inspired This Entrepreneur to Change Her Career and Plug Into Her Purpose

Melinda Richter of JLABs never imagined she’d run a health sciences incubator. But a near-death experience inspired her to tap into a new purpose -- helping entrepreneurs in the health sciences. The shift would require her to rebuild her life and tap into every experience she'd been exposed to, from her tech background to her humble upbringing growing up with 8 brothers and sisters in rural Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 27, 2017•53 min•Season 1Ep. 24

This Entrepreneur's Simple Brain Hacks Will Make You More Effective and Help You Have a Better Day, Every Day

Is there a shortcut to feeling good, handling difficult people and situations, and, in short, having a good day? Maybe. Caroline Webb, the founder of Sevenshift, studies how behavioral science can boost effectiveness and productivity. She has packed many of these strategies into her book, How To Have a Good Day, a sort of Manual for your Head packed with science-based shortcuts that work across cultures, ages and backgrounds. She’ll chat about how better understanding our brains can help us mana...

Dec 20, 2017•41 min•Season 1Ep. 23

To Harness Creativity, First Understand Its Neural Magic. This Expert Can Help.

What lies at the heart of humanity's ability to create? That's just what composer Anthony Brandt and neuroscientist David Eagleman set out to understand with their new book The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World. Brandt joins us to chat about how innovation really happens -- and how it's been used to remake business and our lives. He'll discuss -- and what we should all understand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 06, 2017•28 min•Season 1Ep. 21

Want to Keep Moving and Keep Doing? This Cybersecurity Expert Says You’ll Need to Start By Asking the Right Questions

As the founder of Uplevel Security, a first-of-its kind cybersecurity platform, Liz Maida knows risk. She’ll talk to us about why we should consider a sharing economy for cybersecurity and what’s standing in its way. She’ll also explain why the conversation needs to change about everything from security hacks to more everyday failures -- and risk management’s role in making that happen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 29, 2017•42 min•Season 1Ep. 20

This Imagination Expert Can Help You Get Your Best Creative Work Done

Jim Davies knows creativity. A cognitive scientist, he’s the director of the Science of Imagination Laboratory at Carleton University, in Ottawa Ontario. He’s been called the next Malcolm Gladwell and he’s used scientific findings to explain everything from how we portray aliens on TV to why religion makes us feel one with the universe. He’s also a professional artist, swing dancer, calligraphist and published author who is usually working on 5 books at once. He’ll help us understand the systems...

Nov 15, 2017•41 min•Season 1Ep. 18

This Architect Shares What You Gain When You Think Like an Outsider

Witold Rybczynski an architect, professor and writer whose books often study the everyday things we sometimes take for granted, from the humble screwdriver to the ubiquitous plastic patio chair. He’ll talk to us about what we learn when we take time to study the things we might otherwise overlook -- and how an outsider’s perspective can give anyone an advantage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 08, 2017•26 min•Season 1Ep. 17

This Founder Made Space for an Unusual Obsession -- and It Led to a One-of-a-Kind Kayak Company

Several years ago, kayaker and small apartment dweller Anton Willis became obsessed with origami. He had tapped the ancient art of paper folding to solve a unique problem -- designing a collapsible boat that could be stored in a closet. This obsession eventually became a business, and this architect became the founder of Oru Kayak. In this podcast he’ll talk about the long nights he spent tinkering in his living room and how it took 25 prototypes to perfect the design over several years. He’ll a...

Nov 01, 2017•26 min•Season 1Ep. 16

How Inner Mantras Helped Robin Arzon Thrive After a Near-Death Experience and Later Transform Into a One-Woman Fitness Brand

Ever work hard for something only to realize you don't want it anymore? Robin Arzon, a former corporate litigator, knew she needed a change and transformed herself into an ultra marathoner, cycler, best-selling author and one-woman fitness brand. She'll explain how she made the change -- and other crucial decisions -- by being her own mentor and with the help of some simple but powerful inner mantras. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 25, 2017•39 min•Season 1Ep. 15

Humility Can Help You Innovate Quickly -- and It’s Helping This Founder Bridge the Hunger Gap

Matt Jozwiak is a chef by trade who knows the high quality ingredients left at the end of a restaurant dinner service often go to waste. It’s part of the reason he launched Rethink Food, a non-profit that transforms food that would otherwise be thrown away into delicious meals for hungry people. He'll tell us about why this simple solution required long chats with lawyers and the FDA and how his solution could even be a boon to low-margin food businesses. He'll also explain how he's been able to...

Oct 18, 2017•37 min•Season 1Ep. 14

You Can Train For Resilience. This Decathlete-Turned-Shoe-Mogul Explains How.

Justin Schneider is an industrial designer who took the skills he honed designing athletic shoes for New Balance and Adidas to found Wolf & Shepherd, a line of performance dress shoes for men -- shoes that recently set an unofficial half marathon record at 1 hour 17 minutes. He’s also a decathlete who competed in track and field events while in college at Notre Dame. He’ll talk about the unique training decathletes endure -- and how that practice helps him even today as entrepreneur. Learn m...

Oct 11, 2017•39 min•Season 1Ep. 13

When PowerPoints Weren’t Working, This Exec Passed Out Comic Books Instead

Kyle Nel runs Lowe's Innovation Lab but he's not your typical tech guy. He's a behavioral scientist who uses his knowledge of how people work together (or don't) to get big changes to happen. His methods are non-traditional -- like giving comic books to execs. But they've helped build exosuits, holorooms and get a 3D printer into space. He'll explain the importance of behavior and and story to making the most of any real opportunity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 26, 2017•40 min•Season 1Ep. 11
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