In evolution, the environment selects which genes to push forward. And in business, the market determines which ideas are successful. Both biology and entrepreneurship rely on something external to tell them what to do. Thus, we can learn how to build a business from examining the principles of biology.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 23, 2018•13 min
Nobody is skeptical of traditional academic institutions. Yet everyone has an opinion about self-education. The total student loan debt in the United States is now $1.3 trillion, but the attention gets put on the $500 online course that teaches relevant skills like social media marketing or real estate principles.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 16, 2018•13 min
If everybody knew how to do e-commerce, this opportunity wouldn’t exist. But instead people choose skepticism over knowledge. They hear the words “dropshipping” and “e-commerce” and immediately think “That’s a scam!” Why they do this is for their own personal problems, but the reality of making money online is that it’s the great frontier of 21st century business. For under $100 today, you can start a business that can net you millions in under a year.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...
Apr 09, 2018•59 min
Creating a website isn’t enough. While you listened to the advice that you need an online presence, you haven’t fully captured the message. A website without traffic is like a store without people. But the difference between having a website and owning a store is that you can manually bring in traffic by harnessing the power of online advertising platforms.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Apr 02, 2018•46 min
If you give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day. If you teach a man a fish, he’ll eat for the rest of his life. We’ve all heard this expression, but have we ever thought how it applies to ourselves? For those of us with entrepreneurial dreams, your level of education might be what’s stopping you from launching that business idea or taking a pre existing business to the next level.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Mar 26, 2018•1 hr 54 min
You can either be right or rich. So if you’re not rich, then you’re most likely holding onto your opinions too strongly. You’re doing this because you’re afraid of being proved wrong. Well, in educating yourself by listening to others, you learn that you are wrong. And the moment when you accept this is the start to a life of wealth.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Mar 19, 2018•1 hr 33 min
Marketing is storytelling. And the core of storytelling is simplicity. Take Apple for example. If you visit their website, you will find they are driving you to one product. If you visit an Apple store, the directions are simple: browse. At each customer touchpoint of their business, they are delivering a simple message for you to understand and absorb.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Mar 12, 2018•42 min
Being an entrepreneur has its pros and cons. The same bone that causes you to become an entrepreneur is the thing that will trip you up. You see things in a different way and it bothers you. When you react too passionately to your vision for a better solution, you will try to build your business too quickly and burn it to the ground.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Mar 06, 2018•3 min
Credit is a highly misunderstood space. We believe myths like checking our credit score hurts the number. We mistakenly think that there’s a limit to how many credit cards we can take out. When we clear up the confusion, we can see the potential and opportunity this space provides.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 05, 2018•22 min
Plateaus are part of the process. If your business is stagnant, it’s not your fault. But not doing anything about it, that is something you can blame yourself for. Provoking growth inside your business or personal brand requires creativity. And at the core of creativity, is a deeper well of knowledge to draw from.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 04, 2018•30 min
It’s easy to feel productive. If you find tasks and do them, you will finish your days with that feeling of accomplishment. But sometimes we have to ask ourselves: “Is this really what I want to be doing?” Stepping out like this is the application of knowledge, where you put your understanding of how the world works against what you’re doing in your day-to-day to help it.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Mar 03, 2018•11 min
People aren’t buying your product because they believe a story. The story is something they’re telling themselves. It’s a list of reasons why they don’t need, can’t use, or won’t value your product/service. How you break this story is by getting them to hear a story about someone with those same false beliefs be broken. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 02, 2018•10 min
You can rely on your own experience to learn. And you can also learn from others. Those who only pursue the former strategy live a brutal life of challenges that could have been prevented had they opened their ears to the others’ stories. Which brings us to the second, learning from others.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 01, 2018•27 min
People get too fixated on genre. They think their personal brand needs to convey a specific tone all the time. Funny, thought-provoking, artistic, whatever the obsession is doesn’t make sense; genre is a categorization structure created by the gatekeepers. But today, with the Internet having torched those gates and made the Wild West of content, there is no such thing as genre. You can create whatever you want.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/list...
Feb 28, 2018•12 min
We can’t work harder if the system is broken. Well, we actually can and many of us do, but that’s exactly the problem. Putting more energy into a leaky infrastructure is the wrong allocation of resources. We should constantly be evaluating and tinkering our workflow, as we learn more about ourselves and what our strengths and weaknesses are.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Feb 27, 2018•24 min
When you have nothing, you figure out what to do when you have something. For those of us living in the first world, this is a challenging concept to wrap our heads around (because we have so much.) Inducing poverty or struggle would bring us this enlightenment, but the learning curve to get there would be difficult. The next best option is talking to those who have put their minds through this type of growth.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/liste...
Feb 26, 2018•10 min
Everyone has a different version of success. But that doesn’t mean we can’t learn something from how others achieved their version. By listening to the stories of successful people, we can refresh and reframe our understanding of our own success. In doing this, we develop a more accurate and honest northstar for our day-to-day.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 25, 2018•35 min
We grow up sitting in classrooms listening to teachers lecture. And now, as adults, we look back on those lectures and think: what was the point of that? For most of us, the entire experience, from history to calculus and kindergarten through college, was one big waste of time. The lessons learned are not equipping us get the most out of life today.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Feb 24, 2018•12 min
It’s never too late to start building good credit. Thinking into the future, there will come a day when you need to take out a large sum of money. This could be the down payment on a house or the seed money to start your business. If you don’t have a good credit score, it will be near impossible to do this without enormous interest rates. So, the time is now to start building the necessary credit foundation for when that day comes.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Se...
Feb 23, 2018•47 min
We can’t deny how much status means. As we stand in line waiting to buy the newest iPhone, it’s clear we’re doing it for the status symbol. Our current one works just fine, but the newest model from the most futuristic company on the planet is the microphone we need to tell the world: “I am of high status." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 22, 2018•46 min
Competitiveness is often frowned upon. Our friends and family want to see us succeed but don’t understand the level of grit required to get there. As a result, we subdue our inner beast to fit in with others. Reversing that tendency is easier than expected when you listen to the greats talk about their relationship with their competitive spirits.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Feb 21, 2018•8 min
We all know we need to exercise. But it’s hard to know how we should exercise. Running, lifting weights, yoga, swimming, every type of exercise has its followers who tell you it’s the best exercise. With this much noise coming in, it can get difficult to determine who to listen to.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 20, 2018•8 min
We all sit at different positions on the political spectrum. But regardless of where you stand, we can agree that harnessing the power inside ourselves is a more reliable method of self-help than government programs. Whether or not the government program can be better is a conversation about legislation. Today, we talk about the power in each of us to go about a day-to-day trying to do what’s right.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for pri...
Feb 19, 2018•18 min
You can’t make money without understanding people. From negotiating deals to managing employees, every touchpoint of operating a business involves working alongside others. Without a basic understanding of human psychology, you will get taken advantage of by others, and as a result be unable to grow the business to its potential.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 18, 2018•1 hr 12 min
The goal is robotic income. This is the type of revenue stream that doesn’t require active work. Essentially, you’re making money while doing other things. To do this requires building a business that’s big enough to run by itself or selling product online. For us beginning entrepreneurs, we will start with the latter and use the powers of Shopify and Google Trends to supply niche products at their highest points of demand.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnyst...
Feb 17, 2018•1 hr
An online presence doesn’t just mean an opportunity to market your business. It means create an online revenue stream. Even the brick-and-mortar restaurant can bottle their specialty mustard and sell online. As our society shifts more and more to a global digital economy, we must find ways to make money online.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 16, 2018•1 hr 8 min
There’s no worse place than rock bottom. By definition, it’s the lowest point in your life. You lie on the floor of your office completely hopeless. But also by definition, rock bottom means that it will never get worse. There’s only one way to go from rock bottom, and that is up.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 15, 2018•14 min
Why haven’t you started your own business? If your answer is time, then you’re not managing your time well enough. If your answer is money, then you’re not seeing the value in failure. The truth about entrepreneurship is there’s no reason not to give it a try.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 14, 2018•59 min
The nature-nurture debate misses the point. Discussing how much of who we are is genetic makeup vs. environmentally influenced is an unproductive conversation. It’s a high amount in both; we are raised by our parents, the same DNA that makes us up. What we need to be talking about is how to shift the hardwiring that comes from this upbringing.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Feb 13, 2018•1 hr 14 min
We all want to make more money. But wanting to isn’t good enough. You have to actually do it. Maybe it’s that your current full-time job provides a steady paycheck, affording you a lifestyle of comfort and flexibility. But what about that business idea that’s been chirping in the back of your head for the past few months? When will you start grinding on that and experience real freedom working for yourself?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener...
Feb 12, 2018•4 min
