Steven Sashen is the Co-Founder of Xero Shoes and he is building a barefoot running empire. When Steven started sprinting again at the age of 45 after a 30 year break, he found himself getting injured constantly. One day, a friend suggested he run barefoot and Steven never looked back. Steven quickly put together his own pair of barefoot running sandals and thus Xero Shoes was born. Today, Steven is a Masters All-American sprinter and one of the fastest men over the age of 50 in the US. Steven w...
Nov 29, 2021•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Scott Ohlgren join us today to share about his past experiences growing Brain Toniq and the lessons that he learnt from his failure. At its peak, Brain Toniq sold over 2 million units a year in Whole Foods supermarkets and over 1,400 independent retailers in USA, Europe and Russia. Despite its success, Brain Toniq ultimately folded and Scott has learnt the importance of embracing the bitter as he finds acceptance in himself and his new drink formulation called Cognition as he builds his come bac...
Nov 26, 2021•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sam Mcnerney is the Founder of McNerney Insights & Marketing. With a passion in behavioural science, and an impressive track recording working at organisations such as Publicis New York and serving clients such as Proctor & Gamble, Walmart, and Citibank. Sam fell in love with the power of customer surveys and to date, he has conducted over 300 customer surveys involving over 100,000 respondents. Join us as Sam shares about the power of customer surveys and how you too can harness its pow...
Nov 24, 2021•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brian Burke is the Chief Mac Man of Sellyourmac.com, a website that specializes in buying and selling Mac products. To date, Brian has bought over $45 million worth of Mac products and has helped over 100,000 customers from flipping macs. Join us as Brian shares how he got started flipping macs, the challenges he faced as he grew Sellyourmac.com and one particularly painful lesson where he was cheated out of over $250,000. Resources: https://sellyourmac.com/ - Check out sellyourmac.com! https://...
Nov 22, 2021•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nidhi Belani is the founder of Success Talks and she is an Interview & People Skills Specialist with over 15 years of experience in the training industry. With the skills she acquired as a Lead Cabin Crew & Trainer with Singapore Airlines for over 10 years, she has built a community of over 50,000 people on her social media platforms which she uses to help career-oriented individuals globally to ace their interviews and get hired for their dream jobs. In her own words, Nidhi has made it ...
Nov 19, 2021•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast After 10 years working within the corporate world, understanding what challenges her clients faced and what problems they are trying to overcome and then helping them overcome these problems, Alice Graves Nguyen decided to leave her successful career as a recruiter to start up her own life coaching practice. With formal training as an actress and having spent over 5000 hours interviewing people, Alice is an expert in people and her ability to empathize and connect with her client has set her apa...
Nov 17, 2021•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Luis Baez is a Sales Enablement Strategist who has made a revenue impact of over $500 million during his time in Tesla, Uber, Google and LinkedIn. Luis is passionate about teaching and one of his main principles is to teach his clients how to sell from the heart. He shows up as his whole and complete self and he helps his customers to do the same. On today’s episode, Luis speaks about why sales doesn’t have to be sleazy or pushy, how one can sell from the heart, and the power and benefits of usi...
Nov 15, 2021•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ben Leavitt is a social media strategist with over 88,000 subscribers on YouTube and counting where he teaches you his best tips on growing your business on social media. As a university student studying Marketing, every internship Ben had attended expected him to be a Social Media Expert but learned nothing while in school! That was a lightbulb moment for Ben and he read every blog post, watched every YouTube video, and began conducting my his own experiments, growing Instagram pages and YouTub...
Nov 12, 2021•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Holly is the Founder of Little Bird Boston, a Boston-based communications consulting company, specializing in marketing and PR for small businesses, startups and non-profits. Little Bird Boston provides flexible, professional services tailored to their customers business needs to ensure that they hit their target goals. On today’s episode, Holly shares about the importance of PR and how you can get your company PR ready, and the power of affiliate marketing. Holly is also the Co-Founder of Dorch...
Nov 10, 2021•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast Meera is an email marketing expert bestselling author, award winning blogger and speaker who specializes in making marketing online businesses simple for her clients. She’s got seven books on the Amazon Best- Sellers list including The One Hour Content Plan, Your First 100, and The Blog Startup. She’s also the founder of the MeeraKothand.Com, an award-winning site listed as one of the top 100 Sites for Solopreneurs three years in a row. Over the years, she has developed a reputation for making t...
Nov 08, 2021•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brian Winch is the founder and owner of Cleanlots.com, and the author of Cleanlots, an operations manual on how to start and operate a simple, low cost, high profit, parking lot litter removal business. In today’s episode, Brian shares about his business, which he calls “America’s Simplest Business”, his advice on how a small business owner can compete with larger incumbent companies and the importance of developing your business’s elevator pitch. Resources: https://cleanlots.com/ - Find out mor...
Nov 05, 2021•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kevin Ashcroft is a serial entrepreneur and author of the book “Outsourcing For Success”. After his sold his first business that he grew for 20 years which he started at the age of 19 to a UK Telecommunications company, Kevin decided started building businesses that are not location dependent by successfully outsourcing key tasks to freelance consultants from around the world. In his new book, Kevin shares his best tips and experiences to ensure that you too can be outsourcing for success. In to...
Nov 03, 2021•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dan Norenberg is an executive and strategic leadership team advisor, coach and author of “Executive Ownershift, Creating Highly Effective Leadership Teams”. Dan is known for his top-down team approach for effective leadership teams to dramatically improve their performance and as a trusted advisor, consultant and professional speaker, Dan’s mission is to enable executive teams and their organizations to play at their best. In today’s episode, Dan shares how one can spot if there are leadership i...
Nov 01, 2021•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Joseph Gerstel is the Founder and CEO of Get Some Class. After Joseph graduated from Harvard Law and worked in one of the most prestigious law firms in New York, he realized that he did not want to pursue a long term career in law and left to set up Get Some Class to provide a classy virtual team building experience that is executed at a high level of quality. In today’s episode, Joseph shares about his journey of self-discovery, the importance of getting repeat customers and the importance of m...
Oct 29, 2021•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ben Sampson is the Co-Founder and CEO of WeHero, a company that focuses on helping corporates accomplish their social missions through powerful giving and volunteer programs to create a better culture, a better brand, and a greater social impact with their corporate social responsibility programs. WeHero helps its clients develop new programs and technologies that make giving and volunteering powerful and effortless for companies, as well as track its impact data. On today’s episode, Ben shares ...
Oct 27, 2021•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Rob Te Braake is the Founder of Insight Matters, a financial consulting firm that helps provide its clients with financial insights that a CEO would receive in a larger company. As Rob says, he is providing 80% of the value for 20% of the price. With years of experience advising clients in Beijing China and around the world, Rob knows the importance of financial insights and he uses his expertise to help clients analyze their financial data to help them make better decisions for their business. ...
Oct 25, 2021•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ishveen Anand is the CEO and Founder of OpenSponsorship, an online platform that connects athletes with brands. As traditional sport sponsorship deals only go to the top 1% of athletes, Ishveen started OpenSponsorship to help all athletes have the opportunity to be sponsored by brands. Ishveen is a graduate from Oxford, and is listed as a Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2015 and is one of Inc.'s Top 100 Female Founders in 2019 In today’s episode, Ishveen shares how she spotted the gap in the sports s...
Oct 22, 2021•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jon Bostock is the Co-Founder of Truman’s, a company with the mission to reduce waste and clutter in the consumer cleaning products industry. By asking and addressing the question of why are consumer cleaning products being shipped with 98% water, Truman’s was able to disrupt an industry that was bogged with supply chain inefficiencies, provide a product that resonated with environmentally conscious consumers and achieve a landmark exit sale in 3 years. Today, Jon is here to share with us how to...
Oct 20, 2021•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kris Gopalakrisna is an Investor, entrepreneur, speaker and author who started WINsights to enable Software & Technology SMEs (Small & Medium Enterprises) scale and acquire both enterprise and listed customers. Throughout his career, Kris has always been part of tech start ups and mid-tier organisations and he is keenly aware of the problems tech vendors face in today’s highly saturated market. In today’s episode, Kris shares about the problem of the disconnect between vendors and buyers...
Oct 18, 2021•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Thomas Kereszti is an industry influencer, coach, speaker, educator, and mentor. His approach to leadership comes from a lifetime of international experience leading large corporates such as Colgate Palmolive and the Strauss group of companies. After his exit from his partnership with the Lavazza group, Thomas is now a John Maxwell trainer, coach, and speaker who helps his clients succeed by focusing on the 4 keys to leadership success which are: who you are, your vision, is your strategy a grow...
Oct 15, 2021•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Odile Faludi is an expert on cold calling and she joins us today to share about the proper way to cold call. She has a proven track record of opening doors of top-level executives in the ASX 200 list of companies in Australia. With her fearless but friendly approach, she is able to help her clients secure deals worth millions of dollars. In today’s episode, Odile shares why cold calling is not dead, her key techniques on quickly establishing rapport with a prospective client, and her best advice...
Oct 13, 2021•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Tim is not your typical life coach. After over a decade worth of experience as a life coach (and 20 years in the sales and marketing industry), Tim is now a life coach that coaches other life coaches (whew that’s a mouthful!). While he initially struggled as well, Tim eventually managed to build up a successful practice as a life coach and started noticing other life coaches reaching out to him for help. Today, Tim imparts his years of experiences to help other life coaches succeed in a hyper sa...
Oct 11, 2021•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Seth Erickson is the Founder and Head Storyteller of the Storify Agency and he helps his clients clearly communicate their value to the marketplace through storytelling. With a keen love for the study of neuroscience and psychology and his wealth of experience in previous marketing projects for global brands such as Barcelona FC, Manchester City, Manchester United and Liverpool, Seth brings a unique perspective on using storytelling as an effective tool for communicating value to customers. In t...
Oct 08, 2021•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ryan Hildebrandt (the founder of Viral Message Lab) helps entrepreneurs craft their unique messages that stands out from the crowd and to get them booked to speak at TEDx events. As the founder of the second largest TEDx event in the United Kingdoms, Ryan has seen over 1,000 accepted and rejected pitches at this point, and helped over a dozen people become TEDx speakers In today’s episode, Ryan shares his tips on how you can get booked to speak for a TEDx talk, why you should not worry about hav...
Oct 06, 2021•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Auzerais Bellamy is a professional pastry chef who founded Blondery, a direct-to-consumer virtual bakery that specializes in a distinctive collection of handmade blondies inspired by generosity. After honing her craft in Michelin starred restaurants such as The French Laundry and Thomas Keller’s Bouchon, Auzerais set off to release her blondies which took 10 years worth of experimentation and fine-tuning to get right and the world has never been the same. Today, Auzerais counts companies such as...
Oct 04, 2021•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Adam Pratt is a seasoned veteran of the hobby gaming industry who decided to set up Alpha Omega Hobby in Quincy Massachusetts to have a hobby gaming stall he can call his own. Not only does Adam share the ins and outs of running a hobby gaming store with over 25 gaming tables and over 4,000 square feet worth of gaming space that customers can use for free, Adam also speaks about how his philosophy of giving back to his community has helped him to grow a strong loyal following in terms of custome...
Sep 30, 2021•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Michael “Luni” Libes is a serial entrepreneur who is also the Founder and Managing Director of Fledge, a startup accelerator that focuses on socially conscious, mission-driven, for-profit companies. Today, Fledge runs in multiple cities around the world, inviting in teams from anywhere doing most anything that makes the world a better place. On today’s episode, Luni shares about how he grows impactful companies, his work with Fledge and Africa Eats (which is formed by the graduates of the Fledge...
Sep 27, 2021•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Michael Haynes is a B2B business growth strategist who empowers CEOs and senior leaders of service-based SMEs with BUYER-driven strategies and action plans to acquire and retain business (B2B) clients and drive business growth. In today’s episode, Michael’s actionable takeaways include the importance of being data driven with your marketing approach, how to rise above the current environment of content vomit, and his best tips on extending your reach such as influencer marketing and advocacy mar...
Sep 24, 2021•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Mike Audi is the CEO and Founder of Tiki, a company that he started to address fundamental issues in how our personal data is collected, used and monetized. With his expertise in bringing data-driven B2C & B2B products to market, Mike is now aiming to provide a transparent user-centric system with Tiki that allows uses to decide for themselves what they want to do with their personal data. With a simple user interface, Tiki users can decide not to share their personal data at all, or to shar...
Sep 20, 2021•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Tony Falkenstein is the founder and CEO of Just Water International Limited which is listed on the New Zealand Stock Exchange. As a serial entrepreneur who has launched over 50 businesses, Tony shares his tips on how he finds, validates and executes on his business ideas, his journey behind Just Water International Limited and how he teaches the next generation of business leaders. Actionable Take-aways: 1. To find a good business idea, think about the 4Ps (Product, price, promotion and place). ...
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