Entrepreneurs Tribe Podcast

Thiefaine Magre (TFN) is the Co-Founder and COO of PROUDUCT — helping entrepreneurs go from idea to market full service w/ global sourcing and end-to-end supply chain. He left his supply chain job when he realized traditional sourcing solutions were broken to launch PROUDUCT and implement product creation strategies. Thiefaine created a product creation framework that spring boarded PROUDUCT as a recognized name in the sourcing space.

Clients include celebrities, top YouTube creators, top podcasters like Pat Flynn of Smart Passive Income and John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneurs On Fire, global brands, bestselling authors and more. It all came full circle for Thiefaine when mega corporations started contracting PROUDUCT to create global, strategic product innovation solutions. PROUDUCT hit the $1M revenue mark within the first 18 months.

Thiefaine is known as "The Product Guy", and has several articles, training's and soon to be launched "Product Guy Podcast" to help teach frameworks for modern day product creation internationally. Thiefaine speaks fluent French, English and Mandarin Chinese. He currently resides in the Rocky Mountains of Utah.

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Mike is the founder of MarketMe, a consulting firm focused on helping entrepreneurs and business owners connect with the businesses who need them. He has worked with over 500 companies, spent over 5 million media dollars on Google and Facebook, and leads a remote team while traveling the world with his cat.

Generating high quality leads has always been challenging for businesses. In fact, face-to-face lead generation opportunities are even more limited than ever - over 12,000 B2B trade shows were cancelled in 2020 alone (approximately $80B+ in commerce). With everyone taking to the internet to pitch their product or service, you need to stand out.

In this interview Mike walks through some ways to easily find your audience online, show you a method of communication that will generate a 70%+ response rate, and gives you a detailed action plan on how to get highly qualified sales calls on your first point of contact.

In this noisy digital world, you can’t break through the noise, you just add to it. Instead, you need to get in on the conversation where your ideal customers are already listening. As a Navy veteran who ran nuclear power plants, and an inbound marketing engineer, Tom Schwab has a refreshingly unique approach. He focuses on time-proven strategy, then supercharges it with today’s technology and podcast interview marketing. An author, speaker, and teacher, Tom helps you get more traffic, leads, and raving customer fans by being interviewed on targeted podcasts.

Tom Schwab knows how to build an online business. He’s done it successfully several times, and now helps others find online success with podcast interview marketing. Marketing at its heart is starting a conversation with someone who could be an ideal customer. Tom helps thought leaders (coaches, authors, speakers, consultants, emerging brands) get featured on leading podcasts their ideal prospects are already listening to. The Interview Valet system then helps them to turn listeners into customers.

The author of Podcast Guest Profits: Grow Your Business with a Targeted Interview Strategy, Tom is also Founder/CEO of Interview Valet, the category king of Podcast Interview Marketing.

Known as The Dopamine Dealer of LinkedIn & author of ‘Balance is BullSh*t’ . Joshua B. Lee is an Entrepreneur, Business Owner, Author, Keynote speaker, Coach, Husband and Father.

In 2003, he built his career in online marketing with clients such as MySpace, Yahoo and Google. Managing over $500 million in advertising spend and controlling over 35 Trillion online impressions. He has built 16 companies from online marketing to coaching to web design and more, but is most passionate about human connections.

His current venture, StandOut Authority, is about humanizing your professional brand on LinkedIn through authentic and inspirational engagement. Clients have included Dan Sullivan, Joe Polish, John Maxwell along with companies such as Gartner, Oracle and ADT.

He believes there is no B2B or B2C, only H2H, human to human connections. As a father of two and published author, he believes there is no work-life balance but an integrated life based on vision, relationships, health and business.

In this interview, he shares his thoughts on why LinkedIn is the best place to have business conversations and foster relationships, how to use LinkedIn to not only grow your audience and engagement, but convert them into brand advocates, and give you the secrets of how to use LinkedIn to build authentic connections and relationships that result in amazing opportunities.

Key takeaways

• Why LinkedIn
• Social Listening and why it's more important than EVER
• No B2B or B2C, just H2H (Human to Human) when crafting your outreach
• Have industry influence that draws in Opportunities
• Engage with your target audience through human conversation, not automation.

Sorry for the episode title confusion in the audio introduction! The correct episode number is #49.

Dominic is a TEDx and international speaker who has worked with Tesla, National Australia Bank, VW and Australia Post to help staff develop resilience to thrive in change, transitioning and restructuring.

He talks about how to leverage LinkedIn from a personal branding, authority and thought leadership perspective, and how leaders and managers can build resilient and adaptable teams in uncertain times.

Just 2 days before signing the deal on exiting his company, the pandemic hit and Jake Anderson's successful events lighting company went in the red. Eventually, he had to sell it off in liquidation to manage liabilities and that forced him to realign himself quickly. Seeing his award-winning event lighting design firm that he launched grow from zero to working on Celebrity galas and grandiose celebrations for Fortune 500 companies, and later being badly hit by the pandemic was an experience like no other.

Now, Jake is the co-founder and chief operating officer of Solasta Digital - a brand development and marketing firm for entrepreneurs who are ready to take the bottom line to online by igniting their brand presence and expanding visibility to new markets with cutting edge content management systems.

He brings a unique mix of analytical problem solving with creative thinking.  His background ranges from more than 10 years examining multi-billion dollar banking institutions as a senior analyst.

Jake is the host of the Introspective Podcast - a Top 100 podcast on Apple, where he deconstructs the mindset of successful entrepreneurs to learn how they breakthrough and level up in both life and business.

Jake operates from a foundation of values that embraces human connection, growth through relationships, and believes integrity is the most precious asset for any business.

Trey Carmichael is a young Business consultant and CEO of Carmichael Business Solutions and Limitlessware that has been doing business in some way shape or for since he was a child, From hustling kids in the hallway with candy, starting a non profit and selling drugs in high school, and working with business owners since he was just 18 years old. 

He has been labeled as the 22 year old systems genius, the swami of systems, the connector, and the link by business owners and show hosts around the world. He is also the host of the Virtually Limitless Podcast where he interviews impact driven entrepreneurs and industry experts along with Andrea Adams-Miller CEO of the red carpet connection and Justine Mader an unstoppable high performance and accountability coach for entrepreneurial leaders.

He is also the Founder and Podcast Host of Limitless Press and the Virtually Limitless Podcast.

Terng Shing is the CEO and Founder of PR and content marketing technology startup SYNC. With over a decade of experience in public relations and content marketing, Terng Shing combines traditional PR and content methods with automation technology to create a scalable agency.

Having experience in both agency and in-house positions including Head of PR (APAC) for gaming brand Razer, healthcare startup MyDoc and senior marketing roles in the region, Terng Shing has also worked with clients that include Grab, Visa, Paktor, HP and other leading brands.

As the CEO of SYNC, Terng Shing oversees business strategy and expansion, as the brand continues to grow in the region. He has led the company’s expansion into four markets - Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and India - as well as set up strong partnerships in Thailand, Vietnam and The Philippines.

Terng is also the lead media and messaging trainer for SYNC, having trained over 50 leading founders, CEOs and entrepreneurs in his career. He regularly conducts training sessions for startup founders through numerous startup accelerators and venture funds.

Besides SYNC, Terng is also the co-founder for travel community platform Travel Wanderlust and co-host of business podcast Business Over Drinks.

We’re always breathing, yet we’re mostly unaware of its amazing potential. 

Heightened oxygen levels hold a treasure trove of benefits, and breathing deeply unlocks them all: more energy, reduced stress levels, and an augmented immune response that swiftly deals with pathogens. 

Over time, human beings have developed a heightened focus on our "brain" and have become increasingly dissociated from our bodies. Every day, we work and we think, but we've forgotten about having awareness of our entire body. 

Humans have a unique problem of not being able to automatically release tension from our bodies and our bodies store up stress and cortisol hormones over time. This builds up and we get used to carrying all that emotional weight around - yes literally - we sometimes hold our breaths and forget to breathe. We can become more rigid in our physical postures, less expressive with our faces and voice, along with other manifestations. 

I see this problem so acutely in Asian societies, and being Asian myself, I wanted to share my personal breakthroughs and how my daily practice of deep breathing can make you a better communicator and more importantly, more relaxed, healthy person. 

As the founder of Bluefish, one of the top personal concierge services, and an expert marketer within the luxury industry, Steve has been quoted in various publications & TV including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, London’s Sunday Times, South China Morning Post and many more.

His working relationships are vast and his day job is to make the impossible possible. With his help and expertise, his clients’ fantasies and wildest dreams come true. Getting married by the Pope in the Vatican, being serenaded by Andrea Bocelli, and connecting with powerful business moguls like Elon Musk & Sir Elton John are just a few of the many projects he has worked on.

He's a bestselling Author, "BLUEFISHING - the art of making things happen”, sought-after consultant and a speaker at a variety of networks, groups and associations as well as the Pentagon and Harvard – twice!

He makes the impossible, possible, after all he is quoted as “The Real Life Wizard of Oz" by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine.

-Dr. Benjamin Hardy has a PhD in Organizational Psychology

-He’s the bestselling author of Willpower Doesn’t Work

-His website gets hundreds of thousands of views monthly

-From 2015-2018, he was the #1 writer in the world on Medium.com

-His blogs have been read by over 100 million people and are published everywhere

-He grew his email list to almost 400,000 in 3 years without using paid ads

-He and his wife adopted 3 kids from the foster system; a month later, his wife Lauren became pregnant with twins and gave birth to daughters - all within 2018.

We talk about his new, controversial and mind-blowing book "Personality Isn’t Permanent". This book:

-Debunks the most pervasive myths about personality

-Explains why personality tests like Myers-Briggs and Enneagram are non-scientific, harmful, and lead people to mediocrity

-Reveals how past traumas negatively shape personality, and how-to re-frame those traumas and change your memories and identity narrative

-And tons more…

Hanli has built a high profile in Singapore and Southeast Asia as a multi-talented television host, emcee, radio DJ, actress and model. Her main role has been host of MTV Asia, presenting many of its iconic shows and TV specials.

In this episode, Mark explains how to unlock the fullest potential of your brain, why money (or your circumstance) doesn’t make you happy, and how you can stay mentally healthy during COVID-19.

Mark Metry is the Best-Selling Author of the book “Screw Being Shy” and Host of the Global Top 100 podcast called Humans 2.0 featured by Forbes, Fearless Motivation, and NASDAQ as one of the top podcasts you must listen to.

His show has been listened to over 5 million times and features the greatest leaders of our time and frequently converses with Billionaires, Professional Athletes, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and New York Times Bestselling authors exploring today's dynamic of the human experience in modern technological times.

Mark has been featured alongside Elon Musk in Inc. Magazine, made his first million dollars at age 16, and had his life story featured in Forbes via 2-hour video interview.

But before, he couldn't make direct eye contact with anyone and suffered from social anxiety to suicidal depression and other health issues. Listen to this episode to find out how he overcame his breakthrough!

JASON WINKLER is a Serial Entrepreneur, Tech Start-Up Founder and Branding Consultant. He is also the co-founder of the huge CBD company, Five Star Extracts, which has created real to-go fruit juice beverages with 20MG of THC and actual bath bombs for people to use and relax with at home.

Jason got his start though in the music industry at a young age producing some of the largest concerts and events in California as well as managing some of the most buzzed about upcoming artists.

From there he helped create a tech company called Liquipel taking it from 0 to 100 million dollars in the first two years. Jason organized and executed partnership deals for Liquipel with Pharrell Williams, WME, Nyjah Huston and Steve Aoki.

Dr. Jon Marashi is a famous Hollywood celebrity cosmetic dentist with A-list clients such as Joaquin Phoenix, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Pink, Cher, Tom Hanks, Justin Timberlake, Ryan Seacrest, etc.

Olivia was a happy healthy 11 year old girl. She loved baking and playing with her twin sister, she loved late night slumber parties with her older sister Gia. Olivia was all about family. Her favorite place to be was in the Hamptons with her family, cousins and close friends. She looked forward to summers and beach days.

She loved animals, especially her cat Milo. She played the flute and was the only one in her school band that played the flute and she loved that. Olivia always wanted to make everyone around her happy, whether it was by baking them something sweet to eat or just telling them how much she loved them. She truly had a servants heart. We all deeply miss her.

While she was going through her cancer treatments she decided she wanted become a pediatric oncologist because she wanted to help find a cure for pediatric cancers. This is why the Olivia Hope Foundation was born.

In this episode, Joel interviews Olivia’s mother - Shelley Lorusso. She is the President and Founder (and mother) of The Olivia Hope Foundation. Olivia Hope Foundation was created in 2018 to honor Shelley's daughter dying wish to fight for a better world for kids with cancer.

Shelley's daughter Olivia was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) at the age of 11. She went through a series of treatments, including chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant (her twin sister Sabrina was her donor). After 15 months of battling Leukemia, Olivia passed away on April 16, 2017 at the age of only 12.

The foundation today has raised hundred's of thousands of dollars in her honor and even celebrities such as Stranger Thing's actress Millie Bobby Brown are big contributors to the foundation.

At just 27 years old and living in Arizona, Josh is the founder of SNOW (https://www.trysnow.com/), the leading teeth whitening system in the world, which has the level of maturity and success one could only dream of achieving. Josh has been building businesses since he was 11 years old, and had his first major exit at 18.  His company now, Snow, is referred to as the "Apple" of oral care and has a ton of celebrity fans like the Kardashians, Rob Gronkowski, Floyd Mayweather, Chuck Liddell and others.  You have probably seen his product all over social media as the cool light-up teeth whitening gadget everyone puts in their mouth! In this interview, Josh shares how he got started and his perspectives on business, eCommerce and building brand. 

Cauveé is a fulfillment coach known as the Inspiration Engineer®.  Giving entrepreneurs a BOOST!☕️ in energy, confidence and the courage to take MASSIVE action towards their purpose.  Using the power strategy, music, & edutainment.

Cauveé gave recently gave a TedX talk called the Rise of the Inspiration Engineers®, he’s featured in the Huffington Post as a strategist to watch, is published in Thrive Global, Influencive and Referral Rock, he’s spoken at University of Delaware, Cal. State University, has spoken for YMCA, Toastmasters and many more!

His very first student broke six figures and became #1 northeast division representative at Zillow.

Cauveé coaches and consults on operation efficiency, project management and optimization, marketing and sales, corporate & personal brand strategy, resilience, gratitude, and leadership & culture.

Cauveé has been exemplifying success since his sellout concert of 1,209 people at age 18.  If you’re looking to walk in purpose and find fulfillment Cauveé is your man and as he says, let’s BOOST!☕️

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Catherine B. Roy is a CEO and Founder of LHM Academia and the LHM Media, internationally recognized Personal Growth and Business Coach, Bestselling Author as well as a Human Potential Thought Leader.

Catherine is a MENSA member (with an IQ > 156 which can’t be further measured and qualifies her to be in the less than 1% of the human population). She is certified in the fields of positive psychology, assertive behavior, emotional behavior, emotional intelligence (EQ) and intelligence (IQ).

Her writings are published in The Huffington Post, Thrive Global, Simple Reminders, SRN, McGill Media, and many others. Catherine’s most popular quote reached 1.2M people in less than 10 hours. 

Diana Nguyen is an actor, comedian and MC, and has appeared on The Project, Q&A, 5 Bedrooms, Fat Pizza, How to Stay Married and more.

Diana has performed in the MICF since 2011 as a comedy theatre troup called Phi and Me TV. This theatre show became a web-series in 2019, with crowdfunding from all over the world, and Screen Australia funding. It is the first ever Vietnamese Australian family comedy series in the world (www.phiandme.tv)

Chasing Keanu Reeves is her third solo show.

Naked (2016/2017) was performed all over Australia and Edinburgh Fringe Festival with a 4.95 star review by Australia Times.

Dirty Diana (2019) was performed at the MICF and Adelaide Fringe. The sold out season was a hit with 4 star reviews by The Beat and Music.com.au.

She is also a LinkedIn Video Content Creator behind #DancingDiana and #JustDoingKaraoke with over 34k followers. In 2019 she did a 7 city speaking tour talking about the power of Linkedin, and why Creatives and Business should be on Linkedin.

Beyond speaking at VidCon Australia 2019, in February 2020, Diana will be speaking at her first TedTalk X in Melbourne. These speaking opportunities have all come from Linkedin.

Julian Hayes II is an author, speaker, human performance & health optimization coach, and the founder of The Art of Fitness & Life.

His initial journey began in the pursuit of being a doctor. However, after one year, he left to pursue an even bigger dream. Now he helps busy and successful entrepreneurs optimize their health, energy, and personal performance with precision by leveraging genomics, technology, and systems-based thinking.

Julian’s work has been featured on numerous publications such as Entrepreneur, BodyBuilding.com, SUCCESS, Business Insider, Chief Executive, The Chicago Tribune, and INC where he’s written over 200 columns on how to think and perform better.

Website: theartoffitnessandlife.com

Andrew Pearce is a Professional Coach specialising in the areas of burn-out and high performance. Having spent 5+ years working within this space Andrew has a deep understanding and appreciation for the thinking that goes on behind the scenes that creates the experience of burn-out in the first place. Prior to this, he spent 3 years working with anxiety and mental health as the CEO of his former company, Anxiety Free Living, and ran programs that helped hundreds. Having used to experience a bit of anxiety, this is something Andrew had to personally overcome along his journey of doing self-development work. Andrew helps his clients to bring awareness to the invisible driving forces behind why we do what we do so that they can rest, regenerate and improve the productivity without needing to stop doing business.

Kelleth Cuthbert is a model, actress, media personality, and dog rescuer. In her 13 year career as a fashion and commercial model spanning several cities, she has appeared in countless publications and campaigns like Virgin Mobile, Tanda Skincare, Glo Minerals, Roots Canada, Avon, Harlequin Romance, Maxim, Two Magazine, Wedluxe, and Fashion Series Magazine. 

Her acting credits include The Bold and the Beautiful, the special Super Bowl correspondent for Inside Edition, and a large assortment of short films, commercials, music videos, and PSAs. 

In January 2019, Kelleth became an internet media sensation at the Golden Globes as a water model. Within hours, she had millions of people and news outlets’ attention. But beyond her public life, Kelleth is an avid animal lover and partners with dog rescues to help pull dogs for rescue from high kill shelters that are scheduled to be euthanized.

Michael Levitt is the CEO and founder of Breakfast Leadership, Inc (BreakfastLeadership.com), who works with individuals to reduce stress and prevent burnout, so that they can focus on what REALLY matters most.  Breakfast Leadership trains leaders of all walks of life how to design and properly structure their work days, so you will accomplish more, by doing less.

Michael is also a Certified NLP/CBT Therapist through Academy of Modern Applied Psychology, the Book Author of “369 Days: How To Survive A Year of Worst-Case Scenarios” and keynote speaker.

But prior to his successes, Michael lost his health, his job, his car, and his home all in 369 days, and he now teaches people how that happened to him, so that they can make the crucial changes in their lives to prevent those losses from happening to them.

Caroline Balinska is the founder of Just Ask Parker. Shopify's ONLY Small Task Marketing Agency. Caroline has over 18 years of experience in marketing and over 12 years experience in ecommerce. Having started, grown and sold over 12 businesses, what makes Caroline's skills so highly sort after is that she comes from everything from the business owners perspective.

Caroline found that the reason startup ecommerce stores where failing was not the right help to get over that hurdle of their first 1000 sales.

She created Just Ask Parker to help Shopify store owners get more traffic and sales.

Caroline is also the host of the #1 podcast for newbie Shopify Merchants and created the most comprehensive Shopify Approved marketing course, find it over in the Shopify approved courses list.

Tiffany Toombs is an international speaker and leading expert on rewiring the unconscious mind for success and tapping into your personal potential. For over 20 years, Tiffany has educated and transformed the lives of thousands of people across the world. She is also the author of “Stop Being A Selfish B*tch – A Comprehensive Guide To Living Your Best Life Through Radical Self Love”, a top-rated self-help book.

Tiffany’s clients and course participants experience undeniable results – showcasing over and over again that our unconscious mind can be our most powerful asset – when we truly understand how to make it work for us.

Tiffany is a sought-after speaker and has been invited to speak on numerous global podcasts and stages – including speaking at events run by Marshall Sylver – the world’s most televised hypnotist, Akbar Shiekh – Founder of Coaches Secret & The Givers Clubs, and has shared stages with a number of notable influencers including Dan Fleyshman and Ron Lynch. Through education, Tiffany empowers people to understand why and how they have become stuck in the past and how to take action in all areas of their life, in the present moment to completely change their lives in a positive way forever.

Tiffany is currently focused on her personal life mission to change the world by empowering 1 million people to live an intentional life that is aligned with their deepest truth, every day.

With this mission in mind, Tiffany has created a range of programs and products to help people around the world tap into their unconscious potential and create a positive ripple effect through their individual communities.

Victoria Rush is a London-based award-winning marketer, Producer and Director of Operations at The Social Movement, which is a Docu-series for Amazon Prime bringing together teams of Entrepreneurs to solve the world’s biggest social issues in 4 days. She is also the Podcast host at The Recruitment Marketing Podcast. Victoria is dyslexic, so reading and writing was a nightmare for her, and she went looking for a podcast series where she could learn more from the best in the industry but could not find one. So she launched her own podcast several months later. 

From quitting her corporate job to interviewing marketing leaders to provide the best education in recruitment marketing, business, entrepreneurship and personal growth. Now, she helps clients build their businesses through podcasting. 

Maayan is a 28 year old TikTok Consultant, Branding Expert, Glass artist, Business owner, Social Media Consultant and Influencer.

Her passion is for helping businesses and people grow their BRANDS and businesses, creating a larger and more impactful online and offline presence, with 10 years of experience as a business operator and entrepreneur with extensive internet marketing experience.

Out of college, Maayan was a freelance copywriter for a very large internet marketing brand, then started her own small graphic design business creating logos and Wordpress websites for brands and businesses.

She later transitioned into glassblowing after years of a friend’s suggestion that she try it out, and after the first lesson she was hooked! Monkey Boy Art was created and she found huge success in her first 3 years, selling and making over $500,000 in revenue. Through running and growing this company, Maayan learned to multitask and be efficient with her time at a very high level.

More recently, she has found growing success on both TikTok and LinkedIn as she continues to implement strategies that she has learned on both platforms. She now looks to help other businesses create and improve long term branding strategies while staying on top of and at the forefront of technology changes in marketing and social media. At the same time, she is making a big push to grow her personal brand and influence through her own marketing efforts.

A few weeks ago, I had an insightful 25 minutes conversation with show Host Shadin on the Mental Fitness Show.

This episode is a re-sharing of my story of dealing with loss, life and death, and how it has made me do what I do today.

We also talk about how I think about crises and adversity, and how to not let it affect you but grow stronger from it.

Amarit Charoenphan (Aim) is the Executive Chairman and Co-founder of HUBBA, Thailand’s first and largest co-working space and community. He started HUBBA with his brother 8 years ago, which was born as Thailand’s first co-working space, HUBBA grew to become an entrepreneur growth platform serving end to end from early stage startups to large conglomerates and MNCs like Coca Cola, Google and Tesco Lotus. 

Armed with HUBBA CONNECT and Techsauce, their business is run on a digital platform supported by media (4 million readers annually) and one of the biggest and top 3 best Tech conferences in Asia, Techsauce Global Summit. Today, Amarit is also the Chief Connection Officer and Co-founder of Techsauce, and their event attracted 12,000 conference goers, along with global speakers from former Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) of DBS, Principal of Sequoia Capital, Co-founder of Ethereum to the Former Prime Minister of Estonia. 

He has also been named as one of Forbes Asia 30 Under 30: Enterprise Technology, and Thailand Startup Enabler of The Year 2016. 

His passion for building the startup community over the past 8 years and to help entrepreneurs grow has led him to angel invest in many of the top startups and actively mentors and coaches over 100+ different startups founders annually. Aim has also coached and consulted ecosystem hubs and leaders in over 30 cities on how to build tech communities. 

He is also a Fellow of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship (EHF) in New Zealand, Obama Foundation Leaders: Asia Pacific inaugural cohort, and considers Singapore and New Zealand his second homes (his third home is the airport). 

Inspired by the book Big World, Small Planet: Abundance within Planetary Boundaries by Johan Rockström, Mattias Klum, and Peter Miller, Aim’s life's mission is to help entrepreneurial ecosystems flourish across Asia by combining capital, education and programs, talent and cutting-edge research and physical spaces to accelerate scalable solutions that will help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals before the world runs out of time. As a Youth Startup Support Consultant under the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), he helps to tackle extreme poverty and climate change through entrepreneurship. 

He also loves to travel, meet interesting people, attend conferences and visit communities, coworking spaces as if they were living museums. 

For today’s episode, we highlight an interview I did on the After Dark Podcast with Lee Rowley last year. 

“When you travel somewhere for a vacation, are you the typical tourist with a camera?

When was the last time you travelled to a destination and decided to NOT be a typical tourist?

Imagine taking a break, stepping outside and drawing in a deep breath of sulfur gas and smoke. And doing so hiking about 12 miles up and 12 miles down a steep mountain twice a day.

After Joel’s last trip, to Indonesia, he had an epiphany of sorts. He was so struck by the people and the culture around him that he determined he would never again take his “normal” life for granted, nor could he ever ignore the culture of the people where he was visiting.

After watching men work for meager wages at jobs that robbed their health (yet these same men were happy as clams) he had to learn more and understand why.

Jump into this experience with Joel to learn and understand yourself who these people were, where Joel discovered these people, and what their lives are like… and more so, what THEY are like. Your own life’s problems will seem insignificant. Why? You’ll see in the next few minutes.

Joel’s take-a-way is… welp… listen to this podcast and learn. I assure you, you have never heard of anything like the people and lives described here. And then ask yourself, what’s your take-a-way?

Located in and … Live from Singapore!”

Nathan Hirsch is a 30 year old entrepreneur that's been scaling businesses since 2009.

Nathan's first business, Portlight, sold over $30 million in sales through Amazon. Nathan then co-founded FreeeUp.com with an initial $5,000 investment in 2015, scaled it to $12M per year in revenue, and it was acquired in 2019.

Today, Nathan is a co-founder of OutsourceSchool, a company working to educate entrepreneurs on how to effectively hire and scale with virtual assistants through in-depth courses. With all of his businesses, Nathan has hired and scaled with hundreds of virtual assistants and freelancers from all over the world. He shares his roadmap for scaling businesses with virtual assistants through OutsourceSchool.

Nathan has built himself into a social media personality online, he has appeared on over 300+ podcasts, and has spoken to thousands about remote hiring at industry events. He has also been featured on CBS, ABC, NBC, and Entrepreneur.

Cristina Flores is an “up-and-coming” Certified Executive Leadership Coach (Leadership & Interview). She has 3 children (ages 3, 7, & 12), a Bachelors of Psychology, and an MBA. While managing her personal and professional life, she is currently working on a children's book to help empower children with cancer to feel included and powerful.

Cristina is passionate about helping jobseekers start off on the right foot whether on LinkedIn or at an interview. She gets right to the root of the problem quickly and provides great actionable feedback in this episode. Cristina coach jobseekers on how to interpret job descriptions, what type of questions to expect based on the field they are applying for, and helps with Mock interviews.

Beyond job-seeking, Cristina also coach leaders on how to adjust to their new role, time management, effective communication, and streamlining processes. She has started the conversation on leadership and leadership styles on Linkedin through interviews of CEOs, a diplomat, and others in varying roles of leadership.

If you want to learn more about her, you can message Cristina Flores on LinkedIn.

Key Takeaways:

- How to start off on the right foot.

- How to get people to say yes on LinkedIn. 

-What can be stopping someone from saying yes. 

- Why you shouldn't be afraid to ask. 

- Trends in Interviewing process & job search!

Jayde Vincent is an English dancer, choreographer, and verified TikTok Star, where she shares a variety of dancing, singing, and comedy videos.

In March of 2019, she started getting massive traction on TikTok, growing to over 1.2 Million followers and 52.4 Million combined Likes in less than 9 months. This sparked her passion for social media marketing. Jayde currently helps businesses and brands help build and grow their reputation on the platform as an expert in TikTok marketing.

Jayde never expected herself to be in this position today. Although she had been dancing ever since she was 4 years old, she always struggled with what she wanted to do as a teenager and struggled in school academically. Jayde talks about how her Tribe provided much needed support when her sister Jessie had to undergo a major surgery in late 2019.

Today, she has been featured on CBC Kids News, Digital Business Women, Influence Weekly and MTV after they found and used her TikTok video dancing to Billie Eilish's "Bad Guy" on the show “TRL, Total Request Live”.

Heather Monahan is a best-selling author, keynote speaker, entrepreneur and founder of Boss In Heels. Having successfully climbed the corporate ladder for nearly 20 years, Heather Monahan is one of the few women to break the glass ceiling and claim her spot in the C-suite.

As a Chief Revenue Officer in Media, Heather Monahan is a Glass Ceiling Award winner, named one of the most Influential Women in Radio in 2017 and Thrive Global named her a Limit Breaking Female Founder in 2018.

Based in Miami, Heather’s new book Confidence Creator shot to #1 on Amazon’s Business Biographies and Business Motivation lists the first week it debuted on Amazon.

Heather is a confidence expert and is currently working with Fortune 500 companies and professional sports to develop confidence in the workplace and on the court. She’s also a member of Florida International University’s Advisory Council to further serve as a mentor and leader in the South Florida Community. Heather’s new show, Creating Confidence, debuted on the Top 200 shows on Apple podcast.

Heather’s work has been featured in USA Today, CNN, Forbes, Fast Company, TEDx and Business News Daily. Most recently, she added Guest Professor at Harvard to her list of accomplishments.

From starting with a gun in his hand in 2016 to physical abuse, emotional abuse, theft, infidelity, embezzlement, anxiety, depression, anxiety attacks and panic attacks so bad he used to pass out in bathrooms, The Better Leads Institute CEO Sidney Clevinger credits choice as the key to his rise to success, making 7-figures annually and running multiple businesses as an entrepreneur.

Fast forward to 2020 today, he is now a digital marketer, author, coach and speaker who’s built and runs multiple businesses.

From an advertising agency that does seven figures a year in contracts, a CBD Commerce business, and information products such as a coaching course about building your influence on social media and online, Sidney has also written 5 books on marketing and advertising on social media.

His highest intention is to help 1,000 people with guns in their hands like he had to choose life and become successful with their lives.

Some Key Takeaways:

-Sidney’s near-death experience and lessons he had learned

-How to generate free leads on social media

-How to use paid advertising and be profitable

-How to build a system of lead generation, conversion and retention that is scalable and profitable from Day 1

- Rehearse, review, revise

- Practice doesn’t make perfect. Practice makes permanent.

Stephanie Scheller is a TEDx speaker, a Forbes 30 under 30 nominee, a 2019 New York Life Woman of the Year nominee and a two time best-selling author.

She is also the founder of Grow Disrupt, a San Antonio-based training organization for small businesses and CEO of Scheller Enterprises.

As a speaker, she has graced the stages of global organisations and Fortune 100 companies, such as TEDx, Microsoft, Time Warner Cable, and BNI. She co-hosts a podcast called Black Belt Selling.

After three years in corporate America, Stephanie Scheller ramped up her sales training and coaching business in four and a half months to completely replace her corporate income. She also ran a sales training practice in Central Texas, Scheller Enterprises, as its CEO, and grew that in less than 18 months to become the largest, most active sales training practice in the area.

After working behind-the-scenes with over 2500 businesses and thousands of individuals on their sales, marketing and systems, Stephanie shares with us her observations, insights and experiences on what it takes to grow and run a successful business.

Ryan is a real estate investor and co-founder of The Archimedes Group - a private real estate investment firm focusing on mobile home parks in the Southeast US. Their mission to provide safe and affordable housing for less affluent Americans while delivering extraordinary returns to investors and cultivate a safe, strong community while supporting education for underprivileged youths. Their business model serves the lowest third of Americans who can’t afford a single-family home and are looking for a clean, affordable community without the hassles of apartment living.

Ryan started with nothing: no money, no experience, no network. He later became one of the top salesmen at Hendrick Honda selling over 800 cars in 4 years, brought 3.75MM in profit for carnival cruise lines, and wrote a book on how to buy a car at the best price using Psychology. He is an expert in Psychology, and a book author, and also an MBA holder on the fast track through the corporate banking ladder before he left corporate America. Now he focuses on Mobile Home Parks and has closed over $20M in MHPs (mobile home parks), 12 of them across 1313 pads across south-east of USA and $8.5M in realized property value gains today.

Mark Thompson is the Co-Founder of PayKickstart (a popular shopping cart and affiliate management SaaS company). He has been an online entrepreneur for 12+ years, teaching and selling software/training to other marketers and online business owners.

As a leading SaaS company with a global network of vendors and affiliates, Mark got great at building a subscription-based business. However, it was more than just launching 12 to 14 software products that made him masterful in the digital world. He and his partner, Matt Callen, both figured out how to help other businesses sell well online too. They have processed collectively over $150M as a platform, did over $20M in revenue, and are set to break $1 million Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) this year.

Mark was recently featured on Starter Story, The Next Web, and Business.com, as well as a number of mainstream podcasts like The Fighting Entrepreneur by Anik Singal and the $100 MBA show.

Mike Yates is a Keynote Speaker featured on Forbes, TEDx, and LinkedIn. He is also a former education programs coordinator, curriculum developer, and teacher with more than 10 years of experience. His mission is to transform the k-12 education experience as a team leader at Alpha, an innovative, independent school that uses adaptive learning software in place of direct instruction, and one of the Founders of Guide, a life skills training platform for high school students.

Mike’s on a mission to disrupt and innovate school. Every student at Alpha performs in the top 10% of students their age on the MAP assessment. 99% of our students report that they love coming to school. Every student learns life skills, technical skills and transferable skills. We are changing the way kids do school.

In this interview, learn about how to learn, the three questions you should ask yourself before reading widely, how to innovate by going beyond your domain expertise, and what we can learn from observing young children.

Dai Manuel quit his career of 17 years, his wife quit her job a month later, published a book, pulled kids out of school and started travelling. They've lived the better part of the last 2.5 years in Bali, Indonesia. He’s also an author and a keynote speaker, former partner and Chief Operating Officer of a multi-million dollar retail company “Fitness Town”, and a lifestyle mentor and executive performance coach.

Dai calls himself a super dad, “dating” his wife, with a lead by example way of living and a contagious personality, and is on a mission to positively impact one million role models around the globe to lead a FUN-ctionally fit life through education, encouragement, and community. A good part of what he does today is helping people with massive transformations in their lives.

Key takeaways:

Change and how it starts with a small shift

Dai’s relationship with fitness, personal image, and self-love

Crutches and how to identify dysfunctional behaviour in your lives

3 takeaways to start your recovery process

Ikigai and long-term lifestyle change

How do you keep track of all your posts on LinkedIn?

Co-founders Andreas Jonsson and Alexander Brandi kept asking themselves that question: How can we create messages that resonate better with our professional audience? 

After providing consultancy services to large corporations in Denmark, they could not wrap their heads around why there were no tools to measure the impact of content creation on LinkedIn. 

They repeatedly brought this question to their large enterprise-clients and decided to combine their technical and strategic expertise, along with Juan Pablo's skillsets as a communicator to grow SHIELD Intelligence to what it is today. The trio had already spent considerable time in the workforce in prior businesses which allowed for each of them to gain valuable real-world experiences. Their experience was crucial to the early success and expansion of SHIELD.

The Denmark-based company is on a mission to help LinkedIn users to grow their brands faster through quality content that matters by using their leading analytics platform. Since the company's start, it has processed more than 200 million views across 300,000 LinkedIn posts from thousands of users, with a total of over 250 billion data points across our user base and their LinkedIn activity. This allows users to identify past performances and optimise or replicate it in the future.

Some notable clients who have used their visually-dynamic dashboard include Boston Consulting Group, Capco, and influencers like Justin Welsh, Shay Rowbottom, and some of LinkedIn's Top Voices. 

"Listening to your customers", says Juan Pablo is crucial to building an evolving product at SHIELD around the needs of their customers. 

"Keeping ego at bay...the company comes first."

"Straight-forward and honest channels of communication." 

"[Dividing] tasks into different areas of expertise"

"We're drowning in a sea of information but starving for wisdom." A prolific reader and deeply passionate learner, the STARTedUP President Don Wettrick shares his journey from being a high school teacher to revolutionising modern-day education to founding a non-profit that has received national attention and widespread influence which spans across the United States. "We're all in this battle for attention. Everybody's in this market to make a sale, and that starts with attention."  

The Two time Microsoft Innovative Educator award winner and Author of "Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation" explains how to stay relevant globally through intrapreneurship, innovation and collaboration.  As an international speaker, Don has lectured across the US, Europe, South America and Africa about collaboration, social media use, and work environments that enable innovation. He worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley to Ghana and his podcast, StartEdUp, featured some of the most successful entrepreneurs, authors, and thought leaders in the world from JP Sears to Zack Friedman and Robert Greene. 

"If I were in charge, what would I do?", says Don, as he challenges the status quo on traditional education and explains an "Open Source Learning" technique taught at STARTedUP, which provides entrepreneurial events, accelerator programs, training, and seed funding for young entrepreneurs.  "The purpose of business is to last." Concerned that your business or organisation is becoming irrelevant? Listen in and tap into Don’s insights and expertise. "Always realise that every company is a media company. If people don't know what you're working on, they can't get excited about it."  

Don discusses issues from capital to building and educating great teams, identifying your weaknesses and greatest strengths, what the lynchpin for long-term success is, where the world is headed towards, and how to become a more effective leader.

It only took 8 months for Joselyn Vargas, mom of 5, to grow from 66 to 114,000 followers on TikTok, with nothing more than her mobile phone, creativity and persistence. 

She started her journey wanting to be a Youtuber but it didn't work out and even uninstalled TikTok but decided to try the app again. This time, after believing in herself and posting for a month daily, one of her videos rapidly became viral with over 3 million views and 1.1 million duets. 

Today, Joselyn has been featured by Gary Vaynerchuk, accumulated over 2.5 Million likes on TikTok and produced over 1220 videos. "Fun" is her motto, she says, as she continues to grow her brand through clean, family-friendly content on various platforms. 

In this interview, learn about the early days of her creative process, the power of community and connection, and how she used her TikTok brand to grow a second community of 126,000 monthly active users on Pinterest, doubling her total exposure. She explains how to make great content on TikTok and how brands can use influencer marketing to present themselves more authentically to a young audience.

From failed businesses to doing door-to-door sales in 100-degree (F) weather in Baltimore to being one of Aflac's top young agents and finally building a business that made 150 Million Dollars in Sales, Michael Convery of The Educated Wealth Center 's success didn't happen overnight. 

"Radical transparency...doubling down on what was working", says Michael was what's needed. His obsession with answering that question has helped him perfect his leadership, marketing and selling skills and scale The Educated Wealth Center with his father from half a million to multi-millions in annual revenue in just eight years.

Today, The Educated Wealth Center has been featured in US News, World Report, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal, as well as on the national television network WE, authored in CNBC news, Yahoo Finance, Market Watch, Reuters, and has been on affiliates of ABC, NBC, Fox, and CBS.

From spending time with Darren Hardy, Gary Vaynerchuk to Gerard Adams, Michael considers himself an evergreen learner. He shares the steps you need to master your time, build great teams, and level up your business. 

"I always thought, in business, there is no place for empathy, but the world we live in, there's a lot of space for empathy in all organisations.", Michael reveals the importance of empathy in sales, communication as a leader and being a visionary for your team.

"Entrepreneurs need to realise how important it is to have a digital presence and starting to figure out how to market online. If you're not top of mind, in the conversation over the Internet, in the next 10 years, you'll become almost irrelevant." 

Michael shares his perspectives on the importance of online reputation and digital versus traditional marketing such as direct mail or referrals and where he sees the world going in the next 10 years.

"We live in a world where the customer now has more control than ever before. So you have to put your customer first."

"Making sure you have a great customer experience and understand how powerful they truly are."