The Power Entrepreneur's Podcast

Maceo Jourdan is a serial entrepreneur with two decades of building businesses by creating great products and great marketing.

His experience spans a wildly eclectic mix of practical real-world experience, from the US Army to the cut-throat world of electronic trading.

A pioneer in computerized trading, Maceo built one of the earliest high-frequency trading systems for the S&P 500.

When "pay per click"  marketing platforms burst on the scene he translated his work into massively successful automated systems for Google and, later, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Maceo's expertise fits a wide range of audience interests from predicting future trends, growing and scaling businesses, how to get your company acquired and not get taken to the cleaners, as well as marketing for the solo entrepreneur or the $100 million+ Goliath.

He's coached and taught individuals and groups for over 30 years and has a knack for making complicated things simple through storytelling.

She secures media coverage to grow BRAND AWARENESS, increase REPUTATION and drive SALES using third-party editorial endorsement.

Andrea Pass is your P.I. (Private Investigator) in P.R. (Public Relations), becoming part of your team for all your PR needs.

Disguised as a mild-mannered mom from the Bronx, trained in the super skills of conflict resolution, today's guest believes that helping people transform their lives begins with transforming your own.

Lynne Maureen Hurdle, who's also known as The Conflict Closer, has spent the last thirty years working with people as a Conflict Resolution Strategist, facilitator, speaker, and coach.

Today's guest founded nearly 30 companies, negotiated over $500M in contracts & business deals, and grew multiple company's and startup's to the multi-million dollar mark.

He has made a career of buying & selling companies, facilitated the sale of luxury, premium real estate, and taken ownership of companies across three different countries using NONE of his own money.

Today, he’s helping ordinary, everyday people buy & sell companies for a living.

Bill Kurzeja is a professional sales training and business consultant, and the founder of Professional Succes South.

After 8 years in the military, making his way through the ranks to sergeant, he began his career as an auto salesperson. Not long after that, he became sales manager, General Sales Manager, and finally General Manager.

With a solid background and understanding of sales, he now serves his clients through his coaching, as well as his podcast, Get Focused with Bill K

and Gina Faye.

Today's guest helps leaders confidently define and position their value so they can maximize their influence, focus and results.

As a dynamic speaker and CEO of Amber Hurdle Consulting, a multi-award-winning talent optimization firm, she pioneers using both science and marketing principles to strengthen brands and leaders from the inside out.

She's a leadership coach who's been featured in media like CNN, Forbes, Huffington Post, and more, for helping ambitious people expand their capacity to handle more growth, wealth & success.

For more than ten years, she has helped entrepreneurs, corporate executives, Academy Award nominees, and Nobel Prize organization candidates break through boundaries that have been holding them back from their next level with her signature approach, which enables clients to reach their highest levels of success and impact.

Born with an entrepreneurial spirit, he started his first business at age 11, (even hiring his parents for logistics support). Over the last quarter-century, he's started and owned more than 50 different companies, including an insurance agency, precious metals firms, a venture capital company, a coaching and consulting firm, and more than a dozen real estate investment and development companies. He’s also the founder of Yokido™, his own martial art, and holds 3 other black belts.

Damion Lupo’s personal philosophy centers on Self Responsibility and a conviction that the only path to freedom is through candor, growth, and a big vision.

Today, Damion's mission and passion is to elevate humanities power and control over their life by reducing the complex into the simple and creating a transparent conversation around money and investing.

She's on a mission to redefine the world's economic future by increasing the financial literacy of entrepreneurs, also known as financial fitness.

Tracey Bissett is the founder and President at Bissett Financial Fitness Inc., and a professor at Centennial College’s School of Business.

In 2002, he started a marketing agency with nothing but a laptop on his dining room table, but he quickly became overwhelmed with client demands and employee needs.

However, having studied the habits of business and strategy icons, he spent the next few years developing a strategic approach that allowed him to scale his agency to more than $10 million a year,  all while making above-average profits, with a happy staff and happy clients.

The Max Borges Agency has helped some of the most successful technology and consumer electronics brands on the planet, including AT&T, Blackberry, Marshall, Pioneer, and more.

Max took his agency to a place where it thrives, autonomously.

He first became obsessed with brain performance as an undergrad at Harvard, where he studied psychology and neuroscience, but the idea for IQ Bar didn't hit him until 2017.

After noticing his own focus and cognition decrease during the workday while working in the software industry, he started experimenting with ways to boost performance using nutrition.

He is the founder IQBAR, the first and only "brain food bar" that leverages nutrition and neuroscience to boost everyday brain function.

The company was started as a crowdfunding campaign, raising $90,000 through Kickstarter, and now, just 3 years later, the product is sold at thousands of CVS and Kroger's stores nationwide.

He's the co-founder and CEO of Salesflare, an intelligent CRM built for small businesses selling B2B, mostly popular with agencies and SaaS companies.

Born out of a need for an easy way to manage the leads for their software company, Jeroen and his partner didn't want to keep track of things manually and built Salesflare, which pulls customer data automatically.

It's now the most popular CRM on Product Hunt and top-rated on review platforms like G2 for its ease of use and automation features.

He was born in a refugee camp in Thailand, where his family escaped to from the Khmer Rouge from Cambodia.

Having grown up in Los Angeles, he pursued economics by day trading and playing Poker to pay for his tuition while attending the University of Pennsylvania. There he trained as an economist and afterward went into Investment banking.

Later he would leave the financial world to join the Peace Corps, volunteering in the Republic of Georgia, a year after the Russian invasion.

Now an experienced real estate investor with 12 years of real estate experience and $65M worth of assets under management, Eng Taing is an economist by training, from the Wharton School of Business. He also has experience leading data science and analytics at Apple, Capital One, and AT&T, and he applies that experience when identifying and underwriting investment opportunities and markets.

Eng also teaches employees at companies like Apple, Facebook, & Amazon how to minimize their tax burden and keep and invest more of their earnings so that they can achieve financial freedom.

You've been hearing insights from many different people over the last couple of years that we've been around.

Today, Jake is interviewing Jacob, talking about coaching yourself to success.

You've been hearing insights from many different people over the last couple of years that we've been around.

Today, Jacob is interviewing Jake, talking about Marketing, Business, Personal Development, and more.

Growing up on a dairy farm, with a love for sports and God, his passion in business comes from his desire to help people.

Grant Botma is a Best Selling Author, the Founder of Stewardship, an Inc 5000 Fastest Growing Company with a host of awards, and the founder of Culture Course, helping you create thriving employees.

He's a best-selling author, podcaster, blogger, speaker, and the former chairman and CEO of $250 million dollar publishing company Thomas Nelson.

During his time at the helm of Thomas Nelson, Michael Hyatt lead the company through an economic recession and deliver winning results, all while making it home in time for dinner each night.

Featured in the INC. 5000 list as one of the fastest growing private companies in the nation three years in a row, Michael Hyatt & Company is a leadership development firm helping successful, but overwhelmed leaders get the focus they need to win at work and succeed at life.

He developed 3 of his own businesses in 3 different industries, studied the human mind and body (at the Doctorate level), and after coaching professionals and business owners across ten industries, over the last 12+ years, Isaac Bardos noticed repeating patterns and developed a process that is highly effective to solve the pain points so many service based business owners face.

With a university background in psychology, human behavior and performance, Isaac figures out exactly what’s going inside your business that’s working well, and what’s sabotaging your business growth.

He's a 4X best selling author, CEO of Hardcore Closer, Founder of Break Free Academy, and The LEADER of modern marketplace sales training.

From selling car washes at 13, to selling mortgages, then marketing services, he soon realized his sales skills could be taught to others.

Today, Ryan Stewman is well known for his sales training, contributing to Forbes, Entrepreneur, Addicted2Success, Good men Project, Lighter Side of Real Estate, Huffington Post, and of course, his Hardcore Closer.

Today's guest has been in the real estate industry for over 22 years, having worked with a multitude of top Real Estate companies in Florida, Colorado, and California.

His real estate career began at the age of 19, when he broke into the business as the assistant to the president of Keyes Real Estate. Over the course of his career he's held several positions including Recruiting Director, Sales Coach, and Sales Manager. Most recently his focus was on building offices into local powerhouses and turning boutique brokerages with a handful of agents into large-scale agencies with several hundred Realtors.

After taking the helm as President at RelatedISG International Realty in July of 2014, Alex Vidal has spearheaded the explosive growth from just two offices and 50 Realtors, to a sales force now over 560 Realtors, 6 offices throughout Dade and Broward county, and an approximate half a billion dollars in Sales Volume.

Alex also hosts TheCloserClub, an online interview series featuring the country's biggest real estate players, celebrity entrepreneurs, athletes and politicians in a quick and fun, informative format.

The youngest president of any top 10 mortgage brokerage, he took the commercial real estate industry by storm at the age of 21. From then on he has continued to establish himself as an innovator who has defined the industry, earning numerous accolades such as Crain’s “Forty Under 40.”

His story starts at Meridian Capital, where he directly helped the company from $300 million in loans closed to over $3 billion just four years later.

In 2001, Ira Zlotowitz co-founded Eastern Union, which has grown from a four-person Brooklyn office into a 100-person firm closing roughly $5 billion in national loan volume last year.

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You can connect with Ira via;

Email: iraz@easternunion.com

Text/WhatsApp: 1-917-597-2197

It's been a while since his days of investment banking at Lehman Brothers, but the party hasn't stopped.

Now the CEO of WindowsWear, he's been featured on television and through print and digital publications like ELLE, WWD, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today, was featured as a top 40 under 40 fashion professional and awarded as a top investment banking analyst by Lehman Brothers once upon a time.

Jon Harari also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Marketing at Baruch College, a board member of Berkeley College’s Fashion Advisory Board, Indiana University’s Apparel Merchandising Advisory Board, and several charitable non-profit organizations in New York City.

His death on a flight to Nashville may have been the greatest thing that ever happened to him.

He'd spent over 30 years working as a television and entertainment director in broadcast TV alongside celebrities, world leaders, and global brands.

With Emmy-nominations and over 10,000 Productions, Videos and Live Events under his belt, he was building a global brand.

Then he died.

Bill Dolan is an Emmy-Nominated TV Director, Corporate Video Producer, Event Producer, Speaker, Consultant, and Author of his book 7DRM - The 7 Disciplines of Relationship Marketing.

Today's guest is a testament to the potential we all have. He left his country in 2015 to follow his passion for product design and entrepreneurship, only to land in New York with barely enough money to sign up for college.

From being homeless in NYC, working anything from construction to dog walking or house sitting, Amin Hasani has since started 3 companies that really help people.

With designs purchased by companies in the financial sector like PayPal and Chase, to Rolls Royce, to the aviation sector with companies including LaGuardia, JFK Airport and Boeing, Amin Hasani is just getting started.

He's spent over two decades motivating and inspiring audiences to move out of their comfort zone and to think out of the box.

Now a renowned author, speaker and trainer for corporate and association markets, he started his career in corporate America, selling door to door, as a cold calling, one call close salesman.

Continuing up the ranks on to sales management, he eventually became CEO of a major corporation.

But regardless of his title, Rabbi Freddy has always maintained that first and foremost, he is a salesman.

Today's guest is a mental sports performance coach focusing on high-impact and combat sports.

Using mental skills techniques and strategies to help athletes and coaches gain a competitive edge in their sports performances, Grant Parr works with a wide variety of athletes and teams including Olympians, Olympic coaches, professional athletes, collegiate athletes, and high school athletes.

Whether you're a sports athlete or a corporate athlete, you're in for some great insights today.

His career in real estate began in 1971 when he was an executive at the Centex Corporation.

He's the Founder & Chief Visionary Officer of BNI, the world’s largest business networking organization.

With over 8,900 chapters throughout every populated continent of the world. Last year alone, BNI generated 11.2 million referrals resulting in $15.4 billion dollars’ worth of business for its members.

He's a university professor, amateur magician, black belt in karate, and a New York Times Bestselling author with 23 books.

Called the “Father of Modern Networking” by CNN and one of the “Top Networking Experts” by Forbes, Dr. Misner is considered to be one of the world’s leading experts on business networking.

He's a leading businessman, thought leader, author of two widely read books, and is often featured on national TV and radio.

Though his early life experiences could have derailed him, his hunger, tenacity, and perseverance ultimately drove him to find success in his business and personal life.

For the past 30 years, he's been teaching people how to increase their reading speed along with comprehension, but more importantly, how to develop a total learning solution in their life.

He helps professionals, associations, companies, colleges, universities, students and people of all walks of life and ages maximize their ability to learn faster, comprehend better, and retain more in this information-rich world.

Many businesses make the mistake of trying to fix the holes in their process by treating the symptoms.

For the last 6 years he's served as executive director of EPI Networking, a non-profit recruitment & career services organization and matching fund incubator for startups.

In this capacity, he's overseen the distribution of many millions of dollars in interest free loans as well as placed over 2,500 people in the New York Tri-State area.

He's a mission-driven marine veteran, and post military service, he's developed a background in technology, process, and people.

Having worked for companies such as Morgan Stanley, Guggenheim Partners, Cushman Wakefield, and Plurilock, the range of industries has provided him exposure to business models, compliance frameworks, technology architecture, and security.

"The day you start working, quit your job."

 He's a Rabbi, Speaker, Author, and Coach, helping people in the areas of health, relationships, self development, and getting their message out to the world.

He's the CEO of Sports 1 Marketing, a Forbes “Top 10 Keynote Speaker“, award-winning humanitarian, two-time national best-selling author, and 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur and executive in the legal, technology, sports, and entertainment fields.

With expertise across many industry verticals, he is uniquely positioned as a world-renowned thought leader, business strategist and leading humanitarian.

Throughout his extensive professional career, David Meltzer has managed processes and practices including the creation and implementation of strategies and tactics for beginning and scaling a business, recruitment, and management, sponsorships, endorsements, go-to-marketing planning, and execution.

He is always willing to help people who are looking to improve their personal and professional life, so don't hesitate to reach out!

 This man is no ordinary bodyguard.

For almost 30 years, he's worked with numerous high profile celebrities, CEOs, and Ultra High Networth individuals and their families.

During this time, several became interested in what he did and decided to mentor him in becoming more than just a typical bodyguard.

In the last 16+ years, he has become a leadership speaker, financial coach, a branding specialist, and a Power Entrepreneur.

His unique style is shown not only as a creative solutions provider, but also as a business who strongly believes in adding value to others.

His "hero building" approach to team building also helps in showing your team, clients, and employees how they can work in a spirit of excellence and keep a smile on their own faces as they provide outstanding customer service.

As a business coach, the number one lesson he has learned is that a business owner or entrepreneur can never raise their business beyond the current level of the owner's mindset.

Raise the mindset, and you raise your business to a higher standard.

Leading others well always starts with leading yourself well first, and today, we are pumped to sit down with Sam Flores on The Power Entrepreneur.

He's always loved learning, but never had crazy aspirations in the business world until he discovered his passion for real estate.

His story is one that truly shows the power of change and what's possible. From greed and addiction to purpose and fulfillment. 

He finds himself facing life in prison, with his back against the wall, he finally has to face his worst enemy.....himself.

He had to go to prison to find freedom and he spent 4 years relentlessly pursuing:

... all while in prison!

He developed a 4 step process using the acronym ROCK that allowed him to tap into his full potential and develop the ROCK solid foundation needed to transform and build his life on. 

Erik Salzenstein is a powerful speaker and transformational coach who shares his signature talk "From Prison to Prosperity", takes people through his ROCK process, and helps them break free from the constructs of their own prison.

For more than three decades, this legend has been a practicing negotiator, intimately involved in some of the world’s headline dramas from hostile takeovers to hostage negotiations.

Larry King, who grew up with him, has written stories describing his negotiating skills even as a child.

His clients have included business executives, entrepreneurs, sports and entertainment agents, even government agencies, including the Department of State, FBI, CIA, and the US Department of Justice.

In 1980, he was dubbed "The World's Best Negotiator" by Playboy magazine.

In 1981, Time Magazine said "If you are ever in a crucial life-changing negotiation, the person you want on your side of the table is Herb Cohen."

It's around that time that President Carter's administration called on Herb Cohen to help get our fifty-two hostages back from Iran, which he did, even famously predicting the release of the hostages almost to the exact hour.

In 1995, Publisher's Weekly stated that Herb's book "You Can Negotiate Anything" was the fifth-bestselling audiobook of all time.

For more than three decades, this legend has been a practicing negotiator, intimately involved in some of the world’s headline dramas from hostile takeovers to hostage negotiations.

Larry King, who grew up with him, has written stories describing his negotiating skills even as a child.

His clients have included business executives, entrepreneurs, sports and entertainment agents, even government agencies, including the Department of State, FBI, CIA, and the US Department of Justice.

In 1980, he was dubbed "The World's Best Negotiator" by Playboy magazine.

In 1981, Time Magazine said "If you are ever in a crucial life-changing negotiation, the person you want on your side of the table is Herb Cohen."

It's around that time that President Carter's administration called on Herb Cohen to help get our fifty-two hostages back from Iran, which he did, even famously predicting the release of the hostages almost to the exact hour.

In 1995, Publisher's Weekly stated that Herb's book "You Can Negotiate Anything" was the fifth-bestselling audiobook of all time.

 Good copy projects the uniqueness of your offering in such a vivid, memorable way, that your prospects are PINING for more, and today we have a results-obsessed copywriter who’s spent over a decade turning clients into WINNERS.

 He specializes in out of the box strategies and solutions to build wealth and reduce your taxes with a special emphasis on the number ZERO.

"ZERO?" I asked him and he said "Yes! As in ZERO cost, ZERO tax, and as many ZEROS as possible after the 1 in your bank account."

At his core, he will always be a teacher. With 12 years of experience under his belt, he's also directed a non profit called the Friendship Circle, helping special needs children enjoy life.

 When it comes to success in the Amazon space, he's been keeping his eye on what does and doesn't work, that being the reason top Amazon sellers trust him with their business.

From simple listings to suspensions, SEO, pay-per-click advertising, enhanced branding, and even navigating foreign production, he's got you covered.

He's an Amazon SEO and Marketing Expert who works with the top sellers on Amazon doing 7, 8 and 9 figures annually.

She got her first business spotlight at the young age of 10, selling customized bracelets to her friends as well as through the local crafting store, doing so well, she even had back-orders.

He is a man with a passion for helping his community and the world at large.

He's a playwright, a stage director, a songwriter, and event producer, having worked with some of the most prominent names in the jewish production world.

Zvika Bornstein joins us on The Power Entrepreneur to give us a behind-the-scenes look into the business behind entertainment, and the life behind large scale productions.

From his hard start in Maine, hanging with the wrong people and making bad choices, to his current success on the sunny Florida peninsula, he's found that making the hard choices and setting yourself up for success is worth every last bit of effort.

Greg Caron has now been a successful real estate agent in three marketplaces including Orlando, Chicago, and Miami.

He has helped hundreds of clients purchase and sell properties with his wife Yelena, who is affectionately known as "The Boss", and adopts the latest technologies to give his clients the smoothest transactional experience available in the real estate industry.

An impact evangelist, he is recognized for his expertise in creating value and cross-pollination through the cultural drift of the new connection economy. He collaborates with businesses large and small to help develop and amplify deeply engaging products and services that resonate with a new generation of consumer. 

Known as “the nightlife Ninja”, he is an out-of-the-box brand marketer and event accelerator, recognized for his non-traditional strategies to promote and enhance nightlife, superstar performances, media events, and luxury product launches.

Shaun Gold now coaches millennial CEO’s, entrepreneurs and founders of startups and stand outs, people who are hacking the concept of work, pursuing their own definition of success.

Shaun is also the author of four books including two #1 Amazon Best Sellers, “Promoter Mind Hustler Heart” and “Better Be U”.

He is an inspiring and engaging speaker, whose wit and wisdom has made him a sought out speaker to university students, young professionals and business owners.

Today, he's known by many as the guy who's taking people's headshots at all the big networking events in the New York tri-state area, the guy that probably took half of your connections LinkedIn profile photo.

 ​To you, he may have popped up overnight, but from the other side, this success story has been a long time in the making.

She's the co-founder and CEO of the only “Woman Owned” IT company in New York, providing IT Managed Services and IT Managed Security Services.

He has over 20 years of education experience and is currently a leadership and educational consultant, as well as the Head Of School at the Jewish Foundation School of Staten Island.

He was the founding Head of School in Yeshivat He'Atid where he designed an innovative education model, and trained and supported his teachers to facilitate the students learning experience in a creative and engaging manner.

He's an expert in leveraging data to solve enterprise use cases and a serial entrepreneur who’s successfully exited several companies on that theme.

Today he interviews Billionaires, New York Times Bestselling Authors and Legendary World-Class human beings on his Top 100 podcast, but once a upon a time he couldn't even make direct eye contact with anyone and suffered from social anxiety!