The Rise Podcast with Steve Schmidt

HIGHLIGHTS03:06 Klowt: Starting from her bedroom corner with no plan B09:54 Anchoring life on business while going through the trials of divorce15:38 Navigating inappropriate conversations on LinkedIn 20:20 Amelia started a successful food business selling to stoners in school26:18 Leaving university, hating employment, and starting a B2B women's wear brand33:44 Pre-Klowt: Growth on social media and offering free tips to everyone37:13 Build personal brands: Interviews, content, and the fear of visibility44:33 A lack of outreach and growing organically47:02 Work with Amelia 51:44 The future of Klowt is to own the personal brand categoryQUOTES14:21 Steve: "Women tend to nurture more than men and they care more and their work is more diligent. Men tend to, I'm not saying this is all the case, be more fast-paced, bold, and miss the details. And in this job, the details are everything."17:28 Amelia: "It's annoying and it's totally unfair that some men feel they can approach women that way. Many women wouldn't do that. Like the percentage of men that get approached by women on social media platforms versus the percentage of women is so different." 24:10 Amelia: "There's a lot of stoners at this school, like a lot of people smoke weed... oh, I could sell cookies. So I started making cookies and brownies and cakes and sandwiches... And I'd set up this little table right outside the door where these stoners would come back in after smoking... and every Wednesday I'd be sold out."42:26 Amelia: "I really, really, really believe like intrinsically in my soul that the future of branding is personal. And so, the way you see the world going with influencers and people like Elon Musk completely changing stock prices just based on a single tweet, personal branding is going to be the next everything."45:50 Amelia: "We are hardwired to avoid discomfort, and putting in hard work in stuff is uncomfortable particularly when you're putting out your opinions and being your complete self on LinkedIn or Instagram or Tiktok or whatever, because you have to be."Learn more about Amelia in the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ameliasordell/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ameliasordell/Website - https://klowt.io/Find out more about Steve and TIDAL by visiting the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenwschmidt/Website - https://www.risewithtidal.com/

HIGHLIGHTS01:12 Philosophy as a job again: Solving people's problems as a coach05:21 Making people healthy at work, the place and time they spend most of it08:11 A refilling job gives back more than you give: A better you makes others better byproximity 12:25 Humility: A result of confidence in knowing who you are to appreciate others 17:44 Clients as accountability partners and letting go of those who undermine culture20:03 The value of money and improving companies by improving the people in it24:58 Connect with Vaney QUOTES01:54 "Make philosophy a job again. When you think about the Aristotle, Socrates, and all those types of folks, the idea of there was someone trying to absorb and process the enormity of the human experience. It's one of those things where we have just devalued that so much."05:36 "We believe that we can better the world by improving the way people live through a proven way people work. The average person is at their job 80% of their adult years in 60, 70% of their waking hours. If the person is not being made a better human there, what are the chances they will ever be a better human?"08:40 "Everybody wants a fulfilling job. But the truth of the matter is, is that anything that can give you fulfillment is going to take from. It's going to take your time, it's going to take your energy... it's going to take from you. So what you're really looking for is a refilling job."12:01 "You can only be humble if you are confident because when you're confident, then you have the room and the space to be thoughtful about how you feel about other people. But when you're not confident, when you're insecure, that's when you are self-centered."19:34 "The value is not in the money, it's in what you can do with it. So we ask people, don't do it for the money, do it for what the money does. I'm not doing this stuff for money. I'm not doing it for a house. I'm doing it to create a home."Learn more about Vaney in the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaney/Website - https://letsthink3d.com/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/think3dsolutions/Find out more about Steve and TIDAL by visiting the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenwschmidt/Website - https://www.risewithtidal.com/

HIGHLIGHTS02:41 Think 3D Solutions: Leadership development and organizational coaching04:22 Growing up with adopted siblings: Trauma-filled but taught compassion11:29 Teach context in the struggle: Let kids launch where we land14:55 Sioux Falls police chief Jon Thum and having conversations that matter19:59 Unconscious bias: Being "color blind" actually makes it difficult to see racism23:44 White privilege: Fighting unconscious bias with conscious intention27:12 Think globally, not just for yourselves, and solve the problem for the community QUOTES04:47 "If you're good with people in a world filled with people, you're going to be all right. And I just always kind of known that." 06:52 "We lived in a household, kids who went to extreme levels of trauma or have some type of developmental disability. And so, when you are growing in those environments and you start to realize that some people are in circumstances where they might require more love than you."10:07 "Most of the issue that people actually have is not even in extreme abuse that most of them went through, physical, mental, and all those other type of things. The things that scars people deep, in my experience, is the abandonment."25:29 "The way you fight unconscious bias is through conscious intention. It is saying when you hurt somebody with your words, you didn't intend to, but you didn't intend not to. And so you left a space for the unintended to happen."26:26 "Hurt people hurt people, and people who don't have enough, take. So if you want a good community, heal the hurt and make sure people have enough. That's the basic tenets of keeping people out of your garage."Learn more about Vaney in the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaney/Website - https://letsthink3d.com/Find out more about Steve and TIDAL by visiting the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenwschmidt/Website - https://www.risewithtidal.com/

HIGHLIGHTS02:35 People are products of their past and hurdles in belief stem from trauma07:09 An open mindset on belief and the possibility of being wrong12:15 God knows everything about us but we need others to know us too15:16 Develop boundaries to protect your family and relationships18:26 Men's summit: Calling men 18+ years and above to grow25:00 Quoting scripture in sales: A reminder that it's not about winning or losingQUOTES05:47 "We've all heard the statement probably where hurting people hurt others. But the other reality is this, healed people can heal others."12:33 "You want to talk about a level playing field? Scripture says we've all sinned and we've fallen short of God's glorious standard. That's the level playing field."13:54 "How are we helping one another live with purpose and the right pursuits in mind? Because at the end of the day, that's... what's important."17:49 "It's just accepted that these are boundaries because that's how the game is played. So what boundaries are we going to put in place in our lives so that we play a clean game and that we can win?"19:39 "The best gift that you can give your child is to be a growing person yourself. And... really that is not just... a parenting situation, that's just the best gift you can give another person in general, your staff, your spouse, your family."Learn more about Tom in the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-henderson-41a5005b/Website - https://resgen.org/Podcast - https://resgen.org/podcasts/Find out more about Steve and TIDAL by visiting the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenwschmidt/Website - https://www.risewithtidal.com/

HIGHLIGHTS02:52 The genesis of RESGEN05:46 Schooling then and now: Bullying is worse because of technology07:54 Moderating technology use at home is a parent's responsibility14:03 The detriment of comparing: Remember that God loves us for who we are18:47 Relationships: Will they stand the test of time in an increasingly AR world?22:31 What to look forward to in part 2: Belief and development QUOTES10:22 "At its infancy, a glass of wine is probably not a real big issue. But when it's not done in moderation, it becomes excess and then there becomes addiction and there becomes a whole wave of problems including the impact that has on our relationships... and technology, especially, that's the case."17:20 "Trying to find that affirmation in other ways... I feel that's what a lot of times how teens look at social media is how many times can I get things liked? How can I get it shared? And if I don't get that thing liked or shared, that must mean I'm not worth anything."20:12 "In a world where there is so much information, I mean there is information ad nauseam, I mean we just have so much information, but what we really need is wisdom... but how do we find wisdom?"21:35 "The more we get into this world of alternate realities or whatever's coming down the pike, it's relationships that stand the test of time." Learn more about Tom in the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-henderson-41a5005b/Website - https://resgen.org/Find out more about Steve and TIDAL by visiting the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenwschmidt/Website - https://www.risewithtidal.com/

HIGHLIGHTS06:25 start08:18 (think about youth) A goal early in life to achieve success and hustling to make a buck14:04 (so walk me back) Healthy eating and solving the challenges of access 20:11 (i think the only way) Targeting convenience: Popularizing healthy eating through Instagram 22:11 (the easiest way i explain) Trifecta goals is to become the Peloton of nutrition 24:28 (what's your airpod) Customer success: Quantifying calories and macros help achieve ideal weight  QUOTES20:05 "We specifically wanted to target the actual problem, which was convenience. Because, you know, I'm a capitalist. I think the only way we're going to outcompete McDonald's is beating them in the marketplace."20:46 "Instagram has been great for us because it showcases people with amazing physiques all day long. It's like a never-ending magazine that you're looking at. I know people that hate us weekly but they scroll through Instagram all day. It's the exact same thing. And we've just really used that to make healthy eating popular." 22:15 "We want to be like the Peloton of nutrition where we have the hard good, which is the food that comes directly to your door, we're going to start selling... a whole bunch of stuff that are different physical good tools to help people eat healthy, and then we also have the nutrition platform." 25:30 "If you're looking for the AirPods piece, all we care about is customer success. And we found that if we can help people quantify the amount of calories and macros they're eating... they ultimately end up achieving a weight that they can sustain for the rest of their lives."26:47 "It's mind, body, and social. Those are the three things for our logo that, if you get the right mindset, you educate yourself, and you turn this into a lifestyle, it will end up affecting your body and your social life in ways that you have not been able to imagine."Learn more about Greg in the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregconnolly/Website - https://www.trifectanutrition.com/Find out more about Steve and TIDAL by visiting the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenwschmidt/Website - https://www.risewithtidal.com/

HIGHLIGHTS02:39 Setting a goal early in life to achieve success and hustling to make a buck08:37 Healthy eating and solving the challenges of access 14:59 Targeting convenience: Popularizing healthy eating through Instagram 17:05 Trifecta's goal is to become the Peloton of nutrition 18:48 Customer success: Quantifying calories and macros help achieve ideal weight  QUOTES14:52 "We specifically wanted to target the actual problem, which was convenience. Because, you know, I'm a capitalist. I think the only way we're going to outcompete McDonald's is beating them in the marketplace."15:37 "Instagram has been great for us because it showcases people with amazing physiques all day long. It's like a never-ending magazine... I know people that hate us weekly but they scroll through Instagram all day. It's the exact same thing. And we've just really used that to make healthy eating popular." 17:08 "We want to be like the Peloton of nutrition where we have the hard good, which is the food that comes directly to your door, we're going to start selling... a whole bunch of stuff that are different physical good tools to help people eat healthy, and then we also have the nutrition platform." 20:32 "If you're looking for the AirPods piece, all we care about is customer success. And we found that if we can help people quantify the amount of calories and macros they're eating... they ultimately end up achieving a weight that they can sustain for the rest of their lives."21:51 "It's mind, body, and social. Those are the three things for our logo that, if you get the right mindset, you educate yourself, and you turn this into a lifestyle, it will end up affecting your body and your social life in ways that you have not been able to imagine."Learn more about Greg in the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregconnolly/Website - https://www.trifectanutrition.com/Find out more about Steve and TIDAL by visiting the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenwschmidt/Website - https://www.risewithtidal.com/

HIGHLIGHTS01:22 Authentic conversations: Value discovery, value mapping, value confirmation06:10 Revenue Acceleration Playbook: Resources and plays for team-based learning15:52 Upcoming guided selling workflows and speaking to buyer's uniqueness20:58 How to order Brent's Playbook22:02 Rapid fire questions for BrentQUOTES09:11 "Whether you do it with our or support our book or you do it on your own is, honestly, every play you design that models this authentic journey will make you better."12:13 "What questions, what content assets, what peer stories do I lead with? Could be discovery. How do I guide the buyer to their pain, what they care about. Could be how I end that first meeting. It could be how I structure my stakeholder meeting. How do I start the stakeholder meeting by recapping what my champion said?"18:41 "At the end of the day, technology can help with personalization. It can guide us there but every individual is unique and you got to speak to their uniqueness."24:38 "If you start with something you're passionate about, you'll kind of make it through the ups and downs. So I would start with something you're passionate about and then recognize it's going to take four times as long as you think."Learn more about Brent and get his book in the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bkeltner/Website - https://authenticitywins.com/Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Revenue-Acceleration-Playbook-Authentic-Marketing/dp/1774581019Find out more about Steve and TIDAL by visiting the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenwschmidt/Website - https://www.risewithtidal.com/

HIGHLIGHTS01:47 Buyer and customer journey: Delivering hyper-personalization 06:46 A knack for listening to customers and and looking out for the customer12:35 Reaching out: Lead with questions on buyer's goals and have empathy16:27 Teaching empathy: Ask behavioral questions to determine curiosity and interest 20:06 Use your champion's voice to create effective follow-upsQUOTES17:56 "Every part of the buyer and customer journey has to be connected now. Your sales team has to be connected to the market positioning. Your sales team has to be connected to customer success. How do we land well so we can expand well?"05:05 "Land and expand around a mutual success plan. Agree on what do we do in phase 1, what do we do in phase 2, and you will grow faster."11:39 "If you prospect this way around authenticity, if you sell this way, you will differentiate yourself for 90% of the people out there are leading with product, leading with high volume." 20:31 "Just to ask, where are you seeing the most value? How could this lead to your success is whatever they say, you write it down and you put that buyer success statement at the top of the email... And now, you can speak to the economic buyer and the other technical buyers with your champion's voice on why you might want to work together."Learn more about Brent in the link below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bkeltner/Find out more about Steve and TIDAL by visiting the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenwschmidt/Website - https://www.risewithtidal.com/

HIGHLIGHTS00:51 Dark Social: An opportunity for companies to create clout in chat communities 06:02 Moving from a free community to a paid model09:37 Saas Pirates: A group dedicated to helping each other12:00 Introduce automation and start with sales teams 13:22 5 rapid fire questions for Jesse20:11 Connect with JesseQUOTES03:07 "There's all these kinds of leaders of these large centers of influence and if you've got clout in these groups, and you get clout by offering expertise, I think companies are going to have to take their experts and push them into these groups."12:44 "It's like that with data science, machine learning. The best people are the people who understand the fundamentals of the business better than anybody. And who is that for sales? It's people who are selling software. Now they're going to be your future rev ops leaders."14:04 "I think you're going to see a drop in licensing and an increase in the amount of people supporting it. The technology is getting less and the people supporting it are getting more."17:03 "One of the least actually applications you need these companies to know is Salesforce because, I mean personally, I think you've got to get the data out of Salesforce. You can not use Salesforce as a data platform."Learn more about Jesse in the link below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesseoue/Website - https://leadmagic.io/Find out more about Steve and TIDAL by visiting the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenwschmidt/Website - https://www.risewithtidal.com/

HIGHLIGHTS01:00 LinkedIn: Virality of the strange phenomenon of company ownership of private profiles05:39 Growing up challenging the status quo07:43 Jesse's roots in sales and marketing and selling SaaS 10:39 When founders enter sales13:01 Product-led growth operation matrix: Growth, Sales Efficiency, Churn, Operation costs 17:46 SMB's moving up to enterprise sales processes and risk managementQUOTES08:54 "I just didn't really see any value there so I went into kind of the information systems and business and that's where I kind of really learned hey, sales, marketing, how to run a business, that type of stuff."12:40 "People don't really understand product-led growth does not help with the front end of your sales process. It actually helps with getting the person into the selection process. So what people do is they try your product and they might just ditch it."16:44 "If they add new products and services around that that are also based on a monthly subscription... you could get a call from the CFO the next day... and say hey, we want to go enterprise-wide without even one salesperson touching the phone."Learn more about Jesse in the link below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesseoue/Find out more about Steve and TIDAL by visiting the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenwschmidt/Website - https://www.risewithtidal.com/

HIGHLIGHTS03:47 Changing lives by improving the mindset on work and careers06:05 Build relationships, improve your skills, and create a brand based on trust08:22 Changing the recruiting process with a Shark Tank model18:37 Creating value for companies and taking accountability as candidates19:54 5 questions: Ideal company, Friday dinner, lessons of the last 2 years, vision 1 year from now, and a 40-second cold callQUOTES03:09 "I think as entrepreneurs, maybe there's something that's so compelling or maybe our experiences were so powerful that we got a point that we just said, you know what, the cost of status quo is I'm more afraid of that than I am afraid of what could go wrong by pursuing something bigger and bolder."05:13 "You can do strategic planning and market research. You can do process improvement. You can do performance optimization. You can build relationships. You can implement technology. Do we know of any company on the planet that doesn't need those things?"14:28 "If you want to improve your presentation skills, your problem-solving, here's some feedback for you. So now we're actually goodwill. And the people that don't get the job, they've just created an asset that they can reuse for the rest of their career."18:39 "If I can create value for people, they pay me and then they're loyal to me because I continue to create value. At no point did they say, well, how come you aren't doing it the way that the last person did it? It's about results."Learn more about Kyle in the link below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylegantos/Find out more about Steve and TIDAL by visiting the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenwschmidt/Website - https://www.risewithtidal.com/

HIGHLIGHTS01:59 Professor of entrepreneurship: Creating an impact with real-life stories06:04 Attract customer-funding, an alternate strategy for funding  10:40 Looking back: Shaping Kyle's problem-solving through play14:27 Transparency with mistakes and accountability to do better  QUOTES06:45 "Being able to just listen and then apply natural creativity or problem-solving skills without any built-in bias, because I think so often we're conditioned, oh this is the way it's always been done and if you carry that into it, it's limiting in terms of being able to create value for people."07:05 "When somebody's paying you to do something, one that's a confidence builder. But two, now you're getting paid to go learn how to do it better."14:44 "I would rather have somebody who's, we made a mistake and owns it and go fix it, that earns a little bit of trust in me than somebody who's like, we messed up and it's your problem."15:27 "We're going to fail together. But at the end of the day, I find out that you care enough to want to dig deep and find out what went wrong and then fix it, then I'm really investing in your ability to solve problems."Learn more about Kyle in the link below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylegantos/Find out more about Steve and TIDAL by visiting the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenwschmidt/Website - https://www.risewithtidal.com/

HIGHLIGHTS02:57 Bright Ideas Only helps entrepreneurs invest in their career capital06:15 Create your first impression before you meet with people11:39 People buy from people: Invest in your personal brand to stand out17:02 Career Capital Course: Applications on Oct 8, start on Oct 1820:16 Help My LinkedIn cleans the house before having guests over22:51 Don't wait to be picked, raise your hand, and get what you wantQUOTES04:21 "There's lots of entrepreneurs and I could be helping more people talk about and invest in their career capital, which I define as number one, your career narrative. How the heck do you talk about who you are, what you do, what should they accomplish and where do you want to go?"06:32 "Whether we like it or not, sometimes your first impression of someone isn't even when you meet them, it's before you meet them. It's before that babysitter comes over. It's before you go on that first date that you're setting that first impression."14:13 "If you want to leave the business, you can certainly plan for your exit. But I think it's one of those things that, as much as you want to promote the brand, of course, and the company, at the end of the day, it also comes down to you."17:53 "If you want something done fast, give it to a lazy person because they're going to figure out the fastest way to get it done. And so, for me, it's about the tips, the tricks, the templates, the baby steps."23:11 "You have got to stop waiting to be picked for that award, for that honor, for that promotion, for that raise, for whatever it is, we stop waiting to be picked. We're not in middle school anymore. This isn't a kickball game. Raise your hand, pick yourself, and go after the things that you want to go after."Learn more about Kim and get her free resources in the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimkaupe/Website (Career Capital Course) - www.careercapitalcourse.comWebsite (Turn On Creator Mode) - http://www.turnoncreatormode.com/Website (Help My LinkedIn) - http://www.helpmylinkedin.com/Find out more about Steve and TIDAL by visiting the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenwschmidt/Website - https://www.risewithtidal.com/

HIGHLIGHTS02:50 Find out your own superpower07:17 Work with people who are better than you and learn from them10:47 Career Capital Course: Get the YES before people even know you14:50 Use LinkedIn to filter the most attractive prospects and save time18:27 Increased competition and the need for an online brand to set you apart20:31 Try LinkedIn and see the results for yourselfQUOTES02:57 "The way to find your superpower or the fastest way to find your superpower is two things. Number one, ask at least 5 to 10 other people in your life—friends, family, acquaintances, what they think you're really good at. And number two, evaluate what you think is really boring in yourself."09:21 "I learned at a very young age, not only how to connect with other kids on the playground, but also to sell myself, because at the end of the day that's what we're all doing."10:23 "I think I realized that, at a very young age, that you have to be able to get to yes before people even get to know you. I had to get those friends to be willing to come over to my house before they even decided that they had a good time."21:53 "I would challenge those people to say, give it a try yourself. And I say that because I think nothing is more powerful than when you try something."Learn more about Kim in the link below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimkaupe/Find out more about Steve and TIDAL by visiting the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenwschmidt/Website - https://www.risewithtidal.com/

This reel features some of the most impactful moments with the truly amazing people featured by Steve Schmidt on The Rise Podcast:00:43 Episode 1 - Get to Know Your Host (Part 1)03:13 Episode 2 - Get to Know Your Host (Part 2)04:45 Episode 3 - Digital Strategies For Businesses with Amy Leann Wills (Part 1)Episode 4 - Digital Strategies For Businesses with Amy Leann Wills (Part 2)07:10 Episode 5 - Grow Your Business Through Community with Jared Robin (Part 1)Episode 6 - Grow Your Business Through Community with Jared Robin (Part 2)11:35 Episode 7 - Create Remarkable Content At Scale with Kappes “Kap” Chatfield (Part 1)Episode 8 - Create Remarkable Content At Scale with Kappes “Kap” Chatfield (Part 2)Find out more about Steve and TIDAL by visiting the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenwschmidt/Website - https://www.risewithtidal.com/

HIGHLIGHTS02:03 Helping B2B customers be the show, not the commercial08:34 Video: A marketing and sales tool to provide genuine value 13:55 Video is the closest to face-to-face interaction available today17:06 Deceitful marketing preys on people into buying19:20 Music, Gary Vee as the best marketer & Grant Cardone as manipulative but influential anyway24:57 Revenue targets for 2021 and where the company will be in 3 years QUOTES03:55 "A show, while a commercial repels an audience, shows build audiences. And shows build trust. And shows hold people... they hold their attention captive. And that is how you're able to build relationship with people over time is by winning their trust." 10:54 "Marketing builds a bridge for sales to travel over. So the thing about when you're so focused on the tactics, you forget that you're dealing with human beings." 12:56 "When I create content and do marketing, I ask myself, hey, if I was the one receiving this, what would be my initial reaction? Would I see through like, hey, this is a pseudo value proposition."25:39 "Rveal Media is our B2B marketing arm, we'll have another CEO... we'll have Rveal films up and running, that'll be our documentary slash film production arm... We'll have another company up and running, it's called Video Scale."Learn more about Kap in the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kapchatfield/Find out more about Steve and TIDAL by visiting the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenwschmidt/Website - https://www.risewithtidal.com/

HIGHLIGHTS03:42 Kap's childhood: An eclectic mix of atheism, skateboarding, and arts07:19 Kap grows up alongside social media's rise and learns to brand himself10:01 The desire to create badass romance movies introduces Kap to God18:37  Faith is believing without seeing, but being unseen doesn't mean not realQUOTES11:29 "I feel like if men and women really understood what true romance was, so many problems in society would be fixed. Men wouldn't abuse relationships with women, they wouldn't try to objectify and then women wouldn't try to objectify themselves."12:33 "Romance at its core, like true romance, it is the most badass force in the universe because it will compel a man to do the unthinkable for the woman that he loves. Love is such a driving emotion."16:33 "I finally felt this peace that I had been chasing after my whole life through substance, through success, all that stuff. And I just felt finally loved and accepted. I felt accepted in the universe by God."16:52 "He spoke to me and He said, my son, I've been waiting for this day for a long time and I don't expect you to be perfect, but I want this to be a journey. I want this to be a walk. So let's make today day 1." 21:06 "The Holy Spirit's like the wind, not because you see it but because you see how it affects things around it. Like when the wind blows, you don't see the wind but you see how it hits trees, you hear it when it hits trees."Learn more about Kap in the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kapchatfield/Find out more about Steve and TIDAL by visiting the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenwschmidt/Website - https://www.risewithtidal.com/

HIGHLIGHTS02:25 Jared's fashion magazine teaches him about community08:01 Leveraging community for product-led growth18:43 Finding sponsors and providing more value with a paid model 22:14 Hesitation with investors and community going public27:47 RevGenius 2.0 will create an exclusive category of its own31:43 Connect with JaredQUOTES20:46 "I grapple all the time with figuring out ways to have a step up plan, to charge our members something for even more value you get what we're giving you now for free. Always. You get 20% more than what we're giving you now for free." 21:52 "The person that's myopic will be like, I don't want a sponsor, but that's why I'm hesitant and reticent on exclusive deals because that limits the ability to say this might be whatever unless we've taken them."22:54 "With anything in life, are you taking money to take money? Are you taking it that makes sense or are you in any way going to be diminished? And is that going to hurt the community?"24:39 "The only reason why I talk about community is because other people ask me to do it. And I realized, the reason why I'm pretty good is because I got into it with the idea to learn, not to tell others what was what."28:44 "This is a place where other communities live too. Let's call it a private community, inclusive, exclusive, whatever, private meaning you need to have a link at a minimum to get in or know the site or whatever." Learn more about Jared in the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaredrobin/Website - https://www.revgenius.com/Find out more about Steve and TIDAL by visiting the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenwschmidt/Website - https://www.risewithtidal.com/

HIGHLIGHTS02:23 Jared makes the huge move from President's club to seed startup10:33 Reconnecting with entrepreneurial roots and pursuing ambition16:44 Teaser: How RevGenius came to lifeQUOTES06:51 "I realized one, I had to go inwardly and two, I just have to like move through life a little more humble and more graceful and give. And that was all part of it, right? It was an inward journey, integrated my fears."15:52 "I hit president's club. I can't do anything to change that product. If I give advice or feedback to my manager or my manager's manager, they're perfectly content being in that same role for 20, 30, 40, 50 years."Learn more about Jared in the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaredrobin/Find out more about Steve and TIDAL by visiting the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenwschmidt/Website - https://www.risewithtidal.com/

HIGHLIGHTS01:54 LinkedIn: Meeting mentors and growing a massive following06:20 What would Beyonce do and expressing your authentic self 10:30 Advertising and marketing a startup in LinkedIn15:16 The pitch slap, calling people out, and receiving inappropriate DMs21:21 Advice to people looking to capitalize on LinkedInQUOTES04:53 "If someone has taken the time to engage on anything or view your profile or be in your space at all, he was like, connect with them. He was like, don't wait for them to take the initiative, just connect. And so I did that for awhile and that was a huge help."07:44 "Obviously do best by your company, but at the end of the day, you're you. They hired you for you. They don't want you to be a shapeshifter. And so I just kind of woke up one morning and I was like, fuck it. let's make a bracelet of what would Beyonce do."09:12 "There's a hundred thousand other people that you could replace me with if something goes sour. So why am I different than the rest of them? What's my value proposition here? Well, then just make your list on here's why I'm a bad-ass."11:09 "People are trying to start a business. You're talking about you need a website, you need all of these things in place so that you can get going... You have one. It's your profile. Let that do your advertising for you. That should be a lightbulb for everybody."22:03 "I might not be able to invest my time, but I can invest. I can do something else. Then hire it out because consistency is key and you have a voice. So it needs to be out there."22:39 "Don't ever think your audience isn't there because they absolutely are. You may be too technical to really convey it well. Or you feel like oh, come on. I'm in this weird aspect of pharmacy, are there really that many people interested? Yes. There are."Learn more about Amy in the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyleannwills/Website - https://amyleannw.com/Find out more about Steve and TIDAL by visiting the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenwschmidt/Website - https://www.risewithtidal.com/

HIGHLIGHTS01:43 Creating content for specific audiences and backing it up with research  03:53 Leaving the world of pharmacy and diving into content marketing08:33 Perfectionism and when it's best to be a little extra  09:54 Learning the value of getting comfortable with discomfortQUOTES03:17 "I feel like a lot of content marketers do really struggle is because they struggle with taking it off of them. It's not about them. It's about the person you're delivering for and the person that's going to be getting the message."08:40 "I will beat myself up about if things aren't to the standard that I want them to be, but sometimes I see other people's standard and I'm like, yeah, that was kind of unnecessary."10:45 "Getting comfortable with discomfort, I think has been a huge method of growth for me over the years. And something that I'm like, you know what, I'm kind of glad these things along the line did piss me off."Learn more about Amy in the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyleannwills/Website - https://amyleannw.com/Find out more about Steve and TIDAL by visiting the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenwschmidt/Website - https://www.risewithtidal.com/

Welcome to this inaugural episode of The Rise Podcast with Steve Schmidt. Today we're going to get to know your host in this special 2 part series. After sharing more of his backstory in part 1, Steve shares how he broke through and got where he is today with Tidal. --Welcome to the Rise Podcast with Steve Schmidt - this show exists because we believe that we rise by lifting others. In business, it all counts, so today we're taking you on the journey of real American business owners and their story, how they've risen to where they are today - the good, the bad, and the ugly. This show is brought to you by Tidal where revenue intelligence is found by accelerating the connection of human interaction. Learn more at https://Risewithtidal.com

Welcome to this inaugural episode of The Rise Podcast with Steve Schmidt. Today we're going to get to know your host in this special 2 part series. Steve shares his backstory in the world of sales and shares how on the outside his success was growing, but on the inside in his personal life, a storm was brewing. --Welcome to the Rise Podcast with Steve Schmidt - this show exists because we believe that we rise by lifting others. In business, it all counts, so today we're taking you on the journey of real American business owners and their story, how they've risen to where they are today - the good, the bad, and the ugly. This show is brought to you by Tidal where revenue intelligence is found by accelerating the connection of human interaction. Learn more at https://Risewithtidal.com