The Unshackled Owner

A lot of people love being the most intelligent and the most needed person in the company. As long as you're that, you will always be shackled. Aaron Scott Young's guest today is Barbara Turley, the CEO of The Virtual Hub, the manifestation of her personal desire to help as many entrepreneurs as possible scale their business without the overwhelm. Barbara relates how she was able to manage her tasks by finding a virtual assistant, which eventually led her to create her business and help others. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here's How »Join The Unshackled Owner community today:AaronScottYoung.comThe Unshackled Owner TwitterThe Unshackled Owner FacebookAaron Scott Young LinkedIn

In the crazy world that we're thrust into, it can be difficult to even think about success when almost everyone just wants to get by. Joining Aaron Young in this episode is eCommerce veteran Jim McCarthy, who will share the things he has learned in adapting to an industry that's been incredibly hit hard—live events and live entertainment. He talks about the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the industry and how much they are discovering the tremendous experiences they can create if done right through the digital experience. From BTS' online concert to learning the strategies to connect with the audience digitally, Jim and Aaron cover them all. Whether you are in the entertainment industry or not, this conversation proves to be just as helpful and valuable to everyone. Follow Aaron and Jim to learn more about not only surviving this pandemic but thriving as well through the use of technology. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here's How »Join The Unshackled Owner community today:AaronScottYoung.comThe Unshackled Owner TwitterThe Unshackled Owner FacebookAaron Scott Young LinkedIn

When you are working with your natural genius, you're working smarter and not harder. You build a business that works harder for you than you have to work for it. However, not everyone is aware of what their true potentials are. Fortunately, through this episode's guest, the answer may not be far off. Aaron Young interviews Amilya Antonetti, the woman behind Genius Key—a science-based tool that gives an honest and actionable evaluation of the true potential of every individual. She takes us into the entirety of this game-changing technology that can help entrepreneurs in more ways than one, from hiring the right people to learning more about yourself, achieving success, and making a difference to others. Join Amilya and Aaron in this conversation as they dive deeper into decoding the human factor of success. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here's How »Join The Unshackled Owner community today:AaronScottYoung.comThe Unshackled Owner TwitterThe Unshackled Owner FacebookAaron Scott Young LinkedIn

We can impact the world in each of our own little ways, but there is no denying the fact that you can do a lot more with more value. Steve Little believes that the best way for your business to make an impact on the world is to generate value, accelerate growth, and use it to invest in things that you care for. Steve is an acclaimed serial entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, mergers and acquisitions expert, and the CEO of Zero Limits Ventures and Founder of Activist Capitalist. His experience in business goes way back when he was fifteen when he struck a six-figure deal for his company. He has seen tons of success as an investor since then. He joins Aaron Young on the podcast to talk about understanding the value drivers of your business, starting off with a solid exit strategy, and making an impact on the world through philanthropy. nbsp; Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here's How »Join The Unshackled Owner community today:AaronScottYoung.comThe Unshackled Owner TwitterThe Unshackled Owner FacebookAaron Scott Young LinkedIn

One thing Aaron Scott Young is passionate about apart from coaching business owners is the cowboy culture. In this episode, Aaron shares with us a fresh story of visiting Elko, Nevada for the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering with his dad, Richard Young. He takes us into the world of spurs and jingle bobs and gives great nuggets of wisdom about delivering products and doing the work with great pride and joy. Allow Aaron to inspire you about being the best and making an art form of what you do. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here's How »Join The Unshackled Owner community today:AaronScottYoung.comThe Unshackled Owner TwitterThe Unshackled Owner FacebookAaron Scott Young LinkedIn

We can only do so much in our business. That is why many successful entrepreneurs know the importance of focusing only on what they are good at and having other people help with the rest. This episode's guest, John Lee Dumas, the host of Entrepreneurs on Fire Podcast, is a powerful example of building a great business around his genius. Sharing his podcasting journey, he relates how he has been providing solutions to his audience's pain points. Today, he joins host Aaron Scott Young to discuss his decision to put the financials up on his website and bearing his failures all out for the world to see and learn. He also shares his future plans and imparts some great advice about success. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here's How »Join The Unshackled Owner community today:AaronScottYoung.comThe Unshackled Owner TwitterThe Unshackled Owner FacebookAaron Scott Young LinkedIn

What many often don't see with entrepreneurship is how it takes a lot of work. Thinking that it is a mystical world full of unicorns and rainbows is why most people never get out of startup mode. In this episode, we have someone who has an unvarnished perspective of entrepreneurship. Sharon Lechter – entrepreneur, international speaker, best-selling author, mentor, philanthropist, licensed CPA, and a Chartered Global Management Accountant – sits down with host Aaron Scott Young to talk about the evolution of her career and the lessons she learned along the way. Sharon brings to light the things you just can't ignore when starting a business – from reading your numbers to the power of collaboration and association. She also gives great insights about financial freedom, loving what you do, and redefining success to actually add value to someone's life while having your business work for you. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here's How »Join The Unshackled Owner community today:AaronScottYoung.comThe Unshackled Owner TwitterThe Unshackled Owner FacebookAaron Scott Young LinkedIn

As the famous adage goes, life is an adventure. This applies to everyone who aims at making their own trail towards success. Aaron shares his unexpected adventure with his wife while on a countryside drive in France. He talks about how they found Flavigny, the town where the movie Chocolat was shot. He shares interesting details about the town's history, including how the people have been operating a candy factory and shop for years. He adds some important entrepreneurship lessons he got from the town's shops, emphasizing that sometimes you just need to get off of the interstate and have a scalable business in your own little space. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here's How »Join The Unshackled Owner community today:AaronScottYoung.comThe Unshackled Owner TwitterThe Unshackled Owner FacebookAaron Scott Young LinkedIn

How do you build a business that works harder for you than you have to work for it? How do we build a business that can grow beyond you so that it gives you not only wealth and opportunities but also a tremendous amount of freedom? As an army kid, moving from one country to another and learning varied cultures and languages influenced Ken Rochon to become the entrepreneur that he is today. Ken is the co-founder of The Umbrella Syndicate, a PR and marketing firm. He is also a photographer, world traveler, and recipient of America's Most Influential Business Connector of 2010, among others. He compares himself to a Swiss army knife, having been able to solve various problems through different variables while still finding time to indulge in his passion for photography – an art form that he majestically captures with consummate skill. Today, Ken talks about the genesis of his company and how it morphed into what it is today, and shares his mindset towards success.

Change is constant, but if we are to change, it must be for the better. We have to try a little harder to be better. Aaron is excited to share his new office, a relatively large conference room that has been turned into a studio where he's invested in building the backdrops, the sets, and in getting sound equipment. Elevating your environment and having better guests will make your podcast even better and more valuable and have greater takeaways for the people to experience and appreciate. What you offer to the world will be reflected in your well-being, so step up and get better results.

It is essential to keep moving on the path you're on to be able to find, grow, and eventually succeed in this lifetime. Betsy Westhafer, the CEO and founder of The Congruity Group, shares her entrepreneurial journey as she keeps moving and trying to figure out the right place for her career. She has explored different things and started to feel a little pressure but was able to get her “lucky break” after meeting and getting her first client during a funeral. Betsy says you never know where a road is going to lead you that is why you have to stay open to where it might lead you. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here's How »Join The Unshackled Owner community today:AaronScottYoung.comThe Unshackled Owner TwitterThe Unshackled Owner FacebookAaron Scott Young LinkedIn

Proving that multiple career changes could take you to where you have to be, Michael Silvers, managing partner of The Vertical Group, shares his journey across different fields to arrive at the biggest pivot in his life. Going from clinical psychology, law enforcement, and the nursing profession, to personal development and network marketing, Michael has worked all for service. He takes us into these moments and how he said yes to where he is at right now. Michael also touches on syndication and how it works, showing the power of other people promoting you. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here's How »Join The Unshackled Owner community today:AaronScottYoung.comThe Unshackled Owner TwitterThe Unshackled Owner FacebookAaron Scott Young LinkedIn

Success is more than being in the right place at the right time. The key to it is perseverance and resilience. Digital marketing speaker, consultant, and entrepreneur, Dave Conklin, surely had his ups and downs, twists and turns loses and wins on his way getting to where he is right now. From his problematic childhood, he lived up to his potentials, used his gifts and never gave up. He tells his story of how he has grown his business by coming up with a technique for meeting new real estate customers through the web. He shares how their team has been boosted into a digital marketing company that helped hundreds of businesses to generate leads, save money, and increase profits. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here's How »Join The Unshackled Owner community today:AaronScottYoung.comThe Unshackled Owner TwitterThe Unshackled Owner FacebookAaron Scott Young LinkedIn

It is reasonably common for one to find it such a struggle to juggle different things like career, parenting, and other responsibilities. That's why it's motivating to hear success stories of people who were able to manage things gracefully. Amber Vilhauer, CEO of NGNG Enterprise which stands for No Guts No Glory, holds an important role in her organization. She is also a mom to a two-year old toddler and a wife to a firefighter who has unusual hours of duty. In spite of all that, she's still able to balance the busy business side of her life and manage to have blissful experiences with other elements. Amber takes us into the journey of how she transformed from a shy, unpopular girl in school to being a brilliant star with a glorious career. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here's How »Join The Unshackled Owner community today:AaronScottYoung.comThe Unshackled Owner TwitterThe Unshackled Owner FacebookAaron Scott Young LinkedIn

Peter Sage, owner and the director of Sage Academy, has got a great slant on how to become wildly successful, productive, engaged, and the leader that you want to be. He takes us on his personal journey from flea market to being in the Fortune 500. Growing up amidst contradictions, he has found the value of being able to have a huge amount of tolerance for understanding different things in the world. He defines leadership as being able to see the world through various perspectives. True to his last name, Peter goes deep and gives great wisdom about being an entrepreneur and a leader in defining achievement and fulfillment and in seeing opportunities.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here's How »Join The Unshackled Owner community today:AaronScottYoung.comThe Unshackled Owner TwitterThe Unshackled Owner FacebookAaron Scott Young LinkedIn

Setting out the mission of the Unshackled Owner Podcast into motion, Aaron Young answers some questions from listeners – from business to personal – helping them figure out the things they need to know to become a successful business owner. He answers a question about how his faith worked with his business, putting forward how we must ultimately continue to be nice with one another and acknowledge a bigger force than us. He also gives out some smart ways to use money and generate wealth quickly. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here's How »Join The Unshackled Owner community today:AaronScottYoung.comThe Unshackled Owner TwitterThe Unshackled Owner FacebookAaron Scott Young LinkedIn

Sharing his journey from swimming against the hard currents of life in Brazil to buying that American Dream, Marcos Jacober – teacher, speaker, and life hacker – shows how to be a truly unshackled owner, someone who goes out and do something out of the box. Just a year and a half after arriving in the United States, he has his own restaurant with thirteen employees, and Marcos talks about how it happened. He also touches on the principle of delayed gratification as a way to aim for bigger goals, and gives out the three pillars to build wealth. Marcos recounts how he went into real estate and found his success. Delving deeper into his story, Marcos gives out great insights on what it means to build wealth and live the American Dream. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here's How »Join The Unshackled Owner community today:AaronScottYoung.comThe Unshackled Owner TwitterThe Unshackled Owner FacebookAaron Scott Young LinkedIn

We can't keep on grinding for something that is not our cup of tea. Sometimes, what we really need is to pursue our passions and know your genius. Someone who has been through that journey is USO Alumni, Todd Thompson. He shares his own journey towards finding and applying his genius from when he was growing up and seeing his entrepreneurial disposition. Todd talks about the rules that he has adopted in his life that made it possible for him to succeed. Now, he has been helping cities revitalize their historic business district and helping people to open businesses of their own. Todd discusses some great projects he has had while giving out advice to tenants. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here's How »Join The Unshackled Owner community today:AaronScottYoung.comThe Unshackled Owner TwitterThe Unshackled Owner FacebookAaron Scott Young LinkedIn

At nineteen years old, Jason Munson was making $10 an hour plus commission repairing hot tubs, pellet stoves, gas fireplaces, and the like. Ten years later, he was at the top of the industry as a repair technician and owned his own company. You could say he was a successful entrepreneur, but it's not where he wanted to be. Following the crash of 2008, all that he had left to support his family was a little eBay business selling motors and other parts. With desperation and dumb luck, Jason was able to find a way to differentiate himself and was able to do $100,000 in gross sales a night with a 30% margin. Jason tells the story of how he was able to fight through the recession and become successful online by modernizing a classic business. He also shares some of the critical insights he's learned from selling online for over a decade. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here's How »Join The Unshackled Owner community today:AaronScottYoung.comThe Unshackled Owner TwitterThe Unshackled Owner FacebookAaron Scott Young LinkedIn

The world is full of so many opportunities. Yet, we constantly let them pass by. A person who knows how to grab opportunities by the reigns is David Buurma of LaSalleAgri Fertilizer. Unshackling farmers nationwide, he has taken an old-fashioned business and diversified it. He shows us how he built up this business, taking byproducts of farming and turning them into productive companies. He talks about the farm and the biofertilizer business that has since made him successful. Throughout his journey and insights, he greatly highlights the importance of seeing opportunities beyond the problem and challenges. Your business does not even have to be a big business to create a difference in yours and others lives. All it needs is to create streams of income that are dependable. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here's How »Join The Unshackled Owner community today:AaronScottYoung.comThe Unshackled Owner TwitterThe Unshackled Owner FacebookAaron Scott Young LinkedIn

It's important to have a plan and to find something you can fall in love with. Laverne and RJ Cox both found a neighborhood that meant something to them and saw that it wasn't being realized for what it could be. After searching for opportunities and making a few missteps, they finally found a way to go out and revitalize struggling neighborhoods and make a difference for the people. Laverne and RJ Cox talks about how it all began for Evergreen Investment Realty. RJ is a Georgia real estate broker with over twenty years' experience in the asset, and investment brokerage management industry. Laverne co-founded Evergreen Investment Realty with RJ, and is a graduate of Baruch College with a MBA in Organizational Management with a specialization in Entrepreneurship and a Bachelor's in Finance from Hofstra University. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here's How »Join The Unshackled Owner community today:AaronScottYoung.comThe Unshackled Owner TwitterThe Unshackled Owner FacebookAaron Scott Young LinkedIn

Scott Utterback moved away from his family to start his construction business at twelve years old. Since then, there have been countless stories and lessons learned on his entrepreneurial journey. For the sake of education, Scott took on job positions people didn't want just so he would learn things, demonstrating that there is not one path to educational success. Soon enough, he became a general contractor and went into retail which added a whole new dimension. Scott talks about constructing value in entrepreneurship and stresses the importance of seeking education and opportunities to identify the real a condition of your industry. This allows us to restart a conversation that will allow us to not only make not a difference in our own company but a difference in the industry itself. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here's How »Join The Unshackled Owner community today:AaronScottYoung.comThe Unshackled Owner TwitterThe Unshackled Owner FacebookAaron Scott Young LinkedIn

So many people get scammed by the educational system. The things that we're taught to do – to do the right thing, to be a good student, to excel in so many ways so that we can go on and make a great living, have a great life, and retire with some wealth and live out the last part of our lives with a vineyard and touring around Europe or whatever you're doing – is all a bunch of baloney. Most people are living hand to mouth, struggling paycheck to paycheck, and a ton of those people have college degrees. While there is very low unemployment right now in the United States, most people say they feel under-employed. We see a greater and greater disparity between the rich and the poor. If you're on that linear track to nowhere, get off of it. Look at the world differently and figure out what your superpower is. Don't get caught up in the scam that somebody else is trying to feed you so that they can build their business. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here's How »Join The Unshackled Owner community today:AaronScottYoung.comThe Unshackled Owner TwitterThe Unshackled Owner FacebookAaron Scott Young LinkedIn

Benjamin Franklin once said, “Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.” Benjamin Franklin who was very successful in so many ways understood the importance of getting stuff done. Procrastination is a well-understood skill of most entrepreneurs. It's also one that can really get you into hot water fast. There's a lot of stuff that we, as entrepreneurs, tend to want to delay in doing. When we procrastinate management decisions, when we procrastinate things that maybe we as the leaders see as silly or stupid, what happens is our teams can start feeling like we don't care, that maybe they better take it into their own hands. You have a constituency that you're responsible for. Don't let that constituency suffer because you're delaying. Whatever our station is, be the best you can be and a big part of that is don't delay. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here's How »Join The Unshackled Owner community today:AaronScottYoung.comThe Unshackled Owner TwitterThe Unshackled Owner FacebookAaron Scott Young LinkedIn

What makes an entrepreneur? Entrepreneurs see the world differently. It's like they're putting on a different lens and when they look around, they don't see all the clutter and all the mess. They see the lack and the need, something that's not being done well, or there's something that people want. Happy Days star Anson Williams discusses identifying true entrepreneurial spirit, being “in” your business rather than “of” it, how to find opportunities all around you, and the attitude it takes to make true progress with what you have right now. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here's How »Join The Unshackled Owner community today:AaronScottYoung.comThe Unshackled Owner TwitterThe Unshackled Owner FacebookAaron Scott Young LinkedIn

For Barry Shore, founder and CEO of Dlyted, believes imparting anything to anybody listening is a key strategy in life and success. Just as Uber has transformed transportation and Airbnb has transformed hospitality, Dlyted is transforming philanthropy. Dlyted enables you to shop, earn and give effortlessly to your favorite cause by using e-gift cards. Dlyted is the result of Barry's fight and recovery from Guillain-Barre syndrome, a neurological disorder that left him a quadriplegic. Through resilience and determination, Barry was able to walk again and live a full and satisfying life full of love and peace. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the The Unshackled Owner community today: AaronScottYoung.com The Unshackled Owner Twitter The Unshackled Owner Facebook Aaron Scott Young LinkedIn

From the time she was a teenager, Jennifer Baker has been focusing on income and started researching what she wanted to do in college. She was a writer who has written for a lot of literary magazines, and thought she was going to pursue journalism until she started looking at it from a monetary standpoint and realized she could never live in that modest income. Jennifer has always been good at resetting life to suit her goals. She went into court reporting, instead of journalism, and afterwards joined the gaming industry. She built her way up from there into being a casino executive and ran the largest gaming company in the world. From the outside, it looked like she had everything under control, but underneath she was paddling upstream. Under all that stress and health issues, she decided to turn her life around. She pivoted her focus to turning companies around and helping them become more efficient so they can stay alive and survive the economy. Discover how Jennifer was able to hit the reset button on her life and left her executive level position in the Casino industry to fulfill her true passion and purpose and be who she was supposed to be to help others find, understand, and achieve their true success. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the The Unshackled Owner community today: AaronScottYoung.com The Unshackled Owner Twitter The Unshackled Owner Facebook Aaron Scott Young LinkedIn

Stepping up and into the footsteps of your father is one of the biggest challenges for a young entrepreneur, let alone that her father is a business icon. Amanda Holmes, CEO of Chet Holmes International, decided to step into her destiny and chose to stay the course of continuing the legacy of service. Her father instilled in her the importance of following her dreams and putting family first. She was a reluctant entrepreneur until she heard the clients and really listened with her heart. Through soul-searching and meditation, she learned to serve people the same way her father did. Amanda shares how following her heart played a big part in doubling the sales of her company ever since she took over. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the The Unshackled Owner community today: AaronScottYoung.com The Unshackled Owner Twitter The Unshackled Owner Facebook Aaron Scott Young LinkedIn

Disruption happens when you are ahead of the curve. But this doesn't mean you get to be in that position once an idea sparks. Amilya Antonetti believes that innovating strategically creates disruption as well as develops a confidence that tells you that you can start things without people telling you to. She sees that this constant is in every person, giving them opportunities no matter what industry they are in. Learn how this internal framework can become your drive to start making things happen. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the The Unshackled Owner community today: AaronScottYoung.com The Unshackled Owner Twitter The Unshackled Owner Facebook Aaron Scott Young LinkedIn

Our lives aren't supposed to be static. We either aspire to be someone or aspire to be someone different. With teaching and counselling as the common denominators of his life, Adam Markel closed his law offices in New Jersey and Manhattan to experience a massive life pivot that connects business and spirituality. As a transformational speaker, Adam teaches people to acknowledge that tug in their hearts and be something more than just a lawyer, a doctor or a teacher. His best-selling book Pivot inspires people to wake up in the morning, be grateful and love their lives. Learn how the status quo leads to stagnation and why failure is not the enemy. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the The Unshackled Owner community today: AaronScottYoung.com The Unshackled Owner Twitter The Unshackled Owner Facebook Aaron Scott Young LinkedIn

A gentleman does hard things without complaining. Kirk Chugg felt that he was becoming the default dad that this generation has created. As president of custom clothing boutique for men, Haberdasher, Kirk decided to become a devoted dad and started The Gentleman Project to put out the design of what fathers should be. Learn how to have the courage to start a new business, enjoy working hard for it and always give undivided attention to your children. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the The Unshackled Owner community today: AaronScottYoung.com The Unshackled Owner Twitter The Unshackled Owner Facebook Aaron Scott Young LinkedIn

Getting piano lessons and baking brownies as a Girl Scout before becoming a passionate softball player, life is a big adventure when you are a kid. But growing up means making decisions for yourself that will affect your family or career. Even though Erin Saxton experienced a number of career crossroads, she knew that parenting and career should be the two things that she should do best. Listen to her stories as an intern for Good Morning America, her journey to becoming a TV producer and the founder of Eleven Communications. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the The Unshackled Owner community today: AaronScottYoung.com The Unshackled Owner Twitter The Unshackled Owner Facebook Aaron Scott Young LinkedIn

The moment you start doing things other people tell you to do is the moment you put a shackle on yourself. After quitting her job, Wendy Lipton-Dibner started doing her thing and made honesty her moral foundation. Wendy shares how ethical influence can be a huge factor in attracting people who will eventually share her positive and honest outlook. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the The Unshackled Owner community today: AaronScottYoung.com The Unshackled Owner Twitter The Unshackled Owner Facebook Aaron Scott Young LinkedIn

In this episode Aaron and Jeff discuss the strategies used to make massive deals in business. Emphasizing actionable tactics to do business “better, faster and cheaper” You don’t want to miss the wisdom shared by the incredible Jeff Flamm. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the The Unshackled Owner community today: AaronScottYoung.com The Unshackled Owner Twitter The Unshackled Owner Facebook Aaron Scott Young LinkedIn

This is going to be a very interesting conversation. I'm very excited about it. You're going to love the guest we have on today. This program has been so interesting in the way that it's developed. I think this is our 31st episode. The Unshackled Owner sprang from an old podcast I had called The Lookout where I was just trying to tell my stories of business and how those might benefit listeners. Then we morphed over to The Unshackled Owner so we could get more specific and more intentional about how are you doing developing your business and are there best practices? Are there tips? Are there ways of avoiding mistakes that you could learn so that your business could be stronger? It could be more intentionally driven and grown. It could be developed into something that you could pass down to the next generation or you could sell or that you could at least enjoy the fruits of your labor and have the time you need to go out and do other things in life that stir your soul, whether that's service or starting another business or going to hang out in the south of France for a month. Whatever it is, we want to make sure that you have the business structure set up and the systems in place and the team in place so that you're not so critical to the everyday operation of the business. You're an owner more than an operator. We're going to talk today with a fellow who really goes to the heart of several of those issues in his business. I'm really excited for you to hear his words of wisdom. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the The Unshackled Owner community today: AaronScottYoung.com The Unshackled Owner Twitter The Unshackled Owner Facebook Aaron Scott Young LinkedIn

In this episode Aaron interviews Tammy Dunakin about how she transitioned her life from being a paramedic, to being a farm-entrepreneur. Starting with a few goats, she grew her herd into a thriving landscaping business and is now scaling her company by franchising throughout the country. Tammy talks about how hardships in her life led her to where she is now, living her life with passion and enjoying the life of an Unshackled Owner. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the The Unshackled Owner community today: AaronScottYoung.com The Unshackled Owner Twitter The Unshackled Owner Facebook Aaron Scott Young LinkedIn

I'm going to say this for the first time today because of the guest that I have on with me. He and I were talking. We came up with a way to define what I'm working on here with this whole Unshackled Owner program: with the podcast, the classes, the website, the speaking, the radio show. All of it is this: There's a tremendous amount of companies out there that fail. There's tremendous failure. There's a high rate of 80% of first time companies fail. Even for people who have been doing this for a while, a clear 50% of those businesses will fail in the first five years. That's a lot of suffering. That's a lot of wealth and capital down the drain. There's a lot of frustration. Small business is so critical to our economy, so critical to our community, so critical to successful families. I've just decided that my job with Unshackled Owner is to eradicate this idea that 50% of the companies are going to fail in five years. There's no reason for it. When you learn the right steps, the right formula, you don't have to be one of those statistics. We want to end this failure rate by giving people the tools they need to be successful and to progress and grow their companies and build something that will not only support their life and their family, but something they can sell and can be a benefit to other people in the future. This idea and this thinking really became crystalized in talking to today's guest. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the The Unshackled Owner community today: AaronScottYoung.com The Unshackled Owner Twitter The Unshackled Owner Facebook Aaron Scott Young LinkedIn

Today, we talk about getting out of your comfort zone, how important it is to go out and be face to face, knee to knee with people, especially perspective clients, perspective partners and so on. We talk about networking and how multiplying your network is really powerful in helping your business. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the The Unshackled Owner community today: AaronScottYoung.com The Unshackled Owner Twitter The Unshackled Owner Facebook Aaron Scott Young LinkedIn

Ignoring The Basics Will Hurt You: I love being here with you guys. Today, I don’t have a guest. We’re not doing an interview, but rather I just wanted to tell you a quick story from an experience I had very recently. It’s a story that reminded me of how critical it is to pay attention to the basics. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the The Unshackled Owner community today: AaronScottYoung.com The Unshackled Owner Twitter The Unshackled Owner Facebook Aaron Scott Young LinkedIn

Our guest today, Bonnie Laslo is a great example of someone who’s built a life and a business that not only serves her and creates value for her and her personal life, but also for lots of other people who are willing to listen. Bonnie got into real estate young, she says that she was financially free by the time she was 23 years old. When I was 23, financially free didn’t mean a lot of money. Just a couple of years later, she was, I think by 26, was a millionaire and has been just expanding her net worth all that time. She’s the founder of Hobby Millionaire, which is a great program that, full disclosure, Laughlin Associates, one of my companies, is now working as affiliates with Hobby Millionaire, sharing the knowledge of both of our organizations with our memberships, our client base. Bonnie and I do have a new and growing relationship. I needed to get her on the podcast so you guys could learn about not only how she got wealthy and successful at a young age, but how she’s taken that and taught thousands of people how to do the same. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the The Unshackled Owner community today: AaronScottYoung.com The Unshackled Owner Twitter The Unshackled Owner Facebook Aaron Scott Young LinkedIn

On this podcast, our intention, our goal, our mission is to help you to find interesting, creative ways to build your business, to create systems, to build processes, to build culture. All so you can be focused on what you're great at and so that your business can run and grow and scale without having you become an indentured servant to that business. That's what this whole idea of being unshackled is. Every podcast, I try to bring you fascinating people who are doing really interesting and maybe a little unorthodox things. Today's guest is no different. His name is Hugh Stewart. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the The Unshackled Owner community today: AaronScottYoung.com The Unshackled Owner Twitter The Unshackled Owner Facebook Aaron Scott Young LinkedIn

We’re going to be talking to another super interesting entrepreneur sharing his story that you’re going to find interesting and it really relates to so many people that I meet. A lot of the things that I hear from people of why things won’t work or how their situation is different or whatever, I think you’re going to turn those excuses on their head today as we talk to my friend. Remember, this is the podcast where I’m trying to introduce you to people and ideas to help you take control of your business. Rather than being the most critical employee in your company, you’re the owner, you’re the director, you’re the chairman of the board, you’re leading the business, you’re as involved as you want to be, but you also have the flexibility to start other businesses, take personal times, spend time with family, do whatever else you wanted to. Because the business doesn't own you, you own the business. We’ve got a great example of a real world, a very common situation in entrepreneurship with a very uncommon result. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the The Unshackled Owner community today: AaronScottYoung.com The Unshackled Owner Twitter The Unshackled Owner Facebook Aaron Scott Young LinkedIn

We've brought some great guests on for you over this last number of weeks. Today's guest is going to be just another cherry on top of the sundae. Today, we're going to be talking with Jim Bennett. He's the founder and CEO of a wonderful company called NOW CFO. Jim is a CPA by training. He saw an entrepreneurial opportunity to really be able to bring great high-level bookkeeping and accounting and CFO work to lots of businesses who don't really have maybe the budget to have a full-time CFO or controller. Maybe you've got an accounts payable clerk or accounts receivable clerk right now, but this is a way to really bring top-notch talent into a budget that growing businesses can afford. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the The Unshackled Owner community today: AaronScottYoung.com The Unshackled Owner Twitter The Unshackled Owner Facebook Aaron Scott Young LinkedIn

Today’s going to be a really fun show for me because I get to have here with me, and I get to introduce to you the greatest influence on my life, the person who’s done the most, who shaped me over my adult life, the person who’s my best friend, my sweetheart and my wife of 30 years, Michelle Young. Michelle is a life coach. She does all kinds of really cool stuff. She works with clients from all over the world; from regular workaday people to others that are famous, from people that do really high-risk jobs like doctors and firemen and stuff like that, to people that are just doing business, working in offices, and so on. She works with all kinds of interesting folks. She has run retreats down in Tulum, Mexico. She’s just done all kinds of great things. She’s a wildly successful life coach. She’s also an outstanding mom to our four kids and a great grandmother to our two wonderful grandchildren, Indigo and Pierson. I can’t say enough positive things about my wife. I could spend an hour just talking about how cool she is. Today, I wanted to bring her to you so we could talk about how to really build a life by design. I just heard her give a talk about this a few days ago. I thought this would be a great topic to share with people on The Unshackled Owner. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the The Unshackled Owner community today: AaronScottYoung.com The Unshackled Owner Twitter The Unshackled Owner Facebook Aaron Scott Young LinkedIn

Today, we’re going to be talking to one of my favorite people, one of the most powerful leaders out there amongst women and really fording women’s issues and causes. The founder and CEO of Women Network, the woman who is in charge of her company. The company that she runs, Women Network, they produce this amazing conference, this gigantic conference, called the California Women’s Conference. This happens about every eighteen months down in Southern California at the Long Beach Convention Center. I’ve been able to attend there. There’s nothing I love more than being surrounded by powerful, intelligent, badass women; that’s the California Women’s Conference. I’m super excited to introduce you to my dear friend, Michelle Patterson. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the The Unshackled Owner community today: AaronScottYoung.com The Unshackled Owner Twitter The Unshackled Owner Facebook Aaron Scott Young LinkedIn

Today, we’re going to be talking with Chris Smith. Chris is going to tell you a little bit about his unusual background. But I’ll tell you, this guy, he comes from a rodeo background. He’s this country boy who’s turned big city stuff on its ear. He’s the creator of The Campfire Effect methodology. A lot of people are sharing with the world that stories are important and you really have to learn to tell your story and you'll get good at telling your story. But I’ve never met anybody who’s nailed exactly the story to tell to make a huge emotional impact on your listener, on your prospective client, on your employees. This guy has figured out the magic of storytelling. I’m really glad to bring him on here to the Unshackled Owner podcast. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the The Unshackled Owner community today: AaronScottYoung.com The Unshackled Owner Twitter The Unshackled Owner Facebook Aaron Scott Young LinkedIn

The fellow that I will be talking to, who we'll be visiting with today, is Berny Dohrmann. He’s the founder and Chairman of something called CEO Space. I discovered CEO Space about six years ago, 2011. I went for the first time in September of 2011 and got to know Berny a little bit. I was then invited to be a presenter, a speaker, a trainer at his events. Now, these events have been going on for 30 years. You’d think that’s a whole career, but actually Berny had a whole other career as an investment banker before that. I wanted to get Berny on the show to talk to us about, how do you build businesses and how do you help other people build businesses through raising money and so on. What is an investment banker looking for? What does somebody who’s a mentor and a guide and a trainer to tens of thousands of CEO’s, what does he learn from talking to all these people? Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the The Unshackled Owner community today: AaronScottYoung.com The Unshackled Owner Twitter The Unshackled Owner Facebook Aaron Scott Young LinkedIn

I’m really excited about our guest that we have on today. You’re going to learn some really important tips from him. I met Nicholas Kusmich last June of 2016 at an event. The host of the event was very excited that this man was going to come. I didn’t know his name but I heard that he was some kind of a demigod as it relates to Facebook advertising. The host, Pete Vargas, who has been on the show before, was super excited that Nicholas was going to be joining us. I remember I wrote back to my marketing team, which includes my son and my son-in-law and then some great employees. I said, “Somebody is coming. Some guy named Nicholas Kusmich.” They’re like, “Oh my gosh. Are you serious? I follow everything he does. This guy’s amazing. He’s a miracle.” He gets there to the event and we meet. I remember him saying at dinner, we were sitting on this deck looking out over Colorado Springs. I said, “Do you do a lot of speaking?” He said, “No. Actually, I really don’t. I was excited to come here because I spend most of my time staring at my computer screen working for my clients.” He got up and he gave his talk the next day. He blew the whole room just out of the water. There were a lot of great speakers, but there was something, at least for me, that Nicholas, he had a tone that was both inspiring, educational and super applicable for anybody who has a brain to do marketing, which isn’t me, but thankfully I know people. I’ve been watching him as he’s been doing things since June. We were finally together a couple of weeks ago in San Diego. I said, “Do you have time? He said, “Yes.” I want to welcome to the show the founder and the president of H2H Media, NicholasKusmich.com, and I’d like to say it’s a burgeoning friendship that I have with Nicholas Kusmich. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the The Unshackled Owner community today: AaronScottYoung.com The Unshackled Owner Twitter The Unshackled Owner Facebook Aaron Scott Young LinkedIn

Scott Duffy is our guest for this episode. He has had so many successes in his career. Currently, he is working on Business and Burgers, a show that is sponsored by Microsoft. In this episode, we discuss the secret to big success, which is really quite simple: be you! He shares some personal experiences as well as disasters that he went through, and how he came out of them stronger.

Pete Vargas is the founder of Advance Your Reach, a company that helps millions and millions of people to get their stories and their voices on stages so that more and more people can learn and be touched by these powerful and unique messages. He gives us a real life, personal example of how a message from a speaker has touched his own life.

My wife and I celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary so we went on a fantastic trip to Cuba. The place was amazing and beautiful. We stayed at an Airbnb and our hosts were very gracious. But aside from all that, I realized something very important from the people there and the situation they’re in, in terms of being an Unshcakled Owner. More importantly, I realized this from what the people were doing about the situation that they’re in.