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What if you had the most powerful branding secrets at your disposal, gifting you the power to compete against big brands in your business sector? You'd be David in a world of Goliaths, right? Legendary branding expert David Brier joins Brad for a frank and fun discussion on branding and his latest book, Rich Brand Poor Brand. If you think branding is about logo design, guess again. David takes us on a deep dive into the world of branding, the resistance from clients, and the realization that you can't fix a brand if a business owner doesn't fix the "blind spots." As David states "Branding is NOT a band aid." In this episode you will learn: • The hardest part about a Brand Intervention • How Jaguar should have handled their LGBTQ role out • How Branding is about solving internal business problems first • Rock Bands as a metaphor for growing your brand from a "wedding singer" to a "stadium performer" If you are a small business owner, marketer or branding aficionado, THIS is the episode for you! And David and Brad discuss their favorite drummers of all time. ABOUT DAVID BRIER: David Brier started his career in Manhattan working on brands for Estee Lauder, Revlon, Rolling Stone Magazine, Jim Henson, and others. Since generating over $9.8 billion for global, regional and local brands including worldwide nonprofits and even cities, he's earned the nickname “The Brandfather" and has been featured in ADWEEK, Fast Company, Forbes, INC, Huffington Post, Entrepreneur, and the New York Times. David is the author of several bestselling books including Brand Intervention with a foreword by Daymond John of ABCs Shark Tank. While Brand Intervention focused on building a brand from the ground up, his follow up book, Rich Brand Poor Brand, focuses on How to Unleash Your David in a World of Goliaths by creating the kind of culture that can sustain and maintain your brand for years to come. The foreword is written by Claude Silver of VaynerX, Gary Vaynerchuk's agency. The book is based on a confidential internal memo from Nike that listed out their qualities of the kind of culture they needed to build their empire. It came down to 20 distinct traits any business can master with insights from Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs, Jason Feifer of Entrepreneur magazine, Sara Blakely, Brené Brown, Billy Joel, Kevin Hart, Marie Forleo, and Gary Vaynerchuk. Daymond John calls Rich Brand Poor Brand, “Genius.” Website: www.risingabovethenoise.com/ HOST OF AWAKENED NATION: Brad Szollose.

Cash is king, and today we are going to chat about that. Growth takes cash, and no one talks about how much cash you need to grow and how growth can bankrupt your business. We will cover that and more with an experienced entrepreneur who has been through it and has also been on Shark tank!   Hi, I'm the Profit Answer Man Rocky Lalvani! I help small business owners simplify their financial reports to make more informed business decisions with fewer hassles. We utilize the Profit First system created by Mike Michalowicz Sign up to be notified when the next cohort of the Profit First Experience Course is available! Schedule your free, no-obligation intro call: https://bookme.name/rockyl/lite/intro-appointment-15-minutes More about making profitability simple: http://profitcomesfirst.com/ Questions: questions@profitanswerman.com Email: rocky@profitcomesfirst.com Bio: Seneca Hampton is an entrepreneur with multiple 7-8 figure businesses, from eCommerce to Logistics, Consulting and Speaking. He is responsible for over One Quarter of a Billion Dollars in Sales and has touched over 5,000 products in over 20 different categories.   With over 10 years of Digital Marketing, Sales, and Business Operations Experience, he knows a thing or two about how to build from ‘idea' to multi-million-dollar success.   Most known for his appearance on ABCs Shark Tank where he pitched his Sports Medicine company, Hampton Adams. Where Seneca demonstrated how he built an online eCommerce-based business that serves a rapidly growing 600,000 customers, has produced over $15,000,000 Dollars in Revenue, has zero employees and only demands 30 minutes of his time per month. All from scratch with $700 dollars to his name. Profit Answer Man Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/profitanswerman/ My podcast about living a richer more meaningful life: http://richersoul.com/ First 2 chapters of Profit First: https://sendfox.com/rocky This episode is part of the SMB Podcast Network. Find other great interviews from around the internet just like this one at https://www.SMBPodcastNetwork.com Music provided by Junan from Junan Podcast Any financial advice is for educational purposes only and you should consult with an expert for your specific needs.

Photo Credit: Seneca Hampton on Shark Tank (ABC/Christopher Willard) This week's episode is all about Seneca Hampton, the Founder of Hampton Adams. Share your thoughts in the comments below!   P.S. Have you signed up for Copy.ai yet? Download and use Newsly on www.newsly.me today!  Music Intro/Outro: “Thoughts” by Killah Smilez Music Outro: “Explained” by Killah Smilez Make sure you check out the Killah Smilez song on Amazon Catch the music video by Killah Smilez HERE We're always working on new products and ideas, but sometimes it takes a little extra cash to bring them to life. Your financial support for the work we do means the world to us! Donate HERE!  ----more---- Seneca Hampton is an entrepreneur with multiple 7-8 figure businesses, from eCommerce to Logistics, Consulting, and Speaking. He is responsible for over One-Quarter of a Billion Dollars in Sales and has touched over 5,000 products in over 20 different categories. With over 10 years of Digital Marketing, Sales, and Business Operations Experience, he knows a thing or two about how to build from ‘idea' to multi-million-dollar success. Most known for his appearance on ABCs Shark Tank where he pitched his Sports Medicine company, Hampton Adams. Where Seneca demonstrated how he built an online eCommerce-based business that serves a rapidly growing 600,000 customers, has produced over $15,000,000 Dollars in Revenue, has zero employees, and only demands 30 minutes of his time per month. All from scratch with $700 dollars to his name. Growing up as one of the youngest of 8 children in low-income households, Seneca learned the value of hard work and perseverance from his parents who overcame addiction, violence, and racism to push their family into the lower-middle-class status. After completing his AA degree, he decided to forgo a Bachelor's Degree in College and instead learn on the job. Seneca is a dedicated spouse and father of two boys who he hopes to teach the value of persistence, context, and relationships. In his free time, he enjoys playing with boys, video games, reading, music production, and real estate investing. Photo Credit: SharkTankBlog.com  Follow Hampton Adams: Website | Amazon | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook  Shop WokeNFree Designs   Create your own Bonfire Shop Today!   Get our book HERE Check out our course on the Law of Attraction HERE Need advice? Connect with Natasha HERE Want to share the episode? Please share the episode on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, TikTok, and Soundcloud   Don't forget to subscribe to WokeNFree on iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, and Google Play Do you want to join the show as a guest on an upcoming episode? Contact us HERE Don't forget to submit a scenario to us for SCENARIO TIME!    SCENARIO TIME: How would you respond to these scenarios in SCENARIO TIME? Let's chat HERE!  Have you reviewed our show yet? Pick your platform of choice HERE      Do you want to start a podcast? We are here to HELP! Schedule a FREE strategy session with us HERE This post contains affiliate links. That means if you click on a link and buy something, WokeNFree will earn a small commission from the advertiser at no additional cost to you.

In this exciting episode, Tara Williams, Founder of Dreamland Baby shares her tragedy to triumph story of bringing her family back from the brink of bankruptcy to financial stability and building a multi-million-dollar business. Tara Williams is also a mom of four kids and is now helping more than 50,000 families get a better night's sleep. According to Tara, "at almost six months old, our son Luke was still waking up every hour and a half. Like so many other new parents we were desperate for sleep. One night we placed him under a heavy throw blanket while sitting on our couch. I noticed as soon as the weight was on his body, he instantly calmed down. A lightbulb went off in my head: he needs a weighted blanket! I called my mother-in-law to sew my idea; a lightly weighted blanket. The first night wearing our prototype Luke slept 12 hours! We couldn't believe how immediately his sleep was improved. Word quickly spread and I was flooded with requests from family and friends. The idea to bring Dreamland Baby to families everywhere was born." In May 2020 Tara appeared on ABCs Shark Tank and was successful in getting funded. Check out this exciting episode of the Holistic Wealth podcast with Tara Williams in conversation with Keisha Blair! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/keisha-blair/support

Hi, I am here with Phil Michaels. Phil Michaels is a Forbes 30 Under 30 entrepreneur and finalist for ABC’s Shark Tank who’s spoken in 24 countries. After founding Tembo Education, Phil has since become a performance coach, coaching mostly CEOs from Harvard and MIT, but also includes the #1-ranked poker player in the world and #1-ranked Saudi rapper in Dubai. He’s also the host of the only podcast in the world that exclusively interviews entrepreneurs that made the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. here is a glimpse of the episode hope you enjoy it. here is the Highlights of the episode hope you enjoy. Listen to the full episode in your favorite podcast app.  Ari Gronich 0:08 Welcome to another episode of create a new tomorrow. I'm your host Ari Gronich and here I'm with me. Here with me is Phil Michaels. So Michaels is a Forbes 30 under 30 entrepreneur, he's a finalist for ABCs Shark Tank. He's spoken in 24 countries. He's the founder of Tembo education. He's a performance coach, coaching, mostly CEOs from Harvard MIT, number one ranked poker player, number one ranked Saudi rapper in Dubai, he's also the host of the only podcast in the world that exclusively interviews, entrepreneurs that made the Forbes 30 under 30 lists. So welcome, Phil, I really appreciate you coming on. Why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself more than what's obviously in the bio, and a little bit about why you chose this kind of path for your for your life. Phil Michaels 1:11 Ari, thank you so much for having me. I'm really blessed to be here. I'm excited to learn more about you and your audience, as well and share some amazing, amazing performance hacks as well, for your audience. And for those listening. I was pre med, I always wanted to be an ophthalmologist and eye surgeon. So my whole career path, my trajectory was based off of becoming an eye doctor and eye surgeon. So I've been shadowing doctors since I was 11. I was on this career trajectory path toward medicine. And I started working for the New York Yankees team physician, and a buddy of mine and I decided to start a mobile fitness app while I was working for the New York Yankees team physician. And we ended up becoming finalists for ABC TV show Shark Tank, and I was enthralled by this idea, Ari, you could be an entrepreneur, and was like, wow, you can impact so many more people as an entrepreneur, than if I'm a doctor, I can only see so many patients with a business, I could create lasting impact forever with as many people as I want. What it led me to do, we dissolve that business. But what it led me to do is quit my pursuit of medicine and focus on business. So I decided to get my MBA and a Master's of Science in marketing. While I was getting my graduate degrees, two master's degrees I traveling the world. And I saw a lot of initiatives already were donating either food, water, housing or health care. And in my opinion, it was putting a bandaid on the problem, giving a man a fish rather than teaching them how to fish. I figured why not educate people to solve their own problems. So I figured why not start at the earliest age possible. And when we looked in the education space in developing nations around the world, most of them were doing one of two things. For the early childhood education. Most of them, first of all, were focused on secondary school or higher ed, in my opinion, the most imperative years is zero to six, that's when 90% of the brain is formed by age four, and five. So if we're going to educate people to solve their own problems, let's start at the earliest age possible. And there's two things people are doing in this area. They're either building schools, or building a mobile app. The problem with schools, it's not that they don't have schools in developed nations, I lived in arguably the worst slums in the world in Nigeria, and they have tons of schools. The problem is the schools are more like daycare drop off centers, rather than high quality educational institutions, a place where you could drop off your kids while you go to work. Sometimes, no curriculum, teachers sometimes don't show up little to no materials, etc. And with regard to a mobile app, a lot of them didn't have smartphones at the time. And it for the ones that did have smartphones, and mobile data was very expensive to be able to run the apps on their phone. So we said, okay, schools are not the answer. And mobile app is not the answer. Let's use something they already use every single day. And that was text messages. So I decided let's educate children through their parents using text messages. So we educate zero to six year old children around the world using text messages. We send one activity per day to the parents phone. The parent educates the child. And then we reward the parent for educating their child with Amazon gift cards, mobile data for their phone, etc. So that was started in Nigeria. We're now in five countries. A Nestle is our biggest customer. They pay for children and receive education, but parents can also sign up on their own. And it's called Tembo education. Ari Gronich 4:49 That's awesome. You're not you're not under 30 Now, are you? Phil Michaels 4:52 Now I'm not I made the list in 2016. I think it was 2017 Ari Gronich 5:00 So, you know, with the tempo education, what are you teaching zero to six year olds? What are you teaching parents? What is the basis of understanding that they're going to get out of, say, a program with you? Phil Michaels 5:16 It's a great question. So we built the curriculum in house, most of our education team was from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. And we focused on Harvard center for the developing child's developmental milestones. It's not a guessing game for what children's brains should be learning at x age at zero to six specifically, there's a, it's not ambiguous, it's a very step by step sequential process of what they should be learning by each age, as they as their brain develops. And this isn't just, you know, for certain population, this is for all human brains. And so we teach in all four domains of learning, language, cognitive, motor, and social emotional, and we teach them through play based activities. So we give the parent in a text message exactly what they're supposed to say and do step by step. And it's just one simple activity per day that follows one of the four domains in sequential order. So we actually started prenatal at week 13, in the mother's womb, all the way through six years of age, if invader studies show, Ari Gronich 6:26 you know, it's interesting. My, my son was we had him before we started homeschooling, and we had him on the zoom schooling. And one of the teachers asked, you know, how everybody was feeling? And my son says, and the teachers like, Why are you angry? You know, Gabriel, what's going on? And he says, I have five businesses, and you're not teaching me about how to do any of them. Phil Michaels 7:02 I love the little entrepreneur in him. How amazing is that? What you beautiful Gabriel, exactly. I want to meet you one day, that's amazing. And the fact that he's even cognisant Ari of his own emotional state is beautiful. So for a long time, we didn't understand how important social emotional learning was. But now they recently they started indoctrinating children in schools to understand how important it is learning your own emotions, oh, when I'm angry, this is how I handle my emotion. A lot of us growing up, we weren't taught, what do we do when we feel a certain way? How do we express ourselves properly? How do we not offend somebody else? How do we have empathy? These are important skill sets as an adult enough. And a lot of adults aren't well equipped enough to understand that, Ari Gronich 7:51 yeah, we were taught better to be seen than heard. Right, we were taught that our role was to lift our parents up by our demonstration of our obedience, you know, verse is our demonstration of intelligence, you know, when we speak when spoken to speak when spoken to, you know, and how we are, is absolutely a direct reflection on our parents versus 100% are being a reflection on how we are hundred percent lucky enough to have very loving, kind parents, but they also were entrepreneurs. So they worked 16 plus hours a day. And so I grew up with, you know, Amway in my garage and, and businesses and lemonade stands and mowing lawns and doing paper ball as a paper boy at seven years old. So that was my first you know, Job was riding around the bike and throwing newspapers, porches, you know, I don't even see that as a as an option for kids these days, when in actuality it's a really great initial job, just like mowing lawns. You know, here in Florida, everybody has a lawn mowing business. Where are the kids, you know that you pay five bucks to mow your lawn every other week or whatever, you know, Phil Michaels 9:21 I believe I hundred percent agree with you. Every child should be learning entrepreneurial mindsets, because it's it's just a problem solving mindset. It looks at everything as an opportunity, rather than a pain. And I started just like you I had a lemonade stand. I stole my sister's puppet show Playhouse and I used to bring it to the park where all the soccer fields were because I would pick up the soccer moms, they would come over to my lemonade stand. And I was you know, a cute little kid. Let's buy some lemonade from them. And then in elementary school, I sold Pokemon cards. So I used to go to my school and I would have a binder full of Pokemon cards. Now go to school and sell them. I remember I sold a char zard. char zote is the number one card in the deck. It's this fiery dragon as a hologram. And I sold it for $50. And I remember, I thought I had made it I ran. I told my mom, I said, Mom, you're not going to have to work again. We made it. At that time. $50 was a huge deal to me. I was like six or seven years old. Then I went in in high school, I was a I shoveled snow, and I was a bookie. So I used to print out the football matchups for NFL each week, and I'd have friends pick the matchups, and then I would take a percentage of the pool. In college, I started a nightlife promotion company for nightclubs and bars while I was going to college, and I started to fitness companies. And Ari, the funny thing about this is the whole time, I never looked at it as a my career choice. It was something I had always done as a side hustle. Throughout my life, just, Hey, I'm going to school, I'm going to be an eye doctor, but I have this hustle on the side. And it wasn't until that Shark Tank moment that I looked, it was like oh my gosh, I've been an entrepreneur my whole life. And I had never looked at that as a career. Because all these societal dogmatic norms, teach you go to school, get good grades, get a good job, get the house, get the nice car have kids and and it's like, well, wait a second, that's not the trajectory for everyone. Ari Gronich 11:29 So if you had the most optimal way of creating something new, what would you do? For those, say the first years through team, right? So if somebody let's say, at 13 years old, and you're creating curriculum or program or plan for them, to learn how to become mindful adults, cognitive, common sense critical thinking all those things, what kind of program? Phil Michaels 12:04 So I've been recording different apps and resources for parents that want to raise their child and use all the resources that are, you know, helpful to building their child into an amazing adult and amazing human being. That's really what we should be focusing on is, how do we build our children into amazing human beings, not just human beings that can take a test, we want to make sure that they have and I've actually been recording things that I call Phil University. I haven't picked a name yet. But these are things that if I were to build a school, what would those include, and I try to incorporate that philosophy into Tembo exalt as well. But for Tembo, it's for early childhood. So there's certain things the brain needs to learn by certain ages with gross and fine motor skills, social emotional health. But then once you get to an age where you can start assimilating knowledge, that's more subject matter based, for example, like behavioral economics, I've been building and recording, what are the subjects I would want my own child to learn. So if I were designing a curriculum, I could incorporate that. So one of them is language, I would make sure they know English, Arabic, French, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese. And the reason I picked those five languages, is because I want my child to be a global citizen, a global human being, not a nation, state individual. And the reason I picked those five is because those five are spoken by more countries than any other languages, they'll be able to communicate with people around the world. Ari Gronich 13:39 Give every episode we give three really actionable things that the audience can do in order to change their world create a new tomorrow today. So why don't we get those and then how people can get ahold of you if they'd like to learn more about you and, and what you have to offer them. Phil Michaels 14:00 You can go to ImPhimichaels.com, or I'm on Instagram, and IamPhil Michaels keep it easy, and happy to share hacks, performance tricks, and further education company is Tembotexts.com, like text messages, Tembo texts, and we'll put these in the show notes, maybe. But to answer your question, oh, by the way, the podcast that I run is you could just search Phil Michaels, but it's the podcast that only interviews it's only one of the world of interviews, people that have made the Forbes list like LeBron James, Kylie Jenner, people, entrepreneurs from YouTube, Instagram, etc. so amazing, amazing people. And three things that you could do to change your life starting now. The three things that changed my life, the books that you read, the people that you spend the most time around, and the places that you've traveled, change those three things. The books you read the people you spend the most time with and the places you travel and you will change your life. Go out, explore the world, leaders are readers, and you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. So we need to disrupt these three and I guarantee your life will change more than its average change before. Ari Gronich 15:19 Thank you so much. And this has been a another great episode of create a new tomorrow, where we're helping you create a new tomorrow today. I'm your host, Ari, Gronich and thank you so much. We are out of here. Phil Michaels 15:33 Thanks Ari.

Hi, I am here with Phil Michaels. Phil Michaels is a Forbes 30 Under 30 entrepreneur and finalist for ABC’s Shark Tank who’s spoken in 24 countries. After founding Tembo Education, Phil has since become a performance coach, coaching mostly CEOs from Harvard and MIT, but also includes the #1-ranked poker player in the world and #1-ranked Saudi rapper in Dubai. He’s also the host of the only podcast in the world that exclusively interviews entrepreneurs that made the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. here is a glimpse of the episode hope you enjoy it. here is the full episode hope you enjoy. Listen in your favorite podcast app.  Ari Gronich 0:00 Has it occurred to you that the systems we live by are not designed to get results? We pay for procedures instead of outcomes, focusing on emergencies rather than preventing disease and living a healthy lifestyle. For over 25 years, I've taken care of Olympians Paralympians a list actors in fortune 1000 companies. If I did not get results, they did not get results. I realized that while powerful people who control the system wants to keep the status quo. If I were to educate the masses, you would demand change. So I'm taking the gloves off and going after the systems as they are. Join me on my mission to create a new tomorrow as I chat with industry experts, elite athletes, thought leaders and government officials about how we activate our vision for a better world. We may agree and we may disagree, but I'm not backing down. I'm Ari Gronich and this is create a new tomorrow podcast. Welcome to another episode of create a new tomorrow. I'm your host, Ari Gronich. And here I'm with me. Here with me is Phil Michaels. So Michaels is a Forbes 30 under 30 entrepreneur, he's a finalist for ABCs Shark Tank. He's spoken in 24 countries. He's the founder of tempo education. He's a performance coach, coaching mostly CEOs from Harvard MIT, number one ranked poker player number one ranked Saudi rapper in Dubai. He's also the host of the only podcast in the world that exclusively interviews, entrepreneurs that made the Forbes 30 under 30. list. So welcome, Phil, I really appreciate you coming on. Why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself more than what's obviously in the bio, and a little bit about why you chose this kind of path for your for your life. Phil Michaels 2:08 Ari, thank you so much for having me. I'm really blessed to be here. I'm excited to learn more about you and your audience, as well and share some amazing, amazing performance hacks as well, for your audience. And for those listening. I was lucky enough to be born in Philadelphia and raised in Atlantic City area. Do you know where a monopoly the board game is designed after? Ari Gronich 2:34 Oh, I don't know exactly where it's designed. Oh, Scott Park Place and Atlanta Avenue. Phil Michaels 2:41 Yes. So it was designed after Atlantic City. Those are all real places. And I grew up in the Marvin gardens, the yellow, you remember that place. So one of the first female entrepreneurs incredible work. And that's it's an amazing board game. But there's a little fun fact for your next dinner table conversation. monopoly was based off of Atlantic City. And so I was raised there. And I wanted to get as far away from the cold as possible as far away from New Jersey as possible, and ended up visiting Tampa, Florida, fell in love with Tampa. And I was pre med, I always wanted to be an ophthalmologist and eye surgeon. So my whole career path, my trajectory was based off of becoming an eye doctor, an eye surgeon. So I've been shadowing doctors since I was 11. I was on this career trajectory path toward medicine. And I started working for the New York Yankees team physician, and a buddy of mine and I decided to start a mobile fitness app while I was working for the New York Yankees team physician. And we ended up becoming finalists for ABC TV show Shark Tank. And I was enthralled by this idea already, that you could be an entrepreneur, and was like, wow, you can impact so many more people as an entrepreneur, than if I'm a doctor, I can only see so many patients with a business, I could create lasting impact forever with as many people as I want. So I had an amazing lightbulb moment of Wow, I'm going to be an entrepreneur. And that conversation with my mother was very difficult. Imagine that the old school Italian mother from New Jersey. She's like, Who the hell quits the New York Yankees, and what the heck is an entrepreneur. So that was a difficult conversation to have. But what it led me to do we dissolve that business but what it led me to do is quit my pursuit of medicine and focus on business. So I decided to get my MBA and a Master's of Science in marketing. While I was getting my graduate degrees, two master's degrees I traveling the world and I saw a lot of initiatives already were donating either food, water, housing or health care. And in my opinion, it was putting a bandaid on the problem giving a man a fish rather than teaching them how to fish. I figured why not educate people to solve their own problems. So So I figured why not start at the earliest age possible. And when we looked in the education space in developing nations around the world, most of them were doing one of two things. For the early childhood education, most of them, first of all, were focused on secondary school or higher ed, in my opinion, the most imperative years is zero to six. That's when 90% of the brain is formed by age four, and five. So if we're going to educate people to solve their own problems, let's start at the earliest age possible. And there's two things people are doing in this area. They're either building schools, or building a mobile app. The problem with schools, it's not that they don't have schools in developed nations, I lived in arguably the worst slums in the world in Nigeria, and they have tons of schools. The problem is the schools are more like daycare drop off centers, rather than high quality educational institutions, a place where you could drop off your kids while you go to work. Sometimes, no curriculum, teachers sometimes don't show up little to no materials, etc. And with regard to a mobile app, a lot of them didn't have smartphones at the time. And it for the ones that did have smartphones, and mobile data was very expensive to be able to run the apps on their phone. So we said, okay, schools are not the answer. And mobile app is not the answer. Let's use something they already use every single day. And that was text messages. So I decided let's educate children through their parents using text messages. So we educate zero to six year old children around the world using text messages. We send one activity per day to the parents phone. The parent educates the child. And then we reward the parent for educating their child with Amazon gift cards, mobile data for their phone, etc. So that was started in Nigeria, we're now in five countries. A Nestle is our biggest customer. They pay for children to receive education, but parents can also sign up on their own, and it's called Tembo education. Tembo means elephant in Swahili. And the reason we chose an elephant is because they're known for being the most compassionate parents in the animal kingdom. And since our education focuses on the parents of the children, we felt like it was the best symbol for our social enterprise. So that's kind of how I started that company, and led me to the entrepreneurial journey I'm on now. And we were lucky enough to get published in Forbes magazine is the top 30 entrepreneurs under the age of 30, which led to a lot of publicity notoriety, the owner of the Boston Red Sox was one of our first funders. And that led me to coaching other people. So now I coach other entrepreneurs, mostly CEOs at Harvard and MIT, but because I lived in Boston for a while, but I also coach, investors, traders, number one poker player in the world, like you mentioned, and that's kind of what led me to where I am now. Ari Gronich 7:50 That's awesome. You're not you're not under 30. Now, are you? Phil Michaels 7:53 Now I'm not I made the list in 2016. I think it was 2017. Ari Gronich 8:01 So, you know, with the tempo education, what are you teaching zero to six year olds? What are you teaching parents? What is the basis of understanding that they're going to get out of say, a program with you? Phil Michaels 8:17 It's a great question. So we built the curriculum in house, most of our education team was from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. And we focused on Harvard center for the developing child's developmental milestones. It's not a guessing game for what children's brains should be learning at x age at zero to six specifically, there's a it's not ambiguous, it's a very step by step sequential process of what they should be learning by each age, as they as their brain develops. And this isn't just, you know, for certain population, this is for all human brains. And so we teach in all four domains of learning, language, cognitive, motor, and social emotional, and we teach them through play based activities. So we give the parent in a text message exactly what they're supposed to say and do step by step. And it's just one simple activity per day that follows one of the four domains in sequential order. So we actually started prenatal at week 13 in the mother's womb, all the way through six years of age. Ari Gronich 9:24 Wow. Phil Michaels 9:27 Yes, Ari Gronich 9:28 during this incredibly odd period of our history, like this would be a really good thing for parents to do with their kids, especially if they're keeping them out of school. Right. My son is six, almost seven, and we decided to homeschool him because we didn't like how the systems were playing out within the school. In this particular time of day, you know, like mass wearing the third Scan, you know, like a scanner that scans 30 kids all at once for temperature and distance it was like, seems a little Orwellian to me. I think. I think that's not gonna happen. So we took him out of school completely, we've been homeschooling him for you. Oh, that's, uh, you know, I know a lot of parents are in that same boat right now. And they're trying to figure out what do I do with my kid? Because I don't have training and how to be a teacher. I didn't go to school for education. Right? And so they're going, what do I do? What do I do? This sounds like it's a good, you know, exercise to have parents do before or after a day of school, even if they're not in school, right? Phil Michaels 10:49 Absolutely. So it's meant for children that are in school, out of school, home school doesn't matter. This is what children should be learning at a certain age. So and there's little tricks I'll share with parents in just a moment. But you're 100%. Right, especially with COVID. Now, where parents are having to do more and more at home with their child, parent engagement is so important. And this, these are the differences we're seeing in children. For children that are even in school and have already left early childhood education schools, we've realized that the number one impactful variable that we're seeing in the successful children versus the unsuccessful children, in terms of their growth and development is parent engagement. How involved was the parent with that child at home, school doesn't, education doesn't happen. Just in the school, it happens mostly at home, parents are their child's first and most important teacher. And children will assimilate knowledge more from their parent than they will a teacher appear, because they have rapport with them already, so they're more willing to listen. And so about 86 to 91% of a child's vocabulary words are derived directly from their parent, not their teacher, not their school, not their peers from their parent. So it's so critical for the parent to be so involved with their child. And little tricks that we teach parents, these aren't activities. But these are little tips that we do on the side as a bonus. One simple one is if your child is exposed to screen time, let's say a TV or an app, children that watch TV with subtitles on, learn to read two years earlier than children that watch TV without subtitles. Such a simple step, you could take the click of a remote button that changes the trajectory of your child's life and their brain forever. And it's so important between the zero to six year old age group because their brain is developing so quickly, what happens, and I'll, I'll tell you the second step, and then tell you what happens. The second trick you can use is children should not be exposed to screentime. before the age to what's happening, pediatricians and this was According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, pediatricians are finding out that children are not able to distinguish between 2d objects and 3d objects, because of how much screen time they've been exposed to. So typically, a way that you can find out if your child's developing properly is if you roll a ball to the child, the child should grasp for the ball with all five fingers their whole hand, what's happening is some of the children are swiping at it as if it's on a screen, because they can't distinguish between 2d and 3d objects. That's for children that have been exposed to too much screentime. So age two and below should not be exposed screentime. And if they are exposed to screentime, put the subtitles on whether it's an app or TV, because two years of being able to read faster, doesn't sound like that big of a deal to us as adults, two years is a lifetime of brain development for a child ages zero to six. So why is that important? That's what I was going to share. Next. There's something called synapse pruning that happens in the brain. Or basically your brain is always trying to conserve energy. So anytime it can cut off unnecessary, you know, waste, it will do so. So for example, by the age of two, your brain starts to do something called synapse pruning where it says, hmm, you know what, Ari, we're not using these synapses. As often we're not firing these neuro neural connections as often as these other ones. Let's get rid of these ones to save energy. So it actually prune off son of some of the neural connections to save energy for the ones that you're firing more often. So it shows you how and this happened from ages about two to four. And this happens for the rest of your life. There is some neuroplasticity where the brain changes, but the malleability of the brain drops so dramatically as soon as you're born. While the physiological effort to create new neural connections is increasing. As soon as you're born, you started 100% malleability, by the age of only eight months old, you're almost at 50%. Drop in malleability. By age six, you're about zero percent. malleability, meaning the brain is not able to be changed very easily with neuroplasticity. And at the same time that malleability is going down, the physiological effort to create new neural connections is increasing the energy, it takes energy that's required to create those new neural connections, it's making it harder. So that's why it's so easy for children in early age to learn multiple languages, compared to us. Now imagine if we try to learn Russian, Italian, Chinese, all right now, I mean, we will be overwhelmed, it would take way more cognitive bandwidth to do so. Children at this, this is why it's so important to get structured stimuli in your child's brain at such an early age. So they'll have a proper developmental process going on in their brain for the rest of their life. They won't be pruning off as many synapses. Ari Gronich 15:59 What is what is structured? mean? Because there's a lot of people who probably listen to that and think, Oh, well, that's they don't really understand what it means sure to do that. So can you give more specific for things that Phil Michaels 16:19 show structured stimuli, rather than something that's ambiguous or not necessarily pertaining to what they should be learning in a certain age, it's not ambiguous. We've now mapped these things out on a large scale. There's a great documentary about this on Netflix called babies. And it shows you proper developmental processes that you could be taken. But you could also sign up for a program like our there's tons of apps out there. And that's the thing are a lot of parents in the US were like, Oh, we need this here. I know you started it in Nigeria, but we need this here in the US. And we were thinking, come on, you guys have tons of resources, and tons of free resources. They were like, yeah, that's exactly it. There's so much out there. It's overwhelming. What information do I pull from? What do I know is the right information. And so this is called the zigzag principle. When everyone's zigging building a mobile app. We're zagging. And using text messages, 90% of people answer their text message within the first three minutes of receiving it. So every but nobody wants to download another app, answer another email, but they all answer their text messages. So that's why we use something simple that everybody's already using. So when I say structured stimuli, I'm talking about following the developmental milestones of a child listening to your pediatrician, following resources, such as the Harvard center for the developing child. So it's structured stimuli based on where your child is in their developmental process. a three year old might be developing a little quicker than another three year old. So you need to know where your child is, and what resources to use to follow a path, a proper trajectory, rather than using an ambiguous approach. A lot of parents get hung up on making sure their children are doing exactly what they need to be doing in school. But there's stuff outside of school that you could be doing to help your child explore nature, letting your child's curiosity lead their exploration and adventures. There's a great book about this, of what not to do is called mindset by Carol Dweck, Stanford researcher, and she debunked like 70 years of academic research. And one of the things she mentioned is you should never tell a child Good job. And the reason you should never tell our child Good job is because they don't know what a good job means. So it's called using appropriate praise. So let's say your son, what's your son's name? Ari Gronich 18:39 Gabriel, Phil Michaels 18:41 Gabriel, beautiful name. Let's say Gabriel is playing soccer. And he makes a really good paths. Most parents like Oh, good job, Gabriel. But Gabriel doesn't know why he just got praised. So a better way to approach this is that was a really good pass Gabriel, or you ran really hard I could tell you work really hard for that pass. So he now attributes his effort to his success, rather than his innate abilities. Because when you tell a child Good job, and they don't know why they did a good job, they think it's due to their innate abilities that they were just born with it rather than something they made an effort toward. And they'll share this with regard to academia as well with test taking. But what what should you do instead is be very appropriate with your praise. Because what happens is, if you tell a child Good job when they made a good pass, they're looking for and seeking for your praise later on. So if they don't make a good pass, and you didn't say Good job, they don't necessarily know why they didn't get your praise, and they become upset and start doubting themselves. And she shows this in a much more eloquent way in her book and shows you the research behind it. And she showed with test taking children that were told they're really smart. You should never tell a child they're really smart. Because they attribute that to their innate intelligence, they think that they're born with it. So anytime they're not told that they're smart, they think something's wrong with them. Oh, I must not be that smart as I thought I was or that everyone thought it was. They don't want to take risks anymore, because they're afraid that there'll be shown to everyone that they're not really smart. So a better way to approach this is to say, Wow, Gabriel, you must have studied really hard for that test, you got a 97, you must have studied really hard. Instead of saying, You're really smart, you studied really hard, they now attribute their intelligence, their good grade, to their effort, the studying habit that they perform, rather than are their innate intelligence. So now, the next time they do bad, they don't say, Oh, I'm not smart, they say, Oh, I must not have studied that hard. So now they're going to put in more effort to make sure that they improve their performance, rather than start doubting themselves. And her studies show that those children that were attributing their intelligence to their effort, were more likely to take risks at a later period in time, whether it's exams, physical risks, etc. So there are certain words that can really change the vocabulary words, that can really change how your child behaves, and how they respond to you how receptive they are to you. So those are some quick tricks that can help with the parenting world, it's so so critically important. And we would solve a lot of the problems we're facing as adults. If we worked on early childhood education, all of our time, energy and effort should not be trying to fix broken adults, it should be trying to educate children. So those become amazing adults when they're older. And unfortunately, what we have is a system where the poorest and least educated people are having the most amount of children unfortunately. And do you know the number one variable that impacts birth rate, more than any other Close is education. Education impacts birth rate more than any other variable. So as education goes up, birth rate goes down. Because people are realizing this, the smarter you are, the more you realize how critical it is, for every child that you have for their education, how much does it cost for every child you have. So you're, you're more in tune to what it really requires to raise a child, the more educated you are in Nigeria, the average birth rate is 5.5 children per mother. They're only twice the size of California and they have almost 200 million people, they're almost the size of the US population in a place that's only twice the size of California. So it's extremely densely populated birth rates very high. And so we, in my opinion, instead of working on trying to fix broken adults, which I think we can do both we can do concurrently. They're not mutually exclusive, we could solve adult problems. But if we really want to make an impact, and really want to have a great return on investment on the work that we're doing, we want to be focusing on solving problems with parenting, and early childhood education. It changes the brain for 40 years of life invader studies show. Ari Gronich 23:06 You know, it's interesting, my son was we had him before we started homeschooling, and we had him on the zoom schooling. And one of the the teachers asked, you know, how everybody was feeling. And my son says, and the teachers like, Why are you angry? You know, Gabriel, what's going on? And he says, I have five businesses, and you're not teaching me about how to do any of them. Phil Michaels 23:43 I love the little entrepreneur in him. How amazing is that? What do you beautiful Gabriel? Exactly. For to meet you one day, that's amazing. And the fact that he's even cognisant re of his own emotional state is beautiful. So for a long time, we didn't understand how important social emotional learning was. But now they recently they started indoctrinating children in schools to understand how important it is learning your own emotions. Oh, when I'm angry, this is how I handle my emotion. A lot of us growing up, we weren't taught what do we do when we feel a certain way? How do we express ourselves properly? How do we not offend somebody else? How do we have empathy? These are important skill sets as an adult. And a lot of adults aren't well equipped enough to understand that, Ari Gronich 24:31 yeah, we were taught better to be seen than heard. Right? We were taught that our role was to lift our parents up by our demonstration of our obedience. You know, verse is our demonstration of intelligence you know, only speak when spoken to speak when spoken to, you know, and and how we are, is absolutely a direct reflection. On our parents versus 100% are being a reflection on how we are hundred percent lucky enough to have very loving, kind parents, but they also were entrepreneurs. So they worked 16 plus hours a day. And so I grew up with, you know, Amway in my garage and, and businesses and lemonade stands and mowing lawns and doing paper ball as a paper boy at seven years old. So that was my first you know, Job was riding around the bike and throwing newspapers, porches, you know, I don't even see that as a as an option for kids these days, when in actuality it's a really great initial job, just like mowing lawns. You know, here in Florida, everybody has a lawn mowing business. Where are the kids, you know that you pay five bucks to mow your lawn every other week or whatever, you know, Phil Michaels 26:02 I believe I hundred percent agree with you. Every child should be learning entrepreneurial mindsets, because it's it's just a problem solving mindset. It looks at everything as an opportunity, rather than a pain. And I started just like you I had a lemonade stand. I stole my sister's puppet show Playhouse. And I used to bring it to the park where all the soccer fields were because I would pick up the soccer moms, they would come over to my lemonade stand. And I was, you know, a cute little kid. Let's buy some lemonade from them. And then in elementary school, I sold Pokemon cards. So I used to go to my school and I would have a binder full of Pokemon cards. And I'll go to school and sell them. I remember I sold a char zard char zone is the number one card in the deck. This fiery dragon is a hologram. And I sold it for $50. And I remember I thought I had made it I ran I told my mom I said Mom, you're not gonna have to work again. We made it. At that time. $50 was a huge deal to me. I was like six or seven years old. Then I went in in high school I was a I shoveled snow, and I was a bookie. So I used to print out the football matchups for NFL each week, and I'd have friends pick the matchups and then I would take a percentage of the pool. In college, I started a nightlife promotion company for nightclubs and bars while I was going to college and I started to fitness companies. And Ari, the funny thing about this is the whole time I never looked at it as a my career choice. It was something I had always done as a side hustle throughout my life, just, Hey, I'm going to school, I'm going to be an eye doctor, but I have this hustle on the side. And it wasn't until that Shark Tank moment that I looked, it was like oh my gosh, I've been an entrepreneur my whole life. And I had never looked at that as a career because all these societal dogmatic norms, teach you go to school, get good grades, get a good job, get the house, get the nice car have kids and and it's like, well, wait a second. That's not the trajectory for everyone. You know, for some people, it's okay for him. But I feel like children should learn an entrepreneurial mindset at such an early age so they can make their own decisions and be more proactive and cognizant about the choices they want to make for their own life rather than succumbing to the societal norms. Ari Gronich 28:28 Yeah, you know, I look at at our educational system of my mom is a teacher, my brother's a teacher teaches High School. And, and he's actually rewritten the entire educational system. He has a folder that fixes every issue within the educational system. And I'm really hoping it gets out there sooner rather than later. But you know, because of the issues, but let's talk about what used to be versus what is and how we can go back towards what used to be while updating it to what should be right. So what used to be in my world is master apprentice relationships. kids would apprentice with their parent typically, on the thing that their parent does. Whether it's shoe cobbler, you know, a shoe cobbler has shoe cobbler kids, right? If you're a farmer, you have kids that work the farm. They always had duties and responsibilities. And nowadays, we tend to want our kids to be kids for a very long time up until they're adults, like you're a kid until you're an adult and that happens on your 21st birthday. And so now at your 21st birthday, you're supposed to know how to be an adult Even though you've been treated like a kid entire life, right, but used to be where they would have these responsibilities, roles and responsibilities in a family that would help them become a an adult, much earlier on. And nowadays, since we're doing this thing about trying to keep our kids kids, we're not teaching them how to be responsible adults. Right? So that's what was, now we know what it is. But we can create something new because we've made this shit up. And we can make it up different. Right? So the whole system as as it is, is made up out of our imagination. Great, we had a good imagination, it lasted a while, let's have another imagination and create something different. So if you had the most optimal way of creating something new, what would you do? For those, say, the first years through team, right? So if somebody let's say, at 13 years old, and you're creating curriculum or program or plan for them, to learn how to become mindful adults, cognitive, common sense critical thinking all those things, what kind of program? Phil Michaels 31:28 So I've been recording different apps and resources for parents that want to raise their child and use all the resources that are, you know, helpful to building their child into an amazing adult and amazing human being. That's really what we should be focusing on is, how do we build our children into amazing human beings, not just human beings that can take a test, we want to make sure that they have and I've actually been recording things that I call Phil University. I haven't picked a name yet. But these are things that if I were to build a school, what would those include, and I try to incorporate that philosophy into Tembo exalt as well. But for Tembo, it's for early childhood. So there's certain things the brain needs to learn by certain ages with gross and fine motor skills, social emotional health, but then once you get to an age where you can start assimilating knowledge, that's more subject matter based, for example, like behavioral economics, I've been building and recording, what are the subjects I would want my own child to learn. So if I were designing a curriculum, I could incorporate that. So one of them is language, I would make sure they know English, Arabic, French, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese. And the reason I picked those five languages, is because I want my child to be a global citizen, a global human being, not a nation, state individual. And the reason I picked those five is because those five are spoken by more countries than any other languages. They'll be able to communicate with people around the world at any time at any given moment, and that I think is an important skill set to have. Another one is meditation, meditation practice, there's apps right now teaching meditation at an early age even before the age of three. So there's what I've been trained in Transcendental Meditation. It's what Jerry Seinfeld uses Howard Stern, Jim Carrey, Oprah, Ellen DeGeneres, they, there's a lot of famous people have studied what used to be a required course for the ivy League's in the 70s. So meditation would definitely be one, we've lost a lot of the art forms, art would definitely be a part of it. And not just the artistic realm of painting and drawing and music, but also entrepreneurial arts, problem solving. These are things that are incorporate nutrition, how to eat properly, we've lost that I remember when I was a kid, we took a class called home EQ, or we will learn how to cook and grow our own food. A lot of schools have lost that art I would teach anatomy and physiology how the human body works. A lot of children only take that if they're studying the Health Sciences, such as pre medicine like I did, I would teach empathy. So how do you work not only on your IQ, but your EQ? And then in addition to EQ, your emotional intelligence, your emotional quotient? What about CQ, your cultural quotient because now children are becoming more and more like global citizens rather than just within their own nation state, parenting, to children know how to parent properly. So when they become a parent, that they're going to be able to address their child's needs in a proper way. I think the more and more people learn about parenting, the less children they're going to have because they know how hard it is just to raise one child alone. So child psychology was one of my favorite courses I took in college. It's so important entrepreneurship, finance, how do you manage your finances? How do you do your taxes? How do you invest? How do you save a lot of those They're not taught to everyone that goes into school. Physical Fitness, side, obviously the sciences, chemistry, biology, physics, but things that they can actually apply in the real world. There's something about vocational learning that is so important, like you said, apprenticeship, we need to get back to learning what you're going to do. In the real world. Many pre med students never actually see what they're going to be doing on a day to day basis until they start working in the field. But if they had realized what is their day to day life going to look like by apprenticing by an apprenticeship, or shadowing people, they'll learn Oh, you know what I thought of I always wanted to be an accountant. But now that I see the day to day role, that's not something I'm interested in. So how can we get back to this vocational learning hard skills, apprenticeship rather than just theoretical, where you go to college, you have a ton of student that and then you go and work at Starbucks, and you're not even applying what you learned in school? Ari Gronich 35:59 Hey, don't knock Starbucks. No, you could not Starbucks, I want actually. So, you know, yeah, yeah, I was reading a book, to my son, I have these books called the value books. And each book has a different value, and then a historical character, who emulated that value. So the last book we read was understanding. And it was about Margaret Mead. And if you don't know who Margaret Mead was, she's an anthropologist who would travel around the world, she was actually the first anthropologists to travel to the place of the people in which she was studying, because everybody else was just studying the she actually went and lived amongst the people. And she went to the Samoan islands, and found that they were extremely happy adults, like really happy, like, unusually happy. And so she started studying over the course of months of living amongst them, she actually had them build her a hut that had no walls, so that she could hear and see the things going on, no matter what time of day it was. And so she figured out that these kids, by the age of six, were already starting to learn how to take care of the babies. By the time that they were teens, they already knew how to basically take care of an entire family. And by the time they got married, of which they were allowed to pick their own mate. They knew how to take care of each other because they had been taught all these things. So therefore, they were very happy people because they knew how to take care of each other. Another tribe on the Pacific Isles, you went to, they were very unhappy. As adults, they were allowed to do nothing but play as kids. So they didn't have any responsibilities that were given to them. They play 24/7, but they never learned how to take care of each other. And so when they were married through their arranged marriage, they didn't know how to take care of their spouse. They didn't know what to do next, they had to pay huge salaries, you know, to get married to the family. And so they were living in massive debt. Right. So everything was stressful and hard, and they weren't very happy people. And I found that really fascinating. The dichotomy between the two is, most parents, I think, think, in their heads, that if they make their kids do stuff, then they won't be happy. So let's not have them, make them do things. But then, when they get older, like these are the people who are going to be taking care of us when we're too old to take care of ourselves. Phil Michaels 39:09 They're not well equipped, Ari Gronich 39:10 and now they're not equipped at all. So we've created entire generations of kids in the last 50 years, maybe that have no idea how to take care of anything really Phil Michaels 39:26 a secret basic responsibilities and being independent as an adult. And you you make a great point and echoing that. You know, a lot of people say oh, I want to give my kids everything I never had. Well, instead of saying I want to give my kids everything I never had, why not teach them everything you never learned. And in addition to that, taking it a step further I hear what's the most common mistake I hear parents say is like, my kids come first. My kids are everything. Your kids feed off of your energy and your public. There's energy. So you should come first. It's just like the old adage in the airplane put on your own oxygen mask, before you help others, you have to put your own oxygen mask on. First, you have to fill up your own cup first before you could fill up somebody else's cup. So take care of you first as the individual as the parent, then you take care of your partner. Second, your partner should be second most important, and then your child because your partner is going to feed off your energy, and your child is going to feed off you and your partner's energy. So if you and your partner are not grounded, and are not happy, and are not in a safe emotional state, or not taking care of yourselves physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, how do you think your child is going to feed off that energy? They learned through mirror neurons, mirror neurons, they're mimicking the things that you do. This is why if you typically hold on this woman did this viral video actually and showed people what happens when she puts a toy in front of her child versus a everyday household object. So it'd be like a phone, and a play toy with tons of colors. And there was like 20 of them every single time the child chose the household object. You know why? Because the child is mimicking the things that you do. You're not playing with the child's toy, you're playing with the phone, with the remote with the household tape dispenser, whatever it may be, your child is mimicking the behaviors that you perform. So when you and your partner are not on good terms, or you're not healthy and happy. What do you think that's going to do to your child? What example does that set forth for your child. So instead of, I try to change the behavioral pattern that these parents are using, instead of saying, My children come first, tell your child that you come first. Because the more you serve yourself, the better you're going to be equipped that serving others. The more your cups fold, the more you're going to fill up everybody else's cup. If your cups empty, how could you possibly fill up somebody else's cup, so take care of you first, then your partner and then your child and your child's going to be a lot better off by taking care of you and your partner first? Here's Cheers to that. And speaking of happiness already, I know you will have something to say but so Dr. Shawn Aker. He's a Harvard professor. He's known in the scientific community of studying happiness more than any other scientist. And he has the most enrolled in class in Harvard history. And it's about happiness. And Tim Ferriss was interviewing and he asked him, all right, you know, Dr. Akers, what if we could map out what is the bare minimum we could do to have a statistical significant increase in our happiness? What's the bare minimum we can do with a highest return on investment for happiness? And he mapped out there's five things you can do on a daily basis. Number one Ari Gronich 42:56 second, I just want to I just want to emphasize to the audience that they really might want to take some notes on this one. Phil Michaels 43:03 Oh, absolutely. I mean, absolutely, is got this, it's important. And I'm going to give you a note taking trick in just a moment for you and your audience that I created, you're going to love this one. Because I know leaders are readers and I know your audience is definitely readers. So number one was meditate for two minutes or more, a minimum of two minutes or more. And it could be as simple as closing your eyes and focusing on your breath. It doesn't have to be a particular practice. So Shawn Aker number one, best ways to increase your happiness from a statistically significant way. Number one, meditate two minutes or more. Number two, cardiovascular exercise for a minimum of 15 minutes, all you need is 15 minutes each day. Number three, thanks or praise, give a message of thanks or praise to a different person each day. The only rule is it has to be a different person each day. And it could be as simple as a text message. An email just says, Hey, thanks for the hat. You gifted me or praise. Hey, you did a great job on that presentation yesterday, just wanted to let you know I'm thinking about your You did a great job trying to let you know, just a simple message of either thanks or praise to a different person each day. Number four is writing down three things you're grateful for each day. But here's the problem. It needs to be within the past 24 hours. Because what he found was most people when they're asked to write down what they're grateful for, they put their health, their friends, their happiness, their family, and they become desensitized to that over time. So it's got to be something that happened in the past 24 hours, so it's different each day. And lastly, number five, write down three details of a positive event that happened in the past 24 hours. And the neuroscience behind this is that you're very focused on the specifics though, the more specific you are the better. For example, Let's say you went on a date, I really love the shirt she was wearing, I really loved the taste of that pistachio crusted tilapia, I really loved the the ambiance of that in restaurant. So the more specific you are, the better three details were positive event that happened in the past 24 hours. So just to recap, meditation, two minutes or more cardiovascular exercise, 15 minutes or more, thanks, or praise to a different person each day, three things you're grateful for that had to have happened in the past 24 hours, and three details of a positive event that happened the past 24 hours, if you do those five things bare minimum, you're going to increase your happiness in a statistically significant level. Ari Gronich 45:44 Awesome. So I'm just going to give a little bit of a hint on a way to do the meditation, if you're having trouble with that is just light a candle and look at the candle. You know, keep your focus and keep the focus on your breath. That's just a way to keep focused. One of the things that that I know, because I do it all the time is I tell my kid to focus, right, but we don't ever teach our kids how to focus or what focus means. And kids have all these chemistry chemicals, you know, flooding around their body at all times going, I gotta do this, I gotta move, I gotta get up, I gotta, you know, they're constantly in this state of needing to have stimulus. And so when you tell them to focus, or to do something of that sort, like focus on your math for now, right? They can't focus because they've never been taught how to. And so this, the whole thing about meditation is so important for our kids, because they don't know how to focus. So we could tell them till the cows come home hood, got to focus got to focus got to this. But if we're not teaching them or showing them how that's done, they'll never, Phil Michaels 47:02 especially if, if the parent is not focusing, either you're telling your child to be focused, and you're not focused. And echoing your point, what I always tell people is, the more you become distracted, the better you become at being distracted. The more you practice focusing, the better you become at focusing. So if you look at it as a practice, that you're practicing this technique, so you get better and better at it, the better you're going to be, the more equipped you're going to be at doing. And what I teach people with meditation that are just starting out for beginners is picture this visual is this is great for kids too. It's not that you're trying to suppress the distractions or the thoughts, it's that you're tapping on them with an imaginary feather. So picture that's like a bubble. It's a cloud going by, or a balloon going by. And that's a thought or a distraction. bring your attention to it, bring your awareness to it, touch it with imaginary feather or your finger if you want, and it goes by and welcome them instead of trying to suppress them, just welcome them. So you're Cognizant and aware of the distraction that in and of itself is bringing yourself to a meditative state. So you're not trying to push them away. No clouds, no clouds, no distractions, no balloons. It's just up. There's a balloon. There's another one. There's a thought, Okay. Oh, there's another one just went by and it be great beginner apps for children is called headspace and adults too. But they have meditations specifically for kids zero to three years old as well and older, but it's called headspace. It's a great beginner app, another great beginner app is calm. And if you don't like either of those and you'd like more variety, there's one called insight timer. Insight timer is a platform for meditation practitioners from around the world to offer their meditations to you. So they have tons of meditations, long, short, guided, unguided. So there's a plethora, a multitude of different meditations that you can choose from on insight time. I personally am trained in Transcendental Meditation is completely unguided. Created by Maharishi from Maharishi University in Iowa, but it's a it's been used for a long time. But starting out, I think these are better. And it's a great way. And Ari, I wanted to share with your audience that note taking trick that I created, it's a reading trick app. So this book is called The Power of Habit, but I'm just going to use this book as an example. So have you seen this pen before? It's a four color Bic pen, pretty popular, you probably remember it from childhood. Usually it's a blue and white casing. But I want to I created this because I was reading a lot of books a book a week I started in 2014. And I noticed that I wasn't assimilating the knowledge. I wasn't able to remember it after I'd read the book. And I thought a book is only as good as how often you reference back to it and apply what you learned in your real life. So I came up with a trick because what I realized with highlighter The highlighter fades after about a year. And so it doesn't work for long term. So I use this pen. And each color represents a different tactic, which I'm going to teach you now. So blue is my version of using a highlighter. So any major concept in the book, I'll underline in blue, just like you would with a highlighter. Green is an action item. So anytime a book is recommended in the book, or there's a person or a company, I will go and look it up, that's an action item for me to go look at. So that one's in green. Red is for any word I am not familiar with. So I will write the definition in the book and underline it in red. And then Black, the last one is the most important. So the black one is for these little post it notes. So I take these many post it notes, I put the page number and the concept that I learned in that book. So that way, when I want to reference back to this book, I don't have to reread the whole thing, I just go back to all the major concepts. And I see so for example, this one is self discipline is more important than IQ. And everything in blue will be about that concept. So I just have to read what I highlighted in blue. Here's one I wrote down. This is a study showing that willpower is stronger when they have their own autonomy. So obviously, that's what that blue highlighting is going to be about. So this four color pen trick anyone can use. And it helps you assimilate the knowledge even more so ingrained in your brain deeper. So my friends always tell me like I don't have to read any more books, I'll just talk to Phil, and he'll give me the breakdown of what happened in that book. And I attribute it not to my own intelligence, but to this habit that I've trained myself on. Ari Gronich 51:46 Wow. So we should call you Cliff Notes. And Phil Michaels 51:51 I share more hacks like this and tricks on my website to I am Philmichaels.com, where your audience can learn more about these little performance hacks I like to share. Ari Gronich 52:01 Cool, absolutely, that'd be awesome. And we'll we'll get to that at the end, we'll have an opportunity for you to, you know, have your how to find these and how to you know, things like that. So one of the things that you mentioned in our communication was turning your men's retreat, the bro retreat into a monthly retreat. So why don't you talk a little bit about that. I'm a sterling Institute of relationships grads, so I have been in men's organizations for 20 years now I did my weekend actually in 2000. And I was on the production core team for 10 years. So I was on a men's team, as on the production team, we did men's and women's weekends, four of them a year. And so I mean, I have a lot of experience in this realm. And I also know some of the foibles that happen within those kinds of organizations incestuous pneus, in some cases, and those organizations have, you know, mixing and clicking and so on and so forth. So, tell us a little bit about this men's retreat. You call it the bro richer or rotary and and what it is that this is trying to accomplish? And are I why would you want it to be a once a month thing? Phil Michaels 53:31 Sure. So a few years ago, I had been wanting I love traveling, I had been wanting to travel the world with other high achievers, people that are the top 1% of their game, really high peak performers. And so I started selfishly for myself, and brought some friends that I also knew were high achievers, and we just started traveling to a different city. And I started developing a curriculum, I didn't realize how important it was to people to men specifically, I wanted a place to not only travel, but be around other high peak performers. And also have a trusted, safe environment where we could be open and vulnerable with each other share things that don't emasculate us like we can maintain our masculinity while being vulnerable. And you can't, you don't always have someone to do that with. That's what I tell people about coaching. There's a stigma, just like there was back in the day about therapy, and therapists and mental health, there's seems to be still a stigma with coaching. And I always tell people, there's very few people in your life that you could talk to, that don't have a conflict of interest or an inherent bias can always tell your co founders, your investors, your board members, everything can always tell your family and friends or your significant other, not because you don't trust them or you can't be honest, but more so they have an inherent bias they come with or they have a conflict of interest. So a coach is someone that you can confide in that's directly invested in your success and your success only. Well, this makes retreat is a part of that. We wanted a place where we could feed off each other's energy help each other level up, but in a trusting, safe environment. So we, we challenge each other physically, mentally and emotionally. And there's a curriculum I've now built, it's four to five days. And each day is, is built off of a different theme. So one day is about relationships. One day is about physical transformation. One's about mental transformation. And we pick a different city each year. So the last day of each event will pick the city and date of the next one. So it's already we vote on it, and we pick in we're doing Vancouver, we just did Park City, Utah, and I surprised them so I take them to different physical, physically challenging experiences. So we went to the Olympic Training Facility for the US Olympic bobsled team. And we took them bobsledding. So that's the ice loser, you go down in the in the sled, and you're going 73 miles an hour down this ice luge, and it was amazing. And they had no idea we competed. So we had different teams trying to see who could get the fastest time. And we just do a lot of fun, physically active stuff, because you got to get in the mind and the body, they're so closely connected. And a lot of these retreats I found, one are not high achievers, or people that are just like on their last, you know, thread and they're just trying to look for that next, you know, gift that will bring them over the edge, or I found that they're not physically in tune, they're very in the head. And if you get in the head too much in the head, you're dead, as they say. So you've got to get in tune with the body. And it's one of the reasons I start my day off with rebounding. I'll get to that in a moment. But to answer your question, like why do I want to do it monthly, because the more and more I do these retreats, the more I'm realizing how many men are looking for a place like this, where they can maintain their masculinity, not feel uncomfortable sharing their truth, their honesty, being vulnerable, and but also challenged themselves physically, mentally and emotionally in a place of other high achievers that force them to level up. Ari Gronich 57:09 That's pretty cool. I think you and I probably could talk a little bit about about doing some collaboration with that my brother, who I told you as a high school teacher, on his side hustle, he teaches survival training, so both urban and wilderness, survival of it, Marines, he's taught Air Force, he's taught army, you know, he goes around, but he's also a master dive instructor. And so I've certifications and things like that he's a rescue diver. So, you know, I've been looking at how do I incorporate some of what he does in some corporate retreats for corporate culture and corporate wellness. But, you know, this, he he's a, an amazing resource for, for this stuff. And he's totally not an entrepreneur. He grew up in the same house that I grew up with, you know, and his response was, I don't want to have anything to do with that entrepreneur stuff, because he saw the ups and downs of it, or it's very volatile. With with me, I was like, hey, that's, it seems seems like a good life to me. So that, you know, represents different ways we can be raised in the same house with the same parents with the same training completely different people, right. But yeah, so it would be an awesome extension of of doing that Phil Michaels 58:42 I'm going to keep for sharing Ari Gronich 58:44 some survival training with, with corporations with people, as you know, what, what do we look at? We look at the world. And we look at our problems, right? We look at what what the issues are going on. So we're having a healthcare crisis. If you were to look down your street, in Tampa, your block, right? How many people do you think could put on a 75 pound sack and go marching down for 10 miles a jungle? for military, right? Probably not a whole lot of people have that physical prowess anymore. Used to be that that could be done normally. Nowadays, it's it's tough. So when we look at health care, we look at our military and our safety as a country. If we're not a healthy nation, we're not going to be healthy enough to be able to defend ourselves. If we're not educated. We're not going to be smart enough to defend ourselves. Right? These are all things that that we have going on. So as far as like the education, what you're bringing forth to the education, cognitive and critical thinking skills and so on. This is gonna be huge for the country at large. Thank you means a lot. Oh, absolutely. And healthcare is the same way. If we can't get our community to be healthy, then how are we going to ever be that superpower that we've been going forward in the future, we've already dropped? I think we're 46. In the world, as far as education, where, you know, heart health is 40 something if nationwide, or, you know, worldwide, as far as our nation in the world's market. So we've actually taken this amazing idea of a country. And over the last 50 years, we have slowly dismantled a lot of what we had created in the first 200 years. And so what I'm looking at is okay, so how do we create more solutions? And how do we create more solution providers? How do we get people back into those critical thinking and common set of skills so that we can actually create a new tomorrow today? Is my favorite one of my favorite things create a new tomorrow today, as part of the show? How do we create a new tomorrow today, by shifting the focus of what we've been doing over the last 50 years, and kind of refocus back into the greatness of our people and the greatness of our country. I'm not very much of a patriot, I'm not patriotic, as far as that. I'm just somebody who lives in a place and I see all of the gaps that we have left for chaos to ensue. So, you know, talk a little bit about the healthcare, you were in medicine for a while you got to spend time with the Yankees, you got to spend time in hospitals and in surgeries. Right. So what did you see as the biggest issues to our medical system at that point, that could easily be transferred, you know, transformed? Phil Michaels 1:02:21 Yeah, it's a great question. There's a lot to unpack there. Working in healthcare, I saw it firsthand that it should be really called sick care, not health care, because the whole system is incentivized, based on how sick you are. And until we change the incentives, we're never going to see change. So that's why behavioral economics would be one of the things that I teach children. And behavioral economics is choice architecture, human centered design, design thinking. There's decision fatigue involved. And there's a great book on this by Nobel laureates, Dr. Fowler and Sunstein in the book, nudge and nudge is an easy way to explain behavioral economics, but it's all about how humans make decisions. So little things like relevant today, voting. So do you know depending on which order the presidential candidate is provided in the ballot, will influence your decision on who you vote for. So the first name on the ballot is more often chosen than the second name, just because it's the one that's listed first. So they'll typically on ballots, they'll typically randomize the order to prevent that from happening from skewing the results. But if you're a human being and I asked you that, do you think that has an effect on your decision? You would say no, but it's happening subconsciously. So behavioral economics is all about teaching you how to incentivize the right decisions. Another example of this is a guy in the UK owned a restaurant. And in the men's bathrooms, he noticed there was a lot of urine spillage out of the urinals, and it was costing his business money because he had to pay for extra cleaning supplies more often than he wanted to, then he should. His theory, his hypothesis was that men are bored, and so they're not aiming properly into the urinal. So he created these fake housefly, stickers that he put in the back of the urinal for men to aim at while they're peeing in the urinal. And it don't quote me on the number but it reduced urine spillage by like 30 something percent, to the point where it saved his business a lot of money. So he actually started a business selling these fake fly stickers to other restaurants and bars, and also became the founder of this company that or he inspired this thought of little soccer goals where there's a hanging soccer ball and you aim for the soccer ball and it kicks it into the net and NFL American football field goals or you kick the football through You just aim at the ball and it shoots it through and it works. So let those are an example in the book that they share of little ways that you can influence human behavior. In a subconscious subliminal message. Another one was with energy. So energy consumption, they tested this in California, and found that out of all variables to impact human behavior, social peer pressure does the best job of impacting how you behave. So they tested this with energy consumption in your home. So what they would do is the energy company would send you a bill in the mail of your how much usage you had. And they will show you how you compare to your neighbors in the same neighborhood. So it shows you on a scale, if you're average, above average, and consumption or below average, and consumption says in your neighborhood, you are above average and your consumption. So people reduce their consumption, more than any other time that they had been influenced to change their energy consumption, they wanted to test it even more. So they added colors. So if you are above average, that was bad, they gave you a red color. If you were below average, that was good, they give you a green color that influenced their behavior of consumption even more, then they took it a step further already and added an emoji, a smiley face if they were good, or a frown face if they're bad, and that influenced their behavior even more. But if I asked you is that, do you think if I put on your bill that if I added green or red or smiley face or a frowny face, it would affect your consumption of energy? You'd be like, no, Phil, come on, that's not gonna influence me. But it does, subconsciously. So healthcare is not going to change unless we incentivize humans, whether it's monetarily or through social influence, peer pressure, to influence their decision making in the way that we want them to decide. Unless we do that, we're not going to see change. So we need to make sure the the incentives and punishments are aligned with good behavior. We have to incentivize insurance companies in a way that doesn't impact their their bottom dollar that influences them in a way that they're going to be incentivized to take care of people. And to focus on preventative health care, we're going to have to help doctors be influenced with correct incentives and punishments. Right now, we're rewarding the wrong behaviors. An example this is Trump, a lot of people say, oh, Trump doesn&#

Our first Startup Stories podcast features Stacy Hall. Stacy and her husband scratched their own itch and created the potty chair they wish was available when they began potty training their own child. Listen to this episode to learn how, grit, creative thinking, and persistence led this Barry County, Missouri couple all the way to ABCs "Shark Tank."  

Domenic Perri always believed the journey of building meaningful, authentic, and long-lasting relationships is the most important foundational element of a successful profession and thriving business. Maybe, one of his favorite speakers, Esther Perel, says it best: "The quality of our relationships determines the quality of our lives." Domenic's tech journey began at BRAK Systems, working closely with the founder, Robert Herjavec of ABC's "Shark Tank," where we pioneered enterprise cybersecurity in Canada and acquired by AT&T Canada. He joined Vertex US in 2019 to build a foundation of quality relationships and help our early-stage founders accelerate their growth thoughtfully. Vertex Ventures US Vertex US is an early-stage venture capital firm that backs companies transforming industries through software and data. With investments including LaunchDarkly, PerimeterX, and Desktop Metal, Vertex US brings pioneering experience to pioneering enterprises. Before Vertex US, he spent his entire career in Corporate Development and Business Development, including at Dropbox, leading a global team responsible for product ecosystem partnerships, go-to-market, and distribution partnerships. In his career, Don has worked at Juniper Networks as Senior Director of Corporate Development responsible for M&A and partnerships. Before that, he held senior roles at Caymas (acquired by Citrix), and Internet Security Systems (IPO then acquired by IBM for $1.3B). I also wanted to find out more about his time in Tesla's M&A team to lead the integration of Grohmann Automation (700 employees) on-site in Germany. Domenic shares his tech journey and talks about corp dev strategies for startups as we get accustomed to changing the digital landscape.

On this week's episode, Ari is joined by Chris Gronkowski. After his NFL playing career was over, Chris went on to create 'Ice Shaker' and pitched his idea on ABC's Shark Tank. He got an investment from Mark Cuban and Alex Rodriguez, and Chris spoke to Ari about that experience and all the behind the scenes that goes on during the show and how even got on the show in the first place. Chris also spoke about his brother Rob's decision to come out of retirement to join the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and plenty more. Just sit back and enjoy the always entertaining Chris Gronkowski. {Link with Chris on Shark Tank: https://abc.com/shows/shark-tank/video/most-recent/vdka4112720}

Chris Gronkowski is an entrepreneur and inventor of the Ice Shaker - an insulated protein shaker bottle that alleviated many of the problems Chris noticed as an elite athlete. Before this venture, Chris built a career for himself as a professional football player.  He played for the Dallas Cowboys,  Indianapolis Colts and Denver Broncos. He comes from a high performing family dating back to his Olympian grandfather and now his own brothers, all high level professional athletes.   Vanity Fair called the Gronkowski family the "First Family of Jocks"   Chris was on ABC's Shark Tank and secured a $150,000 investment from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and former baseball star Alex Rodriguez.   In this episode Host Jamie Allison talked with Chris about his transition from elite athlete to budding entrepreneur,  his in-depth preparation for his Shark Tank appearance and how his family contributed to his competiive nature and continues to support him through his business journey  Please consider leaving a rating and review on your favorite podcast platform. Tell Chris and Jamie what you think about this episode.  www.bigideabigmoves.com      Instagram : @bigidea_bigmoves Facebook @bigideabigmoves Need Help Getting Back to Work? Visit     JazzHR - awarded the most UserFriendly ATS    Connect with Chris  www.iceshaker.com Instagram: @ChrisGronkowski

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(The transcript of today's important program appears just below and you may want to check out next week's Part 2.) Real Science Radio host Bob Enyart takes lessons from the founder of the discipline of praxeology, as it's been called by Ludwig von Mises, the past leader of the Austrian School of Economics. Taking brilliant insights from von Mises, and working them within the context of a biblical Christian worldview, gives stunning insights into why, just now and unlike ever before, the world has shut down to fight a pandemic. Good for the mind. Great for the soul.   Today's Resource: God's Principles of Government. Join Bob Enyart as he explores God's Principles of Government. From Against Democracy where we look at the biblical principles related to the idea of majority rule, to a Representative Republic and its similarities with democracy, to a real Alternative to Democracy, to what a Bible-based Constitution actually looks like, after this series, the Scriptures' principles of governance will permeate your thinking like never before! Or your money back. (Really.) * Transcript of Today's Program:  As a public service for the COVID-19 pandemic and brought to you by the Crawford family of radio stations, welcoming new RSR listeners in Portland and San Francisco, today we'll present an overview of the coronavirus pandemic. How we got here, where we are at, and what this global experience portends for the future. And we'll rebut a few conspiracy theories and hopefully mitigate some misplaced anger. Real Science Radio has long run as a weekly Bible-based science program out of Denver and during the pandemic its been made available to various Crawford Broadcasting stations. Today, we include the soft science of praxeology, as Ludwig von Mises called it. Von Mises was the recognized leader of what is called the Austrian School, or the more conservative school, of Economics. For RSR to understand what a virus is and how it spreads requires interviewing scientists, like we've done in this series. Audience favorite molecular biologist Kevin Anderson, and world renowned scientists like biochemist Michael Behe and synthetic chemist James Tour and his nanoprobe device, remember that from last week, like a guided missile, seeks out pathogens, attaches and drills into them at three million RPMs, three million revolutions per minute, to destroy them! Yes, many brilliant scientists including those among the most successful in the world, like Dr. James Tour, reject secular origins and trust in Jesus Christ as savior and in the Scriptures as God's Word. But if you want to understand how the world, including our own government, got to this point of near-global extended quarantine, vast economic shut down, and millions of jobs lost, and likely, tens of thousands of failed businesses with employers who will no longer and never again provide jobs for others, these questions fall into the domain, not only of economics, but into the larger realm, of what Von Mises called praxeology, for the study of Human Action. Hence, Mises' masterpiece, which I highly recommend though it was quite a slog to get through it, at a thousand pages, his magnum opus, titled, Human Action. The mass shut down as an early response to a growing worldwide outbreak was bound to happen, eventually. Like a Calvinist who gets a broken leg and, by his theology, believed that this was decreed from eternity past, breaks his leg and says, "Boy, I'm glad that's over with", right, believing that it was unavoidable. Well, about this COVID pandemic, I'm not making any kind of theological argument; not at all. I'm making a praxeological argument, that eventually in human history, a shutdown like this was unavoidably coming, and now that it's here, we can say, once we emerge from it: Glad that's over with. I'll explain why such a shut down was inevitable; and for whatever reasons this started, as we've said on air for, what, two months now, the cure may be worse than the disease. Because, even with the relatively high death toll, we'll lose what, about the same number of people we lost in the Vietnam War, albeit mostly the elderly and those also dying from underlying conditions. Regardless though, and with the world losing a quarter of a million people, eventually, or more, during this, what could be possibly just the first wave of SARS-CoV-2, this coronavirus, the number of people who die from the economic shutdown could potentially dwarf the number of people killed by the disease. Now if that happens, of course that is devastating, but like we'll discuss, a global pandemic-based shutdown has been coming at us for a while and the larger questions, even than whether the cure kills more people than the disease, is What are the principles of morality, justice, and authority, by which governments should make decisions and take actions. Also, from some of the crisis within the crisis, we'll see that we can blame ABC's Shark Tank, including Mark Cuban, Kevin O'Leary Mr. Wonderful, and Daymond John, and the rest, for their vastly overstated claim that an entrepreneur is a fool if, regardless of his reasons, if he does not outsource his production jobs, and move manufacturing overseas. So there's a lot on our plate. As far as economics being a subdiscipline within praxeology, or the study of all human action, which overlaps of course with the field of psychology, we've all heard the observation that movement in the stock market follows greed and fear, and of course, therefore, understanding the financial pages often puts you smack-dab in the middle of psychology. Buy low and sell high. As Warren Buffet said decades ago if you want to make money off the Dow, you need to be fearful when everyone else is greedy and greedy when everyone else is fearful. Back on March 16th, a month ago, the title of our broadcast was, Buy. Buy. Buy. If You Can Buy Stock, Buy! Our live show broadcasts on the most powerful Christian radio station in America, Crawford's AM 670 KLTT out of Denver, and it happens to air at Easter Time, 5 p.m. By then the market is closed, and we always consider those listening via streaming around the country regarding our live program. So that day and over the next five trading days, the market was at its lowest point since the coronavirus hit; the Dow Jones Industrial Average of 30 large U.S. businesses, had been hovering for two months mostly over 29,000 and flirting with 30,000, and then it dropped precipitously to, what, around 20,000, and even below, so almost a 30% pandemic-related drop. We just heard from one of our listeners in Alaska. He said that in listening to the program for decades, he had never heard us give a buy or sell recommendation; we don't do that. And up there in Fairbanks, he had been out of the market. So he transferred a lot of money in, and by the time he bought, within a few days of that program, he couldn't have timed it better and he's ecstatic. So, as praxeologists, the study of human behavior, we Bible-based Christians should be the best around, because you understand an automobile better when you understand how it was made. And you understand people better when you understand how we were made, and if you notice who is following the manufacturers recommended maintenance plan, and who is ignoring it. After all, this very program is brought to you by God, maker of heaven and earth and other fine products! So, I said that this government-imposed shutdown has been coming at us for sometime. Why is that? As we discuss in our Principles of Governance seminars and broadcasts, which are indexed in our archives, when you are trying to understand government behavior, and even, the principles by which governments should operate, use the analogy of a family. Afterall, the dispensation of human government, as many theologians call it, began when God instituted the death penalty, in contrast to what He did before the flood, the global flood, when He prohibited the death penalty. And yet, just as He changed the rules about eating animals, for likewise very deliberate and important reasons, He changed, 180 degrees reversal, His prohibition against execution to mandating it, in Genesis 9, for every convicted murderer. Now this command was given to Noah, as the head of his household, and that established the authority for human government, first through patriarchies, then tribes, then villages, to city states, and their daughter villages, their suburbs, to nations, and finally, even to empires. To simplify the rules of governance, including foreign policy, you can do what Von Mises so often recommended, and use a thought experiment. Consider a group of families that suddenly find themselves living in a frontier where there is no established governmental authority. You can confidently figure out, especially if you have a reasonable biblical understanding, both the way families should behave in such a circumstance, within their own homes, and toward one another, and you can figure out how they are likely to behave, within their own homes, and as they interact with one another. And this will give you tremendous insight into how governments should function, and how they are likely to function. So, the proper extent and the just functions of government authority; how nations should interact with one another and how they will likely interact. So this shutdown approach to a flu-like pandemic has never happened before [that is, the extent of the shutdown, throughout most of the economy, and the nation, and much of the world]. But its been a longtime coming because of the world's growing prosperity. Wealthy nations do things, and face problems, the scope of which mankind has never faced before. Here's a minor example. Wealthy nations are fat nations. Obesity was mostly an American problem at first, at a global level. Not because we were less disciplined, but because tens of millions of us could afford, including many who didn't even have a job, we bought all the junk food, ice cream, and candy we could shove in our face. Then as the rest of the world caught up, guess what happened? They got fat too. Turns out the media was wrong. It wasn't because Americans cared less about our health. It wasn't that Europeans were more health conscious; they're just far less wealthy than we are. The same problem with male delayed adolescence with millions of young men spending a decade or more caring mostly about playing video games, and watching pornography in their parents' basement, and not getting married until their 30s. Prosperity, obsessively violent adrenaline-pumping games, decriminalized sexual entertainment, and now add to all that increasingly decriminalized marijuana, and it's all-but destroying a generation. And many of these problems, including the wondrous yet pernicious problem of widespread wealth, has never before been dealt with on such a vast demographic scale. With a lousy job you can make more than enough money to watch porn, play video games, get high, and eat junk food, until you're 28 years old, and beyond. Bty the way, today is April 20th, that's 4/20, when a few million potheads go out of their way to make sure that they're high today. So please, urge those you know to not smoke pot, and Google: Negative effects of marijuana, or just go to our website, rsr.org/pot where we've worked with some of the world's leading experts on the terrible mental health, physical and moral health problems associated with cannabis. But back to the wealth crisis, and this is all to understand why, and why now, governments have shut down our economies to fight the coronavirus. Vast national wealth also brings with it predictable challenges. Those who say that the masses are not wealthy, relatively speaking, don't remember the past. What would a well-off family do if they thought that a growing epidemic had a good chance of killing one of their kids? I've asked that exact question to a dozen successful parents over the last two months. They've told me what we all know they would say. That they would go to any length they could, if they really thought that there was a good chance that one of their kids might pick up an infection that had a likely chance of killing them. For example, some folks said things like, we'd move to Tonga, you know in the South Pacific, for the duration of the pestilence. We'd hunker down and not leave the house until the plague had passed. We'd send our kids to live with their grandparents in Siberia. Literally. In other words, if you can afford it, you would go to extraordinary lengths, even if you couldn't really afford it, and it might bankrupt you, you would do above and beyond anything you had previously imagined, if you thought one of your kids might die, and you had some chance of saving them. Poorer families, on the other hand, can't even think in such terms. Compare what Bill Gates would do to protect his family, wife Melinda, and his kids, his son Rory, and daughters Jennifer and Phoebe? Yes, he's a pro-abortion, moral monster. He did help much of the world out of poverty, and for that, he deserves his wealth, however he's an all-but-declared enemy of biblical morality. In the 1980s I worked for him in Redmond Washington. He once flamed me, as we'd say back then, with an angry email of two screens worth of text, from Bill Gates; I didn't even read the whole thing. I was busy. And as I've too often mentioned, I had dinner at his home back when he was still a bachelor, before he had even bought much furniture. There wasn't even a table and chairs for us to eat at. It was funny. Anyway, if he had to, he'd buy the whole Hawaiian island of Lanai, which in fact he [temporarily shut down] about a decade after I worked for him, for his wedding. He'd spend billions to buy an entire island if he though it would protect his kids. What would a typical family, say, in Kenya do? If there's a plague coming across Africa and it's headed right for their family. What would a typical family in Kenya do? The answer is, they'd wait for it. There's virtually nothing that they could do. Or that they would think they could do. Epidemiologists for decades have been telling governments and the public how to slow down or even stop the spread of an infectious disease. Until now though, nations didn't have the wealth, or at least, they didn't think they had the wealth, to follow their advice. Go back a century to the Spanish flu, 1918, a quarter of the world's population was infected, about 500 million people, and estimates vary of the death toll, but all recognize it as one of the deadliest events pandemics in history. So let's take the smallest estimate, of about one percent of the world population, so that if you were alive then, if you personally knew 200 people, two of them would be killed by the plague. Careful estimates range up to 5% of the world's population, or one out of every 20 people, dying. So go back a hundred years, go back, to let's say, London, in 1850. What if they had a plague like that. When ]you think of their current deaths in the United Kingdom, they're approaching what, 17,000 deaths. Well London back, 150 years ago, they had a population of what, two and a half million people. If they tried to quarantine, lock down the city, let alone the whole country, for six weeks, two months, three months. Within the first six weeks, half the population of London would be dead. You'd have a million people starve to death. If it were in winter they'd freeze to death. So it is prosperity that has enabled governments to think, at some point, it's been coming for a long time at some point, that they could implement what epidemiologists were telling them for decades now, that they could do to stop people from dying. Now these scientists, they are important and they have valid insights, but they're not inerrant, and they're not praxeologists, right, they're not economists, and so they're not good at estimating how many people will be killed by their cure, for the opposite of an increased standard living, what we call economic decline, that kills people. Instead of living, and living better, they live worse, and they die. And that happens both when wealth increases, especially rapidly, and when, including rapidly, it decreases. Remember that China's scientists, twice, earlier this century, unintentionally allowed the SARS virus to escape from the Chinese Institute of Virology. Now that's not in Wuhan, but in Beijing. But they did a pretty good job, compared to what they did with this coronavirus, of slowing and stopping the spread. It's like the sailor who gets a commendation for securing a loose canon, and then has to walk the plank, because he's the one who let it get loose in the first place. About 800 people did end up dying, but China began by quarantining all 200 staffers from the lab, for weeks in a nearby hotel which they locked down; and they took other measures. Most of the dead were in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and a few dozen in Singapore and even Canada. So, epidemiologists, some of whom are both helpful, and guilty, do have some valid ideas of how to slow down, or possibly even stop, the spread of a disease. You can expect a wealthy nation to behave like a wealthy family, including in a crisis. Add to that, our governing leaders who have virtually no knowledge, or concern, for what God says about the just function of government. And you can be sure that leaders will not know where the proper boundaries of their authority lie. And you can also be sure that those who are angry at their government, including some in this audience right now, whether they hate the government or are just angry at it, many of them will themselves, have very little knowledge of what God says about how governments should function, or know how to apply valid principles of governance during a pandemic. If we replaced any number of our leaders, with, say, the same number of our Christian leaders, do you think the final death toll would be lower than it will be under the current regime? Or, how about this. Do you think that fewer people would be angry at their decisions, than are currently angered? One rule we have here at Real Science Radio is, don't get angry at people for doing things that we ourselves couldn't do any better. Some governing leaders hate their own people. In addition to abortion, by which they have dismembered and otherwise killed millions of their own youngest boys and girls, in addition to that, some have slaughtered millions of their own, I could put it the way Antonin Scalia put it.  They have slaughtered millions of their own walking-around-people. Now he put it that thoughtlessly. A few years back I had the honor of giving a presentation, it's now on YouTube, against theistic evolution, on the beautiful campus in Malibu, of Pepperdine University. And there, former justice Antonin Scalia said, and Christians think that he was pro-life, he said that if Congress passed a law banning abortion, he would strike it down. Why? Because he'd rather people fight over killing the unborn at the local level. Now that's absurd. Anyway, not all leaders hate their own people, or at least, say, their walking-around people. Another Austrian conservative author, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn wrote in his brilliant work, Leftism Revisited. that some leaders actually think of their citizens the same way that a father thinks of his children. By the way, his is another great book, and at a mere 500 pages, it's still quite the slog; boy, these Austrians really know how to write! If you want to watch your nation go broke faster, see what happens when millionaires end up in charge. The Clintons went from donating Bill's underwear, literally, it's on their old tax returns, and taking a deduction for each pair, they went from that, to controlling a two-billion dollar foundation. For like the Bible says about Judas, explicitly, the Bible says that Judas didn't actually care about the poor, but he said he did because he would take money designated for the poor, he'd take the money for himself. That's a perfect summary of socialist politicians. It's something, that very thing in fact, is in the headlines, describing Pope Francis in the Vatican, right now! Taking the money from all over the world, that Catholics put in their poor boxes. I was raised Catholic, I was an altar boy for a couple years. And in the back of every church in the vestibule there's a little box and it says, For the poor. Poor people put their money in it for other poor people. It turns out that the Pope has been spending that very money on his own budget. Wow. So wealthy politicians and those who become wealthy in office, they're especially inclined to have a socialist  mindset. Like right now, giving a thousand dollar check to everybody, to a hundred million of us, whether you need it or not. And "printing" money, put printing in quotes, printing trillions of dollars, so we can spread that around also, in a socialist hope of reducing the lethality of the quarantine cure. We don't need a conspiracy to figure out how this started. Mental illness is widespread, including among Christians, with paranoia, the susceptibility to conspiracy theory, being one of the easiest symptoms to diagnose your health issue. Now, regarding the crisis within the crisis, China produces much of our most vital pharmaceuticals, medicines, emergency medical supplies, and even much of the equipment, not to mention so much of everything else. And while I've always loved Shark Tank, I've also been critical of them for a couple reasons. One is that routinely they will skewer an entrepreneur who wants to manufacture in America. To them, a hundred times over, it mattered nothing that they could be weakening America, or taking away jobs that American business owners wanted to give to their neighbors. And so that mindset, profit is great; and greed will blind you to bigger issues, including matters of national security and economic health. Don't get me wrong. The cheaper provider, doing the same job, is almost always the wisest choice, except that, manufacturing your widget, often, is not the entire consideration, and they've always presented it as though it were. I've always openly and aggressively hated the Chinese communist government. Our church has even gone to protest their communist leader a decade ago when he came to Colorado Springs. And I've hated the idea that instead of always condemning them and pushing for the liberation of their 1.4 billion people that Donald Trump was always talking about getting a better "deal" from the Chinese, that is, from their slave labor. And I've always said the opposite whenever Trump would praise their president. So I don't think I'm inclined to err on their behalf. But they did not intentionally infect the world. They're nothing if not deliberate, long-term players. This was a combination of hubris and incompetence. Yes, they shut down Wuhan flights within China, in fact, they shut down the whole Hubei province from travel to the rest of the country. Let's dig in and add some accuracy to this story that's overlooked by the enraged right. And our goal is to think through the conspiracy theory now widely circulating especially among Christians, that China had some kind of plan to infect the world. So, when did they shut down Hubei, including Wuhan air travel within China? Let's see my notes here. That was January 23rd. Now the whole province has about half a dozen airports, and only one international, the Wuhan International Airport. So they were all closed to fights outside of Hubei province. And by the way, the Wuhan airport stayed closed for about ten weeks, until April 8th. So January 23rd till April 8th. In mid January, quite a bit was already going on, publicly, worldwide even, before they closed down those flights. On January 11th, China made their first nationwide announcement of the illness, which means of course that's when it became widely known about, around the world. Its state media reported the illness in Wuhan. Then, and this is easier to recall for Americans, ten days later, on January 21st, we had our first [publicly known] case here. It was, as you'll recall, in the state of Washington. The world was on the lookout for this virus. By then it had just shown up in Japan, South Korea and Thailand. Then two days later, on that January 23rd date, China closed off Wuhan by canceling planes and trains leaving the city. They suspended all public transportation in the city and apparently, throughout the province, buses, subways and even ferries were closed down. By this point, it was known publicly that at least 17 people had died and about 600 were infected, including then also in Taiwan. Then, and this is where the conspiracy theorists get energized, apparently, based on public reports we have of a February 4th announcement, China's Civil Aviation Administration ordered local airlines to keep operating international flights to countries that HAD NOT imposed restrictions on inbound travel to China. So that's been reported including by Reuters news agency, that's an extremely biased leftist source, but one that nonetheless, frequently does report the basic dates and facts correctly. People are angry, including people who have lost jobs, and businesses even, and see no way of financially recovering. They don't need us to pile on and give them a boogeymen to be enraged at. China has plenty of guilt for what we know that they've done to cover up the crisis, mistreat, and even disappear their own doctors, journalists, and experts. So why would China continue flights to the rest of the world, according to conspiracy theorists, and then according to a rational assessment. Well the conspiracy claims that they had an intentional plan to infect the world to give them an economic advantage. That seems absurd on its face. We'll talk about why. The claim continues like this. If the rest of the world is reeling from a pandemic, then China will have an economic advantage because they won't be reeling, except they were infected themselves, for starters, and they've lied about their numbers, which have apparently been much greater than they've publicized. On its face that theory seems absurd and will be believed by people who are inclined to paranoia and looking for an outlet for their fear and their anger, someone to blame, and especially because they think that this extreme accusation against China somehow helps their own favorite politician. Okay then, what's the rational assessment? First, it completely discounts the conspiracy claim, because China, again, is nothing if not a deliberate, long-term player. To gain some kind of supposed short-term economic advantage, they would be sacrificing decades of prosperity, when they've had a hundred million people just barely climbing out of poverty. They'd have to give all that up, and go backwards. For clearly, intentionally spreading a disease to the rest of the world is not something that could be hidden, especially after the Wuhan outbreak had become known worldwide. They would enrage more than a hundred countries, and infect and devastate even their allies, like Iran. They would become a global pariah, which they have become anyway, apart from the conspiracy theories. This was not a biological weapon engineered in a lab. The scientific evidence strongly refutes that claim. And this was not intentionally spread to the world, so they could take some kind of economic advantage. The world would be highly motivated to reduce, some countries cut off, all trade with China. And that trade is exactly what has been bringing them out of 70 years of communism-induced poverty. It is that trade that has built up their military. It is that trade that has enabled them to create the technology to control almost a billion and a half people. And they know that. Trade has been vital for their already struggling economy. For them to hatch this scheme would mean that they were willing to sacrifice decades of increasing prosperity, for, what? For nothing. Because their trade would collapse. Instead, it was what we see in tyrants generally. It was hubris, and incompetence. By the uncontrolled arrogance of the left, especially of communist tyrants, but even of the Nancy Pelosis and Hillary Clintons of the world. They put themselves up on pedestals, as though there were gods. And when you look at their policies, they do seem to think that they are gods, passing legislation that appear to, attempt to defy the very laws of nature itself, and certainly, that would defy human nature. So a communist leader thinks that what he says is law. And that even nature itself will obey him. So they lie about an outbreak as it inexorably explodes to where the whole world knows that they lied. And then in their incompetence and hubris, they hoard medical supplies for themselves violating even their own manufacturing commitments to the world. And they shut down travel within China. But again, in hubris, think, well if countries are still flying here, we're not going to shut down flights back to those countries. That's their decision. [Of course, based even just on the number of planes available in any fleet or nation, no airline or country, including China, could sustain continuing to send flights out of their country unless those same planes were first flying into their country. So the countries that planes were flying into, out of China, were the same countries that continued of their own volition, and with some recklessness, to fly planes into China.] Those countries, they know that there's an outbreak here, and if they're so stupid to fly here, then fine. Whatever business and help they bring along, on those flights, we could use it. And their problems, are their problems. So, we're out of time. We'll finish this on our next RSR COVID show. And until then, to forward this Crawford-sponsored public service program to a friend, just go online to rsr.org. That's r-s-r dot o-r-g. This is Bob Enyart for my co-host Fred Williams and Real Science Radio, may God bless you

Grit Capital's CEO, Genevieve Roch-Decter, chats with the infamous investor from ABC's Shark Tank, Kevin O'Leary, to discuss capital raising in the form of crowd funding + Kevin's market outlook with COVID-19 putting pressures on businesses working capital.

In this episode of Beach Weekly Arts, host Cain Hernandez sits down with CSULB alumnus and entrepreneur AJ Crook to discuss his recent appearance on ABC's Shark Tank. Crook is director of operations for Shake It Pup!, a dog food seasoning company. Listen as Crook dives into his journey from the classroom to the television screen. On-air: Cain Hernandez. Edited by Cain Hernandez

Nick Massie (AKA Paleo Nick) has over 20 years of experience as a professional cook and is passionate about BBQ. He won the people's choice award at the 2003 Great Alaskan One-Pot Cook-Off and in 2016, he had the opportunity to present his business to the investors on ABC's Shark Tank. In today's episode, we talk about how he grew Ice Age Meals from a pop-up tent at the CrossFit Games to a business with over 20 employees, his experience on Shark Tank, and his three rules to live by in order to be a successful entrepreneur. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jason-ackerman/support

Light therapy can improve your sleep, boost, energy, reduce anxiety and offer other benefits. Amber Leong created her line of light therapy lamps after experiencing seasonal affective disorder. She successfully pitched her company, Circadian Optics, on ABC's Shark Tank. Nurse Practitioner Maggie Berghoff shares her road back to health after suffering from chronic inflammation and a mini stroke (TIA). Berghoff discusses red light therapy benefits, from improving skin texture to muscle recovery.

Kelsey Moreira, former manager at Intel turned entrepreneur, shares how she ditched her 10-year tech career to start and run Doughp, a cookie dough business. She started with only $2,000 for a cookie dough cart and cookie dough materials.In this episode, you'll hear her amazing milestones on her journey to build a thriving business, including In 3 hours, she sold out her first batch of MVP (aka her cookie dough as her Minimum Viable Product) at a park and got her market research done.In 1 month, her business started to be profitable.In 7 months, she got her first outside investment to open a store in San Francisco.In 2 years, she's on ABC's Shark Tank and the list of Forbes 30 Under 30 Class 2020.On Shark Tank, Barbara Corcoran called her “the most sophisticated store owner she’s ever seen.”On top of all these accomplishments, Kelsey has openly shared her life in recovery from alcohol addiction and started the #Doughp4Hope initiative to donate money to causes that support and reduce stigma on mental health and substance abuse.You can find Kelsey Moreira at:Website: hhttps://www.doughp.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eatdoughp/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eatdoughp/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelseywitherow/About 10X Vision:Host: Mina Fung, Founder of Pull Impact, Co-founder of wifaglobalMusic credit: Adventures by A HimitsuFor tips and lessons learned throughout the podcast, head over to https://www.pullimpact.com/podcast and subscribe to my monthly summary list exclusively delivered to your email box once a month.

This week, we interview Jonathan Hayes, fellow technologist and travel enthusiast, and founder of RewardStock.com. He was kind enough to take time to discuss what inspired him to create the disruptive and revolutionary travel platform and give us a rundown of how his methods scored him a $200 trip to the Maldives for his honeymoon. Appearing on ABC's Shark Tank and scoring a deal with Mark Cuban, has given him the luxury of swimming with sharks without doing so in the literal sense (although he still managed to dine with them underwater)! Please send any travel related questions you have to 'asksardines@gmail.com' or find us on IG, Facebook, and Twitter. #SardinesLLC Thanks for listening! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/Sardinesllc/support

Chris and Geanie Rodgers started Rapid Rope with an idea and a dream 8 years ago, now they are watching their dream come to life after recently landing a deal on ABC's Shark Tank. This Idaho based family business is a great example of what working hard and doing good looks like. Rapid Rope is designed for everyone and for almost every task, from tying your Christmas tree on your car to tying down a trailer of goods. Their product is designed to give you the most efficient way to store and use rope. Chris developed the idea after working as an electrical lineman in Idaho for over 20 years. He uses rope a lot in his day-to-day tasks. On Sunday,” Chris and Geanie showed the sharks how to survive a zombie apocalypse and tugged at the sharks hearts in the process. With lifetime sales of $172,000, and personal investment of $115,000 their own savings, Chris and Geanie, asked for $200,000 for 20% of their company. Chris had planned to quit his job, but the family needed the continued support. They are parents to five children, including a 12-year-old boy adopted from Ethiopia who was sick with colitis. Geanie quit her job as a nurse to take care of him. The couple built a school in their son’s name and did a fund run to raise money to help children in Africa. As Chris and Geanie went on to experience "the most nerve wracking, and most surreal moment of our lives" in the Shark Tank, Barbara Corcoran went on to give them the $200,000, for 30%of their company. "Our goal was to be ourselves, make our family proud and stick to our core values and beliefs and let it all fall into place. Our main drive at making our company successful is to be able to give back. We believe that if we live our passion and make our community, state, country and world a better place than we have done our part." Chris and Geanie Rodgers of Rapid Rope landed a deal in the Shark Tank - why can't it happen to you? All you small business owners and entrepreneurs, be encouraged by this! Keep after it. Get yourself some Rapid Rope with the Shark Tank deal pricing: https://rapidrope.com ----------------------------------------------------------- About the Podcast: Connecting with the community is a priority for BVA. The goal of this podcast is to have conversations that shed new light on different perspectives to create a dialog that inspires excellence. The Inspire Excellence podcast is an Idaho based show that is hosted by Troy McClain, CEO of Tovuti Learning Systems and Tommy Ahlquist the CEO of BVA. Each episode features different guests and compelling topics. Leave a review on whatever platform you decide to listen on and tell your friends! Follow Us Online At: Anchor: https://anchor.fm/inspireexcellencepo... Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/bvadev/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs0R... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bvadev/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/bvadev LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bva-...

Check out the complete show notes: http://hacktheentrepreneur.com/jim-decicco/ Get a free 30-day trial of FreshBooks right now, no credit card required. Go to Freshbooks.com/HACK and enter HACK THE ENTREPRENEUR in the how did you hear about us section. Jim DeCicco, is an ambitious, intense, and determined entrepreneur. After college in 2015, he worked in finance for a few month before teaming up with his two brothers to create the world's first Super Coffee. Today he is the CEO at Kitu Life Inc., makers of Super Coffee and Super Creamer. Since 2015, Jim and his brothers have raised $18 million in venture capital. They've pitched on ABC's Shark Tank, and have been featured in the 2019 Class of Forbes' 30 Under 30. This is a great conversation about the overlap between professional and personal life, why innovation needs to be complimentary to your offerings, and how Jim and his brothers got their start by being scrappy and making sales. Now, let's hack... Jim DeCicco.

One would think a milkshake that runs upwards of $10 would have a very limited market. Not true. Begun in Gulf Shores, Chelsea and Logan Green have discovered a robust market for their magnificent creations and are now operating several stores with plans in the works for franchise operations. And the cherry on the top is an offer from Mark Cuban on ABC's Shark Tank to help them grow. Listen to their story.

The Insurance Dudes: Craig Pretzinger & Jason FeltmanThe World Famous Insurance Dudes chat with Shaan PatelFrom Shaan's Website:Shaan grew up in Las Vegas in his parents' budget motel, attended inner-city public schools in the worst school district in the nation with a 40% dropout rate, and was clueless about standardized tests. After spending hundreds of hours studying for the SAT, he was able to raise his score from average to perfect — a feat achieved by only 0.02% of all high school students. His life completely changed because of his perfect SAT score! He was admitted into prestigious universities, received a quarter-million dollars in scholarships, and even got to meet the President.He created Prep Expert to help high school students achieve their own dreams. Prep Expert is the nation’s fastest growing test preparation provider. The company offers 6-week SAT & ACT preparation classes in multiple cities around the country and online. Thousands of Prep Expert students have improved their SAT and ACT scores, gotten into the Ivy League, won millions in scholarships, and some have even gotten perfect SAT/ACT scores themselves.Shaan completed his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Biology (BA) at the University of Southern California, Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Yale University, and Medical Degree (MD) at the University of Southern California. He has published 10+ books in SAT & ACT prep, entrepreneurship, and self-improvement. Shaan is currently completing a medical residency to specialize in dermatology. In addition to his academic endeavors, he continues to act as the Founder & President of Prep Expert. He recently appeared on ABC's Shark Tank and closed a deal with billionaire Mark Cuban for an investment in the company. Shaan was also honored to be named on INC Magazine’s 30 Under 30 list in 2019.Join Shaan's FREE WEBINAR!Check out his PREP EXPERT Website----------Subscribe to The Insurance Dudes:Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart | Listen Notes>>>>JOIN THE INSURANCE DUDES GROUP TO WIN SWAG!

In 2011, Matthew Bliss re-created his grandfather’s design of the Modern Christmas Tree and made it available to the public. His grandfather was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, and Bliss decided to show the tree. He made his debut at the Denver Modernism Show in 2011, and the Modern Christmas Tree was a hit!   Since then, the tree has been photographed in some of the most important Mid-Century Modern Homes in the United States. Modern Christmas Trees was also featured on ABCs Shark Tank where he scored a deal with Barbara Corcoran.   Tune in now to hear Matt’s inspiring story of carrying on his grandfather’s legacy and how he’s been able to handle such a seasonal business. He’ll also share how he was able to greatly increase his revenues by cutting out the retailer middle man and start selling direct to his niche customers.   If you’re ready to believe in yourself to make the difficult decisions required to be a successful entrepreneur, this bonus episode is for you! Connect with Matt Bliss and Modern Christmas Tree here. Enjoy, and thank you for listening and tuning into Success Unfiltered! To share your thoughts: Email The Pitch Queen @ hello@thepitchqueen.com Ask a question over at www.ThePitchQueen.com Share Success Unfiltered on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, & LinkedIn  To help the show out: Please leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and reviews really help and I read each one. Subscribe to the show on iTunes. Special thanks goes out to Matt Bliss for taking the time to chat with Michelle. Be sure to join us Monday, January 6th! Success Unfiltered is switch days and frequency! Be on the lookout for a new Success Unfiltered every other week, on Mondays.   Music produced by Deejay-O  www.iamdeejayo.com  

Ring Inc is a home security and smart home company owned by Amazon. Ring manages a range of home security products that incorporate outdoor motion-detecting cameras, such as the Ring video doorbell. Founder Jamie Siminoff graduated from Babson in 1999 and appeared on ABC's Shark Tank in late 2013. He returned to Shark Tank in October 2018, this time as a guest shark. Hear about his journey from 'Doorbot' to 'Ring' and how Amazon acquired Ring for a staggering $1Bn. Learn more: https://ring.com/

DISCLAIMER: Bridget is really sick and sounds like a dying turkey. You might not recognize her. But perfect timing because it's almost Turkey Day, and the AOS podcast celebrates with a special guest! Deborah Torres is best known as the woman who went viral for turning down ONE MILLION DOLLARS on ABC's Shark Tank. Crazy or genius? We think BRILLIANT! Deborah fries up the world's most popular vegan fried chicken along with other vegan products that you can find served up at restaurants across the United States. Deborah dishes on fad diets, athlete eating habits, and how to shop healthy. You'll be lickin' your chops by the end of this episode. To get on the delivery waiting list or learn more about Atlas Monroe vegan food products, head to atlasmonroe.com. Follow Bridget! Instagram: @afterorangeslices Twitter: @bridgetcase_ afterorangeslices.com Sponsored by Quiktract, the easiest way to create and sign a contract. Download the FREE Quiktract app today.

Today on Hawaii's Best, Ellie and Ali are chatting with Cassidy Crowley, a fifth-grader and the inventor of The Baby Toon who recently landed a deal on ABC's Shark Tank. The Baby Toon is a NEW option for a baby spoon that eliminates the long sharp design of a traditional spoon. The Baby Toon is made out of 100% soft FDA grade silicone with rounded corners and edges (gentle on the baby's gums). Their patented design is easy for babies and parents to hold with a short neck that limits how far it can enter a baby's mouth. Podcast show notes available here - livehawaiisbest.com/episode017 Follow Us On Instagram - Click Here

Who remembers the Flint water crisis? How about the Newark water crisis? Certainly you've heard of ABC's Shark Tank, where entrepreneurs go pitch to a panel of sharks to gain equity or strategic partners for their business as well as educate the audience that watches the show. Eric Roy had been supporting child care centers and a few other mission critical organizations in Flint with a "customized water filter" to restrict harmful chemicals from contaminating those residents in Flint. He went onto Shark Tank and eventually struck a deal with Mark Cuban to help fuel the growth of their business and help communities throughout the country and help families protect themselves from harmful contaminants in our drinking water. There are more cities with these challenges. There will be more of these stories that hit the press and the media outlets, if folks don't take the time to get educated about their water and the infrastructure in their communities. Learn more about Eric and check out more from the water nerds at Hydroviv: Online: https://www.hydroviv.com/

Ever wonder what it's truly like behind the scene of ABC's Shark Tank?  Did you know that each pitch could be hours long?  Mine was about an hour long but you only see the good parts on tv... like playing flip cup against the sharks and chest bumping with my bros.  Ohhh yeah, and of course, getting offers from all 5 Sharks.  That was an amazing journey and walking away with a deal from two sharks was a dream come true.  But as great as it was, that was when all the work really started!  Ice Shaker was just a little itty bitty side hustle that was being shipped out of my house when we aired. A lot of hard work and long hours later, it has blossomed into a full line of kitchen grade stainless steel bottles designed to help live a happier, healthier and more active lifestyle.   If you like listening to stories about sports, hard work, entrepreneurship and motivation then check out my podcast.   The goal of the podcast is to bring you value not just in business but also in your everyday life and of course to keep you entertained with some ridiculous Gronk'd UP stories of growing up in a family of 5 over sized boys.  We dive into topics such as how to start a business, what Shark Tank is really like, how to effectively market a product, healthy living, motivation, mindset and so much more. Check out our first episode and don't blame me if you like it and start binge listening to them all.   Don't worry if you listen to them all in the next couple of hours, we release new episodes every Monday and sometimes on Friday.  Please subscribe so you are notified every time a new episode becomes available.

Are you comparing your roadmap to someone else? Matt LeBris was just 17 when he began working in the NYC nightlife industry. Captivated by money, Matt fell for the allure of the brights lights and big city. Unable to juggle both school and work, Matt failed out of college and opted to expand his position in marketing and promotion working with people like 50 Cent, Fetty Wap and more. An epiphany led Matt to recommit to his education which led to meeting Daymond John of ABC's Shark Tank and then, a full-time job within Daymond's company.  In this episode, we discuss:  Leveraging your network Why money won't heal your pain Pivoting from materialism to service Personal branding and WHY everyone should care about, no matter your age or industry.  People say the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. That's great for directions, but life is filled with twists, turns, and road bumps. Strap on your seatbelt and get ready for this hot, new episode!  ------------ **Join the YOU WANNA DO WHAT?! Facebook Community (www.facebook.com/groups/youwannadowhat) Join a FREE personal development community for extra support as you learn how to change your mindset and how to improve productivity on the path of self-development.    -------- **Love the show? Leave a review! Visit the YOU WANNA DO WHAT?! online: www.youwannadowhat.com Let's Connect! Have a question? Want to recommend a topic or guest? Email me: monica@youwannadowhat.com Follow me on Instagram and Facebook NEW: www.twitter.com/youwannadowhat1 Subscribe to the  YOU WANNA DO WHAT??! personal development podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts or your favorite podcast app.

**This episode originally aired on June 4, 2018** Our guest today needs no introduction. She had 22 jobs by the age of 23. She built a $5 billion business with a $1,000 loan. She's a shark on ABC's Shark Tank and host of her new podcast called Business Unusual. We are in conversation with the one and only Barbara Corcoran. I have had the privilege of interviewing Barbara many times over the years and every time, I get goosebumps. Every time I get a little nervous. I get butterflies in my stomach. That's why I think I love her. She's the real deal. On our show today, she talks about childhood; goes down memory lane and talks about the impact that her mom had on her relationship with money today as an adult woman. She talks about why she felt lost the moment when she sold Corcoran Real Estate, her real estate empire for 66 million dollars. If you listen to any show this week, make this the episode you definitely reserve. Follow Barbara on Instagram and Twitter.

In the world of investment real estate, you rarely hear the word "Sales." Selling someone in the traditional sense isn't thought of as advisable for a variety of reasons, with the most significant reason being buyer's remorse. Is it possible to make the sales process go easier without having to implement hard close strategies, and if so, how should you position yourself and your conversations?   Our guest for today is Michelle Weinstein, who is a sales strategist, entrepreneur, and innovator. Michelle has over 20 years of sales experience, selling everything from multi-million dollar homes to Paleo meatballs. Her achievements include raising over $1M dollars for her last company, landing contracts with major retailers such as Costco and The Vitamin Shoppe, and pitches her way onto ABC's Shark Tank. She is now the founder of The Pitch Queen and the host of Success Unfiltered and The Abundant Accountant Podcast.    Today we are going to discuss... How to listen to your potential clients to hear where their pain points are How to hit the ask button without being worried that you are being too pushy How you can eliminate pitch anxiety that even high performers struggle with   Learn more about our guest: sellwithoutsleaze.com     Subscribe in iTunes. Click here to access our investment opportunities.

Episode 61 features Co-Founder of The Superfan Company, Kim Kaupe. I have been following Kim's content online for a couple years and was pleased to get a chance to meet her at the Next Gen Summit in June of 2019 when she was there as a speaker. This was an interesting interview that follows her journey from childhood through present day.Some topics we discussed were:Her goal of working for a magazineSerendipitously meeting her Co-FounderKeeping their jobs while starting the businessKeeping relationships Getting into WalmartHer Shark Tank experience…and much moreIf you all haven't had the chance to follow Kim online I'd suggest to do that below as she has a great perspective on business and entrepreneurship. If you need a starting point, check out her "Coffee with Kim" series on here website here -> https://www.kimkaupe.com/coffeewithkimFind Kim OnlineWebsite: https://www.kimkaupe.comLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimkaupeInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/kimkaupeTwitter: https://twitter.com/kimkaupeAbout KimWhile Kim has not yet mothered a human baby, she delivered ZinePak—now The Superfan Company—into the world in January 2011 after holding positions at Conde Nast and Fathom Communications. She has been thrilled, killed, and amazed by her first few years of entrepreneurship and is so proud of what The Superfan Company has established in past seven years. From successes in retail with Walmart and Cracker Barrel to working with world class tours for legends like Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan to stints on TV shows like ABC's Shark Tank, the highs have been SO high… and the lows well, gray hair is cool now right?From Katy Perry and ACE Universe Comic-Con to Logic and the New York Mets, Kim has had more than 100 amazing clients throughout the years and no, she cannot pick a favorite client...she loves them all (somewhat equally!). She enjoys sharing the highs and lows of entrepreneurship on her social media, along with her adventures, travel, and friends (much to their dismay, often yelling, "Do not put that on your Instagram! Well unless I look good and then you can.")........For more episodes of the Just Get Started Podcast visit https://shows.pippa.io/justgetstarted or Follow the Just Get Started Podcast on Instagram at @justgetstartedpodcast or Facebook https://www.facebook.com/justgetstartedpodcast To learn more about the host, Brian Ondrako, check out https://www.brianondrako.com or find Brian on Instagram at @brianondrako See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

“They measured how much I weighed, my height, but they could not measure my heart. They could not measure my ability to get knocked down 7 and get up 8” - Justin Forsett Justin Forsett (@jforsett) is an NFL Running Back and Pro Bowl Player. He was ranked #65 of the Top 100 players of 2015. He’s been described as a powerful player despite being “undersized and overmatched.” At 5’8”, Justin became an underdog fan favorite in the NFL. Drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the 7th round in the 2008 NFL Draft, Forsett started his 9-year football career in which he played with 7 different teams. He is a podcast host on LeBron James' UNINTERRUPTED Podcast Network, featured in Sports Illustrated, and appears in the final episode of Long Shot. Justin is a writer, sporting news contributor, and radio broadcast color analyst. Justin’s skills as an entrepreneur & inventor found him featured on ABC's Shark Tank as the creator of the ShowerPill. Justin spends his time dedicated to helping victims of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. He is an expert on leadership, overcoming adversity, & perseverance. 

Episode 104 | Harriet Mills Shares How Written Contracts can Save Your Business Have you ever considered a prenup for your business? If you have a partner in the business, you should consider getting a written contract to protect you, your business, and the future of the business! With over a decade of experience as an entrepreneur, Harriet Mills, a mother of three, co-founded her franchise company Wine & Design to help support her family financially. Since pursuing her dreams to grow her business by bringing art and creativity to new communities looking for a fun alternative to a typical night out, Harriet and her team of talented women have grown Wine & Design to one of the nation's' leading Paint and Sip companies with over 80 locations in the US! Harriet and Wine & Design have been recognized both locally and nationally through awards and notoriety such as The Triangle Business Journal's 40 Under 40, ABC's Shark Tank, the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Yahoo Finance. She has used her position in her local community and through Wine & Design to partner with Project ALS to raise money and awareness for the disease. Harriet strives to provide mentorship and guidance to women navigating the world of business. She understands the value of having a tribe of dedicated and passionate women for support and thrives on helping others achieve their business goals, whatever they might be.   Spending money on a lawyer to draw up written contracts and agreements is hard, especially when you’re just starting your entrepreneurial journey. When you spend money, you want to make sure that money brings in more revenue. You might think hiring a lawyer will hurt your cash flow, because it’s not helping you make money, but it is a wise decision in the long run. I personally understand that! When I started FITzee Foods, I needed to invest money into the things that would make my business grow. So, I avoided spending money on a lawyer, especially since I didn’t have a ton of money. However, money spent on a lawyer saves you money in the long run. When I closed FITzee Foods, I lost almost $2 million dollars because I didn’t have written contracts in place to protect me. This week’s guest on the Success Unfiltered Podcast lost $1 million for a similar reason. Learn from our us, and take our $3 million dollar lessons to help you in your business. These written contracts act like a prenup for your business and can save you money, relationships, and stress in your future. This week’s guest on the Success Unfiltered Podcast, Harriet Mills, experienced her most devastating NO when her ex-business partner said NO to an investment from an investor from Shark Tank. Harriet learned from this experience and is coming to share the juicy details with you so that you can learn from her NO and protect your business with written contracts. If you have a business partner or partnership relationships, then this episode of Success Unfiltered is a MUST LISTEN! Enjoy, and thank you for listening and tuning into Success Unfiltered! To share your thoughts: Email The Pitch Queen @ hello@thepitchqueen.com Ask a question over at www.ThePitchQueen.com Share Success Unfiltered on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, & LinkedIn To help the show out: Please leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and reviews really help and I read each one. Subscribe to the show on iTunes. Special thanks goes out to Harriet Mills for taking the time to chat with Michelle. Be sure to join us next week for our next new episode! Everyone Gets Rejected In Sales. It’s what you do AFTER the NO that counts! I’ve got 3 ways that you can turn a NO into a win (and maybe even a future YES)! Grab my guide to surviving rejections in business and making them work for you right HERE! Here are a few key secrets we talked about in this episode: Michelle introduces Harriet Mills. Harriet shares her inspiration for her business, Wine and Design. When Harriet asked the owners of one of the places she visited if they would be willing to let her have a location in North Carolina, they said NO! “No one tells me NO! I’m going to … make it bigger and better!” ~ Harriet Mills When someone tells you NO, take the fear out and do it on your own, and do it better! Harriet found that people didn’t believe in the concept of her business, and didn’t take them seriously. Even the lawyer didn’t think it would work. The lawyer they hired to do their first franchising agreement recycled an old agreement that had been created for a car-related business. The agreement had terms about cars and oil! As an entrepreneur, Harriet says, “You have to take it upon yourself to learn the business as a lawyer, as a marketer, etc. You can trust people,  but you have to watch your back.” One of the keys for a successful franchise is having a kick-a** flagship store - it shows all of those who want to open a franchise that this business is a viable business and can make money! Harriet would have joined the International Franchise Association sooner. Even though she hadn’t planned on franchising, that would have helped her know the ins and outs of the business. Her most devastating NO came when she appeared on Shark Tank, and one of the investors chose her business! Her business partner said NO to an investment from a Shark, and that was when Harriet realized it was time to do business by herself. Not having an operating agreement with her business partner from the start of her business cost her more than $1 million dollars. “It made me fight for the company.” ~ Harriet Mills An operating agreement is like a prenup for your business. If you don’t have an agreement, you’re not going to work out. You’re going to experience one of these: A) your business will fail, B) you will lose friendships, or C) it will be awful. This was a lesson learned - operating agreements are #1 in your business if you’re going to work with a partner. Spend the money on written contracts! Have everything in writing. Follow verbal agreements up in writing, with an email restating what was said and agreed upon! Everything you have in writing is documented. “I can’t stress this enough - spending extra money on attorneys is worth it. If you can’t afford it, wait to start the business!” ~ Harriet Mills I don’t like to say NO, I am willing to give everyone a chance. Harriet had to fire her marketing firm because they weren’t a good fit. If your marketing firm isn’t giving you statistics about conversions and growth, you need a new firm! Make sure there is an “out” clause with your written contracts, give them a retainer and make sure you’re getting detailed reports. Let them show you conversions - if there isn’t any, they aren’t doing their job & it’s time to implement your out clause. Harriet shares what she would share with her younger self. Connect with Harriet Mills: Wine and Design Website Facebook Twitter YouTube Instagram Everyone Gets Rejected In Sales. It’s what you do AFTER the NO that counts! I’ve got 3 ways that you can turn a NO into a win (and maybe even a future YES)! Grab my guide to surviving rejections in business and making them work for you right HERE! Music produced by Deejay-O  www.iamdeejayo.com

Matt Higgins is a self-made man and his story is the perfect example of how hard work and tenacity pays off. He grew up in Queens, NY hawking flowers on street corners and working at McDonald’s to help put food on the table for his family. Coming from a single parent household, Matt dropped out of high school to fast-track his graduation by obtaining a GED and enrolling in college at age 16. Out of college, his career was a roller coaster ride that went from newspaper reporter to being the press secretary of New York City for Mayor Rudy Giuliani during 9/11. Followed by tenures in the NFL as a high level executive for both the Miami Dolphins and the NY Jets. Today Matt is CEO and co-founder of RSE Ventures, a private investment firm that incubates and invests in businesses focused in sports/entertainment, media/marketing, food/lifestyle, and technology. You can catch Matt as a guest shark on ABC's Shark Tank!

Megan Reilly, @meganlreilly, mom of three, co-founder, and COO of Tippi Toe Dance Company, a mobile kids dance company that focuses on recreational dance. The business brings dance class to the kids, making it convenient for moms everywhere! The business started by her sister in college has grown into a franchise with 30 franchises. Driven by their goals, Tippi Toes has adapted over time and has grown with customer needs.   Episode 38 of the Time To Be You podcast is all about knowing what your customer needs and figuring out how to deliver it to them. When you're trying to build your business, it's important to put your plans into motion and understand that you will make mistakes. Learning to take small steps and learning to adapt along the way will help you down the path to success. Running a business as a mom is not easy, but for Megan, she gets to do what she loves all while raising her family and she loves every crazy minute of it!   --     Questions:   1. How did you come up with your business and how did you go about starting it? 2. How to Balance running a business and raising three girls 3. How does one truly drive a business so that it sustains past the 10 year mark? 4. What are some of the key things you learned while creating your business and doing it while being a mama? 5. What would you tell someone who is just starting out?   --   Bio:   Megan Reilly is a mom to three girls & is proud that they usually leave the house with a milk mustache & both shoes on! She beat her husband in a marathon which she reminds him of often. She is a registered dietitian with a masters in nutrition & has owned and operated her company, Tippi Toes, Inc, with her sister for over 20 years. Tippi Toes has more than 30 franchises around the US with plans to go international. She has survived swimming with the sharks on ABC's Shark Tank & she has written children's music that has made it onto Billboard and iTunes charts although she can't carry a tune!   --   Www.Tippitoesdance.com  https://www.instagram.com/meganlreilly/   --   Follow Laura on IG! https://www.instagram.com/laura_loveandfit/  

Entrepreneur Mark Cuban owns the Dallas Mavericks, stars on ABC's "Shark Tank" and is worth an estimated $3.9 billion. If you ask the businessman what it takes to succeed, though, he doesn't just point to work ethic and negotiation skills. As Cuban told Vanity Fair in a 2018 interview with the "Shark Tank" cast, a simple skill that anyone can develop can go a long way: "One of the most underrated skills in business right now is being nice. Nice sells."

Scott Tindle is a serial entrepreneur that has worked for years helping startup companies get to a point where they can then be sustained by a new owner. Scott originally started his adult life by getting his undergrad degree in secondary education, only to wind up pursuing a law degree and practicing law for a few years, and then moving into entrepreneurship. Now, Scott has been featured on ABC's Shark Tank, Fox Business, Business Insider, NBC, CNBC, TMZ, Tech Crunch, and the Travel Channel. To learn more about some of Scott's projects, be sure to check out his website scottindle.com, and otherwise you can learn about those projects and his experience with Shark Tank right in this episode! ---------- Scott Tindle: Instagram: https://instagram.com/scott_tindle Twitter: https://twitter.com/scott_tindle Website: https://scottindle.com Justin Phillips: Instagram: https://instagram.com/jrpbusiness Twitter: https://twitter.com/jjustinrp Facebook: https://facebook.com/Justinrp56 Website: https://justinrp.net

Brian Fried is a serial inventor with many of his inventions reaching mass retail, As Seen On TV, home shopping channels, catalogs and online retailers through licensing and manufacturing. He is the author of "Inventing Secrets Revealed" and "You & Your Big Ideas", has been featured in the media including; New York Times, Inc. Magazine, Newsday, Inventors Digest, CBS News, Food Network and WPIX11. Brian hosts Got Invention Radio, interviewing high profile guests including, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and Lori Greiner from ABC's Shark Tank and over 150 interviews. He founded and continues as President of inventor clubs on Long Island representing Nassau and Suffolk counties. Brian mentors and represents individual inventors to celebrities at all stages of the invention process, providing feedback, product development, licensing representation and turnkey solutions to make ideas a reality. He is considered an authority and advocate for inventors within the invention community. Brian has been requested as a guest speaker on innovation and invention at major trade shows, government agencies, schools and libraries throughout the country. He recently received the Innovator of the Year Award on Long Island and Proclamation from the County Executive. Fried was recently appointed as the Executive Director of the United Inventors Association of America. http://brianfried.com https://inventorsmart.com http://www.uiausa.org

Inventor Brian Fried is an author, radio host and consultant with many successful inventions reaching mass retail markets. He is the author of Inventing Secrets Revealed, You & Your Big Ideas and Invention Playbook for Inventors with Big Ideas. He has been featured in respected media outlets including the New York Times; Inc. Magazine; Newsday; Inventors Digest; CBS News; the Food Network; and WPIX11. Brian’s inventions are currently marketed through As Seen On TV, home shopping channels, catalogs and online retailers through licensing and manufacturing agreements. As the host of Got Invention Radio, he has interviewed over 150 high profile guests, including Lori Greiner of ABC's Shark Tank and representatives from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. He is the Founder and President of Long Island Inventors & Entrepreneurs Club representing Nassau and Suffolk counties through the SBDC (Small Business Development Center), a division of the SBA (Small Business Administration).   Brian Fried has served as a trusted mentor to inventors including celebrities for over 15 years. Through his Inventor Smart consultancy, he offers one-on-one support at all stages of the invention process. Brian provides feedback, product development, licensing representation and turnkey solutions to make invention ideas a reality. He is considered an authority and advocate for inventors within the invention community, and he is invited as a guest speaker on innovation and invention topics at major trade shows, government agencies, schools and libraries across the nation. He recently received the Innovator of the Year Award on Long Island and several Proclamations for his contribution to the encouragement of innovation in the region from the County Executive.

For Episode 49 of the podcast, Dani is joined by architect-turned-entrepreneur Lori Cheek, founder of the dating app Cheek'd. Comic co-host Rosa Escandon shares her experience taking over friends' dating apps because they were swiping on the wrong people. Plus, Dani wonders if there will ever be an app that breaks it to really long-term users that "maybe it's them..." Tune in for a remarkable story of finding success after being rejected on ABC's Shark Tank.

Ask Win is a podcast where you are a VIP. Win wants to focus and teach people more and Cerebral Palsy. You’re welcome to ask questions about anything that you want. CP questions but mainly life questions on how to deal with CP or not. Win can ask you base questions if you want. Please let us know or there will be no base questions. If you have any questions for Win please email her at askingwkelly@gmail.com. Please donate to Ask Win by going to https://www.paypal.me/WCharles. Patron Checkout: https://www.patreon.com/join/Askwin?. Simplecast's Brand Ambassador Program: http://refer.smplc.st/rtTvG. On Ask Win today (Friday, February 1, 2019), Best-Selling Author, Win C welcomes Matt LeBris. Matt is a born and raised NY’er who inevitably caught the hustlers spirit that fills his hometown streets. Matt is a Forbes 30 under 30 nominee who has worked with Daymond John of ABCs Shark Tank for the past 2.5 years on top of hosting the Decoding Success Podcast and traveling the country to speak in front of audiences, which helps to propel him closer to his goal of positively impacting the lives of one billion individuals. To learn more about Matt visit mattlebris.com. Check out Win's books at https://www.amazon.com/Win-Kelly-Charles/e/B009VNJEKE/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1538951782&sr=1-2-ent. To buy Win’s new book, Smile with Dictation, go to https://books2read.com/Win. I, Win: http://books2read.com/Iwin Check out Danielle's books at https://www.amazon.com/Danielle-Coulter/e/B00OFIOY3C/ref=as_li_ss_tl?qid=1483655853&sr=8-2&linkCode=sl2&tag=paradimarket-20&linkId=8490a064c62cededb762ed5b949ed144.

Melissa Gersin, founder of Tranquilo, Inc. and inventor of the baby soothing Tranquilo mat, joins us on the show to discuss launching and designing a product, winning at MassChallenge, getting an investment on ABC's Shark Tank, and the challenges of navigating the retail and ecom world's in the age of Amazonification.  Don't miss this highly accessible episode that is certain to inspire the dreamer in you. Get your Tranquilo Mat HERE   For conference details visit TRANSTECH2020   Get your free data report at Day01   Find out more about Aborn & Co.    Listen below or subscribe now on iTunes, Spotify, or simply search your favorite podcast player for Consulting Logistics!

Jim DeCicco is the Oldest Brother and CEO at Kitu Life, Inc. makers of Super Coffee and Super Creamer. Jim served as captain of the football team at Colgate University and upon graduating in 2015, he joined his two younger brothers two create the world's first Super Coffee. Since then, Jim and his brothers have raised over $18 million in venture capital, pitched on ABC's Shark Tank and were featured in the 2019 class of Forbes 30 Under 30. During our interview we discuss: - How the business was founded in a college dorm room. - Why they decided to raise venture capital versus boot strapping the company. - Jim shares one of the key secrets to the early success with their Super Coffee product. - We talk about the biggest challenge they have faced since launching the company in 2016. - Jim shares the one thing he would do different to get further faster, if he could start all over again. - Jim shares a prediction about the future of Super Coffee. - We discuss the power of building a community around your brand. - Jim shares his favorite growth tool/software. - Then Jim shares one of his favorite books. Jim's websites: To get 25% off Super Coffee enter coupon code askdennisbrown at www.DrinkSuperCoffee.com Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect w/ Dennis Brown at: AskDennisBrown.com LinkedIn Twitter @askdennisbrown

Stephan Aarstol author of The Five-Hour Workday: Live Differently, Unlock Productivity, andFind Happiness. He is CEO and founder of Tower Paddle Boards. ABCs Shark Tank winner.    For more information go to MoneyForLunch.com. Connect with Bert Martinez on Facebook. Connect with Bert Martinez on Twitter. Need help with your business? Contact Bert Martinez. Have Bert Martinez speak at your event!