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In this episode, we introduce Nathan Evans, WHU-alumn, co-founder of eCommerce startup fulfil, director at the founder's institute in Munich and has 25 years of experience in banking and fintech. Nathan and I had a great conversation about his fascinating career trajectory: From studying physics to the trading floors of London, from banking to product management to founding fulfin. We even managed to talk about poker as a metaphor for entrepreneurship. So I hope you enjoy listening to this episode as much as I did the conversation. Part 1: Nathan Preview (00:04) Part 2: Introducing Nathan Evans (02:15) Part 3: Nathan's founder journey (04:41) Part 4: “The love of the game” - Making the right decisions as Nathan's drive  (10:09) Part 5: Parallels between life and entrepreneurship as a “long game” (12:44) Part 6: How Nathan's trajectory led him to founder-market (15:52) Part 7: Growth financing for young eCommerce companies - the problem fulfin solves (18:07) Part 8: “Don't use equity capital to finance working capital” - Nathan's financing advice (20:58) Part 9: Bootstrappers are the main customer group of fulfin (23:48) Part 10: “Nail it and scale it!” - Nathan's focus in the early times of fulfin (25:03)  Part 11: “More will try and more will fail!” - Nathan's prediction on the future of retail and eCommerce (28:55) Part 12: The effect of rollup companies like Rayzor Group and others on eCommerce entrepreneurs and fulfin (31:50) Part 13: Nathan's work as a startup mentor (36:14) Part 14: The changes in the startup ecosystem in Nathan's view (39:10) Part 15: “Founder-fit” as the addition to founder-market fit (42:15) Part 16: “The love of the game” - For Nathan the only reason to go into entrepreneurship (45:00) Part 17: What would Nathan tell his younger self? (47:33) Part 18: What book is Nathan currently reading? (49:39) Part 19: What is cycling on Nathan's playlist? (52:38) Outro Gerrit (54:22)

Nathan Barry shares the secrets of the world’s most effective communicators and how you can leverage the power of automation to scale your business development efforts to the moon. Learn how business development professionals can use email and content to grow an audience that is hungry for their expertise, reach more people in a deeper way at scale instead of just 1-to-1, and how the compound gains of consistent action can lead to incredible results.   Mo asks Nathan Barry: What’s your big idea for growing a book of business, growing relationships, and growing a career? Nathan used to play video games and he likens having an audience and a newsletter to having the cheat codes for business. Having an engaged audience that you can push content to is incredibly powerful. Some platforms have followers, like social and blogging, and others allow you to push content in front of your audience. The push method puts you in control and makes those platforms much more valuable in achieving your business goals. Many professionals don’t think of an email list as a relevant tool for building a book of business, but if you have a list of the right people that want to hear from you it can definitely be a powerful asset. Even if you’re not selling something through your email list, you can still build the mind share and reputation with your audience that increases your value in their mind. Delivering value is key. When it comes to professional services, a cadence of once a month is more than sufficient and the important thing is quality over quantity when it comes to communication. The best approach is to augment your close relationships with the vital few and combine it with a larger audience where you are delivering content. Those people are your prospective clients and finding a communication method that has leverage is how you can scale relationships considerably. Content allows someone to get to know you on a deeper level, well before you ever talk to them in person or on a phone call.   Mo asks Nathan Barry: How can we get more of the meaningful work we want to do? When you think about all the service providers you could hire, you consider all sorts of things like price, location, rapport, but near the top is actual expertise. One of the most effective ways to signal your expertise is to teach what you know. Nathan originally started off designing apps for the iPhone for other people, and in the process of trying to land more freelancing gigs, he had the thought that if he had written the book on iPhone app design it would make landing clients much easier. This led him down the path to creating a newsletter and writing a book. It’s hard to remember where you are in every conversation with every prospect you are currently talking to. This is where automation comes in and one of the reasons why email can be such an effective communication tool. You could create an automated sequence that delivers your content and includes the appropriate calls to action at the right time. It’s also possible to leverage your content that you’re delivering over time and turn that into a book down the road. When you’re just getting started with a smaller list it can be discouraging. When you have 0-10 subscribers, the first thing you should do is ask them where they currently go to learn about your topic and what their biggest pain points and struggles are. This gives you very valuable information and lets you know where you can potentially add content and lets you know what your follow up content should be. Whatever the audience is struggling with is exactly what your content should help them with. As your list grows, it’s okay to start asking them to share your content with people they think would benefit from it. Once you approach the 100-1000 mark, you can start bundling your content into a free ebook or course or resource and use that to continue growing your audience.   Mo asks Nathan Barry: How do you deepen relationships with an email list? When you first meet someone, your relationship is initially pretty shallow. Nathan likes to take as much information about himself and include that into his email sequence because that allows people to get a glimpse of who he is. Being authentic, open, and direct is a way you can help people get to know you and instill that vital trust. Any stories that you can teach and share are going to help someone who is following along feel like they can trust you. It’s also important to take your prospect on a journey where they are learning about you consistently over time while you are delivering value to them. An email course is a great tool to accomplish this. As a blogger or content creator, you can turn your best content into email content and use it as the basis of your email course. You can make sure thatyour prospect gets to know you at a set cadence over time and has already consumed your best content. By automating this kind of a sequence, you get leverage and scale so the hours you put to create the client onboarding system payoff considerably in the future. The most common place people struggle when building an audience is in being too broad. People are usually trying to solve a specific problem, so the more you can create content around that specific problem the more effective the hook in bringing people into your audience. The sequence of content also trains people to open your emails. If your content is good, you drastically increase the odds of them opening your next email. Great content also shapes the person’s questions and mindset for what they should be thinking about once they do get on a call with you. The trouble with creating content is that it can be very time consuming, and this is why the automation is so important for leveraging and scaling the work you are putting in. A common concern is that if you give away too much for free that no one will hire you, but the opposite is actually true. The more they learn, the more likely to realize how complicated what you do can be and understand that they need to hire a professional. If you’ve already been serving clients, you’ve probably already been doing half the work to create these kinds of assets that can work for you in the long term.   Mo asks Nathan Barry: How do we hack our own habits to keep building their audience? The most important thing you can do is do it consistently. Anywhere you can find leverage and compound returns are crucial to your long term success. This is where habits come in. Creating content is a long term game and if you only do it for a few months you’re not going to see a lot of traction. Nathan uses an app called Streaks to track his habits and his chain of accomplished actions every week, including sending a newsletter every week, writing every day, exercising and practicing the piano every day. If there is something that you want to get compound gains from, do it every day, even if it’s only for 10 or 20 minutes. It’s consistent effort over a long period of time that is going to get you the results you want. If you break your streak, that’s okay. Just don’t miss twice.   Mo shares his insights from the habits of Nathan Barry. ConvertKit has grown from a startup to $25 million a year in revenue. His perspective on seeing how thousands of professionals use his platform gives him a lot of insight into what works and what doesn’t. Teach everything you know. Many professionals resist the idea for fear of giving away all their best stuff for free, but the opposite tends to be true. The more you give away, the more the prospect realizes that they need your expertise to help them in their specific situation. The right place to switch from teaching to pitching is at the point where you have adequately framed the problem and figured out how you could work together. Teaching naturally flows into the conversation around working together. Give with abundance and do it in a way that scales. If you’re going to spend nearly a hundred hours packaging your education, you should absolutely use a platform like ConvertKit to automate it and scale your efforts. Once you set up something that’s automated, it works for you forever. Share what you are working on and what you’re learning with the people in your audience. Automation allows you to develop a relationship with a prospect without actually having to be there and sharing your story is incredibly powerful in getting people to bond with. For Nathan, the two most important things in business that he’s looking for is leverage and compound returns. Automation fits that bill. Once you create a piece of content, think of ways that you can use to help more people at scale. Develop fewer things and leverage them more effectively. When you think of your time when it comes to business development, ask yourself what things you can do that will pay off and work for you forever. Build it once and do it right, and then put it out in a way that scales.   Mentioned in this Episode: GrowBIGPlaybook.com ConvertKit.com nathanbarry.com

Nathan Barry shares the secrets of the world’s most effective communicators and how you can leverage the power of automation to scale your business development efforts to the moon. Learn how business development professionals can use email and content to grow an audience that is hungry for their expertise, reach more people in a deeper way at scale instead of just 1-to-1, and how the compound gains of consistent action can lead to incredible results.   Mo asks Nathan Barry: What’s your big idea for growing a book of business, growing relationships, and growing a career? Nathan used to play video games and he likens having an audience and a newsletter to having the cheat codes for business. Having an engaged audience that you can push content to is incredibly powerful. Some platforms have followers, like social and blogging, and others allow you to push content in front of your audience. The push method puts you in control and makes those platforms much more valuable in achieving your business goals. Many professionals don’t think of an email list as a relevant tool for building a book of business, but if you have a list of the right people that want to hear from you it can definitely be a powerful asset. Even if you’re not selling something through your email list, you can still build the mind share and reputation with your audience that increases your value in their mind. Delivering value is key. When it comes to professional services, a cadence of once a month is more than sufficient and the important thing is quality over quantity when it comes to communication. The best approach is to augment your close relationships with the vital few and combine it with a larger audience where you are delivering content. Those people are your prospective clients and finding a communication method that has leverage is how you can scale relationships considerably. Content allows someone to get to know you on a deeper level, well before you ever talk to them in person or on a phone call.   Mo asks Nathan Barry: How can we get more of the meaningful work we want to do? When you think about all the service providers you could hire, you consider all sorts of things like price, location, rapport, but near the top is actual expertise. One of the most effective ways to signal your expertise is to teach what you know. Nathan originally started off designing apps for the iPhone for other people, and in the process of trying to land more freelancing gigs, he had the thought that if he had written the book on iPhone app design it would make landing clients much easier. This led him down the path to creating a newsletter and writing a book. It’s hard to remember where you are in every conversation with every prospect you are currently talking to. This is where automation comes in and one of the reasons why email can be such an effective communication tool. You could create an automated sequence that delivers your content and includes the appropriate calls to action at the right time. It’s also possible to leverage your content that you’re delivering over time and turn that into a book down the road. When you’re just getting started with a smaller list it can be discouraging. When you have 0-10 subscribers, the first thing you should do is ask them where they currently go to learn about your topic and what their biggest pain points and struggles are. This gives you very valuable information and lets you know where you can potentially add content and lets you know what your follow up content should be. Whatever the audience is struggling with is exactly what your content should help them with. As your list grows, it’s okay to start asking them to share your content with people they think would benefit from it. Once you approach the 100-1000 mark, you can start bundling your content into a free ebook or course or resource and use that to continue growing your audience.   Mo asks Nathan Barry: How do you deepen relationships with an email list? When you first meet someone, your relationship is initially pretty shallow. Nathan likes to take as much information about himself and include that into his email sequence because that allows people to get a glimpse of who he is. Being authentic, open, and direct is a way you can help people get to know you and instill that vital trust. Any stories that you can teach and share are going to help someone who is following along feel like they can trust you. It’s also important to take your prospect on a journey where they are learning about you consistently over time while you are delivering value to them. An email course is a great tool to accomplish this. As a blogger or content creator, you can turn your best content into email content and use it as the basis of your email course. You can make sure thatyour prospect gets to know you at a set cadence over time and has already consumed your best content. By automating this kind of a sequence, you get leverage and scale so the hours you put to create the client onboarding system payoff considerably in the future. The most common place people struggle when building an audience is in being too broad. People are usually trying to solve a specific problem, so the more you can create content around that specific problem the more effective the hook in bringing people into your audience. The sequence of content also trains people to open your emails. If your content is good, you drastically increase the odds of them opening your next email. Great content also shapes the person’s questions and mindset for what they should be thinking about once they do get on a call with you. The trouble with creating content is that it can be very time consuming, and this is why the automation is so important for leveraging and scaling the work you are putting in. A common concern is that if you give away too much for free that no one will hire you, but the opposite is actually true. The more they learn, the more likely to realize how complicated what you do can be and understand that they need to hire a professional. If you’ve already been serving clients, you’ve probably already been doing half the work to create these kinds of assets that can work for you in the long term.   Mo asks Nathan Barry: How do we hack our own habits to keep building their audience? The most important thing you can do is do it consistently. Anywhere you can find leverage and compound returns are crucial to your long term success. This is where habits come in. Creating content is a long term game and if you only do it for a few months you’re not going to see a lot of traction. Nathan uses an app called Streaks to track his habits and his chain of accomplished actions every week, including sending a newsletter every week, writing every day, exercising and practicing the piano every day. If there is something that you want to get compound gains from, do it every day, even if it’s only for 10 or 20 minutes. It’s consistent effort over a long period of time that is going to get you the results you want. If you break your streak, that’s okay. Just don’t miss twice.   Mo shares his insights from the habits of Nathan Barry. ConvertKit has grown from a startup to $25 million a year in revenue. His perspective on seeing how thousands of professionals use his platform gives him a lot of insight into what works and what doesn’t. Teach everything you know. Many professionals resist the idea for fear of giving away all their best stuff for free, but the opposite tends to be true. The more you give away, the more the prospect realizes that they need your expertise to help them in their specific situation. The right place to switch from teaching to pitching is at the point where you have adequately framed the problem and figured out how you could work together. Teaching naturally flows into the conversation around working together. Give with abundance and do it in a way that scales. If you’re going to spend nearly a hundred hours packaging your education, you should absolutely use a platform like ConvertKit to automate it and scale your efforts. Once you set up something that’s automated, it works for you forever. Share what you are working on and what you’re learning with the people in your audience. Automation allows you to develop a relationship with a prospect without actually having to be there and sharing your story is incredibly powerful in getting people to bond with. For Nathan, the two most important things in business that he’s looking for is leverage and compound returns. Automation fits that bill. Once you create a piece of content, think of ways that you can use to help more people at scale. Develop fewer things and leverage them more effectively. When you think of your time when it comes to business development, ask yourself what things you can do that will pay off and work for you forever. Build it once and do it right, and then put it out in a way that scales.   Mentioned in this Episode: GrowBIGPlaybook.com ConvertKit.com nathanbarry.com

Mo shares his insights from the habits of Nathan Barry. ConvertKit has grown from a startup to $25 million a year in revenue. His perspective on seeing how thousands of professionals use his platform gives him a lot of insight into what works and what doesn’t. Teach everything you know. Many professionals resist the idea for fear of giving away all their best stuff for free, but the opposite tends to be true. The more you give away, the more the prospect realizes that they need your expertise to help them in their specific situation. The right place to switch from teaching to pitching is at the point where you have adequately framed the problem and figured out how you could work together. Teaching naturally flows into the conversation around working together. Give with abundance and do it in a way that scales. If you’re going to spend nearly a hundred hours packaging your education, you should absolutely use a platform like ConvertKit to automate it and scale your efforts. Once you set up something that’s automated, it works for you forever. Share what you are working on and what you’re learning with the people in your audience. Automation allows you to develop a relationship with a prospect without actually having to be there and sharing your story is incredibly powerful in getting people to bond with. For Nathan, the two most important things in business that he’s looking for is leverage and compound returns. Automation fits that bill. Once you create a piece of content, think of ways that you can use to help more people at scale. Develop fewer things and leverage them more effectively. When you think of your time when it comes to business development, ask yourself what things you can do that will pay off and work for you forever. Build it once and do it right, and then put it out in a way that scales.   Mentioned in this Episode: GrowBIGPlaybook.com ConvertKit.com

Mo shares his insights from the habits of Nathan Barry. ConvertKit has grown from a startup to $25 million a year in revenue. His perspective on seeing how thousands of professionals use his platform gives him a lot of insight into what works and what doesn’t. Teach everything you know. Many professionals resist the idea for fear of giving away all their best stuff for free, but the opposite tends to be true. The more you give away, the more the prospect realizes that they need your expertise to help them in their specific situation. The right place to switch from teaching to pitching is at the point where you have adequately framed the problem and figured out how you could work together. Teaching naturally flows into the conversation around working together. Give with abundance and do it in a way that scales. If you’re going to spend nearly a hundred hours packaging your education, you should absolutely use a platform like ConvertKit to automate it and scale your efforts. Once you set up something that’s automated, it works for you forever. Share what you are working on and what you’re learning with the people in your audience. Automation allows you to develop a relationship with a prospect without actually having to be there and sharing your story is incredibly powerful in getting people to bond with. For Nathan, the two most important things in business that he’s looking for is leverage and compound returns. Automation fits that bill. Once you create a piece of content, think of ways that you can use to help more people at scale. Develop fewer things and leverage them more effectively. When you think of your time when it comes to business development, ask yourself what things you can do that will pay off and work for you forever. Build it once and do it right, and then put it out in a way that scales.   Mentioned in this Episode: GrowBIGPlaybook.com ConvertKit.com

In this episode of the Millionaire Mindcast, we have an impressive guest Nathan McDonald who shares his knowledge and insights about Angel investing, Due Diligence Process in real estate, collaboration based-investing, good returns, and positive cash flow during this economic crisis! Nathan McDonald is an entrepreneur, investor, CEO of Keiretsu Capital, and Chairman of Keiretsu Forum in Northwest Region. Keiretsu Capital is the exclusive worldwide fund partner of Keiretsu Forum and manages angel co-investment, blockchain, and real estate funds for its investors and supporting startup companies. They are ranked as the most active venture investors in the USA and growing to be 55 chapters globally.  Under Nathan’s leadership, Keiretsu Capital has launched four co-investment funds and now manages over $30 million from over 180 Keiretsu investors and over 160 portfolio company investments. With his skills, he quickly builds the Keiretsu Forum in the Northwest region into the fastest growing angel investment group in the nation, adding over 850 investor members and facilitating over $300 million in funding for over 400 companies. Nathan believes that companies who have not embraced technologies during this financial crisis will be left behind as the market accelerates quickly. Likewise, the best thing investors can do is invest. Anyone can do as long as you believe in the business you’d liked to get into and be willing to take the time out there. Get your money moving, get into the economy and the community by supporting businesses that are able to generate returns. For Nathan, during these uncertain times, recession, and downturn, is where the best companies in the world are created. It is just finding opportunities in the middle of chaos. Particularly in real estate businesses where there’s plenty of opportunity on the liquidity side. Some Questions I Ask: Tell us a little bit more about the Keiretsu Forum and the context of your community and platform? (00:37) What do you guys see out there and why do you feel through Keiretsu that it is such a great and promising time to be exploring, diversifying, and looking at some different investments out there? (03:59) What kind of product that you guys are coming across in syndicating, funding, investing and that is coming through the platform in the Form? (06:24) What is the Due Diligence process? (08:27) What are some of the things that you guys do when you’re digging in the Due Diligence process that gets you excited or disappointing? (13:27) What are some of the industries, sectors, products that you guys are very bullish on or embarrass on? (14:57) What do you guys look for in an investment, syndication, and real estate? What the market landscape looks like right now as well as a kind of head into the future? 16:45) What do nice returns in the context of what you guys from a fund perspective are looking for to provide for your investors as well as for your fund? (19:43) How to distinguish what is the right approach to finding and getting returns and opportunities? (20:55) Who is the ideal investor in your funds and in your community? (24:02) In terms of minimum investment or accredited or non-accredited investors, what is the kind of avatar made up of that investor who might be coming to you guys? (25:41) In This Episode, You Will Learn: What Keiretsu means (01:25) How to find businesses that will give you good return during this crisis (05:06) The reasons why companies don’t raise capital (13:57)  Quotes: “Through technology, you can reach the marketplace around the world.” “Real estate is just an entrepreneurial market as technology.” “Everyone can contribute to the fact that you believe in them.” Connect with on: Keiretsu Forum Keiretsu Capital LinkedIn

This week’s Misfit Entrepreneur is Nathan Hirsch. Nathan is the go-to entrepreneur and expert in remote hiring and e-commerce. Nathan started FreeUp.com in 2015 with $5000 and scaled it to over $12 million per year, selling it in 2019. He then went on to co-found the Outsource School, a company that educates and provide resources to entrepreneurs to train and help them effectively build and scale their business through outsourcing. The platform combines all of the knowledge and tried and tested systems that Nathan and his co-founders have used to scale businesses to 8-figured and beyond entirely through outsourcing. Hearing that, I bet you can guess why I asked him to be on today. In the world of Covid and business in general, it literally pays to know how to outsource well for your business – and Nathan is the guy to teach us. www.OutsourceSchool.com www.OutsourceSchool.com/Misfit for a special offer Nathan’s parents were both teachers. He grew up thinking he would go to school, get a job, etc. But his parents made him get jobs every summer and he realized he hated having a boss. When he went to college, he saw it as a way to learn, but also as “4 years to create a business” that he could own and run after college. He started our by buying and selling textbooks, essentially competing with his school. Before he knew it, he had lines out the door and got a cease and desist letter from the college! He then pivoted and started selling on Amazon. He then branched out selling other items and ironically found a niche in baby products. Before he knew it, he had a multi-million dollar business selling baby products from his college dorm room and needed to start hiring because he was overwhelmed. He tried college kids and then outsourced VA’s, and through managing them learned how to put processes in place that he no teaches today to outsource. He found a lot of holes in the VA process and it took forever to find good ones, so he had an idea to create a company that did that for people, pre-vetting VA’s and taking all the guess work or out of it. That company was Freeup.com. In 4 years, it went from a $5000 investment to $12 mil in sales with everything outsourced and done with 35 VA’s. They sold it in 2019. At this point, people were approaching Nathan for his experience and knowledge, so he created Outsource School to give people what they need. What are the do’s and don’ts of growing a good e-commerce brand? Nathan didn’t create his own products – he found others and sold them and dropshipped Partnering is important to success in building an e-commerce company. Nowadays, it’s important not to be on Amazon. The fundamentals haven’t changed. Focus on customer service Focus on how you can diversify and not have all your eggs in one basket. Focus on partnering to fill your gaps Why do you think outsourcing is the best way to scale a business? The world has changed. You don’t need to be located any specific place, you don’t need office space, etc. The barriers and costs to entry are low because of the free tools out there and internet. And in today’s world, just about anything you need in a business is available at your fingertips with skilled VA’s. Accounting, graphic design, website design and management, customer service, etc. can all be outsourced. You can scale and grow with part time VA’s up to full time as you go. It makes it much easier to build a business. Take us through how your build a business using outsourcing…what are the steps? 2 parts: The idea and MVP and outsourcing. Nathan’s first 2 hires are always a part-time bookkeeper and someone to get him out of his inbox and manage his email, appts., etc. T ake the MVP to market, get feedback and see if it has promise. You can then increase hours of the VA’s and add others in for other needs. “A MVP (minimum viable product) is important in any venture. Just because we sold a couple companies, doesn’t mean every idea is going to be good. So, you have to test the waters with low risk using an MVP.” At the 14 min mark, Nathan goes into detail about how they built Outsource School. To make your business better and grow, you need to get yourself out of the day to day so you can focus on the most important parts of growing and getting the business out there and making sure it has a market, creating brand awareness, networking, etc. Do that correctly and you’ll be in a good place after year one. What are the “got to” tasks or roles that should always be outsourced? Everything! There are 3 types of VA’s Followers: Non-US, $5-10 per hour and there to follower your processes and systems. Doers: Graphic designers, video editors, etc. Experts: High level. Think consultative and bring their own best practices, processes, etc. It’s important to know which type you need for a role. You will need all 3, but you need to know where to put them and hire them in at. At the 19:45 mark, Nathan talks about the SOP process (Standard Operating Procedure) and why it is so important to focus on. SOPs need to be broken down into 3 parts. Part 1: Why. Why is this task important? Why is it needed? What does success for it look like? Part 2: Step by Step. Put together the exact steps needed to do the job. Part 3: Do NOT Do List or Important Reminder List. Put all the important stuff at the bottom to make sure it is clear to them. Once you have the SOP, don’t focus on 1:1 training from day one. Give them the SOP and a video for the first week, pay them, and let them go. At the end of that week, test them. If they get 80% of it, then move forward with 1:1. This is a way to sift through VA’s to find the best one for the role. What’s the most important thing entrepreneurs need to get right from the beginning and why? If someone is newer to VA’s. It all starts with the interviewing and onboarding. Nathan uses the CARE method: Communication: They must be able to communicate to your standards. How fast do they respond? Do they communicate in a way you understand and do they understand you? Attitude: Is their attitude in line for what you want in the role. Red Flags: Be on the lookout for any red flags. Experience: Do they have the skill set and have proven it. Once you find someone, make sure you are on the same page for compensation. The onboarding method is called the SICC method in a 30 min meeting: Schedule: Are they good with the schedule that you need? Are there conflicts? Issues: Computer? Internet? Power? Communication: Will they communicate in the way you need to them to? Culture: Set the expectation of them having to be a culture fit and what that means. At the end, give them the opportunity to ask questions and back out. Anything else we should know on outsourcing? When starting – just focus on getting 5 hours per week back. Don’t try to outsource everything at once. What has surprised you most on your entrepreneur journey? Nathan gets rejected almost every day. He keeps putting himself out there and getting rejected all the time. You learn to focus on the successes and let the failures go and not affect you. Your ability to handle rejection well will help you grow a larger business. Nathan also shares a story of almost losing a whole business because they almost lost all the data for the company. Who do you go to for mentorship and why do you choose them? Look for people that have skills you are lacking that you cannot hire for. Create a relationship with them before asking for mentorship. You can even hire them as a coach and teach you their processes. Look for people with your same values. For Nathan, that is honoring your work, treating people with respect, and owning up when you make mistakes. ​ Best advice for an entrepreneur starting out today? Get your MVP out there. You don’t need hardly any money to start a business right now. Figure out if there is actually a market for your product and experiment to make sure it is worth your investment.   Best Quote: “A MVP (minimum viable product) is important in any venture. Just because we sold a couple companies, doesn’t mean every idea is going to be good. So, you have to test the waters with low risk using an MVP."   Nathan's Misfit 3: Reward those who have helped you achieve success. Honor your word and be super clear on what you can and cannot do. Figure out what your ideal day looks like to be your most productive and make sure you business is structured around that.   Show Sponsors: Assistagram:  www.MisfitEntrepreneur.com/Assistagram 5 Minute Journal: www.MisfitEntrepreneur.com/Journal  

One of Nathan’s favorite sayings as a kid was “Crash & Burn.” Why? Because he was born 8 weeks premature with Cerebral Palsy. This meant Nathan didn’t learn to walk until the age of 4, he had a 504 plan at school, he learned to drive using hand controls, graduated college, and learned from an early age that your gonna fall down, the thing that makes the difference is your ability to get up and walk through your fire. For 9 years he coached people with disabilities and everyday he would hear I can’t because [insert label here]. He saw that people would be limited by a label placed on them, usually by society, and it became their reality. What Nathan realized was this isn’t a disability issue it’s a human issue. For the past year he’s been developing the message of No Label Defines Me. What 34 years of life have taught him is, often it feels like us as humans are navigating a world that wasn’t designed for us. In order to live a No Label Defines Me life you must learn to adapt & act. Nathan is the author of Empower Yourself: Awaken the B.E.A.S.T. Within. Through eradicating labels, Nathan’s mission is to Eradicate Loneliness and help people get reconnected with their true self Key Points from the Episode with Nathan Todd: Nathan and I jumped right into the discussion with the idea he talks about of No Labels Nathan feels that all of us is at war with the labels we put on ourselves every day No Labels is about looking our labels in the face, going to war with them and finding how to move forward Nathan has Cerebral Palsy (CP), which he could look at negatively, but instead finds it to be a driving force in his life. The broader label is the word “disability,” and Nathan notes how people without disabilities often try to use another word like, “Differently-abled” to be sensitive but also note what we can’t do For Nathan, his disability represents strength and possibility, and he feels he would not be where he is without his disability. One way this has impacted him as a White male is that he is a minority despite not being in one of the typical categories people think of when thinking about being a minority. He has been overlooked, judged, diminished and more in ways that inform his perspective on what people who are not White men might feel through the impact of race and gender discrimination on them. He talked about the terms “Angry Disabled Person Syndrome,” which, to him, means it’s very easy to get angry, and blame the disability or feel like, “Why me?” For Nathan, he instead asks if it really is the disability, or might he be coming off in an angry way and his behavior might be why people are having an issue with him. This helps him take responsibility rather than place blame. He doesn’t say this in judgment of anyone because that is exactly how he was living for a long time. It is easy to blame his disability for many things. He could just give in, not try, not push himself and live up to the expectation of society of a disabled person. That does not help you find what you are actually capable of. Nathan was born 8 weeks premature with a 50/50 chance of survival. That experience and having to fight for his life is a mystery to him – it happened to him, but he obviously has no memory of it. From his first breath, he was fighting for his life, and that no doubt informed much of personality and thought-process. CP, which is brain injury, for Nathan was caused by a brain lead that is almost like having a stroke. His form is called Spastic Diplegia, which complete impacts his motor skills – walking, writing, etc. He did not learn to walk until he was 4, which required surgery when he was 3 to even be able to try to walk. He calls out not just what this meant to him, but what his parents were going through in this process and the hard decisions they were faced with repeatedly, like choosing to have their 3 year old undergo that surgery. Nathan’s mother did a lot of advocating for children with disabilities, including getting the State of South Carolina approve the surgery he had for other kids. Nathan’s mother was a role model that inspired his path to be a coach and speaker. Nathan has a younger brother, so he notes that his brother’s experience matters, too, as it does for other siblings of people with disabilities. Nathan and his brother learned to walk at the same time, for example, and there were things his brother wanted to do with him that Nathan couldn’t do. And there is likely a difference in the attention each sibling gets from their parents. The shared experience these siblings have informs who they are today. Nathan talked about his dad, who was a football coach. He always wanted to be Joe Montana, which wasn’t in the cards for him, which really impacted his sense of himself. His dream was something he couldn’t do, and he saw approval from his father as being tied to, so it was really hard for him – even today. Nathan’s parents got divorced when he was 16, which brought up the statistics that the overwhelming majority of marriages with a disabled child end in divorce. Nathan has always felt responsibility for his parents’ tough times together and their divorce. Not having his dad there when he was becoming a man was very hard for him. That process gave Nathan some of the specific moments in his life that shape who he is today that he goes back to for processing and self-work. We all have things we went that shape so much of who we are or are even running our life today, but we don’t go back to them or work through them. We call this “Being Tough,” but it isn’t that, it’s hurting us and costing us. Nathan’s work on those past relationship pains and experiences have informed how he approaches any relationship, so he’s realized that we have to go back and work through what happened. This is where our labels come from. The biggest label we face is “I’m not good enough.” This can lead to loneliness – we are trying to live up to someone else’s standard (or ours that we ascribe to someone else), and yet we can’t, so we feel removed. Loneliness is a signal for thirst and hunger – we are becoming disconnected from people around us, and yet we are standing in the way of that. We tend to think we’re the only one going through what we face, and that makes us feel even more alone. And when someone asks us how we are, we say, “I’m fine.” A turning point for Nathan came 3 years ago as he went through a 12-step program for the pain he was dealing with in his life (rather than for addiction, for example). Through that process, he realized how his past experiences and labels from when he was 16 were keeping him stuck – even 16 years later. This lead to so much anger inside of him, so the need to work on it was so strong and so much for his benefit. He used the book The 30 Day Sobriety Solution, and found the visualization tools in it to be so helpful. He had been equating relationships with pain, which stood in the way of building good, lasting relationships. The moment that started his shift came at Louis Howes’ Summit of Greatness. He found himself questioning why he was there when everyone else was so successful, and he was stuck. He had a conversation with someone on Louis’ team who talked to him about what he was offering rather than what he wasn’t; his perspective is one the others can’t offer, and there’s value there. He ended up joining a training after the summit, and found himself at the end of each module feeling like he wasn’t done and that he had to keep working on himself further. Through the process, he realized how much power he has and the level of impact he can have for others. Nathan realized how perspectives can be shifted by how we interact – even just asking people what they create in this world rather than “what do you do?” We have so much more power to create than just getting a job. We have a power to create drastic shifts in the world by showing up, treating people the way we want to be treated rather than that place of “Why me?” There’s something to be said for trying. Instead of saying “What can’t you do,” why not try. You may not make it, but you will learn something, have the experience of doing it, and grow. Nathan saw a friend fall, and he said to his mother, “Oh, that’s ok. They haven’t learned how to fall yet.” He had to learn how to fall and get up, which is literally valuable itself, but also philosophically or figuratively, as it informs the need to be able to try, fail and recover. He asks what we can eradicate to elevate – what distractions are in your life keeping you from getting from point A to B. Everything standing in the way of the straight line of where you want to do is a distraction you need to find a way to remove, and many are of our own doing. It’s about making it as simple as possible. Nathan goes by the nickname, “The Muscle Motivator.” He doesn’t look like other people in the gym, but he’s in there doing it, so he can be a motivator for others. Funny enough, this is a label, which we started the conversation about being at war with. His point is, we all have labels. If you don’t like the label you have, peel it off and get another one. It isn’t that there are no labels, it’s that we have the choice to choose which ones define us. It is our choice what labels we use, but also how we let them define us. For Nathan, despite someone else thinking “disability” is a negative term, he does not need to let it be that for him. Links: Website Book: Empower Yourself: Awaken the B.E.A.S.T. Within Instagram: @thelonelinesscoach YouTube Subscribe to The Do a Day Podcast    Keep Growing with Do a Day Get Bryan's best-selling first book, Do a Day, which is the inspiration for this show and can help you overcome your greatest challenges and achieve in life. Read Bryan's best-selling second book, The 50 75 100 Solution: Build Better Relationships, to tap into the power we all have to improve our relationships – even the tough ones we feel have no hope of getting better. Get started on your journey to Better with the Big Goal Exercise Work with Bryan as your coach, or hire him to speak at your next event

Bryan Denson was a court reporter for The Oregonian newspaper in Portland. It could be mind-numbing work sitting in the cheap seats of the American justice system. But then one day he got a tip about an espionage case coming in. The defendant was 24-year-old Nathan Nicholson. For Bryan, it would turn out to be the story of a lifetime. For Nathan, it was the beginning of the end. To learn more about Nathan’s story, make sure to grab a copy of Bryan Denson’s book: The Spy’s Son. You can check out his other work at bryandenson.com. Bryan also wrote a six-part series of Nathan’s story for The Oregonian.A big thanks to The Oregonian/OregonLive for allowing Snap Judgment to use tape from Bryan Denson’s interview with Nathan Nicholson. Producer: Nancy LópezSound Design: Renzo Gorrio

Today, I'm talking with , the Founder and CEO of , email marketing software designed to help creators connect with their audience. I first came across Nathan years ago when I stumbled upon his book, Authority, and I've been following his story since.  He launched ConvertKit in early 2013 as a challenge to build a web app from 0 to $5k MRR in 6 months and diversify away from his less stable income from his self-published books. 6 months later and ConvertKit was at $2k MRR so Nathan shifted his focus back to his other products. A year later, Nathan had a conversation with who told him he should either shut down the app or double down on it, but not to continue in the middle like he had been. While it wasn't an easy decision, Nathan doubled down on ConvertKit, putting $50,000 of his own savings into it and giving it a full-time effort. Since then, ConvertKit has grown significantly. At the time this was published, in early September 2019, ConvertKit had $1.5 million in monthly recurring revenue, giving it an ARR of over $18 million. And the company is bootstrapped and profitable. Very profitable. While the business is insanely valuable, Nathan doesn't have plans to sell and is truly enjoying the ride along the way. This is an easier decision to make when you remove a few couple zeros from the ARR, but when your business is worth over $100 million dollars, I don't think many of us would have the same conviction. For Nathan, that conviction comes from building a business where he truly loves what he's doing, the people he is doing it with, and the people he is doing it for. Building a business like that is no easy task, which is a massive understatement, but in our chat we peel back the layers and really get into how he made this work. This is not a tale of overnight success. It's a story of building the business of your dreams and overcoming the obstacles along the way that are constantly trying to pull you off course. Whatever your goals are as an entrepreneur, Nathan is somebody we can all learn from, and I know you'll get a lot out of this interview.

  Introducing Nathan Spiteri – An advocate for child abuse. A very courageous man who had overcome many obstacles. Being abused as a child, and then as a teenager he focused mainly on men but was also attracted to and held relationships with several girls his own age. Nathan now wants to raise awareness and educate the masses on child abuse.   TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS PODCAST EPISODE: (7:55) The drugs and violence (9:21) From drug therapy to shaking off bad memories (11:45) The message and the movie Toy Cars (15:57) Realizing it’s not your fault (23:00) Coming to terms with what happened to you (28:00) It’s important to have a support system around you   HEAR MORE ABOUT NATHAN SPITERI As an eight-year-old, Nathan Spiteri was in his hometown of Queanbeyan, NSW when a middle-aged man followed him into the change rooms of the local swimming pool area. This incident became day one of a three-year relationship between Nathan and the 40-year-old man. This man told Nathan that his family hated him. Nathan visited this man regularly and exchanged ‘I love yous’. His family and friends had no clue. Eventually Nathan moved to New York to pursue his dream of acting. Nathan finally told his family who all reacted different to the news. In 2016 Nathan’s New-York-based psychologist suggested he write his experience of abuse down as a form of therapy. Over the next two years Nathan did what his therapist asked and the result was his first screenplay, Toy Cars. For Nathan, writing the screenplay was not only therapeutic and purgative, but provided a chance to put some closure around his harrowing story.   FAVOURITE QUOTE TO SHARE WITH THE WORLD Don’t be perfect, just be real.   ONE BOOK YOU SHOULD READ Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg   CONNECT WITH NATHAN Website The Sydney Morning Herald Article Twitter Instagram   CONNECT WITH SASHKA Facebook Instagram Pinterest Twitter LinkedIn   Want to be a guest on the podcast? Apply to be featured on the No Name Brand Podcast here. SUBSCRIBE ON   

In the last few years there have been a couple of times I have met this guy named Nathan. He has been a friend of a friend for a while and is now the boyfriend of a good friend of mine, Shelby Burton (the voice of the last episode). I was told by Shelby about Nathan’s heart for God and the mission work he has been able to do. She told me that Nate would be perfect for the mission of this podcast. The format of the people in my life all the time has grown to invite stories of those in the lives of others. Isn’t that what this is all about; growing and reaching more and more people? I am excited for this episode and to use this podcast as a platform for Nathan to share his story, his heart for missions, and his love for the people of Thailand. If you would like to reach out to Nathan you can do so through my website chazmcpeake.com on the contact page. Please put "For Nathan" in the subject line or at the top of your message and I will send it along. You can also read my blog, see other projects, or contact me if you visit chazmcpeake.com. You can hear more of this podcast on that site, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or pretty much anywhere else podcasts can be found. Thank you so much for listening, subscribing, and sharing this with your family and friends.

Nathan Blackaby is the CEO of Christian Vision for Men (https://cvm.org.uk) and the author of a number of books, including Founding Fathers (2015) and Iron Men (2016). In today’s interview Nathan shares something of his own story, and we talk about partnership in marriage, modelling faith to our children, and staying close to God. We also discuss the importance of friends and mentors, and creating a boy-friendly church. For Nathan’s books and other CVM resources, visit www.cvm.org.uk/shop/

Today we have Nathan Hirsch Co-Founder of FreeeUp which is a marketplace connecting business owners with the top 1% of freelancers in ecommerce, digital marketing, web development, and much more. They have helped companies like Payability, Sharkk and many ecommerce companies with staffing needs. Over the past 15 years, Nathan has built several successful multi-million dollar businesses. In 2006, he founded his first online venture out of a college dorm room, selling and buying student textbooks and he was able to scale his ecommerce business, bootstrapping from a $20 investment to over $30 million of sales on Amazon across a 6 year period while serving over 10,000 customers. Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn: [1:10] Jeremy introduces his guest, Nathan Hirsch. [2:45] Nathan talks about his time at Firestone and how it impacted him. [5:10] How FreeeUp works to make clients and workers happy. [6:30] What did Nathan learn from watching his mother? [7:50] Nathan talks about his desire to become an entrepreneur. [10:40] How did Nathan get started selling on Amazon? [14:20] Nathan describes how his small business ran into significant challenges. [16:30] Why did Nathan start FreeeUp? How does it work? [19:30] Nathan’s pet peeves and tasks that he delegates. [24:00] Areas where most entrepreneurs should consider outsourcing. [25:30] Common tasks that businesses hire contractors for. [29:00] Value related interview questions. What are some red flags? [33:30] How has Nathan and his team hired such high quality workers? [34:30] Why it’s tough to hire web developers. [36:00] Nathan talks about his working relationship with his business partner. [39:00] How do you build a work culture with remote contractors. [41:30] A low point in the business so far. [44:30] A proud moment in business. [45:40] Who should use FreeeUp? In this episode… Where does the desire to deliver top-notch, excellent customer service come from? Why would a business leader zero in on this aspect of business over all others? Is it really that important? Can executing great customer service make that much of a difference to the bottom line? On this episode of Inspired Insider, you’ll hear from entrepreneur and innovator, Nathan Hirsch. In his conversation with Jeremy, Nathan opens up about his time working for Firestone, what led him to start FreeeUp, how he keeps up consistent quality among his contractors, challenges faced along the way, and so much more! Don’t miss a minute of this informative and engaging episode featuring Nathan! What aspect of your early professional career impacted you the most? Did the first job you held leave an impact on you that you still carry today? On this episode of Inspired Insider, you’ll hear from Nathan Hirsch as he shares how working for Firestone made a mark on his outlook. If it weren’t for his time at Firestone, Nathan most likely wouldn’t have as much of an emphasis on customer service as he has today. Working for Firestone gave Nathan an eye-opening look at how a good company can leave a powerful impression on its customers simply by delivering excellent customer service. To hear more about how this experience shaped Nathan and the lessons you can learn from it, make sure to listen to this episode! Let’s face it, every business leader who is worth their salt will run into challenges and difficulties at some point in their career. The real question is, how will they respond when adversity comes their way? On this episode of Inspired Insider, Nathan Hirsch shares how he responded to a particularly trying time in his career. While in college, Nathan ran a successful startup that was running so smoothly that he took a well-deserved vacation. By the time he returned, Nathan had several fires that needed to be extinguished right away or he would have to shut down the entire operation. Instead of tucking tail and running away, Nathan rolled up his sleeves and went to work. How would you respond in a similar situation? Hear the details of Nathan’s story and how this moment had far-reaching implications on his leadership style by listing to this episode! Did you know that you can take deliberate steps early on to make sure you have the right people for your organization? It’s true! While some leaders leave it up to a roll of the dice, you don’t have to! On this episode of Inspired Insider, you’ll hear from business leader and entrepreneur, Nathan Hirsch as he shares some helpful tips on how he hires the right people. For Nathan, it all starts with the interview process, he’s spent a lot of time and energy devising the right questions to ask potential contractors for his business, FreeeUp. To hear about how Nathan uses these questions to build the right team, make sure to listen to this helpful episode! What do you need to do to take your business to the next level of growth? Do you need to land that next big client? Do you need to spend time strengthening relationships with your current clients? What if you could free up some of your time to focus on the big picture? There is a way for leaders like you to free up your time and energy with the help of virtual assistants. Learn how enlisting the service of a virtual assistant works and how they can help you expand your business in ways you never thought possible! Get all the details from FreeeUp co-founder and CEO, Nathan Hirsch on this episode of Inspired Insider! Resources Mentioned on this episode FreeeUp https://freeeup.com/schedule-a-meeting/ FreeeUp's Blog UpWork Practice Perfect BaseCamp Trello Jira Asana Intro Music by Kidd Russell Sponsor for this episode Rise25 is where entrepreneurs of 6,7, and 8 figure businesses come together live and in person every few months to solve their biggest business challenges through this high-level Mastermind group. Each member leaves each week with lifelong friendships and actionable steps to take their business to the next level. Check out Rise25.com - a group run by myself and cofounder John Corcoran. Rise 25 is application only.

Nathan comes from a musical family, which might have saddled him with unmanageable expectations. But his parents were careful to keep things light and fun, while making sure he had a strong foundation. In this episode, Akiko learns about Nathan’s beginnings in the Suzuki method with Donna Wiehe, his transition to Daniel Mason (who was a Heifetz student), and that always-awkward teen period when we all have to figure things out for ourselves. For Nathan, that included his first memory slip (terrifying), his introduction to chamber music, and his lifelong habit of keeping a practice journal. We wrap up where we did in the last episode: at the moment just before we met for the very first time!