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Full Show notes at www.LearningLeader.com Read our book: The Score That Matters - https://amzn.to/3AAPyds The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk Ep # 598: Sam Parr Notes Sam's mantra (which he has tattooed on his thigh): “Bold. Fast. Fun.” It's really hard to beat someone who moves fast, takes risks, and has fun doing it. Think big, but you have to get started. We see Hustle Con and the 2,500 people and think that's just how it always was. It started as a small book club, then a small event that made a little money... And YEARS later it's HustleCon which helped launch The Hustle, which then eventually sold for 10's of millions. We have to get started and keep going. The most important skill set (according to Sam) is the ability to convince people of something. Persuading others. You have to believe in it yourself, be a clear thinker, and know how to communicate that to others to make them believe in it too. This skill will help you accomplish a lot. Writing – Write like you talk. Writing clarifies your thinking… Think in headlines – Thinking in headlines will make you a clearer thinker. It will help you see how an idea should be framed, identify different ways to tell your story, and show you the soul of your topic. Back against the wall - “I firmly believe in putting my back against the wall.” Deadlines, pressure, and harsh goals will pull out the best from you. Copy by Hand – Sam copied the best sales letters of all time by hand. Let the writing you admire pass through your fingers. This method is called copywork. What Sam learned backstage at his events with rich people/CEOs - "They weren't smarter than me." We're all just figuring it out as we go.: " Cold emails -- Work that muscle. AirBnB cold email story: "I cold emailed this guy named Brian. And he had a company called Air Bed and Breakfast. I said, 'Hey, this sounds like a cool thing. I want to interview. I think I can help make it better by doing a few things.' And they said, 'Are you in the Bay Area?' 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm there.' And he said, 'Alright, great. Come to the office on Monday.' So I booked the flight and I flew out and got an interview there. That's how I got introduced to startups. And then I eventually moved to San Francisco."  Sports - Love them because they are objective. The time doesn't lie. Same with business. The numbers don't lie. You know you're going to feel pain (before running a 400m), but you do it anyway and push through it. That's what makes them great. How to raise tough kids? "I'm scared. I think about this all the time. Will need to remove the things that make my life easy like all the service providers have now." Hiring - Freaks, weirdos. The others. Want people passionate about something. Anything. Bottom 4th of the resume. Be skilled at something, not a generalist. Writing/communication - No typos. Clear writing = clear thinking. We want clear thinkers. Especially for leadership roles. Fame - "I don't want that anymore, but I still want to be taken seriously by the big boys. I'm still insecure about building something other than a media company." Advice: "Be a fucking animal." Don't let anything stop you. Excellence - "Like your shit. Enjoy it. Must have endurance. Be like a cockroach and stay alive. Survive. Don't quit. Don't be vanilla. Do dope shit."

Ryan continues his conversation with entrepreneur and CEO Sam Parr. They discuss that “arriving is not real”, becoming aware of addictions and the discipline of staying sober, that there is no magical remedy to your existential problems, and more. Sam Parr is the founder of The Hustle, which is one of the fastest-growing media companies in the country, and Hustle Con - a one-day conference that teaches non-technical startup tactics. Sam recently co-founded Hampton which is a highly vetted membership community for entrepreneurs, founders and CEOs. Alongside his companies, he is also a prolific podcaster, hosting "The Hustle Podcast" and co-hosts "My First Million".With his diverse skill set, extensive experience, and passion for entrepreneurship, Sam Parr continues to make waves in the business world, inspiring others to pursue their own ventures and redefine the future of commerce.IG and X: @TheSamParrNewsletter: The Anti-MBA✉️ Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail

In this two-part conversation, Ryan talks with entrepreneur and CEO, Sam Parr. Together they discuss being (or not being) goal oriented, adding sustainability into their lives, monetizing what you enjoy doing, and more. Sam Parr is the founder of The Hustle, which is one of the fastest-growing media companies in the country, and Hustle Con - a one-day conference that teaches non-technical startup tactics. Sam recently co-founded Hampton which is a highly vetted membership community for entrepreneurs, founders and CEOs. Alongside his companies, he is also a prolific podcaster, hosting "The Hustle Podcast" and co-hosts "My First Million".With his diverse skill set, extensive experience, and passion for entrepreneurship, Sam Parr continues to make waves in the business world, inspiring others to pursue their own ventures and redefine the future of commerce.IG and X: @TheSamParrNewsletter: The Anti-MBA✉️ Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail

An idea - whether it's a business, a book, or a brand isn't just an object. It's a living dynamic organism that has come to us, and us alone, for a reason. This beautiful thing chose us to flow through and co-create with us, and that's a vision that needs no one's approval to bloom.   It's a completely different way of doing business, yes, but it is a more sustainable approach.   Resonance is two energy waves coming together - a Source-given match between creator and creation. That's why the most resonant businesses come from within. Our body's wisdom will always tell us what's resonant and what's dissonant. We need to have courage to honor whatever's happening inside our body, regardless of what the external thinks.   It's a powerful practice, not just for being, playing and loving, but also for creating things that never stop regenerating. For Suzy Batiz, this model was a huge aspect behind Poo~Pourri. How did this idea come to her? How did she overcome the need for approval? How do we take this lesson from her and learn to trust our body's wisdom (and actually listen to it)?   In this episode, we're delighted to be joined by Suzy. She shares the journey she's taken, and why resonance should always be an ingredient in our creative process.   Having the courage to honor whatever's happening inside your body regardless of what the external thinks about it. That's the practice. -Suzy Batiz   Three Things You'll Learn In This Episode    -The idea has its own desires  When built on resonance, the essence of our creation naturally amplifies out. What's the danger in taking an outside-in approach?   -Warning: logic can be faulty Our brains are powerful creation machines but why is the body more reliable?   -Mind the override  What happens when we ignore the resonant voice inside us in favor of making everyone else comfortable?   Guest Bio    Suzy Batiz is an entrepreneur and the founder of Poo~Pourri. She has been featured by leading publications including Forbes, CNBC, Fast Company and Entrepreneur. She has been named one of Forbes' Richest Self-Made Women in America (2019), EY's Entrepreneur of the Year (2017), Conscious Company's World Changing Women (2019), EarthX's Community Leader of the Year (2019) and is WBENC (Women Owned) certified business owner. Suzy has also been interviewed for Leaders Create Leaders, Modern Hero, Marie Forleo's Marie TV and has given presentations for Conscious Capitalism, Google, HustleCon, SXSW, Create & Cultivate & the In goop Health summit. For more information, go to https://www.suzybatiz.com/ and https://www.poopourri.com/.

Episode 534: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) answer the question, “How did you get your first 100 customers?” In this episode, they'll share you 11 methods. No more small boy spreadsheets, build your business on the free HubSpot CRM: https://mfmpod.link/hrd — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (2:00) Throw an event method (6:00) The floor-to-floor method (12:30) Magnet method (14:00) "Made to Stick" method (19:00) The no risk offer (25:00) Viral content (30:00) Use the personal story (35:00) Pissing in the pond (37:00) Booth babes method (44:30) Launchpad method (48:30) The David Blaine method — Links: • The Anti-MBA - https://www.theantimba.com/ • Neville Medhora's blog on Hustle Con - https://www.nevblog.com/hustlecon-2014/ • Ryan Hoover in Fast Company - http://tinyurl.com/muva968r — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/ • Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant • Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing • Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/ • Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/ Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. — Other episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto • #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

In today's episode, I welcome Sam Parr back to the podcast! Sam created the popular newsletter The Hustle, which emails over 1 million people per day. Four years after he built it, he sold it to HubSpot for multi-millions of dollars. Now, he's the co-host of one of the top business podcasts, My First Million, where he and his co-host Shaan Puri talk all things business ideas and market trends, and interview other entrepreneurs to get the behind-the-scenes scoop on their projects. Search for My First Million wherever you listen to podcasts, and check out Sam Parr on Twitter, at @TheSamParr. If you've ever wanted to learn about how to build cool things with cool people, you'll love this episode! PLUS! My exact course, Monthly1K, which Sam used to help launch and grow The Hustle is now 90% OFF. Get the exact info, tactics, and strategies I shared with Sam and other entrepreneurs to start your own business this year. Stop waiting and wishing and finally get started! We cut the price down to $10 to make sure that we can try to help as many entrepreneurs as possible.  Check out the Monthly1K Course here. Check out Sam Parr's first episode on the podcast here. Here's the link to the blog post Sam used to create Hustle Con. And start your own email newsletter with SendFox.com. Noah Kagan Presents is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit www.BetterHelp.com/NOAH today to get 10% off your first month. Noah Kagan Presents is sponsored by Manscaped. Get 20% OFF Manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code KAGAN at https://MANSCAPED.com! Full show notes: https://okdork.com/podcast/284

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Sam Parr catapulted to celebrity status within the startup world when he sold a daily newsletter called The Hustle for a reported 8 figures. But how did this down-to-earth guy with no previous media experience build such a valuable company? This episode breaks down that story. You'll hear exactly how Sam Parr went from being a scrappy college kid with a hot dog stand to one of the leading voices in entrepreneurship.Thanks to this episode's sponsor, Chicago Partners, a team of financial advisors who specialize in wealth management: https://ChicagoPartnersLLC.comFor more stories like this one, sign up for our newsletter: https://TheyGotAcquired.com/newsletterTo get the full transcript of this episode, go to: https://theygotacquired.com/podcast/sam-parr-the-hustle

Sam Parr is a serial hustler, entrepreneur, & co-host of the top 10 business podcast, My First Million. Many years ago, he read an article on my blog about starting conferences. He took the insights from that article and started Hustle Con, a TED-like conference for entrepreneurs. In 2016, he turned Hustle Con into The Hustle, a highly successful business newsletter viewed by over one million-plus people every day. The Hustle was acquired by HubSpot in 2021 for tens of millions of dollars. His other entrepreneurial endeavors include a chain of hot dog stands, an online liquor store, and a roommate matching startup. https://okdork.com/podcast/233 Use this link to get 10% off at checkout on AppSumo: https://appsumo.com/?coupon=noah10&code=noah10

Shaan (@ShaanVP) and Sam (@TheSamParr) break down the events business step-by-step. Sam explains how he grew HustleCon from nothing into a powerhouse. Sam shares numbers and the techniques he used to generate sales and keep costs low. It's a masterclass on how to run an events business. The guys also discuss the "Billie of the Week" Sam Bankman-Fried, and how he became a billionaire at 29 from crypto. At the end, they brainstorm on the idea of "accountability coaching for X". --------- * Want to be featured in a future episode? Drop your question/comment/criticism/love here: https://www.mfmpod.com/p/hotline/ * Support the pod by spreading the word, become a referrer here: refer.fm/million * Have you joined our private Facebook group yet? Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion and join thousands of other entrepreneurs and founders scheming up ideas. --------- Show notes: * (1:20) The amazing story of how Sam Bankman-Fried made his fortune by the age of 29 * (14:01) How a gambler beat Vegas and a kid took over the internet * (22:27) Sam explains how to run and scale a profitable event step-by-step * (47:07) Brainstorming on "accountability coaching for X"

Get ready for a deep conversation with the potential to change how you see yourself, those around you, and what you expect from life. Suzy’s perspective is that of a wise human who has done the work that many of us would rather avoid just to get on with achieving various success markers. We dug deep into Suzy’s life’s work and what it takes to truly transform our lives and be open to new perspectives of what we can do with it.   About Suzy Batiz   Transformation is the common thread that runs throughout founder and creator Suzy Batiz’s life and her companies. Whether transforming the bathroom into a pleasant-smelling experience with Poo~Pourri, the household cleaning industry from toxicity to aromatherapeutic magic with supernatural or people’s lives with her growing portfolio of ALIVE OS™ courses, Suzy is a revolutionary explorer of infinite potential in the playground of life. She loves to inspire others and bring them along for the ride, with energy being her native tongue.   Suzy experienced some of life’s lowest lows — poverty, sexual and domestic abuse, depression, two bankruptcies and a suicide attempt — leading to what she calls the luxury of losing everything. Through her journey of liberation from a lifetime of oppression, convention and conformity, she discovered the power of pattern-breaking thinking and curated a radical “Trinity of Transformation.” Harnessing the energy of intuition and transformation, Suzy built her businesses from the ground up without ever taking a dollar of outside investment, building ALIVE IDEAS into a nine-figure empire.   As creator of each brand, Suzy currently serves as Chief Visionary Officer and Chairwoman of Poo~Pourri, CEO of supernatural and Chief Explorer of ALIVE OS™. She continues to build her brands using the transformative principles that she now shares with the world through ALIVE OS™, embodying her belief that our external world is simply a reflection of our internal state of being.   Suzy has been featured by leading publications including The New Yorker, Forbes, TODAY, People, CNBC, Fast Company and Entrepreneur. She has been named one of Forbes’ Richest Self-Made Women in America (2019, 2020), EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year (2017), Conscious Company’s World Changing Women (2019), EarthX’s Community Leader of the Year (2019) and is WBENC (Women Owned) certified business owner. Suzy has also been interviewed for Leaders Create Leaders, Modern Hero & Marie Forleo’s Marie TV and has given presentations for Conscious Capitalism, Google, HustleCon, SXSW, Create & Cultivate & the In goop Health summit.   Share this episode with three individuals who would benefit from learning how to heal in their lives. This dialogue is foundational before going off and building any empire.   Show Notes   Self-Compassion: How can we be more compassionate to ourselves? According to Daoism, the path to enlightenment is to accept and allow. Suzy talks about both steps. Internal Struggle: It’s important to reconsider how you are trying to keep yourself in line. Empathy: Fake vs. real. Pain: How consuming is it and can you be truly empathic if you have unprocessed pain? Authentic: What is the key to being authentic? Can we skip healing our pain? Self-Trust: How to start trusting ourselves? Suzy shares an Alive OS ™ exercise. Acceptance: What are your expectations? Can you accept what is? Self-Empowerment: What role does it play in adding flow in our moves through life? Trusting Others: How to start trusting others is to fully trust yourself. Awareness: Accept what is. We are all humans even qualities that sound “bad” like us being opportunistic. Universal Source of Infinite Wisdom: A busy mind and what’s needed to tap into infinite wisdom. Terror: It’s hard to be still if you are in pain or feeling terror? Again, turn your focus to heal pain to open up your direct path to infinite wisdom. Death: What’s the key to not be terrified of death? Transitions: Consider this guiding question: How can I be with whatever comes up?   Key Distinction: Quieting our reptilian brain is key not shutting it off. Sharing Your Message: What is our responsibility here? Courage: Does it come from trauma or something else? How can we become more courageous? Life: Is it fair or easy? Fill in the blanks. Suzy credited Byron Katie and her trips to the jungle for incredible life-changing insights you’ll want to write down.   Links to quench your curiosity:   Learn more about Suzy Batiz Find Suzy on Instagram Sign-up to the waitlist for Alive OS ™   Books and resources mentioned:   David Hawkins: Power vs. Force Learn about Gay Hendricks Autobiography of A Yogi – Paramahansa Yogananda   Want to continue the conversation?   Now you can by following me on Instagram! There I jump on an IGTV Live every Wednesday! You’ll catch me reporting LIVE on-location (so far in a gas station on a highway, a modern art museum, and my local fruit smoothie shop) OR hosting a LIVE “after-party” with the week’s guest! Who knows where my next episode will take me or what else you can learn from this week’s amazing guest? Come along! I want YOU to join me on my next adventure. I’m easy to find on Instagram @careeroutcomesmatter Rather keep it professional? Let’s connect on LinkedIn. I encourage every single podcast listener to connect with me. Ready to pivot into a new marketing full-time role this year? Register for a complimentary masterclass entitled: The 5-Step Strategy Marketers Use To Pivot Into Their Dream Marketing Career (Without Undervaluing Themselves)!  

About Suzy Batiz Transformation is the common thread that runs throughout founder and creator Suzy Batiz's life and her companies. Whether transforming the bathroom into a pleasant-smelling experience with Poo~Pourri, the household cleaning industry from toxicity to aromatherapeutic magic with supernatural or people's lives with her growing portfolio of ALIVE OS™ courses, Suzy is a revolutionary explorer of infinite potential in the playground of life. She loves to inspire others and bring them along for the ride, with energy being her native tongue. Suzy experienced some of life's lowest lows — poverty, sexual and domestic abuse, depression, two bankruptcies and a suicide attempt — leading to what she calls the luxury of losing everything. Through her journey of liberation from a lifetime of oppression, convention and conformity, she discovered the power of pattern-breaking thinking and curated a radical “Trinity of Transformation.” Harnessing the energy of intuition and transformation, Suzy built her businesses from the ground up without ever taking a dollar of outside investment, building ALIVE IDEAS into a nine-figure empire. As creator of each brand, Suzy currently serves as Chief Visionary Officer and Chairwoman of Poo~Pourri, CEO of supernatural and Chief Explorer of ALIVE OS™. She continues to build her brands using the transformative principles that she now shares with the world through ALIVE OS™, embodying her belief that our external world is simply a reflection of our internal state of being. Suzy has been featured by leading publications including The New Yorker, Forbes, TODAY, People, CNBC, Fast Company and Entrepreneur. She has been named one of Forbes' Richest Self-Made Women in America (2019, 2020), EY's Entrepreneur of the Year (2017), Conscious Company's World Changing Women (2019), EarthX's Community Leader of the Year (2019) and is WBENC (Women Owned) certified business owner. Suzy has also been interviewed for Leaders Create Leaders, Modern Hero & Marie Forleo's Marie TV and has given presentations for Conscious Capitalism, Google, HustleCon, SXSW, Create & Cultivate & the In goop Health summit. Timestamps: ● 1:14 - How Important it is to follow your intuitoin ● 6:36 - How do you go from not trusting yourself enough to going with the flow ● 9:07 - For all the young people feeling limited but unable to get therapy what do you suggest ● 13:10 - When did you realize the importance of the subconscious mind? ● 14:53 - How does someone come to notice the alive idea? ● 18:43 - How can someone get out of the mindset of poverty? ● 21:12 - What does the next best version of yourself look like and how you plan to get there ● 25:12 - What tips do you have for those in struggling times? ● 27:40 - How do you want to be remembered? ● 32:25 - Are there any other trained forms that you still have to work on? ● 34:29 - What challenge do you have for listeners --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itstartswithaction/message

Sam Parr, the founder of one of the most successful email newsletter businesses of the past two decades, The Hustle, shares how he got started and the incredible vision he has for where he's taking his business. Key Points from this Episode: Sam Parnell talks about HustleCon and when he determined email was the path forward. He describes his business like a pirate ship and how he can go by his own rules and each subscriber is a little wind in the ship's sail. Sam discusses that people can find success doing what he has done with hard work, talent and that you've got to be good at your craft and the work will be a lot harder than you think.He shares his vision from early on and how it has changed over time and continues to be exciting. Cold emails allowed Sam to raise 1 million dollars to start his own company and he has so many incredible friends and business contacts through sending cold emails. Write like you talk is how The Hustle got it's tone and subsequent success of the company and its writersTweetables:What we and I have is a pirate ship and I don't care about anyone not on the ship. I mean, I want people who agree with our ethos to join our ship. I only care about my subscribers and pleasing them and making them happy and providing value to them. @TheSamParr (05:41) We can say whatever we want, we could do whatever we want and our people are going to hear us. And I think that that's really invigorating and it makes me feel wonderful. @TheSamParr (06:18) Therefore there's not that many people who think they're talented, who aren't actually talented, but because of the nature of it is everyone thinks like it's so easy and I'm like, it's simple, but it's not easy. @TheSamParr (07:07) The vision from day one was always to build up a massive email list of entrepreneurial type folks, provide value to them and get them to love us and trust us. @TheSamParr (09:30)I raised a million dollars to start my company will almost 100% of it came from a cold email. So I can attribute of million dollars to that as well as the hopefully tens of millions of dollars that we've turned that $1 million into. @TheSamParr (15:13) Links Mentioned In This Episode:The Hustle TrendsSam Parr on TwitterSam Parr on LinkedInThrillistGrouponThe Morning BrewTim FerrissNerdWalletRameet SachdevTim WestergrenStephen KingDavid Ogilvy

Hello, my gorgeous souls! Happy New Year to all of you listening on the Manifestation Babe Podcast! What better way to kick off the new year than to have a very EXCITING guest, who also happens to be the founder of a nine-figure company. You may have her products in your own bathroom RIGHT NOW. Yes, I'm talking to Poo-Pourri's founder Suzy Batiz. She is a beautiful awakened soul who loves to empower others to follow their intuition, get into resonance, release their trauma, and live a turned-on life! We talk about all things intuition, hiring the right people, being in the right place at the right time, and growing her company into what it is today. Suzy, of course, OVER delivered and we went into far more topics. So sit back, relax, and enjoy.   Transformation is the common thread that runs throughout founder and creator Suzy Batiz's life and her nine-figure empire of companies. Whether transforming the bathroom into a pleasant-smelling experience with Poo~Pourri, the household cleaning industry from toxicity to aromatherapeutic magic with supernatural or people's lives with her growing portfolio of ALIVE OS™ courses, Suzy is a revolutionary explorer of infinite potential in the playground of life. She loves to inspire others and bring them along for the ride, with energy being her native tongue. Suzy has been featured by leading publications including The New Yorker, Forbes, TODAY, People, CNBC, Fast Company and Entrepreneur. She has been named one of Forbes' Richest Self-Made Women in America (2019, 2020), EY's Entrepreneur of the Year (2017), Conscious Company's World Changing Women (2019), EarthX's Community Leader of the Year (2019) and is WBENC (Women Owned) certified business owner. Suzy has given presentations for Conscious Capitalism, Google, HustleCon, SXSW, Create & Cultivate & the In goop Health summit.   This episode is all about following your INTUITION! If you or someone you know has had similar breakthroughs be sure to tag me  @manifestationbabe on Instagram and share this episode with your community to spread the word! I am curious to hear all about your experience. Also, be sure to leave a review on iTunes in order to receive a free manifestation hypnosis. Just screenshot it before submitting and email it to my team at hello@manifestationbabe.com and I will see you in the next episode.     In This Episode You Will Learn : Intuition's role in Suzy's journey (4.02) Which ideas to pursue (11:00) The benefits of EMDR, hypnotherapy, and Somatic therapy (16:40) Suzy's advice on how to shift your patterns (26:54) How does Suzy deal with struggle in her company? (33:20) Suzy's go-to spiritual practices (40:41) Questions We Answer:  Why does Suzy view losing everything at 38 as a luxury? (7:39) What are the healing modalities Suzy used to help her connect to her body? (15:23) What is the trinity of transformation? (18:20) Is Suzy afraid of losing it all again? (29:46) How we can use resonance to create our dream business and dream life? (31:21) Is it possible to outgrow your business? (37:44) What is Suzy's Human Design (43:18) Links/Resources  Connect w/ Suzy on Instagram Suzy's Website Manifestation Babe Links Follow me on Instagram  Join our Manifestation Babe community! Visit our website!   Download Podcast Transcript

A side hustle is a job that you can work on top of your full-time job. It is a flexible second job that brings in money, but it is also typically something that you are passionate about, that you don't get to pursue in your main job. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sanjayb1995/message

We discuss newsletters, email marketing, and copywriting with Sam Parr of TheHustle. Make sure to subscribe for more videos like this: https://www.youtube.com/kopywriting?sub_confirmation=1 ▶️ Also join our new "Copywriting Course Clips" channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWSM9I6Zo9v3ZgXdgcAn07A (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWSM9I6Zo9v3ZgXdgcAn07A) Sam Parr originally worked for the TV show American Pickers, then started an online liquor store in college, then, started and ran a hotdog stand called Southern Sam's: Wiener's as Big as a Baby's Arm, then started a roommate matching app called Bunk, which was then acquired by Apartment List. When I first him he had an online store selling a poison ivy remedy called Itch Juice. Then he started a small conference called Bootstrap Live, which then turned into HustleCon, which then got really big and spun off a company called TheHustle which is a newsletter with around 1.3m readers a day. Then he spun off even more products like Hustle Trends and The Ideation Bootcamp. Follow Sam Parr and TheHustle:

Katia Chesnok es la fundadora y creadora del blog de finanzas personales Economikat, dónde educa y empodera (en especial a las mujeres) sobre todo lo relacionado con el dinero y las finanzas. En el episodio de hoy nos va a contar cómo pagó más de 38k en deudas de tarjeta de crédito en 18 meses gracias a su side hustle. Es una experta en finanzas, empresaria, escritora que contribuye a CNBC y speaker. Hablaremos de: cómo pagó sus deudas en 18 meses. qué estrategias utiliza para pagar deudas y ahorrar. cómo tener un segundo ingreso "side hustle" la ayudó a eliminar deudas y ahorrar. lo importante que es decir que NO. automatización de las finanzas. ¡y mucho más! Libros recomendados: Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!: https://amzn.to/3nLWVE1 Padre Rico, Padre Pobre. Edición 20 aniversario: Qué les enseñan los ricos a sus hijos acerca del dinero,¡que los pobres y la clase media no!/ Rich Dad Poo (Spanish Edition): https://amzn.to/3kaOe3y The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life: https://amzn.to/2H1AU39 Notas del episodio, contacto de Victoria y todos los links: https://exitoyfinanzas.com/ep22/ ¡No te olvides de seguirnos! Instagram: https://bit.ly/2A4QHdG Página web: https://bit.ly/3cY2d9m YouTube: https://bit.ly/2WviUTZ Facebook: https://bit.ly/3bWfjTs --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/exitoyfinanzas/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/exitoyfinanzas/support

Ramon Van Meer is the Founder and CEO of Alpha Paw, a pet-focused company that creates unique, honest products that contribute to the health and happiness of pets everywhere. Alpha Paw has been featured on FOX, NBC, Allure, and many other popular sources. As a serial entrepreneur who specializes in growing and selling businesses, Ramon is also the CEO of Growth Hacker TV, the Founder of Van Meer Capital, and the Co-founder of Toodledo. His life goals are to become the Marcus Lemonis for tech companies and to finally beat his son at chess. Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn: Ramon Van Meer discusses the driving forces behind his success The importance of checking your ego at the door when starting a business How Ramon found the courage to ask for help and advice despite his introverted personality Ramon talks about reverse engineering the process of selling his business for $100 million Why Ramon decided to bring his fulfillment in-house instead of outsourcing to a 3PL Growth through acquisition vs. growth through SKU expansion Why Ramon doesn’t use Amazon for his business Ramon shares his 10-year-old son’s goal to feed every shelter dog in the world How Ramon and his son, Victor, bought a business through Craigslist that later became Victor’s Doggy Cookies In this episode… Are you eager to take your business to new heights, but don’t know where to start? If so, you’re not alone—and today’s guest may just have the strategies you need to overcome your fears and turn your growth potential into growth prospects. Serial entrepreneur Ramon Van Meer knows the value of real growth opportunities, in business and in life. After experiencing homelessness as a teenager, Ramon moved to the United States as a single father without a college degree. Despite the odds, Ramon slowly began to build his now staggering entrepreneurial career by growing multiple businesses to exponential success. After following positive growth trends and investing in future opportunities, he was able to achieve a million-dollar exit—and now he wants to help other entrepreneurs do the same. In this episode of the Quiet Light Podcast, Joe Valley sits down with Ramon Van Meer, the Founder and CEO of Alpha Paw, to discuss his inspirational journey toward entrepreneurial growth and success. Listen in as Ramon talks about the importance of authenticity when networking, how to cultivate growth opportunities that result in million-dollar exits, and his son’s goal to feed every shelter dog in the world. Stay tuned! Resources Mentioned in this episode Ramon Van Meer on LinkedIn Alpha Paw Victor's Doggy Cookies Joe Valley Quiet Light Brokerage "Incredible Exits: Ramon Shares Story of his High 9-Figure Sale" on the Quiet Light Podcast “Blogging His Way To $9M in Cash - Ramon Van Meer†on the My First Million Podcast with Sam Parr Hustle Con Bill DAlessandro on LinkedIn Sponsor for this episode... This episode is brought to you by Quiet Light Brokerage, a brokerage firm that wants to help you successfully sell your online business. There is no wrong reason for selling your business. However, there is a right time and a right way. The team of leading entrepreneurs at Quiet Light Brokerage wants to help you discover the right time and strategy for selling your business. By providing trustworthy advice, effective strategies, and honest valuations, your Quiet Light advisor isn’t your every-day broker—they’re your partner and friend through every phase of the exit planning process. 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Episode Transcript Intro  0:07   Hi, folks, it's the Quiet Light Podcast where we share relentlessly honest insights, actionable tips, and entrepreneurial stories that will help founders identify and reach their goals. Joe Valley  0:24   Hey, folks, thanks again for joining the Quiet Light Podcast. Today's episode, as always, is brought to you by Quiet Light Brokerage, where each and every advisor on the team has built, bought or sold their own online business, I've sold close to 100 million now. And that used to sound like a big number. But you know, Walker and Brian got one closing in a couple of weeks for 20 million, Brad's working on it, believe it or not pocket deal for close to 25 million where he's got two offers on it. Don't be overwhelmed though, if you've got something for half a million or 2 million in value. That's kind of our sweet spot. And we're here to help. First and foremost, if you don't understand the value of your online business, you probably don't understand the value of your greatest asset. So I would advise you strongly to reach out go to who quietlightbrokerage.com click on evaluation form and let us help. That's what we're here to do. First and foremost, most of the people that we help we talked to for months or years at a time before they begin to before they list their business for sale. And one of those folks that I've helped is this guy on the line now his name is Ramon Van Meer. And let me tell you a little about him. He's actually a good friend of mine now. I was sitting outside a dojo my son was working out. And I get a call from a former advisor here in the team says hey, look, I sold this business for this guy. Ramon you remember him is great guy loved him. And he's looking to sell the next business. Let me just tell you how the numbers went in Ramon’s history and a little bit of background. And yes, I'm gonna maybe embarrass you a little bit here. Ramon. Ramon is from Holland, he was homeless at one point as a teenager, a serial entrepreneur, not college educated. A single father came to the United States first business he sold it I may not get these numbers exactly right. But somewhere around $7,000 second business he sold somewhere in the $20,000 range third business he sold somewhere in the $220,000 range. And the next this is the one that I got the call from and we achieve was in the just under $9 million range. And he's not done yet. For those watching on video, there's an image behind Ramon’s head that says Alpha Paw and there's a picture of a unicorn back there. And he just explained to me what a unicorn is and what his goal is a unicorn valuation for those that don't know, is a business that is valued at a billion dollars not sold for but valued. Is that right? valued at a billion dollars. Ramon Van Meer  3:07   Yeah, value. But of course my goal is to exit the you know, have that unicorn exit. Joe Valley  3:15   Yeah, one day. So all round guys here. Not only is the entrepreneurial journey, the personal journey, the triumphs, there's a few tragedies along the way as every entrepreneur and individual has in life. Are they not just all impressive, but on top of it all? He's actually just a humble nice guy. He had to clean up his office in the background before we started recording. Yes, he's actually just like the rest of us. It's usually a mess. My camera is zoomed in on only the clean things in my office. I had to ask my dog to leave before we got stuck in the carpet before we recorded I thought that would be an interesting part of recording. But I passed on it. Anyway, Ramon, welcome back to the podcast. One of the one of the reasons we're having you here again, and having you and thanking you for tolerating us taking more of your time is that we've produced a video a little mini film on your story called Quiet Giants. And you tolerated Chris Moore coming out and getting you up at the crack of dawn not that you're up at the crack of dawn anyway, not up to the crack of dawn anyway, but that's going to come out folks on October 8. In conjunction with this podcast. Thank you for listening if you're listening right now, after the recording, I'd suggest you go to Quiet Light Brokerage and do the search for Quiet Giants or go to our YouTube page and look for Quiet Giants you're going to see and hear and get to know remotes full story and it's just simply motivation is what it is. And that's the purpose of this episode anyway and he stopped flapping my jaw. Ramon, how are you today? Ramon Van Meer  4:55   Doing great. Thank you so much for having me. Again. Joe Valley  4:59   Again. Thanks for joining Joining us again. Look, what is it that drives you? What is it that motivates you in in Victor's what, 10 years old now your son in the, in the last 10 years, you've gone from a negative net worth to a pretty positive one are now shooting for a unicorn valuation? What is it? Is it simply money that drives you? Or is it the, you know, achieving that next hurdle and the learning and the knowledge? What is it? Help me out? Unknown Speaker  5:30   Yeah. Ramon Van Meer  5:32   It's definitely not just money. Of course, money is a part of motivation. But if it was just money, I would have retired probably after, you know, selling the soap opera blog, I put everything in boring as you know, index funds, and you know, live happily close, quiet. It's more of a journey, it is building cool things, helping you know, other people. And, and also see, like, see if you can pull it off, basically. So, I in my career as an intrapreneur, most were failures, but it's all across the board. It's not like I was passionate about, you know, one thing and I just, you know, dedicated 20 years of my life on, you know, becoming the best knitter or like writer or whatever it is, it's for me, it was always across the board from selling custom eight, pin Jada's online that I sold, you know, for $20,000 that website to a stock broker software that I, you know, helps build and then, you know, sold subscriptions to, to a soap opera blog that, you know, I never actually watched a soap opera episode in my life. So it's more also like the challenge and see if you can pull it off. And learning along the way I'd love to learn. Joe Valley  7:03   What's fascinating is that you you're not Hispanic with pinatas as part of your life growing up, you're not a stockbroker or trader, you don't know how to do that. It's not what your skill set is. You've never watched a soap opera. I'm assuming now because Alpha Paw is a pet related business that you have. I know you do. You've got it. You've got a dog, I assume you've got pets. But that doesn't mean that you then become an expert on the subject. How is it that first and foremost that you? What do you say to somebody that just has a fear of their lack of experience or knowledge, they say I don't know how to do that. You don't know how to do this either yet you're doing it you don't have experience in all those things that you've successfully built and sold in terms of the the niche itself. You I would want to say you don't know how to build a value a billion dollar valuation company because you didn't work for one and you don't come from the private equity world. You know, you're just a guy hustling and working hard. And you said something in there that was helping others mean meaning you're a good human. And I think that makes a difference. But how do you? How do you get beyond that? I don't know how to do that, too. I'm not afraid to ask kind of thing. Yeah. Which is a major challenge and roadblock for a lot of people. Ramon Van Meer  8:24   Um, yeah, I think it comes natural that I'm having like zero ego go into something and try to ask advice and help from people that have been doing it already, or have done it in the past. And then not, you know, my ego was busted 20 years ago, like when I had these big failures, like, you know, I was, I had a, I was promoting, like parties, like rave parties, like these EDM, like so I rented a big hall, got famous Dutch DJ, playing EDM, and, you know, was bragging to everybody that's going to be the party of the century, everybody should come. I was able to get on local TV and newspapers with interviews and boasting like, oh, man, if you're not going to be there, you know, you're gonna miss out. I need a 2000 people to break even. And it was a huge, huge square footage, like a huge Hall. And at the end in the middle of the night, basically, there were like 200 people there. hundred of them were friends, family, you know, people that I knew. So basically hundred sold tickets, and I still have to do a freaking TV interview within the background and empty hall. And like I was early 20s and I was so sick to my stomach of embarrassment like fog like Yo, what's wrong and like, what Like, I worked my ass off for months, and this and I really believed in it, and then I still have to stick around and do this freaking TV interview. So long story short, my ego has been, you know, humbled many, many years ago. So, not to be afraid or embarrassed to fail or to make mistakes, or, you know, I think that really helps me today to just, you know, fucking anything worse than that is not going to happen anymore. So like, yeah, Joe Valley  10:29   I think failure is part of the entrepreneurial journey, or, you know, athletic journey or political journey, whatever it might be. Failure is just part of it. And you've got to accept it and not take it personally. But personally, have you ever approached someone and said, Hey, can you help me with this? Can I pick your brain on this? And they were rude and said, Hell no, go away? Ramon Van Meer  10:57   Um, that's a good question, actually. Uh, well, definitely. Now, it's easier because I think, you know, the more, Joe Valley  11:07   you've had some success, they know who you are. Ramon Van Meer  11:08   Yes, exactly. Or I can ask, you know, I'm friends know, with people that have, you know, big network. Yeah, if they Google me my name, there's some stuff coming up. So now it's becoming easier. And then I always say the biggest asset is your network. And you have to really build that up. And it takes time. Let me Joe Valley  11:28   give you let me give you an example, though. The last time we saw each other was in St. Pete at the Blue Ribbon mastermind event. And I remember one of the presenters, there was a young woman, I can't remember the business that she was talking about. But she was Lord to come be the CEO of the company. And she could have talked about it. Later in an event I saw you down at the luncheon just picking her brain walked right up, started talking to her out of the blue. And I think 90% of the people in the room wouldn't feel comfortable with that, because she was such a great speaker and so impressive. And her pedigree you walked right up and had a long conversation with her and pick your brain about that. Is that a certain courage that comes with your success? Or have you always been that way? Ramon Van Meer  12:15   No, actually, as you know, like, I'm taking my personalities the opposite. I'm a very introverted person. I don't like public speaking. I don't like to be on stage. I don't like to be on camera to be honest. I will typically not just walk up to people, I don't know. Unknown Speaker  12:35   But Ramon Van Meer  12:38   again, those cases I think is, especially if you've come from a position like hey, I, you know, you're doing a great job. I want to learn from you. What I've learned myself is that 90% 90 plus percent, especially in the industry, we are in, people love to help other entrepreneurs. And especially if it comes across authentic, not just like, Hey, you know, I just want to use you for your information, but no, like if it's an authentic request. That's how I met Sam Parr and part at Ron he’s the founder of Hustle Con and the newsletter, the hustle. And I went to his first conference, many, many years ago, I was like, 300 people. This was before his big newsletter success. But I find them on Facebook. just messaged him, too. Hey, I just went, Oh, I bought a T shirts actually. Say the hospital or whatever. took a picture of myself. Send him to Facebook Messenger. Hey, I was yesterday. They're big fan. I got the T shirt. Check me out. I would love to invite you for coffee. And he said yes. And I ended up actually investing in his company. We became really good friends. He now advises me and all my companies. And I got a lot of really good relationships through that friendship. And it was just me messaging him Joe Valley  14:14   and just putting yourself out there. Yeah. And I love the part where you're not just trying to you know, make it one sided. You're helping Sam as well you guys. You know, you obviously become friends. Sam's a great guy for anybody that hasn't checked out the hustler trends or hustle con or any of that please do yourself a favor and check it out. Sam's one of the other folks that I would you know, you know be part of the good human club if if I was to create such a club hippie hippie right there at the top with with Ramon but putting yourself out there it's funny the sending the picture. Like the reason we do video like this is because it just breaks down barriers and you took a picture of yourself and you sent it to them. I had a Conversation with. I think it was Scott Volker a few months ago that he was trying to early on reach somebody. And instead of just reaching out cold, he actually shot a quick video of himself on the screen. He said, Hey, so and so I love your book. This is what I think I could help you with and, you know, not looking for anything in return. I don't even know if that's exactly what he said. But it was the breaking of the barriers and reaching out and being human and not necessarily being afraid of. What if they say no, we're not teenagers anymore, right? I've got two of those. And, you know, asking a girl on a date is horrifying. What if they say, Oh, yeah, yes. It's okay. rejection is part of life failure is part of being an entrepreneur. So put yourself out there, but help first is what you're saying. Right? Ramon Van Meer  15:43   Well, yeah, or be authentic, like so now, after our podcasts, and I did a podcast with Sean it's The Hustle as well. So I get some people asking, you know, questions to me to like, especially through LinkedIn. And if I don't answer to them all because I just don't have the time but if I noticed, it's just like, or you're just out there just like for yourself basically, I don't respond. But other messages that are more sincere and you know, authentic. Then I jumped on a call with as many people as Joe Valley  16:20   you can and help them so blanket candy emails, stopped doing it people get person Yeah, make it sincere, make it authentic. The other podcast that Ramon just mentioned is called My First Million with Sean Parr, I would definitely recommend listening to that. It's part of Sam's group as well. And it's it's fantastic. You'll get much deeper, fuller detail a remote store there. If you if you like listening to podcasts, I'd go to that one as well. Ramon Van Meer  16:45   Yeah, let's not very quick plug sent too much. But he has like, he taught me actually how to cold email really good. Like he's the master. But all his speakers, he doesn't pay actually for his conference. They all come for free. And I think he has an article there like he's just Google Ads, I think, or video where he breaks down like, Okay, this is if you want to reach somebody doesn't matter if it's a CEO of Pandora or the founder of you know, then he, you know, this is how I did it. And it's pretty, pretty simple. So Joe Valley  17:22   definitely check it out, folks in Sam, if you're listening, we're happy to plug in because you're a great guy, and you're helping so many people with what we do every day. Let's talk about your your unicorn. Back there in the background. One when you sold. Thank you. Yes, he's for those not on video. He's pointing to it. When you sold your last business require like you had never really done physical product e commerce businesses. You found this one. You took what was a business doing less than a million dollars in year a year in revenue, and doing some amazing, amazing things. A friend of ours in common. Matthew DeWalt, who's a former and I get this wrong. He wasn't the CFO of Priceline, but he was up there. He calls you one of the top five digital marketers he's ever met. And being a guy at Priceline, he could tell he's met a lot of people Ramon’s trying to be humble, shaking his head back there going. That's just you know, I, I give him too much beer. That's why he says that that's not the case at all. Um, you you you make the leap into e commerce. You're How is it that you go about saying, you take this business is doing less than a million in revenue, and you're trying to shoot for a billion dollar valuation? How long does it take? How do you figure out? How do you we talked about this in the interview for the book? How did you reverse engineer what it takes to sell your business for 100 million dollars, which I think is your goal, which may be changing and growing? How did you do that? Was it again more conversations? Do you read? How does it work? Ramon Van Meer  19:06   Yeah. Um, so yeah, this case, I bought this business. I'm a and so there was already an existing supply chain and existing product. And so then I can just focus on the growth, but because I never really done it. So I had to learn along the way is go look at other companies that you admire. And first, actually, Sam again. Again, I hate to be broken record, but he introduced me to another friend of his Roman Roman con. And he is also like a legend in e commerce. And I asked like, Hey, can I pick your brain? I like how do you do this? How do you do that? Then, after first meeting, I sent him an email, say, Hey, you know, I've never done this. I don't know how to ask this properly or like, for sure you get many of these emails requests. Do you want to be come my mentor? Like, is it okay to mentor? And? And, you know, he said yes. So he started mentoring me, Joe Valley  20:22   what's in it for him and the mentoring aspect. Ramon Van Meer  20:26   So we go back and forth. It's like, I want to give him equity. So typically, in mentorship or an advisory role, you give up equity or Phantom units. So but up to today, he has not accepted it yet. So we're gonna have to fight for it later that he's gonna accept my, my equity, but typically, an advisor, mentor, you give equity in your company? Joe Valley  21:00   Did you offer that right away? Or did you just go the humble, please? Would you consider being a mentor, can I pick your brain? Ramon Van Meer  21:06   No, I offered right away, because, and if you accept this or not, he's gonna get it, I'm just gonna deposit it into his, you know, son's bank accounts or wherever. But I think if I approach everything that if you help me become a better or, you know, learn or helping the business to get more revenue, I want to share that with you, I have to share it with you has to be a win win. Unknown Speaker  21:38   situation, Joe Valley  21:40   your situation with with gold planning and things of that nature, I'm thinking back to the sharing of, you know, wealth and goals. In last exit. I know you wrapped up some employees and you they benefited from it as well. But I remember the one of the one of the buyers visited you personally and said that your goals on the whiteboard behind the conference table that you guys were meeting at, were just incredible. And it was more about the number of people that you wanted to help. When it comes to I mean, I we get the the connection and asking for help and mentoring. And in this case, saying, hey, look, I'll give you some, you know, a small share in the business and, and of course, there's like, Come on, let me just buy you a beer. And we'll have some conversations, and it leads to a great friendship. And I love that you're going to just deposit money to his son's account, whether he likes it or not. That again, good human doing the right thing, thinking about others first. But goal setting, like how did you pick a number of the exit that you wanted? And how do you manage your day to day tasks to get not wrapped up in just responding to emails and always looking at that bigger picture? It's challenged, I would imagine. Ramon Van Meer  22:53   Yes, but I like for me personally, and everybody has different styles or opinions about it. But for me, personally, I like to have an exit strategy when I start something, because then it's for me easier to reverse engineer. So to give you an example, my initial target was to sell alpha pa $400 million. Unknown Speaker  23:21   Then Joe Valley  23:22   mind if you know, it's not too big of a goal, okay, Ramon Van Meer  23:25   yeah. But, uh, and to be honest, like, even if it, if I didn't hit it and still sell for 60 million, it's gonna be great exit. So it's not like, if I don't use it, like, oh, if I don't hit that target, then I'm a loser. It's a failure. I think it's just, if you reverse engineer from your ideal target, so hundred million, you kind of know, okay, selling on on, you know, a marketplace online is not going to the buyer is not going to be that like, you know what type of buyers you have to go after, then you can do research, okay. $400 million pet company, what type of company or who would be our ideal buyer or potential buyers, so you can make a hit list. I have one here too. And you can make a hit list of potential buyers, then you can look and do research. What other similar companies did they bought in the past? And what did they look at? Did they look at revenue? Did they look at profit? Did they look at just brand too delicate user growth, like the different metrics and every I think in every different level, like maybe you know, a website, up 2 million is more focused on EBIT our 10 million like there's specific ranges where for example, the metric is just ever like profit last 12 months profit, a you know, put a formula on it but you know hundred million dollar acquisitions, they also look at other things. So in the pet space, for example, and other spaces, they look more often at revenue. And you know, doesn't really matter if you have 12% profit or 18%, it's more revenue. So then you can reverse engineer, okay? In order to sell 400 million, I need to, we need to have our metrics at XYZ. So we need to do 30 million in revenue, 10 10 million, whatever those those numbers are. Now that creates, but you know, what's revenue, what profits what to focus on? Unknown Speaker  25:39   And then Ramon Van Meer  25:41   they start talking to like, I'm already talking even though I don't have an exit date in mind, I already start talking with bankers and private equity and try to talk, I reach out to people that work at my kill list companies, and just try to pick their brains and just to you know, like, how many acquisitions like what was what was the last acquisition, what was the valuation? You know? Why did they bought XYZ company and why not start a company like things like that. So you can already you know, basically, steer the universe basically, to that outcome. Joe Valley  26:27   If that makes sense, and, and you can do that while juggling the company that you're growing as well obviously. For those that are listening, instead of watching, I want you to understand that Ramon is sitting there in jeans and a T shirt I'm sorry, shorts and a T shirt. He lives in California. Fortunately, safe from the firefight. forest fires in the moment. regular guy you're not in a big corporate office with a team of 100 employees. All and let's let's talk about staffing and whatnot all in with employees and VA. How many do you have today? All Park I know, I get hard to keep track of them all. But sometimes I know. Ramon Van Meer  27:15   So we made a decision two months ago to bring fulfillment in house. So for people that are not in e commerce, when you sell a physical product, a big part of your you know, operations is like you need to store all your products in a warehouse. And you need a company or team to put it in shipping boxes and ship it you know, ship your product to the customer. So I decided to bring it in house. And so we have a warehouse in office in Las Vegas. And including the warehouse team we're now in VHS you know less than 20 people Joe Valley  27:58   less than 20 people including the warehouse folks, how many how many folks are at the warehouse? Ramon Van Meer  28:02   A nine Joe Valley  28:04   nine So prior to that you were like 10 people Yeah. Which is pretty amazing. And in regards to the warehouse you know it's you're not a warehouse operator, you know running the fulfillment center you're choosing to do that why did you make that choice? versus outsourcing to a 3PL Was it because of that big picture goal and growth that you needed in margins? Or is it just a need to control all of these touch points of your business? Unknown Speaker  28:39   Yeah. Ramon Van Meer  28:41   It's like the fulfillment in house versus using a 3PL and other company to do it for you is an ongoing debate basically, typically people don't advise you to bring it in house because and I've learned now as well like I still don't regret the decision but I am living it now that it is it took it's like basically running a separate totally different business with different challenges, issues, etc. But three reasons I think having control over the user experience of getting your packages on time and you know the correct products that's a huge benefit. Versus you know, going with a three PL doesn't mean there's no headache to like I had to have a full time person basically not full time but like, like every day to where issues of the wrong product sands or they they had delays and they were like four days behind like people ordered last week and still products were not shipped out or they suddenly found six pallets of my product. In warehouse like they Unknown Speaker  30:02   just like sounds like Amazon. Oh my goodness. Ramon Van Meer  30:04   Yeah, exactly. So having more control over when the products go out like now for example, we get emails, because sometimes we're often now you order in, you placed an order in the morning, you already get your tracking them in afternoon, and we get emails saying like, Oh my god, this is amazing, so fast, you know, appreciate it. And cost saving. Definitely, you know, three pills a day make money on a lot of things, you know, pick and pack fee really adds up. Unknown Speaker  30:45   So Joe Valley  30:46   for the person, when you decided to open up your own fulfillment center, you're nuts, by the way, but good for you. It's obviously gonna work out. Did you? Did you bring somebody on with a ton of, you know, fulfillment experience, obviously, to sort of run that ship for you? Ramon Van Meer  31:01   Yes. So when I made the decision, all my friends and advisors advised me not to do it. And but I'm a little stubborn, in that sense of like, I want to try it. Like, my mindset to I think this is also important is that 99% of your decisions, you can always go back from the only thing I won't be heard is your ego basic. And really, we don't carry ego, okay, we'll bring fulfillment in house, it's a shit show headache, fuck it, which is the back, I will just hire a couple trucks and ship all my products back to the same three people that I've worked with. Like, there's not really it's not the end of the world basically. And, you know, I like it, I learned a lot. I the big thing is, is to is when you do it yourself, and the whole team, everybody in my team, including my myself, it's like we're trying to find ways how can we ship this more efficient? How can we ship? How can I make this box? Smaller? How can we maybe put this package in this other package? So we don't have to pay double shipping? And we just do. So everybody's mindset is about like how can we make the user experience better? And how can we make this cost more cost efficient? Joe Valley  32:24   to necessarily get that from a 3PL? No, Ramon Van Meer  32:27   it doesn't matter. I have friends that are huge. econ brands work with a 3PL and they're still just a number, like four to 3PL like they don't have. Joe Valley  32:40   So it makes sense. You know, we I think you've met build elisandra we had him on the podcast, he's a friend of quiet lights down a Sharla elements brands, by the way, they have a pet related brand as well, a pet food related brand as well, and do the same thing they fulfill on their own because they can they can do it better than the people in the fulfillment center care. It's not for everyone. Obviously, we're not advocating everybody go develop a fulfillment center. I like to say be careful of promoting yourself to your own level of incompetence. Ramon has yet to determine what that level of incompetence is obviously because your your heights keep growing and it's pretty damn amazing. Let's talk about growth through acquisition versus growth through skew expansion. Mm. Which approach Are you taking? Because when you started this journey, you bought one brand, which had more or less one skew? If I recall that did the bulk of the revenue. Have you simply expanded skews for the most part? And that's accounting for most of your growth? Or have you continued to acquire other brands to put into the Alpha Paw portfolio and that's helping you grow more? Unknown Speaker  34:00   Yeah. Ramon Van Meer  34:02   In my case, I've done both. So I bought when I bought this business, it was just one product lines, whew. But the product has or has a ceiling. Basically, there's only X amount of potential customers that needs this product. You know, so it was not this is not a product for all dogs. It's for you know, specific breeds. So there's there was a ceiling. So, you know, I knew I cannot get to 200 million or a unicorn status or whatever, with just this one product. Right. So then I bought a couple other smaller brands that actually were only selling on Amazon Unknown Speaker  34:57   and Ramon Van Meer  35:00   Took them over and then brought them off Amazon and just added rebranded rebranded those products to Alpha Paw, and started selling them in our on your own Shopify. In our Shopify store, Joe Valley  35:15   hey, in that regard before I forget, Ramon Van Meer  35:18   yes, Joe Valley  35:19   Amazon versus Shopify or your own website, you're really not an Amazon guy here, you're driving most of this revenue through your own traffic, owning the customers creating repeat experiences and things of that nature. Is that is that an accurate statement? Ramon Van Meer  35:36   Yes. And I know, several people, and we are both friends with several people that are very successful on Amazon. Sure. Me personally, I think, if you want to build a brand, like a real big brands, eventually you're going to have to go off of Amazon, in my opinion, you know, Amazon owes your customers. And I think there's more value if you own your customer and customer data. No, you know, I know, Joe Valley has two dogs. One is called gotcha dogs named yafei. Joe Valley  36:24   Dasher and Willow, for those that want to know that Ramon Van Meer  36:26   show Willow, and they're excellent, you know, they're one is two years, one in six years, whatever, the and the breeds, then, you know, I think there's a huge asset, if you build a customer database of you know, that information, that's going to be value. This can be a high value for potential buyer, Joe Valley  36:48   when you have that customer database of information, does it help inform your decision on your next cue expansion or purchase in terms of brands? Ramon Van Meer  36:57   Yeah, so especially when you already have a customer base, or have a huge following on social media, instead of, you know, making an assumption, Oh, for sure, people will love, you know, XYZ, you know, let's just start this product and buy a cup of containers, what we typically do is, is following we first ask our current customer base, is this a product that you use? If so, how many? How often do you buy it? Where do you buy, like a survey about a product idea. And we share it across social media, our email list, etc, etc. Then, if that's a positive, positive signal, and I know, you know, surveys are not waterproof, you know. But if there's a positive signal, we try to drop ship first, that same product, so we can learn the economics behind how Oh, face running Facebook ads for days products, without buying, you know, hundred thousand dollars, a million dollar, whatever the is an inventory, run Facebook ads, email marketing, all kinds of stuff. And then we can see how much it costs to acquire customer and what's the return on adspend, etc. If those are also positive, then we start looking at to sourcing, you know, the product herself, and then that whole process starts of sourcing ourselves. Joe Valley  38:39   That's a great way to do it so that you're not investing a ton of money and inventory and have it be a bust each and every time. Yeah. Unknown Speaker  38:46   quick questions back to the Joe Valley  38:49   skew expansion versus buy and bolt on what what percentage of your and ballpark numbers current revenue is from businesses that you've bought versus maybe expanded skews from those businesses? And that's probably an impossible question to answer. Ramon Van Meer  39:09   Yeah, well, I could answer this is that in the beginning, I to increase revenue. I acquired several Unknown Speaker  39:19   brass. Ramon Van Meer  39:20   Yeah. Now I'm more on the other side where I just try to develop because a couple things like you never know. I'm still looking but like, I want to you know, we're working on healthy doggy dog cookies, right for my son is involved in that project. But there's no dog cookie business for sale at the moment, right. So as often we come up with ideas and you know, there's no company that you can buy, right? So we're not going to wait for an acquisition to get into Product skew, which is then start ourselves. But I'm a big believer in growth by acquisition because especially if it has other assets, besides, you know, sales data or sales history, if they have an email list, if they have a customer base database with addresses that you can send, you know, direct mail to, maybe they are also an Amazon and have a huge history and alar, large, you know, a lot, maybe many reviews, things like that. So we do the approach, basically both. But at this stage, because we need to add a lot more products, we were actually launching most of our products ourselves. Yeah, it's like, it's not a like acquisition. Joe Valley  40:51   Yeah. How important in your unicorn valuation your your personal exit goal is the recurring revenue aspect of the business model that you have, versus this is for folks, I'm talking about a one off sale of a growing apron versus you know, the propane that people have to get on a regular basis of course, get that luckily for the tank, but recurring revenue versus one off sales in this large valuation approaches. Is it critical that you serve shooting shooting for a certain percentage of total revenue being recurring? Or is it just case by case basis? Ramon Van Meer  41:30   Most of our decisions are basically have to answer yes to the question, will this eventually get us more recurring revenue basically. So it's very important, I think it's going to help lower your valuation. It's, it's good for your own revenue, because it compounds right your revenue growth, especially if you have a good product that people will keep buying. Unknown Speaker  42:02   So Ramon Van Meer  42:05   I Yeah, definitely. When we look at new products, the number one question is is a recurring product, this is a product that everybody needs, you know, because we need every day, every week, every month, whatever that answer is, okay. But it's not if it's not If the answer is no, this means that we right away scrap that idea, but then it really has to have some other things like a high margin or like super, you know, a big ARV or other questions. But yeah, recurring is Unknown Speaker  42:46   very important for us Joe Valley  42:48   at it. Got it. For again, for folks that are hearing this for the first time, I want you to definitely check out the quiet giants episode, where our cmo and filmmaker Chris Moore, dragged Ramon out of the bed at the crack of dawn bored him to death with preparations and questions and all that we get to see Ramon in his real world and his real story, and it's inspiring Simply put, I think, I think that the title one of the words is the fighter in there because a little bit of bit of your background but also because you're just focused on never giving up and fighting for success while being good human at the same time. Being a single father to Victor and doing what you're doing in terms of that you know, the organic cookie business their dog dog biscuit does this is by the by the way is that is that website live yet? Ramon Van Meer  43:52   His life. So yeah, you watch this. Here it is you have a dog. This is going to be my first plug I ever did. But this one my son so I don't feel that bad. But yeah, victorscookies.com. And he is going to donate for each bag of cookies that he sells. he donates one meal to a shelter dog. Wow. So his mission is actually pretty simple. It's like his mission is to feed every single Joe Valley  44:22   shelter dog in the world. There's victorscookies.com feed every shelter dog in the world pretty. Again, the van Meir ambition is so damn impressive. I mean, he's 10 he wants to feed every dog shelter in the world. The goals you don't set them lightly, that's for sure. Unknown Speaker  44:45   But he can Ramon Van Meer  44:47   you know a little bit very proud of that little bit. But yeah, he came up on a within itself. So one of my co workers shot a video. Like an like a commercial like An ad with him. And I didn't read the script. I didn't saw anything until it was a finished product. And then yeah, he came up with idea like, yeah, my mission is to feed every single shelter doc in the world Joe Valley  45:16   at an incredible rate. I told remote folks, I told them a month or so when I got when I heard about this that I wanted to have Victor on the podcast, and I'm going to make good on that. Victor is probably more of an introvert than Ramon. So it may be cute and shy and stumbling, and I'll pull as much information out of them as time comes. I think everybody here should go to victorscookies.com. And and buy some, buy some dog biscuits, organic dog biscuits for your pet, or your neighbors to do that today, please, I'm gonna guess Ramon Van Meer  45:52   we make it ourselves. So it's not like a like a white label. You know? You know, that's another company Vic Baker's making its own or whatever. It's like we actually it's our own recipe that we own. And we have a professional kitchen. And of course, he has a baker actually has an employee already. Helping. Unknown Speaker  46:15   Good employee. Ramon Van Meer  46:16   Yes. And she's amazing. Joe Valley  46:18   Let's, let's, if I recall the story, you Yeah, you didn't go out and buy equipment raw from a you know, manufacturer or anything like this. You put in you found a business that was established and but older and modified it and or is that still hold true? Where you found this through Craigslist originally? Yeah. This is this is I I just want you to just cover this real quickly. But this is what entrepreneurship is all about folks, is it you have to go out and and seek it and find it and attack it and climb that hill? And don't let the traditional ways get in your way and these obstacles that you know, you're like, I don't know how to do that, or I've never done that. Or, you know, they're gonna say no, just you got to go out and find a way to do it. And that's exactly what you did in this situation. Okay, I'll be quiet now tell us what you did to actually find this business. And Ramon Van Meer  47:15   yeah, so I don't know anything about baking, cooking, especially in a dark cookies. So I just put an ad out on Craigslist, looking for somebody that knows knows something about doc cookies that will pay for your time to pick your brain. I forgot like hundred dollars for an hour or something just or half hour just to jump on a call. And you know, sometimes you don't get anything at all. But in this case, in the same day, I got an email back from a very nice gentleman said saying that he used to have a doc cookie company very small but still was selling in some local supermarket chains and pet stores. And he was actually also an author turned out to be an author of a book about healthy dog foods like you know, what should you give your dog whatnot it was really important that you know the cookies Victor's going to sell or healthy and yeah, jumped on a call with him not actually with the mindset all I want to buy it is I just went very open minded to it just trying to learn as much as possible. And just in that conversation, I just asked him Hey, like, do you still own this company and recipes and he said yeah, so everything. Oh, are you open to selling it so and he was so we bought eight original recipes that we own now. And alongside with everything and very sweet man he even sent us his actual cookie cutters and his dough roller like he's he said this The package is all his his whole thing. In the same thing, okay, now we have the recipe and we know a little bit more about it like you know what to do what not to do with licensing permits. He taught us everything. Now we need to find somebody to make you I cannot make you know, hundred bags a day or victory neater you still have to go to school for a couple years at least and put an ad out looking for you know, this is idea. My son and I are working on a doc cookie company and turned out the first or second email we got was Jamie who is the head pastry chef at Caesars Entertainment So, not only knows she knows how to make anything pastry, like from cookies to whatever, she also knows the economics like calculating how much up to the sense, you know, of ingredient goes into each cookie. If we just do one cookie less then we can, you know, save X amount of dollars per bag. So also like the economics behind it. And yeah, amazing, amazing fight. Joe Valley  50:33   Brilliant. I love it. You just didn't know where that journey was going to take you when you put an ad in Craigslist. Or where the journey was going to take you when you bought your first business on Flippa which is I think where you started and eventually sold it at first one for twice what you bought it for, which was a big sale of $7,000 or so give or take. It's It's It's an amazing journey, Ramon you're you're you're good man, a good heelan a good great entrepreneur and a good friend. I appreciate you tolerating another 15 minutes of me poking you with questions. Oh, I'm sure I'm really excited to have the public. See the Quiet Giants episode with a fighter you Ramon Van Meer, because it's motivating and inspiring. And I think it'll get some people off the I wish, I wish I wish and on to the I'm doing it. I'm taking some action and moving forward. I expect to succeed even though I will fail along the way here and there. And that doesn't bother me at all. I'm still going to do it. If remote can do it. I'm going to do it to kind of attitude. So you're good man. I'm gonna as soon as this is over, I'm going to victorscookies.com and look for an order. So you tell him to look for an order to send a North Carolina here shortly. I beg everybody else to do so as well. And check out alpha pi is it alpha pod.com? Yeah, check out Alpha Paw all the products and sign up folks see how see how Ramon does the marketing become a customer pay attention if you want to learn something, become a customer and you're going to see how they treat you and how they reach you and how they inspire you and, and and help you first and foremost and and then you become a customer as well. And maybe someday you too will have a unicorn valuation a billion dollars. We're gonna have to have you back on as long as you promise when you and I, I yes, I just said, I'm sorry for taking up more of your time. And now I'm saying I'm gonna have to have you back on. But as long as you promised that when you hit that hundred million dollar exit, or whatever the number might be, that's going to have so many zeros, it's going to make most people's head spins, that you'll still be wearing. shorts and a T shirt and your high tops and you're not going to change it all. Promises, of course. Alright, last question. What's your favorite type of drink? Beer, whiskey and what's your what's your, what's your vice there? Ramon Van Meer  53:13   Well, you should know because we've been, you know, down that rabbit hole a couple times, but I typically if I don't drink often, but if I drink it's it's vodka. Joe Valley  53:27   Okay, random question. There's the answer, folks. Ramon, you're a good man. Appreciate it. Everybody. Look for the Quiet Giants episode coming out. Same day as this October 8. Extra. Outro  53:43   today's podcast was produced by Rise25 and the Quiet Light Content Team. If you have a suggestion for a future podcast subject or guests, email us at podcast@quietlightbrokerage.com. Be sure to follow us on YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram, and subscribe to this show wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks for listening. We'll see you next week.

About the Episode On this episode of Next Level Agents, I’m joined by Sam Parr, the man behind The Hustle, the daily tech and business email. He calls The Hustle an information company geared towards youngish entrepreneurs, and people who are growth-minded.   Sam Parr is the CEO and co-founder of The Hustle, one of America's fastest growing media companies. Each morning they give over 1m users/day the important business news they need to succeed. The company generates 7 figures in revenue each month, and has grown to a team of 30 employees. The company also hosts Hustle Con a popular conference with thousands of attendees. The hustle is a fast-growing, profitable without any venture capital. Sam has also started and sold multiple companies, invests in real estate and startups.  Sam’s journey in business and the story of The Hustle is one of learning from some of the most legendary names in media like Ted Turner, and creating something that is so relevant and impactful right now. He understands the value of seeing trends before they are blatantly obvious to everyone else, and being willing to do things differently to how everyone else is doing. Add to that a sharp, brilliant and unique communication style, and you have an unstoppable media maven, and an equally unstoppable brand.   Building a business of note isn’t easy, and it requires us to constantly learn, develop, and iterate new pathways and approaches. The people who do this well understand that what really makes an impact is courage, mental and emotional toughness. As Sam puts it, business excellence is 20% intelligence and 80% emotional.  In Today’s Episode, We Talk About;   - The backstory of The Hustle and who the publication is geared to.  - Why Sam started a media company, why Ted Turner inspires him and how Sam honed the voice and tone of The Hustle.  - How Sam and his team built to a million subscribers in a short amount of time.  - Why The Hustle built their own email sending technology.   - How The Hustle grew to 7 figures monthly and a staff of 25-30 people.   - The value of seeing trends before they are blatantly obvious to everyone else. - The most misunderstood thing about The Hustle.  Guest Info   Sam Parr is the CEO and co-founder of The Hustle, one of America's fastest growing media companies. Each morning they give over 1m users/day the important business news they need to succeed. The company generates 7 figures in revenue each month, and has grown to a team of 30 employees. The company also hosts Hustle Con a popular conference with thousands of attendees. The hustle is a fast-growing, profitable without any venture capital. Sam has also started and sold multiple companies, invests in real estate and startups.    Website: https://thehustle.co/ GET 50% OFF WITH THE DISCOUNT CODE NLA  Twitter: @theSamParr

The CEO of HustleCon.com Sam Parr shares how he was able to build an email that actually gets opened by 1,000,0000 people per day as well as build HustleCon.com, a company backed by Tim Ferriss, Tim Chen, the CEO of NerdWallet, and Scott Belsky the founder of Behance and the chief product officer at Adobe.

Sarah's Guest today is Suzy Batiz and they discuss "Harnessing the power of True Transformation".  Truly Inspiring!!!“HOLY SHIT!” is what Suzy Batiz, the founder of Poo~Pourri and supernatural, says while reflecting on her journey of liberation from a lifetime of oppression, convention and conformity using radical transformational and pattern-breaking thinking.Transformation is the common thread that runs throughout Suzy’s life and her companies, whether she's transforming literal shit into a pleasant-smelling experience with Poo~Pourri or people’s lives with her growing personal brand. Suzy is a revolutionary explorer of infinite potential in the playground of life who loves to inspire others and bring them along for the ride.Suzy experienced some of life’s lowest lows — poverty, sexual and domestic abuse, depression, two bankruptcies and a suicide attempt — which led to what she calls the luxury of losing everything. After harnessing the power of intuition, her journey led her to building her businesses from the ground up without ever taking a dollar of outside investment. Suzy harnessed the power of true transformation and turned ALIVE IDEAS into a $500+ million empire.Suzy knows that money is simply energy and by focusing on your energetic state, abundance in all areas of your life naturally follows: your energetic state improves, and you will lead an Alive as Shit life. She wants every person to know that they already have everything inside of them to make their dreams come true.Suzy has been featured by leading publications including Forbes, CNBC, Fast Company and Entrepreneur. She has been named one of Forbes’ Richest Self-Made Women in America (2019), EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year (2017), Conscious Company’s World Changing Women (2019), EarthX’s Community Leader of the Year (2019) and is WBENC (Women Owned) certified business owner. Suzy also been interviewed for Leaders Create Leaders, Modern Hero, Marie Forleo’s Marie TV and has given presentations for Conscious Capitalism, Google, HustleCon, SXSW, Create & Cultivate & the In goop Health summit. 

https://youtu.be/zAGQS9DtyKE In this first episode hear from good friend and colleague Suzi Batiz, the founder of Poo~Pourri and supernatural. Take a look at my existing podcasts by clicking the link, https://www.sallyg.com/podcasts and don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss all the new episodes at https://www.sallyg.com/subscribe-to-podcast/ Please share with anyone who needs to hear these messages of hope and inspiration. As always if you are curious, book into my calendar for a FREE 30min session to explore this further. https://go.oncehub.com/RTTintro  Here's an extract from Suzy, “HOLY SHIT!” is what Suzy Batiz, the founder of Poo~Pourri and supernatural, says while reflecting on her journey of liberation from a lifetime of oppression, convention and conformity using radical transformational and pattern-breaking thinking. Transformation is the common thread that runs throughout Suzy’s life and her companies. Whether transforming literal shit into a pleasant-smelling experience with Poo~Pourri, the household cleaning industry from toxicity to aromatherapeutic magic with supernatural or people’s lives with her growing personal brand, Suzy is a revolutionary explorer of infinite potential in the playground of life, who loves to inspire others and bring them along for the ride. Suzy experienced some of life’s lowest lows — poverty, sexual and domestic abuse, depression, two bankruptcies and a suicide attempt — which led to what she calls the luxury of losing everything. After harnessing the power of intuition, her journey led her to building her businesses from the ground up without ever taking a dollar of outside investment. Suzy harnessed the power of true transformation and turned ALIVE IDEAS into a $500+ million empire. Suzy knows that money is simply energy and by focusing on your energetic state, abundance in all areas of your life naturally follows: your energetic state improves, and you will lead an Alive as Shit life. She wants every person to know that they already have everything inside of them to make their dreams come true. Suzy has been featured by leading publications including Forbes, CNBC, Fast Company and Entrepreneur. She has been named one of Forbes’ Richest Self-Made Women in America (2019), EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year (2017), Conscious Company’s World Changing Women (2019), EarthX’s Community Leader of the Year (2019) and is WBENC (Women Owned) certified business owner. Suzy also been interviewed for Leaders Create Leaders, Modern Hero, Marie Forleo’s Marie TV and has given presentations for Conscious Capitalism, Google, HustleCon, SXSW, Create & Cultivate & the In goop Health summit.

In business, you’ve got to hit the right marks where it bleeds customers and referrals. In today’s inspiring episode, Joshua Rhodes interviews Sam Parr about his journey and methodologies to success. Sam is the CEO and Co-Founder of the The Hustle and the startup event Hustle Con. Sam breaks down his portfolio and how he hits his customers. Creating his own business plan, he also reveals how he’s hustling his way from one business to another, earning over six figures ROI and eight figures from advertising. Don’t miss this episode for helpful advice on cold-emailing, marketing, and how to hustle for your dreams.

Today Dannie and Caitlyn are having a Jam Session on 5 Ways You Can Invest In Your Business. We believe in accessible content and that anyone who wants to learn from this content should be able to. In order to support this, we've had every episode of Season 4 transcribed. The transcriptions are available at the bottom of every episode blog post. SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:A deeper dive into conferences, tools, coaching, and courses for your business.Dannie's completed coursesA deep dive into conferences both the good and the bad.Top free and paid tools.Free toolsGoogle sheetsGoogle calenderNotion app ZoomPaid toolsDubsadoBulletproof plannerAsanaCourse recommendationsBiz Chic Co-opTrello for business Squarespace Square Design GuildShopsite School#OwnIt AcademyHand Lettered DesignWinning Creative's WayJenna Kutcher CoursesInDesign Field GuideCopywriting for Creatives FOLLOW YOUR HOSTS: D Website | D Instagram // C Website | C Instagram Get the Side Hustle Starter Kit Episode Transcript - 5 Things to Invest Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:00:21] Hello and welcome back to the side hustle gal podcast. Today you've just got me in Caitlyn for one of our favorite jam sessions to date. We're going to be talking about the five ways that you can invest in your business, and we're going to talk about some of the things that we've invested in and how they have or have not worked out.So grab your tea, grab your coffee because we are spilling it. Let's dig in.Caitlyn Allen: [00:00:49] Yes. Okay, so here are the five things we're going to talk about. We're going to be talking about conferences. We're going to be talking about tools that we use in our business or don't use in our business anymore. We're going to talk masterminds and coaching. We're going to talk courses, and then lastly, retreats.I am so excited to talk about these five things because. Guys you can make or break or, well, some of these can be great investments and others can be not so great investments and . We've both learned the hard way with some of these. So Dannie, what do you want to kick it off with? Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:01:31] Let's kick it with courses, because while you were talking, I opened up my Trello board that has all of the business courses that I've bought linked with the logins and everything.Caitlyn Allen: [00:01:43] I do that one by asana board. Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:01:47] So I have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen courses that I have bought in. The past probably three or four years. Um, and of these 14, I can honestly say that I have finished three. Um, so the three that I have finished, the first one is the bee free Lance.Uh, business practices course, unfortunately be free. Lance no longer exists, which really sucks, but they had like a business practices course basically teaching you how to be the chief executive officer of your own business. That was amazing. I loved it. Um, I took Squarespace design guilds, custom CSS tricks for Squarespace course, and it's been amazing.I mean, probably a good. Third to a half of my Squarespace website is CSS. So loved that course. Completed that one all the way through. And then I took the shareworthy designed course by spruce road. This is a course that's been updated a few times since it first launched, but it's amazing for talking about creating a InDesign and Photoshop and Adobe illustrator products for your course.And I've used this course to design all of the PDF. Um, that I use for my digital downloads of my website. So those three courses have been great. Other courses that I've invested in and not finished include three courses from Jenna Kutcher, no shade copywriting for creatives. Uh, the winning creatives way, which I think has a course like from back in the day from Christina Scalera, um, own it Academy.Which I don't even know what this is. When I click on it. Oh, that's Jessica Razatos course, which has since been updated, and I have finished the new verson. Um. Oh, the love inspired shop site school, which teaches you how to launch an online shop. Never finished that bad boy. And then I have like four courses from tin, creative collective now boss project, I think, um, none of which I finished.So Caitlyn, what about you? What is your course library look like and where are you at? Caitlyn Allen: [00:04:16] Okay, let's not talk about it. No, I'm just kidding. So I am the person who buys the like. Bundles cause they're cheapest. Hell. Um, and I, yeah, I don't feel like I've finished ever any courses. Um, okay. I lied. I was a beta tester for, um, Vanessa kines tailwind or Pinterest course.That one is freaking bomb. Um, and I have to say like, that is one of the best courses that I've ever been in. Mmm. Aye. What other courses? Currently I'm in one right now. I'm learning, um, about being a COO of your business with Kristin Kaplan. That one is phenomenal and I will finish. Um, but this one kind of ties into coaching, which, um, we'll talk about in a little bit, but this course specifically has coaching alongside of it.So that's been really cool. Um, and then the only other course that I've really. Taken time to pay attention to was the, when your welcome sequence by, I think it's Aaliyah Walker. I think that's how you say your name. Um, which has been gold, especially as I'm helping my clients write their welcome sequences.But outside of that, I have a lot of different ones and I have to say, I love having the variety of courses I have because even though I'm not finishing them, like I'm not sitting down and watching them like. Here's the, all of the course, finish it. I am going into each course for specific things that I'm looking for in my business at that time, or one of my client's business is at that time.So that's why I like it. Like buying the course toolkits and of course bundles. Um, just because there's options and let me tell you, not every course is created equal cause I've seen some bad ones. So. I guess that kind of ties into, uh, a couple of conferences that we've been to. Um, so I am not going to be, I'm not going to share which conference I, um, attended that did not feel, uh. I don't even know. How do I say these words, Dannie. Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:06:38] It didn't pay off. Caitlyn Allen: [00:06:40] It did not pay off. Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:06:41] The investment didn't pay off. Caitlyn Allen: [00:06:42] Right. Um, there are so many moving parts to a conference that, um, if you're just, you know, a normal person with normal dietary restrictions and nothing like too important, um, it might not be that big of a deal for you, but, Mmm. I have a gluten allergy. And so something that is really important at a conference, especially if you're spending over a thousand dollars to attend a conference, not included , you know, lodging or anything like that. It's your, that you have food if the conference includes food. Um, so for any conference people out there, Dannie, I know that you are. About it so much is that you have to be dietary, inclusive. Um, and when you tell your client registry or you're not client, your registrants that it is dietary inclusive, you better back it up. So, um. Yeah, that was one of the biggest things that I saw at a conference was it just, it didn't, at the end of the day, the amount of money that I paid for that conference didn't, I didn't really learn that much and I didn't really get a lot out of it.Um, I do have to say I've made some great connections, but that's on you to make, make sure that you're making connections. So if you do find yourself at a conference where you're like. Man, I'm not learning anything or this is just not a good time. The the least, they're the best thing for you to do is to just make really good connections while you're there.Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:08:16] Love the connections piece and love the dietary piece too, because frankly speaking, I don't want have a dietary restriction other than like a lactose intolerance, but that's easily avoidable, avoidable, Caitlyn Allen: [00:08:29] or can you just take a pill for it.Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:08:30] Yeah, but there's nothing worse than leaving a conference and still being fucking hungry because there's been like no protein options because they're trying to be.Like healthy, I'm all for healthy food, but like, I need protein too. So in terms of conferences that I loved and, or regretted, um, if you follow me on Instagram, you know how I feel about creative at heart. We don't need to rehash that. But long story short is if a conference is not diverse, it ends up on my bad list.Um, conferences that I've loved. The one conference that I keep going back to year after year and recommend to everyone, even if they're not Latina, is we all grow. Uh, the price point for we all grow is incredible for what you get the swag for. We all grow as hands down the best swag I've ever gotten from a conference.Caitlyn Allen: [00:09:26] Dude swag was fricking killer. Like that swag. Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:09:31] Yeah. Like we're talking doves entire product line. Neutrogena's entire product line. Like, I haven't bought toiletries in four years because of this conference. Um. The swag is amazing. The event is amazing. Ana knows how to produce an event with quality education.She rarely, rarely, rarely repeat speakers. Something like 5% of her speakers are repeats. So it's a conference you can keep going back to year after year and love. Mmm. I also really loved Aluma tree. I attended a Loomer tree during a time in my life where I was ready to pivot. It's a very intimate retreat.It's only 12 people. Um, and it felt like a mastermind, even though that was not what it was supposed to be at all. But it was amazing. And also, if you're a photographer reset conference. I do not know how Rebecca makes reset conference. So affordable. Like we're talking, it's sub $600 every year. I'm pretty sure.Um, I've spoke at it three years. I spoke at a 2017, 18 and 19. It is incredible. There's opportunities to get one on one time with your favorite speakers. The party is great, the education is amazing, and they don't have too many sessions running at the same time, so you don't feel like you're missing out on content?Because I pay to go to a conference sometimes and I can only attend a third of the content because there's four breakouts running at the same time. Reset. Uh, it's pretty good about that. And all of those conferences that offer the video downloads of the speakers pay for that upgrade. Like if it's 50 bucks, a hundred bucks to pay to upgrade for that, pay for the upgrade, and then set aside time in your calendar for professional development time and watch those keynote because for 50 or 75 or a hundred extra dollars, you're.Tripling the value of your conference ticket because you're getting all of that breakout content you missed because you were at other sessions. Caitlyn Allen: [00:11:36] There's one conference that you didn't mention that I don't think you've attended, but the, I've heard really great things about, I can't really talk about a lot cause I'm only attended one conference.Um, but I think I, uh, you know, after one I lost my, uh, . Lost how I felt about them. No, I'm just kidding. Um. Is social media marketing world. Um, I heard that that's a great conference because the speakers there are not the same damn speakers as every time before. Um, it seems to be that a lot of the conferences in our industry specifically always have the same people speaking.It's always the same people talking. Um, no matter what conference. I mean, we can look at, I mean. I feel like if you look at any of the conferences, they have pretty much the same lineup or the same keynote speakers. Um, and I'm just not here for it. Like, also, I want to hear from like some big names. So social media marketing world gives you some of those bigger, bigger names, uh, that. You might not see, um, at some of the smaller conferences. Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:12:48] A couple of others on my bucket list too is ConvertKit's craft and commerce. I'm not a convert K customer, but I've heard amazing things about that. Um, inbound, which is great for marketing, I've heard and hustle con, uh, so you have to have made like 700.And $50 million, maybe I'm on crack. You have to have made millions of dollars in your startup to be able to speak at hustle con. Like there's an income threshold to prove that, like all of the seekers are successful. Um, so all of the speakers at hustleCon founders of startups that have either taken on VC funding or bootstrapped to multiple million dollars, so I would love to attend that one as well.Caitlyn Allen: [00:13:34] Yeah, and I mean, my bucket list conference is happening this August. Uh, no. September. I lied. Um, it's called the four B conference. Um, four by four. How do I say it? Four by, I think, um, Dannie is hosting a conference. Y'all, I am so excited. There might be a doughnut table. I'm sorry, say that again, Dannie.Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:13:59] Literally. Did not tell you to say this.Caitlyn Allen: [00:14:01] You didn't. No, I'm so excited about it though. The speakers are bomb. The photographer is fricking awesome. She was actually on the podcast last season, almost said last episode last season. Um, I'm so excited to attend a conference. Like Dannie's, I'm not even just saying this because it's because it's Danny, like I'm, I'm honestly super excited to see the people who are speaking because never heard of them or I have heard of them, but I've, I've never seen them on stage before.And I'm so here for that. I'm so excited to see new people stepping up. Like, Oh, I'm here for it. So. Y'all go check out Dannie's conference. There's only limited seating. I'm selling this thing, but do it. It's going to be, it's going to be awesome. Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:14:54] You're, amazing. We literally didn't even talk about this before we recorded and she just talked about it. I love you. Um, okay, let's talk masterminds and coaches. So I've invested in some coaches before and I like built my own mastermind with friends, but I've never paid to be in a mastermind. Um, so I'm the coaching front. I think that intersection of you pay for what you get and checking people's qualifications is really important.I've had three separate coaches. One was for free because she was building her coaching business. One I paid four figures for, and one I paid five figures for. Um. The coach for me that's been the best was actually the four figure coach. It was four figures for six months of coaching. She changed my life, changed my business.Um, I worked with her in 2016 as I was pivoting away from having a full time job and going full time and kicking off my speaking career. Um, so I think that they don't have to be the most expensive coach, but like credentials and fit. Are critical to, um, I probably would recommend the five figure coach that I worked with. To other people. If she was what they needed, I definitely wouldn't recommend the free coach. I don't know if it's because she was new and building her practice, but it wasn't what I needed. Um, and on the mastermind front, I like Megan MayDell and I, a couple of years ago, launched our own, and it was like 10 people.Well, we like tried to screen for people, but because that was not our area of expertise, we didn't screen well enough. And so there was a really big spread in where people were at. So it fell apart within like eight months. I mean, eight months is a long time for a mastermind to last. But. Like, it could have been a lot better.Um, so I, I've been really curious about paying for some of these paid mastermind programs, but I'm also not here trying to pay $40,000 for a mastermind when this is my side hustle. Caitlyn Allen: [00:17:12] Mm. Yes. So it's funny because I've never paid for a mastermind per se, so I was in a. Group, shall we call it, um, that had masterminds in it.And that was a lot of fun. I learned a lot. That's how I met Vanessa kines and I was part of her beta program. Um, masterminds literally changed my life because Danniie invited me to a mastermind. I started my business. So like, masterminds are awesome. Just be cognizant that paid masterminds are great. But you can also do it with some biz besties that you meet.I'm online, so you don't have to pay some crazy amount to do a mastermind. Mmm. And on the coaching front, I have not worked with a coach, um, ever before outside of the course that I'm doing currently, that has a little bit of coaching alongside of it. Mmm. We've. On the different teams that I've been a part of, my clients have worked with coaches.So by default, I've worked with coaches, but I've never, I've never worked with a coach one-on-one. Um, and Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:18:30] Mmm. Like a privilege question. Do you think that like because you grew up in the business space with like me, Rosemary, Jana, Rayna jelly in your corner that you never needed a coach? Caitlyn Allen: [00:18:43] Yeah, I think, I mean that's the one thing that I can say is because of the connections that I have, it's been, I've been privileged to go to you and ask you like, Hey, I want to do this potentially like a speaking engagement.What do I need to do? Or like. Rosemary, you are doing all of these things. How could I, you know, pivot this way if I wanted to? Yeah. I'm super privileged to have like those connections, but you, Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:19:12] do you think that there is a way that other people could. Get that same benefit early on. Cause I also think like investing in a coach on day one is a mistake. So I'm wondering, Caitlyn Allen: [00:19:24] I completely agree Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:19:25] as a stop gap until you are in a place where your business is ready for a coach. Do you have any advice for people on how to build that? Like. Little pad that you had of established business owners that helped you Caitlyn Allen: [00:19:39] make connections like, seriously, I cannot stress that enough. Like the one conference that I did go to, I made so many good connections, like I still talk to. Trina a little, I still talk to, Mmm. Katherine McKinnis. I still talk to different people and the people that were at that conference happened to be, you know, Dannie and Joey was right. Right next. Dannie and Joey were both right next to me.They both spoke at the conference and even through like with them, we made connections. Um, and so making connections and then. Asking people, but not asking too much. Like there is a difference between me going to Dannie and asking like, Hey, here's what I'm thinking here. Can you give me advice versus always going to Dannie whenever you have a question.Like that's where you have to draw the line. You have to figure out how close are we versus how much can I ask type of thing. Um, it would be one thing if we weren't friends. All the time and talking to each other, and then just me coming to you, Hey, by the way, that would be odd. Um. I do find that coaching is super helpful depending on the type of business you have.So for me, I don't feel like coaching is needed right now. The type of people I'm working with and what I do. Um, I feel very comfortable where I am. I'm not working on scaling my business to $100,000. Like, it's just like, it's not what I want right now. Um. So that's why I feel like coaching hasn't been necessary for me.I'm, I'm comfortable at where I'm at in my business, but when you want to get somewhere that you've realized there's a gap, coaching is awesome. Coaching can be amazing. Coaching can man, it can really do a lot. Like you said, Danny, with the coach that you're talking about. That coach is pretty awesome. Um, and I know other business owners who have worked with that coach specifically, that have done really amazing things.So I think for me, it's just not something that I, I personally have went out and like, tried to look for. Um, but I do appreciate business coaches and . I just, you gotta be careful because everybody is calling them a co themselves, a coach right now, and they're not like, find somebody who is actually a coach who has the knowledge, who has the, okay, but no, how to actually be a coach.Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:22:16] Yeah, I think so. The one coach that I loved and worked with was Raina Pomeroy and C's. The certified by the international coach Federation, which is like the gold standard of coaching certification. She's also, um, the, the, like. She was a social worker right before. And, um, she, like had done business coaching for Stanford and some other places.So her credentials spoke for herself. The coach that you work with doesn't need to be certified, but if you're not sure what you're looking for, that's a great benchmark to look at. Mmm. Caitlyn Allen: [00:22:54] Also just one more thing. A coach gets you from point a to point B. The coach does not do the work for you. So if you're looking for somebody to do the work that is not a coach, let me be clear.Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:23:08] That's like a strategist or a yeah, something else. And you're going to need to hire a specific ones for specific points of your business, like a marketing strategist or a brand strategist. That's. A lot more segmented. Caitlyn Allen: [00:23:20] Yes. Okay. Let's talk retreats. This is probably one of my favorite things that I've invested in.Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:23:29] I think we should probably define it first, because I did say a little more tree, which is actually technically like a conferenceCaitlyn Allen: [00:23:35] conference. Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:23:35] Yeah. Um, so when we say retreats, I think you and I are both talking about when you get a group of business friends together and you get a hotel room or an Airbnb.And you socialize, but you also work on your business. So a good example of this is first a few years running me, Caitlyn, Rosemary Watson and Jana Bishop, we all converged on Phoenix, Arizona for a long weekend. Like a Thursday to Monday, we'd get a hotel. Um, we'd socialize, we'd go to the pool, we got spray tans one time. Um, um, but we also. Talked business and we also talked about the parts of our business that were driving us crazy. We talked about the parts of our business that were broken and were not working, and we really worked to identify solutions together for our business that could help improve like where we were trying to go.In terms of a traits like me, Caitlyn, Jana, and Rosemary. We all, for a couple of years running would get a hotel room and we would all converge on Phoenix, Arizona, and we would socialize, of course, and like talk about what was going on in our lives and swim at the pool and drink and eat food. But we also talked aboutWhat was and wasn't working in our business. I mean, Caitlyn formed an LLC during one of these sessions. Jana completely rebranded and shifted from, I'm selling stabs back to selling presets. A lot of conversations like change their businesses from these these. Retreats that we were holding Caitlyn Allen: [00:25:15] or made them like my business was not even, it was like, Oh, this is a fun thing for a little bit. And they're like, no, dude, the thing, you can do it. Um, I think that's what I think of as the retreat. That, and then for me, what I think of as a retreat outside of like a mastermind type retreat is. Um, I have quarterly retreats with my clients. And so, um, me and my client and our team potentially depending on the client all get together into the room and we talk.We just break down their business and we talk about all the different places in their business, all the different seats that are in the business, and like what we expect to see in the future of the business or what our goals are. Um. And that that is also, I mean, that to me is a retreat because it's, you're doing the work, but you also are finally getting that water cooler talk that you would never have had if you're team is across the country.So I absolutely am here for retreats, but you also don't have to get super boujie with them. So like. You don't have to spend millions of money, millions of them. You can also do solo retreats. Like I know people like Tiffany Tyler, for example, will book herself into a hotel room solo just to get shit done.Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:26:45] So you can also do solo retreats, I think didn't Raina do. A thing on solo retreats. There's about doing like a holding solo retreats and why they're important. Um, so check out solo retreats too, and it's completely self-organized, like find an Airbnb that's the next town over. If you want, pack some snacks, go away.So Caitlyn, let's wrap it up with a fifth topic. What's our last thing that we have. Caitlyn Allen: [00:27:13] My favorite thing tools in our businesses. Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:27:16] Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, so I'm, Caitlyn and I are very different in this regard. I. Have systems that I don't invest in them. So all of my systems are run on free platforms. Um, Google sheets for one. I used to be a big Trello fan, but I don't really use it anymore.My business is completely run off of Google sheets, Google calendar, and the notion app. Which is like this crazy cool. Basically evernote on steroids with templates app that's on a iOS and Android and it's a website. So my business is completely run on those things. Tools that we love for the podcast Descript, it transcribes the podcast and you edit by backspacing words out of the transcript instead of having to like listen to the full audio, which is a really, really nice, Caitlyn told me about it and.Max who edits these episodes has fallen in love over the past month editing this season. Mmm. I also don't even pay for zoom, so I use the free version of zoom. We're super strict about how long our podcast recordings could last because we use the free version and they cut you off after 40 minutes. So I think the only tools that I pay for on an annual basis are G suite for email. Squarespace from my website. And that's literally it.Caitlyn Allen: [00:28:44] What about your email provider is G_suite. wait, but like how do you send like your biggie. Sorry. You use G suite to send your newsletters? Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:28:54] Oh, no. I use mailchimp, but I use free version of Mailchimp. Yeah, Caitlyn Allen: [00:28:58] girl. Okay. Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:29:00] Everything is free. Caitlyn Allen: [00:29:01] I again, I like, no, Dannie. I think we're very similar. I am a cheapskate, so I don't pay for much of anything. The only thing I pay for, so I use G suite, which I pay for.Oh no. I pay monthly. Mmm. G suite. I use asana, but I use the free version. Mmm. I think one of my teams we use click up and we do pay for the premium version, but it's not me. Um, but I use asana in my business, which is free. I use flow desk, which is one of the only things that I pay for. And that's, you know, $19 a month or 29 depending on when you join.Um. What else do I pay for in my business? Oh, stock photography. So that is something I do pay for. Um, because my clients need photos for different graphics that I'm creating. So I only can buy certain stocks subscriptions, though, because not all of them allow you to use. The photos for your clients as well.So if you are using stock photos, Be, careful because it's not, you can't just use those stock photos any which way you please. No, no, no. Um, so I think that's, I think flow desk is kind of the only thing that I really pay for outside of, Oh and Squarespace, um, and like are hosting on GoDaddy or whatever. But. Trying to think if I pay for any other outside of stock subscriptions. I don't. I don't think so.Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:30:35] Hmm. Not bad. We both are pretty inexpensive in this space, which I love. I lied my favorite. Business expense is the sparkle, hustle, grow box. Guys both forgot about them. Dubsado, sorry. Caitlyn Allen: [00:30:52] Oh, Oh yeah. Oh yeah. They, they take my money. Just have it. I can just have my money. Um, yeah. Dubsado is, but I pay annually, so I don't really have Mmm. Sparkle. Hustle grow is a super great resource for, um, you if you're looking for a different office supplies or, um, courses, the sparkle, hustle, grow boxes have been truly amazing.I think it's $50 a month and you get like a box with confetti and like different things. Um, a lot of, a lot of my. Stuff that I use on a daily basis has came from there. So like my to do lists or different things like that. But you also get a course and a book, every single sparkle, hustle, grow box. So if you love reading, if you love entrepreneur books, this subscription box is definitely for you. And their team is just so awesome and it's all women. So. Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:31:55] And the office supplies. Now I will say that I use extra large unlined, moleskin notebooks, and then I also use the Ferris wheel press, always left notebook, which is a tall, skinny notebook that's a bullet journal set up for my list making. Yeah.Caitlyn Allen: [00:32:13] Also then pay for something that I pay for the yearly basis is my planner. Yeah. So I pay for the . I think she just changed the name of it to the Bulletproof planner. Um, we'll leak it in the show notes. It's honestly, I use that planner, if not like three times a day, four times a day, like that. That thing is truly saved my life. So, um, yeah, I don't, I don't think there are any other tools that I use outside of dubsado Asana G suite. Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:32:47] Love it. Well, I hope that this episode is helpful. Some things that we loved investing in some things that we wish we hadn't. The moral of the story here is anything that you're investing in, treat your business money like you would your personal money, and do. The research and do the work Caitlyn Allen: [00:33:08] also, do not spend money just because you don't want to pay taxes. Let me tell you, it's better to have $5 in your pocket than spend that $5 because you don't want to pay a dollar something in taxes. Like, I promise you just. Keep the money instead of spending a bunch of money if that's what you're trying to do.Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:33:36] Yeah, that's, no, that's a really good point. Like if you're going to spend, if you have $700 left and you're like, Oh, I'm going to spend this so that I don't, they have to pay taxes. You're out $700 instead of out two to $300 on taxes and stilling having $400 to pay yourself like an owner draw at the end of the year.Well, this is. Been. Awesome. We will see you for the next episode. We will see you very soon for the next jam session. and we can't wait to talk to you soon.

Sam (@thesamparr) and Shaan (@shaanvp) talk ideas, news, trends and businesses. We've partnered with Rippling! The startup that gives you back your time from payroll to employee compliance, making it unbelievably easy to manage your company’s HR and IT – in one system. If you want to try it out, visit www.rippling.com. Also, we had a listener actually start building an idea mentioned in our last podcast with turning tithing digital. He's documenting his journey and uploaded a video to share with you all in our private FB group -- which you are free to join: www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion. Here's Paul Graham's awesome essay on Do Things That Don't Scale: http://paulgraham.com/ds.htmlFor detailed show-notesTopics for today: Greetings in the corona world & viral trigger content (0:14), Our run the world event is canceled (1:09), Henry has a mic now... but he's leaving the pod (1:49), A listener is building the tithing app (3:47), Cursing in meetings (5:55), Curly girl hair (8:27), Workout app making $100m/year (12:45), Mixed race shampoo (14:13), Atrium closing down and what Justin said to Sam at Hustlecon (16:24), Paul Graham's Do Things That Don't Scale (22:45), Trader Joe's founder passing away and it's fantastic business (29:25), Hotel franchising (33:49), B2B Gifting (36:14), CEO's discussed actually listen to the pod (42:30), Q&A: What's your best SEO hack for a new website? (43:53), Q&A: How to make your podcast profitable? (46:47) and Best interview questions featuring Henry (49:02). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

About the Episode On this episode of Next Level Agents, I’m joined by Sam Parr, the man behind The Hustle, the daily tech and business email. He calls The Hustle an information company geared towards youngish entrepreneurs, and people who are growth-minded.   Sam Parr is the CEO and co-founder of The Hustle, one of America's fastest growing media companies. Each morning they give over 1m users/day the important business news they need to succeed. The company generates 7 figures in revenue each month, and has grown to a team of 30 employees. The company also hosts Hustle Con a popular conference with thousands of attendees. The hustle is a fast-growing, profitable without any venture capital. Sam has also started and sold multiple companies, invests in real estate and startups.  Sam’s journey in business and the story of The Hustle is one of learning from some of the most legendary names in media like Ted Turner, and creating something that is so relevant and impactful right now. He understands the value of seeing trends before they are blatantly obvious to everyone else, and being willing to do things differently to how everyone else is doing. Add to that a sharp, brilliant and unique communication style, and you have an unstoppable media maven, and an equally unstoppable brand.   Building a business of note isn’t easy, and it requires us to constantly learn, develop, and iterate new pathways and approaches. The people who do this well understand that what really makes an impact is courage, mental and emotional toughness. As Sam puts it, business excellence is 20% intelligence and 80% emotional.  In Today’s Episode, We Talk About;   - The backstory of The Hustle and who the publication is geared to.  - Why Sam started a media company, why Ted Turner inspires him and how Sam honed the voice and tone of The Hustle.  - How Sam and his team built to a million subscribers in a short amount of time.  - Why The Hustle built their own email sending technology.   - How The Hustle grew to 7 figures monthly and a staff of 25-30 people.   - The value of seeing trends before they are blatantly obvious to everyone else. - The most misunderstood thing about The Hustle.  Guest Info   Sam Parr is the CEO and co-founder of The Hustle, one of America's fastest growing media companies. Each morning they give over 1m users/day the important business news they need to succeed. The company generates 7 figures in revenue each month, and has grown to a team of 30 employees. The company also hosts Hustle Con a popular conference with thousands of attendees. The hustle is a fast-growing, profitable without any venture capital. Sam has also started and sold multiple companies, invests in real estate and startups.    Website: https://thehustle.co/ GET 50% OFF WITH THE DISCOUNT CODE NLA  Twitter: @theSamParr

Sam Parr is the CEO and co-founder of TheHustle.co, daily business email newsletter with over 1 million subscribers that will keep you coming back for more. He also started Trends.co and Hustlecon.com. We spent some time with Sam chatting about pharmacy and trends in digital health. *** Use code "COFFEE" for 50% OFF Trends.co subscription! *** https://trends.co/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ You can find more Drugs&Coffee content at: + Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/drugs-and-coffee-podcast + Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0CjrawRrrND8EQEPWzJ0vs + iTunes podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... + Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?... + Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drugsandcoffee/ + Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drugsandcof... + Twitter: https://twitter.com/drugsandcoffee + Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRpH... + LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/drug... ~~~~~~~~~~~~ #pharmacy #digitalhealth #drugsandcoffee #healthcare #hustle #thehustle

On of my fav episodes w the legend...shoutout Hustle Con for helping make this happen!

In this episode, Steve and Jessica will finish the story of their first Christmas after they separated and then dive into the cliffhanger question that has so far remained unanswered. Jessica and Matt will talk about what Thanksgiving was like, and describe how they celebrated Fake Christmas (Black Friday). They actually went all out and did the stockings, gingerbread houses, the whole nine yards.Steve will also share how he spent his Thanksgiving in San Diego visiting some museums and going to the beach. Back to 2011 when Steve and Jessica got divorced, it was the holidays and they had traveled to Idaho Falls to visit Steve’s family, and Jessica actually spent a whole week with them up to the 28th.They both had very deep conversations during that time about how they wanted Penny to be raised, what their opinions were, and how they hoped that everything would look like down the road. Jessica was very concerned about whether Steve would be supportive of Penny being raised in the church, but it was not much of an issue because Steve had absolute faith in Jessica as a parent, and he knew deep down that she would never turn Penny against him in any way. His core concern was that they find a way to have a good relationship and ensure that Penny had both her parents in her life. Stay tuned for more of the really amazing story. Enjoy!Highlights of the discussion: People trying to pray for someone to be straight (04:17)The 6-week boldology challenge for the new year (08:01)Having fun and bumping into cousins at the HustleCon (10:52)Steve spending Thanksgiving in San Diego and having some much needed TLC (11:34)Taking family pictures right after the divorce was official (14:56)Teaching Penny to love without judging and to understand other people's situation (18:51)Declaring mutual trust, support, and understanding for each other (22:03)Steve opening up to Jessica about his feelings growing up as a kid, his experiences with his family, especially his dad (24:47)Jessica’s first New Year’s eve being single for two days (31:36)Feeling like Joey from Friends and the issue of not being able to spend time with the kids all the time (35:50)The beauty of properly done mutually coordinated part-time parenting (38:33)Additional Resources:www.Linktr.ee/TheBoldLogicHusband in Law on InstagramHusband in Law on Facebook--Be sure to follow us on Instagram and Facebook!--You can find the podcast on Apple, Google, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts.If you haven’t already, please rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts!

Hey, Everyone! Today, I share the mic with Sam Parr, the CEO of The Hustle, a daily email newsletter with tech and business news.   Tune in to hear Sam discuss why how he went from owning a hot dog stand chain to becoming the CEO of an 8-figure company, how The Hustle newsletter got to ~1.5 million subscribers, and how his successful conference, Hustle Con, has never lost money.   Click here for show notes and transcripts Leave Some Feedback: What should I talk about next? Who should I interview? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, leave a short review here Subscribe to Growth Everywhere on iTunes Get the non-iTunes RSS Feed  Connect With Eric Siu:  Growth Everywhere Single Grain Eric Siu on Twitter

12 of 60 LFG!!   This audio bit is from my speech at Hustle Con in Boston last weekend.    Went out to Boston to speak on the topic of Self Transformation, a topic that many of you know is very very close to my heart. The ability to take yourself where you are now to exactly where you want to go, but its deeper than that. Who do you have to become to get there?   That is what gets me fired up, as usual i rolled into this speech with no slides, no prep, just felt the energy of the room   Hope you guys enjoy!     Apply To Be In The Wake Up Wealthy Brotherhood  https://www.wealth-effect.com   The SECRET to Self-Mastery in 2019  https://yes.wakeupwealthy.co/sales-page   Lets do this    -Brodie Kern   Enjoyed this Podcast? CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO BRODIE'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL NOW: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF2ZnOQCGCH72b3ewv5IqcQ   Check out these Top Trending Playlist: 1.) The Assassins Arsenal -  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL08gvBLOLGUA-WfaaqbLYkn7UqWywWodc   2.) Quick Tips w/ Brodie Kern -  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL08gvBLOLGUCVQJ9eDtG8r_x86kWSyYIY   3.) WUW Highlights -  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL08gvBLOLGUAzoddJMRdcmPG_R6--qYOm   4.) Wake Up Wealthy Podcast (Video) -  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL08gvBLOLGUBHTqN2ZGl9O2e1zOFt4DlT   ALSO CHECK OUT THE PODCAST ON SOUNDCLOUD AND ITUNES   Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-158287384   Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-wake-up-wealthy-podcast/id1445817699?mt=2   Brodie Kern was dead at age 21 from drug and alcohol abuse. Barely escaping death Brodie ended up in rehab where he was thrusted into a growth minded mindset of self exploration and personal development   Brodie took his all or nothing mentality to Entrepreneurship due to the fact that he was blatantly unemployable, had serious issues with authority, and was far too intense for the average person to handle   Present day Brodie has built 4 multiple six figure businesses in under 4 years developing serious knowledge and skills in the verticals of Real Estate Sales/Investing, Telecom Sales and Payment Processing   Brodie's true passion is in Self-Transformation and Self-Mastery pushing himself and others to their limits in the areas of Mind, Body, Spirit and Business. This passion has lead him to build a following of over 130k across all social media platforms as well as directly and indirectly helping thousands to master themselves and master their businesses   CONNECT WITH BRODIE ON SOCIAL MEDIA:   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brodiekern/ YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF2ZnOQCGCH72b3ewv5IqcQ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BrodieKernOfficial/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brodiekern/

"The most exciting new podcast in the startup world.” - Eric Ries, Founder and NYTimes bestselling author Today we chat with Sam Parr, founder of “The Hustle” one of the fastest growing media companies here in America. They have talented writers who create amazing newsletters and compelling content on the most important business news and trends. It covers some really interesting topics outside of what you would normally find in a business-focused media company. I met Sam in 2015 when I was invited to speak at their convention, Hustle Con. Actually, I'm going to be speaking again on December 2nd and 3rd of this year at Hustle Con here in the Bay Area. Sam and I touched on a handful of interesting topics. He's not the conventional founder that raises VC funding in the Bay Area — He's done it completely differently and this conversation is just as unique as Sam has built his business. We chat about him giving up alcohol 6 years ago, getting started in the hotdog stand business, and the way he built The Hustle with very little money. We also talked about him hitting moments with The Hustle that made him want to quit (despite its growth trajectory) and before hitting a new stride in the last 12 months. All of that and more on today’s episode with Sam. You can email James questions directly at askbelowtheline@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @ twitter.com/gobelowtheline — “Below the Line with James Beshara" is brought to you by Straight Up Podcasts LLC.

Suzy Batiz is the founder of Poo~Pourri and supernatural. She experienced some of life’s lowest lows — poverty, sexual and domestic abuse, depression, two bankruptcies and a suicide attempt — which led to what she calls the luxury of losing everything. After harnessing the power of intuition, her journey led her to building her businesses from the ground up without ever taking a dollar of outside investment. Suzy harnessed the power of true transformation and turned ALIVE IDEAS into a $500+ million empire.   She's been featured by leading publications including Forbes, CNBC, Fast Company and Entrepreneur. She has been named one of Forbes’ Richest Self-Made Women in America (2019), EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year (2017), Conscious Company’s World Changing Women (2019), EarthX’s Community Leader of the Year (2019) and is WBENC (Women Owned) certified business owner. She's given presentations for Conscious Capitalism, Google, HustleCon, SXSW, Create & Cultivate & the In goop Health summit.   AND she was my dream guest...my White Whale, if you will. And I got her! She does not disappoint. Listen if you want to hear the clearest explanation I've ever gotten on how early life challenges play into success and so much more.   Should you be telling your story? Go to www.futureauthorquiz.com from your computer to find out.

Sam Parr is CEO and co-founder of Hustle Con Media, which includes one of the most popular daily newsletters at over a million readers. They discuss Sam's journey to Silicon Valley, how to build a media company, the correlation of money:happiness and more. Enjoy! You can subscribe to The Hustle at https://thehustle.co For more information on Chris Powers and Fort Capital, visit www.fortcapitallp.com  Follow Chris on Twitter! @fortworthchris  Connect with The FORT by emailing us at thefortpodcast@gmail.com 2:00 - How did you end up in the Bay area and how did The Hustle come to be?  4:40 - How did you go from working with American Pickers to starting a hot dog stand to an online liquor store? 6:18 - How did Bunk change your life? 8:46 - What is the common theme that you see from founders coming through HustleCon? 11:48 - Chris’ biggest experience at HustleCon 14:26 - The Hustle newsletter  19:00 - How do you develop content? 20:10 - How did you learn growth hacking and finding this non-filtered voice? 22:44 - How does living in Silicon Valley without this politically correct filter affect you? 24:14 - The key things people can do to grow an online media brand 27:08 - How do you know what a user is worth? 28:17- Do you need a certain number of users to become profitable or is it based on the type of content? 31:15 - How the world is shifting in terms of accessability to online content 33:30 - popular media companies becoming less and less relevant, Chris’ newsletters and new media companies like Barstool 39:30 - Feedback from readers at The Hustle 40:38 - How do you judge what content is published and what gets filed away 41:50 - Hosting profitable events  46:22 - Building The Hustle to sell vs. growing into a media empire, investing and starting businesses, and the correlation between money and happieness 54:40 - handling money and success 56:50 - What is Trends and why did you decide to start it? 1:00:00 - Sam’s thinking process 

It all started when Elizabeth Yin left Google during the VC drought of 2008 to launch her entrepreneurial career by first bootstrapping a series of consumer web products and then creating the ad network for newsletters, LaunchBit, which was acquired by BuySellAds in 2014. Elizabeth then began angel investing and co-founded Hustle Con, an annual conference and media company which has since scaled to over 1M readers. In 2014 she joined 500 Startups as a Partner and ran their accelerator program, investing in hundreds of startups. Today, Elizabeth is a General Partner and Founder of Hustle Fund, a pre-seed venture capital firm in San Francisco. In this episode we discuss her first $1M in startup investments and what she has learned along the way. Follow Elizabeth on twitter @dunkhippo33 and her blog with tactical advice for founders https://elizabethyin.com

Sam Parr never set out to launch a media company. A few years ago, he was fresh from selling a company he had founded and was looking for something else to do. He decided to recruit about a dozen entrepreneurs as speakers and hosted an event he called Hustlecon. The event was a success, and Parr expanded it into a media website that published daily content. But while the site generated some viral hits, Parr eventually became convinced that the email inbox would produce a much more intimate experience and a better delivery system, so he relaunched The Hustle as a standalone newsletter. Since then, The Hustle has amassed a growing number of diehard followers who evangelize the newsletter to their friends, converse in a private Facebook group, and even meet up in person. I interviewed Parr about what strategies he used to grow the subscriber base, how his editorial team goes about picking daily topics, and what kind of companies like to advertise on a newsletter.

I am so thrilled today to have Tom Bilyeu on the show! I recently had the amazing opportunity and experience of being interviewed on his podcast, Impact Theory and I couldn’t wait to continue the conversation and learn even more about the similarities in our lives and business – and this time, pick his brain.   Similar to my journey, Tom grew up in a family who struggled with their weight, and broke the pattern by choosing to pave a healthier way for himself and as result change the trajectory of his life at the same time. That’s why today he’s so passionate about helping others who struggle with their weight. However, Tom is the first to acknowledge that it’s not always an easy path. In fact, when it comes to success in weight loss or a business or career, nothing is guaranteed – except the pain or struggle. And to get through any of that, you must take action and also accept that you may not be right about x-y-z right now. We have to be willing to make changes if we want to see change.   Tune in to learn just what Tom does that helps him do just that. He shares so many tangible takeaways for all of us to start looking at what we’re doing right now and more into our next level of life. Please let me know what thoughts or actions you put into place because of them!   --   Question Highlights: Can you tell us a little about your background and what got you started in studying film? What’s the difference between finding knowledge and finding what motivates you? What is it in your mind that makes you contemplate what is good and change your path? What do you do and what do you look for in order to make sure you’re putting yourself in those spaces? What does creativity mean to you and what would your life look like without it? Where does the creation of a comic book fit into things right now? What’s your grand vision for what you’re doing right now? Do you know what that one story is? How are you seeking out the people needed for your next level?   In This Episode We Talk about: Tom’s family history of obesity Why Tom’s deeply passionate about helping people who struggle with weight Why the brain is malleable until we die Embracing inadequacies 80/20 motivation principle The difference between drive and ambition How Quest Nutrition was founded on passion Why Tom wasn’t a born entrepreneur The concept of renewal in nature and in life Cultivating a frame of reference Tom’s eagerness to reinvent himself Finding fulfillment Accepting that you’re wrong about things now Why being the smartest person in the room is a trap Being “anti-fragile” Harnessing adaptability Building relationships and making authentic connections And so much more…   Quotes   “I’m going to believe the things that empower me.”   “The gap between where you are and what you want to accomplish is a gap of skillset. It is you not being good enough.”   “If you want to get to extraordinary, you’re going to have to realize that we’re rewarded and punished.”   “Drive is the willingness to act on a day-to-day basis in a way that moves you toward your goals. Ambition is having the goals.”   “To develop my drive, I had to suffer.”   “Things that are hard are gonna be the things that develop who you are.”   “What would we do and love every day even if we were failing?”   “The struggle is guaranteed – the success is not.”   “The skillset you already have has already taken you as far as its going to unless you do something that introduces you to a new idea that you turn into a usable skill.”     -- Tom Bilyeu is the co-founder of 2014 Inc. 500 company Quest Nutrition — a unicorn startup valued at over $1 billion — and the co-founder and host of Impact Theory. Tom’s mission is to break people out of the Matrix by sharing transformative content and fostering one-to-one communication within the Impact Theory community. Tom believes that human potential is nearly limitless, but the dual pandemics of mental and physical malnutrition are hindering a realization of this potential. Through in-depth interviews with the world’s top achievers, including Gary Vaynerchuk, Maria Sharapova, and Mel Robbins, Tom explores mindset-shifting tactics, questions accepted belief systems, and uncovers distinctive strategies for success.   Tom regularly inspires audiences of entrepreneurs, change makers, and thought leaders at prestigious conferences and seminars around the world, including Success Live, Hustle Con, Thrive, Abundance 360, Mindvalley’s A-fest, and Freedom Fast Lane. Tom has been featured on numerous top-rated podcasts such the Tony Robbins Podcast, The School of Greatness with Lewis Howes, Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey, and the Dr. Drew Podcast, and has been featured in Forbes, Inc., Success, and The Huffington Post. He is currently on the Innovation Board of the XPRIZE Foundation. Resources: Instagram: @tombilyeu Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tombilyeu YouTube.com/tombilyeu Impact Theory Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/impact-theory-with-tom-bilyeu/id1191775648?mt=2  Check out my website at loriharder.com. Follow me on social media @LoriHarder on Instagram and Lori Harder on Facebook.

Uber rides. Entrepreneur stories. Women leaders. Donuts. Dogs. Whether they’re travelling together, learning together, or both, Matt and Steph learn something new about each other every time. After jet-setting off to a quick trip to San Francisco for the Hustle Con conference, they’ve come back with their highlights and lowlights of all the great talks and their experiences travelling together. Resources: The Hustle Daily - https://thehustle.co/daily Ellevest - https://www.ellevest.com/ MVMT - https://www.mvmtwatches.com/ Bark Box - https://barkbox.com/ Impossible Foods - https://www.impossiblefoods.com/ Brian Scudamore - https://www.linkedin.com/in/scudamore/ Jake Stika - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakestika/ Steph and Matt on the go! http://bit.ly/matt-and-steph-hustle-con

Yong is back from VidCon and HustleCon! He reviews each conference and they both get very different reviews. In a nutshell, VidCon was a bust and HustleCon was weird but very interesting. PopSockets are officially here. After a week into uploading designs for PopSockets the boys talk about how they did. Also, are you guys making edits to your listings since Amazon said we need to describe the design? Let the boys know if you are and what changes you're making. Also, Kelli Roberts released her course No Content Book Publishing. This is the same course that both Glen and Yong paid for to learn how to publish blank journals. Kelli is making $6k per month and in December of 2017, she made a whopping $17k! Kelli's course will complement your Merch by Amazon business. You can take your Merch by Amazon designs and use them for your cover on Amazon. And since we're not writing anything the work is half done already. You can purchase Kelli's course by going to the URL below. No Content Book Publishing https://gumroad.com/a/628929651    

Organifi Quah! iTunes Review Winners! In this episode of Quah, sponsored by Organifi (organifi.com, code "mindpump" for 20% off), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about the best way to track BMR, their thoughts on walking after eating, things they have spoken about on the podcast that have been since disproven and the approach they would use if raising an LGBT child. Last Chance to go to Hustle Con!! Get your tickets NOW! (5:48) Want to fix the yellow, Organifi turmeric stain in your blender??!! Adam shares his magic technique, plus will Sal ever do that coffee enema? (7:46) Do the guys have shows that they watch by themselves? (12:19) Mind Pump Weekend Update: What did the guy's do for Father's Day Weekend? The differences between family dynamics and how they navigate their gatherings. (17:44) Their kids hitting puberty and when is the right age to start shaving? (36:00) Fitbit employees charged with stealing trade secrets from ex-rival Jawbone. 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Elizabeth Yin is the co-founder and general partner at Hustle Fund - the seed fund for hilariously early hustlers. She's also the co-founder of Hustle Con, a conference for non-technical startup entrepreneurs. The Show Notes Hustle Fund Launchbit 500 Startups Elizabeth on Twitter Omer on Twitter Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training & support. Join SaaS Club Launch: a 12-week group coaching program to help you get your SaaS from zero to your first $10K revenue. Apply for SaaS Club Accelerate: If you'd like to work directly with Omer 1:1, then request a free strategy session.

Elizabeth Yin is the co-founder and general partner at Hustle Fund - the seed fund for hilariously early hustlers. She's also the co-founder of Hustle Con, a conference for non-technical startup entrepreneurs.The Show NotesHustle FundLaunchbit500 StartupsElizabeth on TwitterOmer on TwitterEnjoyed this episode?Subscribe to the podcastLeave a rating and reviewFollow Omer on TwitterNeed help with your SaaS?Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training & support.Join SaaS Club Launch: a 12-week group coaching program to help you get your SaaS from zero to your first $10K revenue.Apply for SaaS Club Accelerate: If you'd like to work directly with Omer 1:1, then request a free strategy session.

Organifi Quah! iTunes Review Winners! In this episode of Quah, sponsored by Organifi (organifi.com, code "mindpump" for 20% off), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about the best way to test your cardiovascular endurance, if we are doomed to have a "set point" when it comes to weight and fat, the best way to warm up before lifting weights and Mind Pump's philanthropic plans for the future. Get our newest program, MAPS Split, an expertly programmed and phased muscle building and sculpting program designed to get your body stage ready. This is an advanced program and is not recommended for beginners. Get it at www.mapssplit.com! What would the guy's do without Doug?! The Mind Pump Team going to Hustle Con and you can too! (5:12) Want the recipe for The Golden Milk Latte?! Adam shares his new favorite Organifi drink. (8:25) Do you like having anxiety while watching a movie? Like watching scary movies before bed? 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The hustle comes in all shapes and sizes; with diverse backgrounds, varieties of manifestations…all that good stuff! We bring this up because this week we had the opportunity to interview Grace Lancaster, Event Coordinator for the well-known event group and daily news source The Hustle! Grace is knowledgeable, driven, passionate, energetic, excited; all without needing to hold the title of “Founder and CEO.”  She’s an important piece of the puzzle and proof that you don’t need to start a company to be an integral part of it. Grace’s humble beginnings in side hustle are drive-provoking and her love for her company is inspirational. She’s heavily responsible for the huge success of not only Hustle Con, but also the large-scale empowerment event titled “2X” that allows motivated individuals to learn from the journeys of trail-blazing female professionals and industry leaders! You won’t want to miss this! And be sure to check out thehustle.co and get your @$$ to their events. Hustle on! Links you may be interested in: The Hustle's Badass Newsletter The Hustle's Women Speaker Series 2X - Going to 7 cities in 2018! The Hustle's Massive Start Up Convention - Coming June 2018   Visit our Website a 5oclockhustle.com for more awesome content! Thanks for listening to the episode. If you enjoyed this episode please leave us a review on iTunes. Reviewers are automatically entered to win an official 5 O'Clock Hustle T-Shirt; that's a $35.00 value absolutely free!  Winners are announced monthly, so listen for your name in an upcoming episode. Share this episode and your 5 O'Clock Hustle experiences on social media with #5OH. 

Elizabeth Yin is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Hustle Fund, as they describe, the ventue fund for hilariously early hustlers. Elizabeth is also the co-founder of HustleCon, a conference series for non-technical entrepreneurs to launch and scale their startups. Prior to Hustle Fund, Elizabeth was a Partner @ 500 Startups where she ran the 500 Startups seed program in Mountain View and where she and her partner saw over 20,000 startup decks. Before that Elizabeth was a successful operator, as the Co-Founder and CEO of Launchbit, an adtech platform that was acquired by BuySellAds. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Elizabeth made her way from successful founder with LaunchBit to Partner @ 500 Startups to now founding partner of Hustle Fund? 2.) Why does Elizabeth believe that VCs fundamentally assess founders the wrong way? What is the right way to assess founders in such early stages? How can one really stress test the level of hustle from the founding team? 3.) How does Elizabeth assess innovation in the practice of venture capital? Why does Elizabeth believe that there has been very little creativity towards innovation? Who has innovatively addressed sourcing the best companies? 4.) In a world of noted rounds with a cap structure, how does Elizabeth feel about gaining the pro-rata in deals? Why does Elizabeth believe that ownership stake and portfolio size are not in conflict with one another? 5.) How does Elizabeth view the future of the VC industry? How can the early stage funnel be flipped on it's head? Why does Elizabeth believe that SAFEs and convertible notes are the future of investing? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show:  Elizabeth’s Most Recent Investment: The Pill Club As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Elizabeth on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Available in carry-on and check-in sizes, Raden is the case for better, smarter travel. By pairing the lightest and most durable materials with technology, travelers can charge their devices on the go, weigh, and track their cases. Visit Raden.com to use code 20VC at checkout. With purchase, receive credit towards Tablet Hotels for the next year. If a UK listener, head over to Selfridge’s and shop Raden today. The Simba Hybrid. The most advanced mattress in the world. With a unique combination of two thousand five hundred conical pocket springs and responsive memory foam, it offers the perfect support for two people. A mattress that responds to you and your partner’s sleeping patterns. Delivered free, with a one hundred night sleep trial, free returns and a ten year guarantee. Start your free trial at simbasleep.com

Today I’m thrilled to have Sam Parr on the show. Sam is the founder of TheHustle.co which is a media company that caters to entrepreneurs. They have more than a million email subscribers and email is the backbone of their business. Every single day, they send out an awesome email that details the latest startup and tech news. The also run an annual conference called HustleCon that I had the pleasure of attending as well. Anyway, what’s amazing is that Sam has managed to build this gigantic email list in a few years which is crazy. And today, we’re going […] The post 183: How To Get Over A Million Email Subscribers In 2 Years With Sam Parr Of The Hustle appeared first on MyWifeQuitHerJob.com.

Tom Bilyeu is the co-founder of Quest Nutrition — a unicorn startup valued at over $1 billion. Quest Nutrition is the fastest growing food company...ever. Known for their low carb protein bars, Quest took only 5 years to get $400m+ in annual revenue. Now, Tom is fulfilling the second part of his mission: helping the next crop of disruptors develop the right mindset to grow their mission-based businesses through his mentorship show and community, Impact Theory. Topics include: *Why you should never chase money *The concept of being a born entrepreneur *The importance of finding your why *How to build a company of impact FOLLOW TOM BILYEU TWITTER: http://bit.ly/2iyjY5P INSTAGRAM: http://bit.ly/2j7vqX8 FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/2hPStWo DOWNLOAD the 25 Bullet Impact Theory Belief System: http://bit.ly/2ubknRe SHOP: http://bit.ly/2rtRN8T FACEBOOK GROUP: http://bit.ly/2rg1AjM TOM BILYEU READING LIST: http://bit.ly/2rZdpO9 FOLLOW IMPACT THEORY TWITTER: http://bit.ly/2iC5lN3 INSTAGRAM: http://bit.ly/2hPSGJa FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/2iystOf Subscribe to the PODCAST to get episodes early: http://apple.co/2icO5wz

This week, Ben and Carter welcome Eric Bahn, founder of Hustle Con and Hustle Fund. We’ll chat with them about his experience as a successful founder and angel investor, and how his new venture fund makes investment decisions. As always, you can reach out to us—or the hustlers in our studio audience—here on Facebook, or via Twitter or Instagram (@gtwyinc) with questions or comments using the hashtag #GatewayOH.

Adam Ryan is responsible for event, media, and advertising strategies at the Hustle. The Hustle is a daily business/technology email newsletter with over 450,000 subsribers. Hustlecon is a TED style/music festival event that had over 2600 attendees this year. The Hustle hosts events in New York, Austin, and San Francisco.   Timecode 06:27 450,000+ Subscribers.. Read more The post TMM006: Adam Ryan – Media and Publishing Companies are Going to Fail appeared first on #twenty-mile-march.

Jessica Smith: Career Advice | Interview Prep | Job Interview Questions | Personal Brand | LinkedIn Tips | Salary Negotiation Hustle Con is a one-day startup event where the world's most successful non-technical founders: 1. Tell their origin stories 2. Teach the practical tactics they used to start and grow their startup 3. Share behind the scenes insights on their wins and losses I had an absolute blast at this year's Hustle Con event. It was my first time there, but it definitely won’t be my last. Big thanks to everyone who made the event possible! Each year Hustle Con invites the world's most interesting entrepreneurs, leaders, and do-ers to tell their 'behind the scenes’ story. Learn more at http://hustlecon.com/ Tune into today’s episode for the best success tips shared during the event. It will feel like you were actually there…ooooo neat, time travel. ROLL CALL (in order of mention in the show) - Casey Niestat, YouTube Star and founder of Beme - Miguel McKelvey, co-founder of WeWork - Mayfield Fund featuring Tim Chang and Rishi Garg, a Silicon Valley VC firm which has partnered with the founders of Lyft, Marketo, and SolarCity to name a few. - Jen Rubio, founder of the first-class company, Away - Manish Chandra, founder, and CEO of Poshmark - Shan-Lyn Ma, founder of Zola crushing the $300 billion wedding industry (GO GIRL!) - Tom Bilyeu, founder of Quest Nutrition and Impact Theory - Tucker Max, founder of Book in a Box and the well-known book, 'I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell' SHOUT OUTS - It was so great meeting each of you, I wish you all the success in the world and will be rooting for you as we continue to grow our businesses! - Gus Shultz, VP and Head of Talent for ScaleLab - Josh Edwards, Senior Accounting Manager at RiskSense - Austin Gaydos from Arena Solutions - Yoon Kim, founder, and creator of Starboard - Lucas Ho, start-up entrepreneur for VR apps concentration on museum industry SIGN UP TO ACCESS MY {free} CAREER SUCCESS RESOURCE HUB - http://www.jessnessrequired.com/lovemyjob Join the Career Café FB group: jessnessrequired.com/careercafe The café is yours to ask questions, share your experiences, and get the support you need to be successful in your career. Join the Wellness Squad FB group: http://www.jessnessrequired.com/JOIN/ The Well'ness SQUAD is a safe judgement-free online community to connect, support, & uplift one another. A virtual home for exploring mind body + spirit wellness. DO YOU HAVE A SECOND? LEAVE THE POD A REVIEW! This helps more people find the show, and in turn, I get to help more people like YOU. SUGGEST A POD TOPIC - Send me a note: http://www.jessnessrequired.com/contact - Send me a snap: http://www.jessnessrequired.com/snap SUBSCRIBE ON YOU FAV APP: - iTunes - http://www.jessnessrequired.com/itunes - Soundcloud - http://www.jessnessrequired.com/soundcloud - Stitcher - http://www.jessnessrequired.com/stitcher - Feedburner - http://www.jessnessrequired.com/podfeed FOMO is no joke…get on my NESS note list {aka email list} for updates on new shows, POPUP WORKSHOPS, online courses, free trainings, and more! Sign up here: http://www.jessnessrequired.com/careertips/ Check out my book, YOUR TWENTIES - http://www.jessnessrequired.com/book SHORT ON TIME? I got chu covered. - Subscribe to my YouTube Channel for Tiny Tips on the 5 wellness topics covered in my book: Self-Love, Health Mind, Body-Acceptance, Relationships, and Career - http://www.jessnessrequired.com/tinytips LET’S GET CONNECTED YA YA YA…. - Find links for my other social accounts on the Jessness Required homepage http://www.jessnessrequired.com/

Ahead of next week's podcast guest, we dive into The Hustle, a newsletter for startup founders and entrepreneurs that has exploded in popularity in the last few years. We fly up to San Francisco to check out the third annual HustleCon, and the loyal following of founders and funders it has brought together. Mainly, though, we look at how something was built out of nothing. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sam Parr has started both bootstrapepd and venture backed businesses. Sam’s one of those people who’s a born entrepreneur and from an early age he was starting companies and selling things. Having two parents who were entrepreneurs he thought that’s just how people get jobs, you start a business. We go through his businesses, personal finance strategy that supports his entrepreneur lifestyle, mental health strategy and what led to putting Tim Ferriss in the four hour headlock: https://www.instagram.com/p/BQj-vGHhzhL/ The takeaway from this episode is that you should whole ass one thing instead of half assing many things.   Quotes from the episode “Made money my entire life selling things” “I bet I just made more money than that teacher” “I don’t like being told what to do” “Every single thing that we touch has to be awesome”  “We’re only going to do a couple things but we’re going to make them all really, really cool” Business Contact Info Sign up for The Hustle email: thehustle.co Sam’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/theSamParr?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Sam’s 6 Month Cross Country Motorcycle Trip: http://imgur.com/a/euaD5 Sam’s work history: https://www.linkedin.com/in/parrsam/ Hustlecon: http://hustlecon.com/ *Runner Sam mentions: Chris Lukezic

On this episode, Philip interviewed Sam Parr the Founder of The Hustle and Hustle Con. Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur who’s started a range of businesses from selling whisky online, to selling hotdogs, to then starting one of the most relevant business newsletters for millennials - The Hustle. They talk about being aqui-hired for his Roommate app. Sam then talks about taking a 6 month month trip across America on his motorcycle where he was in solitude for the majority of that 6 months and what that did for him. They also talk about starting Hustle con which then led to The Hustle newsletter being created which now has 1,000,000 subscribers. Sam also explains why he doesn’t care about the website and why they’re going all in on the newsletter. They also talk about closing a crowdfunding campaign of $300k for The Hustle in less than 50 hours! Must listen!

About this episode: Gina Danford is a business coach and owner of Red Zebra Coaching. We talked about the operational and tactical facets of running your business - working with vendors and customers, knowing your numbers and cash flows needs, joining trade associations, books worth reading, hiring slowly and firing quickly, and reading contracts and partnership agreements. We also talked about Gina’s startup experience at Aircraft Shopper Online from 2000-2007.    Lastly, we talked about Gina’s cancer diagnosis at the age of 19 and how she beats the odds to be talking with me on this podcast.   Podcast Topics & Notes:   3:45 - Mid-growth business growth challenges such as hiring, cash flow & preparing the business to scale 6:00 - Can a good startup founder be a good mid-growth CEO? 7:45 - Incremental growth mindset & skill set 12:45 - Lessons learned from incremental growth companies for hyper-growth startups in hiring & managing teams 18:00 - Biggest mistakes of hyper-growth startups 21:00 - Negotiating payment terms & legal implications of contracts with vendors & partners 22:00 - Importance of partnership agreements among founders 27:00 - Vendor, expense and cash flow analysis 32:00 - Using your startup status to you advantage as a buyer of products and services 35:00 - Pulling the ripcord on a non-paying customer 38:00 - Finding non-cash currency for payment with customers 42:00 - Gina’s startup experience at ASO in a Web 1.0 world 43:30 - Fighting inertia in an industry to prove your product 50:00 - Engaging with your market via Trade shows and competitors 54:00 - Gina fight with ovarian cancer   Websites & Resources mentioned in the podcast:   Gina Danford & Red Zebra Coaching https://redzebracoaching.com/ Gina on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ginadanford Gina’s story overcoming cancer: https://redzebracoaching.com/about-us/overcoming-cancer/   American Cancer Society: www.cancer.org   [Book] “Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less" by Greg McKeown: https://www.amazon.com/Essentialism-Disciplined-Pursuit-Greg-McKeown/dp/0804137382   [Book] "Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration Hardcover" by Ed Catmull & Amy Wallace: https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Inc-Overcoming-Unseen-Inspiration/dp/0812993012/   [Book] "Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation" by Steven Johnson: https://www.amazon.com/Where-Good-Ideas-Come-Innovation/dp/1594485380/   HustleCon: www.hustlecon.com   Entelo: www.entelo.com   Aircraft Shopper Online: www.aso.com 

Starting out with twenty dollars invested in a WordPress site, Sam Parr, co-founder of The Hustle, planned a conference with the idea that people would show up, and they did; 360 attendees in the first year of Hustle Con became almost 600 the following one, and 2000 the next. Now with attendance capped at 2000, they come to hear fifteen of the most outrageously successful and interesting startup founders that Sam along with his co-founder, John Havel, and his fellow Hustlers can find. These fantastic fifteen are there to share startup tactics for non-techies, in what’s been described as a less uptight version of TED. In less than a year, The Hustle has grown their readership numbers from 10,000 to 3 million. How in the world of today’s media moguls did they do it?! Sam is ready to share, so if you’re looking for ways to move the needle on your readership numbers, or ways to engage your audience, watch this week’s podcast to find out how The Hustle has managed to accumulate three million readers by implementing three key tactics. Sam is no novice in the entrepreneurial circuit. After being fired from six or seven jobs, he has become a serial entrepreneur, having launched and sold multiple startups. Now, based on the concept of a daily newsletter with everything you need to know that’s going on in the world, polarizing topics, and a distinctive voice, Sam’s sure you will find The Hustle to be the best news source available. “Go to thehustle.co, and sign up,” he says, “and if you don’t like it, you can send me a bunch of hate mail.”

Sam Parr is Founder of Hustle Con, a conference where the best non-technical founders teach how they got started and give practical advice on how to grow your business.  

“HOLY SHIT!” is what Suzy Batiz, the founder of Poo~Pourri and supernatural, says while reflecting on her journey of liberation from a lifetime of oppression, convention and conformity using radical transformational and pattern-breaking thinking.Transformation is the common thread that runs throughout Suzy's life and her companies. Whether transforming literal shit into a pleasant-smelling experience with Poo~Pourri, the household cleaning industry from toxicity to aromatherapeutic magic with supernatural or people's lives with her growing personal brand, Suzy is a revolutionary explorer of infinite potential in the playground of life, who loves to inspire others and bring them along for the ride.Suzy experienced some of life's lowest lows — poverty, sexual and domestic abuse, depression, two bankruptcies and a suicide attempt — which led to what she calls the luxury of losing everything. After harnessing the power of intuition, her journey led her to building her businesses from the ground up without ever taking a dollar of outside investment. Suzy harnessed the power of true transformation and turned ALIVE IDEAS into a $500+ million empire.Suzy has been featured by leading publications including Forbes, CNBC, Fast Company and Entrepreneur. She has been named one of Forbes' Richest Self-Made Women in America (2019), EY's Entrepreneur of the Year (2017), Conscious Company's World Changing Women (2019), EarthX's Community Leader of the Year (2019) and is WBENC (Women Owned) certified business owner. Suzy has also been interviewed for Leaders Create Leaders, Modern Hero, Marie Forleo's Marie TV and has given presentations for Conscious Capitalism, Google, HustleCon, SXSW, Create & Cultivate & the In goop Health summit.In today's episode of The Art Of...Suzy's journey from "train wreck" to "transformist"How impoverished circumstances can foster creativityBeing grateful for the painThe journey of confidence in creativityHow death is related to creativityBeing impeccable vs. perfectionisticResourcesByron Katie ~ OverviewGene KeysFollow SuzyInstagram ~ @suzybatizWebsite ~ suzybatiz.comTexas Monthly's Article on Suzy's home. It's incredible. Must see!!