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Today's Show: Ever heard of Centering Prayer?

TRIGGER WARNING, we talk about attempted suicide and depression in this episode, if that is something that easily triggers you please do yourself a favor and skip this weeks episode. We love having you listen, but its not worth your mental health PTSD Awareness month just passed in June, however, we think that this episode should still air. The guys sat down and discussed their PTSD and trauma that they received in their lives and the impact that it made on them. The episode was mentally taxing not only to film, but also to edit and polish. We hope that you take what we say about our issues as just that, our experiences. Some things we talk about are issues that we are actively working on, but not to compare or belittle anyone else's experiences. It took a lot to film the episode and more to share it with you. The guys also talk about;-Ironman 3 and how they portrays PTSD -How Will got shot and what he was doing -What Brian did as a young man for work Come join the family on our Reddit r/UncoveredCinema Post memes, get updates, join the conversation around the upcoming film featured in the following weeks podcast Credits Hosted by: Brian (@brdpro) and Will (@WillhooverTV) Created by: Brian Palmer, Will Hoover Directed by: Jailene Jimenez Branding by: Azeemanjum @idesigngfx Business Inquiries: uncoveredcinema@gmail.com Check out our socials and join in on the conversation: @uncoveredcinema  

We hear all the time that the Construction Industry is broken. People then try to innovate to fix it. But what kind of innovations have the most impact? What happens when an organization wants to take on the challenge of shifting the entire construction industry? Is there a chance for it to thrive, or will it collapse?  This is the core of my discussion with Brian Potter in this week's Construction Genius podcast episode. Brian worked for Katerra, a billion-dollar construction startup which recently filed bankruptcy. We explore what Katerra did right and where they've gone wrong, ultimately leading to its fall. Brian also shares why it's challenging to integrate the construction industry from top to bottom and how things could have been done differently.  This is an interesting episode that you can learn from. Tune in to this episode today!  Discussion Points: 0:00 Introduction 2:21 Brian shares his experience with Katerra  3:02 What Brian thought of the different thoughts towards Katerra  6:04 The car analogy and how Katerra envisioned their company to be  7:36 Brian's time in Katerra and why he describes it as bittersweet  8:55 Fatal flaws from its birth that haunted Katerra  10:43 Brian's perspective of the ‘construction industry is broken'  12:36 Does everything need to be changed all at once?  13:59 Did the CEO's lack of construction experience contribute to Katerra's failure? 15:09 Conflicts between construction insiders and the outsiders 18:02 What did Katerra get right? 19:17 Brian's approach to those who want to start something like Katerra  20:38 Who should be the driving force behind changes in the construction industry? 21:38 One product Brian would choose to go after  22:42 Why Katerra was successful in attracting talented people 23:35 Brian shares his favorite part in working with Katerra  24:04 Scaling too quickly  About the Guest:  Brian Potter is a structural engineer and formerly worked at the construction startup Katerra. He is the author of the "Construction Physics" newsletter. Resources:  Subscribe to Brian's blog: https://constructionphysics.substack.com/ Another Day In Katerradise https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/another-day-in-katerradise Follow Brian on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-potter-6a082150/ Brian's restaurant recommendation: Fox Brothers BBQ: http://foxbrosbbq.com/ Do Your Project Executives Need to Become Better Leaders?  Book a 10-minute call with Eric Anderton to see if/how he can help (https://10minutes.youcanbook.me/)  Connect with me on LinkedIn. For more podcast episodes, visit my website. Tune in and subscribe to the Construction Genius: A Leadership Master-Class Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher. Thank you for tuning in! 

Trisha's guest this week is Brian Howard, founder and president of Stage Equity Partners. His real estate investment company is headquartered in Chicago but invests in medical office buildings and healthcare real estate nationally. Brian shares the background of Stage Equity Partners and how he is able to respond to market conditions to make solid investment decisions. In this episode, we talk about… [2:09] The story behind Stage Equity Partners [6:04] Where Brian concentrates his national investment efforts and why [9:57] Flexibility to buy and sell in the current market [10:43] Offering physicians ownership in his properties [14:52] A memorable transaction story [17:30] How the COVID-19 pandemic impacted Stage Equity Partners [21:05] Brian's roadmap for the next 3-5 years [23:01] The outlook for healthcare real estate [24:32] Brian's first job as a dishwasher [25:41] What Brian would be doing if he was not working in healthcare real estate [26:18] Inspirational books he enjoys [27:07] What Brian does for self-care [28:42] Whether leaders are born or trained Links to resources: Stage Equity Partners: https://www.stageequity.com Subscribe, rate and review: www.providerspropertiesandperformance.com Schedule a healthcare real estate investment strategy consultation: https://docproperties.com/free-consultation-trisha-talbot/ About Trisha: WEBSITE: www.docproperties.com LINKED IN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trishatalbot/ Email inquiries to: info@docproperties.com

You don't know what happens when you don't show up so it's important to stay consistent and keep going if you want your business to grow. Tom's guest today is Brian Hess, president and CEO of the Pavement Group, Top Contractor School, and host of the Perspective Podcast. Brian understands how the little things we do every day add up to big results—if we keep doing them—and shares how contractors can keep prospecting simple, why communication matters and 3 strategies to build momentum for your business!    In this episode, we talk about… Brain's journey from technology to construction and the fear that comes with entrepreneurship   “How I want to be coached”: Treating people how they want to be treated  Growing a self-performing company to nationwide company by focusing on pain points Prospecting advice for contractors: Be consistent  Keep it simple (one line emails!) Ask intentional questions and listen  Find a way to stand out among the solicitations    Fancy sales guy stuff doesn't work—it's the stuff you do every day that works  What Brian learned from 350 morning podcast episodes: The power of consistency and showing up   Your company changes daily—it's either growing or shrinking in revenue daily— so make time to communicate   3 evergreen strategies to gain momentum for your business:  1-Share your story through social media 2-Figure out how to market digitally 3-Take action and meet people in person  Details about Brian's book: Perspective and looking at life from a different lens      Links to resources: The Pavement Group The Pavement Group Podcast  The Perspective Podcast Top Contractor School The Mile High Profit Summit The $100k Contractor is designed to get you to at least $100k a year in personal income. It's time we quit stealing from our families and get that time back! Learn how to market like a pro in our Marketing Boot Camp!  Schedule A Contractor Sales Academy Demo Order Your Fight Planner The Contractor Fight Facebook Group The Contractor Fight Night The Bridge The Contractor Fight TV The Contractor Sales Academy Podcast   Want to stop sucking the life out of your contracting business? Join the Contractor Sales Academy and take command of your entire sales process! CSA is a game-changer for your business.   Read more at http://strongpreneur.libsyn.com/#vyWRWfcf0VRHIKyQ.99

The important role of an in-house media creator (or content creator) to a brand, especially in the software space, has been a topic weighing on my mind for a while. In today’s episode, I break down a few clips from a recent episode of Bootstrapped Web, where hosts Brian & Joran discuss their challenge of filling this role. I refer to this as Founder Marketing. When a young company is hiring for this role, it’s a responsibility that can’t be left to the fundamental content creation tasks. A capable candidate must be able to channel their inner founder in order to create content that resonates across: sales, marketing, product, and support. Someone that not only knows how to create a piece of content, but that also is as passionate for the business as they are the audience. I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments or engage with the following Twitter thread. My friends @CasJam and @JordanGal are looking to hire for the "Media Creator" role. I do this for @CastosHQ and have lots of thoughts. Someone that can execute, what I call, "Founder Marketing." Let's start a — Matt Medeiros (@mattmedeiros) June 17, 2021 Transcription This episode of the Matt report is brought to you by mal care. Learn more about Malik here at Dot com. You’ve heard me talk about mal care before, but they’re back with some interesting updates. Not only are they the WordPress plugin with instant WordPress malware removal. Well, let me read some of these features.[00:00:15] Deep malware scanning. They know about malware that other plugins don’t. Number two, that one click malware removal process makes it super easy to remove from your WordPress website and number three, a new feature called auto bot ultra defense system. Okay. 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You don’t want to do the SEO part of it, nor should you. John Locke can help you@lockdownseo.com. He also does site audits. So if you want to partner up with John on your next WordPress venture with someone, he can do some SEO audits for you and your John’s a great guy and super helpful. He can help you with your SEO or web design needs. Again, if you don’t service customers in the industrial space manufacturing space, but you do get leads in that space. Send them over to John. At lock with an E lockdown seo.com.[00:02:02] Welcome back to another episode of the Maryport podcast. This is a topic that we’re going to talk about today. It’s called something. I call founder marketing. Uh, my friends, Brian castle and Jordan Goll recently talked about this on their podcasts. They’re both hiring. For this media creator role.[00:02:19] And I guess it’s going to come in many forms. Uh, and fashions. This is something that I do here at my day job at Casos where I create the podcast. I do the YouTube channel. I do some marketing stuff generally is about creating this content. To help. Not only promote, uh, the Castle’s product and the brand.[00:02:38] But to know where the synergies needed to create. You know, sales. Um, onboarding product enhancements, support enhancements, building out community. It’s not just do a podcast. Get listeners get downloads, that kind of thing. Or do a YouTube create a YouTube video. And try to get likes and views and subscribers, although.[00:03:03] It does contain the sum of those many pieces. This founder marketing thing or this creator It’s a bit of a unicorn. If, if I pat myself on the back just a little bit, it’s a bit of a unicorn. Because when you’re hiring for this role, As Brian and Jordan, uh, find themselves in. The challenge is to find somebody who can, can understand.[00:03:25] The business and the opportunity in the market and the customers. Just like the founder. So, this is where I get the founder marketing title from it. Maybe could be ironed out a little bit more, you know, into something else or a little bit something more direct that you could put into a job listing. But the way I see it is as you have to.[00:03:44] Feel like the founder and know the market and the product and the customer, like the founder in order to create the content that attracts. And the customers to it. Otherwise you’re just telling somebody to go create this piece of content and they can shoehorn it. Right. And they people do it all the time. People outsource this to agencies and there’s nothing wrong with it.[00:04:04] But it’s very much from a. A strategic standpoint. Uh, almost utilitarian, I guess, where you make a top 10 list or, you know, do a tutorial or a how to, or comparison piece of content, which can be researched. And understood at that capacity, but the emotional side of it is, is very hard to fine tune.[00:04:28] So on bootstrap web, where Jordan and Brian host their podcast, uh, I’ve had both of them on the show before countless times. They started talking about this journey of hiring this media creator person. So number one, if that’s you check out that episode, it’ll be in the show notes. And reach out to either Brian and Jordan for a potential role. It’s going to be kind of interesting to see them.[00:04:48] Going head to head. In this space and seeing who they hire and how they hire. Uh, I think it’s a great time. It’s a great opportunity for us creators that are out there. So if that’s you. Creating your own little, uh, YouTube channel or podcast. And by little, I mean, maybe you’re just starting out and you’re trying to gain traction, but this could be a great opportunity to say, you know what.[00:05:09] I have a small audience here it’s growing might not be growing as fast as I’d like, but this is an opportunity for us. It really puts the power in the hands of the creators. I think. When software businesses, or any businesses in general think like media companies. Because if you looked at. Traditional Hollywood, let’s say.[00:05:28] And how much of a closed ecosystem that. Well, probably still is, but was definitely 20 years ago. Four. You know anybody to produce a movie, any actors to show up comedians, et cetera, et cetera. And then you look at. Introduction of Netflix, Hulu, Amazon. Everybody is now. Now has this secondary market of content.[00:05:53] Where it’s not just the big television channels and the big movies. So that’s the only distribution points anymore. There are far more distribution points, far more opportunities. For creators to create no, the traditional media that we, that we think about movies and television. Let’s break down a few clips. Uh, I also have a Twitter thread on this, which will be in the show notes. If you want to engage with the Twitter thread and see some of the activity happening over there. So we’re gonna play each clip from.[00:06:20]This episode, the most important clips I think from their conversation. And then i’m gonna break it down uh verbally here okay so let’s dive into the first clip[00:06:28]Brian Casel: The first and most important position I think is, is the media creator, uh, role. And so this is a person who I’m, I’ve been talking to a couple people, but it is a really difficult one to find potential candidates.[00:06:42] So I’m looking for somebody to essentially like co-host podcasts, be a show runner for, for new podcasts, video content produce videos. Um, so somebody who is like a great storyteller and has the technical chops, like the video production podcast, chops, you know, doing interviews with other people, uh, coming up with creative, uh, premises for a new show and just, you know, being like just driving the creative content that comes out of this.[00:07:10][00:07:10]Matt: So we go back to, this is the founder marketing role, right? This is why it’s so important to me. For somebody to have that founder, like experience. Which again, I know it was very difficult. It’s that unicorn position, but I think the best candidate for what Brian. Is looking for. Is going to be somebody who has, uh, that close relationship to the customer, to the product, into the market. Somebody who’s as excited.[00:07:37] For his product. Uh, as they would be, if it were their own product now, again, very difficult to find, but I think that’s where he’s going to find. Uh the best candidate for[00:07:47] Jordan Gal: it feels like what you’re really what you’re saying is that there needs to be a function. That creates an audience and does that by understanding what the audience wants and providing value to it.[00:08:00] And then the media that supports it and delivers that value,[00:08:04] Brian Casel: I would say yes. And coming up with creative, new ideas, like a new new premise, not just find a hundred founders to go interview every week. Like. New angles, new, new premise.[00:08:18]Jordan Gal: that you, you emphasize that in the job listing where it was like, we don’t want to do the same stuff.[00:08:24] We want to really think about why we would do something. And then, and then look at the format that way. Not just, well, let’s just do another podcast because that’s what everyone does.[00:08:34]And this is on the flip side. This is where a great creator is going to really enjoy a role like this because. Which, and I’ll preface this preface, this breath preface with saying that. This is also a challenge for, uh, Brian and Jordan. I feel. Because they have to be hands off. They have to let the creator create because that’s, what’s going to yield the best result.[00:09:01] And if you’re a creator out there, Doing your thing. You know this, you know, that. If there’s less restrictions. Uh, You know, unless sort of control and you have more autonomy to do. What you need to do to create a great piece of content. That doesn’t have to be just a podcast. It spans across podcasts, audio, video.[00:09:21] Written, uh, email newsletter, even if you were doing some kind of like social campaign. You understand where. Your strengths are and how you’re going to communicate this message. And if Brian and Jordan can, can let the creators create, I think that’s going to be the best outcome, but also the hardest for them.[00:09:42] To not manage, but I have expectations for, because I think so many founders might be. Uh, so goal oriented or developer oriented where there’s sprints and there’s sales goals. And there’s marketing goals where like visits and conversions that the creative side is very hard to measure, especially when you turn to them and you say, Hey, I need, I need time.[00:10:05] To do this. The more time you give me the better it’s going to get, but it’s not going to be like this constant production wheel happening. I mean, it eventually will write, like I found a pretty good stride at Casos. But in the beginning it’s like i just need time to absorb this I need the time to look at my creator canvas and i think that’ll be the biggest challenge for brian and jordan moving forward[00:10:27]Jordan Gal: So first step. Audience. And now this technical marketer role is really the transition between the audience and the product.[00:10:37] It’s like the bridge on identifying some people in the audience. Are are, are going to be interested in what we’re doing as a product, not everyone. And, and you’re not building the audience solely for the purpose, like, cause that people see through that you want the authentic version of media and an audience and value and then allowing for a bridge from there over to the[00:10:58] Brian Casel: product.[00:10:59][00:10:59]Matt: And just to wrap some context around this. This is Jordan, uh, explaining back the technical marketing role that Brian also wants to hire. So he wants to. Hire it in tandem. This content media creator, plus a technical marketer to sort of carry the ball. The other. Uh, half of the way down, down the field to use a sports analogy, terrible one at that. But.[00:11:23] Hiring the media creator go out and do the creative. Do the show running, create the actual content, hire a marketing technical marketing lead. To help distribute the content, help convert the content and, and measure the success. Of the content. So number one, very smart move for, uh, for Brian to be thinking that because it can’t, it can be two people.[00:11:47] In a very low pressured setting. Um, and by pressures, not even just the pressures of, uh, of the owners or the other teams, but just the market in general, like how much content do you need to create to compete with others? Uh, how much time do you need for each piece of content? Having somebody else carry the ball. The rest of the way on the marketing side is very smart.[00:12:09] Uh, you definitely gonna need a budget to do that. You need to be able to hire two people at once. Um, you can do it in the beginning. It really depends on what your capacity is as a creator, but also, uh, how you can streamline your processes and, and what the actual overall goals are. So very smart to have these two separate roles, because largely they are two separate. Parts of your brain thinking about how to approach this stuff[00:12:33]Brian Casel: it’s about thinking about that target audience and distribution before we even create. The content. So if the technical marker and myself are in the mix on coming up with ideas in collaboration with our, with our, uh, media creator, It’s about, we know that at the end of the day, we want to reach this segment of people.[00:12:57] So how can we start to come up with creative ideas for, for a show, with an awesome premise for, for that, that, that, that audience would just eat up every single day. And the technical marketer can think about as we’re ideating on this stuff. Okay. If we’re going after that audience, these are the types of channels that we can go to distribute that, that show and grow the audience for it.[00:13:19][00:13:19]Again, this is where I go back. Let the creators create. This will be the challenge. All right. How do we give somebody the freedom, but also at the same time, like push this marketing and promotional thing forward so that we know it’s working. I would say it’s going to take a solid six months in order to really hit a stride.[00:13:37] You know, working together. How content calendars are created, how content is created, how it’s shipped, how it’s promoted, how it’s repurposed. Which is very, very difficult. Two. Even like, think about and make time for it because you, you create so much content. That you just don’t want to let it.[00:13:57] Be done. Right. You spend all of this time, all this investment in it. How do you keep that? Content fresh. Newsletters communities, et cetera, et cetera. So things like that big challenge, but good that Brian’s thinking about it as two independent. Uh[00:14:12] responses.[00:14:13]Jordan Gal: I’m going to argue that there’s a third function, a third role that we we’re going to bump up against immediately.[00:14:23] And that is of community. Because it is a really tall task to ask someone to lead the media creation efforts and also focus on community. Some people are like magically talented and do that almost like inherently. They just can’t even help it. They just create media and form an audience around it and communicate with that community at the same time.[00:14:49] And it can be the same person for a certain amount of time, but they are like, Uh, there’s a third element there around community and fostering it and, and kind of[00:15:00] Brian Casel: communicating with, for that community piece[00:15:03][00:15:03]So my last comment, just foreshadowed this clip. Uh, in, it’s interesting to see Jordan already with the wheels turning you’re you’re already thinking about, okay, what’s that third pillar that comes next and he’s saying it’s it’s community. And it most certainly is maybe not for every product and brand that’s out there.[00:15:22] But the key thing here is that, that. That, even those two people, the creator and the technical marketer. Can not be responsible for. Building and cultivating and supporting a longterm community. Again, everything can be done temporarily. Just won’t be done. Great. And it. Won’t be done. Very organized.[00:15:44] And there’ll be a lot of pressure on one person to do everything. But hopefully what this does is bring it to light. Because a lot of people just say, oh, I’m going to hire somebody who does marketing, oh, by the way, do a podcast, do a YouTube channel, do this marketing thing, report on the metrics. Tell me what the conversions are, do the email newsletter. And can we do it a community with that? I mean, sure. Anyone can tackle all three of those at once, but it’s just going to be done poorly to the point where the person who’s responsible for it is ultimately just going to burn out because.[00:16:16] Uh, approaching a community, which is something that I even struggle with at Casto. So it’s something that I want to do, but I’m quickly realizing I can’t do all the content creation. And do the community well. What I can do is I can see the foundation of the, of the community. I hope. And then that can be carried through.[00:16:34] By somebody else in the future. Uh, or I take it at a really. Minimal viable product approach, where it’s just very, very. Small chunks of what a community aspect might be. And that could just be conversations that are happening. Uh, in a circle app. Right. But a true community is going to be just constant engagement.[00:16:53] Constant engagement, constant, you know, pruning and supporting and making sure people are engaged and that there’s. Value being taken away from it, because if there’s not somebody doing that, it’s very, very hard to get the momentum for our community to take off where it just supports itself. I think a lot of people think community cause they’re like, oh great.[00:17:12] This will be interaction that’s just on autopilot. Yeah, everybody gets into a room and of course they want to talk about. The product, the brand and you know, what their experiences are. But you need somebody. Constantly engaging in that. Again, whole new responsibility, smart to think about it. Smart to think about it as an independent responsibility[00:17:32]Brian Casel: My thinking on that is now if you want like a, like a, an engaged community who, who is interacting with each other. The audience has to come first,[00:17:42] Jordan Gal: the audiences, the is the raw material in some ways that, yeah.[00:17:46] Brian Casel: And, and like for a brand new community, like if you want to start slack group or a circle or whatever you’re going to use for your community, it’s just such an insanely difficult Boulder to push up a hill.[00:17:59] If you don’t have an audience to begin with, or if your audience is very small, because truth of the matter is for every hundred people who follow you. Only five of them or less are the type of people who will actually leave a comment in the community. The other 95 might lurk. They might watch, but they’re just not commenters.[00:18:18] That’s just the nature. So you need thousands and thousands of followers to just spark a community[00:18:25]I think that too early on trying to create a community out of a very small audience, you’re going to waste resources.[00:18:32] You’re going to waste like people or waste hours waste money on a extremely difficult uphill battle.[00:18:40]And that’s Brian, just proving my point. He’s been doing it now for a while. He understands. Um, The challenge of community so i have nothing much more to say on that other than what i just said previous to brian what brian just said in that statement[00:18:56]Brian Casel: especially for that media creator role, it’s a really difficult, I am talking to a couple people, but I think what I’m also starting to look at, I don’t even know how viable this is, is to sort of be like a scout and try to find.[00:19:10] People who have like a small, like a young podcast or YouTube channel or both sort of in the space. And maybe look to acquire them and that show and, and enroll with that, you know, but like how do you find someone who hasn’t blown up yet? You know, um, this is what we talk. You can see, you can see the talent, like on the page and it’s.[00:19:36] So, yeah, so about that[00:19:38] Jordan Gal: too, and this is kind of an opportunity for someone listening or someone that they’re familiar with to just raise your hand and basically say, well, I’m talented. I just need a chance. I just need some budget. I need, I need a bigger stage to perform on[00:19:53][00:19:53]Again, finding this person is. We’ve been talking about all these challenges, but it’s going to be finding this person who, who meets this criteria. Who’s able to produce this kind of content. Uh, it’s just a super challenge. So I’ll speak towards just who the creators are. If you’re a creator out there listening to this, and I can tell you from my firsthand experiences,[00:20:13] You start running with a project. You love the project. You never want to see that project go away. Uh, or yet you could never consider yourself part of another brand. You just let it go. Right. Like at some point you realize like, okay, In order to get better as a creator in order to challenge myself and then move on to something else.[00:20:33] Then, if this is something that’s interesting to you, what Brian and Jordan are talking about. Look. Being able to, Hey, I got my, my YouTube channel up to whatever, whatever your number is, a thousand subscribers, 5,000 subscribers or whatever it is. And you’re, and you’re feeling like you’re hitting a plateau, both from the growth side and from the creative side.[00:20:54] Then you have leveraged there. So I guess what I’m getting at is if you’re building something and you’re not super happy with it, It’s valuable to somebody else valuable to somebody in this position and Brian and Jordan, aren’t going to be the last brands, hiring somebody to create content for them and create to create content well.[00:21:11] That you can leverage that. And I’m not even saying you necessarily get rid of it. Uh, or give up on it or, or, or sell it so where maybe you do sell it. Right. So if you are in the technical space, cause there’s lots of us. That do the technical review, the software. The plugins, the tutorials, that kind of thing.[00:21:29] This would be a great. In road to say, well, look, I’ve, I’ve built up this. Audience. This brand, I have this many subscribers. I’ve had this many videos or this many listeners. Let me sell this value to you and, um, I think that’s perfectly fine. And one that you know is only up to you as a creator, whether or not you want to do it.[00:21:49] But the options are there and the options are, are going to keep coming. I think. Um as more people invest in this space[00:21:56]Jordan Gal: I can’t help, but I keep going back to news, like what’s happening here, industry. Who’s doing what who’s collaborating with, who, who raised money, who hired, who, who left this, who starting something new? Like that’s the stuff you talk about on a day-to-day basis. And I think there’s an opportunity.[00:22:11] To create media around that, that turns that media brand into a destination and somewhere that people look to regularly, and that would be, that would be power.[00:22:24][00:22:24]Uh, the context around this clip. From Jordan was he’s looking for something that’s that’s unique. Like what could he produce? At his new company rally, that would be a unique twist on content creation that isn’t just the interview trans. Uh, the interview podcast or even well, a high produced podcast where it’s more storytelling and engaging.[00:22:46] Um, you know, in much, in much higher production. Is thinking about news and sort of just staking a claim in whatever market you’re in, you can’t report the news and have your unique angle on it. And I totally agree. This is a huge opportunity in this space. For many reasons. One it’s more topical and.[00:23:05] When you’re creating content like this, like I do with the WP minute.com podcast. It’s very specific. It’s very specific to WordPress news. It’s very specific to only five minutes. And that is. The premise there because. I’m serving. I have clear definition of the audience that I’m serving no more, no less.[00:23:26] It’s it’s targeted. So. I know who I’m serving. I know why they listen. And I know how to produce it on repeat. Whereas even a show like this, which is much more long form. Sometimes it’s solo shows sometimes. We’re talking to somebody and doing an interview. You know, it’s 30, 40, 30 to 45 minutes, maybe sometimes an hour. There’s a lot of stuff that can happen. It’s it attracts different types.[00:23:52] Uh, of listeners production is always different. Uh, shownotes are always different. Value is always different. And while it’s it’s great. And it’s, it’s a brand building experience and it’s engaging for a lot of people. Uh, the audience that tunes in and the brand awareness that it raises can kind of be all over the board, which is.[00:24:14] It’s good. It’s still good. Um, but when you do something hyper-focused as a news, Or a super, super hyper-focused, um, maybe educational podcast. Then you just have clear definitions and things or. Are much easier that way. Um, From, uh, from an audience perspective, maybe from the creator’s perspective.[00:24:36] A little bit harder to just stay within those lines all the time. Depending on what it is that you’re, that you’re doing and covering. Uh but definitely easier to create a process for and ultimately uh raise awareness[00:24:49]Jordan Gal: This is the same thing that we talked about with Barstool. Sports wear is a draft Kings, right? The gambling site, they just bought the exact audience that gambles. So it’s very natural alignment. Yep. Yep. Cool man. Well, I have a feeling we’re gonna, we’re gonna talk a lot more about this and we’re going to pretend not to be fighting over people for the same world.[00:25:13] Right. But we,[00:25:17] Brian Casel: so, uh, yeah. What, what else you got going on?[00:25:19][00:25:19]So I’m really interested to see how Brian and Jordan end up, uh, sort of tongue in cheek here, like feuding with one another. Right? Sort of you think about like big Hollywood executives sort of sparring over the, the, the, the best actors and actresses and best, uh, directors and, and scripts to buy. And, and, and it’s almost like that huge.[00:25:40] You know, world of Hollywood that’s feels so water out of touch being really shrunk down to this, you know, finite thing that could be. Uh, happening across many brands trying to hire talent. Um, trying to find the talent is a challenge at a higher them trying to acquire them. Put a number on it. It’s very difficult.[00:26:01] Uh, and to find the right person to do it all. So it’s, uh, I I’m sitting here smiling ear to ear because I’m really interested to see this challenge unfold for both of them and how they both go about it. And interested to see if they do cross paths and find somebody who has applied to both because they have a strong listenership. And if you are listening to this, you could be applying to, to their job openings as well.[00:26:23] Um, But at the same time, lots of opportunity in this space now. And I think this is sort of validating it. This founder marketing role. Um, And I think that there’s going to be a lot more of this happening. Because there’s a lot of, at least in the WordPress space. And even the people that I talk to now and know code and software as a service.[00:26:44] Founders are either. Hyper-focused on sales. And growth. So that’s the other angle of it. This is stuff that you need sort of after, I’ll say with air quotes, after the content creation. Um, or they’re they’re founders and they’re the founder developer, right? So they’re actually building the product. There’s no time.[00:27:00] Uh, there’s no creative aspect. There’s no social aspect for some to just get out there and create that content. So. Big big opportunities ahead. I don’t know. Let me know what you think if you, uh, are interested in, uh, number one, applying for that role, check out the bootstrap web podcast. What Brian and Jordan are doing. Jump on that Twitter thread, click on that in the show notes. And you can just engage with them right there. If that’s the quickest route to it. I have a let me know what you think about founder marketing right on twitter okay that’s it that’s the Matt report. we’ll see you in the next episode[00:27:30]

We're trying a new format. Sam (@theSamParr) adds his commentary throughout the episode this week. Let him know on Twitter what you think of the change. Brian Scudamore (@BrianScudamore) is North America's Junk Man. He turned a $700 pickup truck into one of the world's most successful franchises. Hear how he got started, got on Oprah, stumbled and almost killed his business, and the philosophies he uses to run his multimillion dollar junk empire! --------- * 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: https://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: * (3:41) Intro by Shaan to original episode * (5:22) How Brian got his story out there * (8:42) The origin story of 1-800-Got-Junk * (19:28) How Brian got the 1-800-Got-Junk number * (24:18) The vision board and getting on Oprah * (34:07) How Brian tore everything down to rebuild even better * (38:56) What Brian focuses on when hiring * (47:07) Why business went down $40M and how Brian responded * (51:58) Q1: What does Brian see as their breakthrough moment? * (53:14) Q2: How does Brian get liquidity & think about money? * (56:44) Q3: What would Brian do if he was 21 again? * (57:58) Getting in touch with Brian Sam's commentary: * (1:02) Sam's intro commentary * (4:42) Sam commentary 2 * (10:41) Sam commentary 3 * (12:46) Sam commentary 4 * (14:45) Sam commentary 5 * (15:23) Sam commentary 6 * (20:45) Sam commentary 7 * (31:16) Sam commentary 8 * (39:46) Sam commentary 9 * (41:33) Sam commentary 10 * (54:44) Sam commentary 11 * (59:33) Sam final commentary

Brian Icenhower has been in the real estate industry for nearly 3 decades. His father was a real estate broker which got him exposed to this business at a young age. He went into law school and practiced for a couple of years until he realized it wasn’t for him.  That’s when he decided to start a high producing real estate team in California and run a small boutique brokerage that later grew to a big brokerage. From then on, he opened a few more large brokerages in California and in the midwest, which he still owns today. Along the way, Brian realized that his true passion is helping people succeed. So he decided to become a real estate coach and trainer where he focuses more of his time nowadays. Today, Brian is the CEO and Founder of Icenhower Coaching & Consulting (ICC), which provides customized and structured coaching & training programs for real estate agents & team leaders, representing many of the top producing agents in North America. Aside from being an internationally recognized real estate trainer, speaker and coach, Brian is also a best-selling author.  His most recent book, The High Performing Real Estate Team is due to be out in September, later this year. In this episode, we talked about: 02:02 How Brian got into the real estate industry  04:12 The value of having a passion for something (other than money) that fuels you 06:20 What made Brian decide to write a book about real estate teams 09:05 Who has a better chance of survival? Solo agents or Teams? 14:44 How crucial is having a team dashboard to monitor activities that generate business 16:01True or False: Today’s market is the easiest market for buyer’s agents to operate in 19:56 The key you should be focusing on as an agent in this market 24:16 Why every agent should have their own dashboard 24:30 Why you need to focus on activities, not just results 26:32 How SISU helps in cultivating responsibility through public accountability 28:52 What Brian thinks of agents being replaced by iBuyers 35:13 The biggest missing piece for most agents To get a FREE 30-minute consultation with top coaches from Icenhower Coaching and Consultation, go to www.icenhowercoaching.com To pre-order Brian’s book: The High Performing Real Estate Team, go to: https://www.amazon.com/High-Performing-Real-Estate-Team/dp/1119801850 Get 1 FREE course of your choice from their site if you forward your order confirmation to books@icenhowercoaching.com 

Everyone embraced the stay-at-home and work-from-home instructions at the beginning of the global coronavirus pandemic, quickly adjusting their work, organizations, companies, and lifestyles. Offices became somewhat redundant and remained vacant, begging the question if we will ever use them again. Almost a year later, however, things are shaping up to be a lot different than originally expected. Today’s guest is Brian Adams, the President and Founder of Excelsior Capital, where he spearheads the investor relations and capital markets arms of the firm. He has 10 years of experience in real estate private equity. Before forming Excelsior Capital, Brian co-founded Priam Properties in 2010 and provided leadership and direction for them in connection with capital markets, investment management, and investor relations. Tuning in today, you’ll find out what got him interested him in real estate, why he changed his career path, how COVID has impacted his company and their portfolio, and the effect of the recency bias. Brian also shares some interesting takeaways on the commercial market and how office space is shaping out much differently than predicted. Tune in today for all this and more!Key Points From This Episode:Hear more about Brian and how he became interested in real estate.Why Brain didn’t want to end up or become like the 60-year-old lawyers he met.The concept of the Hero’s Adventure: taking the step while being ignorant to the risk!More about Excelsior Capital and what they are working on.Hear about the assists they are focused on and the deals they are working on.How 2020 and COVID have impacted their portfolio.How COVID has impacted the thoughts behind office space; pre-and post-pandemic.How recency bias affects us all: it’s not going to be the same as before.Hear how their strategy has changed going forward: the suburban office deal challenge.Brian explains what a one-story flex is: that area two to three miles from your airport.What a traditional commercial deal looks like for an investor and how it is structured.The types of investors investing in these deals: taxable, accredited investors only.Why Excelsior Capital’s direct response to feedback is cash on cash.How they plan to continue to grow over the next couple of years.Brian’s perspective on cap rates in the commercial market sectors.One question that every investor should ask their deal sponsor, according to Brian.What Brian is most proud of in his career: pushing through the painful process.What books you should be reading, like The No Rules Rules.The number one key to success: grit!Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:Brian Adams on LinkedInBrian AdamsExcelsior Capital GroupThe No Rules Rules

In this episode, you will learn: • Brian’s brief bio • Why Brian shifted from teaching to investing in real estate • About Brian’s book • Brian’s lines of horizontal income • What Brian’s diet looks like • Brian’s life happiness index score and giving back ratio • Brian’s biggest goals in the next twelve months • Some of the past and future greatest hits in Brian’s life • The most useful thing that Brian learned from his parents • Plus, so much more! Brian Murray acquired his first investment property in 2007. Without raising any outside capital, Brian bootstrapped his way from newbie investor to founder and CEO of Washington Street Properties, a commercial real estate investment and property management company that has been ranked on the Inc. 500|5000 list of the nation's fastest-growing private companies for five years. In 2015, Brian was recognized with a Gold Stevie Award for Executive of the Year in the Real Estate Industry. Brian Murray is also the Key Principal and Asset Manager for Open Door Capital, a real estate investment firm founded by Brandon Turner that helps clients achieve superior risk-adjusted returns through the acquisition of value-add manufactured housing communities nationwide. The Open Door Capital Fund includes a diversified portfolio of manufactured housing communities and is financed by accredited investors seeking a combination of strong cash flow and equity growth. Brian Murray is author of the bestselling and award-winning book Crushing It in Apartments and Commercial Real Estate, which has sold more than 70,000 copies and garnered positive reviews from Publishers Weekly, Foreword Reviews, and BlueInk Review. In addition to his endeavors in writing and real estate, Brian Murray has worked as a teacher, technology executive, management consultant, and engineer. His media appearances include interviews on CNN, PBS, and CBS MarketWatch. Brian has been quoted by the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and dozens of other major newspapers around the world. He holds degrees from Syracuse University, Johns Hopkins University, and the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.

What would happen to your gym if you got COVID-19 tomorrow? Would you have to cancel two weeks of classes and pump the brakes on your business?At Live Active Charlotte, it was just business as usual when owner Brian Strump tested positive. That's because his gym was already equipped to keep on running whether he's there or not. How? It all comes down to skilled staff members who are in it for the long haul. Here, Brian shares how he cultivates long-term staff with the passion, autonomy and know-how to take the helm.Links:How to Maximize Staff RetentionThe Dream ManagerTwo-Brain Business YouTube channelLive Active CharlotteDriven NutritionArboxFree ToolsTimeline:3:00 – What Brian did after he tested positive for COVID-19.6:32 – How Brian’s gym is set up to run without him.13:05 – Words of wisdom from Brian’s mother.15:45 – Using “love and loathe” to set staff up to stick around.18:02 – How to help staff grow and advance their careers in your business.22:16 – The intrapreneurial model in action.26:20 – Grace, patience and why it’s good to expect mistakes.32:18 – Why you should give feedback regularly—and not just about what staff did wrong.

Key Points From This Episode: - Introducing today’s guest, Eva Sofianos. - Eva tells us a little bit more about herself. - Some of the challenges Eva is facing teaching her students remotely. - Eva talks about her day-to-day tasks as a remote lecturer. - Hear about the other courses Eve teaches at the college. - Why Java is the preferred choice for learning institutions across the United States. - The advantages of going through Eva’s degree program. - What it’s like behind the scenes as a lecturer. - How Eva creates opportunities for people with limiting backgrounds. - Eva shares how you can make a transition from Java to Python. - Areas outside of coding where Eva provides value to her students. - What Brian and Eva appreciate about their tech educational background. - Stay tuned for this week’s picks! Tweetables: - “I look forward to the day that we will all be back in the classroom together. They're trying. I'm trying. We're all trying together. I do see how challenging it is from the student’s perspective.” — @EvaSofianos [0:04:50] - “When you graduate you do know a lot more than when you started, but if you don't go out and explore further, you'll never be able to really learn. It's on-the-job that you really learn things.” — @EvaSofianos [0:09:29] - “Getting a bachelor's in computer science is much more than just being able to program. It's understanding the connection between the hardware and the software.” — @EvaSofianos [0:18:14] - “Find what you love, if you're lucky enough to be able to work hard and be in that industry, whatever it is, you can have a happy and successful career life.” — @EvaSofianos [0:44:10] Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: - Enjoy the Vue on Twitter (https://twitter.com/enjoythevuecast?lang=en) - Enjoy the Vue (https://enjoythevue.io/) - Eva Sofianos on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/eva-sofianos/) - Eva Sofianos on Twitter (https://twitter.com/evasofianos?lang=en) - IBM (https://www.ibm.com/za-en) - Cornell (https://www.cornell.edu/) - Lehman (https://www.lehman.cuny.edu/) - Volume Master (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/volume-master/jghecgabfgfdldnmbfkhmffcabddioke?hl=en) - The Queen's Gambit (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10048342/) - Schitt's Creek (https://www.netflix.com/title/80036165) - Queen of the South (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1064899/) - Ethan Becker (https://www.instagram.com/ethanbecker70/?hl=en) - Kurumi - Mr. Children (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Um_xMmE8OA&ab_channel=Mr.ChildrenOfficialChannel) Special Guest: Eva Sofianos.

Brian Zimmerman's ARM (average revenue per member, per month) is more then $300—and those are lockdown numbers. What's his secret? He does a lot of cool stuff, but perhaps the most effective for boosting ARM while getting clients results is his hybrid package: a combination of group classes and personal training designed to give clients the best of both worlds.Here's how it works.Links:Forever FierceTwo-Brain Programming"How to Run Specialty Courses Every Day of the Year"Free ToolsTimeline:1:37 – How Brian beat $300 in ARM in December.3:24 – Listening to seed clients to develop high-value services.5:54 – What Brian charges for hybrid services.7:36 – How hybrid services improve client retention.9:26 – Hybrid packages provide more opportunities for coaches, too. 12:00 – Pitching the program to clients.16:03 – Providing accountability.19:12 – Why Brian developed an internal marketing role.25:07 – Using speciality programs to drive up ARM.28:07 – The first thing you should do if you want a higher ARM.

Want to avoid mistakes in Long Distance Investing?  Download your FREE document at billykeels.com/7mistakestoavoid   Episode 74: Live an Ideal Lifestyle Combining Professional Experience with R.E.I.   In the conversation with today’s guest, Brain Adams, you’ll learn the following:   [00:36 - 03:20] Brian’s profile, in Billy’s guest introduction. [03:20 - 04:48] The backstory and decisions made that led Brian to this point in his journey. [04:48 - 06:58] Brian’s experience with Law and being a District Attorney. [06:58 - 08:52] All about the Phoenix Club. [08:52 - 12:35] Brian’s first ventures into R.E.I. [12:35 - 18:05] What Brian is doing now at his company, Excelsior.  [18:05 - 20:35] The reasons Brian chose to ‘Go Long’ with his investments rather than closer to home. [20:35 - 23:27] The specialist investment niches that Brian focuses on. [23:27 - 27:32] The tenant types and profiles that Brian deals with. [27:32 - 31:16] What Credit Worthiness means when vetting individual tenants and commercial clients.  [31:16 - 33:45] The process you can expect when going to Excelsior. Here’s what Brian shared with us during today’s conversation: Where in the world Brian is based currently: Nashville, Tennessee  Favourite European city: Munich, Germany The best thing to happen in the past 24hours: Brian’s Father in law receiving the Covid vaccine! A mistake Brian would like you to learn from so you don’t have to pay full price for it: Remember that moving into Real Estate Investing and putting together a team is basically starting a business, with all that a business entails, including team members and investors that rely on the business’s success. Book Recommendation: The No Rules Rules, by Reed Hastings. Be sure to reach out and connect with Brian Adams by using the info below:   Website: https://www.excelsiorgp.com LinkedIn: Brian C Adams. Start taking action TODAY so that you can gain more Education and Control over your financial life.   To see the Video Version of today’s conversation just CLICK HERE.   Do you want to have more control and avoid the mistakes that I made getting started in long distance investing?  Then you can DOWNLOAD the 7 Mistakes to Avoid in Long Distance Investing Guide by clicking HERE.   Be sure to connect with Billy!  He’s made it easy for you to do…Just go to any of these sites:   Website: www.billykeels.com Youtube: billykeels Facebook: Billy Keels Fan Page Instagram: @billykeels Twitter: @billykeels LinkedIn: Billy Keels

GUESTS BIO Brian Fontenot - is a Real Estate Investor, Philanthropist, Public Speaker, World Traveler, and Short Term Rental Arbitrage Operator with 20+ units in the Houston area. HIGHLIGHTS OF THE EPISODE 03:59 Brian's biography/introduction 05:10 How Brian started and what led him on this path. 06:24 What convinced Brian to quit his 9-5 job and start his STR business. 08:43 How Brian got into his 1st deal. 10:18 What Brian did to acquire his 1st rental property. 11:11 What Brian and his team are focused on for their STR business. 12:43 How Brian identifies what the vacancies look like when looking for a property. 15:09 What they use for their background and screening. 16:56 How they organize needy and greedy things like keys and stuff. 18:01 What other systems do they use besides AutoHost. 19:30 What Brian's team looks like. 22:18 Brian's journey to having a good-sized team for his business. 24:20 What Brian's pricing team looks like. 25:41 What he does in his business now. 27:52 How he finds investors and what he offers to find potential investors. 30:06 Raises money and gets investors on for arbitrage. 32:27 How they pivot and learned on the heat of Covid. 36:09 Providing value to the people we want to serve. 37:09 Are they pivoting to a week-long stay or just with shorter-term stays. 38:30 Looking at International properties. 39:39 Brian's goals and vision for the business. 42:06 Where can people get in touch with Brian. 42:57 Brian's #1 secret to success in short term rentals. NOTABLE QUOTES (KEY LESSONS): "Take the leap. There's nothing holding you back." - Brian Fontenot "Just the ability to be able to work from anywhere. People don't take it lightly but I think people now see the beauty of it and now people are more flexible about going to different places and where they stay and such." - Brian Fontenot "We just want to be positioned to be able to offer every possible option that people could look to so that we can be able to make the most with our costumers." - Brian Fontenot "As long as you anticipate the people's needs that you serve, you will find success to highest degree." - Brian Fontenot CONNECTING WITH THE GUESTS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brianlfontenot Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brianlfontenot/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianlfontenot/ Website: https://brianlfontenot.com/

Team, we are back with the very last episode of 2020! Today we have Brian Mazza back for another installment of the Epic Table podcast. We talk about his latest triumph running 50 miles to raise over $81,000 which will cover fertility treatments for individuals who are experiencing infertility. Brian opens up about the pain he experienced throughout his run, he opens up about the adversity he faced with infertility and why he wants to crush the stigma behind male infertility. We also get insight into how Brian trained and dieted to maximize his ultramarathon performance. If you are interested in learning what it takes to overcome any battle, you should tune in to this episode! Specifically we discuss... What is infertility? Can infertility be cured? What Brian did to crush the stigma behind infertility How to train for an ultramarathon, How Brian trained to run 50 miles. How to achieve your dreams and goals, Brian talks personal growth and development, planning and mindset leading into the run. What is the best running style? How did Brian adjust his running style?  Resources.. Instagram (@BrianMazza) https://www.instagram.com/brianmazza/?hl=en https://brianmazza.com/ Donate to Run for a Chance (https://s010.med.cornell.edu/wcmc/make-a-donation.html?dept=Run%20for%20a%20Chance)  https://ivf.org/news/run-chance https://www.instagram.com/hpltraining/ https://www.hpltraining.com/

How important precise and timely eye contact can be. What Brian thinks about 75 hard and everyone's perception of the new Covid vaccine. Thanks for listening

Artists who are willing to put themselves in harm’s way are a rare bread, and those who use their work to help others are perhaps even rarer. Photographer, Brian McCarty, is one of these unique artists, and since 2011, he has been collaborating with the United Nations and other NGOs to help traumatized children in war zones. Through his project, War Toys, Brian uses the power of children’s toys, free play, and his camera to help these children process their pain. Brian has worked in places like Iraq, Syria, and the West Bank, and he joins us today to share insights into his work. We begin by hearing about his experience of working in a war zone and the complex emotions these spaces cause him to feel. On the one hand, he is exposed to the darkest side of humanity, while on the other, he sees people trying to help in the most selfless ways. Brian talks about the absurd and trite nature of his work and how this exact absurdity ultimately hooks people and draws them in. This endeavor has not been easy for a variety of reasons, and Brian shares more about the 15-year journey he has been on which culminated in forming a non-profit last year. Naturally, we discuss the pandemic, where Brian explains why he – like many who have worked in war zones – is particularly on edge about the election and the conflict that may come with the transfer of power. Our conversation also touches on projects Brian has in the pipeline, the immense power of art therapy in high-conflict areas and war zones, and the potential of a documentary about his work being made. Tune in today to hear more.   Key Points From This Episode: Hear how Brian was drawn to photographing toys, a passion that started at a young age. What it’s like to be working in an active war zone; it’s an addicting experience. The long road Brian walked to finally get to work in a war zone – It took 15 years to get there. What Brian believes the hook of his work – which at first glance seems trite – ultimately is. Brian’s relationship with toy manufacturers and the support they provide him. Forming the War Toys non-profit; why Brian finally decided to launch it last year and their pilot project. The interesting connection Brian has seen between toy guns and active war zones. War zones reveal both the primal and deeply hopeful nature of human beings. How religion affects the work Brian does and what he has learned along the way. The difficulty that comes with trying to find children again in high conflict areas and war zones. Find out how the lessons Brian has learned from his work have helped him in the pandemic. How Brian is using this newfound time seeing as he is unable to travel. Donating to War Toys; what the money will be used for. Some important photographers like Chris Hondros and Dickey Chapelle Brian hopes to honor. Why Brian doesn’t think that the media will be protected in war zones again. Insights into DesignerCon and why Brian is so excited about what is happening in the space. What Brian’s day-to-day looks like and how he stays disciplined. Brian’s fundraising goal for 2021 and the work he hopes to do going forward. Children in war zones need to be taught emotional literacy because they are often detached from their feelings. Capturing the work; how filming has formed a part of Brian’s project. Where to find Brian and War Toys online. For more information and photos, visit here: https://notrealart.com/brian-mcCarty

    Brian Clark is the founder and CEO of Copyblogger Media and Tangible Digital. Launched in 2006, Coppyblogger evolved quickly from a one man website into an influential trade magazine for the content marketing industry. He is the host of the Unemployable podcast and website, providing advice and support for freelancers and entrepreneurs with the mission to ‘help tiny businesses create an outsized impact’. Brian also created the personal growth newsletter Further, a weekly publication navigating ‘the art of midlife reinvention’ addressing health, weath, and personal growth for those of us entering our 50’s and 60’s.   Brian joins me today to discuss the pivotal moment many of us will feel in our late 40’s when the desire to press the reset button appears to be at its strongest. He reveals the magic age we seem to be when we hit the bottom of our happiness ‘horseshoe,’ and why this is the point we should reevaluate what we need to do to achieve contentment in the second half of our lives. Brian shares his method when adopting new lifestyle habits, and why accepting self identity change is the key to success in your fitness goals. He also discusses the freedom building a freelance portfolio will give you in the next stage of your career, and why it isn't all about Mark Zuckerberg in the startup world.   “Take control of your destiny. Don’t let A.I or automation or your asshole boss do it for you” - Brian Clark   Today on Mastering Midlife:   What Brian discovered when he had achieved ‘everything’ Why Generation X’ers feel overlooked Why new behaviors require a change of self identity How exercising mindfulness towards your family will enrich you Why you should covet a long healthspan rather than lifespan How a passion for travel has allowed Brian to feel freer in his work place Why the start up generation is NOT about the Hoodie Millennial   Resources Mentioned:   Book: Atomic Habits   Connect with Brian Clark:   Brian Clark’s Further website Brian Clark’s Unemployable website Brian Clark on LinkedIn Brian Clark on Twitter     Get FREE Access to the Only 10’s Course   Are you struggling with knowing what, when, and how to focus your efforts to get things done? As a long-time sufferer of severe ADD, I understand the struggle - and that’s why I created the Only 10’s system. This system has helped me and thousands of others clear the clutter and focus their energy on getting the right things done.   The Only 10’s free online course is based on my proven system to help you focus your attention and maintain momentum around your day-to-day life.   Sign up for the Only 10’s free course today!     Mastering Midlife...Together!   Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of the Mastering Midlife Podcast: How to Thrive When the World Asks the Most of You with Mark Silverman. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review.   Be sure to visit our website and connect with us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube and don’t forget to share your favorite episodes on social media.  

Here are my 3 core takeaways from this interview: 1. How to Learn SEO Fast Measuring the number of mistakes you make is not a very good measure of development. You could make the same number of mistakes continuously, or that number of mistakes could rise continuously, and your level of knowledge and development could increase alongside it. That's often the case. The thing that you should track is how good you are at learning from mistakes. You can make a hundred mistakes in one week, and then you can make a hundred mistakes in the second week. The thing that isn't acceptable is to make the same mistake more than once. You do that a lot at the start because you can't quite isolate what really it was that you specifically did that is not quite working. Some people fall into the trap of trying to avoid problems and mistakes as opposed to embracing the art of failure and actually taking those learnings and applying them. Your goal is to be very good at knowing what you've done wrong. 2. The Most Dangerous SEO Mistake You Can Make No matter how much theory and content you consume about SEO, you will never realize the nuances involved within it until you start doing it. There's a fundamental jump from the creation of great content to getting results that is often missed. A big part of this is backlinks. They start a new site. They create a bunch of content. They'll often say, "I'm going to publish five blog articles a week for the next ten weeks." You start doing that and you very quickly realize after 6-7 weeks that barely anything's ranking. Maybe you get semi-lucky and a few things are trickling in, but, based on your expectations, it's usually never getting close to where you would expect it to be. A lot of people try to answer the problem with more volume. Imagine that in the context of paid advertising. You spend $100K and you get really bad CPA (Cost Per Action). Would you decide to spent $200K right after that? You would never do that! Some people try ramping up to 10 pieces of content or 20 pieces of content a week, but there's a cost associated with this, whether it be time or cash. When it still doesn't work, then they realize: I need to do something different. People fall into the trap of trying to do twice as much of the thing that isn't working and hoping it will deliver results. 3. Explain SEO to your CMO / CEO (The Easy Way) Distill the information important down to what stakeholders want to hear. I don't need to be sharing with Brian Halligan, CEO of HubSpot, the minutia of a technical issue that we're trying to fix. What Brian would want to know is, if we invest stuff into this, what's the net result? Is it worth it? Come to them and say, "Hey, we've got these 10 different things that we can do. There's also a cost attached to these 10 different things. Here are the problems it will solve and why it's worth it." Showcase a vision outside of an individual tactic. Subscribe: http://seofortherestofus.org/yt Watch the full SEO for the Rest of Us Interview: Coming Soon! Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://100daysofseo.com/itunes Listen on Spotify: https://100daysofseo.com/spotify Listen on Google Podcasts: https://100daysofseo.com/google-podcast Join the SEO for the Rest of Us Community: seofortherestofus.org/community

In this episode, you will learn: • Brian’s brief bio. • How Brian and his family started in the franchising business. • What Brian learned from his entrepreneurship degree. • Brian’s horizontal income sources and personal expenses. • Brian’s life happiness index. • How Brian gives back to the community. • Brian’s biggest goals in the next twelve months. • Some of the best moments in Brian’s life. • Brian’s future greatest hits. • Plus, so much more! Brian Beers and his family currently own and operate 12 Midas® franchises in the Philadelphia area. Brian’s family has been in business of owning franchises for a long time. Brian’s stewardship of his multiple Philadelphia-area Midas shops is a little like that. In the past six years, he has built on the stellar reputation for service forged over the past 31 years by his father, Tracy Beers, and his uncle, Herb Hollinger, by expanding their service menu and delivering what today’s time-pressed customers want: total car care from an auto-service brand they trust. Since he took the helm in 2009, sales at Brian’s stores have risen steadily. Buoyed by this success, he has in recent years opened two new locations, expanding the family’s retail footprint to eight Midas car-care outlets. Today, Brian runs a sales–and service–focused organization staffed by a high-energy team that is committed to doing a great job for customers, and, in doing so, driving increased income for themselves. A graduate of the University of Miami, where he majored in business with an entrepreneurship focus, Brian has been around Midas as long as he can remember.

In this episode, you will learn: • Brian’s brief background. • Brian’s current horizontal income and sources of income. • What Brian does for diet and exercise. • Brian’s life happiness index. • What Brian does to give back to the community. • The most poignant moments in Brian’s life. • Brian’s strengths and his kryptonite. • The smartest business decision that Brian has ever made. • Plus, so much more! Brian Mullins is a licensed Realtor specializing in working with investors and is the owner of several Real Estate related investment companies with over 100 properties under management. Brian has more than twenty years of Real Estate & Selling experience. He also does investing/rehabbing, buying, and selling rental and multi-family real estate in the Nashville/Middle Tennessee area. His former career includes sales and management at fortune 500 technology companies such as Xerox, Heidelberg, Eastman Kodak & IBM. Brian lives in Nashville Tennessee area. His great attitude and skills in negotiating, selling, technology, contracting, building, rehab, and investing in rental properties offers a unique ability to help others in the home buying and selling process.

Taking a more health-focused approach this episode, my husband, Brian Inselman, will be joining me in discussing all things postural health! Having worked as an Ergonomic Specialist and Physical Therapist, paying close attention to how the body functions, Brian holds a lot of expertise in this area and has helped many clients achieve their own personal fitness goals throughout the years. Today, we will be talking on the importance of moving our bodies correctly while exercising, how our exposure to technology is affecting our overall posture, and why the revolutionary ‘Egoscue’ method has helped both myself and Brian on our physical fitness journeys. Not only has this method been helpful in aiding our previous sports injuries, but it has also been proven to help individuals suffering from chronic pain, ongoing conditions, and athletes who need to prioritize their health and fitness. It’s just one of the many incredible ways in which our bodies can heal through incremental and persistent movements. If you’re interested to hear more, then have a listen to Episode 24 of Six Pack! Some Questions I Ask:How many clients have you seen with back pain that isn’t related to sports injuries or physical activity? (7:09)Have you noticed any differences in your everyday life since exercising your posture so regularly? (9:54)What are some tips you can give my listeners to help them with their posture? (12:22)What morning routines or warmups would you suggest for someone with back issues? (22:44)In This Episode You Will Learn:The ideal positioning for our posture & Why our bodies get random jolts of pain (3:33) An at-home postural test for my listeners to try (5:08)What Brian noticed about posture while working as an Ergonomic Specialist (11:43)How we can adjust our workstations to cater to our accessibility needs (14:00)Why it’s important to take regular breaks throughout the day (17:21)Suggestions for ergonomic office furniture (18:57)A breakdown of the ‘Egoscue’ method & Our experience using the program (27:30)Let’s Connect!InstagramWebsiteFacebookConnect With Brian Inselman:’Achieve Physical Therapy’ - WebsiteFacebookResources:Book: ‘Pain Free Living’ Author, Pete Egoscue See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Are you afraid of failure? Learn how to shift your mindset and be willing to fail in today’s episode of the Genius Network podcast with Brian Scudamore. If you’d like access to the video, show notes or the exercise to help you take action on what was discussed, please visit www.GeniusNetwork.com/153. Here’s a glance at what you’ll learn from Brian in this episode:  His entrepreneurial journey from zero to his first million. Why he wrote his new book “WTF?! (Willing to Fail): How Failure Can Be Your Key to Success”. The biggest difference between running a single operation and running a business that scales. The story of how he got into the junk removal business and founded 1-800-GOT-JUNK? What being in the junk removal business has taught Brian about clutter and owning “stuff”. Brian shares the biggest challenge with starting three new brands (and why he started them). “I Felt Shattered”: One thing you must do in the face of overwhelming opposition if you want to succeed. How Brian transforms his failures into GIFTS and how YOU can turn failures into gifts, too. The most important lessons Brian has learned about finding, hiring and nurturing the right people. How Brian deals with con artists, scoundrels and situationally ethical people. Brian talks about some of the most important “First Dominos” in his life and business. The way Brian became friends with Fred DeLuca (Billionaire and Co-Founder of Subway). Brian tells Joe his approach when he reaches out to connect with well-known people. A 3-step criteria Brian uses to ensure all his meetings are effective and results-focused. How to disconnect, take time off and rejuvenate without getting pulled back into work. The mission and purpose behind O2E Brands (And how Brian grows his companies). A surprising reason why “Transparency” is an integral part of O2E Brands’ culture. Brian reveals one of the most important keys to creating a successful franchise. The reasons why Brian wants to stay private and doesn’t want to sell equity. One of the simplest (and most effective) ways to get free PR for your company. The Driven Entrepreneur: What makes Brian tick (and why it’s NOT money). Find something you love and commit to it? WRONG. Do THIS instead… How to use money as a positive vehicle to contribute and help other people. Brian shares the biggest value he gets out of being in Joe’s Genius Network. What Brian is most excited about right now in his business and in his life.

Erik recently hosted a #LunchtimeLive with Brian Butler who happens to be a high school friend of Erik who has made a name for himself as a mixed martial arts agent. Think Jerry McGuire but UFC. These LunchtimeLives dive into what different marketing techniques people have used that make them stand out in their industries and allowed them to gain some traction. We ask them what is their key to success in their industry. What Brian said really resonated with Erik because he has a background in graphic design. He said he needed to get into some sort of physical routine so he got into mixed martial arts and the owner asked him to put on an event. The result of the event was amazing because it was marketed in a different way than most mixed martial arts events so the martial artists started approaching him asking him to be their agent. So he brought his marketing expertise to the mixed martial arts world. He treated being an agent like being a marketer while most other agents acted as if they were lawyers. He's doing things differently. Think about your own marketing and how you can have the biggest impact. Try to be different from the rest of the crowd. Being like everyone else does not get you new customers. — Erik J. Olson is an award-winning digital marketer & entrepreneur. The Founder & CEO of Array Digital, he is also the host of the Journey to $100 Million Flash Briefing and daily podcast, and the organizer of the Marketers Anonymous monthly meetups. — Kevin Daisey is an award-winning digital marketer & entrepreneur. He started his first company when he was just 23, and is the Founder & CMO of Array Digital. Kevin is also the co-host of the Journey to $100 Million Flash Briefing and daily podcast, and the co-organizer of the Marketers Anonymous monthly meetups. — For more information on the show, and to check out past episodes, go to journeyto100million.com!

This was an absolute joy for me. As a former freelance photographer, the world of photography has a special place in my heart. What Brian and a lot of the other popular photographers are doing now, especially in the golf realm is unreal. Brian has a unique eye and I've been a fan of his for a while. It was a pleasure to chat with him for nearly an hour and a half and learn more about his journey and where he's going in the future! Pop open a cold one and kick back for this one unless you're driving! As I said, it's a long one, but I think you'll heavily enjoy what he has to offer in this episode as much as I did! Be sure to check out Brians website!  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chasingdaylight/message

Today’s episode is featuring a recent interview Tom Vander Ark had with Brian Greenberg on creating great schools! Greenberg is an educator, investor, and entrepreneur at the intersection of technology, education, and philanthropy. He is also one of Getting Smart team’s favorite people right now in education!   After teaching high school English in L.A., Brian Greenberg was the founding Principal for Leadership Public Schools in the Bay Area. He coached principals for new leaders and served as Chief Academic Officer for Envision Schools. Eight years ago, with support from the Fischer family, Greenberg opened Silicon Schools; a non-profit that has funded the creation of fifty great new Bay Area schools that foster innovation and personalization in the neighborhoods that need them most.   With the closure of school buildings, Greenberg observed his schools moving slowly to remote learning. He attributes the smooth transition to well-developed academic programs and strong school cultures.   Tune in to learn more about Brian’s work in supporting great new schools as well as his insights about the important role that Silicon Schools play in advancing innovation and equity in education!   Key Takeaways: [:10] About today’s episode. [:56] Tom welcomes Brian to the podcast! [1:35] The best and hardest parts of teaching English in Los Angeles. [4:27] The biggest takeaway Brian learned as a teacher. [5:09] Brian’s experience as the founding Principal for Leadership Public Schools. [8:55] Key pieces to a successful principalship. [9:48] Lessons Brian learned from his experience with mentoring principals for new leaders. [12:48] What Brian learned from serving as Chief Academic Officer at Envision Schools. [16:07] How Silicon Schools was opened with the support from the Fischer family. [16:58] The importance of new school development and why it is high-return philanthropy. [20:33] The challenges with taking good schools to greatness and taking okay schools to good. [24:52] What the formula for success looks like for creating new schools. [29:51] Where you want to be on the spectrum of a proven model vs. an innovative model when it comes to creating a new school. [33:48] Key lessons Brian learned when their fifty schools closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [41:07] About Brian and Silicon School’s two guidebooks/playbooks; the content they covered and what they were made for. [42:02] The challenges educators face in planning for an uncertain August and September and how they can be solved. [45:38] Tom thanks Brian for all of the incredible work that he does and for joining the podcast!   Mentioned in This Episode: Brian Greenberg Silicon Schools Leadership Public Schools Envision Schools The Gates Foundation Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College, by Doug Lemov Teach Like a Champion 2.0: 62 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College, by Doug Lemov California Collaborative for Educational Excellence - The Playbooks Getting Smart Podcast Ep. 259: “Eric Tucker on Reopening Schools with Equity in Mind”   Get Involved: Check out the blog at GettingSmart.com. Find the Getting Smart Podcast on iTunes, leave a review and subscribe.   Is There Somebody You’ve Been Wanting to Learn From or a Topic You’d Like Covered? To get in contact: Email Editor@GettingSmart.com and include ‘Podcast’ in the subject line. The Getting Smart team will be sure to add them to their list!

(Royalty-free image by Nick Gesell from Pixabay.) Creativity, plus technology, equals magic. That's an equation which Brian Collins puts into practice, on a regular basis. As founder of Orlando-based consulting firm The Brainstorm Institute, Brian combines emerging technologies with imagination.  The result: unique experiences for clients in the travel industry, game design, education and more. Brian, who previously worked as a Disney Imagineer, also offers flagship workshops on innovative thinking. In addition, he is Senior Director of Innovations and Strategic Initiatives at Magic Bytes LLC.    An immersive technology company, Magic Bytes designs XR experiences and animation.    3D modeling and rendering, and gamified education experiences are all a part of what they do. In other words, they're passionate about creating a LOT of cool things. And Brian has taught a number of college classes.  Currently, he serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Central Florida.  His subject: "Entertainment, Technology and Innovation". Brian talked about creativity, innovation and the ways he sees emerging technology as an implement to augment them. On this edition of Over Coffee®, you will hear: What first inspired Brian's creativity (including a very cool memory from his growing-up years!); How his first experiences with computer technology sparked his imagination; Some of Brian's favorite new emerging technologies, which he foresees reshaping the ways we create experiences (including education and conference ones!); His perspective on the ways XR may become a core element of education; Some of the more exciting areas of emerging technology Brian is currently seeing; One of the best creative lessons Brian has learned, from his work creating experiences. What Brian and Magic Bytes are currently doing; Some of his favorite resources for educators; A principle Brian explores in his upcoming book, about creativity--and how it relates to technology.AND--stand by!  Brian has an exciting writing project in the works.  We'll share the details as soon as we get the go-ahead!

Even though we learn that money is merely a means of exchange, a store of value, or a unit of account, it’s so much more than this. Money captures so much of what we grapple with like hope, joy, fear, regret, and envy, yet it’s widely surveyed as being the least spoken-about issue when compared to religion, mortality, and marriage. Dr. Brian Portnoy, the author of The Geometry of Wealth, joins us today to share his view on wealth, which moves past the conventional understanding of accumulation. We kick off the show by discussing some of Brian’s research findings around the way people avoid talking about money. From there, we move onto his idea of funded contentment, which he hopes will get people to think about the different facets that go into a contented, joyful, and meaningful life. While this is a purposely loaded concept, Brian conveys the message in a simple, clear way to show that building wealth requires an assessment of many aspects of life. Then, we move onto how Brian believes financial crises affect people’s financial wellness. Although there are certainly immediate devastating effects of these crises, Brian takes it a step further, sharing a conceptual view of how these shifts intersect with people’s financial plans. After this, we turn our attention to adaptive simplicity and how it relates to goal-setting. We round the show off by discussing how the financial management industry is changing, and what Brian hopes the role of the advisor will increasingly become. Be sure to tune in today!   Key Points From This Episode: Learn more about Brian’s rationale for comparing money to Lord Voldemort. [0:03:31.0] Why money — contrary to what we’ve learned — is a qualitative, not quantitative. [0:05:58.0] What Brian hopes to get people to think about with his ‘funded contentment’ idea. [0:06:44.0] How the shapes Brian uses in Geometry of Wealth relate to the journey of achieving wealth. [0:08:36.0] The three-step process to achieve funded contentment. [0:09:22.0] Unpacking priorities and decisions and how they intersect with building wealth. [0:10:54.0] The importance of calibrating planning with purpose and where people fall short. [0:13:50.0] Where people in America are in their financial wellness journey. [0:15:43.0] The four corners of the square: Exploring investment expectations and how people view this. [0:17:37.0] Brian’s practical and conceptual takes on how financial crises’ impact on financial wellness.[0:21:12.0] Why Brian disagrees that volatility is not a great measure of risk for a long-term investor. [0:29:13.0] ‘Adaptive simplicity:’ What this is and why it’s key in financial planning. [0:32:15.0] How to set financial goals, which are static, when being flexible is key. [0:35:17.0] Why Brian believes — despite his hedge fund experience — that investors can’t plan for mark-beating returns. [0:38:47.0] The role that hedge funds could play in investors’ retirement strategies. [0:42:47.0] What investors can do to understand if they can manage their own retirement. [0:45:34.0] How reframing the financial advisor relationship to a coaching one helps. [0:49:15.0] What the future of holistic financial advice should look like, according to Brian. [0:54:53.0] Insights into Brian’s firm, Shaping Wealth, and the work that they do. [0:55:37.0] Brian’s definition of success in his own life. [0:58:02.0]

Brian DeChesare is the founder of Breaking Into Wall Street and Mergers and Inquisitions. Mergers & Inquisitions is a website dedicated to careers in the finance industry, with over 600 expertly crafted articles, over 500,000 monthly visitors, and over 100,000 email subscribers. The site features interviews with industry insiders in investment banking, private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, sales & trading, and other fields, as well as career tips, news commentary, case studies, and modeling tutorials. Breaking Into Wall Street is M&I’s sister site. It offers online training products like PDF guides and video courses as well as coaching services designed to help people break into investment banking, private equity, and hedge funds. Early in my career, I was both an avid reader and a customer of Brian’s. Although Brian has been a successful entrepreneur—earning a case study mention in the 4-Hour Workweek, as an example—I’m more impressed by Brian’s ability to “step off the line,” as Jocko Willink would say, to strategically re-orient himself. During our conversation, we discuss two points where Brian strategically pivots in order to achieve his true long-term objectives. We also cover Brian’s experience with angel investing, his biggest business inflection points, and how he structures his life to accentuate his strong suits. Links from the Show Mergers and Inquisitions www.mergersandinquisitions.com Breaking Into Wall Street www.breakingintowallstreet.com Brian’s Reading List www.strategychainpodcast.com/support Time Stamps 0:03:40 – Brian’s “slap in the face” moment 0:07:35 – Connection to Episode 003 with Michael Pollack 0:09:41 – Catch-up since Brian’s latest life story post 0:12:19 – Eliminating policy-borne headaches (refunds, support, payment plans) 0:22:31 – The difficulty of transitioning from a one-man show to a team 0:28:02 – Misinterpretations of the 4-Hour Workweek 0:31:52 – How to leverage obsessive-compulsive traits (spurts, Toggl time tracking, and adapting over time) 0:44:26 – High-yield activities and attribution difficulties (Wicked Reports) 0:50:31 – Issues with partnerships within a niche industry 0:55:46 – Business inflection points (pitching content, product development, marketing) 1:11:30 – The psychological lift from making the first sale 1:17:13 – Developing products by offering services 1:22:03 – The magic decision that improved profitability AND unit sales: pricing 1:30:32 – Brian’s angel investing experience 1:48:19 – What Brian would say to a younger version of himself: think of other options 1:50:40 – Brian’s future plans 1:55:15 – Book recommendations (Dan Kennedy’s work, Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson: It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work, Rework, Remote, Henry IV Parts 1&2, Henry V, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher Series, Brandon Sanderson’s The Wheel of Time, Robert Jackson Bennett [City of Miracles, City of Blades, City of Stairs]) 2:06:08 – Closing thoughts: you can only connect the dots in retrospect, find the unconsidered options. Strategy Chain Links Rate and review the podcast at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/strategy-chain/id1492935567 Find Amazon affiliate links at http://strategychainpodcast.com/support Send me questions at http://strategychainpodcast.com/contact Sign up for the email list at http://strategychainpodcast.com/ Social Media @strategychain (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Medium)

T Today I am joined by Brian Richter. Brian is the Treasurer at McGraw Hill. We had a really interesting discussion, Brian has been the manager of his team for eight years. He’s got really interesting insights and I think you’ll enjoy the discussion today.   In this episode we discuss: What made Brian choose treasury as his career What Brian think is the highlight of his career Importance of experience and knowledge in the industry The switch from consulting to corporate treasury Brian’s mentors His approach to networking Advice to those who are still in the early part of their career Key things Brian look for when hiring What makes a successful treasury How is the role of treasury changing in the next years   Links Brian Richter LinkedIn

A true visionary and entrepreneur, Brian has over 13 years of experience in the property management and vacation rental industry. Passionate about the budding potential of investing in the Finger Lakes region, and fueled by his love for the area and the outdoors, Brian was inspired to buy 80+ acres of local farmland. Dreaming of the possibilities this land could offer to the public, he formed Lincoln Hill Farms LCC and hired a team of various individuals with the necessary skills and talents to transform this beautiful farmland into an all-inclusive venue and agricultural attraction. When Brian is not busy working and managing his ventures, he enjoys relaxing with his wife and three children. He also enjoys supporting ROC City Values, a non-profit organization that he founded which sponsors a 5k Walk/Run each June in support of the Rochester City School District. In this episode of Destination on the Left, we are joined by Brian Mastrosimone, owner of Lincoln Hill Farms on Canandaigua Lake in the Finger Lakes Region of New York state. In our discussion, Brian talks about the challenges of launching his dream business. He also discusses his use of creativity in the development project, which has yielded numerous different types of uses for visiting guests to enjoy. What You Will Learn in This Episode: How the idea for Lincoln Hill Farms was conceived The different expansions and developments Brian spearheaded to make Lincoln Hill Farms what it is today Different types of events and facilities that you will find at the Lincoln Hill Farms compound What Brian has done to help Lincoln Hill Farms stand out from the crowd Brian’s vision for Lincoln Hill Farms this year and in the future How Brian is navigating the challenges posed by the global pandemic Successful partnerships and relationships Brian has formed to collaborate and expand Lincoln Hill Farms Advice for people who are looking to become entrepreneurs in the travel and tourism space Lincoln Hill Farms Brian Mastrosimone is the owner of Lincoln Hill Farms, an agricultural attraction and entertainment venue in the Finger Lakes region of New York state. Brian’s background in real estate enabled him to realize his vision for developing over seventy acres on Canandaigua Lake into a multipurpose agricultural destination. This project has spanned the last six years and it is finally coming to fruition, but by no means was it an easy ride. In this episode of Destination on the Left, Brian talks about the challenges of launching his dream business. He also discusses his use of creativity in the development project, which has yielded numerous different types of uses for visiting guests to enjoy. A Unique Agricultural Destination Today, Lincoln Hill Farms has expanded to ninety-five acres with three houses, a centralized barn, an event pavilion, and repurposed silos. They do anything from music concerts and family outings to corporate events and weddings. Despite all of the unique attractions that Lincoln Hill Farms has to offer, it is a working farm too. They have animals, an acre garden on which they plan to build a kitchen, and this year they are growing an acre of CBD plants as well. These elements of the farm are not their primary source of revenue, but it adds an extra layer of authenticity to amplify the experience. It takes a creative touch to achieve this type of balance and truly stand out from the crowd. Driven by a Creative Vision One of the main drivers of Brian’s creativity is his decision to embrace the farm feel. It is a farm-based more on the space itself and how it is used rather than what the farm produces, and the concept has been unbelievably well received by tourists and locals alike. Everything they do is focused on catering to the visitor’s experience and what those transitions will look like. While Brian navigates the challenges posed by the current global pandemic, he and his team continue to find new ways to realize their vision for Lincoln Hill Farms. Website: https://lincolnhillfarms.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-mastrosimone-b8306a198/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lincolnhillfarms

3:26 - What Brian does as Manager of Engineers at Game Creek Video.4:20 - What a television truck is made up of.5:33 - How much mobile television trucks cost.6:32 - How trucks are custom built for sports networks.8:08 - How the trucks are planned for which event and how they are integrated. together.10:43 - Planning ESPN’s MegaCast College Football National Championship.12:29 - How much dedication an tv truck engineer puts into a production.13:38 - How working in mobile television is like a brotherhood.14:47 - How much influence with the networks when putting on a major sporting event.16:55 - What a truck engineer’s responsibility entails.18:17 - How they maintain the tv truck when a piece of equipment breaks.19:56 - How he’s able to manage demanding producers and directors.20:38 - How Brian started in the tv business when he was 8 years old.22:15 - How he worked with news networks all over the world as a teenager.23:08 - How Brian started working on major events.24:44 - Brian was hired the same day of an event when another engineer had quit.25:44 - Most challenging event Brian has ever been a part of.29:55 - How engineers can save the show with technical problems.30:32 - How he’s had to literally put out fires on a tv production.32:46 - How Game Creek plans for productions that are not near a big city.34:16 - What events Brian has worked in his career.35:29 - What the differences between sports, political and entertainment events are.36:55 - How many trucks are in Game Creek’s fleet.37:25 - How Game Creek tv trucks are named.38:48 - How each tv truck has a “personality” and how Brian adjusts to it.39:39 - When a “Gremlin” make it difficult to maintain the equipment on a truck.40:20 - What the best thing about what Brian does as a mobile tv truck engineer.41:29 - Best accomplishment of his career.42:06 - What’s it’s like being a truck engineer for anyone who is interested in this industry.44:08 - What qualities an aspiring engineer should have.44:49 - How someone can find out more about Game Creek Video’s apprenticeship program.46:32 - What some of the advantages of being a truck engineer are.47:32 - What the next big event is for Brian and what to keep in mind for that event. (recorded prior to the cancellation of sports because of the COVID-19 pandemic)49:33 - Brian shares a funny story working on auto racing.51:39 - What he would like sports fans to know about the industry he works in.

See all the Healthcast at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ Judge Dunlop is a friend of Dr. Maupin and her family. Four years ago, he became a patient of hers. At that time Mr. Dunlop was suffering from many of the illnesses of aging for which Dr. Maupin provides treatments. This week he is going to share his story with us, along with his concerns and the results of his treatment. We appreciate his willingness to speak to all of you and share his story and the amazing results he has experienced as a result of being a patient at BioBalance Health. Doctors wanted Brian to get a hip replacement surgery and had asked him to consider two different shoulder surgeries. Brian had trouble standing after he had been sitting for a while, and he complained of aches and pains that were nearly debilitating. Dr. Maupin had been telling him for years that he did not have to suffer this way, she could help him by replacing his testosterone and checking his other hormone balances. Brian is stubborn and very smart. He did a lot of reading and he checked with other physicians for their opinions. He was reluctant to try what he thought of as newfangled treatments. Finally, because he could not get relief with traditional medical treatments, and because he did not want to have surgeries that put artificial joints into his body, he decided to try what Dr. Maupin was offering. That was four years ago, and he is here today with his testimonial for you to consider. Brian suffered from stiffness and swelling. Inflammation is a major concern as we age. Doctors are trying to find ways to reduce inflammation as we age because it interferes with so many of the issues of aging and the illnesses to which we are subjected. Brian complained of fatigue and muscle shrinkage, of shoulder and hip pains that plagued him when he stood up, after sitting, and when he got up out of bed in the morning. His pain and discomfort were nearly constant and interfered with his thought processes and his ability to command his body to do the things he had always been able to do, like his Karate workouts and his golf game and playing with his grandchild. He wanted help and regular medicine was not giving him any. He also found that his blood pressure was going up every year. He became concerned and finally asked Kathy for help. Since his successful treatment, Brian refers his friends to Kathy when they complain and seem to age without progress. He says he is continually when he sees his same age friends after a period of time of not seeing them, and then thinking “Damn he looks old!” we just do not realize how impactful that kind of aging can be. And we want everyone to know that there is help at BioBalance Health. Another concern that Brian had, was that there was a history of Alzheimer's' in his family. He was concerned that it might be something he should worry about. What Brian has learned is that Dr. Maupin will track his blood work results as a measure of how to keep his strong, keep his growth hormones producing in ways that help his have and develop muscular strength and definition. She will provide him with information on new treatments such as Neo 40 to improve his nitric oxide count and why that will help his blood flow and help contain his hypertension scores. As you can hear from this conversation, Brian is much stronger and healthier today after several years of hormone replacement. We hope you will listen and consider whether or not this would be a consideration for yourself or for your parents and friends who are aging and who are complaining of concerns that seem to plague all of us as we age.

Are you stuck in a dead-end, draining, stressful job with bad hours that you just want to quit? Is the only thing stopping you from leaving that job to pursue audio the fact that you need the money? Chances are, it might be easier than you think to swim in a blue ocean instead of drowning in the red ocean. Listen now to find out four different ways Chris and Brian would start a successful audio business if they were starting from scratch in 2020! In this episode you’ll discover: How you could leave your day job by doing an audio-related side hustle Why recording people in your demographic might be a struggle How you could make thousands per month and turn your business into something that fits the ideas of The 4-Hour Workweek. Why solving problems for people with money is a massive opportunity to add value How targeting the right potential client can make or break your business Why high-value clients require high touch work Why specialization is the key to being successful in your field How coaching could be the future of online learning How on-location recording in relaxing settings could be a luxury option for artists with money What Brian’s ultimate blue ocean business plan entails For full show notes, go to www.thesixfigurehomestudio.com/114 If you want to suggest a guest, an idea for the podcast, or you have some general feedback, then you can submit that via email to podcast@thesixfigurehomestudio.com

Brian is a Leading Educator and Asset Protection Attorney for High Risk Business Professionals, Entrepreneurs and Real Estate Investors. Brian’s firm focuses on adding value for clients and educating them on what they don’t realize they don’t know. What Brian does for clients is act as an advisor and focuses on setting up systems and strategic teams to protect your assets and manage your wealth. The goal is lifestyle preservation, peace of mind, changing the way predators view you, along with better tax planning, risk management and decreasing your taxable estate. Brian also acts a Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) for firms helping to maximize their value of existing and new products, along with technology integration. Brian was selected to the Lawyers of Distinction List 2019, Super Lawyers Rising Star List 2015, nominated to America's Top 100 High Stakes Litigators List, nominated to the 2017 Law Firm 500 Award. Recommended Resources: Check out our company and our investment opportunity by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com Self Directed IRA Investment Opportunity – Click HereTo Learn More About How You Can Invest With Us Through Your SDIRA Accredited Investors Click Hereto learn more about partnering with me and my team on Mobile Home Park deals! Grab a free copy of my latest book “The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them click here Schedule your free 30 minute "no obligation" call directly with Kevin by clicking this link https://www.timetrade.com/book/KV2D2

Brian Cerier lives in Torrance with his wife, Kelly, and dog, Zoey. Originally from the suburbs of Chicago, Brian made the move across the country after graduating from college and started working as a systems engineer in the Aerospace industry. Since moving out to the South Bay he started working in security engineering and will soon be starting a new position at a tech startup in El Segundo. Brian decided to start running when the best man in his wedding challenged their close group of friends to beat his marathon time. The bet was that if any of them could beat his marathon time he would have to run another marathon. Brian is a very competitive person and decided to take him up on his challenge. At the time, Brian had only run one organized event in his life, a 5k back in 2015. He really didn't like to run, and would look for anything other than running to stay in shape. His competitiveness took over and he began training for the 2018 LA Marathon and also joined the South Bay Runners Club during the process. He kept his training a secret from his best man until the Friday before the marathon. From that point on Brian was bit by the running bug and has been running ever since with the South Bay Runners Club. Brian’s biggest achievement is the success he had at the LA Marathon 2018 and being able to challenge his best friends’ time. His ultimate running goal is to qualify for Boston, but in the short term he is trying to chip away at his PR and break the 3:10:00 barrier at Mountains2Beach in 2020. What Brian loves most about the running community is the support. The fact that people are willing to help you achieve a goal that has no effect on them, but because they want to help you succeed is truly amazing.

In this episode, I talk to Brian Dixon about: - How he went from long-time teacher and employee to starting out as a solopreneur - What Brian did to land paid speaking gigs and his first few clients - The keys to finding clarity, purpose and a rock-solid business to start as a solopreneur And much more. ----- Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast and if you enjoy it, join the SG email list to get more business insight and content right to your inbox every week: https://www.solopreneurgrind.com/join/ ----- Where to find Brian: https://www.instagram.com/brianjdixon/ https://briandixon.com/

Today on the show I am chatting with asset protection attorney Brian Bradley. Brian’s firm focuses on adding value for clients and educating them on what they don’t realize they don’t know. What Brian does for clients is act as a advisor or consigliere and focuses on setting up systems and strategic teams to protect your assets and manage your wealth. The goal is lifestyle preservation, peace of mind, changing the way predators view you, along with better tax planning, risk management and decreasing your taxable estate. In the show we discuss: - The different types of asset protection - Why would you need asset protection? - When would you look to have your asset owned by companies started in specific tax havens? - Pros and Cons of off shore tax havens - ..and much, much more. So what are you waiting for? Be Bold, Bed Brave and Go Give Life a Crack!

Brian Urlacher is an NFL Hall of Famer and an eight-time Pro-Bowler who played 13 seasons as a linebacker for the Chicago Bears.  Listen to this episode and learn:   What Brian’s hidden talent is.  Who the NFL player was that Brian looked up to the most growing up.  About the miracle Brian witnessed on the football field.   Why Brian’s kids are the biggest miracle in his life.  What life lessons Brian learned from football.   

In today’s episode, we’re with an extraordinary guest, Brian Ahearn of Influence At Work. Brian is an international keynote speaker in leadership influence, authored an Amazon bestselling book, and traveled around the country doing all kinds of amazing programs on influential leadership. And his main mentor is Robert Cialdini, the most cited social psychologist in the world when it comes to the science of influence. In this conversation, Tim and Brian generously give out brilliant points and fundamentals about being an ethical influencer and practical tips and activities on how to build or improve relationships with the people around us. Let’s join Tim Shurr and Brian Ahearn and tune in now. Together, we will understand the essence of influence in leadership in our personal and professional development.   Quotes: "Nobody wants to be manipulated and if you are manipulating whether it’s your followers if you’re a leader or you’re a salesperson, you manipulate your customers, they’ll  figure it out and then it’s going to come back and hurt you big time.” - Brian Ahearn “An ethical influencer, first and foremost, has the other person or a group at the forefront of their mind and that what he’s asking of them is good for them.” - Brian Ahearn “Happy is the man who wants what he has.” - Brian Ahearn “It’s falling in love with the process and the goal just became the reason to do what I already love with more intensity.” - Brian Ahearn “Sometimes we fulfill our dreams in ways we don’t realize.” - Brian Ahearn Mentions: https://www.facebook.com/TimShurr/  https://mesmerizingleadership.com/  Robert Cialdini Influence At Work, by Brian Ahearn Brian Ahearn on LinkedIn Show Notes: (00:38) Greetings and introduction of Brian Ahearn (02:08) How it was being mentored by Robert Cialdini (04:11) P.E.O.P.L.E (07:12) Ethical influence vs. manipulation (09:34) What ethical influencers do (12:27) The contrast phenomenon and comparison (14:06) The difference between being complacent and content (16:28) Falling in love with the process (21:11) Ways of removing our blind spots (23:02) The resistance of being influenced by how people are thinking, feeling, and acting (35:26) Some ways that people become more influential     (35:36) Be somebody who builds relationships (38:13) How to build relationships and be likable (46:09) Some activities Brian does in a workshop (56:19) What Brian would tell his little self that once was    Make Your Day A Shurr! Success  

If you have a dream of building a successful online business, you need to know that it’s possible. Brian is living testament that, when you work hard and stay focused, your goals are within reach. What are you doing to meet them?   In this episode, Brian shares the three important lessons he’s learned in Bali that every online fitness coach needs to hear. He not only shares what he’s reflecting on, but how his journey has changed over the last five years. Turn up the volume and then take some time to reflect for yourself. You can do this.    “Traveling and working is the dream, traveling and working is what I’m doing right now” -Brian Mark    Ready to Grow Your Fitness Biz? Apply to Work with Brian Join the Facebook group for Successful Online Trainers This is the place for you if you're looking to grow your business and dominate the market   In this Episode - Brian shares his experience as an entrepreneur from the beginning: The struggles he went through to get to where he is now, and how you can do the same - Why living the dream of traveling and working is not impossible for you - What Brian has learned about the importance of listening - How important is mental clarity to you? Hear how this introvert recharges to stay on top of his game - Things don’t always go the way you plan: What you can do to be more adaptive and not stress about the changes   Connect with Brian: Facebook  Instagram 

On this episode of the This is a Man’s World, She Who Dares Wins podcast, we are joined by Brian Hands, Michelle’s father and an entrepreneur in the electrical industry. Brian talks about his perspective on Michelle’s career up to this point, including what it was like for her to start out in the construction industry and encounter bumps along the way. The two talk about the brief time when Michelle and her brother, John, ventured out on their own to start their own business and the difficulties that they faced which ultimately led them to where they are today. Brian shares some advice for parents whose daughters are considering entering the construction industry and how he and Michelle’s mom navigated their caution and concern while still empowering Michelle to follow her aspirations, even while pregnant. He also discusses why he thinks Michelle has been successful in the industry and how other women can be as well, whether they have support or not. Thanks in part to Michelle’s prompting, Brian has recently hired a few women as sales reps and the internal sales manager at his company and he has been able to see the benefits first-hand of having more diverse perspectives. You also don’t want to miss out on the heated discussion about whether Michelle or her brother is a better engineer. Time Stamps: 0:35 – How fathers and brothers can support women in construction. 1:54 – Brian’s career. 3:54 – How Brian felt about Michelle’s first career in construction. 6:27 – Michelle’s parents’ approach to difficult situations she encountered on the job site. 7:33 – Advice for parents with daughters wanting to go into the construction industry. 9:52 – Brian’s background. 11:22 – Michelle and her brother John’s entrepreneurial endeavour. 16:48 – The balance of good and bad times at work. 18:10 – How Michelle’s parents felt about her working on the job site while pregnant. 20:05 – Brian’s impression of how the industry has changed. 25:07 – Michelle asks about specific female hiring scenarios. 27:13 – Season 3 of the podcast will include interviews from women outside the construction industry who are also in male-dominated workplaces. 28:46 – Adjusting to the construction site environment. 29:34 – A controversial sibling rivalry question. 32:01 – The corruption that is prevalent in the construction industry. 35:00 – Michelle had to work a lot harder than some men to achieve what she has. 35:55 – What Brian sees for Michelle’s future. Key Quotes: “You can’t go into construction with a weak personality.” “I don’t think anyone would attempt to go into it if they didn’t think they could make it.” “Go with your gut feeling and give it a go.” “You spend most of your life at work, so enjoy what you do.” “There are more females coming into the industry but at mid-level.” “Treat everybody the same, with respect, even those you don’t like.” Connect with us: https://www.patreon.com/Thisisamansworld https://thisisamansworld.co.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/Thisisamansworlduk/ https://twitter.com/AMansWorldUK https://www.instagram.com/thisisamansworlduk/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCADDdf-5TgSb3VZJ6XcSAWg?view_as=subscriber michelle@thisisamansworld.co.uk --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/shewhodareswins/message

Brian T. Bradley, Esq. is a leading Educator and Asset Protection Attorney for High-Risk Business Professionals, Entrepreneurs, and Real Estate Investors. Brian’s firm focuses on adding value for clients and educating them on what they don’t realize they don’t know. What Brian does for clients is to act as an advisor or consigliere and focuses on setting up systems and strategic teams to protect your assets and manage your wealth... Additional show notes at HouseDudesPodcast.com

Brian T. Bradley, Esq. is a leading Educator and Asset Protection Attorney for High-Risk Business Professionals, Entrepreneurs and Real Estate Investors. Brian’s firm focuses on adding value for clients and educating them on what they don’t realize they don’t know. What Brian does for clients is to act as an advisor or consigliere and focuses on setting up systems and strategic teams to protect your assets and manage your wealth. The goal is lifestyle preservation, peace of mind, changing the way predators view you, along with better tax planning, risk management and decreasing your taxable estate. Brian also acts as a Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) for firms helping to maximize the value of existing and new products, along with technology integration. Brian was selected to the Lawyers of Distinction List 2019, Super Lawyers Rising Star List 2015, nominated to America's Top 100 High Stakes Litigators List, nominated to the 2017 Law Firm 500 Award. In this episode we chat about: Asset Protection Business Start-Ups Exemption Planning Maximizing value and integration of Law Firms Asset protection and secondary tax planning and tax benefits Interested in Real Estate Investing but don't have the time? How about putting your money to work passively. Head over to HouseDudes.com for more information. Please subscribe through iTunes or your favorite podcast app! If you like what you hear please give us a rating, like, and share. It really helps the show grow. iTunes: http://bit.ly/HouseDudesiTunes Google Play: http://bit.ly/HouseDudesGooglePlay YouTube: http://bit.ly/HouseDudesYouTube Stitcher: http://bit.ly/HouseDudesStitcher SoundCloud: http://bit.ly/HouseDudesSoundcloud Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HouseDudesPodcast/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/housedudes Follow Josh Koth and Jack Hoss on their journey towards financial freedom using the power of Real Estate through the REI Rookies Podcast (Real Estate Investing Rookies Podcast). We share our experiences as we acquire rental properties, build net worth, and work towards financial freedom. We are focused on creating wealth through conventional and creative real estate investing while improving our financial education. If you are a fan of Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki and Millionaire Real Estate Investor by Gary Keller or are looking for an alternative to the Dave Ramsey, Jim Cramer, Motley Fool or Suze Orman shows we invite you to subscribe today!

Join us as we interview FLW bass fishing tournament champion Brian Latimer. Brian has been fishing tournaments since he was a child and is one of the most passionate anglers in the sport. He gives us a breakdown of how he prepares for tournaments, and the exact lures he uses to consistently catch fish. He also dives into the science behind how bass see under water and how to select what lure colors to fish. Show Notes: 1:23 - When Brian started tournament fishing 3:00 - Brevyn - Brian’s oldest son 3:58 - Brian’s gratitude for the ability to do what he does 4:16 - Brian’s amazing wife 5:40 - Setting expectations, mindset, visualizing and being aware 6:55 - FLW championship that Brian won! 7:22 - The amount of hours a tournament fisherman is on the water practicing each day before a tournament 8:02 - The amount of tournament anglers in the tourney 8:26 - Qualifying events 9:17 - The significant costs associated with tournament fishing and how someone makes a living being a professional bass angler 10:48 - What Brian was thinking the morning of the FLW Championship 12:10 - The ONLY baits Brian used the entire tournament 14:42 - Z-man Tickler bait for the Ned Rig [Brian’s favorite bait for the Ned Rig] 16:30 - The reasons why Brian loves Z-man 17:17 - Brian’s favorite swim bait 17:24 - Other baits Brian loves using 17:39 - The lure Brian’s caught more fish on than anything else 18:00 - How Brian rigs Z-man’s FattyZ 19:15 - How often Brian fishes 21:30 - Going fishing and “figuring it out” 23:20 - How Brian finds fish on a new body of water 24:35 - Confidence in fishing 26:00 - How Brian prepares for a tournament 26:30 - How light penetration impacts what lure colors Brian chooses 29:00 - “What Bass See” YouTube Video on Brian’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCbB1VodVud_cpX9QPlU1_g 30:28 - One of Brian’s favorite colors to throw (this one will surprise you) 31:58 - The ONE Lure Brian would choose to fish for the rest of his life if he could only pick one 32:35 - The saltwater fish Brian likes to target 33:24 - Brian’s bucket list fish 34:58 - Crankbaits, jigs, worms, spinnerbaits 36:56 - ONE thing people might find surprising about Brian 37:50 - The passionate vibes Brian brings to the sport 38:50 - How you can find Brian on social media and on the interwebs 40:00 - Brian’s new apparel line called “Vibes” at www.shopblat.com 41:00 - Fishing kits and where you can find the stuff Brian fishes with in his boat right now Contact Info: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brianlatimerfishing/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brian_latimer/?hl=en YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCbB1VodVud_cpX9QPlU1_g Website: https://shopblat.com/   Visit http://www.FishMastery.com for more info Instagram: @Fish_Mastery Facebook: Fish Mastery YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/fishmastery  

In this episode, you will learn: • Brian's brief background • Brian's role in his full-time career • What Brian currently does in Spain • Brian’s goal for walking in the mountains for thirty days • Brian’s horizontal and vertical income • What Brian’s personal expenses look like • The activities that Brian does to stay fit and healthy • Brian’s top five bucket list items • The five greatest events that changed the course in Brian’s life • How Brian’s life would be like when he turns forty-six • Brian’s most challenging business partners • Plus, so much more! After a childhood spent tinkering on subjects such as Java programming and Linux, Brian’s professional experience started with VoIP testing at 3Com in suburban Chicago. He then spent two years studying Computer Engineering at Purdue University before leaving to pursue freelance consulting in Los Angeles. Following several years of freelancing, he developed his expertise in enterprise infrastructure and cloud computing by working for a variety of startups and large corporations. Later, he completed a Bachelor’s in I.T. while working at Citrix. Brian is currently working on Citrix’s Cloud Engineering and Systems Architecture team in Santa Barbara, California.

Today’s guest is G. Brian Benson who is an award-winning, Amazon best selling author, Life Coach, radio personality, actor, TEDx speaker who knows the value of trusting your intuition and wants to share his own personal journey of growth with you. His latest book is called Habits for Success: Inspired Ideas to Help You Soar. He is a humble guy who decided one day to change his life and decided to step way outside of his comfort zone, the place that I call The Waiting Room. He stepped into a world that was completely unknown and pursued acting, singing, playing the guitar and so much more. He began to listen to his inner knowing (his intuition) and began to say yes to his destiny. We talk a lot about how that is not always easy and what he does to cultivate trust and walk through the fear. If you are someone that has been feeling stuck in the same place for a long time and really want to change your life, this is THE episode for YOU! “When you say yes to your destiny, it opens doors for assistance.” ~ G. Brian Benson   I admire his eagerness to go out there and teach himself and give himself the skills that he needs to make his dreams come true. He is truly inspirational. He told me in our conversation that one of his proudest moments was that he just continued to show up and say yes and continued to trust his intuition. I hope that what you take from this conversation is more than enough for you to say your first yes (or next yes) to step out of the waiting room. I’d love to hear what you think of this conversation and if it inspires any action in your own life. Be sure to connect with me on Instagram to tell me all about it. More About G. Brian Benson Brian is an award-winning and Amazon #1 best-selling author, life coach, radio personality, actor, filmmaker and TEDx speaker, knows the value of trusting intuition and wants to share his own personal journey of self-growth, discovery and accomplishment to help others reconnect with their own personal truths to live an authentic and fulfilling life.  As a 4x Ironman triathlete and cross-country bicyclist, Brian knows the value of hard work and never giving up on his dreams, a message he shares with audiences through each of his creative expressions.  Brian’s brand-new book “Habits for Success – Inspired Ideas to Help You Soar” with Mango Publishing is now available on Amazon. You can connect with Brian via his website and also follow him on Instagram and Facebook. In This Episode, We Talk About Living his life in his family business and knowing it’s not his destiny and not what was meant for him and he left! His process of leaving his family business and changing his reality, feeling stuck and how he moved on from it The in-between period of when he made the decision to leave and when he was actually able to leave the business The process of how he wrote and self-published his first book  How he began to push himself out of his comfort zone - public speaking and how one new thing would lead to the next Brian’s goals for his work and the trap of expectations How we don’t always get the lessons that we need until we can really be slowed down, in a variety of ways How social media asks us to compare the best of others to the worst of ourselves What Christina notices about Brian’s work - thoughtful and intentional Feeling scared and doing something anyway - if it’s scary and exciting he knows he is on the right track How Brian stays open to the possibility in the face of fear and doubt How joy presents itself in Brian’s life and how he defines it The scariest thing Brian has ever done How he completed over 50 triathlons including 4 iron man races, after a devasting knee injury and surgery His experience with TEDx Brian’s biggest dream and what brings him the most joy How Christina and Brian met online What Brian believes was the hardest moment of his life How he wishes to be remembered  And so much more! Things We Mention In This Episode Book: Habits for Success – Inspired Ideas to Help You Soar by G.Brian Benson Short Film: The Guitar Man Short Film: Searching for Happiness Book: Brian’s List by G. Brian Benson Book: Finding Your Voice by G. Brian Benson Article: How to Help Someone in Crisis Article: 10 Things to Say to a Suicidal Person Workshop: Join Christina at The Omega Institute for Life Reentry After Loss Book: Second Firsts by Christina Rasmussen Book: Where Did You Go? by Christina Rasmussen Newsletter - Message In a Bottle: Sign up for Christina’s weekly inspiration  And it would mean the world to me if you’d leave a rating and review on iTunes. I’d love to know what you think of the podcast and how I can make it better for you. Plus iTunes podcast reviews and ratings are really important to help get the podcast in front of more people to uplift and inspire them too, which is the ultimate goal. You can leave a review right here. Please continue the conversation with me @dearlifepodcast on Instagram. NOTE: Please note, this episode contains mention and talk of suicide. Please take good care of yourself if this topic is triggering or leaves you feeling extra tender. If you’re struggling with mental health issues, support is available 24/7 through the Suicide Prevention Hotline, 1-800-273-8255, and more resources are listed below.

"Tired of going through the motions just to fit in? Life is about so much more than that! Brian talks about his "Doing it for the story" mentality that completely changed the trajectory of his life. What Brian discovers, and what he shares, are the opportunities that await when you simply put yourself out there. You never know what might happen or what you were missing! Brian is passionate about making a difference one choice at a time. He believes that small factors compound to create large results, and he has dedicated his life to improving everything within his influence. With his work in RecoverX, Self Improvement Daily, and Volunteer Davis, Brian continues to make an impact on a personal basis and hopes to scale that impact as his career progresses." - TEDx Visit Brian at https://www.selfimprovementdailytips.com/. View Brian's TEDx talk at https://jordanparis.com/ep119/.

Illegals that have entered the USA, and the border problem is trying to be resolved with Mexico's troops helping with the US to stop the immigration. Does Trump have more power then we all thought? Trump was threatened to impose tariffs if they couldn't help with security. **Democratic Chaos** Google (from an insider) gets caught plotting against President Trump. Company was trying to prevent Trump from winning in 2020. Mark Zuckerberg pledges his fight for Islamic Americans. People of the Democratic party are supporting LGBT community in all their efforts, and minorities, compared to Republicans that support religious efforts (strength to the efforts in Christianity beliefs), and people that are true citizens in the country. Joe Biden (Audio Clip) on getting Osama Bin Laden. Says, "Don't Go." and get this terrorist. Really? Do we want him running our country? **What were you thinking?** (IL) Erick Trump was spat on when he entered a cocktail bar in Chicago. The waitress a Democrat is receiving money from a Gofundme account because of this. What??? **Brian's news insights** Chuck Schumer (D) Apologizes to a flight attendant when she told him to turn off his cell phone. He called her, a B***h. Apparently, Schumer does not think he has to obey the law of the flight rules. (He-he-he Karma). **Seriously--You got to be kidding me?!** Rainbow Pride flag replaces the POW MIA Flag at a Veterans memorial. Outrage is sparked. **Capitalism wins again** Big four story Christian Cross, that the Cross could stand from the Supreme Court.

Technological advancements have made many aspects of our lives easier. But technology also comes with invisible electric and magnetic currents that impact our biological systems in ways we don’t fully understand. So, how do electromagnetic fields influence our health? Is there a relationship between the current epidemic of autoimmune and neurological diseases and the technology in our homes? And if so, what can we do to protect ourselves from the wireless tech and dirty electricity that pervades our modern world? Brian Hoyer is the founder of Shielded Healing, a company dedicated to reinventing human habitats and recreating electromagnetic environments that more closely mimic our ancestral homes. He is also a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and Geobiologist with extensive knowledge of the invisible stressors produced by modern technology and their impact on the body’s innate healing mechanisms. Brian travels the country doing EMF assessments, speaking at conferences, and helping families install shielding solutions. Today, Brian joins us to explain why we should be concerned about EMFs and how they influence our immune response. He discusses the benefit to protecting our bedrooms from EMFs, walking us through his approach to assessing and protecting a home or apartment from toxic, electromagnetic stressors. Listen in for Brian’s insight into the health risks of wireless technology and certain kinds of lighting— and learn about the simple solutions available to shield yourself from harmful EMFs. Topics Covered [1:59] What inspired Brian’s deep dive into health and wellness Birth of daughter, responsibility to family Continuing education on EMF ( Klinghardt lectures) [4:46] Why we should be concerned about electromagnetic fields (EMF) Man-made (pulsing) current introduced in last 150 years Impact on biological systems, changes functioning of cells [8:28] Brian’s insight around the thermal effect Exposure to radiation (i.e.: microwave, cell phone) [10:27] Brian’s insight around nonthermal effects Low frequency = wired electricity in home Different meters measure different frequencies [12:04] The research around wireless technology Pioneering studies by Allan Frey Radio frequencies cause permeable blood-brain barrier Jack Kruse work on immune response, inflammation [15:45] The connection between EMF exposure and chronic infection Mold fungus proliferates at much higher rate Voltage-gated calcium ion concentrate in brain + heart ‘Perfect storm of stress on human body’ [18:13] The benefit of protecting your bedroom from EMF Spend 1/3 of life there (restoration, detoxification) Sunlight + antioxidant inputs available during day [21:15] Brian’s approach to testing for EMF in the home Look for high body voltage, wiring errors Impact of wireless tech + dirty electricity [25:38] Dr. Magda Havas’ diabetes research Dirty electricity filter can reduce blood sugar [26:02] The risks associated with metal in mattresses Acts as antennae for wireless radiation Springs known to attract electric fields [27:43] What Brian measures in a home assessment Electricity, electric fields + body voltage Wireless radiation, magnetic fields + dirty electricity Geopathic stress and lighting [29:48] Brian’s advice for people living in apartments Use shielding fabric, paint and grounded-mesh flooring Separate self from toxic, electromagnetic stressors [31:32] What you can do to assess and limit EMFs in your home Test body voltage with multimeter Install whole-home dirty electricity filter Go back to wired systems (i.e.: mouse, telephone, etc.) [35:31] Brian’s thoughts around infrared saunas Partnership with SaunaSpace for fully shielded unit Increase BH4 levels to reverse damage of EMFs [39:49] The difference between energy saving and incandescent bulbs Energy saving bulbs pulse, causing neurological stressor Incandescent bulbs are healing (stimulate ATP production) [42:17] Brian’s advice around mobile phone use Keep in shielded pouch on airplane mode Turn off mobile data if need to be available Use speaker or wired earbuds Learn More About Brian Hoyer Shielded Healing Shielded Healing on Facebook Resources Klinghardt Academy Dr. Martin Pall’s EMF Study The Work of Allan H. Frey Dr. Jack Kruse Dr. Magda Havas’ Dirty Electricity + Diabetes Study Testing Body Voltage with a Multimeter Power Perfect Box Pure Power Plug In Units SaunaSpace Sauna Therapy for Detoxification and Healing by Dr. Lawrence Wilson Dr. Lawrence Wilson’s Sauna Therapy Article Faraday Shielding Bags Air Tube Wired Headsets

Can you still chase your dreams if you aren’t sure about how to move forward? Yes! Today’s guest shares his personal experience with learning to be still and focus on the next step. Brian Drury is a return guest from Episode 44. We’re checking in with Brian to see what’s new in his life and his dream chase. He’s the founder of Overcoming Graduation, the creator and host of the Overcoming Graduation podcast, a professional speaker, coach, and author of the #1 Amazon bestseller, The First Step. Through his work, he helps teach young adults everything he wished he had known about habits and mindset to help them create their dream lives, starting today. One of Brian’s recent speeches went viral and has reached over 14.7 million people around the world, and is now featured as one of Goalcast’s Top Inspiring Videos. Brian also has a passion for travel; he speaks three languages, taught himself to speak Portuguese in just seven months, and has traveled to 17 different countries around the world. Brian wants everyone, young and old, to realize that their dream life is within their reach if they are willing to think differently and take action. Focus on the next small step Do you always know the next step to take? No, there are times when you are in a place of uncertainty. You don’t always have clarity and focus on the next step to take, but you have to move forward in incremental steps to reach bigger goals down the road. Brian hasn’t always had the clarity in business and personal relationships for achieving the success he wanted. He says that even “on the path to somewhere,” you have to be able to find joy along the way. “Life won’t be sunshine and rainbows every single day.” TWEET: You know if you explode and blow up, it’s not going to bring the results you are looking for. @overcominggrad #chasingdreams Learning to live in “the medium” Do you live in extremes? Brian admits that living in extremes has been his norm, but he is learning to stay in a healthier, happier “medium.” Even though he teaches self-care, he has had to discipline himself to keep up with that care every day, especially when the stress and busy-ness of life get in the way. Living in “the medium” has helped him take full responsibility in his identity and prompted an honest conversation with his father, which was a big emotional release. TWEET: I’ve lived in extremes for most of my life. @overcominggrad #chasingdreams Enjoy today - and tomorrow Is your inner child still there? Brian says we need to be playful and embrace our inner child, but we need moderation in healthy areas and honesty in communication and relationships. We need to cut out bad habits and embrace healthy ones so that we can enjoy the next day in the same way as today. Brian lives by a quote from author Aubrey Marcus: “Don’t enjoy today at the expense of tomorrow.” Brian says we need to make time to play, have fun, and live in the moment. TWEET: Having a coach and mentor has changed my life drastically. @overcominggrad #chasingdreams See the behind-the-scenes interview with Brian for more! www.aimeej21.com/youtube   OUTLINE OF THIS EPISODE: [:22] How Brian is still chasing his dreams [2:02] Being in a different place [5:38] Focus on the next step [9:55] Having it “all figured out” is inauthentic [16:14] Learning to take full responsibility [20:54] Easy to say, harder to do [23:56] How removing the consequences eliminates negative self-talk [31:36] The value of what you loved to do as a kid [34:22] What Brian learned last year [35:38] The dangers of social media assumptions [39:52] How we “dress up” our dreams with destination fallacies [45:22] Your own definition of truth [47:32] Slowing down to enjoy the NOW   RESOURCES MENTIONED: Brian’s Website Brian on Facebook Brian on Twitter Brain on Instagram Find out how to donate to the show:  www.aimeej21.com/donate TWEETS YOU CAN USE:  TWEET: Life is a “choose your own adventure” situation. @overcominggrad #chasingdreams TWEET: We often default to the struggles that are given to us instead of choosing our struggle. @overcominggrad #chasingdreams TWEET: Society glorifies behaviors that are unhealthy for us. @overcominggrad #chasingdreams TWEET: Taking full responsibility means you will take action to improve your life and not blame others.  @overcominggrad #chasingdreams  

Brian Scudamore, Founder and CEO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK? tells the importance of figuring out your values and setting a painted picture for your business. Now, 1-800-GOT-JUNK? has grown to over $309M in revenue with over 250 franchise owners around the world. Visit https://www.leadquizzes.com/podcast for the complete show notes of every podcast episode. Topics Discussed in this Episode: [01:45] How Brian started his business [03:23] How he got his first customers and leveraged the power of free press [04:50] What it was like to fire all his people and rebuild the business from scratch [06:17] Brian’s lesson learned on partnership and mentorship [07:43] The process of defining the business culture and values, and figuring out the right people to hire [09:39] What they do to make sure that they’re incentivizing those core values [12:02] The value of mentorship and what it was like to join the Young Entrepreneurs’ Organization (now Entrepreneurs’ Organization) [16:06] Why Brian decided to go down the franchise route versus expanding the business himself [17:28] How Brian attracted people who had that ownership mentality [18:51] Hiring a COO and building the executive team [24:28] The Painted Picture and the impact that had on the business [24:28] Some of the marketing channels they used to grow the business [29:01] Setting up a PR department and building the business by getting their story out there [30:23] Getting a major acquisition offer and turning it down [32:55] Having to change some of their talents when the business hit different sizes [37:17] What Brian did when he thought 1-800-GOT-JUNK? would fail [38:21] What Brian did that had the biggest impact on their growth  Key Takeaways: How do you know who the right people are to hire? You need to figure out your values and find the right people based on those values. For a company to grow in scale, you need to have values that everyone in the company aligns by. And it’s more important that you’ve got values and that they’re yours and you own them versus what those values are. Storytelling is important to make sure your teams are alive with the values that are important to you. Everyone has the responsibility to make the world a better place, whether it’s with us or taking and learning from us and doing it on the outside. Entrepreneurs break rules. Sometimes it’s better to beg for forgiveness versus ask for permission. You don’t want anyone to get hurt, you don’t want to do anything dangerous, but you get out there sometimes and you push boundaries. We’re in the storytelling age more than ever. It’s about finding new and different ways to tell stories and tell the world about the interesting and unique things that you as a leader or an entrepreneur are doing.   Action Steps: Figure out the values that you stand on. What words describe who you already are? Not who you want to be or try to be but who you are today. Give your people feedback immediately. If some of them are not living the company values, tell them why, tell them which value they’re not living, and give them some feedback. If they’re living the values and demonstrating them, you also want to give them feedback and give them the kudos as to how they’re doing such a great job, and celebrate those values. As a leader, you must live and demonstrate the values of your company. Be careful when you set a “painted picture”. Just think big. Don’t let anything else get in your way. Then recruit the right people to help you make that picture a reality. Build your business out ready to scale by having the right systems in place to recruit the right people, train the right people, and so on.   Brian said: “It’s important to take a team and, even if they’re not experienced, to trust the team, to work with them to create values. You decide, what words are important? Does it resonate? And then stick to those.” “Failure is temporary. But also, let’s not forget, success is temporary… Success and failure go hand in hand. Never get too cocky that you believe that you’re always going to succeed. Be willing to endure the storms that you face in life.”   More from Brian Scudamore: Brian’s LinkedIn Brian’s Twitter (@BrianScudamore) Brian’s Instagram (@brianscudamore) O2E Brands’ Website   Tools and resources mentioned in this episode: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't by Jim Collins The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard and Johnson Spencer WTF?! (Willing to Fail): How Failure Can Be Your Key to Success by Brian Scudamore Double Double: How to Double Your Revenue and Profit in 3 Years or Less by Cameron Herold The E Myth: Why Most Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael Gerber   Sponsor link 14-day Free Trial to LeadQuizzes   Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to this podcast! And don’t forget to leave me a rating and a review on iTunes!

Our good friend Brian DeCosta joins us on the podcast today and we are incredibly excited to bring you this episode. Brian went from being in corporate America as an accountant to a lifestyle and fitness coach, specializing in helping busy people get abs and booties. He's taken his following to a massive level and we think you'll enjoy his journey along with Brian's practical advice to those beginning in the online coaching space.   Time Stamps:   (0:45) Brian DeCosta Intro (4:12) Brian’s Start in Corporate America (5:44) Brian’s Car Accident (14:32) Diving into Entrepreneurship (21:17) Advice to Beginning Online Coaches (28:30) Practical Advice and Mentorship (42:46) What Brian is up to Now (51:35) Taking a Break from Social Media (57:18) RAPID FIRE QUESTIONS! (1:01:12) Brian’s Flow State   For the Top 10 "MVP Resources" to help grow a successful online personal training business, click here!   RESOURCES: Follow Brian on Instagram! Follow Brian on Youtube!   And as always... Please make sure to follow Erin at @erindimondfitness, Jordan at @duggaestetics, and the official Flow State of Mind Podcast page @flowstateofmindpodcast.

Welcome to the eleventh episode of Automating Quality. Mandy Gervasio is your host, and she’s on a mission to bring you hot industry topics with her fellow life sciences partners and friends! Mandy is joined by her co-host, Philippe Gaudreau, and very special guest: Brian McNamara, the Marketing Director for Questionmark.   Today’s topic of discussion is building an effective training assessment program. Brian has a ton of experience in this niche and has some very good expert feedback on the topic. He really knows his stuff when it comes to electronic assessment and certifications!   Brian has been with Questionmark since 2004 and has an overall 20 years experience working with organization’s assessment technology providers. And Questionmark itself has been partnering with Solabs for over 10 years and have recently formalized their partnership even more through the QM 10 release. Their specialty is to provide assessment solutions that help organizations measure knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitudes — done in the areas of certification, as part of training, and regulatory compliance. There are a ton of key takeaways this episode about assessing training and ensuring that your employees have the right information they need to perform their job, that’s documented in a clear and effective way through formal assessment. Join Mandy and Brian to take a deep dive into building assessment programs!   Key Takeaways: [:30] About today’s topic and guest. [2:29] Mandy welcomes Brian to the podcast. [2:52] Brian introduces himself and gives a quick background on Questionmark. [6:46] How are regulated life sciences clients currently using assessments? [11:55] Brian outlines key elements that companies should consider when designing an assessment program. [22:35] What Brian loves about operational assessment. [23:45] Mandy reflects on the last few years and the new-found emphasis on training, as well as some of the key takeaways of this week’s episode. [27:33] Brian’s thoughts on how far assessments have come and their goals at Questionmark. [28:31] What to look forward to in a future episode! [28:58] A thank you to listeners and a summarization of this week’s episode. [29:21] If you have any questions or requests, contact Mandy at Mandy.Podcast@Solabs.com . If you have any questions for Brian McNamara, you can reach him on his LinkedIn.   Mentioned in this Episode: Brian McNamara (LinkedIn) Questionmark

What Brian watched over Independence day weekend. News stories in world of horror on screen including multiple Child's Play films in works, Castlevania season 2 release date, & Universal Halloween nights events. Movie pick this episode "A Quiet Place" reviewed.

On this episode of Not Another! Real Estate Investing Podcast (co-hosted by Brian Davis, of Offer Automation and Davis Real Estate, and Dan Riendeau), you’ll hear Part One of your co-hosts’ interview with noted entrepreneur, expert marketer, and successful real estate investor Michael Quarles. Michael Quarles has been in the real estate business for nearly 40 years, so he knows what he’s talking about – and is ready to help our listeners make more money. What you’ll learn from this episode: - What Brian has been doing to drum up more business – and why he was so interested in speaking with Michael Quarles about it (0:58) - How Michael Quarles got started in real estate investing before his 20th birthday (5:16) - Michael Quarles’s overview of direct mail marketing for real estate investors – and why it still works (7:44) - The four components of business, as Michael Quarles sees it (and the one component real estate investors tend to screw up!) (10:30) - All about cluster marketing: what it is, why it works, and how Michael Quarles uses it to make a ton of money in real estate (13:50) - The basics of Michael Quarles’s real estate investment strategy, “WholeTailing” (16:45) - How Michael Quarles lists properties he doesn’t own on the MLS – and why you should consider concurrent closing, too (19:32) - How to WholeTail effectively, legally, and ethically (25:51) - A marketing plan for new real estate investors – and why you might be struggling even with great marketing strategies (29:48) Be sure to tune in next week to hear Part Two of Brian and Dan’s conversation with Michael Quarles! Got feedback for our podcast team? Want to learn more about WholeTailing, cluster marketing, or direct mail? Looking for a real estate partner in Connecticut? Just want to learn more about Brian Davis and Offer Automation? Get in touch with Brian by phone at (860) 919-6996 or by email at info@offerautomation.com, or find us online at http://www.OfferAutomation.com. You can also find Michael Quarles online at http://www.MichaelQuarles.com. Catch up on previous episodes of your new favorite podcast, Not Another! Real Estate Investing Podcast, on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDg952QTPbLEHRFwqGpkdHQ) or SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/brian-davis-741151344). We’re also on iTunes/Apple Podcasts and Google Play. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more great content about real estate investing, marketing, entrepreneurship, and more!

This week Brian from Link Japan Careers drops in to walk up through his epic path through Japan, which even includes sitting in on the meeting where Interac decided to give the whole ALT thing a try... Enjoy The Sim Card for JETs Brian mentions can be found here- > https://mobile.link-jc.co.jp/online/   Right-Click to Download the Mp3 [Follow Brian/Link Japan Careers: Website | Facebook | Twitter]   [Follow the Show: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | Youtube] [Find a Job: JobsinJapan.com] [Discuss the show: Discord]  Some of the topics discussed include:   2:40 - What Brian is doing these days + The Beginning of his career in Japan 4:55 - Brian joins Interac + Interac decides to create an ALT division 10:15 - What Brian thought of being an ALT Trainer 13:50 - Brian gets into the curriculum side of Interac and Teacher Training 16:20 - What do you think of the ALT position in 2018? 22:00 - Brian's work in Tohuku after the 2011 earthquake 24:50 - The Jump from Interac to Link Japan Careers 27:40 - What Brian is working on now, a sim card for new JETs 34:15 - Advice for finding a job in Japan 40:00 - How would you change the ALT Position in Japan Outro Every episode of the podcast is available on iTunes, Android, and Stitcher. Make sure to subscribe to the show so that you don't miss out on any new episodes as they're released. All ratings and reviews are also greatly appreciated. Thanks for listening! Discuss this episode with like minded people on the ALTInsider discord:

On this episode of NA!REIP, hosts Brian Davis (of Offer Automation and Davis Real Estate, LLC) and Dan Riendeau chat with Internet marketing master Matt Bertram (Interim COO/Digital Marketing Strategist at eWebResults and co-host of The Unknown Secrets of Internet Marketing SEO podcast). Matt gives helpful Internet marketing advice to real estate investors and even walks us through his best practices for starting a digital marketing campaign. What you’ll learn from this episode: - How Matt Betram became a digital marketing expert (0:47) - Recent changes in the world of Internet marketing (1:46) - Why Matt started his SEO (search engine optimization) podcast, The Unknown Secrets of Internet Marketing (2:55) - Matt’s top marketing tips for real estate investors (4:04) - How real estate investors can determine the most effective SEO terms – and improve their conversion rates (5:45) - The pros and cons of Google and Facebook marketing – and how to consider SEO vs. PPC (pay-per-click) (9:22) - Matt’s best “re-marketing” strategy for reviving dead leads (13:13) - How to figure out who your advertising should target– and why an “authority content strategy” can be a good choice for real estate investors (17:20) - How you can use a minor search engine to get major results (20:51) - Matt’s best practices for starting a new digital marketing campaign (22:26) - Why Internet marketing is the best option for advertisers (23:23) - What Brian learned from Mike Michalowicz’s book The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field (http://a.co/hcNUByI) (24:40) Catch up on previous episodes of Not Another! Real Estate Investing Podcast on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDg952QTPbLEHRFwqGpkdHQ) or SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/brian-davis-741151344). We’re also on iTunes and Google Play. You can also find Matt Bertram’s SEO podcast, The Unknown Secrets of Digital Marketing, on iTunes, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Got a question, request, or comment for our podcast team? Need more info about web-based marketing? Seeking a real estate partner in Connecticut? Just want to learn more about Brian Davis and Offer Automation? Get in touch with Brian by phone at (860) 919-6996 or by email at info@offerautomation.com, or find us online at http://www.OfferAutomation.com.

On this episode, co-hosts Brian Davis (of Davis Real Estate, LLC and Offer Automation) and Dan Riendeau are back – as is Ryan Luby, a guest from Episode 2 of the podcast and Brian’s right-hand man for all things real estate. We’re talking about how we get it done at Davis Real Estate: our 12 Phases for Investment Success. What you’ll learn from this episode: - How Brian runs his real estate investment and development company with the help of 40-50 virtual freelancers (0:44) - How Brian and Ryan use programs like Teamwork and Trello to manage a large virtual team (1:30) - Our initial property evaluation process (Phase 1) (3:36) - Why you can’t rely on the listing agent’s photos when buying a property sight unseen (8:03) - The process of finding the title company or attorney for an out-of-state property (Phase 2) (9:19) - The many steps involved in preparing a contract – and how Brian and co. ensure that nothing falls through the cracks (Phase 3) (11:38) - Why Teamwork is Brian’s preferred project management software for day-to-day real estate matters (14:04) - The resources Brian and his team use to find prospective buyers for wholesale properties (Phase 4) (15:40) - How to make wholesale closing as efficient and easy as possible (Phase 5) (19:28) - What “due diligence” entails when it comes to rehabbing a property (Phase 6) (22:12) - How to determine the scope of work needed on a property – and the best contractors to help (Phase 7) (24:12) - All the essential to-dos for closing and your new property’s pre-repair checklist (Phases 8 & 9) (25:20) - How to manage contractors – and get your rehabbed property ready for sale – from afar (Phase 10 & 11) (26:51) - What to do if you want to cancel a deal (Phase 12) (32:22) - Brian and Ryan’s best advice for new real estate investors (33:44) - What Brian has learned from one of his go-to books, Gary Keller’s The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results (http://a.co/glkWxyR) (38:38) Catch up on past episodes of Not Another! Real Estate Podcast on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDg952QTPbLEHRFwqGpkdHQ) or SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/brian-davis-741151344). We’re also on iTunes and Google Play. Got feedback for our podcast team? Interested in more information about our 12 Phases for Investment Success or our Teamwork template? Seeking a real estate connection in Connecticut? Just want to learn more about Brian Davis and Offer Automation? Reach out to Brian by phone at (860) 919-6996 or by email at info@offerautomation.com, or find us online at http://www.OfferAutomation.com.

On this episode of Outperform, we take a journey through affiliate marketing and travel with Brian Kelly – AKA, The Points Guy -- one of the largest credit card industry affiliate marketers and travel influencers. Brian is the founder and CEO of The Points Guy (TPG), the preeminent voice in the industry of credit card points, miles and everything travel-related. Brian launched TPG in 2010 during his time as a Wall Street road warrior, but developed his keen sense for maximizing travel experiences while minimizing spending much earlier at the age of 12. Since then, Kelly has grown The Points Guy into a powerhouse affiliate marketing travel and lifestyle media platform and was voted Forbes #1 travel influencer in 2017. Show Notes What inspired Brian to start The Points Guy (TPG) site and blog Why normal affiliate marketing techniques won’t work with credit card companies How much Brian made the first month he did affiliate marketing Why Brian is proud to call himself an affiliate How large publishers like Lifehacker, Business Insider, etc. are working with The Points Guy through their partner program Brian’s take on FTC disclosures Advice Brian has for publishers just getting started in affiliate marketing What Brian enjoys most about helping people maximize their travel What TPG is doing to support charities through Points for Peace Brian’s favorite country to travel to Brian’s go-to credit card for dining Brian’s first choice for coach, business and first-class travel Biggest professional mistake that Brian’s learned the most from   Hear more Outperform podcast episodes at http://www.accelerationpartners.com/resource-center/our-podcasts/. 

Filming, videography, editing, directing, drones, producing and working in-house with Brian Mulligan. Working across a variety of projects utilizing a full set of skills, working internally is a fantastic opportunity which host Blair Walker discusses with Brian.   Show Notes: Compiled by Matt Lloyd 00.44 - What Brian is currently working on: In-house corporate videos for IMMI manufacturers of vehicle safety equipment. 03.00 - Being in house affords you a deeper understanding of a company’s products/business than if you were an outsider. 04.40 - BM produces a 3-5 minute “newscast” or vlog every day, Monday - Thursday. 05.50 - Discussion of challenges faced when collating footage internationally. 08.20 - Frame.io as an international editing tool 08.45 - AI translation/transcription tools: Watson, Adobe Sensei, Speedscriber, Google. 09.28 - The explosion in quality and quantity of internally produced corporate videos. 10.08 - CAPE Remote Control Semi-Truck Crash: how BM organised and shot this “mini-documentary” 15.20 - Technicalities of the CAPE shoot. Gear: Phantom cameras running at 1000fps to capture footage of airbags deploying, GoPros, Panasonic GH4, DJI Phantom Pro 3 Drone Planning: 4 days prep time. Bespoke wifi control network for the truck. Computer simulations of the crash used to help plan the live shots. 17.45 - The importance of good audio capture. BM uses a standard shotgun mic with his GH4 and GH5. 19.50 - Educating your clients about the production process. 20.30 - The power of video as a storytelling medium 21.15 - “It’s not as easy as just picking up a camera and shooting something” - Making good video content requires thought, ask yourself: What is your story? What is your message? Brian considers it his job to help people tell their stories. 22.00 - Defining boundaries - being a corporation’s internal video resource can have pitfalls: learn to tell your colleagues there is a process involved in video making, you’re not simply a camera operator on tap. 22.50 - BM’s career history.  The Ampex Ace 25 linear editing suite. Editing Beta tapes, CMX style. Grass Valley software/hardware. Lightworks. Chyron character generator. 29.15 - BM on 3d: “You can’t just stick your toe in the water, you have to devote a lot of yourself to it” 30.25 - The advent of HD in broadcasting, circa 2006. 31.20 - Brian ran Smoke on an SGI machine. This system is incredibly robust, rendering out DPX sequences on the fly and storing them on its own “server”, in contrast to the After Effects approach of rendering at the end of the process. 32.30 - Cost vs time constraints: BW: “To the type of work you did, at the speed required” the Smoke/SGI suite was a was choice. 35.20 - Adobe Dynamic Link vs Smoke workflow 37.35 - Gear talk: Duzi slider, he doesn’t yet use a gimbal, Panasonic GH5. The leeway afforded by shooting in 4K, then editing in HD. Ikan lights 40.08 - All Brian’s gear has to be portable. 41.00 - The benifits of investing in good gear. 42.00 - Brian’s DIY “crane” handheld camera move, stabilized in post.   43.30 - Pro Video Picks: Brian: Smoke and Flame for Mac Blair: Keycloner for Ae   45.55  - Following Online: Brian: Shane Ross Chris Fenwick Scott Simmons Blair: Nodefest Slack   48.45 - Inspirational Videos: Brian: The Man Who Skated Right Off the Grid Blair: Holden 7s by Buck 51:15 - Brian Mulligan Online: @bkmeditor PremiumBeat   33:50 - Pro Video Podcast Online: Blair Walker - Twitter Pro Video Podcast - Slack Pro Video Podcast - Facebook Group Pro Video Podcast - Twitter Pro Video Podcast - Website Pro Video Podcast - Spotify  

Hey you.  I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking that you’re the person who’s going to save the world. But first I think that you need save yourself first. I believe 100 percent that when the plane is going down you cannot help someone with their oxygen mask until you help put on your own oxygen mask.   We live in a world filled with so much negativity, suffering and truama and it kills me to know this but it’s your choice to either succumb to it or overcome it.   Personally- in super stoked that you’re suffering right now. Because it means you’re human. And you’re looking for a way out.   Well today my guest and I are going to shed some light in your dark world.   My guest is Brian R. King. Brian is a social worker, a 27 year cancer survivor and the proud father of three boys with Asperger’s and ADHD. He, himself, also has ADHD and Dyslexia. For the past 10 years, Brian has poured his heart into teaching other parents of children with special needs, strategies to help prepare their children for the world. He’s also had the pleasure of speaking all over the country to various groups who want to learn his strategies. What Brian has learned over this time, is that what he does best is teach people how to authentically connect with each other.   He shows people how to remove the barriers between themselves so they can discover how much they can accomplish together; that we are never alone when we know how to connect with those around us. Brian is also the host of the new podcast, Memoirs of a Mindful Life, which can be found on iTunes or watched live on Blab. You can find out more about Brian at www.BrianRaymondKing.com.     But I’ve been talking a ton now and I want to introduce you to my side- kick for today’s show Brian R King. Mid show message If this show is was worth an hour of your time out of your day, first of all thank you so so so much for taking the time to listen and if you found it inspirational or valuable please head over to LoganTylerNelson.com and leave a few dollars or whatever you find affordable to help this show reach a bigger platform. All I’m trying to do is make people feel less alone and more comfortable with sharing the thoughts we all have and need to talk about more. Back to my interview. Logan  Nelson Performance Enhancement Expert & Coach -Website: www.logantylernelson.com -Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/logan.nelson3 -LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/logan-nelson-964ba140/ -My Radio Show: http://logantylernelson.libsyn.com/ - iTunes Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/scratch-your-own-itch-with-logan-tyler-nelson/id1303895386?mt=2 Stay updated on new episodes, guest interviews, health, and wellness information and resources by subscribing to the Scratch Your Own Itch on iTunes. Three days a week we bring you actionable insight, demystified truth, and simple steps to help you navigate the complex, often confusing health, wellness, and occasionally fitness information and answer the questions you’ve been asking.   Read more at Logantylernelson.com

What are your goals? Are you taking steps each day to move towards those goals? Brian Greenberg, endurance athlete and president of Chronically Better You tells us how he moved from goals after surgery—getting out of bed and making his own lunch—to training for an Ironman in 2018. People with IBD know the value of structure and Brian explains how he has learned to manage his life with Crohn’s disease and an ostomy through careful planning and setting goals.   2:35: Why sitting still actually makes Brian feel worse. 3:18: Why a routine is important 4:33: What’s a Half Ironman? 6:41: How to set goals, no matter if they’re big or small 10:20: Why a schedule is important  13:05: On being a model patient 13:57: What happens when you miss a training day? 18:30: What Brian thinks when he looks at his training schedule or during a race 20:02: A nightly routine that helps reduce stress 24:19: The biggest motivating factor in Brian’s life 27:19: Shout out to our partners for the help 29:49: Why it’s best to do you and to not compare to others   Find Brian Greenberg at: Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrianG_CBY https://twitter.com/ChronicBetterU Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/BrianG_CBY/ https://www.instagram.com/ChronicallyBetterYou/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChronicallyBetterYou/ Find Intense Intestines Foundation at: We Will Beat IBD Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/we-will-beat-ibd-podcast/id1065350104?mt=2 Web: http://www.intenseintestines.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IntenseIntestines/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/NtenseNtestines Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/intense_intestines/ Find Amber J Tresca at: Verywell: https://www.verywell.com/ibd-crohns-colitis-4014703 Blog: http://aboutibd.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ibdcrohns/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/aboutIBD Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/aboutibd/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/about_IBD/ Intro Music: The Jazz Piano - Bensound.com - www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music Outro Music: Soul Food - Purple Planet Music - http://www.purple-planet.com

Brian Leahy is an LA-based luxury destinaion wedding photographer who despite living in one of the most saturated markets for wedding photographers thrives and commands a higher starting price than most photographers top package. Today we talk about how to stand out amongst the competition and how to set yourself apart!  In This Episode You'll Learn: What Brian shoots How Brian got into destination wedding photography How Brian is able to get clients with luxury weddings What Brian does to stand out in one of the most saturated photography markets How Brian started off getting photography work Why there is less competition at the top  Why networking with vendors may book you more weddings than you could imagine How Brian took every gig that came his way and even worked for free to now shooting large luxury destination weddings Resources: Brian's Website Brian's Facebook Brian's Instagram Check out more at www.BeginnerPhotographyPodcast.com Have A Question? Reach out to us on social Facebook: www.Facebook.com/BeginnerPhotographyPodcast.com Instagram: www.Instagtam.com/BeginnerPhotoPodcast Or Email us at: BeginnerPhotographyPodcast@gmail.com

In the US, 95% of startups fail.   Is the American dream just for rich boys?   In this episode I chat with Brian Mac Mahon - founder of Expert DOJO, the largest startup high performance center for entrepreneurs in Southern California.   With access to thousands of experts and mentors Brian and his team help entrepreneurs find out whatever they need to know to pursue their small business dream.   Find out what raising capital for startups is really like, and what you need to focus on to make sure your business gets on the path to success.   1:03 - Introducing Brian and his background in startups through Expert Dojo; The big disconnect Brian saw in the way businesses were being funded and how he wants to address that through his company   3:03 - Details on Brian’s love for entrepreneurship and creativity; being a service entrepreneur.   5:14 - How entrepreneurship hasn’t changed much over the past 100+ years.   6:32 - His somewhat contrarian views on companies like Amazon and Uber.   9:25 - Matthew’s counterpoint, using the airline industry as an example.   12:35 - The journey of being an entrepreneur and how the funding landscape has affected that journey; the problem with accountants running companies as opposed to entrepreneurs.   15:13 - Identifying the problems with funding as well as presenting options to fix them; the effects of social media and mindsets on this landscape.   19:02 - How Expert Dojo is addressing these issues; their approach to starting out by studying startups and the conclusions they came to.   23:26 - The community that supports startups in the US versus in other countries; an example of a logistical company that they’re working with.   26:30 - Why he sees the Lean Startup idea as problematic; the importance of branding and business planning.   28:23 - Distinguishing between pivoting/agility and abandoning ideas too quickly.   29:19 - The final piece of information they found in studying startups.   30:05 - What Brian’s days generally look like and how the Dojo operates.   32:10 - The statement that encapsulates Brian’s philosophy on startups and how he tries to help.   35:38 - Managing relationships between the businesses he’s helping and venture capitalists.   37:20 - How Brian’s business also helps venture capitalists as well as the companies he works with.   39:03 - The mission of Expert Dojo and some advice from Brian.   39:41 - How he sees this changing, particularly thinking about crowdfunding.   40:58 - The problems he sees in crowdfunding.   42:21 - Creating an investor club to help educate people on investing.   44:00 - Discussing cryptocurrencies and Brian’s interest in them.   45:38 - Benefits to seeing so many startups in so many different industries; understanding the relevant probabilities.   48:12 - The rapid fire questionnaire.   52:14 - Contacting Brian and Expert Dojo.         Resources and Links Mentioned:   Expert Dojo   Brian’s Tedx talk   Lean Startup methodology   Apple Pay   Google Glass   StartEngine   Expert Dojo Investor club   Cryptocurrency   Contact Brian at brian@expertdojo.com or info@expertdojo.com      

Welcome to the tenth episode of The Making of SMILE & CO.! Listen to Dr. Ashley Joves' husband this week as he discusses his perspective on her new venture. Brian Joves gives valuable insight about business, entrepreneurship, and being a supportive spouse. This episode is packed with interesting information and perfect for anyone thinking about starting their own dental practice. Tune in and listen carefully, because you won't want to miss this week's episode!Sponsor of the ShowStream Dental Staffing Solutions is The Making of SMILE & CO.'s new sponsor! They provide human resource services that will help you create a strategy, and find the best employees for your practice. They also help write policy manuals and employee handbooks. Use special discount code TDM25 to get 25% off their store!Time-Stamped Show Notes0:00 Brian Joves, Ashley's husband introduces himself and tells us his place in her dental practice.2:17 Why does Brian believe in his wife and why did he decide to support her?4:00 How Ashley decided to make the switch from paycheck earner to owning her own practice.4:53 How they decided to take her dream of having a practice to the public with a Facebook Live video.7:20 Michael discusses how we can all relate to the pain point of working for the wrong person.8:10 Why taking a hands-off role and letting Ashley do her own thing has been difficult for Brian.10:40 Understanding when to communicate is essential to getting your message heard.11:20 How Ashley is amazing at putting together her vision, and why doing the day-to-day grind is difficult for her.13:31 Brian announces that the office is officially open, and they've been seeing patients for the past week.15:07 Final touch-ups were being done to the building during the first week they were open, so the last couple weeks were exciting and hectic.16:27 Ashley had 53 patients scheduled and reached her goal of 1000 Facebook followers before the opening.18:39 What Brian thinks about Ashley's sleek and modern dental chairs and the overall d��cor of the office.20:28 What Brian thought about the construction delay.22:04 Why Brian loves to watch Ashley grow as a person.23:48 What Brian recommends to anyone who wants to start a practice.26:07 Brian tells us what the main lessons of starting a dental practice are.27:10 Anissa Holmes and the amazing group she works with, have been the best resource for Ashley.28:00 For Brian, Gary Vaynerchuk has been the best resource.28:53 Ashley had to sacrifice a lot to put her dreams into fruition.29:35 Brian discusses who was most concerned about finances.31:27 How they decided to budget for hiring employees.32:15 Why Amazon has been successful.32:55 Brian talks about what's next after this episode.33:10 Closing.3 Main Ideas1. Letting the Spouse Run Their Own BusinessBrian confesses that one of the hardest things for him to do is to back away and let Ashley do her own thing with her business. It's not often that two entrepreneurs get together in a marriage, but when it happens, each partner may find it difficult to zip their mouth about their ideas.Sometimes it's better to let your partner make decisions for his or her business, and only state your view when it's requested. Aim to limit voicing your opinions on the other's business and try to limit discussing details that pop into your head, even though it's tempting.2. Why Both Details and Vision are Necessary for EntrepreneursThere are two ways to describe a person's work personality: They are either the visionary person that can come up with ideas, or they are the disciplined worker that gets tasks done.Often, entrepreneurs are the visionary ones. However, they will likely stay dreamers, unless they put their ideas into action. So, the beginning stages of business usually require that the entrepreneur have both qualities.If you have dreams and you execute them well, it's only a matter of time before you can hire someone to carry out day-to-day tasks.3. Have Passion in BusinessLike Brian says, it's important to have passion because when you're tired of dealing with all the problems, you'll need strength to keep going.If you don't have solid reasoning for why you're doing your business and why you must pull through, you may throw in the towel when things get rough.Brian suggests that it's much easier to deal with all the small details and frustrations that are bound to happen if you have a firm understanding of why you're doing everything you're doing.Know beforehand whether your business is what you want, and make sure you put your personality into your brand so that you can stay interested and focused for years to come.Find Out MoreThank you for listening to The Making of Smile & Co. podcast. If you enjoyed it, please share with anyone you think will gain value from the show by clicking on one of the sharing tabs above.Also, please consider leaving an honest review on iTunes. It helps other listeners find the show, and I would be forever grateful.Questions or comments? Feel free to contact me here.Follow me on Instagram or Facebook and improve your dental practice every day!Have you subscribed? Don't miss a single episode!Subscribe: iTunes | Android | Email | RSS | MoreListen to podcasts and learn more about The Dental Marketer on the website.Remember that Ashley's revolutionary dental practice is being built in real time. Follow her incredible journey and message her through Facebook or Instagram to say hi or to ask questions about her experience. Email her at drashely@smileandcompany.com.

Brian Barnes is the CEO and Founder of M1 Finance, a startup making an automated investment tool that lets users put their money to work in a balanced portfolio without the hassle of actually managing it. Just a few years after graduating from Stanford, Brian raised $9 million and moved back to Chicago to build the platform.  In This Episode You Will Learn: The motivation behind Brian starting M1 Finance How Brian went about launching a MVP in the heavily regulated finance industry How Brian raised $9 million pre-launch  The benefits of robo-advisors over all ETFs What M1 Finance costs and how they plan to differentiate from other robo-advisors How Brian got his first customers What Brian has learned about life and business from his mom Brenda Barnes, Former CEO of Pepsi and Sara Lee? What the most effective marketing channels have been How M1 Finance's message has evolved over time How to communicate a relatively complicated product to consumers quickly The importance of design in fintech  Why Brian moved back to Chicago after going to Stanford and whether he thinks it matters Why Chicago has to improve our risk appetite Selected Links From The Episode: Favorite Books: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst y Robert M. Sapolsky

  Can you imagine what it would be like to be from the US, but trying to build a successful company in Latin America? My guest on this episode did exactly that. Brian Requarth took advantage of his season in life as a young guy who’d just finished college to try his hand in the entrepreneurial world. He’d spent a little time in Latin America so he decided to integrate his experience into his business ideas. The result many years later is VivaReal, an online portal for real estate in Brazil, one of the largest Latin American markets. On this episode you’re going to hear Brian’s story, how he’s grown personally and has learned many valuable but hard lessons as co-founder of a very successful Latin American startup that's raised more than $74M in venture capital.   How can you know if you should take the leap into entrepreneurism? One of the things I ask Brian Requarth about was what he would recommend to a young guy or gal who is considering the entrepreneurial option. He was quick to say that the easiest time to start a business is when you don't have any major responsibilities like a mortgage, kids or high fixed costs. He later followed up with a concept he thought about regarding his personal monthly burn. Living in Colombia, the cost of living was pretty low so food and housing didn't cost much so he was able to extend the amount of time he lived on his savings while working on business ideas compared to the US. Brian’s experience as a young entrepreneur led to him being at the helm of the go-to website for real estate in Brazil. Where might your path lead? The move from operations in many Latin American countries to only one: Brazil. Brian Requarth and his co-founders build their company in many markets in Latin America, but soon discovered that the number of hurdles they had to overcome was multiplied with every economy, government, and culture they had to deal with. The difficulties of navigating those things pushed them to make a hard decision, but ultimately the best one. They decided to pull out of the smaller markets and focus on the largest one - Brazil. You can hear Brian’s story and how their company, VivaReal has fared in Brazil, on this episode of Crossing Borders. Investors in your startup can be much more than a source of money. Their insights are priceless. Most people who invest in startups have a wealth of business experience besides their substantial bank accounts. In many ways, that is a resource worth a lot more value to startups. On this episode, Brian Requarth shares how he has gleaned incredible help from those who invested in VivaReal and what following their suggested roadmap for the company has done to set them up for success. It’s a testament to the value of great mentors and the importance of being a teachable founder. Latin America is poised for more great companies to rise. Will yours be one of them? On every episode of Crossing Borders I enjoy asking my guests why founders should consider the Latin American market as a place to build their business. Each of them has a unique perspective depending on their niche and the countries where they operate. Brian Requarth shares his opinion on this episode, based on his experience in building the largest online portal for real estate in Brazil. There is still lots of potential and room to grow in Latin America. It’s an area every founder should consider. Outline of This Episode [1:30] What is VivaReal and how did Brian decide to establish and build the platform? [4:45] The fun entrepreneurial things Brian did when he was in high school. [7:20] The birth of “English Without Borders” in South America, a borrowed suit, and knocking on doors for clients. [9:44] How Brian met his current co-founder and started a web development company. [15:25] How VivaReal made the switch to Brazil from the United States. [18:14] The challenges of operating in multiple Latin American companies at once. [21:24] Advice for those considering a startup in Latin America: When should you pull the trigger? [23:33] The challenges of moving to Brazil without speaking the language (Portuguese). [28:03] Making mistakes raising capital and getting creative with attracting investors. [34:29] The value of having insightful mentors and investors to help establish things. [35:40] Scaling a company in Brazil: challenges and lessons-learned. [44:00] Raising money from Brazil and from abroad. [49:15] Why should U.S. investors consider Latin American companies? [55:30] What Brian is noticing about the current economic conditions in Latin America. Resources & People Mentioned Brian on LinkedIn Brian on Twitter VivaReal - Brazil’s largest property portal South by Southwest (SXSW) Mercadolibre Diego Simon TicketMaster Simon Baker Greg Waldorff James Gray BOOK: The Hard Thing About Hard Things Connect With Nathan www.NathanLustig.com www.MagmaPartners.com On Twitter On LinkedIn  

Brian Yarnell is President and Founder of Bluestream Health, a New York-based healthtech startup delivering an on-demand platform for remote medical expertise. Prior to launching Bluestream Health, he founded, grew and sold StarlingHealth, a startup that replaced nurse call systems with multilingual touchscreen interfaces and a clinical workflow platform. Brian is an entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience creating and commercializing enterprise software platforms across multiple verticals. He is an Advisor to ElabNYC, a member of the Connected Health Institute Advisory Board of VNA Health Group, and mentor to students at CCNY's Zahn Innovation Center. Brian earned a BS in Marketing and International Business from The Pennsylvania State University. 00:00 Check out Brian's other RHV interview, Episode 45. 01:45 What Brian's been up to for the last two years. 02:15 Identifying the problem that had the right market fit. 02:50 Identifying use-cases that are actionable in a short amount of time. 04:00 Keying into a problem that people are willing to pay for. 05:00 Building a fluid exchange across all of healthcare as a best business practice. 06:00 “Everyone has an innovation system, and that innovation system is a catch-all for solutions looking for problems.” 06:30 Discovering use-cases. 07:00 “The Value you deliver equals benefits minus cost.” 07:20 “There's a difference between willing to write a check and willing to try it out.” 08:20 “Eighty percent of customers don't have the money or authority to pay for that service upfront.” 10:00 The reality of not-for-profit hospitals vs. for-profit providers. 11:30 Avoiding moral hazards with exchange models. 12:30 Fostering brands at the point of care. 13:00 Getting Experts on demand. 15:00 “We count on a Care Professional driving that interaction, standing next to a patient.” 16:25 “The real complexity behind the scenes is, ‘What is that resource?'.” 17:00 Lessons Brian has learned in making this happen. 26:00 Consumers want convenience. 26:30 Solving for Consumer demand for off-hours work without asking Providers to work 60 hours a week. 30:45 What Provider organizations need to be doing right now to maximize their Value-Based Care. 32:25 You can learn more at bluestreamhealth.com or email Brian at byarnell@bluestreamhealth.com.

UGG Founder, Speaker, Author Brian Smith Cohost:Brian Smith UGG Founder talks from the heart and on a lot of stories from the UGG Boots era. He sold the company nearly 18 years ago and has since become a bestselling author and world-renowned speaker. He took advantage of the recession and wrote the book. The book launch success is what led him into the public speaking sector, now 3 years ago. On This Episode You Will Hear:[spp-timestamp time="01:05"] Welcoming Brian Smith UGG Founder. [spp-timestamp time="01:30"] Connecting with mutually shared networking relationship, Rich Brocchini. [spp-timestamp time="03:02"] Creating World Class Customer Service, critical for his early growth as well as years later. Brian's UGG customers saved him over and over again. [spp-timestamp time="03:30"] Learning from his first mistake of thinking he’d become an instant millionaire by buying and importing 500 pairs of sheepskin boots. His first year of sales, as the UGG Founder, was only 18 pairs. Americans just didn’t get sheepskin at the time. [spp-timestamp time="04:10"] Writing his book The Birth of a Brand. [spp-timestamp time="04:40"] The highs and the lows. [spp-timestamp time="05:04"] Everybody is in a different stage in their business. [spp-timestamp time="05:20"] The theme of my book is you can’t give birth to adults. Most entrepreneurs want to give up in the infancy phase because they’ve given birth but they don’t see the instant success. It’s a lot of feeding and changing diapers. [spp-timestamp time="06:15"] Going into the youth phase. You can grow a really sizeable business in this phase, like $20 million bucks! The teenage phase of business, you’re at every party in town, it’s a super dangerous phase. Brian almost lost control 2-3 times. [spp-timestamp time="07:10"] What Brian likes talking about most on stage and what really keeps him coming back to the stage. [spp-timestamp time="07:47"] My good question he’s never been asked before. [spp-timestamp time="08:15"] Brian is speaking to help, he’s not in it for the money or the ego. [spp-timestamp time="08:22"] When UGG got too big he had to sell it. Where Brian grew the most. [spp-timestamp time="09:14"] He was embarrassed with the first couple of tradeshows he was in. [spp-timestamp time="09:45"] Shark Tank, Entrepreneurship, supporting Gen X and the Millennials. [spp-timestamp time="10:25"] Explaining why he had to sell UGG and why products based companies do this. [spp-timestamp time="11:50"] Scrambling to get $5,000,000 worth of product together and then topping out at $15,000,000. [spp-timestamp time="12:30"] Shark Tank, new investment model executed by Sharks like Daymond John. Investment bankers are scared by seasonal businesses. [spp-timestamp time="14:47"] Very few Shark Tank deals actually get funded. [spp-timestamp time="15:40"] Getting into Brian’s Lifestyle. [spp-timestamp time="16:45"] Brian was embarrassed going around with a bag of sheepskin boots to surf shops. He was also an accountant by trade so he was terrified by sales. [spp-timestamp time="20:00"] The ones that will survive are the ones who go back out to the customer. Brian does coach a few clients. Using social media and your loyal customers for new business decisions. [spp-timestamp time="24:00"] Taking your ethics seriously to provide the highest value you can. Going back to the roots and helping UGG celebrate their 40th anniversary. [spp-timestamp time="25:15"] Comparing where Brian’s stress levels are at these days compared to when he owned UGG. (http://briansmithspeaker.com) [spp-timestamp time="26:40"] Overcoming setbacks is where you learn the most. Brian is also in the process of launching his own online course! Tips to help entrepreneurs and topics you’ll never learn in college. The first lesson is the Importance of Ignorance. It’s critical that an Entrepreneur has a certain amount of...

Epidermolysis Bullosa gofundme Project Co-Hosting:This episode was recorded live at CrossFit Adoration with repeat co-host Brian Strauser of The Strauser Project. He has gone through an exciting transformation in life and business since Brian's last appearance on LIVETHEFUEL. Brian has also been impacting the lives of others through various charity efforts, in particular someone living with Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB). Which you will hear more about on this episode. Brian has been living a life of purpose. On This Episode You Will Hear:[spp-timestamp time="03:00"] Moving in the right direction since Brian's previous episode [spp-timestamp time="04:35"] Opening people's eyes. Sometimes what you are looking at isn't what's actually going on. Don't be so naive to think when you look at your loved ones everything is great because on the surface things may look great but deep down things may not be. [spp-timestamp time="08:02"] Keeping up with the Jones's. Assuming the worst. Brian tries to make people's lives better when he is around them. Do something, it's better than looking on and doing nothing. [spp-timestamp time="11:46"] Are we remaining approachable so people remain comfortable to work with you on their goals. We need to be coaching and supporting each other in life. Lead by example. [spp-timestamp time="13:54"] Brian has become a voracious podcast consumer. The impostor syndrome. Doing your self-work to fight your impostor syndrome. Since Brian has been using isogenic, he has become the product of the product. Brian had been a personal trainer for ten years. [spp-timestamp time="18:07"] Anti-scales. It's all about the inches. It's the inflammatory weight leaving your body. Brian in the past 30 days lost 10 inches. [spp-timestamp time="19:00"] Bio-electrical impedance analysis (BIA) is a commonly used method for estimating body composition and in particular body fat. [spp-timestamp time="21:03"] Nutrient density. Having nutrient dense meals not only to support the body through the transformation but to maintain the existing muscle mass. [spp-timestamp time="23:01"] Supported fasting day. You are given a certain amount of snacks and supports along with the cleansing supplement, your body is naturally able to cleanse and detox but many of us are not healthy enough to do it. What Brian took just jacks it up to give you a super a deep cleansing day. [spp-timestamp time="23:56"] Fasting has been around for centuries in different forms. The importance of sleep, circadian rhythm, helps you rest, recover and heal. [spp-timestamp time="26:40"] It's 2017, with New Year's resolutions still a hot topic, you can't go from couch potatoes to guns blazing because you could cause injury, cause tears in your muscle tissue all these side effects that could end up setting you back and psychologically having a negative impact on you. Build up. Take your time. Whether it's a nutritional program or your workouts take your time, be smart with your body and it's transformation. It is a process. [spp-timestamp time="29:46"] Mind of the Athlete [spp-timestamp time="30:30"] How Scott and Brian met [spp-timestamp time="32:06"] Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) is a general term used to describe a group of rare inherited skin disorders that cause the skin to become very fragile. Brian has been helping and raising money for John Hudson Dilgen, a young man from Staten Island, New York who suffers from Epidermolysis Bullosa. [spp-timestamp time="33:43"] Skin is the largest organ on our body. These children with Epidermolysis Bullosa are essentially an open wound. Brian had previously raised $1200 for the EBRP by competing in the Wilderness 101 Mountain bike race. Brian wanted to do something for him personally, he couldn't buy him a video game or a bike, so he was told by his aunt, who is on the board of Epidermolysis Bullosa, what he could do personally for him. Brian made some custom oak steps for...

Brian Duncan has over 12 years in the restaurant industry beginning his career in college working every job from dishwasher to server. After graduating from Purdue University, Brian went on to work in food and beverage consulting focusing on international chains and consumer products manufacturing for such companies as Hilton and Revolution Foods. During his time consulting Brain focused on creating efficiencies by utilizing technology. Brian’s background paved the way to multiple tech startups including Chowly. Brian now serves as co-founder and board member for Chowly Inc. and is primarily focused on business development, sales and marketing. What you’ll learn about in this episode: Brian’s background What Chowly is and why Brian created it The challenges of the early stage of a startup Why strong relationships are so important when you’re starting a business Why you need to plan for everything What Brian has learned from his mentor Why you need to provide your employees the opportunity to learn and grow Why Chowly offers unlimited time off for their employees Why your employees need to know that you understand that your business is not more important than their life Why Brian lives in his to-do list Why you need to speak with the people you depend on every single day Ways to contact Brian: Website: www.chowlyinc.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/brian-duncan-5929745

Even though social media has become a vital part of every business' marketing strategy, many big brands still struggle with really using it to connect with their fans. What most brands end up doing is using it as a communication platform instead of a chance to actually have a conversation with their customers. This is where our guest for today comes in, as keynote speaker and founder of iSocialFanz.com, Brian Fanzo shares with us his "Think Like a Fan" mentality, how he helps brands share their stories and how he has managed to build his brand around it. Brian and I get into a great discussion about how his popularity sky-rocketed within the live video space and his tips on engaging with your audience. We also touch on the concept of not quitting and the difference between businesses that achieve success and the ones that don't. I had a great time chatting with Brian on so many different issues in this chat, which I know you'll enjoy, so get ready and tune into today’s episode! Essential Learning Points From This Episode:Brian talks about the message behind his "Think Like a Fan" philosophy. How to get on industry influencer's radars by showing that you care. Why Brian is so quick to proclaim he doesn't know something. The difference between being yourself and allowing your vulnerabilities to become your strong suit. What Brian means by limitations inspiring creativity. Much, much more! Important Links & Mentions From This Episode: Brian's Website (https://www.isocialfanz.com/) Brian on Twitter (https://twitter.com/iSocialFanz) Chris Brogan (http://chrisbrogan.com/) Michael Stelzner (http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/) Casey Neistat (https://www.youtube.com/user/caseyneistat) Gary Vaynerchuk (https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/) Guy Kawasaki  (http://guykawasaki.com/) Robert Scoble (http://scobleizer.com/) Inbound Conference (http://www.inbound.com/) Why You Need to Slow Down to Achieve More (https://www.chrisducker.com/slow-down-to-achieve-more/) Sign-up for the FREE Youpreneur Launchpad Training Course (http://chrisducker.com/launchpad) Youpreneur Community Academy - January Launch Waitlist (http://youpreneuracademy.com/) Thank You for Tuning In!There are a lot of podcasts you could be tuning into today, but you chose mine, and I'm grateful for that. If you enjoyed today's show, please share it by using the social media buttons you see at the top and bottom of this page. Also, kindly consider taking the 60-seconds it takes to leave an honest review and rating for the podcast on iTunes (https://www.chrisducker.com/itunes) , they're extremely helpful when it comes to the ranking of the show and you can bet that I read every single one of them personally! Lastly, don’t forget to (https://www.chrisducker.com/itunes) , to get automatic updates every time a new episode goes live!

Effective delegation is a skill any founder has to learn or the company will not grow. Brian Goulet co-Founder of The Goulet Pen Company learned the lesson of delegation in the trenches. He and his wife Rachel run an online retail store focusing on fountain pens, ink, paper, and other tools for the writing enthusiast. They have grown it from a mom-and-pop startup from their dining room table to a multi-million dollar operation with over 40 team members and a 12,000+sf office/warehouse space.   Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn: [0:10] Jeremy’s introduction of today’s guest, Brian Goulet. [1:33] The signature way Goulet Pens packages their products. [5:29] The ideal customer that Goulet Pens serves. [12:38] What Brian learned from Dave Ramsey, Gary V, and Seth Godin. [14:20] The biggest challenge: moving from a one man show to a team. [17:48] Brian’s background growing up with an entrepreneurial Dad. [22:25] The biggest challenges in delegation. [24:31] How Brian determines what things to delegate and what to keep. [26:48] The meetings the Goulet team holds and how they conduct them effectively. [41:26] How Brian teaches his kids in light of his experience with his Dad. [46:27] Why Brian turned down a great job offer after college. [51:00] How a woodworking job led Brian to make pens for a living. [1:06:20] What helped Brian get a huge following on YouTube: Persistence over time. [1:11:40] What works for selling their products via social media. [1:14:00] Major milestones for the company. [1:22:10] Brian’s lowest moment in business: Balancing family and business. [1:26:00] The proudest moments in business. In this episode… Learning how to effectively delegate as your company grows is difficult, to say the least. You’re used to being a solopreneur and have to begin passing along tasks and roles to others. If you don't, you’re going to smother yourself and the company. Brian Goulet of Goulet Pens shares how he has had to learn the art of delegation while maintaining high quality in his company, on this episode of Inspired Insider. Too often the founder of the company becomes the bottleneck that chokes the overall growth of the company. He/she does this by refusing to delegate tasks or hand over roles to other members of the team. Brian Goulet is an ultra-competent CEO who is committed to quality, and he found the task of delegation very hard to learn himself. On this episode, he shares how he overcame his hesitation and began to delegate effectively. Often, the excuse for not delegating is that it’s easier not to. The amount of time it takes to adequately train a person to take over high priority tasks is immense. But if the CEO continues to do those tasks he/she will be prevented from doing things that only he/she can do - the things that truly grow the company. Brian Goulet knew that pain himself and had to step out in faith as he brought on and trained team members to take over things he held dear. Find out how he did it on this episode. Too many companies are poised for explosive growth and miss it because of an ineffective delegation of tasks. The potential clients are there. The staff is there. But the systems and procedures are lagging behind because the founder or CEO has not seen the importance of setting aside time to build them and teach others to use them. It’s a time-consuming task but it has to be done if the company is to grow. You can hear how Brian Goulet of Goulet Pens overcame that hurdle in his company, on this episode. One of the hardest points in any business is when the needs of the family seem to be in conflict with the needs of the company. For Brian Goulet, that moment came as his co-founder, his wife - experienced ever siring levels of anxiety almost weekly and the company was poised for explosive growth. How did he handle the pressure? You can find out by hearing his story, on this episode. Resources Mentioned on this episode Goulet Pens BOOK: Death By Meeting BOOK: Smart Money, Smart Kids BOOK: The Opposite of Spoiled   Sponsor for this episode Our sponsor today is www.Rise25.com where entrepreneurs of 6,7, and 8 figure businesses come together live and in person every few months to solve their biggest business challenges through this high-level Mastermind group. Each member leaves each week with lifelong friendships and actionable steps to take their business to the next level. Check out Rise25.com - a group run by myself and cofounder John Corcoran. Rise 25 is application only.  

Mission #41 On Board: Brian Traichel Mission: Linkedin Money Making Secrets The Co-Pilot: This week, you’ll have the pleasure and privilege of hearing some great LinkedIn advice and insight from a true expert, Brian Traichel. Brian discovered LinkedIn by chance in 2004, and since then has been putting it to great use to form connections and grow his business. As he shares his best-kept secrets about LinkedIn, Brian reveals that the key is in forming meaningful connections. And it’s no wonder he has this sort of perspective, when he’s worked with greats including Brian Tracy, Michael Gerber, Tony Robbins, and Barbara De Angelis. His sales strategies are based on real connections and providing value, and in this episode, he walks listeners through exactly how to form these meaningful, authentic business relationships. Connect With Brian: Brian Traichel on LinkedInBrianTraichel on Facebook The Mission Log: [04:28] - Brian starts things off by telling us a bit about himself, his career history, and how he discovered LinkedIn. [06:14] - Why is LinkedIn so powerful? Brian talks about the value of LinkedIn’s nature as a business site. [08:35] - Your LinkedIn profile may be the first thing people see about you online, so it needs to have the equivalent of “curb appeal,” Brian tells us. [10:02] - Brian talks about what kind of profile picture you need on your LinkedIn profile. [10:34] - In your description, you only have a few sections to capture someone’s attention. Brian lists what should be in your summary section. He goes on to talk about the 22 sections of a full LinkedIn profile, and explains what belongs in the “education” section. [13:45] - One of the roles of your LinkedIn profile is to answer questions people have about you and your skills and abilities. [14:53] - Brian reveals that he actually uses the free version of LinkedIn, not the premium version. He then goes on to estimate that 80% of his business has come through LinkedIn. [16:18] - Once you have your picture and profile filled out on LinkedIn, what do you do next? Brian’s suggestions: share your Facebook updates there as well, and join LinkedIn groups. He also describes the power of LinkedIn groups, and how they make it possible to reach thousands of people in minutes. [18:16] - Brian talks about the etiquette of connecting with people. For him, it’s all about personal connections. [19:55] - Brian shares his script for what to say when you call people from LinkedIn. His first example is of a client calling a provider, and the second is of a provider calling a potential client. In both examples, his emphasis is on making a human connection, not talking business. Once the connection is made, he suggests drip marketing. [22:59] - We learn more about drip marketing through LinkedIn. What Brian does is endorse each connection for a skill every week, so that his name will come to mind when that person needs someone who provides his services. [25:15] - Brian suggests investing at least 30 minutes a day in LinkedIn. He explains why. [26:04] - What do you do if you aren’t connected to someone and haven’t spoken with them, but want to connect with or talk to them? How is the answer different if the person isn’t in your industry? [27:33] - Brian talks about whether to accept everyone who sends you a request on LinkedIn. He accepts anyone who has at least 50 connections, a picture, and a summary. [28:36] - How many people does Brian connect with a day? How does he keep track of them? He suggests using LinkedIn’s tagging feature rather than Excel or another tracking system. [29:14] - We hear more of Brian’s thoughts on groups. He especially recommends starting your own LinkedIn group. [31:29] - Brian explains what LinkedIn Pulse is. He says it’s basically your LinkedIn feed. [32:03] - LinkedIn is better than Facebook for Brian’s purposes, and he tells us why. [32:27] - Brian gives his little-known secrets, including instructions on how to view people’s profiles invisibly and how to change how to see who can view your connections. [34:28] - The #1 thing you should never do on LinkedIn is sell to someone after they accept your LinkedIn invitation. [35:05] - Brian talks about best practices for LinkedIn groups. [37:18] - What are Brian’s three tips to living a stellar life? 1. Be your own guru (meaning you should follow your gut). He gives an example of how he did this. 2: Become a minimalist and declutter. 3: Exercise the law of non-attachment. He and Orion go on to discuss the value of non-attachment. Your Pre-Flight Checklist: Before you go out to try to make new business connections, go through your current network. You’ll likely find people who you didn’t realize you were already connected to. Upload a headshot to your LinkedIn profile. Your attire should be business casual. While a professional picture is great, a good iPhone picture is far better than nothing. Rewrite your LinkedIn summary to address the following topics: who you are, what you do, what problem you solve, and how you do it. Links and Resources: Brian Traichel on LinkedInBrianTraichel on FacebookLinkedInBrian TracyMichael GerberTony RobbinsBarbara De AngelisDrip marketingThe Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Brian Friedman is an American dancer and choreographer who has created the choreography for many popular music artists including Britney Spears, Cher, Beyoncé Knowles, and Mariah Carey – as well as for music videos, concert tours, and television productions including The X Factor. FREE FULL EPISODE: https://londonrealacademy.com/episodes/brian-friedman-the-x-factor/   Chapters: 00:00 Trailer. 02:28 Brian’s thoughts on the episode. 05:06 Brian’s Introduction. 05:35 Brian Friedman’s motivation. 07:04 The stress factors of X Factor. 09:34 Putting on a show and working with X Factor contestants. 13:08 No one is unaffected by dance. 15:47 The power of the dance video supporting a song. 17:49 Anything that moves can be choreography. 20:05 Where Brian gains inspiration for keeping his choreography fresh. 21:26 The correlation between fashion, choreography and dance. 24:49 Brian’s fashion label. 26:14 A dancer’s personality. 27:46 Why he had to stop partying to 4am. 29:59 Loving teaching class and giving masterclasses. 32:12 The feelings dance can evoke. 32:59 Why he is currently tired of choreography. 35:04 Dancers are sexual beings and choreography can be sensual. 36:52 The Black Swan concept, getting an artist to emotionally relate. 41:14 Brian’s notorious stare. 42:10 Why Brian initially wanted to get into choreography. 43:43 The driving force behind his journey from Arizona to working in London. 44:45 Why he loves London. 47:28 Managing to live in Los Angeles without going crazy. 48:27 The hell of being in the jungle. 53:31 Brian loves being a judge, he has a lot to say! 56:09 What Brian thinks of various celebrities he has worked with. 1:03:08 How Brian came to work with so many famous artists. 1:04:54 Spotting a diamond in the rough in his classes. 1:06:32 The life changing moment when he came out to his Mom. 1:11:00 Will Brian marry his fiancé? 1:12:21 His advice to young people struggling with their sexuality. 1:13:06 Success secrets. 1:13:38 Phone call to the 20 year old Brian Friedman. 1:14:15 Best advice he has ever received. 1:15:20 Advice to the young would be dancer, choreographer or pop star. 1:16:37 Starting an online mentoring programme and future exciting possibilities. 1:18:04 Brian’s summing up. Show Notes: Brian Friedman on Twitter: https://twitter.com/brianfriedman  FULL SHOW NOTES: https://londonrealacademy.com/episodes/brian-friedman-the-x-factor/ 

On this week’s episode, we’re joined by Tonya Mork of Know the Code. Tonya likes to rethink the way she does things to find a better path, one that is more efficient, effective, leads us forward, and is balanced with intent. She likes to share ideas, plant seeds, and inspire folks to consider a different approach. Her blog (Hello from Tonya) is all about the way she thinks. It’s meant to inspire you to stop, assess, and rethink the way you are doing things. In this 30-minute episode Brian Gardner, Lauren Mancke, and Tonya Mork discuss: Tonya’s 30-year career Not letting an ugly twist in life stop you Monetization strategies for an educational business Being an expert before you’re an educator Expanding beyond your current training areas Opportunities in the community for educators Listen to StudioPress FM below ... Download MP3Subscribe by RSSSubscribe in iTunes The Show Notes Follow Tonya on Twitter Follow Know the Code on Twitter Hello from Tonya Know The Code Visit Know The Code on Facebook Finding your Purpose in Life The Transcript How to Build an Online Education Business Jerod Morris: Hey, Jerod Morris here. If you know anything about Rainmaker Digital and Copyblogger, you may know that we produce incredible live events. Well, some would say that we produce incredible live events as an excuse to throw great parties, but that’s another story. We’ve got another one coming up this October in Denver. It’s called Digital Commerce Summit, and it is entirely focused on giving you the smartest ways to create and sell digital products and services. You can find out more at Rainmaker.FM/Summit. We’ll be talking about Digital Commerce Summit in more detail as it gets closer, but for now, I’d like to let a few attendees from our past events speak for us. Attendee 1: For me, it’s just hearing from the experts. This is my first industry event, so it’s awesome to learn new stuff and also get confirmation that we’re not doing it completely wrong where I work. Attendee 2: The best part of the conference for me is being able to mingle with people and realize that you have connections with everyone here. It feels like LinkedIn Live. I also love the parties after each day, being able to talk to the speakers, talk to other people who are here for the first time, people who have been here before. Attendee 3: I think the best part of the conference for me is understanding how I can service my customers a little more easily. Seeing all the different facets and components of various enterprises then helps me pick the best tools. Jerod Morris: Hey, we agree — one of the biggest reasons we host a conference every year is so that we can learn how to service our customers, people like you, more easily. Here are just a few more words from folks who have come to our past live events. Attendee 4: It’s really fun. I think it’s a great mix of beginner information and advanced information. I’m really learning a lot and having a lot of fun. Attendee 5: The conference is great, especially because it’s a single-track conference where you don’t get distracted by, “Which session should I go to?” and, “Am I missing something?” Attendee 6: The training and everything, the speakers have been awesome, but I think the coolest aspect for me has been connecting with both people who are putting it on and then other attendees. Jerod Morris: That’s it for now. There’s a lot more to come on Digital Commerce Summit, and I really hope to see you there in October. Again, to get all the details and the very best deal on tickets, head over to Rainmaker.FM/Summit. Voiceover: StudioPress FM is designed to help creative entrepreneurs build the foundation of a powerful digital business. Tune in weekly as StudioPress founder Brian Gardner and VP of StudioPress Lauren Mancke share their expertise on web design, strategy, and building an online platform. Lauren Mancke: On this week’s episode, Brian and I will discuss ways to build an educational Genesis business with Tonya Mork from Know the Code. Brian Gardner: Hey, everyone. Welcome back to StudioPress FM. I am your host, Brian Gardner, and I’m joined, as usual, with the vice president of StudioPress, Lauren Mancke. I’m very excited about today’s show because we’re continuing our series where we talk to members and experts, mind you, of the Genesis community. Today, we’re joined by Tonya Mork of Know the Code. Tonya likes to rethink the way she does things to find a better path, one that is more efficient, effective, leads us forward, and is balanced with intent. She likes to share her ideas, plant seeds, inspire folks to consider a different approach. Her blog, Hello from Tonya, is all about the way she thinks. It’s meant to inspire you to stop, assess, and rethink the way you are doing things. Tonya, it’s a huge pleasure to have you on StudioPress FM. Welcome to the show. Tonya Mork: Hi, Brian. Hi, Lauren. Hi, everybody. Glad to be here with you guys. Lauren Mancke: Yeah, we’re glad you’re on the show. Brian Gardner: Now is this the first time you guys have talked to each other, probably? Tonya Mork: Yeah, it is, actually. Lauren Mancke: In person, yeah. Brian Gardner: Cool. Yeah, Tonya and I have had a couple of good calls, which we’ll allude to throughout the course of the show. I’m going to just kick off and start a little bit personal. Tonya, on the home page of your personal blog, you have 16 circles of words that describe you. I’m going to make it fun, and I’m going to ask you to pick three of those that most personify who you are, and why do you think that those three would be the top three? Tonya Mork: Wow. Try to define a person in three different characteristics. That’s a tough thing. Brian Gardner: Well, 16 seems like a lot, so I figured if we narrowed them down to the best of the best, you could tell us in a nutshell who you are. The Three Characteristics That Define Tonya Tonya Mork: Okay. I think what defines me the most is that I unlock potential. I’ve been doing that my entire career — not only with people, but processes, with technology, and so on. The way that I do that is that I’m able to see what could be possible, what’s not there right now, and then I’m able to map out a way to move us to where we want to be. If I were to look on that page, I’d say, okay, potential unlocker is one, and then the visionary leader is another. It takes a lot of vision to not only educate people, but lead people, manage people. To build websites, too, it takes a lot of vision. The other thing to know about me is I’m a very happy person. Everything that I do, even back in engineering days when there was some tough problems, it didn’t matter. If I was in a boardroom or on the floor, I like to have fun. There’s a time for being serious, but you can still temper that with making sure that you’re having a good time and enjoying what you’re doing. Lauren Mancke: You mentioned you’ve been in engineering. We know that WordPress has been around for just over 10 years of that time, but you’ve got a career that lasts more than 30 years. Can you give us a little bit of background about what you were doing before WordPress? Tonya’s 30-Year Career Tonya Mork: Sure. I’ve been in engineering since the mid-1980s. I used to be in the high-tech world, so the automation world. This world, for folks who don’t know, if you can think about anything — your computer that you’re looking at, your phone, your car — all these things are mass-produced. To put those things together, it takes a lot of automated equipment, robotic, different cells, instrumentation, quality-type processes that go through and they assemble, test, make, those types of things. That’s the world that I used to belong to. I held many different roles in that. I started off as a tech, and then I moved into engineering. Then I went into some project management. I went into staff management, executive management, and so on. I had a whole path and trajectory that I went through long before I came to WordPress. Then life threw me a curve ball. There’s a chapter two that I know we’ll talk about. Then I found WordPress. This is how I ended up here, and we’ll talk about that here, I’m sure, as we move along in the interview. Brian Gardner: Yeah. There’s so many people in the WordPress community, many of which are really new, new to blogging, new to development or design, or any of that. One of the things I like most about you and I’m going to say this with no disrespect because you have a long career. We just mentioned you’ve been around for 30 years, which means you’re older than some people in our field. This comes out in your website and in the way you talk and in the way you explain things — you have a tremendous amount of knowledge for process, for analyzing things. There are not many people that I know of, if at all, who probably bring to the table what you do. To our community, I’m so thankful that you can bring that area of expertise because I think there’s probably holes and gaps here and there that exist. You certainly fill a big one. Thank you for that. Tonya Mork: Thank you. Gosh, that was very nice of you. I appreciate it. Brian Gardner: Okay. You alluded to a chapter two, and I hope that this is okay to ask. I read the very personal story you shared on HeroPress about finding your purpose in life. Clearly, you have a story to tell. You talked about it just a few minutes ago. In 2007, in your words, your life took an ugly twist. In whatever detail you feel comfortable, talk to us about that because I think that formulated kind of who you are now and where you’re at. Not Letting an Ugly Twist in Life Stop You Tonya Mork: Sure. It’s a big shift, and I wrote that article for a couple of purposes. One is to explain how can someone with the experience that I have, why aren’t I back in that market? Why am I here in WordPress, and why am I trying to help people? It needed to be told so that people wanting to know who I am and trust me as I’m trying to help folks and the reason, the impetus why. That’s why I wrote it. Then, two, I wrote it to kind of help inspire that sometimes life does just take an ugly twist. We all go through things. It can be anything from losing somebody to divorce, to losing your job, whatever. What happened to me in 2007, my engineering company was flourishing. We were doing really, really well, very profitable, and then I got ill. That’s one of those things you can’t predict. The kind of illness that I had, they basically went down a path and said, “You have something that’s extremely rare. I mean very rare, and there’s basically nothing we can do for you.” I had to lock myself away because everything in the world made me so ill that I wasn’t able to function. I basically became a prisoner in my own home. If you can imagine what that feels like to be so ill that lights, noise, a bird flying, being in a car watching things go by would send you into a seizure and then put me into the type of situation that was life-threatening, you can imagine how my life would be then. I was pretty much stuck here in this house except when it was time to go to a doctor or the hospital. That was it for many, many years. Going from being a type-A person who had a company, who had people, families that were counting on me, was very, very difficult. We lost everything. We watched them take everything from us. I lost friends. We lost our home. Everything that we had built throughout our career was all gone, all the savings, all gone, everything. The people that I employed were my friends. They were part of a family, and they lost everything, too. We’d built this together, and they had to go out and find different employment that didn’t have that same feel to it. It took them a while to get back on their feet again as well. It was a devastating loss for all of us. I was black for a while, just in a hole of darkness. Then somewhere along the way, I got sick of that. I got to get back to the essence of me, and that is I got to be happy again. I made a conscious choice that, “Okay, I’m locked in these walls. So what? I can extend out and do something in the world outside these walls, and I can do it virtually so that things outside, I could still control my environment so that I’m not ill, but I have a way of still being able to do something and have a purpose in the world.” That’s where I found WordPress. We were using it in my engineering company just for the blog, so I knew about it. Then I started a nonprofit to help people that were like me, and we spun up BuddyPress. I spun up the website for it. Then I started tinkering. And, “I really want to know this thing.” That engineer came out in me again, and then that educator came out. It was like I was looking at questions people were asking, and it’s like, “Wow, folks come from a different background than what I’m in. They don’t necessarily understand software principles and the fundamentals.” So I started answering questions. That led me on the path that I’m on now for helping people. Brian Gardner: Thank you, first of all, for sharing your story. I know it’s not easy. I’m a person who has had multiple chapters in my life as well, some online, some off. I think we have a tendency to glorify life online and being an Internet entrepreneur. Especially with social media, it’s so easy to portray just how good life is. Instagram, Facebook, all of that stuff, filters, all of that stuff. I’m a huge proponent of trying to keep it real. One person that comes to mind is Cory Miller, who speaks very much about mental health and trying to help those who are online doing things, entrepreneurs, that kind of thing. I hope to have him on the show in a future episode just to talk to that. I think there’s a reality that we all — whether we’re business owners, writers, bloggers, designers, or whatever — there is parts of our life that aren’t happy. It’s okay to go there and to figure that out so that you can become happy. For our listeners, those who are listening, understand that Tonya has a great story, and we’re just thankful for hearing that. Tonya Mork: Thank you. I’m thankful to the community because the community gave me purpose. If you go read my story, you’ll see that I found my purpose because of this community, you guys all welcomed me in, that I could then contribute. So many people contributed to the knowledge that I have in my brain. I just want to give that back to people. The end story of chapter two was that I got so ill, my body gave up, and I passed away. I got a miracle, and I came back. I said, “That’s it. I’m going to be a different person now, and I want to give back.” That’s what I’m trying to do now to help all of you guys to do more, make more money, be more efficient — obviously, I love Genesis — to help you to be able to know, to maximize what you can do for your clients with it. Brian Gardner: That’s a great segue. Lauren Mancke: I think there’s a lot of appeal with Genesis and in the WordPress community to have the flexibility, your schedule, and things that you can do that you might not be able to work in a traditional work environment. I think a lot of people can relate to that. When did Genesis become part of your picture? Why the Efficiency of Genesis First Attracted Tonya Tonya Mork: Let’s see, pretty much close to when Brian put it together. I forget the article that I saw, but something drew me to it. I started looking at it. I like to break things apart and just understand how they work. As it started progressing, it was like, “Hmm, I like the way this is put together.” It really feeds that developer sense that you can go in and do what you need to do. Out of the box, it comes up. You’re able to build a site immediately. Then just with a few tweaks here and there, you can get a custom experience. I like that versus just every time out of the box, you’ve got to go and write a totally different experience. That’s not highly effective to be able to do that, whereas Genesis allows you to be very effective and efficient. That’s what drew me to it. I would say it was pretty close to the beginning, not obviously right at the beginning, but pretty close to it. Brian Gardner: One of the things I like about the Genesis community, aside from the people that are in that, is the array of multiple opportunities that folks can … WordPress is kind of the same way. I always feel like Genesis is a smaller version of WordPress in that there’s just so many different ways to make money. You can design. You could develop. You can train. There’s just so many different opportunities there. One thing that, as I alluded to earlier, there’s gaps, or there were gaps, in the Genesis community, the educational side of Genesis and WordPress, coding, and developing, all in itself, that was sort of there. A lot of people take for granted, I do all the time, in my eyes, how easy it is to pick things up and to learn, and how to move things around. But I fail to understand or embrace, a lot of times, the reality that there’s hundreds and thousands of people who were once like me way back in the day — new to it all, don’t understand it, need a little handholding, and stuff like that. When I came across Know the Code, I was, first of all, instantly like, “Who is this person? What is she doing, and why is she doing it?” It just was an onslaught of this awesomeness. I was like, “I got to pay attention to this and put this on my radar.” I reached out to you shortly after it to just touch base and all of that. Obviously, Know the Code is a passion project of yours. You’re passionate about what you do. It’s something that I’ve seen you sort of, and we’ve talked about a little bit, very intentionally and smartly, might I add, monetizing because we all have to make money. Passion is great, but if you have the opportunity to make money from it, that’s also great because we need jobs, right? Tonya Mork: Right. Brian Gardner: What is the hope you have behind it? Obviously, you’re teaching and training people, and enabling them to pursue their version of a journey. From your perspective as an entrepreneur, but also from the perspective of the customer of yours, what is your hope there? Monetization Strategies for an Educational Business Tonya Mork: Just to be clear so that people understand what Know the Code is, yes, I teach Genesis, but I teach web development. I teach software principles, which feeds anybody from any stage in their career. It can start from a beginner through a seasoned pro like myself. It’s part of feeding that continuous learning process that we all have to do. It’s technology-based. It’s intentionally targeted at professional developers or people who want to be professional developers, who maybe along the way got into writing some code. They didn’t learn about things like solid principles and modular design, configuration designs, and how to troubleshoot and write code in such a way that it’s very efficient and reduces your cost. These are types of things that I teach. From an entrepreneurial standpoint, if you’re going after people who are going to make money off of what you’re teaching them, then it makes sense to monetize that. “I’m helping you to make more money, so okay, you should then pay something to me for my expertise as I’m enabling you to go off and make more money.” That’s why I put a monetizing paywall up in front of it. There’s a lot of free content, too, that people can then use as well. Again, that’s the educator in me. I’d love to be able to give everything away for free, but I got to eat, too. Brian Gardner: Yup. Tonya Mork: I have bills to pay, too. I’d like to live in my house in chapter three, you know? Brian Gardner: Although your advantage, though, is you live up in Wisconsin in Two Rivers, right? Tonya Mork: Yup, right. Brian Gardner: There’s a much lower cost of living there. At least you have that going for you, whereas I live in Chicago. Tonya Mork: Absolutely. Brian Gardner: I get hosed on my property taxes. There’s more pressure for me. Tonya Mork: I could imagine living where you’re at, yeah. We intentionally moved here. We used to live in downtown Milwaukee, so I know how expensive it can be. We moved here intentionally for the lower cost. From the perspective of my clients and customers who come to me, you’re the type of person who just wants to do more. You want to be more effective at what you do, you want to better serve your clients, and you want to make more money. You’re a professional, and that’s what I’m helping you to do. Lauren Mancke: What have been some of your challenges that you faced when you started Know the Code? Is there some unexpected things that you’ve had to deal with that you didn’t foresee? Challenges Tonya Faced When Starting Know the Code Tonya Mork: Everybody who ever starts a business always has some things that you learn, right? It’s one of those where I tell people, they want to know what entrepreneurship is like, well, you’re standing on an edge of a cliff, and it’s black out there. You have a vision in your mind, and you jump out. You start flying. Sometimes you’ll sink a bit. You’ve got to be innovative enough to be able to see that coming, then be able to adjust your path, so you can start to soar again. With Know the Code, some of the things are I produce a lot of content. Because of the format and how I do it, I’m able to just turn on the camera and just do a brain dump from me to you. It’s more like a cable, from my head to yours. That means I can produce a lot of content fast. One of the things I didn’t foresee was, “Wow, how am I going to organize all of this content, so you can quickly find it?” You can’t just dump it into a library. People aren’t going to be able to find that easily, so what I’m doing right now is going through a process of content discovery and working on the user experience, too, that you can, within a few clicks, find what you’re looking for. Brian Gardner: Sounds like a Dewey Decimal System, if we’re using the library analogy. Tonya Mork: Sure. Brian Gardner: I have a 30-second timeout because I want to ask you a fun question. Are you personally responsible for the designs both behind Hello from Tonya and also Know the Code? Tonya’s Hand in Designing Her Sites Tonya Mork: First one, yes. Second one, no. Yes, I did my personal site. It’s just something I’ve been playing with. I like playing in the sandbox, so you’ll come back it may be different. It’s just my expression of that designer that’s been unlocked in me. Know the Code, though, has a team behind it. We have a couple of professional developers who are designers who put that together. Brian Gardner: I kind of had a suspicion that you had your hands in at least one of the site designs. They’re both great. I love them both. I love the color schemes in them all. I can tell that you’re as meticulous with the design of your site as you are with the content on the site — so kudos to you. Tonya Mork: Thank you. Now, I did influence the color palette on Know the Code, because you’re going to notice I like green. That’s my favorite color, so yeah, I did influence that color there. I also like orange. There’s orange everywhere. Lauren Mancke: Speaking of Know the Code, do you have some sort of process in which you determine the types of things that you teach there? Do you have a way to determine what will resonate with your audience? Being an Expert Before You’re an Educator Tonya Mork: That’s a good question, Lauren. When I first started, I thought, “Well, who knows me the most? Where do I start?” Web development, software development is huge. Just the principles alone that you go through to learn how to sit down and write code from scratch. That’s what I’m trying to get folks to do, write it from scratch. There’s a lot to it. What I said was, “I’ve been in the Genesis community. The Genesis folks know me, so I’m going to start there.” I look at questions that people ask, and I say, “Hmm, okay, I can answer that question for you, and name that tune in X amount of notes.” That’s what I try to do — look at what questions people are asking, and then put that together. Then I kind of have a path for myself. I have a road map that I put together, and I’m taking you on a journey from where you’re at today. I looked at a big part of the market and where I believe the skillsets are at today and where I’m trying to drive you to, which is to be able to build anything and code from scratch if you want to. I’ve put together a trajectory for that. I’m sprinkling in some of the questions that you have to make sure it resonates with you because I’d really like to break it down into the basic elements so that it’s easy for you to adapt and take it away, not just one context, and trying to sprinkle in some of those questions with answers so that it clicks on the lightbulbs for you. Brian Gardner: That makes a lot of sense. I love that. I really do. On a recent call we had, you and I, we discussed the possibility of branching out with your business plan, right? Tonya Mork: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Expanding Beyond Your Current Training Areas Brian Gardner: We agreed that, as great as Genesis is, to the greater of the Internet, it’s just a very small sliver of audience and opportunity. I’m not territorial about that. I encourage anybody who’s building a Genesis-based business to think outside of the box, outside of the Genesis community, because there’s so much more opportunity to reach people on a broader level. The same can be said about WordPress to some degree because, even outside of WordPress, there’s still more space. We talked about broadening the training and the types of things you’d teach to cover ‘business people’ as opposed to ‘WordPress or Genesis people.’ Where are you at with that? I know it was only about a week or so ago we talked, but have you started thinking more about just things about general business? For example, I know we talked about things like legal types of things, such as trademarks, and all that kind of stuff. Tonya Mork: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Right. Know the Code itself is about writing software. It’s not just WordPress. I teach you PHP. I teach you jQuery, SQL, everything. That can allow you to build any kind of site that you want. If you think about it, as you just said, there’s this whole business side, even for developers. You’re stepping out, and you’re really good at code. Or you’re a designer and you’re really good at designing — but do you have that business ability as well? It takes a lot. There’s sales. There’s marketing. There’s all the legal stuff. There’s accounting. There’s a lot to running even your own little agency or freelance business. What Brian and I were talking about that I had mentioned was, after I did the Matt Report, some folks started asking me questions about, “Okay, well, how did you run businesses?” because I used to run a multimillion dollar businesses. “How did you do that?” What we’re doing to start with is I’m going to start writing just blog posts about business, just to share some ideas. That’s part of what my personal blog site is, just to get you to think about different ideas. I started a Little Green Book series. Some of those will be code. I just published a book, Refactoring Tweaks, which is on code to make your code better. The next one will probably be something in business. I can write these quick little ebooks that are less than 100 pages, or around 100 pages, to teach you something about technology or something about business, whether that’s marketing or whatever. Then that can then lead into something else that you and I talked about, too, which is then, “Okay, well, you’ve got a book. You’ve got written content.” Then we can move into something like maybe master programs where I can spin up a webinar or some sort of course and take you on a path. Brian Gardner: Now, Lauren is going to run the rest of the show while I go out and register KnowtheBusiness.io, because that’s how my brain thinks. Immediately, as you were talking, I’m like, “I’m going to recommend that you go off and think about what would be … ” If in fact you do get that response from people on your personal blog, people who are interested in starting a business and learning all of that stuff, what is the Know the Code version of what that website might look like? Tonya Mork: Oh sure, I’m on there right now registering it. Boom. Got it. Brian Gardner: I wouldn’t doubt it. Tonya Mork: Might as well while we’re talking, right? Brian Gardner: What’s $8? Tonya Mork: You inspired the idea. Lauren Mancke: Do you see any holes in the community as it stands now for different types of training, like on Know the Code? In other words, are there other opportunities that people can come in and offer something of value, that they can then make money at? Opportunities in the Community for Educators Tonya Mork: Oh absolutely. The whole thing, if you’re going to be an educator, you really need to know your stuff. You need to be able to do this. Let me take just a moment to teach you something, too, and then I’ll answer the question. You need to be able to start where that person’s at, and then map out a trajectory that moves them from where they’re at to where you’re trying to move them to. Then make it adaptable so that they can go off and make it their own, and not just teach one use case. Okay, I teach you how to build this one widget. “Well, great. I know how to build one widget. Whoopee.” No, it’s, “I know how to build a widget, which means I know how to write code. I know how to do this.” Okay. From an education standpoint, that’s what great educators do. They know how to get you to think and adapt the information that they’re giving you, and then that inspires you to go do other stuff. In the space, I’m here to help teach code, the proper way of building code to be efficient and make money at it, but there’s other things. Think about WordPress and what we’re doing. There’s content strategies, right? So you could be someone who needs to be out there teaching how to work with your clients to make the content first. Designs are great. We can put a pretty label on something and so on, but what’s going to keep people coming back to a website is that content. If the content isn’t right, then people are going to look at the pretty site, and they’re just not going to come back. Teaching strategies on content strategy itself, how to work with clients, that’s an area that could easily be done up. There’s things in SEO. There’s lots of different opportunities. You may think, “Well, that’s kind of saturated. Some folks are already doing that.” Find a way to do it differently. Find a way that’s uniquely your voice and that you have a true expertise in, and then you can go out and share that knowledge and educate others. Just remember, though, it’s about others. It’s not about you. It’s making sure that you’re truly delivering value to help other people do more things. Brian Gardner: I love what you said there. Last year at our Authority conference, Sally Hogshead was one of the main speakers. One thing she said, and you just basically said the same thing, was, “Different is better than better.” First of all, there’s a lot of people who claim to be knowledgeable in doing what they’re doing, not necessarily in the Genesis community, but there’s a lot of fluff out there where people are really good marketers, could design a good sales page, or something to that effect. One thing that I for sure know about you is that you completely back it up, almost more than you need to, not really, but a lot of people you can just tell, “Oh, this is a good sales page,” but there’s going to be not much to it after that. With you, it’s like you open the door, and there’s a mansion of knowledge. Development, for me, isn’t as interesting as design is. That’s just me personally, but there’s a ton of people out there in the WordPress space, in the Genesis space, and even outside of all that, just who are mega developers or people who want to just develop and don’t have the artistically creative side where design would appeal to them. For them, it’s all about code and knowing the code. I sincerely think you have an opportunity to do a lot more good work for the people everywhere. Tonya Mork: Thank you. Yeah, design is another area where folks could jump there’s a lot of elements to design that you could go in and start teaching with. Brian Gardner: Now you’re going to register KnowtheDesign.io. Tonya Mork: No, no. Brian Gardner: KnowtheEverything.io. Tonya Mork: Well, I’m not a designer. I will tell you right now, I am not a designer. I wouldn’t even want to try to teach that. There are great eyes out there, and mine aren’t it. If you want to know ones and zeroes, that’s me. Brian Gardner: Well, that’s the great thing about a good ecosystem — everybody knows their skills and their part, and they kind of just play and usually stay within that, which is good. Then it gives people a place, a good resource to go, to learn, and to do all of that stuff. Tonya Mork: Yeah. If you’re thinking about education and helping others, make sure that you really have an expertise in that. You’re right. I get a lot of emails where people say, “I could teach you how to blah, blah, blah.” My first question is, “Have you done it successfully? What’s your background?” That’s why I tried to push my background out there, so it didn’t just sound all fluffy and, “Well, okay, why is she teaching this? Does she really know her stuff?” I think you need to make sure you know your stuff and be able to back it up and prove that, yeah, you really do. Brian Gardner: Yup. Those are great words of wisdom. I want to do this with a number of the people that we have on the show because I feel like we could just keep going and talking and talking and talking. In the spirit of trying to keep this to a digestible level, I want to for sure have you back on the show, either in a follow-up fashion or to just pick your brain in another area that would be applicable to those who are listening. Where to Learn From Tonya Brian Gardner: I do want to ask our audience, as I always do at the end of the show, I have a question for you. Do you want to be a more awesome and in-demand professional developer? If you do, learn how to level up as a WordPress developer with Tonya at Know the Code, and get a hands-on, practical web development approach with screencasts which will help advance you to the next level in your career. For more info, visit her website, KnowtheCode.io. If you like what you heard on today’s show, you can find more episodes of StudioPress FM at, you guessed it, StudioPress.FM. You can also help us hit the main stage by subscribing to the show in iTunes. It’s a great way to never ever miss an episode. Thank you so much for listening, and we’ll see you next week. Tonya, it’s been a pleasure. Thank you for your time. Tonya Mork: Thank you, Brian. Thank you, Lauren. Lauren Mancke: Thank you.

Today’s guest is going to be super appealing to anyone who longs to be a writer. His story is one from starting at the bottom and working his way all the way to the top of his industry. Brian Millikin was most recently a writer and Consulting Producer on the Syfy series HAVEN, based on a book by Stephen King. Brian was on HAVEN for the entire six-year run of the series in various roles, eventually becoming a Staff Writer. A native of Richmond, Virginia, Brian attended UNC-Chapel Hill. On this episode you’ll hear his entire story: how TV became his best friend growing up, how writing became his passion, and how he’s working on new projects to bring joy to the lives of others. TWEET: Write or die: How Brian Millikin became a successful TV writer, on this episode of #ChasingDreams Good storytelling is about the characters. Thinking back to the television shows that he loved as he was growing up, Brian Millikin recognizes that the shows he was most drawn to were the ones that did a great job of centering every episode around the life and development of one of the main characters. It wasn’t enough just to tell the chronology of exciting events, it was the emotional connection with the characters that pulled him into the drama and made him a fan. On this episode Brian chats with Aimee about the incredible power of emotion in storytelling and why it’s the one thing that can’t be overlooked. TWEET: When writing is “emotion first” and centered around the characters, it’s a winner ~ Brian Milliken Can a writer rise to the top on natural talent without going to school? It’s very difficult to predict what could happen in a hypothetical circumstance and Brian Milliken is careful not to be too categorical as he talks about the kind of education a television screenwriter needs. His path took the route of traditional education in college and internships and while he knows that many of the opportunities he had came directly through his involvement with those educational institutions he’s not convinced that every writer has to follow that same path. You can hear Brian’s story and how he imagines the same level of success could come to other writers, on this episode of Chasing Dreams. You can outwork anybody, no matter your background or level of talent. Though he’s had a very successful career as a television screenwriter, Brian Millikin realizes that his innate talent is not as obvious or strong as that of many other writers. What set him apart was his willingness to work hard for the dream he had set before himself. It was that hard work that he credits with getting him to the pinnacle of success in a very crowded and competitive field. Brian’s advice about hard work is refreshing in a day when so many people feel that the successful accomplishment of their dreams should come simply or easily. He’s got some common sense, incredible advice for anyone who has a dream, so be sure you listen. TWEET: I was the first to arrive & the last to leave every day but was the happiest I’d ever been ~ Brian Milliken OUTLINE OF THIS EPISODE: [0:48] Aimee’s excitement about today’s episode with Brian Millikin. [2:38] How the desire to be a storyteller grew in Brian. [8:26] Write or die… how a passion for writing and love of TV led to script writing. [19:02] Focusing on writing in college. [26:43] A writing internship after college in Hollywood. [30:24] Seeing the SyFy show “Haven” come to life from beginning to end. [37:20] Getting a break to write an episode of the show and become a staff writer. [42:23] Do writers need to go to school or can they rise on natural talent? [46:47] How writers can handle the cost of living in Hollywood. [49:57] Resources Brian recommends. [51:41] How writer’s contracts work. [53:51] What Brian is doing now after leaving Haven. [57:28]  Brian’s recommendation to those chasing their dream. BRIAN’S RECOMMENDATION: There are many people out there who feel entitled, or that they deserve to automatically get their dream. But I believe you have to work for it… and there aren’t many people who are willing to do that. You can outwork anybody. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Contact Brian on Twitter: @Bmillikin SyFy Show: Haven Children of Tendu Podcast - An outstanding, free podcast (available on iTunes) all about TV writing and TV behind the scenes; basically a graduate course in TV writing, I can’t recommend it highly enough for anyone interested in TV writing — http://childrenoftendu.tumblr.com Go Into Story - terrific screenwriting resource with scripts, links, news, an affiliation with The Blacklist, and more — http://gointothestory.blcklst.com John August’s site - another great site, with his own Scriptnotes podcast, with tons of info and advice for writers — http://johnaugust.com TWEETS YOU CAN USE: TWEET: I was convinced that I could outwrite anybody and  earn a chance ~ Brian Milliken TWEET: There is no such thing as entitlement. You have to work hard to make your dreams come about ~ Brian Millikin   

Today’s guest is Brian R. King. Brian is a social worker, a 27 year cancer survivor and the proud father of three boys with Asperger’s and ADHD. He, himself, also has ADHD and Dyslexia. For the past 10 years, Brian has poured his heart into teaching other parents of children with special needs, strategies to help prepare their children for the world. He’s also had the pleasure of speaking all over the country to various groups who wanted to learn his strategies. What Brian has learned over this time, is that what he does best is teach people how to authentically connect with each other. Whether it’s parent/child, teacher/student, husband/wife, employer/employee. He shows people how to remove the barriers between them so they discover how much they can accomplish together; that we are never alone when we know how to connect with those around us. Brian is also the host of the new podcast, Memoirs of a Mindful Life, which can be found on iTunes or watched live on Blab. You can find out more about Brian at www.BrianRaymondKing.com. Today’s show is being brought to you by The Conscious Life Summit 2016! Reserve your spot today while it is still absolutely FREE. And if you enjoy summits, you can join Michael and 21 other experts as they share insights and strategies to create the most effective habits for success and happiness. Register for The Art of Personal Mastery and save your spot to listen in. It has already begun, so sign up today before it disappears. Please place your nomination for Consciously Speaking in the People’s Choice Podcast Awards (in Society – Culture, and for the People’s Choice – thanks!) And don’t forget to subscribe to Consciously Speaking so that you don’t miss a single episode. While you’re at it, won’t you take a moment to write a short review and rate our show? It would be greatly appreciated! To learn more about our previous guests, listen to past episodes, and get to know your host, go to www.MichaelNeeley.com and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

In this lively episode, Bryan Franklin and Jennifer Russell lay bare the inner-workings of their extraordinary relationship. And it truly is extraordinary! Bryan and Jennifer share how they came together and worked to build their relationship from the ground up. We get into specifics and details that I think you will find extremely helpful and enlightening here. Bryan and Jennifer also tease us with a few of their “extraordinary-relationship principles”, the rock-solid foundations of their partnership. If you resonate with the idea of relationship designed to optimize the evolution of each individual, then you will love this episode. Make sure to leave a comment below and let us know your thoughts! SHOWNOTES: Bryan shares a vulnerable realization from his first marriage [4:30] Jennifer shares her own early relationship struggles [8:00] A powerful wedding vow [10:30] Guys: don’t view your partners as “roadies” [12:15] How does Jennifer define intimacy? [15:30] A founding principle of an “extraordinary relationship” [20:30] Another extraordinary-relationship principle in action [24:00] What Brian and Jennifer do to better their future selves in relationship [31:00] The process Bryan and Jennifer use when they are triggered in conflict [33:45] The 3rd extraordinary-relationship principle – being called into your greatness [37:00] Re-framing your partner’s complaints – “All of your fights are the source of your own _______” [44:00] One last extraordinary-relationship principle – (it’s a good one) [47:00]