HTE 221: The Transformation From Musician to Entrepreneur | Derek Webb
My guest today is a 20+ year veteran of the music industry. As a musician he published dozens of albums and sold millions of copies. In 2006, he decided to move into the business side of the music industry as Co-founder and President of NoiseTrade, a revolutionary tribe-building platform. NoiseTrade began as a way for my guest to promote his own music. Due to its success, he found himself helpi...
1hr 4m May 10, 2016
1hr 4m
HTE 220: The Value of Working in Systems and Processes | Syed Balkhi
My guest today is one of the hardest working, smartest, and most successful entrepreneurs I have had the pleasure of speaking to. He was born in Pakistan and immigrated to the United States at the age of 12. Without a social life due to his lack of English skills, he turned to the Internet and entrepreneurship. Today, at 25 years old, my guest is an award-winning entrepreneur, and has been reco...
36m May 09, 2016
36m
HTE 219: The Power of Unlimited Thinking | Ariel Garten
My guest today is a life-long entrepreneur who is closing the gap between science, art, business, and technology. As an entrepreneur, my guest has started her own clothing line, worked in the real estate business, and ran a private Neuroconsulting practice for six years. She is now the founder and CEO of InteraXon, a Toronto-based company and innovator in the emerging field of brain sensing tec...
35m May 05, 2016
35m
HTE 218: Learning to Lean Into the Competition | David Cancel
My guest today is a brilliant entrepreneur who has built, grown,and sold four impressive companies.Over the past 20 years, he’s been successfullyleading teams and building products that have been used by tens ofmillions of people, and generated millions of dollars inrevenue.My guest has built and sold four companies: Compete.com,Lookery, Ghostery, and Performable.He is currently focused on his ...
46m May 03, 2016
46m
HTE 217: Why You Should Stop Waiting to Do Work That Matters | Cynthia Jamin
My guest today is a former actress, clothing designer, andreluctant entrepreneur. My guest began her career as a professional actressbut decided to become an entrepreneur. With just a $20,000inheritance and strong perseverance, a business was born! She is now the founder and CEO of TwirlyGirl, a clothing companywith the sole purpose of empowering individuality and creativity inyoung girls. Tw...
36m May 02, 2016
36m
HTE 216: The Compounding Effect of Daily Improvement | Justin Christianson
My guest today is a bestselling author, conversion rate expert,digital marketer, and an entrepreneur. He is cofounder and CEO of Conversion Fanatics, afull-service conversion rate optimization company. Founded nearlythree years ago, they have worked with and consulted companies likeHertz car rentals, Paypal, Investors.com and many more. He is also the founder of Monster Ventures, an onlinecon...
34m Apr 26, 2016
34m
HTE 215: How to Expand Your Thinking | Catherine Plano
My guest today is a Master of Neuro-linguistic Programming, an executive coach, keynote speaker, and an entrepreneur. My guest is the founder of the I Am Woman project and the founder and editor-in-chief of I Am Woman magazine. She is passionate about inspiring individuals, leaders, and businesses to transform, build and create powerful, effecting and lasting change both within themselves and...
39m Apr 25, 2016
39m
HTE 214: Understanding the True Value of Using a Longer Timeline | Robert Hartline
My guest today is a salesperson, turned business owner, turned entrepreneur. He is an experienced and successful serial entrepreneur based out of the Greater Nashville Area with a total of $24 Million in annual revenue. In 1998 he started his first company, Absolute Wireless, which now owns and operates 15 wireless retail stores throughout Tennessee. My guest is also the founder of CallProof...
39m Apr 19, 2016
39m
HTE 213: Leaving the Known For the Unknown | Heath Padgett
My guest today is a filmmaker, writer, RVer, and an entrepreneur. After graduating college and taking a traditional office job like he thought he was supposed to do, he realized he wasn’t actually happy, and neither was his fiancé. So they decided to quit their jobs take a 50 state honeymoon. My guest came up with the idea to travel 50 states and shine a spotlight on people who followed their...
36m Apr 18, 2016
36m
HTE 212: How to Become a 10% Entrepreneur | Patrick McGinnis
My guest today is a venture capitalist, private equity investor, author, and 10% Entrepreneur. He spent a nearly a decade on Wall Street before becoming the founder and managing partner at Dirigo Advisors. At Dirigo, he invests in, advises, and holds a diverse portfolio of companies across the U.S., Asia, and Latin America. My guest is also the author of the brand new book “The 10% Entreprene...
43m Apr 12, 2016
43m
HTE 211: Becoming a Student in the Game of Entrepreneurship | Chris Thompson
My guest today is a student of the startups, a connector, and an entrepreneur. He started out in brand management for Unilever, where he spent almost 2 years and became one of the most successful marketers in the history of the company. He was then picked up by Centoria, where he acted as their Entrepreneur In Residence for 8 months. This led him to attending a startup incubator where he cam...
48m Apr 11, 2016
48m
HTE 210: Entrepreneurship is a Microcosm of Life | Jesse Tevelow
My guest today is a writer, constant mover, not a very good manager, but a very smart entrepreneur. He spent his formative years performing website usability tests for clients like Staples, Google, Yahoo, Verizon, and many more. He was then accepted into TechStars, a mentorship-driven startup accelerator. There, he and his cofounder catalyzed the idea and plan for J-Squared Media, which later...
48m Apr 07, 2016
48m
HTE 209: Developing the Mindset of Constant Improvement | Hamid Shojaee
My guest today is a bootstrapper, software developer, and a brilliant entrepreneur. From writing his first line of code at 11 years old, my guest has spent the past 14 years building a several multi-million dollar software businesses. He is the founder and CEO of Axosoft, which develops software for software development. Their flagship product, OnTime is used by more than 10,000 software deve...
37m Apr 05, 2016
37m
HTE 208: How to Stop Being the Business (And Start Running It) | Joel Holland
My guest today is a photographer, videographer, and a multi award-winning entrepreneur. While still in high school, He started a small TV show focused on helping kids figure out what they wanted to do with their lives. They interviewed 150 professionals, and while the interviews contained extremely powerful advice, the production value of the show was lacking because they had no budget. This s...
46m Apr 04, 2016
46m
HTE 207: How to Find Your Focus | Brandon Adams
My guest today is an inventor, crowdfunding specialist, and entrepreneur. As an inventor, my guest got his start early when he invented the Arctic Stick. Inventing a smart product is one thing, but my guest also used his marketing skills to grab himself national media attention and complete a successful Kickstarter campaign. Since then, he has helped countless other brands and businesses laun...
31m Mar 31, 2016
31m
HTE 206: Business is Like a Rubik’s Cube (But You Need to Earn The Next Move) | Jordan Gal
My guest today has spent most of his adult life working in a family business, starting businesses with his brothers, selling those off, and more recently, co-founding a software company. He is the cofounder of CartHook, software designed to help e-commerce stores turn their abandoned carts into paying customers. In fact, a close friend of mine was raving about CartHook and how it drastically i...
44m Mar 29, 2016
44m
The 7 Essential Steps From Idea to Product
My guest today is a retail product designer, 3D printing expert, writer, and an entrepreneur. She and her husband are the co-founders of Hazz Design Consulting, which has designed over 250 retail products that have generated more than $750 million in revenue. My guest is also a contributing writer for Inc Magazine and co-hosts the WTFFF Podcast. Now, let’s hack… Tracy Hazzard. In this 34-m...
35m Mar 28, 2016
35m
HTE 204: Why You Should Set Goals That Scare You | Russ Ruffino
My guest today is a traveler, soon-to-be-father, and a true lifestyle entrepreneur. He is the founder of Clients on Demand, what he claims is the most reliable client attraction system in the world. My guest built this business helping experts create simple, strong and repeatable marketing and sales processes that attract the perfect clients, at the perfect price, anytime they want. Now, let...
44m Mar 24, 2016
44m
HTE 203: Why You Should Go ‘All In’ On Your Next Project | Jeff Gibbard
[episode] My guest today is the self-proclaimed ‘world’s most handsome social media and content marketing strategist’, keynote speaker, and entrepreneur. This conversation is excellent because even though my guest has accomplished many things in his business he is still learning every single day. Like many of us, he has set enormous goals for himself and his business, and he is working every d...
36m Mar 22, 2016
36m
HTE 202: We All Start As Employees | Brian Tracy
My guest today is one of the top professional business speakers in the world. He is the author of more than 70 books — many of them bestsellers. There are six of his books, with notes and highlighter marks throughout, on my office shelf. He is the chairman and CEO of Brian Tracy International, a company specializing in the training and development of individuals and organizations. His goal is ...
43m Mar 21, 2016
43m
HTE 201: Why Would a Lawyer Forfeit His License to Start an Online Business? | Andrei Mincov
My guest today became a copyright lawyer 20 years ago when his father, a famous Russian composer, heard his music being played in an ad on the radio without his permission. He spent the first 8 years of his legal career in Russia working for one of the largest law firms in the world. But in 2007, he moved to Canada, went back to law school for another three years, and then received his Canadia...
40m Mar 17, 2016
40m
HTE 200: Passion is a Byproduct of Struggle | Ben Altadonna
My guest today is a former chiropractor turned marketing consultant and entrepreneur. 18 years ago, my guest was your typical chiropractor struggling to find enough clients and sustain and grow his practice. Rather than focusing specifically on the trade, my guest took a different approach and focused on the marketing side of the business. After hitting on a successful system for growing a ch...
30m Mar 15, 2016
30m
HTE 199: A Two-Year Journey From $0 - $500k | Jenn Scalia
My guest today went from unemployed, recently divorced, and living with her parents, to building a half million dollar business in just two years. After hitting rock-bottom just two years ago, she decided to not use her current position to hold her back instead, she used it as a catalyst for change. And change she did! She has created a brilliant personal brand, has built up a raving fan base...
32m Mar 14, 2016
32m
HTE 198: Stumbling Into Entrepreneurship | Jay Coyle
My guest today is a music geek, marketer, drummer, and an entrepreneur. He spent the earlier part of his career in marketing for EMI Group in Nashville. After realizing that he was slowly becoming unemployable, my guest ventured out on his own. For the past seven years, he has been growing and running Music Geek Services, a direct-to-fan consulting company helping artists think like fans. He...
41m Mar 10, 2016
41m
HTE 197: How to Ask Better Questions | Marcus Sheridan
My guest today is a former pool salesman, professional speaker, sales lion, and entrepreneur. In 2001, my guest stumbled across his first business with two friends. They began installing swimming pools out of the back of a beat-up pickup truck. Nine years later, with the some content marketing led by my guest, their company overcame the collapse of the housing market and became one of the larg...
44m Mar 08, 2016
44m
HTE 196: Being an Entrepreneur is About Learning To Fly By the Seat of Your Pants | Lilli Weisz
My guest today is a digital organization and productivity consultant. She is also a GTD fanatic and digital entrepreneur. She is the founder of Simplified. Started in 2009, my guest has spent the past 7 years helping overwhelmed professionals, just like you, use technology to become more efficient and productive in their day. Now, let's hack... Lilli Weisz. In this 42-minute episode Lilli We...
42m Mar 07, 2016
42m
HTE 195: Building Authority In Your Market | Barry Feldman
My guest today is a content marketing consultant, copywriter, blogger, speaker, and an entrepreneur. He is the founder of Feldman Creative. Feldman Creative was founded in the Silicon Valley in 1995 when my guest escaped alive from the advertising agency business. The company has partnered with hundreds of corporate marketing groups, small businesses, ad agencies, and design firms across a spe...
35m Mar 03, 2016
35m
HTE 194: Learning to Hug Your Haters | Jay Baer
Today’s guest has spent the past 20 years in digital marketing, consulting for more than 700 companies during that period, including 30 of the FORTUNE 500. His current company – Convince & Convert – is the fifth multi-million dollar company he has started from scratch. He is also the only guest to revisit this show and you are going to be happy that he did. He has spent the past 13 months res...
35m Mar 01, 2016
35m
HTE 193: Why You Should Strive to Become a Category of One | Kim Doyal
My guest today is a blogger, podcaster, voracious reader, and an entrepreneur. M My guest hasn’t always been running her own business and doing her own thing. In 2003, her husband passed away at 32 years old. Being widowed with a 2-year-old and 6-year-old drove my guest to find something she could do from home. She also wanted to set an example for her children and show they could pursue what ...
46m Feb 29, 2016
46m
HTE 192: How to Determine If Your Next Action Will Amplify or Distract You | Kim Barrett
My guest today is a lead generation expert, online marketer, author, and an entrepreneur. In 2015, he was awarded the 30 Under 30 award from Anthill Australia. As well as a spot on Perth’s Influential 100 list in 2014 and 2015. He is currently the founder of Your Social Voice, an Australian social media lead generation company. Since 2013, Your Social Voice has been creating and optimizing le...
29m Feb 23, 2016
29m
HTE 191: Walking the Unexpected Path to Full-Time Food Blogger | Erin Chase
My guest today is a mother, former school administrator, blogger, and an entrepreneur. Back in late summer 2008, my guest began couponing — like, really couponing. She loves to cook and loved the challenge of coming up with a meal that costs under $5. One night as my guest was cleaning up the dishes from dinner, she thought of the phrase “$5 Dinners”. And from this, a very impressive business...
43m Feb 22, 2016
43m
HTE 190: How to Know When to Focus and Take Action | Leon Krishnayana
Today’s guest is a software engineer, master of automation, and an entrepreneur. He started his career as a software developer and spent many years honing his craft before going out on his own. Today, he is the founder and CEO of iSpionage, a competitive analysis software tool for search engine advertising. With over eight years building and growing this business, my guest has become passionat...
36m Feb 18, 2016
36m
HTE 189: How to Learn at the Hand of Mentors | Kevin Rogers
[episode] My guest today is a former professional stand-up comedian, a copywriter, consultant, and an entrepreneur. His unique background as a nightclub comic and in-the-trenches salesperson provide a rare spectrum of experience and ability. Today, as the founder and head of Copy Chief, my guest is one of the most in-demand sales consultants online. He works closely with high-volume informati...
45m Feb 16, 2016
45m
HTE 188: Have a Vision and Make It a Reality | Tony Stubblebine
My guest today got his start as an engineer, became an author, startup advisor, and entrepreneur. From 2005 - 2006 he was the VP of Engineering at Odeo, who built and later spun out the earliest version of Twitter. In 2011, my guest built the best goal tracking app community the world has ever seen, when he co-founded the Lift app, and they went on to help 85,000 people start meditating. Toda...
38m Feb 15, 2016
38m
HTE 187: Do What You Say Your Are Going to Do | Jeff Socha
My guest today is an investor, financial advisor, political lobbyist, and entrepreneur. He is a founding partner and senior advisor at Ark Financial, a boutique financial planning firm in Austin, Tx. Businesses grow by continuously working on follow through -- saying what they say they will do and doing it. My guest follows this mantra and demands it of his whole team. My guest is a serial e...
29m Feb 11, 2016
29m
HTE 186: Learning to Fulfill an Unmet Need | Liz Picarazzi
My guest today is a former marketer for American Express, an advocate for elevating the stature of trades people, and a brilliant entrepreneur. Five short years ago, my guest spent six hours a day sitting in meetings. She worked for American creating their customer loyalty programs. Today, she is the founder and CEO of Checklist Home Services, CitiBin, and Reclaim-A-Space. Each of these compan...
38m Feb 09, 2016
38m
HTE 185: An Incredible Sense of Urgency | Michael Port
My guest today is an author, former actor, professional speaker, and entrepreneur. My guest in currently the founder of Book Yourself Solid, and Heroic Public Speaking. Through these businesses, he has lectured, trained, inspired, and provided coaching and consulting services to over 20,000 business owners in the last two years alone. He has written six books, including Book Yourself Solid, St...
56m Feb 08, 2016
56m
HTE 184: Start a Company That You Wish Existed | James Marks
My guest today is a former punk rocker, one-time vegan grocer, and entrepreneur who starts companies that he wish existed. When he was 17, my guest opened a grocery store that sold vegan foodstuffs upstairs and put punk shows on in the basement. He is the founder of screen printing maverick VGKids, who’s clients include Coca-Cola, Mercedes Benz, IBM, Converse, and Nike. He is He is co-founder...
33m Feb 04, 2016
33m
HTE 183: Understanding Business As a Human to Human Interaction | Bryan Kramer
Hey hey, are you on an iPhone? Use this magical link to leave a review for the show immediately! ;-) My guest today is an international speaker, bestselling author, instigator of the human to human business movement, and an entrepreneur. He is the CEO and co-founder of PureMatter, an award-winning digital content and marketing agency. He is the author of Human to Human and Shareology. He is al...
30m Feb 02, 2016
30m
HTE 182: From Public Radio to Groundbreaking Media Startup | Alex Blumberg
My guest today is a radio journalist, former producer for public radio and television, and an entrepreneur. From 1999 until 2014, he was the producer of the public radio show This American Life. He was also the co-creator and co-host of Planet Money, one of my favorite podcasts of all time. In 2014, my guest made the crazy decision to leave public radio and start a podcast company — Gimlet Med...
35m Feb 01, 2016
35m
HTE 181: Learning the Art of Breaking Busy | Alli Worthington
My guest today is a mom to five boys, networker, recent author, and entrepreneur. She co-founded BlissDom, the single largest international women’s small business conference in the world. She also co-founded Blissful Media Group. Prior to this, my guest founded the magazine for women called Blissfully Domestic. As of this week, she is officially an author with release of her brand new book Bre...
35m Jan 28, 2016
35m
HTE 180: When Did We Decide That Business Shouldn't Be Fun? | Butch Bellah
[episode] My guest today is an expert salesman, keynote speaker, author, and an entrepreneur. From his first corporate job at 21, it took my guest just four years to be promoted to Division Sales manager, then another five years to Vice President of Sales. When he was 35, my guest bought the company. He and his partner grew the $35 million local business to one of the largest wholesale food ...
44m Jan 26, 2016
44m
HTE 179: How to Live a Life Re-Scripted | Zephan Blaxberg
iPhone user? Click here to leave a review in less than 43 seconds. My guest today is a travel hacker, film producer and editor, photographer, podcaster, and entrepreneur. He is the founder of ZMB Media, a highly successful video production company. He has had opportunities in the White House and on set for a Netflix Original Series. His videos can be seen in football stadiums and on major TV s...
41m Jan 21, 2016
41m
HTE 178: Why You Need to Do The Dirty Work (That No One Else Will Do) | Harry Campbell
On an iPhone or iPad? Click this magical link and leave me a rating and review on iTunes faster than you can say, 'Can I call you Jonny?'. And yes, you can. ;-) My guest today is a former aerospace engineer turned full-time blogger and digital entrepreneur. Always willing to do the dirty work necessary to make some side income while working as an engineer, my guest tried his hand at personal ...
46m Jan 19, 2016
46m
HTE 177: The Charm, the Danger, and the Thrill of Entrepreneurship | Brian Wong
He is the youngest person ever to receive venture capital funding. At the age of 18, he had already graduated from the University of British Columbia and launched his first company. Today, he is co-founder and CEO of Kiip, a mobile app platform that allows brands to offer real-life rewards for in-game achievements. To date, Kiip has raised over $15 million in funding and is completely redefini...
30m Jan 18, 2016
30m
HTE 176: Success is Living in ‘The Gap’ | Heather Havenwood
On an iPhone? Click this magical link to leave me a review in less than two minutes. Thanks, Jonny! My guest today is a coach, CEO, author, top authority on internet marketing, and a serial entrepreneur. In 2006, she founded an online company that did over $1 million in sales in less than a year. She is currently the CEO of Sexy Boss, which aims to empower women entrepreneurs to start an onli...
39m Jan 14, 2016
39m
HTE 175: How to Level Up Your Life | Steve Kamb
On your iPhone or iPad? Click this magical link to leave a review in less than two minutes.My guest today is a fitness buff, nerd, writer, publisher, rebel leader, and an entrepreneur. He is the founder of NerdFitness.com, a fitness community that helps desk jockeys improve their health and wellbeing. His mission is to show people that adventures are not just for superheroes and that improving ...
41m Jan 12, 2016
41m
HTE 174: How to Use S.M.A.R.T. Goals to Accomplish Big Things | John Lee Dumas
My guest today is former Captain in the U.S. Army, podcast extraordinaire, self-made millionaire, and an entrepreneur on fire! After serving 8 years in the Army, my guest set out to find work. After trying and quitting a couple things — law school and the real estate business, he stumbled upon podcasting. On September 22, 2012, he launched EOFire. Now, three and a half years later EOFire and m...
34m Jan 11, 2016
34m
HTE 173: Embracing the Hard Stuff | Al Goldstein
My guest today is former investment banking analyst, chairman, and serial tech entrepreneur. He is the cofounder and CEO of Avant, the quickest online-loan startup to lend $1 billion. That’s great and all, but he wants his company to be worth $100 billion and on the scale of Bank of America or Citigroup. He is the cofounder and CEO of Avant, the quickest online-loan startup to lend $1 billion....
31m Jan 07, 2016
31m
HTE 172: The Importance of Celebrating What Has Happened | Val Geisler
My guest today is a spreadsheet master, Client Experience and System Strategist, yoga fan, and an entrepreneur. She started her professional career as an opera stage manager, but soon changed her focus to event management. The mashup of skills she acquired along the way helped her become a systems strategist for freelancers and small business owners. She is the founder of Aspire & Grow, a bus...
52m Jan 05, 2016
52m