How to Map Out the Business That You Want
My guest today is an entrepreneur who started, grew and sold six businesses in five years without paying for a single ad. He helps people grow their businesses and his successful exits include WorkoutBox and Synn Clothing. He is the founder of Upshare, which offers simple tools that boost sharing and make websites more viral. My guest is also the co-founder of Mentor Mojo, which offers onlin...
37m Aug 31, 2015
37m
A Conversation on Understanding the Value of Creating Value
My guest today is the co-founder and CEO of GroundMetrics, a unique technology startup in oil and gas exploration. He began his career in business management and was a strategic marketing consultant. He then co-founded and ran CarCode Corporation, which was acquired by a major toll road management company in 2009. In 2012, my guest won the Gold Award at the World's Best Technology Competitio...
28m Aug 27, 2015
28m
One Product Does Not a Business Make w/ Ryan Deiss
My guest today is the founder and CEO of Digital Marketer, under which he blogs and coaches for the Digital Marketer Lab and other training courses. He started marketing online from his dorm room in 1999 and has worked in over 500 different markets. In the last three years, my guest and his team have invested over $15,000,000 on marketing tests and generated tens of millions of unique visitors...
36m Aug 25, 2015
36m
The Value of Having a Vision and Sticking to it
My guest today is a scientist turned digital artist, animator, entrepreneur, as well as an academic escapee. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo and has over 15 years of experience in research. During this time, my guest has generated $340,000 in funding, prepared manuscripts and lectured. Today, my guest is the founder of Sciconic.com, where she explains scientific concepts throug...
32m Aug 24, 2015
32m
The Evolutionary Process of an Entrepreneur
My guest today is the creator, publisher and editor of Foundr Magazine, which launched in 2013 and has become a six-figure business. Foundr is a monthly digital magazine, which had over 100,000 downloads in its first fifteen months. My guest also hosts a weekly podcast for Foundr where he interviews the greatest minds in business today, and has created a training platform that provides educati...
39m Aug 20, 2015
39m
How to Ask for Advice and Be Coachable
My guest today is an avid networker and mobile business strategist, chef, podcaster and golfer. He is co-founder and the Director of Business Development at ChamberDS.com. ChamberDS is a complete app and mobile business agency that turns ideas into profitable app businesses. My guest develops and grows relationships with clients, agencies and companies, as well as specializing in mobile app st...
32m Aug 18, 2015
32m
How to Lose Your Perfectionist Mindset
My guest today is a serial entrepreneur, speaker, blogger, consultant and coach at Systems Scientist, podcaster and the author of Owning It: Embrace the Best and Worst Parts of You to Thrive in Life and Business. She is the Founder of Mydzik Media, the host of The Off-Road Millenial podcast, where she talks about the future of work and millennial entrepreneurship, and she writes about personal...
34m Aug 17, 2015
34m
How to Selfishly Build a Successful Business
My guest today is a Real Estate investor, one-time Real Estate agent, podcaster, web designer and internet entrepreneur. He built, as well as being the Founder and CEO of, the online Real Estate networking platform, BiggerPockets. The platform now has over 330,000 members. My guest is also the CEO of BiggerPockets publishing division, and has co-written and published two Amazon bestsellers. He...
36m Aug 13, 2015
36m
How to Eliminate Options and Find Opportunities
My guest today is a Canadian super mom of five, personal development coach, public speaker and the author of What You Focus On Grows. Between 1995 and 2005, my guest was the Founder and President of Upward Motion and created the web-based assessment tool, Real Estate Simulator. She is now the President and Founder of Frame of Mind Coaching and owner of JournalEngine Software. My guest designed...
34m Aug 11, 2015
34m
Benji Rogers on Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
My guest today is the President and Founder of PledgeMusic, a direct-to-fan company that offers musicians a unique way to engage with their fans during the music-making process. He is an independent musician who received the A&R Worldwide Digital Executive of the Year award in 2014 and appeared in the 2013 Billboard 40 Under 40 Power Players list. My guest's recent engagements include keynote ...
36m Aug 10, 2015
36m
The Art of Surrounding Yourself with People Smarter Than You
My guest today is an ex-investment banker, Real Estate investing expert, serial entrepreneur, digital marketing expert and Real Estate business coach. When he was an investment banker, my guest put everything he had into buying land in New Mexico. Not long after this he quit his job and started working for himself. He is now the founder of Frontier Equity Properties LLC and has been actively i...
30m Aug 06, 2015
30m
Have an Idea, Find a Cofounder, and Build a Business
My guest today helps startups and companies attract new clients online. He is the co-founder of HubStaff.com, which allows businesses to manage their remote staff by tracking time and activity levels, providing screenshots and calculating employee payments. HubStaff allows us to see exactly what virtual teams are working on so we can track expenses to specific projects. My guest is also a self...
30m Aug 04, 2015
30m
How to Find and Tap into Unmet Demands
 My guest today is a successful author and screenwriter, and has written a book an  produced a movie about his life, called I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell. His books have sold over 3 million copies and have been translated into 30 different languages. My guest also founded (and sold) Tropaion Publishing, which pioneered the idea of author as publisher. He later co-founded Book in a Box after ...
30m Jul 30, 2015
30m
How to Let Your Business Thrive (By Getting Out of its Way)
My guest today has started several successful businesses, written three books, is a motivational speaker and has consulted with companies in several different industries. He coaches teams and businesses on the actions required in order to grow. As a result, he is known as the entertainer, educator and consultant of choice for America's leading companies. My guest is the founder of Thrive 15, a...
38m Jul 28, 2015
38m
Guy Kawasaki on Understanding the Math of Success
My guest today popularized secular evangelism in 1983 when he worked with the Macintosh Division of Apple. He is currently the chief evangelist of Canva, an online and easy to use graphic design platform. He is also the author of thirteen books including. Art of the Start 2.0 and  Enchantment. His books are used by some of the finest academic institutions and have been New York Times and Wall ...
27m Jul 27, 2015
27m
How to Find Your High-Leverage Outputs, Build Products, and Choose Your Path
My guest today founded Betterment in 2008 after working as an adviser to Wall Streets biggest financial institutions. Wanting to create a more convenient way to invest, he started Betterment to re-invent the investment industry. It wasn't long before his vision became a reality as the company won TechCrunch's Best Start-up in New York award in 2010. My guest is an economics graduate of Harvard...
28m Jul 23, 2015
28m
An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Investing in Yourself
My guest today is a marketing expert, consultant, author, blogger for Fast Company Magazine, and a regular contributor to The Globe and Mails Report on Business section. My guest is the author of Evergreen, which was an instant number one bestseller in the sales and marketing section of Amazon. Evergreen describes how companies can become so obsessed with finding new customers that they lose v...
35m Jul 21, 2015
35m
Valuing Your Connections and Optimizing Towards Happiness
My guest today is a developer who understands the marketing strategies needed to grow and is an expert in implementing them. He helps course authors, product creators, and self-funded businesses increase their revenue from their existing traffic. As the CEO of DelfiNet, a full-service development and marketing consultancy, my guest has helped companies all around the world improve their revenu...
38m Jul 20, 2015
38m
Sol Orwell on Being Relentless and Not Giving Up
My guest today has built companies in several different industries and has been successful enough to hand the companies over to someone else to manage and run. He had more or less retired when he co-founded Examine.com, an independent and unbiased evidence-based organization that investigates the science behind supplementation and nutrition. My guest is trying to make a difference in this indu...
32m Jul 16, 2015
32m
How to Choose The Life You Want (and Build a Business to Get It)
He is now the founder of Design Pickle, a graphic design subscription service that offers unlimited requests and revisions for a monthly fee. My guest is also a creative consultant at Digital and Disruptive, where he hosts workshops to help companies rapidly develop marketing or brand strategies. He is a charitable guy and has been on the board of directors for the Alzheimers Association and i...
31m Jul 13, 2015
31m
Here’s the Key to Turning Your Failures into Opportunities
My guest today has a passion for assisting small business owners and entrepreneurs in starting and protecting their businesses. Along side her husband, she pioneered the business filings industry with MyCorporation.com in 1997, whilst they were both at law school. A Fortune 500 company acquired MyCorporation.com in 2005, which allowed her to retire at the young age of 30. She hated being retire...
33m Jul 09, 2015
33m
How To Be a Terrible Employee, Build an Audience, and Travel the World
My guest today is a dad, husband, drummer and entrepreneur, who builds awesome stuff online and helps people with their lives and businesses. He spent his early years travelling around Canada whilst playing in punk-rock bands, which taught him the D.I.Y. work ethic of ‘if you want something to change you have to do it; get it done or stop complaining about it’. This is a work ethic that he sti...
47m Jul 07, 2015
47m
Julien Smith and The Ability To Destroy Anything (Rebroadcast)
Almost 4 years ago I read a truly inspiring book called The Flinch.  The premise of this great book is to overcome the flinch or fears that we all have every day, in order to live a more free and fulfilling life. The part that really stuck with me was on cold showers and taking them to overcome the basic flinch to ice cold water.  There has rarely been a day that I have stepped into a shower a...
30m Jul 06, 2015
30m
How to Get Organized, Take Risks, and Ship Your Ideas
My guest today is a public speaker, blogger, best-selling author, entrepreneur and businessman. My guest researches, writes, and speaks on how to think better, plan smarter and act on what matters. He has presented over 1,000 speeches to companies and spoken to over 250,000 people. He has started or co-founded five companies, including being a co-founder of an exclusive tour company and the on...
34m Jul 02, 2015
34m
How to Use “Passion Mashing” to Create Content That Gets Noticed
My guest today is a website developer and designer, graphic artist, podcast producer, music and video maker, as well as an entrepreneur. He wants to teach people how to make money and have a blast in the process, as he believes that it's possible to make money online by simply being yourself and being creative. My guest has built a passive income stream through what he calls passion mashing, w...
36m Jul 01, 2015
36m
How to Decide if Your Business Idea Sucks
My guest today is the founder and CEO of multiple successful businesses, including StickeJunkie.com and Delinquent Distribution. Most recently, and alongside Dan "Punkass" Caldwell (the founder of Tapout clothing), she has created Lessons.biz, which offers a 6-week course on how to run a successful t-shirt business. My guest skipped college and started her first business, Rhythm Sticks, at age...
35m Jun 29, 2015
35m
What it Takes to Leave Corporate and Not Look Back with Anita Campbell
My guest today is the founder and CEO of Small Business Trends, an award-winning online publication, which offers breaking news and advice for small business owners. My guest is a former corporate attorney that left corporate life and founded Small Business Trends in 2003. She is considered an authoritative voice on small business issues and has been noted and quoted in respected publications,...
35m Jun 25, 2015
35m
Working Between Your Comfort Zone and Your Panic Zone
My guest for today wasn’t always an entrepreneur, in fact, my guest attended Harvard and worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs, policy work for the National Economic Council at the White House,and political organizing for the Service Employees International Union. But then he gave it all up to become an entrepreneur. He is the CEO and co-founder of Mic, a leading news and media company...
30m Jun 22, 2015
30m
Building a Business at the Intersection of Art and Commerce
Today’s guest is an artist, musician and entrepreneur who made his first record when he was 12, began playing in clubs when he was 14 and started his own music publishing company at 18. My guests passion for music and technology led him to found music licensing firm Rumblefish in his college dorm room. The company quickly achieved the industry’s first podcast license, fully automated online mu...
32m Jun 16, 2015
32m
How to Make Your Business a Painkiller Not a Vitamin w/ Matt Barrie
My guest today is a brilliant technology entrepreneur with incredibly lofty goals for himself and his business. He is the founder and C.E.O. of Freelancer.com, a global online freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace, but this is in no way his first entrepreneurial venture. To date, Freelancer.com has acquired 18 outside companies to add to its arsenal — with Escrow.com being the most recen...
45m Jun 15, 2015
45m
Hiring the Best People and Creating a Better Story w/ Carl Smith
y guest today is a speaker, consultant, and entrepreneur — as well as a self-proclaimed deviant hippie that is attempting to maximize his ‘god’ years. He is the founder of nGen Works, a digital strategy firm that uses research, technology and creativity to help their clients stand out online. They’ve recently transitioned from a traditional agency model to a fully-distributed team. He is also ...
32m Jun 11, 2015
32m
Making the Leap from School Teacher to Full-Time Food Blogger
My guest today is blogger, food enthusiast, and entrepreneur. Along with her husband and business partner, they have created the Pinch of Yum and Food Blogger Pro. My guest spent the last five years teaching elementary school by day and blogging about food by night. She always went back and forth about becoming a full-time blogger, but in June 2014, she officially made the jump to living this ...
29m Jun 04, 2015
29m
Yanik Silver on the Transformation to Maverick Entrepreneur
My guest today is a serial entrepreneur, author, and well-known digital marketing expert. In 1998, my guest undertook his first entrepreneurial venture: a $900 marketing course for cosmetic surgeons.By the time he was 26, he was making $10,000 to $15,000 a month teaching physicians how to improve their sales. According to Forbes, he's produced more than half a dozen seven figure online busines...
32m Jun 01, 2015
32m
The Journey From Travelling Poet to Online Entrepreneur
My guest today is a poet turned tech junkie and entrepreneur. After receiving a graduate degree in literature in 2000, my guest headed for Europe, where he sang rhymes to crowds for 5 years before moving to Arabia to teach Shakespeare to American troops. His interest in tech was sparked while working for a VC firm in Utah. His due diligence work there taught him one thing: he wanted to be the ...
36m May 28, 2015
36m
Josh Pigford on Shipping, Hiring Smart People, and Not Being Epically Wrong
My guest today is a self-proclaimed maker — but I would call him an entrepreneur, writer, designer, developer and master marketer. My guest has been developing and shipping products online for over 10 years now and has seen his share of successes and not-so-successful ventures. He is currently the founder of Baremetrics, software analytics and reporting for Stripe. Baremetrics seemingly came o...
27m May 25, 2015
27m
How to Learn From High-Quality Failures w/ Shannon Kinney
My guest for today is the founder and Client Success Officer of Dream Local Digital, a startup helping small-medium sized businesses market themselves online. She has over 15 years of experience in internet marketing, sales and products. She has worked with media companies focusing on internet product development and digital revenue growth. She is considered an expert in the field of online m...
29m May 21, 2015
29m
How to Take Action Before Knowing All the Steps w/ Mike Belsito
My guest today is an entrepreneur who enjoys creating something from nothing. In fact, he has been creating products both digital and physical for the past 10 years. He is currently the Director of Product + Strategy for Movable, a company focused on improving personal well-being by inspiring movement in groups. My guest was the Co-Founder of eFuneral.com, a funeral planning resource that was ...
34m May 18, 2015
34m
Ruben Gamez on Staying Focused and Shipping Your Product
My guest for today is a software developer that worked hard to slowly become an entrepreneur. He spent several years working as a manager for a billion dollar payroll company. And in his spare time he played around with some ideas. Early 2009 he creates his first online product that fails to garner any attention or traffic. so back to the drawing board he went two more times before hitting on...
35m May 07, 2015
35m
The Compounding Effect of Daily Content Creation with Stephanie Halligan
My guest today has dedicated her life to making the world a better, brighter place with the power of doodles. She was a Financial Empowerment Consultant and the founder of The Empowered Dollar. During this time, she helped millennials and low-income families fix their finances and feel empowered to take control of their financial destiny. Her latest and fastest growing venture is Art To Self ...
33m May 05, 2015
33m
HTE 083: Greg Hickman on Working Backwards and the Journey to $20,000 Per Month
Today’s guest is an entrepreneur on the path to success, in fact if you visit his site, you can follow him on his journey from zero to $20k per month. He is a mobile marketing consultant, entrepreneur, podcaster, speaker, coach, advisor, and friend. In September 2013, my guest quit his job and made the move from corporate to entrepreneur. His journey, along with its bumps and struggles, is o...
31m Apr 30, 2015
31m
How to Avoid the 'Idea of Entrepreneurship'
My guest for today is a freelancer, turned agency owner and entrepreneur. His first introduction to working for himself was doing side-work after hours. This eventually grew to the point that he was able to quit his job and freelance full-time. He expanded to a physical office and had eleven full-time salaried employees with clients all over the world. Family and health reasons forced him to ...
41m Apr 27, 2015
41m
One Simple Step to Attracting More Business Opportunities
In 2009, my guest co-founded and was Director of Analytics at Loudpixel, a successful social analytics company. After many successful years she realized it wasn’t quite what she wanted to be doing, so she made a change. Today my guest is an independent wedding and lifestyle photographer. In a market that most people struggle to start a business in, my guest has managed to build a business to w...
35m Apr 23, 2015
35m
HTE 080: Jeff Goins on How to Create Amongst Chaos
My guest today is a communicator, consultant, creator and an entrepreneur.  He is also a writer, speaker and a master at audience builder. Originally from Chicago, he then moved to Nashville after graduating from college and spending a year traveling with his band — I think we relate well because of the traveling musician connection. He has written four books including his latest The Art of W...
30m Apr 20, 2015
30m
HTE 079: Starting Small, Thinking Big, and Becoming Unemployable
My guest today is recognized as an unquestionable authority in the content strategy space, after having written her seminal article, The Discipline of Content Strategy. She is also one of the coolest, most passionate and friendly people that you could ever hope to meet. Although we don’t avoid content strategy explicitly in this conversation, we are here to talk about her as an entrepreneur. ...
37m Apr 14, 2015
37m
Immaturity, Impulsiveness, and the Art of Becoming an Entrepreneur
Before today’s guest built a successful company in China, he was just a wandering 20-year-old backpacker, only looking for an adventure. He planned on making a brief stop in the city of Beijing to earn some funds, see the Great Wall and move onto his next adventure. Turns out it would do more than just earn him enough funds to travel, it would lead him to become a pillar of Beijing’s pop cultu...
33m Apr 13, 2015
33m
HTE 077: Building a Business Around Your Passions
Today’s guest is a social entrepreneur. About 10 years ago, she took some off-the-cuff advice that said, you should build your career around three things you are passionate about. For my guest, these three things are: music, charity, and the environment. She is presentlyof the founder of LSTN Headphones, a headphone company with a goal of giving the gift hearing to those without. Maybe you are...
33m Apr 09, 2015
33m
Seth Godin on the Difference Between Failure and Your Struggle With Failure
Today’s guest is one of the most well-respected and prolific marketing minds alive today. After his first job out of college working at a software company, my guest started a book packaging business, which he later sold to his employees. He then co-founded Yoyodyne, a unique marketing service and company — he sold this company to Yahoo! in 1998 for $30 million. During that time, he launched ...
37m Apr 06, 2015
37m
HTE 075: How to Turn What You Know Into a Business
Today’s guest is the founder of The Improv Effect, a company that gives their clients the competitive edge, through creativity, collaboration and effective communication. My guest's goal was to help businesses reach their full potential and she has successfully done this for global companies such as Groupon, Johnson & Johnson, The PGA Tour, Crayola and many more. With techniques that she lear...
31m Apr 02, 2015
31m
Here’s How Pat Flynn Grew an Audience of Raving Fans
He began his online journey back in 2008 after getting laid off from his job as an architect and he has not stopped or looked back since. Today’s guest is one of the nicest people I’ve ever met, as well as a serial online entrepreneur. He is now the host of the wildly successful Smart Passive Income podcast, as well as Ask Pat and more recently the 1-Day Business breakthrough podcast with Chri...
36m Mar 30, 2015
36m
HTE 073: Go as Far as You Can and Let Someone Else Pull You Back
Today’s guest is a brilliant entrepreneur who has seen more landing pages than anyone on the planet — in fact, he looks at 1,000 pages per week. He is co-founder of Unbounce, a company that allows marketers to build, publish and A/B test landing pages without an IT department or knowledge of HTML. Prior to starting Unbounce, he honed his branding skills as Creative Director at Bodog, an onlin...
34m Mar 26, 2015
34m