HTE 171: 3 Easy Steps to Decide What Project to Focus on Next | Mike Michalowicz
My guest today is an author, former small business columnist for the Wall Street Journal, and entrepreneur. By the age of 35, my guest had built and sold two multi-million dollar companies. Confident that he had the formula for success, he became an angel investor and proceeded to lose his entire fortune. Then he started all over again, driven to find a better way. He is now growing his third...
31m Jan 04, 2016
31m
HTE 170: Why Being Passionate Is Essential For Your Business | Kai Klement
My guest today is an eCommerce expert, a new father, and a brilliant entrepreneur. After graduating from University, my guest and his cofounder decided to get jobs at Amazon.de, Amazon’s German marketplace. After spending three years there learning the ins and outs of the platform as a Key Account Representative, the two of them decided to develop their own product and business. With zero bus...
44m Dec 22, 2015
44m
HTE 169: Why You Need to Become the "Jill of All Trades" | Andrea Loubier
My guest today is a world traveller, CEO, entrepreneur, and Jill of All Trades! My guest started her career in market research and corporate content creation in the U.S.A., before deciding she wanted to spend some time in Asia. While visiting Asia, she fell in love with Bali, Indonesia and the startup culture. This new love of the startup culture and her surroundings gave her the itch to start...
37m Dec 21, 2015
37m
HTE 168: Why You Need to Be Quick and Humble in Business | Miguel Leite
Click this link on your iPhone and you can leave a review in less than two minutes. Try it out! My guest today is a music fan, journalist, and entrepreneur. He spent some time as a record label manager at Universal Music Group, and as a digital marketer for Dialogue. And then he was the founder of FullFlex Interactive Media and Punch Magazine. But the reason he is on the show today is because ...
30m Dec 17, 2015
30m
HTE 167: Why You Should Try and Be Wrong (For the Right Reasons) | Ben Foster
Are you on your iPhone? Click this link to leave a review in less than 38 seconds! My guest today is a product strategist, user engagement master, former professional poker player, and an entrepreneur. He is a former Senior Product manager for eBay during their early years. He then moved onto VP of Product for Adchemy. His last job was VP of Product & UX for OPower. Since 2014, he has been run...
41m Dec 15, 2015
41m
HTE 166: How to Independently Earn a Living (Using Only Your Wits) | Dorie Clark
Reading this on your iPhone? Click this magical link to leave a review in less than 58 seconds.My guest today is an author, professional speaker, branding expert, teacher at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, and an entrepreneur. She consults and speaks for a diverse range of clients, including Google, the World Bank, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, and many more. She is a frequent contri...
41m Dec 14, 2015
41m
HTE 165: Try and Come at Your Problems From Different Perspectives | Sarah Attman
--Could you leave me a review for the show? Go here now! -- My guest today is writer, former reporter, holder of the third most stressful job in America, and an entrepreneur. She started her career as Staff Writer for Us Weekly where she learned hands-on about journalism and public relations. Not only this, but my guest learned what makes an A-list event stand out and how certain brands and c...
34m Dec 10, 2015
34m
HTE 164: Understanding the World as One Global Business Community | Belinda Coker
On your iPhone? Leave a review with this magical link! (Take two minutes) My guest today is an avid organic gardener, mother, international trade consultant, and an entrepreneur. From her kitchen table in Australia, my guest began sewing reusable bags. Within four years of founding Envirosax, she had scaled from her kitchen to 60 separate global markets, and became the world’s number one reus...
39m Dec 08, 2015
39m
HTE 163: How to Become a Bulletproof Entrepreneur | Dave Asprey
My guest today is a biohacker, author, nutritionist, Bulletproof Executive, and entrepreneur. He had some early adventures in internet commerce going way back to 1994. But he most known as the founder of Bulletproof Executive, the creator of Bulletproof Coffee and the Bulletproof Diet. He began blogging at BulletproofExec.com in early 2010 while holding an executive position at Trend Micro. I...
44m Dec 07, 2015
44m
HTE 162: Why You Should Learn to Always be Selling | Deedra Determan
Leave a review in iTunes (Smart Link) My guest today is a former media buyer for television and radio, marketing consultant, and digital entrepreneur. Upon leaving the corporate world behind, my guest started and developed three websites and communities for moms. Two of them were geographically based around particular area codes and all three of them were acquired in 2013. She is now a mento...
34m Dec 03, 2015
34m
HTE 161: What’s the Worst That Can Happen? | Adam Clark
On your iPhone? Leave a review in seconds with this mathemagical link! My guest today is a podcaster, teacher, designer, developer, and self-proclaimed 'indiepreneur'. He is the host of The Gently Mad, an interview podcast about what drives creators; it explores the stories, experiences and insights of awesome people who make awesome things. My guest was the founder of Bottle Rocket Creative...
46m Dec 01, 2015
46m
HTE 160: Entrepreneurship as a Cause for Change | Corbett Barr
Leave a review in iTunes (Smart Link) My guest today is a blogger, podcaster, lifestyle business builder, and has been an entrepreneur for over a decade. He is currently cofounder and CEO of Fizzle, a course and community where he and his team help indie entrepreneurs build lifestyle businesses. Ten years ago, my guest was a corporate management consultant for Fortune 500 companies, but he w...
38m Nov 30, 2015
38m
HTE 159: How to Combine Your Passion with Business | Bryan Cohen
My guest today is an actor, author, occasional game show contestant, and entrepreneur. He has written over 30 books, which have sold more than 30,000 copies. He is the founder of BestPageForward.net, the co-host of the Sell More Books Show, and Selling For Authors. M y guest has managed to merge his love of writing with the world of entrepreneurship and has grabbed the title of first guest to...
43m Nov 26, 2015
43m
HTE 158: Be the Best Teammate You Can Be | Mike Kafka
My guest today is a quarterback in the NFL, playing last season for the Minnesota Vikings and is currently a free-agent. He is enrolled at the university of Miami School of Business and is an entrepreneur to watch out for. Not one to take it easy in the off-season, my guest founded and oversees operations, product development, marketing and sales of Roo Outdoor, a lifestyle outdoor apparel com...
33m Nov 24, 2015
33m
HTE 157: I'm Always Happy, But I'm Never Content | Mike Faith
My guest today is a serial entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of www.Headsets.com, which has over 943,722 customers. My guest started Headsets.com in 1997 when he couldn't find a supplier with a good selection of headsets, fast shipping, or good product support. My guest says he is fanatic about giving customer love; so much so that every package the company ships includes a Tootsie Roll. ...
33m Nov 23, 2015
33m
HTE 156: Starting a Record Label in an Era of Digital Media | Budi Voogt
My guest today has built his life around the things he loves building things, music and entrepreneurship. He is a label owner, artist manager, writer, consultant, and an entrepreneur. He is the Co-founder of Heroic Recordings, a record label and full-service agency. He has also launched Villain Recordings for the release of darker and heavier sounds, and provides a platform for up-and-comers ...
32m Nov 19, 2015
32m
How to Find the Intersection of What People Want and What You Can Create
My guest today is a web developer,marketer, and an entrepreneur. My guest is the Co-Founder and Co-Developer of DigitalAccessPass.com, a leading membership plugin for WordPress. He is also the host of the podcast, SubscribeMe.fm, a show about making and marketing digital content using membership sites, online courses and recurring subscriptions. He is the bestselling author of No Business Like...
42m Nov 17, 2015
42m
I'd Rather Fail as a Writer Than Succeed as a Lawyer | Gretchen Rubin
My guest today is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Better Than Before,The Happiness Project and Happier at Home, as well as a podcaster, happiness expert, blogger, and an entrepreneur. My guest attended Yale Law School, got a job at a law firm, and then decided she wanted to go out on her own and become a writer. She has now become one of the most thought-provoking and influential...
31m Nov 16, 2015
31m
How to Determine Your Path and Stay Focused
My guest today is a musician, online business building strategist, and an entrepreneur. He is grounded in age-old marketing principles and the uses latest technology to help small businesses thrive. My guest founded InsiderMusicBusiness.com in 2005, which offered the weekly e-mail newsletter, Musicians Development Newsletter, and gathered 10,000 subscribers in 8 months and has now grown into a...
33m Nov 12, 2015
33m
How Your 'Pain Index' Determines Your Success as an Entrepreneur
My guest today is an avid fisherman, author, consultant, and serial entrepreneur that has been building businesses online for over 16 years. In this time, he has also helped some big companies leverage social media for leads and publicity — brands such as Fedex, Sherwin Williams, and Progressive Auto Insurance. He now helps 1000s of authors launch and market their own books as the founder of ...
38m Nov 10, 2015
38m
How to Determine What Works (and What Doesn't) | Laura Roeder
My guest today is a social media and marketing expert, speaker, a  web designer who taught herself to code in junior high, and an entrepreneur. At twenty-two, she jumped straight from Junior Designer to CEO when she quit her job to start her own business. My guest is now the Founder of Edgar, a social media scheduling and marketing automation app. She grew Edgar from zero to $100k in monthly ...
41m Nov 09, 2015
41m
HTE 150: Why It's Not Always About the Money | Steve Chou
My guest today is a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, professional blogger, podcaster, and an entrepreneur. Shockingly, he's also an engineering director for the firm that makes the microprocessors that go into your iPhone. Yes, he has a high-demand job and a side-business that gives him more income than most people's full-time businesses. My guest and his wife started their first business, Bumblebe...
34m Nov 05, 2015
34m
HTE 149: Building a Business is About Progress (Not Perfection) | John Warrillow
My guest today is a writer, marketing expert, and an award-winning entrepreneur and adviser. He has been assessing businesses for 15 years and his expertise include entrepreneurship and subscription-based marketing. He is the Founder of five companies including The Value Builder System, an online platform with a suite of tools designed to build company value over time. My guest is the author ...
32m Nov 03, 2015
32m
Why You Need to Start Before You Are Ready
My guest today is a world travelling entrepreneur that has ambitions to change the world. He is the cofounder and CMO of Serengetee, an apparel company that use unique fabrics from all over the world. The launched their company in early 2012, from their dorm rooms, with zero outside investment or funding. Just their own $3000 that they scrounged up together. They have built a team of 22 emplo...
28m Nov 02, 2015
28m
How to Determine What Your Audience Wants | Breanne Dyck
[episode] My guest today is a content strategist, consultant, coach, and an entrepreneur. She is also an expert on online marketing, instructional design, business strategy, and product development. She spent 5 years as a course developer and curriculum expert, as well as creating strategic websites for technology start-ups and non-profits. She then quit her job and started her journey as an ...
1hr Oct 29, 2015
1hr
Trying to Determine the Future of Content
My guest today is a media executive, father, and Canadian Entrepreneur with a background in journalism and new media. He is the Founder and President of A Parent Media Co. and Kidoodle.TV, a commercial-free video subscription service for kids that allows parents to control exactly what their children watch. My guest founded these companies to make the world of digital media a safer place for ...
34m Oct 27, 2015
34m
Brian Gardner on ‘Hitting the Wall’ and Pushing Through
My guest today is a Starbucks addict, Sarah McLachlan fan, web designer, and digital entrepreneur. My guest is a partner at Rainmaker Digital. He is also the Founder of the Genesis Framework and StudioPress. In fact, he invented the business of premium WordPress themes. As you will hear in this episode, my guest started StudioPress as a side business. He didn't go full-time with it until long...
39m Oct 26, 2015
39m
The Art of Dealing with Online Criticism
My guest today is a speaker, a bestselling and award-winning writer, brand consultant, and an entrepreneur. She became an answer to a Trivial Pursuit and Jeopardy question after being fired from her job as a web designer for blogging stories involving her colleagues. My guest is now the Founder of and professional blogger at Dooce. She has been a part of the internet writing community for 14 ...
32m Oct 22, 2015
32m
Why You Need to Expect Excellence of Yourself
[episode] My guest today is a blogger, digital consultant, writer, podcaster, and serial entrepreneur. He co-founded the design & digital agency, DMSQD, in 2010. The business grew rapidly and, as a result, my guest suffered from what he calls superhero syndrome and was working longer hours but becoming less productive. His other ventures include co-founding Podcast Websites with John Lee Dum...
32m Oct 20, 2015
32m
How to See Business Opportunities Everywhere
My guest today is an actor, filmmaker, director and producer, journalist, event organizer, and entrepreneur. As an actor, my guest has appeared in award-winning movies, T.V. shows and commercials, such as HBO’s True Blood, as well as the popular British soap operas, East Enders and Holby City. He is the Co-founder of Stuck for Staff, the largest promotional staff resource in the U.K. and U.S....
34m Oct 19, 2015
34m
How to Determine the Lifetime Value of Your Idea (Before Starting)
My guest today is an App Store Optimization specialist, hustler, entrepreneur, idea machine, and a very good friend of mine. When I met my today’s guest, he had a team developing over 30 apps per month — but he will tell you that he is not an app developer; in fact, he couldn't care less about apps. He looks at an app and doesn't see a coding challenge or an opportunity for creativity; he sees...
41m Oct 16, 2015
41m
How to Decide Which Ideas to Follow (and Which to Ignore)
My guest today is an award-winning entrepreneur, best-selling author, a certified coach, marketing and branding pro, yogi, wife, and mom of three. She founded her self-named business seven years ago, after leaving a 6-figure and high pressured job as a conference producer. My guest launched her coaching and training business in 2008 to help and inspire women to embrace their power in business ...
46m Oct 13, 2015
46m
How to Find Your Unfair Advantage
My guest today is a musician, programmer, writer, speaker, introvert, and entrepreneur. My guest started out as a professional musician. Then he wanted a way to sell his own CDs on the internet, but the means to do this didn't exist. So his entrepreneurial spirit took over and he decided to create a website to sell his own music, then his friends music, then his friend's friends were asking, a...
53m Oct 12, 2015
53m
The Key to Finding Your Company's Highest Value Processes
My guest today is a world traveller, seasoned hustler, fitness and food enthusiast, and tech entrepreneur. His strengths are in sales, marketing, traffic, and products. He was the youngest Cisco engineer in Australia at age 16 and later founded a marketing company with teams in the USA, Philippines and India. The company broke $1 million in revenue in less than three years. He is now the co-f...
37m Oct 08, 2015
37m
How to Set and Achieve Goals Through Visualization
My guest today is a creator, problem solver and team builder. He has been a serial entrepreneur for twenty-two years and has built eight startups. He is the CEO and Founder of Intently. Intently is a vision boarding application and the world's most inspirational adblocker. It replaces all the advertisements we see while browsing the internet with specific go als and elements from our customize...
30m Oct 06, 2015
30m
HTE 136: How to Accidentally Start and Scale a Business | Nik Trowbridge
My guest today is the President of the Statements Brand, which includes Statements the Salon, Statements the Academy, Statements Photography and The Statements Project. She has been in the beauty industry 24 years and an “accidental” entrepreneur for 17 years after accidentally opening a salon at the age of 18. My guest still works behind the chair with her team of 50 stylists, as well as educ...
39m Oct 05, 2015
39m
HTE 135: Casey Meehan | The Power of Persistence and the Willingness to Not Give Up
My guest today is a musician, producer, label owner, website designer, online marketer, concert promoter, and an entrepreneur. He is the Founder of EpicPresence.com, which provides intelligent online marketing to businesses across the U.S. He is also the Founder of ChicagoMixtape.com, through which my guest internationally distributes the local music of Chicago. My guest was previously employe...
36m Oct 01, 2015
36m
The Extraordinary Value of Sharing and Being a Connector
My guest today is the Founder, publisher and CEO of Momtrends.com. She left her role as an executive at Ralph Lauren to launch the Momtrends blog in 2007. Momtrends has grown massively since then and is now a boutique media brand, which provides moms with the latest news on all things trendy and cool. It has an ever-growing mom community with more than 150,000 visitors to the site and its soci...
35m Sep 29, 2015
35m
The Easiest Way to Know if Your Project Failed with Danny Iny
My guest today is a speaker, advisor, best-selling author of multiple books, such as Engagement from Scratch and The Audience Revolution, and an entrepreneur. He is the founder of Firepole Marketing and Productive Inbox, and the host of the Business Reimagined podcast. He is also the creator of training programs, such as Audience Business Master Class and Course Builders Laboratory, which have...
32m Sep 28, 2015
32m
In Spite of Everything: The Entrepreneur’s Path to Building a Business
My guest today is a marketing expert, entrepreneur, and bass player. He is the Creative Director of Kinectiv, a marketing firm that focuses on developing business identities and providing customers with a great experience via websites, graphic design and social media. My guest is described as the "brains" behind this operation as he develops strategies and marketing campaigns to ensure the suc...
34m Sep 24, 2015
34m
HTE 131: How to Market Anything Online: An Efficient Conversation with Neil Patel
My guest today is the co-founder of the analytics companies KISSmetrics, Crazy Egg, and Quick Sprout. He is a frequent contributor to publications, such as Inc. Magazine, Fast Company, Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine. He also helps companies such as Amazon and Viacom grow their revenue. President Obama recognized my guest as one of the top 100 entrepreneurs under the age of 30 and he has also...
25m Sep 22, 2015
25m
How to Overcome 'Shiny Object Syndrome'
My guest today is an entrepreneur and businesswoman, speaker, business adviser and the author of the Amazon bestseller, EXIT! 12 Steps to Sell Your Business for the Price You Deserve. My guest is founder and CEO of The WELL. Through her company my guest helps entrepreneurs who want to grow and eventually sell their business for a million or more. She has 25 years experience in the business wo...
37m Sep 21, 2015
37m
How to Maintain Well-Being While Building a Business w/ Aimee Prasek
My guest today is a creative and somewhat reluctant entrepreneur. She is the founder of The Sherman Project, an effective, and empowering program that ignites meaningful and measurable well being transformations. She is the founder of BeStrongPeaceful.com, where she offers holistic wellbeing programs and has created a vibrant community. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, she studied under hea...
51m Sep 17, 2015
51m
How Content is 'King' (and Why Promotion is Key) w/ Matt Kepnes
My guest today is a nomadic entrepreneur, bestselling author, travel blogger and adviser. He has been traveling since 2006 and has created a site, which offers tested travel tips and advises visitors on how to see more of the world for less. He's helped 16 million people realize their travel dreams and helped those dreams become a reality. His books include The Ultimate Guide for Travel Hack...
29m Sep 15, 2015
29m
Mentorships, Delegation, and the Difference Between Managing and Leading
My guest today is a virtual CEO, serial entrepreneur, keynote speaker, host of The New Business Podcast, blogger and four-times bestselling author. His businesses include Virtual Staff Finder, Live2Sell, and now his latest, YouPreneur. His book, Virtual Freedom, has sold more than 30,000 copies on Amazon. Virtual Freedom is the essential guide to running and growing a business with the help of...
46m Sep 14, 2015
46m
How to Take Action Consistently (and Allow a Business to Emerge)
My guest today started building websites for real estate companies at 22. He initially started doing this from his parents toy closet, after he was scammed out of $12,000 for a sham online business. Starting over again with almost nothing, he asked countless questions and passionately learned about the real estate companies problems and, as a result, my guests business grew rapidly. Now he wan...
50m Sep 10, 2015
50m
How a ‘Scatterbrain Creative’ Became a Full-Time Blogger
My guest today is a former English teacher, lover of all things creative, blogger at Just a Girl and Her Blog, and an author of three eBooks, including Building a Framework: The Ultimate Blogging Handbook. Although she started and runs a great business, she says her favourite job is being a wife to her husband and a mother to her two boys. She started Just a Girl and her Blog as a hobby in Ja...
30m Sep 08, 2015
30m
How to Take Extraordinary Action (on Ordinary Things)
My guest today is the author of the Brain Audit, a cartoonist, marketing strategist, and brilliant entrepreneur. He has a degree in accountancy and started working with one of the best advertising agencies in the world, which guided him into the world of copywriting, writing TV commercials, graphic design, cartoons and web design. He is now the owner of PsychoTactics, where he writes about mar...
46m Sep 07, 2015
46m
Entrepreneurship: A Crash Course in Self-Awareness
My guest today is a path-finding coach, speaker, writer, non-conformist, and entrepreneur. My guest is a co-host of Wild Crazy Meaningful Life podcast. She offers path-finding and peaceful productivity courses and has given inspirational talks at many events, including World Domination Summit and App Camp for Girls. She has a degree in Logic and Computation and had her dream job as an artifici...
35m Sep 03, 2015
35m
How to Become an Expert, Love What You Do, and Find Happiness
My guest today is an author, speaker, personal transition expert, educator, strategic advisor and most of all, an entrepreneur. She has authored several incredible books, including her most recent, Business Dating: Applying Relationship Rules in Business For Ultimate Success. My guest has passionately served professionals as a coach and mentor for 15 years and says she empowers others to shed ...
37m Sep 01, 2015
37m