S1 Ep362: Are You Feeling Torn Between Places or Projects?
We often take on too much, desire too much, or feel stuck between different paths. How can we navigate it? Social psychology professor Tessa West, author of the new book Job Therapy (https://www.amazon.com/Job-Therapy-Finding-Work-Works/dp/0593714741/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=) , helps us make sense of our complex paths — and our often complex relationship with work.
30m Jul 29, 2024
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S1 Ep361: How To Productively Disagree With Anyone— Even Family!
In every partnership, there will be disagreements. But they don't have to ruin your relationships. Today, listen in on a coaching session about this: Jason talks with an entrepreneur who disagrees with his cofounders (and family members!). This is an episode from Jason's other podcast, Help Wanted (https://link.chtbl.com/LsYdERXQ) .
36m Jul 22, 2024
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S1 Ep360: How to Feel Satisfied, When You Always Want More
Andrew Wilkinson went from barista to billionaire, and often wonders: When does it feel like he's accomplished enough? It's why he wrote his new book, "Never Enough." In this deep and personal conversation, we explore what it means to constantly want more, and how to find satisfaction in your accomplishments.
38m Jul 15, 2024
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S1 Ep359: Find Out What People Are *Really* Thinking
Why are we often unaware of problems? It's because we're not asking the right questions. Jeff Wetzler is a master of asking better questions, and teaches us how to extract the information we need from others. His new book is called "Ask: Tap Into the Hidden Wisdom of People Around You for Unexpected Breakthroughs In Leadership and Life".
49m Jul 08, 2024
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S1 Ep358: How to Overcome Fear and Take Action
31m Jul 01, 2024
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S1 Ep357: Become the Leader Your Team Needs, with Jon Taffer
34m Jun 24, 2024
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S1 Ep356: How to Stand Out From Your Competitors
53m Jun 17, 2024
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S1 Ep355: Don't Let Your Business Ruin Your Life
How can you build a business, without it consuming your life? Kathleen Griffith, author of the book "Build Like A Woman (https://buildlikeawoman.com/) ", explains how to keep both things healthy — step by step.
27m Jun 10, 2024
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When Defeat Becomes a Blessing in Disguise
Jaliyla Fraser is the Founder and CEO of Fraser’s Mathematics Solutions. What started as a STEAM summer camp for students, Fraser’s Mathematics Solutions now provides high-quality mathematics learning for administrators, teachers, and parents to help the students in their lives succeed. Fraser’s Mathematics Solutions also produces school supplies for students to help them reach their full poten...
38m Jun 04, 2024
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S1 Ep354: How to Make A Million Dollars (with the Co-Hosts of My First Million)
32m Jun 03, 2024
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S1 Ep353: Leader vs. CEO, with Whole Foods Co-Founder John Mackey
27m May 27, 2024
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S1 Ep352: What's Your Hidden Competitive Advantage?
19m May 20, 2024
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S1 Ep351: How Google Executives Become More Productive
Want to be more productive, and use your time more wisely? Take advice from Laura Mae Martin, Google's in-house productivity expert, and author of the new book "Uptime". In this conversation, she lays out a plan for focusing your time and your energy. You'll never look at to-do lists the same again. Thanks to our sponsor Hertz Business Rewards for helping small businesses save big. Join for f...
45m May 13, 2024
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S1 Ep350: Start A Million-Dollar Business In A Weekend?
28m May 06, 2024
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S1 Ep349: The Biggest Writing Mistakes That Entrepreneurs Make
Want to get your ideas into the world? Writing coach Amber Rae (see: amberrae.com (http://amberrae.com/) ) has some counterintuitive advice: Don't think about your audience, and don't write what you "should" write. On this episode, she explains some of the most common mistakes that entrepreneurs make, and how anyone can find great stories and create meaningful, memorable work. Thanks to our spo...
28m Apr 29, 2024
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S1 Ep348: Solving the Staffing Shortage in Hospitality
28m Apr 22, 2024
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S1 Ep347: The First Influencer Marketing Agency... for LinkedIn?
34m Apr 15, 2024
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S1 Ep346: Make Better Content With the "Bricks & Mortar" Method
20m Apr 08, 2024
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S1 Ep345: How To Find Your First Customers
34m Mar 25, 2024
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S1 Ep344: Want A Great Business Idea? Find A "Cohort"
34m Mar 18, 2024
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S1 Ep343: Start Sales Pitches With Stories. Here's Why!
18m Mar 11, 2024
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S1 Ep342: Should You Start A Business With Your Best Friend?
Many people start businesses with friends and loved ones — but if you're not careful, you can destroy both your company and your relationship. So how do you do it right? Take it from two women who know: Julie Griggs and Danielle Dietzek, cofounders of FourPlay Social. They share the very personal, often difficult side of their relationship, and how they've learned to thrive.
40m Mar 04, 2024
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S1 Ep341: LinkedIn's Algorithm Changes, Explained
52m Feb 26, 2024
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S1 Ep340: Why Workers Are Disengaged, and How to Fix That
30m Feb 19, 2024
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S1 Ep339: How to Send the Best Sales Emails
21m Feb 12, 2024
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S1 Ep338: How Failure Can Feel Good
Our jobs are not to do things perfect. We can't! But we can make our mistakes very useful. Here's how — along with a personal story about a very recent, embarassing failure. (To see the newsletter I talk about in this episode, visit http://jasonfeifer.com/newsletter)
17m Feb 05, 2024
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S1 Ep337: Where Negativity at Work Comes From, and How to Fix It
Where there's a void in leadership, negativity will fill it. That's Jon Gordon's message. He's the best-selling author of 28 books (most recently, "The One Truth"), and has a company that teaches what he calls "positive leadership." In this conversation, he explains how workplaces become negative, how to diagnose the problem, and how leaders can create positivity instead.
31m Jan 29, 2024
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S1 Ep336: Keeping Up With Rapid Change, With Investor Thomas Tull
Are you ready to adapt quickly? Billionaire tech investor Thomas Tull says you should be—because these days, there’s no other choice. Entrepreneur’s 45th annual Franchise 500® ranking shines a light on the unique challenges and changes that have shaped the franchise industry over the last year—and how franchisors have adapted and evolved to meet them. See the list here: https://www.entreprene...
28m Jan 22, 2024
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S1 Ep335: Taco Bell's New CEO On How Brands Become Culturally Hot
47m Jan 15, 2024
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S1 Ep334: Vulnerability Can Hurt Leaders, Unless They Do This
Should a leader show vulnerability? That depends on how they do it, says leadership expert Jacob Morgan, author of the book "Leading with Vulnerability." He interviewed 100 CEOs and surveyed 14,000 employees, and found that, depending on how a leader shows their vulnerability, people are either more drawn or more distrustful of them. In this episode, Morgan explains how to use vulnerability sma...
33m Jan 08, 2024
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S1 Ep333: “I’m Running a Business With My Ex. HELP!”
40m Dec 25, 2023
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S1 Ep332: Jonathan B. Smith - How to be Heard by Improving Your Listening Skills
27m Dec 18, 2023
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S1 Ep331: Earn a Living as a Writer, Without a Writing Background
Most writers obsess over their words. Sahil Bloom did that too — but he also became curious about how words travel, and why they go viral, and the needs that other writers have. That’s because he came from the world of finance, not writing, and was able to apply a business lens to the sometimes-squishy world of content... and now runs a newsletter with 600,000 subscribers that brings in upwards...
30m Dec 11, 2023
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S1 Ep330: Making "Hybrid Work" Actually Work
24m Dec 04, 2023
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S1 Ep329: Turn A Crazy Idea Into A Very Real Business
One night, Holden Forrest drew a wild idea on the back of his daughter's math homework: What if he could lower a house into the ground, as a way to escape oncoming wildfires? He couldn't shake this idea, so he started researching whether it's possible — and now, years later, he has a company called HiberTec, multiple patents, groundbreaking technology, and is raising money to build his first pr...
37m Nov 27, 2023
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How to Build (or Join) A Useful Community
"Community" has become a buzzword — but when it's done right, it's also an incredibe tool. This is where you find support from others. It's a living, breathing resource. In this episode, Jason Feifer talks with Pat Flynn, cofounder of the community Smart Passive Income, about how to build and foster great relationships. And if you're building a business or audience online, you can now join and ...
33m Nov 24, 2023
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S1 Ep328: When You Have A Solution People Don't Know They Need
Sometimes, a company creates an amazing solution... but clients don't understand why they need it. What do you do then? Garry Cooper has the answer, because it's exactly what he had to do at his company Rheaply. Here's the problem, as Rheaply saw it: At large companies, employees often buy things the company already has. They also throw out things the company could still use. That's because the...
32m Nov 20, 2023
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S1 Ep327: How to Leave Social Media and Still Grow Your Business
33m Nov 13, 2023
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S1 Ep326: He Got 450,000 Newsletter Subcribers by Sharing "Nice News"
27m Nov 06, 2023
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S1 Ep325: Why "People First" Is Better Than "Customer First"
36m Oct 30, 2023
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S1 Ep324: Who Should Solve Our Biggest Problems?
38m Oct 23, 2023
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S1 Ep323: How to Be More Human In A Time of AI
Cal Fussman is a master storyteller, and he's been thinking a lot about AI lately. Why? "This debate between authenticity and artificial intelligence is the battle of the next millennium," he says. When robots can communicate for us, how can we be more human? When we can automate much of our writing and production, how do we share our authentic selves and connect to others? These questinos have...
25m Oct 16, 2023
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S1 Ep322: How to Tell Sexy Stories About Unsexy Brands
Not every company has a whiz-bang product, so how can you make it pop? Squarespace Chief Creative Officer David Lee has done that, winning tons of awards and making campaigns with the likes of Adam Driver, Zendaya, Dolly Parton, Keanu Reeves and John Malkovich (which earned him an Emmy). Here, he offers a unique way for entrepreneurs to think about their brands, and some big questions to ask wh...
26m Oct 09, 2023
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S1 Ep321: Small Biz Special: How A Magic Show Became Popular
26m Oct 02, 2023
26m
S1 Ep320: How to Sound Smart and Memorable, Anytime
22m Sep 25, 2023
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S1 Ep319: Can An Entrepreneur Be An Activist?
27m Sep 18, 2023
27m
S1 Ep318: Small Biz Special: How A Small Gym Stays Strong
How can a small gym compete against a world of big, well-funded chains? In this special episode celebrating Entrepreneur and Yelp's list of America's Favorite Mom & Pop Shops, we take an inside look at Ambitious Athletics in Washington DC — by zeroing in on one customer interaction, and what made it so special. This episode is in partnership with the podcast Behind the Review.
28m Sep 11, 2023
28m
S1 Ep317: Don't Just Sell A Product. Champion An Idea!
27m Sep 04, 2023
27m
S1 Ep316: Small Biz Special: How A Small Theater Gets Attention
How can a small theater compete against a world of big, well-funded entertainment? In this special episode celebrating Entrepreneur and Yelp's list of America's Favorite Mom & Pop Shops, we take an inside look at Illusions Bar & Theater in Baltimore — by zeroing in on one customer interaction, and what made it so special. This episode is in partnership with the podcast Behind the Review.
30m Aug 28, 2023
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S1 Ep315: The Most Annoying Tech Mystery, Solved!
24m Aug 21, 2023
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