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Travis Lindemoen is the Managing Director of Nexus IT Group, an IT recruiting firm that specializes in federal services.00:00 - Guest Introduction03:44 - Social Soft Skills and the Skillsets in-demand for Transformations and Microservices07:31 - Automating Manual Quality Assurance Testing in Software Development10:53 - Framework Set-Up in Test Automation and Dealing with QA Mistakes14:27 - Dealing with a nightmare QA project and staffing up for quick resolution17:52 - Lessons Learned from a Costly IT Mistake21:14 - Better Documentation and Understanding Project Expectations24:45 - Dealing with Challenging Team Members and High Turnover Rates in IT Projects31:40 - Managing Difficult Employees: Yellow Flags and Red Flags35:15 - Anger vs. Questions in Leadership38:38 - Hiring challenges in a changing world👀 Check out the company:https://nextusitgroup.com✅ Subscribe if you liked this interview:https://youtube.com/@seanweisbrot🤝 Become a podcast sponsor:https://www.welivetobuild.com/sponsor📈 To hire Sean to consult your company:https://calendly.com/wltb/strategy#entrepreneurship #entrepreneur #psychology #business #startup #interview #podcast #welivetobuild Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anna Wong is the Co-founder and CEO of Female Entrepreneurs Worldwide, Asia's largest business platform for female founders and business executives to learn and network.In this special episode, we go deeper into her own Psychology about how she runs her business and what she's thinking about recently.00:00 - Challenges of Finding and Engaging Top Talent in Small Companies03:45 - Managing a Remote Team and Building Relationships06:34 - Taking Time for Team Culture in Remote Work Environments09:50 - Physical Contact and Remote Work Challenges13:20 - Revenge Travel and Remote Business16:35 - Building a Network while Starting Over in Different Countries19:37 - Starting Over and Building a Business that Allows for Personal Freedo👀 Check out the company:https://few.community✅ Subscribe if you liked this interview:https://youtube.com/@seanweisbrot🤝 Become a podcast sponsor:https://www.welivetobuild.com/sponsor📈 To hire Sean to consult your company:https://calendly.com/wltb/strategy#entrepreneurship #entrepreneur #psychology #business #startup #interview #podcast #welivetobuild Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Davis Nguyen is the founder of My Consulting Offer, which helps aspiring consultants get hired by management consulting firms like McKinsey, Bain, and Boston Consulting Group.We discussed the importance of exit interviews and why you should be instituting them in your business. 00:00 - Why You Should Be Doing Exit Interviews02:49 - From a Dollar a Day to Yale and Management Consulting05:23 - From Debt to Entrepreneurship: The Story of Michaels Consulting Offer08:16 - Exit Interviews for Improving Company Culture and Retaining Talent11:10 - Strategy of Exit Interviews13:51 - Tips for Conducting Productive Exit Interviews16:39 - Understanding Employee Transitions and Retention by Role19:29 - What Motivates Developers to Stay in Their Jobs?22:08 - Improving Company Culture to Retain Employees24:58 - Communication and Listening in Relationships27:53 - Exit Interviews in Improving Company Culture30:55 - Recognizing employees as human beings33:58 - Cross-cultural communication challenges36:54 - Exit Interviews for Layoffs vs Voluntary Departures39:32 - Investing in Employee Growth👀 Check out the company:https://myconsultingoffer.org✅ Subscribe if you liked this interview:https://youtube.com/@seanweisbrot🤝 Become a podcast sponsor:https://www.welivetobuild.com/sponsor📈 To hire Sean to consult your company:https://calendly.com/wltb/strategy#entrepreneurship #entrepreneur #psychology #business #startup #interview #podcast #welivetobuild Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nick Jonsson is the co-founder & Managing Director of Executives’ Global Network in Singapore, which creates confidential peer groups for founders and high-powered executives to learn, share, and grow with each other. He’s also the Co-Founder and CEO of EGN Indonesia, and they are in the process of opening the Malaysian market as of this recording.00:00 - Introduction06:39 - Peer groups you should avoid08:07 - Difference between EGN and other groups11:33 - Pros of having a good network16:40 - The business model of EGN19:51 - Having cross country connections21:44 - Topics on EGN's circle26:10 - Competing in Ironman29:15 - Learn to have fun32:16 - Building a structured schedule34:05 - Combatting mental health issues👀 Check out the company:https://egnsingapore.com✅ Subscribe if you liked this interview:https://youtube.com/@seanweisbrot🤝 Become a podcast sponsor:https://www.welivetobuild.com/sponsor📈 To hire Sean to consult your company:https://calendly.com/wltb/strategy#entrepreneurship #entrepreneur #psychology #business #startup #interview #podcast #welivetobuild Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cody Bramlett is the CEO of Science Natural Supplements, an ecommerce brand that earns 8 figures per year in revenue using 100% affiliate marketing. In this episode, we talk about what affiliate marketing is, and how to get started building your brand using affiliate marketing!0:00 - Introduction2:40 - Profit from Affiliate Marketing Strategy6:12 - How to get affiliates11:21 - Process of acquiring affiliates16:10 - Different metrics to measure success22:25 - Promotion via affiliate marketing29:10 - Partnering with other companies31:39 - Cody's struggles33:34 - How Cody started40:52 - Creating your sales page👀 Check out the company:https://supplementmillionaire.com✅ Subscribe if you liked this interview:https://youtube.com/@seanweisbrot🤝 Become a podcast sponsor:https://www.welivetobuild.com/sponsor📈 To hire Sean to consult your company:https://calendly.com/wltb/strategy#entrepreneurship #entrepreneur #psychology #business #startup #interview #podcast #welivetobuild Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michael Pearl is the COO of Kirobo, an Israeli startup developing a Smart Transaction Marketplace where anyone can do their estate planning using cryptocurrencies, and much more.00:00 - Introduction03:57 - How Kirobo was founded06:46 - Risks of custodial platforms in crypto11:03 - How Kirobo works23:03 - How Kirobo allows for easier transactions30:29 - Future plans of Kirobo42:08 - Follow up with Michael👀 Check out the company:https://kirobo.io✅ Subscribe if you liked this interview:https://youtube.com/@seanweisbrot🤝 Become a podcast sponsor:https://www.welivetobuild.com/sponsor📈 To hire Sean to consult your company:https://calendly.com/wltb/strategy#entrepreneurship #entrepreneur #psychology #business #startup #interview #podcast #welivetobuild Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michael Alexis is the CEO & Owner of teambuilding.com, which provides teams around the world with unique online and offline team building activities. 00:00 - Introduction07:22 - Working as a nomad14:51 - Living in other countries and culture26:34 - Working while travelling31:22 - Finding friends and building network35:18 - Living a minimalist life44:57 - Michael's focus at his company51:15 - Team building54:53 - Follow up with Michael👀 Check out the company:https://teambuilding.com✅ Subscribe if you liked this interview:https://youtube.com/@seanweisbrot🤝 Become a podcast sponsor:https://www.welivetobuild.com/sponsor📈 To hire Sean to consult your company:https://calendly.com/wltb/strategy#entrepreneurship #entrepreneur #psychology #business #startup #interview #podcast #welivetobuild Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jason Rosenstein is the Founder & CEO of Portion, a blockchain-based auction house. Jason has a degree in computer science with a specialization in cryptography at NYU, and started his first company in 2013, which sold turnkey crypto mining machines for. Jason has taken Portion from a digital auction house specializing in NFTs’, to a metaverse development platform and not just a marketplace.00:00 - Introduction01:48 - What is an NFT04:36 - What NFTs should you look for06:59 - Who earns the most profit in NFT space08:40 - NFT Marketplace10:42 - Use cases of NFTs14:12 - Launching an NFT Collection16:25 - NFTs and Metaverse20:00 - Future of living digitally27:39 - NFT hacking incidents32:31 - Future of NFTs41:06 - Follow up with Jason✅ Subscribe if you liked this interview:https://youtube.com/@seanweisbrot🤝 Become a podcast sponsor:https://www.welivetobuild.com/sponsor📈 To hire Sean to consult your company:https://calendly.com/wltb/strategy#entrepreneurship #entrepreneur #psychology #business #startup #interview #podcast #welivetobuild Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Glen Bhimani is the Owner and CEO of BPS Security, which provides elite security officers, as well as alarm systems and monitoring services. 00:00 - Introduction02:43 - Growing up poor09:45 - Financial status and perspective11:56 - Passing down wealth-generation knowledge14:38 - Finding opportunities and creating business around it23:24 - Glen's family and their history40:32 - Employee path vs entrepreneurial path43:10 - Trying to change the poverty mindset49:58 - Follow up with Glen👀 Check out the company:https://bpsecuritysa.com✅ Subscribe if you liked this interview:https://youtube.com/@seanweisbrot🤝 Become a podcast sponsor:https://www.welivetobuild.com/sponsor📈 To hire Sean to consult your company:https://calendly.com/wltb/strategy#entrepreneurship #entrepreneur #psychology #business #startup #interview #podcast #welivetobuild Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Angela Druckman is the President of The Druckman Company, which provides Scrum Training services. She's also a Certified Scrum Trainer and Agile Coach, and the author of 30 Days to Better Agile, the definitive guide to resolving the toughest challenges in every agile implementation.  00:00 - ntroduction01:31 - What is Scrum?06:04 - Waterfall vs Scrum13:37 - Situations where Scrum is useful17:07 - Benefits and challenges of Scrum25:19 - Implementing Scrum approach33:48 - Applying Empiricism41:47 - Technical debt49:58 - Scrum can be used for many different things53:01 - Follow up with Angela👀 Check out the company:https://angeladruckman.com✅ Subscribe if you liked this interview:https://youtube.com/@seanweisbrot🤝 Become a podcast sponsor:https://www.welivetobuild.com/sponsor📈 To hire Sean to consult your company:https://calendly.com/wltb/strategy#entrepreneurship #entrepreneur #psychology #business #startup #interview #podcast #welivetobuild Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.