The Entrepreneur Way

Benny Ausmus is the founder of the BIG Change Agency, and for the last 10 years, he’s brought transformation to yogurt factories, IT consultancies, flying trapeze schools (seriously!), manufacturers, accounting firms, recruitment companies, web developers, real estate agencies… just about every sort of business and industry you can imagine. In his new book The Transformational Leadership Compass (2/16), Benny synthesizes 14 areas of leadership research and practice into real-world, actionable advice for CEOs and business leaders. “Treat learning as if it was an asset. Treat your own learning edge as if it was an asset of your business. So, the time that you invest and invest wisely in the right learning interventions to develop your skill set, to develop your ability… Treat that is something that can sit on your balance sheet as an investment for the future and find the right sources for it. The more you learn the more you earn provided it is real-world content. So, I’m not saying duck off and get an MBA, the truth is you are not going to learn how to manage people through an MBA. You are going to learn some cool models and probably develop a network if you go to the right one. But you learn to swim by being in the pool. So have a great coach, learn using practical applied interventions as you go through and invest heavily in that and you will see growth happen far faster for you”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-kEU

James Petrossi is a human connection and consciousness expert, advocate for humanity and author of the guide Know Your True Self: The Formula to Raise Human Consciousness. Skilled in issues of consciousness, the mind and creating behavioral change, his insights into the human experience have been used for the past 25+ years to develop marketing, sales and coaching strategies for leading hospitality, beverage and technology brands. A master facilitator and dynamic presenter, James utilizes his experience in talent development, creative strategy and decades of research into the human condition to offer practical solutions that help transform people’s lives. “just find ways to really use your natural born talents. I think you know there is a lot of pressure we put on ourselves as individuals to achieve certain things financially or to achieve a certain level of prestige. When you look at whatever you are trying to do make sure that you are nurturing your natural talents, understand to the point about change that your talents are going to change over time. Embrace that change and really look for ways to use those talents to help humanity and the environment. And your success is going to be predicated on the number of people that you help. And the more people that you can help the more money you are going to make and you are going to be really fulfilled in a lot of different ways financially and spiritually”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-ko6

Isaac Kuhlman has been an Amazon Brand Developer since 2013, responsible for more than $12 Million in revenue. He is the co-founder of REAL Coaching with Kirsty Verity where they have helped over 1,000 Amazon Sellers grow their businesses with the right strategies to achieve their freedom goals. They specialize in taking sellers who are stuck or plateaued in their business and break through to reach the real success they desire. “don’t quit because that’s when you know that you failed. Because everybody is afraid of failure, right? It’s kind of one of those things where if you accept that you are going to have mistakes that you can fix then you can grow your business and you can be an entrepreneur. If you accept that any time you make a mistake you failed then you will pretty much lose and you will quit. So, it is really about growing what I call a growth mindset… It’s not my term it’s been out there. A growth mindset means that any time there’s a setback in your business use that as a learning opportunity to come back and grow stronger”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-k6s

Coach Jennie Mustafa-Julock is the sought after coach and speaker changemakers turn to when they can't seem to get out of their own way. She helps these impatiently ambitious humans figure out how to stop squandering their potential so they can finally get on with the business of changing the world. “just start. Even though you don’t feel ready, even though you don’t feel prepared, even though you don’t have it all figured out, even though you think selling is sleazy, even though every fibre of your being is terrified, even though your parents want you to just keep a nice cushy job and even though nobody in your world has ever thought about being an entrepreneur you can do it… It’s your turn. If you are waiting for somebody to say it’s your turn and here is your permission slip then here it is. It is your turn to start right now”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-jPk

Susan Fennema is the Chaos Eradicating Officer (CEO) of Beyond the Chaos, a consultancy helping small business owners to simplify their operations and manage their projects so they can grow their businesses and get their lives back. With 30+ years of operations/project management experience in professional service industries, Susan is on a mission to improve American society exponentially. When not making multi-course dinners, she enjoys Texas A&M football games and Blackhawks hockey. She lives and works from her home in McKinney, Texas, with her husband, dog, and cat. “systemised your business, figure out how to develop a process so that you are not the bottleneck in every single step”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-jxC

Aaron Welch is a Marine Corps Veteran, entrepreneur, and marketer with more than 20 years of digital marketing experience. He is the founder of Lift Digital Marketing, a full-service digital marketing agency specializing in generating new leads for businesses focused on growth. He has been featured in Yahoo Finance, NBC, Digital Journal, Thrive Global, Medium and Vocal. Looking for help with your digital marketing efforts? “find something that you are good at, find something that you enjoy doing and do that the best you can. Deliver as much value as you can to people. Find a problem and either fixed it or try your damnedest to get it fixed”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-jgB

TEDx Speaker, #1 Bestselling author of The Six Habits and Life Mastery Coach, Laura DiBenedetto teaches how to create the life of our dreams without sacrificing what we love. As Founder and CEO of Vision Advertising, a company that she built aged 19, she has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs build and grow profitable enterprises entirely on their terms. “work on yourself ”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-iYK

Peter Rabey is the Co-founder & CEO of the X4 Group, an award-winning global multi-brand recruitment business specialising in the technology, life sciences, construction and communications sectors with offices in the UK, USA and New Zealand. “have learning at the centre of what you do and what your team do. If you got anyone that doesn’t want to learn at any point, I feel that that’s a really dangerous individual potentially. So having learning at the centre of everything would be the biggest piece of advice I would suggest”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-iHI

Vidya Ravi is an internationally-acclaimed Facebook ads strategist and marketer. Since 2014, her company, Storybird Ads has managed ad accounts and campaigns for clients around the globe, often with results of 42X ROI. A former funnel builder, Ravi is noted for her holistic approach to analyzing every aspect of the ad campaign, from artwork to every touchpoint in the client’s journey to purchase. “dream bigger if you are actually going to dream… Everything that you imagine if you are going to go behind this it is going to happen. So just go and dream bigger and bigger and bigger because everything is definitely going to happen”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-irX

Colin C Thompson, a Canadian born Jamaican, is founder and CEO of Oligye Enterprises (Shanghai) a Business Consulting company focused on coaching, training, and Blockchain technologies. Specializing in Personal Development, Diversity, and Career Coaching, Colin coaches individuals and groups on how to reach their dreams, goals, and desires. “have some very, very thick skin, skin so thick that you can’t help but go forward. Have a very high level of confidence. I call it having the Kanye West confidence meaning no matter what anybody tells you you are going to succeed. You have to have that to believe in yourself and to continue to go forward. And with a thick-skinned… You also have to have thick-skinned in the business meaning you have to invest time in the business but you also have to invest money”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-iaO