The Entrepreneur Way

A Microsoft engineer alum, sought-after public speaker and author of the #1-selling Power BI book, Rob Collie and his team are relentlessly committed to “the new way forward,” making P3 a leading consulting firm in the industry, pioneering an agile, results-first methodology that bucks the traditional BI company model. “’one of the first things you need to do in order to succeed at anything new is to get over the advice everyone gives you that it can’t be done’ I’m butchering it in terms of the letter of the quote but the spirit of the quote is exactly that… You have to believe in what you are doing. If you don’t believe in it probably didn’t even start. But if you are not a believer you properly don’t want to be in this business, you properly don’t want to be in the business of starting things. And you do have to even after you have sort of planted your foot and said okay, I am doing this then you have to whether all of the criticism that is going to be levelled at you because now you have put your hat in the ring, you have made your bet, you are now a target for criticism in a way that you are not when you are just considering doing something or talking about it… The criticisms don’t end. The doubts don’t end when you start. In fact, they really once you are in, once you start building this thing that’s when you are really going to be tested. Your faith is really going to be tested… You are going to have to be okay with looking foolish sometimes”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-88g

Dane Reis is the creator & host of the podcast, “You Booked It” the #1 podcast where you learn how to create a successful entertainment career from the entertainment professionals who are doing it right now! For the past 16 years Dane has entertained audiences around the World. “I would say it is for things. 1) get clear on what it is that you want. 2) be good at what you do which is a little bit more nuanced than simply being good. It means that includes yes being good at whatever the thing is that you do. But also, that includes having integrity, being where you say you are going to be, doing what you say you are going to do. Then you have to be 3) be nice to everybody because you never know how relationships are going develop over time. And really that so much of what create success and my experience is that relationships that you have with different people or organisations. And then say yes until saying yes becomes a problem. Then you can maybe say no every once in a while”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-87s

Andrew Royer is a Canadian CPA, CGA and a certified Profit First Professional. Andrew is the CEO of Royer Accounting Ltd., a Profit First bookkeeping firm, that helps entrepreneurs have clarity around their numbers and to become more profitable. “not getting caught up in trying to hire somebody that will bring in money. You I think are the most as an entrepreneur going to bring in the most amount of money. You started business because it is something that you are passionate about, it’s something that you know well. And I think that’s true for most entrepreneurs. I think the money would be much better spent trying to get rid of the things that are getting in your way of being able to really grow the business and provide excellent service”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-86x

Aviv Shalgi is a serial entrepreneur, and is the CEO of an energy tech startup, Solar Simplified. “there are anomalies in the world where nobody knows that they have a problem because they haven’t seen the solution yet… Go and ask questions. Don’t try to ask about the problem you are trying to solve. Maybe the problem is not there, maybe the problem is elsewhere. Go and talk to people who you think might be potential customers, ordinary people, business people, small corporations, large corporations et cetera et cetera. Try to ask questions about the field that you think about starting and keep doing that even after you’ve started this innovation of his business that you are working on”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-85F

Mari Ryan is a workplace well-being expert, international speaker and award-winning author. She is the CEO and founder of AdvancingWellness. For the past 15 years, Ms. Ryan has been creating thriving workplaces, through her consulting work and speaking on worksite well-being. Mari is the author of award-winning book The Thriving Hive: How People-Centric Workplaces Ignite Engagement and Fuel Results. “be thoughtful about what you do. Understand why you are making the decisions that you are making and really take the time to be prepared for the decisions you are making. And no that the work that you do has to be meaningful for your customers, you have to solve a customer problem. So, make sure that you are thoughtfully approaching how you are solving that problem for your customer in a way that going to be unique and that will differentiate you”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-84O

Antoine Martel is a 25 year old real estate investor from Toronto, Canada. While still in college Antoine learnt about real estate investing and knew it was his calling. From his dorm room he completed his first BRRRR project out of state with his father's $40,000. Since then Antoine and his family have completed over 200 real estate projects and currently have a $14M real estate portfolio. They have also helped create $50,000/mo of cash flow for their clients “match your resources with the best business or strategy for you and start small, test things out, create an MVP and do things very low budget and low-cost. And last but not least find something that you love that you enjoy doing or you think you’re actually helping your end customer and client and not where you need to go and sell them something you really need to go and help change their lives or change their outlook or change their view. ”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-83W

Growing up, Eric Dunavant’s family faced an unexpected tragedy and lost the family business. This loss fueled Eric’s passion for empowering families to live a better story through intentionality. Dunavant’s leadership of Paradiem has guided numerous families to create Intentional Transformation by discovering their Greatness, Growth, Governance and Generosity. “being an entrepreneur is a bumpy journey and even when it looks like things are down things are probably much higher than you realise they are. What I’ve experienced in my entrepreneurial journey is that most entrepreneurs go through waves of success. Meaning that they start out they have success and they go up and then there is a temporary setback before they enter the next wave of success. And its often times in that setback where you feel like things are not working and you are not going that well and begin to really doubt yourself or you really begin to have uncertainty. In that uncertainty and in that doubt, I would almost say I’ve talked to entrepreneurs who said I’m just going to stop, I’m just going to quit. And what they don’t realise is how far they’ve come. And then they make the next level up and they get some relief and then they go through that again. It cycles over and over and over again. But every single setback setting the journey for the next wave higher. And each time you reach another setback I have also found that most entrepreneurs are much more successful than they were the last setback. And so they don’t realise the setback what it is which is why the setback is your setup for your next opportunity”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-835

Christine Kane is the founder of Uplevel You™, a multimillion-dollar business coaching company based in Asheville, NC, which was a natural evolution from her 15-year career as a touring singer-songwriter with her own record label. Both businesses were built from scratch without a single investor. Learning as she went, Kane did it all step-by-step and now shares this wisdom with her clients, so they finally get it, apply it, and succeed on their own terms. Her company’s masterminds, trainings, and events draw entrepreneurs from around the world. “at its core your business is the territory of your own personal growth or your soul’s growth if you want to put it that way… I would say to keep that in mind. What that means is that your business is always speaking to you. Your business is always calling you out of your stuck spots, your conditioning and waking you up if you let it and if you can trust that”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-82c

Shawn Rhodes leveraged his life as a war correspondent to become an expert in how systems affect sales success. His work from the most dangerous places on the planet has been published in TIME, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal. He’s a nationally syndicated columnist and author of Bulletproof Selling. “figure out what you would do for free and then ask how do you get paid for it”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-81i

Steven Lefkoff is the founder of Small Claims Academy, a business established in 2020 to empower litigants to perform as well as they can in their small claims case. Small Claims Academy's first product, Gavel, is an online course to teach litigants the tips, tricks, and procedures of small claims courts. “push the button… If you have a great idea in your mind or you have an exciting thing that you want to do then take it step-by-step. Write out the steps, say the first five. What do you have to do at the beginning? Register the business, come up with a name, ask a bunch of people what they think about it. Whatever it is right out your steps and just start tackling them one by one”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-80r