The Entrepreneur Way

Brad Giles is one of Australia’s most sought-after coaches. An experienced business speaker, adviser and entrepreneur, Brad helps some of Australia’s leading mid-sized firms, CEOs and leadership teams to thrive. He is also the author of Made to Thrive: The Five Roles to Evolve Beyond Your Leadership Comfort Zone “stop doing other people’s jobs. So, you’ve got to understand if you are a leader and you are doing the sales managers job you are doing a disservice to him and plus you are not doing your job. So, stop doing other people’s jobs, whatever it is. Give people the space around you to thrive. Number two, build cash. Ideally, we want to have a cash reserve for small to medium businesses of two months of fixed expenses cash at bank. If you don’t have cash in the bank and you are worried about paying bills you are never going to be able to think strategically. Then number three is to always have 3 to 5 priorities for yourself, for the whole business, for each of the teams, for everybody in the business to always have 3 to 5 priorities ”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7HO

Kathryn Redman and Michael K. Redman are sweethearts, best friends, and the husband-and-wife team behind Half a Bubble Out (HaBO), a marketing and business consulting firm. They’re also founders of HaBO Village, a membership website which helps leaders build Passion & Provision companies, full of profit, purpose, and legacy. For more than 17 years, they have helped business leaders across the world grow their companies through marketing, business coaching, and leadership development. Kathryn and Michael have both taught at the university level and are frequent guest speakers. They currently reside in their hometown of Chico, California, where they love going to work every day. “finding a community of other leaders. And part of that is the old adage is leadership is lonely. Sometimes when our wrestling through things having other people who understand who are actually doing similar things is really powerful because it’s a little safer. If you have employees you can’t always tell you’re employees you are struggling, that’s not always a good idea… So, having other business leaders that you can go to be like I don’t know how I am going to make payroll and the other person goes you know what dude I’ve been there. Just that kind of power and community is really, really helpful. Just don’t go it alone”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7HJ

Jay Baker is an inventor holding over 40 US and international patents, including the ‘Clamtainer,’ the world’s first Certified Child Resistant clamshell container. He is very involved in his community, including serving on the local Board of Education for 25 years. Jay holds a BS in Business from Clarkson University. “you have to do what I would call a self-gut check once in a while. Take it for granted that you have perseverance, that you have drive, that you have work ethic and so on and so forth. But if you are confronted with something where there are factors whether they are external or internal that make you question if you could be 100 percent in, all in then you need to step back a little bit and analyse it and ask yourself why that is… Am I being realistic or not realistic and decide to take a different direction”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7HF

Dan Miller is author of the New York Times best-selling 48 Days To The Work You Love. Over 140,000 people have subscribed to his weekly newsletter, his 48 Days Podcast consistently ranks in the top 3 under Careers on iTunes, helping those seeking to find - or create - work they love. “it’s never too late to have a new beginning”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7Hz

A proven brand builder and entrepreneur with deep experience in innovative media ventures and consumer products, John Tabis is Founder and Chairman of The Bouqs Company. In 2012, along with co-founder Juan Pablo Montúfar, John launched the Marina del Rey, California-based company, now an industry leader in the online floral space that delivers flowers and plants fresh from eco-friendly, sustainable farms around the world to doorsteps nationwide. Prior to launching Bouqs, John worked in corporate brand strategy for Disney and ShoeDazzle and advised Fortune 100 clients at Bain & Company. “really set milestones and drive to towards those milestones in a disciplined way. At any given time especially at the beginning there are a million things to do. Every founder has a million things to do from day one. And the number of things does not shrink. As you hire people, as you get customers the number of items on your list will expand. And the key thing is understanding what milestones do I have to hit to move this company forward? Where am I versus those milestones? And what are the things that will get me to that milestone? And being very disciplined about operating against those milestones along the way”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7Ht

Kate LaBrosse is a Natural Products Industry expert, leader in the CBD space, motivational speaker and best-selling author. Kate's mission is two-fold; to bring holistic healing to the masses through motivating, educating & inspiring individuals who struggle with mental health issues and trauma AND to further the reach of the Natural Products Industry. “get really clear on what it is you are doing, what you are building, why you are building it and then to trust yourself, to trust the process and to take the steps that you are being called to take way before it feels like you are ready to take them. You wouldn’t be having that intuitive hit, you wouldn’t be having that curiosity, you wouldn’t be having that drive come up for you if there wasn’t truth and a path forward for you to follow”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7Ho

In 2003, Nick Prefontaine was in a snowboarding accident that left him in a coma for over 3 weeks. The doctors told his family that he probably wouldn’t walk, talk or eat on his own again. Less than 3 months later, he was running out of Franciscan Children’s hospital. Now a Certified Infinite Possibilities Trainer, Nick speaks to groups that benefit from his message of overcoming adversity. He grew up in the real estate industry and got started on his own at an early age. Most notably, he was knocking on Pre-Foreclosure doors at 16 and 17, doing up to 50 doors a day. This experience helped shape Nick’s real estate career. Now, Nick specializes in working with lease purchasers to get them into a home and on the path to homeownership. Regardless of a buyer’s credit situation, he looks at their complete financial picture and comes up with a plan to get them into a home. “Ready, fire, aim. I think you are never going to have all of the information that you need to make a decision. I think once you have the limited information that you need to take action, you need to take action because after you take action you have as I’ve said previously you have something that you can improve on”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7Hj

Charlie Hartwell is the Managing Partner of Bridge Builders Collaborative, a group of highly successful investors who have been investing in start-up companies in the space of mental wellness, consciousness, and spirituality. A Harvard Business School graduate, Charlie has served and led organizations in 14 different industries, including starting a non-profit in the slums of Kenya in 1986 that has now served health care to several million patients. “find ways to connect to yourself… Then find a community of other entrepreneurs where you can trust, where you can go to share what’s happening with you, to go deep into what you are experiencing as an entrepreneur, where you can feel seen and heard and supported. I think community is really important because being an entrepreneur can be a very lonely place”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7He

Ruth King is well known as “The Profitability Master.” She is passionate about helping small business owners get profitable and stay profitable. Ruth is a serial entrepreneur having owned 8 businesses in the past 37+ years. One of her businesses, Business Ventures Corporation, began operations in 1981. Through Business Ventures, she coaches, trains, and helps contractors and others achieve the business growth and goals they want to achieve. She’s the author of the new book, Profit or Wealth? Simple Rules for Sustainable Business Growth “the entrepreneurial journey is not straight line it is up and downs. If you are passionate about where you want to go, if you understand your reasoning and you know why you want to get there when the tough times happen which they inevitably do you pick yourself up, you will dust yourself off and you will keep going”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7Ha

Neal Bawa is a technologist who is universally known in the real estate circles as the Mad Scientist of Multifamily. Besides being one of the most in-demand speakers in commercial real estate, Neal is a data guru, a process freak, and an outsourcing expert. Neal treats his $265+ million-dollar multifamily portfolio as an ongoing experiment in effciency and optimization. The Mad Scientist lives by two mantras. His frst mantra is that We can only manage what we can measure. His second mantra is that Data beats gut feel by a million miles. These mantras and a dozen other disruptive beliefs drive proft for his 300+ investors. “be data driven. I really believe that if you cannot measure you cannot manage. So many businesses fail because they spend a huge amount of time in managing and no time measuring”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7H6