The Entrepreneur Way

Brant Cooper is the author of the New York Times bestseller "The Lean Entrepreneur” and CEO of Moves the Needle. With over two decades of expertise helping companies bring innovative products to market, he blends design thinking and lean methodology to ignite entrepreneurial action within large organizations. He has experienced monumental milestones such as IPO, acquisition, rapid growth, and crushing failure. He serves as a keynote speaker, advisor to entrepreneurs, accelerators, and corporate leaders, and in his current venture, Moves The Needle, empowers organizations to be closer to customers, move faster, and act bolder. “you have got to get out of the building, you have got to go and talk to your customers. Don’t go and pitch them your solution. The first time you meet with a customer don’t even talk about your idea, talk about them. I use a technique of flipping the conversation, it’s actually an old sales technique. So I briefly introduce myself then I will post some assumptions and then asked them if that’s what they face . I might say hi I’m Brant Cooper the CEO of Moves the Needle we bring an entrepreneurial spirit to large enterprises. When I talked to CEOs like yourself, I often hear that your company is moving too slowly and even though you say you are customer centric you really don’t understand your customers. And you are not able to change your plans based upon changes in the economy. Do you face any of those problems? So very quickly I’m trying to expose what I believe to be true among this market segment and then I asked them if it’s true”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7CS

Sriranjini Latha is a multifamily investor in the San Francisco Bay Area who has been investing in multifamily since 2014. She brings her experience as a data scientist and researcher to the finding, analyzing and acquisition of commercial multifamily. “my best business advice is really to ask questions. Ask questions everywhere you go. I think there’s even saying that says the person who asks the questions is may be a fool for five minutes but becomes a wise person for the next five years. That’s really how I see and grow my business is ask questions even if it might sound dumb, even if I piss someone off, even if it sounds stupid, whatever it might be just ask the question. And going back to the first principles keep digging deeper and deeper and deeper into the answers you are getting until you are convinced of the answer that you’ve got and it makes sense to you. And through that process there is so much learning to be had”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7CN

Jeff Chastain is an entrepreneur and coach. While working with business leaders over the years, the underlying principles of a solid business remain the same. As a Professional EOS Implementer, Jeff has a passion for helping entrepreneurial business leaders get more of what they want from their business. “I didn’t have the business background, I didn’t have the accounting background, things like that. So, to me that was a real struggle especially in the early phase. Early day you don’t necessarily have the money to go and hire an accounting firm or hire something like that. So, it’s that constant struggle of okay I’ve unfortunately got to spend the time in these areas that I don’t enjoy just to get off the ground. And can you do just enough there to get the ball rolling and the company rolling at that point”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7CJ

Over a decade ago Damon Burton beat a billion dollar company by outranking their website on Google. Since then, he knew he was onto something and has gone on to build an international search engine marketing company that’s worked with NBA teams, and Inc 5000 & Shark Tank featured businesses. Having started his business right before the 2008 recession, Damon is familiar navigating and growing a business through times like today. Never before has there been so many people needing something to focus their attention on… AND the time to do it. Since founding his company SEO National in 2007, he writes for Forbes, has been featured in publications including Entrepreneur Magazine, BuzzFeed and USA Weekly, and has helped high-profile clients make more in a month than they used to in a year. “don’t prematurely commit to a path, be okay with failure for the benefit of the greater future success and be willing to experiment with what options you have in a career path or your entrepreneurial journey so that you better find tune what you can commit to happily longer”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7CF

Dan Crum is a former CIA Polygraph Examiner and has created the CIA Method Top Secret Sales System. In over twenty years of sales, Dan has sold over 100 million dollars. Dan's new book will be available in November 2020 titled, "CIA Method." “I will find a way; I will make away or I will figure it out. I see no value in could of, would of, should of. Like living in the past. There is a prayer called the serenity prayer which is the ability to accept the things you cannot change and the wisdom to know you can and can’t change and then doing something about it. So, I constantly into timeframes, one is the present. So, in the present I don’t look back to see how I got here unless it would give me value so I really just focus on now I am dealing with this how do I make the most of this present situation. So, then I am focused on the future which is how do I find a way, make a way or figure out a way to make the future situation better than even the present to make the most of what I have in front of me”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7CA

For close to two decades, Carter Wilcoxson has helped the top advisors in the country break their own production records. Plus, he works directly with consumers to gain the frontline perspective faced by advisors. As a visionary leader, Carter Wilcoxson founded CSI Financial Group to bring together advisors and consumers by providing mutually beneficial solutions. The result of this was the creation of CSI’s Advisor Partner Platform. This revolutionary approach features a comprehensive collection of field-tested strategies designed to have an incredible impact on customers and their client-centric experience, as well as for their Advisor Partner Network. “don’t be afraid to mess up, don’t be afraid to fail, don’t procrastinate any longer… You’ve got to just go for it. This acronym YOLO. You do really only live once so if there is something that is in your gut and there’s something that she earning and you have a passion for it… I am a huge fan of start with your why. If you embody something, if something is just in your inner psyche and you wake up every single day but you have to go to a job and in you are miserable, I am saying fail fast forward.”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7Cw

Cesar R Espino was born in Mexico City during a time where the country had one of the largest foreign debts and was going through a financial crisis. Not only was he born into a poor family, he was also born to just one parent (his Mom), and never have met his biological father. As a kid Cesar lived with his grandmother, mom, and older brother, living in a room or what he called his house that was just about 200 square feet. This place had no running water inside, no floor and lived and slept directly on top of dirt, no insulation, and was made up of sheet metal and plywood. He lived in this house holding four of them and until the age of just a few months of 4 years old. Around the time his mom took the leap of faith, where she decided to leave his family behind and migrated to the United States to chase the American Dream and support her family across boundaries. This became a pivotal moment in Cesar's life as this forced him to start working at an early age (at four) to just be able to survive and put some food in the table. Throughout his life journey he has overcome many different obstacles. Today Cesar R. Espino's passion is to empower, educate, inspire, and aspire many through his experience and life lessons. Cesar’s has a Master’s Degree in Business Administration, has worked for several worldwide companies, held positions in corporate America, is an Author of the Book You Can Overcome Anything! Even When the World Says” NO”, is a Co-Author of the Book Dare to be Authentic Vol.5 Let yourself Prosper, International Author of the Book Puedes Superar Cualquier Cosa! Incluso Cuando El Mundo Dice “NO”, Real Estate Investor, Real Estate Mentor, Podcast Host of the Show You Can Overcome Anything! And most importantly a father and grandfather. Cesar offers a variety of programs to help people improve their current situation, educate, and provide a way to have their own business. Cesar’s is creating opportunities for people to have a chance at life regardless of people’s background, and or current situation. He is able to do this through his many different programs and experiences in multiple areas. Such areas of: • Real Estate Investing • Best Selling Book • NLP (Mind and Life Coach) • Mentoring • Business Consulting • Self-Development Events • Live Public Speaking, Podcast, and News “just decide. Everything starts with a choice and a decision and sometimes we try to spend too much time thinking about something, overthinking and we are just hung up on that decision. Just decide there is no better way to start the now whatever it is that you are trying to do. It comes down to you deciding and making that choice. You are just one choice or one decision away from the next move in your life. And so just make sure that you decide and choose”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7Cs

Jason Morgese is the founder and CEO of Leavemark The first ad-free, data storage and social media hybrid, designed to allow its users to archive life’s most important memories and documents with the ability to share today or in the future. Before creating Leavemark, Jason spent 9 years as the founder and President of eHealthScreenings, a technology centric biometric screening company that became one of the nation’s leading providers. eHealthScreenings provided health screenings to companies as small as 25 employees, to those with more than 150,000 employees. In 2017, his company was acquired by Premise Health and Water Street. At the time of sale, eHealthScreenings retained a national network of over 3,000 Wellness Technicians, 1,700 lab locations and had processed over 10 million tests. With his latest venture, Jason hopes that Leavemark will become the world's most loved company to preserve and share life's most important memories through. “you need to be ready to hustle. I think you need to get out there and be willing to take a chance. Everybody will regret not trying more than failing. I think you need to face your fears. Everyone is afraid beginning but don’t listen to the naysayers. If you hang around four broke people my mom told me that you will probably be the fifth. So, get out there and try to better your life. And I think the last one is make a good plan and then take action. You can be that it’s going to happen one day person or you can finally make a move on start down a path which could lead to something exciting in life”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7Cm

Entrepreneur Annette Crone is the inventive mind behind X-Static - the world’s first anti-static hairbrush - and the founder of parent company ForBabs. With more than 30 years of experience in business development, sales, marketing, and leadership, Crone has helped successfully launch a variety of products including founding her own medical spa in 2004, and now creating her own line of problem solving brushes for both pets and people! During periods of extended business travel, Crone continuously battled hair static and fly-aways. This led her to try every available solution, including an old-school hair “hack”: smoothing a dryer sheet over frazzled strands. “I just wasn’t satisfied with any option out there,” she explains. “Dryer sheets felt sterile and awkward, hair static sheets felt far too wet - I knew there had to be a simpler, more effective alternative.” Unable to find the solution she needed, Crone set out to create it for herself. Today, Crone has developed a more accessible, easy-to-use, and hygienic solution: the X-Static hairbrush designed to banish frizz and fight fly-aways on all hair types, including color-treated styles. Made in the USA by her parent company ForBabs - lovingly named after Crone’s mother, Barbara - the X-Static’s refillable brush heads feature 12 tear-and-toss anti-static sheets that give an instant beauty boost to wet or dry hair. Having raised three daughters in San Diego, California, Crone brings a lifetime of experience to the task of developing effective hairstyling tools. Firmly believing that life is about taking risks and pushing beyond your comfort zone, she established ForBabs to bring creative ideas to life and help support women-owned businesses like hers. “there is never a perfect time to move forward. You just have to take one step in front of the other and keep yourself going. So, if you are waiting for that perfect time to do something, I don’t know that there is ever perfect time. So just one step at a time gets you there”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7Cf

Pam Hopman is the Founder of The Hopman Group, LLC. Pam has over 20 years of experience working as a financial advisor. She is devoted to helping her clients and focuses on making sure that they get the advice that works for them in their particular situation. Pam has comprehensive knowledge of strategies for retirement income planning, wealth preservation, and estate planning. She holds the designation of Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor from the College of Financial Planning. Pam teaches her client and audiences how they can see their wealth amplified through personalized, comprehensive financial solutions. “if you have a dream and you have a market for that dream my best advice is to pursue it. You can figure out a lot on the way but you can’t ignore a dream. So, you don’t want your tombstone to say that you did not follow your dream, that you lived an ordinary life. There is nothing wrong with an ordinary life if that’s what you want. If you have a dream you want to pursue the dream”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7Ca