The Entrepreneur Way

Steve Judge’s uplifting yet poignant journey will inspire you to achieve your own journey of excellence. Sharing his unique story with takeaways he’ll explain the many times he picked himself up after being knocked down. Going from wheelchair to world champion and onwards to successful professional speaker, author and coach. “the best advice I could give if you want to achieve your goal, your gold as I would call it is VBA. That’s three words vision, benchmark, action. Make sure you know what your vision is, find out what it is, get a vision board or draw a picture. Tell people what your vision is, where are you going on this journey. After that get benchmarks. For goodness sake start recording where you are now. You want more money in your bank account? What does your bank account say no? Do you want to lose weight? How much do you weigh now? Do you want to run faster? Then how fast do you run now? Benchmark it then you can see your progress and that will be motivating as you see you getting better. And stronger when you are demotivated look at how far you’ve come”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7Ay

Aaron McHugh is an executive transformation coach, enterprise agility consultant, writer, podcaster, adventurer, author of Fire Your Boss: Discover Work You Love Without Quitting Your Job and career liberator who is learning to master a sustainable work-life play rhythms woven into his every day routine. “believe in yourself and no one else will believe in your idea as much as you do. And that isn’t your goal to try and get other people to be as passionate about it or as fervently believing about what it is you see in the world. That’s what you are entrusted to do, that’s what you are entrusted to steward. And it’s great to get other people to come along but they don’t actually have to match your passion or your belief or your conviction metre. You can still move forward and just know that’s what your role is to play is you are the one to carry the torch and the flag”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7Au

Marc Summe is the CEO of Minute7, which tracks time and expenses for professional service businesses. Minute7 helps professionals service businesses get paid faster from their customers. The company is bootstrapped, has thousands of users and doubled its revenue last year. “entrepreneurship is hard, there is going to be difficult times, you have got to keep going. I think one thing that has been helpful to me is having a network of other people doing similar things. You know it can be kind of lonely especially if you are surrounded by people who are all working corporate jobs and don’t really understand what you are doing. So, I would encourage people to build a network of folks that are working trying to build something themselves and facing similar struggles that you can talk to because I think that can be really helpful ”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7Aq

Melissa Beasley is a natural skin care formulator, the founder of Love-Essential Skin Care, and the mother of two amazing boys. After a toxic marriage led to a devastating divorce she and her boys moved in with her parents and she started the process of rebuilding. She started making skincare in her parents’ kitchen as a way to support herself and her boys, and Love-Essential Skin Care was born. She still manufactures products for Love-Essential Skin Care, and creates custom product lines for spas and salons, but now she has a bigger mission. She uses the skills she learned while rebuilding her own life to help other women rebuild after abuse and divorce have torn them down. It is her dream to see women become completely free from the burdens of their trauma and create a life of vitality and joy. “do your inner work because you can know the perfect strategy and never do it. And we are really, really good at talking ourselves out of doing the things we need to do to grow our business like calling a contact or calling someone to ask them if they would like to carry our products. And so clearing those inner fears of doing that work… Are you doing the things that you do out of love for yourself or out of some sort of should that you have from the world? Because it’s out of obligation to somebody else building a business is hard and it takes a lot of work and if you are not doing it out of some sense of love and joy for yourself it’s hard to show up to that work every single day. And so keeping in mind why you want to do this is something that is really important”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7Am

Mark Thompson is the co-founder of PayKickstart.com - a SaaS that is reinventing the modern-day shopping cart and affiliate management, helping thousands of businesses and Entrepreneurs sell more, maximize customer lifetime value and automate subscription commerce. Mark has spent over a decade in the world of marketing and software, selling over $20+ million dollars of his flagship training programs and software. “it may sound simple but just do, just implement and don’t be afraid to make mistakes… I find that so many people for whatever reason are afraid to implement and just start doing. And I think part of it is they are afraid to fail and so they don’t actually go and do. So that’s one thing that I think that if you want to be successful in being an online business you need to just go and do and implement and if you make mistakes just learn from them. And if you have given it your best shot and even if you don’t succeed that okay. But hopefully it’s a learning experience so the next venture that you create you can do better at”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7Ah

Robert Berry is a leading New York City-based art gallerist, consultant, and advisor. Having represented many of Manhattan's top art galleries, and with over 15 years’ experience selling and collecting fine art, Robert launched his own gallery, Robert Berry Gallery in New York City this year. Robert Berry Gallery’s newest show, Impressionable, featuring nine breathtaking works of rock icons by Chicago-based artist John Ruby. With millions quarantined as a result of the global coronavirus pandemic, a new emphasis has been placed on mental health and wellness. Art provides both questions and answers during an uncertain time. Robert can share how he opened his own online art gallery after 15+ years of working in New York City’s vibrant art world. He can also share tips for those looking to invest in art, and how to find affordable art that will gain long-term value. Robert can also discuss the meaning of today’s health and economic crisis on art, and what the new show - Impressionable - has to say about the current global health crisis, as well as the business of art and the future of art as an investment. Robert earned his B.A. in Art History from Stony Brook University, and his M.A. in Art History and Criticism from Brooklyn College where he focused on post-war American painters. “it’s never a good time to start and the best thing you can do is try something out now. Can you sell your offerings without any special equipment and expensively designed websites or a marketing plan. You should be able to sell now in some capacity and if not it’s likely something is wrong with what you are selling and changes and adjustments may be needed. Does your customer need it and want it at prices you are offering? You should be able to not only sell and deliver on it but offer it to a market that truly needs it”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7Ad

A former corporate girl, Chala Dincoy is the CEO of The Repositioning Expert. She’s a Marketing Strategist who helps B2B service providers reposition their message to successfully sell to corporations. She's also obsessed with all things fitness and stealing hugs from her 11-year old Logan. “niche down (and get an elevator pitch)”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7A7

Danessa Knaupp is an executive coach dedicated to shifting the global conversation on leadership. She has supported executives across every major industry and is known as a candid, compassionate and courageous leadership partner. She is the author of the best-selling leadership manual, Naked at Work: A Leader’s Guide to Fearless Authenticity. “notice yourself, notice your experience, notice when you are trying to stay comfortable, notice what people really respond to in you and then think about how do you structure your work, your business, your life in a way that consistently brings out the best in you”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7A2

Patrick Frazier brings clients more than 35 years “in the trenches” operating experience as a business executive in the technology, banking and transportation industries. He has served vice president of operations, director systems development, executive coach and business process improvement on high growth company leadership teams. These experiences create tremendous “connection” with client executive teams, along with the ability to empathize with the daily challenges and opportunities. Pat understands how to create award-winning results and cultures. He guides company executives in finding and keeping A-players, getting the right people in the right seats, developing and putting an actionable strategic plan in place and having the discipline to execute and hit milestones. By applying the 7 Attributes of Agile Growth methodology, Pat assists businesses and executive teams to understand their options, and to achieve the maximum value from their business. “you have got to love it all. If you are making widgets for the man and you want to go and start your own widget company you have got to understand what that widget company is. You have got to understand it and you have got to love it all. You have got to love the marketing piece and the sales piece on the buy / build peace and the delivery piece and the customer service piece and then the accounting piece. You have got to love the whole business”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7zX

Peter Winick is the founder and CEO of Thought Leadership Leverage. For the past two decades he has helped individuals and organizations build and grow revenue streams through designing and growing their thought leadership platforms as well as acting as a guide and advisor for increasing business to business sales of thought leadership products. His clients come from a diverse set of backgrounds and specialties. They include New York Times bestselling business book authors, members of the Speakers’ Hall of Fame, recipients of the Thinkers50 award, CEOs of public and privately held companies, and academics at prestigious institutions such as Yale, Wharton, Dartmouth, and London School of Business. Peter has built his career and Thought Leadership Leverage to serve the needs of these individuals and others like them. Specifically he uses his entrepreneurial experience and spirit along with a passion for using relationships to leverage growth to help: CEOs, business owners, and internal practice leaders looking to grow revenue, revitalize marketing, and improve customer experience through applying the principles of thought leadership; Other business leaders and experts seeking to build out their ideas into a platform so they can launch content and products to create a lasting impact in various companies around the globe; and, “Traditional” thought leaders who want to build or grow their practice, increase their effectiveness in content creation and marketing as well as extend their reach into existing and new clients. Peter uses a combination of art, science, logic, focus, passion, and creativity to transform a thought leader’s great ideas into a platform and practice so they can effectively reach business leaders and executives to serve them the tools they and their organizations need. “if it’s your first time in the game you will totally underestimate what it will take. And by what it will take I mean time, energy, effort, resources and dollars. I think business plans the way they traditionally have been done where you’ve got cash flow projections and all of that stuff for most businesses are a total waste of time and energy. I think you need to realise it will take you longer, it will cost more money, it’s going to take more energy. And listen to the market and get over yourself. The market will tell you the truth. Individuals don’t have the power to do that as cleanly as the market does”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7zS