The Entrepreneur Way

Jim Delkousis is the CEO and founder of PERSUIT, which helps corporations automate legal workflows and inefficiencies while significantly reducing costs. Prior to the launch of PERSUIT, Jim was a BigLaw partner for 17 years. Jim earned his J.D. at the University of Melbourne and a Masters of Law in Commercial Law at the University of London. “you cannot control how smart you are… But the one thing you can control is how hard you work. You have got to do the grind and hopefully your passionate about what you’re doing. And the reason I mention passion is that it’s likely that you are going to be eating dirt along the journey and sometimes you are eating a lot of it. So, unless you are actually passionate about what you are doing it’s going to be tough going to stick it out. So grind and passion are certainly the two qualities that I look for”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7m2

Jono Bacon is a leading community strategist, speaker, author, and podcaster. He is the founder of Jono Bacon Consulting which provides community strategy/execution, workflow, and other services. He previously served as director of community at GitHub, Canonical, XPRIZE, and OpenAdvantage. His clients include Huawei, GitLab, Microsoft, Intel, Google, Sony Mobile, Deutsche Bank, Santander, HackerOne, Mattermost, SAP, FINOS Foundation, The Executive Center, data.world, Creative Commons, and others. He is the author of the critically-acclaimed The Art of Community, a columnist for Forbes and opensource.com, founder of the Community Leadership Summit and Open Collaboration Conferences, and co-founder of Bad Voltage. He is an advisor to AlienVault, Moltin, data.world, Mycroft, Open Networking Foundation, and Open Cloud Consortium. “’have a go’ it sounds simplistic but don’t let your gut hold you back, go and have a go. And it’s amazing what you can do when you say ‘wouldn’t it be cool if we tried this’. Let’s see what happens… The companion piece to that is actually a quote from Winston Churchill where he said ‘keep buggering on’. And what that basically means is even when it’s tough, even when you’re struggling keep going… Even when you are tired, even when you’re exhausted keep going on and just have a go”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7lX

Martin Morrison is a writer, ghostwriter, editor, speaker and radio presenter based in West Yorkshire. Following a 20-year career in sales, which included 15 years in advertising, Martin set a new course for himself, determined to live a more fulfilling and authentic life rather than making do with just another job. Since 2014, he has completely reinvented himself, delivering mindfulness-based courses within schools and other organisations, launching his own interview show on an Asian radio station, and ghostwriting and editing for entrepreneurs and professional speakers such as Richard McCann. Where next for Martin? Wherever his heart takes him as long as he is expressing his truth with clarity! “have faith, believing yourself, believe in your ideas and be prepared to let those ideas evolve. If an idea is not working you have got to let it go or you have got to let it change into something that is more workable. More than anything have faith because having faith will allow you to learn from mistakes. Having faith will allow you to keep on moving forward even when you have got setbacks. And having faith will take you to the promised land wherever that is because you will have the tenacity, the open-mindedness and the explorative mindset if you like to find where the opportunities are”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7lT

Ryan G Wright is the CEO of Do Hard Money and podcast host of Income Hacker. He has been teaching others in the real estate investment industry for more than 20 years, is author to five books, and has been a speaker for groups ranging from Bank of America to the ReCaptivate Conference. “the first million dollars… So, when you are scaling from zero to a million of revenue for the year… The first million dollars is all about sales. And that’s a mistake I see a lot of entrepreneurs making is they try and have the perfect product, try and have the perfect customer service and the try to have the perfect whatever. And I am not saying those things and not important, you have got to have customers, you have got to have people in those things. But it’s all about sales, it’s all about revenue”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7lM

As a young girl growing up in Norway, Annicken R Day fell in love with old Hollywood movies, especially the musical South Pacific from 1958. When she visited the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i thirty years later, she learned by coincidence that South Pacific had been filmed there and that the mystical island of Bali Ha’i indeed existed. That was when the idea for the story about Maya Williams first came to her, a story inspired by Annicken’s own life and experiences, and by people—and butterflies—she has met on her journey. After fifteen years as a leader and executive in the IT industry, Annicken jumped off the corporate treadmill in 2012 to start her own company, Corporate Spring, with a mission to make the corporate world a happier place. Since then she and her team have helped and trained thousands of leaders around the world on how to build thriving corporate cultures, high performing teams, and successful businesses. Annicken is the founder and CEO of Corporate Spring, co-author of the book Creative Superpowers, a public speaker, executive advisor, and a passionate maverick for new ways of thinking, working, and leading in the new world of work. Annicken spends the majority of her time between Oslo, London, and Los Angeles, where also her singer-songwriter daughter Matilde Redbridge lives. “enjoyed the ride, don’t take things too seriously, have a laugh, things always work out in the end”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7lH

After a successful IPO of a medical imaging company, Rick Smith quit his job to bring advanced technology to the beverage industry, co-founded HyVIDA Brands, invented a method of infusing hydrogen gas (a power antioxidant) into beverages and launched the World's first Hydrogen infused carbonated beverage. “do you believe in yourself? …the opportunities are coming and going all the time, you recognise them, some aren’t so good, some are really good. Question is, do you believe in yourself to do something about it? Are you willing to take that leap? You have got to believe in yourself. And if you do then put a plan together… Don’t be a pig and try to own everything. Find partners with complimentary skills, share a little bit of the wealth with them, give them a little bit of skin in the game because it’s amazing how adding partners can help”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7lD

Ken Kerry is Co-Founder and Executive Director of leading digital marketing company Script to Screen and the author of a new book that documents the secrets behind his campaigns for well-known brands. This Works Marketing, from Amazon Digital Services and co-authored by Michael Ashley, is based on experience with and feedback from clients who have enjoyed massive results. The book is a foundational blueprint for marketing strategy that has proven extremely successful for over three decades. Script to Scree is a performance-driven marketing agency with 30 years of experience transforming companies, such as Bare Minerals, Shark/Ninja, Gwynnie Bee, and NutriSystem, into bestselling brands. Kerry developed This Works Marketing based on consistent feedback from clients who have benefited from successful branding and sales generating campaigns conducted by Kerry and his team. “love what you want to do. If you want to do something and you really have a passion for it and you believe you can add value that’s more important than anything… if you love what you do you never go to work… So, it’s really important to understand what it is that you want to bring to the world… That may be the simplest product, that may be a Sass business or that may be that little yoga studio. But if you are passionate about it and you can bring value to people you are going to be successful”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7ly

Paul J Daly is the Founder and CEO Congruent Automotive, a full service creative marketing agency and the author of “The Automotive Manifesto: How Brand Connection Can Save Retail Automotive'. With almost two decades of business leadership experience and a deep understanding of the retail buying psyche, Paul’s approach to the challenges and opportunities facing the modern dealer is clear and human. “understand your motivations. We can get into so many situations because our motivations are driven by ego driven by fear, driven by needing to prove something to somebody else. Even if that’s the case if you can at least acknowledge that’s what it is you will make better decisions and you will cause less destruction and more construction. So understand your motivation is the very best advice I could give”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7lt

Ron Tite is a best-selling author, entrepreneur, and investor. He has always blurred the lines between art and commerce. He has been an award-winning advertising writer and Creative Director for some of the world’s most respected brands including Air France, Evian, Fidelity, Hershey, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft, Intel, Microsoft, Volvo and many others. He is Founder of Church+State, an agency that unifies content and advertising for global brands and media companies. He’s also an investor in Wavy, Unison, and AirFoil Media. He has written for television. Penned a children’s book. Wrote, produced and performed a hit play. Published an award winning comedy book. Created a branded art gallery. And was Executive Producer & Host of the award-winning comedy show, Monkey Toast. In demand as a speaker all over the world, Ron speaks to leading organizations about creativity, disruption, branding, and leadership. Ron’s first book was, Everyone’s An Artist - Or At Least They Should Be (Co-written by Scott Kavanagh and Christopher Novais), was published by HarperCollins in 2016. His most recent book, Think • Do • Say: How to Seize Attention and Build Trust in a Busy Busy World, has just hit store shelves. “Pan for silver work for gold. And here is what I mean by that. A good idea might present itself but it is not going to present itself as a gold idea there just has to be something there that is intriguing. Either that could be a business model, that could be a person that you maybe want to bring onto your team, that might be a new idea for a new product, that might be an idea for a piece of content that you want to share. I think that too many people think that the great ideas, the great people, the great talent just presents itself, and that’s wrong. My experience in stand-up comedy knows this, that you go on stage with a bullet point and you go I think there is something here and you start it and it’s called the bit. And there is something to a bit. And a bit start with an insight, with an idea and then you just what we call in comedy you work the bit. You work it, you do it over and over again, you talk about it, you do it in a small room, you do it in a big room, you just perfect the bit over time. You pan for silver but you work for gold. And nothing is going to present itself to you, you need to do the work”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7lo

Jonathan Denwood is a leading influencer in the WordPress space (with his own leading podcast in the eLearning entrepreneurship WordPress area) and a champion of the eLearning Entrepreneur who wants to build a substantial online business. Many people who have great experience and a lot of knowledge to share in their field get caught up with choosing and implementing the technology to publish their first course. Jonathan can really help in getting people to get over this hurdle so that they can really concentrate on marketing their course to its targeted audience. Jonathan also helps those who have found themselves trapped on a SaaS platform, which they have outgrown and want to move to the flexibility and power of WordPress and don’t know where to begin. “don’t give up but be realistic. It’s a strange duality. If something is not working and it’s obviously not working you are going to have to change the business model… Most people give up too early because they don’t realise that this is going to take longer than they thought ”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7lk