The Entrepreneur Way

As a teenager, Hao Lam escaped political persecution and made his way to Canada where he realized his dream of graduating from high school at the age of 23. Hao is now the CEO & chairman of Best in Class Education Center, a supplemental education franchise having 65 locations in 13 states. “follow your passion. I think passion is very important… If you find your why and then you are driven by the purpose the mission is the why and you are passionate about it you will be successful. Do not try to chase a million dollars, try to chase helping a million people”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7iU

Megan Yelaney is a business coach who helps online coaches get booked out with clients and scale to six figures. She specializes in client attraction, social media, and launch strategy. She's a travel junkie, and never seems to stay home for more than three weeks! “stick with it, this business can be really hard because there is going to be again high highs and low lows but if you know that this is what you are meant to do and when it is on a high high you are just so on purpose, you know this is what you were put on this earth to do… Stick with it especially during those hard times, double down and push harder because you are going to get through it it’s just a matter of time, it’s just doing that compound effect over and over again. And the more and more you realise that you almost welcome those lows because you know you are going to get through it and you have the tools and the resilience to get through it. So just stick with it, it takes a little longer than we think but it’s always worth it 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-7iM

Michael Zipursky has advised organizations like Financial Times, Dow Jones, RBC, Omron, Sumitomo and helped Panasonic launch new products into global markets, but more importantly, he's helped over 300 consultants from around the world in over 50 industries add six and seven figures to their annual revenues. “I am a very big fan of imperfect action so my number one recommendation to anyone even if I don’t know much about the situation is just take more action… Look at what you want to achieve… And rather than thinking what else do you need to add or what else you need to do in addition to what you are currently doing try and apply subtraction meaning remove the things that aren’t working. Strip away everything that isn’t necessary because what we’ve observed in our own business and with many clients is that even to get to a seven-figure business you typically only need to product or service offerings, you don’t need to have five, ten or more different things. So the more focused you become the more manageable it is and the easier it is to scale. And you will typically be because you’re more focused you will be able to accelerate a lot quicker”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7iG

Dr Brian P Simon, a West Virginia native turned Hampton Roads, Virginia resident, is an entrepreneur who credits his accomplishments to being surrounded by like-minded, driven people. Dr. Simon’s companies, Fit Realty, Custom Homes of Virginia, and Simon Studios, have accumulated an abundance of success in their relatively short lifetime. The Brian Simon real estate team, with their growing boutique brokerage Fit Realty and their growing real estate and home builder Sales and Marketing System, has sold over one billion dollars in real estate in the last twelve years. Dr. Simon’s home building and home renovating company, Custom Homes of Virginia, has built or renovated and re-sold over 200 homes in the last 10 years. Besides being an expert for the many businesses he owns, Dr. Simon possesses many other strengths. He has greater than 17 years’ experience in internet marketing strategies. “balancing your dreams with reality. It’s important that you start with a dream and that you dream truly with no unfettered, unhindered dreams. But then when it’s time to take the dream and turn it into a goal and then to turn your goal into a smart goal it’s so important that you balance the dream with the reality of where are you now, where are your financial resources, where are your time allocations and make decisions with a little bit of a methodical approach so that you do the timing correctly. Because the right thing at the wrong time a lot of times will hinder the immediate success of that project. There will be times of chaos because walking into entrepreneurship and walking the journey many times is chaos but you don’t want to freezing fear when the crazy happens you want to press forward and do it afraid and not let the chaos because you to freeze. That’s so huge and it’s just one foot in front of the other. Once you feel like the goals are worthwhile goal then one foot in front of the other and keep pressing and small steps lead to big accomplishments”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7iB

Daryl Hatton, CEO of award winning crowdfunding company FundRazr, has founded multiple start-ups and helped bring one to a successful NASDAQ IPO in 1999. He serves as advisor to a handful of other hot companies in Canada. As a social media guy, his tagline is “#KingOfGastown, entrepreneur, cardiac survivor, foodie, whisky nut, philosopher, mentor, father and friend.” “know yourself. I think one of the biggest things that we hurt ourselves with its unconscious behaviour in decision-making. In an entrepreneurial world it’s really important who you are and why things are important to you and how you decide things because you make such better-quality decisions when you know yourself. And I think related to other things that we talked about that you also enjoy more. You can find out and turn it into experience as opposed to a task and that really enriches the whole process”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7iu

Simone Di Somma is Founder and CEO at Askdata, a startup specialized in the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve how enterprises consume Analytics. Before founding Askdata, Simone worked at Philip Morris and Hewlett-Packard across Europe, Middle-East and the US with a primary focus on Advanced Analytics. Simone has been a passionate speaker at various events about the benefits of AI and how this technology will transform the way enterprises do their business. “believe in yourself and at the same time being able to assess yourself. So you have to believe but at the same time always try to understand if you are positioning in the right way and you are proceeding in the right direction. So believe but at the same time believe with some criticism. So being able to every week, every day to evaluate. Am I doing good, am I available to all the elements to succeed – you have to say something. So don’t be a slave… And let down by your own ego”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7io

Wayne Herring has been a growth coach and consultant to business owners for over 5 years. Wayne has helped a wide variety of business owners. Family business and Sales, marketing, and leadership team growth are focus areas. Wayne works with his clients on living their best life as well as growing their business. He and his clients dig in and get focused on what matters most. He and his wife of 17 years Katherine live on a beautiful 20-acre farm in Pennsylvania where they have a retreat/conversation space and walking paths for their clients. They have 4 children. Wayne has been a Civil Engineer, a VP of Sales and marketing, he's grown a sales team, sold a company to a publicly traded firm, been a farmer and he's been sober for over 12 years. Grow your business and live your Best Life! “take a step, see what happens, solve from there, don’t wait ”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7ik

Matt Moody is the CEO and founder of Bellwethr, a startup using machine learning to solve customer retention. Matt is a machine learning engineer, specializing in reinforcement learning, as well as a software developer with two successfully exited startups. Matt and his team are passionate about putting action based machine learning in the hands of domain experts to move the needle for enterprise businesses. “my best advice is not to overbuild and to spend more time listening and talking to customers”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7if

Pete Barrow We are a family owned business, based here in Indianapolis, with a focus on providing the reliability and responsiveness that you need in order to make your real estate investment a success. We have 5 team members with approximately 80 years of combined experience in construction and real estate investing. “no magic trick, there is no easy way, there is no golden path. There’s just… you get an idea, you work, you think, you struggle, you put in a lot of hours… There is certainly a lot of knowledge you need to have but there’s not just some trick that will make it easy. It really is a skill game. It really is a skill business, you have to have skills… You have to be able to build decent relationships with people… That would be my advice. There is not magic trick, there is not a secret that will make it all happen for you, it’s just about learning a lot of little skills and putting things together and working hard and getting better”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7i9

Joseph A Michelli, Ph.D., C.S.P., is an internationally sought-after speaker, author, and organizational consultant. His insights encourage leaders and frontline workers to grow and invest passionately in all aspects of their lives. Dr. Michelli is the author of numerous national bestsellers, including The Starbucks Experience, The New Gold Standard, and the New York Times #1 bestseller Prescription for Excellence. He was named as one of the Top 10 thought leaders in Customer Service by Global Gurus. His new book is The Airbnb Way: 5 Leadership Lessons for Igniting Growth through Loyalty, Community, and Belonging (October 2019, McGraw Hill). “craft your legacy now. You are going to leave a legacy it’s either going to be big or small, it’s either going to be designed or it is going to happen by default so claim it now and broadcast it to people you love. And put it up somewhere and look at it every morning because it’s hard to do the work unless you know the wire”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7i2